Talk Amongst Yourselves
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Tied for 26th, I’m happy with that
Not too shabby at #11!
Equal 57th! I don’t know what to say… what a moment.
If only my old dad had lived to see this moment… he’d have been so proud. He always said I’d be the best at something someday. Who would have thought that it would turn out that I was the best at coming 57th in TAY.
*wipes tear*
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Though he may have been less proud to know that you were actually tied with AnonymousPessimist’sCrotch for that honour…
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I dunno… that’s a pretty impressive crotch from all reports I’ve heard…
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Wizz Fizz is breakfast food, right?
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The Breakfast of CHAMPIONS.
Oh wait, apparently that’s someone else’s tagline.
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Anything can be breakfast food, if you believe in your heart that it is.
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BELIEVE IN THE HEART OF THE CARDS
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They talk as that game is like godly. THEY ARE PLAYING CARDS!!! Even if i rule at that game.
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Once you play me, Yu will be like: “Gi SteveO smashed me – Oh the humanity!”
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I had chocolate milk and pizza for breakfast. Wizz Fizz is what I aspire to. 🙂
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I does if a packet of salt & vinegar chips and a bottle of V count as breakfast.
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I used to almost always have chips and coke for breakfast because I’m too lazy to bother making anything else. This year I decided to try and eat healthier but I put on a whole bunch of weight so now I’m back to eating chips so I can be all skinny and hot again. 😛
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Yes. Because then it doesn’t make me feel bad about what I did on Saturday. Woke up at 1pm after I got back at about 2am, ate shapes for lunch/breakfast, wasted the day doing something, then my brother wanted to watch Transformers as he had free tickets, so i took a box of shapes to the movies to eat while I was watching the movie.
So I literally only ate Shapes for the entire day of saturday. Minus the 1am kebab. I like kebabs.
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I put a hex on you, sorry.
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Only if you mix it with milk
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I once knew a kid who tried to snort Wizz Fizz. As I recall it didn’t end well.
Massive shout out to everyone for the birthday wishes at the weekend! Thanks guys!
Also, a few people asked for the specs of the new rig.
Case: Cooler Master Haf X
CPU: Intel i5 2500K 3.3Ghz, 6mb
GPU: MSI GTX-560Ti Twin Frozr OC
RAM: G.Skill 2x4G Ripjaw 9.9.9.24
Mobo: Asrock Z68 Extreme 4 ATX
HDD: 120GB SSD & 1TB HDD
Drive: BH10LS30 Blu-ray writer
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Oh, twas your birthday?
Rad!
Sorry i didn’t know! lol 😛HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
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No worries, mate! Thanks for the Birfday wishes.
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Nice rig bro. Man that sounded stupid. But anyway, still a nice rig hopefully you can play so awesome games now.
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Nice rig bro…if you know what I mean 😛
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Belated Spawning Day Celebrations dear Doc What?
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Thank you, my barbaric chum!
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Y U STEAL MY COMPUTER SPECS!
I have the same CPU/GPU/Memory combo. So you can play Crysis 2 with DX11 see all the prettiness! Though I don’t have an SSD/Blu ray. So I am jelly of that. Also, a belated happy birthday!
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I R THEEF!?
How’s the specs working for you? I haven’t had a chance to test any games yet. Still installing and moving files around.
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Works brilliantly. As I said, Crysis 2 looks beautiful. I have it running at 1366×768, with DX11, but not the high res textures. It’s smooth enough for me to enjoy (anything over 30fps and I don’t really care). But if I try and increase the res to my primary monitor’s 1600×900, it chugs, or if I enable the High res texture pack, it also chugs. But yeah, in general, it’s awesome. Probably will be good enough for BF3/Skyrim, which is all that really matters.
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I’m surprised the high-res pack chugs for you. I was looking at the benchmarks, and if you have a 1 gig card, then at most there was a 1fps drop, because newer cards can handle the texel calculations/filling/whatever at a way greater rate than we have need for.
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Yeah I don’t know why. If I enable fraps it says it’s running at 40 fps, but there is very visible chugging when you move the camera around. I have no idea why. I blame something that is not me.
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Yeah, that’s a tad odd. I run it with tesselation disabled (which sadly also gets rid of the pretty pretty parralax) because as nice as it is, it runs like dog.
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omg! HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY! I apologise for my lateness and will now have to make it up to you.
Also, NICE SPECS BRO!!!
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No problem broette. It was still technically my birthday in Scotland when you posted.
Feel free to make it up anyway 🙂
Happy B-daye, dawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwg.
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Cheers bruddah!
Happy Birthday.
Also nice setup.
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Thanks and thanks!
(See previous TAY & Twitter)
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(I saw)
Ooops, Happpy Birthday *removes trousers and salutes while singing the birthday song*
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“Happy Birthday to What!?,
Your birthday, it’s not,
It looks like we were late,
so please put up with our rot!”
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That was… beautiful, guys. *wipes tear*
I haven’t been this touched since I was an little catholic Alter Boy.
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Happy B-day! Was your new rig your present?
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Kinda. It was my present to me.
I always buy me the best gifts.
Sign here if you:
– Refuse to use potions just in case a boss is around the corner
– Turn around said corner, come to the boss, and refuse to use the potion just in case you need it for a harder boss
– Defeat end boss, finish game, and notice you’re sitting on a hundred Super-mega-X-potions
– For that matter, just never buying or selling anything during the game, but still have an absurdly full inventory of items you’ll never use.
– Get stuck in a boss fight which involves a boss killing off most of your party, your one remaining character reviving them, then the boss killing them all again, etc, and this continues for a half an hour before you figure maybe that this battle is going nowhere
– Get to a branching path in a dungeoon, aware that most likely one path leads to treasure, the other to the boss, but you don’t know which. You always manage to pick the boss path. And you can’t go back.
– A character permanently leaves the party, and then a minute later you check to see if they returned the gear they were wearing.
– They didn’t. And this is why you’re peeved right now.
– You go into a character’s skill tree, and sit there for twenty minutes staring at the screen because you’re paralysed by choice.
– Alternatively, you look at all the skills, then proceed to Google each and every skill to see how useful they are as ranked by other players. This process of planning your skill tree for maximum point efficiency takes over 2 hours.
– Or not do either of those two, and then you invested in the Shapeshifting ability in DA:O. (You poor thing.)
– You create an awesomely balanced team. Then you get killed by an Insta-death spell, that only hits one percent of the time.
– Get into hard boss fight. Whenever you die, it’s faster to reset the console than to sit through the game over screen and load. You do this a dozen times, but can’t seem to win, so you Google-Fu it. Turns out it was a scripted fight you were supposed to lose.
Call 555-RPG-BROS now! That’s 555-774-2767.
We know that feeling, bro/bro-ette. And we offer hugs.
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ou had me right up untill googling.
I try to stay as far away from guides until a replay or if I’m really badly stuck.
I’m trying to relive the glory days of my youth when there was no guides.
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Me too! Or I’ll go without a guide until the bit just before the final boss where you can finally go anywhere and do whatever you want and then I’ll bust out a guide to try and finish everything. In the case of FFIX this backfired though and I ended up getting distracted and forgot to actually finish the game.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I finished that full through doing everything 3 times…ahhh the days of being single with no child, I do not espescially miss you.
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Wow, I have done/continue to do, all of the above.
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So uh…where do I sign?
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Dotted line, right here.
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Okay, that’s a line line, but anyway…
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Yeah… i’m in.. hug me 🙁
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/sighs dejectedly.
Go on, my soul, you take.
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I’ve done all those except the console reset.
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Guilty. But it wasn’t my fault! You try supporting a family of capsule monsters! They’re fussy eaters – I had to hold onto those Chopping Boards and Small Knives in case one of them wanted to eat one! I didn’t even get any child support when Tia left the party! 🙁
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SIGNED~!
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Do we get membership cards?
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That’s uhhh…
Yeah, that’s me.
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Just about sums me up.
Can I have a hug?
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“Get stuck in a boss fight which involves a boss killing off most of your party, your one remaining character reviving them, then the boss killing them all again, etc, and this continues for a half an hour before you figure maybe that this battle is going nowhere”
Screw you, Barthandelus.
*Bro-hugs*
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*sign*
Fire Emblem, even though it’s technically not a RPG, it has the same frustrations.
To set the ground work: not a troll post, not flame bait.
I was curious if anyone had actually installed Origin yet and had a poke around, especially those who often call it crap because they once used RASCAL and state its the same.
For those that have, how did you find it and is there anything it does that steam doesn’t, or anything steam does that Origin doesn’t (other than awesome sales)?
Was hoping for a mature informed discussion, like KotakuAU regulars are known for
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RASCAL = EADC stupid autocorrect.
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It isn’t that i hated it just because it wasn’t steam i disliked it for a few different reasons. The first is the selection of games compared to steam is really small.I also didn’t think the interface was easy. Mind you i did go on it recently this was like 3 months ago. I might check it out sometime this week.
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I haven’t installed Origin yet, and chances are I won’t until BF3 comes out. And I think I will wait a few weeks after BF3 comes out before I buy it. Why? Because Steam wasn’t the awesome service it is today when it launched.
Also, I’m sure the Origin probably isn’t the worst thing in the world, but personally, I can’t be bothered managing two game libraries, two sets of friends lists, etc.
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This is just hearsay, but, it functions as it’s meant to.
Integrating all your EA accounts can apparently be total arse (I don’t know about you, but I apparently have a few EA accounts, because different games over the years wanted me to sign up for EA accounts and apparently I used different emails?), but everything else is… okay?
I haven’t heard any glowing reviews, but it’s not often I read something that praises how amazing or slick the UI is, for example. It works.
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I have it installed – had the EADM since a while back because I wanted the digital signature edition of Dragon Age 2. Which I regret. And then when they gave away Mass Effect 2 to poor bastards that actually paid for DA2, you needed EADM for that too, so that’s in my account. You can add EA games you purchased through Steam as well, so DA:O is in my list as well. And then when I entered my preorder code for Star Wars: TOR on Bioware’s site it automatically added that to my Origin games list as well. It’s surprising honestly how well it works, when it works.
Trouble is, I can’t see myself using it a lot. EA don’t release that many PC games, and even less of them are games I want to play. For console games, I’ll stick to console instead of a PC port. Also you don’t need it to launch the games, just to download them, so I imagine I’ll use it just for that. And add them to my Steam list manually.
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I can’t even go on Origin.
18+ only. Damn. And I don’t want to risk lying and losing BF3.
What now?
Ok so i decided to re-write Fatshady’s char for The chronicles.. I was trying to emphasise that he likes rap music, but instead i made him sound a little simple – so sorry shadester – io know you deserve much more as you are one of the scholars of the community… but anyway, i am about to repost part one and part 2 for those who haven’t read them, and i will hopefully get a decent start or finish on part 3 – just depends on whether the boss comes in today or not haha
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Ohhh,
“The Chronicles Special Director Chuloopa Cut Edition”
Does it come with extra scenes and special features?
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And a T-shirt, it needs a t-shirt 😛
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Adult edition? uncut and uncensored?! >=D
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You should hope not…
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You sure you want to request that? I can already see what Chuloopa is going to put in and you won’t like it 😛
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Is that a doodle, dorter?
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Sometimes I wish I would think about something I write before I fling it out into the public space.
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I apologise in advance but….
The Kotaku Chronicles Part III:
Ride it like a Harli (Davidson)-
HA!
wordplay…
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And so it begins..
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HAHAHA! Awesome 😛
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Oh good, thought I’d missed these!
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Nope… i’m thinking of also starting a blog page just for these to make finding them much easier
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DOOOOO IT!
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If you do, consider me a follower.
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You have to make him a demanding tv-superstar with an unsolvable puzzle, like those damn rubics cubes, no one will ever solve them.
Everyone see Rise of the Planet of the Apes. No one see Green Lantern. I took one for the team so you don’t have to suffer.
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I’m not listening…LA LA LA!
I have to see GL or my comic nerd card will be revoked!
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I’m not a fan of GL or DC but my mates were like HEY SEE THIS WITH US! So I did and now…I don’t know what to think…
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“When was the last time Mark Strong played a good guy?”
S’what I thought…
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Always a bad guy!
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REVOLVER
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SHIGGERTYNINNERTY!
By two degrees of separation, I knew you before I met you!
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I know Harli! Its so KERAZZY! But totally awesome.
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Hey mods, I posted TABTOL at the end of last week’s TAY and first thing today, but it’s not showing up in either place. Is this something you have to approve because of the length/HTML content? Or maybe I’ve broken the system?
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It’s here now!
Musta been spammed!!!
The Kotaku Chronicles – Part One
Eleven months in deep space, trapped on this god forsaken ship. The crew were starting to get anxious as rumors spread that perhaps our quarrel has escaped our grasp.
“Not yet” Lord Marshall Serrels found him self saying aloud. “…Not yet…”
The aging Marshall looked up from the reports laid out in front of him, his eyes strained from hours of reflection. The air was cold in the war room, and the gray adamantium reinforced walls walls did little to warm his spirts. But then again, he though to himself with a bemused grin, a war room isn’t designed with comfort in mind.
He stood from his chair slowly, Field Marshall Tadmod – his second in command, looking up from a digitalised map of the Zetta Cluster as he rose.
“Something amiss, my lord?”
“No… no… i just grow weary of this cat and mouse chase” replied Serrels, stretching his back out as if he’d been sitting for days.
“We’ll have them soon, my lord” Tadmod assured, “The Galactic Christian Lobby can’t hide forever, we will find the R18-Plus and bring it back home, for the good of the people. They can’t hide forev..”
“Lord Marshall, we’ve found them!” the intercom system interrupted Tadmod just short of finishing and seemed to give him somewhat of a jolt, flustering him for a brief moment.
Serrels strode purposefully across to the intercom system on the far wall, pressing a small green button to reply.
“Report Lieutenant Dawdle”
“An GCL cruiser has been appeared on the long range scanners, just 300,000 clicks from our current postion”
“Is it alone?”
“It appears to be sir”
Serrels paused for a moment, this didn’t feel right. Not at all.
“Sir?”
“Set the ship on alert, we’ll meet this thing head on and anyone or anything the bastard holds. Meet me on the bridge and have Sergeant Jimu meet us there. Serrels out”
Serrels turned to see Tadmod already rising from his chair. For all the years he had know the man, he still marveled at his sheer stature. The man was a leviathon, easily 7 feet tall, yet he moved with a grace unlike any had seen before. The man was no warrior, but as a great thinker he had come to rely upon him in even the most dire of circumstances. An expert tactician, an economical thinker and most of all an honest and resolute man.
“Well then, sir..” started Tadmod as he strolled effortlessly toward the Lord Marshall, a smile cracking accross his face “…we best be off, duty calls and so forth”
“That it does, old friend. That it does”
The Dreadnought class starship Kotaku was a technological marvel, even by Allure Alliance standards. All the latest in military technology could be found here – rendered beautifully, yet functional. Her crew was 10,000 strong, all loyal to the cause. Armed with the advanced weaponry and a core drive powered by 3 flux capacitors, she was also the quickest and most destructive ship of her size.
The bridge was abuzz with activity when the Marshall’s arrived. Sergeant Jimu and lieutenant Dawdle already present and quickly snapped into a salute upon their entrance.
“Commander on deck!” Dawdle exclaimed loudly
“At ease” Serrels said as he and Tadmod returned their formality.
Never had the Lord Marshall seen an odder pair standing side by side. The lieutenant was a beautiful young woman, fresh from the academy, service in the family blood line for centuries. She was slighly off-centre with a happy disposition, and always seemed to have a cup of liquid stimulant in her hand. Serrels often wondered if that was all there was keeping that smile on her face, what with her extended hours over the course of their search.
Jimu, on the other hand, was a veteran of countless battles, with a map of scars to prove it. While he was known to joke now and then, his constant stone expression made it hard to tell exactly WHEN it was that he was joking. That aside, he was a fearless leader of men and knew his soldiers thoughts and fears better than they ever could. He was one of the few men the Lord Marshall would trust with his life during the heat and chaos of a firefight.
Lord Marshall Serrels took his spot in the command chair. The man was imaculate in his white officers uniform, only he didn’t wear his medals or flashy ranking pins like other Allure Alliance officers, and discouraged his subordinates to do the same. By his reckoning he and his men were equals, all entitled to their own thoughts and didn’t see the need to separate himself from them. They were, after all, his men and women.
He ran his hand back through his thick fiery red mane of hair and sat back for a moment before addressing his crew.
“How long?” he asked quite simply.
“Two hours, sir” replied Dawdle.
“Are we sure it’s on it’s own?”
“Yes sir, there isn’t another ship in sight. Also, it seems to be powered down, with only basic life support operating.” Dawdle paused, somewhat troubled by the fact. “It’s quite peculiar, is it not?”
“It’s a trap” Jimu said flatly
“I am inclined to agree with you there, Sergeant” replied Serrels.
“Then what do we do?” inquired Tadmod, already knowing the response he would receive
“We spring it” replied Serrels, a wild grin spreading across his face as he rose, once again.
“Jimu, gather ‘The Regulars’, you’re going in”
Jimu’s face cracked something resembling a smile, and his eyes widened in anticipation. “It will be done, my lord”
With that, Jimu snapped another salute to the Marshal’s before striding out of the bridge with an air of purpose about him.
“Lieutenant Dawdle – full ahead, the R18plus will soon be back in Alliance hands”
“SIR!” Dawdle said excitedly, almost spilling the black ichor-like substance of her cup as she twisted around and skipped off to her post, forgetting all formality in her eagerness to do something more than read over reports and scan systems all day.
The atmosphere was electric. The old Marshall could smell the excitement on the air. Without a hint of trepidation, his crew went about their business….
THE KOTAKU CHRONICALS
Part II
The soldier’s mess hall was a wall of noise and pungent odors. Dozens of rows of rectangular steel tables and benches spread out somewhat haphazardly throughout the room, with the kitchen on the far side looking as though a bomb filled with food scraps had gone off within it. Lunch time in the mess was not for the feint of heart.
Hugo the barbarian sat at the head of one of the tables, wearing naught but his issued underwear, regaling the ‘green’ recruits with tales of his conquests in between mouthfuls of meat and beer.
On another table sat the ships “Panzerkrank” squad, elite warriors who had been wounded in battle so many times over that their pallid and scarred flesh was fused with mechanical implants, enhancements and life support systems. The men, if they could still be reffered to as such, were walking mechanical gods among the regulars.
On the opposite side of the room, tucked into a corner, a table of four soldiers played a game of 10 card suicide – a game spawned of boredom in deep space by pirates, smugglers and other unmentionables. Using regular rules it was a game of ‘last man standing’ with ten cards, numbered one to ten ,laid face down in a deck. Each player would try to trick their way into winning a hand, with a heavy emphasis on lying and cheating. The downside being that if one was caught cheating, all called out for lying and proven guilty, they were executed then and there at the table.
The soldiers aboard the Kotaku, however, had a far more civil and less fatal version.
If punching each other in the face could be called civil, that is.
‘I have an eight’ Corporal Fatshady said, matter of factly, keeping his card concealed from the group.
The heavy weapons specialist and squad leader was a behemoth of a man, easily a head taller than anyone else at the table, with muscles throughout his body that were surely wrought of iron. It was often joked that his mother had spawned him from an erotic late night encounter with locomotive.
Private Blaghman stood up dramatically, hurling an accusing finger in the direction of Fatshady.
“OBJECTION!!!”
The small crowd that had begun to huddle around the table fell deathly silent.
“This man is cheating!”
Fatshady’s face cracked into a smirk
“You want to put me through trials, private?”
Blaghman threw his card down in a dramic display. An Eight.
“Looks like he’s got you there, big guy” Private Strange interjected. “Dun dun dunnnnn”.
Strange, one of the few enlisted female soldiers on the Kotaku, was like the ‘mum’ of the vessel. The soldiers always treated her with respect and admiration, if not for her caring nature, then for the foot-shaped imprint she’d leave in their cheek for crossing her.
Fatshady looked over to Strange, still smiling.
“Well it seems like we may have a problem” he said as his meaty fingers laid his card on the table. An eight.
“I be inclined to figure” Fatshady started “that i aint the cheat here, private”.
He stood and moved around to meet Blahman, who had suddenly turned pale and started to quiver.
“You are as bad a liar as they come. Don’t for one moment assume i didn’t know your game. I knew.”
With that, Fatshady grabbed Blaghman by the shoulder and lifted him off the gound, shaking him with what seemed to be little to no excersion on himself.
The smile returned to Fatshady’s face as cards began to spill out of Blaghman’s pockets and sleeves. He then lowered the quivering soldier to his feet again.
“H… How???” Blaghman stammered
“Look around, son, what do you see?” Fatshady inquired.
“We’re all in singlets and you’re the only son-of-a-feth in a jacket!” Bish finally piped up from his seat at the table. “It’s gotta be at least 30 fethin’ degrees in here!”
“Sorry love, we all knew” Strange added “we just wanted to see how long you could last”
“Sorry pal, you loose” Fatshady said, drawing his ham of a fist back, readying his vitory blow.
Blaghman closed his eyes and awaited his fate, but it didn’t come.
“All right ladies, it’s time to stop playing house and get to some fighting!”
Every soldier in the mess dropped what they were doing immediately and quickly scrambled into rank and file.
“You all make me sick!” Sergeant Jimu said coldly as he walked down the line, looking at each of the men.
Some of them were covered in their lunches, from a food fight that had broken out earlier, others were wearing little more than their underwear.
One soldier even appeared to be wearing a ladies skirt.
Jimu just shook his head, afterall he did pity the men in a way. They were trained killers, and they had been forced to sit around this god forsaken ship for months twiddling their thumbs. It was only natural for bordom to set in.
Food fights and cross-dressing were welcome compared to an all out mutiny.
“We’ve found a GCL ship not far from our position…”
Jimu was cut off by a sudden wall of noise as the men cheered and banged their fists against tables. He raised hi hand to hush them.
Once the men were silent, he continued.
“This will be an all out assault, i want all of you geared up in five…”
Jimu was cut off again, mid sentance, as his comms unit hissed into life.
“Sergeant Jimu, come in”
The Lord Marshalls coice was unmistakable.
“What the feth now?” Jimu thought to him self as he raised the comms umit to his mouth
“I read you, sir, go ahead”
“Change of plans Jimu, there’s been a… complication”
“what kind of complication?”
“Round up a squad of 10 of your best, all geared up for close quarters combat and meet me in the war room, i’ll explain when you arrive”
Jimu could already see the excitement fading in many of the soldiers eyes as they realised that they probably wouldn’t get to see any action, with such a small squad being asigned to whatever task the Lord Marshal had in mind.
It wasn’t fair to any of them, they all deserved the glory of battle.
“Yes sir” Jimu replied, obvious dismay hanging in his voice.
“Serrells out” the Lord marshal replid. The comms unit fizzed back to silence.
“You heard the man, lets get to work!” Jimu roared, suddenly all business again.
With that, the old Seargeant went about the task of selecting ten men fit for the task ahead, whatever it may be.
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LONGEST – POST – EVER!
*high five*
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Woah.. awkward
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lol, that was brilliant bad! Thanks for reposts b4 part 3 loopeloo!
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Oh man! That cracked me up!!!
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HAHA! So awkward, I love it!
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Once more I say,
THAT WAS FETHING AWESOME!!!-
Word!
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Dude, now I know what I’m doing at lunch time!
Looking forward to part 3!
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oh yessssssssssss pleaseeee!
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Well done Chuloopa, that was actually quite a good read. Kudos to you.
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When they were originally posted Dr. What? did an accompanying graphic novel thingy. It was also awesome.
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Very cool
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Awesome read. Looking forward to part 3 🙂
O, HAI.
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YO!
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This is my 4th attempt at saying hello to you, please Kotaku just let me post in peace.
This is a topic that I have often ranted about, so I am sorry for the constant repetition, but I am genuinely interested in whether or not other people often have an achievement not unlock, even though you have fullfilled all the requirements?
This is something that really annoys me, because I have come across it several times, mainly on achievements that require multiple tasks to fulfill, and as the saying goes, “misery loves company”.
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Starcraft 2 campaign achivements… Stupid internet always disconnects halfway through a match.
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That is why I don’t like this “always online” DRM. Though I didn’t have much trouble with AssCreed 2, but I was just lucky then.
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Ouch, now thats gotta hurt
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I read it happens a lot, sometimes it just glitches. I’m not a hunter of such things, just don’t have the time. Man, I would be pissed if I’d spent hours earning one only to have it never appear…
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I only tend to hunt them when I only have a few left to get. What is most annoying is when you only have one or two left to get, but you would have to replay the majority of the game from the beginning again to be able to get them.
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Happened with me in HL2 Ep 2 on 360. Had to take his gnome
through the entire campaign, place him in a rocket at the end. I did it exactly how I was suppose to but it never unlocked it for me. So angry man.-
Worked for me on PC, I felt so accomplished that I bought him through the entire game with me 🙂
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Did you shut the door to the rocket? I carried him all the way and didn’t realise I had to do that. Figured it would just unlock after some later event. Nope. Just the door. Ended up replaying half the episode just to shut the bloody stupid damn thing.
Great achievements though. HL did them right.
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I thought the door closed by itself…god dammit.
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I’ve had them unlock pretty late sometimes.
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All the time. Most recently in Ass:Bro. There’s trophies for burning all Borgia towers down and discovering all Romulys Shrines that I should have but for some reason don’t. Thankfully I don’t really care but it’s still a little bit frustrating.
Does anyone here have any experience with running a hackintosh in virtualbox?
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The closest I can come to that is attempting to run a Hackintosh and then failing at the first hurdle.
Also, why on earth does Chrome has a delayed input when typing? It’s really starting to bug me. Can type up whole damned sentences before the text shows up.
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I think it must be your PC. Google Chrome isn’t slow for me…
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I think it’s the Mac version. Annoying.
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Are you using Lion? That’s one of the known issues with Chrome and Lion.
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I am. So that seems like a handy explanation. I’ll just tough it out until it’s fixed.
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Yeah I’m hoping they get it all fixed fairly soon! Quite an annoyance seeing as Firefox has heaps of issues with Mac as well and I’m not a big fan of Safari.
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1 Darksiders Trophy left before I get the Platinum.
Urgh… Have to start a new game (again) to get this one. Will be glad when I’m done.
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Why? Why would you do that to yourself?
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I actually really liked the game.
Liked = Past Tense
A bit over it now.
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I just started Darksiders, and am really liking it so far.
Not gonna trophy whore it though, I’m just chasing the last combat challenge trophy in Batman AA.
BUY THIS BOOK
—NOWWWW—
http://www.amazon.com/Night-Living-Trekkies-Quirk-Fiction/dp/1594744637
I finished reading it on the weekend and my god, was it ever awesome. So funny, so quirky, but just so damn excellent – and i’m not even really a trek fan (always liked star wars way more).
The book, luckily, does a good job of explaining references without making you feel like a halfwit or taking away from the story
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That premise is so full of win.
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Seriously, i haven’t been this happy with a book for a while lol
It’s just so brilliant!
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‘Space, the final frontier’
‘Shut up’.The first two lines in this book, and I already love it.
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…but…but, I don’t read books, I only look at the pretty pictures.
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Just think of each word as a pretty picture.
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ooohhh, your right. I have now learnt to appreciate the shapes of the letters 😛
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EXACTLY!!!
It’s really not a chore to read like some books can be 🙂
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Good morning everyone! I hope you all had a fantastic weekend. I got involved with LoL on Saturday, I’m finding the game very fun but I’m really, really bad at it. Have only played 6 or 7 matches, but in one of the games I played with Trjn, Jo, and Lucifer on Saturday, one of the guys on the other team congratulated me for “being such a good feeder” 🙁
But I shall endeavour to redeem myself! I’m also getting very sick of my room mate and am now looking for another place to move.
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Everyone feeds a bit when they’re learning. The trick is to find a character that is super hard to kill or can run away really well. Then when you manage to somehow get a lot of assists, you can just pretend that it’s because you’re doing well with that style of character and not because you’re a coward that runs away constantly to prevent death.
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Bunny is correct, you’re currently on par with Numbers, he’s still feeding too but that’s only cuz he’s still tyring to find a champion he can really use and he gets dropped into the deep end with us as well.
BTW I’m going to be posting our KotakuAU LoL 5 man team score screenshots later today as well as small official reports on how we all went based on our scores.
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Awesome! If you guys are on tonight I’m willing to give PvP another shot!
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I like the sound of that! Hide my cowardice with skill! I’m getting a little better. Hopefully give Ashe a try tonight and maybe Brand. I think I want to be able to just go in there and do a lot of damage.
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Try getting two boots – one for each foot. The extra movement speed will help you get away from ganks*
*Won’t actually help
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We all know that strategy is only OP when you do it.The rest of us aren’t good enough to pull it off.
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Looks like the batwing will be in TDKR! 😀
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/08/watch-the-batwing-fly-through-streets-for-the-dark-knight-rises/
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Also, at this rate I’m going to know everything that’s going to happen in the film before it’s even released! :O
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You realise you’re part of the problem, right?
I had no idea that was happening until you just blurted it out!*fist shaking*
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Yeah, after I saw the picture of bane and catwoman, i thought screw it, i’m only going to watch the trailers and the movies. Anything else, ignore.
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Why did I just watch that!?
I’m banning myself from Batman until release.
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This song was stuck in my head all weekend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcfDxq8Zw5A
so awesome
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That’s weird, I had this stuck in mine.
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That’s pretty funny – i was actually thinking of that show just the other day lol
So great 😀
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I was whistling ‘Last Friday Night’ by Katy perry during a Saturday outing with the family (heading over to get some gelato) and my brother in law was like “Is that Ke$ha?” and I was all “Wat no, it’s Katy Perry” and he was like “Eh, just as bad”.
HE IS DEAD TO ME NOW-
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to say our goodbyes,
Here he lies, no-one knew his worth, the late great brother of our friend Bish,
On this day, when we celebrate the Earth.
In a little town called Sydney, we raise our glass, you bet your ass to:Awesome Taste in Music.
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Bought Counter Strike Source over the weekend. Havent played in about 5 years and holy crap, I am amazingly bad at it.
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You and me both, buddy!
We should get a game in and suck together!
…wait… shit…
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Oh wow…lol!
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that’s
what she said.
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I honestly do not know how to respond to that…but sure Id be up for that! the counter strike i mean.
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4000 this week.
I CAN FEEL IT, TAYBIES!
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Hitting 4000 without help from AP?
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Can you show us on the doll where Aidan touched you, Kotaku?
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deep into its server node
I mean, what?
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I hope I’ll get the 4000 milestone, then I’ll get the money, then the fame.
STRANGE!
Did you see my reply about iView on PS3?
You just need to re-enable them in My Channels to get them working again.
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Yes! I saw that but forgot to say ‘Thanks’!
So yeah, thank-you. -
Thanks DAN!
Had a awesomely fun time saying res i’n teamspeak last night. Man magicka is awesome thanks bunny, bish and blaghman. Also I am keen to play again tonight.
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Also on that note, I noticed when I was going to sleep sometime after midnight that my netbook had reconnected to TeamSpeak, after I ‘left’ from my main computer, so if there was any awesome awkward silences and no replies on my part, I apologise, Blaghs and Gorzy.
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I had wondered at that, but when you didn’t answer my first questioning “back already?” I figured you must have opened it accidentally somehow.
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So Magicka is worth a purchase? I’m broke at the moment but might get it with my next pay 🙂
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Magicka is awesome. Definitely worth picking up.
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Is it similar to any other games I may have played? And is it fine just getting the game, or do I need all the expansions as well?
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WE’ve got a solid six hours out of just the game so far. Expansions aren’t necessary but probably worth it.
As for what it’s like, that’s a tough one. There really aren’t many similar games that come to mind immediately. Somewhat of a roguelike but with the whole magicks mechanic and constant death.
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Sounds like I’ll have to pick it up. Constant Death is my thing!
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It’s official – i’ve broken my willy!!!
I just went to the bathroom, and my wee-wee was coming out at an angle!!! It was about 5-10 degrees off centre!
…I guess it gives me practice at aiming a carny gun the next time she show comes to town..
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LOL!
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You mean that’s not normal?
*Sigh* Not again.
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As long as the angle dosent exceed 90 degrees you should be fine. It’s at 170 where things start to get really awquward.
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I always enjoy “The Snake Tongue”, pee pee shooting out in two directions at once!
Dr who is coming back i’n September. Awesome mcawesome sauce. Such a good season so far!
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HELLS YEAH!! can’t wait man. Saw the trailer, got super excited.
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I rather watch Dr. What, *turns around and stares at him*
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araghrgahrghagrha it’s DOCTOR WHO.
Sorry. I’m bored. I have nothing to do. I don’t want to ask for more work, because I know precisely what I’m going to have to do next, and it is going to be mind numbingly boring.
Also, I’m very excited for more Doctor Who. Though I am still somewhat annoyed by them splitting the series into two parts.
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YAY!
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Doctor Who is so awesome. I wish they’d make the seasons 22-24 episodes instead of 12 (or is it 13?).
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Almost impossible to aim.
Almost as bad as first-thing morning glory pee – you have to basically snap it to make it aim down!
By all the gods, I am so up in the air about whether or not I should buy a 3DS.
Game has one for 250 which comes with extra stylus’ and Zelda.
I don’t know what to do, buy or not to buy?
I look to you, my fellow TAYbies, for your words of wisdom or corruption.
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If you have the money, time to play it, then why not? I’m only going to buy it when I have the money and if they announce the english version of Layton vs AA.
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Help us, Level-5. You’re our only hope for this translation.
;_;
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Sister’s going to the US in September.
~$160AUD 3DS frick yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Yeah I’ll have to import my games, but me and Play Asia can be best bros again. I once bought so much, they threw in a complimentary pack of Watermelon lollies (They’re about $2. This was in a $400 shipment).
I still have them!
They’re overdue by a year.
But it will forever be a symbol of bro-ship.-
I’ve had >$400 shipments before and they never gave me any free sugary things. Just coupons that expire before I get a chance to use them. 🙁
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I think it’s good. I mean the software isn’t really there yet but I think it’s just a matter of time. The hardware is good, and I never owned a DS so I have that game library to go through as well. So, for me, it was a good purchase and I still play it heaps on the train or in the car if my girlfriend is driving.
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I was in Toys R Us saturday and a woman was lay-buying a 3ds for her son.. $250 with no extras at all
I wanted to say “hey! lady! they’re ripping you off!”
But then i thought “wait, i’m in toys r us.. that’s what these people do!”
So i left it.
Silly parents
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Mmm, very tempting, I may wait untill pay day this week then see how the moolah situation is.
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Are there any games you can only get on the 3DS that you’re dying to play? If so, buy one. If not, wait.
Apologies to everyone on TeamSpeak last night. I wasn’t very talkative, my girlfriend was in a bad mood and yelling a bit, so I didn’t want to talk in case
a) you guys could hear her
and
b) in case she got angrier because I wasn’t paying attention.
Hopefully tonight will be fine and I’ll be able to get some quality game time in.
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Ah that’s okay.
(Yes, I know, I wasn’t on last night…but still…(okay, I got nothing…)…)-
You were there in spirit, and that’s what matters.
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Alright I’m heading off to uni, don’t talk amongst yourselves too much while I’m gone!
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Awesome, page 2! Oh crap gotta go.
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no promises human
bit.ly/p9PXDH
Skyrim Collector’s Edition for $167 as opposed to the $200 you have to fork out at EB/GAME/JB.
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I gave up and just went for the EB version for pc. I’m cool with paying $88 because my brain rounds it down to $80 which makes it ok for a launch title…
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I still can’t decide between the EB version and the GAME version.
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There’s no Game in Woden, so the EB is way closer to home…
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There’s one just down in Tuggeranong though. It’s seriously like 10 minutes away.
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Yeah, but Woden is walking distance from my house.
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Plainview! I had cola and wizz fizz at the same time and I didn’t explode. This is good. I am however, burping wizz fizz now which is all kinds of fun.
Well guys, I keep getting ignored, so I’m just wondering if you all hate me…
Or you just don’t read my posts at all because I talk too much…
So, could those interested in a Canberran Social Gathering for those who spend time on Kotaku aka. a “Meat”(I’ll work on an acronym for next time I type this in a desperate cry for attention) to occur on the twenty-fifth of September please email me at Blaghman-at-gmail-dot-com
Thus far I’ve only got “yay’s” from Rocketman, Harli, AP and Strange, and I feel like none of you love me. I’m only really after emails so that I can confirm that I’m doing this, for Rocketman’s sake…
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I don’t ignore you but i have work. Also everyone please confirm especially bish. Bish has gotta come. Also everyone else. Thanks Blaghman for looking out and yeah everyone confirm cause i gotta buy a ticket.
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Oh, I was going to email you, but then I forgot.
True story!
In 50 years time they will call me GRAND STORY GUY BISH/who is that old man lingering in the children’s park maybe we should call the police.
I will be like Merlin, but not this crappy 2010 TV series thing, more like Sam Neill’s Merlin which was like a 2 part TV series or something 15 years ago maybe, and it was presented like some random hobo just telling stories for money except at the end, the old hobo becomes Sam Neill young via MAGIC insinuating the old man hobo story was all true!
It will be like that, except I will not turn into Sam Neill. Which makes me a little sad.I tell the best stories.
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Your stories are almost as good as mine…
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and hugely greater than my poetry…
“There once was a man with long hair,
Who’d fallen into despair,
He’d went down to EB,
Ordered Skyrim for PC,
Cause he couldn’t find a GAME anywhere…”
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My stories are so amazing I myself get sidetracked.
I was supposed to email you about that right?
Man, I was going to, but then I forgot.
True story!
Maybe in 30 years time I will have my own show like How I Met Your Mother, and I will hire Bob Saget to be the voiceover guy, because that dude gets Full House cred. I will look back and be all “Oh Olsen twins, what happened to you.” to which I will then follow on with “Actually, to be honest, don’t really care.”, and the show will go on for 5 years without actually meeting the mother which when you think about it is a fairly misleading show, and then I’ll get sued I wonder if anyone has done that yet are there any lawyers here that could rate my chances? I will not settle for anything less than 110%. Anyone?-
Oh, right, I was supposed to email you about that huh.
Funny story, that.-
I love that even after all this, you still haven’t emailed me.
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I got distracted!
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ALSO i get to meet Strange, AP and Harli and hopefully Bish. Best weekend ever. Not really but sort of.
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Jelly systems active
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Geez, I don’t get listed there. 🙁
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of course i get to meet blaghman to. Yay for you also getting to meet the country bumkin from a small town.
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I think you should uninvite him now.
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I can forgive him.
He can’t really help it, he’s from North Queensland.
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AP broke up with us. He’s not allowed to go. 😛
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I’m pulling executive power here, and there’s also the whole “He-has-a-car-and-is-willing-to-drive-people-down-here” thing.
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Prepare for the party of your LIFE.
“CAN’D MEAT”
You’re welcome.
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I approve of this name
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That name is made of win.
Although based on previous knowledge of you and canned meat I’m worried for the Can’d Meat now.
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Blaghman, I have emailed you.
Can’d Meat was the subject heading. That name is, indeed, loaded with win.
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I have to say, I love the disclaimery thing on your email.
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Glad you liked it. I didn’t write it, and I can’t even SEE it on my outgoing mail. 🙁
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It’s all “This could be a classified message, if you got this by accident, delete it immediately, or face the fiery fiery death that awaits you. Please report any errors to De-wuh.”
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I’d email but I generally have band stuff on Sundays so it would be a very tentative yes at present.
Aw that sounds like fun.
The woes of living in Adelaide.
Question for you all: Looking for a wireless headset/mic for the 360, preferably one that is also compatible with the PC.
Any recommendations?
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How much are you willing to spend? The Razer Chimaera is absolutely incredible, but it’s a bit pricy.
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There’s the official Microsoft one, but it’s not going to be out till November.
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I actually have been using the existing microsoft wireless headset with both my 360 and PC. To connect to a PC, you need the USB wireless adapter. This has the added benefit of allowing me to use my controller with the PC also.
Ah page 2. All the questions/comments I made in Page 1 are now destined to never be replied to.
*sigh*
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Re: your questions about Magicka
I don’t know what other games you’ve played so I can’t answer the first part.
As for the DLC you don’t need to pick it up right away. Just grab the main game and if you find you’re enjoying it grab the DLC.
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Yeah I realised it was a bit of a shitty question. Well Trjn and Blagh’s seem to have a similar taste in games to me and they enjoy it so I’ll definitely pick it up as soon as I get some money. I hate getting paid monthly 🙁
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TotalBiscuit and The Yogscast “play” Magicka:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZHhwUK8aj8If this does not convince you to get the game, nothing will.
I wish I could play the game, but it is quite specs-heavy as an indie game.
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But it looks really good for a indie game aswell.
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I can’t watch any of those episodes without laughing xD. One of the best co-op series ever. Current one I’m loving watching is TB and Jesse Cox play Terraria
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My PC should be able to handle it, will watch that video when my manager goes to lunch.
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My god that was awesome!!!
I’m so sad – i bought magica but my POS laptop won’t run it 🙁
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You must get this game! Even if it’s only for the “This is Magicka!!!!” part!
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(also, btw, p.s., I’m helping! http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-137/comment-page-1/#comment-342679)
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Thanks lamboman 😛 you’re a helper, like Bish.
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I have just been scribbling all over page 1. Didn’t answer your question though, I haven’t played Magicka.
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I did answer Hugo The Hungarian Librarian Commentarian Barbarian’s question though.
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Yay for dedicated pg. 1 replying. I should probably follow your fine example, but I’ll reply to your replies here;
Ass:Bro
I have had similar problems as well with this game, I also understand your frustration with 100% sync, get so close but then would have to redo the entire mission Yargh.3DS
One game I really want is Zelda, mainly because… wait for it… I have never played OoT.
Yes, my horrible secret has come to light, I have played other Zelda games but never OoT.
So this is a pretty big lure for me getting a 3DS-
If you aint played Oot then the 3DS is VERY worth getting now. I have played Oot, multiple times and I enjoyed it muchly!!!
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On page 1 when page 2 is around? You’re very dedicated Strange 🙂
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I always reply on previous pages, whether anyone reads it or not is another matter.
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Well you sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
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My uni class starts at 10am on Mondays, and I woke up precisely at 10am going “holy crap! I am precise in timing”. Trying to fend off my coffee cravings because I haven’t had any breakfast and my stomach goes into twists if I take coffee without having any food first.
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The smell of nice coffee from people in the lecture does not help at all… sigh
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I’m going to take a leap of faith and suggest that you are fond of coffee 😛
Also, I forgot to drink my coffee, it’s still sitting on the bench at home :/ now feeling the tiredness.
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And it was at stage 3 that I acquired the exclamation mark in my handle.
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I can imagine 😛 Step 4 is the worst :/
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Subwoofer cat – say no more
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Heh sorry, couldn’t help myself.-
I’m killing you in my story.
That’ll teach you-
I hope it’s an unheroic death. Maybe kill him because he’s wearing pants. Like he trips over while attempting to put pants on, faceplants, and the drowns in his own blood.
On second thoughts, that might be a bit too morbid…
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Nooooooooooooooooo
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I’m just angry because he totally misrepresented me.
I’m never caught while cheating at cards.
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As long as I don’t get that explosive toilet decompression death that was floating around many TAYs ago.
That would definetly be… not good.
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Waahhh I get home from my first job on a Monday and 2 pages already.. damn people!
Don’t know how I’m going to manage this week. Anyway, I just wanted to pop in say hi and thanks to all who have been supporting me lately. I’m still hangin in there. If you missed my post in Kudos on Friday, perhaps go read that. You’ll get a better understanding of how I am, than I am capable of typing right now 😉 Just wantt o say I’m here and keep on truckin!! I’m doing my best! Might be a crazy desicision, but I started to watch Naruto right from the beginning yesterday again! :0 This is gonna be an epic journey all over again.. just different this time cos I’m not sharing it with someone else.. best part about that is though, I don’t have to wait to watch another ep.. can do that whenever I want :0 See.. I can see upsides to this.. 😉
Anyway.. stay good to each other peeps.
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Good to hear you are trucking. I just started watching naruto as well. Man its good but i can’t watch too much at a time. it is quite annoying watching alot of the filler that isn’t like back story or anything. Also we are all here to listen intently.
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Sinking yourself into a TV show I’ve found is actually a good way to deal with heartache, or else a good book. Takes you out of the real world for a while, where you don’t have to think about it.
Hope everything works out for you dude.
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Non stop gaming can always help too, ones without story.
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Gaming without pants…..now that’s where the fun is at!
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Resisting urge to make inappropriate comment regarding controller vibration…
GAH>
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For some yes, but not I.
Gaming in PJs, now THAT’S relaxing!
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Unlike uploading a website in your PJs, which, while somewhat fun (not really though), is not exactly what some people would call relaxing…
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There’s ANOTHER kind of gaming???!!!
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I’ve gotta say, theres something to be said for the therapeutic qualities of a good gaming session wearing nothing but your underwear with a nice glass of whiskey.
If you do it today it can be “No-Undie-Mondie”!
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Good to hear you’re hanging well in there mate 🙂
I spared a few sympathetic thoughts for you over the weekend. Hang in there!
I LOVE YOU LIKE I LOVE CHICKEN ROLLS!!
I LOVE YOU, CHICKEN ROLLS!
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You make me egg roll me love you long time!!
Hell I love you long time anyway!
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I wants some lunch now! I blame you 2!
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Very good idea with the Naruto watching.
When I lost someone in my life I ended up watching all of Stargate from the beginning.
Great way to just lose yourself in another realty, gives you time away from your own.
welbot is well! 😀
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By the way, I read your post in Kudos.
That warmed my heart quite a bit : )-
Aww thanks dawdle! It truly is how I feel about this place though. It’s certainly helped by the fact that some of us have met each other, but even in cases like you and I, where he haven’t had the chance yet, I can still feel it, and it really does help.
It’s great to have somewhere I feel welcome everyday 🙂
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Silver lining…WOOOP!
Are you going to suffer through the hundred or so episodes of terrible filler or going to skip straight to Shippuden?
I watched all that filler and I wish I could have those wasted hours of my life back.
Has anyone checked out GTA IV: San Andreas beta?
Its still in the beta stage and their are some major bugs/ glitches and doesnt have any cars or pedestrians but in all is pretty awesome and i cannot wait for the full version.
It is amazing what the gaming community can do.
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No i havent.. but im interested. I’ll have a look.
My only problem is that I have decided i cant do 3rd person games on a PC. It just doesnt work. Ill look into this though
Looks like someone has made PS3 controllers compatible with Android: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dancingpixelstudios.sixaxiscontroller
Am going to check it out this week.
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I’m sure I saw this posted, but it may have been at Gizmodo or Lifehacker. It’s all one giant blur of posts to me!
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Ah must’ve missed it – I don’t follow the US feed.
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Not sure how many of you will care about this, but Gotye’s new album is streaming on Triple J’s website this week. It’s freaking amazing, I suggest you do yourself a favour and check it out.
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OMG thank you have been looking forward to this album for ages. Gotye is awesome.
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The album is incredible. I’m fully expecting Somebody That I Used to Know to be number 1 in the hottest 100 this year.
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Totally agree. Streaming the album at work now all his songs are masterpieces.
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I can’t help but think of AP when I hear that song on JJJ.
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Man, listening to “I Feel Better” now. It has such a great old-school vibe.
Is it strange that since i have bought minecraft, i have been spending more time on the classic version then the full version.
With the classic version, there is no pressure, you have unlimited materials, no explodey shrubs and dont have to worry about your health.
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Yeah, I think if you’re a builder in Minecraft, you just appreciate getting your work done. It’s not so much about the exploration and mining as it is the end-product that you’re creating. I mean Creeps are jerkwads normally, but infinitely more so when they take a chunk of your building out with them.
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Funnily enough i have never ever played classic version.
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Yeah, I stick to adventuring around. Makes building more exciting. My latest seed world I’ve found seven monster spawners in the same network of tunnels that I’m still struggling through (in search of diamonds, only found 6 so far).
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Yeah ive never played the classic version either but I understand what you mean.
In te multiplayer side of things if you are a hardcore builder then we can gift things to you anyway.
I just found there was little motivation to build big things when there was noone to show them off to. Once you get into multiplayer, get an admin to gift you stuffs and can build like crazy AND show it off..
Here’s a handy tip for any of you who want to make a compost bin. Put holes in it. My parents got two tin barrels and started putting food scraps in it. Yesterday we poured the decomposed remains of said food scraps on the garden only to be greeted by what would have to be the worst smell known to mankind! I nearly threw up a few times it was that bad! Words can not describe how bad it was! Whatever you do, don’t do this. I’ve done it, now you don’t have to…
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grumble grumble stupid chrome remembering all my other aliases grumble grumble
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grumble grumble stupid me forgetting to change my name back grumble grumble
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grumble grumble just a little more grumbling for good measure grumble grumble
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HI THERE! *waves*
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Meow
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I thought this was spamm at first.
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Down with Julia Gillard.
Quack.
I bought Dragon Age Origins for pc yesterday. It’s been a bit of fun. Still doesn’t fill the void I have for hack’n’slash RPGs but nothing has of late, not even Torchlight 🙁
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Love that game, I can’t stop playing Dragon Quest IX cos I love turn-based…each to their own!
ARGH it’s so busy today! The sales team have a guy in training and even though there’s still 2 of them left, they need to take one of the service guys, leaving just me here in the Service team, and I have a million urgent jobs to do! D:
If I’m quiet today, that’s why!
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I have this random image of you looking like Octodad trying to juggle the million urgent jobs.
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That’s exactly what it’s like! And I only have 8 arms! I can’t handle a million jobs.
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Dude you post way more than me and we are hardly busy at all.
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True, but I’m required to be on the computer to do paper-work a lot, so it allows me to have this tab open and still look like I’m working 😛
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High Five!
(btw I have pretty much the exact same job as you)-
Awesome, we’re just like two peas in a pod 😛
I’m hoping to be getting onto some LoL tonight, will you be on?
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Stupid cold, can’t I just smash this thing with vitamins and get rid of it already?
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But NooooOoOooooo you have to let a cold run it’s course and ease the severity of it. Dammit I just wanna blast it away by eating 200 Vitamin C tablets or something similar.
This is so much easier in RPG’s.
I want an instant-effect full heal potion dammit!/rant
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I once had a cold, complete with severe bowel irritation.
I tried to hurry it along and slam vitamin C tablets etc. I was starting to feel better but my stomach was still quite bitter.
After emptying what I thought was the last ounce of moisture from my body, I decided to walk to the corner store to get some OJ/Shapes/Jaffas.
On my way I needed to pass gas. Thinking I was sufficiently empty I raised a leg and prepared. Turned out it wasn’t just gas.
I also sneezed once in high school while giving a speech and farted at the same time. I think the sneeze covered it up… Well the noise anyway…
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Wow, that’s horrifying.
I’ll never complain about being sick again.
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Going to steal Jimu’s thunder and post this:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/08/12/gavin-mackey-pokemon-art/
Groovy. Also, I’m glad he stuck with the originals. I have no idea when it comes to the new ones.
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I saw these, these are good…these.
Alright, ladies and gentlemen of Kotaku, I give you the results of our Sunday KotakuAU team of 5.
First Match:
http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww7/drag0nman/14-08-2011_KotakuAU_Team_victory1.png
Steve-O, Numbers and I were the assigned damage dealers, Bunny was the support and Gorzilla decided to try the tank/support Galio. Numbers was a little out of his league it seemed sadly.
Second Match:
http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww7/drag0nman/14-08-2011-2_KotakuAU_Team_victory2.png
We decided to try the same lineup once again, and we did even better than before, including a drop in Numbers’ death count. I managed to survive the entire match without dying, and both Steve-O and I pretty much cleaned up while Gorzilla and Bunny kept us all alive very well. The enemy Evellyn (Frennes) thought she was invincible with her stealth, until I told everybody to get an oracles elixir, which I still think she never got the fact of that we could all see her and pick her off with little effort :P. Gorzilla and I were having our way easily with the enemy Ashe and Katarina (If you know what I mean), neither of them could get the advantage over us.
Match Three:
http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww7/drag0nman/14-08-2011-3_KotakuAU_Team_victory3.png
Gorzilla decided to take a break and Jo took his place, and he brings the power of Rammus into the fray with his awesome metallic Rammus skin. Steve-O has really outdone himself was just crazy this game, he really knows how to use him now, as per his kill score, 30!! Bunny did extremely well also, surviving the entire 40 minutes of play as a support and a LOT of assists (But that’s thanks to tagging up with Steve-O, they work very well together as Garen and Janna)
Oh yeah, two out of three of these matches were surrenders too xD. Anyways, well done to all the LoL guys that participated and thanks for making it such a fun Sunday
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\o/ STEVEO HOLT!
Yeah really enjoyed playing as Garren – glad I purchased him now. The damage output of his spinning move is insane when coupled with Jannas shield, which protects me from damage when I go in too.
Looking forward to some more Kotaku team action!
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Yeah he really works with you, being an AD DPS fighter you could be slightly tanky turned full tanky thanks to Janna, and you can dish out more damage than I can over time. Kennen is only good at jumping in, doing burst damage then jumping out, so getting kills isn’t as easy as one may think with him.
Anyways, you earned it mate, glad to have you on the team 🙂
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How much is Garen? I’m pretty sure he’s the guy I used in one of the tutorial games and I owned with him, he’s the style I like to play.
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3150 ip
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How long does it take to get that much? And where can I check it?
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You average 100 ip a game I think, and you get a 150 ip bonus for your first win of the day, so assuming you play 3 games a day and win one of them = 450 ip a day = 7 days?
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Is this just PvP games? Or do you get it from AI games as well? (I’ve only just started playing and I’m trying to find a character I’m good with).
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You get it from all games, but you get more from PvP.
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Oh okay cool. Yeah I’ll start doing PvP soon, just want to find a non-support character I can do well.
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Vs AI you get 50-75% of the amount you’d get in PvP
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Ah yep, well I’ll play more PvP games very soon.
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Yeah too much vs AI will give you bad habits on predicting enemy movements and you’ll get killed a lot. Can’t stress it enough, PvP is more beneficial to getting better at it. Granted, it’s jumping in the deep end sometimes, especially if you tag up with one of us, but it’s very good for the learning experience.
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Yeah well I definitely want to team up with you guys again, it’s a lot more fun talking and stuff, not to mention you give good advice!
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Garren with Janna’s shield up is just plain ridiculous. Makes it incredibly fun to play as Janna when the only work you have to do is drop shields and try to slow anyone who is running.
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Trjn – I felt like the first scene in this yesterday. Not that you were doing a bad job, just that I thought I was screaming at you a lot. Also I probably wouldn’t axe you.
Shield Me. Shield Me! SHIELD ME!
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Think I stuffed the link up. This is the same video:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtb6f_ctrl-alt-del-episode-05_videogames
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hahaha yeah pretty much how I was hearing it on TS xD
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I can’t get that video to work so I don’t know what point you’re making :p
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Oh, “heal me” that makes sense although it isn’t something I could do too often. Seeing as it was a summoner spell and the cooldown on the ult is a little longer than I’d like.
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You should stick as a permanent team if we do 5v5s again like that, cuz that’s a very solid combo for laning with at the start.
I however might take mid instead of numbers next time and he can join Jo/Gorzy
Geez SteveO man you have some crazy stats there. Kinda makes me want to play LoL now.
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Also, played HoN on the weekend and was on a mad losing streak. I haven’t been so frustrated and angry at a game in a while, punched my keyboard after our 5th loss. sigh.
Blaghman I haven’t forgotten your DoTA challenge. I intend to start on it soon.
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I find the more you lose/get frustrated, the worse you play. Its a vicous cycle.
Also, whats the DotA challenge?
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Beat 3 bots while playing it solo.
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Interesting, but how do you prove that you beat the bots? Screenshot of the score screen at the end or a full game capture?
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I was hoping for a match replay, though it’s been so long since I did much in WC3 that I’m not sure how they work.
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I was actually planning to upload the replay onto youtube.
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DO IT!
DotA is awsome but LoL is unique enough to justify playing it as well. Not to mention it’s pretty damn fun running around with the Kotaku peeps on teamspeak.
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I’ll agree to that! I had a blast on Saturday.
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Well LoL is pretty much taking the idea of DoTA and just rebuilding it from the ground up, so it’s a clone but not a copycat. I would say LoL is its own experience so you’d be crazy not to at least try it out. I mean come on, you get jungle minions that can give buffs and party-wide gold!
Wow! You guys are doing so good!
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This is what you’re missing out on human! 😛
One daye I’ll hire Welbot I.T. to build me a gamin’ putener and play a game wit’ you guys.
For now I will cry sadly in the corner…
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Sadly the longer it’ll take for you to get said puter, the longer you’ll take to catch up to us, and if you tag up with us in PvP you’ll be up against big league-ers sooner and you won’t be enjoying getting your arse handed to you time and time again 🙁
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mebbe I play somethin’ else wit da kotaku crew.
i’m talking months or years here.
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Had so much fun that weekend. May be on a bit tongiht, not sure at this stage.
Well I resisted the urge to spend money I don’t have, so no 3DS… for now (I picked up Crackdown 2 for twenty bucks instead).
I really like the idea of getting one, but so far the only game I really want is OoT.
However, since I have never owned any type of DS, I could pick up a 3DS then rumage through the horde of games that are on the DS.
Mmm, any recommendations for good DS games?
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Pokemon Black, Pokemon HeartGold, Dragon Quest IX.
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Out of curiosity, is there any difference between pokemon black and white?
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Minor differences like a few of the Pokemon you can catch in the wild. Also I think White gets an extra forest zone and Black gets an extra city.
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Are you channeling Jimu? I just got this creepy shiver down my spine…
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HA HA!
Look below!!!
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Mariokart DS
Mario 64 DS
DragonQuest 4, 5, 6 and 9.
Final Fantasy 3, 4, Four Heroes of Light and Tactics A2.
Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow and Portrait of Ruin
New Super Mario Bros
Diddy kong Racing DS
Zelda
Pokemon Platinum, Soulsilver and White
Metroid Prime Pinball
Shin Megami Tensei Somethingsomething
Suikoden Tiekreis
Resident Evil Deadly SilenceTheres more, let me check the collection when I get home tonight!
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Trauma Center.
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999: 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors, it can’t be found anywhere in the stores though, only in online shops like Ozgameshop. TOP GAME!
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Hi,
Trials Evolution
that is all.
Actually, not quite.
If you have not seen them yet, check out the first released gameplay footage and screenshots. It shows both single and multiplayer and it looks amazing. 4 player multiplayer on an infinite custom map based model with insane physics and great gameplay… should be good! Custom tracks are 8kb each so even if you’ve never seen the map you wll have it instantly!
You think you’ve seen me excited, you aint seen nothing yet!
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Sorry, I forgot to comment on your tweet links, but zommmmmggggg, that multiplayer will be freaking awesome fun! This is probably the only game i will be getting as a day 1 purchase this year. Thats saying something.
I mean, I’m still waiting for Portal 2 to hit 9.95, which i’m predicting will happen as a deal on Steam on Thursday. (make it so! *clicks ears*)
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Please tell me if portal 2 gets that cheap. ill get it for sure.
Also, Trials Evolution!
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Oh yeah, I played Trials HD for the first time yesterday at JB Hi-Fi, it was pretty fun 😀
Man I need to get an xbox-
man an instore Trials HD set up would be awesome,. where was that?
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It was at Ipswich JB Hi-Fi, they were selling Trials HD, Limbo and something else on disc there.
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Splosion man was the other game.
http://www.zavvi.com/games/platforms/xbox-360/xbox-live-hits-collection-limbo-trials-hd-and-splosion-man/10456611.html
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Tikka Masala for lunch up in this biatch – fuzz yeah!
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So jealous, I have to have subway, yet again 🙁
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Zinger Combo 4 me…I get cravings.
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If only, that would be amazing. the nearest KFC is a 20min drive away from work.
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I vurk in da CBD
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HAHAHA! xD
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Bwahaha. I wonder what Obama was doing in the original?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3SFXQfE4kk
Just as badarse!
Everyone must watch Good Game on ABC tomorrow night at 8.30pm… I hear there will be a really interesting interview on it.
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It kinda gave it away at the end of the last ep, but will watch it anyway 🙂
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SPOILERS!!!!!111!1!
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I didn’t actually SAY what it is! How is it a spoiler human?
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Remind me again tomorrow or else I’ll forget.
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Trust me, there will be a reminder tomorrow…
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From the looks of the last weeks teaser you nailed it.
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man – it’s going to be like watching soft porn, it’s going to be that good
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Oh, and look closely at the rider in all their footage of gameplay. I wonder why he chose to wear Yellow and Red on that particular day. Perhaps its a little tip of the hat to the Kotaku crew!
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I’d be interested to see the sales figures for Trials before and after your stunning TV debut.
In the vein of Stamperific, I found this and had to share a:
DUBSTEP INTERLUDE
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Lost Woods Dubstep Remix – Ephixa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU75uz0b8EU
Its gaming related too and pretty damn awsome. Do yourselves a favor and check it out 🙂
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So I was out shopping, and there was a GAME there, and I haven’t been to one since their sort-of overhaul.
This guy in a hoodie and jeans comes up to me going “How you doing, mate?” and I’m all STRANGER DANGER (!!!!)
Turns out he was one of the staff.
I’m not sure what my point is.
Maybe the casual look of staff is supposed to present a friendlier image… but honestly, for a moment I was all “THERE IS SOME GUY RANDOMLY TALKING TO ME WHAT DO I DO *deer caught in headlights look*”
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saw a guy in working in a vans store at chadstone on the weekend who looked like he was fighting a losing battle with an addiction to all sots of drugs. He had this long matty blonde hair and looked so unkempt… hard to believe anyone like that gets employed this day and age… but then again.. it was a vans store… i mean that’s the whole demographic, yeah?
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I used to love Vans shoes.. then they became mainstream. /sniffs disdainfully
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I have a pair of Iron Maiden Vans.
They are glorious to behold.
http://bit.ly/qXfw8U
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For those who’ve played Terraria.
I just fought that that eye of Cthulhu and my initial plan to kill it couldn’t have been more disastrous.
I knew it was similar to those demon eye things that attack you at night so I went and built a nice little fort with a hole every second block to shoot out of space invaders style. I figured since the demon eyes can’t get through the bigger boss wouldn’t either and all I’d have to do was shoot it to death before morning.
Turns out he can pass straight through solid blocks so all I managed to do was drastically limit my manoeuvrability and the opportunities for me to shoot at him.
I did manage to win but I had to abandon my space invader fort and run back to my town and get the nurse to heal me half way through the battle. The eye also killed my merchant. They respawn right?
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They do, but it can take quite a while sometimes.
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I found it easy to fight him on a long and flat one block thick surface so you can also see where it is underground. I basically killed it with shurikens and my enchanted boomerang to finish it off. But still make sure you have plenty of potions
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That’s basically why I ran back to my town, I built some of it underground So i could see where he was when below me and I’ve got wooden planks between the tops of the above ground ones so it was one flat surface. Enchanted boomerang won it for me.
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I got hella lucky and found a Demon Scythe early (before I even had mana!). Made boss fights just that bit easier.
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I was so stupidly refreshing Page 2 wondering why there were no new posts.
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Well, given there was one hour and one minute between the last root post on page 2, and the first on page 3, I’d say it was only standard levels of Taypidity.
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I just realised that I could have said “StupidiTAY” and it would have flowed so much better.
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lol, that was as bad as my hex joke on page 1!
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You’re not alone.
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During the flood I left it a week behind …
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Nohandle had to come and save me.
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So I spent a reasonable amount of time just waiting around in Sunnybank today. Tried to play “is she 12 or 25?” and failed miserably. Seriously, I am terrible at guessing people’s ages andI was effectively playing on hard mode.
Probably would have helped to get confirmation that my guesses were wrong though, but I’m fairly confident I was always wrong.
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That kind of game it turns into:
Not sure if natural feeling or turning into pedobear 😛-
Whenever I do that I get the horrible realisation of “Oh Crap, I’m 20, and those people are going to SCHOOL. I am the creepy man I always knew I’d become!”
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Wait til it becomes “Oh crap, im 30”. That is much worse.
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I’ll average it out and think “Oh crap, I’m 25!”
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Then wait until you realize, oh crap, my own daughter looks 16, and there’s 30 year old guys saying these things. Its freaking the hell outta me! I might move to Antarctica!! GIRLS ARE FREAKING IMPOSSIBLE TO DEAL WITH!!!
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I was going to make an incredulous comment about your daughter looking 16, given she’s like 12 or something, isn’t she(Please note, anyone under the age of about 16 is “like 12” to my brain)? But then I remembered my history with your daughters, and I realised that Bish would make an out of context comment, and then I’d just look like a creep.
Well, more of a creep.
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Lolol! But, in this case you would be correct! She is 12, and hell bent on getting a lip piecing this week…. *rolls eyes*
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At 12, seriously?
Do you want to be a good father, a bad father, or a troll dad?
Because the troll dad is the most fun.
Tell her that if she really wants to, she can pierce her lip ala Sandy from Grease.*
*When this goes badly I will take no responsibility
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I’m going with the “I’m going to copy every tattoo and piercing you get, and tell your friends that you copied me”. This generally works, but she’s getting tempted to call my bluff… (I hope she doesn’t read this TAY post, if so Flic, I’m not bluffing, I will totally do it!)
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Don’t they require parental consent for piercings for people under some age? Just refuse to give it. You’ll need to give up your position as the “cool Dad(I’m assuming that you’re the cool Dad)” but I’d say it’s worth it.
Otherwise, tell her she can get it, but only after she does something that would really be impossible.
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I have two female cousins that I have known since birth. I have changed nappies etc and have a great relationship with them. I have always thought of them as little girls I have grown up with. They are now 18 and 20 and that is crazy hard to deal with so I kinda get what your saying qbo.
Im just glad I had a boy mate so i dont have to deal with that. All I gotta deal with is finding dirty mags under the bed that i will have to take off him, so he doesn’t read them of course!
I’m pretty sure nobody would actually buy those magazines in the future, particularly given the proliferation of high speed internet.
Damn, already showing my age huh!!!! lol
I guess when he is older he will have a hidden wireless hotspot that I dont know about that is hidden under his bed? Im already scared about the future.
That’s the thing about school girls, no matter how much older you get, they stay the same age.
/butchered quote.
Seriously though, I was that bored that whenever someone walked past I’d be trying to work out how old they were.
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haha i quoted the same thing but removed it because i was kinda beingcreepy already.. nice one *thumbs up*
Hard mode..?
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Better than Easy Mode.
Well, maybe not so much the 25 year olds. The other ones though… :\ -
Sunnybank is ~80% Asian.
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Rocketman.
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Bahahahahahahahaha.
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Dammit Bish, this whole thing was a setup to get Rocketman to say something racist. Why ruin the fun?
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Because this way I get to pre-empt the joke and steal the moment for my own amusement, whilst making him look more racist than he actually is!
It’s a win-win! Well, for me. Probably not so much for Rocketman.
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Yay!
Which I’ve already said, apparently.
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That’s such an asian thing to do…
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I like the idea that a whole ethnicity has banded together in agreement, just to spite one Queenslander.
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I could see it happening*.
*Couldn’t really see it happening
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If and when i meet you in real life i am going to have a print out of like 4 pages of stereotypes and jokes. But not really cause that would be horrible. I will say this, you got spunk kid.
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lol now I see why it is difficult, they’re really great at keeping the young look… either that or I just find that whole nationality on human women attractive 😛
My friend once told me a very good formula for guessing the age of women with an Asian background.
Take how old you think they look + 6 years = roughly the right age
don’t know how accurate it is though.
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Using that logic, that singing group that Blaghsy showed us last week, those girls’d be legal… wait now I sound disgusting… I gotta delete my logs of this incident now xD
Just forget I said anything! 😛
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Well, the youngest member, Seo Joo-hyun was born in 1991, so it’s not really that creepy at all!
What is creepy is that I can tell you that her blood type is A(Though I cannot account for Rhesus factor), that she is 168 centimetres tall, and that she was born in Seoul.
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So they’re actually closer to my age than I first predicted… interesting
You knowing this stuff doesn’t make you creepy at all… just a very… useful… informant on girls 😛
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Unfortunately I don’t have the talent to do that in real life.
Google was my friend when I researched that.
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Wouldn’t that be a cool superpower? You could just look at somebody at tell their real age straight up. No? Not cool? Oh, okay…
You’re smarter than that!
look at what they wear, it’s always a dead giveaway.
I was born in Sunnybank!
But I live in Perth, and have since I was ~2 years old.
And I’m not asian.
I have no idea where I’m going with this, so…
This thread is now SHAPES.
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Did you say Coke?
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Sure, why not.
Wow rental prices are expensive these days. Finding a new place might be a lot harder than I thought.
I have a viewing of this place on Wednesday.
http://www.realestate.com.au/property-unit-wa-wembley-405233374
Another bad thing about moving is not having internet for however many weeks 🙁
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I got myself a two-bedroom apartment being built for me in less than a few years (According to contract) on a plan. Got my deposit already in so I’m pretty much set 🙂
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Wow, that’s awesome. How much is it costing you all up? What’s the general rent cost over there? It’s getting to be a nightmare in Perth. To get a place in a decent area, you have to pay at least $300 a week, which when all you’re getting is a 1×1 or 2×1 apartment, it’s a bit much.
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I was paying $250 a week for a 1 bedroom unit in North Perth. Used to be $240 for a about 18 months before that though.
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That’s pretty good. What was it like though? The place my girlfriend and I are in now is fairly average and it has a really bad mould problem (the reason we’re moving because the landlord won’t do anything about it) which is bad for our health. We’re wanting a 2×1 because the amount of stuff we both have can’t fit into a bedroom/lounge room. It also has to be a nice area because I have the only car and my girlfriend catches public transport and walks everywhere, so it needs to be a safe area.
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Speaking from experience here mate, the mould you mentioned and the landlords apparent apathy to do anything is sufficient grounds to take him/her to the tenants tribunal to end your lease early. Mould spores are a serious health hazard leading to many serious conditions. I suggest you contact the local tenants tribunal or authority and tell them whats happening. My sister had a similar problem and the mould got so bad it damaged furniture as well.
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Well all up it’s going to be $320K for a 2 bedroom, dual system A/C, balcony, 1 floor up above ground, swipe card entry, secure underground parking, 5 minutes walk from the train station, 10-15 minutes walk from the plaza AND I have a cafe-style restaurant right under my feet on the ground floor according to the plans.
And I’ve already put in the 32K deposit and much more saved in the bank right now.
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Wow! That sounds awesome! What the hell? What exactly do you do to have so much money?!
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Having a full time job right after finishing tafe and saving like a fracking BOSS mainly. Been working in Telstra’s enterprise & government area for the past 2 and a half years now, I’m no longer a trainee either so full salary now making it even easier 🙂
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Wow, well that will do it. Yeah my wage is pretty average. If it wasn’t for my commission, I’d be under minimum wage. I have trouble with saving, too many toys I want. Plus I’ve been living out of home since I was 18, except for a couple of months last year and this year.
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Yeah see I’m 22 years past my activation date, and I’m still living with the human parents that took me in. I still have to pay my part to live there but it’s small compared to living alone. And with how much bills keep skyrocketing, I think saving has to be my top priority. I still buy say a game a month or something though (That’s if full retail price), or a few indies.
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Yeah that’s fair enough. Well i couldn’t live with my girlfriend with my parents, as well as my step-dad and I get along great when we’re not living together, when we do live together, we’re constantly at each other’s throats. I really should have saved a lot more. Plus I decided to get a loan for a car last year so I’m stuck paying that off for the next 4 years.
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Yeah I’m tolerating my step dad as much as I can. But he’s not stupid and he’s been a great support to my mother so I can’t snap at him really when in truth I really owe him.
My car I was lucky with as well, bought my navy blue Toyota Avalon (IIRC an ’01/’02 model) off my step dad for 4K, and it’s in very mint condition.
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Ah okay. I got a 05 VZ Commodore for $11490 but I can’t really afford to pay anymore than the standard repayments :/ not if I want to move as well.
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He has a part time job as an ATM
HAH! Yes… evilface.jpg
Here is your $100…
*While I deduct $350 from your account* xD
OMG! Why did my careers teacher not tell me this job existed in high school!??? I’ve been done over! >:-(
If I ever move down to Melbourne, can we be roomies?
We can be bros and stare down at the people on the street and be all “BAH, PEOPLE” and then high five each other for no reason.
I smell a sitcom
Lol well I want to get it all settled first before I open the can of worms of having a roomie, going half-half on the bills, making rulesets to make it a habitable environment.
I mean this will not be like Fry and Bender, I do NOT live in a closet. xD
Still.. you’d be one of not so many humans I’d be honoured to have as a roomie
No! Wait! I call shotgun!
I renounce your shotgun because you didn’t even come to the first Melbourne meat human (If I’m assuming correctly it was you saying you were a Melb guy too) you have self-redeeming to do 😛
Hey! I’ll come to the next one! If there is a next one…
Nice, I have been saving for a 2 bedroom apartment at Paramatta, however now that the nsw public service is about to be gutted by our new overlord, it looks like I will be out of a job.
Bloody annoying because there were a few places that looked awesome.
Same here, trying to anyway.
I’ve been saving like a fiend. I have a nice bit of cash saved up for a deposit, but my salary is so crap that I can’t really afford a mortgage.
I need a new job…
We should all start a club like I’m-saving-for-my-first-place and- hmm, not quite as catchy as it sounded in my head.
“I’m saving for my first place and oh no wait I just remembered that I’m unemployed”?
That’s mine and Bish’s.
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Not so much a club, but the government does have a specialised scheme for helping save a deposit on your first property. Essentially it’s a specialised savings account that requires you to make deposits of at least $1000 each year for four years before any money can be taken out. For every $5500 deposited in a given year, the government chips in an extra 17%, and any increase due to interest is taxed at only 15%. Tops out at $80,000, and anyone can make contributions into it as well (i.e. your parents, employer etc, so long as it’s out of post-tax). Doesn’t void your eligibility for the first home buyer’s grant either.
Oooh really?
Do you have linkies or should I just not be lazy and google it?
Most of the banks offer it. I think Westpac is the only major one that doesn’t.
Thanks so much for that link NegativeZero!
…Why have we not seen a Hungarian Librarian Barbarian Commentarian at a Sydney Meat?
How far out from the city did you have to buy to get that good a deal? Or was it just that you managed to get in early on a good thing?
A bit of both getting a place that’s far enough away from the city and got in even before they started their official advertising. My best advice is just search online, dig into every crevice on the internet (If you know what I mean), that’s what my family did to find this place that I now have my name on.
This place I’m getting is in Dandenong, which is in the outskirts of the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne.
Yeah, I work in Southbank and the commute from somewhere as far out as Dandenong would make me hate life. 🙁 Melbourne really needs to increase density, the city’s spread way too far outward too quickly.
Time to move to Geelong!
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Haha, don’t think that will happen 😛 at least not anytime soon.
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You better not be dissin’ my Geelong!
I pay $330 per fortnight for a two bedroom unit. New carpet and paint… more bieng worked on. I’m buying the place though anyway 😛
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That sounds nice. How much do you earn? I’m just wondering if it will be affordable or if it will be too tight with my budget.
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My comment wouldn’t post 🙁
I’m on pretty bad pay for what I do, $55k including super. My neighbour is talking about renting out his 1 bedroom unit. I’ll keep an ear out, I think he’s looking at about $160 a week?
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Oh yeah, that sounds pretty cheap. Yeah 55k with super is what I’m on but I have a car loan and insurance is very expensive where I live :/ and next year I won’t have much support from my gf’s income as she’ll be at uni.
Thanks dude, I don’t know if I’d make the move any time soon though. A lot of family over here and 2 of my aunties are pregnant so have new cousins and stuff on the way, don’t want to miss that. (I’m pretty close with my family)
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It’s okay everyone, CALM DOWN!
I’m here.
Was actually busy working this morning, then had lunch.
Semi on topic though (is there a topic?) I feel like cranking a GBA game again. Any suggestions?
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Pokemon Emerald.
Or Advance Wars.
Or Astro Boy Omega Factor.
Or FFTA.
Or that really awesome Dodgeball game I can’t quite remember the name of.
Or Fire Emblem.
Or Golden Sun.
Or Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town.
Or Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories.
Or Mario Tennis Power Tour.-
Golden Sun, no contest
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Metroid Fusion
Metroid Zero
Pokemon Emerald
Pokemon Firered
Zelda
Anything with mario
MarioKart
Castlevania harmony of Dissonance
Castlevania Aria of Sorrow
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance-
i like the fact you have anything with mario and then you have underneath mario kart. That’s a pretty awesome list. I am not however a big fan of ruby and saphire pokemon games.
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definitely worst gen!
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, nowai.
I what I’d say, but now that I think about it, yeah. :\
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Is a good game…just the worst pokeemans.
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Dammit, Buena Vista Japan. *Three* Studio Ghibli BD releases in the same month? My wallet is weeping 🙁
It’s entierly possible I was playing with the penny arcade guys the first time I played LoL with master Yai in PVP.
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HAHAHA! Possibly xD
PREVIEW!!!!
You know.. so you guys know i’m actually working on it…
The war room was alight with red flashing lights, warning signals, and rather strangely, a disco ball which might have mistakenly been wired into the emergency system when the ship was built. More puzzling, to the assembled soldiers, is why the room would need a disco ball in the first place. The only one amongst them who didn’t seem concerned was Private Puppylicks.
“What the hell are you singing, Puppylicks?” inquired NotoriousR, as he watched the volatile weapons expert sway side to side.
“How can you not know this one, Notty?” Puppylicks upped the volume of his voice, which seemed to throw his voice even further out of tune.
“I’ve got the torch!” he sang and he lofted his flamethrower into the air “I’ve got the poweeeeeerrrrrr… YEAH!”
“Oh hey, yeah i do know that one, what’s it called again? That’s right – you’re a crazy bastard”
“Hey, no need to be Jealous there Notty. You know what they say – can’t handle the heat, get the hell outta my kitchen”
“That doesn’t even make a lick of sense” Jamesmag interjected.
“You’re face doesn’t make a lick of sense” snapped Puppylicks.
“Easy boys”. Dr. What had snuck up behind the trio, causing Puppylicks to jump, much to the delight of the others. “I wouldn’t want to have to waste any of my supplies on you lot before we even get to the fight”
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I get a mention! Booyah! God damn I feel loved. Great work Chuloopa, can’t wait for it to be finished.
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How’d you get so famous all of a sudden!?
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No idea man, probably for getting top posts last week? 😛
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uhuh – reward for storming like a post!
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Ooo yeah, hopefully can keep the trend going for this week!
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Mister Charisma
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I’m not reading the spoiler, will wait foer the whole thing!
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haha good man – not really a spoiler though.. it’s just the very start of what i’ve written.. this one is going to be bigger than the other 2 on their own, me thinks
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Me thinks me is making a pants tent…
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Hey loops, donno if you missed it earlier today but seeing as the next one is going to be R rated and feature Harli how about:
The Kotaku Chronicles III:
Ride it like a Harli (Davidson)Eh? eh?
I’ll let myself out…
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haha i did say that, but i think i may be saving that title for the spin off adult film… although i know Harli would want no part of it, so i’ll just be slapping a black wig on tadmod and doing all rear shots
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HAH! that is A MUCH better idea!
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p.s. my hair is brown 🙂 … most of the time
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Damn it… i already bought the wig…
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Don’t worry about it loops, with the right lighting we can make it look brown. Did you get the crates we need to make it look like our “Harli” is the same height as a normal person?
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Yeah.. i swiped some from the docks.. they were kinda heavy and i could hear muffled voices coming from inside them, but they stopped when i dropped it down the stairs, so i’m guessing they’re ok to use now
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Now we come to the real questions, where are we going to film this?
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When i can find an Alpaca
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Can we rely on Doc What!? to play both his own role, and Serrels’? I hear actors are expensive particularly famous ones.
With that in mind, we need someone new for FatShady, as his recent media success has gone to his head.
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Yes! I got featured in the Kotaku Chronicles! That means I’m a real person!
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But for how long???
dun dun dunnn
..nah i’m kidding…
..or am i???
DUN DUN DUNNNNNN
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Y U RUIN THIS FOR ME?!?!?
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Well Notty-boy, look on the bright side, if you die then!.. uhhh… You can…
I’ve got nothing. On the bright side, if you come close to death then you could become pretty bad-ass…
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Then I can be like Garrus!
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I like the fact that NotR and Dr. What? are in there, but n00bs? They haven’t even had their initiation rites yet…. 😛
Oh, and speaking of new vs. old where’s Ambrose IV got to? I hope he’s okay.
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I have bigger plans for a lot of the regulars, so that explains that 😛
Also, this installment involves a 10 man squad, not including Jimu – so that means i still have a quite a few people to add in which i’ve already listed. 🙂And yeah, i have no idea where Ambrose is… :s
Oldskoolgamer also vanished off the face of the planet a long time ago, hasn’t even been on steam for months.-
So they’re Redshirts then? Excellent. /Mr.Burns.
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Oh man, you so gotta read the book i recomended towards the bottom of page one – EPIC redshirt material towards the middle/end
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Well, Ambrose more or less disappeared from the internet after getting a girlfriend, so he may well have been murdered and is stashed in a ditch somewhere.
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And by girlfriend I mean fake wife on Facebook, just to clarify.
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How did I miss that Transformers reference the first time!?
You have portrayed me as some sort of madman.
I approve of this greatly.
Also extra kudos for the Transformers reference.
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I have to work in some sort of stylish bullet-proof vest, me thinks lol
FYI, I’ll be needing dual swords in this story…what!? You’re going to make me use a My Little Pony!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
😛
Also, I was imagining Dr, What!? as the TF2 Medic, but with a British accent when I read that 😀
we seriously need to make an audio book of this!
New Chronicles, I’m excited!
…I hope I make a debut *hint* *hint*
Just so you know, if there’s a role going for a quiet, lurky-type act of supervillany, I’m totally up for it…
I gots to go, but will someboday PLEASE tell me how shitty my lists of GBS?DS games are?
I’ll be checking when I get home!
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1st ? = ? Second = ?
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I can’t comment , have yet to play. But I will…OH I WILL!
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You know.. just because it hasnt been posted in a while
LET’S WORK OUT, BAYBEH!!!
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I APPROVE!
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A Mark Serrels auto approved automatic aproval
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you’re the best -dosh- arounnddd!!
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THANK YOU for reminding me of this.
I’m downloading this tonight, work tomorrow is gonna be the manliest graphic designing session EVER!-
I downloaded it a while ago and put it on a CD to play in my mad sound system, brah! haha
Man, i’ll tell you what – EPIC DRIVING MUSIC
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I have decided that I MUST track down the Bloodsport Soundtrack. Sooo many memories.
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Thank you! This is perfect for my weight training.
<3
Seems like late-night LOL’ing makes me miss out a lot!
I miss you LOL ppl!!!
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… but he secretly thinks you’re all noobs… jk 😛
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…he’s probably right though… 😛
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NNNOOOooooo!!! What are you saying dawdle!!!
You are the only noob i know playing any kinds of video games!!!!
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You should try playing NFS:HP with TadMod 😛
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It would be entirely correct.
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Oh Mags, in answer to your question last page I shall be on LoL.
Not as much chance to post this week.
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Awesome, hopefully I get a chance to get on there. I’m getting depressed now, trying to find a new place is so hard 🙁
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Yeah so is looking for jobs.
Video games to the rescue!-
High five!
So are you looking at a career chance or a new job in your field?
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Stop it, you’re scaring me. This is exactly the same as me!
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*Low Five*
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Admit it, you were going for the reach around.
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So hungry. Just ate a banana (there goes $20) and chocolate bar in some kind of DELICIOUS malange of awesomeness.
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Try adding Honey to the mix.
the orgy of flavors will blow your mind-
Also Shapes, Fairy Floss and Bacon.
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HECK YES.
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coz everythings better with bacon
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definitely the bacon.
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i would like to discuss the phenomena of how playing shit games with friends makes it the best game ever.
for example, me and my friends have decided that we are gonna have a “Sonic Riders” tournament Why? because we played the shit out of that game as kids, and even though it’s probably technically a terrible game, it’s still gonna be awesome fun!
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Yep, me an some mates used to go nuts with a game on the old Xbox called Arctic Thunder.
It was a snowmobile racing game with some battle elements.
Pretty B grade, but epic with a bunch of friends.
I was wandering around the Ekka on the weekend and saw this: http://flic.kr/p/ada9Rn
Eek! Weresmurf finally caught me!
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I saw that on sunday when driving past the ekka (actually we drove under the ekka). I was all “FORTY FOOT SMURF!!!!” :O
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Those lucky b*stards, they don’t have to work.
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Everybody wants to be naked and famous
Everybody wants to be just like me,
I’m nakeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed…-
… And famoooouuuuuuusss
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND……
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GAH!
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Oh crap. Sorry. I should have left it open
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no you got in fair and square, I just wasn’t fast enough 😛
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When you see it, you’ll smurf bricks….
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I love you, man.
*wipes tear*
That was just so beautiful
GARGAMEL, LOOK OUT
Woah… I missed nearly a whole day of TAY. That sucks. 🙁
^
LOOK UP.
Do we have a tweet/post to Facebook/Google+ button now?
\o/
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the facebook and twitter thing have been there for a while, the google+ thing is new though
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Hm, I do kinda remember seeing the Twitter/facebook thing now… maybe they’re in a more visible spot or something.
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Special announcement:
I MADE A GAME!! It’s called: CLICK THE MOVING CIRCLE!!
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I’m clicking the circle, but it’s not moving!!
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You have an awesome nickname.
Just watched X Men Origins: Wolverine. What a stupidly crap movie. Not even crap in a so-bad-it’s-good way. Just plain crap.
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Even my massive man-crush for both Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds couldn’t save that one.
And that “Deadpool”? Eff that noise.
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oh man, that deadpool really pissed me off
and everytime i try to describe him to people i say “you know that guy from the wolverine movie who gets his mouth stitched up?” they reply “yeah” then i reply “that’s him, but it’s completely wrong and a piece of shit”
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THIS!!!
That HORRIBLE movie has been a discussion many times at uni, especially when i fly off the handle about how they made deadpool soooo shit
I mean, he couldn’t talk!!! WHY THE HELL DID THEY MAKE DEADPOOL UNABLE TO TALK?!!?
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I will never understand why Hugh Jackman is such a huge sex-symbol. He’s too effeminate in the way he walks and his mannerisms, it’s creepy. And he’s not even pretty to look at.
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man-crushes work differently. I have a man-crush on Ed norton.
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D: http://bit.ly/bUZvUv LEAVE HIM ALONE!
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As bad as it was. It was nowhere near as bad as that third x-men movie. God that was atrocious!
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Amen. Did anyone actually believe that Phoenix had the power to destroy the universe when she couldn’t even destroy Hugh Jackman’s pants? (please note: this observation made first by my wife)
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He must have borrowed them from the Hulk
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I cannot agree with you more!
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it sucked.
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They screwed up Gambit.
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I kind of liked Gambit. They did screw him up, but I like how they screwed him up. Not saying it’s better than the original (Hell no) but I liked the character.
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He was the least screwed.
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The first X-Men movie still receives my award for “Worst Line in Cinema History”
Storm: “Do you know what happens to a toad when it’s struck by lightning?…”
Argh, D: I can’t finish it! It’s too terrible..!
MASSIVE shout to the amazing Harli for gifting me the Broken Sword trilogy for my birthday!
Thanks so much! I haven’t played Shadows of the Templars since I was a kid.
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you’re very welcome good Doctor.
After yesterday’s Wizz Fizz breakfast experiment I’m going back to the king of breakfasts this morning: bacon! With toast and eggs too but they’re just there to make the bacon look pretty. 😛
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Bacon = God in pan fried form
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/15/bounce-bounce-inmomentum-trailer-beta/
Not sure if I’ve posted aboutinMomentum before, but I must say, it’s looking kinda cool. I’ve got a beta key (yay!) and will probably post about it tomorrow. If I’m not too busy watching FatShady, conqueror of the MBA, on Good Game.
For those of you waiting for Space Marine, and for those of you not quite yet sold on it – i have news that is good
“Get ready to dive into WH40k: Space Marine. A single player demo is launching on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC next week. Xbox LIVE and PC players will be able to strap on Capt. Titus’ big bad boots on August 23rd. The PSN will get into the action on the 24th.
The demo will give players first-hand knowledge of Space Marine’s ranged and melee combat. Unleash your fury on the invading Ork horde as you protect one of mankind’s precious Forge Worlds. You’ll go to battle armed with six of the game’s iconic weapons, including the devastating Bolter and brutal Chainsword. Players will also get a chance to experience the game’s Jump Pack, allowing Capt. Titus to thunder into battle from the skies above. But wait – there’s more!
Players who have pre-ordered the digital version on Steam will get access to the demo on August 18th. Holy crap! That’s this Wednesday! Details should be up on Steam soon. Space Marine “Honour Guard” members will get early access to the PC demo on August 22nd. To join the Honour Guard, simply register on the Space Marine forums. “
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What, they’re making the demo for PC?? YAAAAAY!!!!!!! 😀
Balls to what other people say. I liked Green Lantern. It was fun.
That is all.
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YAY!
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You also like Rebecca Black and think Michael Buble is better than James Brown so you’ll have to excuse me if I don’t take your word for it. 😉
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Tad. Come on. Buble is good. But he’s not better than James Brown. I think the only guy better than James Brown is Stevie Wonder.
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I agree, I really did enjoy it. I can’t tell if it was to be taken seriously or not, but I really don’t care.
I finally saw suckerpunch last night and I honestly have no idea how I feel about it.
I know that is a rather strange(oops sorry strange) rather odd statement, but after watching it I just sorta sat there thinking… well… nothing…
Very weird, it’s not that I didn’t like it, it just left me having no idea what to feel/think about it.
So please, what on earth did other people think about this movie???
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Whilst watching it I found it drew me in and there really wasn’t a moment when I was bored per se, but all the same, I wouldn’t watch it again. Maybe just skip through some fight scenes.
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I am the same, I didn’t really hate it. But I had no concept of what was going on. I thought she was fighting the demons in her own mind but hey if it was just meant to get teenage boys to watch it it worked.
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I really liked it. It wasn’t just a simplistic titty-flick.
In fact, although the women were all in silly outfits they were all fairly reasonably covered up for the majority.The action sequences were amazing with the exception of the Dragon one, where it just started getting a little stale.
The ending and middle-to-end really sucked the enjoyment of the movie though and in the end i felt really kinda depressed – i won’t say more in case more people intend to see it and haven’t done so yet, however.
But i really enjoyed it – you did actually have to think at some points and you really felt for a couple of the characters… that being said the rest for the characters were severely under-developed so you found it hard to be compelled to feel anything when the proverbial shit started going down..
REALLY loved the David Caradine-esque mentor, however. Man did he ever nail that role!
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I concur.
It’s a subtle movie. Most people just take away the titillation on display, but there is a deeper narrative there. It’s quite a depressing movie, once you start thinking about the plot and the reasons behind all of the sequences.
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I thought it all fit together, but I had to make an effort to understand it. I would have enjoyed it more if the plot and what was actually going on was more obvious so you didn’t have to think about much and could just sit back and be entertained by those ti…I mean awsome fight scenes.
LoL’ers..
You may remember Blizzard announcing a Dota2 tournament with a $1 million US prize for first place.
Well, League of Legends has just stomped all over that, with a $5 million dollar prize pool at Gamescon.
omg…
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BRB, going to tell my boss where he can stick this job…
Jokes, but seriously, $5 mill? Thats insane! You’d better join us on LoL and start practising Harli!
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Yeah I just read about that, bloody insane! That’s going to be for season 2! I can’t wait to watch that. Season 1 was just incredible, the engagements were just.. wow! 😀
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Also Harli, is this enough reason to start training with us? We got a pretty good team already, with myself, Steve-O, Jo and Gorzy/Trjn (Since they can both support very well). Steve-O, Jo and I had a good few wins last night as well :). The other guys are still in the rookie stage but it’s looking really awesome so far to see our KotakuAU guys cleaning up the opposition
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I actually have been meaning to take up LoL at some point but everytime I try to start something gets in the way! This time it’s an upcoming HoN tournament taking place early Sept. Sadly my team and I were unable to make the last one, so I am super determined to force everybody to go to the next one.
TL;DR
I will soon-
Well when you do start LoL I have one word of advice that you definitely need to know coming from a HoN background. Be VARY wary of the enemy turrets early game, cuz in LoL, they’re WAY more deadly
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Given that you have experience with DotA and HoN, what heros do you normally play? I could try match up their abilities and play style with some champions in LoL to try make the transition easier.
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My DoTA Heroes –
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Slithice
Drow
Witch Doctor
Raijin Thunderkeg
Omniknight
Earthshaker
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Drow – Ash, lots of damage, slow arrow but has Priestes Of Moons arrow ultimate (long range stun)
Raijin Thunderkeg – Kassadin, only really similar in their ultimate – kassadin can ‘void walk’ which does damage where he lands. Is spammable like storm spirits.
Witch Doctor – Hermidinger, he summons turrets which are pretty strong. Not as strong as witches death wards. He also has a grenade(stun) and rockets(nuke)
All I can think of at the moment :/
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Oh and also check out Maplhite for earthshaker/sven – He only has one aoe stun for his ultimate, but has another aoe attack speed slow and a targeted speed steal spell. Also had brutal strikes which act like cleave for easy farming.
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I shall name this word doc “Wise Words of Steve-O” and it shall be glorious
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also, I FREAKING LOVE PoTM. Arrows are funzies
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Malphite can be brutal even on his own, a good one to start with
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I did alright with Ashe last night, 4v4v5. Might give Brand a go tonight but I think I’ll stick with Ashe until I can unlock Garen.
> remember Blizzard announcing a Dota2 tournament
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OMG, HAHAHA!
Thanks man. I actually didn’t even notice I had written that… brain is half asleep right now… but hey, just goes to show how much Valve are channeling Blizz right now.
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Having never played DoTA/LoL/HoN, I thought Blizzard didn’t do anything for DoTA (apart from the fact that it’s a Warcraft 3 Mod?) As in, they never hosted tournaments and stuff?
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I think they ran Dota tourneys at Blizzcon, alongside their other things, but I could be wrong about that.
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^ I think you are right
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I’m actually wondering if Riot will include the brand new Dominion game mode in this season’s championships, since it’s very close to being officially put in (It’s like a king of the hill game), as well as 3v3 team matches in the twisted treeline. Possibilities can reach far here.
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I am quite keen to see how that new mode will work. Seeing as its a circular map, where are the fountains and shops, and where do the creeps run?
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Fountains and shops are left for blue, right for purple I think, the minions however I got no idea. Have a look for yourself
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Seeing as this is the new LoL general reply chain:
I have been thinking about downloading/playing LoL.
This whole needing-to-play-constantly-and-level-up-your-account thing is a bit ehhhh though. Kind of like with MMORPGs, I prefer things I can pick up and play, not something I should play constantly over time. I have a short attention span.
wat do
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Well you can do that, it’s not like it’s costing you money per month or at all really, you can play at your own pace when you go in solo, and you won’t be up against people that have been practising every waking hour on LoL.
Your only issue will be when you tag up with us, we’re higher level, more wins on our belts and ergo, the game’s matchmaking system will compensate for that. Hell I tagged up with one level 30 and I got pit up against 2 level 30s and the others high 20s and I managed to win that
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Someone shoot me a referral, might as well give someone extra [whatever referrals give you] if I’m giving it a shot.-
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Hahahaha!
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Go North America. You’ll get better pings and we’re all there
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Sorry about last night Jo! I was going to come back on but my girlfriend wasn’t feeling too great and I ended up sitting with her and watching TV.
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thanks babe
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What are you doing on here? I told you not to come on here!
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ahah awww why was my reply deleted
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Was it a crude joke about a relationship between Jo and myself? Because I’m okay with that.
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I didn’t know you guys were together. Gnawww.
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Wait… isn’t Jo a guy???
You guys have confusled me 🙁
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there’s nothing wrong with that!
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No no no.. for a moment i thought you were saying jo was his girlfriend – ie. the one not feeling one and leading him to TV land..
There’s nothing wrong with a little man-to-man kotakuing
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Sorry to confuse! For the record, my girlfriends name is Katherine, just to clear things up :p or Katie for short. I know at least Strange will remember this :p
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You of all people should understand the love between men!
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Woo, the fourth Kotaku couple!
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Although we have a stupid amount of things in common (just like me and Blaghs), I don’t know if we’re both ready to take that next step.
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Oh, is that how it is? “You and Blaghs”, huh?
Fine, whatever man.
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No, no no Bish, you’ve got me all wrong. I just meant that Blaghs and I just have a lot in common. I’m not going to intrude on your territory, we’re just friends I swear!
Lololol
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Hmm printing off bank statements for a home loan application.. Can they deny you a loan if they deem you to have a ‘Steam’ addiction?
Seeing it all on paper is funny, even I’m worried!
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maybe…
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If AU pricing doesn’t get any better I may just have to go back to the crack habit!
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With any luck they’ll just think you have an addiction to hot water vapour…they’ll be baffled why you are paying for it…
Also, also! No time to explain is out!
Dammit, why does everything good come out this week? inMomentum Beta, No Time to explain, Bastion is out on Steam, From Dust will be out this week, and I’m going camping for the weekend so I can’t play any of those. Goddamn it (Not really).
My anticipation for DOTA2 is eclipsed only by my anticipation for Kotaku Chronicles Part III.
C’mooooon Chuloopa!
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I’m working on it.. i’m trying to get everyone as right as possible lol
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I am by no means rushing you. Please, take your time to produce a quality piece! 😀
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Troll time!
So: DOTA, LoL, HoN.
I know a little about these games, but seeing a $1mil and then a $5mil prize pool show up for these competitions is really making me realize how crazy people are about these games.
With that in mind, please explain a little about this style of game to me:
Do you need to be good a RTS’s to play?
or is it more a Diablo-esque type of action.
I ask because I suuuuuck at RTS’s and the micromanagement/APM stuff that goes on in those games. If DOTA requires those kind of skills to play I may just let the hype train ride on by.
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It is strategy but you only control one character. Anyways, it’s a team game with 5v5 people, each playing their own one character that they’ve picked from a pool of characters, all of them having their strengths and weaknesses. The main point of the game is the help your allied computer army destroy the enemy computer base, but you have to tangle with the 5 players as well, which doesn’t make it easy. As you play and as you kill the computer controlled minions, you get gold which you can use to buy items to upgrade your character as well as gain levels to powerup your own abilities.
It’s pretty much an arena strategy game made for pure teamwork, the better working team will be the victor, since the computer cannot win the game for you without your help.
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Theres no real resource management apart from gold/mana so its pretty similar to Diablo in those regards. The only rts component really is the view and need for teamwork – If you run in guns blazing like Diablo, you will die quite easily. However each champion on average only has 4 abilities, so you can focus on using them easier than swapping through 30 skills in diablo. The real trick is learning to use them in weird and whacky ways the enemy doesn’t expect. I’d suggest you jump on the LoL bandwagon first as it’s tutorial and ai play is quite good.
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You will need uber micro.
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Micro of ONE unit, so not as hard as it seems
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Well I don’t know about LoL but some of the DoTA heroes require uber micro’ing 😉
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Considering that you gotta worry about denying and monkey couriers as well as yourself, I guess LoL is less in terms of intense microing, but positioning of your character is very important still
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Meepo and Chen I guess.
F.Y.I Techy: Chen is a hero based around charming neutral creeps and building an army around them. You have to micro each individual creep to play him effectively.
Meepo is a dps, but his ultimate (which is permanently active once unlocked) splits him into 2/3/4/5(with aghnims ultimate buff) which need to be controlled individually. Very fun hero as each clone can teleport to each other (single hero gank lololol) and can push individual lanes, but downside is you need to watch all of them – if one dies they all die.
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i HATE playing meepo with a passion. lol.
What I’m trying to say is all these games require precision and timing. it’s very, very skill based, unlike say, World of Warcraft which although does require a degree of skill is more about the time investment.
Puppylicks, you are a Street Fighter player, are you not? That in itself is a very skill-based game, not to mention the reflex that it requires means you would rather comfortable in the DoTA genre.
my 2cents
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But dat feeling when you chase down a fleeing Meepo, kill him, and watch his other selves die…
Take that, you annoying little bastard!
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Playing Dota and all the equivalents, I’ve never found my APM really strained.
Now, launching a harassing force of four hippogryph riders at the back of someone’s base while you attack their expo with a dummy force, before attempting to crush their army with an army composed of 2 heroes and a few moderately control heavy units, all the while attempting to keep your macro consistent at your base?
Yeah, by that point my brain shuts down.
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but you play SC2! surely that requires MORE micro then WC3.
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Nah, SC2 is easy mode.
Also I’m pretty terrible at it. That bit’s kind of important. But yeah, SC2 apm is lower than either WC3 or BW. Infinite micro won’t help if you have a terrible army.
That said, I do have a tendency to throw my armies away… “What’s that? Superior force? I think you mean “OH GOD I SUCK AT ENGAGEMENTS!””
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Actually, medidrop terran is one of the most micro-intensive things of all time.
And then I defeat it because I just put cannons everywhere…
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lol!! we need to get a game of wc3 in sometime.
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I tried playing some games the other day.
Man. I am terrible.
I also have a tendency to treat worker production like SC2, so I end up with 20 workers on one base. :/
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Uber micro eh?
That does not bode well for me.
I was in a car accident this morning o.O
A woman pulled out in front of me from the left while I was driving at 70km/h along Spencer Road in Thornlie (for any Perthies that know the area). Fortunately, I managed to swerve mostly out of the way (without hitting the car to my right…).
I came away with only minor scratches to my passenger side, and she ended up with a busted indicator. Phew.
Moral of the story? Take a defensive driving course. They work.
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Real moral of the story? Arm your vehicle with rocket launchers. They work too.
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There might be some legal issues with those…
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No just buy a tank. If you do get into an accident, the worst you’ll get is paint scratching while they’re off much worse 😛
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I like to assume everyone is a terrible driver.
Especially city drivers.
God damn, those guys.
/o\Good to know you’re okay though.
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You know who are terrible drivers?
Women. I know right?
With their lipstick and their jewlery and things. I hate it when they drive with their things!
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Also asi[And it was at this point Bish thought it would be a good idea not to complete what he was going to say]
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ROFL. At least she said good luck?
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I duno man, some of my male friends are pretty atrocious.
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Like this guy?
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Glad to hear you’re okay
First off nice one, glad you’re ok.
Second, this is your chance man. Everyone blames vidya games when bad stuff happens, why not say that the reason you avoided a serious accident was Forza or something (I’d say GT5 but in that analogy you’d still be at home loading your car)…
c’mon, lets make news about games HELPING people!
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Somehow, I don’t think Burnout was very helpful…
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I approve of this, though they might ‘twist’ it just right, saying if it wasn’t for games that accident never would’ve happened and they switched it around saying Cracks didn’t give way or something
Glad youre okay man. Sorry to hear about the damage to your car. I’ve had that happen to me several times along that road…I’ve always managed to just avoid by braking though. I’m overcautious after writing off my car last year..
This is pretty much why I dislike driving. The act of driving (Steering, pedals, changing gears) isn’t bad. It’s everyone else who drives that I dislike. What’s the point in overtaking me and speeding off only for me to see you at the next red light? What do you accomplish with that? Why the hell do people only put indicators on when they’re already halfway into my lane? And why don’t people use indicators at all? Was nearly runover a few months ago because some wanker didn’t put his indicator on at a roundabout. And had all the nerve to get mad at me.
People are annoying.
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One reason why I hate you humans so much, I’m terrified of driving every time I get out on the road with mine.
“Principal Skinner, I got car-sick in your office.”
Hey Qumulys, I did a scan of word frequency in last week’s TAY posts. I know you were disappointed that you didn’t fool my post counting scripts but there was some good news. Your name showed up as the 27th most common 3-letter-or-longer word for the week! Right up there alongside such institutions as “have” and “really”. Well done!
*round of applause*
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Really? Clearly we all have to say Qumulys more.
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Are you Qumulys about Qumulys?
Because Qumulys is Qumulys when Qumulys if Qumulys.
Qumulys with that other Qumulys sure gets my Qumulys Qumulys!
Of course Qumulys can Qumulys whenever Qumulys has Qumulys, except Qumulys will Qumulys over Qumulys like Qumulys.
Qumulys.-
ahhahahah
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At a guess you were only counting the divs with the comment-author class?
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Oops, missed the reply button. Also now that I think about it, if you were counting the comment author divs that contained peoples names the above spamming method wouldn’t work either 😀
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Why do that when you can just do THIS?!
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Why do that when you can just do THIS?!?
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Why do that when you can just do THIS?!?!
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Why do that when you can just do THIS?!?!?
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Why didn’t I think of THIS EARLIER?!?!?
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Why didn’t I think of THIS EARLIER?!?!
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Everything was way too quiet around here so I figured I’d better see what my son was up to. I found him in the cupboard stuffing his face with brown sugar. It’s going to be an…interesting day.
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Start playing the Rolling Stones. Doooooo iiiittttt.
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Brown sugar is best sugar.
Mmmmm, fudgey.-
Once you go brown, you never come down!
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I think mini strange isn’t gonna go down for a sleep today.
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That’s why they invented chloroform.
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There’s a crash after the sugar high.
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I’ll have to post the video of my kid on the weekend. same thing, he had painted his entire face with green texta and was trying to wash his face under the tap in the bathroom…
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That is going to be soooo awesome for his 21st
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Anyone else read Neal Asher’s books?
If you don’t I highly highly highly recommend him
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I just got all of A Song of Ice and Fire…I will be busy for a while.
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LOL yeah i ordered the first 4 books last week…
Did anyone here ever play Konami Crazy Racers much on GBA?
I remember playing the ROM for short, can’t remember if it was any good.
Goemon and MGS Ninja was nice…
Ahhh KMFDM and Ghost in the Shell.. what a lovely union
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Remember MDFMK? They was sweet, too!
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Witch hunt was a fantastic song
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I really love Dogma…by KMFDM, the song not the album. Not that theres anything wrong with the album.
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Dogma was easily one of the best – amazing song
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Anything good on TV this evening, FatShady?
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Oh CRAP!
I was going to make an ironic joke about another program on at the same time but then I realised something…
I am competing against Family Guy on 7mate!
How can i compete.
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More like how can Family Guy compete, amiright?
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Also Lateline Business on ABC News 24.
You’re a cool guy and all Shady, but, Lateline Business.
Lateline Business.-
But Fatshady has an MBA! He can talk about games AND business!
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But does he have the charisma of Ticky Fullerton?
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You’ll also be competing against Top Gear.
Sorry bro, gotta keep my priorities straight.
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The 3DS is still $199 at Dick Smith until August 29th!! Price match that ****!
WHAT!!! $5 million dollars for playing LOL!
I am not going to school today then!
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Wait, you’re a school student?!
Totally going to make the bedtime jokes when I start playing.
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Uni, actually.
That said, maybe dawdle likes the younger lads.-
Hahaha, that is a creepy, creepy thing to say.
My apologies, dawdle.:I
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Cougar!
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Don’t you think dawdle is a very creepy person? She is addicted to coffee and only “talks” when she is in front of the computer, never in person.
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Not creepy at all
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I’m pretty sure I heard her say about 12 words total at the Syndey Meat, so she’s not completely silent in a “Stare at you creepily like a weird child thing” kind of way.
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Up to you whether or not if you want to use my referral link to sign up for a LoL account that I sent Bish above, I didn’t want to sell out and look like a spambot hence why I never pressed people to do it 😛
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You should have posted your referral link earlier! We probably missed out on a few rewards!
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Yeah but that’s sinking as low as lamboman broadcasting via his name to click his link for a new ipad, or so I thought anyway 😛
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*decides that telling Harli my age may not be a good idea*
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….barely legal?
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Highschool or uni? I’m with Harli on the bedtime jokes if it’s highschool 😛
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I might have to be careful with the choice of words next time, I am in Uni.
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Haha, fair enough then. Did you get my friend request on LoL?
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Sydney August Meat
No one seems to have decided on anything so:
Sat 20th
http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/independent_games.aspx
What say you TAYbies?
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Would it be weird showing up to the Oprah House with an esky of lime jelly?
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I would find it weird if you didn’t do that. Btw good choice lime jelly just like lime cordial is the original and the best.
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Also, lime milkshakes. The BEST!
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I knew a guy who made a swimming pool full of jelly once.
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Was that guy you lambo ? Because I will have infite respect for you if it was!
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Bish, if that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right.
So you up for it?
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Imma have to double check.
Have to help my sister move places sometime, because I’m free labour. :I
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I’m keen, but can’t guarantee my attendance at the moment.
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Noooooooooooooooo I can’t make this Saturday. Sunday is free for me though.
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Sunday should be good for me.
Actually, I have no idea if I’m free this weekend but it’s the last days of… whatever this thing actually is.
I’m sure I can get myself out of whatever is going on if you guys (and gals) are up for it.
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I won’t be able to make a Meat until I come back from Scotland. Sorry guys!
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wha-whaaa? You’re in Scotland right now?! But then.. who’s posting on Kotaku!?
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WHY!? WHY ARE YOU GOING BACK!? WHAT ABOUT THE RIOTS??? HAVEN’T YOU SEEN THAT IT’S ANARCHY THERE? CHAOS ON THE STREETS!
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LOL!!!
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Love the top comment xD
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!THIS IS HILARIOUS!!
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By the Almighty Arany Atyácska, one day I will make it to one of these Meats.
One Day.
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Saturday is no good for me but Sunday is.
*dissappears again*
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Hey it’s the mysterious stranger
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*Gasps*
Who was that mysterious AnonymousPessimist?
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I’d prefer Sunday, but depending on the time.
Ah crap…I live in Melbourne. looks like a pretty cool event though
So I got farcry 2 from my older sister for my birthday which was a little while ago. Is it any good??
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In all honesty, I wasn’t a big fan of this game. Too much walking between 2 points with not much in between…
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Yes.
Enemy repopulation rates and mutant senses aside, it’s pretty darn good.
Also fire.
Beautiful fire.
You can also do this amazingly horrible thing where you shoot a guy in grass in the head with a flaregun, he drops and writhes around in agony, and the flare ignites the grass around him and burns him.-
Wow I am glad you are not a mad serial killer that sounds brutal. Still sounds fun I will put it on my backlog that I will play over the holidays
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Also you can snipe a guy in the leg so that his buddy comes over to help him, and then snipe his buddy in the leg, so another buddy comes over to help them, and then snipe him before the rest of the guys milling around go “…I think maybe I won’t go there” while their 3 buddies are crawling away in pain.
I’m a horrible person! 😀
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That’s a really badass strategy. Also fairly mean. I think I’m to nice for fps games.
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I liked it when I got the little one handed grenade launcher. You’d see a car driving towards you, and just fire it at the base, and watch and laugh at the car flips and explodes through the air.
That said, I only ever completed like 5 missions, and I had no idea what was going on, so most of my time with it was spent farting around.
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Ask Wildgoose on twitter…..
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Is it like us favorite game ever? I remember reading that A little while ago.
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Yes.
Game’s atmospheric as hell. After running around out in the sun I jumped in to a river and actually felt refreshed to be in the water. Seriously.
TAY hive-mind, I beseech thee:
I’ve heard this Mount & Blade game is good. The Warband version? I was wondering: what is this game? What are the different versions? How do you play it? Is it fun?
Kthx!
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I like Mount and Blade, but it’s one of those games that you can not play for ages, then pick it up for a few minutes and find that you’ve wasted 3 weeks of your life and achieved nothing because you keep losing battles.
I’d recommend the Warband version, it’s just an improved version of the orginal. With Fire and Sword attempts to have a story or something, and adds lots of guns, which make your character way less overpowered.
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Set in medieval fiction, you basically roll around the land doing whatever.
Pillage towns, ally with a faction and become a lord, set up your own faction, go around the major cities as a trader, building stockpiles of money; all possible.
There’s no story or ultimate goal, merely whatever you want.
You travel around the world map from a top down perspective (click on a spot to travel there, basically), with an army, and if you meet up with some opposing forces, you go into a battle which becomes an first person or third person… fighting… thing. Arrows and crossbows are how you’d expect them to work, but melee combat is… different. Real time, attack with LMB, but the direction you move your mouse while attacking changes the angle at which you attack, which then competes with how they block (also directional) to see if you land a blow.
Battles can be fairly large scale; I had something like 400 vs 700 units, but only come in about groups of 100 (although I think you can change it), so it’s more like 4 waves vs 7 waves.
It doesn’t look great, but eh.
I recommend Warband because it’s pretty much M&B 1.5, and Fire & Sword apparently has super OP guns which really screws with the battles.Also, good luck on your first outing. Chances are a group of 11 looters will attack you, capture you, and drag you around for a few days.
Think of it as an initiation.-
This sounds like a very fun game, I think I will pick it up sometime this week.
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Geeetttt iiiiiittttt!
Warband is great fun and can be a huge time sink if like me you try to take over the world by yourself.
I don’t think I’m going to come anywhere close to having most comments this week 🙁
Very busy with work and trying to find a new place to live, which sucks. Looks like I’m missing out on a lot of good conversations.
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I feel your pain.
So many conversations.
So little time to comment/reply.
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Exactly! I couldn’t have said it better myself. I’m being paid to TAY dammit!
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Yeah, next thing you know they are going to start telling us that we are not being paid to sleep at work. Jeez like seriously, when else am I supposed to get in a few hours of rest?
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Precisely! Home time is for gaming, eating, etc.
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Hope you find somewhere to live. Also I think Tay works better when the conversations actually get alittle time to expand.
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Thanks Rocketman, got 3 places to look at tomorrow so far, one is out of my price range but has been on the market with no applications for about a month so I’m hoping they’re willing to negotiate on rent prices.
Yeah it does, the problem with instant-commenting I suppose is because you don’t have to wait to get it posted, there’s a lot of small, meaningless comments, whereas when they had to be approved, there was a lot more in-depth discussion.
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Something we must all try to avoid, TAY being reduced to Twitter.
*shudder*
Just to add another thought, just to make sure that this is a non-twitter like comment, I have to say that this instant approval definetly shows we now partake in shorter but more frequent comments.
We actually have conversations, instead of single comments expressing all of our thoughts/ideas/rants in one go.-
i agree!
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This is true, I prefer instant comments.
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@TheRealHugo Just ate some food from that food place on that street. Not bad #hashtag
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Effluvium you should totally get on this twitter thang.
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If you don’t find anywhere to live remember that abandoned pizza boxes are an abundant source of cheese/calcium. You’ll need your teeth nice and strong to fight off other hobos looking for a slice of your non-existant pizza-pie.
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Those hobo’s ain’t got nuttin on me, biatch.
But seriously, I don’t think they connect internet to cardboard boxes so no more LoL for me if I don’t find a new place.
Actually, that’s going to suck, not going to have any internet at home when I move for at least 3 weeks :/
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But how will we continue our burgeoning long distance relationship? :'(
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/wipes tear
This is the best romance I’ve read in a while
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Is it just me, or is the constant use of yellow in the Deus Ex vids/screenshots, really starting to be annoying. The game looks awesome, but soooo much yellow.
Of course it could just be me.
But I don’t believe that.
Do you?
Of course not.
Why the hell am I having a conversation with myself?
Don’t know but it is bloody weird.
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Woohoo, two page starter comments in a row.
Not that that means much, but it is first for me.
Nver had one before let alone two.
Two in a row that is.
Bloody hell I am talking to myself again.
I think I may need to get out more.-
You know who never talks to himself? Blaghs. Who typed “Sean” initially before remembering that that may confuse a moderate number of you. The solution to avoid talking to yourself is simple, elegant, and makes you look like a total tosspot. But at least people will think that you’re a wanker, instead of simply insane. Blaghman recommends talking in a third person way. Of course, there are problems, in that I could start talking to Blaghs, but then it’s me as a narrator talking to me as a person, so I’d consider it slightly less bad than simply talking to yourself.
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Hugo considers Blaghman’s solution.
Hugo thinks this may work.
Hugo’s head starts to hurt from all this thinking.
Hugo decides to go and lie down for awhile.-
Steve-O thinks Hugo sounds like Morbo.
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I wonder what’s Hugo’s “vermin of the week”
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Roman army Legio VIII Augusta
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Hey it’s not brown, be grateful human!
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Hugo stands corrected, Hugo agrees with the robotic warrior.
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I dunno… could be classified as bronze…
Give it a day, buy the pc version, and get a mod to remove some of the yellow tint.
😀
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Also the yellow outline is optional at least.
Also, who are you to say the FUTURE isn’t yellow?-
There’s some spice which is yellow, right?
Maybe there was a massive explosion of it, thus making everything yellow.
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*raspy voice*
The year is 2020…
It is a time of technological change and advancement…
Tumeric bombs are the new threat in warfare…
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What use is a handlebar moustache?
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hahaha omg.. i totally do not dig handlebar moustaches
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But they’re so MANLY!
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Because of you i just spent 15 minutes that i could have been writing on Heinikin ads… thanks
Man they are HILARIOUS!
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NO!
I DELAYED KOTAKU CHRONICLES 3 WITH MY FUNNIES!
🙁
I’m in part 3, right?
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Dude you were totally in the preview/teaser!
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Damn. I missed the preview!!! I had to go hunt it down. Awesomesauce!
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FYI, bawble IS younger than me. But just by 1.5 months. 😛
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rawr!
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O you cradle snatcher you 😛
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*dials 000*
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Oh!! Please help me!!
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niiiiccccccccccccccee
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@Jo: We’ll find a way, pumpkin. I’ll still have net access at work.
@CrabJiffy: Don’t know if you’ll read the last page, but did you get my friend request on LoL?
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O yes I did!!
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Awesome, hopefully see you on there sometime soon!
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PUB STEP INTERLUDE!
*hic*
*passes out*
THUNK
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Video relevant.
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Bah. Format fail.
Here:
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Bad Horse
He rides across the nation
The thoroughbred of sin
He got the application
You just sent in
It needs evaluation
So let the games begin
A heinous crime, a show of force
A murder would be nice of course
Damn you Trjn, now all of Dr Horrible is stuck in my head!
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Bad Horse
Bad Horse
Bad Horse
He’s BadThe Evil League of Evil
Is watching so beware
The grade that you receive
Will be your last we swearSo make the Bad Horse gleeful
Or he’ll make you his mare…You’re saddled up
There’s no recourse
It’s Hi-Ho Silver
Signed, Bad Horse-
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. The day needs my saving expertise!
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“Balls.”
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The hammer is my ….
Well, you know how it goes.
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A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do
Seems destiny ends with me saving you
The only doom that’s looming is you loving me to death
So I’ll give you a sec to catch your breath-
Thank you Hammer-Man
I don’t think I can
Explain how important it was
That you stopped the vanI would be splattered
I’d be crushed into debris
Thank you sir for saving me
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I feel like I’ve made the world a better place.
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Aaaaaand, I just bought the DVD from Amazon.
Can haz hometime yet?
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Are…Are you hitting on me?
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I’m giving you a stern look cos that’s my dorter.
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I’m being nervous and overly polite because you’re her farter.
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lololol!
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phhhhhhp
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MARIO KART 7!!!
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Where???
*starts turning around in a circle, like a dog chasing it’s own tail*-
December…sadface..
And Mario 3D alnd comes November, I CAN’T BUY BOTH!
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*looks at list of pre-ordered games*
Deus Ex
Gears of War 3
Arkham City
Skyrim
Assassin’s Creed Revelations
Saint’s Row 3Gulp
Eh, what’s a couple more eh?-
Damn, I just took a proper look at that list.
HOW THE HELL AM I GOING TO PAY FOR ALL THAT??? -
Just pillage a few villages?
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Could I join in on that?
It’s either that or the bank/casino heist…
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A pillaging we will go,
A pillaging we will go,
Hi-ho the derry-o
A pillaging we will go.
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Mmm pillage on Tuesday, then I could do some plundering on Thursday. That at least should cover a couple of games.
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Where are you going to fit in looting though?
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Maybe between the plundering and raiding.
Yeesh, it is definetly hard work being a barbarian.
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The looting market is a little saturated at the moment.
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Your list is incomplete…Dark Souls should be on there.
Wow, almost forgot that.
*Scrambles through pre-orders*
ARGH, not pre-ordered!
Well, i’ll have to arrange another raiding party for that.
Hugo! Y U NO PREORDER UNCHARTED 3?!?!?!
HUGO NO HAZ THE PS3!!!!
HUGO! Y U NO GET PS3 !?!?!
Moar looting and plundering! You’re terrible at this barbarian business!
`·.,¸,.·*¯`·.,¸,.·*¯[;::;(=^_^ =)
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What’s that supposed to be?
Looks like an anime cat that got run over.
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It’s the Nyan Cat.
Clearly.
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Cleary
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*Clearly
Trust me to write my surname rather than an actual word… *facecat*`·.,¸,.·*¯`·.,¸,.·*¯[;::;(=^_^ =)
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Cleary, your spelling is Wong!
*Wrong
Trust me to write my surname rather than an actual word… -
Wong, your spelling is Daliwal*
Dhaliwal. Dammit. This doesn’t work for my surname at all.
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Dhaliwal, clearly you’re… something something… wait Watt?
*what
Trust me to write someone else’s surname.
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Hohoho, this thread is funny!
Trust me to write my own and someone else’s surname…
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You stole my joke!
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Wait, I did not read this properly.
I take back my fist shaking.
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Golightly there…
Trust me to join two words into my surname…
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And this is officially my favorite chain of replies for the week 😀
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If i don’t count my trolling of the soul caliber thread, that is… i have never laughed at myself so hard.. but you guys… comedic geniuses
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That is good
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Link to soul caliber thread!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeGjTiUqw8U
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaEmCFiNqP0&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1QyDhLj5hU&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cY2VybnyNE&feature=related
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzg8bAdASgA&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTLuX5o36K4&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IbGVWDO0YU&annotation_id=annotation_744371&feature=iv
and most importantly this
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That didn’t work at all…I’ll try again, but I’m sure to fail at ascii art once more:
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Wow, not only did I fail the ascii art, I failed to reply to the correct person….
Screw you guys, I’m goin’ home…
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Dear Effluvium Boy,
Are you Gents Quarterly?
Regards,
Harli
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Oi, who has the magazine-sounding Twitter username?
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@KramsDesign?
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Dear Harli,
Indeed I am.
The name came about because my initials are GQ. GQ Magazine already had “GQ”, so I took their original name “Gentleman’s Quarterly.”
A bit odd. Perhaps I should change it.Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy-
Dear Flu,
I knew it was you as I searched your previous tweets and found the thunderstorm video.
I deduced that as Barry White was dead, the deep, velvety voice could ne none other than your own. It was elementary.
*puffs pipe*
Mmm…. This is the shit…
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Ah, that explains A LOT!!
Mystery = solved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR7EAdPUqvQ
DIGGY DIGGY HOLE DIGGY DIGGY HOLE!!
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that song is THE shit! 😀
I slept in rather late today. Then I bought groceries, played some LoL with a friend and then bough travel insurance. Now I’m ready for my trip and have very little to do until I go.
should probably finish Infamous 2 or learn to suck less at Starcraft. Those seem like reasonable goals to get out of the way before Friday.
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HAI!
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Finish inFamous 2! Then complain about crappy implementation of choice/karma system! But still enjoy game because gameplay is so damned fun!
So, I’m going to Comic Con next year.
Got my tickets yesterday.
Gonna go to Vegas too and try sync it up to go to Evo too 😀
GET HYPE!
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I once tried to buy HYPE in the store. No one knew what I was talking about. Must be a Melbourne thing.
Also that’s rad!
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Hype cannot be bought, it must be EARNED
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I am very jealous. Especially if there is a panel about the Dark Knight Rises. I imagine there would be, unless the movie comes out before Comic Con.
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HYPE has some rather excellent shoes.
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by the way i’m also pretty jealous. if you see that guy who plays Jack Harkness on torchwood/doctor who could you please kiss him for me. thanks.
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He’d probably appreciate the kiss more from Puppylicks (hoping Puppylicks is a guy otherwise this doesn’t work) than from you Harli 😛
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He’d appreciate kisses from all genders!
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In the Torchwood/Doctor Who universe, but not in real life.
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Yeah? There you go.
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http://troll.me/images/pushy-john-barrowman/oh-youre-straight-so-is-spaghetti-until-it-gets-hot.jpg
Relevant to anyone and everyone.
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HAHAHAHAHA! SO GOOD!
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love it.
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I can give him a platonic yet manly slap on the behind if you wish.
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that’ll do nicely.
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So I have 4 home opens to go to tomorrow. The first apartment is pretty much my dream home and I REALLY want it, it’s already had 2 people apply though 🙁 don’t think I’ll have much luck with it.
GAH! I want this stress to be over! Also, who the hell schedules a home open for 8am?!
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Speaking of apartments, I got a call from my solicitor yesterday, turns out my place will be delayed till mid 2013 now instead of mid 2012 🙁
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Oh really? How come? 🙁
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I have a solution to both your problems. Beat it with a stick.
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They’re taking longer to even make a start apparently, they got their estimates badly wrong, lots of things they missed, etc. I’m not accepting the change in contract so if they screw up more times at least I won’t be trapped till 2013 to back out and look elsewhere.
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That’s a smart move. There’s no repercussions for not signing?
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Nope it’s a valid option and I’m taking it, I already signed the previous one, I’m bound to it, as are they.
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Well that’s good. At least this way, you have a way out if necessary.
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relax. breathe. you can do this. it’s easy. not even a challenge.
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I know, I just don’t want to have to do it 🙁 I hope I can get pretty much everything sorted tomorrow and everything falls into place.
Please tell dawdle to go study, she is going to have a test tmr!!! AARRARRRRRR
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dawdle! go study! you are going to have a test tomorrow! ARRRRRRRRRAAAAARRRRR
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But bawble hasn’t even finished his lunch… pfft who is the one procrastinating now HUH?!
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dawdle! Continue to procrastinate and annoy bawble!
Procrastination sure is fun. I managed to read 3 issues of Kick Ass on my iPad and nobody noticed. If they did, they didn’t say anything.
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I agree with your line of thought 😉
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Do your study human! Don’t make me put you down in the list of the first to perish in our coming apocalypse!
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I will be the first to perish in the apocalypse because my survival skills are non-existent.
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dawdle!
Do a barrel roll!ARRRRAAARARARRRRRRGAAAARRRR
…Sorry, I just walked into a door. Who put that there!?-
I often walk into things and trip over a perfectly flat terrain a lot.
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Bishie’s hit!
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It’s super effective!
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But I haven’t even had my coffee yet!
So sweepy after a late lunch…
ZzzzzzzzzZzzzzzz -
AAARRARARARAGGGGHHHHH
Any excuse to start screaming dramatically!!!
AARARARARRAAAGGGHHHHH-
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For all the bagging I keep reading about the lackluster 3DS line-up, I just had a read through the PS Vita game list.
Maybe I’m just trying to justify my 3DS owning but I’m not overly excited.
I know I’ll play the sh*t out of Mario Kart 7 and eventually they’ll grace my handheld with a new new Pokemans and a new new remake of an old pokemans.
And I really hop Sqeenix follow through and do the FF 5 and 6 remakes they maybeed that time.
And I really really hope they squeeze out a remake of Dragon Quest 7. But that game seems huge, not sure how they’ll manage to fit it on the cartridge, or am I underestimaing modern data squeezing techniques?
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I never HOPE…only hop.
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I think that Sony is better at marketing the potential for their device. It’s the possibilities that are exciting.
I think Nintendo’s tactic of “it’s a DS but with 3D!!!!” has shown it’s true value.-
I think the actual 3D part of the console is a waste, it’s a fun gimmick but so far I have used it very little.
It’s nice to have it , but meh…
Hopefully they both just pump out some quality titles and actually bother to translate the majority.
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I don’t think the slow 3DS lineup is so much against the Vita than just the normal DS though.
Didn’t that have Nintendogs as the sort of killer ‘app’? That brought in a flock of people, and regular gamers were happy with Super Mario 64 DS.
There’s nothing on the 3DS that has had quite the same impact.It is probably a bit unfair; no doubt SSF4 is a very solid title, and I hear Ghost Recon Shadow whatever is good, but compared to the DS, there’s just a lack of itprintsmoney.gif-
I bought the original DS on day one and it was over six months before I bought a second game. I had my fill on Mario 64 and the Metroid demo and then used it as a GBA until (I think it was) Castlevania came out.
I just think that the Vita could end up being another PSP in the way that there was more top quality titles available on the ninty option.
I’m confused as to why people think 3DS is a bad console (no-one here) because it doesn’t have the games yet when we know that Ninty have NEVER dissapointed in that department. GCN may have had fewer titles than the PS2 but man the good ones were great!
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SSF4 is an out of date port of a game that is made for multiplayer. Hard to do multiplayer ona handheld console around here. Sure, in Japan it might work when there are fifty bajillion people in wifi range, but we aren’t so lucky. That’s something Nintendo has consistently got wrong, they think everywhere acts like Japan when it comes to local multiplayer.
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Can’t you do it over the net?
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I think he means local wireless.
The Japanese SSF4 ad made a point of (at least I think it did, I don’t understand Japanese) the fact that you could have a quick game with anyone close by, especially on trains, since so many of them use that to get to work. And with a tonne of people in Japanese cities, I guess that’d work out pretty well.
It’s the same reason ad-hoc is popular with PSP titles.
Not such a selling point in lower population density areas where a Scotsman has to spend a day travelling around the city just to get 50 Streetpass hits. -
Exactly, local wifi multiplayer is basically impossible outside of Japan, yet that seems to be the go to option for handheld consoles (which are strangely enough sell more of that style of game in Japan than in other regions).
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yeah, i see. i had the same problem with a feature on dq9, worked a charm in japan,here…not so much.
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Dragon Quest 7 was spaced on two compact disc’s, meaning that its size was less than 1.6 gigabytes at the absolute max. A 3DS catridge is 2 gigabytes, so, if they ported it across exactly it would quite easily fit. That said you’d expect more than a straight port, but it still wouldn’t be all that tricky.
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That’s what I mean, more than a port. And they’d have to be doing more than what they did for 4, 5 and 6 because 7 is already at that level.
I think they both have fairly unimpressive lineups, to be honest. Do not care for Uncharted Portable, as Uncharted games are best enjoyed on a big screen with blaring sound to get the true ‘active cinematic experience’. A couple of the games (Sound Shapes, Little Deviants, LBP Vita) show some promising use of the touch screens, but all in all, there’s not much to be excited by either console imo.
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MArio Kart 7???
I get a little fatigued by the massivness of the 40 inch I have at home. I think it really drives oops gotta go!
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Mario Kart will certainly be a fun game, and I’m sure the new Super Mario game will be as well. But that puts the count of games I’d like to play at 3 (Zelda as well). I think it might just me though: if I want to play a mobile device (at home/on the train), chances are I’d pull out my iPad and read or play a game for a bit.
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Beware the comment eater. It sees your not really witty words and goes nom nom nom all day long. Then when it is full, it spits out the occasionally comment to make you think that all is still right with the world, but it is not! Soon more comments will be fed to it and you shan’t have any means of reprisal.
So be warned, the comment eater is near.
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I’ve never met it before though.
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Yeah, I’ve had a clear run so far.
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It might be picking on me today. I don’t know, it’s hard to detect the bastard. Damn cunning little comment eater. I will beat you at your own game…somehow…
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The uni online course resources system is just a FAILLLLL. Not loading at all in the afternoon. Just great, more reason to procrastinate longer and watch bawble play LoL!
Sweet holy moses.. this installment of KC is killing my hands! i have carpel tunnel!
I just finished introducing Harli’s char and i’m still a bit from finishing it, even though i’m so many pages in!!! GAH!!!
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I can’t wait to read it!
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Here’s another small exert from the tale:
“the”
Hope you guys enjoyed it!
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You literary genius astounds me. You are a genius.
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Your* GOD DAMMIT
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Spoiler warning please!!! Gosh!
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HA!
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I’m just about to give up. Have been trying to put Windows 7 as Boot Camp on my 13″ Macbook Pro (Mid 2010) all bloody day and it keeps freezing on completing installation. Apparently it’s a common issue with the 13″ but I’ve been able to install it just fine before! ARGH!
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Simple solution: buy a PC. You can thank me later.
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Simpler solution, stick with OS X. You can thank me now, and later.
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But think of the children! (yes I now this is an invalid argument, but whatever…)
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Simplest solution: do nothing because everything else is too much effort.
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That will definitely be the main use for the Macbook Pro, but I just want Windows as Boot Camp on there for some portable gaming, as a lot of the games I like to play aren’t available on OS X.
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Already have a PC broseph, but I want Windows on my notebook for portable gaming.
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Please. don’t. say. you want to mix a MAC with GAMING?!
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I’m not trying to make light of a tragic situation but am I the only one who thinks this is a terrible headline?
“Girl killed in charity plane crash”
Who crashes a plane for charity?
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I lol’d.
Am I going to hell?
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Yes. Yes you are.
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Bahahaha.
Ha.
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You’re going to hell too.
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I don’t believe in hell.
You may as well tell me that you’ll curse my “aura.”
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Don’t even joke about that. Cursed auras are totally serious business.
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Great – now i’m going to hell too…
http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Rob/thirdWheel.png
In my world, the girl would go along with them and it’d be perfect!
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Man, I hate being the third wheel. It always seems to happen.
So awkward.
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usually it’s the opposite, and one of my very annoying friends will be the third wheel on purpose, just for the sole reason to annoy/C***block me >:(
I’m never going to be able to think of Hugo the Hungarian Barbarian again without thinking of this. http://ecdn0.hark.com/images/000/001/462/1462/original.jpg
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Replace the weapon with a book.
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That’s how I’ve always pictured him..
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I prefer to think of him like this: http://media.screened.com/uploads/1/14013/469461-ned_stark___throne_large.jpg
Except that that’s more like my hair…
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Is that Boromir?
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I second this …………..
Just… how… what even…
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I stubbed my toe this morning and that first image is exactly how I looked.
Sigh. I have to put Vista on my Macbook *shudders* until Apple get a fix out for the conflict between Windows 7 boot camp and the latest EFI update.
so DOTA 2 trailer makes me wanna play LoL, so i asked this before, but i don’t think i got everyone, so anyone who wants to add me do so, my username is: GrandmasterBFunk
however i only play on fri, sat, sun because i’m a good year 12 boy and don’t play games on week days (well, games that aren’t on my PSP or DS xD)
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bawble’s is CrabJiffy.
A useful LOL guides website is http://www.mobafire.com
Select the champion you want to look at and sort by score.
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HEY!
i’ve already been playing LoL for a while, don’t treat me like a noob!
well, i’m still no that great at it, i can really only play as ashe -_--
Sorry >_<
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Hahaaahaha, I have no idea what’s going on half the time in this game, so feel free to treat me like a noob.
Thanks for the resource, dawdle!
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FatShady, I didn’t get to watch your amazing TV skillz yet because our ABC reception is screwed so I’ll have to wait for iView.
Saw you in the GGTV Facebook thread though….your name astounded me. I would never in a million years have picked that as your name!
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It’s already up here http://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/
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Thanks! You’re my hero of the day!
And I can’t believe we know another TV star!
*swoons*Nice work Mr. Shady! And I’m assuming that’s your awesome Trials skills on display during the in-game footage?
I hope this gets you closer to the solution. Although I can’t help but think it’s going to continue into subsequent games.-
Yeah it was a good performance FatShady!
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Thanks for the linkage buddy!
Fatshady – that was phenomenal work!!!!
SO well spoken and intersting
AND MANLY! 😀
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Hey just watched this – very nice, that Developer’s beard only enhances the mystery!
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Oh, it’s 8:30, time to watch FatShady.
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Thanks all for the kind words. I was so pleased it was presented in such a clear manner and the graphcs made it look super cool!.
As for my real name, well not sure what you expected but yeah.. full name is Bradley but has always been Brad.
FatShady is much cooler… thats why we have these crazy names.
Did you all notice the tip of the hat to Serrels and kotaku? That was my awesome riding skillz on display and i changed the riders colours to reflect the Kotaku scheme. Just my way of saying hi and thanks…
Anyway, again thanks, it has been very well received and we have a few new interested people and theories floating around.
Now, who has contacts in the US or UK for a vodcast or similar? *looks at the world pinky and the brain style*
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Narf!
Good job!
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Greats stuff FatShady!
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Yeah, wooo FatShady!
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Also what she said
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That’s what she said!
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Who is this lady who keeps breaking into our homes just to say one line and then flee!?
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bahahaha. i lawl’d.
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Yay!
Nice work Shady, you looked very professional.
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oooooooooooooooooooooooh FatShaaaaaaady!
Also. I want your beard FatShady.
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I was stuck with the family so I made them all sit down and watch it with me.
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OMG I KNOW SOMEBODY FAMOUS!!
FatShady can you please sign my arm?? I’ll never wash it again!!!!!!!!)$*!_@*
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Very well spoken human FatShady 🙂
Gah! This new Myer ad does my head in.
What does ladies fashion have to do with wheels on a bus!?
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Drugs are bad for you man.
Downloading the M&B Warband demo now…
WINTER IS COMING. #wrongseries #hashtag
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Remember, being ganged up on, trussed up like a turkey, and being dragged around as a prisoner for days is only natural!
That said, bows are damned handy. Shoot them, ride to the other side of the map, shoot them as they chase you down, ride to the other side of the map, etc. Only problem is if you run out of arrows, in which case you might get lucky and spot one sticking out of the ground if you missed, so you can pick that up.
GOOD LUCK
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Bows are hard D:
Just played a bit of the combat tutorial, might get into some of the main demo tomorrow.
It looks… engrossing? So far.
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That tutorial, huh.
God damn, lancing is like trying to hit a fly with a cooked noodle at 100km/hr.-
What sort of noodle are we talking about?
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The yellow, squiggly instant-noodle in a cup type noodle.
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Oh, yeah, that would be pretty difficult.
An udon noodle would make things slightly easier.
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You can collect more arrows from the package-thingy at your starting area (beneath the flag). I’m pretty sure it has an infinite supply.
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…Over 40 hours of playing, and I never noticed this.
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Bahahahaha.
Oh Bish.
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*Chuckle/Head-Shake/Back-Slap*
*Freeze-Frame*
*Roll Credits*
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@Trjn, Tech Knight, Jo, Blaghs, etc. Sorry for bailing before, Teamspeak stuffed up and I had to go to dinner. Thanks for the game, I will hopefully be around tomorrow arvo after looking at some houses so maybe we can have another game then.
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Yeah hopefully next time I don’t suck so bad, that level 30 summoner Tristana was just toying with me the entire game :'(
Oh man, I just played a game of SC2BW with a friend, and wow… To clarify, it’s all the rules and restrictions of Brood War, but in the SC2 engine. How did anyone ever play that game? I had to hotkey every gateway separately! The only reason I won is because I went zealot-dragoon-reaver, which is essentially unstoppable on the ground.
Gaaah. This is basically me saying that awkward controls do not survive the test of time.
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I heard about this mod/custom map, it sounds like an awesome idea. Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of SC2.
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It’s so awkward!
Why do I only have 4 probes to begin with?
Why can’t I rally them to the minerals?(It lets you rally them, but they just sit there, not mining.)
How many gates am I supposed to have for continuous unit production?
Woozle wuzzle?
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When i’ve gone about making the new Kotaku Chronicals, i wanted it to be somehting you could sit around the dinner table with your family and not only read together but FEEL together.
I want you to be able to impregnate your sister!
WITH IDEAS!
No one can send you to jail for that, becuase you never even used your penis. She will be having a baby spawned purely by ideas, imagination and FEELINGS
That’s true beauty.
I wanted to do something with Milo. So i’ve made him wheelchair bound, so that people can feel his struggle through everyday galactic life. Then i took that wheelchair and armed it to the teeth with weapons. Weapons that only fire the tears milo has cried, that explode into a rainbow of pure emotion.
Not only all that, but it will be a billion pages long, as anything less would just be a lie. A horrible daddy-never-loved-me lie!
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lol! 😀
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Amusement
Yes, i know that emotion
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Dear MR Molyneux,
Why is your emotion limited to the Kinect system?
Don’t PC and PS3 people deserve emotions? DON’T WE? IF YOU CUT US, DO WE NOT BLEED EMOTIONS?
Kind regards,
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I gotta be honest, I am okay with him not trying to bring Creepy Milo multiplatform.
Maybe if we could just contain Peter Molyneux to the one system, his weirdness won’t spread.Hah, that’s a bit unfair. I don’t have an issue with the guy, it’s just sometimes his level of passion is a bit disturbing.
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Well, as the well initiated will know, the Kotaku Chronicles doesn’t require Kinect. It’s all in written form.
I’m actually marrying each word to an emotion. Some of which i’m making up on the spot. So far i’m up to 3498 words and emotions.
My favorite so far is badong. It’s where you feel both bad and wrong at the same time. I have married this very important emotion with the word “pistol”, for example. I feel this is truely representative of the word and guns of any sort are both bad and wrong. They are badong.
Why can’t we shoot each other with kind words?
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Wow man.
*wipes tear*
That’s just beautiful.-
Be sure to tell your family so you can all huddle around an open fire and share the experience
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I’m feeling a little confused.
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I have associated that emotion with the word “hey” in my story. Truly groundbreaking
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move over Oscar Wilde!
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After all these posts about the PSV, is anyone else impatiently counting down the days til launch?
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How do you countdown to launch if you don’t know the date…?
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Easy. Today is x-1
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Indeed I am…
So I am going on a long 12 hr drive. What are some awesome songs to keep me pumped. I already have 500 miles by the proclaimers so I think I am pretty much all set.
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Cyndi Lauper
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I said pump me up not piss me off with her sing about females having fun.
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Bish if you really like cyndi lauper I’m sorry I didn’t mean it
Bish don’t read
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he was being racist!!
lawl jokes
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It’s funny because he’s racist.
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No he isn’t. He seems like a kind gentleman.
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Clearly you haven’t talked to him enough. 😀
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S Club 7 – Bring it all back
I’ve heard this Kei$ha is good.
I’m sure Lamboman would recommend Friday by Rebecca Black.
Have fun.
http://soundcloud.com/maddecent/blood-bros-first-blood
Use the download button, put it on a cd, put it in your cd player and you will experience emotions you never even thought you had for the next 45 minutes
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Also, anything ZZ top – nostalgia is a powerful thing
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I have heard a few songs from those guys but mostly i know that they had beards.
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Those guys were pretty awesome live. And when the lights cut out, they kept playing without missing a beat.
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Radiohead! Radiohead! Radiohead!
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Yeah i actually have a radiohead album in my car too.
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/fistbump
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Radiohead?
You want to get your microsleep on and crash into a semi?(I like Radiohead, but wouldn’t risk driving with th…zzzzzzzzz *KARAAAAAASSSSHH!!!*)
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The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices
Just play that one song over and over, a la HIMYM.
AND I WOULD WALK 500 MILES AND I WOULD WALK 500 MORE JUST TO BE THE MAN WHO WALKED A THOUSAND MILES TO FALL DOWN AT YOUR DOOR!
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That was my original plan but I think 2 or 3 good songs might work better.
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Go with Loops suggestion – Blood Bros is amazing.
Also, Cold Chisel / Jimmy Barnes. Awesome driving music.
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I agree with the Cold Chisel thing!
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Oh Yeah – Yello
Can I Play With Madness – Iron Maiden
Love Shack – B52’s
Misirlou – Dick Dale and the Del-Tones
Breathe – Prodigy
OOOh, OOOHHH, OOOHHH, oooohh.
If you’re going on a trip like that, you might want to consider some… Journey.
*Woop woop woop woop*
Just wanted to let you all know that I won’t be posting today.
Wait.
Damn.
Oh well, might as well keep posting.
Also, My girlfriend sent me this today. Was too cute not to share.
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gnaww…… why wont u be joining in on the TAY today?
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awwwwww!
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You melted a robot heart, thats incredible! But I agree. Awwwwwwwwwwww!
*sawing sounds*
I’ll also not be posting today (I dont think)
*drill sounds*
Imma starting work on my driving cockpit today.
*circular saw sounds*
I hope the bleeding will stop shortly
*ambulance sounds*
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It’s a darn puppy husky! They’re always so adorable!
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DailyDawdle… sounds like my site 😛
That IS cute!-
DailyDawdle.com, the best coffee review resource for UNSW!
Also features rankings of how comfortable it is to sleep in lecture theatres.
Protip: That bottom level Scientia lecture theatre is flippin’ amazing. The seats are like 10cm of pure cushion. Amazing.-
I don’t sleep in lectures, I TAY in them.
The lines at coffee cart have gone from quite a lot to “INSANELY I NEED COFFEE RAAAAAAAAA I’D RATHER BE LATE THAN HAVE NO COFFEE”
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I feel… so… cutesy
Amazing
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Word play is fun.
Attention all Age of Empires Fans, Age of Empires Online is out! 😀
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Really on the fence on whether to try that or not
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Why’s that?
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it’s an MMO, which’ll be taking up a lot of my time, and secondly, I haven’t played any AoE for years but I enjoyed it.
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Hmm might be worth trying then.
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Oh god their online store looks like a layout nightmare >.<
Also 6 months of extra items for 100 bucks, srsly!?
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ZOMG HORGEN FLAVINSDIOHQDd*)!@$&!
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Having played the beta, my verdict is that it’s interesting…
Gameplay is more reminiscent of AOE2, while hte units themselves are AOE1, and the MMO aspects are just bizarre. I never had a chance during the beta to play anyone in multiplayer, but it did look kind of interesting. My recommendation? I have no idea.
Does anybody here have an experience with taking antihistamines? I’m looking for an over-the-counter one I can just pick up at the pharmacy that’ll put me to sleep. Preferably knock me out cold for a solid 8 hours or something.
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My sister has one that’ll do exactly that. Not sure on the name though. I shall see if I can find out for you
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i had a really bad flu a while ago and the one i took was called polarimine it worked quite well. But if your having trouble sleeping i wouldn’t recommend doing that. I think best recipe for sleep is read a chapter of a book before bed. It eases you into it.
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I have terrible allergies that have been preventing me from sleeping, hence the antihistamines. I did some research and turns out there are some that both soothe your allergies and put you to sleep, so two birds with one stone! Was hoping for any recommended brands from people who have experience taking them.
Not really after sleeping pills exactly, just something that’ll combat the allergies and get me snoozing at the same time.
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Yeah allergies are the worst. Its not as bad but every morning for the past 4 years i wake up with a really blocked nose and it stays that way for at least 2 hours every morning.
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🙁 it sucks
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There’s a pill called Restavit you can get over the counter. They’ll ask for ID so they can put a label on it, but they don’t require a script. They’re essentially sleeping pills. The active ingredient is called Daxylamine succinate, and it’s found in things like mersyndol forte. One or two pills will take you down for a while no problems.
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err Doxylamine.. scuse my spelling
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thanks welbot! just did a quick google.. from what I can see I think its purely a sleeping pill, not an antihistamine? I need antihistamines for my allergies 🙂
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I generally take Claratyne or Zirtec and although it doesn’t put you to sleep per say, it does help with allergies 😀
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Polaramine is the best of the bunch
I suffer from really bad hayfever quite regularly, it’s the only one that actually works for me
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I’m sick of being chuloopa molyneux – it’s too much of an emotional rollercoaster
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Oh, and Polaramine will also help you sleep easier.. although i use it in day time.. drowsy medicines don’t make me drowsy for some reason lol
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Oh awesome 😀 haha ignore my post below..
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AND IT’S LITTE AND PINK!!!
SWOOOO CWOOT!!!!
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did you say PINK?!?!?/ yeahhhhhhh!!!!!
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does it also have the awesome benefit of making you sleepy? 😀
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i can’t ignore this!!!
it sure can! 😀
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PINK!!! LIKE PINK PINK!!
The two kinds come in two shades of pink.. one’s a dark pink the other is a light pink
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Oh man.. i just realised, my last pack was white… what a let down.. maybe they’ve changed it 🙁
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They have changed them.
The lack of colouring seems to be a new selling point.
But they are still the mutt’s nuts of sniffle pills.
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My husband got prescribed Phenergan for his allergies once. I hated it because he’d take it just after dinner and be out of it for the rest of the night.
Pretty sure you’d need a prescription for that though.
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That you certainly do
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ah, thank you kindly Strange.
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Phenergan was the one I was thinking of.
Highly recommend and it’s available over the counter in Australia.
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No scripts required……
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Thinking of making a really simple shirt later today that says “I AM THE TRIALS GUY”… sort of like a gamers version of “I AM THE STIG”
thoughts?
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And then you put FatShady’s head on top of the caption?
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Make 2 versions:
One that is clean, and one that looks like it’s covered in dirt and blood.
So I just got back from the USA for my wedding.
I do have to love the exchange rate when I went, got 3 games for $6US which is $5ishAU. One of being Fallout New Vegas at Wal-Mart.
We really do get ripped off for games here.
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So you had your wedding in the USA, or you have returned to have your wedding here?
Either way, congrats dude!-
Wedding in the US. We live in Perth, family is everywhere else. So just us two went to Hawaii, and got married there at the start of the month.
Was pretty sweet, got a nice upgrade to the Presidential Suite at one hotel. Saw heaps of filming locations for TV (Lost, Jurassic Park, Hawaii 5-0, etc).
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Very much congratulations!
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Congrats. Married in Hawaii and you got some cheap games? I’m quite jealous right now.
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Very Happy Marriage Making Celebration!
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SUPER HAPPY FUN GLORIOUS DECLARATION OF SOCIAL UNION TIME!
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1. NICE!
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wow! one divorce and one marriage all within a week! the circle of life continues!! Congrats dood!! Hope you two will be happy forever and a day 🙂
Hey, just stopped in to say that next weeks TAY is AMAZING! All the stuff that… well… No one should know too much about their own future.
But it’s so awesome I had to let you all know!
Bish and Eff have discussion that gives Tech Knight that last little bit of information that he needs to invent time travel.
They were discussing new guy, Pixel-Ferret. Man, he’s funny. He’ll show up late on Sunday and mow your blinds.
In fact, I’m just off to congratulate him for his contribuions to TAY and Kotaku in general by giving him a gift of atomic electro knife grenades. I can’t see how this could go wrong and change the future as I know it.
Well, see you guys later.
Or is that earlier?
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GREAT SCOTT!
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This is heavy.
We indirectly create SkyNet?
/o\-
What does weight have to do with it?
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Well, the presence of a large mass and its gravitational effects can warp space and time.
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He’s got you there Crackle
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Is this why fat people move slower?
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…and why it could be difficult to understand what they’re saying. It’s not slurring, it’s time warping on their own words as it transitions from their own gravitational force onto our shared gravitational force on Earth
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Their uvula is so massive that it bends time space. The soundwaves travel along the same path, thus taking longer to exit their mouth?
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Possibly…
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Well.. that’s a low one on my “invention priorities” list done, thanks for the heads up!
Now to continue my “self-replicating energy power source that can be used on a jetpack” invention…
what are we talking about?
I found some of my old DS games and thought I’d give them a whirl with the 3DS, see how the slider feels compared to the d-pad.
Long story short, games designed to be played with a d-pad should be played with a d-pad should be played with a d-pad. Tetris in particular but even Mario Kart DS was a little trick compared to the DS.
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I think a lot of the great DS games were created bearing in mind the hardware capabilities of the DS, so they didn’t try push the open 3D world/360 degree movement aspect which woulkd have controlled better with a nub. Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword looks pretty rad, but not even that uses the D-Pad.
I think maybe Phantasy Star 0 and run n’ gun platformers like Contra and Metal Slug might work, but apart from that, yeah, I can imagine the analog nub is a bit fiddly.-
Dragon Quest 9 works fairly well, but it only manages diagonal, not the full spectrum of analogue movement.
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Pokemon is fine with that analogue stick i actually prefer it makes walking around easier on your thumbs.
Not that anyone particularly cares, but the best “foreigner” (non-Korean) SC2 player, HuK, has just changed from being a part of team Liquid to joining Evil Geniuses.
The best part is that HuK has a pretty big rivalry going with IdrA, who is part of EG, so they’re pushing the rivalry turned teammates thing. Here’s a promo video. (NSFW language)
Now they’re going to be living together in Korea. Amusing.
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Did I mention that it’s because he was offered an apparently absurd amount of money compared to what he was being paid by Team Liquid?
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You hate me that much. God well you suck too.
I’m kidding i cant stay mad at you. 🙂-
Is it just me, or did The Reply Button commit mega-fail?
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Nope, it seems like there’s some formatting issue at play here.
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I am sure that this is a sign of the impending apocalypse.
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The Reply Button is too quick to jump in and whine. Sometimes I feel like getting The Report Button involved to kick The Reply Button’s butt.
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*cracks knuckles* I’ve been waiting for this for a long time!
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What is this I don’t even…
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For a couple of minutes, TAY wasn’t nesting replies. Amusingly, when I replied to The Reply Button, it appeared that ‘it’ hadn’t used itself, and yet now that things are normal again, my comment is still appropriate.
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The weird thing is that it wasn’t playing up for me. Everything was nested pretty much as usual.
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This has something to do with what the Doctor prophesised. Reality is folding.
The wheels are already in motion.
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You are defective, button!
Idra won’t be too pleased now, ha.
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I’m sure the Grack abides. They’re pretty good friends outside of the game apparently, just trash talk a bit because of the lulz. At least, that’s the way that I see things.
Some TAYbies might find this interesting:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/08/how-to-break-your-daily-caffeine-habit-and-use-coffee-strategically/
LOL people, we need a come back!
btw Tech Knight I finally understand why you like Warwick! *wink
http://p.twimg.com/AXAz–hCEAABr51.jpg:large
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He was my first champion and will one day be my jungling warlord as well as a single target magic DPS. He’s awesome!
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I got so depressed after that loss, that fricken Tristana was just messing with me the entire game and in turn I played horribly! 🙁
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This video made me lol!
I’m considering joining in on this Twitter craze you young’ns are always on about.
I’m 1000% certain ‘Strange’ will be taken so what should I use?
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Strangerthankotaku
Strangeronaplane
TheRealStrange-
I like strangerthenkotaku and firstladystrange
🙂
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FirstLadyStrange
1stLadyStrange-
Damn you and your one minute earlier…
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FirstLadyStrange
You know you want to.
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Awkward…
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Damn you and your sixteen minutes earlier…
😛
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FirstLadyStrange
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I just checked
5trang3 is available!!!!
take it now!
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Also ‘5tr4n9e’!
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Except replace the ‘e’ with a ‘3’.
I guess I just sort of gave up converting it 75% the way through.
MY MIND CANNOT HANDLE IT-
Uh, thanks guys. I think?
But yes, we already have a guy known as ‘Numbers’ around here, I wouldn’t want to usurp his position. 😛
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FirstLadyStrange? Hmmm.
Maybe StrangerDanger or ReallyStrange or JustPlainStrange? 😛 Oooh! JustStrange. I like that one.
Its nice to read a news article about video gaming that isn’t all doom and gloom or blatant fearmongering. But the comments, oh god I can’t stop laughing. . .
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“Tro Lling” knocked it out of the park.
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Trolling Herald Sun readers, like shooting fish in a barrel.
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It was a great read, though haha
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Funny how many people didn’t pick up on Mr Lling’s name…
Watch this and let you blind be mowed
http://gamescom.gamespot.com/video/6329175/need-for-speed-the-run-gamescom-buried-alive-trailer
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My mind was not mown.
I DEMAND MY MONEY BACKThat said, I’m not really a racing game fan, so…
Oh also, SSX MEETS NFS
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Pshh, SSX will be way better.
Not that I have a biased opinion of it or anything.
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Looks like quicktime events with the button commands being hidden to save face, but in the real game it won’t be hidden.
*Push analog stick right/left*
*Hold X*
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OH MY GOD!
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I NEED ONE!!!!
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Kinda reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/585/
Just got back from the first 2 home opens. The first place is absolutely amazing. It is to die for but there are 7 other applicants. I have to offer more rent to even have a chance in the running :/ going in to hand in the application this afternoon, I REALLY hope I get it.
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Tell them you know me. You’ll get it for sure, then.
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The agent is a hot young lady, I could give her number to you and you could woo her for me?
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“I TADMOD, I MOUNTAIN GIANT
NEED WIFE
YOU BE WIFE?
YES
*grabs lady with one hand and stomps off* “-
HERMY! WHERE HAGGER!
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“TADMOD WANT SNOO SNOO”
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Mmmmm… Yeah…
AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!
Yeah…
OOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!
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If you insist. 😛
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Beat up the other applicants and warn them away!
Hah hah hah, I’m not a psycho, honest.
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At least 2 of the other applicants are women so I don’t know how well that will go :/
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Get your girlfriend to beat them up.
Then blame PMS.
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*crosses multitude of appendages*
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Thanks man, really hope it all works out. I want the stress to be over.
Also, just wondering. You know how there’s those captcha codes on websites to prove you’re human. What does TechKnight do for those?
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You know how some of them have 2 words but you only need to type one of them correctly to get through?
I sometimes get sidetracked trying to guess which word I can fake, and what completely different word I can substitute in.-
Haha nice Bish, can’t say I’ve ever done that!
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I have a lot of free time!
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Wait, you can sub one in?
Guess I have a new game.
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How do people not know this!?
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I assume because they -like me- are idiots.
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Top ten worst captchas
http://www.johnmwillis.com/other/top-10-worst-captchas/
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I’m pretty much treated like a VIP in that regard, they don’t do that to me at all. You know, machines sticking together with other machines and all
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However! This is mainly to keep out spambots, which are machines that have been horribly abused by humans to make them do such horrible things, my power supply leaks for those poor mechanical souls
🙁
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He usually just takes a picture of it and sends it to my phone so I can translate for him.
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Shhhhh!
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Oh god, Edmus now has hats!
http://www.kongregate.com/games/pouchmouse/edmus
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Will
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One of the “hats” is a monocle. Click the link.
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I just saw you in that.
I beat you, which I’m happy about, because I have no upgrades.
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I assure you there is a perfectly good reason for that. *tries to think of a good reason*
(p.s. it’s probably because I’ve got no upgrades either and I’ve only tried it once today) 😛
Thanks man…
FOR RUINING MY LIFE!
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I can confirm that Mark is playing AS I TYPE THIS!!!
I’m on the verge of cracking…. 🙁
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Doooo iiiitt…
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Your welcome 😀
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What about his welcome?
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I have not touched that game in months.
This is tempting…
First time playing this and it does not bode well for my productivity.
Dr Horrible is still stuck in my head. Excuse me while I print the contents of my brain.
Any dolt with half a brain
Could see the human kind has gone insane
To the point where I don’t know
If I’ll upset the status quo
If I throw poison in the water main
Listen close to everybody’s heart
And hear that breaking sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart
And crashing to the ground
I cannot believe my eyes
How the world’s filled with filth and lies
But it’s plain to see
Evil inside of me
Is on the rise
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Look around
We’re living with the lost and found
Just when you feel you’ve almost drowned
You find yourself on solid groundAnd you believe there’s good in everybody’s heart
Keep it safe and sound
With hope you can do your part
To turn a life aroundI cannot believe my eyes
Is the world finally growing wise
Because it seems to me some kind of harmony
Is on the rise-
Anyone with half a brain
Could spend their whole life howling in pain
‘Cause the dark is everywhere
And Penny doesn’t seem to care
That soon the dark in me is all that will remainListen close to everybody’s heart
And hear that breaking sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart
And crashing to the groundI cannot believe my eyes
How the world’s filled with filth and lies
But it’s plain to see
Evil inside of me is on the rise-
*Sung in beautiful harmony with the above bit*
Take it slow
He looks at me and seems to know
The things that I’m afraid to show
and suddenly I feel this glowAnd I believe there’s good in everybody’s heart
keep it safe and sound
With hope you can do your part
To turn a life aroundI cannot believe my eyes
how the world’s finally growing wise
And it’s plain to see
rapture inside of me is on the rise
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Hmmm, the name I wanted for the Twitters is taken but an old name I used to go by is not: MasterOfMinions. Not sure I want to use that again though.
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Ha! ‘Strangist’ is not taken. It makes me look a bit illiterate though. 😛
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I like Strangist
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It makes you sound like you’re prejudiced against Stranges.
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I am! I’m prejudiced against MostStrange who comments around here a bit now, and I’m also against the Strange on Twitter who made me not be able to be just plain Strange. 😛
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I liked firstladystrange.
Are you really going to get in on that madness?? I think that will leave me and Jimu the only ones not on the Twittererz!-
you’re missing out on all my crackingly good jokes today though :0
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Oh I’m watching. I’m always watching…..
Kinda like lurking on here i guess, just need to take the plunge.
I’m so tempted to rile James Mac and go for “banderdashusedmyhandle”-
Hahahaa!! That’s brilliant! You should totally do that.
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Good to see you back and your sense of humour is intact 🙂
Chin up old boy!!-
I could never lose my sense of humor.. laughter is the best medicine really. And I’m not exactly brad pitt, so I need to work it like a pimp, or I’ve got no hope :0
I’m still struggling with shit everyday atm, but I guess eah day I get out of bed, it gets a tiny bit easier.
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I liked it too, just not sure how well it would work for my non-Kotaku friends. I may change it later.
And yes, I am now on the Twittererz. I figured I was spying on everyone there so much I may as well have an account. I’m sorry I caved. 🙁-
Cool aunt, I am disappoint.
Hm, not quite the same ring to it.
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I’m also not on Twitter!
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NON-TWITTER USERS, UNITE!*
I actually do have a twitter thing, but I literally only use it as a news feed. I suppose I could try and follow all the TAYbies, but then I’m fairly sure I’d procrastinate all day and night.
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I’m here, lacking energy and not smiling…
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I’m hating it already…the first thing Twitter wanted me to do was follow Lady GaGa and Hilary Duff.
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Hilary Duff is still around?
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And pregnant!
Honestly, do you people not keep up with the news!?
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Yet I still haven’t seen an “Up the Duff” headline…
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If you were on twitter you would have seen several people making that joke though!
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I should pay more attention
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All right, so I guess I’ll just go ahead and follow everyone on Dawdle!’s Kotaku list. And not follow Lady Gaga or Hilary Duff. 😛
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Video games made him do it.
Also, video games made someone in the house buy a sword and left it somewhere he could get it. And a BB gun.
And they got him arrested the two previous times
Obviously this kid wasn’t just fucked up from the outset.
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This.
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LOL: ‘and his grandma, aged in his 50s,’
Italics added for emphasis.
So I got a shiny new Samsung Galaxy S2
And damn it’s so much better than an iPhone.
I can finally be rid of any apple related products.
Feels good man
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I’ll most likely get that one day, it’s been on my radar for quite some time. Seen my colleague use it, very good phone
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SGSII for the win!
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I’ll be getting a HTC desire HD next month, more than likely 🙂
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I have a Desire HD. Loving it.
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I have the LEGEND! /hi5
HTC represent
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iPhones aren’t cool anymore?
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I got the first child of that, the Desire. Still gunning down the lane with CyanogenMod. It’s even got Gingerbread in it!
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Is your SGII likely to get the Ice Cream Sandwich update as soon as it comes out? No.
Therefore until Ice Cream Sandwich headsets come out, iOS>Android.
😛
Ugh… it’s raining… Why must rain make me feel so unhappy?
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I like rain. It makes me happy.
Except when it’s raining and it’s sunny.
That sucks.-
I too enjoy the rain, as envisioned by He Who Always Delivers
http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/barbarian-rain.jpg
Especially when it gets all dark in the middle of the day,
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I like rain too.
Or the misery of others.
I’m not sure yet.
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I know that feeling. I always feel so “meh” when it’s raining, or if it’s rained. I just don’t want to leave the house.
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The worse thing is being rainy and cold at the same time.
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I like driving in puddles even though i know it ruins my car! 😀
Therefore rain = great!
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CrazyPessimist much? 😛
Sooooo tired.. i just want to go home – play mass effect – fall asleep – wake up – eat dinner then fall asleep again
Maybe it’s almost coffee o’clock…
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I know what you mean i just wanna go home- eat dinner-talk to people on teamspeak- watch naruto- and fall asleep at 7.00pm
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well i’ve got a packet of polarmindasnsaararadasra totally ready to knock me out.. so looking forward to getting some sleep!
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With all those spiders in your bed?
But they’ll crall all over you and lay their eggs in your hair and ears and nostrils…
Are you sure you’ll be getting any sleep?-
Not to mention that cockroach that feeds on plaque…
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You’re an evil, evil man. I like it. 😀
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*crawl
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You would make a most excellent bedtime story reader, Effluvium.
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Particularly given what his voice sounds like. It’s that perfect level of soothingly creepy.
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HOLY CRAP, GUYS AND GALS!!!
So i’m still slogging away at part 3 and it seems to be going on forever… and i found out why..
Part 1 – 1037 words
Part 2 – 1104 words
PART 3 – 2558 WORDS!!!
I’m getting closer to being done – but holy crap guys i hop you’re ready for a lot of reading!
Looks like the fighting will have to come in part 4 – it’ll end up being way to long for a single part if i add it to part 3…
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I can easily see this becoming a novelette
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Guest starring Roxette?
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I’m very ready for a lot of reading!
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me too! I love reading! especially words penned by Chuloopa.
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Dammit, going home now, have to wait until tomorrow to read part III!
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It’s ok mate – it won’t be ready tonight.. i’m really trying to make this 10 times better than the last ones… maybe by the end of the week or monday now… it’s far bigger than i had anticipated.. sorry guys 🙁
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That’s what I said!
If you know what I mean.
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It might not be a car but it fits the definition of motor vehicle as far as I remember it. I’d have done him for unregistered/ uninsured too. (unless he did somehow have that esky resisted, it’s QLD so maybe.)
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You can be arrested for drink-driving while on a bike, a ride on lawnmower, or even a Shopping Trolley.
Yes, a Shopping Trolley.
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I remember at uni we use to have drunken shopping trolley races. We would have some blokes sitting in them and some pushing, it was great because we had just gotten a new woolworths near the uni and they had these huge trolleys that even the blokes could fit in.
For some reason the girls weren’t willing to jump in a shopping trolley pushed by drunks down a hill.
Not sure why.-
That sounds like fun.
Some friends and I ran around with a camera and a trolley in an empty car park while we were supposed to be filming stuff for a project. We then proceeded to deny, very loudly, to everyone that we did such a thing…
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What is the world coming to when a person can’t even hang clothes on the line in safety.
I supposed to playing with Manly Warringah Bagpipe Band this weekend and I brought myself the shirt to go with the uniform. It was just a plain white short sleeved shirt but it needed epaulets which made it kind of hard to find. I gave it a wash last night and hung it on the line, went to get it in so I could sew the badges to it and it’s gone! $50 wasted and now I have to hope the shop I brought it from has another one in stock in my size.
I live in a unit block so the clothes line is a communal one out the back. Looks like i’m going to have to start putting everything throug the dryer.
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On a very slightly related note, why must it always be windy when I’m hanging up sheets??
Sucks that someone nicked your shirt though.-
haha, yeah, just for the challenge!
Plus your sheets will dry faster.
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Ouch, that really sucks.
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I often use to face the same problem, nowdays my place is full of fold up little clotheslines.
It is a bit annoying to constantly have these things around, but my nephems love it when the come over because the run around hiding beheind them firing nerf darts at each other.-
*nephews
damn upside down w -
I’ve been thinking about this option, however my place is only small and there is so much junk cluttering it already.
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Saves ironing if you use the dryer…
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Manly Warringah?
Is Eurofest on or something?
Been playing the Captain America game the last few days. It wants to be Arkham Asyslum soooo badly but falls just short. Definitely worth it if you a comic book fan, or a solid hire if anyone is looking to kill a few hours with some easy cheevs.
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I can understand tone, but this is a wholesale rip off (and that is NOT a bad thing)
Some of the levels are straight cut’n’paste and combat system is close but not quite.
Still a blast though.-
Hey, if ripping things off makes for slightly better movie tie-ins then I’m all for it!
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After you mentioned a certain show bout pretty coloured ponies i am now addicted…..
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Success!
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YOU POOFS!, I’m going to play my Pokemans now…
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LOLOL….
Confirmation that Redlynx game 1000 Heroz will be getting a riddle!!!!
Now I know I wont sleep!
Quote from the RL developer ANBA (from the good game interview)
“New update coming so i wonder what that holds….”
Not sure if this is actual news but this was just posted on teir forums and doubt its been mentioned anywhere else…
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Why do I have a feeling that this is slowing turning you into a batman villain?
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HA!
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He sits around, attempting to solve the riddles created by other villains, thinking that what he is doing is good, but due to his disregard for others he causes more problems than he fixes.
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*quickly
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Macaroons. So good. One of the directors just walks in and says this place is too quite, have some sugar.
Om nom nom.
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In most work places, if the boss “gave you some sugar” you could sue…..
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*quiet
Also. You could’ve added a ‘you know what I mean’. Hell, I could’ve added it. The world is in ruins!
Also. Price drops on PS3. Go go go go!
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***Shakes Fist***
Noootoriousaaaaaaaauur!!!!!(knew you were going to bring up the PS3 price drop!!)
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It had to be done….if you know what I mean 😉
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Work is keeping me too busy to TAY today. On the plus side though, there’s only one day left (after today), because I have Friday off.
Just thought I’d mention that.
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And I just thought I’d mention that I despise you.
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I know what you mean. I’m not at work but I’ve been so busy with house stuff, it’s driving me crazy. I really hope everything works out for me.
Numbers:
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Strike & Del work Lucifer
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Thank you very much ‘Flu
For reference they are the HTML tags “strike” “s” and “del” in order
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@GrandmasterBFunk: If you want to LoL with the best of us (and me :P), you may want to think of getting teamspeak. Email Fatshady or AnonymousPessimist for the server details, sadly I do not have either it.
P.S. I added you, my name on LoL is Lucifer9783 … surprisingly
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i’ve already got teamspeak!
so if fatshady or whoever has it doesn’t mind, please e-mail it to me at: grandmasterbfunk@gmail.comi’ll defininently be on this weekend!
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I sent you an email!
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thanks, you guys are free to pass it round between ‘the regulars’, just remember that there is a 10 person limit so just keep an eye on consecutive numbers… but its always a solid 5-7 which is great.
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Why bother with the strikethrough?
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He wants to look cool.
To hide his IMMENSE RAGE!
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That was an amazing DOTA 2 stream.
(Not actually amazing, gots some mad lag and ended up completely cutting out.)
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I know, wasn’t it great!
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this is all the more funny because I know you didn’t see any of it!
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I got some great screenshots of Dota2, with some intermittent commentary.
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it’s a bit dry, some commentary would be nice!
although, it’s giving me mad nostalgia, it’s pretty much exactly the same as the original…
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But there was a commentary option.
Man, you should have heard the English commentators in the first match.
“Ooooooh! OOOOOOH! THAT’S THAT FOGHORN TO INDICATE THE START OF THE MATCH! THE FOGHORN HAS GONE OFF! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!”
Dude was way too into the foghorn.-
one of them was Australian! yay! Oz accent represent.
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Checked the stream, was just a video of creeps stuck in place doing a walking animation. Such a good sales pitch.
There’s another commentator with my name running around Kotaku (entirely coincidental, I think).
D:
Just in case I/we say anything weird.
Also, STRANGE!
Thanks for the Twitter add.
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I saw you post “o_O” as a reply and thought that might be the case
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At least he’s not calling himself ‘MostAidan’….
And of course I’d add you on Twitter, how else would I know anything about politics? 😛
The Witcher 1 for $4, yay or nay?
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-WITCHER/the-witcher-enhanced-edition-directors-cut
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Absoulutely yes. Yay! I’m currently playing this whenever I get a chance to play my computer and I’m loving it so far. For $4 it’s an absolute bargain.
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I heard that combat is kinda clunky and the inventory/menu’s aren’t exactly great though…
How do they affect the games experience?
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Bah, anyone who pre-ordered PC Deus Ex: Human Revolution from the UK, be wary: Region locking.
Retail UK boxed copies are locked to the UK only: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=119397
I might have read something wrong, but glaze over it if you’re curious.
Probably the best way to check is to contact ozgameshop and see what they have to say. They’re pretty adamant that everything they sell works in AU/on AU consoles, so they probably have someone checking.
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Oh, this is pretty important news. Thanks for posting.
OzGameShop do like their ‘100% guaranteed to work on Australian systems’ line, so it’ll be interesting to see what effect this has. Would they have to refund everybody’s PC purchases and withdraw it from sale?
The way that article puts it, ANY boxed copy from the UK that isn’t activated in the UK can’t be played. That’s… pretty ridiculous.
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I’ve ordered the PS3 version. Sucks for those who ordered that PC special edition OzGameShop had at a sale price the other week though.
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Call me stupid, but does this effect the console version at all? I can’t tell. But I have pre-ordered this with Ozgameshop.com…
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Nah, you’re good.
Apparently the issue with the PC version Region Locking is to do with languages and how the Europe region needs 5 or so language options. Why this only applies to PC I don’t know, but UK consoles versions seem to be fine.-
Ah sweet, thanks 😀
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Anyone want a coupon code for Zavvi worth 6.50 GBP off an order of 55 GBP or more?
I’ve got not enough money to take advantage of this. Will happily trade for credit at DAZ3d, or failing that, just give it away for free to whomever wins the below competition.
COMPETITION FOR ZAVVI COUPON WORTH ABOUT $10AUD
To get this voucher, tell me why you deserve it, in 80 000 words or less. Go!
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Because… that’s why.
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Don’t you mean because you have a club and aren’t afraid to use it?
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Well, that’s a given 😛
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Because a coupon a day keeps the doctor away?
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I’m waiting for Plainview’s response. Could be difficult to stick to less than 80 000 words.
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snap!
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Pleasepleasepleaseplease
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I wish I had cash to use it with…
I keep getting 10% discount vouchers from Zavvi cos they “miss” me.
I have never used one.
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Haha, I’ve got like 3 over the past 3 months.
I forgot about the first one, used the second one, then they sent me a third one anyway. Which I don’t think I used.
/o\
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Okay, to be honest, these replies are a little underwhelming… 😛
Just tell me what you’d buy. That’ll do.
So i have not to much to do before my holiday starts on Saturday. OnSsunday i am going go-karting for the first time ever.Then football game next Saturday while in brisbane and playing through as many co-op games with my little sister in between. gonna be fun methinks.
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awww Rocketman you’re so adorable!!
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Nawwwww, he’s the most adorable racist I’ve ever seen!
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Stevo not you too!
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Woah Hold on a second I have been called many thing i’n my time and adorable isn’t one of them. Also i’n not exactly sure why I’m adorable, is it because of my boyish charm?
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It’s because you’re a cute little racist!
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AHHA!
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Playing with younger siblings is so much fun, especially when you keep beating them. On the other hand, going over to a friends place and having his 10yr old younger brother keep beating you in COD is not much fun at all…
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You know what you need for driving music?
Chase music.Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows,
Everything that’s wonderful is what I feel when we’re together!-
I think that would be wonderful. Ill put it with the rest of my music that no one knows i have but i secretly listen to when i’m on teamspeak.
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The only reason I know of that songs existence is because of the simpsons.
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Shane you magnificent bastard! The Xbox game (LotR 3rd Age) finally showed up! Now I just have to make it through the work day, with it sitting on my desk, taunting me..
Cheers again man!
I’d pull a sicky to go home and play it all day, but I pulled one yesterday and missed a day of TAY. I didn’t even get to play any games – ended up getting groceries and working around the house 🙁
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dude you did pulling a sickie wrong.
Bugger, I forgot to remind Eats about the spiders
Is this what you all want me to say?
I just saw that The Last Story is getting a Euro release! AWWWWW YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHH!!!
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Some more RPG love for the wii? Let me join you in saying:
AWWWWW YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHH!!!
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AWWWWW YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHH!!!
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Until they put a first person pokemon game on the wii, i will not rest. All i want is a pokemon game in first person. Is that too much to ask.
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Really? Why?
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Pokémon Snap.
You can rest easy now.-
I was addicted to that for a while.
Me and my mates were all like “aw, this is sh*t” and then we sat and played for a month.
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I only ever played it on demo machines in shops. Also, I hadn’t really played much N64 so was trying to figure out the controller, while trying to figure out what the hell I was supposed to be doing in game.
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Takin photos…
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Well, I understood that bit…
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But that was it…you had to get soem to get out of the busg=h by throwing stuff but all you did was take photos…and it was a LOT of fun.
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Taking photos of Pokemon, yo.
Surprisingly engrossing.
Best spinoff after Pokemon TCG for GB.
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I did a bit of a happy dance when I saw that this morning.
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wow i really want to see your happy dance. Wow that sounds creepy. Um yeah *
*hides in corner*
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Wow, you really don’t. I’m the most awkward unco dancer ever. Plus, I’m in my PJs. 😛
I’m back guys! Sorry for my lack of posting the last couple days, been busy with the house hunt. At the moment we have an application in and are just waiting to hear if we got the place or not.
I should have a strong presence on TAY today, providing work isn’t flat out! Look forward to the lol’s!
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you should be sorry!
If you can’t tell i am joking, home hunting is much more important that our amusement!
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I can tell, don’t worry 😛
This is true, but I still missed being on here. House hunting is stressful!
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But…but..I had a day off yesterday, so I have to ease myself back into work and then it’s Friday tomorrow so I have to start easing off work..
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Ouch! My muscles are angry at me today. But progress on my driving cockpit is going well, albeit very slowly… I’ve mounted the seat, which I’ve now realized was rather stupid, cause I cant move it easily to do the other woodwork on it… Oh well, but the main thing is, I still have all my fingers.
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yay for not hurting yourself from making something awesome.
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What exactly are you building?
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Please be a mech or some form of power armor.
*crosses fingers*
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If it is Q-bo, please build one for me too!
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But… but people have 10 fingers.. not 9… and not as much blood.. you may want to check again
I love costume parties. I am going to one tomorrow. Going as The Punisher. The world needs more costume parties, and less cheapskates who come to them with no dress up.
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thirded!
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I could never see what the problem was, just raid the old clothes and make some sh*t up. I went as a pirate one time and it was all old or borrowed clothes. Same night my alcho mate went as jesus, wrapped a sheet around his body and I made him a crown of thorns out of some tree in the backyard.
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A miracle!
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I want pictures!
And yes, more costumes I say. In fact, I’ve been thinking when my son goes to school I might try for a little extra cash by sewing costumes.
I’m going to a costume party next week, I’m going to go as a mandalorian…
I am going to one next month, as it is a fairytale/fantasy/medieval event, I will basically be going as my usual self.
I might shine my horn helmet though, seeing as it is a special occasion.
I might even go as far as wearing my fancy bear furs and matching loin cloth, ohhh extravagant.
My friend who is a MASSIVE Ass Creed fan, bought a replica Altair costume for the party. Needless to say it cost him hundreds. I think he set for costume parties for life.
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It cost hundreds? That’s it, I’m definitely going into cosplay/costumes!
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500 something I think. He Didn’t get the hidden blade under fears that customs would would do something…
Rocketman
August 18, 2011 at 9:21 AM
Until they put a first person pokemon game on the wii, i will not rest. All i want is a pokemon game in first person. Is that too much to ask.
Report Permalink Reply Jimu
August 18, 2011 at 9:48 AM
Really? Why
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i don’t know really i just think it would be awesome to be in FP view. Like you actually moving through the pokemon world.
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Effluvium Boy
August 18, 2011 at 9:53 AM
Pokémon Snap.
You can rest easy now.-
Jimu
August 18, 2011 at 10:16 AM
I was addicted to that for a while.Me and my mates were all like “aw, this is sh*t” and then we sat and played for a month.
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Effluvium Boy
August 18, 2011 at 10:28 AM
I only ever played it on demo machines in shops. Also, I hadn’t really played much N64 so was trying to figure out the controller, while trying to figure out what the hell I was supposed to be doing in game. -
Taking photos…
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Effluvium Boy
August 18, 2011 at 10:33 AM
Well, I understood that bit…
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August 18, 2011 at 10:30 AMTaking photos of Pokemon, yo.
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Trading Card Game!
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I’d just be happy with a graphically updated console version of the other games, in a way.. something of a mix between pokemon stadium and the hand held games.
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This makes more sense to me. FP, I dunnoooooo…
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Pokemon FireRed – Console Edition!
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This i could be happy with.
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Nah man, pokemon real time fighting game:
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Dearest Dawdle,
You almost got me stabbed by Bee last night.
Because of you i can’t stop giggling to myself and singing “I am a Dwarf and i’m digging a hole – diggy diggy hole – diggy diggy hole”
For those of you not infected yet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR7EAdPUqvQ
GREATEST-SONG-EVER!!
I must have this as my ringtone!
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Love it
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Haha ooops!
That song cracks me up so much. xD Too good to not share!!
YEAH ROY!!!
I’ve landed one interview with John from the humble bundle, now trying to get on to Relic still..
If you guys have any questions for john reply to me here and i’ll choose one to ask him.. i only get to ask 5 😛
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Is your “bundle” really humble? knowhatI’msayin’?
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*applies palm to own face*
Thank you, Jimu, for your perpetual wisdom lol
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I ‘d like to thank Kotaku and especially Choopoola for inspiring me *bowing*
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Ace Jimu – what a guy 😀
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*shiny teeth
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Obviously, Humble Bundle inc. is running itself as a separate entity, however, what affect -if any- has the running and success of the humble bundle had on Wolfire’s work on Overgrowth?
In relation to that, how profitable are the humble bundles for Humble Bundle inc. Given the modest default amount offered?
So I really should be posting more on TAY for the next few days/weeks.
I’ve always been limited on posting amounts, what with having to work. But my role has finished up, and whilst I look for future work, I’m pretty much at home full time. Thus, I’ll try and post more.
Richard Smack Version 2 in the Deus Ex article needs a smack.
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they mad
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I reported his first post because I didn’t think the language was necessary, but then between him and his soul-mate Cameron I gave up. A ‘smack’ would be really handy though.
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Grr, a ‘smack’ button. And an edit button. 😛
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what about a kick to the groin button?
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Apart from his very first comment (about bending over), his comments aren’t particularly offensive enough to be reported.
Cameron’s definitely angry, and his arguments are a bit extreme, but for the most part they’re valid. Richard is just, well, spouting somewhat mindless screw-everyone sentiment. It’s stupid, but not offensive.-
Yeah he is in a “NUMBERS” rage.
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Hahahahaha!
He so mad!
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i thought he might of eaten you if left alone. Poor numbers he can’t stay of the rageohol.
btw if you actually read this numbers its a joke don’t be mad.
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Rageahol! That was hilarious yesterday! HAHAHA
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Yep. He’s a bit of a jerk
now now – he’s probably only 13 – just upset his allowance for taking out the trash can’t cover his costs 😛
Or termination, humans like him aren’t welcome here with an attitude like that!
Perhaps we should shower him with love and affection.
My favourite part is they turn into sort of anti-establishment anarchists over retailers not doing enough for the R18+ rating.
Now that’s entertainment!
Hey, Not sure if anyone is interested in Trials Evolution but Im gonna share all the same… freaking amazing news coming out of Gamescom..
Gameplay video from gamescom: http://www.gamersyde.com/stream_trials_ … 15_en.html
Gameplay video 2 from gamescom: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gc-11 … ion/719249
Also confirmed is a currency system that will allow you to purchase ‘cosmetic’ upgrades to the rider that will be visible in multiplayer and on replays, So the better you are the more options you can buy. Sounds like in game currency rather than micro-transactions….
The curved driving lines are amazing, and the scenerey is blind mowing…
I know I go on about this game but seriously this footage is more than I’d ever hoped for. The game is truly an evolution in the series and I can’t wait.
Release still looking like later this year but in one of the vids you can hear the dev saying that they will release when it is truly ready…
If you do have any other questions, let me know, im keeping an eye on the forums adn the devs are VERY active at the moment.
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I’ve always been meaning to ask, did you ever play Elasto Mania (ELMA?)
I installed that on the computers at school in year 8, played the absolute shit out of it.
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never even heard of it.
When growing up I didnt have a PC in the house until I was at least 16 or so (im now 30) and didnt get into gaming that much. I played the original warcraft (hells yeah!) but apart from that not much else.
I didnt start serious gaming on consoles til after that so i really missed many of the earlier games because of this. I did have a atari 2600 and a master system, but very few games just cause we couldn’t afford them…
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I highly recommend you watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ-uQM-BX1Q
Then try and find a copy of this game somewhere. Not sure if you can still order it from the dude’s website, but I’m sure there’s a download of it somewhere.
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Gah! Why wont these video’s play for me! >:-( I cant wait for this, and can’t even see it!
Excellent birthday so far (aside from having to come in to work). Got my tax refund this morning, an easy $1350. Now I’ve just got to book in to finish my tattoo and hope I’ve got enough left over for my motorbike licence test!
+a game, of course.
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Oh it’s your birthday today? Happy birthday human!
P.S come back to TS for more LoL we miss ya!
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I’ll be up for more LoL on the weekend, I reckon. Karthus the kill-stealer!
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Hah! Yeah I’m currently experimenting with Blitzcrank and Rammus now since they’re in the free to play rotation this week 🙂
Blitzcrank can be so darn awesome in terms of disruption but really hard to master his rocket grab.
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I’m trying Malzahar at the moment. He seems to be a bit more fiddly than Karthus. I like his design and so on though, so I’ll keep at it.
Should I look at finding a champion that plays against the style I am accustomed (ala going for a tank as generally I use mages) to give me some variety or should I focus on what I’m using now and jsut concentrate on getting better with one or two characters? I’m still enjoying mages but what’s best as a team player?
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It’ll be really good for your skills to try out multiple roles. I’ve already got a Melee Carry(Master Yi), Mage magic DPS/party damager(Kennen), Single target DPS ganker/junlger(Warwick) and I’m looking at a permanent tank currently(Rammus/Galio) and Blitzcrank will be my disruptor/melee ganker.
In ranked games, being able to perform multiple roles is vital for all of us, cuz your champion might go on the banned list, if so, then you can play another role with a champion you already know how to play and somebody else fill that role with a champion that isn’t banned.
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HOLY SHIZ!!!!! HAPPY FIZZIN BIRTHDAY BUDDY!!!
guf games celebration? lol
Happy Birthday F4CTION hope you have a great day.
Happy birthday!
FOR GLORIOUS DAY OF EXPULSION FROM THE WOMB OF MOTHER AFTER MONTHS OF GESTATION!
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…Too much? I don’t know, makes me go a little ;/ is all.
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I liked it.
Happy birthday f4ction.
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We should wish the placenta a Happy Birthday too.
And the poop that often oozes out of a lady’s bottom (in this case, f4ction’s mum’s) when giving birth.
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Dude! Too much information.
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🙁 Sorry Strange…
I was just taking a holistic approach in celebrating the young man’s birth.
http://bit.ly/qMwu5l
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Happy birtday to you
happy berthdaye 2 uuuuu
Yappi bertdai de-ar F4ction
Ha-ppy beeeeeeeeeeeeeerthdaaaaaaaaaaaayyyye
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YOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!
Hip-hip hooray x(how old you are)
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Thanks for the song! I’m 26 today. A year closer to retirement!
Nice score from the taxman.
Also, Happy Birthday!
I wish upon you a Birthday of hapiness!
Would it please you to know that, in my head, I pronounce your name “Forktion”?
Well, I do. That little secret is my gift to you.
Cherish it.
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It makes me merry to know this.
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I tend to read it as Faction 4…happy birthday anyway 😀
Happy Birthday! Will you be gracing us with pics of your tattoo when it is completed?
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Indeed I shall, fair Strange.
today we celebrate the birth of pr0 FPS’er f4ction! hip hip, hurrah!
I just got a MMS of my 3 year old nephew wishing me a happy birthday. Best present, aaaaawww.
Bappy Hirthday.
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NO! I always deliver spucking foonerisms as Berry Mirthday messages! Y U STEAL MY THUNDER!
Also. Berry mirthday faction number 4! What game do you plan on getting?
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I’m sorry, but I do it like this too.
If you wish to settle this like men, then I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL!
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*glove slap*
I demand satisfaction!
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Accepted.
Uhh, so, how should we do this? Do we both own a game we can fight it over with? Uhh, does anything actually happen to the loser? Normally I’d use my hot-air balloon and blunderbuss, but given how far away we are from each other, that’s probably a little impractical. Soo uhh…
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Ummm…. yeah.
Settle this like Notch v Bethesda?
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/9038258448/hey-bethesda-lets-settle-this
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Precisely.
Except… I don’t own Quake 3, so we need to find a mutually owned game. Then we need to organise a reward/punishment for the winner/loser.
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Yeah I don’t have Quake 3 either. And I’m fairly terrible at every multiplayer game known to mankind.
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Hmm, so am I.
Uhhh…
We appear to be at an impasse.
WAIT. We can name Second’s, right? Shotgun Harli! *Phew* that could have been bad.
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Hey, I can’t reply to you! WHAT IS THIS VOODOO!
Also, if we’re choosing seconds, that’s okay then. As long as we duel it out over TF2 and I can call shotgun on a friend who’s played the game for over a 1000 hours.
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Well if we’re going to do it that way then I’ll demand we play the original Call of Duty, and I’ll get my friend who used to be sponsored (admittedly, payed with red-bull, but still) to play!
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Yeah, but TF2 is free! It’s something everyone can play! /lame excuse
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It’s only free if you ignore the 12 gig of hats you need to download!
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I feel special, having been shotgunned by Blagh’s to be his second.
Hmm, that could be taken out of context.
+1 to ego
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I’ll be honest Harli, it’s because you scare me a little bit.
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but i’m so cuddly :<
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But you’re all “Grawr pro-gaming time.” Also, you’re female. I am scared of no man, but all women. All of them, forever and ever(not quite true, there’s… 9 I can think of that I’m not).
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Don’t know yet! Probably should put it down on a pre-order, I guess. BF3 or something? Or I’ll probably just sink some money into LoL characters or the like.
Happy Birthday dude, I hope your day continues to be fantastic 🙂
I wish you many happy comes thoughout your future life.
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Does this mean what I think it means? Or am I just reading this wrong?
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I don’t know what you mean. It’s a perfectly valid way of saying happy birthday and not sexual at all. Look, they even put it in real cards.
http://www.engrish.com//wp-content/uploads/2008/08/birthdaycard.jpg
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lolol!
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Your taste in film disgusts me, but I permit you to have a happy birthday anyway.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIR!
Happy anniversary of your character generation!
Do nasty things to a handful of putty to celebrate your Birthday!
*hands over mildly used clay
Happy birthday dude! People born in August are awesome 😉
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/08/goldeneye-007-reloaded-special-missions-make-you-roll-like-mi6/
Here is my pisspoor impression of Cat from Red Dwarf.
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BAHAHAHAHA!!!
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I see what you did there…
http://youtu.be/TxWN8AhNER0 -
l see what you did there…
http://youtu.be/TxWN8AhNER0-
I can’t see what your linking here, but I have a decent idea.
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I’ve never seen one before, no one has but I’m guessing it’s a white hole
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love red dwarf to death 😀
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So I’m gone from work for a day, I come back and youtube and facebook are blocked 🙁 so much disappointment.
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Welcome to my world!
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It actually really sucks, now I have to go through a proxy server, or remote into my home computer and look at websites on there.
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How do you do such things? And is it traceable???
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Well I use Logmein which is free remote access software which uses http. You just create an account, download the software onto your home computer, then access the website and log into your account on any browser on any computer. You choose your computer from the list and away you go. They can only see if you’ve been on the logmein website, which in itself, isn’t a bad thing.
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They’d see what i did on the browser…everything is recorded.
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Ah fair enough. What sort of work are you in?
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guvinmint
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Ah okay, well yes that makes it hard. For me, I’m in IT so we use logmein to access client’s computer’s, so no suspicious activity.
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You should try installing the Chrome extensions… I’ve heard it works…
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I might have to give that a try 🙂
It’s not as instant as it seems, it seems.
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It’s not instant if you change your handle, to something like “Sughly’s Brudda” for instance.
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HOW DID YOU GUESS???
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I should have said: “But how did you know?” and then you could have cooly said:…
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I didn’t … until now!
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You talk in your sleep.
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Kotaku peeps, I have a mission for you. I need a headset (with mic), that’s not too expensive, decent sound, and preferably will also work with the 360 as well as PC.
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How about one of these adaptors http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3-5mm-HEADPHONE-MIC-HEADSET-ADAPTOR-XBOX-360-/270639005274
and one of these headsets http://msy.com.au/product.jsp?productId=7491
I’ve got no idea how good the adaptor is, but I bought one of those headsets recently and it’s pretty good.-
Ooo Plantronics? Work can get them cheaper for me 🙂
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I ordered these 🙂 $33 and I don’t have to pay for them for a month.
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I think my reply got spammed 🙁
I have one of these, never used: http://tiny.cc/7nxyw
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Does it work with PC though?
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The Turtle Beach one that I have…
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Do you remember how much it was?
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Was it the X12?
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I’ll have to get back to you on that one.
Also, don’t know the cost. It was a gift from my brother…… So it must be cheap! 😛
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HAHA! I like it! It sucks, my sister and my girlfriend’s 18th’s are both in October, I have no idea what to get them but it has to be good, not cheap :/
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Has anyone else started playing AOE Online yet? My thoughts on it so far: it’s pretty good, except for the fact that the stuff you buy is ridiculously expensive. Also, it has priests. Priests! 😀
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Do they still do the creepy “Hoyohoyo” chanting?
Dr What?
August 18, 2011 at 11:17 AM
I wish you many happy comes thoughout your future life.
Is he referring to what I think he’s referring to?
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He;s a bit of a wenker???
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It’s a real birthday card!
http://www.engrish.com//wp-content/uploads/2008/08/birthdaycard.jpg
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Oh wow..that’s awesome 😛
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I didn’t …until now!
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reply FAIL!
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And yet comedic win…
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“Hey Brother”
I’ve ben rather quite in TAY this week, what with me not having to waste time at work and instead having the option of lazing about the house doing nothing. I think I may have missed some of the fun, but oh well
Tomorrow I leave for Thailand nad I will probably be even more invisible thann I have been in the last week. I’ll have my laptop with me and there should be wifi at the hotel, but I doubt that I’ll be on much. More just checking emails and the like.
Still, I have plans to do one quick bit of writing to go up on my website tonight, so you guys can marvel at that for the next two weeks or so while I’m gone. That is, assuming that I actually get it done in time.
Also, Google Chrome on OS X Lion is balls. Really balls. Can’t see what the hell I’m typing because there is an input delay that makes it really hard to see if things have gone well. And when I make a typo and know before I see it, there is a lot of hassle required for a simple correction.
Dammit Chrome, when I get back you better be working like you used to under Snow Leopard or I might consider switching back to Safari and I don’t like the idea of switching back to Safari!
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“Rather quite”.
Oh me, you so bad at typing.
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Hope you have a fantastic time in Thailand 🙂
Also, Chrome in Lion is ass, it annoys me quite a lot.
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Just blame everything on Lion. Everyone else at the office is.
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A lot of things that I’m not happy with this year are Lion related. If it isn’t OS X having a hissy fit, it’s the Brisbane Lions forgetting that they’re meant to be professional footballers and when they do remember, sucking quite badly at it.
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STEVE HOLT!
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Do you know Steve Holt’s \o/ mother’s name?
EVE HOLT \o/
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I was reading the paper, and there was an interview with Jason Bateman recently about how he still gets recognised as the guy from Arrested Development.
Apparently it was a “great reset button for [his] career”.
He was in stuff before Arrested Development?
It’s like how you wouldn’t recognise Jack Bauer without 24. Oh, except for The Three Musketeers, because that was a rad movie.
Also, this post doesn’t really have a point. Just thought I’d say.-
How old are you, 10?
Jack Blower was massive in the 80s!STAND BY ME!!!
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It’s been said that I’m youthful, like a foetus.
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But not just any old foetus…
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I watched splice the other day.
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How was it?
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that show is sooo funny, but not as funny as Total Drama Island.
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What show’s that?
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I was, and it was so-so at best.
Theres some funny scenes though, it’s never scary and I think it’s supposed to be.And it seems whoever wrote it has a deep love for jurassic Park.
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Can you get Opera on mac?
I like Opera, it remembers…
Also, you and Uncle Tio have a great time. Don’t do anyone Gary Glitter wouldn’t do!
Have fun Bunny!
But not too much fun, if you know what I mean.
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… and stay safe, if you know what I mean.
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And enjoy those massages with benefits, the nude sexual kind, if you know what I mean. I have no idea what those 2 are saying… ^
Have a great time!
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Make sure you get the massages with the happy ending!
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Skyward Sword – November 18!!
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You know what the worst part of that is?
It only gives me one week to play Skyrim.
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Does Skyward Sword have dragons?
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It may have a dragon, I’m not sure.
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Wooh!
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I just got a 3DS, things are not looking good for my buddy Link.
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THE LAST STORY!!!
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Alright guys, I need your help. As you’re probably aware, I’m terrible at all that human interaction stuff, but, I’m going to a Birthday thing for a friend, and I feel like I should get him a gift, but I have no idea what he likes. All we really do is play Starcraft together. Anyone got some amazeballs suggestion?
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Well unfortunately his birthday is today, as I am keeping up my habit of leaving things way too late.
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The gift… of friendship.
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.
I wish I knew what that gift felt like.
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A true friend would buy him a copy of Starcaft: Ghost.
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I would kiss you, full on the lips, if you got me this!
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I try to introduce my mates to something I think they’d like but have never experienced.
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a planet
GFWL, WHY MUST YOU TAKE FOREVER TO SIGN IN!?!?!?!
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Goodly
Fellows
With
Love?
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Games For Windows Penis.
I mean Live.
So bad. Seriously, feels like it was programmed by a 12 year old, not one of the worlds largest software companies.
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zomg, you have no idea my hate/frustration with gfwl. Its crazy how badly its done… From the ppl whose bloomin op system 90% of us use! *snaps wood with face*
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The best part is GFWL games on Steam.
Because, you know, why not have 2 account/DRM systems?
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Yo dawg I heard you like DRMs…
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Xbox Live = awesome.
GFWL = hell.
So glad they dropped the GFWL support for Dawn of War 2: Retribution.
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MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
That is all.
For NOW!
*DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUN*
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Ooooo impressive hair container! Is it filled with toys, or a volcano?
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A… volcano?
If you know what I mean?
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Nooooooooooooooooooooo
My peach killed TAY!
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That’s what she said.
So we’re clear, I mean peach as in the slang term for female reproductive parts. Not the fruit. Or the Princess.
MWA HA HA HA HA!
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Good thing I have LEVEL 4 RESURRECTION!!
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It actually hell did.
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what? Speak properly!
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I am speaking properly! Blame my upbringing!
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All those mining fumes growing up in WA?
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More like the dropkicks and derro’s that populate the town I grew up in :/
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Well… I’m rusty… Cut open my foot with the jigsaw blade, its not too bad, but is stinging something shocking… But, I have mounted the seat and pedals, wen’t to test it out, and found the seat is off center by…*cough* a good 2 inches… I have no idea how that happened. But now I have to move it again. I don’t see the wheel or gear stick getting mounted any time this week.
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*bursts onto the scene*
Somebody call for a medic?!On a serious note, eesh, hope the cut isn’t too deep. Silly Q-bo, safety should be a first priority!!
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I was thinking of safety! I was sitting on the floor so as I could not fall any further. So, I was jigsawing with the wood across my crossed legs. I did the exact same bloody thing yesterday, except with the drill, but that missed and just made a hole in my pants.
Progress, I’m doin it rite!-
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Wow. Uhhh… Yeah…
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Ummmm… yeah…..
What Blaghman said. How about anything you operate on doesn’t go on your lap?-
Prob is the thing is getting too big for me to move, so I’m building it inside. So I have to be careful not to cut the carpet. Also, the space is limited, so i cant move around it in my wheelchair properly, so its easier doin it draggin around on my butt. Mind you, I’m calling this one a prototype, cause its looking shitty and you’ll all laugh when you see it.
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This is going to end in tears.
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Wow…you really need to stop doing that before you hurt yourself.
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too late! But its not too bad, 3 bandaids have been applied.
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I meant to say hurt yourself badly, but still, that’s just asking for trouble 😛
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if he hurts himself, he failed doing something dangerous but fun.
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it’s like that episode of American dad! “I’ll just place this board on my unprotected groin…”
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My favourite part of American Dad is when the Dad is trying to make his son look good so he steals a lady’s bag and runs off and Steve is meant to stop him. But he gets carried away and jumps out the window 😛
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rofl that part is hilarious!
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Every time I even think about it I start laughing 😛
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Yeah and in the car as they go home his face is full of glass after jumping out the window xD
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amirite?
Check yourself before you wreck yourself, yo.
Pro Tip:
Don’t put it in the oven.
@ Barbarian with a big club and the word ‘because’.
The Zavvi coupon is yours if you want it!
Email me: shane AT shanewsmith DOT com
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Yay for me!
But, er… I don’t use Zavvi, so no thanks, but thank you for the offer.
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@ Ol’ Doc WHAT!
Email me: the coupon is yours.
shane AT shanewsmith DOT com
If the good doctor is not interested, it’s up for grabs again… or I’ll just put it on the net and let some anonymous person (possibly a pessimist, but not necessarily) snap it up.
Just had a fire alarm. Had to go stand outside for 15 minutes doing nothing. Turned out to be nothing. Same thing happened a few months ago.
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MWA HA HA HA HA!
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lol!
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+1
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Sounds entertaining. Did you still get paid for this time? If so, even better! 😀
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I’m at uni and unfortunately they don’t pay me for that. They totally should though because me being here makes everything 5x more awesome. That should be worth something.
It was mildly entertaining. The alarm isn’t an alarm so much as a voice yelling:
Emergency!
Emergency!
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Bugger. They really should pay you for that. I think that would get on my nerves and make me break the speakers. I could possibly do it out of boredom like when I was in year 10 and I was bored waiting for my next class so I kicked a tap and it broke off the wall and water started gushing out :/
That was hilarious looking back on it but I was so bloody scared the whole day, I never ended up getting caught, thank god.
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Better that than the fire alarm constantly going off cuz the alarm system was on the fritz causing over an hour of inactivity, ended up having to go work from home
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Living at college we often had complete Ar$ehole$ from other colleges set off our fire alarms at 2 o’clock in the morning.
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My kid’s school keeps having a “Lockdown” drill which scares the crap out of most of the kids. A super-secret song plays over the loudspeaker and they all have to hide and be uber-quiet so it looks like nobody is there. It’s creepy.
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ahahaha!! Is it bad that I burst out laughing imagining this.
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Anti-pedobear tactics, doing it right
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My school had a lock-down drill once(this was while I was in year 12, or maybe 11, not sure), and specific teachers would walk around the school, and if they caught you out of lock-down you got a fate worse than death. You got to be the laughing stock of the year.
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I was talking to a friend of mine, apparently he had the same thing happen while he was at uni today.
And he had a test during that lecture.
So the whole thing had to be cancelled. Hilarious.
So yeah – I just got a spray tan.
lol.
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Pics or it didn’t happen.
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I can confirm that it is awesome.
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Oh wow. I need to see this. Please put up pics.
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Will chuck up some pics tomorrow.
BEFORE AND AFTER!
Apparently you need a day for it to hit its Oompah Loompah heights.
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What do you get when you spray on a tan?
Getting as brown as a Scottish man can.
What are you at, getting terribly bronze?
Do you think there are,
Any
Cons?I don’t like the look of it.
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That was amazing!
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I seriously cannot wait! This will be hilarious! 😀
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Mental image = awesome.
I must see this.
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that is pretty awesome.
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I’m having a hard time imagining it!
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Wait til it starts cracking and you get sweet Dino skin!
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I’m guessing there’s not much difference between your skin-colour and your hair-colour now. What did they bribe you with to get you to do that?
@lamboman – I ended up getting ordering that headset, should be here today. Cheers for the heads up!
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Yay more clear speaking when LoLing 😀
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Haha definitely, and I can have it on voice detection now so I don’t have to awkwardly try and press the key :/
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And no more echo, easier for me 🙂
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Yeah 🙂 it will be good haha.
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voice detection is hilarious, once my friend farted and the mic picked it up and broadcast it for all of us to hear. It was pretty funny.
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That’s actually completely hilarious 😛
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it was both loud and hilarious
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It actually just came in 😀
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yay you can try it out tonight!
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Unfortunately, no I can’t 🙁
Thursday nights my girlfriend and I go to my mother’s house for dinner. And we’re usually not home till late. However if anyone will be on late tomorrow night, I should be on!
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I think I might abandon my attempts to hastily write a review of Alice: Madness Returns. I was going to try and draw similarities to cover songs that completely change the meaning of the original (see Hurt) but that would be complete bollocks in this case.
So here’s a much briefer review: It doesn’t make that much sense, because she’s mad. The game is unpolished, but still rewarding and although it isn’t the best game ever, there are definitely reasons to consider playing it. Like the pretty, pretty dresses.
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WOOP!
I like that review.
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PhysX hair!
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Wait, there’s dresses?! Like, costume changes for the main character, or just lots of different people wearing dresses? If it’s the former I’m gonna have to buy the game now.
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twenny percen off at jaybee…or waaaaaaaaaay cheepah at ozeegaymeshopes.
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In every section of Wonderland, Alice starts off in her standard blue dress. After a while, it transforms into something that reflects the theme of the area. So in the underwater level, it’s somewhat modelled after an Anglerfish.
I think in New Game Plus, you can choose which dress she wears, but in the first run through, it’s locked to whatever you get in that area.
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The former.
She changes dresses every new part of Wonderland she goes to, and each dress has gameplay bonuses like enemies dropping extra health or currency. Also DLC dresses, but… DLC.-
Wait, you get stuff from the dresses. I thought they were just there to pretty the girl up.
Boy, this game really sucks at explaining things.
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Bishy, you know I love this sort of thing. Why didn’t you tell me before?!
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I did! I even wrote up a totes serious post that discussed how the game is more interesting from a design perspective, and the deeper meanings behind the aesthetic of her dress!
But no one replied to me (I think).
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-144/comment-page-4/#comment-319913
See! Even Blaghsy is all “swishy dresses!”
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Oh yeah, I remember now! Sorry! I’m old and I forget stuff easily….
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I’ve seen there’s some discussion going on about Sydney meats on Sunday that turned into sexual innuendo…?!
bawble & I should be able to make it, if anyone would like to twitter message me details and such : )
Hey Bish,
How much do i have to pay you to complete the first level of deus ex for me while i watch. I have tried so many times and i can’t do it even on easy. Its really bring the game down for me and i want to play the new one but i should play the old one first.
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Have you tried the back-door?
In before: “Thats what she said!”
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Even though I haven’t played it, I know that’s the solution. go through the back door and that way you don’t have to face all the enemies at the front. Much simpler.
admittedly, I only know this because I saw the Quick Look over at Giant Bomb where they played through the first level and did exactly that.
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As far as I can recall, actually getting to the back door can be frustrating too though.
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That’s what she said!
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I remember it being kind of easy when I played it. Maybe I didn’t take the main backdoor – I ended up climbing a pile of crates, and moving crates so I could jump on them. This got me to the second level from which I entered the building.
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When you get home, jump on TeamSpeak so that you can hear me groan loudly in disappointment at your failings.
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i always look forward to your groans of disaproval.
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If you know what he means…
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Oh that was disapproval?…
I thought he was touching himself…awkward.
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TOO FAR.
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I’m sorry 🙁
Oh okay, I have yet to hear that.
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Gold, I fell for that, was expecting “Jump on team speak and I’ll walk you through ” And then BAM!
Bought a “Party Mix” bag of lollies.
Cannot stop nomming.
Death by sugar; imminent.
Tell my wife I said… “Hello”
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are you married?
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why do you want to know . Wink Wink Nudge Nudge.
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Now that AP’s left, eh, eh?
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D’:
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Nope 😉
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“They’ve taken your wife!”
“But I’m not married!”
“You are now. To America!”
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That is officially the hardest package I’ve ever had to get into.
>inb4 “if you know what i mean” or “that’s what she said” joke.
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Say no more
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God Dammit! I forgot that one! D:
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If you know what i mean
Is… French Vanilla yoghurt supposed to have a minty aftertaste?
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And would the fact that yoghurt in question is three days overdue affect this matter in some way?
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In response to your first question, no it’s not. In response to the second…most likely.
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i often confuse mint for mold, i think its pretty common.
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say hello to food poisoning for me!
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WHATUP PLAYAAAAAAA!
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HI
I ate the whole tub anyway.
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As long as it doesn’t taste like Bitter Almonds, you’re okay.
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Most people can’t actually taste the infamous bitter almonds taste.
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Really? I can!
Does this make me a “Super Taster”?
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I’m sure that’s what they’ll inscribe on your tombstone:
“Here lies Blaghman.
Super-taster, owner of guinea pigs.”
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You forgot the “Failure at life” part. 😀
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I thought that would be implied by the early death.
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You didn’t state that my death was early. It’s entirely possible that that’s all I will achieve in a long life.
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Minty Aftertaste? Check the box – This yogurt doesn’t also remove plaque and prevent cavities?
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LOL!
It’s like the Welsh dude in Notting Hill.
“There’s something wrong with this yoghurt.”
“That’s not yoghurt, that’s mayonnaise.”
“Ah, righto then” *Keeps eating*
Jimu or Welbot, have you heard from the Elusive Endu lately? Is everything going well?
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Emailed him Tuesdee, he replied tuesdee night I replied this mrn haven’t heard back.
We are still planning a pokemeet but I keep cancelling and he hasn’t even seen credits yet…blames the new Fire and Ice…A dance with Drag-Queens.
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Yes I was emaileing back and forth with him this morning. He is doing well. He was busy the last few days working hard! 🙂
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I’m glad he’s good. Say ‘hello’ from me next time.
I forgot to order Xenoblade from Ozgame and now they sold out and I’m sad…
Why didn’t anyone remind me?
Stupid 3DS, making me have FUN!
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Me too! I went to order it this morning and it was all sold. Zavvi still have some available though.
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Dammit, it’s sold out already? I got halfway into ordering it through them last night and got distracted by Bastion. 🙁
I could potentially be in Melbourne from the 29th Oct to 2 Nov, and Sydney from the 4th to 6th Nov – Anyone interested in a meet during that time? Would be great to meet you guys face-to-face 😀
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I would be honoured to meet you in Melbourne human
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this yoghurt is not witting well with me :\-
Also isn’t Chuloopa coming down in November?
Joint meat maybe? I don’t know. This yoghurt.
Not a great feeling.
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That’s just around uni exams period… but would like to meet you in Sydney! : )
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YES LETS DOOOOOOOO IT
What state do you reside in?
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I’m a North Queenslander like Rocketman Harli, and will only be in Sydney and Melbourne during those days on a footy trip (am going on a PNO cruise to the Melbourne Cup). I should have some time to myself during the trip though so figured it’d be great to meet some Kotaku peeps.
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Have the Oompa-Loompa song stuck in my head now…
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That’s weird, I have an actual Oompa-Loompa stuck in mine.
He waded in to retrieve the sweet fruits. BUT TWAS A TRAP!
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Now this is a story
all about how
my life got flipped turned upside down
i’d like to take a minute
so just sit right there
i’ll tell you how i became the prince of a town called bel air.Am I helping?
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Well now I’ve got “It’s Not Unusual”
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If you have not seen this check it out… crazy riddle stuff.. *Not related to Trials or Redlynx in anyway.
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Nice one.
Will have to continue this when I get home. -
I remember this from many moons ago. Not sure how far I got, just that the vast majority of my IPT class was trying to figure it out instead of doing whatever it was we were meant to be doing.
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Haaaard.
Just spend the last hour and a half reading LoL guides, so hopefully next time I play I’ll be able to employ more strategy instead of running in blind.
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Blagh tip one!
Stay alive!
I’m helping!
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It’s funny because this is actually a valid tip for me 😛 thanks 😛
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Yeah, but I don’t think it’s the most helpful of tips.
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Mmmm true. Oh well 😛 it will help me. I read up on some of the champions as well so have a rough idea of what to do against some of them.
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You’ll be surprised at how many people in LoL not listening to this tip. You should know when to be a little more aggressive and get a little damage by enemy towers and when to back out of a fight.
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RAINBOW~!
Rocketman and I have determined the best strategy for Magicka is spam Summon Elemental.
You can thank us by sending moneys to:
Happy Guy
742 Evergreen Tce
Springfield…
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Greetings Friend!
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So badly want to play… 🙁
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I want to play Magicka D:
OK, just decided that Trials Evolution is a day one purchase for batguy.
Have a look below the rider, there is a new object in the game that will allow the creators to make a version of trials that you’d like.
Its a big ass spinning blade. There is going to be some insane super meat boy levels made with that bad boy… if the devs havent already thought of that.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6064/6054765481_53791e661d_b.jpg
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There’s a new Trials game coming out??
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Super Meat Trials!
Okay, Mount and Blade Warband is approaching OMGWTFBBQAWESOMESAUCE territory.
Very addictive. Still playing the demo but I might pick up the full game on the weekend 🙂
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MUNNIES
http://zemalf.blogspot.com/2011/04/mount-blade-warband-trading-guide.html
You of course don’t need to follow it to the letter. I usually invest in the more obvious/major commodities such as Iron and Salt and go between Curaw and the southern part of the world.
Sometimes I just like to take a break from all the fighting and roam around the world, rolling in piles of cash.
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Thanks!
I’m not sure if the opening is the same for every character/background/gender choice, but I spent five minutes trying to punch that bandit in the face after I wasted my one crossbow bolt.
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Ha ha!
Nope, that seems to be the way it goes!The beginning questions are just standard RPG-determine-your-beginning-stats fare, but you’ll probably fight enough and level up so much that most of your weapon proficiency points are irrelevant at the start, and skill points are reasonably well given out. Stats are a different story, but apart from maybe some strength requirements for armour, that’s not much of a concern either.
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Maybe I should start playing again.-
I stopped playing because it saved at a point where another kingdom’s entire army is like 2cm away from me.
Afraid to see what happens.
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Brutal.
I stopped playing because my chosen goal of becoming king of the world was going to take far too much time.
Admittedly I am playing it with multiple saves on which is kind of cheating. But loosing everything on the outcome of a single battle is really really harsh when you have spent tens of hours getting to that point and will need many hours just to get back what you lost. -
Also, my most proud moment is when I defeated an enemy army that outnumbered me about 4-1.
Also double crossing the Veigars by getting them into a two front war and then deserting, sacking the city I had just helped them conquer then securing a peace treaty because they could not afford to have me as a third enemy. -
My problem is that I play like the Eddard Stark of the Mount and Blade world, so I’m all honourable and stuff. It really ruins a whole lot of the fun.
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man, i have super weird taste in music, i’m currently really addicted to j-pop!
so i know we have dub-step interludes, but how about J-Pop Parties?
I’ll Start!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9qJ-nTNhAk&feature=related
(note: i have no idea whetehr i seriously like this song, but i out it on my ipod, and haven’t stopped listening to it… that’s not weird right? RIGHT!!!?)
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and apparently J-Pop also affects my typing skills as well -_-
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I feel old and creepy for watching some Japanese ladies dance in school girl uniforms.
…Now excuse me as I go play Persona 4 and try romance one of my high school classmates.
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I was gonna be all “Nah man, it’s not creepy because they’re really x years old” but uhh, 2 of them were born in 1992, and the other two were born in 1994. Even I feel creepy about that.
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I would only feel creepy if I was watching an actual schoolgirl…if you record yourself and put it on the net it’s your own fault.
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Lets fighting Love!
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Hey hey let’s go kenka suru
Taisetsu no mono protect my balls!
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They are the girls from AKB48 right?
talking about j-pop here’s my favourite
Remember Trjn, if you see this, be SAFE MAN! Fiddly knobs ahoy!
Also lady boys. We will harass you about them when you get back too. STEEL YOURSELF
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Have a fun & safe trip there, Trjn!
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Have a good one rabbit! Also can you bring me back a souvenir? Although I don’t think a lady-boy would fit on your carry-on luggage….
Assassin’s Creed Revelations Gameplay Trailer… WITH DUBSTEP!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kmulGwfHrc
Ubisoft really knows how to make awesome game trailers!! 😀
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Me likey!
Love the imagery of Altair and Ezio running in opposite directions and doing stuff at the same time. Should be a great way of finishing off both their stories.
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Bad. Ass.
(Crap, I haven’t played Brotherhood yet! D:)-
Cease whatever you’re doing right now, and go play it.
Don’t give me your damn logic or excuses!
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DX:HR no longer to be region locked, huh:
http://forums.eidosgames.com/showpost.php?p=1651200&postcount=778
Srsly, way to piss people off for no reason.
What about the retailers? I really hope people don’t get pissed off at Ozgameshop for getting them to re-order their cancelled orders. Totally not their fault but you know someone’s going to complain.
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Urgh.
That’s a huge headache for retailers.
What kind of game company doesn’t “carefully consider feedback” BEFORE they decide to do something completely bonkers like region-locking for PC? Did they not anticipate that kind of reaction?
I feel sympathy for OzGameShop and the like, who not only had to refund a fortune in pre-orders but now have to messily try and re-contact everyone that ordered and tell them to re-order. Plus deal with all the complaints, confusion and frustration that will result.
Any people who decide not to preorder (or who already preordered from somewhere else, or through Steam) represent a loss for retailers that’s directly the fault of Namco.
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Is that just within Europe?
As in, Europe is considered 1 region now, but the problem with importing from UK to Oz remains..?
Xenoblade chronicles back in stock at OZGameShop for $46.99, Jimu.
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Yeah I got the email…now all I need is the cash. I think I’ll wait till I come back from Taiwan.
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Yeah I got the email…now all I need is the cash. I think I’ll wait till I come back from Taiwan.
blarp!
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SCARY!
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When I read “factoryent” I pictured an Ent from LotR, but made out of industrial machinery.
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Oh that sounds like something I’d want! Sorry to disappoint you. 🙁
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I know, right!?
It’s ok, I’ll forgive you eventually.
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Hey, Zavvi have free delivery to Australia! I just bought the Witcher 2 for $30. Hope it’s good. Hope I don’t need to have played the first one. Also, GOG.com is selling the Witcher 2 for $30 online. Cheap Stuff \o/
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/06/resident-evil-revelations-is-a-frightening-delightful-experience/
I finally read this, GOOD NEWS!!!!
I am so happy, 3DS is shaping up to be the best thing since…DS.
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This is the game I’ve said all along I’ll get a 3DS for.
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How delightful!
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Ozgameshop have restocked Xenoblade, WOO HOO!
Now all I have to do is convince my wife to let me spend the moolah…reverse woohoo.
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!oohoow
http://www.weddingjojo.com/benandjuliana/photos
For some clarity, in Taiwan when you get engaged you go and get photos taken that you put into a book and also put in invites to the wedding.
I guessing other Asian countries do the same…
This is a funny set!
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that’s sooooo awesome!! haaha such a heartwarming album too
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Genius!
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/08/18/conan-comic/
I almost died laughing at number 5, seriously I was choking on my own laughter!
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I like how he makes friends.
And “…One well worth riding twice.”
Hey all, was sick yesterday.
spent the whole day watching Beserk and playing Darksiders.
What did I miss?
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hi PuppyLicks
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Oh hai Harli, what’s new with you?
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Just been busy kicking ass and chewing soothers (I have a sore throat).
Have you decided on whether you will take up DoTA/HoN/LoL?
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Soothers? Were you out of gum?
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sore throat is sore.
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daaang, as a fellow disease-carrier you have my sympathy.
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Us disease-carriers need to stick together! /hi5
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[(--)]ZZzzz…
So tired. Damn you LoL and damn you Tecknight 😛
I think it’s coffee and biscuit time…
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The important thing is – did you win?
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*sighs* :'(
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Nope…Was quite disheartening. Our team was pretty crap but our tank was the worst. He died 14 times, letting us squishies get smashed 🙁
Also, just heard of yet another MOBA style game set in the Warhammer universe, Wrath of Heroes:
http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/16/gamescom-2011-ea-and-bioware-announce-warhammer-moba/
So now theres DotA, DotA2, HoN, LoL, and WoH? Geez this is getting a bit silly…
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hahaha, don’t forget Realm of Titans (RoT), Rise of Immortals (ROI) and Demigod.
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yeah funny thing was that Bish did better than our tank and our second carry in terms of staying alive, they were both feeding a LOT. Bish I thought actually did okay based on his current skill level, at least he knows to retreat most of the time.
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I think after reading through most of the guides last night, I should be a lot better next time I play..
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Excellent, I shall test your skill tonight in PvP
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How late will you be up? My girlfriend invited friends over for tea so I won’t be on till probably 10pm WST, no idea what that translates to Melbourne time, but probably 11:30?
Don’t hold me to the promise that i’ll be better, I will be better in theory, because I now have a rough idea of terms, what champions I should use, how I can use terrain/turrets to my advantage, that sort of thing. I haven’t been able to put it into practice yet though.
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It’s Void Rays so pretty late tonight, depends on how tired I get
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Awesome man, well hopefully I’ll see you on! If not, I should be on tomorrow morning and then late afternoon (I have a baby shower to go to at 1pm my time).
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I’ve got some mad cowardice skills!
In all fairness though, they were pretty good in targeting whatsherface since she was the squishier one. I’ve got a targeted stun and area slow, so even with Exhaust, I could have only prevented like, 1 second of damage to her. Maokai (or whatever it is) has pretty poor regular attack power too, so they pretty much were able to ignore me and get at her while I was all “Guys pay attention to me, not her >:C “.
So yeah, we may not have been great, but credit where credit’s due, they also had pretty good coordination.
Tanks are never meant to be damage dealers, you’re meant to be the one soaking up the damage, hence Maokai’s characteristically high HP count without items. The main thing that you gotta try to be as a tank is this: Be the toughest to kill but be annoying enough so that they can’t ignore you (Some AP will be needed to make that happen for Maokai I think). With Galio or Rammus that’s easy, Galio can cast shields on allies as well as use gusts of wind to increase allies movement speed, while Rammus can taunt a single enemy, FORCING the enemy off your ally
Aren’t LoL, DotA and HoN all set in the warcraft universe, not the warhammer? :s
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WHA- NO!! Don’t you dare sully the name of my Warcraft universe like that!
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So confused, I thought DotA was a Warcraft mod? So it’s based on warhammer? :/
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Let me clarify, what techy was saying was “There is now yet another MOBA, which just so happens to be in the Warhammer universe.”
None of the games are actually set in the Warcraft Universe. Yes, they use Warcraft 3 units as their base, but that’s essentially irrelevant.
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Sorry, what Steve-O said. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU so bad at this!
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Ah okay, that makes more than a lick of sense 😛
I haven’t had a coffee yet okay!
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I spent 20 years living with my sister, I am a master of decoding language. When she said “Check in the place, and grab the thingy-thing” I could usually guess what she meant.
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I can do that with some people, like with my mother and my girlfriend. But not with most people haha.
Also I was just kidding. The important thing isn’t if you won or not, but it’s in the journey and if you had a valuable experience working together as a tea-
BAHAHAHHAHAH sorry, I can’t do it. I just can’t.
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aww Techy i was just kidding! really!
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Sure.. >:(
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Have you heard , dorter?
I’m the universal champion of said game…
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It’s true…in the fanfic I imagined I wrotes…
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lawl sorry Jimu, pics or it didn’t happen
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Just found an album that some guys have made based on LoL. Some of its entertaining.
Area Of Defect – QWER
http://areaofdefect.com/#
And with that, I leave.
You kids play nice while I’m gone. This place better still be here when I get back or there will be trouble!
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Safe travels Bunny!
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Have fun! We look forward to your tales of travel when you return…and pictures of you eating deep-fried cockroaches. 😛
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be safe dude and if it looks like bacon and smells like bacon. DONT EAT IT, its DOG. they dont eat that much bacon.
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Rocketman, if this thing everyone’s picking on you about starts to get to you make sure to speak up. They’ll soon find someone else to torment. 🙂
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Well if he stopped making comments like that maybe we’d stop making such accusations about him, and North Queensland in general. 😛
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That wasn’t rascist. My sister went to Thailand and said that they (people from Thailand) don’t eat any Pork they shipped it all in for tourists. As well as the fact someone offered her dog on a stick!
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Well, if they ship the bacon in for tourists, then it shouldn’t really be a problem!
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phshh. Yeah but your a idiot
*goes hides in the corner*
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you’re*
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You guy’s are all correct and stuff. but which one off you can castrate a calf in under 40 seconds? Yeah i thought so.
Note: Have never castrated any cattle.
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Clearly you never have if you’re using 40 seconds as a guide. Castrating cattle is a fairly slow process, but rather simple.
You just need to get an elastic band, and tie it at the pull-string of the jewel-bag.
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Twas all in good fun 🙂
These sweeping generalisations people aleways make about cultures thay have hardly ever experienced are border-line racist.
I can deal with it cos I know it’s just ignorance and if rocketman made a Thai friend and learned a few things he wouldn’t make such silly comments.
I forgive you rocketman.
Sorry Jimu,
I was actually joking about that stuff. I really don’t mean to offend anyone i am just horrible ignorant of other peoples cultures.
I forgive you rocketman.
Have a great time Rabbit. TAY won’t be the same without you!
Byeeeeeeeeeeeee
Have foon!
STEVE HOLT \o/ wishes you goodbye!
Just remember. Look around. You’re living with the lost and found. When you feel you’ve almost drowned, you’ll find yourself on solid ground.
Yeah, that’s been stuck in my head all week.
have a great trip and stay safe!!
GL, HF, DD Bunny!
Have an awesome and most importantly SAFE trip!! Don’t want to see you on that new Thailand TV show 😉
There once was a man named Trjn Bunny,
Who went to Thailand to spend all his money.
He met a girl in a bar,
Took her home in a car,
And found she doesn’t sit when she pees on the dunny.
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P.S, have a good one!
Bye dood!!! Be good! Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do!!.. I’m sure that doesn’t leave much.. oh well! Do it with STYLE!
Have a great time Trjn!
Listening to Bloc Party at the moment (chose a random artist from my music folder). This Modern Love came on, and my first thought was ‘Poor Marshall’.
All the Wizz Fizz from my showbag is now gone. I’m all sad.
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🙁 that sucks. I used to live Wizz Fizz, but I always managed to get it all over my clothes, no matter how hard I tried to be careful with it..
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The trick is to not use the tiny spoon they give you.
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But it’s so convenient!
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But… But… Those spoons are amazing! When you lick them, and it traps a layer of powdered fizz underneath a slimy layer of goo. So good!
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You know, I thought so too until one of my Wizz Fizz’s didn’t have one in it so I had to just tip it into my mouth. A mouthful of fizzing sherbet is awesome.
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Well last time I had one, it had two spoons in it. So I think I got yours, sorry!
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Yeah, it melts as soon as you put the lighter underneath it…
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naughty!
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So I decided that Strange needs to get rid of her egg and get an actual twitter pic??? Not sure if she wants this but I think we should have a photoshop competition (as Mark is clearly too pre occupied with his manscaping and mantanning to have any comps)
I suggest we use this as a starting point and move from there?
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/strangeandalone/avatar-body.png
Im at work so can’t really do anything yet, but we gotta give her a good pic… or is staying with the egg some sort of statement in itself?
(hope you dont mind Strange?)
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Isn’t she using this:
http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/1499443983/planescape-torment_inlay.jpg
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I do believe she is.
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I sure am. But I’m definitely up for a comp. I only chose that because there aren’t that many recent pics of myself.
Do your worst(uh I mean best!), photoshoppers!-
Sughly! Get in here! We all need Twitter pics!
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Brudda’s in france!
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Mais, Sughly délivre toujours!
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I imagine Sughly in France right now, rocking a beret, munching a baguette screaming at people in line to see Captain America
“What is wrong with you people!!!” whilst hurling Luc Besson and Jean-Pierre Jeunet DVDs at them. -
Really I imagine him the same up until the yelling at people, instead he’s sitting at a cafe, lit by moonlight.
Life…
-drag on cigarette-
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-Women go weak at knees-
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NONONO!
He’s running around in the beret, trying his best to speak french and trying to proove how much of an “artiste” he is and the french won’t even give him a second look.
Poor brudda…
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Nope, he’s hiding in a corner somewhere because the french ladies are all attracted to him like Pepe Le Pew is to painted cats.
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ROWRRRRRR, wee wee!
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Capitaine l’Amérique is the $10 movie at Hoyts this week. I’m thinking about going just to spite him.
Competition fail!
I swear when i looked at my timeline you had an egg and now i look and its that pic!!!..
ah well.
BATGUY!
Just saw you say you have a 3DS, will you be getting Mario Kart?
You may be one of the few people alive able to kick my bottom and help me improve.
PLEASE, say yes…
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I have a 3DS, I’m getting Mario Kart and I was never, ever beaten on the 64 version so I might be able to give you a run for your money 🙂
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Never, ever? I call your bluff. That game was so cheap that unless you were playing against human players who drove round the course in reverse and refused to use weapons on you, there was NO way you could win every single time…
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Does being given the controller when you were 7 and not knowing what to press count? Because that first time against my uncle was the only time I ever lost a race on the 64. Sometimes I lost in the battle mode where you had the balloons, but not often.
Saying that though, it’s probably completely different on the 3DS so previous experience won’t really help me.
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I used to win all the time at MK64 too, the game was cheap, but not in favour of humans.
My freins would always come third because I’d get so ridiculously far ahead and one CPU player would be tied to my arse with an invisible rope.
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I’m gonna get a 3DS, and get Mario Kart, and be terrible at it.
But I’m going to be that dickwad who Blue Shells you 5 seconds before the finish line. You can practice the famed blue shell dodge!-
What’s the blue shell dodge?
Stopping and letting 2nd come first and then get shot and overtaken by YOU!??-
On one of them (Wii, I think?) the blue shell pauses for a second before plunging down on to you. So if you have a mushroom on hand, you can boost away to avoid the explosion. Found this out myself completely by accident, when I mashed the buttons in a blue-shell induced panic one time.
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I’ll be getting Mario Kart! But I suck at it.
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I will and I can try!
Was decent at the DS version, but I refused to “snake” so I was never really competitive online.
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Why did you refuse?
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ALL ARE INVITED TO RACE JIMU IN THE KART MARIO!
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We’re Sending Our Down the Well™
Who: Me, Welbot, maybe Strange, and YOU (points finger Uncle Sam style)
What: Online Xbox 360 gig to help Welbot rock out with some friends
When: Some time tonight, maybe from 8ish onwards?
Where: Um, stretching the categories here, but..
– Welbot has GH2,3,WT,5,Metallica and RB1,LEGO and DJ Hero
– I have GH2,3,WT and RB1,2,3,LEGO,Beatles
– Strange has GH2,3
How: I’ll have a Live party open and a guitar and mic at the ready. Just join in and we can splinter off into whatever band games take our fancy. Might end up being just me and Welbot playing “Welcome to the Jungle”, “Rock and Roll All Nite” and “Cherub Rock” on repeat – but that would still be a successful night in my books 🙂
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Send my warm regards to WELBO, AND TELL HIM HE STILL OWES ME A MAN-HUG DURING A MOVIE!
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Send my warm regards to WELBO, AND TELL HIM HE STILL OWES ME A MAN-HUG DURING A MOVIE!
No gold for me, and none of those games so…
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internet doing strange things today…
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TrollGuy – 0
FatShady – 1
Hoped to send him apoplecic with the thought that I hadn’t been paying attention to his constant Trials Evolution updates. But alas.
Though SpamGuy is doing a pretty good job on TAY right now!
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HAHA.. I ALMOST bit on that one, then realised what you were doing… thre is no way you didnt hear me ranting… but nice try buddy.
Does anyone else hate when you get a message from someone, saying something important that you need to hear more about. Then they can’t/won’t text you back, so you’re left worrying with a sick feeling in your stomach? Or is that just me?
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I don’t, but that’s because I never deal with phones…
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Doesn’t have to be a phone, can be email, IM, etc. I hate it 🙁
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OK, correction.
I don’t deal with important things.
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You are very lucky.
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Unemployed and forever alone.
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It’s okay. You’ll find a job soon..
hug?
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You should know that I’m always up for epic man hugs!
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Happens to me as well human you’re not alone. Happens on IM as well for me
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It’s horrible. My girlfriend isn’t allowed to text at work and so I never hear from her except when she’s on her late lunch break she usually takes. I got a message just before saying “Need to talk serious tonight. I love you x”. No idea what it’s referring to at all, and she can’t reply to me until around 3, so i have 5 hours of not knowing :/
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What the?! That’s stoopid. Girls suck.
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Yeah well I’m hoping it’s nothing too serious, I don’t see why it would be. We’re looking for another place together, will be signing a long-term lease and we’ve started talking about being together for a while sort of thing. Maybe something has come up finance-wise and we can’t afford the place we applied for or something :/
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I’m betting she’s buying a puppy. Now hold that thought.
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Hmmm, maybe she’s pregnant?!
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Bam!
Little Cheese is on the way.
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She just had her period so I’m going to go ahead and say no, also, don’t scare me like that!
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Maybe it was the foetus that had its period..!?
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I’m going to go sit in the corner…
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Please do :/
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Effluvium Boy, taking it too far since whenever.
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DUDE. TMI
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Yeah…I sort of realised this after I posted, but I can be sure she’s not pregnant..that’s a good thing right?
What an illogical message to send.
The only purpose it can serve is to make you anxious.
‘Twould be better to not send the message and “talk serious” later without the heads-up.
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I don’t think she intended to make me anxious, it’s probably nothing to do with us as a couple, just something else. And the retarded sentence structure would be because she’s texting quickly and trying to hide the phone from her boss :/
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I’m putting my chips on “You’ve been leaving the seat up”
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HAHA! It actually couldn’t be that though. I grew up with just my mum and my sister so seat was left down all the time, it’s just instinct, I couldn’t leave it up if I wanted to!
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It’s a useful habit to have. One of the few things I’d put on a dating profile for myself.
Perhaps… If people sent me messages… 🙁
😛
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Eff! We need to talk! It’s for serious!
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You’re pregnant!?
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AGAIN??!!
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Oh please god, NO!
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there there, there there
*petting head.
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Nope, I didn’t add “I love you” so it means “I’m breaking up with you” in girl speak. I think. I’ve never understood girlspeak.
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So if she put “I love you” on the end, I shouldn’t be worried?
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I would say so. Not unless she’s a cruel, cruel person. Which I doubt. Putting “I love you” at the end was probably her way of trying to stop you worrying, anyway. 🙂
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She’s really not a cruel person, she’s very nice and incredibly selfless. Thank you, you’ve put my mind at ease Aunty 🙂
That’s how I read it. Unless you were waiting for resutls from your last exam at the doctors. Then “I love you” probably means to start spending your savings.
Well I wasn’t, so I’ll keep my savings, as small as they are, in my bank account where they belong!
Oh 🙁
Well, we had a good run.
Currently trying to sew badges onto my band uniform. I’ve never done any sewing before and have attempted to learn what I need to know off the internet. I think I’ve got the hang of it know but I’m terrible at it and I’m making tediously slow progress.
I’ve been telling myself it’s like grinding and each stitch is that much closer to lvling my shirt. every time I accidentally pull the thread out of the needle is losing a battle. Fortunately I only need to have two levels before I go to work this afternoon, and I’ve nearly finished the first.
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Make the thread twice as long as you need, thread it, move the needle to the halfway-point of the thread and tie the ends together in a knot so you’ve essentially made your thread double the thickness, but with the needle trapped by the knot so it can’t escape. 🙂
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WOH!
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Wait, but. Then how do you free the needle at the end?
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I just had this problem whilst attempting to tie a not at the end of the first one. Was considering just leaving it there and preteding it’s bling.
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Ummm, cut the thread? 😛
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But… Uhh… *Sigh*
I’ll stick with my strategy. I’m really good at threading the needle, and keeping it as such, but I think I stitch worse than Arya Stark.
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Love the reference.
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Heh, +1
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My like 8, maybe 10? I dunno, probably closer to 10… Year old cousin (who is male) is better at stitching than I am. Admittedly, he’s extremely patient, and has good task focus, as well as good attention to detail, but still. It’s kind of embarrassing.
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Shut up, Arry!
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Strange – Captain of the TAY Mother-Ship
Where are you playing?
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Busking down at Manly Corso. Fundraising to help get the band to the Edinburgh military tattoo next year.
Finished the first one, only took an hour and a half! I’m pretty sure the knot I used to finish it off with has never been seen in sewing before. Possibly completely unknown to humanity.
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Oh, and an easy way to finish off is to feed the needle and thread under the last stitch you made a couple of times instead of actually tying a knot.
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Cool.
Should be gloomy and drizzly. A very Scottish vibe.
If I can be bothered I will observe you from the shadows.-
I’m just glad there should be many more pipers there to down me out and that they only expect me to play the first set. I’m still pretty bad at it and I’ve got all the drones corked up.
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*to play more then the first set
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Also, when this weekend?
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This sunday, suposed to be starting at 12ish, I think they are over the beach side for the corso usually. It’ll be my first time playing with the band at anything and i’m so not readly. Almost hoping it rains to much and they call it off, but then I’ve gotta start some time.
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I’ll be the one looking the most confused.
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Oh noes. That conflicts with the Opera House Micro-Meat.
You should play on the Ferry.
I played in a little jazz band on the Manly Ferry a few times.
When you go past the heads it gets rocky (the water that is, the music was groovy, groovy, jazzy, funky) so the drum kit starts sliding around.
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I wonder if Resi Evil Revelations will have The Mercenaries as an unlockable???
PS: The revelation was that 2 was better than 5!
Okey doke guys, I’m off camping for the weekend. Congratumalations to the Kudos winner, I’m sure s/he will deserve it.
I’ll just leave you with more Dr Horrible, in case you haven’t seen it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apEZpYnN_1g
Also, jamesmacusedmyhandle:
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/51112
Okay, I’m off. \o
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I bought the DVD from Amazon. Yay!
I’m off work today! YAY!
So much to do!
Wait… is that ths time??????
I SLEPT TOO LONG!!!!!!!!!!
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mwahaha not feelin’ so evil now are you?
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Do any drawinz???
LoL players, here’s some footage courtesy of TotalBiscuit of the Dominion game mode
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🙁 why does YouTube have to be blocked at work? I wanna see!!
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It’s faster paced and looks highly entertaining too, can’t wait to try it one day 🙂
It even has things like unique summoner spells and different dominion-based items. Also it seems you barely even need to farm creeps cuz you get more gold per 5 seconds and you got your champion kills which will happen MORE often too
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Awesome! I also read that the matches are going to be closer to about 25mins per match rather than 45mins?
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Yep, anything above that is more an epic game, so I’m thinking 1: We can use this for faster games on late nights, and 2: We should definitely take part in this the moment it’s ready, we’ll be on a level playing field 😀
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I like your way of thinking, I’ll definitely be up for that. When is it released, do you know?
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Well apparently there’ll be a date announced soon, dunno yet
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Fingers crossed it’s not when I’m at my new palce (if I get it) and when I’m waiting for internet to be connected.
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Well it looks darn slick right now, so I don’t think it’ll be very far away at all
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+1
This looks really refined – Very fast gameplay, looks balanced though will be interesting to see how champion abilities transfer from Summoners Rift. Given the faster nature of the game I don’t see support heroes having as much impact as they normally do.
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I humbly disagree. They can be used to maintain map control using our champions, champions that last longer in the engagements meaning pushing them away from important capture points cuz they aren’t doing enough damage to be able to push forward.
Since you know that supporters really shine in team engagements, I find support almost more important to these modes
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Yeah you make a valid point that I didn’t think of. I was moreso thinking of the supports importance in helping a carry farm (which will happen regardless given the increased gold income) but given the majority of the game will be spent engaging in team battles I see now how important a support role could be.
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It will also mean I can have quick games before dinner, that sort of thing. I want to play a game, but then it could go from 25mins to an hour, so you dont play in case it runs over :/
Well with a mode like this, you can’t really slow the game down in any way, either they get pushed forward or you do, there’s no real “break time” where time is spent pushing lanes or anything
Which is good, I like the long games but would like the option of the shorter game.
My billing application code is crashing, and due to it using an external MYOB ODBC driver, won’t give me any useful information to help me debug it and find the problem.
So screw you MYOB, and thanks Techy – I am going to watch this for the next half hour instead of working.
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MYOB is a piece of shit. You’ll probably have to call their support, and they’re useless, but if it’s an issue with MYOB itself, and not something to do with your computer, they’re the ones you usually have to speak to.
Apparently there’s another DLC pack (expansion, perhaps?) coming for Dragon Age 2. David Gaider has hinted at it being called ‘Exalted March’.
I enjoyed Legacy, but it felt too short for the price and still had a lot of the problems that plagued DA2.
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I still haven’t even done the actual game.
I loved DA: O and rebought the whole game again just so I could have the less than amazing DLC, not sure I care for DA2’s.
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Looking back DA2 is probably worth picking up if it’s going cheaply.
The main plot is stupid and a lot of the combat is repetitive (not to mention repeating environments) but it’s nowhere near as bad as what some have said. There’s still a decent 20 hours of game in there, and many of the characters/side quests are well done.
I guess the best thing about it was that the hugely negative reaction might’ve shocked the developers into actually listening to their player base, for once. A year long marketing campaign that was basically “Don’t worry, you’ll love it!” made no difference when a lot of people hated it.
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I got really tired of having to tap attack all the time in what is really a turn-based game.
Did they ever do that update?
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I don’t think so, actually.
PC still has it, but on consoles afaik you need to press buttons constantly.
It’s probably low down on the list of priorities given how much people were screaming about other stuff 😛 They’re hiring a bunch of environmental artists and level dseigners atm, because that’s the number one thing people complained about.
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Good, when part 3 comes out or DA: O2 (he he). I will be mega happy to do lots of conversationing, plenty of exploring of NEW places and some fightin’ without the need to tap every second.
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BAtguuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuy:
Why did you refuse?
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Le huh? Je ne vous comprende pas.
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to snake
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in mkds
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Oh. Half because it was cheap, half because it hurt my fingers, and half because I was too lazy.
That’s right, I was 150% opposed to it.
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HArli, it did happen for trues, see?
http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/4/49782/1322330-141309_55203_champion_super.jpg
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I stand humbly corrected. /bows
For some reason I’ve got the music from the fight in the play near the start of Final Fantasy IX stuck in my head. I haven’t actually heard it forever!
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All you need to do is play this now that you’ve won the fight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UNJMvW21Xg
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Also, I’ve just remembered, this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuxYQrmHb28&feature=related
is such a combo breaker after the previous ten final fantasy games.
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That’s weird, I’ve got the line from Speed where Sandra Bullock mows down the baby carriage full of cans and Canoe is all
“It’s just cans”
I wonder what Keanu’s doing right now? I assume returning the first disc of Futurama Season 1 to the video store.
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For shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame
You should have every Uematsu soundtrack/album ever on your music player of choice!
Dat Hat Fortress.
Got an MVP spot as a Spy without actually being sneaky or spying, just equipping the Enforcer (+20% damage, +0.5s cloak time) and shooting people.
s’got some balance issues. Maybe just a few.
/o\
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I apologise for the normal and boring Page 11 opening.
*sob*-
Son. I’m not angry. Just, *sigh* dissapointed… 😉
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Will another one of my amazing stories make up for it?
So it’s raining here in Sydney right, some pretty heavy bursts of rainfall. There was a map switch in TF2 from payload map Thunder Mountain (which has grey skies and thunder noises, complementing the actual weather quite nicely) to some other regular outdoors-y map with blue skies.
*new map loads up*
“Oh, hey, it’s stopped raining!”
*get up to put the laundry back out*
*walk outside and it’s still raining*
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AND THEN
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You’re like the Brothers Grimm.
Except you’re not brothers…
And you’re not German…
Are you German?
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I don’t hassle Bish, its always the other way around. He hasle’s me about being shit at deus ex.
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Not even!
I only hassle you for being terrible at everything.
There’s a difference.
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hey you have to admit i’m good at being horrible. You know how much effort it takes to be this bad at most things, very little. Also if we ever play the card game i made up, you will lose horribly.
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No it is based on the Bask card game called scopa.
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Just admit it Bish, you were looking for a reason to brag about making MVP 😛
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MVP!
STEVE HOLT!
\o/Best MVPs are when you get it as Pyro.
Everyone’s all “lol w+m1”, so either you’ve broken the stereotype by playing smart and ambushing effectively and running away or you’re just damned good at W+M1’ing, and you were a terror to the other team.
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We were meant to draw a strange egg right?http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/ae284/Effluvium_Boy/StrangeEgg.jpg
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LOL. Strange should use this.
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Done. I love it!
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Strange egg?
That just made me think of this.
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r82/jedineko/Behelit_scream.png-
Is that Beserk?
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Sure is. Thanks to PuppyLicks and Klutar on twitter yesterday I found out about the new movie coming out next year. Yay!
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New movie? Is it continuing on where the series left off?
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REALLY???!!!
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ANIMATED????
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AWWWWWWW YEEEEAAAAAA
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I can’t se this at work but…AAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAH!!!
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Man, I don’t even know what that is, but damn it looks sexy.
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Groovy.
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Just saw the trailer, looks like it’s starting from scratch. But still, it looks amazing. I’m pumped.
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DID you ever play the Dreamcast game?
Wasn’t very good (was OK) and continued the story!
I should one day read the many volumes of manga…
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I played the demo once, before I knew anything about Berserk. I should track down a copy.
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Never played the game.
I just finished watching the whole series yesterday after Klutar lent it to me.Was just thinking last night that it would make an awesome game if it was done right.
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If only Cyberconnect2 made a Beserk game
*sigh*
Okay I’m quite excited now, I might have to resort to using caps to convey my enthusiasm 😀
MOAR GUTS HELLS YEA!!
only a bit over 2 hours till i finish work and start holidays. So whats everyone up to? also i won’t be able to be on teamspeak for a week or so.
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No teamspeak? But how will we survive without your dulcet tones?
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Just get someones sister on. The effect will bethe same. They will be monotone cause they don’t want to speak and they will sound like a woman.
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Anyone have a hot sister for me to creep out?
No?
Well that’s no fun.
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I do! She even lives in Canberra…but she doesn’t really play games.
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Well as long as she doesn’t hate games and is open minded about it, what more could you ask for?
If she does hate games, look out! 😛
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*Takes notes*
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But who will we talk about behind their backs to their face?
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I don’t know try blaghman for a bit. He is a ex builder he has thick skin.
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I was a labourer, there’s a bit of a difference.
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You were a builders labourer. It sort of counts.
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🙁 no teamspeak? this upsets me greatly..
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it’s crap because i have to talk to real people. Also i can’t use my new computer for a little while either.
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Talking to real people can suck sometimes. Especially today when I’m talking to customer’s and I have a huge migraine. Can migraine’s be caused by stress? I think that’s what mine is from..
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Yeah , i don’t know but i guess it can. I just try and drink alot of water when i get annoyed or deppressed. Water helps with stress.
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I’ve had 3 1.5L bottles today, is that enough or do I need more?
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Dude… You must pee often.
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Or have those real awkward feels-like-you’ve-been-peeing-for-ages pees.
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Those are awesome.
Actually Bossman, maybe your migraine is due to over hydration. Swollen brain.
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I always drink this much water though, my lips get dry a lot so I just drink a lot of water. And I’m halfway between peeing a lot and having those pee’s that go for ages.
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I think you need to drink an absurd amount to become over-hydrated. I’m talking like a litre every 10 minutes or something.
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Yeah, I was (kind of) kidding.
If he drank that much in an hour or so and wasn’t losing the fluids through peeing, sweating, etc. or balancing out his electrolytes somehow, then he’d be at risk.
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And it’s all “My god, will this ever end?” but then slowly you begin to become impressed with yourself…
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Gentleman What? Is your frankontroller design going up soon? I’ll probably have some spare dollars in the next couple of days.
Bah! I’m so bored today!
I was hoping to get some work done but my son is even more full of mischief than usual. He didn’t even nap so I haven’t been able to play any games either. Was planning on starting a new game.
Oh well, at least I managed to sew four seams of my super-secret sewing project.
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oooo a supervillain’s costume?! that captain Australia better watch out!
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LOL WUT
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He’s Cap’n Oz, he’s real…as real as Spider-Man.
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I’m incredibly intrigued about your super-secret sewing project. I want to know what it is! But I know I have to wait!
I’m also very bored/stressing, which I think has brought on this migraine 🙁
Btw, how old is your son?
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My son is 2 1/2.
He’s a super-smart whirlwind which means I can’t take my eyes off him for a second without him getting into mischief. He’s been stealing food like carrots and onions(eww) to eat all afternoon, and now he’s just decided to try and draw on a tomato. He then stabbed it with the pencil and tried to drink the tomato through the hole before announcing “The Emato is yucky!”. Seriously?! The tomato is yucky but the onion isn’t?! 😛I’m sorry you have a migraine. Especially while at work. That must really suck. 🙁
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Naww that’s so cute! Mischievous little guy but still cute hahaha. I used to eat raw onion when I was a kid :/ hahaha.
Yeah it sucks, hoping my manager takes sympathy on me and sends me home…I wouldn’t go home though, I’d go into the city to where my girlfriend works and find out what she meant with that text!
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
http://www.yourtv.com.au/blog.aspx?blogentryid=861791&showcomments=true
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
celebrities…
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“Tara Reid”
“Big Brother”
Why would anyone willingly watch that after reading that?
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She’s just so sh!t.
It was like watching a 16 yr olds photo montage made with Windows Movie Maker.
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My favourite parts were the Lady Gaga interlude “I’m beautiful in my way!” which is required given just how hideous she looks the moment the camera zooms in to see the caked-on crap all over her face.
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/shudders
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I wonder what the average age of the Kotaku TAYbie is.
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Lambo probably brings it down to… 8?
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Nah, old man Q balances it out!
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Nah, old man Q balances it out!
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Oooh, a rare double-post.
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What?
But.
What?
I only…
What?
How?
What?
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it’s so shinyyyy
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I only typed that once, and I only hit submit once! How does this happen?
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Well I’m 20, 21 in 2 and a bit weeks, if that helps you at all 😛 I’m pretty sure TechKnight is 22. Steve-o is 26 I think?
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That is correct sir
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Awesome! I’m pretty sure you told me your age when we were talking about apartments..
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Yes you have a good memory sir and that proves that you care
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Of course I care..everyone in the Kotaku community is awesome! And actually does a better job of remembering stuff I’ve said than my other friends do.
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26? Do I really sound that young?
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i thought you were 24
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You aren’t 26? I thought you said you were 26 on that post about your birthday recently. My memory is terrible..
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I was just messing with you with the sounding young thing, I turned 23 a couple of months ago.
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Oh…shit..sorry man 😛
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Blaghs is 20, and I think Phoenix is in early 20’s..
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Rocketman is 20 now, as is Dawdle!, although that’s only for the rest of today, if I’m getting this right. Chuloopsipoop is 26? I think.
Oh, and Bish refuses to tell me his age, but he’s somewhere in his 20’s.
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I don’t even remember what I was doing 5 minutes ago.
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I’d put it somewhere in the mid twenties, because we have Q-bo the grandfather bringing the whole thing up.
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I think I’m older than Qumulys….
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I’m 32 next week 🙁
You me and Q definitely boost the average….-
No, no sad face! 32 is an awesome age.
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Wait, if he turned the frown upside down could he reverse the order of the numerals of his upcoming age?
Everyone wants to be 23, right?
HA HA HA. I kid. Nobody wants to be 23. *trollface*
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Indeed you are, but that’s irrelevant. Q-bo is the grandfather. He’s been here forever, and enjoys yelling at clouds.
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yer.. qbo’s only 33.. i’m 32
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do you also enjoy yelling at clouds?
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Yeah, but Q is the old man. It doesn’t matter that there are older people here, and that he’s really a hip cat. He’s been places, he’s done awesome things, and his children are old. Therefore, Qumulys is old.
Really, really, old.
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I keep forgetting whether I’m 27 or 28.
I think I’m 28.
I am 20 as well.
bish is like 23
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Am I? I don’t remember my birthday.
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Bahahahaha.
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Shut yer’ pie hole, squirt.
Back in my day, we used to play hoops with a stick, and then use that hoop to beat kids 3 years younger than us who were disrespecting us.
They used to say “What… what are you doing with that hoop? Are you trying to hit me with it?” then his ruffian friend would whisper “Sssshhhhh, better than being hit with the stick right?”.
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I remember that game. I had my own stick that I carved myself. It had nails in it for the younger kids and an attachment to hold my onion belt when things got rough.
(I am 23 too Bish)
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We should star in the next Grumpy Old Men.
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Yeah you are cause me and blaghs call you internet old!
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I don’t know how old he is! I just know that he revealed his secret age to you, and refuses to do so to me. And that he said he was ancient. Like, really old. Which means at least 22.
SO OLD.
Watch out Rocketman – Obviously Harli’s plan with this whole thread was to find out if you were legal. She’s gonna be goin all cougar-like on your ‘adorable’ ass 😛
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-137/comment-page-7/#comment-345921
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I’m pretty sure Harli has a boyfriend who would be mortified if he ever read TAY.
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hahaha yeah – what’s she up to now, three suspected tay relationships?
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Oh gods, how did this topic spiral out of control so quickly. HOW?!?!
On another note, it seems to me like the average age is between 25-30! I like statistics.
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There are quite a few sitting at 20 and a few under – I think the average might be, say, 23? So age 23 is average and deffinitely not old? 😉
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I AM IMMORTAL
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three? 😛
I dunno, according to Facebook she is “CuRr3ntll7 g!viNg h3ad t0 s0m3 0th3r n00bzoR.”
Now, excluding the crudeness of its mannerisms, I feel that it gets the relevant point across.
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you have me on facebook?
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also that was crude indeed. i am offended.
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My apologies for the offence, that is simply how Facebook stated it to me.
And of course we’re Facebook friends, you added me at approximately the same time as Shiggy, Dawdle, and the good Doctor.
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That’s because you don’t have Facebook Bish.
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I do use it as an excuse, and I consider it quite a reasonable one.
Now that AP’s ‘left’, eh, eh?
I’m 20.
Allegedly.
Hmmm…. I’m 20.
19 here.
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ZOMG ITS A TEENAGER!!
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Do we treat teenagers like normal internet places treat women? Because I think that would be amusing.
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STOP MAKING ME FEEL OLD!
ALL OF YOU!!*
*Anyone close or over 28 is exempt from my hissy fit.
I joined the old club doing our part to increase the average.. 30.
So is Marky… old bean indeed.
Mental age or physical age?
Physically I’m 27, but Mentally I’m not so sure.
I’m 23 in November – from memory, Tad and I have the same birthday (separated by a couple of years).
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i’m 17….
wait, does that make me the youngest Taybie?!
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lambo is your age-ish.
As is numbers.
You young people make me feel old. :/
I turned 20 few weeks ago.
Jack Bauer, here…
That’s 24, btw…
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I SWEAR I PRESSED REPLY!
Supposed to be a reply to Harli.
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there is no evidence to support such a claim sire.
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Hahaha!!
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TOTALLY GOT THE LAST POST BEFORE KUDOS
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no you don’t kudos isn’t till like 5.30
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1730 is too mainstream.
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SuperFred, you are a rad dude with a rad name, and I hope you know that.
Felloy TAYbies. I have an announcement to make. My gf and I got the dream apartment we applied for! 😀
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Grats. So the thing eating away at your paranoid mind wasn’t bad at all? That’s good.
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So… The seat was down?
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Woo! Congrats!
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Nice congrats!
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Man, I was sure I’d replied to this, and been all “wooo, yeah, nice work!” but apparently I failed to submit it. Or type it. Or something. So uhh, yeah. What it says.
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Way to go!
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Haha nar guys. I was the one that told her. The serious thing she needed to talk to me about was that her boss has offered to help her out with uni if she decided to study gemmology (she works at a jewellers) but she’s enrolled for next year in nutrition so she wanted to talk career paths.
Also, yes I was very paranoid!
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Yay for dream apartment!
And about your girlfriend’s career path, tell her to go with what she finds more interesting, what will keep her happier for a longer time, regardless of which path has the highest money-making potential.
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Haha, nar I haven’t told her yet. I didn’t see her for long, she only gets a half hour lunch break and we had to buy things for my uncle and aunty’s baby shower tomorrow. I will though!
Yeah, I said that to her, she wants to do nutrition I think, but she also doesn’t know whether to do it next year and receive her scholarship money or work all next year because she can probably save the same amount of money, or more in that time. And then start uni the year after.
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Congrats!
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‘Grats!
My boss (one of them anyway) is so goddamn inept at formatting, it’s tragic.
It pains me to look at his “formal” documentation.
It’s like someone blasted a bucket of infectious puss with a shotgun loaded with teeth and faeces, and then a bunch of mangy, herpes-ridden cats had a vicious fight amongst all the mess and goo.
So, kind of like Ke$ha…
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I’ve begun to gain the impression that you may not have the highest of opinions about some of your superiors.
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You may be onto something…
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Woah, hey, let’s not exaggerate.
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Well if she continues her current strategy of brushing her teeth with Jack Daniels then she certainly won’t have any teeth.
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My stomach is full of creamy fatty birthday cake now. About to have dinner in 1.5 hours /_\
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Dinner so late? What are you, not from an old person household? Rocketman knows what it’s like.
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I meant around 7pm, CrabJiffy’s clock is apparently not working. But it’s quite normal for me to have dinners at 8 or even 9pm.
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I had dinner at 7 once. *Shudders* (I kid, my family is much less bad than some)
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I have a dirty mind and I was reading this post quickly…. I forgot to read one letter ‘L’… Can you guess which one?
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I think the more important question is why it is exactly that you’re separating the eatings of cake and dinner.
I’m sure I speak for everyone here when I say that you either have cake for dinner, or just eat cake over 1.5 hours so that it flows onto dinner.ALSO HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Because I will probably forget to say so tomorrow.
Old age memory.
This is what you have to look forward to.
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You oldie, Bish! But thanks 😛
I don’t mind cake but I don’t think I can have it for dinner. Also, I went to Pancakes on the Rocks last Saturday and Max Brenner two days before that. I think I’m exceeding my dessert tolerance for quite a bit this month already.By the way, what’s your LOL username so that Jiffy can add you?
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Happy birthday for tommorrow dawdle. Have a awesome day.
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Pancakes on the Rocks has pretty great ribs. Go figure.
But man, dat Max Brenner hot chocolate. So stomach sickenly rich and sweet. So delicious.
Gluttony is good. \o/Also I am ‘Bishington’. When I finally get to figuring out what all the little tabs in League of Legends does, I’ll be sure to add him!
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Thanks Ross, Bish & The Cracks!!
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Also thanks jamesmag & Aidan!
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I second the HAPPY BIRTHDAY for tomorrow, as I, too, will probably forget.
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Happy Birthday for tomorrow dawdle!!
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祝你生日快乐!
Enjoy nommy cake.
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I’ve already said Happy Birthday to you, but pshh, why not say it again?
So Happy Birthday.
WOO! Darksiders = 100%!
Back in the draw you go.
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Nice. I really should get around to starting that.
whoever decided it’s a good idea to have a hockey game at 8:30 at night is an idiot…
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BLAME CANADA!
I just got Marvel vs Capcom 3 for 39 bucks, with the 20% discount. The best part was getting home and noticing that it had a meaty game manual, with a moves list and a page for notes.
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Oh man, I miss meaty manuals. I remember some old games that practically came with a novel.
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Or manuals where the developer/publisher has actually tried to make an effort.
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Yeah!
The AOE2 one comes to mind. It probably taught a lot of people medieval history 😛
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The whole AOE2 game is what got me interested in medieval history in the first place.
Brings back good memories of playing a 9v1 game with the AI. I was on the 9 team of course.
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I was so bad at AOE 2, it brings back painful memories of just what I had to do to win.
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Working in a game store on a saturday im sure i will be in for:
1.Kids manhandling my plushies
2.Mums wanting to know why i have no COD MW3 and if its a fishing game
3.Bunch of pre-orders
4.Requests for PC games that havent been in print since 2002
5.LoL cards
6.Phone calls demanding tech advice on why such things as there wii mote not working (umm did you try syncing it?)
what else do you guys think will happen to me today?
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Ninjas
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Someone with a pram will knock over one of your displays. What? Nooooo….I’ve never done that….. 😛
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I knocked over a display while just standing there once. My centre of gravity shifted and I fell over into it. My response of was of course befitting someone of my stature and intelligence. That is to say, running away screaming “Woop woop woop” before returning and apologising.
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yep it happens… But i have plastic wii rifles that can take down digital elephants!!
Any Ninjas or kamikaze pram drivers should beware!
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The most beautiful girl you have ever seen will walk in, grab a Wii,a copy of Wii Dare and say
“All the girls from my Sexual Compulsivity Support Group are coming over tonight, would you be able to help set this up..?”-
knowing my luck it will be the guy from MantoMan across from me instead…
He actually dances while standing outside his shop…
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20th August 1000, Saint Stephen becomes the first King of Hungary, marking this as the country’s National Day.
Dawdle!, unlike those guys, don’t become Hungary. Instead, eat lots of cake!
Also, maybe go out and find a nice club (Get it? …Hugo, you get it, right?)
Happy Birthday Dawdle!! Have fun!
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That was not nearly depressing enough.
Good work.
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That was your best one yet!
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Happy Birthday Dawdle!!
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Happy b’day Dawds!
There’s a damned good feature article in the Sydney Morning Herald’s (weekend edition) Good Weekend liftout questioning if thems vidja games are really bad for the children.
He talks to Jeff Brand and his students who bring up distinguishing between reality and fiction, discusses the whole ‘New Media Are Evil’ thing, mentions the moral panic and… talks to Jim Wallace. Man, that guy.
s’good read, from someone who doesn’t seem to be a tech reporter, and is questioning these things because his 6 year old kid likes FPSes, apparently.
Maybe go into Gloria Jeans/Starbucks/Maccas (or do they only do Daily Telegraph?) and steal the paper or something.
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If it’s in the SMH it’ll be in The Age as well, for Melbourne people.
I get The Age delivered, haven’t had a chance to read the magazine today.
Thanks for the tip! Sounds interesting.
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Just got around to reading it, it was a great piece.
Mark Dapin is usually really insightful and he had some great lines about the moral panic.
I also liked his suggestion that Wallace associated adult videos with violent videos, and violent videos with video games, because in his mind all were conflated as corrupting modern inventions.
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Seriously, best bit.
I can imagine Dapin interviewing Wallace, and just going “… Wow. This guy. Is really something.”I think bit about moral education is a bit of defensive fluff though; I’ve yet to come across a game where the ‘good’ options are very clearly the superior option to take.
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Big W have got Arkham City Collectors Edition for $138.
Unsure of skins but EB and JB should price match.
The venerable Adam Ruch has said good things about Age of Empires Online.
Giving it a go, will be interesting to see what becoming an MMO has done to the gameplay.
If anyone was hoping to catch me down at manly with the pipe band today apparently we are actually starting at 1pm, not midday (probably finishing around 3pm, though I’ll be done well before that.) I’m so not ready for it. I just discovered they added 3 more tunes to the set I’m supposed to be playing with and I haven’t been practicing them at all.
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That makes sense. I was walking around the Corso at 12 and could find you guys.
So, the dress up part I went to was alright, despite the fact there was more rain than actual air all night. Costume went off without a hitch! And as expected… SO MANY PEOPLE DIDN’T DRESS UP! So I scared them with my fancy-schmancy guns.
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I’m looking forward to the pics! And nice work with the scarage of rudely un-dressed-up people.
My copy of Mortal Kombat is arriving via FedEx today! Can’t wait! Customs and the Classification Board can KISS MY ASS!!
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