Talk Amongst Yourselves
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Errgh. Monday.
Thankfully my morning was made awesome by listening to Gamma Ray on the way home this morning.
Shameless Gaming month is over and I didn’t actually finish any games. Sorry Bunny.
I’m okay with this though because it’s pretty much been Shameless Gaming year for me. I haven’t played any games that came out this year yet, instead working through what I already had, and buying older games I’ve been wanting for a while like Assassin’s Creed:Brotherhood.
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Hey strange – i’ll be sending off that tee to you still – sorry for the lateness
send it to the addy that your hubby put on the back of the post envelope you sent me with austpost?
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That’s the one. There’s no rush.
I’ve still got a backlog of projects to complete, even though I’ve actually had better luck with Shameless Sewing than Shameless Gaming. 😛
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That’s okay, you made up for it by hosting a spectacular meat.
Well, despite almost being carted off to hospital because of a bad case of influenza, I actually managed to finish a game from my pile of shame. Saboteur has finally been beaten.
When I started playing this game again, I had forgotten how much fun it was, I think it was a case of, I picked up new games it got pushed to the side, instead of me losing interest in it.
Now, until Deus Ex comes out, I think I might concentrate on those games where I only have a few achievements left to get, like that damn DAII that wont recognise my rivalry with fenris, that bloody elf hates my guts but the damn rival acievement wont unlock. Grrr.
Would I be perma-banned if I said I enjoyed Transformers 3? 😛
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I dont understand why I was the only one laughing at Transformers 1 and not with it when I saw it. So I cant really forgive anyone for liking any of them. But I’m mostly alone in this angry little corner of mine…
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I prefer the 1986 movie – best animated film ever!
Shameless gaming has come to a close and at the weekend I managed to finish off all bit the final boss battle in LittleBigPlanet 2.
Final tally is:
L.A. Noire
Darksiders
LBP2
And most of Alice 1.
My sister offered me use of her laptop so I thought I’d be able to hop on steam and chat with the pessimist and maybe play some SMB. Last minute change of plans, she lets me borrow her BF’s parent’s virus ridden tower.
Joy.
Turns out they had taken it back to Harvey Norman where the IT specialists had installed every antivirus, antispyware, antiadware, registry fixer they could think of. When that hadn’t worked, they called it a bust. My monumental task began by removing all the shit they had installed.
The ware was quite novel. It had it’s own fake BSoD that told me to register my copy of Total Security post haste.
Took most of the day running software in safe mode to get rid of all the evil little SoBs. Seems to be working now.
It’s funny that my sister really thought the desktop would be a better idea. She was quite surprised it wasn’t up and running after 5 minutes.
So that was my weekend, plus some other stuffs.
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It’s moments like that I create ghost images of the drive then format. Install AV software then use a ghost explorer to pull out the files you need (as you need them if required).
I spent all weekend watching the livestream of EVO. SSFIV all saturday and MvC3 all of yesterday.
NO REGRETS.
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My final push in Shameless Gaming was completely ruined by the madness that was Evo and MLG.
No a single regret to be had.
Following in the footsteps of Blaghman, Patron Saint of doing it all wrong, I managed to finish no games this month, and instead got 8 new ones…
Gah.. 1.81 from 271 votes…
no threadless for me
Still 4 more days left, but with that score it would take a miracle at this point
Maybe i should try splitreason instead… hmm
Anyway – had a full on weekend – took bee’s little brother to the footy – he’s a geelong supporter so was happy with the result, but my god was it a dull game to watch in most cases. There were, however, some fantastic goals and ripper tackles. A bit of biffo too.
Essendon i’m less happy about…
Also, while he was over, i cracked out the warhammer mini’s in the first time in a couple of years and taught him how to paint some cadian soldiers. He’s 8 so he gave his a zombie head. Pretty good full overall, so i’ve left the stuff out to finish painting my corpse cart, which i’ve been meaning to do since i got it years ago for a birthday from bee.. so that should make her happy.
Also study
So damn much study
I’ve even bought my bus’law book to work with me so i can highlight during my break.
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This sounds like a job for SPAMTOD!!!!
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But seriously, why on earth are people rating it so low??-
I’m guessing a combination of people having NFI what it means, feeling vaguely threatened by the Christian-like slogan and the horrendous model and positioning of the design. 🙁
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Unfortunately all of those are so damn true 🙁 *sniff*
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Threadless people have a very particular idea about what they like, and unless it’s done in a real clean vector style cartoon it really doesn’t usually involve games.
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Very very true.
It’s very hipster most of the timeThe again, them not getting it should only make them like it more!!
“i’m so hipster i’m wearing a tee even *I* don’t understand”
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lolol!
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O, hai dar!
Monday.
I don’t like Mondays.
Tell me why?
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Do you want to shoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hooooo-hooooooooooot…
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The – whole – day – down?
Normal weekend here. WoW raid into Firelands followed by doing dailies in game. An evening of babysitting while playing games (started Batman: Arkham Asylum again for the 80th time) and watching video rips from That Guy With The Glasses. Sunday was MMA day watching Strikeforce with friends on skype then more WoW & Batman. Ended things by watching the Cathrine endings on YouTube since I won’t be buying the game (played the demo, hate the gameplay but love the story)
Right here goes uncharted movie, Nathan fillion I must be the only person who thinks this but he should not be cast, keep the b stars in the b titles. Now it’s being directed by Neil burger so my bet is on Bradley cooper being Drake. Anyone seen limitless, I’m assuming they have a good rapport.
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I don’t think Fillion is ideal. Joe Flanigan FTW
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Joe Flanigan/Colonel Shepard would make an awesome Drake
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Makes sense to me.
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Bradley Cooper would be pretty good as Drake.
But Fillion is where the love is at.-
NO! No he wouldnt be! I HATE Bradley Cooper! RAAAAH! Well the movie is gonna suck anyways so meh. Haters gonna hate.
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I’m starting to wonder if you’ve ever seen a film you actually enjoyed.
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Haha, yeah there’s… some. They are out there. It’s just that generally the better films dont have any marketing budget, hence why they never get talked about in here.
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Are… Are you a hipster?
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Cracks! How dare you! Well… I’m pretty sure I’m not. I just tend to like films that don’t have millions of dollars injected into marketing.
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And in all fairness, this thread started about Uncharted, and really… when was the last time there was a good film made based off a game?
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Relax, ’twas a joke.
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I AM RELAXED!
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I’m sure there are people in here that would be willing to talk about films that aren’t directed by Bay, Lucas, Ratner, etc.
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Noooo I know there are, actually that came out a bit more snobbish than I meant it to! I just meant that generally films with more marketing get known, plain and simple, so I understand why they get talked about more.
Anyone else seen Captain America yet? I’m curious what others thought of it. I liked it. Wasn’t as good as the Iron Man films but was on the same level as Hulk and Thor. Some of it did feel poorly edited though. Loved the little trailer for The Avengers that played after the credits.
Also like any cinema experience it was slightly marred by other people who don’t know basic cinema etiquette such as not playing a drum solo on your leg during the middle of the film.
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My viewing of the Two Towers was marred by a gigantic samoan woman who fell asleep behind me and started snoring. Right in the middle of the Battle of Helm’s deep. I moved, but still….everytime I watch an epic battle, whether is be LoTR or not, I remember gigantic snoring samoan woman….
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Bwahaha!
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The best solution to annoying theatre residents is to be the most obnoxious person there! At least I have the decency to whisper my snide comments, not yell them so the entirety of the theatre can hear it…
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I agree with the editing!
There were parts that felt a little jump-cutty. But that montage in the middle was amazing. Jumpin’ motorbikes and sh!t.
Also, eff cinema patrons. Going to the cinema is like being in a melting pot of cultures.
Bogans, Hipsters, Skanks, Younglings, Bogan-Skanks with younglings etc. It feels like each group is just waiting for someone to yell “WAR” and a massive brawl will break out.
I will say this though, have people always smelled that delicious? I can’t remember smelling so many good smells in public before.
One time in high school I was in a play and the girl me and my friend had a crush on was in the wings with us. I was paying attention to the going on on-stage and I turned around to see him, leaning forward and sniffing her hair. Like, really sniffing it.
I always wondered what would’ve happened if I’d told her he was doing that… They probably wouldn’t be married now…
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That montage…
Man…
I was like “hmmm, the only way they could do this is with a montage, righ- HOLY SHIT IT’S A MONTAGE!” But then, the montage was basically if you got Team America, removed its actual montage, and then compressed it down… I dunno, I liked the montage, I love explosions, and motorbiking away from explosions, but it just seemed a bit out of place.
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Don’t forget the underage skanks that dress inappropriately 😛
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Was liking it up until he became Cpn USA. Then it was extreeeeemely boooooring. Pew pew, more pew pew, end of movie. Hmmmmmmmmm… yay.
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You do know you were watching an action movie, right?
I loved it, good mix of the old and the new and they managed to capture the reasons I like Cap America(hated him for years, Brubaker changed all that!).
I think all of these New Marvel Studios movies have been superb (not the greatest FILMS, but good adaptations)! Except for that last hulk, was a bit meh, some fun scenes though.
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OK, buuut… I’ve seen plenty of action films that have managed to at least have a story, and characters that are relatable and realistic enough to care about. These were just cardboard cutouts. Dancing around. Pretending to cry.
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Well after some thorough searching on google for my solution to my loading time/freezing problem on LoL, a specific point to kaspersky that could be causing it. I’m guessing it’s the application protection, that gave me crap when I first went into a game. Unfortunately I may have to disable it when I go through my League of Legends games, but hopefully just my application protection feature and not the whole thing.
In other news: Holy crap my tweaked Warwick build is so darn awesome, too bad we ended up losing that battle, better luck next time chaps.
Oh and I still won’t get HoN now that it’s become F2P. It’s a little too late for me now that I’m hooked on LoL and its unique champion stat system, not using a cloned DoTA hero system (Str/Agi/Int based) where they didn’t have the limits of Warcraft 3’s system and also directly cloned the DoTA heroes. Sorry Harli and Tad :(, the first impressions really hit me hard in my power supply, which you humans would call a heart.
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Free to play huh? Damn I might just be tempted to try this now – while I am really enjoying LoL, I’m an original DotA player and miss certain aspects such as the original DotA heroes and denying.
Don’t worry though Techy, will still play LoL if you ever need a pro Veigar 😛
Thought I’d draw people’s attention to this article hiding on the weekend pages (I never saw it during the weekend either)
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/07/the-gunstringer-is-almost-the-most-fun-ive-had-with-kinect
Apparently The Gunstringer is now a Retail title and will come with a free download code for Fruit Ninja Kinect!
You know how some people smell phantom smells or feel phantom limbs after they’ve been amputated?
Well, on the weekend I really, Really wanted a lamington. Like, to the point that I was gonna cook one myself. But balls to that, I ain’t got no coconut in the house, plus I live really close to a place that makes lamingtons with Lindt chocolate.
So I saddled up my sausage dog and made my way down, only to find that there were none left. I asked the girl behind the counter why there weren’t any, and if she knew when there were going to be more. She didn’t answer me, probably because I muttered the words to myself as I walked out. Also she’s was deaf.
Once I thought she was rude and was listening to her iPod at work so I called her on it. Apparently they were some sort of hearing aid. I asked why do they look like Apple earbuds? She didn’t hear me.
Anyway, they had no lamingtons so I went home, defeated.
That night though, something amazing happened. I was lazing about, casually teasing my sausage dog about looking like a hairy turd when I burped. The burp tasted exactly like a lamington. I was in heaven! I burped again. There it was, the coconut, the chocolate, the sponge, it was all there.
I called my sweet-lady over, burped in her face and asked her what she smelled. She was so shocked by the delicious scent of lamingtons she told me to f%$k off and that if I did it again, I could find somewhere else to live.
So that’s how I spent my weekend because finishing HomeFront ruined gaming for me.
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I think I want daily updates on your life 🙂
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You Sir, are a magnificent bastard.
What is your sausage dog called?
Protip: Don’t ever try to one-up AP.
Also no games finished for last month. No pineapple for me.
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It’s true.
I am unoneupable.
It’s a word. Look it up.
Was online too late friday for TF2, so apologies to Harli and Pessimist who were organising. I decided to sneak over to my parents after training to steal some dinner, and ended up getting held up by my grandparents for 2 hours:
Nan: Oh this photo was when you were 5, I remember because I sang at the country music festival and won a trophy. Thats the trophy up on the cabinet there. That cabinet was hand-made by my grand-dad. He used to love…
Me: Ok, thats great, I really have to lea…
Pop: I remember that festival! I was wearing my garlic belt, which was fashionable at the time. Also served to keep away vampires and communists who were…
Nan:Oh that silly belt, want to hear how your pop got it?
Me: No
Nan: Well it all started with….
Me Noooooooooooooo!
Only got about 4 hours of gaming in over the entire weekend, which were spent in LoL. Lost saturday playing football, saturday night celebrating a win (tough game against one of the top sides, so sore today…) and sunday morning recovering from said celebration.
Also, pineapple count finished at one (Prototype). I got 90% through several games but have a hard time focusing on one :/ Dam short attention span…Hey a bird!
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You should try living with granparent’s so much worse. I get home from work and sit down for a drink,
Gran: How was your day today?
Me: It was okay, i had to do some shit stuff but mostly alright
Grandad: Your generation doesn’t know about hard stuff.
Me: Grandpa you worked as a bank manager.
Grandad: Yeah but when i was younger i had to catch my own dinner, or i starved. I had to shot 3 rabbits if i used three bullets.
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Cut the man some slack. You know what he played for fun back in the day?
Hoops.
With a stick.
Outside.
In sunlight.
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Mr ‘OMG-This-Altitude-game-is-amazing-I-wish-it-could-have-my-babies’.-
Hahaha
I actually think he never played with hoops and sticks. I think he more enjoyed shooting things when he was younger. He is actually still a keen shot which frightens me cause he hadn’t fired a gun for ages till i went shooting with my uncle. Also altitude is amazing i have played so much of that game recently. Just i don’t want it to have my babies. -
Sun. Light?
What is this? Is that like, a really big fluorescent bulb?
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The sun is a lie. Its just all the broken light bulbs go there to get fixed by the giant light bulb overload. He has the head of a eagle at the body of a porcupine. He repairs 900 lightbulbs a minute and tests them, until nighttime when he repairs the fluro tubes.
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Do they serve what your Pop calls a “walking bird” for a meal? Or at least on Thanksgiving?
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Disregard TF2, play Magicka. Much fun was had by all. Much lightning was cast by all.
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Yeah, pretty cool when you’re going about your business and you get Lightninged or Crash To Desktoped.
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Especially when your business happens to be trying to lightning or crash to desktop someone else.
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Rightio, Shameless Gaming Month is over so I decided to write a little something to wrap things up. How’d things go for everyone else? (ignoring the fact that others are already talking about it here :p)
Telstra message to text is a retarded system. That is all.
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i know right,
My sister rang me the other day and it said hello, can you cake me up bye.-
I can not be the only one who read this and came up with a few dirty jokes that could be made.
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Of course you weren’t.
I’m here, remember?
Blaghman’s my name, living in the gutter is my life! Wait, I think I did that wrong…
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So, did you cake her up?
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I certainly did not cake here up. If she wants me she will cake me back.
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Can’t link my damn nintendo club account to my 3DS, keeps telling me password or email is incorrect and I should go to nintendoclub.com to ask for my password. That is totally suss because it should say nintendoclub.com.au…A frikkin U!
What the devil is going on???
(Copy and paste!)
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Where did you buy it from? Is it possible that they’ve sold you an American unit somehow? Or maybe it’s a Nintendo stuffup and needs a factory reset?
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Is from GAME, has a big Aussie classification on the front of the box…
I will call nintendo hotline…I am dissapoint.
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Games finished during the month of July:
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Sorry, trjn.
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Tsk tsk.
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I started two more games though…oh wait, that’s the oppisite.
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*Elevated Five*
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-1 here 🙁
So bee told me this morning, as we were getting ready, that she heard a helicopter fly overhead and how unusual it was for our area of Geelong.
I pointed out that it was probably a police helicopter.
I was close..
As we drove down our street tot turn out onto the main road, we were confronted with this:
Article:
http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2011/08/01/270815_news.html
Pictures of the wreck:
http://tools.geelongadvertiser.com.au/photo-gallery/photo_gallery_popup_preview.php?category_id=23215&offset=0
When we saw the wreck we assumed the guy would have been killed.. i mean look at it.. what a wreck.
I said to bee the chopper she heard must have been a medical one, which looks like i was right on my second guess.
Luckily, as you may have read in the article, the guy is still alive.. but it was quite a sight to see this morning.
Very – VERY lucky individual to still be alive.. but just shows what speeding can do, and unfortunately people fly up and down that main road all the time..
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Over an hour trapped in the wreckage? Those doctors are going to have fun dealing with his blood clots!
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You and your doctor knowledge, Actually probably everyone knows that except for me.
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It’s a major problem with cars, in high speed accidents, metal will often pierce the legs of the dirver/passenger. The upside, is that there is typically very little blood, as the metal closes over, the downside, is that the blood that is blocked off goes “stagnant”, and can clot. This is only really a problem when you’re stuck sitting there for a while, which in this case was what happened. I believe, they often give an anti-coagulant on scene, if they think there’s a risk of that happening, but then you run the risk of the person bleeding out if it isn’t handled correctly(very low risk due to the whole “paramedics on site by the time this happens”).
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That guy is very, very lucky to still be alive. Damn… That’s one impressive wreck, though.
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I wonder how it looked before they chomped it with the jaws.
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Been watching Evo at work, got the stream working.
During the Grand Finals of MVC3, I get a call that I have to take, had to work hard not to randomly cheer. Then right as Viscant gets PR Rog down to the last character, my boss decides to duck her head in an ask about that call.
Poker face engaged, eyes darting back and forth to the screen. Viscant takes it, I finish up my conversation and as soon as my boss’s back is turned I do a fist pump.
Great tournament, here’s hoping SSF4AE is even better.
So I have a 56 dollar voucher to eb games. Suggestions? I usually import all my games but I traded i’n some a few months ago
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Put it in as a pre-order towards the collectors edition of Arkham City?
Other than that? Uhhh… Yeah…
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That does sound good. I think that i want that game more than any other this year. Batman is boss!
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Try to look for something you’re interested in. Any particular genre?
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Yeah i don’t know what im interested in. The main bad part is i go in see a awesome game and they are charging $100> I’m not gonna spend $100 on something i can get for $30-$50 from zavvi or ozgameshop.
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What an odd amount for a voucher…
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Someone loves rocketman 56 dollars-worth.
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I assume they were zipping up their pants and were like “I haven’t got any cash, but I’ve got this half used EB games voucher I found on the train.” -throws on bed-
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So rocketman is an euphemism?
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Yeah that’s not exactly how it went down. You forgot the call about how they hadn’t been tested for herpes and pretty sure they had it.
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Was this at the Rocketman VD clinic?
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Wait for one of their clearance sales and grab a bunch of games on the cheap.
Evo 2011 Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition Top 8. Right now.
Go!
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Wow. That was intense.
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That doesn’t even begin to describe it.
I love esports so much right now ♥
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I had to go shopping with my girlfriend :'(
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E-Sports > All other sports.
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Greetings and salutations! I spent most of my weekend working on my new website (or rather the styling of it anyway) so I’m here to ask what you guys think? Thoughts and crits?
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For some reason I read “Remorse Support” and thought “Wow, he’s versatile”
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Wow, that looks quite good 😀
Though it looks a little pale and bland right now, but maybe that’s just because of the current lack of content.
Perhaps it needs a little bit more colour too?
Funnily enough, I just happen to be redesigning a website right now as well. It’s not as impressive as your’s yet though 🙂-
Thanks man. I’m just trying to get the “feel” of it down for the moment. Tadmod has been kind enough to lend me a hand for all the fancy coding crap that I’ve lost touch with over the years, but I’ve just been messing about with graphics to make his life a little easier 😉 Hopefully once there is some content on there it wont look so bland, but at least you can get an idea of what I’m aiming towards. Positive feedback is great to hear though. Means I’m heading in the right direction at least 🙂
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I like the pixelationingisationsez!
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At the moment, with no content, it looks a little like a webcomic site lol
It’s rad, love it 😀
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The Zany Hijinks of Captain Welbot?
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I have to scroll around a bit because the website doesn’t fit on my netbook resolution.
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I like it all except the buttons, I don’t really like the boxes around them, or maybe they’re too big?
Don’t take this the wrong way, Mr. WHAT?!
…I miss you.
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You still have your old pal ShiggyNinty. YOU ALL HAVE SHIGGYNINTY!
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Sans your delicious cooked goods.
Whatsupwiththat?
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Come to the Canberra Meat that I’m totally going to plan, hopefully starring ShiggyNinty, and anyone else I can drag down here!
It’s easy to get to Canberra from everywhere, right?
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Also, to Tad and Lambo…
I’m in ur hot pursuits, usurping ur speed wall spots.
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Look’s like I’m going to be busy tonight then 😛
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Good luck.
I pwned one of the events in particular – shaved 3 seconds off your ridiculous 1-minute takedown.
Spent ages on that stupid Mclaren F1 event… have a bad habit of restarting these when I really should be working through to the finish just to get the extra bounty.
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Sorry to break it to you dude, but I just beat your time on that event by ten seconds 😀
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“AnonymousPessimist
August 1, 2011 at 2:03 PMI am unoneupable.”
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Well, Shameless Gaming month finished just as I started playing.
I started playing through Assassin’s Creed yesterday. Got as far, if not further than, I’ve gotten before which was nice. Definitely love the game so far, can’t wait to play more of it tonight.
Also, not letting the end of Shameless Gaming month stop me. I’m going to keep on going because I have far too many games I haven’t played yet.
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I’m not actually stopping just because the month is over. Maybe I’ll be less focused, but I had fun, so why stop?
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Because Deus Ex Human revolution comes out this month and if people don’t immediately stop everything they’re playing to go play that, I’m going to have to bust out some stern looks of disapproval.
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I think Deus Ex is going to be a flop.
I’d love to be proved wrong.
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Critically or financially?
Early reviews are looking good, but I can understand if it doesn’t sell well. Bar trailers, any other sort of marketing (posters, ad space) has been pretty minimal. Build up the hype, Eidos. Look what wonders it did for Homefront, even if that was an average game.But yeah, I have a friend who checks 4chan’s video games board every now and then. He said even those guys liked the leaked preview build, and that means something.
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It’s getting some good early reviews, as you said… and I’d hope nostalgia for the first one, and the design decisions of HR, mean it’ll sell fairly well.
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This being said, a number of games with favorable previews this year have quite frankly sucked. Brink, Darkspore, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, DS3, just to name a few.
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+1 Trjn, couldn’t agree more.
Yes – if this shameless gaming excersize has taught me anything it’s to push beyond my normals limits.
Normally on Single player games I go till I either finish a level or get an acheivement, then I tend to feel like I’ve accomplished something and it goes back in the rotation.
But in July I took a different approach and pushed to knock off more missions, or two levels at a time. The result was three games completed with significant progress made in 6 others.
Of course my Bday on Sunday derailed all of this with 3 new games to add to procedings! (Enslaved, AssBro & RDR)
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Nothing like some good ol’ AssBro on your birthday – Happy Birthday btw!
Well played sir! I also am not stopping the shame. I have sworn not to buy a new game until this shame is dealt with once and for all! However if anyone wants to buy me new games…that’s a different story!
So that Latif guy knocked out all the three guys I picked for top 3. What a Viper!
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Three Americans in top 8, all of them playing Viper. The two pad Vipers get eliminated and he who rocks the stick comes in second. So hype right now. So hype.
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Really disappointing that he got trounced in the end, would’ve made such a huge upset if he made it all the way.
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Evo would have exploded if he did. Fuudo is no slouch, haven’t seen him before but he never looked bad when I saw him on stream this weekend.
Top 8 was complete madness, I don’t think anyone could have predicted any of it.
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Nah that was a very convincing win so good on Fuudo 🙂
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Hush robot, shouldn’t you have been cheering on Poongko aka The Machine? :p
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I was cheering him on, I was saddened that he lost, his Perfect wins were just amazing to watch, he was running circles around his opponent
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That’s Seth. You either win big or lose big, there’s no inbetween with that character.
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A reply to AP.
My sausage dog’s name is Boy, named after Noby-Noby Boy.
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Was Sal Army under consideration?
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Local family in town has the last name Bicky. They have a son named Tien. Is fine except for when its pronounced Tea-an.
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That’s the wurst pun I’ve heard today…
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You typo’d ‘best’
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So FatShady finally gave me access to the Minecraft server. My wife and I will be on tonight I imagine, so if anyone still keen wants to hang out, we’ll be there.
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I haven’t logged on in ages…
I still don’t have a house/shed/living hole on the server…
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I haven’t logged on since the webpagey thing went down, and I lost the ability to easily give myself free everything…
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I never told you how to fix that, just go to the servers website and select game centre
It should give you a drop down for minecraft CP. It all still works, they just changed how they hosted it…
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Oh, how the mighty have fallen…
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I wonder how FatShady’s birthday montage went.
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I’ll try and upload it somehow? 800mb so not sure. Doubt you’d want to see my pictures but the clips are awesome.
For anyone interested a bit of a follow up story about the story posted over the weekend on the man who died from DVT due to long hours of playing Xbox:
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8279606/gaming-related-to-mans-deep-vein-thrombosis-death
Basically his Dad is now campaigning for awareness of how dangerous sitting still for long periods of time can be.
What I find interesting about the article is that towards the end it says:
“Mr Staniforth said he had nothing against the video games themselves, rather he wanted to increase awareness about the dangers of remaining immobile”
and yet at the top of the article it says:
“An English man whose son died from deep vein thrombosis (DVT) after playing video games for long periods is now campaigning for greater awareness of gaming dangers.”
It would seem, and the rest of the short article seems to confirm it, that the man in question has absolutely nothing against video games and does not blame them in any way yet the media, in this case 9news, is all to willing to point the finger at gaming.
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Yeah, was reading a similar thing in The Daily Telegraph during dinner.
Also during the night, after just sitting down at the computer after going in between rooms for an hour running errands, my mum warned me about said story.
“Remember to get up and walk around. You don’t want to get DVT from games.”
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Quick update from me. I spent entire day moving over 500 pavers from my mothers house to mine. Another 500 tomorrow also!
I am going back to ABC Thursday to film more trials stuff cause they can’t find some footage I made?
Also I got a video capture card! $145. Hdmi input and recording off the xbox seems pretty good. Stupid Sony have protected hdmi signal. Also does digital tv but only getting used to it. Avermedia H727 if you are interested?
Thats about it. I’ll post rocketman and batguys stuff Wednesday. I’ll confirm then.
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I’ve been using a Roxio capture card that runs on component cables. Not really the best thing out there, but it does the job most of the time.
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Time off work – ur doin it wrong.
If anything else important happened today / last weekend, shove over!
I just wanted to say I beat all of my friends in Shameless Gaming Month, with a net completion of one game (1 finished, 0 purchased), my frends were so close, with net competions of zero (1 finished, 1 purchased) and -something (no clue finished, several purchased)
So, post your own net scores, I know a few of you beat me!
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The humble indy bundle pushed me into negatives,m which is why I don’t count net scores :p
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And for the record, -3.
4 finished, 7 purchased (humble indie bundle, Magicka and Worms)
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*clap clap….-
Hahaha! I think we should have shameless game buying month. But I suppose thats pretty much all the time so yeah.
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we would all lose to Cakesmith’s mighty disposable income.
*points to his steam list*
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It would have been -19, but my Dad’s out of Canberra, and so I couldn’t buy the Humble Indie Bundle…
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I finished Just Cause 2 and DA2, but pre-ordered Deux Ex HR and AssCreed Revelations.
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So I happens to see that Red Steel 2 with the motion plus thingy is only $15 in Big W. Pretty good if you wanted to get one for Skyward Sword which ahhh maybe needs it? Maybe not. I dunno. But you know, thought I’d mention it!
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Red Steel 2 is fun if a little repetetive. But Skyward Sword is gonna have a gold Wiimote with Motionplus inside! CHOICES SUGS CHOICES!
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Red Steel 2 had awesome combat.
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You felt like a bad ass swinging your sword around, just got annoyed sometimes with fighting and that.
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Maybe picking it up for $15 isnt a bad idea then? I’m not sure I’m into the gold controller. Gold’s a bit… ergh. Then again, it has a little Hyrule symbol somewhere on it doesnt it… ARGH DAMN YOU LITTLE HYRULE SYMBOL!
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I fully support that purchase! I had a lot of fun the Red Steel 2 😀
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OK, after getting a US XBL account for Mortal Kombat shennanigans, thought I’d check out what I could download. So I found Baby Maker Extreme and played that for god knows how long. It’s a quick and easy distraction but it’s full of lulz. Also Catherine? WTF.
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I saw a review of that on… two friends play, I think it was?
The running commentary made it win.
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Yeah they tackle like all these indie games. A lot of em are pretty bad…but Baby Maker Extreme is just pure hilarity.
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Been really considering doing a Teaching English overseas course in Japan. Anyone got prior experience doing anything like it? Words of encouragement or anything? Been debating it for a long time but it’s tipping into the positives at the moment!
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I worked as an English Teacher in Japan for almost 2 years. I had an amazing time. Loved it.
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Did you need any sort of qualifications? I read on some sites you do and some you dont. It’d be amazing to do though.
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One of my friend,from Melbourne, is a Assistant Language Teacher at JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) program. She is now teaching in Nagasaki, Japan. She totally loved it!
if memory serves, you have to be qualified as a language teacher.
Here is the site for them:
http://www.jetprogramme.org/-
Different programs have different qualification barriers. Some require you to be a language teacher, others will accept anyone with a Bachelors degree.
A friend of mine did it for about a year and his only qualification was that he had been dating a Japanese girl for a while (they lived at her parents’ home while they were over there).
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Haven’t lived over there for any longer than 2 weeks (or taught English…) but definitely go for it.
It’s an amazing country.
I did visit a few primary/high schools in Japan and talked to some people teaching English, and they loved it. The kids adore the overseas teachers (the one I talked to was Jamaican) and the other English teachers love having a native speaker to use in their classes.
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Haha poor Japanese kids, I struggle to understand Jamaican english at times let alone kids learning english for the first time.
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Jamaican english is the best! Often, for the lulz, when I meet someone new I speak with a Jamaican accent and try to convince them I’m Jamaican, not Indian.
You’ll be surprised how often it works.
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Ah, today’s TAY is easy to read, since I was busy all day. Well I’ve started Uni, well not officially, but my uni is offering free lectures for mid-year students for a week so no Kotaku till night 🙁
Shameless gaming. 1 game, Ass.Creed 2. I’m up to the last boss in Persona 4, so I’ll count that as another I guess :P, oh yeah speaking about P4, I really hate last boss’ where after you defeat them, they just turn into even stronger bosses, so annoying.
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You can thank my busy day for the easy to readivity.
Some people seem to get the odd idea that I go to work to actually do productive things…
INORIGHT?
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Being productive is overrated 😛
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Being productive is a myth.
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Target have extended their mid-year sales until August 10th.
Check out their deals here:
http://www.vgprices.com/specials_target.php
I get all “Grr” when I see ‘MostStrange’ pop up in article comments now. I know he has a blog thingy with that name but I still get the irrational feeling that he’s trying to one up me. 😛
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hahah i thought exactly the same thing yesterday! poor Strange! You will always be the original to us!
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Fargo?
http://bit.ly/hHz9jU-
lololol!
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Yeah, I think the same thing when I see it pop up. Don’t worry! You’ll always be the First Lady of Kotaku to us!
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A Strange impersonator?
That is… most strange.…
*cough*
Soooooo
That virusey PC? Thought I’d managed to clean it up. Like a retard, I plugged in my Ext HDD and there were a number of folders I knew shouldn’t be there. All random numbers and letters. With exe files inside.
*sigh*
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Achoo!
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I hope you used a tissue! Spraying your malware all over the place.
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Good morning humans, I would like to thank Pyrean and Steve-O for such a fun match of LoL last night, and hope you get that mic problem fixed up soon Steve-O 🙂
Looking forward to the next engagement
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I thought steveO was just ignoring us. Turns out his mic was faulty. That solves that mystery.
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Yeah if you watched closely, his icon changed from the blue dot to the “everything disabled” icon for a few short times, so he’s got troubles.
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The bigger hint was that his blue dot was turning a lighter blue, to indicate that he was speaking, but nary a word was to be heard.
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Yeah the one I was talking about is when that flickers you got hardware/driver issues. Happened to me with that new RAM that windows didn’t like.
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Yeah I seem to cut a swathe of destruction through any technology I touch. I’ve destroyed 5 USB drives at work, two monitors, 1 keyboard, some speakers and now my mic (I borrowed my work mic for teamspeak).
Must be my magnetic personality? Eh, eh? Try the veal.
LoL was quite enjoyable, still havn’t purchased my next hero though. Jungling Shen went ok but still not sure if I’ll purchase him, might try practice with him some more tonight and make a decision based on that and the next round of free heroes.
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So, HoN is now free to play http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/07/warcraft-iii-inspired-heroes-of-newerth-goes-free-to-play/
HoN vs. LoL: Which one is better? Discuss. (Or fight to the death(one keeps friendships intact, both are enjoyable), your choice) 😛
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I still prefer LoL by far, here’s why:
1: The steady learning curve
When you get a LoL account you start at summoner level 1. When you go into random games, you go up against other level 1s/2s, which are very most likely on your skill level = starter, keeping the games pretty fair. In HoN, you have only “Ranked” and “Casual”, that’s it. You have absolutely no clue who you’re up against/with, next to absolutely no idea on what you’re doing (Monkey Courier? WTF WAS THAT?!). On LoL, the summoner levelling puts a build on a build in terms of battles: Your champion build which is the one who fights, and your summoner build, which has runes and masteries which tweak your champions stats very slightly to give you more of an edge but not in an OP sense.2: The champions’ uniqueness
There is no INT/AGI/STR based champions in this game. Each champion has their own unique strengths and weaknesses, some use mana, some sacrifice HP to up their attack power, and some use unique energy characteristics in terms of abilities and I find them all really interesting to learn. There are no champions in the entire lineup that I would avoid at all. All the champions in LoL are awesome in their own way.3: The item shop system
I’ve tried HoN briefly and I gotta say, I couldn’t find anything in that shop, it was such a darn mess! In LoL, the shop is categorised very effectively. You want armour? Look up Defense > Armour, you want spell damage? Look up Magic > Ability Power. It is so simple and easy to navigate in order to get what you want.4: Community
Thanks to the summoner levelling system, rookies are pitted up against rookies, so everybody is in the same boat. I don’t believe I bumped into the first bad apple until after 3-4 weeks of playing it, and I was already hooked enough to enjoy the game and ignore those imbeciles. In HoN, my very first, the very fricken first game I got flamed by my entire team cuz I got put in an “elitist” team. “You didn’t get health potions? What a NOOB!” “LEAVE NOOB YOU SUCK!” and other more unpleasant comments I got my text box spammed with.Now, I’m not saying that HoN is bad, I’m just saying I enjoy LoL much better and I’m really into that game. Hate me all you want humans, this is my two cents.
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Hi Tech Knight,
I have not played LoL (yet) but I will address your points in relation to HoN as best I can. Prepare for my lengthy and self-indulgent rebuttle. /ahems
1: The steady learning curve
HoN has had a matchmaking for some time, which aims to ‘match’ you with players and teams of similar level together. It’s not a flawless system but it’s getting better.That being said, HoN is not easy to pick up as a n00b – especially if you’ve never had experience in any MOBA games. It’s brutally hard. Which is why I love it.
2: The champions’ uniqueness
At the moment, HoN is sitting on 80 heroes. Whilst they can be classed at str/int/agi they are all rather unique and do use skills like you mentioned – consuming mana and/or hp and other unique buffs/debuffs/nukes.3: The item shop system
I actually agree with you on this one – the shop in hoN freakiNG SUCKS. DoTA had a much better system imo. It’s overwhelming and you can waste the precious first 5 minutes (the most important part of the game) looking for one thing. To their credit, it’s constantly being improved upon.4: Community
Ever since HoN went Free to Play the community has gone from bad to worse. I ignore most of the trolling. I’ll admit it’s not a nice place to play and you WILL get flamed if you suck. But hey, most of it bounces off me. Each to their own.“Now, I’m not saying that HoN is bad, I’m just saying I enjoy LoL much better and I’m really into that game. Hate me all you want humans, this is my two cents.” <– Sif I could EVER hate you Techy! HoN's not bad, and I don't think LoL sucks either. I've been talking to the boys lately and we've half a mind to migrate to LoL because 1.4million players has to count for something, right?
My 2 cents – try both. They're both free so you have nothing to lose. But I highly recommend playing with a bunch of friends. DoTA will always be where my heart is and I nearly pissed myself when I saw that a DOTA 2 tournament/reveal was announced by valve. <3
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Well considering that HoN is now free to play, I will consider giving it another chance someday, cuz there is a lot more complexity to HoN I do admit, and if people want to take me in as a HoN padawan I would be honoured to learn from skilled humans like yourself. I’m sure as hell not going to solo anymore that’s for sure.
One main thing that irked me about the number of heroes is a newbie like me can be EASILY disoriented in trying to pick one to try out of 80?! Where the hell do I start? I guess I’m going to be there a while then :P. That’s sort of why I liked the limited selection at the start, each of them in the roster has a role they can play, and you can try them all.
And btw thanks for the sweet and lovely words that you would never hate me Harli 🙂
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No problemo Techy =]
To be honest if I was going solo in HoN I wouldn’t wnt to play either. It’s that bad. I don’t know how TadMod does it.
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I’m thinking of trying HoN this weekend if I get time, but I agree about DotA. As much fun as I’m having in LoL, its wouldn’t have as much appeal playing over LAN as DotA. Netherswapping your mates into unpassable terrain or tiny-throwing them into the enemy fountain then turning around and laughing at them face-to-face – thats where my heart is 😛
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lol funnily enough both those skills you mentioned (Swap and toss) are available to heroes in HoN.
We should totally give DoTA a whack sometime – I have some AI maps and they’re actually quite fun!
I’m also one of those rare folks who are able to host games on bnet.
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You can host games on B.net? Wow. (I’ve tried on like, 4 different computers at my house, and multiple others at other people’s houses and never got it to work)
(Also, I suck because I’ve lost my cd keys for Warcraft 3)
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It’s a total b!tch to setup. Static IP’s, port forwarding, and I somehow also managed to completely screw up our router for an entire day and blocked the internet for my entire household.
Ahh, back in those days. Fun times.
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Woooo… DOTA.
I contribute very much to discussion, yes.
Before I forget again for the umpteenth time, are any of you arty folks interested in doing Captain Computer Games for me? Seeing as I posses nearly no drawing skills whatsoever, it would be a great crime against humanity if I tried doing CCG. So, anyone interested?
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I was hoping you’d volunteer 😀
Cheapskate goes up every Wednesday morning, so if you could send it any time before then that’d be great 🙂
Thanks-
Alright I dun sumting. What’s your addy again?
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Here’s something vaguely interesting.
Last night, my brother and I were watching the latest Breaking Bad. Normally I just watch it on my laptop but my brother wanted to watch so I popped it on an external drive and watched through the PS3.
After a while, the audio started to drop out. Just randomly during scenes there would be gaps in the audio. At first I thought it was a fault with the file, but I checked the copy on my laptop and the audio was fine.
So I plugged the external drive into my 360 and it was perfectly fine. Except the video was now lower quality.
How odd.
Does the PS3 upscale or something like that, which caused the audio to drop because it couldn’t keep up?
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honestly, I think it’s just something to do with the way the ps3 carries the signal over the cable. I notice the same thing when I try to do stuff like that on my TV via ps3. I can play the same file, via PC-TV and it’ll work fine, but when I do it ps3-TV I find it’ll either drop audio, video or both at random intervals for NO apparrent reason. I’ve never been able to figure out why the hell it does it. Never been sure if it’s something to do with my TV or the ps3, but damn it’s annoying.
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The audio might be this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia
As for the upscaling, I’ve only ever played media on my PS3 and not my 360, so I’m not sure, but here’s a discussion on it:
http://community.us.playstation.com/thread/2340141?start=0&tstart=0
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Shouldn’t be that. PS3 pops up with a warning saying audio is disabled if it’s Cinavia.
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I’ve never had issues streaming videos from my portable drive OR from PS3 Media Server via my PC. And that very same BB episode. 720p and no issues.
I watch at least 15 hours a week of video content on my PS3 and don’t have problems.
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Which is me trying to say perhaps it’s another issue… but I can’t see what that would be.
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I was watching the lo-res version of the episode (chewed up too much download quota watching streams this weekend) and my PS3 was going through a HTS while the 360 was straight into the TV (Rock Band doesn’t seem to like my HTS, otherwise both would be through HTS). That might have been the difference.
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Sounds like the culprit. Maybe give it a try on the PS3 ignoring the HTS? If you really care, that is (what with having a work-around).
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Doesn’t seem worth it when I already have a few other options that work right now. Just odd that the PS3 is behaving the way it is.
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It’s definitely the PS3 at fault.
We had the same problem but no matter what setting we tried on the PS3 or the amp it just wouldn’t be fixed. It could be fixed on the old phat ones through the PS3’s settings but not the slim ones. All the audio on files from either the PS3’s or an external hard drive, and basically everything through the XMB like iView and even games off the PSN would just have the audio cut out for a second at random intervals but regularly.
It’s something to do with the way the PS3 processes PCM through your HTS over HDMI.
The only thing that worked on the Slim was changing to an optical cable for the PS3’s audio. So yeah, if you want to watch stuff on your PS3 you should probably connect it to your amp with an optical cable as well as HDMI.-
Apparently PS3s don’t like to stuff that isn’t Sony stuff. They’re all snobbish and stuff. That’s the only explanation I ever found.
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Spent some time last night trying to teach my girlfriend how to pull off a shoryuken input for MvC3. Took bloody ages and she still hasn’t nailed being able to pull it off consistently yet.
I forget how tricky these games can be for newcomers.
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Technique?
Hohohohoho!
Simple Mode -> *button mash*-
I’ll admit, when you grabbed that controller, and started rolling it over your leg, I was pretty impressed by your mashing skills! Truly you’re a master!
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Haha yes that would normally be a viable option, but my GF wants to learn the game and is too proud to use SImple Mode.
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If you were watching me trying to play SSFIV at Galactic Circus I looked like a total tool trying to do combos. You were too busy throwing down on your opponent 😛
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Haha yeah but while I was busy throwing down my opponent was busy Tiger-my ass to a KO 🙂
More training for me then!
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I’ve found that you really need to make each of the eight directions clear.
UB U UF
B – F
DB D DFThat’s where d-pads and octagonal gates come in handy.
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Formatting fail!
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Yeah my arcade sticks (yeah I have 2 customized HORI sticks) both have octagonal gates to make the 8-way directions easier to find.
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I always find that sort of thing amusing.
Maybe if she knows how to drive a manual you could explain it along the lines of shifting from third to first. That’s essentially a backwards DP motion if you rotate it 90 degrees counter clockwise.
Man, I am really over thinking this.
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I saw a chick do 3 EWGF’s in a row in Tekken once.
It was amazing.
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Were you that chick and you just happened to be looking for an excuse to brag?
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She was having an out-of-body experience at the time, obviously.
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BAhahhahaha! you guys are true comedians.
I actually suck on stick, no joke. I’m like 10x better on pad*.
*estimation may be inaccurate
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must not laugh….must not laugh….be mature….
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I make this way too easy for you guys.
Just waiting for Blaghman or AnonymousPessimist to jump in now…
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Sorry, it’s just too easy here.
I’ll pass it to AP if he wants.
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I’M LATE, BUT OMG LOL.
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Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood turned me into an angry shouting and tantrum-throwing person yesterday. I was sooo frustrated with it.
I always try to do everything in games which means I’ll do all the sidequests and try and make sure I do all the single-player things in the game. This doesn’t mean I’ll try and get all trophies, just that I’ll try and see all of the story.
So obviously I’m going to try and get 100% sync on all missions in Ass:Bro.
The game has other ideas. It is broken, borked and frustrating.
For instance a few times you have to do missions without being detected but they’re really long and have a whole bunch of checkpoints along the way. You can make it through all the checkpoints undetected but if you screw up right at the end and that very last guard happens to spot you, you have to restart the whole damn mission in order to get 100% sync. You can’t just die and go back to the last checkpoint and carry on because even though up until that checkpoint you were undetected, the detection from before you died remains and you fail to fully sync. Arrrggghhhhhh!
And there’s things that have to be completed within time limits but there’s no way you can do it on the one playthrough of the mission because there’s treasures and enemies you’d naturally stop for the first time but you’d have to just rush past if you were going for 100% sync. I don’t want to waste my gaming time repeatedly playing through missions I’ve already finished just to do it in a ridiculous time limit.
And now I have to resign myself to never being 100% synced because there’s some sort of bug in a mission where you have to assassinate from a hiding place and it never registers that I’ve done so no matter how many times I try.
I nearly broke my controller yesterday and now I’m going to have to play through the rest of Brotherhood like I just don’t care about it because there’s no way I can get 100% sync now so why bother trying. Which is not my playstyle at all. I’m getting all angry again just thinking about it.
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Oh man! I know the exact mission you’re talking about with the kill from a hiding spot.
It took me like 6 goes to get that one. I’m like you as well, the whole 100% sync thing but, also like you, I had to change my play style because I was just getting too frustrated.
Friggin’ Ass:Bro…
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I feel your pain, I think AssBro was the definitive game that made me stop caring about chevos.
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I hear you. Yesterday I was raging at Brotherhood so much because of the damn 100% sync thing. I did one mission that required you to remain undetected for the whole thing. I’d restarted a couple times and finally I get to the end only to have the very last guard spot me. I kill him and that sends me to a cutscene.
Problem is the cutscene screws up and the sounds completely out of sync with what’s happening on screen. Characters are moving their lips and not talking etc. I decide I’d just skip the cutscene, restart the mission and hopefully that would fix things.
To my horror though I find that upon skipping the cutscene the next mission automatically starts and I’m unable to go back and select the last mission to repeat. I quckly rush through the mission while skipping cutscenes along the way because I was a little lost on the story thanks to that last cutscene screwing up and I figured I’d just redo both missions in order and watch the cutscenes again.
Finally finish this new mission only to have the next mission also auto start and I’m still unable to go back and select previous missions. Once again I rush through it and skip the cutscenes. The mission after is also another auto accept mission.
Finally I finish all the auto select mission and I’m able to go back and select that first mission to redo. I then select the next mission and so on this time watching the cutscenes (the first one didn’t stuff up again thank god) untill I’m fully caught up on the story and what’s going on.
It sucked having to experience the story that way though because after I completed one mission I’d find myself transported back to a menu and it sort of broke up the flow of things. It also sucked having to redo all these missions again that by this point I didn’t care if they were 100% synced or not.
At one point I actually just started stabbing everyone in range, enemy or not, to get rid of some of my frustration. This of course desynced me because “Ezio did not kill civilians” and that in turn made me more frustrated. If I want to kill civilians I should damn well be allowed to kill civilians. Here’s hoping in Ass Creed 3 we play as some sort of blood thristy maniac who kills everyone.-
Yeah, my poor daughter came home partway through me attempting to 100% sync something yesterday and she got some spilled-over angst from me.
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“Hey Mum-” “GO TO BEEEEEED!!” “…But… but it’s only 4 o’c-” “I SAID GO TO BEEEEEED!!! RAAAARGH!!”
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That’s almost exactly what happened! Except it was “DO YOUR HOMEWORK!! RAAAARGH!!”
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I got 100% sync in AC:Brotherhood.
I was quite frustrated with the tank mission, took me over 10 times and YES you need to start right from the beginning!!!!
My suggestion is not to play the same mission over and over again, do some other missions first and then come back to it whenever you feel like to!
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I hate you. 😛
I just don’t have the time(or the patience anymore, see above for proof 😛 ) to replay things over and over again. I think I’ll just rush through now so I can play something else.
Hey guys,
I was wondering if there are any readers in the Perth area that would be up for a Perth Meat?!
Seems Melbourne and Sydney get all the fun 🙁
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Brisbane gets all the fun, not Melbourne and Sydney. 😛
But I do remember last week some people talking about a Perth meat so you may be in luck.
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Oh okay 😛
I’ve just seen the Melbourne and Sydney Meat posted on here before, think I missed the Brisbane one! 😛
Oh really? Do you remember who it was?
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For some reason, Brisbane was overlooked for a big Kotaku article like the others.
Despite the fact that we’ve had two awesome Meats and we’re the only City with the balls to have met at people’s real houses. 😛And I can’t remember who besides The Cracks, sorry.
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That’s alright! I’m sure if we get the call out there, someone will answer…..anyone?….hello?
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Also, I think a Meat in Perth would almost have to be at someone’s house as there is no venue I know of that supplies both alcohol and video games :/
Perth is too backwards 🙁
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You… you didn’t have fun at our first meat?
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At least you guys get meets. Up until 2 months ago i had no one live within 10 hours of me. Now one day me and steveO get to meet in the future.
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And a glorious LAN/pissup it shall be Rocketman! I just have to make it through the footy season so I can get some time. If you can I suggest acquiring a copy of Warcraft III and downloading DotA AI maps to practise.
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My sentiments exactly
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I did! I’m sorry, I should have said any meat without me was unfun. 😛
I actually felt a bit guilty about including Sydney in the not-fun department but I didn’t want to have to explain everything to James Maguire.
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GUILT TRIP: SUCCESS
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Hey Hey Hey. Brisbane too, yo.
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The Cracks is a Perth boy!
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Oh really? Awesome. He should get into this conversation then 😛
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I am indeed.
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Dear “The Cracks”,
Would you be interested in a Perth Meat?
Greetings and Salutations,
James.
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I’m from Perth!
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Awesome! Whereabouts? And would you be interested?
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I saw Gnomeo and Juliet yesterday. The highlight of the film would have to be when I realised that the guy who does the voice of Paris is the guy who did Wheatly’s voice from Portal 2 🙂
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Yeah, Stephen Merchant, awesome guy!
That movie was pretty average, the only parts I really liked were the parts with the flamingo. His voice was hilarious.
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Sat through that punishing film with my son. Then when the credits came up and said ‘Executive Producer – Elton John’, it all suddenly made a lot of sense.
Can anybody recommend a good desktop calendar for Windows7? I just want something simple that I can whack onto my desktop in the background and remind me of important appointments etc.
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lifehacker always had pretty desktops with cool features….
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tags/featured-desktop/-
Yeah, this. Rainmeter is pretty useful with this kinda stuff. One of those Omnimo things is a set of 6 square where you can write stuff on, which I use all the time as reminders to do stuff. And it makes it look purty. I’d post a screenshot, but I’m busy at work getting my soul crushed.
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Thanks guys. Nevermind the soul crushing, a screenshot would be great!
I just installed rainmeter and Omnimo and it just completely effed up my desktop. Not happy! Now I gotta fix all these settings.
Any other gadgets you could rec?
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HOLD THE PRESS! *lifts up sandwich press*
Found a nifty thingie called Rainlendar. It’s all kinds of deliciousness. If anybody wants a desktop calendar that does it’s job simply and is good-looking, try it out.
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It turns out that today is the one year anniversary of me starting this job.
It’s also the day that I decided to bring a copy of my resume in to update so I can apply for the Kotaku/Gizmodo/Lifehacker weekend editor position. Damn thing needs a total rewrite if I’m going to apply 🙁 It’s all tailored to admin type work and the formatting is rather janky (this is what I get for making use of a random bit of formatting from several years ago and never bothering to change it).
Throw in the fact that I’m meant to be working and not looking for other work and it looks like I won’t be able to apply for that job. Sadface. Not that I would have gotten it or anything, but it’d have been nice to see what would have happened.
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No time to apply at home? You should be making some time for shameless job applications!
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Mainly because I lack any sort of word processor with decent formatting options at home. I write almost exclusively in Scrivener, which is not a tool you want to use for writing your resume.
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I have heard of these things called ‘torrents’. But, you know, I’ve never used them. Just… heard others, you know, talk about them and stuff. Definately not me.
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Time to break out emacs!
No? Anyone….?
I suppose you could try openoffice?
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Or just rewrite the damned thing in Text Edit.
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Bust out a quill and scroll and go calligraphy on that bitch.
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I wanna take this sentence out on a date and get to know it a little better.
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Man don’t give up why don’t you work on it tonight. I would like to see you as night editor.
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I mean weekend editor, I have nothing against elly and want her to keep her job. : D
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She’s night editor, not weekend editor!
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Is today the last day for applications?
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I don’t actually know, but I’m working on the assumption that there are a decent chunk of applications coming in, so applying too late might mean that my application gets missed.
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Just pull the old “Do you know who I am?” I’m sure serrels will pull some strings :p
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I should just send Mark an email “can I have the job? Can I? Please? Oh won’t you let me have the job, I’ll be ever so good at it!”
I wonder if part of the reason I’ve been very hesitant to apply is because I’d have to mention the time I spent as a moderator on Gaia Online…
Damn you relevant experience!
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NOW I KNOW!
(Just apply!)
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Can I just send a post it note saying “I came up with Shameless Gaming, gimme job pls?” and we count that as my application? :p
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No resume or cover letter required. Just a list of games you completed!
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Did you not read the blog post you linked to today? This fills me with great sadness :p
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Haaaaaahaha.
Got around to reinstalling Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines yesterday after a weekend of “OMG VtM:B is cheap, DISCUSS” topics on forums.
God damn, this Ocean House level.
Things coming at you, chandeliers nearly dropping on you, lady running past in front of you and disappearing. I even randomly turned Auspex on (You can see the auras of people) and saw a ghost hiding around the corner and was all NOTHANKYOU.png
Good times.
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God dammit, a framed picture just blasted off the wall and killed me.
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Were you all like come at me bro, I’m a vampire.
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They (it?) threw vases in my face. =(
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How awesome is that bedroom you get locked in?
The lights go out and you hear the furniture all shaking around you, then when the lights finally turn back on there’s a freshly scratched “GET OUT” in the wall 😀
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I love that game, that universe, and everything about it.
Also Ocean House level won some award for being an incredibly designed level or something, well deserved.
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Not that I play horror games much, but Ocean House and the Orphanage/Asylum in Thief 3 are particular atmospheric standouts.
Rest in peace Troika. Shame you won’t be able to combat this new generation of sparkle sparkle vampires.
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Everything about the Masquerade universe is incredible. The vampire clans have such a deep history and the universe has such an amazing backstory.
I went to the extent of scrounging the net for ebooks on the RPG universe after I first played Redemption. I was hooked for quite a while.
Can’t wait to download Bloodlines next week. Is it multiplayer?
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No sir.
There will be no one upping of each other here.-
Actually, if you play around with the code and console commands you will find the remnants of what looks like an attempt to build multiplayer mode, which was later scrapped.
Just pray that some fan with lots of time and coding skill will bring that multiplayer project to life!!
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Looking at everything that got scrapped from that game, did they suddenly realise that their team was a quarter the size of what it really was?
OK, in truth it was almost certainly the publisher forcing a release date that they couldn’t make with their planned content, but still. The games industry really needs to invest more time in pre-production…
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Hah, eventually maybe.
In fact, the last fan update (unofficial patch 7.6b) was done just over 2 weeks ago.
He’s gettin’ there!
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Do I want a pie from the pie shop or a ceasar salad from Coles for lunch?
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Pie for sure. Shame on you for even considering something else.
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Pie > Salad.
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Because you don’t make friends with salad.
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DAMNIT.
Now that’s in my head.
D:
♫ You don’t make friends with salad ♫
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If it’s any consolation, I have Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce stuck in my head. IT WON’T LEAVE ME!
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I wish I had that stuck in my head. For the past fortnight I have had “Bed Intruder” stuck in my head. My girlfriend has almost gone postal because I’m always muttering under my breath “they’re climbing in yo windows, they snatching yo people up”.
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You only ever don’t get a pie if it’s from the pie van that comes to my work. The guy has mould on his sideburns
Sald from Coles? Ewww.
Pie is the lesser of two evils. Come and visit and I’ll make you a proper pie and caesar salad.
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A pie-and-ceasar salad?
You really do create the most exotic combinations of food.
Thank you gentlemen.
Deep down I knew the pie was the right choice, but overexposure to women’s magazines had temporarily disrupted my instincts.
TO THE PIE SHOP!
http://bit.ly/r78QZr
The pie is delicious.
This lunch was a success. Without the support of the community it could have been a disaster.
PS: I’ll hold you to that, Strange.
Hmm, my reply somehow never made the “submit comment” button.
But I seconded the pie.
It’s funny, after seeing Android/iOS Tablet UI’s I had always wished for a standard Win7 interface.
Now after getting a Win7 Tablet/Netbook, I am spending a significant amount of time redesigning my UI to bear more resemblance to a tablet.
Irony is delicious.
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Actually irony kind of tastes like paint. Wood and paint.
BTW I’m Quoting dennis the menace, I watched that movie so many times as a kid and it’s still funny.
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Don’t you have an electric mast you should be fixing? :p
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I’ll fix your electric mast :p
We are actually pretty slow atm, i just find stuff for my apprentice to do and then between paperwork and showing him what to do. I don’t have to get my hands dirty, but i usually don’t comment this much each week.
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Useless fact : Dennis The Menace was created SIMULTANEOUSLY by two different people, days apart?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_the_Menace_(UK)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_the_Menace_(U.S.)
Blind Mowing.
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I love that useless fact, it’s just SO COOL!
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Holy cattle hands, That is incredible.
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I was going to mention that too.
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I totally had a Beano comic book of some description when I was a younger. I remember reading it and stuff.
+1 to Jackass
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Petition to get James Maguire to change his handle to jamesmag or jamesmagusedmyhandle, just to confuse us a bit more.
All those in favour, sign below.
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*Signed*
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… AND MY AXE.
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I actually lol’d
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Im in for that.
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*Signed* 😀
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Too easy…. Dammit!! I bet Qbo took the initiation paddle to Tassie.
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Ooo, I get the paddle?! Hot damn!
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It is more like an oar really.
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…This could hurt..oh well, no pain, no gain. Right guys?
You all had to go through this didn’t you?
*everyone looks aside and mumbles* “yeah, yeah…of course we did…”
*crickets*
Okay cool, lets get started then.
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Some of us did!
Don’t worry, you only have to worry about stage two if you pass stage one!
What’s stage one you ask?
Why, you have to watch this whole video, with the sound turned on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOLsKylOkJU
HAHAHAHA, now I’ve linked to it twice in two weeks! HAHAHAHA
*cough*
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Does it count if I watched it 5 or more times for lol’s the first time you posted it?
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I don’t even know how anyone can have watched it once…
I guess that’ll count.
ON TO THE OAR!
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Just watched it through again and it’s every bit as painful as the first 5 times 😛 especially as I can remember I used to sound like that before I had vocal training haha.
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I’ll admit, I normally sound slightly less bad than that, but that song is a real bitch to sing(it’s so monotonous). But only slightly less bad.
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Haha fair enough 😛
It is a hard song to sing, no tone to it at all. If you used an autotune it would be alright 😛
I’m nowhere near as good as I used to be (haven’t had any lessons in about 3 years) but I like to think I’m a good singer, not excellent, just good.
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Yeah, I briefly had lessons (from my sister) to prepare me for an audition for a musical (got in to the chorus, OH YEAH), but I haven’t sung all that much since that ended, so I’ve gotten pretty badly out of practice, so I pretty much refuse to admit that I sound as bad as I do…
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*crickets*?
You getting waaaay ahead of yourself.
Cricket insertion doesn’t happen til stage 4…
HAHA! I actually laughed aloud and all my colleagues gave me very weird looks. Cricket insertion sounds like a challenge! Those buggers jump around, I’ll crush them in my intestines.
Haha yeah man it really doesn’t take long though. Until you get to a level where you know all the scales, etc yourself, if you don’t practice/continue to have lessons, you get bad rather quickly haha.
After watching Wicked the other weekend and hearing that Elphaba chick’s voice, god I want lessons again (not that I sound like a girl (far from it) but I want to be able to sing like her. Also discovered Josh Groban recently and although his music is usually not what I listen to, it’s classical like the way I was trained and so I can appreciate it. His voice is also amazing
Haha yeah man it really doesn’t take long though. Until you get to a level where you know all the scales, etc yourself, if you don’t practice/continue to have lessons, you get bad rather quickly haha.
After watching Wicked the other weekend and hearing that Elphaba chick’s voice, god I want lessons again (not that I sound like a girl (far from it) but I want to be able to sing like her. Also discovered Josh Groban recently and although his music is usually not what I listen to, it’s classical like the way I was trained and so I can appreciate it. His voice is also amazing
A lot of my problems stem from my range, I sit as a baritone, and I can sing standard choir bass or tenor, but when it comes to solo roles, I have problems with the upper tenor, or lower bass, and I get real problems shifting between my head voice and my chest voice.
Now I really want to practice some more…
I have no problem with range. Yeah I’ve forgotten how to sing ‘in the mask’ so the effect is slightly nasal when it’s meant to be a pure note. Incredibly annoying and a hard habit to get out of.
You definitely should practice more! Singing is awesome fun 🙂
I have no problem with range. Yeah I’ve forgotten how to sing ‘in the mask’ so the effect is slightly nasal when it’s meant to be a pure note. Incredibly annoying and a hard habit to get out of.
You definitely should practice more! Singing is awesome fun 🙂
Speaking of James Mac, have not seen him around for a while…
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He is in Scotland all this month…. Apparently they don’t have the internet!
Alright guys, there was a bit of discussion about this last week, but I figured I’d try and gauge interest. So, who would be interested in a Canberra Meat? I know it’s a fair way out of the way for most of you, and I don’t really expect a huge number of people desperate to come down to Canberra, but I figured I’d ask. I have a free house in September, and there’s plenty of free space,so uhh, yeah… Anyone?
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I am in. You will be chartering a private jet right?
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Fun story, for my eighteenth we brought a bunch of my friends up to Sydney and we went and saw Wicked. When I had invited them, one of them asked if we’d be flying up. I lol’ed heartily. Our solution was to rent a 12 seater thing and drive up in that. Not really related, but I found it amusing that said friend thought we had enough money to afford that.
So to actually answer your question, no. Not even for you, Rocketman.
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Hey, what gives? You’re a rocketman! You don’t need no jet planes!
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Where we’re going, we don’t need… jet planes.
That said, they would be a heckuvalot faster to get down to Canberra.
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This.
I’ve actually never been to Canberra, so if I were to go I’d definitely be up for a meating.
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If there’s a charter plane, get it to swing by my place and I’ll jump aboard.
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I was going to go to France, but I dunno… a meat at Blagh’s…
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It’s alright Sughly, I understand.
You just can’t say no to my house!
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I would most definitely consider driving down.
Canberra still gets WSFM, right?
Wait, no, that’s okay, maybe I can get one of their CDS.
OMG.
“Fight For Your Flashback: 40 Songs You Haven’t Heard For Ages”
CD 1, Track 1: Ghostbusters
CD 2, Track 1: The Final Countdown
I don’t even care what the 38 other songs are, I am SOLD.-
Would it be impractical for me to bus up to Sydney just so I could drive back to Canberra with that cd playing?
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I’ve flown to Canberra once and I’d totally do it again! Failing that, I am always up for the ROOOOAAADDD TRIP!!!!!!
So I would definitely be interested.
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I’ll most likely be in Canberra around the end of September….
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Oh, and Melbourne soon after.
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Hopefully we can meet you while you’re in Melbourne 🙂
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Agreed.
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Dude if you can give me a date and if i had a place to crash i would definetly be keen for a canberra weekend trip.
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Seriously? Geez, you really do have a lot of disposable income…
I’ll need to confirm with my parents when they’re away, as I don’t really pay much attention to what they do, so I don’t know actual dates, but given there’s enough of a positive response here, I’ll get on to that, and I have enough space for like, thirty people to crash here (slight exaggeration, but I think my sister managed to sleep 15-20 people here at one point) so I’m sure sleeping room would not be a problem.
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I guess Rocketman just has to fill up and fly himself down.
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Well, considering I live in Canberra, it’s not exactly out of the way. I’d totally be down, depending on dates of course.
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What about a World -1 Meet?
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Count me in, and I’m keen on taking 3 passengers in the pezmobile*
*I’d take 4, but nobody wants the back middle seat. The back middle seat is the bastard seat of all seatery. Nobody should have to deal with that.
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SHOTGUN!
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I reckon Bish would go with you, but on the proviso that you play his choice of music in the car. 😛
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The boy needs to learn what good music from the 80s sounds like!
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Let’s dew it!
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Canberra Meat? Yes.
ZOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://arkhamcity.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=3955
Batmam Beyond! Earth one! That Animated one is killer!!!
How many copies of this game will I have to buy???
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Ok so i hadn’t refreshed the front page in a while…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/08/can-you-possibly-have-too-many-batmans/
Yeah except I’ll prolly just use commercial airlines
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I wouldn’t be happy about it if I were you. I’m pretty sure he didn’t click you because he’s racist against against reply buttons.
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Well, he is pretty racist. Bish can attest to that!
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Note: I am i’n real life not racist, except to bish cause it’s funny
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Ignore what he says here.
He’s really really racist.
Trust me. I’m a doctor.
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Ah, the old “I’m not racist, but…”
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-110/comment-page-5/#comment-316892
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Alright, I know I was a bit of a stick-in-the-mud over Captain America, but for an action film I just saw one a million times better – Hanna. Original, stylish, surprising, amazing. Just, see it. I’m still in shock and awe…
Anyone else see it by any chance? Thoughts? Gah! I wanna go back and watch it again!
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How is Cate Blanchett’s accent?
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Yeah fairly good… slips out a bit in parts. I’m not sure if thats meant to be intentional or not though considering… stuff. Probably not, but I like to give her the benefit of the doubt 😀
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Hey Sughly, this competition needs your MvC3 pic in it 😀
http://www.ebexpo.com.au/index.php?page=artboy
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Haha, ah yeah, I’ve seen this before. I dunno, I look at that pic now and see a million bad things about it. It’s pretty dodgy. But I appreciate the thought lambo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgv7U3GYlDY
This movie is just all kinds of awesome. Mainly because of Alan Rickman.
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How weird! Earlier today I was thinking “I actually really liked Galaxy Quest… I wonder if that’s something I can admit without castigation..?”
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Kudos for using ‘castigation’.
A criminally underused word!
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I think the opposite is true: If you don’t like Galaxy Quest and/or Alan Rickman, you’re a terrible person.
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Galaxy Quest is amazing. Some of the deleted scenes (particularly those involving Rickman) are golden.
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Yeah for sure! Nothing to be ashamed about here, movie is great. Sam Rockwell panicking about dying since he’s a smaller character with no last name.
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Wow. I did not realise that was Sam Rockwell.
WOW. I have not watched that movie in way too long.
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Also. I love buying stuff off the internet. I pre-ordered Hush Unwrapped a number of months ago when jamesmacusedmyhandle alerted me of its existence. I completely forgot about it until I got home and here it was, waiting for me. Jim Lee is a master at what he does.
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SO JELLY. i wanted to get it but i resisted. Photos if you can?
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I would if I could be bothered. I’m just lying in bed doing absolutely nothing. If you remind me tomorrow, I’ll put some up.
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Latest catalogues:
Kmart – http://www.vgprices.com/specials_kmart.php
Dick Smith – http://www.vgprices.com/specials_dicksmith.php
Kmart have the 3DS for $299 which is the best price pre-price drop!
So I just realised I have literally no idea how to write a resume tailored to a role that I have no experience for and no relevant work experience but plenty of relevant extracurricular style experience.
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Write an article on something related to the sites such as you would be expected to do if you got the job and submit it as an example of what you are capable of.
Amend with links to your blog and other work and mention how you are already a established and well liked member of the community.-
I’m not too sure about the “well liked” bit :p
At the moment, I’m hoping just a brief email summing up various reasons why I’m not the absolute worst candidate for the job will suffice. Resume writing is just too painful.
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Whoever suggested rainmeter in TAY up above (somewhere, can’t be bothered looking now) is a winnar.
I threw this and object dock onto my tablet/netbook/whateveryoucallit and it’s much more tablet-esque now.
It seems you only really get out of rainmeter what you put in so some more customization is required, but I’m enjoying the extensive features and haven’t really noticed much of a slow down or a hog on system resources.
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You can spend quite some time tweaking Rainmeter, but it worth it, as it is quite useful/looks kinda cool. My favourite is the corner clock and the notepads to write stuff on before I forget.
Oh! I almost forgot – Mr. What?!s first rad article of designer clothing arrived at my house yesterday.
Rockin the summer of 64 hoodie to work on Friday:
http://twitpic.com/5zqx3n
The distressed print turned out very nicely indeed. I do recommend you go and buy articles of clothing from him, especially on the redbubble site. I have still to receive my tees from his other source so I’ll advise on the print quality when they get here.
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Man pecs??
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Yes, what of them?
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I’m still waiting on my toctopus shirts too. Have to say the Redbubbles one you got looks pretty good! Might have to get myself one.
Also, this post should have waaaaaaaaaaaay more replies!
Also! http://www.redbubble.com/people/cronotriggr
http://holycarp.toctopus.com-
Replies like this?
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That’ll do, Flu. That’ll do.
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I got my Holy Carp shirt from the toctopus site last week, it’s really quite good. About the same as the redbubble ones as I’ve got a few from there with some of my mates designs.
I couldn’t get to sleep, so I’m watching “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”. This show is amazing! All I’ve learned thus far is that friendship will solve everything. Also to burst out in to song. But I already knew that.
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Oh man, episode 11 just taught me about the greatest magic next to friendship. Organisation!
I think I could learn something from this show…
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Always remember, the Friendship is more important than the competition!
That’s the second thing I learned this episode, the other one being that autumn occurs just two weeks after the beginning of spring!
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Dude you should probably stop watching that if you still want to be part of the male gender :p
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This episode just taught me that if I whinge, whine, and cry, I can get my way! THIS SHOW IS AMAZING(It also has “Doctor Whoove” and “Derpy Hooves”).
Bronies unite!
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Also, I gave myself 20 man-cards when I turned 18. The only reason I had 6 left by the time of my party was because I printed off ten more (admittedly my party was in the mid sem holidays for semester 2, compared to my June birthday, but still).
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Dude I totally watched the first episode after watching the SC2 trailer parody. It’s so addictive.
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I just watched the first 20 episodes in one sitting. It’s so amazingly bad, but so good at the same time!
Last night I started playing Infamous 2. It begins with “The Beast” attacking Empire City and Cole not being too happy about it.
Considering that this is continuing on from completely evil playthrough of the first Infamous, Cole’s reaction of “I can’t let him do this” seemed a bit less appropriate than “Son of a bitch stole my idea!”
Now that I think of it, considering the time travel and all that involved, there really should be a Grays Sports Almanac somewhere…
So, Melbourne peeps, who’s going to FreePlay in a couple of weeks?
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I find the title misleading. Why is it FreePlay when it costs money?
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The talks cost money, but the Arcade/Expo part is free.
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I should do that reading thing more often!
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Meh, it’s overrated. I just hold my hands to the screen until I get the jist of whats on the page.
…doesn’t work that often.
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Yay we should have a Melbourne Meat!
Hi all,
Can someone advise please: is a system restore in Vista supposed to delete documents?
I had to perform one yesterday on my laptop that contains all my graphic novel work, and noticed afterwards that a large portion of the last three days’ work (not all, though, strangely) was no longer there, and some stuff that I’d deleted had reappeared.
(I back everything up onto a portable HDD about once a week, and am now very relieved that this is the case)
I thought the system restore was meant to back up and restore Windows-related files… does someone here know what really goes on?
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Depends on the type you do.
Theres one that wrestores to factory and one that restores to the last “safe” state the comp was in.
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A system restore using the system restore wizard in Windows should take your computer back to the state it was on the date you chose to restore to. It only changes system files, configuration settings, drivers and programs installed. It should leave all documents, photos, music, etc alone.
Not sure what’s happened in your case but that’s what it’s meant to do 🙂
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That’s what I thought. Thanks for the replies.
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We need to have this as the minecraft server map 😀
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/492646-64px-173-bladecraft-texture-pack-and-map-wip/
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My thoughts:
“Hmm this looks okay I guess”
*clicks ‘spoilers’ button*
“HOLYSHIAAAUUUGGHHFFFWANT”-
And then there’s THIS
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@ Sughly RE: CAP AM
Nahh, I was fully suckered in.
That ridiculous attempt at a romantic problem was poorly played.
If that all plays out though it should come into fruition in the next Cap movie.
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Just thought I’d throw in this amazingly thought provoking… thought into the ring:
Whenever someone mentions Captain America, I think of his theme from Marvel vs Capcom.
DA NAH DA NAH DA NAH DA NAH NAH NAH NAH NAAAAAAAH NAAAAAAAH! Nah nah nah nah nah naaaaah naaaaaaah, dunununun nah nah nah nah naaaaaaaaah, NAH NAH!
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I think they did reasonably, given you knew exactly from the start how it had to end. And at least boobs was boobs.
I mean… What was I saying?
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“Something something boobs was boobs” was what I read.
If I get around to seeing Cappy, I’ll probably mutter “in America!” under my breath after every line.
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You’d think doing that would get old, but somehow, just somehow, it really really does. So old. So fast.
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… in America!
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It is always good when boobs are boobs.
If they turned out to be mutant monkey heads screaming obscenities in russian then I am sure you would have been slightly traumatised.-
Man your mind works in weird ways Jo!
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I’ll be honest, I was more captivated by the skirts that the dancers wore. The only way they could have been better is if they were 60s dancing dresses.
Still, the “fashion” of the 40s managed to make breasts more prominent without actually making them slutty, which is something I appreciate.
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Wait… Captain America has boobs in it?
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Oh yes, many boobs, all tucked away behind cloth!
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Ahhh the subtleties of cinema.
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AMERICUH!
I didn’t like the movie that much. It was quite forgettable but enjoyable whilst I was in the cinema.
Highlights for me were Howard Stark and Peggy Carter’s characters and Hugo Weaving.
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“Hi I’m Agent Smith I mean Schmidt”
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Ha! I do rather think he pulled of the accent quite well. What you reckon?
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Yeah he did, he was good. He’s always good. Chris did a good job too portraying the character. Just found the story and everyone else boring as hell!
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You found “THE BEWBZ” Boring???
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Yes.
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Even I was excited and usually I’m too busy lookin at costumes…mayve it was the freind next to me that ‘gasmed every time she was on screen.
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Her job was to pretty much walk around and attempt to mildly subdue the sexist attitudes of every other character. Mildly.
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Punch to the face?
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Gee, real hard to reply here…
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I think the conclusion really is that people who know Capn USA liked it, so I guess they did the comix justice? I dunno, never read them.
If you didn’t see my say so tho I saw Hanna last night, and as an action film – one gazillion times better. So so amazing and well done and I want to be back in the cinema watching it right now.
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Also the Chemical Brothers did a phenomenal job on the soundtrack. Waaaah, I want to be watching it again :'(
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Hanna??
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Montanna!!! Yup…Sughly finally caved to commercial preassures and let his true colours shine. 😉
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Twitter called.
It wants the joke I made this morning back.
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Watch this when you get home! WATCH IT! Such an original and surprising film.
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p.s. this just proves my point earlier in TAY about marketing.
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I meant to say before that CAP AM movie is just a really good ad for the comics. All it’s intended to do is sell more merch and it does so with a class that that ANZ ad with Tonmy Barber is sorely lacking!
Oh and check I will…
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lolol! No that’s pretty well put, can’t deny that.
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I’m hoping to see it this week.
Whenever I think of the Cap I think of this:
http://bit.ly/dlsX69
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Although thats prolly the best thing Millar ever wrote I am forced by my nerdiness to remind everyone that that is a pic of Ultimate Cap Am and that 616 Cap Am is a very nice guy!
I too thoroughly enjoyed the Captain. Thought the last half hour was a bit rushed, second montage didn’t do enough to show progression and one scene they didn’t even bother shooting a conclusion! Set up all the necessary plot points for Avengers I guess though.
Whilst the love interest seemed tacked on I’m sure it will seem LESS CREEPY when he starts hitting on her niece…
” Hi, yeah so I was supposed to have my “first dance” with your aunty bout 70 years ago, I totally missed it so…How you doin?”*winks*
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BEWBZ!
First of all I wanted to say a big thankyou to Mark for chasing this up – my prize of Crysis 2 finally arrived in the mail today.
But here’s the thing – they sent the PC version – my PC would choke on its own vomit if it was forced to play this – not to mention I asked for the Xbox version – so my question is – what do I do now?
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You take my Xbox version which I will probably never play again and give your PC version to someone else.
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Curl up in a corner, hug your knees, and rock back and forth?
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You do the ance of despair to a sinnead o’connor track.
E-mail me for the steps and timing.
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Chuck me an email at
jormungand_xix at hotmail dot comwith your details and I will send it your way.
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Wow – you’re serious! That’s incredibly generous 😀
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The platform for my train to go to work smells like a port-a-loo after a festival. I’m dry retching. Please kill me.
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A better description would be, it smells like a port-a-loo after a festival in which one of the festival-goers decided to forgo the standard fare of that small Red Rooster, the stall that sells Baked Potatoes or one of the many places that sell some sort of burger/hot dog. Instead they wander around the corner to the un-noticed, slightly dodgy looking Chilli-Con-Carn tent and partake of the food they provide. All seems well at first, until halfway through the set of the headlining band, he feels a disturbance in his bowels. He runs, cheeks clenched together in a superhuman effort to hold back the tide. He see’s a port-a-loo that is unlocked, he yanks open the door to find a man relieving himself. As there is no time for pleasantries, he politely grabs the man and throws him out of the port-a-loo and sits down, just in time to unleash a storm.
That my friends, is what it smelt like.
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I don’t know how you’ve done it, but you’ve given me a craving for chilli-con-carne.
Congratulations?
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HAHA, slightly worrying that you get a craving for Chilli-Con-Carne after reading a post about it giving someone the screaming sh*ts…but I’ll happily take the congratulations.
Also, thanks for the laugh haha.
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New Procrastoonation – A different kind of treasure hunter. Woo! http://www.procrastoonation.com/
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Can I plz has a wallpaper sized version of your epic plainview sketch, good sir?
I shall view this when I have some free time.
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Why certainly! If you like blindingly white backgrounds. What res is your bg? Also I could make the bg something other than bliding white, but I’m not sure it would look alright. Maybe some kind of texture, I dunno *shrugs*
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1900×1080 for my desktop please senor!
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Blinding white version: http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/plainview-wall2.jpg
Poor attempt at giving it colour version: http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/plainview-wall.jpg
Full res if you want to do something different with it: http://www.kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/plainview-phoneFR.jpg
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I’ll admit, I was kind of waiting for him to shoot Link in the face…
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You know you’re not the first person to say that. You people are so violent! Poor Link 🙁
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It’s all those video games we’ve been playing 😛
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I blame video games.
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I blame your parents.
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I also blame religion.
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I blame society.
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I blame the rock and roll music.
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I blame humans
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I blame toxoplasma gondii
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I blame the boogey.
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I blame the industry.
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Last night, I was complaining about how I’ve been typing slower lately. So Blaghman, Rocketman and I spent a little time playing TypeRacer.
I sued to play this a little and get some reasonable speeds (110-120wpm) but now I’m struggling to crack 90wpm. Sadface.
How does everyone else fare?
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Simple mode button mashing is failing me /o\
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It’s a trap, No but really if your like me and can’t touch type there is no point except to show yourself how bad you are. 28wpm at 70 accuracy. SO BAD
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But that’s how you get better.
Constantly doing the same thing over and over, expecting to get better results.
Like madness, but with typing.
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Also, it looks like that link didn’t want to work. You can find it here: play.typeracer.com
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My keyboard doesn’t have Sanwa parts so I’m not up to speed on this one.
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Do people want to race with me? 😀
http://play.typeracer.com/?rt=trdawdleI’m not that good..
Wish I could skip bowling tonight to redeem myself in LoL after last night, played absolutely horribly -.-‘
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I probably beat you on that front, check out my last played game.
I am too ashamed to go back and play again for a while.-
We shall work on our mission of redemption together *thumbs up*
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bawble is a little sad you guys never play with him anymore…
He’s trying out Amumu this week.
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If he was to use some sort of technology to speak to us as as team, I imagine he’d be able to play with us more often.
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Ventrilo or Steam chat might work!
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Yea, the problem is that he hops on at night and no one from TAY is online… :\
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Unfortunately on most nights I don’t stay playing LoL till very late. Really depends on what’s going on for my night whether or not I can play another. I did see him online last night but I wasn’t able to play one more cuz I had to sign off. Sorry Bawble 🙁
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He’s never on TeamSpeak anymore :(, he needs to come back then he’ll know to join us! Like Steve-O, Jo and Blaghman and sometimes even Trjn if he’s going to play some more
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Trying to use the bare minimum of download quota this week, so no more LoL for me until the weekend.
I’ll just have to make do with Infamous 2. Poor old me.
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He always seems like he is off kicking arse by himself and cool with that.
But I shall be sure to invite next time we are both on.
Also he should accept my steam friend request!Assuming he wants to be friends…:(
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I apologise, he doesn’t use Steam that often.
I guess why you guys don’t seem to meet on LoL that often is because he tends to play a bit later with friends in Hong Kong, 2 hours behind us… so around AEST midnight to around 2am?-
Yeah that could be a problem, for us it’s usually around the 8pm-10:30pm mark… roughly, well for me anyway
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Ahh. I need to get up at 6:30 in the mornings but I am almost used to getting by on four hours of sleep by now so will endeavor to join him.
So long as he can forgive me sucking a bit. -
Inb4 “That’s what she said.”
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🙁
Still not as good as Harli’s ‘Sucking on stick’ comment.
I got a nosebleed.
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Taken out of context FTW
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So the ACL got a new speaker to get down with the kids…. NSFW
Soooo… this EYE Cybermancy game.
Who’s played it? Picked it up the other day and it’s sitting up fairly high on the top-sellers section on steam. It’s pretty nub-unfriendly so I’ve only played a level or two before giving it a break but the concept and design is pretty intriguing.
Wow, the guy from that Euclideon video has the most annoying voice. Ever.
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WHAT? Like Robert Smith???
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Haha, ahhh I dont want to offend anyone… but yeah pretty much. No it’s worse.
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Yeah! What is that accent!
It’s almost half stereotypical surfer guy and half british, except not really.-
Exactly! Then to top it off he sounds like he’s so excited he’s about to burst into “NINTENDO SIXTY FOOOOOOUR!” Although I guess it would be “INFINITE DETAAAAAAAAAIL!!”
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This comment upsets me 🙁
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I got wireless thingie, thanks, brew!
Also, Just rag on Trent Reznor, Bjork or Devin Townsend and a tear will be had by me!!
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I was wondering about that! You are most welcome. Did it arrive in one piece? The man at the post office seemed rather uncertain of his packaging choice.
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Oh! Also, was it you that just got a 3DS and was after games? Because I got a copy of Lego Star Wars with mine and I would be willing to send that your way if you wanted it?
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Huh? I have Zelda only and no money until Mario Kart which no matter what my wife says I will be buying(she’ll play it anyway).
But er, yeah sure, you want anything for it?
You like comiiiiiiics?
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ZOMG new Bjork coming soon! Woo!
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WHEN?
I am so behind on my music knowledge, I used to live with 2 musos and 2 muso writers ! of them was both, there was only 4 of us total). Anyway, I never needed to find stuff out cos they would tell me…and now I never know!
I found out about Goldfrapp’s last album in a red rosster, A RED ROOSTER! I love Headfirst! It is grandegoodigoogoo(pay me out about that!).
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September 27th… I think. Something like that. She’s released the first single, Crystalline. Youtube it laters.
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This Kotaku article on infinite detail doesn’t really fill me with much confidence.
Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
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Sleep, sleep, wanna go to sleep, Gotta go. Sleep. Go to sleep! Yes, go to sleep! Wanna go to sleep? Sleep Ooh yea! Sleep! Gotta go to sleep!
SlEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPP SPEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPP YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAA YA
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Somehow, I think a Sleep Core would be even less useful than the Space Core.
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It’s for the weak.
FIGHT THE POWER.
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Pffft, sleeping was SO yesterday.
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Hey man, send me your address. I’ve got some spare Ray Bans for you.
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Is… is this a CSI:Miami reference? I’m pretty sure thats a CSI:Miami reference.
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… is what I need coz I’m sick : (
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AND ALL THEY HAVE IS DECAF.
Gorram it.
So, I just got back from the accountants where I had this conversation.
Accountant – Any HECS debt?
Me – No.
Accountant – Ah, very good. My kids are paying for their uni straight up as well. They were left a sizeable inheritance by my late husband.
Me – Oh, I wish I was that lucky.
-silence-
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You should have broken out into song, saying you were a fan of Kylie Minogue.
“I should be so lucky, lucky lucky lucky!”
Would have smoothed things over. -
-silence-
*flicks fringe*
FTFY 😀
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Nailed it.
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Ooohhhhhhhh no… no you did not say that. Nope, no way…
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She was gunning for an awkward moment. Who mentions deceased family members in idle chit-chat anyway?
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At least he did not go with “I wish I had thought of that.”
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Would I lie to you, Sughly?
Would I lie to you?
http://youtu.be/Uhpu2N4rQZM?t=59s
Other choice nuggets of conversation.
Accountant – Were you effected by the floods.
Me – *thinking* Don’t say you could be that lucky. Just say no.
-silence-
*thinking* seriously, just pipe up and say No.
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*thinking* what the hell is wrong with you man, just say NO!
Accountant – I guess not then…It was definitely a TAXING visit to the accountants.
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*sienfield music plays*
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It’s so hilarious because this pretty much happens to me but with most people and on a daily basis. I thought I was alone!
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I’m really torn between getting an iPad and a Kindle. So just a hypothetical question. I already have a iPod touch 4th gen, and would sell it and put the proceeds towards the iPad. Would anyone be interested in buying it? If so, what do you think is a reasonable price? I think I bought it for about $280 a year ago.
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Get a 3DS, I will play Mario Kart with you over nets!
AAAAH Too busy to TAY this week! Work is killing me!
I miss TAY! And like a blind SS marksman, I missed all Jews..
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Bad joke. Bad holocaust joke, I know.
Being a born n’ bred Polak, I shouldn’t be making holocaust jokes, especially bad ones.
I’m sorry if I offended anyone. I normally hate holocaust jokes ’cause my grandfather died in a concentration camp
He got drunk and fell off a watch tower.
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*ducks*
Oh hai TAY! What’d I miss??? 😀
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Lol!
I’m in the same boat with work, though real life has also been full of many good things.
New version of komplete is coming out soon and my lil project studio will soon be a little bit bigger and dedicated to studio happenings 😀
So hopefully many more dubstep interludes coming your way in future!Thinking of trying to get places to play my EotS dubstep remix… thoughts?
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Dude I play it all the time does that count, it should count people have died to be on my work playlist.
Note: no one actually killed but itsstill pretty sweet!
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Aaah dude, most emerging dubstep producers have a Facebook page (WHICH YOU DON’T), it’s the easiest way to share your music with the world! There’s also a bunch of sites that re-share and promote tracks, all centralised through Facebook! I’m part of a group called “Sydney Dubstep” and all the local guys are part of it, so even if you don’t want a personal FB page you should at least create an artist page.. Your best chance of networking is FB, and having a Soundcloud page is a good platform to host your previews/clips/demos and free downloads (big ups for getting one!)
There’s a couple of YooToobe channels that promote as well, again all linked via FB 🙂
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I’ve got time off from Friday! Don’t go back until the 15th. wahoo! Going to delve into Minecraft and hopefully some Forgotten Hope 2 (if I can find any decent servers).
Anyone here play FH2?
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What’s FH2?
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Forgotten Hope 2 is a Battlefield 2 mod. WWII mod, to be precise. Love playing as the Aussies! http://fhmod.org/ It’s a big download, but the torrents for it are really healthy, I was averaging 2MB/s downloads.
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I’m bored, very bored. What can I do to not be bored?
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You can chauffer me home in peak hour traffic as Jeeves is still MIA.
Massive blackout at work (Whole suburb, traffic lights an all).
Early mark FTW!
Batguy and Rocketman.. I will try and post your stuff tomorrow. Kid was off sick so didnt get a chance. I will let you know.
Umm .. play video games? *shrug*
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Do you not like me? 🙁
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TRB,
Seriously, WTF? Are you toying with us here? Are you some kind of digital version of a court jester, sent here by the bit lords to entertain and amuse? Well I am not entertained and I am certainly NOT amused.
Next time I hit “Reply” to Crazyguy1990..or any other guy (it’s not sanity dependant) or any girl, or entity, or mushroom or WHATEVER, you better F&*KiN put my “REPLY” where the f&(KING reply is supposed to go!!!!
Kay???? Kay.
Otherwise I might just have to hit that ‘Cancel Reply’ button everytime. I know it hurts.
SO BEHAVE.
>:<
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OOOH BEFORE I FORGET…
It’s a mid-week DUBSTEP INTERLUDE!!!!
WOBWOBWOBWOB…
Actually, this week it’s more of a DRUMSTEP interlude.. drumstep is a bit of a genre mash-up of dubstep and drum n bass, also referred to as “half-time drum n bass”
One of my favourite dub producers at the moment is Unsub. Not only is she (that is a deliberate ‘s’) a wonderfully talented producer, she’s a wonderfully talented AUSTRALIAN producer from Queensland!
This track is a remix of a classic song I’ve lost my shit to many a time.. see if you like it 🙂
Artist: Unsub
Song: RATM – Killing In The Name Of (Unsub)
http://soundcloud.com/theunsub/ratm-killing-in-the-name-of
Enjoy Peoples!!!!!!
Does anyone else wish there was some form of notification system in place so you knew when someone has replied to one of your comments?
And I don’t mean like Facebook. *vomits*
Just some way of knowing, without having to look back over old posts all the time.
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We’re discussing this! It may be a part of redesign!
Expect big things! Be disappointed! 😛
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I could never be disappointed in Kotaku 😛 you guys make my day bearable. I spend most of each slow day at work poring over here haha.
I wouldn’t even mind so much if it was like Facebook, as long as you don’t allow anything like Farmville and if you implement a chat system, don’t go and fuck it up.
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Man, you know what’s fun?
Sleeping through the whole day.
Yup, missing everything because you wanted to try and reset your body clock is great…
*Sigh* Now I’ll never get to sleep.
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You were missed Blaghman. Also, tried to find you on facebook. Typing in “Blaghman” and “patron saint of doing it wrong” gave me nothing 😛
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Try “http://www.facebook.com/Blaghman”
Because screw internet anonymity!
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Pfft Anonymity, who needs it! Added 🙂
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*waves*
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Well, given I know your name (unless you’ve managed to layer your actual name under three levels of lies, in which case nice work), I wouldn’t necessarily consider you that anonymous.
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It’s actually four layers of lies. You have no idea how hard it is to lead this life. But seriously, it’s actually my real name. Doesn’t really bother me if people know my real name :p
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I miss those days. It seems so long ago I could wake up at 1pm and then do absolutely nothing.
Hey, you *were* watching My Little Pony all night.
An entirely acceptable – even laudable – achievement.
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I was only doing that because I couldn’t get to sleep. If I lie in bed and can’t get to sleep for one hour, then I consider it a lost cause.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/chuloopa/shop/t-shirts
Is this Kotaku Chuloopa? If so, is his location legitimate? Is Chuloopa a Perth boy?
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That is Chuloopsipoop, but his location is the Geelong Herne Hill, at a guess, as opposed to the WA one, or the London one. (He’s Melbournian, that much I know)
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Yes.
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Herne Hill is in Geelong too, FYI. He’s in Geelong 😉
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http://www.chuloopaoverload.toctopus.com/
That’s also Chuloopa’s online shirt selling thingy.
And no. Melbourne claims Chuloopa as ours.
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Oh okay 🙁 now I feel stupid haha. I just googled Herne Hill and it came up as WA 😛
god dammit!
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Tis i – but i am now in Hamlyn Height.. which is still Geelong, though 😛
I really need to update my red bubble… *sigh*
I didn’t even realize i still had that Garrus one up there – that was a test… strange..
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Haha well I just googled Chuloopa and that was the first website to come up!
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SUGHLY ALWAYS DELIVERS!
BOTH ON LOLS AND AWESOME BACKGROUNDS!
\o/
Hi all. im looking forward to a day when i can actually join in on the conversation once in a while. Hope you are all well.
Who would have thought taking leave from work would be this much work. been flat out.
I have not even done any gaming apart from some video capture stuff ive been working on. I am really enjoying my video capture card so have spent the last 3 days working on a 3 minute Backbreaker video. I will post it once its available. It is good fun working on this from start to finish.
Also not sure if i mentioned but i bought a DSLR camera. Nikon D3100 twin lens if you are interested. I have no idea what im doing but already taking amazing shots. Anyone else out there into photography, any quick tips for starters?
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*Waves*
Hey shady, glad to see your having fun on your holidays. Trust me it’s so much worse when you don’t have things to do. Have fun at ggtv! -
Aren’t new toys awesome fun to play with?
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What happened to your ‘all games, all the time’ plan?
As far as DSLRs go, you should keep half an eye on those group-buying deal sites because they quite often have discounted photography courses.I feel you with the no time for TAY thing, I’m barely getting a chance to read it at the moment, let alone join in. I’m looking forward to James Mac getting back and seeing JamesMag though. It seems half the people here are called James or variations thereof. Or pretending to be called James just to confuse everyone….
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I’m not an impostor, I swear! I’m looking forward to all the confusion when jamesmac does get back now TadMod petitioned me to change my handle to jamesmag. It shall be glorious 🙂
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Oh, I have no doubts you’re a real James, I was actually poking a small bit of fun at Anonymous Pessimist who masquerades as a James on Twitter.
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Ah, I see. I don’t have a twitter, is it worth getting one? I have trouble keeping up with Facebook and Google+.
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I don’t understand it either. Monty Python taught me that we’re all meant to be called Bruce.
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*waves*
Hi FS!
Don’t be a stranger now – we still need to start up our regular BL game sessions 😀
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Here is the vidya I was talking about.
Still trying to figure out the balance between quality and compression. 🙁
I have just managed to cut my lip on a piece of toast.
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dude are you okay. What did you have on top of your toast razors.
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Um… wat
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Don’t leave us hanging, tell us how!
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Helga’s Wholegrain Quinoa & Flaxseed, toasted in preperation for the bacon and egg that was to be wedged in between the slices.
The thing is, to make it rustic (I guess) looking, they sprinkle flakes and seeds on top, so I guess one specific flake got all hard and sharp so when I went to om nom I got a mouthful of stabby slashy.They need warnings on this sort of thing.
“Warning: May cause harm to uncoordinated people.”
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Are you okay? Maybe it will leave a cool scar you can make up a manly story about. 😉
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He’s Tuxedo Mask and he got the cut from the thorn of a Rose!
Please let someone recognise the sailor moon reference. And please don’t let me get castigated for it :/
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Haha, pretty sure 3 or 4 weeks ago, a bunch of us were talking about Sailor Moon. Which then quickly (d)evolved into a “Who is the hottest one” discussion.
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Ah I love those discussions, especially when people overhear and ask why you’re discussing who’s the hottest out of anime characters. The strange look they give you is amazing.
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I got this scar when… a bear punched me?
Believable, Y/N?Either that or I come from an ancestry of Assassins, and for some inexplicable reason, we all have scars down the right side of our mouth. It’s genetic!
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Last night was the first time that I played Starcraft 2 vs bots.
I’ve beaten the campaign on normal difficulty, but hadn’t had any actual in game experience with the core gameplay.
Let’s just say it didn’t go well.
The first game I floated way too many minerals, didn’t put probes on gas, expanded late, didn’t build units, misused chrono boost, forgot my cybernetics core and then died to early roach pressure. That was against medium difficulty Zerg AI.
Next game went a little better, I still had most of those problems but managed to get to the point where I had half a dozen stalkers and some zealots and managed to just walk into the very easy difficulty Terran AI base for the win.
Blaghman spectated the debacle and can confirm that I’ve still got a ways to go.
But I shall persevere! I know what I have to do, it’s just a matter of working out how to do it.
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You Lost to AI hahahaha
I am just kidding i lose connect four against 7 year olds all the time. Stupid little cousin all she does it play connect 4.-
You laugh at him losing to ai, but I’d like to see you up against an insane ai. And by that I don’t mean a rampant one, such as Durandal, but simply the SC2 ai set to the insane difficulty.
I can only beat them by cheesing. 🙁
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Hmm I’m only taking the piss cause i suck at all games not some but all i could only just beat mortal kombat on the snes by cheating that game wasn’t even that hard.
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It’s okay. I can’t Starcraft either.
I LOVE Blizzard’s games but I can’t or don’t play any of them.Starcraft – Suck at
Warcraft – Suck at (I suck at RTSs in general actually)
Diablo – Never Played
WoW – Never PlayedPlayed the hell out of Rock’n’Roll Racing though.
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Seems like everyone is getting back into SC2, I might install my copy and get back into it.
I foresee that I will be in the same boat as you however Trjn – When I used to play online my only strategy was ‘zealot rush’. I made it to gold league in 1v1 but it doesn’t really promote adaptability 😛
Will set it to install when I go home for lunch, if it can download all the updated by the time I get home this afternoon we could lose to bots together if you’re keen.
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Maybe I could join you guys too? I have played 1 game of Starcraft (the first) online. I lost to a zealot rush :\
I am TERRIBLE at SCII. I’ve played a handful of the SP missions and that’s it.
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Wooohooo! I’m buying SC2 soon so I can join you guys. My APM only tops at 80 though, just warning ya.
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Don’t worry, I don’t think my APM has ever gone over 60.
As always for everyone, my offer to tute you stands.
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Pfftt….80 apm, such a noob 😛
Just kidding, I don’t put much stock in apm except for when a mate had an apm of 8.
In his defence he had died a lot in prior games (in our rules requiring many a tequila shot) and eventually went to sleep on the keyboard 😀
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Well, APM definitely isn’t everything.
Why, you can win while holding an average 4 APM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h30g3g5noI
Or there’s the ai which goes into the thousands of APM, but still has the worst unit control in the history of ever.
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Haha.
But in all seriousness, I am probably the Warcraft 3 player here.
If anybody would like to prove otherwise, I invite you to money match me.
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Am I allowed to use a second? If so, then I challenge you to a dual!
If not, then oh god no, I was TERRIBLE at Warcraft 3. I was so happy once I learned how to beat the hard ai. That’s how bad I was!
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hahahaha hey man, hard AI is pretty hard so that’s an achievement. And on Insane difficulty, for every gold you get they get x2 the amount.
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I beat the hard ai by mirroring its build, but tweaking it to be just a bit better… There was no skill required…
And the insane gets *2? that’s ridiculous, insane in SC2 gets 7 mins for every worker return, so they just destroy you, even though their unit control is, no jokes “a-click.”
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I’ll money match you for $5 on the following conditions:
You buy me a copy of War3.
You do not use a keyboard.
You do not use a mouse.
You do not build any worker units.
You do not build any heroes.That’s about the only way I have any confidence in winning.
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Challenge Acce- Oh wait a minute here, something’s not right…
War 3 – $5 = NOT PROFIT????
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Drat! My cunning plan has been foiled from the outset!
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Would be less of a money-match and more of a donation. I am terrible at Warcraft III.
I am still up for a game of DotA sometime however.
I’m so bad that even a Zealot rush is beyond my capabilities :p
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Shall I teach you how to win at the SC2 beta?
9 py
10 gate, gateOnly zealots from now on.
I was a master of macro by doing my 12 probe variation, which allowed me to get a few more probes, and push it into 3 gateways later on!
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I have a better plan.
Step 1: Enter game.
Step 2: Hope opponent has connection issues and has to leave.
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Ah yes, the win by default.
DEFAULT! DEFAULT! DEFAULT!
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There’s been a surprising number of people dropping in the first few seconds of the game (actually leaving, not dropping, to clarify), so that isn’t necessarily the worst strat…
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Humble Bundle Update –
Buy the humble bundle before 10.30am PST (i don’t know what that is aussie time, probably some time tonight) and you’ll not only receive the bonus game already offered with humble bundle 3, but also all the games of humble bundle #2 if you pay over the average going price!
SWEET!
HoN players, I want YOU!
Clan DYRM need a Sydney-based HoN player to be our 5th man in an upcoming tournament. It will be happening on the 13th of August.
A good attitude is a must. Skill is secondary.
Think you fit the bill? Let me know! Leave a reply below expressing your interest.
~ Harli
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I’ve never played it and don’t currently have a PC to practice on, but sure! I’ll be your fifth!
I mean, It’s a million to one chance…
But it might just work.
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You humour me, Doctor What!
Would you really??
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Dear Rear Admiral Harli
How does one pronounce “DYRM”?
To rhyme with “slurm”? Or perhaps the beginning of “dermatology”? Or just saying it by the letters?Mostly unrelated to your original topic regards,
Esquire Bishington III-
Rear Admiral Harli.
These community kudos tags write themselves…
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Dear Esquire Bishington III,
The pronunciation is in fact the second suggestion you made – ‘derm’ as in ‘dermatology’.
I rather enjoy your queries.
Warmest of Warm Regards,
Harli
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I am interested, but I have never play HON before, can you name a champion so I can start practicing today? And my computer is kinda crappy too!
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Thanks for your interest bawble! / Crabjiffy.
Unfortunately another player has had to drop out due to.. commitments… so it looks like we’re sitting this one out 🙁
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Don’t Worry, I am thinking of starting HoN anyway. Been reading guides lately!
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Just got my latest mobile phone bill from 3. They’re charging me an extra $275.72 for exceeding my download usage (by 164.73mb) when I used ~365mb of what should have been a 1gb download quota.
Not happy.
Very happy about the fact that I will be switching away from them soon.
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They offered me a good will gesture of $20 off the charge.
They can shove their good will up their ass.
How they were describing my plan was not how it was described to me when I signed up. I’m not paying a cent of this extra usage charge because as far as I’m concerned this was not extra usage.
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Who are you with?
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I was with 3. After four years of shitty service and now this ridiculous excess charge on my bill, I am now switching to TPG. Just waiting for my new sim to arrive.
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I miss how quick the Bookdepository’s postage used to be. I remember when I would get the book/books I ordered within 3 days of it being dispatched, a week and a half now and I’m still waiting for the first 4 books of a Song of Ice and Fire.
I know I’m just being impatient but god damn I just want to sink my teeth into them, although I should probably just read them instead. There are a lot of other things I could eat rather than a book. But imagine if eating that series was actually a cure for cancer…maybe I should eat the books, just on the off chance 🙂
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Are you implying here that you have cancer? Because if not, then I’d definitely be against eating them.
I really need to get around to reading them, I have the first four, but they just mock me…
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I don’t have any cancer that i know of..I really hope I don’t have cancer.
I think I’ll definitely read them first and then decide if it’s worth a try eating them or not.
Man, it’s an epic story about these books for me, well maybe not epic but I think it’s cool.
In year 12, I had a private study period. Now in this period I never studied, I just read books because it was in the library. A couple of weeks before the school year ended for me, I started reading these books, had no idea who the author was or the title of the books, just knew where to find them on the shelf and the cover looked cool so I started reading them. It was a fantastic fantasy story and I really got into them, was halfway through the third book but then the school year finished.
Now I’ve tried to find those books again, every month or so, for the last 4 years. I’d google search names I’d remember from the book, trying to come up with something. About 2 months ago I’d completely given up on ever finding them, then I decided to finally watch this Game of Thrones TV show everyone had been raving about.
Lo and behold, it was the series that I’d been looking for, for 4 years! I was so stoked! So I’ve finally ordered the books and it’s killing me that they haven’t arrived yet because I desperately need some new reading material. I’m going through Joe Abercrombie’s books for the 4th or 5th time now.
Definitely read the books, and if they mock you, just throw them around a bit, they’re books, they can’t get you back 😛
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It’s just finding the time to do it that’s hard. I mean, because I clearly have so little free time, what with me being unemployed and all… The problem is, when I read, I like to do it as a marathon session, I’m not one of those people who can read five pages before they go to bed, and consider that enough. If it takes me more than three sittings to read a book, it’s usually a lost cause…
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Ah fair enough, well I’m what you call a fast reader, so even me reading for 10mins before bed covers about 30 pages at least. I have an hour lunch break at work and I tend to read during that. I’ve always read lots though. I remember when they used to do the MS Read-a-thon to raise funds for MS. I was 7 at the time and everyone sponsored me for like $5 a book assuming I’d only read maybe 5-10 books in the month. I read over 50 and ended up winning whatever the prize was 🙂
I know what you mean though, it’s nice to get it all in one sitting, same with a TV series for me, usually I hate watching stuff week to week so I’ll wait until a season is out and then just power through it so I don’t forget where I’m up to and I’m still really caught up in it.
I think I’ll probably power through the first 4 books of Song of Ice and Fire in a week or two?
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I’m well above average in reading speed, but I’m still the third slowest reader in my family…
Given the whole “unemployed” thing, if I set my mind to it, I could probably knock out the four I have in 2 days, but I’m just way too slack.
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Haha, I think for me, what I’d suffer from is that there are so many games I could play, so many shows I could watch, so many books I could read, so I just end up doing nothing haha.
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Anonymous Pessimist!
For your remixes I gift you this strange, strange musical commercial.
The 15 second one is even stranger as it just involves the parban gesturing, the floor opening and the two of them decending. Very sinister.
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y u giv me crazy traks?
I was going to try and hog the glory and win my self… but i just can’t do it in all good conscience
Who wants free Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodline on steam?
(You have to enter to win it)
http://metalarcade.net/win-a-copy-of-vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-steam-pc-version/
good luck, guys and gals!
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Also – it’s been quite a while since we’ve had a comp on here, hasn’t it? *hint hint* lol
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Check your Steam account, brosef.
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HUH?!?!
WHAT?!
HOW?!?!
WHY?!?!
*molestation*What happened to $8 in bank account? LOL
Consider yourself nommed, my good man.-
I had some money in my Steam Wallet 🙂
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i owe you big time, me thinks 😛
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Please tell me you didn’t actually pay for that, or i’ll feel horribly guilty – it’s a $20 game!
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Can I just say that game makes my top 5 favourite games of all time. I highly recommend every RPG play it at least once.
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You know, i feel EXACTLY the same way about it 🙂
Further to my dramas back on page 4, I first of all want to thank ‘Jo’ for offering a wonderful solution to my crysis and also a great suggestion as to what to do next.
To that end I have a brand new, never opened, still in shrink wrap, boxed copy of Crysis 2 for PC.
This is free for anyone here that wants it. This is not a joke or a scam just a really good game and the culmination of the most epic ordeal in the history of competitions (honestly I could write a book!)
The System Requirements are not as onerous as the first game, but given that my computer crashed trying to run Alien Storm and can only run TF2 when textures are dialled down to “Vectrex” I doubt that it would ever be able to handle this game.
So leave me a comment if you want it – first come first served and we’ll go from there.
Cheers
Jason Oliver
aka N0NEoftheAB0VE
aka Dr Noonien Van Fok
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I would hesitantly put my hand up, but half the reason I’d want it is mainly to see the DirectX11 prettiness. The other half is to just be invisible and sneak past everyone. Solid Snake style. Minus the cool voice. Minus the box. Minus the annoying Otacon. Minus the excessively convoluted but awesome story.
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Drop me a line man
ncc17701d at gmail dot com
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Cool, sent you an email!
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If it’s still up for grabs I’ll take it
Sughly, in case yo miss it, our CAP AM convo continues…
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Really? You mean the punch in the face one? Caus I can’t reply any more! Continue said thread here…
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errr…punch in the face?
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I said something about the woman and sexist ppl and you said something about punching in the face. *shrugs* It’s like, a whole page back. I’m not going back there. That’s history.
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Yeah I know, but I ended on tyhat so it’s your turn…Oh bugger this, I better post on P6 before instant post commpletley drowns me!
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“I am Jamie Oliver JNR”
Ads be classy!
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Haha
That ad is ridculously cute but still horrible.
Chinese DoTA eSports Team CCM has been bought for US$6 Million.
$6 million dollars. Holy shit.
A Chinese business man bought them. They’re entering Valve’s DOTA2 tournament.
MAN, THIS GAME, SO HYPE!!!
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Has there actually been any gameplay footage on DoTA2 at ALL yet? I haven’t seen any…
It’s really starting on making me skeptical on the amount of hype this is getting
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No, there hasn’t been any gameplay footage because Valve are keeping it under a very tight rein. The first ever gameplay reveal will be at the tournament, the International or whatever it was called. I believe there was an article about it on Kotaku.
I’m just way hyped because I love DoTA.
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All your excitement over HoN makes me tentatively want to play it again…
Steam playdate?
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Screw HON! DOTA!!
Let’s play!! I’ll send you a invite on BoredAussie 🙂 It’s free, you don’t even need to own the game haha.
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I finally got my EB Expo tickets YAY!
Who else is going?
If there are enough of us, we should try to organize a Gold Coast Epic Meat! 😀
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I won’t – i’m waiting to see if this years one is any good – i may go next year
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Isn’t TAD going?
Also, A GC Meat sounds tasty. There’s a sweet Timezone in Surfers Paradise we could go to.
S’got bumper cars and everything*
*Everything does not literally mean everything.
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I’ll be there! I’m staying at the Jupiters LITERALLY across the road. It’s gonna be sweet!
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Blackjaaaaaaaack…
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Being Melbourne based I won’t be attending sadly.
I will hopefully have some artwork being displayed there though so be sure to check it out 🙂
After Jamesmag’s post regarding my site, i have decided there is a new internet fad..
Loop-googling
That;s right – it’s been done before by numerous numerals of you lot, and so now i have come to the conclusion that googling my handle is a fad
Loop-Google on, fair soldiers!
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Hi everyone, my name is james mag and I have an addiction to loop-googling. It has consumed my life, turned all my friends and family away from me. When I go out with my friends, I always whip out my phone and loop-google. Even when I was at a funeral the other day, I loop-googled. This obsession is killing me.
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Hi jamesmag, my name is Blaghman, and I used to be a loop-google addict. It has been six months since my last loop-google. After I was searching for him, and found a dating profile, which began to separate us as friends, I realised that I had a problem.
The first step is acceptance, which you have reached.
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I lol’d.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBE_T-K8nhY
That is all.
(On the off chance you read this, sorry Jimu)
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Never ceases to make me laugh this one
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Man I completely forgot about that scene. That’s… yeah. That’s pretty weird. I must have erased it from memory.
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Weird? I think you mean amazing! It’s one of the greatest scenes in cinema history!
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Nope. I meant weird.
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Rant.Begin(”
Part of my current project at work is to take over a custom billing application that another developer has made and update it to use some new billing methods that we are implementing. This also includes me taking responsibility of the application, including support and maintainence. One of the admin girls comes to see me today that the application isn’t picking up customers that have paid in advance, and is billing them as if they havn’t paid. I look into the code to see what is going on and inside the Process Advance Billing function is a comment:
“To do: implement advance billing”
So not only am I updating and fixing the horrible code this dev has left behind, I have to complete functionality that they were meant to! So one of our customers who has paid 12 months in advance has been billed for the past 4 and it has only now been picked up, and I am copping the brunt of the CEO’s wrath for not picking up the error – It’s meant to be an update project not a ‘fix this pile of crap’ project!
The billing application exports data to MYOB, which I now believe stands for Mend Your Obsolete Bullsh*t!
To iterate its not just this missing function which has pissed me off but the amount of crap (dead end functions, redundant code and poor code reusability) that I’ve had to deal with.
COPY + PASTE IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR GOOD OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING PRACTICE!
*END RANT*
“);
I need a beer.
BadDeveloper.KickBodyPart(BodyPart.Balls);
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My deepest sympathies, and your integration of this story into code has made me laugh.
Hope things get better for you!
Also, MYOB, LOL.
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I hear you stevo, I just nearly got punched cause I said to a guy that he has created a monster of a customer cause he rings all the time. Somehow he interpreted it to mean I was insulting him or calling him dumb. At which point he grabbed me and said no word of a lie
“do you want me to knock you out”
At which point I called him oversensitive and walked away. These guys I work with are the reason my town gets called boganville.
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Mackay has its fair share of bogans too. The worst thing about the bogans in Mackay is that they earn $100k + at the mines and feel that this entitles them to be obnoxious arse-wipes to everyone else.
I survive by being half-bogan.
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Man that’s terrible Rocketman. Hope you’re alright. Where is this boganville you speak of?
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Heh. He lives in Ayr.
From the wiki page:
“Ayr is located 88 km south of Townsville on the Bruce Highway and 12km away from the (smaller) town of Home Hill. It is 112km north of Bowen and 290km north of Mackay. Ayr has a population of approximately 8,000. It has the usual chain stores, ten pin bowling, a toyshop, drive in movie, cinema, 6 pubs as well as a range of sports, electrical and fashion stores. Ayr has several banks including the Commonwealth, ANZ, Suncorp, National and Bendigo Bank. Alva beach, a popular area for fishing and swimming, is located 16km east of Ayr.”Ayr is a part of the cane-growing area of Queensland, and is named after the Scottish town of the same name!
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Yep that’s where I live, it’s funny that they describe the town by telling people what’s near it.
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But your town has several banks! BANKS! Who can say no to that?
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Ha, I love the “call him oversensitive” bit. No matter how he responds you can pretend that you’re superior.
Silly “blokes.”
Blaghman, Strange and Loops!!!
I saw this on Spicks and Specks last night and thought of you guys…
Does anyone know how the humble bundle thing works? I want to buy it but I don’t have a PC. If I buy it can I dl it at home when I get a new PC? Or do I have to gift it to myself?
Help me Obi Wan Kenobi!
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Buy it, they send you an email with a Steam code. Just pop that code into Steam to register those games to your account and you’re done. If you don’t have a Steam account right now, you can just pop that in when you do.
Eek! Weresmurf is arguing with me again!
I think almost every time someone’s gone at me on Kotaku it’s been Weresmurf. I keep feeling like I need to watch out for anything blue on a full moon!
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Dr Strange has a nemesis!
(Not Batman)-
Baron Mordo???
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Where’s this argument? I love good arguments! Is it trolling time? HAHA Silly me, it’s always trolling time!
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Wait, found it.
Bunny and I were discussing the other day how people on this site really need to work on their reading comprehension.
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Liiiiiiiiiiiiink!
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ARGH! YOU GOT ME!
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THIS!
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Where?? linkies please?! I shall smite him in the name of Strange.
I don’t think anyone who turns into a smurf at the full moon is anything to be concerned about.
Just pick them up and put them in a small jar until daytime. If you’re feeling particularly nasty put the lid on.
I think weresmurf was just taking you literally….
I got what you meant 🙂
LOL at watching out for anything blue on a full moon.
Wow. You guys have all made my day!
And Shane too, for using the word ‘series’ which I couldn’t fish out of the swamp that my brain has become.
Also, I could be wrong, but I wonder if Dudesadudedude eats a lot?
Calling HoN nubs (or people who play DoTA/LoL/Demigod/etc etc)
I’m keen on playing more of this game and I like to think that there’s some sort of safety in a herd situation.
Looking to form a clan to get up some skills and maybe play semi-competitively depending on how we fare.
E-mail me at:
the [dot] tsharp [at] gmail [dot] com
for the deets.
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So far I’ve got Dr. What?!, Blaghs and Taddius Modeni down.
If anyone else is interested, shoot me an e-mail with your deets.
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You have me by default, I’m insulted you haven’t signed me up already.
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I dunno Harli, I think you might be a bit too god for our team. Given my only strategical knowledge boils down to “I MAKE MARINE” I’m not sure this will be the best team around…
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bit too good*
Sorry, I don’t believe you’re an onmipotent being. :/
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Oh. Well this is awkward. *pulls off fake beard and flowy robes*
It was fun whilst it lasted.But really, you flatter me. I’m no good at HoN!
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I thought your awesome clan and busy timeschedule would have precluded you from joining us?
I’ll add you to our e-mail list 😀
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I might be interested. My previous Dota/lol/hon/demigod/etc etc experience amounts to playing through half the lol tutorial. I should be perfect for your team 😛
Alright, need to install it but yes I’d be up for it. I can send email when I get home tonight
I’m game.
Kicking myself for not getting it when it was $10 but oh well.
I’m in!
Thanks to all wo have replied!
I’ll wait until tonight to include anyone else then send out a big e-mail 😀
Woop woop Borderlands 2 has been announced!! Im pretty stoked to hear it, althought its a long wait (2012-2013)
On another note, just started playing FF XIII and I must say I’m surprised I’m enjoying it a LOT more than I thought I would!
Yes I’d heard that its very on-rails and the exploration/NPC interaction has been nerfed, which is a bummer, however I am getting into the story quite a bit and I’m loving the Paradigm system!
Lightning is a very cool protagonist but she is such a ballbreaker tho.. I just passed the bit where you find Serah in the crystal lake and Snow tries to free her. Lightning has a mean right on her!!!
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You… you’re enjoying the story? But… how’s that possible?
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There’s a story? I thought the just shouted made-up words at each other.
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Ok so i have been having no luck so far in getting some time with the team from space marine – so i’m going to go all fronts now
So:
If there is a question you want answered about the game, reply here and i’ll do my best to get everything answered 😀
I’ll get this Q&A done, so help me god!!!
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Asides from the heavy bolter, what other devestator weapons are confirmed? Can I use these in single player or are the multi only?
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I can already answer that for you from what i’ve seen from all the developer diaries, previews and screenshots
Laser cannon and Plasma cannon
Not sure if missile launcher is there, however. Same with multi-melta
And yes, they are available in SP
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I know it’s called Space Marine but are there any plans to perhapes have other races/factions playable in multiplayer?
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They said in the developer diaries that they made it Chaos vs Space marine because they are basically exactly the same.
While the last preview said 6 classes, it’s really just 3 classes – a lot like multiplayer in Transformers.Tactical marine IS chaos marine
Assault marine IS raptor
Devastator IS havocaccording to them, adding orks would have been too difficult and could have created balancing issues – so for that reason i don’t think they will add other races, but i’ll put that too them as well
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Currently having a read of HoN heroes while I have lunch… no idea where to start so… first one in the list, and go one at a time… so far none have caught my eye.
One of the only gripes I have with HoN heroes… too many for a starter to get his/her head around 😛
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What sort of heroes do you usually play in LoL?
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I try to have multiple roles at the ready depending on what my team picks, but on LoL I have:
1v1 Magic DPS lifestealer – Warwick
Physical DPS, enhanced autoattacking – Master Yi
Magic AoE DPS w/ frequent stun capability – Kennen
Tank – Rammus-
Try the predator. After a brief search this hero looks like he’d perform the same as warwick with his 3rd ability (passive lifesteal)
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Disclaimer: My above suggestions are just based on finding heros that have abilities similar to ones I know in DotA, after matching those you play with in LoL to DotA heroes so they might not be great matches.
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Swiftblade is definitely one I wanna try, same with Predator. Good picks Steve-O, thanks 🙂
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Do they have a Pudge equivalent? Because he was my favourite pre-nerf. So much fun late-game.
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Pudge = Devourer
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ALSO!
DoTA and HoN are separate games 🙂 please don’t mix them up!
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Jereziah (pure support), Deadwood and maybe Keeper of the Forest.
*HoN noobs rally point*
T___T Still having a terrible cold. HALPPPP MEEEE *sneezes violently*
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Hmm, a terrible cold? This looks like a job for MAGIC! What’s that, you don’t believe in magic? Pshh, well you’re boring. Stupid Billy, always ruining all my fun.
Alright, better get my tome out…
ELEKA NAHMEN NAHMEN ATUM ATUM ELEKA NAHMEN
ELEKA NAHMEN NAHMEN ATUM ATUM ELEKA ELEKA!What is this chanting, I don’t even know what I’m reading, I don’t even know what trick I ought to try. How is that cold, already gone or growing? One more disaster, I can add to my, generous SUPPLY!
OK, new plan.
Don’t try magic.
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Woopsie daisy, you just turned her into a banana!
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I think you’ll find that that’s a defensive spell, designed to protect the spell-ee from harm. It does not turn people into bananas.
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At least I’m an expensive fruit in Aussieland.
Still around $20/kg…?
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I just read what you typed aloud and I sprouted an extra testicle 😐
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I don’t see how that could be a bad thing. Unless said testicle appeared on your forehead.
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Welp. That’s an intrusive advertisement.
Gah man I have the worst mood swings when it comes to work. One minute I love it and it’s fun, the next I want to quit that very minute. Why are they so annoying all the time, if they weren’t such arses I wouldn’t have such a bad time.
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I know how you feel man. I hate the politics that go on as well, everyone bitches about each other. It’s frustrating!
Tad, are you trying to install a report feature? Because you borked the comments.
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I just reported this
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Was a tad too easy to report. I pressed once and away it went. I wasn’t tryinacause no chitt. Thought a box would appear I could comment in on why I was reporting said comment.
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OMG I see ‘reportComment’ everywhere! It’s all over the page! HALP! :'(
Oh noes! Is Kotaku broken?
I see a reportComment(xxxxxx, ); line of code above every comment!!
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Errrmm should be fixed now…
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Haha, I think it’s pretty funny we all run around arms flailing and crying the second something different happens. I can imagine Elly just sighing exhaustedly, ‘God, what’s wrong now…’
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I think it’s funny that they make Stark look like he’s taking off his glasses in awe of Capn USA’s body in the trailer when really he does it before the chamber thing even opens. Trailer editors are funny.
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Bi-curious???
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Bahahaha.
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How do I report this comment?
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Tee hee *I* did 😛
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The cage! The cage!
Mark has unleashed his true power now Seamus is leaving(?)
*cough cough*
Please resume your ordinary TAY conversations.
Lol. I remember this, Batguy’s DS. Hahaha… http://s1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb326/batguy_kotaku/?action=view¤t=d4a0ec5c.jpg&newest=1
And yes I am spying on you… >_>
<_<
*vanishes*
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Maaaaaaaaaaan, I wish I had a sweet Squirtle sticker…
I’m owning this page with nonsense! YESSS! Come at me!!! I’m MAD WITH POWERRRR!
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Yet you didn’t get first on the page.
I am disappoint…
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Sughly Wars: Force Unleashed.
If someone would like to provide a photoshopped pic of the game cover… 😀 -
Screw it I’m hungry, I’m getting lunch. Power over.
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Yeah Sughly keep at anna’s room i wanna play.
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Nawwww thanks! But see below, Anna’s Room on hiatus! As much as I love that a developer is interested in picking Anna’s Room up, truth is I was gonna release it in chapters, and so I wouldv had Anna’s Room released by now… *sigh* 🙁
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Geezs Sughly, shouldn’t you be working on that game of yours?
You’re spamming worse than I do!
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Haha I’M BACK! I had nothing in the cupboard or fridge. I probably should know that caus I checked an hour ago. And I am working on my game thank you very much!!
Just… taking little breaks. Lots of them. Also I’m working not on Anna’s Room, because the design doc was driving me insane and it was turning crap and I’m taking a break. With another game. Which should be ready in a couple of weeks FOR FREEEEE. Teasy teasy tease.
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Keep this up and I’ll put you in the cage to force you to work!
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I will help blaghman lock you up. I will stand guard then nod of to sleep to let you escape. When your just about free i will catch you and your hope will be dashed.
Mwahaha
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Can I just say that, I’m sick of repairing Mid 2010 13″ Macbook Pro’s. Y u no put the microphone in a sensible place!
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Dude do you work for a apple store or something?
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Not an Apple Store, I work for a company that is an Apple Service Provider. I mainly fix PC’s but I’m pretty much the only person at work certified to work on Apple products so I get to do all the Apple work.
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That sounds cool. I want to work there, I work as a technician to just so much worse. GPS is stupid and confusing.
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Is that GPS as in navigation or is it an acronym I should know but I don’t 😛
Haha my work place kind of sucks dude, too many work politics going on. And the pay is fairly average. It’s mostly because I’m sick of working with computers though really, I enjoyed working on computers as a hobby but now I’ve done it as a job for the last 3-4 years, I’m sick of it and don’t enjoy the hobby as much anymore. Want to move onto something else but have no idea what :/
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zZz…
ZzZ…
zZz…
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dude i know our comments aren’t all highly regarded literary works but really this isn’t a comment. Try
” Man i feel Sleepy”
or
“Man my Z key on my computer is playing up”Just a suggestion.
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Speak for yourself.
I won a pulitzer for one of my TAY posts a month ago.
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Was it the one where you were waging war on Darthlambomann
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I don’t wage wars.
I win them.
*nods*
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I devour planets and their little wars
😀
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Schtamps is now Unicron?
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Sometimes I is teh hungry like dat. Galvatron is TASTY GOOD!
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Damn, dude, you’d better run. I think Hot Rod just ‘acquired’ the Matrix.
*cue Stan Bush*
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Fair point.
This week I’ve found myself sitting at my desk randomly perusing the internet a lot. There’s not really a whole lot for me to do at the moment, and what there is to do can wait until next week.
How should I pass my time TAY?
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Humble Indie Bundle 3.
You know you want it.-
It’s okay, for now. I’ve found http://www.mathplayground.com
Logic games are fun!
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http://www.physicsgames.net/ is also fun.
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No good, that one is blocked at work 🙁
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Playing Minecraft in-browser?
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Blocked too 🙁
Comes from living in Perth, amiright?
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Aww snap!
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You’re right!
Is anyone else having problems with the Gizmodo ad thingys on kotaku? They keep taking me to a Lifehacker Page Not Found site.
Be nice with the report button, people!
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DON’T WANNA.
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Yes! Be nice!
You should click me instead! I love being clicked!
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Well golly, isn’t this ironic!
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It’s not ironic, it’s just coincidental!
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The only thing ironic here is that I’m reporting you >:(
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ABORT! ABORT!
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Pffft!! You are old news!! I heard your new sexier cousin gives instant gratification.
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So we report if the comment is inappropriate?
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Yupp!
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Let’s hope we don’t get random trolling reporters now too.
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If only we could ‘report’ articles too. 😛
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Be nice!
I’m almost itching for someone to post someone worth reporting now so I can try it out.
And no, Pessimist, that wasn’t a challenge. 😛
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Gah! SomeTHING worth reporting, even.
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I’m not Pessimist, but I accept the challenge anyway!
Uhhh…
Ummm…
Penis?
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DONE!
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Hey Taddy, perhaps you should change it so it hides a reported post instead of deleting it…just a suggestion 😛
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Now it has to be approved by an admin (Mark, Elly or I) before being shown again. It doesn’t delete it! 😛
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Well this just answered my question 🙂
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Sweeeeet.
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So HoN has a lot of characters to choose from… I don’t know where to start…
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When I started playing (and I’ve only played like 4, 5 matches), my friends suggested I try out Witch Slayer. He’s surprisingly easy to get used to, so I suppose he’s a good started character?
Just wait til Harli has her say.
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*dons HoN hat and pipe*
Witch slayer is a good, as The Cracks has suggested. He does tend to be squishy though.
Legionnaire is another good straight-forward who’s main role is tank.
Swiftblade is also a good suggestion, I think Steve-O made the suggestion before.
Hope I’m not overwhelming you.
p.s. FYI I suck at HoN
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Yeah Legionnaire and swiftblade have caught my eye successfully. Will be giving them a whirl first
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I go to strength, then ‘eeny meeny miney mo…’
Mind you I’ve only played two matches.
Instant post! Like instant coffee but less shit!
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What beasts.
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Who can instant post???
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WOH! I can!!!!
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I think you know what this means for next week, right?
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cordouroy?
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Yeah… Something like that.
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The waiting drove me mad… you’re finally here and I’m a mess.
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really instant posts yay. Thanks ben and tad
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THIS IS AMAZING! My productivity has already gone down a whooping 90%!!!
I am loving it.
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Now I know were wasting time at the same time…trippy!
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wow this is cool but how quickly are conversations gonna get talked over? Maybe this might have a few drawbacks.
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…and that’s when I told him that he could GTFO…
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Hahaha omg yes, I can see us getting to page 7 already..
It’s like a massive group chat on MSN or something! Conversations everywhere!
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This doesn’t bode well.
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Oh my! *Robotic clap(tm)*
@ Sughly
Previously on TAY:
Yeah I know, but I ended on tyhat so it’s your turn…Oh bugger this, I better post on P6 before instant post commpletley drowns me!
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Instant post?! Why do all these things happen when I leave? 🙁
WHAT? WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? WHAT DID I MISS? WHY AM I TALKING LIKE RAYGUN BROWN?
Also, I hear whispers of InstaComments… could this be true!?
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TRUE!
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GOOD LORD MAN! THE MAHEM!!!! THE CARNAGE!!!!
WON’T
SOMEONE
THINK
OF
THE
CHIIIIIIIIIIIIIILDREN!?
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Ack! Don’t say that, it’s like a summoning spell for Jim Wallace!
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yes we do have insta comments i can tell you that straight away. Also mr what how goes the computer hunting have you replaced your old one yet?
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Got one through work! The nice IT guy has lied on the forms saying my new rig is a laptop which means added bonuses.
MWA HA HA HA!
Shall have the parts on Tuesday and all will be good.
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Thats awesome. You got a bit of good luck yay.
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IT: It’s True!
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Mt prediction for next week:
TAY will reach 1,000,000 posts… On Monday!
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You don’t know how accurate I believe you are. But I reckon we’ll reach it before 10 am.
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I’m taking holidays next month, I’m gonna post up a storm in Taiwan nights!!!
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20 people
52.083 posts each per minute for 16 hours (since a new TAY doesn’t start until 08:30-09:00 on Monday)-
You’re quite right. We should make it 2 million.
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So hard to close the window and get back to work…so hard!
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MY BOSS LEFT EARLY! THE FOOLD! i’M NOW MAD WITH POWER!!!!!
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Bah! Now I have to leave! just when it was all getting good.
FAREWELL TAYBIES! TILL THE MORROW!
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Fare thee well Dr. What?!
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Farewell good Doctor! Till the morrow!
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it’s like one more REFRESH!!!
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Ctrl+R just became the TAY shortcut.
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Three continues to be useless.
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but 3’s a magic number:
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That’s their hold music. Makes me want to stab someone in the ear.
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My wife and I got a Turtle Beach Ear Force X11 gaming headset and it’s freakin’ awesome. If you don’t have a surround sound system (like me), spending $89 on this headset is (probably) the next best thing, if not better (I am only speculating).
Buy them, buy them now. Send letters to Turtle Beach telling them I told you to, maybe they will send me a cheque so I can afford to buy a second pair!
Seriously though, I was playing through the darkness/Aurora caves section of Fable 3 with them on and really appreciated the sound design – the darkness felt that much more oppressive with decent sound. Can’t wait to play a game that’s actually MEANT to be scary.
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I bought a Logitech surround sound system for $100 a few years ago, and now I don’t know how I could live without it. Soooooo good.
But the X11 is included with EB’s Dead Island Collector’s Edition, so I might be tempted to grab that. Can’t have volume up when people are sleeping 😛
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I only have a 2.1 System, but it’s a decent set, and it really is amazing the difference it made.
And yeah, like The Cracks I’m kinda tempted by the Dead Island thing, except that I don’t need to worry about noise, as I’m at the opposite end and a different floor to the other people in my house.
I’m just procrastinating before I reinstall Amnesia, or at least, procrastinating until I have fraps and can record it for everyone else’s benefit…
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Wait so you don’t have to worry about waking up your grandparents. I would like to be able to play games or be on teamspeak past 9 o clock at night.
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Close the door?
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I just forked out a bit more ($145 AU delivered from Amazon) for the X41’s! 7.1 surround gaming here I come 🙂
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Nice! I think that JB had the X41 but their shelf price was $247 (thanks, Australian retail inflation) and I didn’t think to/couldn’t be bothered looking online.
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Once upon a time, that price difference would have shocked me 🙁
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Well I looked on Turtle Beach’s website and they don’t deliver here, so on a lark I checked Amazon.com and they were not only cheaper (brand new mind you) but also deliverable to Australia!!
They actually have a you beaut super improved model but its about $100 extra. The only major difference I can see is independent channel controls and presets eg. making footsteps louder over music, gunshots etc. which is only good for FPS’ and the like, not really worth the extra cash.
X41’s will do me nicely for a while I think 🙂
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I just bought the Logitech G35 Headset. $90 from LogitechShop. Keeping the noise down 🙂
WOOOO Instant post! Anyone know how long Ozgameshop takes to deliver? If my game was shipped Monday, when can I expect it?
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2 to 3 weeks on average.
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In Perth? Expect about 2 weeks on average. Sometimes sooner, sometimes later.
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Okay cool. Dammit I was hoping it was gonna be sooner. Oh well, I have plenty of things to keep me occupied in the meantime 🙂
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Anyone been watching Falling Skies? About 5 episodes in (Foxtel), and I’m loving it so far. Noah Wyle is awesome.
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i Have the first 4 episodes but haven’t watched any yet. So worth a watch? I did hear steven speilberg had something to do with it as well.
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So far, it’s pretty damn good. Well worth watching.
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So I’ve almost clocked NFS: U2 and after that will need a new game to play..any suggestions?
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NFS hot pursuit i hear is good for another racer.
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NFS: Hot Pursuit is very fun.
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Yeah I got about halfway through the police campaign and then decided it was definitely worth a buy. So crap going back to Underground 2, Hot Pursuit handles so much better!
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Haha yeah that’s on order from ozgameshop! I have it on PC, but it’s a pirated version and I use my 360 controller with it anyway so I decided to just order it for 360.
It doesn’t have to be a racer, I have Forza 3 and GT5 at home that I haven’t started yet. Someone suggested yesterday that I should give borderlands a try.
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YES! Borderlands is amazeballs. I have it on 360, and recently bought it again for PC (GOTYE with all the DLC). So fun.
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Well, if you get Borderlands for pc you can join in our play sessions that should hopefully resume now that I have a computer, and Shameless gaming month is over!
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Awesome, you’ll go easy on a noob right?
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As a co-op game, it’s in everyone’s interests to ‘go easy’ on new players. It might be an idea to play the game solo for a little bit to get a feel for the different characters and to upgrade your basic weapons a little.
Blaghs: What level did you guys get up to roughly? After trawling through most of Dr Ned and most of the Arid Badlands, I’m almost level 20 (Mordecai).
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Since I don’t think it saved my progress when I switched computer, I’m probably right back at the start…
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Bugger.
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Oh yep, no worries. that shouldn’t be a problem. I’ll get the hang of it soon enough.
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If you’ve played any FPS recently, you should be fine. There’s also talent trees and special abilities unique to each class, and the weapons all have stats on them.
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So it’s like an FPS/RPG sort of thing? I’m fine with current FPS’, should be no problem.
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And it has A BAZILLION GUNS!
Well, in truth it has a a coupla hundred guns, then just alters their stats slightly and calls them something new.
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I like the part where the guns kill psychos.
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@Crackalackle-kun I shouldn’t laugh so much at that.
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Renamed guns is good enough for me!
DEAR GOD WHAT HAVE YOU CREATED
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TwitTAY, by the looks of it.
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I feel like a Crack addict or something, the way I keep checking back every 5 minutes.
Oh. Hi there, The Cracks.
Well this is awkward.
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Don’t worry. There’s plenty of Cracks to go round.
You know, I hope the drug squad doesn’t read TAY…
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Oh, and ‘The’ is a formality. Cracks sans ‘The’ will suffice.
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Noted.
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Note to self:
Don’t use mobile version because everytime you refresh, you have to scroll from the first comment all the way down.
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Hey this is instant now eh?
oh god, F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5
This is going to turn into TAYnarchy..
All the mods must be rubbing their hands with glee at all the free time they just got handed RIGHT TAD????? P:
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Mark’s gonna stroll in here and have a heart attack when he finds the madness in here.
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Aaaand I’ve just spent a whole hour doing nothing but reading TAY. Yay for productivity!
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Haha, what do you do the cracks?
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Call him Crackalackle-babe.
I hear he loves that.
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I can’t see why he wouldn’t, that’s an awesome name!
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Funnily enough, you aren’t the first to call me something like that.
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Applied Maths Masters.
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ah so at university then?
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Indeedy. UWA.
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So, now that we’re on page 7 (Unless I failed at counting, whereby this would be awkward), I figured I’d move this discussion to here.
How would the 24th or 25th of September work for people for the Canberra Meat? The two weekends before that are also good, if people so wish.
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I can’t make it 🙁
Did you see this blaghman??
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Indeed I did. I meant to type a comment something along the lines of “lolwut?” but I forgot.
And while it is a shame that you can’t make it, I understand perfectly, what with the whole “you live in a completely different state” thing.
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Cool. Was hoping someone noticed!! Still think loops and Strange would like it. Been stuck in my head all day. Keen to go see a live show. Speaking of which, you going to go to Rock of Ages?
Would have loved to have come by!! With all my O/S travels and my rare consumption of alcohol I have over 5 litres of premium vodka that we could have “appreciated” together.
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Bahaha, it could have been glorious! *stares wistfully*
And Rock of Ages? Probably. Odds are I’ll convince my parents to take me to it, but if not I’ll manage something, it’s the kind of show I just can’t miss.
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I’m checking twice before I hit ‘Reply’ these days in case I’m actually hitting ‘Report’.
But anyway, I did see your link, it was glorious fun I just got distracted and didn’t reply to you.
And Vodka appreciation sounds like even more glorious fun. Where do I sign up?
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At the Canberra Meat?
*cough*
(If I have any vodka it would not be the type to be appreciated)
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Possible vodka appreciation in Brisbane next year round May. Need to check with Jimu…..
Hmmm… Flights to Canberra for the 24/9 aren’t as expensive as i thought.
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If there is some sort of travelling down from Sydney happening, I shall partake in it!
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I believe AP was planning to put a bunch of people in his boot!
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This.
It’s a very luxurious boot, as far as boots go…
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Man, so, this one time, we were driving home from a party, and we had someone in our boot, and we stopped at a set of lights, and he put his hand up and started moving around while there was a car behind us who could see him.
Awkward times.
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And the odour of dead hooker is negligible once you get used to it 🙂
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Once you get them into the bath of limestone and acid it becomes a more zesty lemony fragrance.
Really quite pleasant once you get used to it.
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I am keen on either:
A) Making a road day trip out of it.
B) Making a SYDNEY INVADES CANBERRRAAAA trip, putting in with some people and hiring a motel room for a night or two and kicking it with you Canberra peeps ALL WEEKEND.
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As I mentioned before, I have tonnes of space here, so, depending on numbers (again, not Lucifer9783), people could just crash here.
Although some people might end up on blow-up mattresses, so a motel might be better…
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This depends on whether getting drunk and late night gaming is acceptable in your household.
I’m of the understanding (given your exuberant nekkid expeditions) that no pants are required though.
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We definitely don’t do pants ’round here, and since no-one else will be home, whatever the hell I want to do is the order of the day!
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Hey that sounds like heaps of fun 😀 lets do it!
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How awkward, looks like I am replying to AP’s suggestion and ahhh taken out of context.
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Sure Harli, of course…
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Pshh, just go and suck stick. 😀
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/hi5!
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The chemistry between AP and Harli – it’s electrifying.
One day I will go to your wedding and I will wear a kilt that’s revealingly short.
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That would be a VERY short kilt..
/lowblow
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Nice.
You are a dead man!!!!!!!!!!
XD
Hmm with enough notice and pending no plans, I could be in on this caper!
I have a feeling that could be the very weekend we’re planning on being in Canberra.
I’m crossing my fingers in hopes this is so.
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May I enquire as to the reasoning for you to visit this fair city?
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My sister actually lives there. Poor thing.
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I can sympathise. :/
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Okay so Mr. Strange just got home and I asked him about the dates for our holiday.
Seeing as we’re leisurely driving down with the kids and leaving on the Friday night the Saturday is out but if you have your Meat on the Sunday I can totally be there. -
That could work, the visitors could come down to Canberra, check out all three tourist sites on the Saturday, if they wish, and then something something!
This will require way too much organisation, why did I agree to do this again?
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Hahaha, Meat regret. Been there. 😛
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I have started creating a mix tape… err, CD.
Songs to piss off Pessimist with:
1. “We Built this City” by Starship
2. “Come On Eileen” by Dexy’s Midnight Runners
3. “99 Luftballoons” by Nena
4. “Mickey” by Tony Basil
Suggestions welcome.
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“We built this city”? Really?
Well, he referred to the Ghostbusters theme as terrible the other day, so you may as well put that on.
And uhh… Was it the Bangles he didn’t know earlier? Something by them.
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Yeah! Because you start to sing along “We built this city on rooooock and rolllllllllll which isn’t really structurally sound so I guess that is a pretty terrible idea, man I bet when the city collapses you would have killed so many people”. It’s a stupid idea and if anyone ever suggested that they do that, I would smack them.
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I just tried to sing that to the tune, it didn’t work very well…
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The trick is to sing “roll” and everything after it in the same note.
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Ahh, now I get it!
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Sweet jesus, someone hand me a snorkel.
I am drownng in taybish here.
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As am I. I’ve also not done any work for the past half hour
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I’ve spent about 40 minutes playing some flash logic games about sugar… and ducks.
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That sounds awesome! Are you at work?
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Yep. Tucked away in my little corner. The only people that see me are the people busy raiding the merchandise cupboards next to my desk.
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Nice, nice. Where do you work? You’re in Perth right?
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Yeah, I “work” over in Welshpool
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What?! Same here! What business do you work at? I’m at Trinix on Welshpool Rd.
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Haha, I’m at Laminex on Orrong Road 🙂
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Haha so you’re not even a kilometre away from where I’m sitting right now. What a spinout
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“taybish”
My ears are burning!
No, not actually on fire, but at the rate at which I harm myself, expect to hear that in 3 weeks!
Sounds good to me although im good for either weekend but as long as everyone good. Then i will travel to the canberra’s
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Oh Rocketman, you really do hate the reply button, don’t you?
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🙁
Don’t make me hug the report button.
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CAN’T SLEEP, TAY WILL EAT ME.
D:
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Hello Joe!
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Om nom nom!!
So i change my name and comments get moderated again!! Does this mean only a priviledged few have insta-satisfaction??
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Maybe Tad decided that the power was going to our heads…
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WOW. I just got insta-proved… (new word).. Awesome!
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Orrrr…. just that nobody likes you?
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Just kidding!
…Jesus probably likes you.
As long as you don’t touch yourself.
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Then Jesus is hating me RIGHT NOW!!!!!
OOOOHHHHHH YEEEEAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!-
>:(
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But my priest told me an angel gets it’s wings every time I do it for him…..
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*puts down binoculars*
uh… yeah, sure dude. Whatever. Just keep doing it.
*looks through binoculars again*
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So, so messed up. I love it.
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Hey, so I didn’t do a Serrels Stare when i did my interview at GGTV. It was something that you didn’t let me forget… so when a chance came up for redemption, I had to take it….
*Drum roll*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEPoTjWLWr4
PS, didnt want to post this on twitter because the GGTV people were a little worried about me filming in their studio… but I HAD to do it.
Also i know i did it all wrong but their chairs dont swivel so had very little room to move.
I hope I am now worthy again.
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Huzzah! Redemption is at hand!
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ahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!! FatShady MBA, you DA MAN!
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Awesome. Simply awesome. Well done!
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You are now forgiven human, well done 🙂
Also.. HAHAHAHA! 😀
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Consider yourself redeemed!
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I applaud you, good sir!
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
So amazing. So awesome.
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FatShady, I take back what I said in Tell Us Dammit about not having heroes, you’ve just become my real life hero. 😀
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ahahahahaha
WIN!
SSD going in my Gigabyte T1005 netbook tablet (netbooklet?) when I get home! 😀
This means I can wave it around and do cartwheels with it.
Asides from Rainmeter and Object dock, can anyone suggest any apps that would make organising things easier for me? In particular for a touch-based purpose.
I like to touch things.
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OMG so hard to resist… doing… rude cartoon…
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Do it!
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What he said.
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Yeah, I agree too! Do it!
Wait, what?
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Bahahahahaha.
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You know the deal.
Sughly always delivers.
You’re not gonna back out now, are you?
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Well apparently TAY comments don’t allow javascript. Which I guess should be expected, for fear of cross-site script attacks, but still….
I wanted to be special and hide my report links! Had the code working and everything 🙁
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Bahaha, that would be hilarious.
But also a dick thing to do.
Imagine if they didn’t block SQL!
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Did someone mention my name?
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http://www.tefma.com/uploads/assets/organisations/25445-Cockram.jpg
I don’t know why, but I feel so immature…
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LOL!
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HAHA! There was a Cockram road near where my friend used to live. People used to pull over and take photos next to it
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They didn’t just steal it? Because that’s what we do in Canberra…
(Handcock and Woodcock street are both in my suburb…)
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Actually it was stolen a number of times, but it was on a fairly busy road so it was hard to get to. Yeah street sign stealing is a big thing over here too. Especially in Bunbury where I used to live. It was also roadwork signs, traffic cones, bags of cement…one time we even stole this guys letterbox. Oh the joys of youth..
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You better stay away from cockram rooooaaad…
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I think I can smell burning whiskey…
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Oh man, it gets worse…
http://www.digital-marketing-course.com.au/cmsAdmin/uploads/HookerCockram.jpg-
At least it’s not Cockram Hooker
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Direct debit details removed from my 3 account. Complaint lodged with ombudsman.
3 shall receive $29 from me for the month of July and $20-$29 (based on usage) for the month of August. Not a cent more.
What perverted use of the word “benefit” is it to continue giving net access but charge $2/mb and to make this change with no notice?
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What douchebags. I agree, though – don’t give them any more money that what you just said.
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I told them outright that was what I was going to do. I told the ombudsman that I would only be satisfied with a full waiver of the excess charge.
I’m now disabling Cellular Data on my phone so that there will be no question of continuing the usage after being informed that I was being charged for it.
TPG, why can’t you do express postage for your sims? I don’t want to have to wait a week!
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Ahhh 3 direct debits used to be so much fun when i worked for the bank.
Are they scheduled to take next payment on a specific date?? As soon as it has been taken, go into a bank and get a form to cancel AND request forwarding cancellation of debit. This is the ONLY way to make 3 stop taking money (from my experience) and if any comes out afterwards it is up to the bank to refund cos you told them to stop payment and forward cancellation.-
Comes out on the 23rd, I told 3 to remove my direct debit details and the ombudsman said that they have put in a request to stop any debt until this is resolved.
I’ll be calling my bank right now though just to make sure. Thanks for the heads up there.
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So about 3-4 hours of instant comments and no civil war? Is this a Kotaku record?
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Been there, done that.
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Yup. Not sure which side I was on either. I was lawyer for Tad’s side but swore no loyalty because I’m a weaselly one like that.
Also, Chrome’s spell check recognises the word “weaselly” but not “recognises”.
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Does it recognise recognizes?
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Outlook’s spell check recommends Pokémon for pokemon. Win.
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We’re just biding our time, fleshling.
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Were all the vespene gas at?
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So I bought Pringles yesterday for the first time in about 5 years. I’m hesitant to open them. My mind has built them up to taste so good and I know I’m probably going to be disappointed..
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This is an impossibility.
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They’re as amazing as my head believes them to be?
Oh happy day!
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Do you like excessive Sodium content?
If so then you shall not be disappointed.
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Na.
:O see what I did there?
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That was terrible.
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I know. But it had to be said.
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You know what’s pretty cool?
Shapes.-
Which flavour?
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What do you mean ‘which flavour’?
ALL flavours!-
Yeah!
Shapes-flavoured Shapes are pretty great! -
True, true. Shapes are boss. I just remember there was this hell odd flavour once. Like some exotic one, and it was pretty average.
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Omg, someone (Pessimist?) left Honey Soy Chicken Shapes here the other weekend and I turned my nose up at them thinking they’d be disgusting. Then when I was giving some to my son I tried one and fell in love. All Shapes are indeed awesome! Well except for those Texas BBQ ones, they smell like armpits.
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TEXAS BBQ! Those were the ones I thought were average.
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In a months time, after I’ve finished most of my Shapes, I’ll look into my snack drawer with only Texas BBQ left, and I’ll be all “Well, might as well polish these off.”
I’ll open up the foil packet and then think “armpits”.
I think you’ve ruined them for me.
:I
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Really? No one’s said it yet? “ONCE YOU POP, YOU CAN’T STOP!!”
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I was waiting for this 😛 there’s always one hahahaha.
Hey guys, long time no see.
Too busy doing awesome stuff.
Keep being rad.
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Hi Ben White! It has been a while, but so long as you keep being awesome, I’m sure we will manage!
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So, you just dropped in to /flex over the insta-comments?
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*Ben puts on his sunnies, does an ollie up into the sky, the sun beaming bright around him, then vanishes in a sea of white light*
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I think my favourite part is the look on your face at the end when it pauses.
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Was that his shoe flying off?
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I love this video, that slow-action replay gets me every time hahaha. I love how both his shoes come off as well. Classic.
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LOL! Or maybe not. Hey wait I have that space and time shirt too. And yes it’s purple.
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Hi Ben! Yes your efforts are awesome and much appreciated.So will we see you in here more regularly again?
My hair tastes like my shampoo, and I keep forgetting this, and ending up with strands in my mouth, and then they taste terrible.
These are the trials and tribulations of an unemployed 20-year old…
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Well maybe you should use a fruit based shampoo or even better just rub a mandarin on your head. That will clean you hair right
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It is a fruit shampoo, but I clearly didn’t wash it out thoroughly enough, as there’s enough soap left in it to taste bad. :/
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Apparently actually rubbing bananas and honey into your hair is good for it.
It was on Ellen, so it must be true.-
did you try doing that bish. I bet there was like bees and monkeys attracted to your head straight away.
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I don’t live in crazy farmland Queensland! I live in (near the) city, where pollution has killed off all forms of wildlife!
Silly Rocketman.
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Why is that TAY just blows up when I’m actually busy doing work? Why do you hate me for?
WOW! It’s instaComments!
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That was so last page.
Sorry. This is kinda exciting.
I should probably put these in a single post.
Okay, I’ll stop now.
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It’s okay, we’ve been there. We know what you’re feeling. You hold..this power in your hands. It’s a lot to take in.
Woohoo, 50 inch kotaku! Yeah, checking Kotaku on a 50 inch TV. 😀
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Pics or it didn’t happen 😛
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Incoming… here:
http://crazyguy1990.deviantart.com/art/50-inch-Kotaku-249453021-
It looks bigger on my screen.
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dude thats to really pic kotaku. nearly as big as the burger in marks twitter photo.
Alright so welbot wants a pic of him helping someone out with their PC. Lets take a vote on the sketches here!
1) Average kind of run of the mill pic – http://kramsdesign.com/misc/welbot-sketch2.jpg
OR 2) something with a bit more EXCITEMENT! – http://kramsdesign.com/misc/welbot-sketch.jpg
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Is Welbot about to take a bite out of the guy in number 2?! I like it!
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Clearly Strange, CLEARLY he is about to attack him with a screwdriver. Or fix his PC, one of the two. Obviously you cannot make out my pic since there is nothing wrong with it and it is perfect and brilliant and ready to go.
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Sometimes I have to cut a little piece off my son’s apple so he can bite into it. That’s what I thought the screwdriver was for!
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EXCITEMENT!
Maybe one with an open, smoking tower and welbot rummaging around inside, with a concerned onlooker?
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I’m sorry, but Sketch 2 (aka, the first one you listed…) looks like Rapeface…
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HAHAHAHAHA! He’s just like ‘alright… you know whats gonna happen so lets just get started’
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The second one looks like hes gonna stap the guy with the screwdriver. maybe not so murdery?
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But that’s the POINT dammit! MORE murder if anything I say.
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WHAT IS THIS MONSTER I’VE STUMBLED UPON!
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO TAY!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
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How on earth am I ever going to get anything done now?! >:(
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You’re not. We’re all going to lose our jobs 🙂
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My bosses attempt at spelling “Unique”
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“Unquic”
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Eunich?
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Is your boss just a little bit special?
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Yep.
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Your boss sounds quite “unique” himself..
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If by “unique” you mean “a freakin’ dumbass” then yes, he is indeed “unique”
This isn’t a one off by any means. He’s extremely consistent in his daftness.
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Sigh. Another day with no parcels arriving. I am disappoint.
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I’ll let you in on my little secret…
Sometimes I just send parcels to myself so that I feel popular…
No page 8 yet? What is this I don’t even…
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Still another two comments, if I counted correctly!
Someone prove Blaghman wrong, quick!
So I jumped in on this kickstarter thingy. I really liked the video that Qbo posted so why not. $10 to a good cause anyway.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/901026204/lords-of-uberdark-3d-voxel-based-mining-building-g
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So what happens if the $20,000 isnt met? Says ‘this project will only be funded if its met’, soooo… does the money just go back to everyone? I’d be like pffft nah $12,000 will do I spose.
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You only pledge money. So you say you’re good for $10. If the goal is met, they charge your card or paypal or whatever. If it isn’t, then it’s all good, no money taken.
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Phwoar, poor bastards! So basically if they made their goal $12,500 they would be $12,500 richer now. But instead they will get nothing.
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Yep ive never done it but says that they will charge the card next week if the goal is met. I suspect that it will either be met or they will proceed anyway. Im really liking the art style and fluid lines so am happy to check it out.
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BAM!
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Bummer
Oh Repneiras, do you really think you can prove me wrong?
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Asshats.
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And by that I mean “What a success, when I said “2 more” I meant that the second one would appear on Page 8.”
Yeah, good cover Blaghs.
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Smooth.
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Looks like someone has to redo second grade maths =D
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See above.
I am a god among men! AHAHAAHAHAHA
(I counted it multiple times, and one of those gave me 26 posts as the answer, so I blame society)
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No, you are a wiener among schnitzels.
I’ve had a few red wines, so right now that is *hilarious*
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Hahaha! I found this hilarious! I love terrible jokes!
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Also, is anyone taking bets on how long instant comments last?
So when do we find out who got Weekend Editor?
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So wait, did it become like a competition, or something? 😛
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Haha well I didn’t apply, I just want to know who it is 😛
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Dear god, do not mention anything competitive or Harli will get involved.
DO YOU WANT THAT?
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WASSUP
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Applications are still open and I still haven’t applied yet. Nor has another regular who I know is interested :p
I’m sure we’ll find out in a few weeks, job applications are rarely an instant payoff sort of situation.
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Yeah I know..
I contemplated applying myself but I don’t really have any relevant experience and I don’t know if my writing is any good..
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No worries if you no word write goodly. Awesome is being more of important. Hope so me do anyhow.
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Haha well I might apply then, just for the hell of it. But you seem to have the awesome part down pat.
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*cough*
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Lozenge?
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Butter menthol plz.
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HOLY SMOKES!
I just read a disturbing article about the effects of insta-commenting.
Take a look.
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Hahaha! Nice.
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Five Minutes Later…
http://bit.ly/oXv7tu-
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wha?
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HAHAHA, nice! This is awesome!
Ooooh, what could this be? http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb449/lamboman007/warinkotaku.jpg
🙂
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I tried to type in it, even though I saw the link ended in .jpg
Don’t judge me!
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Yeah so did I. The excitement overcame me.
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Must be the effects of too much insta-prove 😛
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War. War never changes.
Shepard.
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wut?
OOOOOOOOH I’M DRUNK ON THE POOWWWERRR!!!!
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You might have the power, but I’ve got the touch!
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The bad touch?
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After all is said and done. You’ve never walked, you’ve never run. You’re a winner!
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Well done people, we did 4? pages on TAY today. All thanks to insta-comment of course.
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but I still didn’t get to report anyone. :'(
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Actually..neither did I. Dammit!
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I reported Tad’s “Be nice to the report button” post 😛
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That was you? I laughed that. Especially at his follow-up post :p
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Oh shit, I reported it too!
HAH!
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Instant comments?!
What is this monstrosity?
I can see the headlines now. “Productivity falls by over 9000% percent, baffling economists.”
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Wait, just by being here commenting arn’t we all being anti-porductive?
I like the instant commenting feature, i suppose its only a trial to see wether it works properly and no one abuses the power by making offensive comments, they could have made it that swear words have been censored, the Gearbox Software forums implements censoring, i suppose that this commenting software would allow something like that as well.
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PENIS
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It’s as if he’s staring right into my soul….
I don’t like it.
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I agree… i dont i am going to be able to sleep tonight.
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what. what is this.
bert.
what.
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i think it was the look that finally gave Eernie to move out. Burt just had enough
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Or someone slipped a little LSD in berts oatmeal.
Ahh… that Ernie, such a prankster.
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that, or its the look Burt gave Eernie Just before he bullrushed him.
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Hmmm, 2nd wedding anniversary presents are supposed to be cotton. I wonder if the Deluxe Version of Catherine comes under this heading? Surely the boxers, shirt and pillow qualify?
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Well, according to this site, the traditional gift is cotton, and the modern gift is china, so…
Lambo-gift-ideas-007!
What you’ll need:
1 cotton sheet,
27 china plates,
1 rubber band,
1 rope,
1 screw in hook.
First take the china plates and smash them all on the ground. Then pick up all the pieces and place them on the middle of the sheet. Gather up the four corners of the sheet and tie them together with the rubber band. Tie the rope to the sheet and to the hook. Preferably you have already screwed the hook into the roof, if not do so now or suffer later.
And viola! You’ve made a China filled Cotton punching bag!
You can thank me later. 😛-
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I like it!
Old meets new.
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I think for everyone’s sake you’d best not get married ever, Lambo. 😛
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If you want my honest opinion, I dont think Catherine quilifies, it wont be good if you start spending more time with a pillow then with your wife
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XD
You must be new here.
Strange is like, a chick and stuff.
Feels like it was only yesterday someone was telling me this…
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Hmm… that makes sense, still a little creepy though.
PS… i visit Kotaku quite regularly but i dont really post in the TAY section, so im not up to speed with the goings on.
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Bewbs are creepy?
I think you meant to say:
THEY
ARE
AWESOME
\o/
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Seconded
Scruffy believes i’n this company
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Hey… i didnt say “bewbs” are creepy “bewbs are indeed AWESOME, i am saying that pillow you get in the Catherine special edition is creepy, and receiving it as a anniversary gift is just as creepy.
Well thats my opinion anyway.
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AGREED!!
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I’m slightly baffled.
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See my thinking was what man wouldn’t want bewbs as a present? And quite frankly while I’m excited about getting cotton and/or china gifts, I doubt there’s much in that category that appeals to Mr. Strange so I’ll be needing to bend the rules slightly.
Sigh. Paper was so much easier. -
You should buy him a hair brush. Oh wait…
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Hey is there going to be another Melbourne Meat Up again?
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“Melbourne meat up”
Wow… i really dont want to know what happens there.
“someone bring the cruisers, i’ll bring some e”
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As far as i know there has been one in melbourne and there have been a few done up in sydney.
its where a bunch of the Kotaku comunnity meet up and chat and shit instead of sitting infront of a computer screen and type and shit-
Sorry to sound like a smart arse… i know what it is but you said “Melbourne Meat up” and to me that sounded overly sexual.
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Hey you never know….
it could be -
Dude that’s how we say it round here.
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I suppose its true in a sense that its mostly guys that turn up to these types of things.
Ah ok… i get it now, the last horse has finally crossed the finish line.
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Dude that’s weird and we do have some girls here. Some of the best community members are!
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Dude you should prolly spend some time round tay before talks of meat ups. Give people a chance to know who you are first. This is the first time I’ve seen you around these parts.
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I hope he turns up in a mankini, because:
1) I don’t live in Melbourne
2) Awkward situations (or situations with a high awkwardicity, in scientific terms) amuses me.
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I know we are a fairly open sort of bunch but I hear that on the internetz there are these things called trolls and the trolls must never infiltrate kotaku. I think to be called a taybie you should have to swear never to troll kotaku on marks scotish accent 🙂
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Aye swEEEER Te Nevere be a troull ass long ass Ayem Ein Kohtakuu!
On a side note, trying to convey a scottish accent via text is really hard
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I suppose it would get awkward if someone actually did turn up with some cruisers and e or in a mankini or both. *shudders*
Thanks AnonymousPessimist, thats an image i am going to have a hard time getting out of my head.
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Long time lurker
first time poster
im at work and boredas i am a newb…. whos Tay?
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Tay stands for talk amongst yourselves. It’s cool everyone was a lurker at some point except pessimist :p. I think I lurked for 4 months before joining these awesome people. I think it’s a diamond i’n the rough of the Internet. Everyone is nice and friendly and only a little racist :p
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I lurked for a year. Wish I had started commenting sooner!
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A whole year wow dude that’s impressive. Did you think blaghman would bite, he is so over that phase now and the mailman didn’t press charges .
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I heard the mailman liked it and they’re now ‘seeing’ each other.
To be honest, you guys seemed like such a tight-knit community, I didn’t want to intrude/didn’t think I would be welcomed.
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i know what you mean…
i can’t be within fifty feet of a church.
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I think everyone likes when new people join i’n. It means everyone gets to experience new storys and opinions. Everyones welcome as long as there is no trollz
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Well im definitely no troll. Nice to know I’m welcomed though.
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I got the tight knit community vibe as well.
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I lurked for much longer than that. I think my first comment was an accident. I’d lurked for so long(since before TAY began!) that I felt like I knew everyone already and forgot nobody actually knew who I was.
But yeah, the first comment’s always the most difficult. That’s why if I’m around when someone new comments in here I’ll try and respond to them so hopefully they’re more likely to join in again.
Which you did for me 🙂 so thank you!
Heh, that’s what I did.
And you (as a group) haven’t escaped me since.
I wasn’t a lurker.
I just barged into TAY, without realising what I was getting into, and politely asked a question about AustralianGamer.com.
Everyone suggested I stick around, so I did.
I’ve seen RoninX around heaps, just can’t remember if it was ever in here.
God it’s weird being the new-commer into a new and crazy environment.
….
I LEIK IT!!
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Welcome! So, down to business:
Garrus or Wrex?
Choose your next words carefully.
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Did he pick garrus yet. Hopefully he picks garrus, garrus is awesome.
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hmmm
tough call
wrex for his bad ass stories and when he talks about the genophage ya really feel for the guy.
but Mass effect 2’s Garrus rock purly on smart-ass-ery-
That is some pretty good fence sitting. Not in a bad way though, because picking either answer means you would have lost the game.
YOU PASS**Passing grade does not necessarily mean a pass.
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**Obviously passing means a pass, SHUT UP
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I am now legally obligated to say ‘I just lost The Game.’
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You ass####
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WRONG! Correct answer was Garrus. The only plausible argument for Wrex is because of the whole Shepard. Wrex. Shepard. Wrex. Shepard. Wrex. Shepard. Wrex. Shepard. Wrex.
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WRONG
Correct answer was Wrex.
Don’t make me fight you.
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I DEMAND SATISFACTION! *glove slap*
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But Shepard my friend, you look well for dead?
MANLY/KROGAN HANDSHAKE JOSTLE -
*Krogan headbutt*
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*Krogan HI 5*
HA! No way, can’t be done 🙂
Correct answer is never Garrus. Garrus is a wimp. Just because he’s all scarred in ME2 doesn’t suddenly make him a badass.
Ummmm… i am going to say that i… dont like Animaniacs?
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Wow… faux pas #1.
This will not bode well for your initiation.
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Damn… now i have to endure the unblinking eye and the paddling of the swollen arse with paddles.
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I think they were talking about me not liking animaniacs, which BTW i used to like but havent seen in years.
Fine… i’ll just be an outcast and admit that i have never played any Mass Effect games.
*puts on dunce cap and sits in the corner*
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YOU MUST GET THEM!!
but hey its cool i havent played a lot of games that people find some of the best as well. it also dosn’t help my area is internet deprived. hence why im at work chatting here instead of doing my government job -
I would like to but i dont own an Xbox 360 for Mass Effect 1, I dont readily have access to a PC, i do however own a PS3 and can get Mass Effect 2 but you kinda have to play the first to get a real understanding on whats going on.
I do plan to get an Xbox 360 sometime in the future.
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You shouldn’t worry about not knowing what’s going on…the PS3 version of ME2 has an interactive comic version of the first game so you can make all the decisions and catch up on the story.
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Actually to be honest, i dont think i have the patience to play ME2 all the way through.
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I have Mass Effect 1 and started playing it but never finished. I moved house and things sort of got in the way of it :/ I really should go back and play it!
Yay! I’m not the newest anymore! Welcome to Kotaku 🙂
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Wait… youre a new member?! All you Jameseses are confusing me :'(
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I’ve posted occasionally in the past but this week is the first time I’ve been an active part of the community. Haha my original handle was James Maguire. Tad Mod petitioned to get me to change it to jamesmag to confuse everyone 🙂
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I get the feeling I should be reading some sort of manual on how to play HoN. I’m guessing there is no PvE or practice outside of the single tutorial?
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No, only the awkward sodomisation of playing against real people.
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That statment alone is why i prefer to gank a sucker than getting ganked. theres just something about getting it from behind i dont like
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Awkward sodomisation is the best sort of sod… o…
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I’m more of a surprise sodomisation kinda guy.
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Seconded
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I’m glad you realized halfway through bishy. There is nothing good about sodomy.
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See what happens when we’re not moderated!
Won’t somebody please think of the children!
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its 23:00
the children SHOULD be in bed by now. if not then why are you a parent?
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Someone at steam fucked up the AU price of brink while it’s 50% off. It’s currently $25 AU – go buy now http://store.steampowered.com/app/22350/?snr=1_4_4__40
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Well, shit.
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Is it too late to pop in and remind you about me? 😀
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Isn’t the problem that he used you when not appropriate?
It wasn’t a failed reply in the sense that his comment was supposed to be a reply but came up as a standalone comment, but rather his standalone comment came up as a reply.
So clearly he’s thinking of you even when he doesn’t need to.
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Perhaps I should get back to my tutorial video thingie that I had been working on.
Why does Hollywood think its ok to rape our childhood?
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Because of all the moniez!
Btw, what movie are we talking about?
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Let me guess… its the new Smurfs movie coming out soon?
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Luckily there are a few gems, like Christopher Nolan’s Batman films, LotR and I’m somewhat optimistic about The adventures of Tintin. Also there’s The Man of Steel, that superman movie Christopher Nolan is making. 🙂
And there’s The Hobbit too.-
Nolan’s producing it, not making it really. Which is a lot more precarious…
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Someone at steam fucked up the AU price of brink while it’s 50% off. It’s currently $25 AU – go buy now http://store.steampowered.com/app/22350/?snr=1_4_4__40
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seems they picked up their mistake amd jave changed the price!
Ballsacks!
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Typos worthy of myself.
wlecom eto th eclub
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Hahaha, Brink.
Because your tales with Brink make it sound like a must play! -
I really hate how Rage and Skyrim are $90. I actually wanted to buy them. Now I’ll probably wait for Rage to be something ridiculously cheap on Steam (and even then, we’ll still have to pay more ಠ_ಠ), and will pass over on Skyrim and get LOTR : War in the North.
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Or instead of playing Rage, just play Bordelands! Same-same, hehe.
Seriously though, as it crops up closer to release date, there are going to be alternatives. Game Lane and Dungeon Crawl will probably have prices at around $70, which yeah, isn’t the US $50, but it’s still a decent price to pay to get the game maybe a few days after release, rather than waiting 2 weeks for it to ship from ozgameshop, if you feel the need to play it sooner rather than later.
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Oh yeah, of course, Ozgameshop and stuff like that, it’s just that I personally prefer to just manage it via Steam.
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Oh f*ck, it was like 60 bucks this morning.
Oh well, another ozgameshop purchase! Bethesda can go to hell with their price disparity.
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Censorship is betterz.
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Passing over Skyrim!?! Are you insane!?!
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Wait, the comment box is resizeable? How long has this voodoo been happening?
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/squeal of delight
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consequences will never be the same
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It’s been this way for a long while. Probably.
One of the magical things that WordPress does.
By the frozen pits of hell, I leave you people alone for a day and see what happens?
Mmmm instant comments = instant gratification…
Wait where was I, oh yeah, the downside to this whole thing is that now that I have three of my bosses circling me like some vultures eyeing off a dying animal, how by all the gods in their fluffy heavens am I supposed to keep up with you guys???
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Grab your axe and cleave all their heads off in one swing! 😛
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That, plus I think the F5 button has just become my new best friend.
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Oh dang, all these years I’ve been using ctrl + r…
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Pressing two button at once???
Are you mad?
My poor club can only smash one button at a time.
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I was tempted to press on the report button. For surely, this is not Hugo the Hungarian barbarian, but rather, Hugo the I’m-too-scared-to-Write-on-TAY.
FOR SHAME!
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Not scared, simply… cautious.
I refer you to my chain of command, perfectly depicted by the almighty
He Who Always Delivers.
http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/barbarians.jpg
Trust me, you would be careful too.-
Oh Sughly. How he delivers so well and so consistently is beyond me.
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STOP POSTING AFTER 3PM WHEN I CAN’T JOIN IN!
Also, Man Of Steel costume pic!
http://www.hecklerspray.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/henry-cavill-superman.jpg
DISCUSS!
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Evil Superman?
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Something looks a little…odd about his face, I’m not sure what it is.
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Also, where is the little curl in his hair at the front?
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I will say this however it looks a hell of a lot better than Brandon Routh’s costume.
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I thought the exact same thing. Needs more curl. I actually really want to see him as Clark Kent to see how it compares
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Agreed.
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So, correct me if I’m wrong, but is HoN sort of like a 3d Paper Scissors Rock game? Agility beats mage, mage beats strength, strength beats agility?
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In what way in any universe strength beat agility. Stupid HON getting it wrong.
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Club beats all?
Heh sorry, the bosses have moved away from their circling pattern and this instant commenting thing has gone to my head.-
Comments like this make me want a button that’s the opposite of report. 😀
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Maybe a 🙂 button?
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See this was one of the thoughts that put me off it the first time, the heroes are too deep in their own categories, where in LoL it’s more subtle on what roles the champions can play rather than what stat they’re based on
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Sorry lambomann007 but i think UR DOIN IT WRONG.
also, add me on HoN! Harli
Woo! Free DLC for Brink.
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I think you and pessimist are the only people excited about this.
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Sigh… Brink and I have a complex relationship.
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I’m not ashamed of my love of Brink.
I just wish the critics hadn’t slammed it, which led to poor sales, which meant fewer people in multiplayer, which meant the game lost appeal, which led to critics slamming it, which led to…
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Woo! Another day of TAY! The only thing I’ll be looking forward to today, although I hear the boss is shouting us all Nando’s, free food always goes down well 😀
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So good!
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Inst-post id too much for me…caaaaaaaaaaan’y haaaaaaaaaaaandlllllllllle
iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
And Page 9?!
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Didn’t we have a rule about this sort of behaviour???
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I’m sorry 🙁
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You are forgiven, since you spend more time here than I do now…I miss u TAY.
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Come back to us?
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YES! I counted correctly! I thought for sure this was going to be a fail.
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🙁 this was meant to be a reply…awkward.
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Oh god it’s all happening so faaaaasssst!!!
INSTA-COMMENTS AWAAAAYYYY!!!
Well I actually pre-ordered a game at EB the other day, WAIT WAIT before the stoning begins, I did it as part of a competition they have for a 7 foot tall skyrim dovahkiin statue. Hopefully I am the only one stupid enough to pre-order a game from EB so this should be mine.
Also, as I have never won ANYTHING in my life, I have been making the appropriate chants, bonfire dances and various fluffy goat toy sacrifices and I can now only hope that fate, and various gods/nature spirits, have always had this one prize in mind for me.
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One of my mates pre-ordered Skyrim from EB…I can have him killed if you’d like..
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Urr… no… well… no… um… maybe?
No, definetly no… maybe?
Bah! *cracks knuckles* A little competition is always a good thing. Besides I am wearing my lucky goot hoof.-
Noo! Noot the goot hoof!
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Well I tried a goat hoof, but… um… that didn’t turn out to well.
Poor critter, doomed to forever walk in a circle. -
Ah, like the Haggis.
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HAHAHA!
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I was going to go for that before I realised I have nowhere to put a 7 foot tall Dovahkiin statue.
I hope you get it if only so you can say it is a statue of you in your youth.
I did it too. /shame
I sneezed and clicked on the page accidentally. Think I reported someone by mistake.
Anways got very little gaming time in last night. My short attention span had me jumping between games too much to spend any decent time on one game (cept’ for Crayon Physics. Gotta love solving puzzles by drawing bewbs). I did manage to get HoN and SC2 installed though.
Also finished the remaining episodes I had of Breaking Bad. I need to get more soon – It’s been 12 hours and I’m getting the shakes.
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Good work. So what’s your username on HoN?
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SteveoDaDevo
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Kinda old news, I know, but is anyone else kinda bummed that Armored Core 5 has been pushed back?
It’s kinda of bitter sweet because they’re responding to beta feedback so that means they’re taking it really seriously, but on the other hand it means a longer wait for AC5.
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Slightly bummed.
You played any of the others on PS3?
I’ve only played it on PSP and that one was pretty frustrating. It was completely focussed on tweaking, with little to no action (You were encouraged to let the mechs run on auto-pilot. If you wanted to take control you were pretty much doomed).-
Yeah the PSP was was too brutal.
I lost so many times that the game pretty much fired me and ended my game haha.The PS3/360 versions are much better, back to proper merc missions instead of constant Vs battles. I recommend For Answer if you can find it cheap, good mech fun that. MUCH better than Front Mission too 🙂
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Cheers buddy
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So Annonymous Pessimist has decleared Red Bubble’s printing is vastly superior to Toctopus.
So, will probably just be proming RB for now. I don’t like the layout but maybe I could make my own site that linked to RB for purchasing.
I have zero experience in making websites so what do you guys think? Possible? Anyone want to help (i.e. do the work)?
http://www.redbubble.com/people/cronotriggr
Also, Buy shirts
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RedBubble’s okay, but I find the prints on their shirts can fade and wear pretty quick. The shirts are good quality, it’s just the print itself can be a mixed bag sometimes.
Here’s some stuff I have up there, I’ll have to dust off the old login and add you to my RB friends 🙂
http://www.redbubble.com/people/obsolution/-
Oh wow, those are nice!
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Dude! I just clicked it and saw the MMX sprite shirt!
WANT!
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Awww you guys are too kind 🙂
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Does that servbot come on a yellow shirt??
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Damn straight it does 🙂
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Wher’s my Diddy kong Racing shirt? HUH??!!!
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I’ll make as soon as I get a new PC!
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Do some drawinz now…pweeeeeeeze!
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DKR?! Yes pls!
Also Jimu – we SO have to have a DKR date at some point.
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Alright, a few things from page 8…
That Nando’s commercial was AMAZING.
Am I the only one who liked Superman Returns? Yes? Oh… ok… *awkward*
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It wasn’t the worst movie, Kevin Spacey = AWESOME, but I really REALLY hated the superman costume, especially that tiny S shield.
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Yeah I dunno, suit looked alright to me. And yes, Spacey was amazing. I liked Brandon Routh too as Superman, but I dont read any of them or anything so what do I know.
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I think Routh had the right look for Superman, and the suit wasn’t too bad (better than Tim Burton’s prototype at least).
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Spacey’s boots scared me.
Why was that comedy releif woman in it?Otherwise it was OK.
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Superman is better as an idea than as a protagonist. Superman Returns just goes to show that most people can’t translate that idea into something good.
So is everyone jumping the LoL ship for HoN now?
Am I going to go on tonight and be all alone, weeping quietly into my shapes thinking of all the fond memories?
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Alright srsly guys, I’m reporting every comment with a game thats abbreviated to three letters from now on.
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Anyone up for a TF2 or L4D playdate???
They totally don’t count because one of the characters is a number, not letter.
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WoW. HoNestly? You would do that? LoL.
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Really but is is only LoL and HoN! It’s not like I am talking about MW3, BF3, AC:R, or SC2.
And does that mean you are cool with games like D3 and DOTA2? -
BUT I LOVE THAT THESE GAMES ARE THE TALK OF THE TOWN NOW!
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I kinda feel guilty cuz if I never mentioned LoL in TAY this subject never would’ve gotten this big…
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Don’t worry, I feel kinda guilty because I don’t give a damn :p
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Yeah that was more in regards to Sughly’s comment of rage against acronyms 🙁
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Hahaha, RAAAAGE! No these damn LoLs and HoNs. Damn sick of LoLs and HoNs everywhere. I dont even know what they are and I’m sick of them!
p.s. I dont really want to know.
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I heard theres a really cool game in development called A’sR…get it?
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Nope.
No Jo, just trying it out now that its free.
I’m staying on both if I happen to like HoN as well. I’ve gone too far on LoL to just abandon it, and I got friends on LoL too to tag up with.
Oh boy, this new commenting system is really dangerous, not only have I done zero work so far, but I also missed an important mail delivery.
Yet
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The TAY has you…
Hey remember that time we used to have to wait for our comments to be approved? How did we cope back then!?
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You know what was depressing?
Seeing one of your posts with the awaiting approval byline, except it was in the middle of the day and had been like that for hours.
You thought “Did… did I do something wrong? I don’t think it’s insulting in anyway, so there’s now reason to junk it. Why don’t you love me, Mark/Tad/Elly? What have I done to aggrieve you? I’m sorry. I won’t do it again, just tell me what I did wrong. ='( “-
Yep, lunchtime at Allure was always a rough patch.
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I remember I used to get work done, now instead I have been sitting here composing a single email for the last 2 hours, camoflage for when my vulture like bosses start circling around me again.
At the moment they are off in the corner, probably plotting devious schemes of deviousness. -
It was a sad world back then. To me, that time was like the Great Depression. It was depressing and stuff you know
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Except we did not have the cool hats.
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We coped with awesome drawings by a certain Sug-lee.
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Hahaha, pronunciation fail 🙂
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The times are a-changin’.
Pretty soon we’ll probably have avatars, and jetpacks, and meals in pill form.
So, what’s everyone’s HoN usernames?
I’ve already sent Tad and Blagh invites because their names were easy to guess.
Mine’s lambomann007.
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I will provide via Steam and TS once I get HoN back up and running.
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Same as my steam and everything else.
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Oh with the 89 on the end.
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Aren’t you busy playing LoL? 😛
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I just wanted to be one of the cool kids…
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Harli
I know, it’s a tough one.
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JFlamestar yo
I declare 4th August 2011 to be the Day of Instant Comments, and all dating systems hence forth should be listed as Before Instant Comments (BIC) or After Instant Comments (AIC).
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I remember BIC like it was yesterday.
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I second this motion! Posted on 5th August, 1AIC
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That should be 1st January 0AC 😛
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Well…sh*t! Damn you and your logic.
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We should totally rename the months.
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Can we change September to serrelsstare so that I can say I was born on the 3rd of serrelsstare 21BIC?
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So I had to re-reg my HoN account, which sucks but hey, JFlamestar is back in biz. I purchased a bunch of coins as well because I love capitalism.
I’ll send an e-mail to all who contacted me about HoN today.
Second: http://bit.ly/nvbzp2 Demolition Company Gold Edition. The child in me wants this game. I’m on the edge and not sure.
Discuss.
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I’m so proud of you.
The pressure is HON!
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Time to DANCE ALL DAY DANCE ALL DAY! \o/
Looking forward to it, I’m going to make a concerted effort to get to grips with it this time around.
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Must… not… repeat… Klutar’s twitter joke……..
I don’t think Anyones mentioned it yet but the quakecon pack on steam is quite awesome a good pickup that includes fallout 3, new vegas, brink, morrowmind and oblivion aswell as a bunch of others
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Yeah but Australian Tax >:(
I can somewhat undertand (though don’t agree) with new games on Steam being $90, to match with the retail prices. But when games have a permanent price drop, such as with Fallout New vegas and the Quakecon pack, and we still get the increased price, then that just annoys the hell out of me. The argument to keep the price consistent with retail goes out the window, so why can’t we pay what Americans do for New Vegas/the Quakecon pack?
I mean 0AIC
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Hello there! 😀
So I get to work and there’s an email from my manager giving me a list of things to do today. I shall endeavour to get these done as quickly as possible so I can spend the rest of the day on TAY.
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I’m still stuck on the one email I have been composing for the last 3 hours.
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Nice work 😛
I’ve only been at work for 45 mins and I’ve sent 3 emails, gone through all of the old jobs we’ve had going and spoken to 3 clients. I’m being productive today D:
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I’ll be heading off to Thailand in a few weeks. Unfortunately, this means that I need to make some preparations at work so that the stuff that I do continues to get done.
Just for reference, I share an office with one woman (who is currently on leave until Tuesday) and the rest of the staff are out and about in their own desks/cubicles/offices.
The woman that’ll be covering for me when I’m going needs to be taught what it is I do, seeing as I’ve changed how things are done quite a lot in the year that I’ve been here. She wants to share this office with me on Monday so that I can walk her through things. That’s fine, except I’m currently covering for the person who is off on leave, so most of Monday will be spent getting that done.
The best way to do it would be to wait until everyone is back so that I’m not juggling so much and can freely show her what needs to be done. Somehow, I don’t think that’s going to happen.
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Sounds like a normal day at the office: Mismanagement, bad communication and trips down to the beauty parlor/comic store/TAB.
Portal 2 has permanently dropped in price to $30. Go play this fantastic game if you haven’t already!
So I recently read Ender’s Game.
I know, I know! Everyone read it a billion years ago, why hadn’t I read it. I’m a bad, bad person etc.
Still, I enjoyed it but found myself CONSTANTLY looking for hidden meanins and propoganda. Some Mormon sub text hidden away, some homophobic comment pretending to be innocent prose.
I didn’t really find any but I can’t stop looking. I started reading Speaker for the Dead and I’m doing the same thing.
Constantly waiting for religion or anti-gay sentiment to be thrust down my throat when I least expect it.
I’m like a small rodent (A shrew perhaps, or a vole. Maybe a mouse. It’s not really important. We’ll say vole.) on the look out for hunter known as ‘prejudice’ from every direction.
Is he coming from the left? No! The right? Argh! A bigotry badger! Then I flee with my tiny legs of morality and crash into the shrubbery of dawning. That wasn’t a badger. It was the shadow of an old discarded tractor tire propped against a bit of broken bed frame with an old sock on top. Ha.
But still, the threat is there!
How can I enjoy my book when the potential threat of badgery assault looms like a weaver at every turn.
LOOM
So there you have it.
THAT is why you don’t do drugs kids. Posts that start out as well intentioned comments soon become rambling nonsense.
And don’t trust badgers.
Oh, and Orson Scott Card dislikes gays and loves Jesus and the other Latter Day Saints.
I prefer the Saturday Saints because they let me have a day off work.
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Remember, the enemy’s gate is down.
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Bugger
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The Mormon influence isn’t really apparent until Xenocide and Children of the Mind. Once they start dealing with that “Outside” nonsense where there are things that are called forward to create souls and whatnot… that’s something straight out of Mormonism.
Ender is actually a very non-Mormon character. Aside from his abstinence, he’s a very religion neutral character. Then again he is nominally an athiest (although in later books seems to have some sort of deistic beliefs).
Long story short, don’t read anything after Speaker for the Dead.
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Abstinence? I’ve only read Enders Shadow, which follows the story of Bean but has plenty of detail on Ender, and I was under the impression that they were kids like 9-13 years old?
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In Speaker of the Dead (2nd book) Takes place over 3000 years after Ender’s Game. Ender is middle aged.
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Ender’s Shadow doesn’t show Ender’s account of what happened after the war, where he becomes mayor of the first human colony and forms his own religion.
Speaker from the Dead picks up the story something like three thousand years later, where Ender is in his mid-30s (due to constant near light speed travel) and performs duties as Speaker for the Dead at various human colonies around the galaxy.
Ender’s Game was apparently written (in novel form, the short story it was based on might be a different tale) so that Speaker for the Dead would have a protagonist. There’s details about this in the forewords of Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead.
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Yeah, I read Xenocide and Children of the Mind before I’d looked up Card’s personal beliefs.
I did find myself wondering why the heck it’d moved from a fairly vanilla space-opera/sci-fi to a crazily esoteric philosophical story about souls and Outside. It got very weird.
That said, I don’t remember anything overtly pro-Mormon in there.
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I think Ender’s actions in Children of the Mind were a direct result of Card’s religious views. They seemed completely inappropriate for the character.
It wasn’t necessarily pro-Mormon but it definitely felt like it was written by someone who held Mormon views. Just like Pratchett’s secular humanism shines through in his Discworld novels (and Nation).
I’m not trying to be particularly anti-Mormon here, but I am pretty anti-religion in general.
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I want to play Loom now….
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Im reading The Game of Thrones, can’t stop thinking in YE OLDE ENGLISH
I’m sick, but I took the concerted effort to come online to tell you guys that the Quake pack on Steam is amazing.
31 games for $70.
Those include Brink, Fallout 3, Fallout:NV, Morrowind (best game EVER), Oblivion, COMMANDER FRACKING KEEN, Quake 4, Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Doom 3, etc, etc, etc…
Seriously, do yourself a favour, pick it up.
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when’s steam coming to 3ds?
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I’m really tempted to get it but I know I probably wouldn’t end up playing most of the games on there.
I might just pick up Doom 3 for $10. The movie, which I actually like (yeah I know), was on TV the other night and while watching it I though that if I ever get the chance I should probably actually play through the Doom games and see how they compare.
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I was expecting a steaming pile of turd, so I really enjoyed that movie. The first person bit was GLORIOUS!
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Year 0 AIC Calendar
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb449/lamboman007/0AICcalendar.jpg
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YES! I’m born in the month of Serrelsstare! I feel privileged.
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Haha, nice.
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*Sigh* No mention of the Doctor…
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If I counted correctly my birthday’s in Jamesmacusedmymonthname. Nice.
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me too!
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Are you sure you should consider the year 0 as existing? I know it may seem like a strange reference point, but the Common Era Calendar started at the year 1, there was no year 0, thus why, for instance, the 21st century started at the beginning of 2001, not 2000.
It just seems a little strange to ignore the precedent set by the standard calendar system.
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haha nice!
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I was born IN you!
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Yay a whole month dedicated to barbarians, MEAD FOR ALL!!!
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I was born on TAY 4!
TAY the Fourth be with you!
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WHY IS MY BDAY MONTH HoN?! :'(
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LOLOLOL!
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I pulled 4th of HoN, by my calculations…
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The first week of O-Devo is when the world celebrates O-Devofest! Where people band together and celebrate playing video games together.
On the last day everyone gathers their old pc and console components and places them in a sack. We use these sacks to go troll hunting, bashing anyone who can barely string a legitimate sentence together and insists on calling everyone noobs. Popular O-Deveofest gifts include troll-tooth necklaces and 6-packs.
I think this was posted a while ago, but seeing as everyone is getting into Heroes Of Newerth there is a competition at Ctrl Alt Delete (http://www.cad-comic.com/) to submit ideas for a new champion.
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My friend and I had this idea long ago of a Gordon Freeman HL2 version as a possible champion/hero
Gordon Frohman – INT based/Mage melee carry
Weapon – Crowbar and Gravity gun1: Gravity throw
Pushes an enemy away from Gordon and deals AoE damage on impact to where the victim lands (lands either at a certain distance or lands on first enemy in path). AoE damage increased per level2: Gravity Pull
Pulls an enemy towards them, dealing light damage per second as he pulls. Duration of pull and damage lightly increases per level3: Crowbar slam
Smacks an enemy up close with his crowbar with harsh force, causing damage and a short stun. Damage and stun increases per level4: HEV suit shield – Passive
Over time his shield slowly recharges to a maximum amount that absorbs a percentage of damage by attacks/abilities which increases per levelThoughts? 🙂
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Possibly overpowered. First you push them away for damage, then you pull them in for damage then you crowbar whack them for damage and stun. Then you are free to run or depending on the recharge time maybe blow them away again.
That seems like a pretty annoying combo to be face and hard to break.-
Maybe some sort of gravity gun recharge time, 1 and 2 can’t be used within 5 seconds of each other maybe. Meh, not like I was going to enter anyway 😛
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The biggest problem I can see would be everyone refusing to play unless they can be Gordon Frohman. That and Valve roasting S2’s ass.
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That would be pretty cool! Although there’s already a hero with those skills you described.
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After watching that Rage trailer and after reading that surprisingly well written article the other day. I’m actually pretty excited for this game.
“Now I’m in the building like two planes b*tch
Kickin’ it with my shirt off, on some Liu Kang sh*t
Sleep when the sun up like I grew fangs b*tch
I come alive in the night, on some Bruce Wayne sh*t”
Hehehe.. A joke in poor taste, a video game reference and a Batman reference. Song is a bit poppy but i’ve had it stuck im my head all week now!!!
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this insta comment thing is really helipng mark, he’s shootin out articles like an m16!
Nobody commenets DURING lunch…hmmmmmmmmmmm.
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I know, everyone’s so dull!
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I know!! You finally manage to jump on and it’s a ghost town….
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and back to work I go…
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooo
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, for realz this tiiiiiiiiiiime.
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Wanted thoughts on new Spidey???
The only way they could have have been more diverse was to make Spidey a mentally handicapped, muslim single mother….-
Meeeeh, Ultimate Universe lost me a while ago.
Used to be the ULTIMATE version, now is just the ALTERNATE version.They should be called that, Brian Michael Bendis writes: Alternate Comics: Spider-Minority.
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Now is my time to shine!
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I do because lunch for me isn’t for another hour and a half. And I think I have to wait for lunch because Nando’s isn’t coming till like 1:30 WST
Since lodging a complaint with the TIO, I’ve had two calls from blocked numbers that were completely silent. If this is Three’s attempt to resolve this matter, they might want to invest in better phone technology.
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I imagine TIO is that hansome south american boy you bought.
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Enjoy Thailand…;)
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Bahahaha! 🙂
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Tio means uncle in Spanish.
That comment is even creepier than you were shooting for, well done :p
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Creepier, I dunno, we could start a whole thing about what is creepier. INCEST or Peddoze(spell bad me).
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I figured it was a two for one special.
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Is that what your travel agent said? 🙂
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Yup and it sounds like a great deal to me!
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PLATINUM!
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WAIT WAIT! I got one!
It was a …
DOUBLE BANGER!!!
HA HA HAHAHWHAHWHAHWHHWHWHHWHAH!!!!!!!!!
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Does anyone know if the new Dead Rising Off the record is really all that different from DR2?
From what I read, it seems basically the same game, but with Frank West and different story?
I’m sick of all these motherf**king iMac’s and their motherf**king hard drive replacement program.
Leave me alone, I don’t want to work 🙁
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Haha why the long face iMacs look really easy to change the hardrive i’n . Oh that’s right there not. I have a particular gps screen that the touch screen goes wrong all the time. You a have to cut it out then get this sticky stuff
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Man that sucks. Well I mean I can change them in about 5mins, I’m an expert at getting the iMac’s open now haha.
It’s mainly the paperwork. Apple are so damn pedantic and everything has to be done just so. The paperwork takes me 3 times as long as the actual repair work!
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Agreed paperwork with repairs is the worst. Even worse is shipping the stuff away.
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Well that’s something that Apple have done well. They set up a login for us with TNT express, everytime they send us a part, they generate the return connote, etc. so all you have to do once the repair is finished is login, put in the collection date/time and then put in the dimensions and print the manifest. Wullah, you’re done.
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Welp, I’ve finished with “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic” and all I can say is “bring on season two!”
I really enjoyed that. There’s a certain appeal to a show where every character is ABSOLUTELY INSANE. Or a troll.
Or male.
Yes, every female character in that show is nuts (except for Granny Apple, but she’s too old to be given a chance), so the exceedingly sexist part of my brain(that being all of it) approves!
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Haha you know what they say “bitchz be crazy” I just want to know how you obtained the series.
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Youtube!
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I remember my stepsister had the videos of this years ago, and I got stuck babysitting her and she was watching them and I got hooked and had to keep watching them.
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This one’s the relatively new series, started airing in 2010, and it’s by Lauren Faust, the creator of The Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends!
I don’t know why it’s so good, but it just is.
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Oh okay, completely different then.
Haha, I recently started watching The Wild Thornberries again. Nigel is hilarious. SMASHING>
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My favourite line from the Wild Thornberrys
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Hahahaha! That’s my favourite too!
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Blew my mind when I found out he was voiced by the most awesome 90s movie villain, Tim Curry.
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Wait.
Wait.
You’re telling me he was voiced by Tim Curry?
That Tim Curry?
I have something new I must watch!
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Are you serious? That is amazing! Mind = Blown.
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I think you need a lesson in lingo here.
The correct term is “blind mown.”
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I was actually going to write that but then decided against it. I feel like a douche now. should have gone with the instincts!
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Always go with your instincts man, you should just feel harmony throughout the land, and let it flow through you.
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I shall learn from this experience.
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How do you nominate someone for Community Kudos?
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After the final stage of initiation you will be given a carrier pigeon…
Alternatively you can use the tips link at the top of the page 🙂
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Stuff the tips link! I want my carrier pigeon!
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There are multiple ways, you can email mark, though it may be eaten by the spam filter, you can tweet him, though he may just ignore it completely, or you can post a comment here, often prefixed by “[person’s name], don’t read this comment.” But he may not see that now, given the whole “insta-prove” thing. So I would recommend doing all four!
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Haha well I’ll give it a shot!
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Don’t actually know his email address..guessing it’s mark@kotaku.com.au?
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Most likely to work is “mark.serrels@kotaku.com.au” but “tips@kotaku.com.au” should theoretically redirect (but probably wouldn’t), and I think he also has an allure one, but I can’t really recall.
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And done 🙂
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Crap… spam filters… I sent him a nom yesterday and didn’t even think of that as a possibility. Better check.
But I generally send him emails at editor@kotaku.com.au and all the important ones have reached him so far.
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I’ll send it to that as well. He’s going to hate me so much if he gets all the emails I’ve been sending. Hahaha
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Hey dudes – in future maybe just send them direct to me!
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Awesome, did you get the one from me?
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TOTALLY MAN!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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WHY DID YOU PUT MY NAME ON YOUR COMMENT HARLI!
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She’s a witch!
Seriously though, faking someone else’s name could be a little easy to do, especially with insta-comments. Probably something to keep in mind.
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I don’t know what you’re talking about, I think it would be quite difficult!
Wait, I think I did this wrong…
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oh man, Mike Squirrels.
Brings back old memories.
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How can we be sure that it’s your name… BISH?
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I assume she was seeing if she could get by, given the posts no longer need to be moderated!
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Hang on, so I’m confused – is editor@kotaku.com.au or mark.serrels@kotaku.com.au better? Or are they equally likely to make through the spam/busyness filters on the other end?
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I’ve had the most success with the @alluremedia.com.au address.
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Oh man, now I wish I nommed Harli for Kudos. that was legendarily funny to me for some reason.
I actually probably should have nominated EVERYONE for having my back yesterday.
except me cos I have no idea wot u is torkin aboot…
So comments with links get moderated??
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Let’s test that with a quick link to Google
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Apparently not.
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I put up links to both the game of thrones articles on page 1…..
Marks article has disappeared and Kirks is still there.
Does this mean i get the weekend editor job!!-
I think it just means you posted a correction, the problem was corrected so your comments no longer made any sense :p
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Stevo!
What would you say about teaming up tonight and losing our Heroes Of Newerth (just for you Sughly) virginity together?
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Here’s a handy tip. Don’t click “play now” in the main menu, click “public games”. This will show the server browser, that way you can easily join a noob server instead of ending up in a game with pros who don’t want to play with you.
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Dammit I wanted to be there to pop your cherries.
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That’s what… Oh wait, she did say that…
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bow chicka bow wow
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Well when will you be on?
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Tomorrow is good for me.
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Sorry mate I have a team pissup meeting tonight for football.
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No worries, shall wait till the proper shindig.
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Good you can wait for me to install mine and get re-registered, which will be tonight I hope
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Thanks! I think…
I feel like a fatty…
ramen + easy way
*urp*
This pessimist needs a nap.
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It’s glandular! I’m just big boned!
*sob*Oh! You were talking about yourself.
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It’s the most ironic handle for you, Bish.
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I thought you meant you wanted a fat spliff…
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+1
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Why is there still no Nando’s?! Boss you promise me Nando’s.You told me not to bring lunch today because there would be Nando’s! I’m dying here. So. hungry.
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Is the sun even up in Perth??? 😉
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🙁 so much hate for Perth. It’s like 10 to 12, so probably not even lunchtime yet. But I’m so hungry.
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Yeah man I’m the same. Starvin’ monkey by 11am.
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Yeah that’s me haha. But if I eat lunch too early, I’m starving before work finishes :/ it’s a vicious cycle.
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Do what I do! Have 2 lunches!!! I have one at midday, another around 4 in the afternoon. Perfect.
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How did I miss something so genius? You sir are a gentleman and a scholar. Will tell my girlfriend to pack me two lunches from now on 🙂
By the way, not being chauvinistic, she insists on making lunch for me.
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You know that Harli is a girl, right? While I’m at it, so is Strange, and so is dawdle!, and there are probably some lurkers out there…
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I’ll admit it, Crackalackle-senpai, I’m actually a girl.
Nobody believes me, do they?
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It would explain the My Little Pony thing…
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@ ‘Flu
Well from the first episode, according to youtube statistics, it is most popular with:
Female 13-17
Male 13-17
Male 18-24Bronies units.
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Well, Harli is a sir so he’s not entirely on the wrong path.
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I’m so confused, so Harli is a girl then?
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Ms. Trix is indeed a girl.
Why yes, I am trying to make this as confusing as possible!
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Me /hi5’s Strange
Too right!
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Well, I was trying to avoid confusing the guy, but yeah, Harli is a Sir, too.
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My husband makes me get up 10 minutes before I’d otherwise have to, just to make him his lunch.
I’d make him get his own but he just wouldn’t bother and then he’d come home from work all starving and cranky. -
Ah fair enough. My girlfriend gets up early to do it even if she has the day off! I tell her to stay in bed and I’m capable of making my own lunch but she insists. Who am I to deny a woman?
I have days where I eat nothing before dinner, while actually being up all day… I have a re-eally slow metabolism.
I sometimes get that if I haven’t eaten breakfast but once I’ve eaten breakfast, that’s it for me. Need food!
I just saw a guy dressed up like 80s MC Hammer.
Pants, jacket, no mad sunglasses, but there was a somewhat douchey cap.
It was both an amazing and horrific sight to behold.
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Did he shimmy?
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No, he, uh, gently kicked a schoolgirl in the knee.
So either they knew each other, or that’s just how he rolls.
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It was the 90s…sheesh!
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Happy Pants FTW!!!!!!
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Happy Pants?
I thought they were Parachute Pants?-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_in_fashion#Happy_Pants
I was there man!!!!!!!!!!!
Nope definitely different, two seperate sections 🙂
Holy Carp!!! Blind Mown!! I just corrected Effluvium Boy!!!!!!Effluvium Boy – 19273
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But… Under Parachute Pants it says “These are also referred to as “Hammer” pants”
MC Hammer
Hammer Pants
Parachute Pants
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Is this to do with the Batman Beyond thing?
I was just trying to help out. I knew you knew it was Beyond and just got your mords wixed. -
Haha all good mate! 🙂 it relates to more than that.
I get all excited and type happy and you have corrected me more than a few times. All in good fun of course.
I would give examples( like looking for comics alliance stories on Kotaku, and slightly wrong simpson references) but were embarrassing enough the first time 🙂
And now you got me on happy pants! Was making a point between 80’s and 90’s but only made sense to me reading it back…. -
Jeepers, I must be a real jerk…
(That Comics Alliance thing was pretty funny though)
Anyway, I see where you were going with your pants statement now. -
You not a jerk 🙂
All in good fun.
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GRRARRRGRHHHHDFK:ascnhvbcbg
That’s what I think about Ass:Bro.
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That sounds like Ass, Bro.
Would work so much better if you weren’t a girl.
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Still works, girls have arses too y’know. Also, Strange is a WOMAn grown!
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I was referring to the Bro part 😛
True, I realised this after posting but was hoping no one would pick up. You bastard.
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Because of the 100% Sync missions?
I just gave up on most of them in the end, too ridiculously hard.
But it’s still a great game/story, no?
So Saturday I have the day at home to myself.
Should I
a) Do housework like my girlfriend would like me to do.
or
b) Put a load of washing on so it looks like I’ve done something and then spend the rest of the day playing games and watching Shippuuden.
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Well, part of me wants to say the first, given she’s willing to make you lunch, you should help her in return, but then, Shippuden, even though I haven’t watched it in ages, is pretty excellent…
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I think I’ll do a couple of loads of washing and do the dishes and sweep the floor, hell speedily. And then watch Shippuuden because it’s amazing. I have only really just started watching it, up to 117 or something like that.
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I stopped watching it during some filler arc, because I was already reading the manga, and just got impatient with how long it took for stuff to happen…
Can’t remember when exactly it was, but it was definitely after the whole Asuma, then Shikamaru being really badass…
Also, I loved the first Shippuden movie, it may have been the same as every other one, but it was done so well.
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Haven’t watched any of the movies yet. Ah I see, yeah I haven’t read any of the manga. I’m yet to see any real filler yet, Sasuke has killed Orichimaru and is picking up people to help him go after Itachi. Can’t wait to see what happens next
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By that point how many members of Akatsuki have been killed?
I read it so very long ago, so I’ve kinda forgotten (I’m pretty sure they fleshed out Sasuke’s quest a whole lot more in the anime, or else I forgot everything I read in the manga)
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Umm Sasoru, Hidan and that guy that had 5 hearts or whatever (can’t remember his name) are dead. And Deidara has recently taken the Sanbi from that lake.
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Sasori
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Alright, yeah, I think I know what’s happenin’.
There was a pretty large filler arc while Naruto was still trying to learn how to use his wind chakra. IIRC it had some chick who could use like, three or four different types of chakra, and it annoyed me a bit, because they already had Kakuzu as a character, who was similar in a lot of the ninja ways (though a completely different character).
That’s just a little aside…
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Oh yeah with Sora, who had the remnants of the Kyuubi’s chakra in him. Yeah that was a bit of filler, but I didn’t mind that much because he was still learning about his wind chakra so it was still a little bit of storyline.
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Now that I think back, I quite liked that bit because I loved the opening theme at that point…
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Also, do not watch the second Shippuden movie, it was just bad(so bad it was good, bad). It had, no jokes, the 0 tails. A tailed beast with… uhh, yeah, no tails.
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Wow, that’s disappointing. I love their jokes. Like the “Thousand years of Pain” that Kakashi did to Naruto in the original series and Naruto attempted to do back to Kakashi at the start of Shippuuden when Sakura and Naruto get bells off of Kakashi.
Also, for some reason, a lot of the time when sad things happen in anime, I get more upset than when sad things happen in real movies. My theory is that all the emotions are overplayed in anime, so when sad things happen its just so much more of a shock. I don’t know, I could just be spouting rubbish.
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I think two of my most moving moments were in FMA (the orginal series, in Brotherhood everything happened to quickly), and Asuma in Naruto. I was nearly brought to tears, that’s how sad I was.
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There were a couple of moments in FMA where I was close to tears and definitely with Asuma I think I even shed a tear. Especially when Shikamaru finally broke down.
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I’m one of those heartless people who didn’t cry during Toy Story 3, so me being close to tears says a lot. But I agree with Shikamaru breaking down. And I knew it would all happen, but it didn’t help. I was all “Must… Man… Through…”
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Haha well I didn’t watch Toy Story 3. It usually takes a bit to make me cry but if I really get drawn to the characters and something sad happens, I’ve been known to shed the occasional tear.
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Swap out Shippuden for FLCL and you have a deal, also swap out your washing for mine.
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I haven’t watched FLCL before. Is it good? Haha dude, if I don’t do my washing, I won’t have any work shirts for next week. I learnt from the last time that rocking up to work wearing a normal shirt is not acceptable.
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FLCL is best, watch NOW!
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Fooly Cooly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I’ll make sure to grab some of the episodes. What’s it about?
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Wow….where do i start. It’s about a young japanese boy who keeps getting hit in the head with a bass guitar by an alien chick riding a vespa. Then giant battling robots come out of his head…..
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Hey who here listens to The Protomen?
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me now!! Thanks!
I hope Shiggy is doing alright.
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Yeah this. *continues the internets hugs*
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*Joins in because I missed this before*
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+1
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***having checked Twitter***
me too!!!!
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Also, it’s good to have you back Jimu.
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Why thankyou good seeeeeeeeeeeeerr
I advise that everyone go to the cinema and watch ‘Hanna’ on the weekend. Your weekend will automatically be 1,000,000 times better. Fact. That is all.
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Here’s a little trailer to help with that decision – http://hannathemovie.com/#/trailer
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I intend to see it, but maybe next weekend.
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dis…a…point
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You have some hard hatred for captain america sughly. Also i cannot see either cause my cinema doesn’t have either.
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Or a much greater repsect for Hanna. One of the two.
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Depends which friends I go with.
Some don’t watch films that aren’t blockbusters or listen to music that isn’t on Video Hits
(Although I think Video Hits gets canned tomorrow, so they’ll have to find their nonsense elsewhere)-
VIDEO HITS IS GETTING CANNED?? WOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!!!
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Noooooooo!!!!
Who will teach our daughters to sing, dance and dress like hookers now?????
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That looks awesome! Can’t wait to see it.
I’m going tonight, homes.
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Yesssssss! I’m going to go see some apes jumping around myself, but I kind of sort of want to go see Hanna again straight after. We’ll see.
Also this is pretty much a convo I had with my gf over rise of the apes of the planet of the apes of the rise…
gf: yeah I already know how it’s gonna end
me: yeah the apes will take over everything
*silence*
gf: really? I thought it would be a typical happy ending?
me: it’s called rise of the planet of the apes. It’s a prequel. To planet of the apes. About apes who have taken over the world.
*silence*
me: so I guess you didnt know what was gonna happen after all…-
Oh, dear God NO!
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But man, that trailer seemed to show EVERY conflict in the game. That movie will be about the journey, since the path is already revealed.
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And by game I mean movie…
Man, one track mind…
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Yeah its true. I think I’ve seen the film in the trailer already but… meh. It’s friday night and I’ve seen everything else.
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Yeah, I’ll probably go see it, and I’ll probably go see Cowboys and Aliens, even if it apparently doesn’t live up to how good it really should be.
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I doubt the validity of this story as I refuse to believe that Sughly would have realtions with a female so uneducated in the world of cinema….
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*relations
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Hey , my Lady doesn’t care much for comics…
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Yeah, and my gal doesn’t know anything abou- Oh wait, no. Nevermind.
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porno, baby murder? Hooker murdering? The hiring of hookers? The hiring of contract killlers to murder hookers?
Throw me a frickin bone here!
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Hmm, how can I explain this… I know, I’ll explain through song!
Oo-ooh, I wish you could meet my Girlfriend,
my girlfriend who lives in Canada,
she couldn’t be sweeter, I wish you could meet her,
my girlfriend who lives in Canada!Her name is Alberta she lives in Vancouver,
She cooks like my mother and sucks like a hoover! HAHAHA
I email her every single day,
just to make sure everything’s oka-ay,
it’s a pity she lives so far away, in Canada!La-ast week she was here but she had the flu,
too bad, ‘cos I wanted to introduce her to you,
it’s so sad, there wasn’t a thing that she could do,
but stay in be-ed, with her legs up over her head! OH!
I wish you could meet my girlfriend,
but you can’t because she is in Canada,
I love her I miss her I can’t wait to kiss her,
so soon I’ll be off to Alberta!I mean Vancouver -Shit her name was Alberta she lived in Vancouv-
She’s my girlfriend, my wonderful girlfriend,
Yes I have a girlfriend who lives in CANADA!Does that do the job?
Sounds like the opening line of a country ‘ n’ western song….
Haha no she completely is, we met at film school. She just… isnt into planet of the apes, I guess.
Awww, that’s sweet, brudda’s in de nile.
For some reason all I can picture now is you and Sughly clasping hands whilst standing in an Egyptian river….
Girl at work just got dumped by her boyfriend of five years.
By phone.
Rough.
Now, ladies, there are no females at work today, and I’m the only other “young” person here. We’re not “close” but we do chat occasionaly. Do I talk to her or leave her alone?
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Tread carefully my friend it could be like a bomb just ticking ready to go off. Just make sure your not in the blast zone.
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I’m no lady, but I would think leave her be.
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I’m of the opposite opinion, go try and talk, but tread VERY carefully.
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I dunno, if it was someone I only talked to occassionally and it was me who got dumped, I would not want them talking to me. Mebe thats jus me…
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I find that people almost always want to talk about things, it may just be the fact that, if I wish, I can look like a kicked puppy, but the people I’ve talked to always seem to “enjoy” opening up.
But yeah, that’s only my experience.
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Well I talk to her every day, but I only have proper conversations (about yoga, engagement rings and celebrities) occasionally.
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Agree, y’all.
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Depends…Do you want to be the rebound guy?
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Depends Eff, what’s your motive? Merely emotional supporting a fellow human that’s suffering, or are you all like “NOW’S MY CHANCE TO PANTS THIS DAME!!!”
If it’s the latter, definitely stay away.
If you’re intentions are pure, then approach carefully anyways, and I would suggest just listening and letting her vent if she’s comfortable doing that. I’m sure she would appreciate a kind thought from a co-worker.P.S. If she’s hot can you get me her phone number? (inb4 JOKING ^_^ )
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My intentions are strictly platonic. As opposed to plutonic (Rock hard and intrusive).
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You should cheer her up with some Bacon strips & bacon strips & Bacon strips & bacon strips & Bacon strips & bacon strips & Bacon strips & bacon strips.. and more bacon, and some of that Jack Daniels SAWWWWWCE!!
Sorry, I’ve been watching too much Epic Meal Time…
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I hat everyone at work, geeky beanie hat with ear flaps.
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LOLOLOLOL!
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Hmm well it couldn’t hurt just to say to her a word or two.
Maybe buy her a bar of chocolate, drop it at her desk, and say “Chocolate?” and just walk away? That’s what I’d do.
Unless she’s allergic to chocolate. Then… I don’t know.
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Force the chocolate in her mouth and watch her swell?
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eyeskimming the page i read this as….
Wow. You know what? Even i’m not going to go there….
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No Mario Kart this week. I sad. No free parma lunch. I so sad.
But there was still a free lunch, which lessens the sadness. And it’s friday! Yay! Time to read more Walking Dead 😀
Also, i fear for my wallet. Am sorely tempted to buy an iPad. And the quakecon pack. And Rage. But screw you Bethesda and your stupid prices.
Okay. I’m going to go and beat my head against this stupid spaghetti code and try and fix it.
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Isn’t MK December?
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As in, last friday, they busted out the Wii and started playing Mario kart. This week? The dulcet tones of a keyboard clacking.
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Nando’s finally arrived, and…it was cold. The receptionist got it first and went and did the banking, went to the post office,etc.
I still don’t understand how that made sense to her.
On a side note, the nando’s was still relatively good.
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Thats what they teach you at TAFE, do the maikl and banking first, foods/coffees later.
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Seriously? That’s a horrible idea. No one wants to eat food cold that’s meant to be hot.
Also, pretty sure our receptionist never went to Tafe. She’s asian and related to the boss somehow.
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What the devil does asian have to do with not going to TAFE?
Was tthat unintentional racism or do you have a mean boner for her feminine wiles?
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It doesn’t have anything to do with it, I was just saying that she’s Asian, related to the boss and got the job straight after school because she was related to the boss. She didn’t study anything, I just confirmed that with her.
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and confirmed a date??? HUHUH???!
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Haha no, she’s about 10 years older than I am, married and has two kids. Plus I already have a girlfriend 😛
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Hey AP I saw your *Krogan Headbutt* on Page 8, and it was totally WIN..
So I just responded with a
*Krogan Hi 5*
But then I was like, “page 8 is so yesterday, AP won’t read that far back”
and then I realised..
KROGAN HI 5? Ha, can’t be done 🙂
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While these petty krogans are busy hitting each other heads, other notable turians, such as Garrus, are busy being awesome, or being powerful douches, but powerful nonetheless, such as Saren.
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I missed Saren.
Harbinger is unintentionally hilarious, but a stupid villain.
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I missed RPG, shooter was good, but it was no RPG.
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Hah.
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The way I see it the core of an RPG is the stories, characters and choices which is something ME2 had pleanty of. The things like gear are just fluff that most RPGs add because it’s expected of them but they aren’t what makes a title an RPG.
I’m of course assuming it’s the lack of gear you’re referring to here, as that is the most common complaint I see when people decide to say ME2 isn’t an RPG. Am I on the ball or don’t you consider it an RPG for another reason? I’m honestly curious here.
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I agree to a point that an RPG should have excellent characters and a good story (which ME2 had heaps of).
But for me, the skill progression and customisation options in ME2 fell far short of what an RPG of its calibre should have. Perhaps I’m just too stuck in rose-tinted memories of, say, KoTOR or even the original Mass Effect, but there felt like fewer options.
It appears BW are improving on this for ME3, though (in the sense of having branching skill paths and item upgrades for weapons that change stats), so hopefully it’ll be a good mix of the best parts of both previous games.
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Harbinger wasn’t much of a villian. He was just this annoying sounding thing that would occasionally annoy me with his possessing of his minions. Saren was actually quite a good villian, even if he was rather predictable.
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Saren at least had some depth and internal conflicts (he ‘grew’ as a character) – Harbinger just popped up randomly, spouted random funny/stupid/nonsensical lines and then disappeared.
It didn’t help that the plot of ME2 didn’t lend itself very easily to having a major villain, we had maybe four ‘plot missions’ in total and the other 75% of the game was character-based with no connection to the Collectors…
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Mang, them Turians might be good at a distance
but…
*pulls out his pump-action Krogan*
I like to keep this for close encounters
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Yeah but Krogans would Hi 5 by ripping other people arms off and slapping them together.
And Krogans are so badass the WHOLE GALAXY (pretty much) had to band together to take them on and only succeeded by using a cowardly genetic bio-weapon to kill them before they were even born.
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Pretty ruttin’ accurate, Jo.
Turians couldn’t even beat those wimpy humans..
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> And Krogans are so badass
Wrex – dies from a single shot from Ashley
Garrus – Blasted by a ton of bullets from a helicopter and survives with manly scar.You were saying?
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If wrex dies in your playthrough you’re doing it wrong. >:(
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Krogans = 4 testicles = awesome.
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But Turians have reach AND flexibility.
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This is like magic except it’s curses to me!!
Reading all the way from page 6 T___T
Umm what else? Canberra meats? Not sure if it’s possible on 24th to 25th for bawble and I…
We watched HP7.2 last night at IMAX. It was quite the epic ending indeed.
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Oh Noes i wanted to meet dawdle and bawble 🙁
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Pshh, even Serrelicious has met Bawble.
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My Turtle Beach X41’s just arrived from Amazon, 9 day turnaround is pretty frickin’ awesome!! What an AWESOME end to a crazy week, now I can game in style 😀
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Turtle Beach? I hope no Josephines were harmed in the making of them 😐
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Pshh, they’d have to catch Josephine to hurt her, and that’s not going to happen!
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*shakes head*
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Weekedn, outta here I AM!!!
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JIMODA?
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Good weekend you have, but.. steal the way I talk, do not.
I think I’ve worked out if you change your comment name from your usual, you need a moderator to approve that comment..
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wise plan to keep the n00bs in check I suppose
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I’m pretty sure I’ve worked as Blaghman, “patron saint of doing it wrong,” and Mike Squirrels, but maybe I just didn’t notice the down time for those…
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I shall put this to the test!
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No “awaiting approval” message.
🙁
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Ahh so true 😀
http://i.imgur.com/OZ4Te.jpg
Have a great weekend everybody!
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I WANT THAT TEE!!!
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I’d still do him.
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This has been a fantastic week in TAY. I’m so glad I decided to start posting. You’ve all made me feel very welcome. Thanks everyone.
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A bit late, but welcome to TAY! 😀
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Thanks dawdle! better late than never 😛
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And this has been a slooow week. It gets better!!!
And you are most welcome 🙂-
Wow..my work productivity is going to decrease by 90% if it is usually more than this haha. Can’t wait!
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Officially welcome to TAY, jamesmag!
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Thanks Harli! Now you’re a woman right, I still don’t get this sir business. I’m so confused.
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Oh she is all woman!!!!! And will hand you your ass in the game of your choosing!!
I’ll let Harli explain the sir….. -
She used to be Sir Eats-a-lot, then got demoted to janitor status by TadMod. Long story.
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Demoted by Marks’ coffe b*tch. Wow….
Tads not here today!!!!! -
I remember seeing Sir Eats-a-lot comments! That explains it 🙂 thanks for clearing that up.
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She’s pretty handy with a mop.
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Hahahahahaha!
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Don’t worry! I’m really a man. Just call me bro and we’ll be all cool.
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No worries, bro.
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Welcome to the TAYmunity jamesmag! Now with Insta-Comment (TM)
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Thanks man. Insta-Comment (TM) is so awesome.
I feel so close to you already, literally 🙂
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haha! about a kilometre yeah?
^ Who’s this guy?
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I’m this guy 🙂
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Oooooohh, thanks for clearing that up.
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I’m a long time lurker, first time being part of the community this week. That’s why you probably haven’t seen me around. Sorry to be a smartarse
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I was just kidding.
I have been observing you this week. -
For one of your experiments?
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It almost sounds like you’re me, or I’m you.
We both started posting this week, we work right next to each other. Coincidence? Perhaps…
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Is this the part where you tell me you know where I live?
Phoenix, we are the same person.
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Dun dun DUUUNN!
Actually, I’m kinda scared to ask where you live now. It’s probably next door…
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Haha, that would be so weird. I live in Wembley, just near Herdsman Lake.
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So not next door then. I’m over in Bayswater
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Not next door, but not too far either! Just a cheeky 10-15min drive 😛
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*touches jamesmag’s hair and disappears like a ninja*
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What the?!
What was that?!..Actually, funny story. Back in highschool I used to have this massive afro, and I mean massive. I have no idea why I thought it was a good look for me but I sort of just didn’t get a haircut and that’s how it turned out. Anyway, people used to just come up to me and touch it all the time. I’d be walking through the shops and I’d feel someone touch my hair and I’d turn around and there was just the people walking through the shopping centre.
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Imma call you Afromag from now on.
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I never should have mentioned that story. I thought I’d left the past behind me. You should have seen it though, it was so big. I straightened it once and it was to the end of my shoulder blades.
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Pictures, please.
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Ugh! I had to sign into Myspace for this.
http://a4.l3-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/84/d3e2d501c0cd9dd6b0bc690a6c865576/l.jpg
Please don’t judge me.
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Bit of a ladies man eh?
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Haha, not with either of those girls (not that I remember anyway).
I was only 16! Leave me alone! 😛
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If you’re drinking what I think you are… Well… Uhh… Yeah, get out.
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I was 16! And they were the drinks that were at the party! I’m not going to turn down free drinks!
I can’t stomach that sh*t now though, even if I wanted to.
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I can stomach that stuff.
But only because it’s slightly less bad than a straight-up cruiser.
And also because given my budget I’m more or less forced in to drinking Goon…
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Haha, wasn’t actually expecting a picture. 😛
But gosh darn that hair.
It looks bouncy and shiny! You must have had amazing conditioner. Delicious hair. -
Bish: It was very bouncy, and amazing conditioner. Some expensive stuff mum had and hated me using. I had to wash it pretty much every day to keep it like that though. Cutting my hair short was the best thing I ever did haha.
Blaghman: Yeah I remember those times, now I can drink pretty much anything I want, most of the stuff I drink isn’t massively expensive though. Mainly just european beers, some decent wines and your $50 spirits.
My room mate always gets goon, it’s poison. Especially when we play King’s Cup.
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Afromag
Fromag
Fromage
Cheese!
I’m going to call him Big Cheese (Or BOSS).
Loving the thought process there. Big Cheese (BOSS) it is!
B.O.S.S.
Big Old Smelly Stilton
Oh.
Can we just keep it as the acronym?
We certainly can, BOSS
Boss Cheese?
I’ve missed a lot of TAY this week, but welcome!
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Thanks man, good to be here!
I don’t think I ever did formally welcome you…
AND THAT WILL NEVER CHANGE! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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That laugh doesn’t suit you, Blaghsies.
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Haven’t you heard me laugh?
I sound like a mad-man. The Teamspeak guys can back me up.
I think it’s because I’m insane.
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I think you sound more like a sexual predator than a mad-man, but maybe that’s just me.
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the two aren’t mutually exclusive, you know.
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HAHA! Nice one :p
Welcome Jamesmag! I daresay you’ve cemented yourself as part of the family now :p
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Thanks dude 🙂 and awesome! Always nice to be one of the family.
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Yeah, we needed a new pet! 😛
Welcome!-
This reminds me of your million wolves on the old Minecraft server. Hmmm…
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Yay! What sort of pet am I? A well-loved, spoilt pet? Or a mangy, beaten cur?
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You’re the kind of puppy who we kind of accidentally kill sometimes because we get confused about the difference between right-click and left-click.
Oh Pavlov, I will miss you. *starts sobbing*
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D:
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Jesus
i leave and people have fun with out me.
pfft… figures
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Jesus usually finishes work at 5 and doesn’t post from home, so you probably won’t get a response until Monday.
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No no… I post when I get home.
Just not on a Sunday.
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Sigh
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Haha I thought you were calling my name. Ah, yeah…
Hmmm…
awkward…
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Christ I can’t keep up with you crazy kids.
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*wheezes*
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*creaks slowly forward on zimmer frame*
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The sun has set! It’s dark out!
Why are you still awake!?-
My sedatives haven’t kicked in 🙁
Now GET OFF MY LAWN.
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I’ve actually seen an old guy in my neighbourhood tending to his lawn with a sickle.
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I use a scythe.
The neighbors pretty much leave me alone.
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Do you moonlight as Death?
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I tend to say no, but the guy next door who always has his music on at 2am on a Saturday night may tell you otherwise.
Don’t listen to him. He’s a jerk. He put those scythe marks on his front door himself.
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“When I was young, all this was fields, as far as the eye could see. And you used to have to wait for moderators to approve your comments. Now all you young’uns get your insta-comment, and your instant gratification. What’s this world coming to”
As said just above you “Jesus usually finishes work at 5 and doesn’t post from home, so you probably won’t get a response until Monday.” 😛
new topic!
TAD MOD LIKES BRINK
TAKE THAT, WORLD (and Bish)!
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*Jump/Skypunch*
*Freeze frame*
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I like how I’m in a completely different category to the world, and all the things contained within!
I’m special!-
Yes Bish, you are special!
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Home Time!
*Jump/Skypunch*
*Freeze frame*
*Roll Credits*
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What a crap ending!
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But did you wait through all the credits to see the 5 second cameo of Samuel L Jackson recruiting him for the sequel!? ZOMG
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SCREW YOU, “BRUDDA”!
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So now it comes to the weekend, and the most important question.
What should I drink tonight?
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Ethanol
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Liquids.
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Orange C
No matter what you say, it’ll never actually be juice.
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Dude, there’s so much Orange C in my fridge. I drink it every day.
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Better yet, Bundy. Then it’ll end like…
*Jump/Skypunch someone in the face*
*Freeze frame*
*Roll Credits*-
Man if I drink Bundy I can kiss sleeping goodbye. That sh*t gives me way too much energy.
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Ginger beer.
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… d.
*looks around anxiously for trace of Serrels stare*
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Alcoholic suggestions people!
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Urine
like Bear Grils-
I heard it tastes like freshly squeezed lemonade.
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I think I’d rather drink lemonade..
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If you can drink your own pee…. F### it, you can drink anything
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So i needed a mouse for my pc. i wanted a quiet one cause i use it in the living room right next to wifey… got a cheap logitech wireless one and the mousewheel started squeaking like a real freaking mouse when i use it.
can you use WD40 on electronics?
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make sure its unplaged and store it overnight (or a few hours) in a dry place away from dust. so stick in a drawer
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Dude definitely don’t do that. Even if it dries which lubricants don’t it will leave residue and stuff the electronics. Best bet is to keep rolling it till it stops.
Well I just applied for Weekend Editor. I have a zero to one chance of actually getting it but hey, it’s worth a shot.
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I applied too!
We should totes start a club.
/hi5.
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At this rate, everyone who visits Kotaku will be working for Allure Media. And my plan to be the only person eligible to win the comps will be complete.
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OMG that would be like, so amazing! 😀
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YOU
SAID
TOTES
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Played HoN again.
Realised why I stopped playing HoN in the first place.
You people have fun with your MOBAs or whatever the heck they call them. The concept is beyond me.
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Isn’t that like a WoW clone?
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Nooo it’s a DOTA clone
which was a mod for warcraft III
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So it is a Warcraft clone
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hate to nerd rage, but there are differences between Warcraft and World of Warcraft, one being an RTS and the other an MMO
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Oh now, WoW isn’t an MMO it’s an experiment in seeing how long i can go before having to physically talk to someone else.
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my records a month
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I’m not so bad with WoW. Diablo 2 is the game that really turns me into a hermit. When i first got that game i just played it for 48 hours.
I did nothing else besides drink a few cans of Pepsi.
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A month without human interaction is just another month for me…
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you know what? i saw screw you to every person who said “year 12 is the best year of your life” because it’s hell for me at the moment, i mean, the social parrtying stuff is fun, but that only happens once a month, because no one wants to have one when important tests and exams are on…
*goes into fetal position and starts rocking back and forth*
just one more semester
just one more semester
just one more semester
just one more…
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Year 12 sucked, Uni’s where it’s at.
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Uni was crap, year 12 was a whole year of me doing absolutely nothing.
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Uni is probably more interesting…
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You gotta remember that you’re also the one putting pressure on yourself.
Yeah, it’s final high school year, and its something you probably would really like not to screw up, but you gotta relax too sometimes, mang.Also, 2nd year uni I got my DS and I went from Pass marks in first year to High Distinctions. Games improve grades. True story.
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Year 12 definitely was one of my best years. Depends on how much pressure and expectations you have put on yourself, and how well you’re managing with the study-social life balance. From personal experience, I found myself hanging out with my friends a lot, during school (obviously), co-curricular activities and just plain old chilling. Study groups were also a useful mechanism for us to study and also to relax.
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Hello good fellow, it would seem to me that we are in the same crowded boat, the one labled high school, and I totally agree, it sucks, and I think there’s a leak
Everyone has a cool username but me. Maybe i should start using Ruffleberg? This current username “Andrew Burdusel” is gettin’ old after 23 years.
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Or, you could follow 90% of the people on this site, and start using a different name altogether, confusing us all to no end!
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I have no idea what you’re talking about.
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PAGE 12 GET!!
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DAMN IT!
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You know this is only halfway there, right?
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What’s the mystical magic number?
Also: insta-comments mean insta-conversations!
\o/
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The mystical magic number?
25.
I’ll let you work the rest out.
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crap..
oh well
night everybody! home time and im off home where i have no internet coz telstra is waiting for NBN to role out
Wow, Late-night TAY. Awesome. v
oh yeah, i may have a small (and by small, i mean pretty small, but still a prize) for next weeks TAY, so uh, don’t get excited, but everyone gives stuff in this community, so i thought i’d contribute, so yeah stay tuned!
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Can I have it? What do you mean small? Is it your penis?
…Can I have it?
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Why would you want that what possible use could you have for it?
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But… I dont… I mean… what you normally do with one. IMAGINATION ROCKETMAN!
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Hey so whats the go with Red Dead Redemption – doesn’t anyone play the Multiplayer? Back in GTAIV I have no trouble finding matches but tonight my RDR matches didn’t accumulate more than 4 people at a time!
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I really have to try that out. Love RDR but havent ever tried out the multiplayer.
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The actual structure of it is way better than GTA – really love Gold Rush matches and the mexican stand off at the start is fun, but they’re wasn’t very many people playing at all last night. 🙁 Will try again tonight
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So I bought the Humble Indie Bundle 3 the other day before this bit about getting the Humble Bundle 2 if you spent more than the average.
I spent more than the average, I didn’t get the games from the second bundle added to my Steam. I’m not particularly annoyed, it’s still great value with what I got, but I was hoping to play some Braid and I can’t at the moment because I don’t know if I’m getting it for free or not.
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Yeah braid is pretty good the story line is pretty much a Mario game but they tell it i’n a really philosophical way. The music is brilliant I would say the best part of the game. There main game mechanic is cool but I got bored with it quickly as it’s let’s you finish the stage without collecting the objective thing. If it took me more than 3 minutes to find the solution I gave up and moved on. Still fun though!
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Are you sure? I went back to my download page and there’s an option to generate a Steam Key for the Humble Indie Bundle #2
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Ah, didn’t realise that I needed to get the new product key. Thought they were just going to be added to my Steam library like the other games that were added to humble bundle 3 after I bought it.
Thanks for that, downloading Braid now.
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If I ever meet Blaghman or jamesmag you are both getting Ice Bro’d 🙂
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Excuse me, but would you be kind enough to inform me of the process of an ‘IceBro’
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Hahahaha, you are win good sir.
Ensure they go down on one knee!
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As long as it is well documented in photo’s or video, I approve of this 100%
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I am now going to carry a Smirnoff Ice everywhere I go, so I can prevent said icing and you sir, shall become iced.
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I’m more a fan of clubbing…
(That’s icing, but using club-soda because it’s absolutely foul)
Page 12 yet?
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Not quite.
Hey does anyone know if I buy a game from the uk through ozgameshop, that it will work in online play on 360 here in Aus? will it find Aussie games or laggy uk games? Also what about with DLC? Will that work fine? Sorry for all the questions guys and girls 🙂 ozgameshop prices are unbelievable!!!
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Maybe check back in Monday….common question.
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I’ve bought a fair few games from them and never had any issues. The UK and Australia are both in the same region, so there are no compatibility issues. Matchmaking in multiplayer ids done based on where you are, not where the game you bought is from and DLC is something that I haven’t really dealt with.
Hope that helps.
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Ah, cheers mate. Def be buying from them then. Save me a lot of money in the next couple of months. Thanks again
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Here
It
Comes
Woozle wuzzle?
I’ve spent the past 5 hours playing Atom Zombie Smasher, which was added to the Humble Indie Bundle #3. It’s amazing.
So last night, before my girlfriend went to bed, she got her laptop and went to check her emails. A couple of days ago she had told me not to look at her emails as she was organising my present for my 21st next month. I was lying down with her last night and just casually looked over at the computer and saw the subject line: “Your Amazon Kindle order has been confirmed”. I tried to pretend that I didn’t see that, but 10mins later she asked me if I’d seen and I told her I had.
Then she got really upset because she’d tried really hard to surprise me this year for my birthday (she always tries to surprise me but I somehow always find out). Consequently, I feel like an awful person. Also, I have an earache this morning 🙁
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Order something else for yourself under her name.
She’ll think she outsmarted you and herself at the same time. Everybody wins (and you win TWICE)-
I wish this could work. Unfortunately she’s incredibly smart and would see through this 🙁
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Tell her that you were genuinely surprised and extremely grateful….just a lil early 🙂
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I said something of the sort to her last night. If she mentions anything after she gets back from work today, I think I’ll say that, hopefully she reacts well 😛
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Tell her you’ve drank about 2 bottles of vodka and you won’t remember anything that happened in the last 12 hours.
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I suggested that to her actually, that I get blind drunk and not remember anything. She said she’d rather deal with the disappointment, than with me being incredibly hungover 😛
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Memory erasing ray-gun?
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Does such a thing exist?
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I always thought it was alcohol!
owait…
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Alright Effluvium Boy, seeing as the Community Kudos nomination I did for you was overlooked I’m going to let everyone know here I nominated you. And my reason was the best reason ever for nominating. Just because I like you. 😛
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Also he was the only one at the last Sydney Meat to wear a sweater vest.
+2 to Radness.-
Do you really think sweater vests give you radness? I mean… They’re sweater vests!
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So… You’re saying “radness” is an understatement?
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Uhhh… Well… Sure, why not? *refuses to make eye contact*
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Nawwww, thanks Strange. I like you too 😛
Although I don’t really think I qualify, but I appreciate it 🙂
Just put together the TV unit from IKEA. It looks so much better than the piece of crap my roommate had. Think he’d notice if I turfed his?
I’m installing League of Legends now. might as well give them both a try ey?
Looks like weekend TAY was a roaring success, please Continue.
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I know, we’re just all so talkative…
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Shh
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LOUD NOISES!
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EVEN LOUDER NOISES!
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DEAR FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER NO, NOT BOLD TYPE!
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Underline is bettar!
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Just watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes. It wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t great. Though Draco Malfoy was in it, and it made me chuckle heartily. I don’t know why.
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Next sequel:
Rise of the return of the planets of the apes strike back: a new hope.
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Turns out Charles Heston is a horcrux.
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And he’s your dad.
And your love interest in the first bit is your sister.
And that guy? He shoots FIRST GODDAMMIT.
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Thats the #1 movie currently playing in Alabama.
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Anyone out there in TAY land this late at night?
At least with insta-comments it makes it easier for late night conversations.
i’m trying to tay via 3ds and it aint wurkin’ today…d’oh.
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Try beating it with a stick. Works for me*
*It really doesn’t.
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Blow in it
There’s something seriously wrong with your weekend when you can’t wait for the week to start. 😛
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But everyone will be talkative during the week!
And I’ll be the only one at home, which is always fun…
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