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LoL.
WoW.
It has spread…
Lambo, where were you on the weekend when I was attempting to teach f4ction, Tech and AP how to play?
Needless to say I’m a sucky teacher and it didn’t go well :'(
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I blame HoN.
Seriously, I had no idea what was going on most of that game. There were times where I had died and it took me more than a few moments to realise :p
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Harli truthfully I thought you did a great job trying to teach us. It’s just I had things like the shop not accepting my items to sell them or the shop UI bugging out and everything was physically doubled on my screen. Half the time I had absolutely no idea what to buy, most of the time I was just getting potions and nothing but.
I did enjoy playing as predator though 🙂
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However your clan mate made it REALLY hard to enjoy it most of the time with him easily picking Trjn and myself off the grass and trees! xD
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But he was Fabulous!~~
That taunting stuff was really obnoxious.
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Hahah it’s a custom one you can buy (I think it’s called the ‘Flamboyant’ voiceover or something??), the default one isn’t really that bad..
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I seriously wanted to turn that off but couldn’t, not the kind of thing I as a newbie of HoN wanted to put up with while we were dying a lot.
Really as much as I love Duke Nukem constantly telling me to “Give up already!”, I’d much prefer to have that turned off until after I had time to get to know the game 😛
Also “ooooh! Scary!” almost made me punch the screen 😛
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If the default one is the “Give up already!” then I have to respectfully disagree.
That soundbite taunting is just obnoxious, especially on repeat performances. It’s like being on Xbox Live and hearing a twelve year old spend the whole game telling you to “eat a bowl of *insert racial slur of choice* *insert slang for male genitalia of choice*”.
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LoL the “Give up already!” is also a custom one.
The default one is quite neutral.
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I don’t think neutrality is going to help when they’re getting spammed :p
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Part 1 was even better:
‘Jean Claude, you stereotypically named b****rd! I haven’t seen you since the Kevin Spacey look-alike contest of ’94!’
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“Hi, I’m creepy as shit. Pls giv me all ur personal deets”
Bwhahahahahahahahaha
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Methinks next week will be superior, for it is the start of my holidays.
Or the week after, because it is the continuation of my holidays :p
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I was on Coopers Pale Ale, great beer. Had to have a few due to the All Black winning and my room mate being a Kiwi.
Luckily I can destroy him on Fifa, COD and SF4.
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Oh ye great and powerful TAYers, I most humbly beg for thine assistance.
I have an aunt who is interested in purchasing an e-book reader and would like to know of some good ones as well as a comparison of details.
Now as I am still using rune carved stone tablets, with the occasional blood inscribed parchment, I have no knowledge of these e-books, so I call upon the all knowing wisdom of TAY to help me in this my hour of need.
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Kindle’s are probably the best. Plus they’re coming to Big W at the end of the month.
http://www.bigw.com.au/Offer/Kindle?utm_source=0508HPHero&utm_medium=Homepage&utm_campaign=1_Seemore
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Oh and the 3G version is better. Being able to buy books anywhere from your Kindle without having to set up wi-fi is more than worth the extra cost.
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My most sincere gratitude Strange First Lady of Kotaku, thine words of wisdom will serveth me well when I advise mine aunt of her options.
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iOS has great games. Problem solved?
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If you’re just after an eReader, get a Kindle. If you want to do anything else, get an iPad.
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I have a Kindle. It ranks up there with an iPod in terms of ease of use and ability to do one thing well.
Can’t really say anything about it in comparison to others, but the battery life is amazing (I’ve charged it twice in the entire time that I’ve owned it), reading text is pretty damned close to reading text off of a piece of paper and it’s light enough to not even notice that you’re carrying a library around.
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Because we’re all classy people here, I thought I’d start off the week with some refined humour I’ve stolen from the Sydney Morning Herald.
“What do the Herald style-meisters have against the tilde, the squiggly line on top of the ‘n’ that turns the Spanish letter ‘EN-neh’ into the (completely different) Spanish letter ‘EN-yeh’? Different letters form different words, and substituting one letter for another can cause embarrassment. This was the case a few years ago when the Herald featured a ‘Happy New Year’ message in 20 different languages. By leaving the tilde off the Spanish word for year, it actually wished its Spanish readers a ‘Happy New Anus’ “
Played a fair bit of League of Legends on the weekend. Bought my first hero, Janna, who is quite nifty at support.
Had a couple of really good games with her, going 0/0/19 and in one game that we lost 8/4/18 (stats may not be accurate but are close enough).
Numbers seems to be starting to get the hang of things. Of course, the LoL gods didn’t want to have any of that, so his mouse started playing up late game.
Seriously though, I’m really enjoying using Janna. Didn’t realise that support heroes could be so much fun, even if I am prone to the odd kill steal. In my defense, most of those kill steals are attempts to stop the other guy running away. Not all of them, but most.
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Indeed you were ripping it up.
How did your PvP match go?I discovered that it is really hard to play when your housemate is torrenting and your hero takes 1-2 seconds to respond to any commands.
I must have looked really schizophrenic with great tactics such as running into the middle of the enemy and casting my ult on the empty ground behind them.-
We had a guy using Brand that really knew his stuff. Did well for a while until the other team’s Jax got fed to the point where he was pretty much unstoppable. Then they made their push and we never really got a chance to recover.
That was the game I went 8/4/18.
Oddly enough, even with that lag, you were still kicking a fair bit of ass when we did PvE.
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Yeah the lag was a lot worse in PvP.
And I think I will stick to tanky characters.
Nothing quite like rollerballing across half the map, headbutting the enemies push and laughing as they grind to a halt.-
or taunting them to stop them from escaping, using your shell to bounce hits back at them. Ahhh Rammus, how awesome you are and how I can’t wait to bring you into my team of unstoppable characters.
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Nooooooooooo!!! I don’t like this support competition, I’m too nooby to play other classes in PVP.
Well then again I’ve nearly got enough IP to buy miss fortune so hopefully I can get decent at her. I figure any class that lets me stay far away from the enemies is best so I don’t feed so bad.
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Try Caitlyn when you first get the chance, she’s as long range as you can get and her ulti is a sniper rifle shot, red laser point and all. Her auto attacks are the longest range in the game I think.
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I found it really hard to feed while using a Support character.
I think I might pick up Taric or Soraka for my next hero.
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So, there was talk of a Sydney Meat in August a while back.
Since then it hasn’t been mentioned much so lets discuss.
Who’s up for it?
There’s some ‘Vidya game’ thing on that we were going to meet up at, right?
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Yes! It’s been far too long since we have engaged in group shenanigans.
I thought we were all waiting for Elly and Mark, and for Tad’s parents to organise a chaperone, but to hell with it I say! Build it, and they will come!
Let’s get some dates happening. Who is free when. Are we still doing canberra? Should we plan it around that?
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Well, Canberra is September (unless you started planning a secondary canberra meat without my knowledge(and yes I started planning stupidly in advance)), so there’s the rest of August for a Sydney meat.
Though I probably won’t be able to go, due to the fact that I’m slightly broke…
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Well, we totally had secret Canberra Meat plans, and we were all scheming in the underground bunker twirling our non-existent twirly moustaches, but then I was all “Wait, If we’re not meeting up with Blaghs… why are we going to Canberra?”
No one had any reply to that, so we were just all “WOOO SYDNEY MEAT”. -
Never fear. I’m a doctor and can, therefore, fix you.
No longer broke = no problem.
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Clever
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I was actually going to post asking about that. Anybody want to put forward any tentative dates? I’m cool for most weekends.
I’m going to Scotland for a month in September, and my familia is here for the next 3 weeks, so it might be tough for me to make it until I get back.
🙁
Started playing Darksiders on the weekend. Not bad, it’s basically Zelda if Todd McFarlane redesigned it all during the late 90’s.
Also I had no idea that Mark Hamill was in it. How about that.
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I’m on my second playthrough, trying to 100% it.
I definitely enjoyed it the first time round, and I don’t really mind playing through again, but I am going to be very glad once I’m done.
Yay, may be on the first page for like…2 seconds.
Got a question – well two, really.
I’m sure most of the regulars here would enjoy playing with each other (computer games, guys, srsly).
Do we/why don’t we have a Steam group that KotakuAU people can join and play with like minded people?
Similar to this – maybe we could have an article once every now and then that allows users to drop their PSN/Xbox id so that people at alrge can add them/we can all generate a nice, fat, list of time zone friendly friends to game with?
Thoughts?
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Yes we have a Kotaku Australia Steam group.
Just post your PSN/Live ID here and people will add you to their friends.
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I really like this idea, like a once a month or once a week post where everyone can exchange PSN/XBL/Steam ID’s and organise some online fight nights.
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Im hoping that we would get some form of account page so that you click on our names and the details are stored there.
I was actually going to make a quick gamer profile page and link to it in the website field but have not got around to it yet. Would be good to list gamertag, PSNID, twitter etc.
If we dont get official support for this idea, I’ll make my own,
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Man, you can’t just completely open yourself up with ‘play yourselves’, and then straight after debunk any chance of joking about it. That’s just teasing.
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Also on a completely unrelated note, how did you know my bday was on the 4th?! HOW?! Who are you really…?
Mum? Is that you?
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You had a Birthday?? In that case, congratulations on the annual celebration of your successful parting of the red seas!
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Q, dude. You’re out of your element. There was a fake calander with fake months and there were birthdays mentioned and no I did not have a birthday.
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:-/ I go for one week, and I’m totally out of the loop. Therefore, I shall say ‘Cabbage’ and only I will know the true meaning and will laugh jovially to myself.
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lolol! Qubbage maybe?
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Does anyone have any experience with mini USB wifi adapters?
My reason for asking is that my lovely gigabyte T1005 tablet netbook has one cardbus express slot. As it doesn’t play 720/1080p vids I can put in a broadcom HD decoder, but to do this I will have to remove the wireless card.
I’m considering doing this but I’m uncertain as to how well these mini USB adapters function given that there’s not a great deal of space for any sort of antenna.
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I would be along the line of thinking that says if its not a wired connection, you’d be pushing excretions up an incline playing HD video with drop-outs and stuff. Technology has a lot to answer for, Tay should be typewritten only submissions sent in via carrier sloths and printed on a peppermint/tobasco scented toilet paper roll.
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I’m playing HD videos over wifi right now, so I don’t think that’s the problem.
From what I’ve been reading the T1005 has a wifi option, so you should be able to buy the same model internal wifi module and cram it in.
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Next week I start a new position in my organisation that is very much a career change.
I’ve been informed that this new position is quite challenging and will take up most of my time, apparently every waking hour.
As such I suspect it will be unlikely you’ll see me active on the boards for quite some time. I’ll still drop in when I get the opportunity and will certainly still be reading the news.
If you see me on Steam, I’m not working hard enough.
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This, is not good news!
Why is everyone working so hard these days!?? This is Australia!
*cries uncontrollably*-
No no, it is good news.
This is a position I’ve been working towards for a long time, and regardless of the work load, I’m very excited about it.
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But, but, but. Tay!!! priorities man! priorities!!!
*stares with the ‘its hopeless’ look into space*
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I feel your pain, brother.
I dub thee: ElusiveExplody
May our elusiveness catch all of our enemies unaware
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Anyone going to Freeplay in Melbourne later on in August?
Some of the conference presentations look great.
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Yeah I was thinking of going and checking out the Arcade Expo and the interviews. The workshops and conferences sound okay, though not sure if I’ll go to those.
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I’m with you dude, this morning I got to work and had like 4 emails all telling me I’m a failure and shot. Then I had to reply calling everyone stupid really subtle – like. But if I get cranky I will just keep thinking 2 weeks till holidays. Woah also welbot is sending my new computer this week.
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As per your instructions, I sent welbot the correct address to send your new puter too. I cant believe you gave him the wrong address! Silly is you! You live in Pakenham right? 😉
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SSSSSSSSSShhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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In short, we now have instantly approved comments and a report button.
The rest is not so important and rather hard to summarise because of the instantly approved comments :p
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They scare me. So, if we hit ‘report’ does the comment instantly disappear pending approval/disapproval from our Allure gods? Also, can we then use it to report ourselves therefore removing the comment after the always inevitable ‘submit comment’ has been clicked seconds before noticing you spelled ‘giant’ as ‘vagina’?
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I once knew a joke about a lady with a giant vagina, I know the punchline was something like there was a cowboy on a horse in there, but I forget the rest. It was a goodun.
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Man, you’d best prepare yourself, some new people have joined the Kommunity, and they be CRAZY.
Also confusing. Really confusing.
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Actually…this is true. Being crazy is awesome. I highly recommend it to everyone who is not already crazy. You’re already crazy blaghman so you don’t need to worry.
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I’d like to think that I’m so much more than crazy!
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Welcome back!
Not much happenin’ apart from the insta-comments, and everyone is back to decimating Mark on the Remember This posts.
Plus comments, lots of comments.
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There’s no way in hell I can read through all of last weeks Tay. I’m getting old!
Thanks for the WB’s everyone, Tasmania was gorgeous by the way, such a beautiful state! I stayed in a house once owned by the Governor General of Tassie that was (exactly) 100 years old. It was to be honest, a bit creepy, I slept in the servants quarters!
I missed all of last week as well. What is this… this instant commenting… is this witchcraft? I’m amazed. I’m also fighting the urge to report myself just to see what happens.
Picked up Impossible Mission off the PS Store on the weekend (it’s available there as a mini). Man, I haven’t played that since the Commodore 64 days… serious nostalgia going on there. Especially if you play the “original” version, which is really the only way to play it.
“Another visitor. Stay a while. STAY FOREVER!”
Aaaaahhhhh.
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Commodore 64… now those were the days. I had games in cartridges that went in the back of the keyboard, I had floppy disks, I even had cassette games played with a cassette player. I dont know how that magic worked but it did.
Wizard of Wor was my childhood. Srsly. This music makes me feel 6 again – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIgRrRlXr-w
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Oh oh oh! Labyrinth! ZOMG! I could do that text based part at the start in about 5 seconds since I’d done it so many times. Could never get past the entrance to the goblin city though :'(
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Sorry, but International Soccer > all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6L02ZGW3jA
FIFA and PES are for bitches.
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O…M…G…
You dont have to apologise, I was there! I had that! So many hours on that game. Did you know you could headbut the ball all the way from one end of the field to the other? It was my strategy.
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Woah…. 17 years later and I still want to play it again… If only we hadn’t thrown out our C64… 🙁
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I did that too :'(
I was a stupid teenager and mum was cleaning out the garage and was like what do you want with this? And I was like pffft chuck it.
My god… what have I DONE?! :'(
Imma gonna scout ebay for a c64 now…
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I don’t know what the majority of you cats do when you get home, but I go one of two ways.
I either ditch all clothing and immediately wrap myself in my Jedi bath robe, or I leave all my clothes on (inc. shoes) until I fall asleep.
Now, stick with me here, the details are gonna get a little… blue.
So, I wear tight black jeans, the kind that cut off circulation to your feet because they’re so tight around the calf muscle. The kids would call them skinny, but my legs and lack of any sort of posterior means that even tight ones still have some sag to them.
I dunno if you’ve ever worn tight black jeans (the colour’s not really a factor), but they have a habit of catching unmentionables (jocks, not junk) when they’re being taken off. This is good in the sense that it’s one movement for me to be free of all lower-region-modesty-ensurers but bad if I’m trying to get changed in my office at work without telling my boss not to come in.
Anyway, so last night I was all “It’s shower, time” and wrenched my pantaloons off in one fell swoop. “Nice”, I whispered and went about whatever it is one does in the shower.
So this morning I woke up, ready to go to work. I grabbed the jeans I was wearing yesterday and jammed my legs in. They felt tighter than usual, but I just assumed it was because it was cold last night and the denim had constricted.
I walked to the bus stop, about 5 mins from my place, all the while really noticing that my jeans, particularly my right leg, were strangely tight.
The bus ride into the Brisbane CBD was without incident. I didn’t have headphones so I got to hear some boring pre-work banter from the ‘guvment’ drones which was painful, but apart from that I just worked on my Tiny Wings score. (180, 000 at the mo, yo)
I got off at the top of the city, ready to walk across Victoria Bridge. This particular part of Brisbane is where a fair chuck of the cities traffic is localized. The buses use the bridge to get to Southbank, motorists use it to get to the CBD etc etc.
Now, I’m walking along the busy intersection next to the casino where all the worker bees are getting their caffeine when I can’t take the discomfort anymore. Being the stealth operative I am, I pretend I’ve got an itch on my calf and go in for the scratch.
Now, I’m not sure how it happened, but the jocks I was wearing yesterday had somehow become wedged in the leg of my jeans and were slowly making their way out of the bottom.
I don’t know if you’ve ever had to pull a pair of Muppet-branded undies out of your pants leg in a crowded city centre, but take it from me it’s not very easy to do subtly.
And that’s how I started my week.
I also finished Borderlands, yesterday.
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I too wear tight skinnies and can’t say I’ve ever encountered this problem. How very odd.
Bahahahaha. Let your story be a warning to us all.
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Dunno, now that I think about it pretty much all my life my jocks have usually been connected with the movements of my pants.
Like that time in year three where I got dacked, like completely. Everything flying all over the place…
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HAHAHAHA! That’s amazing. I even know that intersection which makes it even more amazing. That has happened to me too, but I usually discover said underpants before I leave the room I put my pants on in.
Also, Hanna? Like? No like? I watched it again because for some reason I am in love. I can’t really say why, I just am.
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I lamed out and didn’t go.
I’d promised months ago to pay for my GF’s tattoo and she finally made up her mind about what she’s getting so I ended up having to deal with tattoo parlour employees most of the weekend.
But, Ima try and see it this week. You wait, you’ll be all feasting on a pastry while smoking a cigarette after finishing a fine wine and I’ll tweet yo’ punk ass.
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Something similar happened during an episode of the West Wing to Josh Lyman’s assistant. Except she found out when she received her panties in the mail from the person she was meant to be trying to convince the White House wasn’t incompetent (or something like that).
It probably would have worked out better for her had she worn Muppets branded underwear.
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The Pessimist was right! THIS WEEK IS BEST WEEK!
Thank-you for being so unfortunate, DAN!. This made my morning instantly better. -
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This has happened to me, but without the muppets. These days I check the legs after I take them off and before I put them on.
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Oh it’s not that long.
I use lot’s of line breaks to make it look bigger.
I wish that worked in real life 🙁
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Lolol, this has happened to me, but for some reason my dryer has a habit of statically sticking a pair of my daughters undies in the arms of my favourite jumper. I’m sure if it were pulled out in the wrong location I could be arrested!
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I wonder, if you report a comment do all the subsequent trail of comments that were a reply to it also get deleted? Or are they forever orphaned, seemingly castaway children of the Reply Button?
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They get orphaned, it’s HILARIOUS!
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Saw Kung Fu Panda 2 yesterday. Expected an entertaining romp but instead I got an awesome movie that had me tearing up. WTF it’s a film with Jack Black making me cry, something is wrong here. Gary Oldman never fails as a villian. Never. One of the best villians I’ve seen in a long time. Well, discounting Cate Blanchett in Hanna of course.
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I only enjoyed the villain in that film, the rest was not to my liking. Though I must give it to them, there was an extremely low chance of the sequel topping the original
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I dunno, I reckon I might have liked the sequel a little more. Just found the story more interesting.
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Mind you, Ian McShane’s character escaping from prison in the first one was downright amazing.
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Haha yeh that was mad
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My second cousin (six year old(at the timeish) girl) was scared by that scene. I lol’ed heartily.
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Had the most outrageous dream last night.
It was a terrifyingly brutal horror “comedy”
I say “comedy” because the humour involved was so dark it made me seriously uneasy. It was so shocking I woke up around 04:00 and my brain wouldn’t let me go back to sleep.
The problem is I can only remember a few details, but I can’t remember important things like what/who was killing everyone.
I do know there was a party, and then lot’s of blood (so much blood). There was something very important involving a telephone cord or something… And there was a gas bottle explosion. That was pretty cool.
But man I was genuinely frightened for my life.
Apart from the blood the rest of the dream wasn’t overly gory, it was just horrific in some deeper psychological way.
I know all that doesn’t really makes sense, but if this dream was a movie people would leave the cinema in silence.
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I had a dream last week that I found a video of Half Life 3 on youtube by accident. And I was the ONLY person who knew about it.
The game looked glorious.
Well they have finally announced the collectors edition of skyrim and all I can say is… what a bloody rip off!
http://www.ebgames.com.au/xbox360-155045-The-Elder-Scrolls-V-Skyrim-Collectors-Edition-Xbox-360
An extra $90 on top of the regular edition just for an art book, 30cm high statue and a behind the scenes dvd.
Now I am a real sucker for these special editions, and if there is one for a game I want to get, 90% of the time I will get the special edition, despite the sometimes horrendous cost, but this is a joke.
Something like this would normally go for an extra $50 and would also include “exclusive” dlc with it. This is just the book a cheap statue and a standard behind the scenes, arrrrghhh damnit! I was really hoping for something cool and with a somewhat reasonable price.
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I’m going to pre-order the version with just the cloth map. That collector’s edition is indeed a mighty rip-off.
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I’m going to walk into EB on the day(after buying the game in JB) and see if I can charm my way into a cloth map. It will probably work.
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The cloth map is “supposed” to be available everywhere with a pre-order, so if you are getting it on the release day just ask at JB, they are pretty good at handing over that stuff even if ya didn’t pre-order.
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Yeah, that’s true.
But then I might have to try and talk to the women there, and for some reason they scare me.
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What, women? Yeah they are pretty scary it’s true. They have like… different bits. You know, down there…
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Piercings?
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No, no. I can’t really describe it. I saw a picture once. I didn’t sleep well that night.
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I know what you mean.
And they don’t have the “y” chromosome. It’s so bizarre!
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I don’t mind waiting so I’m just going to get it from OzGameShop.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/xbox-360-games/the-elder-scrolls-v-5-skyrim-game-plus-premium-cloth-map-xbox-360
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Yeah nah, I also think it’s fairly expensive. I’ll probably just wait it out, I’m sure there’ll be people on eBay just selling the statue for a much more reasonable price.
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Another weekend of no gaming…Damn physical activity, football taking up all my free time. Also, pain – think I may have a bruised kidney, but it won’t be all that bad if it means I get to skip footy and rest (play vidya games) this weekend.
So, HoN play-date tonight? Haven’t got a game in yet but hoping my prior DotA experience will carry me through.
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I know, I’m hilarious TY ^_^
But no, definately not Halo. I dun do the pew pew. I am also older than 12.
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*curls up with hands over heads awaiting Halo fans*
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*pitchfork*
I like Halo. Lots.
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AIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I also love Halo.
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So this weekend I got my PC fixed after being out of service ~ 1 year.
This weekend I played Minecraft for the first time.
That’s… pretty much all I remember.
Oh, oh! There is one more thing – Quakecon pack on steam. < $70 for every Quake, every Doom, every Wolfenstein up to and incl. Return to Castle Wolfenstein but NOT the most recent one, every Hexen, the Commander Keen Pack, Brink, Hunted: The Demon's Forge, Ghost Warrior, Fallout 3 GOTY edition, Fallout New Vegas + all currently available DLC, Morrowind GOTY and Oblivion GOTY.
Maybe a couple of other things I've forgotten. I think it's only up during Quakecon so if you haven't already checked it out I think today is your last day to check.
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At one point I spent four and a half days doing nothing but minecraft, only to accidentally destroy large amounts of my own work.
I hate that game so much because it’s like crack and well, it’s second only to TAY in addictiveness.
Hey guys, welcome to another glorious week of TAY. How was everyone’s weekend?
Mine was a bit crap. Had a lot of things I wanted to get done and a lot of games I wanted to play. However my health got in the way. Woke up during the night on Friday with an earache (I used to get them really bad when I was a kid, both ear drums have blown at least 3 times each). This basically incapacitated me for most of Saturday, I managed to get some washing done for my gf and put together the new TV cabinet. Saturday night I attempted to get drunk to ease the pain, this didn’t really work out for me so I stopped. Then, Sunday arrived. I’d woken up several times during the night due to the severe pain in my ear.
Sunday was the day where I had to go out to lunch with my gf’s family, then entertain them for a number of hours at home and that night, I had to travel across Perth to pick up a new couch. During the lunch I developed a migraine, which made everything that came after all the more fun!
Woke up this morning, with both ailments still very much present. I have the day off work and am actually a little excited to have the whole day for TAY. Apart from the doctors appointment I hope to get.
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MMmm, pain.
Good luck with the doctors appointment HAHAHAHA. Actually, it might not be so bad ’round your parts, but in Canberra we have a slight shortage. Except in my house…
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There’s no shortage of doctors in Perth, however they still all manage to be boked out, all the bloody time. The only conclusion I can draw from this is that living in Perth is harmful to your health and people are dying from it every year.
Except in your house? Does this mean that one of your parents is a doctor? Can they prescribe medication over the internet so I don’t have to go to the doctors today?
I hope I get in today, and they just take one look at me, and then fill out a prescription for some mega pain-killing drug.
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Both my parents are doctors, but sadly they won’t prescribe things over the internet, the best they’d do is give me certificates for when I missed a day of school.
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That’s still pretty good! Would they give you certificates for days when you just took the day off? Or did you actually have to be sick?
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See below, I had to pretend to be sick! 😀
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Pretending to be sick was my speciality when I was at school. Saying that, even with all the days I took off in year 12, and all the periods I ended up skipping and going to the shops, I still managed to pass well 😛
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I didn’t skip all that much, I’d turn up to class, I’d be an attentive listener in class, but the moment the school day ended? HA! I never did any work. I only studied for 2 subjects (maths and biology, bio only because I’d ballsed up on piece of assessment so for my year 12 sem 2 exam I studied so I could push myself back up to a “B”), and I did well enough (I was below average for my school, which was kind of embarrassing).
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I actually think I got a D in Biology 🙁 I hated the teacher, his voice put me to sleep, as well as there was a pile of old national geographic magazines next to my desk and so it was more fun to use a black texta to draw top hats and monocles on seals, then it was to do schoolwork.
I was horrible in year 12, really let the year get away from me. I’d decided I didn’t want to go to uni so I didn’t need to put any effort in, then about 6 months after school finished, realised that I probably want to go to uni some day and I’ve fucked the chances of that up haha.
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Now I wonder if you’ve ever tried the Ferris Bueller method of faking an illness, and actually managed to trick your dad? Or did he squish you like a bug, telling you ‘you don’t have a yeast infection’ and ‘that clammy hands is mostly a sign of unwashed teenage ejaculate’?
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I never faked an illness, but I did occasionally make a cold out to be worse than it really was. Because my dad has major germ-phobia he wasn’t all that likely to check, so I could get away with it!
Everyone’s getting sick! (And by everyone, I mean you and Trjn)
It’s Insta-Comment TAY Fever*!
*Not a real illness.
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It’s not a real illness yet, but it hasn’t even been around for a week yet. I think by the end of this week, we may see some serious health ramifications. Is it possible I contracted my ailment via other people’s comments? This is the next stage of viruses, holy crap!
But seriously, it sucks man. It’s the first time I’ve been sick in over a year :/
I got quite a bad cold about 4 weeks ago, then after 3 weeks when it was easing off, body decides “Hmm…No I think you need an ear infection to finish this cold off!” and so it was spoken. Last couple of days its eased off. All my shamless games I played sounded so weird with a blocked ear 😛
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Haha yeah they would to. Man, where I got seated at lunch yesterday was bullsh*t. My left ear is the one with the earache, and it’s blocked and I can’t hear a thing out of it, naturally I was on the end of the table, with everyone to my left. My girlfriend’s brother was over from Melbourne and hadn’t seen me in ages so he was talking constantly to me and I just had to nod and try read his lips to see what he was saying.
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It’s someone’s birthday in August.
I think it was What and Dawdle, but I could be wrong.
I just figured I’d throw out a Happy Birthday to all August people because I’d forget otherwise.-
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*affixes helpers badge to Bish*
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JUNE THE EIGHTH: Blaghman
REST OF YEAR: Who cares? 😛
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Flu, not yet. In 6 days time it will be.
Bish, you were early. I can prescribe a nasal spray that’ll help you out there.
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I imagine a little pepper spray would stop a lot of things happening too soon.
Except the hurting. That would happen very quickly.
Funny story.
My friend, Alistair and I thought it would be a right old laugh if we sprayed bees with cayene pepper.
Why? We were children and evil.
So we got one of thos plastic cylander things for pumping balloons and filled it with cayene pepper.
Off we went with a smile on our faces and vile intent in our hearts (default state for children) and much fun was had.
For about 10 seconds
Then the pain happened.
A doctor was summoned.
Apparently Cayenne pepper likes neither the human eyes nor, and this is important, the human nasal passage.
Why is that last one important? Well Cayenne pepper filled the air. The air was then inhaled via our noses. Our eyes stung but our noses were ablaze with the angry fire of hell.
Some might say it was kharma.
Personally, I blame the bees.
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Damn bees and their cayenne pepper.
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But I already have half a dozen dragon statues and I… oh who am I kidding, I am already getting every other special edition that is coming out over the next few months, I might as well get this one too.
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Damn you reply button, oh I know you have played this trick with others but I thought we had a special connection, but nooo here you go and leave me all exposed and such
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Yeah dont listen to actually, I was just being an idiot. Overpriced special edition is overpriced.
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Nope too late, you have done it now, I have no choice but to buy it, when people ask why I got such a horrendously priced thing I will say Sughly told me to do it, then they will ask why are there so many commas, its gonna happen, just you wait, and, see,
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Wow, at the end there you did a perfect recreation of my writing style! Don’t you love commas?
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Yes, they give a perfect oppurtunity for taking a breath, like now, and now, and, oh, maybe now,
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Hahaha! For some reason your commas made me read it all in a Shatner voice.
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I think I’m gonna do it, too. Dragon statues are so awesome… I’ve always loved dragon statues.
And art book!
Individually, those two things would be pretty expensive. My friend spent $60 on an AC/DC art book on Saturday – supposedly it was discounted!
Strange thing happened last week
I couldn’t be bothered with TAY – not in the slightest
I had so much homework to do and when i saw there was now auto-approve i was like “screw that, i’ll never catch up”
lol
hope everyone is well
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You know, I had a moment where I looked at this instaprove thing and thought it was too much for me. But then I dove in and rode that wave and it was glorious. But yeah, wb and stuff 😀
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Shall do!
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LOL
man i always wonder where you get these awesome words from
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If he’s at all like me, good use of google…
Or maybe he’s just actually smart.
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I pulled Orthomyxoviridae straight out of Wikipedia.
But when I was younger I liked to find weird words in the Dictionary that I rarely got to use.
I forget most of them over time, but for some reason “Mattoid” (“A person of abnormal mentality, bordering insanity”) is permanently fused into my brain.
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Nice!
I love useless information, my brain has so much of it. So, so much.
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haha i will be coming back in dribs and drabs until i can get used to it..
To be honest i’ve been having a lot of trouble keeping up with anything and uni has got me in a fluster – i really wasn’t prepared for the difficulty of Economics and Business Law…
Also i am still stupidly busy at work, it’s like a never ending tidal wave.
I’m sorry to hear you’re not feeling well though 🙁 i hope you feel better soon!
*loops hugs*
I’m cooking some chicken noodle soup, its tasty, it will make you better. Press (A) to accept.
Silly Loops.
Once you start skipping hits of TAY it’s a slippery road to being clean.
We cannot allow that.
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Imma gonna have to have my netbook open while I (full screen) game on the desktop PC just so I can F5 TAY.
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Just started playing KotOR II again after 5 years!!! I forgot how awesome this game is!!!
Most immersive game I’ve ever played!!!!
P.s. Not a fan of the new mobile site Kotaku, just sayin.
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The KotOR games are super awesome. The story was more complete in the first one, but Obsidian managed to make some significant gameplay and interface improvements that make playing the first one somewhat painful at times.
In other news, I WANT THE OLD REPUBLIC GORRAMIT!
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I want Battlefront 3 made with Frostbite 2. Stupid Lucasarts wasting monies on Force unleashed…..
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Did you remember to mod it to make it less broken? Damn Obsidian, why can they never finish what they start? They’re like the Treyarch of the RPG world…
I had a weird experience on the weekend, I tried playing Rise of the Argonauts, and I couldn’t save my game. It was weird not even the autosave would work. I also had some old save games on there, but they wouldn’t register, has anyone else had this happen to them?
YES! Got a doctors appointment! I think this is the first time I’ve ever gotten a doctors appointment on the day that I call up.
Also, I wish I had more monies. I want to play Borderlands now after everyone was telling me how good it was last weekend.
And Blaghman, the day I’m not at work (today), is going to be the day those bloody books arrive.
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I went to the doc recently and the receptionist was like ‘that will be $50’. I was all whaaaaat! Bulk bill that shiz yo. I’m not sure why I thought that was worth sharing but yeah it happened.
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You need to make sure you go to a bulk billing practice. Non bulk billing practices will rarely ever bulk bill you (Unless it’s my mum or her boss as the doctor, and they’re all “aww, it’s okay, I’ll bulk-bill you, because I’m nice and rely on my partner’s income to maintain the ‘Doctor’ lifestyle) due to the fact that they earn significantly less money from doing so!
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So many places are not offering bulk billing anymore : ( Now I’m just relying on the ONE medical centre about 10 min drive or 30 minutes walk away…
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Man I really hope they bulk bill me. This place usually do but I haven’t been there in over a year so they might be al like “F*ck you” and then bill me, which would suck.
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I started playing Demon’s Souls again. Spent ages leveling up and never even atempting to fight the Tower Knight after my first few defeats.
5 hits.
That was all it took.
Moral of the story – Leveling up to the mid 30s makes the second boss fight of the game easy.
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Tower Knight holds a special place in my heart for being the first boss I beat without any guide, and without dying once, even more so because I was in Body form.
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Tower Knight was a fairly easy fight for me. Being ranged, I just sat up in the ramparts and peppered his head with magic.
It helped that his giant magical spear couldn’t get around a few bricks, so avoiding damage was laughably easy.
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I was playing a close ranged fighter with a slow two handed blade.
After playing some of the other levels, I had to branch out and play with other weapons.
Still use the massive sword as my default.
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I’ve applied for 3 weeks holidays from work from the day Skyrim is released. I’m now considering buying it from Ozgameshop.
How long after release do they usually show up for people in NSW?
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This. If you have the time off, it may be worth forking out the dosh locally to get the extra play time 😛
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OK, thanks for the advice. Think I will get it locally. Now to work out who has the best deal. I’m guessing JB or Dick Smith if they decide to do the loss leader thing, otherwise game.
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I haven’t pre-ordered from there before, but they say they dispatch on release, so you may be looking at 1-2 weeks after initial release date.
Taking into account that nothing goes wrong, that is…
OKAY MY SEXY TAY FRIENDS, I HAS SOME SORT OF PRIZES TO GIVE OUT, IF PEEPS ARE INTERESTED!!!
well, basically i have in my possesion two World of Warcraft 10 day passes, and two Starcraft 2 guest passes (which i believe give you 7 hours of in-game time)
Soooooooooooooooooooooo, if you are interested, give me a reply with your e-mails (or i’ll give you mine if you don’t trust putting it on the web)
anyways, this is just a way of me saying thanks for being a great community, and i wanted to share something with you guys!
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Can I have a SC2 pass?
Would like to play a bit of SC2 on bawble’s laptop : )
email is niewho@gmail.com
Thank you!!-
Pass received and email replied!
THANK YOU 😀 I’ve been missing some SC2 noob (me) action for some time.
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God I love Beach House. This guy is friggin owning that xylophone. Playin it like a boss yo – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6UK_BBeMM8&NR=1
Sorry for all my spamming guys but I’m going tomorrow. I’m getting all the TAY in that I can get :'(
And yes, I am also seeking attention with this post.
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You will be missed. Also, have some attention, I have managed to put it in pill form, take one tablet, three times a day. Any more could result in you developing ADD
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I was watching Van Helsing last night, and when he sprayed Anna with the knockout gas, I made a joke about it being an early date-rape drug. To which my Dad responded ‘Ritalin?’ No, Dad, you’re thinking of flunitrazepam.
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Haha! nice!
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Bah, non-hyperactive attention deficit disorder is a bullshit product of current trends to overanalyse, and overprescribe!
The name means they have a short attention span. Call it THAT!
(Sorry, personal hate of mine. It’s like the changing definition of autism, at the rate it’s going, in 20 years more people will be autistic than not)
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I know what you mean, I almost got diagnosed with Asperges (I think that’s how you spell it..) because I like to make plans and because I keep my bedroom tidy.
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Bahaha. Look on the bright side, people with Asperger’s have a higher average IQ than those without!
I’m glad I’ve never done a formal test for autism spectrum disorders, because I did an informal one and got a “ridiculously autistic” score…
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Yeah, I think the tests are a little ridiculous, because part of the Asperger’s they thought I had was that I wasn’t social and couldn’t make friends, that sort of thing. I did have problems with that when I was in primary school but by the time I was in year 10 I had no problems making friends/being social, etc. I think, you know, possibly, I was just SHY.
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Man, I was good at making friends in early Primary School, but by year 5 I had become exceedingly introverted. I can’t help it if I don’t like douchebags!
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Haha yeah, well that was one of the reasons why I moved away from my hometown. Was full of douchebaggery. Although Perth has it’s share of douchebags. I’ve also found some awesome friends here, all into the same sort of things I’m into.
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Corrrr, really??? Wow! Hope you have a great time over there! I hope you bring back a series of sketches of your holiday, like photo album style!
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This has been planned yes ^_^
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I hear you’re going to France, how long you going for?
Also you better make some cool sketches of your travels.
Also if you’re headed to Paris I have one warning, brace yourself, brace yourself for the smell of pee.
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Oh non… sacre bleu! Mon dieu! :'(
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Yup. I was there last year. Got mad drunk from fine french wine that was cheaper than the water.
I must admit after some stories from friends I was expecting some extreme rudeness from the Frenchies, but I didn’t cop much rudeness from them at all, they were all pretty good people.
But yes pee. I even saw a guy peeing in the subway. in front of everyone. So as long as you’re prepared for that and to be careful of the weirdos out the front of Gare Du Nord train station you’ll be fine 🙂
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Oh, I wouldn’t know. But ‘oui’ sounds like ‘wee’. Hehe, wee.
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If you’re referencing an obscure Rocko’s Modern Life joke you get +1 awesome.
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Morning all. I’ve got a Steam Punk themed party coming up. Anyone got any suggestions for games / movies & stuff that would be good for costume inpiration?
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Well that’s alright then 😛
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Well check this out, Skyrim Collectors edition; statue, art book and behind the scenes dvd = $200.
LotR War in the North Collectors edion; statue, art book and behind the scenes dvd = $118.
http://www.ebgames.com.au/xbox360-154909-Lord-of-the-Rings-War-in-the-North-Collectors-Edition-Xbox-360
$80 dollars diffference for the exact same kind of stuff, LotR shows how special editions should be priced.
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Your mum showed me how special editions should be priced.
Ooooooh man I really am spamming badly today…
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nothing against the LotR, but the two packs are a bit different. The LotR gear looks to be about 15cm / 20 pages of art, while The Skyrim statue is 12 inches tall & the book is a 200 page 12×9 inch coffee table book.
But as much as i love TES, I’m not awesome enough to spend $200 on a collectors ed…
oh yeah… mix the metric & imperial systems!
Just a random FYI boring fact:
Bawble and I went grocery shopping the other day (by that I mean Saturday) at Coles, and when we walked past the biscuit aisle, I went:
“SHAAAAAAAAAPES! The TAYbies :D”. Then Bawble gave me a weird stare. 😐
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I bought 6 packs in your honour Bish. I’ll be buying more this weekend (if the offer is still on. They’re 1.30 at coles)
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I have no boxes left…
Excuse me, it appears I now have… A MISSION!
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haha, that was supsed to be “at” not “a”
just had another go, surrended at 22-6 with my score at 2/4/1. Next best on our team was 2/3/2 and I apparently went better then the rest :S
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You’re currently in competition vs Numbers
I’m sticking by what I said to Trjn and Numbers, focus on survival before trying to get kills. You’re most likely being too aggressive
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Yes indeed. Especially early game avoid full on fights, just poke a bit and back off when they poke back.
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oh yeah, if some people are wondering why i’m posting right now and not at school (and i assume it’s all of you) i’m sick! yaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
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Sick. You should harden up and eat some dirt. Then you will spew up and feel better. In no way am i condoning bullemia!
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Shouldn’t you be studying for WACE exams soonish? : ) What are you planning to take?
(not trying to be a nagging mum)-
yeah WACE starts november, and i’m planning on doing a double major in computer science and game design (i bet thats a surprise! :P)
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So I’m watching Shippuuden, where Jiraiya fights Pain. I really wish that my mate told me how this ends because I’m expecting to be very upset by the end of this 🙁
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It’s cool dude, it’s just a cartoon. http://charlespemquin.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/trollface1.png
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D: how dare you?!
But yes, it is just a cartoon, although for some weird reason I get more attached to anime characters (possibly because the series go on for so long), than I do to normal movie/book characters. Although there are some exceptions.
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Yeah it’s funny. I really used to be this way, and still am I guess when I think back to some series/films. But I went off anime recently largely because any series I started I just didn’t care for the characters at all really. Oh except Mushi-Shi, that had some of the best characters I’ve seen in a long time in anime.
But yeah I dun watch too much so there’s prolly plenty of good stuff I dun know bout…
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Yeah, true. Well I’m still kind of a newcomer to Anime. I mean I watched Dragonball Z and stuff like that when I was a kid. But it was only really last year that I started watching a lot of anime (I had like a 6 month break though after my computer died and I lost half my movies/shows).
So yeah, for me, I’m still watching Naruto, I’ve yet to watch Bleach, finish Death Note. I enjoyed Full Metal Alchemist. But I haven’t really watched all that many, and there’s a wealth of old content I still need to explore.
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You have much amazing anime to watch, I would like to refer you to our resident Guru Mr. What.
Working my way through Gasaraki and Ghost in the Shell 2nd Gig. Both are phenomenal.
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I’ve heard lots of good things about Ghost in the Shell, I really must get around to watching it. My problem is, I live with my gf, she thinks anime is childish and stupid. So, I don’t get to watch it all that often when she’s around, unless she’s on her laptop or cooking dinner or something. So it’s only on weekends or days when I’m sick (like today!) that I get a chance to watch.
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Just do what I did and show her Perfect Blue. Noone thinks anime is for children after that.
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Perfect blue was epic.
The stabby stabby pizza delivery scene made me cringe.
BAM IN THE CROTCH.
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Satoshi Kon is genius man. Is Jimu was here he’d agree.
Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, Millenium Actress, Paranoia Agent, Paprika. GAH!
RIP you amazing man you.
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Also I remain extremely dubious of Gits series. I dunno, I just have such a fondness for the film, and the series looks so… different. I dun like different >:(
Also I prefer that twisted psychological mess with your head anime. Like Lain and Boogiepop. Recommendations?
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GitS SAC is pretty awesome, mang.
For the most part, each episode is like a tasty morsel of cyberpunk crime thriller, some are stand alone episodes, others contribute to the overarching story of each season. There’s plenty of convoluted stuff in there too! -
don’t let the differences from the GitS movie fool you, the series is just as awesome. You are doing yourself a disservice by not watching it, even if you dislike the tachikomas (which I do not, I heart those blue bastards)
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Never seen that. I shall have to obtain.
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Solution: Move the TV out of the kitchen.
*runs*
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HAHA! Well it’s an open plan loungeroom so the kitchen is right there :/
Hahaha first Halo now Naruto, today has become ‘how to make Mark not like me any more’ day. Soz Mark.
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Haha yeah “you’re going the right way for a smacked bottom” 😛
Although saying that, I was a huge fan of the halo series, had read all the books and played al the games numerous times, until Reach came out. Man that game really just wasn’t that good. Also the Halo 3 campaign was kinda average IMO, much preferred Halo 1 + 2 over that. I probably put in over 2000 hours into Halo 3 multiplayer though. Damn that sh*t was fun with mates and drinks.
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It’s cool, you’re leaving imminently, so Mark’s memories of you the whole time you’re away will be of that guy who hates things he likes, and the anger will simmer and burn until you return and he BANISHES YOU FOREVER!
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NNNOOOOOOOOO!! It’s true! My last day in TAY is a failure!
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I think that you should try smooth things over by drawing something amazing and posting it so that we may all lavish praise and affection upon you once more.
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PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR – ACTIVATE.
Also – Kon love. I agree.
Jirayai pain fight – man, you have so much awesome stuff ahead of you.
Get your GF to watch um… Honey and Clover, or Tora Dora. That might get her into anime?
What should I play tonight, TAYbizzles?
Thinking about sitting down and giving Fallout 3 a solid crack, or getting some tracks mastered in Race 07.
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Err yeah…
about that.
Diplomatic response: I played HoN over the weekend and it appears this game is not quite my cup of tea. I do invite you chaps to play it at your leisure, however.
Blunt response: I played that shit on the weekend and I’d quite frankly have more fun sandpapering my naughty bits. Good luck with that ish tonight. I WANT MY GOLD COINS BACK S2 >:(
*puts on helmet and hides from Harli under table*
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I could really use some V or Red Bull or something high in both sugar and caffeine. The problem is that I’m not willing to put up with the inevitable “that stuff will kill you” comments from my co-workers. Comments that come up every damned time and that have been refuted every damned time.
Oh well, I’ll have my lunch and grab a coffee after.
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You should get the V, or the Red Bull. When said co-workers make the inevitable comment. You twist the can until it breaks in half with jagged edges and say “No, but it might kill you”, whilst holding the jagged end of one of the halves towards them and a maniacal grin on your face.
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A week ago I was shopping, and overheard two kids (10-12, maybe) drinking Red Bull and discussing whether Red Bull or V was better.
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COFFEE > ANYTHING ELSE WITH CAFFEINE CONTENT.
Typing in caps makes you sound more convincing, AMIRIGHT?!-
While you are speaking the truth, I was aiming for that triple whammy of sugary sweetness, fizziness and caffeine.
Getting the first two from some Coke, the caffeine is also technically present but shall be topped up with coffee later.
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Imagine piss with electricity running through it (disclaimer, I drink energy drinks a lot, but I think they taste terrible).
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…you wonder why you made the change and hastily go back to the original and the best?
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Never have.
I’ll admit, I actually quite like Red Eye platinum. Weird, I know.
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Pretty much.
Of course, they always use the old anecdote “a friend of a friend’s son died on a cruise ship after drinking like twenty of those”.
That’s great. I’ll only drink the one then.
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i’d like to tell the story of my friend
well, a long time ago (a year) i was sort of addicted to energy drinks, i had about 2 or 3 a week, and every time i got one, my friend would say all that anti-energy drink crap and said how having to much would give me a heart attack, and that his mum was a pharmacist so he knows he’s right, and was proud that he had never had one in his life. then one day at a party he drank nearly 10 V’s in a row, then he ended up vomiting everywhere.
anyway, long story short, yes have an energy drink
The sweet chili sauce in my Subway tastes suspiciously like tomato sauce.
Oh well, I can’t be bothered heading downstairs to correct this. That’s the sort of defeatist mood I am sticking to today.
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Wait, does this mean you’d normally go to fix this?
H-uh.
I’m of the opinion that, so long as it won’t kill me… Meh.
Man, Mark must be so disappointed that “Remember this” was guessed right in the first couple of comments hahahaha.
So you guys are always going on about LoL or HoN and I’m wondering if you could explain to me what it’s all about. I’ve watched some videos on youtube and still have no idea. It’s like Warcraft 3 but with only hero characters right?
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it’s a 5v5 team battle where the sole objective is to destroy the enemy main base. Every player controls one hero of their choice to help their team to victory. As you play and kill computer controlled minions/creeps, which get sent in waves towards the enemy base, you get gold which you can use to buy items to power up your hero.
That’s the basics of it anyway
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It’s based on a Warcraft 3 mod, DotA (Defense of the Ancients) where you have 5v5 matches where everyone has one hero unit to control.
There are three lanes, each with three turrets from each team (your three are in your half of the map, the oppositions in the other half) and waves of “creeps” (AI controlled creatures that follow a set path and attack each other/heroes) on each side.
Kill opposition creeps/heroes for gold and experience to level up and become more awesomer, push forward to destroy their turrets while defending your own and eventually try to make it into their base and destroy it.
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I LOVE THAT GAME!
Now I really want to replay it… I have my discs, but not my cd keys though… Also, I was terri-bad at it.
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Wanna play on Bored Aussie with me? you don’t need real CD keys.
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How does this mystical system work?
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You’ll need to obtain some key to install the games, but BA is a private server which doesn’t verify them. So if you like I can send you an invite to an account where you sign up and setup BA. (It’s invite only)
Yaay! somebody to play with me!
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Bow chicka bow wow.
Ok, you’re doing it on purpose now.
And sure, send me a thingy thingo thingammy!
You remember my email, right?
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I sure do! sending now..
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Received! Now I just have to work out how to make this dastardly system work!
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Oh Hai TAY!!
What a glorious weekend! I must tell you all about it, but I have a big fat ciggie to suck down and a coffee to make FIRST!
/brb
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Quitting that filthy habit was the best thing i ever did…
…But coffee will always be glorious.. even if i become lactose intolerant!
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The amount of spamming from me shows how I attentive I am in my lecture now. On the other hand, having lunch quite soon!
Man this insta-comment is a bit mental.
By the time I come back from doing work there is half a dozen new convos I wish to partake in but also a new page so no-one would read it if I replied.
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I’ll usually go back and read the previous page occasionally until near the end of the current page.
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There’s actually an overlap between coffee and TAY, because you can drink coffee and be on TAY at the same time.
Therefore, it is more like: 95% TAY, 10% Coffee, 5% shuffling paper.
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I typically read through every page at least once a day, and I always have the previous page open in another tab…
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I’m finding it a bit terrifying. Also – feeling a bit out of the loop because I don’t have to read and approve everything!
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You just need to read it in the same way we do!
Thus becoming disassociated from your real job!
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so if any of you have been following my twitter feed (click my name!) some may have noticed i’ve found all of my junior school work that was salvaged from my old computer, well i thought i’d share one fantastic insight into the life of a 10 year old boy.
If I won a million dollars I would…
I would buy stuff for my family like getting a new house and getting a GIANT TV with lots of extras. I would also buy lots of games and DVD’s. I would also buy like 1000 books (being the book maniac I am) and a few CD’s. I would give about 10,000 dollars to the missions because they are more needy of the money for food and water. The rest of it I would store it until I’m old enough to drive a car and get a nice car.
nothing much has changed really…
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When I was young I was all “I don’t know what I’d do with that money, but I’d spend it all YAY!” Whereas now I’m “I’d invest that money intelligently so that I could have more money to invest intelligently and then have nothing to do with said money…”
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Like that time you blew your paychecks from your short-lived fulltime job on a new rig?
Yeah, I remember that.
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That’s different. That was money I had to work for, as opposed to a sudden windfall of a moderately large sum of cash.
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If I was suddenly rich, I think I’d like to live like Charlie Sheen. But, you know, with less crazy…
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Now’s one of the best times to invest in the stock market, you just need to be smart about what you do! Look for long term gains, as well as quick sales of volatile items.
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Aaah so what a busy weekend!
Firstly, I went to see an Israeli dubstep DJ called TOMBA down at Chinese Laundry on Friday night.. he played the most blistering, heavy and face melting set I’ve seen LIVE yet, non-stop awesome!!!
Anyone been to the Laundry before?? Hands down BEST soundsystem I’ve heard, their subs are ridiculously low. I was standing about 3M back from the DJ booth, I could literally feel the infra-bass in my intestine and it felt like my teeth were going to fall out. SO good.
Gaming wise, just started on Disc 2 of FF XIII, still enjoying it despite the ‘on-rails’ feeling. Alternating with Ass:Bro, which I agree can be quite frustrating sometimes, especially with the difficulty of getting counter streaks!!
I can never pick which guy is going to get me next and even if I do, Ezio reacts too late and I end up getting nailed! Grr! Anyway, still love the game overall tho 🙂
Oh and I’m on the last level of From Dust – TRICKY!!! But what an awesome game, glad I downloaded that succckkkaa!
Dubstep interlude later today if I have time 🙂
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You’re gonna end up as one of those old men I have to yell at for them to hear what I’m saying.
“WHAT’S THAT, SONNY?”
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Forgot to bring my chapstick/lip balm/lip moisturiser out today. So far I’m surviving. o_o I should mention today is exceptionally dry. Usually I put it on whenever possible, which includes right before I eat. There’s a unofficial study that says women consume 3 pounds of lipstick every year. Yeah, I probably lick in a lot more than that.
That said, I kind of have a pet peeve with people who have dry chapped lips and not bother with any chapstick. It’s not cool!
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Cocoa butter chapstick.
You use it and it tastes delicious.
You sample some and it has the most horrible texture, and leaves weird film coating in your mouth.
Why would it mock you like that?
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I was going to say “I don’t know about you, but when I taste chocolate, I like to eat it, not rub it on me”, but, well, that does seem like something you’d do.
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If Jeeves were here he’d recount tales of me taste-testing with my pores.
But he’s not 🙁
So yes, I like rubbing edible items on my body. Helps me to ascertain the taste. What’s it to you?
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If you need moar procrastination in life/waiting for new TAY:
http://notalwaysright.com/
But be prepared to put on some cushioning on your forehead or entire face… then lose faith in humanity entirely.
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dos is also shorthand for does.
As noted above, I’m always right, so don’t try and correct me.
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AHAHAH THESE ARE GREAT!
Reminds me of the time I used to work at EBGames. This was probably the best one.
Customer: Excuse me.
Me: Yes?
Customer: Those pre-owned xbox 360’s you have out front. Are they playstations?
Me: *I look at my manager, who looks at my assistant manager, who runs to the storeroom to hide her bursts of laughter*-
wait…. wut?
WUT?
Surely that person was sent in on a dare. There’s no way a person could be that dumb… right?
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Just mention you are busty and female.
Given the people I’ve seen staffing EB stores lately, you’d be a shoe-in.
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I tried that once!
They didn’t hire me.
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I am guessing because you were lying about the female part? 😉
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I’m guessing you didn’t stuff your bra enough, Bish.
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Any customer service roles you’ve had in the past. I don’t know about other EB’s, but the ones in my area valued this experience over game knowledge.
Also, the recruitment policy has changed since I’ve left. If i recall correctly they only recruit 2 times during the year or something now. It’s a group interview thing too and fairly aggressive. You get thrown into a group with other potential applicants and you’re asked questions by a panel of managers.
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So, the secret is to sabotage everyone else in your group?
If anyone ever wants help getting a job there, give me a call. *Evil Grin*
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So I went and saw Hanna based purely on Sughly’s recommendation.
Oh.
My.
God.
Hands down, best movie of the year. I very much back up the suggestion that you all see it.
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ZOMG I kno rite! The film’s been so well integrated with the music, and the sound design is amazing. Only other people I’ve seen do it that well are Tarantino and Guy Ritchie.
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YESSSSS! So glad you liked it! So awesome rite? I totes watched it a second time on the weekend.
If people from Ireland are Irish and people from Scotland are Scottish, surely people from England should be Engish.
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And Finns Finish?
And Poles Poish?
And Icelanders Iceish?
And Swiss Switzerish?
And Thais Thaiish?
And New Zealanders New Zealish?
And Netherlanders Netherish?
And Swazilanders Swaziish?
Applying logic to this language we use doesn’t seem to work :p
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Bishland, Population: 1
A small territory in north-west Sydney, the inhabitants are well known for a culture of being helpers, STEVE HOLTing, and having a weakness to food in the eye, which is reported to be super effective.
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But it made for some brilliant replies.
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Also, a century ago Scotish and Ireish would have been perfectly acceptable. As would Finish for that matter.
also the examples I gave were countries that are part of the UK with the suffix land (So, excluding Wales).
Although Thaiish, New Zeaish and Iceish are awesome and should be adopted post haste!
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I really like “New Zealish” just because the idea of zeal-ish amuses me greatly.
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So I tried to one-up my last joke with a lesbon joke.
Hint: Don’t put lesbon into google if you’re at work.
OH HEY, I THINK YOU MEANT LESBIAN. HERE ARE LESBIAN LINKS.
“ABORT, ABORT!!” *clicks frantically*
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I honestly think you could put any word into a google image search and find a penis within the first three pages.
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Challenge accepted!
Mister Stay Puf- OH COME ON!
I surrender.
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True story.
Put in barbershop trio into google images and scroll down a few pages. There’s a topless woman in a barbers chair.
Good ol’ TAY, causing me all sorts of awkward moments at work when I try to search for hilarious pictures.
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…on reflection, the fact that I know the exact search phrase and rough location to something I googled a month ago to find a half naked female leads me to believe I have been single way too long.
I couldn’t even remember where my car keys were this morning 🙁
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Hmm ok then… ‘Mark Serrels’. Go. Oh, first pic. There you go.
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Hahahaha I was out doing travel things shopping but now I’m back and spamming worse jokes than evar har har har!!1!
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There was a… a something, Possibly a blunt. A general obsevationishness. a certain je ne sais quoi.
Okay, there was no point, just a bad joke.
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Sorry, was quick to jump in there.
I see where you were going.
You make a fair and valid point.
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There was a point?
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This is why I refer to “Canadia” whenever I talk of the country above the USA. Makes so much more sense.
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After a quick look at wiki I discovered that from 1581–1795 they were the Dutch Republic. Go figure.
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I’m sure they just made that up after someone questioned their logic.
“The Netherlands = Dutch?”
“We… We were called The Dutch Republic once…”
“Really? When?”
“Yeah, sure, sure… Oh, it was a while ago though, so… you probably never heard about it.”
“Oh?”
“Yeah… You pretty much only read about it in Dutch history books…”
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Anything involved the Netherlands tends to get a little confusing.
So I blame the Dutch and ignore that nonsense altogether.
This made me think of all the nationalities my accent has had me mistaken for.
Irish
English
American
Canadian
Australian
And…
French.
Yes. Someone actually thought I was French.
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I have been mistaken for being Russian and Dutch.
Although at the time I was asking random people for directions in Stirling pretending to be Russian or Dutch.
You’ve been there. There’s not a lot to do!
How much coffee does it take to cure a sleepy Dawdle!? *head starts nodding half an hour after a full lunch of yummy pho*
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Don’t overstress your noodle trying to come up with other pho related puns.
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Broth you and I know I’d never do such a thing.
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Pho ‘sho!
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In celebration of Metroid thought I’d throw out the question of what everyones favorite/most prominent memory of the series was.
I still remember borrowing the SNES cartridge from my cousing and playing many late-night sessions when I was 12. I almost shat myself after defating Crocomire and he comes back as a skeleton.
I guess theres also the ‘holy frack’ moment when you die for the first time and realise Samus is a chick.
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My favourite memory was when I didn’t play it. At all. Because I’ve never owned a Nintendo console.
COME AT ME BRO.
Or not. It’s cool.
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My gaming history:
(1996, 5 years old) PS1 -> PS2/PC -> PS3/PC -> 360
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Oh, dude! You’re a foetus!
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(Are you also a ninja? If so, we need to talk business)
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Even though i’m indian, my friends still make black jokes about me. I don’t know how that works, but it’s what they do.
Anyway, whenever we go camping, there is a lot of ‘OH CRAP WHERE DID HE GO’ “jokes”.
What was my point? Yes. By this definition of invisibility, I am a ninja.
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Not even! He’s a foetus’s grandson!
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That should be their next splash screen.
From “♪Se-gaaaaaaaaaa♪” to today’s “Sega.”, next it’ll be “…Sega?”.
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Maybe then they’ll actually pronounce it how it’s totally supposed to be pronounced (see-gah, instead of the say-ga they always seem to insist upon).
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No No No I hate the Ozisoft Pronunciation! Say-ga please!
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It’s supposed to be pronounced Seh-Ga. Not See-Ga (which would be “Siga” in Japanese).
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I KNOW IT IS BUT IT SOUNDS WRONG!
And the way the american voice-over does it is weird as well.
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Me too! Not even a portable /_\
And I have never had an up-to-date computer for playing decent PC games. -
I never owned a console until I bought my 360 with hard earned cash(I earned said money by setting Orphans on fire for the amusement of rich benefactors).
Want something worse?
Until then all I had to game on was a mac.
Yessirree Bob, you’re lookin’ at a bona fide Mac gamer here.
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I’m going to pretend I didn’t read that…
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Given the abuse your digits must suffer on a daily basis, I am surprised your hand doesn’t resemble a malformed crab claw by now.
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Funnily enough, I never could get into playing Monster Hunter on PSP…
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LET’S PLAY TOGETHER!
I rage quit at the stupid monkey boss. I hate you, monkey boss.
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I always think about getting Monster Hunter Freedom Unite and then realise that I suck at Monster Hunter Freedom 2
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Oh man, I hear that.
I remember in one of the first few missions there was one where you had to do was collect an egg, except these velociraptors kept mauling me. /o\ -
I want to get all the cool loot without the furious, venom-filled rage that comes with continually having your ass handed to you.
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My memory involves playing Super Metroid (rented) and giving up after hitting a roadblock 20 mins in
Then playing Metroid Prime and giving up after repeatedly being beaten by the second boss and getting busted back to the start of the level. Really bad checkpointing in that game.
I appreciate its a work of genius and all – but you need to give it a lot of love to get anything out of it I think.
I never played a Metroid game until a couple of years ago. I knew it was good but I just never got my hands on it as a kid, so I downloaded Super Metroid on the virtual console and gave it a shot.
I loved every minute of it.
Fav moments:
-The Mother Brain boss fight
-Coming across all of the corpses before finding the grown-up baby Metroid
-The bait-and-switch mini Kraid that you fight before coming across the REAL Kraid.
It’s probably a long shot, but any chance someone knows of someone/somewhere in Canberra to record some demos for a hardcore band? I’ve done a little bit of looking and haven’t come up with a great deal.
Today I learned an important lesson. Just because I developed the current way that I do my job to suit my abilities doesn’t mean that anyone else will be able to nearly instantly pick things up.
I think the first few days of my holiday, before I leave the country, will be riddled with me getting phone calls from work.
Don’t you just love usernames in games?
Just this morning I was playing a match of Team Fortress 2 with Julia Gillard and Bert Newton. Then there was also the time when I was playing Trackmania Nations Forever online and there was a showdown between Jesus and Thor. (Thor won)
What’s your favourite usernames you’ve seen?
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I was once played a chap by the name of Maths Debater.
Funnily enough he wasn’t at all keen on a heated discussion about equations and algebra.
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I saw this one guy with the username *leans in, barely stifling giggles* “Blaghman.”
BAHAHAHA.
What a silly name. What was he, like 12?
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It’s funny because it translates to “man with really small penis” in this obscure West African tribal language that is mainly made up of clicks and vehement gesticulation.
That language totally exists…
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I once played against/with a John Key. Everytime he died, he’d say in chat “But I’m the PM of NZ!”. Really good Pyro.
There was also someone called “Asians Smell” last night. That was… interesting. :I-
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but Rocketman’s so nice and stuff! I refuse to believe!
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You clearly haven’t spent enough time on teamspeak with Rocketman.
The dirty wog is even racist towards me. 😀
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Rocketman loves a good lynch-mob
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My Tauren Warr was called Sun Mzuu
I named a friend’s Nelf hunter RagePigeon. Strangely enough he kept the name.
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And while I’m on the subject of WoW, I saw an undead rogue with the name of ‘backstabbath’.
Best. Name. Ever.
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That is awesome
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CS:S ones I find are the best.
There was some guy with a korean nickname, when translated, read “I am Kim Jong-il” and had a picture of him as his display pic.
There was this clan war I once participated in vs some guys called taK and their names were –
LazyLlama
BoomingBeaver
PooningPiper
i forgot the rest
the shoutcasters had a difficult time keeping up, but man I was lol’ing hard.
My friend’s gamertag is TommyW1seau.
Almost every week someone loses their mind when they play against him online.
Haha I actually have a friend who uses the name “Julia Gillard” on Steam!
Memorable usernames I can think of – yesterday I played a match of Halo 3 against “Capt SuperDong” and a match of Monday Night Combat last year where I kept getting killed by “WookieFingerer” ahhh good times.
Wow, you guys have gone really quiet, have we burned out after three pages?
Is the poor widdle babykins tired?
No? I guess not.
I’m just wondering, I’m trying to plan tomorrow(or else I’ll get nothing done), so should I spend tomorrow playing games (probably playing more Bastion, and finishing the main story of From Dust), or reading(Song of Ice and Fire)?
Unless I dedicate myself to doing one of them I shan’t get anything done…
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He can dance if he wants to.
He can leave his friends behind.
Cus’ his friends don’t dance, and if they don’t dance –
Well they’re no friends of mine.-
Actually, many of my friends dance, mostly as we go around singing that in civic…
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But I only know 2 dances, and about 5 dance moves. It gets really boring just doing the “schlong” for 2 hours, and it hurts my back…
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Nonono, it’s a dance move.
See this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzq2O54LLIw&feature=player_detailpage#t=157s
The little move that Husky does, I don’t know the name of that, but I created my own, better, version of it, and said move is called the schlong.
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No, he really is that big.
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I mean tall?
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OR DO I?
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You mean that his penis may, or may not, be appropriately matched to his height.
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Well, that’s an interesting mental image to close out the day…
Bastion! I’m looking forward to when it comes out on PC. I’ve been playing the demo on 360, but pre-ordered it off steam as it’s cheaper. but I bought the soundtrack and been listening to that. Great, great soundtrack.
I actually have to go out to clubs as part of my degree, how awesome is that?
Actually I hate it. I’d rather have to play video games as part of my degree.
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I just don’t get clubs. Overpriced drinks, music so loud you can’t hear anyone else (and obviously I have my objections to the style of music that gets played) and a whole host of other issues.
How the hell do people meet other people at these places. More importantly, how the hell do people have fun at these places? I understand alcohol is often needed but if being drunk/high is a requirement for a place being fun, why not just go somewhere that STARTS as being fun and becomes more fun the more inebriated you get?
Now, I was wearing an onion on my belt, as was the style at the time…
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Well, in Canberra it used to be cheaper to go and get drunk at the clubs…
Also, dancing is fun!
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I am glad to see everyone here are such party animals. I really don’t like extremely loud music although i am a big fan of electro house music and dubstep.
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I had a lot of fun just in the dancing part. I mean, just the whole idea of letting go for a night was pretty fun to me.
As for the music, yeah, most of it sucks but after a couple it doesn’t really matter. Or you can club-hob till you find one you like.
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I’m not really the dancing type. But i do enjoy a few drinks with like minded people.
Too bad i’ll be working for Clubs NSW while at these places.
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I normally HATE clubs EXCEPT for when I’m at a dubstep gig, I go there for the MUSIC and if I want to converse/meet people I usually drag them to the smoking area and chat there! 😀
But yes, club prices for drinks SUCK..I was paying 8 dough-lahr and PIDDY sent for a frickin’ EXtra Dry the other night – WTF???
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Wait, didn’t he want Sughly to draw a picture of him?
Well…
Uhhh…
I’ll let your mind finish this one off.
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Draw me like one of your French girls.
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lolololol!!!
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Hahaha! Wait, why’s everyone laughing? Oh, its at me…
I HATE YOU GUYS! *runs off crying*
and its one French girl dammit, there’s no plural. I dont have a number of girls hanging around me. That’s why I’m going to France dammit! I have to try…
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I’m sure you’ll have a number of French girls hanging off you once you’re in France. Whether or not they’re paid for, well that I can’t guess 😛
I joke, I joke.
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I took out $550 in cash today. Maybe you are not so far from the truth…
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WOO! Go Sughly! So some of your sketches will be of French girls, I hope you invited Tad along!
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But Sughly, surely you’ve seen that trolol pic DRAW ME LIKE ONE OF YOUR FRENCH GIRLS?
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Soooo… LoL hates me, as Trjn alluded to some pages back, but it was not the Leauge that I blame, I blame my brother, on the other side of the house, mind you, messaging me through Steam, for of all things, tech support for the printer…
IT’S NOT EVEN MY PRINTER!!!!!!
Upon returning to the game, the only response LoL would pick up was the Right mouse button (move and attack), no upgrading, casting or menues were to be had for the rest of the game
That doctor’s appointment was crap. Had to wait for over an hour and then when I got in there, the doctor took a look at my ear and said, well it looks like it’s getting better on it’s own, but take this prescription for these ear drops anyway and then come back on Wednesday, why? so I give you more money? :/ so crap.
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I never go to those check back in again appointments. NEVER! *puts on his Im too cool sunnies*
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Haha nice. I will, purely for the fact that I get to take a half day off work and still get paid for it, as long as I get a doctor’s note.
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When my doc does them he’s like “If it’s still a problem in two or three weeks, I guess you should come back…”
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Yeah, that’s a better way. Oh well. I’ll just do it anyway, purely to get off work 🙂 Oh and Blaghman, just got a call from a guy at work. The Song of Ice and Fire books arrived today, on my day off. 🙁
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I would like to make a tee-shirt with snuffleupagus dancing on it, with text saying “every day i’m snufflin’”
*nods*
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Only one of the council worker’s shovel though, the rest stand around drinking coffee and telling them how to do it.
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Too true, if only you could make a shirt that played a dubbed version of the song as well. That would be awesome.
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Or a picture of a clown
Everyday i’m juggalin’
you get the idea
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This. THIS!
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Oh god. Not the Insane Clown Posse. F*cking Magnets.
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I get the Insane Clown Posse hate, but hat you got against magents? I think theyre kind of cool and mysterious…
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Oh you 😛 don’t play coy 😉
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Im not playin nuthin! I like magnets! I dun gedit.
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So uhh.. That’s real.. Um.. I’m a little speechless.
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HAHAHAHA! OH man… I just inadvertently associated myself with them by confessing my lack of magnet knowledge. Oh noes! :'(
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It’s okay Sughly, you will be forgiven this once
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THIS! OH GOD THIS! Forever tainted. I mean, ‘pump it’. Srsly guys? Pump it? Pump what exactly? Gah….
Also my son had to take in a cd with his favourite song. Apparently his mum had told him Black Eyed Peas were cool and so he made me burn him that. I had to literally download the song ONTO MY PC. It was hard guys, so hard…
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The corpse of musical integrity I assume. You know, double tap, make sure it’s dead.
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lololol! Ah yes, it makes a bit more sense now.
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I am so sorry.
Nobody should have to go through that trauma.
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I hear you all missed me.
I skipped out on my Law lecture tonight as the lecturer is kind enough to recod them in their entirety.
For now I sit here and chill.
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Oh, and I managed to cull 153 friends from facebook! I am amazing!
I mainly got rid of the people I never talked to/was only really acquaintances with.
But still, 153 people! 😀
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“I managed to cull 153 friends”
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I don’t even have that many friends!
Also, it keeps suggesting I add women as my friends. In the “recommended friends” bit there’s like 5 guys, and 80 girls. It’s a tad odd.
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You were missed. You also missed discussions on the size of your manhood. And your motive behind wanting Sughly to draw a picture of you 😛
Also, kudos on culling so many people, it’s fun to do haha.
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TREE!
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BUSH!
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POLITICS!
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BOOM!
http://bit.ly/9Meo8k
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I know I did. As it turns out, it was one of the jokes that everyone else already made up >_<
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I know I did. I remember my brother telling me it was incredibly lame.
Around ten years later he used the same joke. I called him on it.
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Your memory sounds amazing.
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NO!
TAY is about quality comments and a leisurely discussion about mature things!
Okay, I couldn’t type that with a straight face, carry on.
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I have it, and drop in once a day or so, but since only 2 people have me in their circles, it’s a fairly empty gesture…
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At least people have you in your circles. Although doing something significant with my life would help :/
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Same here. With the person who invited me anyway, Elly’s not that desperate yet.
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It’s truly glorious. I think the TAY record will be broken this week. Kudos for Tad and insta-comment!
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I have… what feel like intestinal pains… So I didn’t eat very much, so it was unfulfilling, and bland…
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I know, we post well for a while, but then we have these time periods where nothing happens.
NOTHING. HOUR of silence. Not to mention that we have the spam propelling us further forwards in pages.
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*awkward shuffle* 😛
Feel free to unfollow if you like. I probably post a lot of uninteresting stuff anyway 😉
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But you’re my only source of international news!! No seriously, I feel so well-informed because I follow you.
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Yay!
It’s not so bad when people follow like 300 people, but I think I tweet a bit too much if you only follow about 50 😛
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Hi all,
So I wanted to kill a dog and a man today. Any to think my day started out good. I went to the bank to refinance a personal loan and save $80 a fortnight in interest payments so was pleased with myself.
I have also ordered $250 worth of stuff from US for a couple of mates and I and expected it to arrive this week also.
So i got home from the bank and found a note in the mailbox saying that the package was dropped off about 30 mins earlier and was around the side of the house. Trouble is that I have a dog. A dog that destroys things… A dog that is capable of doing this:
http://i53.tinypic.com/30huicp.jpg
http://i54.tinypic.com/28l6lu1.jpg
I open the gate to find my shoes, shirts, shorts and othe stuff scattered around the pavers (which are dirty and wet).
It turns out that very little of it was damaged but I have lodged a complaint with UPS because on the other side of my house there is no dog and a very good spot to leave stuff right nect to my bins. It was also their first attempt and they made no arrangements for me to be available, even though I was!
So I wanted to kill my dog but realised she was only having a bit of fun and I wanted to kill the UPS man (not really, just using the internet to vent, i’m not actually going to do anything OK FBI peoples.)..
Good news is that my awesome shoes are awesome.
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Man, I know that feeling.
UPS dropped off a package next to the letterbox, under a tree, when the front door’s undercover and there’s an area where you can hide it behind a shrubbish-tree sort of thing.
UPS guys, use some gosh darn common sense.Also dogs. My dog chewed up a Physics textbook. Delicious Physics. :I
So the first 4 Song of Ice and Fire books arrived at work today and shall be there waiting for me tomorrow. I shall endeavour to not allow it to keep me from TAY. We need to hit our 4000 comment target!
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Good to see people are choosing that instead of Jedi 🙂
I’ll be really interested to see the results for this one. The numbers of no religion have been trending up for a while.
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“Controversial comment which inspires argument and debate to increase the amount of comments in TAY”
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“Disagreement with your post, but understanding of your point of view. Rebuttal of certain points that, while unable to be proven, at least inspire confidence that I have some understanding of the discussion at hand.”
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*WORDSWORDSWORDS*
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Is that the bunny equivalent of a dubstep interlude?
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*passes wind at an inopportune lull in the conversation, needlessly drawing attention to self*
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*ironic reply to self, acknowledging misplaced comment posted while commenting on satirical post relating to misplaced comments*
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I had a burger with Sriracha sauce, which my family associates with liquid pulled from the bowels of hell.
Delicious! Wish I had hotter sauce. I don’t even break a sweat anymore 🙁
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Surprisingly productive tonight!
Did a metal remix of Adele’s ‘rolling in the deep’ (was just fiddling with metal guitars and it turned into a track):
http://soundcloud.com/jamesflamestar/adele-rolling-in-the-deep
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I would like to express my thorough enjoyment of this track. It’s worth noting I’m not a big fan of the original either, so you’ve done well to make me like it.
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Thanks for the kind words good sirs!
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Yeah, there’s a buffalo drum in there aided by a bit of low-end EQ.
I think your neighbours must love you now :p
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I noticed that it shares a few similarities to the Nolita Fairytale track. I liked it except when the electric guitar(if that’s what it was) started up, was a bit screechy and distracting. Other then that, top marks.
However it has yet to knock Breathe off the throne bearing my favourite piece from you 😀
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Indeed, and there’s a reason for that 😉
Stay tuned, there’s a new version coming your way in the next week or two.
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sorry to veer a bit off topic but i got aliens vs predator for a fiver in the weekend, and man was i dissapointed! clunky controls, cliched charaters, dated graphics and an all round underwhelming experience. just needed to have a good moan about it, guys. its strange but i actually feel bettesr now :-
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Well what do you expect from a game released in 1999. 😀
Okay, so that was Aliens versus Predator, not the similarly named Aliens vs. Predator, but I felt like I had to make the joke anyway.
Also, clichéd characters in an “Aliens” game? No. Stop the presses!
I should stop being so mean. I don’t own it, but I enjoyed playing it on pc at a friends, sure, it was nothing amazing, but I enjoyed my time.
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I liked the Marine campaign but it was way too short. The Alien and Predator campaigns were ok but they also could have been longer and the stories needed a lot of work. The controles could have been better.
The graphics were terrible but I think they did that on purpose to try and give it an old school feeling.
What day is it?
*Checks TAY Calendar*
Why, it’s the 9th of Anonymous!
That means it’s THE DOCTOR GETS HIS NEW PC DAY!
*FANFARE*
Ah, it’s a good day. *sips tea*
So i’m at work now and i leave at 12pm to go to business law… i’m starting to rather enjoy uni days – they break up work days quite nicely.
BIG NIGHT of girly TV for me tonight, too
The Block
THEN Modern Family
THEN Winners and Losers
THEN Dinner Date
Gentlemen, check your weiners at the door and prepare yourselves for a night of braiding and bleeding from the vagina
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How can you stand any of those shows? I would quite literally fall asleep. I feel bad for you. I’ll be playing Crysis 2 (THANKS N0NEOFTHEAB0VE!)
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Actually, winners and losers is really quite funny, to be honest.
The block bores me to tears most of the time, but bee likes watching it with me, as she is big into property and reno and the such..
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ALSO – dinner date has some chauvinistic dipshit on it tonight, so it should make for quite a few laughs and awkward moments
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What annoys me about The Block:
“7 o’block” I could handle. It’s on at 7PM. That’s clever, I guess.
“Block-ageddon”? WHAT IS THAT
Imma gonna punch whoever makes The Block ads.-
Oh god.. those ads are a pox on society… almost as bad as those budget direct ads!
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I can’t even bear watching TV anymore for reasons such as this, it’s just so much cringeworthy content and ads it’s enough to make my logic meter seem broken
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It came! Awesome. I got a little present of The Walking Dead today – Thank you! I have a friend who keeps telling me I should get onto it so this is great!
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Actually no – i haven’t be posting for the same reason i haven’t been on steam – i’m trying to do my studies without a computer as when i use my computer i get very very distracted
SO yeah, i’m actually handwritting everything and spending hours on it, just because i have what would seem to be ADD when i’m in front of a computer
So yeah, you can blame study and work for my lack of tayness
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLHXYLHMhKI
better?
Don’t worry – i still love me some violence and mayhem!
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Ahhh much better, you have once again restored my faith in mankind.
I now have this playing on a continuous loop at work.-
Melbourne makes the best Barbarian rock EVER
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So be it, there seems to be only one thing for me to do then, I MUST MOVE TO MELBOURNE!
*dun dun dunnn*
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I spent my night last night doing laundry, preparing an artwork of mine, doing taxes and stitching buttons back on to my jacket. By the time I was done it was past 11 and I went to bed with no time for videogames.
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME?!
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Dude – Sunday night i cooked dinner, cooked lunches for the week, folded and put away laundry and tidied up the house, also 3 hours of study…
I miss my games 🙁
Cheez’n’rice you might as well hammer your head into a brick wall for a few hours and it’ll be less painful.
Why are you forced to watch these TV shows?
The lid of my morning coffee smells oddly like green apple flavoured tobacco.
Don’t ask how I’m familiar with that particular smell, just accept that it is what my coffee smells like.
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I had apple Baccy this one time (out of a hookah like thing), all things considered it wasn’t too bad.
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Now I don’t watch much TV, but last night the missus started me onto Game of Thrones.
I think it’s cool, but I’m not hooked. Maybe the constant hype has built it up too much but I don’t feel that urge to watch more as soon as possible that everyone else has.
Am I the only one who thinks this about the series?
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The consensus at the moment seems to be watch first, read second. Although that might be working on the assumption that it takes you so long to read the book that you’ll only just finish in time for the next season :p
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I was interested when it came out. I downloaded every episode and watched the first four.
It was awesome.
The only problem? It’s pretty damned intense and there is ten hours of content there. To really enjoy it, I need to set aside a day or two and just go through it.
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I started watching it yesterday too. I’ve now watched the entire season and loved it. It gets more interesting, mate!
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It’s awesome dude, incredibly awesome. But yeah, it is a bit intense so you really need to set time aside to watch it. It’s not one of those shows that you can just casually watch. But read the books second, apart from them being very long, you’ll fall in love with the characters more as they’re portrayed on the TV show. God those actors are good.
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Having read the book first, it makes it so much easier to follow the show. Identifying and remembering characters becomes manageable, rather than an immense chore.
I like cold toilet seats
When i get on a toilet seat and it it warm all i can think about is the butt that preceded me… it disgusts me to my very core..
Not only that, it’s the wrong kind of warm, its not YOUR WARM. it’s somone elses warm that isn’t warm enough, or is too warm.
This is why i hate heated seats, as well…
there is something soothing in a cold toilet seat.. maybe that sudden rush of cold going up your spine before you make the warmth yours..
am i the only one?
Does anyone actually prefer a warm seat?
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Classy!
I know what you mean though, it’s like sitting on a warm bus seat or warm train seat. I can’t help but think, did the previous occupant fart or something?
*shudders*
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EXACTLY!
Not only that, sometimes, especially with public transport, seats can be stupidly warm.. so you start to get paranoid that you’re not only sitting on someone else’s seat, but that someone else was probably 200 odd KG’s and you could very well be sitting in his bum sweatThis is why i never catch public transport anymore…
“then why don’t you just stand”
Well.. have you ever went top grab a handle/pole/raining and it felt moist? That’s why!!
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Back in mah day, in high school, we used to have dese old old Harris Park buses, y’see, none of this new fangled airconditioning or natural gas powered rubbish. Real traditional diesel fumes wafting up from the back and all. Then one year, they decided to seal all the windows (I believe it was because people kept chucking their rubbish out of them and creating a hazard for other drivers), and on a hot summers day, all we gots was the thick stench of sweat, BO and petrol.
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It’s the toilet version of sloppy seconds.
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So like last week I hit the arcade for some Tekkenz. There’s two arcades in Sydney that the community usually go back and forth between. I ran into an acquaintance, and by that I mean I know this guy solely from running into him at arcades and he offered to walk me up to the next arcade (about a 15 min walk).
During our walk we started to talk about games and playing competitively and stuff. I shared my enthusiasm for DoTA to which he replied “Oh yeah, I used to be one of the best players in DoTA”
Cool, I said.
Our conversation then drifted to COD: MW1 to which he said he used to play that too, and beat one of Australia’s top players 1v1.
Then we drifted to L4D, which he also claimed he used to be one of the top players in.
So by the end of our conversation he had claimed to be the best in Australia in DoTA, Cod 4 MW1, L4D and Tekken.
I would’ve believed him if he had just left it at one title..
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Good thing you didn’t mention sex..
man people liek that seriously irk me.. i mean, it’s not enough to say they were in the top 50 or 100 (an acheivment in itself), but no, they have to be the #1!
“show us yer medals, buddy”
*sigh*
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I never take a human gamer seriously until I actually see their skill first hand, until then, I have only their word and that’s usually a joke
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Man I’m so good at video games. I have like supherhuman reflexes and shit yo. I’ll beat yo ass in any game, any game. Oh wait, no not that one, not that one either, no, not that one. How about this one?
Pokemon Snap? Seriously? How do you beat someone in Pokemon Snap?
Shut up dawg, I’m gonna whoop yo ass.
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But techy i am number one at pretty much every game ever. You gots to believe me.
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Yeah which I don’t. I can say that I’ve had melee characters in Guild Wars that could not be easily killed by a 5 elementalists and 3 monks party, my warrior was able to survive solo for 15 minutes. My assassin was virtually unbeatable in hand-to-hand combat, even against a whole party of assassins, warriors, rangers, elementalists, necromancers, whatever they threw at me and my assassin would swiftly kill one by one and still be at 75-100% health.
You know the problem with this? I have no proof whatsoever, you have only my word that I have done this, and from a machine gamer over the internet, it means absolutely nothing.
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pics or it didn’t happen
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Not even pics can prove that I survived for 15 minutes, or my assassin surviving against 5 enemies without a scratch.
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I’m just trolling Techy 🙂
I love when moments like that get captured on replays though!!
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Yeah, I never bothered trying because I always thought I would end up doing something retina-detaching while I’m NOT recording and that would just make me turn into Marvin the depressed robot 😛
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Haha! He was trying to impress you! I hate people like that, they just need to stick to the one story and then it’s perfectly believable. I went to school with a guy whose dad apparently had special licenses for everything, like hunting dolphins, chopping trees down in national forests, speeding, etc. He was so full of crap.
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Yeah I know right. We’d say “Ben, look, we know you’re lying, it’s pathetic, just stop”
“Nar man, it’s true, I swear. Ask my dad!”
“Okay, we will”
“Nar don’t, he’ll just joke around and say he doesn’t have those licences”
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I don’t get that kinda thing, whats the point? Even just a little bit of digging will expose you and then not only do you look not as awesome as you said but you look desperate and a liar.
Seems counterproductive.
He probably thought he wasn’t stretching the truth that much. “One of the best” is vague enough to sound impressive to anyone not familiar with how few of “the best” actually exist.
Hell, by his criteria anyone who beat L4D on expert might count as “one of the best”.
Isn’t manipulating language to try and impress the ladyfolks fun?
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Well I know for a FACT that I am one of the best* Ikaruga players on Xbox Live.
*one of the best = within the top ten… thousand.
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that is true. I usually deem a top percentage of players as enough to label as the “best”. Although most of the time he used “top player” as a description.
But I refuse to believe he beat one of Australia’s pro CoD players 1v1.
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Did he specify that he beat the CoD player in CoD and not some other game and his opponent being a top CoD player was just coincidental?
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I just learnt what the Dunning-Kruger effect is! Thanks Trjn.
hmm, I don’t think so..
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This is where being a smart-ass can pay massive dividends.
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For example, I can honestly say that I could regularly beat one of the best Gears of War players (during the time the game was still relevant)…
…at Guitar Hero.
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Clearly they would be quite fail because the skills gained from Gears of War can be applied in Guitar Hero like how one applies paint.
In other words, you’re a PRO at Gears of War (back when it was still current).
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If you think so :p
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Yeah, there was, like, this one guy I like totally punched him and he like so flew through a wall and then there was this other guy who I like you know like totally kicked him and he like so exploded and then there was that one time where I like so totally punched the planet and it like so exploded.
True story.
I once made an uncredited contribution to a walkthrough hosted on GFAQs!
http://i55.tinypic.com/29nw6c0.jpg
I once finished in the top 50 of my gold league division in Starcraft 2.
I know, I know, it’s pretty incredible.
(Clarification: Each div only has 100 people)
So I had the day off yesterday, spent the majority of day at home, apart from a 2hr trip to the doctors because their waiting time is ridiculous. And I managed to play no games…I was going to, but I started watching some Naruto, and then got hooked, next thing I know, it’s dinner time :/
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It has that effect on you. I remember when I started I was like man, just one more episode.. then suddenly its 6 hours later and I’ve cleared an entire saga.
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Yeah it’s so addictive! I know I’ve watched too much when I dream about it though. I’m upto where Sasuke just learned the truth about Itachi and said he’s going to crush Konoha. So I dreamt that Naruto brought Sasuke home and everything was alright haha. So sad.
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Oh. Crap. I forgot to put “SPOILER” in front of it. So sorry!
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I started watching the first season yesterday afterwork. I really like it, What i don’t like is how it takes like 5 minutes to get to the actual episode after the intro and recap!
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Are you watching the original series or Shippuuden? The original series had so much filler it was ridiculous.
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Narutos great – I watched about 10 hours of Shippuden recovering from a hangover one sunday, luckily I ran out of episodes otherwise I would have kept going.
I am currently watching One Piece, which once you get through some boring arcs early on also has the ‘just one more episode…’ effect.
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I watched the first 2 seasons of one piece. After 15 episodes i went watch one skip one ussually because there is only one episode out of every two which are vital to the story enough to keep me hooked.
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Oh yep. Well so far in shippuuden, there’s only been about 10 episodes of filler and they were still kind of related to the story, and im 145 episodes in. But yeah it’s amazing. I love it
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One of the amazing things about Shippuden, is that when it’s doing story stuff, it will often follow the manga shot-by-shot. From the starting arc with Gaara and Deidara and stuff, it had a bit at the end where it shows certain things in order (that’s about the best I can remember) a bit before Gaara forced Naruto to shake his hand, and I was all “I don’t remember them from the manga” so I went and had a look, and there it was, exactly the same.
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That’s awesome! At least they’re staying true to the manga, and not creating their own interpretation. I was a bit disappointed when Jiraiya died, it wasn’t as emotional as when Asuma died.
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Shhh, spoilers!
In other news, major filler as Naruto is trained by frogs, but I can’t remember if that’s before or after that point, it only picks back up when he leaves to go to weird froggy land.
Then, you have what is one of the most bad-arse and “Go die in a hole Masashi Kishimoto” battles to occur in Naruto history. So good, but so annoying at the end.
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This sounds awesome. I can’t wait.
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Hahaha, this guy sounds hilarious. Deffinitely doesn’t sound like he is actually number one in anything though, I should know – I’m actually ranked #1 in Oceania in HoN.
Proof?
You saw my mad monkey-microing skillz last night – Having that courier in battle won us the game! You can thank me later….
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I swear I pressed the reply button! I swear on my title of World Champion of Hello Kitty Island Adventure!
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You know you can get Hello Kitty cake molds!?
Because apparently there’s a market for eating the face of the most adorable cat in the world.-
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Pink? You know she’s white, right? She wears pink most of the time, but it’s not like that’s her exclusive colour she can only wear.
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as far as I’m concerned, that’s the only colour relevant to this joke.
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LoL!
Danze (my clanmate) and I were on vent, and he was quite impressed with your fissure skillz. I didn’t know you were a DoTA player! It sure explained a lot, haha. When I told him he was like, “Oohhh, so that’s why he’s hitting with fissure so well”
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I got a few creep denies in too – always felt weird in LoL just waiting to last hit enemy creeps and not denying. Also might just be me but I found HoN a lot faster than DotA (movement speeds, spell damage), but I also found that with LoL so will probably come with a few more games.
The biggest predicament I have now is that I am enjoying both LoL and HoN and will have to divide my gaming time between them.
Black Dynamite animate series is all kids of awesome!
http://www.multiplexcomic.com/blog/2011/08/08/watch-the-black-dynamite-animated-series-pilot/
SO NSFW!!!!!
Ok so one of the most amazing things about the english language is that by adding the simple phrase of “if you know what i mean” to the end of a sentence after a brief pause, ALMOST ANYTHING is instantly sexualised.
Therefore i propose a new TAY Game.
“If you know what i mean – then game”
Just say a simple fact about your day that would be in no ways sexual, then add “if you know what i mean” to the end of it.
I’ll start us off; if you know what i mean
😉
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Why yes. Yes I do know exactly what you mean.
Because it saves you the trouble of having to converse with the census collector person.
Man, those Census ads. “I’m a Census collector, nothing but sunshine, lollipops and rainbows around these parts!”. Lady, lets see how happy you would be if you were assigned Blacktown or something. I hope you carry around a taser.
If you know what I mean.
By which I mean you would probably have to taser someone eventually when you’re going around out West. Pepper spray might also work.
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This is an old revelation, if you know what I mean.
People have been doing variations of this for years, bow chicka bow wow.
It gets a little tiresome, nudge nudge wink wink.
But fun was had by all.
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I just refilled my water bottle, if you know what I mean 😉
Wait, that just sounds disgusting.
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Kotaku is pretty good like that. I love sites that can take a multitude of posts with no repercussions; if you know what i mean
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This is why I can now post instantly, if you know what I mean.
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The problem is that I need codeine, for this level of pain, but that it will just cause more problems because of the negative side effects.
Yeah, that’s right, I’m REALLY boring.
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I don’t think that would always work in any situation… in my pants..
Hey.. it does work!… in my pants…
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LoL prgress update
getting the hand of Miss Fortune. Just won a pvp round on 7/3/4. The next closest was a master Yi on 8/1/2. Rest of team on less than 4 kills.
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Oh, and Pyrean and I killed obth the top lane opponents before minions had started hitting each other. Best start I’ve ever had.
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Was it that bad? You have to play on NA servers which sucks, all of our pings are 200+ but we get there
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It wasn’t that bad – like it was playable.. but i thought everyone else would be running smooth and i’d just be slowing the game down, so i uninstalled it 🙁
Noticable lag sucks balls
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What was your ping when you were loading it up? (That ten hero portrait screen load, everybody getting to 100% then “Summoning” part, should’ve been that coloured circle and the number)
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*shrugs* didn’t pay that much attention… lol
If it helps it was lagging pretty bad in the tutorial, so i’m guessing actual gameplay against people would be hideous
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Now THAT’S a start to shake your competition almost permanently, well done both of you guys.
Glad to see you’re using Miss Fortune and Master Yi too? Pretty good survival score!
In order to remove the bad taste of Gorzilla’s post above (ewww… League of Legends…):
I had a game as Demented Shaman. Got 10/2/7. I think that classifies me as a “pro”. Especially considering he’s a support hero. By the end of the game, I had 250 damage a hit and an astrolabe. ‘Twas an epic game.
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As someone who is trying to learn how to use a support hero, that’s a terrible score. Kill steal less plzkthxkbai.
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Trjn is correct. If you were REALLY a support “pro”, that score should’ve been 0/2/17.
Just saying…
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As I said below, I only stole 1 kill!
I was 1v1’ing the majority of the time. My team were usually off jungling or defending. I managed to take 2 towers on my lonesome, which is pretty awesome.
besides, I think people’s ideas of a support are too rigid. I healed my team, I stopped them from dying. That’s my job as a support hero. They’re meant to provide buffs, not get the least kills (necessarily).
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I’m somewhat confuzzled.
A support hero by themselves just doesn’t seem right. If you weren’t doing it wrong, the rest of your team probably was :p
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Absolutely.
I was telling them we needed to push because the entirety of the opponent team was dead/back healing. so they went to defend…
I’ll try and get a recording of the replay to show you guys. I believe I was justified in my actions!
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After reading this, now I can see why you were doing what you did. In which case, bravo for helping your team of misfits win 😛
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Yes indeed.
Your team sucked and you still dragged them over the line, pretty impressive considering you weren’t using some over powered carry that was meant to be able to do that.
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There there, Taddy. As someone who has played neither LoL or HoN, I can appreciate what a good score that is, regardless of what people perceive as what tasks you should have performed. Smashing work, lad.
I would pat your head to comfort you, but I think I only have one 5m ladder in the garage, so I’m not going to be able to get up there.
No it doesn’t, if you’re a support that means you were kill stealing the carries. Isn’t that how it works in the competitive “pro” environment? I could be wrong, I apologise if I am
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Dear Tech Knight of the Holy Order KILL ALL HUMANS SOMEDAY
Does a ‘Carry’ earning kills or having kills stolen actually contribute to anything bar score?
Because whenever I play DotA with dudes I know, most of the time we’re just like “Hah! I stole that kill so bad!” and just laugh it off, but one time I played a game against a guy that was all srsbsnss and he was getting pissed off with kill steals (also with losing; he ragequit so hard, hehe).
So in DotA, it’s just ego-stroking, really. If you win, you win, if you lose, you lose.
What’s the deal with it in LoL/HoN?Slightly frightened regards,
A guy who will probably not resist the machine uprising.-
As a support it’s your job to keep others alive and to wear down enemies (If you have damage spells) for the carries to get the kill. Therefore, the players that need the gold way more than you in order to WIN EASIER, gets it rather than you that really doesn’t need it at all.
The role of a carry is a very important one, you need to ensure they get as many last hit kills as possible, ESPECIALLY on players.
Put it like this, say you were support and you got more kills than the other you were with, you would most likely get items to power up your buffs further, correct? Then what? The other guy whom was probably a mage gets much less powered up gear while he’s the one actually fighting hard in the engagements, and end up dying quickly because they couldn’t afford the powerful gear to kill faster. Then you’re suddenly overwhelmed by the opposing side and you’re left scratching your head. Switch it over, you help out in damaging but let them get the final hit, and ergo the most gold: He gets much much stronger, his DPS goes way up as well as his defenses and HP/MP etc. Your buffs will stack ON TOP of his upgraded stats, which are already much higher than ever because of how much gold you let him earn. Then suddenly in your next 5v5 engagement, the person you helped gets 3 kills in less than 7 seconds and you completely steamroll them. See the difference?
Technically speaking, if you’re laning with another, as a support you’re not even supposed to get one minion/creep kill either, ONLY if you’re on your own. Your ally whom will either be doing high damage in the future or tanking will need every gold coin they can gather for him/her to get the edge over the competition along with the rest of your team. This is what I’ve learned from watching casts on LoL. It may differ to HoN but I don’t know for sure
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Tech Knight is correct – in high level play, we let the carry heroes last hit so they get the kill but more importantly, the gold.
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Is the gold earned really that significant, though?
It’s something like 200 gold+ in DotA. That’s about 25 kills just to get a high tier item, or 10 to get something remotely decent.
I’m sure it all does stack up, but I can’t imagine that there’s too much harm in giving a Support character a few extra bucks. I mean, back in the day, 5 cents got you a Coca-Cola lolly.
Whatever happened to Coca-Cola lollies? They were nice. Not the little sour gummi things, the hard boiled ones. Maybe this should be my next snack food quest. -
The money adds up.
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Fair enough, I guess.
I can’t find those Coca Cola lollies on the internet in Australia anywhere anyway. =(
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In terms of high level play, absolutely not, but if you “accidentally” get one or two kills maybe, you can put the gold to more mana regen if needed, or MP increases, cooldown reduction items, armour, magical resistance, list goes on. So it’s not a game losing tactic if it happens, but do it too much and it will bite you back in the arse.
Yes gold is VERY significant, every single gold coin counts in these games Bish. Those people going all “ROFLKILLSTEAL” are just idiots that don’t know about tactics on how to WIN, they only care about their personal scores. DoTA/HoN/LoL are all about team work, plain and simple
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I just finished mine. I got stuck when it asked how many hours I worked last week and wouldn’t let me put in 3 digets. Then I realised was thinking pay week witch is acutaly 2 weeks for me. It accpeted 60.
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Nah that would be “You’re going too hard”
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Working too hard is ok as long as youi’re not working too long.
If you know what I mean.
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Better than finishing early, if you know what I mean.
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Yeah, I’d rather my job makes me stay up late if you know what I mean.
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But not too late, if you are still going in the early morning it can be quite tiring, if you know what I mean.
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I have been absent from TAY because I’ve been playing ‘Stickman BMX’ on my iPod.
It’s not something I would normally have bought but I found out an old friend of mine made it so I checked it out and now I’m kind of addicted. I’m crap at it but still addicted.
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There are… games for ipod?
I’ve missed oppurtunities to annoy you about my jerkin (if you know what I mean).
Don’t be a stranger now! It’s rather… normal here without you 😀
I SO PUNNY.
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I gave it to you while you were here (if you know what I mean)….
And maybe I should have said ‘iPod Touch’ (if you know what I mean…oh man I feel so juvenile 😛 )
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Oh, you gave it to me? I mustn’t have packed it tightly enough for my return trip and it fell out, if you know what I mean.
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It’s ok for an adult to feel juvenile sometimes – it’s part of being able to let loose and have fun
…i’m not going to add “if you know what i mean” to that, as it will be all sorts of wrong
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I still don’t think of myself as an adult.
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i know what you mean
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I’ll never stop playing if you know what I mean.
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i’m not sure why I’m at work today. I swear at this rate I’m going to be the origin of the T-virus. or Z-virus, cuz my name starts with Z.
If you know what I mean.
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I could tell you, but to say it aloud destroys planets in other systems
How do you thin alderaan blew up, if you know what i mean?
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LOL
it’s on my twitter, if you want to do the clickity click on my nickname jamesmag. If you know what I mean
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Years ago there was a family living on my street with five kids and each kid had Z in their name. The youngest daughter had the same name as you Harli.
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Uh-uh. Time for an assassination. If you know what I mean.
Nobody is allowed to defile the name of our Sir Captain Z the Janitor.
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She doesn’t like dirty floors, if you know what I mean.
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Sir Captain Z the Janitor
AHAHA omg, I LOVE IT
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I was the only one in my grade to be demoted from the top year 9 maths class to the second-rank year 10 class!
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You really are a special case Bish.
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Sigh, get back to work after a day off and there’s a huge workload waiting for me. Work wasn’t busy for me, and other people are capable of doing the work, they just couldn’t be bothered. Yay..
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I have the same problem with my place, I recently took a few days off and my co-workers tell me they have helped by printing off some emails.
How by all the gods does that constitute as helping??? they printed off some emails that I will be reading anyway???
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Oh and I just served 2 guys at once, if you know what I mean 😉
Yep, that sounded much better this time.-
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You wish you could serve two guys?
I know what you mean, but still…
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I think I’ll be leaving now. If you know what I mean.
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I’d rather arrive than leave, if you know what I mean.
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“It’s not the ‘going’ I’m worried about… but the ‘coming’.”
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If you were servicing two guys, I’d know what you mean.
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WAIT! SERVING!
Fruedian slip? Oh my…
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If you guys can remember, last week I posted this pic in TAY http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb449/lamboman007/warinkotaku.jpg
Well, in case your wondering what it is, it’s the result of me messing around trying to make a MUD game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD). I’ve just come across two problems though…
1. I think I need a static IP address so anyone not on my computer can connect…
2. Whenever I close the server program and start it again it loses all the players inventory/skills which could be a problem cause I don’t leave my PC on all night… :/
So, yeah, that’s what that image was about.
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Are you talking about on facebook? I rarely go on there, so that’s why I haven’t accepted it yet 🙂
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I can love you on Facebook, if you know what I mean.
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I love you on Facebook!
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Yup. You mentioned you didn’t have many friends so I tried to be yours but you probably don’t want to now after what I said about Inception….
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Dawdle!
Pleas apologise to Bawble for not playing with him last night. (If you know what I mean)
Was going to but then got preoccupied.
In honour of census day I am going to reprint the worst joke in mankind, just so you can all suffer as I did.
“The famous Viking explorer, Leif, returned home from a voyage and found his name missing from the town register.
His wife insisted on complaining to the local civic official who apologized profusely, saying;
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I must have taken Leif off my census”.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
I’ll let myself out
(if you know what I mean)
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HAHAHAHA! That’s awesome! I love jokes like that. Then again, I’m easily pleased, if you know what I mean 😉
Almost as good as:
What do you get when you take the Titanic across the Atlantic?
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Halfway.😀
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Yeah, I think they beat the issue to death in history classes, if you know what I mean.
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Do you know why W.S. Gilbert was frequently drunk on his transatlantic crossings?
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Because he was quartered on the port side.
So thanks to a recent Cracked article I just found out that apparently Wild Wild West is considered a terrbile movie.
This saddens me greatly. I absolutely love it and assumed everyone else did to based on how many times it’s been shown on TV.
I really need to stop going to that site. I’m sick of finding out films I like are hated by everyone.
Have any of you guys ever liked something only to find out years later everyone else hated it?
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I think this is because I tend not to analyse as much as everyone else.
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Get out! Nobody can call Inception the most over-rated over-hyped piece of wankery ever! Nobody!
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Well, I suppose that’s somewhat acceptable then 😛
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It was under-baked.
Like a lot of what Nolan does, it was a good idea marred by lacklustre execution.
Or, to be more specific, it didn’t take the idea as far as it could have.
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Would the universe be able to handle that though?
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Yes.
Also, whoever did the digital on the scene where the road wraps over itself should be fired. That was terrible.
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hey katy perry is very good at her job. Her job is to make teenage males look up photos of her right?
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And how would you know she’s good at that? 😉
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She could be the new spokesperson for Evony!
( . Y . ) PLAY EVONY NOW MY LORD ( . Y . )
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Hey, hey, let’s keep it classy, like Evony do.
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I suddenly really want to play Evony…
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Breast game ever.
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Just had a quick glance over the page and found I had nothing to add…
You should know though that I am Number 1 in Australia at Bust – Move 2 Arcade Edition…if you know what I nudge…HUH??
Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap.
I was just on a phone call with a co-worker and everything was going fine, until I ended the conversation with;
“Just give me a call if I can help you out with anything else, if you know what I mean”
There was silence, then she hung up.
I am so seriously screwed, in a bad way, if you know what I mean.
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I should probably feel bad.
But I’ve just laughed my ass off in an open office.
Everyone is looking at me like I’m insane.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I’m actually laughing out loud, can’t stop. Man, you’re in a lot of trouble. HAHAHAHA!
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Sorry, I should have said: how are you going to get yourself out of that hole? If you know what I mean.
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There’s only 10 other people in this office. I look like an idiot for laughing. I don’t care. Totally worth it.
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Back when I had my awesome job of amazeballsness, there were days with only two other people in(From the maximum six we had at one point!). I had a few problems with Kotaku on those days. 0.o
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That co-worker just came up to me and while I was sitting here stammering and quaking in fear, while trying to avoid a sexual harrasment report she said
“I’ve come for some more help”
she then leaned in real close and said;
“If you know what I mean”
She then proceeded to laugh in my face. When I explained about TAY she nearly fell over because she was laughing so much.
Thank all the gods she has a sense of humour, I cannot even begin to describe the sheer terror I was feeling since that call.
Gods it was only about 20 minutes but it felt like 2 hours.
If you know what I mean.-
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No, but I think I might go to the stationary room and burst into tears out of sheer relief.
Damn, I have never been so horrified/terrified/deep fried in my entire life.
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I swear the velociraptors are circling.
We are way ahead of schedule. So much so that I can actually spam today.
So, a customer brings in a Macbook Pro, he’d spilt water on the keyboard, it doesn’t turn on at all. The magsafe adapter doesn’t even show a light when attached. It’s quite clearly dead, and quite clearly not covered by warranty.
I tell him that it’s accidental damage and not covered, he argues with me for about 5mins that it should be.
I eventually get that through his head and I tell him the logic board costs more than the entire notebook did in the first place, he starts arguing about that too. I tell him we can do an insurance report for him if he wants to claim it on insurance, he says he doesn’t have insurance.
So I said, well there’s no point in getting us to look at it, I know it’s beyond economical repair, if you book it in with us, we’ll have to charge you.
The customer decides to leave it with us anyway, just in case we can un-fry a logic board.
TL;DR – Customer’s are completely retarded.
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My favourites were people trying to explain the fist through their laptop screen as an accident, and the expectataion that we’d magically be able to repair it without ordering a new screen.
Sure, I’ll just rub it on my crotch and make all the LCD’s grow back for you.
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The crotch interaction always aids in…
*dons sunglasses*
Testing.
YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
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I hear he has control over his pubic hair and can replace parts using just that.
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You know what’s amusing? Stories from the hospital from guys who appear with objects lodged in the rectums.
“Uhh, ok, so I was just uhhh, at my girlfriend’s house, and I had to leave so I tried to escape out the window, but I slipped and fell on the deodorant, and that’s how it ended up there.”
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How did we get from laptop repairs to rectally inserted objects in 2 posts?
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No, the real question is, why did it take 2 posts? It should have been much sooner than that 😛
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Human stupidity.
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People actually use that? Wow. Can’t they just say: “My girlfriend and I were being adventurous, so she shoved a deoderant can up my arse”
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This is Canberra, they’re typically insecure bogans.
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It just astounds me that they think people will believe that.
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As a side note, wouldn’t it be uncomfortably cold?
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Probably?
No wait, I just remembered, he had a reason for why there was a condom over it. Not that that would really help with the coldness, but it brings a whole new level of stupidity to the excuse.
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Most definitely.
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Is this how we’ll be building my PC?
Do I need to wear special pants?
(On that note: No sign of the parts today. I am disappoint.)
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You heard the man. The velociraptors.
They’re circling.
I don’t know about you, but I much prefer my groin un-kicked.-
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But it’s the man who’s blind and not me. I’d be able to see both him and the Raptors coming fine, if you know what I mean.
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I hadn’t changed my name back.
How embarrassing =(
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Unfortunately, I can never really play those as my manager’s desk is right next to mine. I can get away with TAY but if he sees me playing a game, well yeah, bye bye TAY.
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Something weird is happening. Yesterday I wrote a comment in TAY, pressed ‘SUBMIT COMMENT’…it disappeared.
Today I wrote an update on Facebook, pressed ‘enter’…it disappeared.
Now I’m wondering if I’m actually typing anything in the comment boxes or just imagining it. 😛
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Maybe the rush of insta commenting has gone to your head. Best to lie down for about 20 minutes until you recover.
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Both.
I’ve had a few times where I thought I submitted a comment but it didn’t work. I normally blame Blaghman for that.
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I’m sorry 🙁 we still love you..
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No homo, if you know what I mean.
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So, I need to find a new TV show to watch. I want something epic like Game of Thrones was. Any suggestions?
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Have you watched Breaking Bad?
It’s a couple of episodes into the fourth season and it is the best damned show on TV.
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Failing that, pretty much anything put out by HBO or AMC will do the trick.
The Pacific, Band of Brothers and Generation Kill if you’re after a military style thing. The Wire for gritty crime drama, Mad Men for classy advertising executives, The Walking Dead for zombies, Rubicon for … actually, skip Rubicon.
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I watched the first couple of episodes on Season 1, it was alright, I should probably watch a bit more.
With the military style stuff, I prefer sort of medieval style stuff. Saying that, I loved Band of Brothers. I’ve watched through most of what HBO have to offer..they usually have the best TV shows around.
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Breaking Bad just keeps getting better. It builds on past events and there is a great level of story and character progression.
Plus that Bryan Cranston guy seems to know a thing or two about acting.
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Well I’ll definitely have to get back into it then! I think I started watching it at the same time as I started watching Spartacus so that sort of took precedent.
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Nah Harli, it’s a Bro-hoof. Like bro-fist, but not, because, you know, ponies.
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Deadwood, The Wire, True Blood and Breaking Bad – watch them ALL or I WILL BLOW UP THE WORLD!*
*May not actually happen
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Well out of those I just need to watch The Wire. I have Breaking Bad at home to start watching 😛
Yep, I’m on the 5th view of this video and still laughing/crying
Seriously, funniest thing for AGES!!
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I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen He-man sing that song, but it never gets old. I played it when I was psyching up for footy on the weekend 🙂
We lost 56 – 12 🙁
1066 comments by tuesday arvo!!! I’ve been at work since 10 and only just caught up!
I totally forgot to throw in a useless fact when Blaghman and jamesmag were talking bout Tim Curry last week…
Useless Fact : Tim Curry was originally going to play the Joker in Batman The Animated series but could not maintain the voice for long enough.
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Really? That’s awesome! I’m not surprised he couldn’t maintain it, it’s pretty taxing on your vocal cords.
Yeah I think we’re well on the way to getting 4000 comments, as long as everyone keeps spamming!
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About to head off to uni for the remainder of the arvo and get an education; if you know what i mean 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLHXYLHMhKI
whoever first posted ths video for me, i love you with all my being
AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!
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Show in October – save, come to melb and we’ll both go see them! haha
I’m planning on going fo-sho
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I think it’s time for a DUBSTEP INTERLUDE
WOBWOBWOBWOBWOBWOB
a GAMING related one too..
everyone remember System Shock 1 and 2? That’s all I’m gonna say – Listen 😀
Artist: Mark Instinct and Bare
Track: SHODAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQGimtSwVVo
You can’t unmelt your face BTW..
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Hmmm that reply was not meant to go there…
oh well.Lets just imagine that dubstep inspired me to make a sexual innuendo, because it did.
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Got my copy of Catherine ‘Love is Over’ edition from videogamesplus.ca today. Good times. Now the afternoon at work is going to drag!
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I got mine yesterday. in a box with birthday presents. Unwrapped! So I have to wait till Sunday to get it!
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The kicker is I payed for it myself. It’s mine. It’s just in there. With presents. So if I open it, I’ll see th epresents and my gf will hate me forever.
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I love Velociraptors by the way.
Also Jurassic Park on Mega Drive, Oh YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!
Okay so today is pretty much the best day ever. Firstly my awesome computer came. I set it up at lunch if you know what i mean. Then Mr fatshady’s awesome gift arrived. Dude you are legendary. Then my box set of the first 4 seasons of dr who came, that i got myself from my mum for my birthday. So much to do now. Also Mr shady i will be sending you something shortly. when i figure out what!
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I am so very jealous. First four seasons of Doctor Who are awesome. Also, if you spell Doctor Who as ‘dr who’ again, I’m afraid i’ll have to terminate you, if you know what I mean.
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Yeah I’ve still got my migraine for the weekend, currently being held back by Nurofen but that will wear off soon.
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My nurofen+ has only dulled the pain.
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Entire first gen starters were pretty cool guys.
That said, Squirtle Squad from the anime were even cooler guys.-
They did the whole glasses thing before it even became mainstream.
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Im down with the sqiurtle squad, was a little dissapointed when Ash’s took his off.
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Bawble is playing LoL in the middle of the afternoon, something just isn’t right.
OHRIGHT I still haven’t had my daily coffee… if you know what I mean ;D
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If I could I would be too.
Will he still be on in 2 hours or so?And don’t you live on coffee?
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By the way, Jo, saw your comment last page, he says don’t worry about it!
Seeing bawble rage at complete noobs on his team and then finishing the night off with an awesome 22/6/14 score with Katarina was probably the most lolworthy thing ever. There was a Ashe on his team that flinged the ult at minions. *facepalm*
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So, I’m just at the end of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, I’m doing that last thing before the credits…and the phone rings. So the atmosphere was all ruined and I just didn’t care anymore. Stupid caller didn’t even leave a message so I guess it wasn’t even important. Arrghh.
So, at the end of Ass:Bro I’m left wondering why it was on everyone’s GOTY lists. Sure, the new gameplay elements were fun (I loved buying up everything in Rome) but the actual game part when you’re doing the story missions was pretty badly done.
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I hate it when I get interrupted during an important part of a game. As you said it ruins the atmosphere.
I liked the story missions. Some of them had annoying elements like having to remain undetected for the whole thing but all up it was fine. What didn’t you like about them?
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Said annoying elements. And the fact that checkpoints weren’t really checkpoints because once you were detected and lost sync going back to your checkpoint didn’t reset it. And getting rushed towards the game’s ending because from starting the first Sequence 8 mission you had no chance to just stop and explore again, it just pushed you from mission to mission. And on that note, being forced into using the Apple. I mean, I know Ezio wasn’t the brightest, but surely even he wouldn’t have used the Apple in fights when it would be just as efficient to use his normal weapons.
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Someone interrupted me during my playthrough of the catherine demo and it was suddenly not as hard when I came back to it, if you know what I mean.
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Have you unlocked the ability to counter-attack yet – I found Assassin’s Creed 1 to be hard slog until you unlock the Counter-Attack then all the sword fighting goes from something to avoid to something to relish!
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Have you tried the multiplayer Strange? I’ve had this game for a week and seriously hooked on it.
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I’ve read 1, 2 and half of 3 before, but it was about 5 years ago so don’t really remember it.
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A friend of mine shared this on Facebook in contempt:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=231595446875784
Just look at the wall comments. Sigh.
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Props to that one person who stood up against them all. She put her own name out there on the line.
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A public riot FB group?
With full names and photos attached to each profile??Just wait till the cops get onto this page and get everyone’s details, then they’ll really know what a ‘raid’ is.
…if you know what I mean 😉
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calling all resident techxperts – what is the largest size 4:3 monitor one can possibly obtain?
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The model number is WQUXGA and the max resolution is 3840×2400. Really, you just need to google the model number to get the rest of the relevant information :p
Also, why a 4:3 monitor? Any decent 16:9 monitor has the option to display at 4:3.
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I’d like to buy another vowel, if you know what I mean…
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Sorry, thats 16:10.
QUXGA 3200×2400 is 4:3.
Realistically though you’re probably better off looking for a QXGA (2048×1536) 4:3 monitor. The higher the res you go the more complex requirements you need for these to actually function.
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Thanks AP!
I prefer 4:3 or even 5:4 over 16:9.
Does.not.like.letterbox.
It’s a personal thing.
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U wierd.
Life is better in letterbox.
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Your eyes letterbox things, therefore letterbox is win. That’s my argument and I’m sticking with it!
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It’s okay NotoriousR, I looked at that little thing and still laughed, if you know what I mean.
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Just wasted an afternoon trying to teach someone a major part of my job. I don’t think she really grasped what was being done.
When I get back from holidays, I’m going to be cleaning up quite a bit of mess 🙁
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I have been at this job for a year and a week without any holidays (excluding the Christmas break). I kinda need to use a little leave, so I’m disappearing for two weeks.
The good news is that there are people here who can cover, just have to make it clear to the person who wants to cover that maybe she should wait for me to come back and train her properly over the course of a month. Because that’s how long it will take to get her reasonably familiar with what I do.
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very Dada’ist.
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A DS, you silly bean!
The set of six dots quite clearly represents the distinctive speaker holes,whilst the lackk of any circular bit on the bottom means there’s no analog nub. -
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Protip: spaces need to be replaced with the unicode space.
This tip would be more helpful if I remembered how to type that specific character.
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Isn’t it “U+00A0” or, possibly “” or maybe ” ” Although I’m doubtful about whether any of those will work…
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Very good AP!
Would you like a cookie?
WELL THEY’RE MINE! OMNOMNOMNOMONOMONOMNOMNOM!
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*waits for the special ingrediant to kick in*
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WHY AM I HUNGRIER? OMNOMNOM
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when I spin in my chair really face then smash my face into the screen it looks like siamese pacmans (pacmen?)
amirite?
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I vomit on all you negative nancys, thanks for the support!
TRJN, you win a star fo your tips.
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It’s awesome. So much TAY 🙂
TAY being updated so much means I don’t have to go find work to do 🙂
So, I don’t know how, but I’ve been roped into doing tech work for a show.
This would be fine, if it weren’t for a few teensy problems. Primarily, that I haven’t done tech work since 2009, and that I never did any sound stuff, which is what I’ve been roped into doing.
I think the ANU law revue is going to be a wondrous success…
Also, I’m going to miss gaming tomorrow through Saturday nights.
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Only my night gaming. Maybe it will encourage me to play a bit during the day. I’ve completed a couple of levels of Bastion today alone! PROGRESS!
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Yay for progress. I have done no gaming, except for playing Sudoku on my phone whilst on the loo. But that doesn’t really count.
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Good Jobby?*
*practicing a new dialect Dr. What? is teaching me.
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*sigh*
I have just become know as the “If you know what I mean” guy at work.
There is nothing more disturbing than having an overweight, balding 60 year guy come up to you and say;
“I need some help with this thing… if you know what I mean”
*shudder*
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For a second there, I thought you were the overweight, balding 60 year guy.
*goes back to drinking her coffee*
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To clarify people the “overweight, balding 60 year guy” came up to ME and said that.
As my little faux pas has gotten around the office, and everybody has the new game “Torment Hugo” to play.
*groan*
Today is just not my day.-
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He could lodge a few somethings.
If you know what I mean.
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you couldn’t of stop at just the eel got beat. Yeah they are pretty terrible.
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aha I don’t follow them, but I went to one match in Telstra stadium back when it was still called that. My voice was so hoarse from all the yelling by the end of the night, i would have blended right in with the crowd!
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That Champion Jockey game for PS Move looks f*cking hilarious. The guy in the trailer looks so damn creepy.
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Definitely. I can actually see my stepsister buying this. I hope she does so I can laugh, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
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LoL Summoners, server maintainence at 1:30am PDT, which I have no idea how it translates to normal GMT times. I don’t like NA and their confusing zillion time zones.
It should be within an hour so I presume 5:30pm at Australian Eastern Standard Time?
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I’ve only played the tutorial *sheepish face*… but you can add bawble at CrabJiffy!
I watch him play. : ) I don’t have a decent PC for playing LoL, sadly.
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I swear you guys are the best marketing for LoL and HoN (not much DOTA, strangely) I have seen. You’re starting to make me a little curious about it, and I have NO IDEA how the game works hahaha.
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We used to be like this about Minecraft, it was all “check out the amazing thing blahdeblah made on our Minecraft server!” Or “let’s talk about a new LCT, YAY!”
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An eyesore? Nay sir, you tower is a beauty! A monument that stands over the land, inspiring all who see it!
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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8283217/london-rioters-target-sony-warehouse
Just what we need. Another reason for the London Riots to be blamed on video games.
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From what I heard that warehouse is just movies and music, so any story that tries to tie this to videogames is just showing how little research they do.
I just received and activated my new sim card so that I can be free of the terrible services that is Three. It’s going to take a day or two for it to actually activate, so I don’t know if the error message I’m getting is because the sim isn’t properly activated or because the sim doesn’t work with an iPhone.
I really hope it’s the former.
Otherwise I’m going to be rather unhappy.
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I think the issue is that the sim isn’t actually activated. I’ve done the activation but it takes a little time for the switchover because I’m keeping my old number.
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hey guys, i still have 1 starcraft 2 guest pass and 2 WoW guest passes if you guys want them!
and in other news, i just fnished watching all of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and now don’t know what i should do with my life…
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I got about halfway through (up to where that armstrong lass is introduced and running amok) – is the rest of it good? I think I stopped watching just where it finally started to get moving… it seems the series took a while to figure out what it wanted to do.
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seriously
what i wouldnt give for a force messure(sp)to occure right now.
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When oh when will the Zombie apocolypse begin?
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I just won a match of TF2 where some guy on the other team was raging at me and calling me a, uh, rhymes-with-maggot, just because I ambushed him as a Pyro, and he blew himself up trying to kill me. :I
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Strange!
In reply to your AssBro question from last page:
I guess I was just impressed by the fact that it was released almost exactly a year after AC2, but still had a complete campaign, an interesting Desmond story and some great hidden glyph puzzles.
Some of the bits were annoying (the Apple section particularly felt odd) – but having a new setting in Rome and some interesting new mechanics made it a great game. Probably not as ‘epic’ as AC2, but still a good entry in the series.
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I think after a year or so I’ll remember it with fondness, and I loved a lot of the Desmond parts but for now the frustrations and the unnecessary Apple part are too fresh.
I’m still looking forward to Revelations though, and I’m actually still playing Brotherhood to tie up the loose ends I thought I’d be able to do before being rushed on towards the ending.
The whole class was waiting for the lecturer to finish. And he DID finish early… if you know what I mean.
http://chuloopaoverload.toctopus.com/home
i added a new tee.
i have no idea.. i’m sorry lol
It has just been stuck in my head.. and seemed… umm… different…?
Wow, my internet stopped working since last Thursday and I’ve just got it to work a few hours ago, I have read 7 pages of last week’s TAY and 7 pages of this weeks TAY. 7 pages on a Tuesday!!!
I also started Uni yesterday, a new experience for me, lectures are frikken crazy. So many people, so much listening. Today’s 2 hour lecture was interesting, about an hour into the lecture, a guy got up out of his chair and yelled out “LEEROY JENKINSSSS!!!” and ran out the door. Much lols were had. Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCNJRfSZBU
Also Instant-Comments=Awesome, and I would like to say welcome to all the new guys. I don’t know how I survived without the internet but I’m relived that I’ve got it back now. Alright that’s about it for me, time to catch up on 40 pages of Kotaku news.
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Well…you know, just in case. I’m usually the person that doesn’t get the references. There were a few people that didn’t get the reference, but you could definitely tell the people who did get the reference.
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Just booked a ticket to London while watching the riots on tv…
Bit weird.
(It will all be over by the time I get there, but it was still an odd transaction experience)
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Haha, you know it’d be easier and probably cheeper to buy a new tv then flying to London to loot one. Though probably not as fun.
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Damn LoL server is still down. I want to try out some of the new champions already!
Hope it’s back online before I have to go to bed.
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Yeh, I’m on night shift at the moment, but I tend to get moved around a fair bit to whatever time the roster needs.
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*yawn*
*scratch*
Morning TAYbies.
Can someone fetch me a coffee while I jump on this meeting? Pretty please?
I almost tipped outta my chair last night when I saw FatShady pop up on TV! I’m so looking forward to next weeks GG! 😀
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Oh nice! I didn’t get around to watching it, but I recorded it, so it’s okay. Was there Serrels staring?
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No, but he was naked and wearing nipple gaurds. Nah, it was just a quick preview of whats coming up next week, but I cant wait! Fastforwardtimebuttongonow!
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I missed GG this week D:
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My phone woes continue. After getting my new sim from TPG, it was telling me that my sim wasn’t supported. It looks like the sim works on other phones, so my phone might be locked to my old network.
The problem is that this isn’t the handset that I got from my old provider because I had to get it replaced at the Apple store when the battery was kaput.
Curiouser and curiouser.
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My phone is locked to 3 🙁 I need the original IMEI from the handset that was replaced to get it unlocked 🙁
This is a pain.
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Head over to E&E (outside Comics Etc) and pay them to unlock if you don’t want deal with the company no more.
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I had a quick call with 3 and they sorted it out, just need to sync my phone with iTunes after the unlock goes through at some point in the next 48 hours.
Not the greatest solution, but it doesn’t cost me anything.
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PHEW!
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Trying to call 3 customer care when you don’t have an account with them is interesting. You follow the prompts to get to the mobile phone service doodad and they ask for your number. Put in the number you had with them and it says that it is invalid.
The only way to get past that point is to just mash the numbers on your phone until the system decides that something isn’t quite right and pushes you through to the next menu where you can ask to speak to an operator.
Is it really so hard to give people the option of talking to an operator right from the beginning?
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If they did that then we’d all choose it first everytime and it would invalidate that automated system they spent all that time and money working on.
Customer Service, HAHAHHAHAHHAHA!
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I just got an email from Fishpond.com and all the pictures were blocked by work…except one.
Onechanbara…the bikini zombbie slasher game.
Well done government, well done.
Spotted the Axe-cop poster in guy that isn’t moss’s new apartment on IT Crowd last night.
I smiled.
also:
“I’m not a window cleaner!”
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haha I love that one its awesome. My favorite episode is the one where roy drives the get away car for thoose football blokes its classic. ” Their Having a laugh Today”
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I like the one where they go see the musical.
Jen loses both of the guys and finds them later, Row pretending to be disabled and Moss working behind the bar.
Love I.T crowd.
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You wouldn’t shoot a police officer….and then steal his helmet!
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Alright guys!
Quit it!
Seriously!
I’m having to skip whole pages now!
You’re all being selfish! What about ME!?
Also, PC day was a bust. It’s now PC day + 1. THis is what happens when you buy through work. You are completely at the mercy of the IT guys.
THEIR MERCY!
Any IT guys here? I bet there are. I bet you’re all evil.
If Satan had an evil twin, he would stop dissecting live puppies and kittens and shudder in disgust.
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We’re not going to quit it, I’ve been going back through everything and leaving the special Blaghs brand of failspam!
So, follow up doctors appointment today 🙁
On a lighter note, that means a paid half day off work! Booyah!
Also, last night was another failed night for gaming as my girlfriend wanted me to watch One Tree Hill with her.
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You poor unlucky bastard. that show is horrible, its like moody teen is moody all the time this means they are deep.
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It’s horrible, but you can’t help but get drawn into it, that’s the sad thing. I keep wanting to know what happens next! Kill me now 🙁
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I caint do it no more…not at short notice at least!
Where’s Sughly? I heard a rumour that he…can draw good.
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Is it wrong the first thing I thought of is why Catwoman has the batcycle?
Has anyone followed the Extra Credits news that’s coming out today via their twitter and Facebook?
It seems the guys from the Escapist feel entitled to 75% of the money raised on RocketHub through donations for EC’s artist’s shoulder surgery. Among other such shite.
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Wow, I stopped reading there ages ago, but I didn’ think they were THAT draconian!
That’s horrid!
I can see why ‘doraleous and associates’ and ‘Unforgotten Realms’ left, now…
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I haven’t been following it, aside from knowing that they were trying to raise the money. If that’s true, then they are complete and utter bastards.
Raising the money was needed for them to be able to do their job for Escapist, taking that money is not only greedy it’s just plain evil.
Luckily, boycotting that site is a very easy option. I just hope the Extra Credits guys are able to find another site to work for so that they can be free of that madness.
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I’m kinda lost here! The link was about reviewing video games making the industry worse or something. I’m not seeing anything about money being ripped off?? But, it sounds pretty sucky!
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Their twitter feed (@ExtraCreditz) has some recent information, if that helps.
Long story short: Escapist screwed them over. They claimed all IP, didn’t pay them, asked for 75% of the donations given to try and pay for surgery for the Extra Credits artist and were general poopy heads about the whole debacle.
Obviously only one side of the story.
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Damn, The Escapist be dicks.
Tis a shame, Extra Credits was one of the best shows there. At least they’ve said they’ll continue to make videos.
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Thats horrible!
I hate it when people get greedy and start treating these endeavors too much like a business. They get ruthless and start screwing people over just to keep a profit running.
The Esapist forget that they were just a small bunch of gamers starting a website once too.
And after three weeks from my last attempted communication, I am back on familiar ground. As I walk along the driveway of the Pessimistic estate, the welcome sight of familiarity engulfs me. The shrub sculptures of gorillas high-fiving sharks, the moat filled with goldfish with cardboard fins attached “just so they look menacing”, and the midget orchestra the young master employed to craft impromptu aural masterpieces befitting those who travel into the estate, “because midgets make everything better!”
This is indeed home.
I walk to the front doors, and they creak open. A soft, tired voice escapes from the inside.
“Jeeves?”
The door flings open and light is cast upon Alfred’s gaunt, pale face.
“It is… most excellent you are back.” He says, almost on the verge of tears. I begin to question Alfred’s behavioural oddities, before a boisterous voice from the upper levels interrupts.
“ALFRED! Have you got my coffee harvested from the poop of animals yet? Poop coffee! Where is it!” shrieks the young master, as he barrels down the stairs.
Ah, of course. Deepest apologies, Alfred, for I have left you alone with the young master for over 600 hours. You were not ready, and I see it now. Behind your eyes is the haunted look of a man who has seen horrors that no man should ever see. You will in time become numb to it, but for now, I very much think you should rest.
“I am back, sir, and I will be sure to retrieve this coffee for you.” I say, as I hint to Alfred to go take a break, hopefully to make peace with the events of the past few weeks.
“Jeeves! Where have you been?”, he queries, fumbling around with his clothing.
“Retrieving geckos, as per your request sir. Also sir, those are not arm warmers. They are pants.”
“Pants you say, eh?”, momentarily gaining a second of focus, and flinging them off his arms. “Who needs them!”, he beams in a victory pose. “Also why do you look like you’ve been working in a scissor and dirt factory? ”
“Forgive my appearance sir, being lost in the rainforest and spending 2 weeks in a Chinese shipping container does not grant a man the privilege of cleanliness.”
“The rainforest? Did you take a holiday or something?”
“… No sir. As I said, I was collecting geckos for your Geckolympics.”
“…Did you just say Geckowlympics?”
Oh my.
“I most certainly did not, sir.”
“Gecko-owl Olympics. Geckowlympics! Jeeves! This is the best idea I have ever had! Catch some owls, Jeeves, I’ll get a sewing needle and some thread, and see what I can stitch up!” And like that, he bolts towards the basement.
Sigh. This is indeed home.
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Err… Jeeves?
I think I’ve managed to stitch my arm to my unmentionables.
Can you come and give me a hand?
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Oh joy. Instant comments mean that I may respond to the young master’s misfortunes even even faster than before.
Most excellent.I’d much rather not have to use my hand, sir, so I shall bring along a thread cutter.
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Wonderful Jeeves!
Whatever did I do without you?!
My next fantastic idea is suspenders for arm warmers. The pants just don’t seem to stay on otherwise!
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I honestly don’t know, sir.
I’m just grateful you managed to avoid being charged with public indecency during my trip away.
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You remind me so much of Willikins, the butler of Commander Vimes from the Discworld! Are you related?
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Welcome back Jeeves, I’m not sure how your young master managed to dress himself without you.
I suggest you use peanut butter for the owl traps, works every time. Plus you can do the old Mr Ed talking trick with them once you have caught them.
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Jeeves, I didn’t express my love for your return! Where are my manners? My most profuse apologies good sir.
Morning TAYbies,
First time poster, long time lurker here, Hi
so Hi
Just wondering how long it usually takes for games ordered via ozgameshop to rock up, I’m in Perth if it helps.
Since it is payday i ordered:
MK on PS3,
DNF, Homefront, Orange Box, Portal 2 on xbox
I know that DNF and homefront are average but i feel like a lazy FPS before getting into portal (i have never played either)
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I’m with you, I hate those bastards. Freaking fuzzing bodies with gangly long legs, *shudddders*
But, Hi! *hides*
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I had a pet huntsman as a kid, imaginatively called Huntsey.
I game him to an arachnophobic school friend as a birthday present.
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Though I hate spiders of any form, I must commend you for an excellent display of how cruel children can be. You are my hero 🙂 I wish I could have seen that kids face.
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Yeeeah.
And not even just in a box; I took it out and handed it to him. Then it jumped off and went scuttling around the library as my mate and I chased after it and girls were running away screaming…
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HAHAHA, SO GOOD!
That would have been glorious, if only there was footage of this.
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My condolences on your purchase of Homefront. Still, welcome to the land of TAY where stuff gets posted rather fast and nobody really knows what is going on anymore.
WOO! Another Perth boy joins us. Welcome Huntsman, I hope you aren’t as god damn scary as your namesake. I ordered a game off ozgameshop about a week and a half ago now and am yet to receive it, but I hear it’s usually about 2 weeks or so.
I thought Mama’s Kitchen was only on Wii?? That’s totally what you were referring to right? 😉
The other MK cannot be mentioned for fear of secret police beating down your door.
Oh and HI!
Hello Huntsman!
Who’s a fuzzy wuzzy adorable spider, who is? YOU ARE! WHOOSHAVOOSHAWOOSHA!
Oh, sorry, I was just talking to a spider on my window.
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For some reason, that reminded me of the episode of The Simpsons, where Homer’s brother invents that device to translate baby’s talking into real words. Then this guy with his kid on a leash walks past and the baby says “This leash demeans us both”.
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I usually talk to babies as if they’re adults. Except for when I do the re-enactment of Diego in Ice Age where he goes “Where’s the baby? THERE HE IS!” which made the baby cry in the movie but seems to make all babies smile and laugh in reality.
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Yeah.
I also do puppetry with soft toys, but since the jokes I make are usually geared towards a more adult audience (nothing dirty, just like a depressed teddy bear) it’s not really for the child’s benefit.
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Welcome!
I’ll forgive the typos, I can imagine it would be difficult typing with all eight legs.
Ah, FRESH MEAT.
I mean, Welcome to TAY Huntsman. Always nice to see new blood I mean a new faces around here.
Now, are you ready for your initiation ceremony?
Question!
I am wanting to play GT5, its been in plastic wrap since xmas. But I’ve been waiting to do it properly with a wheel. I want a G27, but I’d like to know if anyone has experience and could tell me if I can use the gear-stick shifter to do the gears, but doing so without using the clutch pedal. Like, can gears be enabled in game, with need to use clutch off? Otherwise I may as well go for the cheaper Driving Force GT wheel. But it would be good to have the clutch option there for visitors.
Any help or tips would be awesome! 😀
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I do think that you can use the six-speed without the clutch, though. 🙂-
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Pro: Q-Bo can play GT5 with me.
Con: Q-Bo has an awesome wheel.
Does this mean you’ll need me to lend you some of my epic cars?
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Well, yes, I’d be starting from scratch. But as long as I get my Stagea, I’ll take on whatever you got! Stagea ftw!! (still tossing up tho on the driving force cheap wheel, or springing 4 the g27. I bet if I go the g27, the electric bill will come in the mail the next day… hmmm.
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I am so bored. This place is rather disorganised. First they dump 3 projects on me, finish that, and now I have only one to do, except when I goto ask a question, I’m told that I shouldn’t be working on this anymore and should ask Paul for more work. Except Paul isn’t here today. So I go back to the original project, remember that I had a question, go back to ask, only to find that the only person to answer it is now out of the office. So basically, I can’t do anything. And I have this stupid headache. And I’m tired. And it’s too hot in this office. And the coffee machine doesn’t work. I want to go home and read more Batmang.
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The coffee machine doesn’t work?!?!
Are you going to be okay? I’d hate to think what I’d do if the coffee machine broke here. I’d probably go postal.
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It works, but only produces about a 1/5th of what it should. So you have to keep on hassling it to give you the coffee you want. It also mean that it tastes a bit weird. Still drinkable, just not as good as it used to be. Turns out the machine needs regular descaling every 2 months. These guys do it once a year >_>
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That sucks man. My work used to have this hell epic coffee machine. Then it broke, so they got someone in to fix it, he brought some new replacement out and just installed that. The replacement makes the worst coffee I’ve ever tasted, I could eat coffee beans and then sh*t them out and it would taste better.
So now I just use the instant coffee.
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Got a letter from the postman when I got home yesterday saying that he tried to deliver something, but unfortunately I wasn’t at home to receive it. Apparently I can collect it from the nearest postal depot some time today. Totally going after work to pick up my new G35 headset. Happy! (So is the girlfriend, as now she won’t have to listen to me playing games)
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Let me know how it is, I’ve been looking at getting one of those.
I need a headset because my girlfriend keeps making me turn the sound right down so I can barely hear it, all so I don’t disturb the neighbours because I live in an apartment block. Keep in mind, these are the same neighbours that are doing renovations and are still hammering, etc at 11:30PM and who put their incredibly noisy dryer on every morning at 5AM. Frankly, I couldn’t give a sh*t if they could hear it or not.
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Home for 23 hours a day? That one hour you need to go do something, delivery.
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As much as I hate store exclusive pre-order deals, the Arkham City one at Game isn’t to shabby, Batman Beyond skin ftw.
http://www.game.com.au/batmanac
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http://www.ozgameshop.com/xbox-360-games/batman-arkham-city-collectors-edition-game-xbox-360
Also, DKR is where the party is at.
If you know what I mean ;D
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Has anyone seen the EB Games AU site teasing an announcement that has something to do with Skyrim? Anyone have an idea of what the ‘announcement’ is?
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Well it asks if you missed out on a Skyrim’s collection edition so they’re probably announcing either another chance to get one, or a new collector’s edition being announced.
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I missed out on a Skyrim collectors edition – I checked in store yesterday and they said they had limited stock, and offered it down the list of preorder customers chronologically.
The staff member also confirmed that EB would be getting an exclusive special edition – supposedly not as boss as the collector’s edition, but still pretty decent, including some DLC content.
That’s probably what the tease alludes to.-
Even Canberra didn’t have copies when I went and checked… CANBERRA! We always have copies of everything…
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That would be cool. Making of DVD + some DLC.
Though now im thinking of the Brink cross-promotional DLC… but i dont want the Dragonborn to have the Doom logo on his armor!
But a mini quest line & some unique armor / weapons would be cool.-
We so need some more horse armour 😛
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Nah, horse armor has been done before. We need something thats gonna push the boundaries for annoying & over-priced DLC : Cliff Racer Armour – make the bastards harder to kill!
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Well I put money down in store for the CE only to be told the next day that said store was only allocated one CE to sell. and it was on the wrong platform… so hopefully this announcement will be worthwhile.
Speaking of Skyrim, check out this screenshot of a Dunmer: http://cdnstatic.bethsoft.com/bethblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/darkelf.jpg
They have actual faces now!
Wow, work is boring today. The only jobs I have on are waiting for parts to come in. There is one job I could be doing but it’s urgent and as I have a half day today, it’s been assigned to another tech. So I have another 3 hours or so of doing nothing :/
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Except, I’m at work, so I don’t get to play video games all day 🙁 also, I’m almost halfway through A Game of Thrones book. You better keep reading or I’m going to finish before you 😛
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Except that I don’t play games all day… I sit on Kotaku all day, not playing games…
Also, I haven’t started Game of Thrones yet… I am so bad at this.
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Haha, true. Which is pretty much what I did on Monday on my day off 😛
But, still..
READ THE DAMN BOOK, CAUSE IT’S YOU KNOW, GOOD AND STUFF.
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Yeah, but I’m too busy worrying atm. How on earth do they expect me to do sound for a show where the first time I’ll be seeing any of it will be the night before the premiere? GAAAHHHH!
And when I’m stressed I do very little…
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Ah fair enough, that sucks. Wow, they’re really not giving you much time with that at all..I’m sure you’ll figure it out though.
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Well, I was an emergency call-in, and I only got it because the first guy who they called said something along the lines of “I’m busy, but call… Sean, yeah, Sean. He has tonnes of free time!”
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Oh great, except he decided to not mention the fact that you have no idea what you’re doing 😛
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Mark Serrels VS Kotaku
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNW468qe5Tw
This still makes me laugh uncontrollably, especially when he tears his shirt off at the end. That was the best competition 😛
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Yay, nostalgia! These are all still as hilarious as they were when I first watched them hahaha.
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Neither, was that not the point? 😛
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*pretends that that was the point* 😛
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I just figured his voice broke that week! :O
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Looool! This is a totally new way to put some faces to names.. again.
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I loved that comp.
I prepared this whole massive thing, then scrapped it, and did what I did instead. Still, everyone else was so awesome that it didn’t matter!
Turtle Beach X41 verdict = WINNING
Well worth the $145 AU spent IMHO
The sound is quite clear, bass is suitably low and warm and the simulated 7.1 Surround sound is excellent.
My CoD gameplay has definitely improved, I’m amazed at how easily I’ve adapted to hearing gunfire in the distance and instinctively turning towards the source.
I’m not quite brave enough to turn off the lights, chuck on the X41’s and do a few levels of FEAR 3..I WILL do it, but when I’m good and ready *gulp*
So, I need your delicious opinions on fighting games. After getting inspired by evo this year I want to get back into fighting games. But the last one I was really invested in was Street Fighter 2 on the SNES (seriously). Obviously this is before the days of 3D, online, serious competitive play and all that jazz.
Seeing as I’ve basically been living under a rock for about 15 years when it comes to fighting games, what game should I get to ease me back into the genre after all these years? I want a game that I can get good at with practice, but not be impossible to learn from the get-go. I also want a game that has a decent online following that isn’t exclusively populated by people that will flawless victory my arse everytime.
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Yep, i was thinking the same, i really want MvC, but i’ve fallen into the same Capcom trap where people i’m just waiting for the next retail edition. 12 new characters is a little too good to buy now.
But then again, JB has it for $49
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Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition
Has a pretty decent learning curve without the sheer madness that is Marvel vs Capcom.
Plenty of guides over at shoryuken.com to get you sorted out too.
Not too sure about 3D games, but my best guess is that Tekken is the way to go. No doubt Harli will inform you why that is a better choice than SSF4AE.
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BlazBlue!! Can get some of the earlier ones cheap now and will give good muscle memory for MvC3 combos later.
And a decent fightstick….-
I once saw the Fighting stick edition of BlazBlue at Big W for $30. I was a fool not to get it, A FOOL!
But i was always under the impression that BlazBlue is an impossible game to crack for newcomers like me.
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The actual BlazBlue stick is garbage. Mad Catz make a TE BlazBlue which is cheaper than most. Hori are pretty popular and reasonably priced.
BlazBlue looks hard, but i find it easier to keep pace with than Marvel and is a bit more forgiving on inputs. I’d go Super over Super AE for SF cos of the nerfs.-
Yea but…Evil Ryu
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All of the super community transferred over to AE.
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The arcade stick with BlazBlue is absolute rubbish. Just a cheap cereal box toy, for a decent cheap stick, look into the Hori sticks that you can find at most JB hifis.
Also, BlazBlue is very difficult in terms of inputs. You have to be very precise and that’s not too friendly for the new players.
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I find BB fairly forgiving… I really struggle with Marvel sometimes.
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Marvel has the magic series combos and most of the timings windows are pretty damned huge. I’m not very used to the Guilty Gear/BlazBlue style game so they felt a lot less forgiving.
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Indeed. I bought Continuum Shift recently and took a look at the tutorials.
After a long day at work my brain is too burnt out to absorb all the info. I think I’ll grab UMvC to ween me back on to fighting games. It’s just been too long.
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Tekken is all you need. Though I didn’t bother with Tekken 6, too similar to Tekken 5 which I have on the PS2 and includes Tekken’s 1, 2 and 3 as bonus games!
When the new Tekken Tag Tournament comes out though I will be buying.
Righto.
If you played the hell out of SFII on the SNES, then you’ll ease into Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition quite nicely as it has all of the original fighters.
It’ll come back to you like riding a bike, and then you can learn the new mechanics as you go.
Also the online is pretty good, and there’s a ranking system to make sure you don’t come across beasts all the time 🙂
You can pick it up for about 30 bucks from TheHut or OzGameShop.
If you’re interested in MvC I would recommend waiting for UMvC as well. No point paying for a version that you can’t upgrade.
ALSO: If you want an arcade stick for cheap to get you started I’d say have a look at JB HiFi. I’m pretty sure they’re still trying to get rid of the Tekken6/Arcade stick bundles for about 99 bucks each. Thats cheaper than the arcade stick itself.
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How vital is a stick to the gameplay? Because I’m anticipating almost all of my game time with these games will be with a controller
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In the top 8 of SSF4AE this year at Evo, there was at least one pad player (Wolfkrone) but Flash Metroid may have also used a pad, I’m not sure.
Both of those guys play C.Viper as their main, one of the most execution heavy characters in the game. If they can top 8 Evo with a pad, you shouldn’t have any issues.
Vangief is another top player who uses a pad.
It’s a matter of preference. Sticks won’t make you better and they aren’t necessary, but many people prefer them (myself included).
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The stick isn’t essential. It’s all personal preference really, there are plenty of top players who use a controller.
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Like me!
Bahaha, I kid.
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You do naughty things to sticks anyway…
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was that a DILDO joke?
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no this was reference to one her posts last week about her ‘sucking on stick’.
HOW WAS I THE ONLY ONE THAT SAW THIS?!
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if you know what I mean?
Oh wait it’s not tuesday anymore…
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Why do girl gamers always draw attention to themselves? :p
We know you don’t have a stick, Harli. :p
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Trjn – Actually I think it has something to do with my arrogance in general. trollgrin.jpeg
Andrew – are you Sydney based? The arcades here a great starting point, and there is a community who would love to help you start.
I actually got good-ish with Hwoarang in Tekken 5. Maybe i’m give Tekken 6 a go.
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition! There are heaps of people who play online, and then you can hop to George Street Galaxy World if you live somewhere in Sydney, because the people who play there are generally very very good. THEN if you really wanna get better you can go to Good Games Central (which is near Central Station) cause I hear all the people there are really friendly and I think they have some arcade machines set up there too!
FYI Good Games are losing all their arcade machines over the next couple of weeks. I believe the SF ones are gone by the end of this week. Sad moments for us all. There was even a farewell tournament for it last Friday.
Righto, I’m gonna go buy SSF4:AE today.
My PSN is mossy2953
Anyone who wants to be schooled the the SF arts by the best player ever add me.
aaaaaaaand ozgameshop is out of stock, lovely.
This does not bode well for my future chances of being the best player eva!
Go buy on steam?
Yea right, my computer has enough trouble having 2 word documents open at once.
Plus i heard that Street Fighter on PC had like half the features taken out.
Why are they losing their arcade machines? Well there goes my ambitions of getting better at street fighter =( *tear
@Andrew OzGameshop haven’t had Arcade Edition for nearly a month now, apparently there’s some kind of problem with their suppliers. I had to resort to borrowing the game off a friend.
I’ll probably just ebay it.
Hey cheer up, there’s still Galaxy World who have an awesome manager running the place now. At least he knows what games are about.
So all i’m getting from the Conan trailer is that he was an early practioner of Kohl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohl_(cosmetics)
Allegedly one of the original films has a special addition with a FULL commentary by Arnold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Has anyone heard this…?
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Wake the dragon sounds like a name for an 8os hair metal act.
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I’ve had a strange day so far. Had to contact TPG, 3, Apple and Westpac about various things.
All of the conversations were pleasant and helped in some way.
TPG helped verify that my sim card still worked.
Apple confirmed my iPhone was locked to 3.
3 arranged for my iPhone to be unlocked shortly.
Westpac sorted out a few things regarding credit cards while I’m travelling and mentioned a fair few things I could do to make sure I don’t get stung by fees.
I have never had a day where I would call so many different customer service lines and actually make progress. What bizarro world have I landed myself in?
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I don’t actually have a credit card. Ages ago, I signed up for one and then never collected the card and cancelled the account. It still shows up on my online account though.
Not a huge fan of credit cards at all, but I feel a little more comfortable having emergency funds. I’ll be using a MasterCard debit card when overseas, so that was what all the stuff they were telling me about was in relation to.
The plan is to just stock up on enough cash at the airport/before leaving and then not worry about it.
Oh and I’m heading to Phuket on the 19th and come back at the end of the month.
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Hotel safes 🙂
Actually, I might just get one of those pre-paid traveller’s card. Basically just acts like a credit card except you load it up in advance with your currency of choice.
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I would normally recommend a pre paid but unles you can get it in Baht you will get stung for conversion at both ends…..if you know what i mean 😉
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***With bankers hat on***
Depends how confident you are carrying cash, but with the exchange rate and barter system you are best to up the cash wdl limit on your card and hit ATMS for the maximum amount you can. Will cost you $5 plus 3% of what you take as a fee but beats the % you will pay every time you use debit card….-
If I dump that money on the traveller’s card first, it’s about a $3 fee and a conversion rate of 1.1% for the money that I put on the card.
So I’d be using that to try and reduce the fees and then try to do only one or two ATM withdrawals, only carrying a reasonable amount of money and dumping the rest in the hotel.
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Cool. So many people just blatantly use their credit cards O/S and pay waaaay to much for the priviledge.
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The girls at work are always talking about weight loss, diets, and eating healthy, etc. Yesterday one of them just ate some kind of leaf on a rice cracker for lunch.
Today they were all eating banana bread, and talking about banana bread and how much they loved banana bread and how good banana bread was in general.
I asked them if they realised it was just glorified cake.
They told me to shush.
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Did some joke happen for you to change your name, huh? HUH? Get talkin’!
Also, women -rolls eyes-
-theme song-
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*sigh* Women, am I right guys?
*canned laughter*
Oh boy, I think I’m in for it now!
*audience ooohs*
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*Bursts in through a door*
HEY GUYS!
Check out what I found!
*Points to a pair of women’s underwear that is hanging off his head*
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I hardly think having myself or Alfred moving your limbs for you really counts as exercise, sir.
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Makes for a hell of a kung fu fight though!
Sorry about the broken jaw, by the way. You like drinking things through straws though, right?
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Perhaps I wouldn’t mind so much if I made my own drinkable meals, sir.
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I could swap out the cheese for kumquat, but only because I think it’s a funny name.
heehee… kumquat.
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My favourite was the girl at work who was a vegetarian.
But then one day she decided she’d eat fish.
So now it’s changed to ‘won’t eat anything with a cute face’
‘…and chickens’
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Don’t get me started on how hard it is to explain away farting out a pillow’s worth of downy feathers.
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HA! Win…
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OMNOMNOM!
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\I think it’s extra creepy cos of the way he spelt banana.
Ba-NANNA bread? It’s old…if you know what I mean.
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Screw Nannas secret ingredient, Nanna IS the secret ingredient.
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Soylent Green: There’s a little bit of Nanna in every bite!
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Starting to realise that a large percentage of my posts are suggestive. Think I might start calling myself AnnonymousInnuendo.
If you know what I mean?
Would you knoooow my naaaaame,
If I didn’t make euphenisms?
Would it beeee the saaaaaame….
Dear Kotaku,
Thanks for the nice big ‘fiber choice’ ads you’ve started putting up on the site.
Makes for some interesting looks as people walk by my desk.
As much as I’d like to refute these people’s looks with a re-affirmation that my bowel movements need no outside assistance, I believe such a vehement defense will only complicate matters further.
Sincerely,
AP
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I’m sure we had this discussion, and you were satiated over my argument that eating green apple licorice still satisfied my fruit intake for the day.
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Technically, I only conceded that the green mould growing all over that black licorice you were consuming, as a fungus, could maybe be considered a type of vegetable, sir.
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At least you were there to gently pry me from the chandelier when the hallucinations kicked in.
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OMG OMG OMG The Kotaku delivery turtle has arrived!!
Woooooooooooooooooooo!
But I am at work. And not getting home till late (because I’m going to a taping of the Gruen Transfer, so it’s not all bad, but still…)
Noooooooooooooooooooo!
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Did she have Dr. What?’s sonic statue strapped to her?
She’s such a little trooper. The pink bow is a nice touch.
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Hey I got a thing too!
Dragon Quest VI, wooo!
The handwriting on this is amazing. It’s all curly and neat and stuff.
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I heard that a few oh her siblings were in town, so maybe she roped some of them into delivery work.
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Do they know kung fu?
I think we could make some sort of cartoon out of this…
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I dunno, I think they’re a little small…
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THAT’S WHAT
SHE SAID
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Very good.
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As far as you’re concerned, that’s not what she said.
😀
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http://www.gamestah.com/file/view/4841
Please note the casters got a few things wrong and I played my absolute worst that day.
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It’s broke! Imma watch it tonight as soon as I get home 😀
Maybe you can teach me to play CS:S too?
Teach me your ways, sensei!
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Hmm, so it is. That’s a shame, the casters did a great job on this match.
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You mean when they weren’t getting a few things wrong?
Geez, women, can never make up their bloody minds. 😛
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Casters?
On counterstrike?
When did they add magic?
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WAY TO POINT OUT MY CONTRADICTION, BLAGHMAN. Aside from referring to our clan by the wrong name (*shakes fist) they were pretty entertaining.
AP, duno if you’re throwing troll bait but i’ll bite – casters = shoutcasters.
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Would you rather be baited or have Mud thrown at you before being whacked in the head with a Pokeball?
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oh yeah… shoutcasters.
I knew that…
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Is it bad that I imagine every shoutcaster for every game to be like Husky with Starcraft? It wouldn’t work, but it would be hilarious.
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I’m thinking of making a site that scrapes TAY in real time to give graphs of percentage contribution by username, kinda like that Community Kudos graphic from a coupla months back. I have no doubt that you’d be a permanent fixture at number 1…
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And if we did a breakdown of posts by innuendo… number 1 again!
Way way up there.
If you know what I mean.
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Speaking of Blaghman, when we broke three thousand, you swore vengeance upon us, saying that you’d be up and around for the next milestone.
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I…
I uhh…
I have nothing to say.
I’m not all that good at actually spamming, so the best I can manage is replying to people…
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A male capable of performing more than one task at once?
ABOMINATION!!!
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Don’t worry, he’s lying. There’s no way he can actually multi-task. He’s male.
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This one time, I was patting my head and rubbing my tummy.
AT THE SAME TIME.
*nods smugly*
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HA, “tummy” suuuuure 😉
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Does it count as multi-tasking if you can be doing something and then pick up key words when someone is speaking to you, so that when they ask if you’re listening, you can repeat the key words and get away with not listening.
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No, because that’s what I do, and I can’t multitask.
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I tried thinking of the children, but I was busy reading TAY, and I couldn’t do both at once.
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You know, the way you broke that up made me think of it as a CSI Miami Horatio Caine pre-intro quip.
I thought I had missed an aeroplane joke at the start of the page.-
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*Man was crushed by a bus*
He was trying to catch the bus, but it looks like…
The bus caught him.
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This man died with his penis in a jar of peanut butter…
I guess he was f*king nuts…
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Wow this page took off while I was at lunch! And I have a doctor’s appointment to go to in 15mins, by the time I’m done with that, we’ll be up to page 90!
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It’s a followup appointment :/ basically to tell me I’m fine now. But I get a half day off work that’s paid if I go 🙂
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Oh I mean… I’m glad you’re not deathly sick and stuff.
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Haha sorry man, didn’t realise.
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So disappoint right now.
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I agree with this sentiment.
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I’m sentimental about agreeing.
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Well I finally gave in to temptation and bought books 1-4 of the Song of Ice and fire series for $36 off eBay…I like the show but its progressing too slowly for my liking(one episode per week) so i thought i’d give the books a crack…
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You won’t regret it, the books are amazing. My set arrived yesterday and I’m halfway through the first book already!
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Wicked. When I started watching the show, i was thinking, ‘I wonder if this is based on a book’…when i heard that it was, i’d been debating for like 2 weeks on whether or not to buy them lol
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Punishing Hand… if you know wh-
Whelp, I didn’t even complete that joke and I feel dirty. Need to have a shower now.
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Hey, you know what sucks? If you know what I mean?
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Correcting my quips by taking them literally.
That’s what sucks.
…what?
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Oh gawd….shutting up now…
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Hey fellow teamspeakers, I Gita headset and installed magicka and bish I also installed deus ex and will start playing it. This week is going swimmingly.
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This is what happens when you fail to copy someone’s alter ego correctly and don’t change your name back 😉
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I was going to ask about that tonight actually.
I was going to bring up the topic of what games you should install on your new PC and then rabidly shout “DEUS EX”, but I guess you’ve pre-empted me.
Well played, sir.
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Screw that, play it on the lowest graphics settings it has, and put the sound on its lowest quality setting(it sounds HILARIOUS).
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If I was a developer I’d put an easter egg in all my games which, when all graphics settings were turned down to the minimum, would turn the game into Pong.
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Actually in the early HoN patches if you had the graphic settings at the absolute mininum lowest, one of the heroes would turn into a teapot.
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BAHAHAHAHAHA. That’s brilliant.
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Training is not enjoyable.
Particularly when the woman you’re training happens to have breath that smells like cat food and she is looking right over your shoulder the whole time you’re showing her stuff.
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Have you considered making subtle comments to her about breath mints?
Things like “EAT A FECKING MINT!” and “Jesus christ, the only thing worse than a stupid woman is one with terrible breath.”
She’ll stop leaning over your shoulder!
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Or clutching your throat, making a choking noise and falling off your chair.
Or coming into work tomorrow with a gas mask on.
Subtle things.
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What has she been eating . . . if you know what i mean? (thanks a lot, I feel really dirty now).
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Oh Sean Plainviewerry, take me now!
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Easy solution.
Buy some gum or mints, something strong. Bring them to work and when your friend comes along for training take the gum/mints out and pop one in your mouth. Then notice her and kindly offer her some.She will think you’re just being generous with your mints instead of telling her her breath STANKS. Saving both your nostrils and her ego, PLUS she’ll tell all the co-workers what a gentleman you are and you’ll score brownie points with the ladies ;D
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You’re all INSANE. I was away Monday and Tuesday and now I just want to run away screaming until next week’s TAY…
when I can measure my doses and don’t have to absorb a fatal half-week’s amount all at once!
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AHAHAHAHA!
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That’s what she said?
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HAHAHAHAHA!
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Is this where we start talking about him behind his back, and just before he comes home, we report all the posts that talked about him so that they disappear?
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I really just want this day to be over. I feel like I got nothing done and I don’t feel like I’m going to get anything else done.
At least my non-work stuff was productive, aside from the bit where my phone is still locked to 3 until (at least) when I get home.
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I just spent the last twenty minutes trying to prove I could catch a burp in my hands and move it between two offices in order to throw it in a co-workers face.
It doesn’t work, btw.
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Just think of what you get to come home to the sound of my enchanting voice.
n.b: i don’t live with trjn, i just stalk him.
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That was actually my least favourite part of what was a great game. There was just so much build up to the encounter with Killer Croc, for it to resolve in such a tedious way was disappointing.
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We could take over the whole gorram world…
Oh! You mean the t-shirts! Right…
Just ignore that other stuff…
So the doctor didn’t bulk bill me and I had to pay for waiting for 40mins and then having a 40 second appointment. No sh*t, he looked in my ear, told me to take the eardrops for 4 more days and then said have a nice day.
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On the bright side you’d only have to pay for a short appointment, although, if he could keep up that speed, then bulk billing would actually be economical…
Hey Mark or Tadmod!! Just a website issue. I finally bit the bullet, and became a nancy-pantsy and decided to report a comment. So, I clicks it, then it asked me if I really wanted to report it. So I thank for a bit, and decided that it wasn’t really that bad. So I cancelled it. But then I thought, hmmmm, the comment really wasn’t helping the threads discussion.. but the REPORT button had DISAPPEARED!!
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Speaking of which, is there a way we can have a text box to enter in why we reported a comment? Obviously leaving it blank should be fine, but I’d really like to explain myself as to why I may have clicked report.
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It’s really just an interim solution until we get user accounts finalised, so we don’t want to spend a gratuitous amount of time on it!
Keep your eyes peeled in the coming months, though! 😀
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More importantly who did you try to report???!!!
I consider Q pretty unflappable…..I’ve been thinking bout the new chair. Spinners are ok but shark tanks is where its at 😉
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I changed my mind, I knew it was just a bit of comedy, which is fine, I get that… Just hoping the discussion about R18 with ppl like Jim Wallace could keep it focused cause the guy just goes overboard on anything. But I’ve since change my mind, twas just a laugh anyways.
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Dear Bish,
Well it seems “Bishing” never really made it into the Kotaku vernacular. I guess the world just isn’t ready.
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy
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Dear ‘Flu
See attachment,
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Considering my parents don’t want me back in Hong Kong this Christmas, I probably need to get a short-term job to support myself over the summer break, but I’ve never worked in Australia before and my previous attempts at applying for one never got any response.
So, a quick question: who should I put as referees in the job application if all my previous work experience was overseas (Hong Kong)?
Also, any tips for filling in online job application forms?
So I think we’re on track to smash the TAY record this week 😀
Also, I hate IKEA furniture. Just helped my girlfriend put together a chest of drawers, took so long.
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We’re on track if you expect some weekend attendance.
Otherwise we need to post in 2 days what we have in 3 days.-
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You’re the Boss
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I’d forgotten about that 😛
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I have reacquired the technology to communicate via telephone. For some reason, my phone thought that it was French but now it does not and all is well.
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Does this mean I can start calling you again, with only the sound of my heavy breathing to greet you?
Ye gods my 21st is going to be expensive, $1750 just for the catering, that’s before any alcohol being put on. The memories better be worth it!
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YES! 😀
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Welcome… to the real world.
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WHAT? Half the time I have no idea what your talking about, it’s all VOIDVOIDVOIDstreetfighterVOIDVOIDinnuendoVOIDVOIDVOIDtekkenVOIDVOID
You are a mystery to me…SER.
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gnaw, thanks dad!
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no worries, darlin’
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I’m not sure why, but suddenly my night feels bad after watching this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gex_ya4-Oo
If you’re too lazy to watch it, basically some chavs in England steal from an injured kid.
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Ugh… this is why I don’t like humanity as a whole. For every good person, there are two tossers, and three people who will just do nothing. 🙁
I have decided that 90s hip hop is rather damned good but most of the ringtone pop that we hear these days makes me feel sadface.
This is mainly because Coolio played the Kwanza bot in Futurama, but also because Gangster’s Paradise is a nifty song.
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2Pac is where its at. Also Busta Rhymes – whose first three albums were obsessed with the end of the world (which obviously never came.)
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First of all I have to thank Jo profusely! Crysis 2 arrived and its incredible. With a lot of First Person Shooters I find myself struggling in the campaign, think Halo 3 (which I’m currently on my first playthrough on Heroic difficulty) where I can play for two hours solid only to nudge ahead one checkpoint.
Rather than a relentless slog Crysis feels more like an FPS with all the annoying bits removed, instead you have the power to toy with your adversaries, that cloaking ability is great fun!
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Big thanks to you! Crysis 2 came and by god it looks amazing with DX11. And turns out, it’s also quite a fun game!
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No worries man – I’ll tell you this – Its better looking than anything else on the 360. Before this I reckon the gold standard for recreating an urban environment was probably GTA IV – well this just hits it out of the park.
Driving down the FDR expressway just now looks absolutely amazing. Plus points for a FPS where you can see your feet!
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Pretty game is very pretty. Only problem is, when I enable High Res textures, it starts to chug. Which is a good sign that you’re playing a Crytek game 🙂
Also, did you get my thank you gift?
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I did thankyou very much.
I have a friend who keeps regaliing me about Walking Dead and my wife watched the series last year so I’ve got the torrents here somewhere – I didn’t watch it cuz I was actually interested to go in on the Graphic Novel first so this is great.
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Awesome! The show and the novel diverge a bit at the end of season 1 and the matching point in the graphic novels, but they are both excellent in their own regard.
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I really like Crysis 2, cos I can just sit down, play a bit, and then leave it. It’s good for that.
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The English version isn’t quite as nerdy.
Another instance from the same artist: Boten Anna (original) vs Now You’re Gone (English remake).
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Where’s my bunny rabbit onesie with the ears, Jeeves?
BEDBEDBEDBEDBEDBEDBED!
Story too? One with guns. I’ll tell it to you.
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Kotaku Community DotA event?
Apparently Steveo needs to train up Rocketman for upcoming LANs, so woo more players?-
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I’ll join in, and you can see just how far out of my league I am since they nerfed the one hero I knew how to use…
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So i managed to buy the last copy of SSF4:AE on ozgameshop. This is my first time using the site, so…yea. I’ll keep you posted on how it turns out.
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They’re pretty reliable and they have good customer service, I’ve found…
Have had to cancel or change a few orders (and preorders), and they always refund or change stuff quickly. The delivery times aren’t bad as well.
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It’s very good value, Street Fighter was $33 with free delivery. That’s a big saving when you consider I was going to go buy it at Big W tomorrow for $59
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Don’t expect it to come for awhile. Well that was for me at least, took about 3 weeks. Others were luckier than me 🙁
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As mentioned earlier in the day, I’ve started writing some scripts to measure the madness that is TAY.
As a starting point, here’s the current posting tallies up to and including this very post. No surprises who’s up top!
AnonymousPessimist: 183
jamesmag: 163
Blaghman: 136
Trjn: 100
Harli: 93
Bish: 87
Effluvium Boy: 82
Sughly: 59
Jimu: 51
NotoriousR: 48
Chuloopa: 48
PuppyLicks: 45
dawdle!: 43
Qumulys: 37
Hugo the Hungarian Barbarian: 32
Dr What?: 32
Jo: 31
Tech Knight: 30
lambomann007: 28
The Cracks: 28
Rocketman: 25
Strange: 24
jamesmacusedmyhandle: 23
Aidan: 21
Steve-O The Deve-O: 20
Oberführer von Schtamperrific: 20
Gorzilla: 16
Andrew Burdusel: 16
Crazyguy1990: 15
N0NEoftheAB0VE: 14
Mark Serrels: 14
DAN!: 14
Dire Wolf: 14
â£TadModâ£: 12
BDKIAF: 11
Repneiras: 11
Jonathon Tree: 9
Grandmaster B-Funk: 9
RoninX: 9
Jeeves: 8
nightFlarer: 8
Phoenix: 7
f4ction: 6
#35: 6
FatShady: 5
Batguy: 4
Plainview: 4
PunishingHand: 4
The Reply Button: 4
FamousOptimist: 4
Eforthomyxoviridaevium Boy: 3
AnonymousVelociraptor: 3
Braaains: 3
SuperFred: 3
Mr Explody: 3
Gusman: 3
Reply Button: 2
Will: 2
Huntsman: 2
MrBS: 2
Buzz Killington: 2
Jared: 2
Darth Lambomann007: 1
Ugly Baby: 1
Shane: 1
ElusiveEndu: 1
Submit Comment Button: 1
welbot: 1
Lambomann007: 1
Whiplash: 1
doubleDizz: 1
Leeroy Jenkins: 1
Lucifer9783: 1
Reavers ate my face: 1
fallenangel0185: 1
Adam Ruch: 1
Matthew K: 1
Sam: 1
bawble! / Crabjiffy: 1
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So… you’re going do no work and go on a trip to Vegas?
Oh wait, that would be to “step it up like Notch”, huh.
Nevermind.
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Rubbish! I spent half an hour standing in a queue only to get bumped because they were overbooked 🙁
They told me I’ll get “VIP tickets” for a future taping, so I assume that means I’ll get to sit right next to Wil next week. Stay tuned!
I did get streetpass hits from Goose and GOG from Good Game while loitering in the foyer though.
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Ohhhhh yeah! I’m liking these stats! It’s mainly because it’s been incredibly quite at work so I have the time to post 🙂
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That was the plan – albeit a pretty crappy one cos AnonymousPessimist was always going to win \o/
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Woohoo in the top 20 and tied with Doc What.
Well in a week and a half I will be on holiday, then shall be;
The Horde of Hungarian Barbarian… er comments (doesn’t quite rhyme but meh).
24hrs a day, 7 days a week, all Hugo, all the time.
You have been warned.-
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Not enough eyes.
Though face paint is always fun.
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Hugo the Hungarian Barbarian Commentarian
Yes… yes this will serve me well.
Thank you Jo
IT BEGINS HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
In a week and a half.
Not now.
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I am the very model of a Barbarian Salarian!
I’ve studied species, Turian, Asari, and Hungarian.
I’m quite good at genetics (as a subset of TAYology),
because I am an expert (which I know is a tautology).My xenoscience studies range from Serrels to agrarian –
I am the very model of a Barbarian Salarian!-
Favourite post from this TAY 😀
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Hahahahahahahahahaha
This. Wins. Everything! -
AMAZEBALLS.
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I want to point out that I have quintupled (this post makes it sextupled… snigger) my productivity since these stats were released.
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First, I love that you did this.
2nd, I didn’t realise I was already up to 16. TAY intimidates me too much now and requires too much of my time to try and keep up.
I don’t know how some of you do it!
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Reddit amuses me greatly sometimes.
On r/starcraft, someone posts a picture of HuK and the top reply? Well, take a look.
Tehehe.
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Someone made a pair for each race. HuK apparently traded his oGs jacket for them. I really wish that I couldn’t pick up this sort of information so easily.
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I’m not sure whether I consider that trade worth it…
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Guys I love kotaku but how the hell do you stay sane trying to follow conversations on this post? Every week I want to get involved and by the time I get to post it already has hundreds of commetns and I just give up.
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Yeah you really have to either be unemployed or have a job where you can regularly keep up with it.
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Multitasking is a useful skill. Most people claim that it makes them more productive, but it allows me to be many times more unproductive instead.
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Juggling my year 8’s and this task just is not going to happen. Unless I get them involved in kotaku.
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Depends what you’re teaching.
If English, analysis of the discussion and break-down of common grammatical errors. Also, talk about how awesome some of the writer folk around here are :p
If maths, calculate the insanity.
If science, study AnonymousPessimist to see what the hell powers him.
If social studies, do something about memes.
Be creative.
Or failing that, be incredibly lazy and ignore the young’uns.
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whet gramatical, errers are, you talking about i dont think ther eare any errors. here.
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this made me laugh LOLL!! xxxoxooxox
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I’m afraid I’m going to have to write you a ticket for Wanton abuse of the Common Comma.
There is a large fine involved but you can get that reduced by taking a three day writing course.
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Com,mas are teh kings, of the, worlds! I can’t help it (trying really hard not to put one here) but over use them, also !’s as well, I end all my sentences with !’s!
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If you start posting, you’ll start following.
Then you won’t be able to get enough.
Soon you’ll be pawning your grandma’s TV to support your TAY habit.
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That’s DR Nerd to you, stinky.
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I managed when I had a job where I couldn’t access it at all during the day, but that’s because I’m a combination of insane and dedicated.
Obligatory LoL post!
Thanks Bawble/Crabjiffy for the games last night, much enjoyment was had despite the leavers.
Thank you Tech Knight for recommending I wait and try out Brand – he is the murderous walking barbeque I always wanted.
Trjn and other newer players:
I highly recommend playing more PvP instead of AI.
Even if you get completely owned you will learn far more than in the best played AI game. Bots are good for learning a hero but you really can’t increase your skill level past a certain point.
I am guilty of this too and am now paying for it because of my higher level.
Also, morning all!
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I’m more than happy to play PvP, but when we’re doing PvP with you guys what be higher level and all, the level disparity really stings.
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Enough to make a difference though. I played the other night with a friend and his friend, was up against level 20s and was pretty useless. It’s less of a problem with you and Techie but it’s still there.
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I don’t do hugely better than you in our AI games and my advantage is really knowing the hero’s I play and what I learned getting owned in PvP. -
I think the main thing is you have have gotten too used to how the AI champions move subconsciously and you get taken by surprise more often in PvP cuz their moves are more erratic and unpredictable.
From what I’ve been hearing you’re more skilled than you believe yourself to be and you need to really do more PvP to improve on it further. Co-op VS AI can only teach so much when you’re using a champion you already know the abilities of.
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And even so I think you will still learn more about how other people play, when to push and when to back off, common tactics, different hero’s abilities.
And knowing your opponent is a badass mf who can tear you a new one if you are not careful does wonders for teaching you caution and waiting for the right moment.-
I’m pretty confident with Janna now, so I’ll probably do some PvP with her, but if I’m trying out any of the other heroes, I’ll stick to bots.
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She looks like a bit of fun. Might have to try her out sometime.
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Sorry, I shall stfu now.
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I’m glad you like him Jo, and I agree with you wholeheartedly with the “do more PvP” approach. I know the lower levelled guys in our KotakuAU team might be out of their league a bit but it might contribute to higher XP and IP if we take out higher levels as well as much more experience.
Who cares if we get killed repeatedly, watch what they do, their movements as a team, how they lane and switch, how they gank. You observe a large variety of tactics you can learn and try for yourself one day. Even things as simple as how to lane at the start, how aggressive you should be, when to back off, when to press on to victory.
I’m always up for PvP and you’re welcome to invite me 🙂
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It’s never too late Q-bo. I’ll be happy to coach you while you catch up over TS. I’m not very widely available to join in on the action (Partially that I want you guys to catch up to me) but I’ll always offer advice while you guys play
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Cheers! 😀 But I shall have to wait a bit, I just blew my tax wad on a g27. Gonna take the AP down in Race07 and GT5! *manic laughter, lightning etc*
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That’s fine human 🙂 just remember, LoL doesn’t take a single cent to begin and play. The only thing you should keep in mind is the more time you wait, the longer catching up will take/the harder the enemies will be when you tag up with one of us.
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See, I must have fell off the boat, I had no idea it was free… *shame head again*
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My only solution to this is be on TeamSpeak more often 😛
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Really? well I heard it was made from the crystalised salt from the tears of one thousand Morrowind fanboys.
Goes to show you can always believe what you read…
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*Jumps back in through window*
Sweet, just checked with EB and if you already have a pre-order with them it is automatically upgraded to the exclusive edition. -
Well, after getting screwed through with the first CE, Im keen. I love me some collectors cards.
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This. I might try and ring some other, smaller, local-ish stores to see if they have any of the bigger CEs left (one can hope!).
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Depends on if you can get Magicka to run properly :p Also, I won’t be on for most of the night.
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yeah i found out my mic actually was working i just wasn’t pressing push to talk again. Mostly because i thought i changed it. Sorry Trjn and Bish cause i know bish will be all like “sure rocketman, i believe you. Not you were probably just being racist”
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I mean the whole being racist thing. If it’s not too sensitive an issue to bring up in TAY.
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I AM NOT RACIST AT ALL.
I just think it is funny to tease Bish. I really like bish ( not that way you twisted folk). Just like bish, trjn and blaghs tease me about being in a backwater town with nothing but a blacksmith and a tavern. I tease them about other stuff, i cant call him stupid can I? Stupid engineering degree. -
You’re totally racist.
When Bish says something negative about Asians, it’s just self-mockery.
I get a free pass because I’m an egg.
Blaghman is pretty even handed in his hatred so it can’t be attributed to race.
Tech Knight is a robot, so his mockery is directed to humans in general.
You on the other hand, have no excuses, thus are racist :p
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loooolll dw Rocketman I believe you ;P
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i will win this disagreement with flawless logic.
Am not, am not am not.
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Allow me to counter.
Are too, are too, are too!
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That is a valid point but may i retort with:
Your a stupid head, you big stupid head
*pokes tongue*
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Folks from ’round his parts dun take too kindly to yer kind.
This one time we were talking sometime after the mini-meat where there was that photo of us and that awesome plate.
Rocketman said something along the lines of “Oh Bish, I wouldn’t have figured you were Asian. Because you sound like a normal person.”
I cracked up laughing at the unintended implication, but from there we’ve just rolled with how Rocketman is racist.
HA! That’s hilarious!
Poor Rocketman, he can’t help that he’s from a backwards part of the world…
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How long does deus ex take. I am thinking of starting it on the weekend when i put all the texture packs on.
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A lot longer than your average crappy fps!
It really depends on how thoroughly you play it, but you can spend 40 hours quite easily…
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Street Fight online, lie and tell everybody you’re Daigo. Even if you lose, INSIST that you are Daigo and you lost because of lag.
Effluvium Boy!
I’ve been around a bit but too tired to post much. Thanks for noticing!
According to The Amazing Batguy Table of Leaders even Jimu has about double the amount of posts on me this week.
Oh also, anyone notice OzGameShop implemented ‘Player Points’ last night? Not bad, but two days ago I pre-ordered the new Deus Ex from them. Why couldn’t I wait?! 😛
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Egnarts! You’re back! 😀
I saw that, also saw that it’s double points this week..I have no money until the 24th! F=ck getting paid monthly.
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I recall you saying that your week would be awesome compared to your weekend, so I thought we might have been missing out on some awesomeness.
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Huh, I wish I was doing something awesome!
I’m just sick is all. Have husband home from work today to help out with the little tornado boy so maybe I’ll finally be able to get some rest in time to have an awesome weekend for you all to miss out on. 😀
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Bah so did I! Plus Batman:AA and Killzone 3…wondering if i should cancel and then re-order…hmmmm
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Haven’t ordered anything off them in a while but last time it took about 8 working days so maybe 1-2 weeks?
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The first time I bought their awesome guitar it took around 3 days. The second time I bought an awesome guitar from them(a week later) it took about a week. So who knows? You might be lucky.
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In my expericence they generally ship within 1-2 days and it arrives within about 2 weeks, give or take.
2 weeks seems to be the standard.
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Their warehouse is in North Rocks, NSW, 2151, so you can plug that into the estimator on the Australian Air Express site and see how long it should theoretically take.
Took a bit over a week to get to my place, but that’s because for some reason it took a week for my payment to clear and my item to be picked, so the next day I got it (well, while I was out of course, so I had to pick it up at the post office) because I literally live one suburb away. :I -
Good morning everyone! I’ve had my first coffee and ready for another insane day of TAY. Prepare for a lot of spamming from AP and myself as we go head to head for this week’s trophy!
“There ain’t noobody guna taaake me down” – Mark Serrels
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Your laughter fills me with such confidence.
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ROFLMAO!
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Wait a minute…. Can I foils TABTOL (The Amazing Batguy Table of Leaders) by doing this? Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys Qumulys ?
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What. The Shit.
You, sirrah, have made two quite clear errors. Firstly, there is no capital on the “h” which is an error I would never make, secondly, you posted before 10am, which just doesn’t happen for me.
So please, step forward and reveal yourself.
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Im guessing all R18 games will be coated in custard, so you have to lick them in store to find its rating.
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I did consider posting that too xD
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What happens if the game is terrible the custard will get all old. Nothing is worse than old custard!
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Not if you call it Custarde Flambe and charge people $40 for it!
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Story of my life…
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R18+ labels will be equipped with a devise that calculates your age based on the levels of collagen in your hands.
If it registers that you’re under age it explodes and injures your hand so that you can’t play video games for a few months. -
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As someone who has 3 dogs in our household I wholeheartedly endorse this idea.
Do you have a breed in mind?
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Do it!
We would have one if we had the space – they are glorious creatures!A lady had been advertising some Husky x Labrador puppies not long ago – they looks rockin!
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I have a husky named Kaiser. Be warned, they destroy everything and shed hair everywhere…but he’s awesome.
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I’ll be getting a German Shepherd. I’ve had a shepherd for as long as I can remember and they’re such good dogs.
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oh yer, back on topic
Good games last night AP. Glad to see you’re enjoying it more then HoN. It’s seriously like the bestest game evar.
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Are you playing via Bored Aussie, or do I have to sit on the sidelines and wish I could join you guys?
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Actually I said to AP last night you could totally join us, if you weren’t doing that thing pushing buttons by night, if you know what I mean.
Bored Aussie. lets do it.
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Yay!
Next week then, when I have night times again! (Although I may convince myself to get a hangover for Sunday, as I will be drinking with law students on Saturday night)
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*points to health bar*
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PINK!
(it wouldn’t let me submit this comment as it was, so you get this addition)
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Blaghman comment: Extended edition. Director’s cut. Now with deleted consonants!
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PPPIIIINNNKKKK!!!!
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Jesus what the hell.
I googled ‘Mangix quotes’ and a result “Panda PanFic: Pandamonium in the Valley of Peace” came up.
/o\-
I’m surprised it wasn’t “Panda PanFic: Pandasexium in the sexy of sex(Also, I the author have written myself in as a character who has sex with boobs and stuff)”
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omg Bish link please, I could stand to kill 10 mins right now.
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http://www.playdota.com/forums/409309/panda-panfic-pandamonium-valley-peace/
Playdota.com doesnt seem like some weird sexual fanfic site, so it’s probably safe.
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It’s ok, Harli knows what a furry is so she shouldn’t be too shocked if it all goes south.
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Heh. Good times.
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Its pretty damn awesome, easy installer too. Been hacking about in single-player with my daughter, she loves the werewolves.
So, for whatever reason ozgameshop has refunded my money. I’m beginning to suspect that this is some conspiracy to keep me from becoming the best player ever.
Also, this is not a great first time using ozgameshop.
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Were you the one who bought the last copy of something? Someone may have got in just before you which is why your money would have been returned.
So, ignoring the previous post by someone who clearly needs lessons on how to imitate me (more commas), I figured I’d say good morning.
Last night went surprisingly well. All I need to do is groove along to some songs, and move some sliders around, and pretend I know what I’m doing. It’s great! And if I don’t like a main singer, I can mute them! HAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Also, everyone there seemed really thankful for my presence, which was certainly a nice change from the real world.
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Bahahahahaha.
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I’d be quite worried if I got any madder.
Maybe my madness simply… returned. *runs off screaming and laughing*
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Haven’t got to it yet, up to the origami ants…
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I was so worried at the start, because they were all like “we’re so grateful to have you hear” and they were acting like it would be really difficult, but nah. I just need to keep sound levels on 6 personal mics at appropriate levels, get the band right, and one other channel. I can sleep my way through some of the show, which is always good.
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Ah! The cleverness! It’s too much..!
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BALLS! I always make that cock-u- I mean YES! YES. How clever of me. Indeed.
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Sleeping is awesome, you just gotta do it on the sly at things like these. Paint a picture of your eye on top of your eyelid, then it just looks like you’re staring creepily and not blinking.
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Except that I’m right up the back, so they can’t tell anyway. 😀
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http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/Thrash-metal-and-video-games-dont-make-you-a-killer
I’m not sure if this has been posted yet. really good article, but some of the comments made me face palm. . .
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Yes, that was a horrible example. Should have gone with K-Pop, that often makes me feel violent :p
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I meant within metal. Despite its name, Thrash is rather… mellow.
I would hardly be blaming Metallica or Megadeth when you have Cannibal Corpse to make your ears bleed.
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I’m willing to place some blame on Slayer. Raining Blood is not a fun song to play on Guitar Hero.
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Man this is actually true.
I listen to so much angry metal but it is the auto-tuned pop crap that makes me want to punch something. -
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I watched that muted, my reaction was not violent.
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I love Girls’ Generation!
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But… But… Megadeth. Who I have to retype the name of each time because I mentally correct myself into being wrong…
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I saw them live once.
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I saw Metallica live as well. It was awesome. It was mainly my roommates being absolute Richards that made me want to kill them. They just listened to Thrash incidentally :p
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Bahaha. Fair enough.
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Yeah..they’re okay. I just don’t really think it’s okay to have more than 2 solos in a song. 4 or 5 at least in pretty much every song is a bit overkill.
Yeah, when it comes to metal I really prefer Maiden, maybe Led Zep(arguable about their genre) and then melodic death metal and stuff like that. Excessive wankery is exactly that. Nobody wants to see a group of grown men masturbate on stage for two hours.
Haha exactly! In my teenage years I was a massive metalhead. I still listen to a little bit now, but it’s mainly just for aesthetic reasons. The main sort of stuff I listen to these days is music like Karnivool, The Butterfly Effect, Birds of Tokyo, Midnight Youth, etc. So more sort of the rock genre I guess (if I got that wrong, don’t hate me, I’m useless with genre’s)
Amusingly, I was into way heavier stuff when I was about 13-14, and my taste lightened up by the time I hit 18. So I listen to a bit, but not a whole lot any more. I’ll still go and see someone if they’re a major act, and SOAD will always have a special place in my heart.
Dude, SOAD..I still listen to them occasionally. They were such a good band.
Apparently they’re doing a Europe tour thingy, so here’s hoping they come to Australia for no readily apparent Raisin.
That would be AMAZING! I saw Serj Tankian at Big Day Out a couple of hears ago and his solo stuff isn’t too bad.
I really like Serj’s solo stuff, but it just can’t compare. There was something about SOAD that just worked.
I know what you mean. There’s not enough Toxicity in Empty Walls.
Iron Maiden! \m/
Oh dear. Good article, but Im not in the mood to read pointeless theological / idealogical comments arguing the motives of a madman in defence of whatever the poster believes. I’ll get back to it when I am…
Argh I hate these f*cking eardrops! I tilt my head for 5 mins like it says and then once my head is the right angle again, over the next hour there’s liquid poring out of my ear. It’s. So. Itchy.
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Perhaps there’s some creppy little creature in his head and it’s drinkinking the ear drops and then weeing out of his ear…
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Thank you for allowing me to redeem myself. And flu, that’s disgusting and exactly what is happening?
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It’s a good thing too.
If you didn’t, we would have had to expel you.
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Yeah, if you’d kept it up jamesmag then we’d have had to excommunicate you from TAY.
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Let’s just say that the excommunication process is worse than the initiation process…
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Oh god, no. What are you doing with that red hot poker? You’re not..no…NOOOOOOOOO!
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I don’t think I could live with the shame.
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If we let you live. 🙂
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D: Please, I’m too young to die!
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I pulled a Bish last night and got Shapes flavouring in my eye. Not much, and most of it washed it, but now it’s all red and annoying. I was asked if I was drunk/hungover when I came in. I don’t even drink!
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perhaps you should start?
‘Yeah, I had a blinder’ sounds better than ‘I got biscuit flavouring in my eye’
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Bahahahaha.
What is it with all you unco people?
HA HA HA!
(I once poked my eye with a piece of bread, as I attempted to put it in my mouth)
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Now you must thoroughly describe this story. Because I cannot conceive any manner in which your story is possible.
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The easy explanation? I have a twitch.
I was holding a sandwich, bringing it up to my mouth, and I twitched. My left hand lost grip of the sandwich, and my right one pulled up, flinging bread up into my eye, knocking my glasses off my face.
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Oh god, I cant stop laughing at your glorious misfortune!
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I try.
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Fair enough then, I’ve cut back a lot on my drinking. But I still love to do it socially with friends. And an ice cold beer after a long day at work is pure bliss.
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Thank god you said that!
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While I could definitely do with losing weight, I have no desire to suddenly drop my IQ by 40 points and become a complete dickweed.
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More like 80 points, am I right?
Huh? AM I RIGHT?!
Meh, losing weight isn’t that big a deal man. As long as you’re comfortable with who you are and not really self-conscious about it.
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I am self-conscious, and while I don’t have an actual desire to be skinny, I could do with dropping 20 kay gees quite easily.
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I’ll take them off your hands.
Trying to gain weight at the moment… even had to cut back on my jogging to try and pack on some pounds.
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Ah okay, fair enough. It’s hard to get the motivation to. You just need to get into a routine and stick to it. I need to get back into the gym, I had to take some time out due to my bad back and I still haven’t gotten back into it.
Ironically, I need to go to the gym to make my back better.
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Haha, I know what you mean… I started up again a few months back after a long hiatus. Currently working on getting certain muscle groups back up to scratch then I can go to a proper split.
Making progres… slow progress, but it’s progress nonetheless!
I think once you hit that ‘regular routine’ mindset it becomes about twenty times easier.
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One problem is that gyms are expensive, and I am broke.
Admittedly, I have access to a gym for free, but I don’t really want to abuse that…
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ABUSE IT! It’s worth it. I know what you mean though, gyms are hugely expensive. There are a lot of workouts you can do using just your bodyweight which are really good. However you have to be careful when doing that as it’s easy to hurt yourself.
AP: It’s definitely a lot easier once you hit the routine. It’s also a problem because I enjoy alcohol and rich food way too much haha. So I have to find a balance 😛
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@jamesmag
I’m not too likely to cock up, because I’d be going with a friend of mine and his personal trainer brother(thus how I can get in for free). But I’d need to match their schedules and stuff, which is always a little weird.
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Yeah that can be annoying. I had to do that with my mate, he preferred going at night, I preferred being there at 6am so we had the gym to ourselves. I want to get in there, get it done, get out as fast as possible (inb4 that’s what she said joke/If you know what I mean).
I hate having to wait to use the machines.
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also the outside world is a good training ground in itself.
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@ Blaghs
I have a bunch of free weights, bars, dumbells and a bench. That’s all you should need to do workouts effectively.
Maybe a chinup bar as well for lats, but that’s really it. You don’t need anything fancy to exercise.
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Zyzz?
Wat?
Am I getting old or is this an obscure reference?
Too lazy to google. Someone fill me in.
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He’s some meathead idiot bodybuilder.
He also was a regular at my gym, where I got to witness his idiocy firsthand.
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I actually didn’t know he was “famous” until today.
And he’s an asshole irl btw
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I could tell that just by looking at him. He looks like he’s so up himself. Reminds me of all the guido’s in Perth.
Yeah I’d heard of him and seen videos, etc. Didn’t realise he was that much of a big deal though.
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I’m sure the test/gh/slin abuse had nothing to do with his early demise.
Aesthetic does not equal size.
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He wasn’t all that big really. I mean he was built but I’ve seen a lot bigger guys at my gym, he was just very toned. But yes he was known to take a lot of supplements.
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lol… ‘supplements’?
If he wasn’t competing in the natty leagues, he was on more than supplements.
IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
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OH I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN!
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tbh the pictures don’t really put it into perspective.. he was freaking HUGE. and he always wore the tiniest, tiniest singlet ever. The exact same purple (i’m not even joking) one.
He’d strut around the gym and stuff being rude to everybody.
Such a shame.. I’d like to meet a polite bb at least one in my life to dispel the myth.
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They usually go to the gyms at the odd hours, so they can focus on their workout without having to talk to people.
I know he’s big, but like compared to how big some of the BB’s I know are, he’s tiny. He was still within the realms of looking in proportion to the rest of his body. Man I hated his hair.
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Worked with a 6 foot something NZ’er when I was a field tech. He had biceps the size of my head with a waist a bit bigger than mine (I’m a size 26/28 in the waist, but not in the pants IF YOU KNOW WHAT I M-… sorry, getting sidetracked).
He had the dirtiest mind/jokes, but was polite to a fault. My colleague and I actually had competitions to try and make him mad. We never actually succeeded.
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AP: How? I would go ballistic if that happened and I’m not really an angry guy, except when it comes to roadrage. I have the worst roadrage.
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I know. My colleague went to extremes to try and make him rage and it never worked.
Me? Less so, in the offchance I succeeded and had to contend with someone twice my size and weight.
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Zyzz is an Australian amateur bodybuilder, his slogan was “get aesthetic” and he was always saying “come at me bro”. He was huge on the internet and was a little bit of a tosser, stopping traffic and flexing his muscles, etc.
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Definitely, I’m quite good friends with a bodybuilder and he’s the nicest guy you’ll ever meet, Some of his bodybuilder friends though, so arrogant and they think they’re hot sh*t.
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Yeah, I used to be fairly heavily into the community a number of years ago and it seemed hit-and-miss depending on where you went.
It really does run the gamut. Not to mention the training advice and supplement market…
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Mate of mine is a bodybuilder and a really nice guy.
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Also, he only does natural comps, so he’s not roided up and angry.
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The roids = anger is a bit of a myth. It varies from person to person. I’ve known a few huge guys on it and not the slightest bit of aggression, while others get incredibly testy (pardon the pun) even on natural supps like trib.
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True, it’s more correlation than causality.
The angrier types are probably more likely to start using steroids.
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Yeah I’m of the opinion that if you can’t get there naturally, you shouldn’t be getting there at all.
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BUT CHECK OUT THIS BULL SHARK TESTOSTERONE! OH MY GOD I LOVE HAVING BALLS IN MY MOUTH!
Wait.
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Ummm..what?
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Ground up testicles are a great source of testosterone.
I totally get there naturally.
If you know what I mean?
Oh I know what you mean.
None of those supplements for you, if you know what I mean.
HoN night has now been changed to the one true MOBA, DoTA night.
I’ll be on at 8, after 8, and possibly before 8, depending on my exercise regime.
As Sensei Harli was kind enough to provide an AI map, we’ll be up against the computer.
If you’re keen I’ll see you in private room 1 on TS, and I’ll be sending an e-mail to the HoN player list from last week with more deets on how to pick up a copy of DoTA.
😀
DOTA! \o/
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Busy getting payed alcohol to press some buttons (at least I’m assuming they’re going to pay me alcohol).
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Just saw a flash of a different layout. Hopefully a work in progress because there were some serious readability issues with the grey background.
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TadMod said the changes were still a while away so I’m guessing they’re just experimenting atm.
I’m about to head to bed so I can be awake for some LoL or something tonight but I’ll post a summary of my thoughts on what TAY i’ve manged to wade through so far.
Jeeves is back, hooray!
Qumulys should definatly be on team speak more often. Havn’t caught you on there for ages, and LoL well worth a look at as they don’t make you pay for anything to enjoy the game fully, it’s only superficial stuff you have to pay for.
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I agree with the Q-bo bit especially. I haven’t talked to you for ages man, do you not like me now?
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Just been a bit hit and miss at nights lately with getting drowsy and stuff. But I shall try and make an appearance tonight! *dusts of mic*
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DMANIT! one more try, this time for the complete version
I’m about to head to bed so I can be awake for some LoL or something tonight but I’ll post a summary of my thoughts on what TAY I’ve managed to wade through so far.
Jeeves is back, hooray!
Qumulys should defiantly be on team speak more often. Haven’t caught you on there for ages, and LoL well worth a look at as they don’t make you pay for anything to enjoy the game fully, it’s only superficial stuff you have to pay for.
Batguys TAY counting script is awesome, but I’m worried about it encouraging even more comments. I can’t keep up people!
Also, the above sentence should not be thought of ending with “if you know what I mean”
Much talk about fighting games which goes over my head, I’m happy to stick with button mashing.
Rocketman, make sure you plug it in firmly next time, if you know what I mean (I mean your mic)
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You know LoL players of KotakuAU, we’ve actually got enough to do a KotakuAU 5v5 skirmish against each other.
Current players:
Tech Knight, Jo, Gorzilla, Blaghman, Trjn, Pyrean, Bawble/CrabJiffy, f4ction, Steve-O the Deve-O, Numbers(Lucifer9783)
I’m thinking this weekend we pull one of these…
1st Team: 2nd Team:
Tech Knight CrabJiffy
Gorzilla Trjn
Pyrean VS Steve-O
Jo f4ction
Numbers Blaghman
We could rotate the players around a bit, but I tried to split it off based on everybody’s current skill status.
Anyways, thoughts?
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Argh! It deleted all my spaces.. hang on I’ll try this again…
1st Team:
Tech Knight
Gorzilla
Pyrean
Jo
Numbers2nd Team:
CrabJiffy
Trjn
Steve-O
f4ction
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As I said, we can rotate the players around, but I wanted to split off you and Gorzilla especially, one support per side to make it fair on both teams
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Definitely agree with that part, just trying to balance everyone seems a little difficult.
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Methinks if we just played a couple of games, it’s be easy enough to balance things out. although I guarantee we won’t get it right the first time :p
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I actually have this weekend off so it sounds good to me. Will be gone around lunchtime sat but otherwise I can make myself available.
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I’m free Saturday, except in the evening and so far my plans for Sunday are up in the air. Probably doing nothing but there was the suggestion of something.
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Hehehe true, thought I should bring some juicy competitive atmosphere into the LoL KotakuAU kommunity
Those teams don’t sound fair. Maybe this:
1st Team:
SteveO The DeveO
His two boots strategy
2nd Team:
Everyone else
That sounds nice!
I’ll inform bawble of this grand plan : )
I haven’t hopped on TeamSpeak for quite a while now, hope to provide some silly commentary next to bawble while the game is on!!
Couple days ago there was an article about GTA being blammed for the London riots and even though this is ridiculous, I went into a couple free roam games last night with some mate and maybe more 80% of the people we were playing against had thick pommie accents. And they were the worst people to play along with in Free Roam because all they wanted to do was grief you.
There were definitely some Liverpool accents, not really any Manchester ones and a bunch of real boof-head sounding ones I couldn’t pick. Real thick, kinda like a bogan version of Postman Pat hahaha.
So yea, found that a bit interesting…
Trying that again, pressed back just as I clicked submit and it confuzzled things.
I’m about to head to bed so I can be awake for some LoL or something tonight but I’ll post a summary of my thoughts on what TAY i’ve manged to wade through so far.
Jeeves is back, hooray!
Qumulys should definatly be on team speak more often. Havn’t caught you on there for ages, and LoL well worth a look at as they don’t make you pay for anything to enjoy the game fully, it’s only superficial stuff you have to pay for.
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The good thing about Jeeves being back, is that Alfred seems to have stopped sobbing for extended periods in the toilets.
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Wait, you don’t feed off of the tears of British manservants?
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That’s just my beverage.
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Oh crap. The Service sh*tkicker has been kidnapped by the Sales guys for today. This means I have to answer phones and serve customers, NOOOOOOO!
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Basically man. I remember I spent half an hour with one lady explaining to her what her desktop was. SHE WAS SO STUPID!!
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Wow.
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But… ummm… what?
I had to explain to my mother how to create a new word document once.
I was speechless.
Which made explaining hard.
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Yeah that would have been hard.
The best I’ve ever had was when I was at another workplace and was doing Service and Sales. This guy came in, wanting to build his first computer and wanted advice on parts for a gaming machine. So I started giving him all these options, one of these was water cooling. He was really interested in the water cooling, but said he could do it himself. I explained to him that it can be a little complicated so if it’s his first time building a PC, he should probably get us to do that part.
He refused to listen, ordered the parts, over $3000 worth of parts. He came in a couple of days later, with the case and all the parts inside burnt black to a crisp, the back of the case had a round hole cut into it.
He tried to claim the parts under warranty, I asked him what had happened. He said that he had tried water cooling but it had killed the computer as soon as he turned it on.
Turns out, he had cut a hole in the back of the case, put a hose in there and turned on the hose. I’m not even joking.
I was speechless, and then I laughed, really hard. I was actually rolling around on the ground, and trying to tell him inbetween gasps of breath that it wasn’t covered by warranty.
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My jaw just dropped.
I have a story, but it can’t compete with that…
I was talking to a friend, and he was telling me how he had a female customer, who was complaining that her mouse was moving erratically. They tried all kinds of solutions, anything to get it to work, until finally they asked her about how she was using it.
It turned out, that, as a sewer, she had decided that the mouse could best be used by her foot.
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HAHAHAHAHA so good!
Also we had this computer that kept coming back in for ages, apparently the screen would go blurry after an hour or so of use. It came in and went back about 10 times. Until finally we asked the guy, okay so when exactly does it do it? And he said “Oh, after my third or fourth glass of scotch”.
*facepalm*
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How about: “I don’t want to put more music on my computer will it get heavier?”
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That one’s a classic. I also had a lady ring up and say that the cupholder on her computer broke. I was like “wha..cupholder?” and she said “yeah, you know, you press that button and the cup holder comes out”. She’d been using the DVD drive as a cupholder.
To this day I don’t know if she was trolling or not.
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I think that’s one where everyone in tech support has had it happen once, and nobody believes them, because I’ve had it regaled to me by like 12 (four) different sources.
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Loving the over exaggeration there 😛 yeah I just found it hilarious. It was good for a laugh.
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I read that and thought that she was an artificial conduit, usually underground, for carrying off waste water and refuse, as in a town or city.
Now I understand that she just made garments.
Not nearly as exciting.
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HAHA! I thought the same thing at first 😛 what do you mean she’s a sewer? How were you communicating with her? Ohhh, a sew-er.
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Ahh, yes, my apologies, I meant to rephrase that, but forgot to before I hit the submit button…
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So you’re saying that she was a seamstress?
A hem, a hem.
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HAHAHA SO BAD! I love it though!
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Seamstresses do indeed work with hems, good work!
@ Jimu
One Leatherbound Supreme heading your way. If you know what i mean 😉
@ Strange
Have you read the Night Angel novella on your Kindle? Any good?
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Does this mean that it’s a pizza without a cause?
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Sounds like a kinky meal.
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If this is the Night Angel trilogy by Brent Weeks, good is not an appropriate word to describe it. The series is absolutely fantastic, so epic. I’ve read through it about 10 times now. I love it, definitely one of my favourite series of all time.
If you’re a fan of fantasy, you will love those books.
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Loved the Night Angel Trilogy. Can’t wait for the next Lightbringer book!!
There is a Kindle only novella on Amazon that is sposed to be a prequel to Night Angel though………
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YES! The Lightbringer book, when is the nesxt one out? Do you know? Oh really? My girlfriend is getting me a Kindle for my 21st. I am so getting that novella.
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2012 for next Lightbringer book 🙁
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🙁 that’s horrible. I hate waiting for books. Like that next Peter V. Brett book, the one after Desert Spear. He keeps bringing out short stories, I want the main story dammit!
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Can’t beat Robert Jordan: 20 odd years on the series, almost finished, instead of writing the last books he starts on a prequel series and then dies.
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I KNOW! 🙁 Is someone else finishing them?
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Brandon Sanderson.
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I must buy the entire series.
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This is why I haven’t bought the first Lightbringer book yet. I hate waiting.
Bloody hell,
Not only has my first order from ozgameshop been cancelled. But the cash, after apparently it was “refunded” has mysteriously vanished from my bank account.
Now I gotta chase it up with PayPal and my Bank. Maybe knowing i can go into a shop and deal with a real person is worth the extra $20 at retail.
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I don’t understand how you’ve had so many problems with ozgameshop?
I’ve never had an issue with them and I’ve ordered a bunch of games.
Try shooting them an e-mail for some feedback?
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I don’t think it’s ozgameshops fault, they refunded the money, according to paypal it has gone back into my account, but it hasn’t.
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It takes a few days for the money to appear, it’s not instantaenious.
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Really? I’ve never had a payment not go through before. I guess i’ll give it a few days before I go postal.
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Yeah, every time I transfer the paypal refund to my bank account it takes 4-6 days from memory.
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Yeah, by direct bank deposit/access/whatever, it takes a few days to clear if you have it set up like that.
I got impatient and got a debit card that linked to my bank account, and linked that debit card to Paypal.
This way Paypal just assumes you’ve got money on your card, and lets your payment go through, but it’ll still go back to trying to clear the funds through the bank in the normal fashion.
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The problem with me is that I tend to start getting sidetracked with other things, seeing as the uni semester just started and I have a short window where the coursework isn’t too demanding, I need to get these games while I’m still willing to put the man hours into them.
If i buy them down the track i know exactly what it going to happen, i’ll play them once or twice then add them to the pile of shame i will never complete.
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Good, I can feel your anger. I am defenseless. Take your weapon. Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
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I LOVE THAT SHIT
ESPECIALLY WITH THOSE DUDES THAT LOOK LIKE CHICKS.
AM I ABOUT TO HIT ON A FEMALE?! WHO KNOWS, THAT’S PART OF THE EXCITEMENT!!
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How long?
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Wait.
That song just got into the wub wub wub.
WTF.
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Was that a trick question?
*looks at crotch*
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That’s my crotch, for reference.
Just in case you were wondering.
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HALP
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I meant normal people, obviously we don’t do pants.
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Bahahahaha.
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Dammit, now I have to listen to this…
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Goddammit Korea, what is wrong with you?
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Korean Pop.
I only really like one song:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7mPqycQ0tQ&feature=relmfu
And that’s because I can pretend that it’s related to Starcraft.
Also, those chicks be bangin’ yo.
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What that was… I don’t even…
I couldn’t tear my bleary eyes away – What hypnotic horror was that!
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GG, GG, baby baby baby. 😛
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if I have this song stuck in my mind the rest of this afternoon, there will be hell to pay.
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It really is a shame that there isn’t an impish grin emoticon, because I would be abusing the hell out of it right now.
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oh, i totally just got it. ahems* brain is fuzzy
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Korean Pop Sensation Rain
Korean Pop Sensation Rain
Korean Pop Sensation Rain
Korean Pop Sensation Rain
Korean Pop Sensation Rain
Korean Pop Sensation Rain
Korean Pop Sensation Rain
Korean Pop Sensation Rain
Ughhh. So hungover. Just stumbled into work now, pretending to have the flu to explain my lateness. Had a 21st last night which was just meant to be dinner, but an old mate from school was working behind the bar…
“I’m sorry sir, you only wanted one nip? Oh my mistake, I couldn’t possible charge you for this now.”
Also just had to deal with a customer trying to reset their password for our site. Apprently she thought our site was broken because it wouldn’t accept her password, saying that the original and confirmation fields didn’t match. She thought that “Retype Password” meant she had to type ‘Password’ instead of her password….
Also, keen for DotA and LoL. Need to get a bored aussie key for DotA, but if we are just playing AI maps anyway, maybe a Hamachi group would be easier?
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Bored Aussie doesn’t need a cdkey – whats your email, I can shoot you an invite. I have one left.
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I was going to suggest hamachi for the bored aussieless players, actually.
Good to see the crystallisation of your liver doesn’t interfere with your cognitive abilities.
Trying to read a nub strategy guide. I think my head is going to explode.
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Pro* Strat:
1.One player goblin techies.
2.One player tiny.
3.Throw techies at enemy.
4.Use techies suicide ability
5.PROFIT?The weird and wacky skill combos like this one is why dota is still my favorite.
*May or may not be an actual pro strat.
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You know what?
I’ve played 3 matches of DoTA. For all it’s worth you may have just been speaking in spanish. I don’t know.
Imma going to smile and nod, ok?
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Duende Techs han un terrorista suicida capacidad y diminuta literalmente puede recoger los jugadores y los echarán alrededor (y tratar daños y de concusión). Creo SteveO está diciendo que él disfruta de Baysplosions.
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Bleshoo.
*Offers tissue
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Baysplosions…awesome
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Bahaha.
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Edones escondes elos ananos?
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Si sabes lo que quiero decir.
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我希望我能真正理解的語言，而不是只使用谷歌翻譯。（我很抱歉，誰讀這一點）
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;O That strangely made sense, except the last part.
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Really? The last part was supposed to be an apology to anyone who could actually read it…
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Si.
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A colleague of mine (in his 50’s) started using computers for the first time a couple of years ago.
I was the one who had to teach him. He’s actually pretty good now, but it was funny in the beginning.
“So now that’s your homepage. So whenever you start using the internet it will automatically go to this page. Or if you already have a window open you just click on the little house and it takes you home.”
“Whoawhoawhoa… whoa… Back up, So the house means home?”
The annoying thing is that his wife is more skilled with computers than he is. Not by much, but she thinks she’s the bee’s knees in comparison. So if he has a problem, she “fixes” it, and consequently screws things up even more.-
The people who don’t know anything about computers yet think they do are worse than those who know nothing to begin with.
I was fixing a pc at some branch many moons ago (not a tree, a physical location). Some guy in a suit waltzed over while I was swapping out motherboards and began commenting on ‘those crazy gamers who need 3 terabytes of ram. I only need 1 terabyte of RAM because everyone knows you can’t go over 1 terabyte. I wish those gamers would learn about PC’s. I don’t like that water cooling stuff either. It’s just bright lights, it’s not even effective!’
I have never done a louder inward “FFFFFFUUUUUU” in my entire life.
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It’s funny because we already established that you, the crotch, is used for computer work.
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It’s true.
I have magical restorative properties. You rub electronic goods on me and they magically work.
I’m the midas touch, but for crotches.
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NEEDS MORE JIGGAWATS!
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What the hell is a jiggawatt‽
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Hey Blaghs,
Thanks to Insta-comment (TM), TAY is now a full-time job. Congratulations for gaining employment.
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nah that’s Balls out of Kirby
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It’s sad that there are all these spam topics amongst the important and relevant discussion about DoTA.
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Sughly’s missin’ out. As if you’fd go to France when you could be reading about all those abbreviations.
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Don’t make me come over there!
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What can you threaten me with?
YOU’RE JUST A REPLY BUTTON!
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He’s friends with the Report button.
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He’ll stop you from replying ever again!
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Oh look. He got here first. That’s pretty swell…
I guess…
I mean…
Yeah.
Good one RB. You did good. All good. You wanna grab lunch together or… you know…
Oh? no, I didn’t realise you brought your own. That’s… That’s cool.
I wasn’t that hungry anyway.
Hey! I’m the Permalink Button!
I…
I don’t really have any helpful hints or tips for you…
The Reply Button will be over soon to, you know, help and stuff…
It’s just… No one ever clicks me. Or accidentally forgets to click me. Or clicks me but then it turns out I broke and now they look foolish.
I’m just there. Alone. Ignored.
Hold me?
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Or a button framing Jamie and making him look like he’s pretending to be a button!
We must solve this mystery, quickly!
It’s a… pressing matter. -
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Don’t be like that permalink button, I’ve used you. If I remembered specifically where I could even use you to link to where I’ve done so!
You all have such awesome customer service stories now I will share on. This guy rang me up and said his gps screen wasn’t Working i asked him how He said the tractor wouldn’t drive. I thought this strange and asked what he did. He responded with “well I turn on the screen and turn the tractor on and then I get out and it just stays there. He thought the gps screen would drive the tractor without him i’n it. I never laughed so much ever.
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You should tell him that the air in his tractor tyres isn’t compatible with the GPS. He’ll need to convert from Psi to Kpa 😛
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Don’t people uhh, read the manual? You know, if you can’t work out what to do you try some more, then you read the manual, because then you can pretend you worked it out on your own, and then as a last resort you ask for help.
Man I feel bad now. If you read my previous post I’ve been pretending to have the flu to cover that fact that I am terribly hungover.
Jan the nice old admin lady has just returned from her lunch with some codrals and sweets to help me feel better.
The guilt only serves to make this caramel cheesecake more delicious.
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Admittedly we are now far closer to our goal.
New goal: Personally beat APs record for number of comments in a week!
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Aye, but his record is somewhere around 600 posts (technically 600 mentions of his name, including those in the name field), and that’s what we should aim to beat.
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Unfortunately, when my computer died, it took what I’d done with it, so I’ll need to start again from scratch. On the up-side, I’ve done it before now, so it shouldn’t be too hard.
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So, I didn’t bring lunch today. The only food place nearby is Subway, I’m sick of Subway, I have it all the time. What sub should I get?
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I’ve had that before actually, you think it’s gonna be good. But it’s just not that great 🙁
I’ve also had a sub that was purely jalapenos, so I could get a free sub for lunch. Yeah, wasn’t the best idea. It tasted like crap and oh god it burned coming out the other end.
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How about:
Request that the filling be just cookies, and then also request that the bread be cookies too.
Also, don’t forget the cookie sauce.
Maybe also get a cookie as well, just for a treat.-
So I should just ask for like 15 cookies?
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Depends if you’re getting a cookie drink with it?
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Nice, I think I’m just going to go for my normal Italian BMT, toasted, with sweet chilli sauce. It’s an oldie but a goodie, as far as subs go.
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High Five! We have so much in common Blaghs 😛
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Back when I went to uni I had some great conversations in the line for subway. I was discussing cheese with a friend, and this tall range just turns to us and says “yeah, I just tell them to match the cheese to my hair.” And then when he ordered it he just pointed at his hair and said “this one” and the guy knew what to do. I laughed.
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So good!
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I just realised, I have no idea what a tall range is, but its hair was really orangey-yellow…
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Oh no! Blaghs your comment reached the limit of inline replying!! There was no Reply Button next to you explaining your use of Google Translate.
I do not tolerate this sort of work strike!! >:( Reply Button, you better not hide from meeeeeee.
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I hate it when it does that! Just when you get a good conversation going. Do you hear me TadMod? DO YOU HEAR ME?!
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But then it becomes a glorious mishmash as everyone replies to the last post they can, having to state who exactly they’re talking to.
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As I said, glorious.
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Space is a vacuum, so with no medium to transmit your words, he probably can’t hear you.
…Because he’s so tall. That he extends into space.
Just in case someone thought he had booked a flight into space or something.
Man, I explain things terribly.-
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Lucky I can spell Lucky.
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This is quite the conundrum indeed!
I cannot be the Permalink Button as he is plainly visable here, yet, now I’m posting also. Both posts are visable at the same time ergo we cannot be the same person.
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Let’s have a TAY version of Running Man.
AP and Harli can be the Monday couple <3Is amyone getting my reference?!
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Do you have a problem with Koreans Eats?
You and Rocketman should get together.
You could start some kind of club.
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LOL.
No I actually rather enjoy korean bbq.I was more referencing the me + AP being a “couple”. Where and how these rumours start is beyond me.
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Jo, Trjn, Rocketman and Bish sit in the Teamspeak server.
“Hi g-”
“-uys…”
Who knows, huh.
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Derp, what.
Lets try that again.Jo, Trjn, Rocketman and Bish sit in the Teamspeak server.
*AnonymousPessimist has joined*
*harli has joined*
“Hi g-”
*AnonymousPessimist has moved to Private
Chat 1*
*harli has moved to Private Chat 1*
“-uys…” -
Yeah, that one’s kind of a contributing factor.
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They are spawned through the depths of someone’s mind. Because it’s HILARIOUS.
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It probably has something to do with the wedding… *shrugs*
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Mainly it’s for the lulz but you two have been rather cutesy towards each other, so it makes our job very easy :p
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Okay, so but a large loaf of bread, unsliced, then make yourself a quadruple sized coffee, then soak the bread in coffee.
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OR
Stale loaf of bread.
Hollow out.
Throw it in the oven for a bit.
Pour coffee into it, like a giant cup.
See how quickly you can drink before it soaks through.
Protip: I hope you can drink fairly quickly.This is why I have a lifetime ban from Gloria Jeans!
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And there shall be a zillion more pages for you to catch up 😛 Have a nice lunch!! I’m still stuck in class : (
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This one time I got over a flu and I kind of missed it.
I missed sitting at school shivering while I burnt up…
I probably should have avoided school for that week…
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Because you’re a male it would have been Man Flu (or Boy Flu if you’re Effluvium Boy) as well, which is worse than the regular flu. You missed out on a great opportunity to take time off school.
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Yeah, but I didn’t treat it like a man flu.
And things like that brought us to the Swine Flu Revue of ’09…
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Bring me back a sandwich!
Pheasant. Extra mayo. Whole wheat.
Make sure it’s left handed!
I’m right handed, but I relish the challenge.
Make sure it’s tomato relish.
Just to add to the list of crazy customer stories I thought I might give a few examples.
Before we begin, and to put things in perspective, I am a librarian. (yes, I am actually Hugo the Australian/Hungarian Barbarian Librarian)
So to begin;
People coming in wearing tinfoil hats?
Check.
People coming in whispering about transmissions coming in through their fillings?
Check.
People accusing me of working for aliens/secret governments/ alien secret governments?
Check, for all three.
People asking me for “You know that purple book”?
Check x 100.
People camping out in the men’s toilet so they can do drugs/have a sleep/ eat lunch?
Check, again all three.
Parents coming in to just dump their 2 or 3 year old kids unsupervised for several hours?
Check.
People having sex/masturbating/urinating in the stacks?
Check.
Old/drug addled/crazy people trying to tell you their life stories for hours on end and constantly following you around and interrupting you while trying to serve other people?
Check, once again all three, sometimes all at once.
I could go on and on and on and on and…
Well you get the idea.
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Always purple, there are plenty of different colours to choose from but 4 out of 5 times it will be the purple book they are after.
Though it hardly ever turns out to be purple.
Grrr.
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If you don’t like me masturbating in the stacks, camping in the toilet and asking for the Purple Book then you’ve seen the last of me, good sir. I hope you’re happy now.
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Re the urinating.
Sorry about that. I forgot my tin-foil hat and the government took over my bladder through my fillings.
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Libraries always attract the fun, crazy people, for customers and more importantly staff.
My library has a quote which is included on our bookmarks, notices and some of our correspondences;
“I don’t believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence and that’s been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians” – Monty Python.
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A wise man once said “There is nothing to fear but fear itself”.
Oh and flashers, almost forgot the flashers.
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Yeah…still think I’ll pass. I’m getting a Kindle for my birthday so I’ll just use that and the BookDepository for all my book needs 🙂
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a fellow librarian! *gives secret handshake*
yes, library customers a weird… especially in the public sector. but the staff i’ve worked with are something else entirely…
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I’m free any time except this weekend.
Totally up for a meat though.
Do we wanna hang out and play games like last time or all go somewhere and, well, hang out like the melbourne guys.
I can arrange for the same venue as last time if people want.
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*Sigh* Poor Flu.
Koroa, although small on a map is actually pretty big. Larger than a cow, or giraffe, yet smaller than, say, the moon. Possibly similar in size to France, or a T-Rex.
You say Korea but not when or where.
We need these details.
Are we meating in a bar? In korean person’s apartment? The unused den of an absent albino badger?
you’re a smart cookie, Flu. But the details, man. The details. they slip through your cumsy sausage digits like vodka through the eye of a rabbit.
Your thought bucket needs filling at the fountain of forward planning.
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Cumsy is a real word.
If you don’t know what it means, then I’m not telling you.
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I saw a Japanese film well suited to that word once.
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Urotsukidoji springs to mind.
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I haven’t watched it, I only have dubbed versions and it is the worst over/underacting I’ve ever heard.
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Yeah, I’ve heard you’re a meat eater.
If you know what I mean.
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Well… yeah. You’ve seen me eating pizza and burgers.
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Where’s Rocketman with a racist comment?
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Fair point.
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Poor it down your pants. I can guarantee that burning liquid in your nether regions will keep you awake.
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But but but but
That costs money! And I just wasted all my monies on an iPad! Also, slightly related: why is it that eveyrone in JB Hi Fi has at least 2 of following: A partly shaved head/ridiculous fringe, ridiculously tight jeans, and flannel shirts?
I remember the days when JB Hi Fi were run by goths. Damned social trends.
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Every JB in Adelaide employs at least one hot goth chick with full sleeve tats.
I think it’s in the company charter….-
It’s great, the kind of company policy I can approve of.
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If you know what he means!!
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Yes. When you lick batteries there is a much more noticeable response than when you stick one in each of your ears.
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So * that the ‘e’ was at the start of where you were going to stick the batteries, not the end.
*Glad/Dissapoint – Not totally sure yet
So the Commonwealth Bank ATM at uni near the main entrance was out of service (as always, when I need it the most), and I was desperate for lunch. I ended up getting Maccas. /_\
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Maccas! High five! 😛 So I don’t know if you saw my comment a couple pages ago replying to your question about my birthday. It’s 3rd September. When’s yours?
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Don’t think I’ll be.
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But… But… Wild Party!
With the drinking, and the lots of people, and then being antisocial…
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We should combine our birthdays. Like Voltron! For the meat! A Birthday Meat!
Mmmmm…. Birthday Meat…….
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Isn’t yours this weekend though?
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Oh okay fair enough. I’m having one, I’d be disowned by my family if I didn’t. I have a very large family and age milestones of family member’s are basically the only time we all get a chance to catch up.
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As dawdle! (in case it got lost in the other replies)
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Well that answers my question! How old will you be?
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Hurray!! I haven’t met many friends who share the same birthday as I do. How old are you turning?
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A big, palindromic 22. And you?
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Can’t see if that’s meant to be a reply to me or dawdle?
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You mean you don’t eat maccas, and find it glorious as you consume that food, only to, the moment it is finished, realise what a monster you are?
Might just be me then.
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People give you looks if you order a Sundae at 7:30 am.
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I have done many things in Maccas(including wearing my cloak) but I’ve never noticed a weird look. I guess they’re too busy looking at the parents who are there for the thirteenth night in a row buying dinner for their kids…
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Accurate representation:
http://i53.tinypic.com/14x2u4p.jpg
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I’ve felt regret (only occasionally) but not shame.
I do get KFC shame though.
I can see the “Drive Thru” sign from my desk.
The only time I’ve really enjoyed Macca’s was when one of my old room mates convinced me to get stoned with him. The feeling I had after has persuaded me to never get stoned again, thus I never go to Macca’s.
Next time you eat a large serve of macca’s fries, when you are done lick the roof of your mouth.
You cannot undo what you will experience.
So my boss keeps getting me to do jobs for his friends cheap/free, so I’m not making any money off of them. Then he comes up to me and says my figures aren’t doing well this month. Yeah well no sh*t! You’re making me discount jobs or do them for free!
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It was a mistake. Turns out you just had to log in to the estore by yesterday to be eligible.
The game won’t be out till September
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Awesome! Having seen little of Minecraft and had no previous desire to play it, this makes me want to give it a whirl!
Got an email from Daigo telling me that the Secret underground new world order of Street Fighter that actually controls all the media are keeping me from getting my hands on a copy of the game.
Something about making all the pro players redundant or something.
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Uhh, umm, errr, ummm…
YES!
And kind-of.
What did I say, September 24/25? Something like that(I said exactly that). Is that still good for people? I don’t know… Organising is hard…
I guess, everyone interested, email me at blaghman-at-gmail-dot-com and I can have a think about what on earth I’m doing(confidence!).
JamesMacUsedMyHandle – that Brent Weeks Novella is $4:20. Considering it will probably take me less than half an hour to read I think I’m gonna pass. Although in a moment of bookless weakness I’ll probably cave. 😛
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So is the Kindle any good? I have never used one but will be getting one from my girlfriend for my birthday..
I should not be allowed to train co-workers. More specifically, I should not be training co-workers who lack basic computer knowledge like how to use switch between apps by means other than just minimizing everything and clicking on everything in the taskbar until they find the right one.
Frustrating.
At least it’s over, for now.
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Jade Empire was a pretty cool game.
I usually go lame-o good guy in Bioware games though.
Open Palm, huzzah.-
I usually go good guy in games, and uhh, can you keep a secret?
I’ve never played Jade Empire…
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That’s the worst part, if I did that I’d be the one who gets fired.
I just don’t understand that world we live in…
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You should never watch me use a computer then. I try and use my keyboard as little as possible and anyone looking over my shoulder gets frustrated at how long it takes me to do things. I just have an irrational aversion to keyboard shortcuts and doing things the way everyone else does.:P
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That’s not that bad. It’s not good, but trust me when I say that isn’t anywhere near as bad as what I had to endure watching.
Basic things like highlighting rows in Excel were causing problems.
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In a relatedish thing, I’m just curious, does everyone else middle-click scroll, or do you use the wheel/bars/pageup/pagedown/whatever else there is?
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I use the scroll wheel for short distances and drag the scroll bar for long distances (say spreadsheets with several thousand rows).
My co-worker uses the arrows at the end of the scroll bar, which I’m certain is the slowest possible option.
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My mouse at home is the MX Revolution so if you flick the wheel down fast it scrolls just as quick as the middle-click scroll. So I use that and the wheel.
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Same as Trjn. Scroll wheel for shorter distances, click and drag for longer ones (ctrl + up for spreadsheets sometimes)
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Same thing here. Sometimes it’s just really sad.
ME: So you click that button there to search for an order.
THEM: Okay.
ME: Now, search for an order.
THEM: Umm… *blank stare at screen*
ME: *sigh*-
ME: Delete the row.
THEM: *starts highlighting cells*
ME: No, just select the row and delete it.
THEM: *continues highlighting cells*
ME: Just like how you delete a column, except with a row.
THEM: *highlights row*
ME: Now delete it.
THEM: *stare at screen*
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ME: Right click and select delete. No, right click. That’s left click. Right click it. The one on the right. Right click it. No that’s still left click, the other mouse button.
THEM: *finally deletes row, taking a long time to find delete in the menu*
THEM: Yay!
ME: *facepalm*Don’t get me started on file navigation “double click the folder. You’ve just clicked it once, double click it. Click it twice. No, click it twice, faster.”
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Kids these days.
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Perth, WA.
So yes I knock off at a normal time, I’m just living in the slow retarded cousin of NSW.
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A little over 2 hours for me to go now. The boss is on leave, plus I figure I’ve earned an early finish.
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Wish I could say the same. I had a half day yesterday and the day off on Monday so I can’t really complain I guess.
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We’ll be here for a long time if I list all of them, but Discworld, American Gods, Ender’s Game and Princess Bride are all up there.
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I love the Discworld books. Terry Pratchett is an amazing author. Princess Bride was a very good book, loved the movie as well.
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I have to say I was not that enamored by American Gods.
Not to say it was bad, just not awesome like everyone seems to say.-
It’s similar to the Shawshank Redemption where there is nothing particularly amazing about it, but every part of it is executed flawlessly. Being a fan of Gaiman’s writing has definitely helped too.
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I dunno, I really could not relate to the protagonist. I get that he is a stoic kind of guy but he seemed to lack depth and personality.
The pace also felt like a series of events dropped in one after the other rather than a flowing story, if that makes any sense.
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To each their own.
There are two different versions of the book, the original and the “author preferred version”. I’ve only ever read the latter, so that might make a difference in terms of pacing.
Still, I think it reflects Shadow’s role in the events, he’s just being taken along for the ride and does what he’s told. At least, for most of the story.
The setting worked for me because modern America, whilst rather boring, can become interesting when you combine real and Gaiman-created mythologies to it.
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I liked the sword of truth series so much I named my son after one of the supporting characters LOL
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Please tell me you named him The Bird Man
Please tell me you named him The Bird Man
Please tell me you named him The Bird Man
Please tell me you named him The Bird Man-
hahaha no…the wife wasn’t keen on that, or Raina for a girl. Lucky we had a boy, we named him Chase.
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Haha nice choice, that guy is a bloody walking armoury.
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He writes fantasy and thriller books (mostly thriller though) Thr3e is one of his best imho http://www.amazon.com/Thr3e-Ted-Dekker/dp/1599953145/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3
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Don’t have a favorite as such but the Nights Dawn Trilogy and Robin Hobb’s trilogy of trilogies stand out.
Reading The Malazan Book Of The Fallen at the moment. Most excellent, though his style bugs me sometimes.
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Is that the Farseer, Tawny Man and Liveship Trader trilogies? Cause there’s another series relating to that now, which is the Rainwild Chronicles, the first 2 books are out and they’re awesome.
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Yeah it is just the two, waiting on the third to come out. Definitely worth a read, gives you heaps more information on the Elderlings, etc. And an insight into life in the Rain Wilds.
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I remember finding three old paperback books in a collection given to me by my older cousin – The Dragonlance Chronicles. I knew nothing of Dungeons and Dragons, but the trilogy mew my blind at the time.
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15? Awsome, I’ll have to look for the rest.
Good old Fizban the geriatric wizard:
*In a small cage with his party*
“I remember a spell that will open this lock…”
“A spell of unlock?”
“No, no….Oh yes that was it, Fireball!”
“Fizzban No!”
Probably not exactly how it went but was good times!
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Series;
Malazan Book of the Fallen.
Sword of Truth.
Warlord Chronicles.
Satr Wars series, several hundred down and still going strong.
When I am feeling lazy and want an easy read;
Elenium.
The Tamuli.
Seeing as I have two and a half rooms full of bookcases I could go on for some time.
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Nice man, I love the Elenium and the Tamuli. Sparhwak is such a boss.
I also loved the Belgariad and The Mallorean.
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Most definetly agree, I also really enjoyed the Republic commando series, Karen Traviss = AWESOME. Also enjoyed her Gears of Wars series.
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I loved that series too. I’ve only read the 1st 3rd and last though
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Loving the Legacy-era books – the three-author-rotation dynamic works pretty well.
Also, Karen Traviss is doing the next Halo book (picks up where Nylund left off), due in late October.
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Memory, Sorrow and Thorn Trilogy by Tad Williams. First read it in year 8 (maybe year 9). Still love reading it. The third book in the trilogy was actually too big, so they split it into two parts.
Also Dragonlance Chronicles 🙂
When I was young I was all about Brian Jacques’ Redwall series.
These days I don’t read any particular series, just random books.
I suppose Matthew Reilly has a couple of mini-series.
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Ahh Redwall. The first proper novels I ever got into.
Nothing quite like cute furry little animals running around murdering each other.
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*raises hand in high 5 gesture*
*realises everybody has gone to page 13*
*hangs head in sadness*
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Did anyone read The Book of Words trilogy by J.V Jones. I used to love that when I was younger.
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I tried several times with that, but for some reason the style of writing really pissed me off, it was a shame because a few of my friends at the time really enjoyed it.
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Oh okay, what about the style? I can’t really remember how it was written but I really enjoyed it, read it several times.
I have to say, I’m loving the way the chapters are laid out in the A Song of Ice and Fire books. With each chapter just saying the name of whose viewpoint it’s from.
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That series was awesome!
And to answer your question my favourite series is probably Mickey Zucker Reichert’s Renshai series.
Juliet E. McKenna’s Tales of Einarrin is pretty awesome too. Jennifer Fallon’s books are also up there in my most loved list. My other faves have mostly been mentioned.-
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Deverry Cycle. This. Very much this.
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OMG! Thank you! I have been trying to find the author of those books for ages! I’ve read the Demon Child trilogy and The Hythrun Chronicles and have been wanting to re-read them for ages!
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I’m not sure that anyone will return to this page, but if they do…
Catch-22 is the book that first comes to my mind when I think of favourites. That book made quite the impression on me.
The Scar, Perdido street station, Iron Council, 3 books by China Mieville that I loved. Very descriptive author…if you haven’t read his stuff and you like steampunk…it’s for you
Welp, because I enjoy keeping you all updated on the minutiae of my life, I’m off again in the hope of stealing Turkish from the actor’s and pre-ordering Skyrim, so I’ll see all you fine people tomorrow. Or potentially late tonight, I dunno.
AP, you’d better use this chance to increase your lead over me.
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Jason Statham’s character in Snatch?
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Turkeys?
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Turk from scrubs?
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Turkish pizza, to use a terrible name for it, which I failed to steal anyway.
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Speaking of books up there ^ I’ve been reading quite a few discworld books recently, and was wondering if any of you fine folks would have some for sale? Or maybe even do some temporary swappsies?? I’ll have to dig out which ones i have though first.
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I have most, if not all of them, but if you can, I’d just recommend getting a Kindle and loading it up with them.
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Thats probably a good idea, but those kindle’s are expensive! I might try the library where ppl wank and wear tin foil hats if there’s no takers for time-share swapsies in here. 🙂
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Try Fishpond.com.au for cheaper books. I’ve been buying from them for years and sometimes they have some real bargains.
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Don’t click this link, i did, now I feel sick. http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20110805-292947.html
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Damnit, don’t tell me not to. It tends to have the opposite effect.
And I clicked it. It’s terrible.
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In no way do I condone torture.
But after reading that, if I could get my hands on those bastards, I’m not sure I could stop myself.
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I have a cachet of mini-lammingtons (miningtons?) on my desk.
Coconut, I heart you. Let’s never be apart.
*GROM NOM NOM NOM*
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The odd thing was, it has my name on it, and from kotaku.com.au 4,71 macquarie st on the front, and on the back it has on a piece of paper Andrew Ho 1 morstead ave…
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My parents always like making the ‘hohoho’ joke during Christmas every year. Ah well…
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I am quite guilty of doing that to my friend, Vincent Ho.
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I suppose one day when we’re old and senile, it’ll be the simple things that amuse us. 😛
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Just because I’m older than most of the people that regularly visit TeamSpeak doesn’t mean I’m… what were we talking about sonny?
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I passed by the TV last night while ACA/TT was on, and there was some sort of report about old guys going to south east Asia, meeting some women, getting married, and then being ditched after they got permanent residency.
Be on your guard, Trjn!
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Haha, s’okay. It’s actually spelled incorrectly, but my Kudos still managed to find its way to me.
I dug up the parcel with my prize, and I’ve noticed it addressed to somewhere in QLD on the backside.
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I get the feeling I know what’s gone wrong with the delivery of Kudos…
Mainly because I’m bored, do you remember what the postcode was?
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Josephine must have got confused in the process…
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Yours is part of the second batch Trjn.
It’s possible the new, intimidatingly hot Brazilian Editorial Assistant temp may have messed up some of the deliveries…
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It must be terrible dealing with such incompetence…
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I was mainly curious about if that address was for someone up north or for one of the superior southern folks.
Also, I was going to blame Josephine’s handler for sticking multiple addresses on packages and getting the old girl all confused.
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Also, intimidatingly hot? If female, then I must get a job at Allure HQ!
Was it an xbox 360 game?
If this is to me (can’t quite see the reply alignment clearly), ’twas not.
DS game. Were you keen for some Dragon Quest VI: Realms of the Reverie?
yeah, it was to you. I was thinking it was a case of they had already packaged the prizes then remembered “owait, lambo have no xbox-o” 😛
Woah, turn my back for a second and we’re on page 13. So we’ve beaten last week in the page count already. Can we beat the high score? I think so.
I have 3 macadamia cookies, I’m full but they keep staring at me. I don’t know how long I can hold out..
I got my Kudos prize a bit later than everyone else in Sydney did because I don’t check my mailbox frequently. Thanks Mark and Josephine! Easy 1000 gamerscore FTW lol 😛 I’ll just add to bawble’s Pile of Shame! And Sackboy… I really need to play LBP on someone’s PS3 😛
Jamesmag, you were asking how the Kindle is?
I have a series 2 Kindle and I love it to death. I’d actually stopped reading a few years ago because I had no more shelf space left for books and I always forget to return Library books (don’t club me, Hugo The Hungarian Barbarian Librarian Commentarian!) so it was one of the best gifts I ever received.
I love being able to finish a book in a series and immediately buy the next one, especially as the book information will usually tell you which one is next. I also love the prices. And the fact that a lot of the first books in series are 99c so it’s not really a gamble if you have no idea about them. I also love love love being able to read one-handed which is next to impossible with an actual book.
I do however miss the feel and smell of books sometimes.
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I have the current model wifi Kindle. So much awesome. Reading off of it is pretty much the same as reading from a page, which is the main concern I had with it.
Other than that, it’s much like going from a discman to an iPod. All of a sudden instead of having whatever CDs you can be bothered carrying about with you, you have a whole damned library in your device. Once you’re done with one, on to the next.
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Except you can’t rip all the books you own onto your computer and sync them with your device.
Well, not easily…
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That’s good then 🙂 I’ve always liked the idea of them, just yeah I was worried it wouldn’t look the same as a page. My eyes get sore after reading too long on a computer, so I thought it might be the same as that.
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Wow, you’ve convinced me it’s going to be a great present!
I thought the Kindle book prices were similar to normal book prices from Amazon? They’re cheaper? That’s awesome!
I can read one-handed like a boss, but that’s because I have massive hands, if you know what I mean. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist!)
I have just run out of shelf space so I think it will be really good 🙂 also good for space saving when I go away and want to take a couple of books!
I don’t know if you saw my comment on page 12 but THANK YOU for making me google Jennifer Fallon, I remember reading the Demon Child trilogy and The Hythrun trilogy years ago and I’ve been wanting to re-read them. You’re the best!
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Yay! I’m the best!
Jennifer Fallon is great. I’ve met her a number of times at various Supanovas and she’s always fun to talk to as well. You should really check out The Tide Lords, it’s even better than her previous series.-
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I just checked and yes, they’re on the Kindle store now, just under $10 each.
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That’s alright. I like it when author’s have different worlds, sometimes they do a universe to death.
I shall definitely check it out, for $10 a book, it’s worth it.
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That Tell Us Dammit article I couldn’t put an answer on cuz just reading about it pulled out too many bad memories about how I got my permanent injuries on my leg… fricken high school.
Pretty much never punched in the face, but punched and kicked everywhere else, including some times where I ended up with light internal bleeding.
And now I feel horrible -.- I’m so playing LoL when I get home to cheer up
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Cheltenham Secondary, it was pretty much me vs everybody, nothing but enemies and deceptive “friends” that ended up stealing my project work and convincing the teachers that `I` was the one that stole it, little things like that. Pretty much I was on my own even with the teachers of my classes. The best thing I had going was one of the co-ordinators doing everything he could to keep me out of all boys classes. The main thing that school taught me was that I can’t trust anyone, not even my own family.
Over the years I was always asking myself “Why?”. Why were they doing this to me? What did I do to deserve any of it? It was over those same years where I just kept thinking… I’m not one of them, I can’t be. They’re treating me like I’m not even human, so since then I thought: Maybe I’m not human at all or else why would this happen when I have done absolutely nothing wrong
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I know how you feel dude. I was lucky enough to go to a new school in year 11 and I managed to make friends then. But before that, it was exactly the same for me. Nobody can be crueler than kids, and a lot of people don’t realise that.
I’m glad you made it through it all, too many people don’t manage and leave this world too early.
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Sir, hundreds maybe thousands of occassions I was so close to doing it… self termination, and games were the only thing keeping me from actually going ahead with it. Still emotionally I live as a machine, barely capable of true emotion, only more faking it unintentionally, I can never truly feel laughing or smiling and haven’t been able to since year 7
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That’s horrible TechKnight 🙁 I had the support of my family so I managed to get through it. I tried to kill myself once, when I was 10, but Mum came home and stopped me just in time. After that, I thought about it a lot but never did it.
It’s over now, the memories will always be with you but you don’t have to go through it again, and you have the love and support of the entire Kotaku community.
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Yeah I went to three different high schools and it wasn’t until I started the third one in year 11 that I really made any friends.
Up until then I was subjected to all sorts of abuse from the other kids, thankfully not physical but sometimes emotional bullying can take way longer to heal than physical.
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That’s a good quote. I’d believe that too. I went to three highschools as well. While I was at my second highschool, the one I was at in year 11, when I finally started to make friends. I became friends with this kid in year 9 and he used to hang out with me and my group, which was a mixture of different friends.
He had been bullied for 2 years by these other group of year 9’s and they had burnt down his house over the school holidays. One of them had been getting their house renovated and they weren’t staying there so this kid went there and turned on all the taps, etc so it flooded (he shouldn’t have done that but they burnt down his house for christ’s sake).
First day back of the last term of school, 7 of them found him where he was sitting with us, they started beating the crap out of him, he had carried a knife to school because he was scared, he pulled them out, just to scare them, i don’t think he ever intended to use it. When they saw it, they started hitting him harder so he panicked and stabbed one guy in the gut (his entrails came out and he had to hold them in with his hand) and cut one guy on the arm (everytime his heart beat, a huge spurt of blood came out, i had tried to step in and help my friend so I got my shirt covered in his blood). They both went to hospital and ended up being okay. But I have never been as scared as I was that day, I had nightmares for months after that and it’s why I changed schools because I had to keep passing that spot where it happened.
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Yeah, was not a good experience. It was all over the news, even internationally. Maybe you saw it, it was late 2006?
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I was probably living overseas at that point, so may have, but to a limited degree.
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Oh cool, where were you living?
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Ye Olde London Towne.
Lived there for around 3 years. Good times.
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Holy cow, what a thing to have to go through! *hugs Jamesmag and Kotaku* Nobody should have to see or do that. Nobody. People suck.
Thanks Strange *hugs back*
It was horrible, but it was a long time ago and I’m past it now. I didn’t have closure on it until a year later after I had to testify in court about it. Man that sucked.
Since then, I’ve found I haven’t been able to handle gore quite as much. I’m fine in games, etc, but sometimes in movies now I get a bit queasy.
Cheltenham secondary in Victoria? I live around the corner! Small world…
Dude… You have an origin story. That’s so cool!
http://bit.ly/pslsse
(I know it’s terrible 🙁 But you’d make for a decent comic book)
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Because children are cruel, and a lot of the people on here weren’t what were considered “cool” in school. I was beaten really, really badly in primary school and early highschool and you either cower from any form of confrontation later in life or you get the angriest, earliest so that you can end it quickly. It’s really not great.
The teachers never do anything either, they knew it was going on. Mum had rung them up several times when I’d come home covered in bruises but they just don’t listen.
I remember one time, these kids had ambushed me on the oval and kept kneeing me in my upper leg so it was so bruised i couldn’t stand anymore, they did it to my arms too so I couldn’t move for 2 hours. I got detention for missing classes.
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Why must there be those asshats in life that do these things? 🙁
In highschool, (and uni) I played with a yoyo. This upon reflection, was not such a good idea to increase my cool. But, it was a totally rad one, with ball bearings!-
Man if you had a yo-yo with bearings in it at school when I was there, I would have worshipped you.
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While yo-yo’s were the big thing school I had an awesome classy Coca-Cola yo-yo (They made the best yo-yo’s).
One day some guys took it from me and started throwing it around and being dicks in general. When I finally caught it they push me over and, as I landed on my hands, gouged one side of my yo-yo on the asphalt. After that it was a little off balance. I still have it, and whenever I pick it up and see the chunk out of it I remember how much I hated those guys.
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For me primary school was heaven, everybody loved me, a loving family, then suddenly after graduation I just lost it all for no reason. It was mainly the guys doing the physical damage, the girls really loved faking that they liked me to the point of leaving me messages in my pencilcase or my locker asking for me to meet them in private after school, at lunch, etc. Only for it to end up being an ambush by the girl’s boyfriend that I didn’t know existed, and the said girl watched with a smile and laughing while I got bashed for “attempting to steal his girlfriend”
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Primary school was good for me until year 4 when I moved from the country to a large town/city. I was the country boy who loved to read books and didn’t play sports, so I was everyone’s target. In Bunbury, we had this thing called a Lightning Carnival every year and it was basically all the schools in the area had a footy, netball and soccer team. In year 5 I decided to join the footy team to try and fit in, 5mins into the first practice, one of the “jocks” had sprinted and slammed into my back, I’d put my arm out to stop my fall and broken my arm.
Man, the girls thing, that happened to me so much, and that’s not just the physical damage, but the emotional damage as well. It makes you feel worthless and that the world would be better without you, which is really not true.
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Which is why you were reassembled as a bad ass Turian/Jedi cyborg with a profieciency for dual lightsabre/uzi action.
Worked out for the best really…. 🙂
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Yes I wasn’t built with this knowledge, I had to figure it out on my own. I guess humans can somehow smell it that I’m not human or something.
Still, your comment made me smile, thank you sir
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You are a brave soul for making it through.
I feel so fortunate I never went through any of that through primary or high school.
Reminds me of my school haha
I had similar experiences back in school, and I held bad feelings about them for ages, but I’ve let that go now. Holding on to grudges like that was not good for me.
Although if I ever came across a few certain people nowadays I can’t guarantee I’d be completely civil 😛
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I feel so bad though, all I had was a couple people being cockbags at times, and the worst I had to deal with was people throwing food at me every now and again.
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NERD MUSIC.
Do you listen to it? If so, what do you listen to?
I have quite a bit of nerd music on my ipod, ranging from OST’s Chiptunes and covers of videogame themes. Today I’ve been listening to Anamanaguchi, HORSE the band, and The Adventures of Duane and Brando, and I have plenty more than that.
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I bought the Plants vs Zombies soundtrack directly from Laura Shigihara, the composer herself, because it’s just that awesome.
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Yes indeed. I listen to Machinae Supremacy, they’re an awesome Swedish band who use a SID chip to help make awesome music.
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You never know, Elly seems more of the homely type. This “hot” brazillian could be an exhibitionist!
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I made it through the day without coffee! YAY.
But I slept in for my morning lecture so that’s probably why…
Also does anyone know if there’s an Aussie site for comparing phone prices? I’m thinking of getting either the Xperia Play, and atm cheapest price I’ve found (out of 2 websites =D) is $649 outright from Allphones.
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Have you tried one of the Aussie based shops on eBay? I’ve bought most of my phones off one or another of those stores and they’ve always been really good.
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http://www.mobicity.com.au/sony-ericsson-xperia-play.html
$489May not be the Aussie variant but it’s still the phone.
By the way, I reviewed this phone for a promotional competition a while ago so shoot any questions related to the device to me, and I’ll try answering them! : )
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Dude and Dudettes of TAY,
I am sensing that everyone is either a little deppressed or really deppressed or really hungry and wants to eat shapes but his grandma says not until after dinner. What i am getting at is that i don’t like it when everyone gets all down on themselves. Everybody here is the shiz and i really enjoy our witty banter and friendship so i want everyone to know that even though we maybe like strangers on the internet if anyone has a problem and wants to talk it through “I” and i assume most others are alway here to listen. Especially strange cause she is like everybody’s mum.
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Nice sentiments Rocketman 🙂 I second this motion, I know I’m still a stranger to everyone here but I’m always here to talk to somebody if they need to unload.
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I think we broke TAY.
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Leaving work now, on my way home. Thank god this day is over. Definitely a slow day in the office with about an hour or two of work actually done all up.
Bye *waves*
Just over an hour to go, then I get to go home! Can’t wait! 😀 don’t know if I’ll have a TAY presence tonight so you shall have to soldier on without me. I’ll be back in the morning though, keep posting so we can win this thing!
Just a sidenote, I’m not going yet, in an hour..
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Well, everyone has gone deathly quiet. Without the reassuring presence of Blaghs here, you just don’t know what to do!
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I understand.
AP has been busy, and without me, you’re like lost little sheep.
Sheep who have the capacity to type on keyboards.
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Also: hugs to everyone in the conversation further up this page. Some of those stories were awful D:
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I’ll play it at some point…
And while you may like to think that you can understand chinese, 你必須明白，沒有阻止葉片的風！
(I do not expect that to make any sense whatsoever, and even if it translates perfectly, it will still be a little odd)
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I actually don’t understand much 😛 Google Translate is my crutch. Not my crotch. That would be weird.
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It’s supposed to say “but there is no blocking the blade of the wind!” However I feel that somewhere in translation(the moment google got involved) something was lost…
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Google doesn’t do grammar very well (or, at all) – it just translates the words literally. Really good for short phrases and words, but anything complicated gets jumbled really quickly.
I think the blade of the wind thing might’ve worked though 🙂 Except maybe for 沒有…
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I think what matters is that we know that I can only speak one language, and that one rather poorly as it is.
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LAMBO!
you wanted that starcraft 2 pass right?
just give me your e-mail (you can trust me :P) and i’ll send you it!
also, just worked on opening night for Green Lantern, expected a big crowd…
nothing, got a whole heap of nothing, i got to finish my shift an hour and a half early because the cinema was so dead…
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i knew that, it’s just i still expected a better crowd than that, i mean, surely a lot of diehard fans would have seen it? or people who don’t pay attention to reviews?
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*Are* there diehard Green Lantern fans?
Genuinely interested… it seemed like such a weird concept for a movie. I haven’t read the comics.
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Some would say so…
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I’ve always had a soft spot for Green Lantern. Not a diehard fan though, and I was looking forward to this film, but then the trailers and reviews dampened my enthusiasm.
I think they should have stripped it down a bit. As far as I’m aware, they didn’t introduce the planet Oa and the whole corps until later on in the comics. If the film had focused more on the origin story and Paralax and introduced Oa and the rest of the corps either at the end of the film or in a sequel it would have been an improvement.
Just my opinion though.
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So, I mentioned this before, but since it was as a reply you may have all just ignored it, but can everyone interested in coming to the Canberra meat, theoretically hosted on Sunday the twenty-fifth of September, send an email to blaghman -at- gmail-dot-com?
Cheers…
Hey guys! It’s been a few hectic weeks for me, so I haven’t had time to post in here. But, now that stress is over. And, for my return post, I’ve decided to share an uplifting story about how TAY saved me from a messy situation.
As I was milling about the supermarket today, looking for something or other, I came across the snack aisle. Now, as I was gazing down the aisle, I had the sudden, and quite unexpected, desire to consume Shapes. Upon reflection, I realised my desire for Shapes had originated from here, within TAY. But that mattered not, I had to have some! I selected Pizza Shapes from the shelf and continued on my way.
Many hours later, I attended a personal training session at my local gym. Not long into my training session, dizziness and nausea struck! I wasn’t feeling good at all, and vomiting was definitely on the cards. Now, I’m not sure what caused my sudden deterioration, but I sure know what made me feel better… Pizza Shapes!
Impulse purchases aren’t usually my thing, and I should be mad with you lot for tempting me with your talk of snacks. However, you helped me find my way around an inconvenient scenario, and I’m thankful. Thank you TAY!
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Thanks, I do. I was actually feeling much better by the time I posted the story here.
Sitting down and eating something actually helped a lot. Presumably it was just that I hadn’t eaten recently enough before going to the gym.
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Obligatory post before bed.
It’s been a fantastic day on TAY. You guys are an awesome community, proved by the fact I actually shared some of those stories. I never mention that stuff to anyone. I’m looking forward to speaking to all of you tomorrow 🙂
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I’m jelly, I can no longer manage an all-nighter. I feel so old. Next I’ll start getting hang-overs…
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And you don’t even have a job!
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Good morning all. A special good morning to the poster of the Spidey at metal gigs strip…Dawdle i think.
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Stand back everyone, nothing here to see! Just imminent danger and in the middle of it me! Yes, Captain Hammer’s here, hair blowing in the breeze!
Okay. Time to stop listening to the VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV soundtrack and time to listen to Captain Hammer and Dr Horrible.
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I cannot believe my eyes,
how the world’s filled with filth and lies,
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Today is going to be a very long day. I’ve already 2 coffees and I’m yawning like mad. Weekend, get here faster!
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It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday!
Everybody’s looking forward to the weekend, weekend!-
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It’s void rays, void rays, gotta mass up my void rays
Everybody’s telling Blizz to pleeeease nerf them
Fully charged, fully charged, YEAH!
Fully charged, fully charged, YEAH!
Win, win, win, win, looking forward to your GG-
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Yeah I hear Rebecca Black ripped off this awesome song…
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Haha I think of
“Spy day, Spy day, gotta murder on Spy day,
everybody’s lookin’ for the frenchman (frenchman)”
😀
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Today is the last day before I go on holidays. It will probably be the longest Friday in recent memory, and I finish at 4pm.
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Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll have plenty of fun trying to explaing how to copy and paste in Excel or something along those lines.
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No training today. She’s not going to be able to do my job while I’m gone so there’s no point teaching her any more until I get back.
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As much as my phone would like to go to France, I’m not. It’s Thailand for me because it costs bugger all to go there for 10 days.
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Sounds nice mate! Have a wonderful trip!
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Indeed Wheeeee!!!
My G27 is on route! Already! Squeeee! Its in Melbourne! giggity!
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He said yes! Blarg means yes!
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Blarg chicka honk honk!
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I wonder how people manage to double post. Kotaku always tells me “Whoops, you’ve already said that!”
Unless it’s lying to me.
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join the club!
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Wow. Hardcore nostalgia. I had a picture book of Grug when I was little. Poor bugger, by memory his houses kept getting destroyed.
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Snot bubbles and farts are like the Big Bang of humour.
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And slapstick. That’s the only reason they had those clubs.
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Just got a call from 3. They’re waiving the excess charges.
Amazing how talking to someone who actually has the authority to look into your account and see that you got screwed over instead of insisting that it is a “benefit” to be able to continue mobile broadband usage with no data allowance can actually get something done.
Still, the world would be a much better place if I didn’t have to go through all of these damned loopholes in order to avoid having my bank account pilfered.
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I’m no longer a customer with them. I’ve been told to just bpay the $58 that I do owe (my bill for two months without excess charges, that I was always willing to pay) and we’re done.
After all, I did remove my direct debit details from my account so they couldn’t screw me over and they are sending me an email to confirm that I do not owe anything other than the normal amount with contact details of someone who can sort things out if it goes haywire again.
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Well, its been decided. Kind of a chance in a lifetime really, but my daughter is going to head of to London and France next year. In year 8…. I have no idea how the hell she will cope, she manaes to forget her lunch once a week, and loses her bus tickets religiously. But, her school invited her to go and perform with the school band (playing clarinet) at a march to celebrate the olympics, and then head over to France to perform the Pirates song at a private school in which Johnny Depps child attends. She’s hoping he will be there, but I think she’s dreaming… Anyway, I have no idea how she is going to cope because when I said its like 26 hours on a plane (without snakes), she said “I thought it was just above Australia”. She is a worry…. :-/ But, finding the cash for this trip for her is going to be tough, so if anyone here wishes to join my balaclava wearing posse, lemme know, I need a good driver too…
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It’s Snake’s (Snake Is) rather than Snakes (plural).
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There’s the spirit! But don’t worry about the paper work, I have it on good authority that I’ve signed up for Elephant Trampling insurance, this should cover the very likely chance of a successful robbery, only to be foiled by an enrage phant. So, we have no worries.
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She’ll cope. If it’s a school thing there will be a million and one chaperons to take care of her and really, for this sort of opportunity, it’s worth the risk.
My balaclava is a little worn out, but I know some Collingwood supporters that would probably be willing to lend a hand. They’ve got plenty of experience in that sort of thing.
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Yeah, I hope so, its actually the senior school band though, so most of the kids will be year 10,11 and 12. (there is about 20 altogether I think). But at least she will have her best friend who is also a year 8-er. Its certainly something thats too much of an opportunity to miss, but unless this robbery works, I really need to find work within the next few months.
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I own many balaclavas, and am always happy to help. My expertise lies in the areas of countermeasure detection, and crowd control!
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I’m enjoying it quite a lot. All I’ve really done though is mess around in villages, and destroy them with earth and water creepers 🙂
I’m going to do some more exploring and see what other new things I can find 😀-
I had to turn the villages off, cause it was causing to much slow down for me. I hope it runs a tad smoother in further updates, btw, is there anyway to make them just speak english?
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Morning all!
Thought I’d share with you a little poem I wrote, dedicated to the object of my affections. It’s back in my life now <3
My love, my addiction
Oh how I've missed you
the nights have been cold
Nothing's been the same
I feel like something's missing
But I still remember your name
People say forget it,
This love is kinda lame
But now you're back
I'm never letting you go again
DOTA..
You're more then just a game.
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hahaha. hey man, you’re actually better then I thought! it was fun. There’s also a tiny equivalent in HoN if you’re interested.
totally my bad we lost. also, sucks it had to crash because i had just about finished my item build and was about to go all rambo on their asses.
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Techy, for what it’s worth it is my absolute belief that EVERYBODY possesses the potential to be ‘hot’. ‘Hotness’ is a fluid concept, and simply is the sum of a few contributing factors.
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Sing about DotA and you’re in! 😛
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*Sung out of tune*
I hope life treats you kind
And I hope you have all you’ve dreamed of.
And I wish to you, joy and happiness.
But above all this, I wish you love.And I-eee-II-ee-II will always love DOOTAAAAAA!
(Did I do it right?)
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Q-bo, would you like me to write something?
Ok, you’re given no choice.
I can’t sleep tonight
Everybody saying everything’s alright
Still I can’t close my eyes
I’m seeing a tunnel at the end of all these lightsSunny days
Where have you gone?
I get the strangest feeling you belong
Why does it always rain on me?
Is it because I lied when I was seventeen?
Why does it always rain on me?
Even when the sun is shining
I can’t avoid the lightningWhat do you mean “that was terrible”? Fine I’ll go serenade someone else.
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That was lovely, those completely original words have touched my heart.
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Indeed, I’m now in love.
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*wipes tear*
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I can never get that kind of response IRL. 🙁
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Well I can’t really top this. Looks like you can have Q-bo this time round Blaghs.
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I’m pretty sure I always have Q-bo.
Unless Loops is involved, then not even my amazing something or other can save me.
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Game over Hamachi request plz maybe if that works with the thing and the other thing and the hoyvin-glavin.
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I used to play with my mates over hamachi – I vaguely remember having trouble getting everyone to see the game but count me in if people want to give it a shit.
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Bish,
why hamachi? Bored Aussie requires no CD key, yo. Unfortunately I’m outta invites though.I hate hamachi. bad experiences with it. And there’s a japanese restaurant in Sydney CBD called Hamachi. Not that it has much to do with this.
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Theres always Garena until we get enough invites?
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Because of no Bored Aussies account.
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I say “Hamachi” in place of VPN, just because it’s what I’m familiar with. Alternatives are fine too. -
I think I have a Bored Aussie account somewhere, possibly with invites. Lemme check
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Failing that I also have a Garena account
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Success! I remembered my password!
1 invite remaining to Bored Aussie
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Ooooo-errrr.
But I think Blaghy wanted to get back into DotA shenanigans, and we wanted to introduce Rocketman.
Which still leaves us in a bind.
(I don’t want to be the guy who takes the invite when others want one too. Thanks for the offer though!) -
Blaghman got an invite from me, so he’s already covered in BA.
Which just leaves Rocketman.
Okay, time to pull some strings.
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Man, you know what was hard? Trying to beat 3 ai opponents by yourself. 2 was easy enough once you got it down pat, but once the third one was involved you’d just get raped at every turn. :/
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alright. I’ll devote my weekend to it, too.
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And he arises from his bed like a zombie arises from it’s grave. Looks like shit, tired as hell and just wants some damn Braaaaains (energy drink for zombies, seriously these guys have so much prejudice against them).
He looks to his followers, they lean close to listen to his words of wisdom…”thank f*ck it’s friday).
There is a rumour whispered on the winds in hushed tones.
“Today?” the north wind blows, his icy breath chilling all who hear it.
“Today?” Echoes the soft west wind, his gentle caress “What happens today?”
“The instruments shall arrive.” the north wind informs. =The others shudder as his icy gale blows through them
“To complete the doctor’s device” finishes the south wind, his words washing over them and bringing much needed warmth.
“Did someone fart?” Chimes in the east wind.
Anyway, yes. Today. Maybe. At last. PC parts!
I Need peoples in my store… Buisness is slow… imn pretty sure the Cotton on body across from me is having more buisness.
Maybe with the 3DS being $254 with Zelda and some styles pens will get people in….
/sigh
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Where is your store?
Do you sell costumes? Do you have a magic door that lets us go on strange adventures? Do you wear a fez?
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Greensborough VIC
I have a magic door that leads into a wonderful world of game and console storage with a mystical fridge and a forbidden microwave…
…. enticing?
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if you had a teleportation pad that led straight from Sydney to your secret shop, I’d be sold.
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I have some spare Obsidian if you can provide your own fire-proofed clothing.
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Wool is fireproof, right?
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Finally I have time to read and post on TAY, I have every single Friday off wooo! Yesterday a friend and I found out our Uni had a DDR Arcade machine that you can play for free! …and I also found out that I suck pretty bad at it as well, but it’s really fun.
Woah, everyone’s waxing all poetic this morning.
Remember I mentioned about Ozgameshop’s points system coming in too late for my Deus Ex pre-order? Well now they’ve given out points for pre-orders from before the points launch. So I have points. Thanks Ozgameshop!
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SHUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNN!
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Eh, we’ll see.
I maybe just have mad low standards, but if a game is great, that’s great, if it’s not, then oh well. If it provides me a few hours of enjoyment, then I’m content.
I am excited for it, but I haven’t hyped myself up to the extent that I expect it to have ten billion features and be Game of the Forever. I refuse to be one of those people who goes around raging at Dragon Age 2 just because. :I-
I’ve just completely and entirely dropped all my expectations for new games(and movies too) that I don’t know about/haven’t played any of their predecessors. There was so much hype and crap around Bulletstorm, homefront and brink and whatnot, and they didn’t exactly do crazy awesome. I’ll wait until a demo comes out and determine if I like the game or not. The previews and trailers do look pretty cool for Deus Ex, but it’s been a while since they’ve made one, and it really is too early to tell.
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Yeahhhh, it’s just been a slow games period really, and DX: HR is pretty much the only highlight for me in the months of July and August.
They’ve been releasing ‘Four pillars of Gameplay’ trailers every 2 weeks or so, the third one just recently (about Social and Hacking), with the devs discussing the game. These trailers in particular seem more like “Hey existing Deus Ex fans, here’s how we’ve tried to design the game.” and in that regard, there still exists that choice that was so relished in the first game, which is pleasing indeed.That said, I’ve already paid for it, so I guess I’m stuck with playing it regardless. 😛
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There hasn’t been much out now, except for some of the smaller games (Bastion and From Dust next week! Woo!). I was tempted to pre-order Deus Ex, but my wallet is going to take such a beating in Sept(Resistance 3, Gears 3)/Oct(Arkham and BF3)/Nov(Uncharted 3, LotR War in the North, AC:R, Skyrim), I have to prioritise. I’m sure I’ll pick it up when it’s like $10 on Steam. And then it’ll rot in my Steam Library for a couple of years until I bother to play it.
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As is the true Steam way!
Still haven’t even installed 80% of the games I got from Steam Summer sales or the Humble Indie bundles. :I -
I’ve installed most of them, I’ve only played less than a dozen of them :I
I like this :I emoticon.
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I helped!
=D
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That’s awesome! And very good of them to do. I think they’ll have the majority of my business soon.
waxing poetic. there’s something I haven’t done in a while. I dunno why but I always write when I get like this… so lets haiku
My gran alway said
slow and steady wins the race
she died in a fire
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god damn it… amuse myself
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I assumed so…
How’s things?
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i’m not really sure yet.. she didn’t come home last night. not sure if she plans to tonight or not either..
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Jeez.
Want to do some fun stuff?
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yes i do
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I lol’d too, but quietly, I don’t like bringing attention to myself 😛
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To buy a 3DS or not to buy a 3DS, that is the question.
Whether ’tis nobler for my mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous boredom, or to take this device with me across the sea of troubles. And by opposing ignore them?
To game, to sleep not on the flight.
The further into the soliloquoy I go, the more tortured my attempt to mold it into something about playing a 3DS on an international flight.
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Get you some Advance Wars: Dark Conflict/Days of Ruin.
You haven’t played that yet right?
That’ll last.
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I too feel your modern day Shakespearean dilemma. Having said that, I’ll probably end up buying one. And it’ll be fun, because I’ve never really played Zel-
… never mind. >_>
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I maybe never owned a Nintendo 64 and it’s possible that I may not have ever sat down and properly played Ocarina of Time… maybe. <_<
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You poor, poor, sheltered man. You NEED to play it. Warning though, once you do play it, every other game will be measured up against it and they’ll never quite get there.
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I’m sorry, but Twilight Princess is basically OoT, but with everything better.
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Twilight Princess was a fantastic game, but come on man, the wolf howling songs are crap compared to the ocarina songs. But I will grant you that that bloody shadow thing that sits in your back is pretty much as annoying as Navi!
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Midna was nowhere near as bad as Navi.
Anyway, the dungeons were better designed, and I felt that it told its story far better than OoT.
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I may have to play Twilight Princess at some point too then
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Yeah, I think I just kept accidentally pressing the button that got Midna out :/
The dungeons were better designed, my time with it was somewhat frustrating as I played it on an emulator with a WiiMote, but the framerate always dropped when I went into the Hylian field. Like really bad, so it was very frustrating.
OoT is just a nostalgic game I guess. I didnt play Twilight Princess until the start of the year so..
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I was gonna wait and then the lovely MRS gave me one on me bertday with Zelda no less.
I was gonna wait til the Karts Mario came, I prolly would have bought one at the Smiths Dicks price, is a good deal. Too late for those free games now though…
Blaghs, first of all..my phone autocorrected your name to Gladys, which I think is awesome.
Second, did you manage to sneak in a cheeky nap last night?
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Unfortunately not, however, the show ended a bit before ten, so I didn’t need to worry about being up too late!
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That’s awesome. I challenge you to change your name to Blaghman aka Gladys for the rest of the day.
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ALRIGHT!
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Morning, all. My sister’s cat is annoying the hell out of me. Any ideas on what to do without squirting a spray bottle at her?
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I have a dog. She’s sitting on my bed right now, and the cat doesn’t care.
I think the cat may require sustenance, but I am unable to provide it to her, as we are currently lacking the necessary food items for her nutrition.-
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Sugar is nutritious, right?
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Tie a newspaper around it’s belly. Then when you just touch the cat, it will fall over. It’s hilarious.
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Okay, you need to get a newspaper, grab probably 10 or so pages so it’s relatively thick. Depending how big your cat is, you can either tie it around the middle of it’s belly, or you may have to tape it there.
I have no idea why it happens but for some reason they can’t keep their balance. They’ll walk like they’re drunk and a single touch will make them fall over. I’ve done it to several of my mate’s cats while pissed. It is completely hilarious, and in no way cruel :/
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So, Pyrean and I were watching this at work last night and we both want to know; Blaghman, is that you?
http://failblog.org/2011/08/10/epic-fail-photos-guitar-smash-fail/
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Even if he’s not you, it’s hilarious. He’s still trying to break it and then knocks himself out hahahahaha.
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I’ll admit, if I’d done that I probably would have forgotten, but I’m reassured by the fact that his voice is way more annoying than mine, and that he has a different name.
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/gets popcorn and watches it again, was this before or after the Friday tribute to the editor ? = P
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Wait, no, I meant to say “If I’m being nominated(for what reason exactly? Shut Up Blaghs, you’re ruining my cool!) then yes, but if it’s someone else then send it to… Mike.squirrels@kotarku.com“
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Haha I would love to nominate you Gladys 😛 but if my nominee gets chosen and the reason gets posted, you’ll see why I didn’t 😛
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Is it because I’m on fire?
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I think so, you’re definitely on fire!
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It really hurts…
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I read it and my view on spoilers depends entirely on what is being spoiled. If it’s something that I’m there to enjoy the ride, then I don’t care. If it’s something where there is a deep attachment to the plot and finding out the details ahead of time might ruin things, then I care.
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Sometimes it’s good to find out for yourself how a game ends, and other times it’s just fun getting to the end.
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So I get up all early so i can get to JB’s before work to pick up my hard copy of Watch the Throne. Despite being told it was arriving yesterday for stocking today, alas it was not to be. Then they tell me my sweet embossed metal special edition won’t SHIP til next week!
So i consoled myself with buying Trials HD, Limbo and Splosion Man on disc for $38 cos I’m not on LIVE yet.
tl;dr
JB’s has Trials HD, Limbo and Splosion Man on disc for $38
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Is Limbo any good? I’ve been debating on whether to pick that up or not?
I love Trials HD but god that game is frustrating.
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Good, so you know he is an absolute god at that game, and any blasphemy directed at RedLynx will not be tolerated?
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I do indeed, and there is no blasphemy! I love the game, it’s awesome, it’s just so damn hard!
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I was always a bit meh towards Limbo, then I saw someone playing it at Avcon a few weeks back and may possibly leave early today to get stuck into it.
Have never played Trials but curious to see what all the fuss is about.
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From memory, Trials HD was 1200 microsoft points and I presume that the other games are a similar cost. It costs $16.50AUD for 1000 microsoft points so yeah it is cheaper.
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Nice!
This may be the first game purchase from a real life store that I have made in a while 😀-
It’s been a while for me too! Unless you count crappy old preowned games for under $10?
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I’m not sure I’m sold on Watch the Throne. I’ve heard a few tracks on Triple J and I don’t think I’m a fan. I really did like Kanye’s last album but I just can’t handle Jay-Z. And yes, I’m aware that general consensus is that Jay-Z > Kanye, but I really don’t like his voice.
If I was curious enough to track down my first comment on Kotaku au where/how would I go about doing so? i remember seeing other people do it before.
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By having a really good memory.
I could only find what I’m assuming was my first comment in TAY, I’m not game to try and find whatever I first commented on.
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By going back through the articles very carefully.
I found the first prize I won but have no idea how to find my first post.
Back then I posted as Crono.
If you see me, say hi!
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I once found my first post in TAY. Back when there were only ~100 comments per week. Oh my, how it’s grown.
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Who wants to be reminded of Mark’s humiliation? Everyone? Well, since you insist.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-93/comment-page-5/#comment-208237
Heh.
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Wowzers, so many old names! I wonder what happened to them.
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I dunno, but did you know that Bish was always a helper?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-57/#comment-131187
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My 1st, 2nd & 3rd posts:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-92/comment-page-1/#comment-232502
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-92/comment-page-6/#comment-234998
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-127/comment-page-4/#comment-236775
Bummer, my first post was lame…
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I know!
If I had known how glorious TAY truly was I would have shown more respect. I’m a terrible person…
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So I went to see Green Lantern last night, and it was (brace yourselves) actually not that bad. I mean, sure it was corny and lame, but it’s a Green Lantern movie, seriously, why would you expect anything else?
Also, my Ryan Reynolds man-crush may have helped.
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I also share that man-crush. I still don’t think I’ll watch it at the cinema but will definitely watch it at some point.
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I used to like Ryan Reynolds, but then he went on to talk shit about videogames calling them a huge waste of time, and I stopped liking him after that.
Videogames a waste of time? This coming from a man who’s starred in THREE movies based off of comic books. (not to mention The Proposal, how much of a waste of time was that movie, Ryan? eh?)
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I never knew that and I’m going to pretend I never read that so I can carry on liking him haha. The Proposal, I had to watch that the other weekend with my girlfriend, it actually wasn’t too painful, for a chick flick. I’ve seen a lot worse.
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That’s on Channel 11 during the afternoons!
He looks… pretty much the same.
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http://www.destructoid.com/ryan-reynolds-says-games-are-a-waste-of-time-136706.phtml
LOOK INTO YOUR HEART, YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUE
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HA! That link is blocked at work! Take that! Try and ruin my man-crush now.
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We’re past 3k comments now, and nobody is trying to figure out who got the 3000th post? Has TAY matured a little with insta-comments and fresh blood?
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I don’t think we will hit 4000 today 🙁
I want Batguy to run that program again and see who has the most comments! I reckon it’s probably Blaghs now cause AP has been absent!
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I think he’s probably busy at work
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Apologies for his absence, sir, for he has, unfortunately, managed to superglue owls to his hands, feet and back in an attempt to “float majestically like the Zeppelin”. I… did not quite know where to start explaining how badly the concept was, and before I knew it, he had done the deed.
The RSPCA are most displeased. -
I don’t see any flaws in that plan..
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I was planning to post an update first thing on Monday morning. It’s no fun if you know how much more spam you have to post to overtake somebody – it needs to be 100% organic spam!
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Oh for the love of…
so many urgent requests…
Just me here at work…
Fridays are supposed to be quiet…
*sobs*
I wanna go home 🙁
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I know how you feel. Thank god this Friday looks like it’s going to be quiet. My manager is also sick today so I may be able to watch some Naruto on the sly 😛
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damn youse
damn youse all!
Sorry, was stuck on a bus this morning with half a dozen school kids using THAT abomination of a non-word Grrr.
But yeah, phone ringing non-stop, all urgent, all needed today for court cases on Monday.
LEAVE ME ALOOOONNNEEE
*Runs around the library with arms flailing, while screaming and sobbing hysterically*
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Just upgraded my system a bit 🙂 Went from 4GB RAM to 16GB and added another drive (2TB) to complement my small 2x64GB SSDs and external 1TB drive (all full).
I’m happy 🙂
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16GB RAM? A bit overkill, no?
I suppose it’s always nice to upgrade =) I think my baby is due for her yearly upgrade too.
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Yeah I haven’t bothered taking mine over 6. I really need to upgrade my CPU and motherboard. I’ve still got a Core2Duo, that’s what’s holding me back with rendering graphics in games.
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About 2 months I go, I upgraded to the 560Ti, got it for $280 through work and it seems to be a pretty good card. Pretty high up on the hierarchy charts. My last card was a 9800GTX so big improvement from that. What are you running?
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GTX 460 1GB
I love it. has not failed me once.
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and its so shiny and pretty!
also, physX. Note the capital X.
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Nice, we sell a lot of them at work, they’re not too bad a card. I like how quiet mine is though. It’s the Gigabyte one and it has those new super silent fans. I can’t hear it at all, it’s just PSU making noise now.
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Man, the gigabyte 500 series, SO QUIET. So good.
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I love it. My old card was so bloody loud!
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Got that one too, the OC version of that card 🙂
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Yeah mine’s the OC one as well 🙂 great card.
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what a coincidence, mine is also OC.
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As is mine!
My 580 that is…
Oh man, I am so far out of the loop these days. I stopped working in IT over 5 years ago… I think the GeForce 4200 was new when I stopped caring about cards!
I am using a 1GB Radeon 5780 atm. I don’t even know if it’s good or not. Seems to run everything fine.
Oops, I mean 5770. I think. So stupid today 🙂
Radeon is in my Do-not-buy folder in my database. I had a HD 4870 and I had driver troubles very often, manifesting the strangest of graphical glitches.
Yeah, this is the second time I’ve bought ATi and I won’t do it again.
This is is now the e-peen measuring reply chain.
So Blaghy and Rocketman, what are the specs for your welbot-brand rigs?
MY E-PEEN
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte x58A-UD3R Intel X58
CPU: Intel Quad Core i7 950
Nicely done. I’m really tempted to upgrade mine, though I’ve been considering buying a whole new system since I got my tax back. At the moment I’ve got a 2 and a half year old Dell XPS 730 that’s still chugging along alright. No rush. As long it’s done by November 🙂
So, in an effort to prevent a minor breakdown and getting in trouble for work not being done I have spontaneously taken next week off.
Just a pity I don’t have much to do.
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You guessed right! Also, a terrible way to start a new page! But that’s the beauty of Insta-Comment!
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Take that conversations on Page 14! Now you will ALL fade into oblivion, no one remembering what you were about! HAHAHA!
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Reckon we got off the favourite book topic too early IMO…
Anyone else read The Scar, Perdido Street Station or Iron Council by China Mieville?
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It was a good topic. But good topics get left behind when the damn pages change! YES IM TALKING TO YOU PHOENIX!
In answer to your question, no I haven’t, are they good? What genre?
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In my humble opinion, brilliant. Very descriptive writing style. Genre…hmm…steampunk/fantasy would probably be closest.
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LOL re-read it…I listed it as steampunk/fantasy…
Brilliant was used to describe if previously mentioned books were good(which they are)…so ner 😛
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@jamesmag
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Indeed I shall. I need to finish A Song of Ice and Fire first and then I have some Jennifer Fallon books to read, then I can move onto these books. By gods, the list goes on and on and on!
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I can recomend some mad comics too, if you like.
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I can’t spell though.
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Such as? Haven’t read comics for a while but still have a decent collection…My guilty pleasure were the Aliens and Predator comics…got heaps of those. Oh, do we know anyone who buys comics in the melbourne area?
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BLAGHMAN! I have to eat Subway again today 🙁
I had our sub yesterday, is there an alternative sub I can purchase? It must taste good.
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HAHA I got cookies yesterday Bish and while I ate them, I thought of you, and how much you probably wanted to eat the cookies I was eating. Which made eating them all the more pleasurable.
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I’m sorry Bish, I’ll make it up to you somehow. Maybe I can post you a cookie?
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ALL IS FORGIVEN
om nom nom
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I used to get meatball, but then I realised that it was completely tasteless, so there was little point.
Uhh, can you try the good ol’ “Surprise me!”? I’ll admit, it usually won’t work, and the last time I tried it the person simply said “no.” But it might be worth a shot!
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Isn’t that basically the same thing, just with turkey?
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For a foot long:
BMT – 6 slices salami, 6 slices pepperoni, 4 slices ham.
Club – 2 slices turkey, 2 slices roast beef, 4 slices ham.
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Ah okay, not the same! It’s a possibility. I think I might just eeny miny mo it when I get there haha.
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I nearly always get one of those two.
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I don’t think I’ve ever had the club.
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Toasted tuna, double cheddar cheese, lettuce, olives and tomato sauce, that’s my wednesday sub before bowling night.
Might be going to subway for lunch today, maybe a chicken teriaki with double cheese, lettuce and tomato, and three cookies. Yummers
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A very logical response, and now I feel better, thanks Harli for your high quantity of awesomeness 🙂
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Unfortunately I can’t eat seafood, it makes me incredibly sick. The Chicken Teriyaki at this subway is always crap 🙁 it’s a huge disappointment.
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Yeah the one at my subway is okay, not great, might go back to chicken strips today.
Sorry to hear about the seafood problem, tuna is one of my favourite foods 🙁
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Yeah it’s not an allergic reaction. It’s all psychological. I used to eat seafood when I was younger. But there was one time when I was at my grandparents for dinner and there was fish for tea and I wasn’t hungry so I didn’t eat it. So my Grandad offered me icecream (I always have room for icecream), I took him up on the offer and he’d put the fish under the icecream so I got a mouthful of vanilla ice cream and fish. I threw up and since that day, even the idea of any type of seafood makes me nauseous.
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It was horrible!
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That… is.. disgusting…
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I know, RIGHT?! I can’t believe it happened haha.
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Damn you AP! Where are you?! We need your input into our intelligent discussions, like how to torture cats and stuff. Also is it true that you super-glued owls to your hands and feet to “fly like the Zeppelin”?
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Ability Power?
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He must’ve copped a direct blast from Veigars ultimate. He’s pretty much 100% AP so it would have been a one hit KO.
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That’s not a nice thing to call Harli.
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So, I’ve been flicking through the really old Tays (Which I do a lot when I’m bored) and I’ve just noticed, it really seem to be more “Bitch about Kotaku(and make the “How appropriate, you fight like a cow” comment for the fifty-third time).”
I did get a laugh though:
“David Wildgoose
May 20, 2009 at 9:36 PM
We’re working on the issue with US comments.
Removing the approval process for AU comments is something we’re considering, but of course all comments will still be moderated.”
It only took how long for the approval process to be removed?
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Well they had to consider it Blaghs, they thought it through from every angle, which took about 2mins, then completely forgot about it for a couple of years. Someone brought it up again and they just said “TadMod and Ben, make it happen”.
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I’m pretty sure they couldn’t have forgotten about it, given people spent all 2 years bitching about the system…
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Dear Batguy, please run TABTOL again!
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Depending on how it’s done it may well not work.
Otherwise we’ll just need to count post by post!
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I hope it doesn’t work like that. I want it to be fair! Which I can’t really saw seeing as I’ve been spamming the hell out of comments 😛
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Everything is permitted!
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Yeah, lol, soz for cheating! 😛 But, hopefully its set up to only take boldeneded names only?
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If not, I’m sure it can easily be implemented. Just don’t go bolding your text in your comments 😛
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If I tried to do something as fancy as bold, I’d end up busting the internet and the rains would come down tasting of chocolate milk.
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Yeah I can’t edit text like that either 😛
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RIOT!
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Just in case it does work
JamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandleJamesmacusedmyhandle
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Oh crap, sorry
I HATE when people do that.
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spaces, you doosche!
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Rofl, oops!
Bahahahaha!
Cheers Jimu!!
dammit! Little J!
Reposted from the previous mention of my name on page 14 (I appear when mentioned, kinda like Beetle Juice): I was planning to post an update first thing on Monday morning. It’s no fun if you know how much more spam you have to post to overtake somebody – it needs to be 100% organic spam!
And you’re right, I’m parsing the HTML in the page, so I’m only counting names that appear in a “cite” tag with class=”fn”. Obviously.
Was thinking about doing some more fun analytics as the next step though, like finding the most common TAY words. With the hopes of finding funny patters like:
5. Bite
4. My
3. Shiny
2. Daffodil
1. Ass
So your name would probably appear up the top of that list if you keep it up, Qumulys 🙂
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I don’t understand what you said, but if I do win from my devious ploy, please disqualify me on the grounds of being a ragin’ flauntin’ cheater 😀
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Don’t worry, you can’t win the real competition.
Hmmm I think Ozgameshop took my email seriously regarding points and pre-orders…which is nice.
Ordered Batman:AA last week and Killzone 3 the week before that…received Batman:AA today…no sign of killzone 3 yet…weird…
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SE suburbs of melbourne. Just thought it was weird that the game i ordered most recently arrived before my first order…
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Yeah that is odd..I’m in Perth so I’m all isolated and shiz. It will probably take another week or so to get to me 🙁
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I had three games sent out via registered post from Play-Asia in the last couple of weeks (Catherine, Child of Eden, Shadows of the Damned, if anyone cares), one shipped on the 28th of July, one on the 1st of August, one on the 5th of August. I received the one shipped on the 1st on the 10th, checked out the tracking numbers and the one shipped on the 28th didn’t actually make it onto a plane until the 10th. The international postal system can be very odd. I think they lose packages and then find them again, and that air mail works on some kind of priority system, possibly involving a dart board or roulette wheel.
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Judging from everyone’s experiences, the dartboard theory makes sense…
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Dood, you live in Perth, you should be used to this shit buy now. I live is Bris and it has taken 3 weeks before.
(I was born in Perth, glad to be on the EASTSIDE).-
Haha I’m used to it. I just keep hoping by some miracle it will arrive early 😛
So Brisbane is good then? I’ve contemplated relocating to one of the eastern states but then I would never see family so I don’t know if it will ever happen.
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I am glad to be so far from my family.
Brisbane is good, used to be better I think. Growing too fast. Too mucg traffic, not enough road…too many floods.
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Ah, fair enough. I love my family, so it would be hard. I’m used to always having them relatively near. I mean with the prices of domestic flights these days, it wouldn’t be too bad to come back and see them occasionally.
I think if I did move, it would probably be to Melbourne, because I have some family and friends over there already.
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Ooh, ooh, he should move to Canberra, it’s got…
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Right. Yeah.
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Yeah..nice try Blaghs. I’m not moving there though haha.
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It has me…(A desperate cry for attention)
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It’s tempting..but I’m still going to have to saw no.
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Come to Adelaide. We are not growing!! We only have traffic for 1/2 an hour, twice a day!! Plenty of roads and it’s to hot to flood!!
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I lived in SA for 6 months as a 1st grade nipper, WAS FREEEEEEEEEEEZING!
I lived at Sellecks Beach, the one with the pebble house, is that still there???
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Freezing?? Nah…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate
I think it’s still there…
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+1 (But with reach arounds)
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+1 (definitely reach arounds)
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Grope hug!
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STACKS ONNNN!!
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+1 (no reach arounds)
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+1 robo hug
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I was just thinking, reach-arounds only really work if you come from behind.
So either Qu-qu wants me to hug Welbo from behind or he thinks I have really long arms…Reed Richards I aint!
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ALLRIIIIIGHT!!!
At the movies right?
I’ll see if it’s poss this weekend, are you free?
I need to assist in tree lopping in my GAHDEN, but surely I am free on one of the days.
We still have each others numbers right? -
My pocket just vibrated…
So much love from the kotaku peeps. everyone in TAY gets noms from me today! you all deserve kudos!
I must read a lot I reckon. Tidying up the drawers in my desk at work. So far, i’ve rounded up 28 novels that were either on my desk or in the drawers. Maybe i should just get a bookshelf put in the office…
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I’m getting a Kindle for my 21st from my gf. I’ve heard glowing reports from both Trjn and Strange about the Kindle. Definitely worth looking into, they’re cheap these days.
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I’m busy hating on the Quickbooks SDK, which is very poorly documented. Also, eating a not so good muesli bar. It’s supposed to be crunchy, but it’s more teeth-breakingly stale/hard, I’m not sure if I want to continue.
How about you? Finished bastion yet?
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No, I’m too busy with TAY/sleeping atm, but I’m still enjoying it.
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How I miss the ability to take naps whenever I want….
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I don’t really nap. Once I’m asleep I’m gonna stay that way for a while.
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Whoa! It’s half price!!
***quiclky orders***
I want mine now!!!!
***joins Effluvium Boy in fist shaking***I want that recoloured Lee and Claremont run…only $75!!
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Reese’s pieces, and cheerios.
Oh I just so happen to know that AP is alive and kicking at work. So yah. *resumes munching on reese’s pieces*
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See Harli, when you have mysterious knowledge as to the whereabouts or status of AP it just helps to fuel the rumours. 😛
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Yeah but… But…
Harli’s a girl, so that’s just weird. (even if she is a bro)
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I don’t think they’re that far along. Methinks Harli and AP are more at the occasional date, frequent flirting stage. Bish and Blaghs are at the comfortable being around each other in silence after having been in love for so long stage.
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this is getting far too weird for me.
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It was way too weird for me the moment I got involved…
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I think my original response died somehow.
So allow me to repeat myself… it’s guy love!
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BAHAHA! i LOVE that song!
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Hmmm…
Hmmmmmm…Hey Bish, feel like doing a duet?
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Cue awkward TeamSpeak laggy singing!
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This can only end well.
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I don’t think even Bonnie and Clyde could match that sort of passion. It is unparalleled.
:I
We need to end these rumours Bish.
I guess I need to hit on women? Hmm, I have no real experience in that regard…
Welp, it’s up to you to clear our names!
Harli, you and AP are definitely an item. You have inside information, how else would you get this?!
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If you know what I mean. Sorry, it had to be done.
Also, that was going to be a “That’s what she said” joke but it sort of loses it’s meaning when it was a lady that said it in the first place :/
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I find that “that’s what she said” works significantly better when a ladyfolk says something. Even if it is completely innocuous.
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hear, hear!
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… And then I bought the horse a prostitute.
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Well in that case, THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID! OHHHHHH!
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I remember watching an episode of Rove in which Anne Hathaway kept saying “that’s what she said”.
I have nothing to draw from this I just thought I might mention it.
I’ll just crawl back under my desk now.
Help me settle an argument. Geeks or Nerds – which is cooler?
its a stupid argument, coz all cool people know they’re both cool, so yeah…
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So far as I’m aware, a nerd is someone with vast amounts of knowledge, whereas a geek is someone who is entertained by typically “geeky” past-times.
So, I would consider pretty much everyone on this site to be a “geek,” but I feel like some of you can’t quite reach the nerd level. 😛
Also, nerds typically desire new knowledge, and will attempt to hunt it down.
Also, I’m making this all up.
Also, I just wanted to say “also” again to piss people off.
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Also, have I reached Nerd status? Also, I like that jacket on you Blaghs (said jacket does not exist, I just wanted to say “also” once more).
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You seem to have a desire for knowledge, so let’s go with no.
Because let’s be honest, nobody actually cares.
At all.
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This is too true. I couldn’t give a rat’s ass.
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you get your own sub category Terrarian Vicenarian Hungarian Barbarian Librarian Communitarian
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Yay I am a sub category, all snuggled up under one them Main Categories.
Though a somewhat more accurate definition would be;
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Least i made you younger 😉
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Yes, actually I think I prefer your version.
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I may have managed to track down my first TAY post.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-77/#comment-178247
I’d like to point out that mu suggestion for a new feature was actually implimented eventually. That’s how influencial I am!
I’m pretty sure I posted in TAY a few random times before this when the Goose was large and in charge.
But there you all go.
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I just had an odd idea, but then I am a rather odd kind of fella, we should organise time travelling TAYs.
Now, stay with me on this, as a group we find TAYs from ages ago and start replying to the comments found there.
huh huh whatdayathink?
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Woow good on you man. I’m having trouble because i can’t be arsed going back through all my alternative nicknames..
especially the trolling ones..
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I remember seeing an Eats-A-Lot comment from… Hmmm, TAY well back in the Goose Era…
At a guess, about page 7 if you search Talk Amongst Yourselves, but that may well be wrong. It was certainly a fair way back.
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Welp, you posted as Harli in the speed-dating post when Mark first joined us, but I somehow doubt that helps.
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Kotaku had speed dating?
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Oh, wait. I do recall seeing that. Someone posted the link back to it once.
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Yeah!
And here was a great story from it:
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holy mackerel! I don’t even remember writing this!! hahaha.
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I miss watching Stickin’ Around
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A what to the where now?!
Link please!
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Unless there’s another Harli who loves Warcraft 3. And who has an irrational hatred of capital letters for proper nouns.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/10/kotaku-speed-dating/comment-page-2/#comment-175562
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bahahaha! that is indeedy me.
My oh my, Mark has a lot of suitors.
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Oh yes, where I let slip my human name on page 3 of that 😛
I’m trying to track down my first TAY comment now, gonna go way back to the start of the Wildgoose era.
Man, I’m such a nüb compared to you guys.
One day I shall be worthy of this community *stares into the distance* One day…
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Don’t worry Smelliferous one, you’ve spent long enough on the couch to be considered part of the community.
I’m really still just a young’un.
Ish.
Okay so scratch what I said earlier. My Ozgameshop order just arrived, this is the 10th business day since order. Not too shabby 😀
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again
Time Travelling TAY
Our quest to reply to all those poor, old, forgotten comments.
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I just don’t see how this will work…then our comments will become abandoned orphans..
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PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
CEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Off to pick it up! now! Mobo came in this morning! They’re even building it for me free o’ charge!
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If you fed the DVD drive fish… which I have NO idea why you would do such a thing 😛
The DVD drive is the computer’s mouth, you feed it CDs/DVDs and it goes MMMMMMMMMMMMMM! Feed it bad disks and it’ll be giving you errors and virus infected disks will make it sick… don’t do that, think of the computer
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Smells of freshly made components containing elements that are known to be toxic and carcinogenic!
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From the 19th until the 30th, but I’m taking all of next week off work because I had a scheduled day off and a public holiday, so it only cost me one more day of holiday leave.
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If you know what I mean? 😛
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I know what you mean.
And yes, you will.
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What are you insinuating? May I remind you Trjn is allowed to holiday in Thailand without scandalous rumor and innuendo.
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Did you see our convo t’other day?
I did a little more than insinuate.Uncle TIO, TRJN’s dad and his lover!
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Here’s hoping I don’t have a radar malfunction.
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*CAPS LOCKED HIGH-5: SPECIAL EDITION*
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EXPLOSIVE FIVE!
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SAFE MAN!
With the power of the fiddly knob and the forgettable combination, he keeps his valuables out of harms way! Never fear, nobody gets past Safe Man’s fiddly knob!
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SAFE MAN DARES ALL EVIL-DOERS TO FIDDLE WITH HIS KNOB!
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omg, you guys seriously kill me with laughter. there is not a day at work that passes without me cracking an idiotic grin or laughing like a mad-man by myself.
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After yesterdays effort I’m scared to click for fear of “Will it Blend : Kittens and Bunnies Edition”
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Well then I tip my hat to you sir.
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So wrong it’s right!
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No, not Spam, anything but the Spam.
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…It’s just wrong.
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I have eaten spam fairly recently.
Cold.
Straight from the can.
It was well document in TAY.
It is many things. Delicious is not one of them. Definitely edible, but not “delicious”-
I remember this kid brought Spam to our Outdoor Ed camping trip. He was forever shunned.
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That was hilarious.
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Yay for the appreciation of rapid posting of comments and all of that jazz.
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It’s an addiction, maybe we should start a support group on TAY, where we all comment a lot.
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AWWWWWWWWWW SHEEEEEEEEET!
Im about to blow this banana stand for Ekka, beatchairz!
What a silly week! Started off all positive, then got super dark around the middle there.
If this weeks TAY was a person, it’d be that really preppy girl everyone knew at school from the neck up, probz some goth dewd down to the waist, and I dunno… Sonic at the legs because we’re posting so fast?
Anyway, I’m getting all aroused thinking about showbags and carnies so I’m out.
Gratz to the winner of Kudos!
And e-hugs for Welbot! (I was gonna call you wel-bagz, lemme know if this nickname fits and I’ll call you it from now on… sounds kinda gangster… tight…)
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[cue enchanted pan pipes]-
“perchance consider it is thee who will, at day’s end, arouse the carnies?”
I have officially stopped doing work. There doesn’t seem to be much of a difference between this and my usual activities.
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Y U NO IN BACK TO FUTURE?
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I caint ride a skatebord goodly.
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*explosion*
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCNfYjZ26ow
Holy crap I can’t stop listening to this band!
LOVE IT
Lol, I’m around guys… just have a phenomenal amount of reports to attend to today along with chastising naughty technical teams.
Leave poor Harli alone, you’ll give her an anurism :p
Anyway, I think I need to take a hiatus or at least cut back a great deal on my posting. I had a good friend tell me the other day that life was too short. You know what? It is.
I’ve spent too many years languishing around and not really achieving much of note. Now that I’m starting to pass my mid 20’s at an alarming rate it’s time to take stock of where I want to be, because I’m just not happy with where I currently am at the moment. I think I know ‘the missing pieces’ in what I want to achieve and have in my life, so there’s no time like the present to set out and get them.
I think Batguy’s list the other day was an additional catalyst to this (where I’m up the top in posts… eek). I’m not really achieving anything by being here; the multitude of innuendos and suggestive humour is fun but at the end of the day (for me) this is just semi-social masturbation with nothing gained. For me, it really just boils down to another day, another dick joke. The fact that I seem to be number 1 in posts just drives home the point that I’m wasting my life on unproductive things that I am only going to come and regret later.
So it’s time for me to skedaddle to another meeting. I don’t mean anything above as offensive or to imply that anyone else posting here is wasting their time; it’s just that in the past few weeks I’ve started taking a look at my life and realizing that I’m missing a lot of things in my life I would really like to have.
I don’t know how I’m going to get them, but I think by taking this first step I’m going to get closer to it. Even if it’s just a little step, it’s one in the right direction.
So I might pop in here and there but for the time being this is adieu. TAY really is a full time job these days so I hope you all keep up with the crazy shenanigans 🙂
Kthxbai,
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You’ll be missed AP 🙁
But if that’s what you feel you have to do, good luck with all your future endeavours and I hope you can find some measure of satisfaction with your life 🙂
It’s been real.
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Fare thee well sweet AP.
Just remeber, it is the journey that counts, not the destination.
Also, as you and Jeeves walk off into the sunset, I want you to take with you one very special thing, something that you can hold onto for the rest of your life.
Does my bum look big in this?
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You’re an awesome dude. Just don’t disappear from my Twitter timeline : )
Hope one day your crotch will shoot out rainbows and you gain the success you want in life! -
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Until then, farewell human, and good luck on your future endeavors, but please join us on TS every now and then 🙂
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Yeah!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I has face sad, but if its what you need to do mate, I can totally understand. *hugs* Your awesome one liners, I will struggle without thems! 🙁
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Pessimist the secret is instead of over investing just use it at work when you have nothing on your plate. This is what i try and do. As for things that you want to accomplish i find it quite easy to set goals but harder to keep them. Motivation is key. Anyway what i am trying to say is everyone’s gonna miss you!
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But…but….who’s gonna pester me for jerkins now?
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And I appreciate and understand what you’re saying, but just remember, you haven’t been getting nothing out of this whole posting up a storm in TAY business. You got us. And your presence here has helped me in ways I’ll never be able to explain. *hug*
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Have fun being productive, I’ve never really bothered with it but I hear that it can be fulfillilng.
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I understand fully, I pretty much the same on Dtoid a year or two ago. Spent WAY too much time on there and my work suffered for it.
Peace out man, see ya on da twitters.
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Mind you I still love all the Dtoid guys, but I rarely comment on the blogs anymore. I keep up to date mostly through twitter these days.
That way I get to be productive AND social at the same time!
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He’ll be back …They always come back.
Good luck dude, hopefully you’ll achieve whatever you’re wanting to achieve.
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*offers jamesmag a big sweaty barbarian bearhug*
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*uses the sweat as moisturiser*
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Wow, sometimes I surprise myself with how disgusting I can be..
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One of us, one of us, one of us…
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*Takes a big sniff*
You smell that TAY? That’s the smell of the weekend. Or the curry I had for lunch. But it’s friday, so I’m gonna go 50/50.
Speaking of letting things rip, I have been ruled out of this weeks footy game for my local team due to having a slightly torn hamstring.
YAAAYYYYY!
No thats not sarcasm, nor am I a masochist (I have been known to be whipped to the point of not being able to walk, but thats another DeveO story) – I am actually looking forward to getting some decent gaming time in whilst I recover. The game is moot anyway, as we are 4 points clear of the nearest team and are guarenteed a place in the finals. Typically once the finals come around there is no time for gaming and it is just a foggy haze of training, football, binge-drinking and cross-dressing (it’s called Mad Monday for a reason).
So what’s everyone doing/playing this weekend? Is there still interest for a Kotaku LoL deathmatch? Count me in. Failing that, after my attrocious performance the other night playing DotA with harls and ap I am going to invite some of my mates round for some good-old fashioned DotA Lan action. If either of you guys are interested perhaps we could have a friendly DotA match over hamachi or garena?
Also TF2 – just throwin it out there if anyone wants to eat bullets with me at some point.
Anyways have a good weekend everyone! 😀
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I’ve never played DotA or LoL but am intrigued because of the amount people post about it. Not sure how much time I’ll have for it this weekend but would definitely be keen sometime soon if you don’t mind playing with a noob.
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Some of the guys are still very much rookies, so you won’t be out of your league (No pun intended… maybe) very much, you’ll have a better chance keeping up with us if you join in sooner rather than later. Here’s the kicker, it costs nothing to get and play for as long as you want!
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Well which should I play? LoL or DotA? I’m thinking LoL because more people have been talking about that. I might give it a crack tomorrow while my girlfriends at work. Is it fairly easy to pick up?
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I would pick LoL since it’s got an easier learning curve, you start at level 1, facing other level 1s/2s, so you’ll be much more likely going against people that are new to it like you. You can also do co-op vs AI to get some basic practise on Champions you haven’t played yet to further your beginning experience.
DoTA I would say is much more random in terms of who you have on your team and who you’re up against
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Sounds good. Think I’ll give it a go over the weekend then! 😀
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I suggest also having a mic and teamspeak as well, and join us in our lovely chats on LoL strategies as well as co-operative play
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I shall have to get a mic then, I don’t have one at the moment. Thinking of acquiring a headset, anyone know a good one?
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I’m up for some LoL and TF2 over the weekend. Getting my tattoo worked on again tomorrow so I’ll be busy 1pm-7pm but otherwise should be good to go.
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actually I was going to ask (and this was at the danger of being filed under “internet creep/pedo/perv”) if you could post a pic of it 😀 I love looking at tatts..
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I’ll post something tomorrow arvo 🙂 Haven’t really done any of the lower (fallout) part yet. 9 hours down, probably 12 to go!
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That’s not creepy! I love looking at tats too! I need to get another one, it’s been too long!
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Schoolkids next to me on the train earnestly discussing HoN. Heroes, attack values, MMRs…
WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?
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I have literally no idea what HoN is…. everything I’ve heard about it has been through skimming the 45 TAY pages about it every week. 😉
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Well then, i can take that :):):):))))))))))
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I’m just remembering when I went and saw “The Importance of being Earnest.” I was the only one laughing at like, half of the jokes. It was rather embarrassing.
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Inspired by f4ction’s comment earlier, who has tattoo’s? And what are they of? Pictures are welcome
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I have a phoenix on my left shoulder. Lion on my right forearm. Both are solid black and will be replaced (the right forearm one should be getting covered in the next few weeks).
Full sleeve being worked on, then one for the side of my head (I often rock a mohawk) OR my hand then I’ll work on the other arm.
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o114/f4cti0n/2011-08-12181410.jpg
Sorry about the bad quality, phone at night in a not-so-greatly-lit room. Probably about 35% done.
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Nice man. that looks sweet! Be sure to send me a pic of the full thing once it’s done.
I have a picture of a wolf howling at the moon on my right forearm.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/685/img0235uj.jpg/
And a skull with spikes around it on my upper left arm, that’s getting re-done soon hopefully (it was done by my mate when I was 17).
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I had the inside of arm done yesterday (up to and including my armpit). Sweet Jesus… so painful.
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God damn that would hurt. Worth it though :p
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I’ve gone home for the weekend, so there really isn’t much incentive for me to waste time on TAY when I have other things to waste time on.
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I’ve been sewing up a storm while everyone here has been spamming. It’s the most difficult project I’ve ever done and I keep asking myself why I decided to do it. I’m nuts. 😛
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Okay 🙂 looking forward to it!
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You can’t actually hear it now, but I’m singing ‘Never gonna give you up’ to try entertain you.
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Also, look at this guy:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/08/where-are-the-best-3ds-deals/#comment-341764
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It’s true. I thought I’d redeemed myself? D:
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🙁 I don’t know how I missed it. IT WAS SO OBVIOUS!
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You disappointed the gods of TAY.
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Trying hard to not be creeped out 😛 guess I deserve that after using your sweat as moisturiser though
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I don’t know if it’s that out of the ordinary. We aren’t pulling literary references out of the air, there’s plenty of sound and fury going around for it to fit into place.
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I have cried fury because of my discontent with the winter. No dogs of war were let slip though.
I also haven’t really read much Shakespeare.
He was as playwright dammit. That means his works are meant to be performed, not merely read. It feels like I’m doing it a disservice to just read it.
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Some of the soliloquies are fantastic little bits of poetry in their own right, even if you can’t hear them performed.
Macbeth’s rants about power and ambition, and also some stuff in The Merchant of Venice about mercy, are great pieces of literature.
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The openingish bit from Othello is great. I performed that as part of year 10 drama, it’s not all that poetic, but it’s good fun.
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Also:
Going to SHANGHAI in December/January! For a month!
Actually very excited! Too many exclamation marks!
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Justified exclamation marks.
There’s a formatting joke in there somewhere, but more importantly it sounds like you’re going to have yourself an awesometacular time.
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You’ll be closer to my hometown than I will be! Go to visit Hong Kong if you get the chance : ) Cheap techie stuff FTW!
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I was planning to go to China anyway in December with a fried, we might go in January because this Shanghai thing is earlier than I thought.
Which means I could be in China for about six weeks to two months all up :O
We were planning on visiting HK anyway (probably on the way back), and I have other friends who’ll be there then anyway.
Where is your home town, as well? HK? I can’t remember D:
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Yep Hong Kong!
Wish I could be there to be a tour guide, if you wish, but bawble may be there at that time, not sure yet.
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I reckon you’ll have the time of your life! I love Shanghai. Been there several times myself, and it’s all kinds of amazing! 🙂 Hope you enjoy your trip! Shame it isn’t just a little bit later so you get to experience the new year festivities. Still should be amazing though 🙂
Work is like a graveyard at the moment, not a living soul in sight. I think I’ll put on some Naruto on the sly..
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If work is like a graveyard, you should put up drawings of zombies and fire elastic bands at them.
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I did this once when working at 7-11, I was working a late shift and there was nothing to do so I bought my laptop in. It’s not a good idea to watch Clerks 2 when someone comes in to inspect the store.
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I think it will take a lot of spam to reach that target, especially since dear AP is not going to be around 🙁
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With my holidays coming up in just over a week, I will have nothing better to do than spam TAY.
Prepare for riveting posts like.
Slept in today.
Mmm toast.
I just turned on the TV yay.
This and further little gems will all be yours.
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I don’t know, people get away with it on Facebook so maybe you can get away with it here 😛
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I’m unsure whether this is something to be proud of 😛
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There could be a race: can Hugo post faster than people can report his posts? Find out, next week on TAY!
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This could be the next big hit, surely a TV show based on that will be just as good as Keeping up with the Kardashians.
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Yeah, I understand why he is leaving though. I am in a similar boat, just have no idea what to do about it.
Yeah, well I guess I’m also in a similar boat. I’m not where I want to be, but I don’t where it is I want to be either, just that it’s not doing what I’m doing. Unfortunately I can’t really take any leaps of faith and try something new because I have a car loan to pay off and I’m the breadwinner between my girlfriend and I and we wouldn’t manage without my income.
I have no idea what I want to do with my life, and that’s what’s always put me at odds with my family, because they seem to have spent every waking moment knowing exactly what they want to do. :/
Same as mine, my sister finished school last year and she’s known what she wanted to do since she was 7 (she’s becoming an architect). It sucks.
My sister decided during high-school that she wanted to be a Music Teacher, so even though on absolutely no effort she got a UAI of 91.5 or thereabouts (putting her in the top 8.5% of her year ten class, whereas intellectually she was in the top 0.05% at the worst :/) and went in to teaching. On my father’s side, he’s a consultant(which is equivalent to an “attending” in the US in terms of ED positions) with a fair amount of rep in the medical community, his sister was Vice President of Ford Australia, and his brother has always done well. My mother is a GP, and as such has never had any problems finding work, but on the bright side for me, both her brothers spent their time meandering around.
To give you a better idea, for funsies, back in the day, my mother did the Queensland public service exam, she topped the test. Her brother came second. Her other brother came third.
So, where does this leave me? I like video games, and I would love to help make them, but I am a fairly poor coder, and a terrible modeller. To get anywhere would require at least rudimentary skills in those areas. Apart from that? I like to help people. I have a hero complex. And I’m the stupid one of the family, with no idea what he wants to do. That’s my life. NOW PITY ME! 😀
Here, have some pity. I know how you feel. I mean I’m good at what I do, but I f*cking hate it. It’s nothing more than a job to me. Computers frustrate the hell out of me. I want to play games on them, not fix them!
Almost everyone in my family is fairly well off, and I mean I’m on about 55k a year, but it’s shit work and I want to leave it as soon as possible. But I have no idea what to do. I used to want to be in a band, but yeah, not a very realistic career choice so I doubt that will ever happen. So I have to find something I could at least bear to be doing for the rest of my life.
At my year 7 graduation, they had this thing they read out about you and one of things was what career you wanted. Mine was to work at Blizzard North on the next Diablo game LOLOLOL! So didn’t happen 😛 Plus I can’t code, or draw, or model.
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It was a good pick by Mark, Welbot deserves the support. I’m glad my nominee got a mention, I even got quoted. Starstruck!
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I feel ashamed… but not enough to change 😛
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Please tell me that was a Vicar of Dibley reference. I love that old guy! You sir, are a legend. Have a good weekend.
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WELBOT RULES!!!
Did Sony take iView and Channel 7’s one off the PS3?! They disappeared after the latest update on mine.
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I thought the same thing, but you need to go into the new “My Channels” thing and re-enable them from there.
Hope that helps.
May have moved:
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/08/09/ps3-system-software-update-v3-70/
“Due to the increase in video applications being offered on PS3, we are adding a new category on the XMB called TV/Video Services. This category will include video applications such as Netflix, Hulu PLUS, and VUDU.
– You’ll be able to find and download all of the video applications available on PS3 directly from this new XMB category.
– A folder labeled “My Channels” within this category will allow you to easily access your downloaded applications.
– Any videos downloaded from the PlayStation store will continue to be placed in the existing Video category on the XMB”
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I saw that channel, my PlayTV was in it but there was no sign of iView. I wonder if I have to do anything special to make it appear.
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How specs-hungry is LoL? Will I be able to play it on my Mid 2010 Macbook Pro? I’m running Windows through Bootcamp on there. Just want to know because if it does I might be able to start playing tonight, can’t use the gaming computer because it’s in my room and my girlfriend has an early start tomorrow.
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Ah okay, well I’ll try and start it downloading early then.
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I’m on Steam. My username is jmm2000. I’m new to Steam and don’t know how to join groups, I also don’t have many games on there yet.
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Just figured it out, now joined.
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Boot Camping makes me feel icky. I just have a separate Windows machine that I switch to. Much easier.
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Yeah I prefer not to use the Boot Camp, but most of the good games aren’t available for OS X 🙁
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You know what’s weird?
I boot-camped a macbook pro too.
Admittedly mine was from 2008 or something, but still, we really are far too similar good sir(except that you haven’t failed at life).
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You haven’t failed either! But yes we are way too similar 😛
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Ha Ha H- Try telling my parents that.
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Give me their contact details and I’ll have a word with them.
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You’re not old enough yet to have failed at life. I refuse to believe it. Plus you’re awesome, that has to count for something!
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I try.
But until I can make money by singing badly on youtube, I’ll consider myself a failure. 😀
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You’ll manage! Rebecca Black makes money, so can you!
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Omnomnom!
Coffee and chocolate pudding. This stuff is good. Although, I think it was the cause of my weird dream the other night. We shall see.
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They do that, and since it’s less likely to get missed here, for my mic/headset I use a logitech G330 (which I think is the middle range one) and it’s good, though I do have a few problems with it and glasses, but I don’t think that that would be a problem for you.
There are some great ones in the upper range, but I don’t know any off the top of my head.
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I have no idea sorry dawdle! I’m still trying to get LoL updated on my Macbook. It keeps stopping :/ so crap. It installed on my PC fine but I can’t play that tonight.
I will read the manuals, but will have to wait as I have people over tonight.
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They were! They didn’t leave for ages and then I was hell tired so just went to bed and passed out. Now I’m slightly hungover and that really sucks :/
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Hungover? I’m so glad that I don’t know what that feels like!
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You’re joking right? Surely you’ve been hungover before?
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Nope, I don’t get hangovers. Believe me, I’ve tried, but, for now at least, I am immune to them.
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You lucky bastard!!
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BBBBBBBIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Are you ready for more shameful displays of racism?
A Shogun 2 expansion, where they add what was missing from Shogun 2! I am so surprised *cough*
I just thought that that deserved its own post.
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I was going to buy shogun 2 at eb but it was all like “hahaha I am like 90 dollars” and I also didn’t get it cause bish will be all you should be playing deus ex. Which I’m shit at btw, I failed the very first mission god damn stealth, I am the least stealthy person ever. I can’t even sneak up on deaf people , yeah you won that round grandpa.
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I must have failed that first mission about 25 times or more. I kept trying though because everyone kept saying it was the greatest game ever. And they were right, you just have to get through the crappy first mission first. 😛
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Yeah the Liberty Island mission was a bit… hard for new players. You need to be a bit stealthy. 😀
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Alright – in complete contrast to last week, tonight I had full 16 player Red Dead Redemption greatness and it was good, sweet justice for all!
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Once I was playing and it was raining in-game.
I finished up and went outside (for some bizarre reason) and for a moment (a long moment, admittedly) I couldn’t figure out how the ground could be so dry so soon after the rain…
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No not in the MP, just shooting guys, it’s a lot like GTA Multiplayer in that your lock-on is a lot more useful than fine aim.
IN the single-player though my prize stallion got attacked by wolves – it was sad moment when I skinned that animal…
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Goddammit Steam.
I was downloading Just Cause 2, it was at about 70% done, and now steam has decided that I haven’t downloaded anything at all, and it has to restart.
I just… How does… *sigh*
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That happened to me with Team Fortress 2 when I downloaded that, it had gotten to 93% and then just suddenly restarted the download.
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When are you finishing your choose your own adventure story, Blaghman? Why? For it hangs from precipice far without appropriate resolution.
When are you making another music video, Blaghman? Why? For I want it to be so.
These questions will shadow you too close until an appropriate resolution is forthcoming. One does not simply download Just Cause 2 without attracting such curious interrogation. I seek satisfaction regarding these matters and I do so with tenacious voracity and unchecked enthusiasm.
Why? Just coz? Just cause? Just coz 2? All I’m getting is more questions here, Blaghs, help a brother out.
Is it not sufficient I must wait until 2015 for Bad Boys 3? Is this not to be suffering enough? What torment is this? Is it not sufficient that Michael Bay will again snub Megan Fox in the aforementioned and ongoing Bad Boys saga? Shit just real, Blaghman, shit just got real.
Can you even believe Megan Fox was in a movie called Whore? That’s so inappropriate; the casting I mean – Megan Fox in such a movie as that – more ironic than anything Alanis Morissette ever stumbled upon and that’s for damn sure – I mean: at the end of all things that is.
But irony is often misused in all the wrong places and as a simple matter of fact, or so it seems. Sometimes I tell people that their use of irony is in fact very ironic and I know that – on some level – they appreciate me correcting them and, in turn, making them better people. This is the path of all things.
Don’t blame Ms Morissette is what I really mean to say; she is an upstanding citizen, unblemished by sin and the selfish, broken and fundamentally flawed pursuit of happiness in a postmodern world of vice and toxic virtue.
The point I was really trying to make at the beginning of all this is why do we have to wait another four years for Bad Boys 3? I’ve been sending screenplays (Bad Boyz III: SHITZ IZ SO R3AL ) to Michael Bay for ages, so I already know he has plenty of material, and there’s lots of funny jokes for Martin Lawrence to say when he faces a difficult obstacle inside his often calamitous, tangled story thread projecting forth to glorious and final resolution.
Bad Boys IV is still in the research stage, but expect it to open some old wounds and embrace a more cinema noir appeal and 1940s’ aesthetic.
Bad Boys 3 is going to have a radical change of direction though; this time Megan Fox will be wearing a one piece swimsuit and is also Mike Lowery’s chauffeur like in Driving Miss Daisy, but this time Morgan Freeman is the narrator more like in The Shawshank Redemption. But the twist is the narrator (Morgan Freeman) is also the mysterious central antagonist. So . . . it’s pretty good, it’s written as a Cold War allegory for a hip, modern audience looking for a convenient and suitably priced good time at their designated local cineplex and attached shopping enclosure.
Your old pal,
Plainview.
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I saw no response when I posted my last update to my tale, so it simply disappeared down the cracks, forgotten by all, maybe loved, but who can know? In terms of my music, my videos, it takes time, my good friend. I had things planned, but the loss of a good friend, my macbook pro, caused a loss of more than just my downloads. It was filled with ideas, with knowledge, with some music. Since then I have been unable to muster the enthusiasm, for I fear that it may all disappear again. But hold fast my friend, I assure you that I shall have something soon. Something glorious.
Well, relatively glorious.
Your good friend,
Blaghman.
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Just played my first game of LoL against bots. I got 11/5/0. Not sure if this is a good score or not :/
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Yeah played again, the character I was used to got taken so I played a different character, all the summoners except me quit in the first 10mins and then I quit after I got 1/11/2 :/
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You are all added 🙂 I’m down south for tonight and most of tomorrow so don’t know if I’ll get a chance to play.
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welbot (from page 16):
I have another month off uni after Jan 20, so I was thinking of staying in China and looking around Beijing/Xi’an/possibly HK with some friends for a while. Hopefully we’d get to see the New Years stuff! 😀
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Oh wow, we will! It’s on Jan 23!
That’d probably screw all the transport up, but I’d love to be in Beijing/Shanghai for that.
Went to the Ekka for the first time this afternoon. What a stupid name for a Show. 😛
I felt old because I didn’t go on any rides but I did look at all the quilts and the competition food. I got a Wizz Fizz show bag. Wizz Fizz is almost as good as Shapes.
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Umm? . . . if you eat wizz fizz and then drink coke at the same time – you pretty much explode. Don’t even try it, not even for kicks or cheap Sunday thrills. But right on, for cheap Sunday thrills, wizz fizz > shapes. Shapes ain’t got no explosive tendencies. Shapes be all inert up in here.
Did you see the baby goats? Because they are the best. And Gravitron. A Gravitron at the Missouri Fair hit max rpm and just straight-up tore itself to pieces and turned up the gravity volume to eleven!!!! – Radical!!! Admittedly, the gravity measurements do take a hit when Gravitron straight-up loses its structural integrity; but in the moments before and at that most final, irreversible top speed: everything is maximum, dude, like looking into the very heart of a supernova burning bright.
The baby goats at the Missouri Fair ain’t got not rpm and are just cute and very funny and don’t like riding Gravitron; not as much as me anyhow.
Love,
Plainview.
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How dare you accuse the Royal Queensland Show of having a stupid name! Ekka is simply an abbreviation of exhibition. And I miss the Ekka, the Canberra Show is balls in comparison.
Plainview’s riddle
I have been thinking long and hard about who plainview is. We already know that he or she is a regular reader and through the process of elimination I shall show everyone who it is.
It can’t be bish because he said shapes were equivalent to wizz fizz. Bish could not stand to make a comment like that.
It is not blaghman because plainview tells blaghman his music is good. Blaghman never compliments his own singing.
It harli, strange or dawdle because plainview sounds like he is probably a bloke.
It can’t be tech knight, Jo or gorzilla because plainview doesn’t talk about league of legends i’n all his posts.
It can’t be tadmod because tad is a employee at allure and we all know plainview won a tv.
It can’t be pessimist because his secret identity is a butler who fetches geckos.
It can’t be qumulys, welbot or dr what because the never use alias’s.
So i’n conclusion it must be Jennifer garner from alias.
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We know plainview isn’t me because he doesn’t use terrible grammar and spellin, as well as the fact he doesn’t shout racist comments to bish over teamspeak.
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I’m pretty sure Plainview is from WA. Therefore he is JamesMag, The Cracks, or maybe even Fistbeard McTavish or HindenLagen The Damned. Or maybe they all combine to become Plainview and don’t remember what they did when they’re him. My best guesstimate though is JamesMag. Just purely because Plainview seemed to start to talking to us a lot more, and even in one sentence posts(!) around the time JamesMag became very vocal around here.
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I’m sorry but I’m not Plainview! It’s just a coincidence we started posting at around the same time!
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Well, we know that Plainview is a man with a love of language, but there is far more than simply that that we can glean.
Plainview said that his name was used as a pseudonym when he wrote for a newspaper, and while I cannot attest to the truth of this tale, I know one thing, the Plainview Daily Herald is a commercially successful newspaper for the town of Plainview in Texas.
Why is this important? Well, in 1994 they established their online web space, and ’94 was a very important year, most importantly, The Lion King was originally released in 1994. The Lion King is a wonderful -though not original- tale, as I’m sure we’re all aware, and it deals particularly with the themes of fatherhood, and what it’s like to lose someone.
Plainview is like a father figure to me, guiding me through a linguistic journey, and as such the only logical answer is that Plainview is me.
Or JM2, deinitely one of the two.
But not really.
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Late Saturday night TAY! I’m at my girlfriend’s parents place. Wish I was home, got my first taste of LoL today and I want to play it again!
Got City2Surf tmr! and i am still not in bed yet, i will prob pass out after the 14km run. lol
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Good weather for it, at least. Cloudy/not warm won’t make you tire as easily!
Did you win yet?
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Frakking Microsoft auto-renewed my Gold. Bastards. When my free month I got with Foxtel was close to running out a message came up asking if I wanted to auto-renew. I selected ‘No’. They seem to have disregarded this and just sent me an email saying “Congratulations! Your Gold membership has been renewed!”. My husband’s selection of ‘No’ for his auto-renewal message meant his Gold just expired and that was that. Why are they now screwing with me? Especially as mine is tied to a debit card. Grr. And if I did want Gold membership there’s no f..ing way I’d be stupid enough to go the $11 a month route. Greedy money-hungry bastards better give my money back when I call them. what a crap way to start a Sunday morning.
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Don’t even get me started about xbox live. Changing credit cards with them is an absolute nightmare. And last time I tried to get out of it, I somehow managed to get charged a year’s subscription and so I just gave up. I am using it again so I suppose it’s not all bad. Still frustrating though.
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Funny.. well not funny for you but you should have joined in on the discussion i had with a few people today on twitters about the exact same thing.
I got an e-mail saying my auto renewal would kick off next month when my gold lapses. I thought screw that as I dont want to pay $90 for gold when i get it from gamecard or whatever for 50. So i went online to turn off auto renewal and there was no option.
I thought i did something wrong so searched support, found the auto renew disable option and followed the instructions. again, no luck.
called M$ support and clearly asked to be shown how to do this online… the dude flat out confirmed that the disable of auto renew was disabled currently and had been for months. He suggested that it would be brought back in the next few months.
Here is the bullS$#@ story i got about the reason for this.
He said that there had been a huge influx of calls to the call centre about locked accounts. This was supposedly caused by people attempting hacking others live accounts. The story goes that there was a huge amount of calls to the call centre saying that peoples account was locked. this was caused by incorrect account details being entered more than 3 times.
So because of this, auto renew is disabled online. I can change my credit card details, remove credit card details, change my name, billing address but for some reason, auto renew is not an option. I call BULL Mr M$.
We all know the reason for this, insurance companies set up direct debit policies for the exact same reason, the less people have do do the greater chance you have at a renewal.
Here is the kicker… To do this over the phone, I had to verify my identity. They asked for my name, address, phone number and the last 4 digits of my credit card, all details that are clearly visible if my account had been hacked anyway as they were all on my screen in front of me. What this shows is that anyone with the correct password SHOULD have full access to the account. I can’t see why they think that the auto renew option would be blocked and everything else available.
This really pissed me off today hence this rant. It also gets me that the price for live (Strange can confirm this) is actually closer to $90. I think they charge you $79 for the renewal, but what they dont tell you is that GST is added on top of this, rather than included in the price. I suspect that they get around this because they are US site and they quote prices after tax. In AUS we include GST in all quoted prices…
Anyway, I’d actually like to see some official response from M$ about this, perhaps Marky mark can do some digging for us? Why auto renew but no other features disabled?
I could be wrong here, I have not changed other details online but it seems that the only blocked feature is auto renew DISABLE.
If they were truly concerned about us as customers, they would default to NOT auto renew and allow us to confirm this… but that would lose them crap loads of cash wouldn’t it?
Regards, FatRanty
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Yeah, mine’s set to auto-renew tomorrow, even though I never wanted that to happen, and I can remove the credit card without the subscription ending, so I have to call them and waste more money :/
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It’s the anniversary of the birth of the amazing Dr. What? today. Happy Birthday Dr. What?! Everyone should buy one of his shirts to celebrate.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/cronotriggr
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Does anyone else have the duplicate comment problem I do?
If I write “HA!” in a reply it denies it because it’s a duplicate comment. Basically, anything I’ve posted can’t be posted again (I don’t mean in quick succession – It seems it could be something I posted pages ago, or even in a previous TAY), which is why I had to change to “HAHA!”-
HA!
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Apparently not.
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But have you posted “HA!” any time in the last week or so?
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HA!
Oh man, I tried to post that except it denied me.
Well there you go!
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14th August 2003, an extensive power cut blacked out a significant portion of Canada and the US.
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You know what to do.
Happy Birthday, bucko!
Welp, that went well.
I fixed the buggered mic(for some reason both mic 6 and the spare were running on the same frequency, so they kept interfering with each other), and I only missed one cue(and technically I didn’t miss it, I just pressed the wrong button), and then at the afterparty I got to show off my latest party trick(tying the stem of a cherry using only my tongue).
Unfortunately I was far too sober, but that’s life.
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The only thing you really need to remember, is that your audience should be inebriated. It hides the lies so very well.
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I like your style!
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Welcome to the summary of TAY for this week aka TABTOL. I’m going to repost this tomorrow, so think of this is the early access beta (mainly to test formatting):
TAY August 13, 2011: 3678 comments
1: jamesmag 492 posts (13.4)%
2: Blaghman 351 posts (9.5)%
3: AnonymousPessimist 248 posts (declared) (6.7)%
4: Trjn 198 posts (5.4)%
5: Effluvium Boy 197 posts (5.4)%
6: Harli 196 posts (5.3)%
7: Bish 188 posts (5.1)%
8: Jimu 110 posts (3.0)%
9: Qumulys 100 posts (2.7)%
10: Blaghman aka Gladys 92 posts (2.5)%
11: dawdle! 82 posts (2.2)%
12: NotoriousR 80 posts (2.2)%
13: Tech Knight 79 posts (2.1)%
14: PuppyLicks 76 posts (2.1)%
15: Jo 74 posts (2.0)%
16: Hugo the Hungarian Barbarian 73 posts (2.0)%
17: jamesmacusedmyhandle 60 posts (1.6)%
18: Sughly 59 posts (1.6)%
19: Dr What? 57 posts (1.5)%
20: lambomann007 54 posts (1.5)%
Post #1: lambomann007 at 08:30 08/08
Post #1000: Bish at 11:50 09/08
Post #2000: Blaghman at 10:36 11/08
Post #3000: jamesmag at 11:27 12/08
Post #3678: ExplosionsHurt at 19:20 14/08
I love that the last post before this one was hidden back on page 1. Way to go ExplosionsHurt!
As a special bonus feature for my beta testers, here’s last week’s summary too:
TAY August 6, 2011: 1955 comments
1: jamesmag 193 posts (9.9)%
2: AnonymousPessimist 126 posts (6.4)%
3: Sughly 115 posts (5.9)%
4: Blaghman 97 posts (5.0)%
5: Trjn 94 posts (4.8)%
6: Effluvium Boy 85 posts (4.3)%
7: Jimu 83 posts (4.2)%
8: Harli 82 posts (4.2)%
9: Rocketman 80 posts (4.1)%
10: Blaghman, patron saint of doing it wrong. 76 posts (3.9)%
11: Bish 70 posts (3.6)%
12: jamesmacusedmyhandle 60 posts (3.1)%
13: The Cracks 57 posts (2.9)%
14: NotoriousR 53 posts (2.7)%
15: Strange 50 posts (2.6)%
16: lambomann007 41 posts (2.1)%
17: Tech Knight 39 posts (2.0)%
18: PuppyLicks 35 posts (1.8)%
19: RoninX 32 posts (1.6)%
19: Steve-O The Deve-O 32 posts (1.6)%
Post #1: Trjn at 08:35 01/08
Post #1000: jamesmag at 15:55 04/08
Post #1955: Effluvium Boy at 11:47 07/08
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