Talk Amongst Yourselves
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I’m guessing we need to be in Sydney, or can I make a cameo as a skype call???
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It’d probably be done online, so that it could have a wide variety of guests and people to contribute to the game related discussions.
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I think we’ll be skyping it in. I’m not too sure on the deets so you’d have to talk to AP.
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Any dates yet? Im gone all next month…
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I’d be very interested but I keep fearing I’ll be a silent robot in many subjects of discussion
Let’s do it.
I’d be interested in helping. Don’t know how much knowledge I could bring to the table though.
Count me in. Sounds brilliant.
Awesome, emails have been sent, anticipation builds
I’d definitely be up for that! 🙂
Would the teamspeak server work for this? You use it more than I do, but it has built in recording etc.
I could join in on this activity and I can guarantee that doing it over TeamSpeak is amazingly easy. Anyone who has joined in on the Batman Let’s Plays knows that it is a pretty simple task as long as the person doing the recording isn’t a retard.
So when I’m doing it it isn’t a completely simple task.
THREE NEW SHIRTS!
http://www.redbubble.com/people/cronotriggr/t-shirts/7673117-casual-thing
The apostrophe in Let’s seems to have disappeared… Will have to fix that.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/cronotriggr/t-shirts/7673077-le-poisson
Viva le francais!
http://www.redbubble.com/people/cronotriggr/t-shirts/7672904-frankencontroller
For Strange!
Also, played some mad Tekken at the weekend with AP! He’s made me pick up a stick for proper fightiness! TWO STICKS FOR THE CAN’D MEAT! FIGHTING TOURNAMENT IS GO!
I like bold…
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Did you say FIGHTING TOURNAMENT?
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I said it! All the Tekken, Street Fighter, KoF madness you can handle! GRAB YOUR STICK AND COME AT ME BRO!
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“GRAB YOUR STICK AND COME AT ME BRO!”
Ummmm…..
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And for once it wasn’t Harli saying it.
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I don’t get it.
I used the right “your”.
I can’t see any other problem with what I said at all. Nope. No double entendres here.
Unless… No….. Dirty!
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I miss Mark…
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You know that Mark’s still here, right? Unless there’s some other Mark…
Or Maybe Mark’s secret twin brother Mark.
Forced to follow his brother in the hope of beheading him, and gaining his Highlander powers!
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I like this reference.
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I’m pre-missing him…
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If you want I can steal a lock of Mark’s hair and jam it into my computer so that any time I post anything on Kotaku there will be a piece of him caressing the information travelling through the wires and cables…
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You need aim better?
Just pulled an all-nighter for finishing my assignment due in about an hour and there’s 31 comments in TAY already?!
Luckily class ends at 1pm today so I can snooze after I finish my 3-hour lecture woooooooot.
I think I’ll get coffee regardless.
Oh hey, a KotakuAU/TAY podcast? Seems interesting but I doubt I’d be in anyway helpful other than being a loyal listener.
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All-nighter five!
Gotta love caffeine.
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Coffee + naps = AWESOME DAY!
So everyone’s been playing Deus Ex: Human Rev so…I decided that I’d start to play the first one! I’m enjoying it a lot and it’s actually making me pretty amped to play the new one.
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There’s something about the original that is just wonderful. Where are you up to?
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I’m breaking into a warehouse to
deactivate some generator. Pretty early on.-
And yet still further than Rocketman.
*shakes fist*
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It’s awesome! I don’t think my disc copy works very well on my laptop though.
[sob]
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Steam!
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Yeah, that’s true. If I ever get the urge for retro-JC Denton augmented awesomeness I’ll give Steam a go.
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I figure that since I had a legal copy, it’s okay for me to just download a copy via torrent’s.
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torrents*
Sometimes I hate myself.
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Blaghman, voice of the people
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You know what’s good? Sleep.
Sleep is good.
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Another pearl of wisdom!
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Average person represent!
I believe we should use bio-fuels because they don’t emit any carbon!
(This is why democracy is a bad idea)
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I would but those graphics, so bad, so old, I don’t think I could handle it.
I borrowed The Saboteur off a friend and sprung for the Midnight Show DLC since it was only 240 MS points. Obviously being a pre-owned copy and I was in turn borrowing it, the code was long gone.
Now I mainly bought it for the extra in-game stuff like hiding places and I think you get extra vehicles or weapons or something… and infamously, the game hides the nudity from you to punish you if you don’t have the DLC.
Then the first think you see in the game is a topless woman singing in the opening cutscene. It’s like they were saying “ok, you bought the game new, here is your reward”.
The thing I actually found most amazing about the game is that I popped in the disc of a game from 2009 and there was no patch for it to download from XBox Live. I have played games on an ongoing basis that have required multiple patches just this year – but this two and a half year old game is apparently so well made that absolutely no update of any kind was deemed necessary.
That’s certainly encouraging.
So far, it does seem to hold up. Gameplay is great and the story is alright if not complex. The protagonist is a bit one dimensional and the prologue backstory didn’t really deepen his character so much as provide an excuse as to why he’s good at driving, blowing shit up, and killing Nazis.
However, I’m finding it much more enjoyable than Just Cause 2, the other sandbox game I bought recently, because the missions are kind of frustrating. Look, parachuting along a road and grappling to a limo to hijack it? Awesome. Manning that road cow across 2km of winding mountain road while the people trying to ‘protect’ my unwilling passenger shoot the hell out of it? Baffling, and frustrating. I’ll go back to it once I’m done with Saboteur, maybe.
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Yeah, I wouldn’t call The Saboteur well made. At all. The reason there have been no patches is that Pandemic Studios has been defunct since its release. In my not-very-long with the game I saw a multitude of hilarious, though no real game breaking glitches.
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Hmm. Well I haven’t had that long with it but I haven’t experienced anything I’d call a glitch. And as you say, they’re not gamebreaking or anything. Anything that makes me laugh instead of scream and hurl my controller across the room, I consider a feature.
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They were mostly in two forms for me: Massively derp ai (which made it stupidly easy at times)
And cars not functioning properly, typically in the realms of “people being in them,” or through them, or in invisible cars. Things like that. Hilarious.-
Stupid easy doesn’t bother me like it used to, I’m getting old. Though so far I kind of wish I’d had the nerve to start on Hard instead of normal because it really hasn’t been much of a challenge so far. I’d up it now, knowing what I do, but I’m sure there’ll be some difficulty spike that will have me ragequitting if I get too cocky.
I will keep an eye out for derpy AI! So far, I have only experienced guards who won’t raise an alarm until you start shooting at them, because apparently the grenade that just took out half the squad didn’t make it apparent enough that there is an enemy nearby (I felt raining grenades on everyone was the most effective way to steal a bottle of champagne).
One feature I REALLY like is that while disguised you can “walk like a Nazi” instead of sneaking to reduce your suspicion circle. It’s such an obvious idea but I don’t think I’ve seen it implemented so cleanly before. Even games like Hitman: Blood Money seem to have a suspicion meter which arbitrarily decides you are acting suspicious if you unwittingly do the wrong thing or go to the wrong place. Realistic, I guess, but it did make for some frustrating gameplay.
Despite this though, Hitman Blood Money is still one of my all time favourite games.
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I absolutely love Saboteur, to the point I finally unlocked all achievements for it, as you pointed out the main character is very one dimensional and don’t expect the story to evolve in anyway, however the draw of the game for me was the gameplay.
For me it was always enjoyable, even though you are blowing up the same guard post/gun emplacement/radar ish several hundreds times each, rather strangely I never found it repetitive. It also gets more enjoyable as you unlock new perks and weapons, this leads to new more enjoyable tactics on blowing the entire countyside to smithereens.-
I’m planning to get all the achievmeents for it – it was an unspoken challenge to my wife and I from the friend who loaned it to us. He boasted that he had 1000/1000 gamerscore, his veiled assertion that he had achieved what we could not. Oh, we will teach him!
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LOVED The Saboteur. My contender for most underrated game of 2009. 🙂
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Morning all. Found CS and CS:CZ for $5 on Steam over the weekend. Barely had time to play it though, too much house renovating.
Did any Melbourners go to Manifest last weekend? I went to my fist one on Friday and Saturday and had a great time, so many awesome cosplays! I bought 2 figures and Persona 3 which all together cost $200, which is nothing compared to my friends who spent thousands upon thousands.
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I haven’t been to Manifest since 2003, I think I easily spent over $700 on swag – $200 of that was on some Robotech collectibles I won at auction.
It was a blast but mainly because it was an excuse to catch up with friends I’d met at smaller conventions (I started going to cons starting with Comicfest back in 2001 before it became Supanova) and people I’d met via the Madman Entertainment forums. It was just a great way to hang out with a whole bunch of people all at once who you don’t normally get to see because we live in different states.
Hello taybies, hope you all had a great weekend. What’s good?
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Deus Ex!
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*shakes fist, stares longingly at postbox*
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Everyone keeps telling me this. I didn’t get into the first one (too busy playing Descent) but it looks pretty rad!
Will have to check it out 🙂-
Want to know a secret? I haven’t played the first one either. Don’t tell anyone!
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To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
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Is that from Conan?
Oh, Arnie…
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I love doing this. It’s pretty much what I do every day – except my enemies are messy code and comic sans.
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Why do you hate comic sans? It’s the bestest of all the fonts!
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I will crrrruuSHHHH YOOOOUUUUU RRRAWWRRRHHHHH!
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Dancing is good.
As is sleep.
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What Blaghsy said.
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If VtM:B and ME are anything to go by, dancing is terrible and no one should ever do it.
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God I miss sleep.
and DDR.Sadface.
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There are certain advantages to being an unemployed bum who is a drain on society.
Not having money and the derisive looks kind of counteract the positives though…
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/08/notch-gives-us-a-tour-of-the-ever-expanding-minecraft-1-8-update/
The next Minecraft Update is looking too awesome for words!
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Hell yes it is! I’m liking the randomly generated towns and the slightly more complex combat. I was also amazed that they’re saying they expect the game to be in full release by the end of the year. You think there’s anything really huge they’re holding back for then?
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Boss fights probably. Notch mentions bosses in that video, something along the lines of “you’ll have to collect a few (something or others) before you can fight it” or something like that (I think). He’s also previously mentioned dragons and, more recently, volcanoes.
What I’d like to see is a giant dungeon inside a volcano with a dragon you must slay. 😀
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Assuming I haven’t ballsed up the link (I’m really tired): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k8nvtukXolKAQBHUiY6flFxDprn1u1l-JjWg0MFH1DA/edit?hl=en_US is everything more or less confirmed for 1.8/1.9.
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Is the inevitable delay confirmed in there as well?
Woooo, 2012. Maybe.-
I reckon 1.8 in Late September, and 1.9 at the very end of October, so they can push out an update of 2.0 for their “final” build that won’t be at all final on their release date thing.
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Hahahaha!
Optimistic!
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I dunno, Notch seemed pretty confident 1.8 was ready to go once he got back from PAX. We might even see it by the weekend.
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You know, it’s sounding less and less like Minecraft 1.8 and more like Minecraft 2…
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Greeting all, your friendly neighbourhood Barbarian has returned from a week of family enforced hard labour… damn family.
May attempt to read last weeks TAY, but it is most unlikely I will be able to find a spare week to read all of it, so who is up for a summary?
What juicy gossip did I miss out on?
Who has married who?
Who has suddenly come down with amnesia? Who’s long lost evil twin has returned to disrupt life?
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Harli and AP are engaged…
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WAT
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Wow! Congratulat- wait, WHAT?
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Weird. You’d think one of them would have told you.
You must be really out of the loop
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I know, I’m just terribly busy living under a rock.
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No one tells me anything…
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Summary of last weeks TAY:
Chuloopa: SPACE MARINE!!!!!!!!!
Everyone else but Strange: DEUS EX!!!!!!!!
Strange: SHUT UP!!!!!!!-
That’s… a pretty good summary really.
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Not to mention Kotaku story thingo part 3.
That was last week, right?
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You also forgot
Chuloopa: KOTAKU CHRONICLES III
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YAY KOTAKU CHRONICLES III YAY!!!
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HEY HEY HEY! When did I mention Deus Ex? Huh, HUH??!
YEAH…
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I’ve forgotten who got amnesia…
Serrels has got himself sunburnt again.
*shakes head in disbelief*
I think he needs a dedicated sunscreen assistant. To rub it sensuously over every-
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FINISH IT!
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But he has a tan now. He should be immune, shouldn’t he?
I’m hoping this is a good enough excus-er, reason as to why I was absent from TAY on Friday.
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb449/lamboman007/IMG_0057.jpg
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Nice work!
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That is a pretty awesome ball hitty thing! (That’s totally what they’re called)
Oh also I guess that helmet is pretty rad too!
Good morning all. How was everyone’s weekend? Friday night, F4ction, Jo, Blaghs, Techie and I played some Dawn of War, after almost 2 hours of trying to get the multiplayer to work, we finally got into a game. My custom team name was “Jo’s Lover” and I think he got really shy after that because he kept “dropping out” and eventually his “game crashed”. It was my first time ever playing Dawn of War, I got my arse handed to me on a plate by Techie within the first 10mins, didn’t fare too well in the following game either.
On Saturday, we played some LoL and I have a new-found hate for Veigar, that little prick kept killing me. So I think I’m going to try playing as him at some point. Went out Saturday night, and I think it was the most tense party I’ve ever been too. Everyone there except my girlfriend and I, had something going on and people were avoiding each other, screaming matches kept breaking out. It was quite amusing.
Sunday, I met my new cousin, he’s possibly the cutest baby I’ve ever seen and I spent 5 hours at my mum’s place, getting the backyard set up for my 21st this weekend. Then played some Deus Ex last night, I am loving that game so much.
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Veigar can be annoying (He’s the mage I play as) and can be lethal end-game. He has a nifty area-effect stun and can lock down an entire team if it’s placed right and can meat out a lot of burst damage. When playing as him I feel his main weakness is the cooldown on his stun – if you can dodge it (by getting out of the way or staying in the middle of it without touching the edges) you should try focus the little bludger down before his cooldown refreshes (think its something like 14 seconds with cooldown reduction).
Also his ulti does lots of damage, with even more damage if you have ability power (does an extra %80 of the targets ap) so if you’ve stacked ability power don’t go after him alone.
Also, 21 – Woot! Any shinanigans planned for your party?
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Beer n’ hookers!
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Yeah doesn’t his ultimate also do like 25% of their mana as extra damage?
Yeah I’m having a party at my mums place. Should be good, pretty much everyone reckons they’re coming so there should be around 70 people there..
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Party at your mums place and everyone’s invited?
You don’t even need to add anything!-
Haha…haha…ha.
🙁
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I’ve been sewing like a madperson all morning trying to get my super-secret project finished because I hate it now and just want it gone.
Because I was rushing I messed up and now I have to unpick a bunch of stuff but I don’t have time because I have a doctor’s appointment. So I guess there’ll be no finishing today and it’ll still be sitting there mocking me tomorrow. Yay.
Oh, and I promise not to throw any tantrums this week. 😉
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Never have I been so interested in a sewing project.
You must post pics when you are done.
I’ll repost this as I accidentally posted it as a reply:
For those guys who have started playing Dawn Of War recently:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/tyranid-mod
I was hoping a new version would have been released by now, but shouldn’t be too long!
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That’s awesome!
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No, first off, everybody gets bare minimum up to Dark Crusade. At least then we’ll have all the available units and we have extra races to choose from.
I saw someone mention earlier that they never played the original Deus Ex, neither did I. I played the first 2 levels of Invisible War about 3 months ago but the graphics were so dated :/ it was hard to get into it. It was also around the same time I got The Witcher 2 and I spent all my time playing that.
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You guys…
http://i55.tinypic.com/28wmm1i.jpg-
HOLY CRAP! WHERE IS THAT?!
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I’ve seen it on a number of cans in random storage areas.
There’s the forever alone guy floating around on a post-it note somewhere too.-
That is so awesome. I haven’t zoomed in on anything really. I have a lot of fun hacking people’s computers and reading their emails 😛
Haha, I went through the hacking mini-game on all these computers and then realised just after that I’d actually found a pocket secretary with the password in there :/
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Whereas I go into a computer, see that I already know the password, and hack it anyway.
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Yeah it is fun 😛
How hilarious was the Nigerian scam email?!
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I hacked a computer, and afterwards found a post-it with the password on it RIGHT NEXT TO THE SCREEN.
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Bahahaha.
Oh that is so much win right there
Dammit I want Daysex now.
But to get it on my inferior PC and deal with crappy visuals and crashing or wait 3 weeks and get it from Ozgameshop?
That is the question.
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I think you’re better off waiting, better visuals will be worth it, especially for your first look at it.
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HA!
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Even better. DO IT!
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Nice! I was rummaging around for emails and found the nigerian scam one. I took a screenshot but didn’t upload it!
Finally ordered my first games from an online store. Pre ordered Spacemarine for $50 and got ME2 for $18 from ozgameshop. I feel like I might never need to go into a game shop again. weird.
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It’s great, isn’t it? My only problem is that often I can’t wait the 2-3 weeks for it to be delivered, so I go out and buy it straight away anyway :/
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But thats good too!
You order the game and then forget about it, then it shows up weeks later and it’s like someone is giving you a surprise gift. Awesome.Oh and welcome to the Space Marine bandwagon.
PS3 or 360?-
It actually just depends on what’s available when I go into buy it. I have both and like both so I’m not phased. Not sure if I’ll be able to get it on launch, as I move house next week and have my 21st this weekend, so I’m a little strapped for cash..
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I been on this wagon since before it had wheels! I’ve been talking it up with loops since the first post.
360 for me. For anyone else getting a 360 version live id : Palstran
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Welcome to the world of online game shopping. You’ve just slashed your gaming expenses in half.
Everyone gets that feeling of “I’m never buying anything in store ever again” when they start buying online. But you probably still will. If a game is only a little more expensive at retail, ill just buy it. I consider it my “Get it instantly” tax
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Just pre-ordered Space Marine on PS3 myself…might see some of you on the field in multiplayer! Chaos all the way!
A pet peeve of mine:
People asking if the Samsung Galaxy S II is just like iPhone 4? Or even worse, an inferior version of iPhone 4? You tech-ignorant folk! >:( *facepalm*
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Well obviously the Samsung Galaxy S II is inferior, it was released almost a year after the iPhone 4. How can you not see that it’s just not as good..
/sarcasm.
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Yeah they came out of nowhere thanks to Apple, iSheep.
I kept getting asked about my custom HTC HD2 (As stock runs Windows 6.5, but I hacked it to run Android Gingerbread), the first thing – the VERY first thing I get asked “Is that an iPhone?” *robofacepalm*
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You I.T. lovin’ guys amuse me. I bet you couldn’t tell the difference between Swamp Thing and Man-Thing.
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My point being: Not everyone is an expert, you shouldn’t expect them to be. Then you all turn into Sughlys, only it’s TECH instead of FILM.
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You humans are all disgusting creatures to me anyway, so that’s pretty irrelevant
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2 shay
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HA!
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Man Google is awesome.
Went to look up the Dark Souls release date and I did not even have to go to a single website – Google looked it up for me and just gave me the answer.
I predict that Google will produce the worlds first AI by accident from their search algorithms.
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I concur with the above statement.
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Also, I love that release date feature.
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I think you’ll find that the first ai was created by [redacted] for the purpose of [entry missing].
And then it just got weird. Because Daedalus and Icarus merged to form Helios, and they manage to integrate themselves into a living being. *nods head*
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….go to sleep Blaghs.
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That sounds like it is from something that I should know…
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As I somehow managed to fail at posting as a reply, it’s a reference to the original Deus Ex.
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Watched Kung Pow: Enter the Fist on the weekend. Oh god, it’s so bad it’s hilarious. Got a few LOL moments but not the funniest movie I’ve ever seen.
WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII YUUU!
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First 30 mins is so funny, too much story after that.
Good flic.
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Where’s Sughly…
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He’ll be here any second now…
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My god that movie is so awesome – i have it on DVD and have watched it a number of times.
The only part i htught was crap was the cow bit – it was too much-
Chuloopa!
Yeah the cow bit was like, extreme cringe-worthy. I loved the villain, hahahahahaah
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Yes, killing is badong. From this moment, I will stand for the opposite of killing: gnodab.
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loooooooool!
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“Oh, and I just thought you were a sadistic psycho bitch.”
Maaaaaan, that movie had me in stitches.
Hey, does anyone want to DL Driver mp demo on XBL and have a match or 50 with me… We should get a group together… Let me know when. Im really liking the shift mechanic and would be fun with a bunch of real people, instead of those internet people.
Anyone interested?
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Sure!
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Was thinking tonight. Not sure when i can jump on so perhaps say around 8-9pm tonight.
I will play it a bit this week.
Gamertag is FatShady Live so just add me and if you see me online, or bug me on twitter im up for a game.
If you haven’t got it, just get it ASAP and we’ll organise a game later in the week.
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I know Blagh’s has been doing it, but how much fun is putting unconscious guards in Deus Ex in compromising positions.
I like to think that when they wake up they’re having a really awkward conversation because neither of them can remember how they got there, so one of them has to assume the other drugged him for some sexy time.
And when they return to base, they’re coming up with a story for why they couldn’t be raised on the radio.
“So, uh we gonna talk about this, Steve”
“There’s nothing to talk about, nothing happened. Our radios just ran out of batteries, that’s why we couldn’t report in”
“I mean, the way we were…”
“I know what you mean, and like I said nothing happened”
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“Did… did you wanna grab a drink sometime?”
“NOTHING HAPPENED”
Then one’s marriage breaks down and the other has an awakening of sorts because he’s come to the conclusion that he’s gay. He embraces the lifestyle hard and the other hits the bottle because his wife left him and took the kids and all his credits.
They meet up a year later, both not content with the lives they’ve been living.
“I wish it could go back to the way it was, to make the pain stop”
“I know, Steve… me too man.”
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“There is a way.”
-pulls out pistol-
Huh… maybe being non-lethal actually leads to more pain for these guys…
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I love the way your mind works. This made me laugh quite a lot 😛
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ROFL!
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I put six of them in a small room once.
That would have been difficult for them to explain.
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It’s only ever two men to a room in my game.
Gotta give them privacy.
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I like hiding the guards in vents. I like to imagine how hard it’s going to be for them all to get out once they wake up.
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I do this as well, but in my world it leads to them getting worker’s comp because they now have a fear of confined spaces after awakening in what they perceived as a coffin.
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This comment has elevated you to a very special position, that which only one man has been in before. If you know what I mean.
You, just like Plainview before you, have reached the lofty heights of “Amazeballs” making me wish I could steal your brain.
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LOL.
I ususaly feel a little bad for then that after I’ve knocked them out I then go and drag tehm all over the place and slam all their limbs into solid objects when i’m trying to hide them. They are going to be so bruised in the morning.
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I got the leg of one of them stuck through a wall.
I imagine that would have stung in the morning.
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I got one stuck in a chair.
http://i55.tinypic.com/123ntxk.jpg
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It’s a reference to the original Deus Ex.
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Oh Bollocks.
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Its ok, I understand.
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Sandra and her parents?
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Scared to look in the DE:HR review article.
Spoilers.
;__;
But from what I briefly saw, people are loving it.
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Speaking of spoilers, I watched The Prestige for the first time Friday night without it being spoiled previously.
I have realised from this that Deus Ex will never be as good as it could have been because it doesn’t have David Bowie in it.
Every game needs David Bowie in it.
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Everything is improved with David Bowie.
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Holy crap! I watched The Prestige again last night!
It is so effing good.
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Agreed. Definitely preferred it to The Illusionist.
Although I must admit I kinda figured out the movie about half way 😛-
I never saw the comparison, except the magicy stuff they were two very different movies…
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I just had a quick squiz and I didn’t see anything that was a real spoiler, the worst was naming the some of the cities you go to.
War of the worlds game… Discuss!
I had no idea it was in the works, but this is one of my all time fav books. It seems like they are doing it justice and I am super keen to have a look at this.
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So… Do you have to go around sneezing on martians?
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Having just talked to Q-bo, I think he’d currently be pretty pro at holding off Martians.
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^**Spoilers** LOLOLOLOL..
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Oh, crap. Sorry…
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After last week, my comment was a joke btw…
I figure if we cant talk freely about a book from 1898 then whats the point… If you haven’t read it in over 100 years then we can assume that you wont.
That is a bad position to take really, because its a great book…. damn, spoiler free comments is the new politically correct!
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One word: WANT
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I haven’t heard anything about it, but now I know it exists I’m curious to see if it’s some sort of survival horror thing as you try not to be incinerated, or if they just used the idea of tripods and built some sort of RTS out of it.
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Platformer, plays like Flashback and Another World.
Voiced by Patrick Stewart.This is win here people.
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I just saw the promotional trailer for this yesterday and it looks really cool! It’s made by the guys who also made Dark Void Zero and other XBLA and PSN games that have an awesome retro-feel to them, so I’m pretty keen to see what they’ve done with The War of the Worlds. 😀
I’m not sure why I’m bothering to pass this on, but I’m sure someone might potentially care… Ehhh.
Anyway, I wrote a song for Welbot because he had a crap weekend. So please, enjoy the fruits of five minutes total work, and two takes as I made the tune up as I went along…
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Dat song.
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Thanks Bish…
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Oh, uhhh, uhhh, I like the parts where it rhymes!
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Bahahaha. It’s funny because it’s poisonous.
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Autotune it up!
Also needs more wubwubwub-
Autotune only helps if you have a tune you’re attempting to tune it to. Five minutes after I recorded this I could not have hummed the tune without listening to the song.
And wub? Ehh.
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Awesome! quick AnonPez! drum and bass remix!
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I’m still waiting for your cover of Gee! Is it in the making?!
It seems August is my Shameless Gaming Month.
Finished inFAMOUS
100%’d Darksiders
Finished Borderlands
I’d been waiting to finish Borderlands with a mate, but it’s been ages so I thought I may as well get it over and done with.
That ending… It took me a moment to realise what was going on. Then I finally understood what everyone had been going on about.
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Holy crap, I finished Borderlands as well on the weekend. Though it turned out we were like 5 minutes from the Vault. That ending was stupid. In fact, the entire borderlands story was stupid. But the co-op was great fun, and the RPS mechanic worked well. It would work even better if the storage space in your bag was bigger. Much, much bigger.
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Borderlands was great but there was a lot of improvement. Exactly why I always felt a Borderlands sequel would be amazing, because they have the basics down pat, now they can really polish it and add some amazing stuff.
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Absolutely. The sequel is something that I’m really going to be looking forward to. I also like that this time round they’ll have the art design down pat from the start, so hopefully they can design more varied and even crazier looking places.
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I thought the story was quite clever (sort of), but I still felt let down.
Yep, a storage locker in town (or something like that) would be more than welcome.-
You know you get a bank you can store items in with the Underdome Riot DLC?
Also, Claptrap Robolution and The Secret Armory of General Knoxx at waaaaay better than the main game by itself.
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Whoops. Should have grabbed the DLC…
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Ending?
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…the hero saves the day?
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Dat ending.
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I didn’t actually mind Borderlands ending. Based on what people had said about it I was expecting something really horrible. That it was just going to cut to black or turn out to be a dream or something. I can’t really understand why people hate it so much.
I think The Cracks has one, but I’ve been thinking of buying the Razer Onza tournament controller as a PC gamepad. I find myself wanting to play Deus Ex whilst chilling out and leaning back on my chair, as opposed to being hunched over my desk with a KB&M (which is what I spend 40 hours each week doing anyway). Does anyone have any good recommendations for PC gamepads?
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I got a Razer Onza Tournament.
I regret it.A regular 360 controller for PC would be my recommendation.
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What’s wrong with it?
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It is uncomfortable for some reason. The dimensions are slightly awkward, I found myself needing to continually shift my grip just to use the left bumpers and my hands ached after using it for an hour.
The triggers are too long and awkward to use, the build quality is terrible – except for the micro response ones the buttons are sticky and the right bump is already loose and I barely used it.
The adjustable thumb-sticks do nothing as far as I could tell except make the stick-click harder to use.Maybe it is just me, other peeps say it is great but can’t say I agree.
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I’m a big fan of the 360 controller, so I prefer to use that as a gamepad for PC games. Also, a lot of games have native 360 controller support, so that saves you the trouble of mapping controls to the gamepad.
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I love mine. Except my left trigger occasionally ‘twitches’ instead of holding.
My thoughts:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/05/reader-review-razer-onza-tournament-edition/
A couple of screens for last nights LoLing
We decided to try out different characters and go a round of PVE. Only 4 of us at his stage so we picked up a random.
http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee509/GorzillaAU/leagebotrape-1.jpg
This random was playing Garen and had apparently gotten to max rank almost exclusively off PVE. We started a new game called. TRY TO KILL STEAL OFF GARREN. We failed, hard.
First PVP round I was in:
http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee509/GorzillaAU/pvp1.jpg
whole team went well, thogh after playing Miss Fortune for ages I was being too agressive for a support character. I even managed to steal first blood. TechKnight was his usual OP self.
We had 3 more rounds with victories so one sided I declined to take screenshots out of pity for the defeated.
This random was playing garren and had apparently gotten to max rank almost exclusivly off PVE. We started a new game called. TRY TO KILL STEAL OFF GARREN. We failed, hard.
First PVP round I was in:
http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee509/GorzillaAU/pvp1.jpg
whole team went well, thogh after playing Miss Fortune for ages I was being too agressive for a support character. I even managed to steal first blood. Tech Knight was his usual OP self.
We had 3 more rounds with victories so one sided I declined to take screenshots out of pitty for the defeated.
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argh, I suck at posting
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MONKEY!
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Magic?
“You sissy poofter!”
Great show.-
Pretty sure I replied to Jimu, Reply Button. It’s even in my history, yo.
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I don’t know, it seems kind of fishy, I’ll have a chat with the server.
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Yep, everything seems to be working.
Enjoy yourselves.
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Swell!
Keep being rad, guys.
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Best line in the whole show.
rofl “his usual OP self”
But I love being an OP zappy kitty!
Still remember my teleport surprise attack on that match, I just teleported into the very front minion while they were trying to pry us off their turret, which also just happened to be right in the middle of the group of four then just went nuts, ulti and all, got a triple kill in seconds and Steve-O jumped in for the final one, wiped them out in less than ten seconds I think xD
That was sooooo satisfying!
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That was hilarious.
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I think they were under the impression it was their fifth member porting in or something, hence why they didn’t run xD
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Which is what Rammus is great for, you’re also the greatest known for that taunt, keeping them off our arses, but the main thing you’d get as Rammus is assists for keeping them distracted while we tear them a new one!
That taunt is way more useful than lots of people think both for offensive and defensive uses
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Thanks! It is often hard to judge my performance so it’s good to know I’m doing ok.
My favorite was in an ill fated 3v3 game I played. We lost but I had the other team raging at me for my taunt use.
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Even in a simple 2v2 a good taunt at the right time can equal a kill if you had someone like Garen or Master Yi beside you. I’ve seen vids on 2v2s that Rammus was able to taunt and assist kill both of them one at a time without much trouble at all.
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Dammit, that sounds like it was an awesome match. Wish I’d played last night!
I must say Stevo, you kick so much arse.
Garren or Veigar, you always come out of a game with more kills than anyone else (more than the rest of us combined sometimes) and you’re just like “eh, I did ok.”
*Shakes fist*
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He keeps making us look bad, I don’t like it! DoTA elitist scum! >.<
Nah we're glad to have you with us 🙂
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Everyone makes me look bad 😛
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wooo go Steve-O! DOTA players represent!
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DotA Woot! Only good with the 2 champions though. I still take my hat off to Techy who is a beast with 4 of them.
DotA experience really does help though, I look forward to pwning with you when you decide to jump on/hold up the bandwagon Harli!
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Oh and if there’s one thing DotA has taught me it’s the value of a good kill-steal! 😛
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I stole quite a few of your kills the other day 😛
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Meh I got a triple kill when you stole my potential quadro kill that game. 😛 So I kinda don’t mind TOO much! haha
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Soon my sweet, soon.
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rofl when you start joining us with your HoN and DoTA skills, people are gonna start thinking you’re a smurf on our team matches xD
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You give me too much credit, Tech Knight.
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I guess it’s just DoTA and HoN I never actually got good practice with. That time I was a teenager and trying it out? It was only one single all nighter, and it wasn’t with a clan or anything. ONE night! So I have little to no experience in it whatsoever. Thanks to LoL I know the basics enough, but when it comes to HoN/DoTA heroes… none of them appeal to me in a permanent fashion like LoL does for me.
You just haven’t experienced the pleasure of being able to ‘toss’ your allies into compromising situations (like next to a turret) 😀
Amen to that bro!
Can’t wait to join you guys. It’ll have to wait till after the HoN tournament this weekend though – I’ll let you guys know how we go 😀
Yes please do, I may voice that I don’t like it personally, but it’s still a MOBA, and a MOBA reflecting on the one that started it all. I still want to know the details of your war on the Legion/Hellbourne
I’ll do my best to make it as entertaining as possible then ;D
Yeah I have no idea what you mean, I know grabbing enemies and pulling them to your turret. Blitzcrank is like a robotic Scorpion with Ryu mechanics as well.
*Rocket Grab* – GET OVER HERE!
*Power Fist* – SHARYUKEN!
It appears that six hours of wandering around Bangkok Airport with the wireless on my 3DS yielded a grand total of ZERO street pass hits.
How Serrels managed so many is beyond me.
Also, I’m back y’all.
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WHADDUP, T-DAWG
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Note to self: Never speak/type like that ever again.
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Welcome back Bunny, Steve-O missed you terribly, his Garen play has never been the same
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Bunny! Did you watch the MLG? Pretty interesting.
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I missed it, going to catch up on the VODs later today.
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Welcome back Bunny!
Have a good trip?
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You were missed Trjn, there was LoLs had and it wasn’t as fun without you. Janna was so kind to me, giving me heals, and buffs, and telling me to ‘b’.
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Hi Bunny! Welcome back. Got any new, fascinating stories picked up from your travels?! I always love hearing about travel stories when people come back from trips, except for the part where it makes me depressed about being stuck here.
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Ask him about the finch 😛
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To stick to the more safe for work stories for now, at a go-go bar one night a drunk Aussie girl got up and started to pole dance with the girls. She was much better than they were.
She even started to strip but the management did not seem to approve.
Also, her male friend caught some ping pong balls in his mouth.
Oh and they were from Brisbane.
Also, elephant rides are somewhat uncomfortable and wearing sunglasses or some sort of eye protection when going mountain buggying is advisable, I was blind for most of that dangit.
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Welcome back man 😀
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Chin-up.
I get around 3 a day doing the Brissie CBD.
So, RAGE. Looks pretty awesome. Except when the words “BETHESDA SOFTWORKS” appear I can’t help but think it’s channeling a little bit too much Fallout. Regardless, I am still looking forward to it. Is anyone else?
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Very, very much so. Although I don’t know if I’ll be able to get it on release day anymore :/ too many bills, not enough money 🙁
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I am, but I just don’t know how I’m going to fit it in.
I’ve had to limit myself to no more games until Batman, then it’s a new game every week.
As for the Fallout flavour, it definitely has that/a Borderlands feel to it. But the shooting etc looks really satisfying.
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A new game every week? I am sooooooooooo jelly!
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To be fair, I really shouldn’t but also ballz to responsibility!
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Kinda sorta. From a tech perspective, the game looks amazing, and I want to see all the fuss with megatextures and how well it plays. From a gameplay perspective, it looks a better looking borderlands, which seems pretty cool. But I was listening to the GAPodcast and they were discussing it didn’t feel like an open world, more like, use the buggy to get from A to B, corridor shooter, buggy to the next bit, corridor shooter, etc. Now obviously this can’t be taken seriously, as they only had a few hour play session, and the game is probably more dense than that, but eh. I think i’ll wait it out. Was happy to see it has steamworks, so no need to pay the bullcrap price bethesda wants to charge on steam.
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Yeah Rage looks pretty sweet, but I don’t think it’ll be a day-one buy from me.
The works looks great and I’m sure as a shooter it’ll be great fun, but apart from being able to drive the buggy I haven’t seen anything super original to make me stand up and take notice.
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I thought Rage was Borderlands 2.
Hah hah hah, see what I did there? I was implying that Rage is some sort of copy of Borderlands, even though it was in development before Borderlands.
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that emote is win.
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After Mario Kart was announced I mario kart mario kart…mario kart???
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Oh Jimu, you so funny.
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Are you going to be leaving me in the dust in MK7, dorter???
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But I thought you liked dust!
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Having a hang-youself-from-the-coat-hook type Monday at work… hope everyone else’s day is going better!
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We just sat and watched the scanner scan in slow motion for 3 hrs…highly productive.
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My day got better when I imagined you hanging from a coathook. Sorry.
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Just realised how bad that sounded! I meant like hanging from a coathook by the back of your coat, not hanging from the neck until dead. I am so so,sorry!
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😛
The leading cause of death for public servants is no cause for joking.
We get at least three a week, just on our floor.
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I’m a bad person.
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I’m a gonna try my best to be there.
Even if not, though, would be cool to see you all, if you have time to spare for a cuppa at ours….?
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Yeah, works pretty arousing for me as well.
Wait… what do you mean?
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heh heh heh…
Loops – did you get that email?
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The one about the dead hookers?
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Crap, they’re onto us!
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Why is the sticky stuff from the tape when you get a blood test so impossible to remove from your skin? My inner elbow keeps sticking to itself every time I bend my arm.
Also, even though I’ve just got back from lunch and am full I want Shaker Fries. Damn you ‘Remember This?’. 😛
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Use some kind of oil. Tea tree, vegetable, whatever.
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That will never taste as good as shaker fries…
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Lawl!
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Zing!
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This is why you can never leave us again!
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***BLUSHING***
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wait…
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Oh yeah, I used to know that. Guess I’ve been trying to fit too much info into my head and some fell out….
There’s always room for shaker fries.
Also rub your hand over the sticky patch really quickly. It will make little sticky balls of filth that you can flick on friends/children/pets!
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Apparently there’s a new McDonalds going up soon within easy walking distance of my house. If it was there already I’d be up there every day begging for Shaker Fries.
And unfortunately my son is having a nap so I have no-one to flick my goo at. Oh well, my daughter will be home from school soon….
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Homer: “I dunnooo, bart, fish?”
Bart: ” Daaaad” Rubs fish on wall, can see outside.
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“It’s your window to weight-gain!”
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Work all week on an assignment, make sure it’s perfect, proofread 3 times.
Printer doesn’t work
FFFFFFUUUUUUU!!!!
Blaghman your song for Welbot is awesome. I love that you tagged it as “Terriblecore”. 😀
Blood Bros. : First Blood is making wonders to help me make this Monday my BITCH.
I feel like I should start doing pushups or something.
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That’s why evolution/God/whatever gave us arms!
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*cough*
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AHAHAHA!!
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I have to get all the gaming I love out of my system this week (by Thursday night)! I’m hopefully getting my motorbike licence on Saturday/Sunday and bike on Monday. All I’ll want to do after that is ride, baby ride.
Then I’m on carer’s leave for a month, so more riding and some minor gaming!
So…. LoL tonight? Or should I play Deus Ex?
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Eek! Now I’m gonna be all worried about you!
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Awwww.
I’m a big boy, I can take care of myself! Also, plenty of family friends are bikers and have offered to take me along so I can learn with some experienced riders by my side 🙂
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Yamaha XVS650A Classic (i.e. http://www.yamaha-motor.com.au/sites/yamaha-motor/files/imagecache/lightbox/2010_XVS650A_DRMK_AU_1.jpg). Excellent learner approved bike.
My mum just bought a Harley Davidson Superlow as well!
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Sweeet!.
I have a Suzuki GSR600:
http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/Gallery%20%20A/Suzuki%20GSR600%20B-King%2006%20%203.jpgTis good fun, especially with a group.
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What bike you getting?
Well if you start playing Deus Ex, you’ll be drawn into it and have to keep playing until you’re done 😛
LoL is always good fun though.
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If I can, I’d love to lol on LoL… with Kennen, the lightning ninja kitty!
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I shall try my hand at Malzahar. I really want to like using him but I just can’t get it right.
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Yeah, I read that you basically have to line up all of his abilities or he’ll just pester (when going it alone).
Probably part of the reason I’ve not done too well with him is because I kept getting left to fend for myself.
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Flying ants play LoL?
Oops.
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I gave him a go once, his ult can be devastating but the rest of his moves are quite meh.
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Solo he just sucks, I was able to keep him so defensive and got him 2/0 with Kennen in mid. I think he’s MUCH better in a lane with another. He lines em up, and one like Garen knocks him down
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Well actually, his other moves can be very good if you can manage to catch someone with all of them then your ult, but without it they are just mild harassment.
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Halp! I’m being attacked by a flying ant!
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If you’re tweeting during this ‘attack’, then i think you’ll be fine.
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CRAP! media fail.
*TAYing… (did you tweet about it?) Nope didnt see it.
Anyway, hope you survived.
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#awkwardtweet
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If Strange doesn’t reply in the next 2 seconds I’m going to assume the attack was a success.
I will weep for you, Strange.
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It was staking out my keyboard!
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Just making sure you don’t break the internet.
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*squash*
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curses, foiled again
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KILL IT , IT’S A FUTURE QUEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!!
*gets inside powerloader*
Stay away from her you B***H!
TAY is definitely not as busy this week 🙁
I’ve had quite a few Apple Repairs to get done today and had to get everything ready for a couple of audits we’re having this week :/ not fun.
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That’s a *good* thing! 😀
I actually caught up for once!
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I think they’re all Deus Ex-ing
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*sigh* wish I was.
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This!
I had to stop reading the review article, because people were talking about the ending. I think I spoiled something 🙁
Sigh.
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There was no way in hell I was going to click on that community review article, people are ALWAYS talking about major plot stuff in those.
And JamesMag, it’s the calm before the storm. That and I think Blaghman’s gone to bed. 😛
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Actually there was no plot stuff until the second page, then some guy had major spoilers and now I know one of the potential endings. There wasn’t even a SPOILER warning 🙁
Very disappointed now and I know how you were feeling last week, I’m so sorry for that by the way.
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Haha, no problems, I was just having a really bad day and threw a tantrum.
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I’ve got it at home, had it preloaded for the release date, have just had no time to play it, just past the second mission. It’s completely amazing but I live with my girlfriend and I watch a TV show with her every night, and with that and dinner, etc. I’m lucky to get an hour in a night.
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Yeah I never get to game at night, Mr. Strange will play something (LA Noire at the moment)and then he and I will watch stuff together. Last night we watched the latest Doctor Who episode. I must say, I’m finding this Doctor to be fun. Although the preview for the next episode was totally creepy.
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I don’t know about the new Doctor, I watched a couple of episodes last season but I just don’t think he’s as good as David Tenant was, I’m probably just biased though.
Night and on weekends is the only time I get to game, the joy of having a full time job 😛 hopefully get some more time when we move next week as my girlfriend will hopefully start up her jewellery making again.
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‘totes am.
Dat DX.
One guy on the whirlpool forums said he blazed through way past where I am in 8 hours. He’s progressed further in the story than I have in 23 hours.
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Yeah man, well he’s not taking the time to enjoy the game. You’re exploring, reading emails, etc. If you just went through, did none of the sidequests, didn’t stealth and didn’t explore at all, the game wouldn’t last that long.
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I know, it’s just that I find it… interesting that someone would choose to blast through a game like this like that.
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If by interesting, you mean they’re completely retarded, then I agree with you 🙂
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You’re right, I’ve had school lessons (45 mins) that have spawned multiple pages faster than today.
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I know what you mean. I can’t really blame people though, I haven’t really posted much because I can’t think of anything to say 😛
Bracket of last Friday’s Tekken 6 tournament is out – I got equal 17th place out of 47!! LOLOLOL
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Whoop whoop whoop!
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Well done!
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By my calculations, that’s about 31 better than I’d have done, soI feel honour bound to congratulate you.
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Yay! I can’t wait until The Pessimist tries and fails miserably to beat you! 😛
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bahahaha, oh how I will savour that moment.
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Wow still, well done for getting that far 🙂
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Thanks guys 🙂
Just bought my Kindle 3G…I think i’m in love…
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My gf has got me one for my 21st this weekend. It’s wrapped up, underneath the coffee table, the temptation to open it is so much. I don’t even know if it’s Wifi or 3G either..
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I know what you mean. I couldn’t stop stroking mine when I first got it….
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A question for Kindle owners – Does the screen support color? If not how clear are websites in black and white on the 3G version?
I am contemplating picking one up but still deciding between 3G and WiFi versions but have also seen some e-readers at Big W for less than $100.
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Just admit it Steve-O, you wanted your picture books in colour.
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But the Very Hungry Caterpillar won’t look as pretty in black and white…
Actually now that I think about it, how are the holes in the page gonna work?
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The Kindle warranty doesn’t cover The Very Hungry Caterpillar. BEWARE 🙂
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Does anyone know whether there’s a high res texture pack or anything for the original Deus Ex? I want to play it once I’ve finished HR but I don’t know if I’ll be able to stand the crappy graphics..
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Also:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/08/its-time-to-play-the-original-deus-ex-in-high-definition/HDTP seemed to have stopped ages ago. Shame really. I think they do have something up though.
Be warned it’ll still play old. Also some of the lighting effects are terrible. Relatively.
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And Bish, I know it will play old, I’ve just heard really good things about it so thought it was worth a playthrough.
Just booked tickets LondonReykjavik
Should be interesting
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There probably should be a ” to ” amongst those letters.
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pfft, semantics.
When do you go?
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Flying to London on Thursday.
Monday to Saturday in Reykjavik.
Then London/Wales/Other until the 21st.
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ICELAND!!!!! 😀
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If I promise to pack you in my suitcase if I end up going back to America next year will you pack me in yours for this trip?
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Talking to me?
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The Reply Button hates me. 🙁
And Woo Hoo!!!!
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Does anyone know if your speed is affected if you have a high volume of downloads with TPG’s unlimited ADSL2+ plan? Is it better to just go for the high bandwidth rather than the unlimited?
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Friend on unlimited TPG says:
“I can torrent non stop all month at 1mb/s+ if its a good torrent, no weird speed limiting.
Steam I get 2.5
Nothing else seems to be able to match that”I think that 2.5 from Steam is from overseas servers though. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered an Australian Steam content server going that fast. I think I used to get 1mb/s on NSW Telstra before for some reason it dropped to 250kb/s at best.
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Thanks dude, you and your friend have been very helpful 🙂 if that’s the case, I may as well pay the extra $10 a month for Unlimited, so I don’t have to worry about going over.
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http://flic.kr/p/ahmfAm
Mr. Strange surprised me with this tonight.
Cuteasaurus!
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Is that a pillow?
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Yep. also, just noticed if you lift up its tail there’s an embroidered ‘x’ there. Eww!
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it’s a pet,
it’s a PILLOW PET!-
I’ve had that stuck in my head since he gave it to me!
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stupid pillow pet ads, annoying me while I’m trying to watch Symbionic Titan :/
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OMG!
Amaterasu, what have they done to you ;(
wow, the space marine demo on psn/xbla is visceral and fun.
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ohhhhhhhhhhh helllll yeahhh!!!
Oh by the way, I hopped on the Kotaku AU minecraft server last night. YOU PEOPLE ARE ARCHITECTURAL FREAKS!!*
*said out of pure envy due to the awesome stuff I’ve seen built there.
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I feel like I need to see this stuff, the guys I play with are all “house here” and “cave there.” It’s a little disappointing.
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Just remember, the most impressive thing is mine!*
*Is probably not mine.
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I like the boat, who built the boat?
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Did you see Pessimist’s giant thing?
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You must be saying these things on purpose now. Surely.
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trollgrin.jpeg
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So, does anyone know of any game recording software other than FRAPS?
The above looks too pricey for how much I would use it.
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http://www.effectmatrix.com/Game-Capture/index.htm
You could give this a try, don’t know how good it is but it’s free!
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After a bit more searching, this one seems to be one of the most popular:
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Cheers!
I have a medicine bottle on my desk at work labelled “Happy Pills”
It’s empty.
Which makes me sad.
Which is when I need Happy Pills the most! D:
C’est la vie…
(NB: Bottle originally contained jelly beans)
My Weekend on Teamspeak
By Grandmaster B-Funk
(for intended affect, read this as if a 5 yeaar old has wrote it)
on the weekend i went on teamspeak
when i first went on, every said hello, then preceded to start talking about initiations, i got scared
but then every got non-scary, and i played some LoL
i found out both me and numbers play as Ashe, so to settle this, i used my psychic abilities to exactly pick a number that had been randomly genreated.
then after LoL, everyone who was still on started talking about how school was so great, and that i’m lucky to still be in school, even though i hate it.
then we played more LoL, and i played as annie, because numbers suspiciously locked out Ashe before i could choose her.
i also found out that crabjiffy is in fact Darnell from my name is earl
then the next day, i went on, but everyone else was playing LoL, so i played dissidia, and only talked to make “that’s what she said” jokes.
i had a fun time on teamspeak, and it was cool.
but seriously guys, was really cool to put voices to names, so thanks to all the guys who talked to me xD i had a great time talking to you all!
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No worries B-Funk, you’re a cool dude. And the initiation will only haunt your nightmares for 10 years or so, you’re young, you’ll have the rest of your life after that!
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So let me tell you about finches.
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Just think, in a week or two, you’ll be reading TAY comments in those voices too.
Infact, why don’t you try to read this in my voice right now.
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Yay for the Funk!
Gorramn it. I suck at this.
I fell asleep.
*sigh*
Looks like more sleepless nights…
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HA! Knew you would! 😛
That would also explain your absence from TAY.
Deus Ex is loaded and ready to play… Now if I could only stop playing TimeSplitters… Oh Virus with monkeys, you had me at ‘Virus with Monkeys’
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WHY HAS NO OTHER GAME DONE VIRUS?
I MEAN, INFECTION ON HALO IS SORT OF LIKE THAT, BUT I LIKED THAT IT WAS MORE LIKE A MASSIVE GAME OF TAG!
MAN I LOVE THAT GAME!!-
I know, right? It is amazingly fun. And intense. Nothing like turning around the corner and seeing a green-flamed zombie running at you. That’s it. I’m playing it some more.
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Been home from work today taking care of wittle Bee after her Surgery – i’m happy to let you know she is alive… ALIVE MUHAHAHAHA
For those of you that missed it, she’s had all 4 wisdom teeth out.
SO because i haven’t been that active – SPACE MARINNNNNEEEE!!!!!
Here’s a SMALL AMOUNT (lol) of info about the Ultramarines!
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Ultramarines
GET EXCITED PEOPLE!
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All this TAYing (braying?) about Space Marine actually makes me want to buy it now!
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Have you played the demo? I strongly suggest you do – and if you enjoy it, either consider buying it in the future, or pre-order it from your local stockist of ozgameshop 🙂
thisadspokenbychuloopaforspacemarinespokeninareallyfastvoiceattheendtofitinthelegalstuff
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Full disclosure 😛
I might give the demo a go when I get some free time, or wait for the flood of TAY reviews.
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if it weren’t for you, i never would have known this game existed, i’m going to have to use your tactic for when Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny comes out (September 27th people, america only, so get yah imports ready!) and constantly talk about that!!!
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so…buying it? 😉
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I’m getting the demo this weekend, then we’ll see 😉
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*shuddders*
Please, please, please, never say those last three words again, or anything similar to that effect
#personalreasons
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Sounds ominous – i really hope it has nothing to do with those “nasal delivery” ads and lots of shouting.
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DUDE!
I want my Space Marine to look like this.
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110307051258/warhammer40k/images/2/26/Ultramarine_Honour_Guard.jpgAlso we need a name for our TAY Space Marine chapter.
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Easy: Dark Angels.
😛
I’m probably gonna emulate my painted DA models, and be green main with bleached bone from the knees down and on one of the shoulders.
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Steveo: In response to your Kindle question, The kindle displays in black & white, and is not lit in any way, though the cover has a n attached reading light.
I know this, ’cause my Nanna got one as a gift recently
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Cheers mate
Sorry Jo, thats never happened to me. Im usually able to perform much better. I was distracted so couldnt keep up with you…
And by that i mean sorry i wansnt around last night. My son woke during our games and wouldnt go back to sleep, perhaps is was the family guy before bed where Peter kicked the crap out of the chicken…..
Anyway, will try again another nite. Sorry man. thanks for the game though.
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Nah that’s cool.
Looks like it might be a fun game, thanks for getting me to play it.
Sigh. Just spent a couple of hours trying to get the damn xbox controller to work with Deus Ex and Crysis 2. It worked fine with Bastion, but with the other two games it just kept on freezing until the controller was disconnected. Has anyone had a similar experience? Or should I just return it?
I’m back in the office.
This means one thing.
TrjnSpam!
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Patent pending.
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From the creators of TrjnSpam™, we give you:
FinchSpam™! – “It’s twice as fowl!”-
HAHAHA!!
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STEVE HOLT \o/
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Slightly late, always great – it’s TABTOL!!
TAY August 27, 2011: 2625 comments
1: jamesmag 350 posts (13.3%)
2: Tech Knight 216 posts (8.2%)
3: Blaghman 187 posts (7.1%)
4: Chuloopa 185 posts (7.0%)
5: Bish 181 posts (6.9%)
6: Harli 145 posts (5.5%)
7: Jimu 101 posts (3.8%)
8: Strange 94 posts (3.6%)
9: Effluvium Boy 89 posts (3.4%)
10: Steve-O The Deve-O 88 posts (3.4%)
11: Jo 80 posts (3.0%)
12: NotoriousR 63 posts (2.4%)
13: jamesmacusedmyhandle 57 posts (2.2%)
14: Dr What? 55 posts (2.1%)
15: The Cracks 52 posts (2.0%)
16: dawdle! 46 posts (1.8%)
17: PunishingHand 41 posts (1.6%)
18: lambomann007 39 posts (1.5%)
19: Dire Wolf 33 posts (1.3%)
20: Rocketman 32 posts (1.2%)
21: DAN! 31 posts (1.2%)
21: PuppyLicks 31 posts (1.2%)
23: f4ction 27 posts (1.0%)
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Post #1: jimu at 08:33 22/08
Post #1000: jamesmag at 16:52 23/08
Post #2000: jamesmag at 16:34 25/08
Post #2625: Dr What? at 08:41 29/08
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I like the part where you rhymed at the start. And jesus, I really need to stop posting, 3 weeks in a row as top poster is not cool..
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Is it weird that I read that to the tune of the Playschool theme?
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There’s a jamesmag in there
and a Tech Knight as well
There’s Blaghman playing games
and Chuloopa’s got a story to tell
Open wide
Come inside
It’s TAY school-
Brilliant.
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Robbed of top 5 yet again!
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Bish defeated you, you wicked cHarlitan.
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That play on words worked better in my mind…
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I was just going to return the “COME AT ME BRO”, but I guess that gets points for almost being clever.
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/slow clap
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33rd!
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Steve-O breaks into the top 10! \o/
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HA! I didn’t come second! Success!
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I like that our soon-to-be-overlord is already posting more than our soon-to-bugger-off-to-Scotland overlord. Well done Tracey!
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I day I’ll get into the top ten, one day I tell one! *shakes fist*
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ZOIDBERG WINS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRudxIusa54
Some Uncharted 3 Multiplayer footage from a new map, Desert village. Looks like they’ve made everything (textures in particular) look a lot more sharper since the beta. I am excite for game!
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That was the best video ever
German Guy in background: “blah blah blah blah modnation racers, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah modnation racers, blah blah modnation recers”
Then Barbara Streisand starts playing!Oh, but the game looks great!
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Sorry to say it but that human is horrible
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I don’t even get it. It starts off okay, but then in the last second she gets all stupid and is like blah blah blah blah what a terrible person. Stupid people are stupid.
Just this morning, I was driving with my mum to work (I’m on my L’s. Shut up, I’m lazy). Generally I drive at about 55-60 in a 60 zone. Guy behind was really impatient and tailgating, and of course, when people do that, I’m just going go even slower. Eventually he overtakes me and we meet at a light. His passenger winds down the window and says ‘Learn how to f**king drive mate’. I was like ‘yeah, that’s kinda why I have L plates on the car…..’
Stupid people are stupid.
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Man who gets angry at an L plater?
Really.
Though if someone has their full license and is going 10ks under the limit then I reserve the right to get shitty. -
Ah L-plates, the bane of all full licence holders, next to P-plates of course
P.S. Don’t worry, we were all on our L’s at one point, some of us (us) still are.
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I didn’t get my Ls until I was two decades old (so old)!
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I got them when I was 16… but then held them for 14 years before converting them into Ps. I win?
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I got my L’s at 15 ten months, and they expired when I was 17 ten months, and now, at twenty, I just haven’t bothered.
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Don’t… they expire after a few years?
Although Blaghsy and Strange don’t have one. I guess they win?
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Yes. Which is why you go get them again. And again. And again. And maybe again, I lost track.
And the others don’t win until they actually pass the driving test!
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You know what? Thank god for him that she wasn’t interested. 😛
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This. What a shallow person the author is. Really, I don’t see the need for that article at all.
What an arrogant tart…
His three strikes were still playing the game, still playing frequently and having met most of his friends through it.
This is why baseball is a terrible sport.
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Good comment is good.
What’s the odds of the entire story being a massive troll?
1. Pick an obsessive group of “nerds”.
2. Say something mean and shallow about them on the Internet, which means that they’re all going to read it.
3. ???
4. Profit / Perverse pleasure / Results for bizarre social experiment!
Or maybe I’m giving her too much credit and she is just a jerk.
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You know what? I’m 1000% positive she’s just a jerk. I’ve known girls like her before. Too obsessed with appearances and what everyone else will think to bother stepping out of their perceived normal zone.
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Sure, I’ve known people like that too, but none of them have gone on to write about it. On the Internet. Then post it on a tech blog. Just seems a little too deliberately incendiary to me. And if it was designed to increase attention (and therefore traffic flow), well, that sounds like trolling to me.
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You know what else? Why am I starting everything with “you know what?”? 😛
I actually think she’ll be pretty surprised that there’s a whole bunch of non-“nerds” out there who aren’t agreeing with her. She wouldn’t have written the article if she didn’t think girls would be nodding and going “Uh-huh, I hear you sister”.
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Anyway, talking about her is probably what she wants. We can just agree that ignoring any other underlying motives, she’s definitely a jerk, and that’s that 🙂
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Jerky McJerkinson.
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Uh. Just to clarify, her not you!
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Both my teacher and the guy sitting next to me are sick. I’m scared I’ll catch something. Everytime either one of them coughs I can sense their germs trying to get at me. *shudder*
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You better use something that will kill the germs – I recommend vodka!
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Did you know vodka also works as a truth serum?
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Also anti-radiation ‘medicine’.
Such is life in the Zone.
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Or fire. Fire kills germs. Sweet, soothing, cleansing fire…
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Catching up on the work from when I was gone, looks like people managed to take care of my side of things pretty okay.
This is probably because the person I was training before I went on holidays didn’t end up doing my work, but instead it was someone who had done this before.
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Hahaha. What a waste of time training her was 😛 at least things aren’t a huge mess now that you’re back 😛
So, thanks to Fatshady I tried out the Driver SF mp demo last night and man is it fun.
You drive around an open city playing games like Tag and the gimmick is that you can jump out of your car into a overhead camera, fly around and possess any npc car.
Hilarity ensues.
If you enjoy arcade racers at all then I strongly suggest you check it out.
Anyone up for some trackmania tonight?
Ahhh, Tea, TAY, and staying home sick, a winning combination…
Wait a sec, I’m sick :'( *sob*
MY COPY OF DEUS EX JUST ARRIVED FROM OZGAMESHOP! HAPPY PANDA DANCE!
Sorry i’m yelling,very excited…
Disclaimer: This message was in no way intended to belittle those who haven’t received their copy yet. But HAHA I got mine!
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See you in a week…
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Where do you live?! Please tell me it’s Queensland….
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Planning a raid? 😛
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Hahaha! Nooooo. I pre-ordered mine from OzGameShop too so if he was in Qld then there was hope for me today also.
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I’m in melbourne, fingers crossed for you guys getting yours today!
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Melbourne? Awww, mine’ll be here Friday then, if I’m lucky.. 😛
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I feel happy for you. [vigorous sob]
I’m at uni all day today but hopefully mine arrives by the time I get home…
Anyway, I’m just going to go ahead and create a tm nations forever event for tonight and just hope that someone turns up…
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Aww we love you lambo!
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I would play but I’m capped and don’t own the game. GOOD LUCK, BRO!
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You silly, Trackmania Nations Forever is free http://store.steampowered.com/app/11020/
😛
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Ok I just watched the Trackmania 2 trailer and it got me enthused.
So If I can get Nations to work with my Onza and there isn’t a big LoL thing going down I shall join you.
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Songs you shouldn’t sing aloud walking the dog through a public park that has a children’s playground (AKA I swear you are doing this on purpose, WSFM, part 3):
Do Ya Think I’m Sexy? – Rod Stewart
But it’s ok! There were only mums exercising there. Awkward and weird, but not creepy! Well, a little creepy.
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If my look is shoddy and you think I’m creepy
Call the cops and let me knowNa-na-na-naaa-naaaaa…
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i was going to say stop listening to WSFM. Then I thought about it and now I’m going to say “Dude! Stop driving slowly past schools and looking around while you walk through parks!”.
Grandmaster B-Funk
Well thats me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxrPBhCvK1g
Hey Tay! Hey Crabman!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JwIsJJ7crM
hmm….. randomly got first comment on page 4 with a random post about myself, NICE! -
I’m going to attempt to claim starting up calling you crabman 😛
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someone (i forgot who said it):”hey Crabman”
me: “hey earl”
*dead silence*
Me: “no one got the my name is earl reference? awkward…”
Can I miss Mark yet??
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I miss him already, pretty sure he’s still here, but it doesn’t stop me missing him 😛
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I’m just sad I won’t get to show him my super-secret project.
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Is it life size Serrels mannequin you’ve stitched up??
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A Serrels pillow pet!
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I bet Jimu would like that 😉
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All will be revealed by the end of the week. 😉
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I’d probably buy a Mark Serrels pillow pet just for the lol’s.
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Day 1 of Audits…today should be fun :/
On a lighter note, managed to fit in 2 hours of Deus Ex last night, I pretty much accomplished nothing, just explored and stuffed around. Feels good man, except for the lack of sleep part.
So my dad, ever trying to be the centre of attention, went and got himself taken to hospital yesterday lunch time.
Obviously he didn’t get enough of the place because he had to go back around 1am this morning, only 5 hours after getting home.
In all seriousness, he’s doing okay. Some kinda low blood pressure problem. I think they’ll be keeping him in for observation this time in case he has another turn.
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Whenever someone “goes in for observation” I just imagine them in a room behind a glass window with passer-bys occasionally stopping and tapping on the glass. “And here we have a specimen of elderly Scotsman”, someone sounding like David Attenborough says.
Hope it’s nothing serious!
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Are you his doctor?
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I tried to be. I suggested bionic implants but the “real” doctors didn’t seem to think that was helpul or “possible”.
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“I never asked for this”
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It’s always so awkward for the doctor’s when that happens. “Oh, it’s you again. So, I guess we failed a bit there, huh?”
Hmm, I have BF3 on order from Zavi but I suspect it will arrive just in time for Skyrim.
And since the MP is most of the point and I will thus be quite late in joining I wonder if I should bother.
I wonder if the publishers realise that releasing games at the same time as everyone else just forces people to choose and thus buy less games.
I mean, would BF3 and MW3 even be in competition if they released a few months apart? I doubt it, more people would then buy both. But now people are divided into camps and everyone looses.
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I guess if they did that though, the people that buy the game that comes out first would recommend it to all their friends and maybe they’d be less inclined to get the second one once that came out.
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Yeah and I guess they are targeting the Christmas crowd.
But really, if say MW3 had released in late June it would have sold tons. The brand is big enough for the masses to notice and pick it up and still be a good xmas present and even all the haters would have bought it because there was nothing else on the market.
Doesn’t help me with Skyrim but still.
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Yeah there is that. Who knows how game developers think :/ I won’t get BF3 until at least a couple weeks after release, so you and I will be on the same skill level hopefully 😛
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Oh cool, what you getting it on?
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Well I’ve got Xbox, PS3 and PC, so what are you getting it on? 😉
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360, I am terrible with kb/m.
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I prefer the 360 controller for FPS’ anyway. I play most computer games with a 360 controller 😛 The Witcher 2 and Deus Ex so far have all been with the 360 controller on PC for me.
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You know what, I was going to defend it for reasons like “holiday season is when people are more willing to spend” and stuff, but screw that.
If anyone released anything at the start of July, people would have been all over that stuff for 6 weeks considering July and early August had nothing.
Release some games, guys. /o\
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It was actually a big thing when Bioshock was released outside of the normal AAA release window.
It shouldn’t have been.
Anyone who’s thinking of seeing Cowboys and Aliens, don’t. Not even Indiana Jones himself can save this horrible movie. I wasn’t expecting it to be good, but nor was I expecting it to be this horrible.
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There just wasn’t anything there that made me invest in the characters or the plot.
***SPOILER WARNING!***
Also, the deus ex machina involving Olivia Wilde’s character being an alien capable of resurrection, who knew all about the invading aliens etc, seemed pretty weak to me.
***END SPOILERS!***
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So, you’re Sughly 2.0? 😛
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Nope, I love my blockbuster tripe, but this film just didn’t do anything for me.
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I have no idea how people get some of these “Remember This?” screens. I saw today’s one and was like “well great, that could pretty much be anything” and someone got it in 11mins!
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I know! I just finished posting my amazement.
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Ah okay, yeah I usually do that with them but I thought they’d caught onto that and checked the image wouldn’t do that before posting.
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Hmm maybe Tracy doesn’t know about that trick, shall mention it on there.
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You’re a helper Joe!
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OMG! You stole Tracey’s ‘e’ and gave it to Jo!
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OH SH*T! This is going to end badly, I can tell!
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What have you done?!
I though you knew me man, I thought we were close.
*Sobs*Now I have to find a way to offload this e.
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I actually have no idea, it just slipped out :/
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I’ve decided that the majority of my gaming time in the immediate future shall be dedicated towards learning to not suck at SC2.
Originally, I was going to use any spare time I had on my trip to play some games vs AI where I focused on non-stop probes and pylons. Then it turns out that I didn’t have any maps on my laptop, so I watched Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire instead.
Now that I’m back and have access to maps, I shall first focus on probes and pylons then I’ll worry about pesky things like build orders and using an army to not die.
On a similar note, before I left Blags and I joked about me doing bad commentary of a low-quality game he’d play with a friend. Methinks that could be fun.
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Soul Calibur 2 is OOOOOLLLD.
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But it had Link!
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Mine had High hat chee
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Well, now that you’re back I’ll talk to some friends.
I’ll need to leave probes idle though to get the real impression of noobness.
Ugh. Idle probes. *shudders*
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Idle probes are pro. Means your workers have unionised and you have an advanced country, not just a workforce of slaves barely able to feed themselves.
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Idle probes are pro because you know you can win while you’re not even trying to 100% worker efficiency of resource gathering.
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I shall join you sometime in practicing SC2. It has been on my pile of shame for far too long and deserves some love. My probes are usually busy, but I need to learn some better strategies than zealot rush*.
*Is my only strategy.
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Sure thing. Newbie Protoss brotherhood!
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Hey its Blagh’s only strategy and he is pro*
*May not be pro.
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That was my strat back in the beta, before I transitioned to a brutal immortal timing push.
Now it’s 3 gate expo all the time to counter everything (3 gate forge expo to counter 4 gate).
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I might be up for some friendly games if you want more peeps.
Not that I should start playing yet another game on top of LoL, Warband and soon Daysex.-
More people = more good.
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Well let me know when you want to have some games or if I am on steam poke me until I join you.
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We’ll see how it goes. I want to get a handle on the basics before going against other people.
Considering how many things “the basics” covers, it might be some time :p
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I was thinking more team up against AI, less pressure, more fun that way.
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This I like.
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There is a distinct lack of Space Marine on this page. Go go!
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I DL’d the demo last night and plan to play it tonight, just to let Mark Strong’s dulcet tones wash over me.
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Huh??
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D’oh!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlurHvYx0Ro
I can’t wait to rebuild my old Space Marine chapters.
I didn’t even realise I commented that much last week on TAY… wow, 2nd place 😛
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*high five*
It’s actually really sad that I posted the most 3 weeks in a row :/
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Ah we’re just active beings, can’t be helped that we want to keep putting in our thoughts on TAY 😛
I think I’ve been commenting most on LoL talks, with my advice and all xD
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You have excellent advice, it’s helped me a lot. Also, how am I doing with LoL? Have I improved at all? What could I be doing to be better?
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I am seeing that you’re getting better, of course you have improving to do, but then so do I. When I lane with you next time I’ll try to guide you on how you should be moving too. Kinda hard to when I’m soloing mid and you know… not dying myself.
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Haha sounds good. Perhaps tonight?…if I don’t have to help cook dinner. If you go Kassadin, would me going with Garen be a good choice? Or would I be better with someone like Karthus, Janna or Miss Fortune?
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Miss fortune or Karthas would be better, two melee can be harassed easier in lane than one melee and one ranged
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Yeah that’s what I was thinking. Karthus actually sounds pretty fething awesome.
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Then you could be jamesmage.
Hah! Freedom! -
Comment of the Week.
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HAHAHAHA!!!!! SO GOOD! Definitely comment of the week!
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And now you have to post as jamesmage until you can offload the e to someone else.
…please play my game :'(
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No idea how I’m going to offload it to someone else D:
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Trjn seems to be missing some vowels….
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I’m really wanting to put the word “east” in front of his name, just for badly spelt lol’s.
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I don’t get it.
Also, east side is da best.
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I don’t get it.
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Silly EastTrjn…double posting because he didn’t think his original comment went through.
Surely a sign that wesside is da best!
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So Steve-O The Deve-O has been owning LOL with Garen, and i tell myself that i need to try Garen!
And there he is!
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/new-free-champion-rotation-season-one-week-60
Other champions that i want to try is Karthus and Lee Sin!
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All I know about Garen is that with Janna nearby he is rather beastly.
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What I read: All I know about Garen is that with Janna nearby she is rather busty.
:I
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Her bust is an average size, wouldn’t call her “busty” 😛
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Read: Katarina, Ashe, Miss Fortune, Sivir
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Well, apologies for not staring at game boobies more.
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Other human males keep telling me this, I’m only trying to fit in! 🙁
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Female video game character has abundance of bust.
More news at 11.
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BREAKING NEWS
—————–Comic book women wear far too little!
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Two tanks? Interesting! I may try Kassadin this week too.
Still gotta get my arse in gear with Jungling training as well for Warwick
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I tried briefly with Skarner.
Did not go well.
I should probably pick up Nunu or Warwick.
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What you vs me in the jungle? Bring it! 😛
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Yeah I thought of giving him a go one day, I want an assassin/disruptor to complete my lineup, and Kassadin did catch my eye along with Blitzcrank, especially with that potentially devastating ulti (Which is dependant on your mana supply)
Mainly I want a character that I can do surprise “you’re dead in seconds” attacks and with Kassadin’s abilities he can regen mana darn fast if I concentrated AS as well as Mana and AP
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Yeah I would love Nocturne for that kind of thing.
Another hero I have not seen free.
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I would so be up for a custom game sometime.
Yay! I’m gonna try Garen again!
Ooh Lee Sin.
I too want to try Garen, everybody likes Garen.
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I see what you did there…
Yeah well when I first played LoL, in the tutorial, I played as Garen, and got like 11/1/16 or something, and I like him 😛
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Also, let’s not forget that guy with his that guy Garen.
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Man, that guy.
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I play as Karthus. Love him!
MY GARREN!
(>_<)
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Time to learn someone new as people start stealing Garren’s selection from you, eh?
Another round of intermediate bots tonight, lads?
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NO! NEVER AGAIN!
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I have beaten them probably twice in my half dozen times that I faced them in a random party
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It was horrible…because I was just thinking…hang on, I’m getting beaten by AI. We surrendered to AI!
OH THE HUMANITY! (or lack thereof)
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Feeling like Bear Grylls… Just made a fire with one of those fire stick things. This was a triumph, I’m making a note here; HUGE SUCCESS!
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You drank your own piss too?
You said Bear Grylls…
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Made fire, better drink my own piss.
Karthus’ ultimate looks amazing. Would be so good for assists/kill steals 😛
Anyone know what the cooldown on it would be?
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180/150/120s
So 180s at the first level, 150s at the second and 120s at the third.
It’s mighty useful if you’re communicating with your team, any time someone gets a little low pow!
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Yeah I thought it might be good for a Kotaku match with TeamSpeak 🙂
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We’ve already made use of Karthus’s ult while on TeamSpeak, it worked spectacularly well.
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Not sure but it is so annoying. You have to be real careful how low health you get because if he is paying attention you can never get away.
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Yeah 🙂 it’s awesome. I have another question. You know how some items have a Unique Active. Does this mean you press the appropriate numbered key to activate that?
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Yes.
Also ohgawd I’ve been fumbling around for a few seconds trying to click the tiny item icons instead of pressing the appropriate number. /o\
I sometimes play vidjo gaems good, honest.-
Well I never knew that, so have never used them 😛
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Potions too.
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I have used potions before, usually get at least a couple at first.
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1-6 is the hotkey for using items.
1-2-3
4-5-6 Based on your item slot it’s on.Also I believe Unique Passive/Active cannot be stacked by 2 of the same item. Rabadon’s Deathcap for instance, you can’t buy two and have 80% increased AP, it’s still only 40%, however you still get the 160AP added
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Ah okay, that makes sense. I knew about potions but as I only ever really buy the recommended items. I hadn’t really paid attention to actives/passives.
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You should stop doing that, look up builds on mobafire so you know what you should focus on on with the kinds of items
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Yeah I’ve started to do that, but I always forget and then I’m playing the game and can’t check :/
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Well many builds have the brighter icons which are your final pieces of say a recipe. You look at the darker items and you notice they’re part of the full items later, so really you can just click on the final item and get the components as you go.
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Ah okay, fair enough. Also just thought of a good idea. I have a laptop…why not just use that to check.
*facepalm*
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Or better yet, make a list on a posted note and put it on the bottom of your screen and where to look for it (e.g: Sorceror’s Shoes – Movement Speed)?
That’s what I’m planning to do if I have trouble remembering
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That could also work, don’t think I have any Post-it notes at the moment but will get some next time I’m at the shops.
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Well if you’re like me, it only takes a bit of practice then it turns into second nature on what to get and all.
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They used to not stack up, Jiffy showed me a youtube video of the whole team stacking on sunfire caps and they were utterly indestructible. 😛
I mean stack up! Duh, instant ramen is killing my brain.
Makes me wonder what if I did 6 Rabadon’s Deathcaps with Kennen? xD
+2304 AP anyone?
If I was playing back then xD
ohgawd I just realised I made another typo.
Sunfire capEs not caps
and I hit the submit comment button before I finished typing >_<
jamesmag, you took away the 'e' from my comment…
I’ll give you one back.
Introducing “e-dawdle!”, this cute little character will consume copious amounts of coffee and spend time on TAY during lectures instead of focusing on what the lecturer is saying! This outstanding character can be yours for 5 easy payments of $293,784.99!
Now I retrieve my usual handle, and you get an ‘e’ at the start of yours 🙂
;3 HELLO.
6 Sunfire Capes would’ve been devastating for a tank to have xD
That’s 210 damage per second to all nearby enemies xD
Hello. I am bored. I had mi goreng for lunch. Fresh, that is, not the $5 for a box of 40 kind.
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I’m having instant ramen… /_\
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Hello bored, I’m procrastinating. Again. I’m even procrastinating about lunch and I’m hungry. I do have the $5 for a box of 40 kind of Mi Goreng here though….
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Eff. Yeah.
Mi Goreng is the sh!t, yo.
We can play a text based RPG?
I’ll start.
You are in a castle. To your left is a Dragon called Dennis. No one knows why his owner, Klardaghh, gave him a man’s name but the commonly accepted reason is because Klardaghh was the only one with a weird name in town. I mean, home boy goes to the post office and sees people collecting mail for ‘Mary’ or ‘Jeremy’ and he’s gotta sidle up and be all
“Any mail for Klardaghh?” Balls to that, I’d have serious name-envy and would probably call my Dragon Dennis as well.To your right is a wooden door with a guard standing outside it. He is holding two ice creams, one chocolate the other rainbow. He’s looking from each then to the ground. You think he’s trying to figure out how to hold all three at once.
Behind you is a wall. S’made of concrete or something. Not sure.
In front of you the castle gates. They’re open. But cool your jets hot shot, there’s the pit from Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness there. You don’t wanna risk falling in there without a boom-stick. Groovy.
In your backpack you have a still shrink-wrapped copy of Lair for PS3, a couple of dollars and a book titled “How to get out of the castle if you’re surrounded by a Dragon named Dennis, a confused guard, a wall that resembles concrete and an exploitation movie’s opening scene.
What do you do?
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I think I love you.
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I’m grabbing ‘Lair’ and flying Dennis out of there where I put Lair in my PS3, download the udpate that made it playable and play the shit out of that beautiful dragon game whilst feeding snack-sized pieces of that Alyssa Whatserface chick to Dennis.
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Why have I never noticed how incredible you are?
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Try and punch the wall that resembles concrete, secretly hoping that it’s actually plaster so I don’t break my hands.
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HA! Sucked in idiot! It IS concrete.
Your hand’s fine, but your wrist… man, that thing is effed up. I mean, REALLY effed up. Like it’s bleeding and quickly turning black.
The wall still stands.
Dennis smells the sweet scent of human blood. It quickly takes him back to his child hood when he bit off the fingers of some guy at a hospital. Poor guy, the nurse had just asked “And what will you call the boy?” when Dennis struck “KLAAAAARRRRRRDAAAAAAGHHHHHH!” was the man’s response.
The guard is starting to hop from one foot to the other as the ice creams start melting. He looks at you with a worried expression. “Wha… what will I do with all these ice creams!?” Suddenly a choir of disembodies children’s voices ring out. “EAT IT”.
“Eat it?! Is that what you said? Eat the ice-creams?”
“YEEESSSS”
“But if I eat one, how many ice-creams will I have left?”The Evil Dead pit is starting to smoke.
In your backpack you have a still shrink-wrapped copy of Lair for PS3, a couple of dollars and a book titled “How to get out of the castle if you’re surrounded by a Dragon named Dennis, a confused guard, a wall that resembles concrete and an exploitation movie’s opening scene.”
What do you do?
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Get ye flask.
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Examine the ice cream. If it’s a maxibon/monaco bar/any kind of ice cream sandwich, I unwrap one and start eating it, whilst I get on Dennis (that sounds so wrong) and get dennis to fly into the concrete wall.
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“OH SHEEEEEEEET” comes screaming out of your backpack.
Puzzled you open it. Out jumps the book.
“Damn, well done. I was just gonna suggest you walk around the pit in the front, I mean, let’s be honest there’s like 2 or 3 metres either side you can easily use. And if you DID fall in, you’d kinda be doing the world a favour because who needs another unco-dude walking about the place, you know what I mean…
Where’d you get this dragon from?”
You explain the story of how you came to be atop the mighty dragon.
“So… what you’re telling me is, you’ve got a broken wrist? So, like, a handy is definitely out of the question?”
You yell in disgust
“HEY MAN I’M A SENTIENT BOOK! The only pleasure I derive from this miserable existence is when someone turns my pages. I just thought, maybe, you’d understand…”
He turns his back to you and starts sobbing.
Do you turn his pages NotoriousR? Do you?
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I get out my box of matches. S***s gonna get real(ly hot).
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Lick the walls!
(It’s a Zork reference, for anybody who remembers)
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I wish I was this clever, but alas I was just too lazy/busy to think of another paragraph long joke.
My video game music band had its first gig on the weekend. We played the opening for a kids show. Most of the songs were about 5 times older than the kids. They seemed to have fun…
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Not bad! Can’t wait to see what you’re like with a few more gigs under your belt!
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Sweet! Where are you guys from?
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Hey thanks guys. We are from Brisbane. We do have another gig coming up, not sure when or where yet but I’ll let you guys know.
Here’s an original composition by the keyboardist (the hairy one). It’s mostly the same band plus or minus a few.
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We’re from Brisbane too. You should definitely let us know when you know all the details.
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That song. Kicked my ass.
So hard.
I friggin’ love it.
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THIS weekend? how about in a weekend a month away?
I leave the country Wednesday….sadjimu
Posting with different names seems to make the comments go somewhat haywire.
I’m just going to stop doing that, there shall be no war between the east and west due to me.
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Yeah I’ve tried it a few times. The Kotaku sentient overlord clearly doesn’t appreciate it…
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It SEEMED to work okay for me with the extra e on the end? And did you really not get the EastTrjn thing?
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I can’t work out what you’re reading “Trjn” as for the East part to make for lulz.
Bit of a blindspot I’ve got there.
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Think, uh, hormones…
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NOW I get it!
I still don’t get it.
*reads out loud*
Oh, now I get it.
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Oestrogen.
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Read: estrogen
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JamesMag! Take the ‘e’ back! I like it on the end of your name.
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Yes aunty 🙁
Sowwy.
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Yay! And while we’re at it, how ’bout some capitalisation? You’re important enough to start with a capital letter!
Note: The capitals thing is actually more important than keeping an ‘e’ you may not feel close to.
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Capitals are a good idea, the reason I don’t have a capital is because when TadMod petitioned to get me to change my name to jamesmag or jamesmagusedmyhandle in order to confuse everyonw, there were no capitals 😛
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TadMod’s not the boss of you…. 😛
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True, that would be you wouldn’t it? 😛
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Might have to shorten my handle to just Mags soon though, as that is what everyone calls me on TeamSpeak 😛
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You better be wearing a cape and holding a sceptre to truly be a jamesMAGE…
You better be…
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How about wearing a pretty shweet jacket and holding the bottle of water I just took a drink out of?
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We should keep a timeline of your username changes, and what jokes made you change them.
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That would be pretty cool 😛 the evolution of my name.
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How much do Riot points cost? Thinking of getting Kathus if I end up liking him, but he’s 6300 IP so I’d probably just purchase him at some point.
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Just be warned that path may lead to financial ruin.
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ROFL never gets old xD
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HAHAHAHA awesome!
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uhhh can’t remember but the higher you aim with your money, the more RP bonus you get pretty much.
I used $35 and I still got around 3.3k RP left to spend on skins and all after buying 4 other skins (Which were on sale mind you)
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That’s not too bad. I think I’ll just spend like $20-$30 and see how long that lasts me..
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This is relative of US currency, just keep that in mind:
$5= 650 RP
$10= 1380 RP
$20 = 2800 RP
$35 = 5000 RP
$50 = 7200 RPCan’t remember off the top of my head if this is the current amounts since I’m at work but I can confirm it tonight and so can you via the Shop
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Awesome dude, thanks for all your help! I’ll give Karthus a try tonight anyway and see how I go.
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Yeah and they do it the M$ points way where the amount you can buy does in no way equal how much stuff costs so you will always have not enough.
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FANTASTIC!
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Yeah, I would probably buy more stuff but it annoys me too much.
I got 1380 points so I could pay the 975 for the Rammus skin so now I have 405 left which is useless since anything worth buying is at least 487. -
Wait for it to go on sale, OR get runes at level 20
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I will probably get runes but 487 IS the sale price for most skins and any heroes worth less than that you can get for 1350 Ip or less anyway.
So yeah, screw you Riot; I would have given you more money if you hadn’t been jerks about it. -
hehe they are putting forward price drops overtime, they done it already with some champions so, just hold onto it, it’s not like it bills you RP to have the RP stored 😛
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I should get interest.
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If only LoL worked like a bank, lol.
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Or you could be a jerk like me and not give them a cent for the hours upon hours of pleasure their product has given me….
I feel something heavy, in my chest…It’s making me feel bad – WHAT IS THIS!
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Indigestion?
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A cat?
A cat with indigestion?
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I have not paid a single cent for HoN (the game was bought for me as a gift – I called it conscription) and I plan to do the same for LoL.
As long as you have the option of earning coins or w/e through playing more, right?
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Yep!
Who was it that came from Taiwan/had a Taiwanese partner again? Dawdle? Welbot? Have I gone completely insane?
Might be heading there in a little bit, wanted some places to go, things to see, people to eat.
And of course, the TAYbie Hive-Mind™ is waaaay better than any travel guide.
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Jimu’s wife I believe.
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Correct
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Correct
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I’ve got some Taiwanese buddies and a friend of mine went there recently with her boyfriend (who is also Taiwanese). What sort of things do you want to know? Pestering them for answers shouldn’t be too hard.
Be warned, most of their travel advice will be food related.
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Ha, anything really. Just some places to go that are a bit off the main touristy areas. Food advice is great, I don’t trust a lot of the published guides anyway…
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street food is best!
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I’m heading there this wednesday.
Food IS tops in Taiwan, veryyyy tasty.
I can’t think off the top of my head where is good…
eMail me: mij(sixtynine)(underscore) (ninetysix)jim(at)yahoo(dot)combrackets equals actually that thing if you know what I mean.
I will ask the wife for travel advice and forward to you.
Okay, a vote.
Should I keep my handle as jamesmage, change it back to jamesmag, capitalise the first letter to Jamesmag or change it to my TeamSpeak nickname which is Mags.
Really not something worth voting over but hey I’m bored so go!
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JamesMage!
Since you played Ryze xD
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Haha good point, we’ll see what the vote turns out like 😛 also I’ll be trying out Karthus so maybe mage won’t be so bad 😛
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JamesMags. That is all.
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Chupathingy.
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The Mexican lizard thingy… That eats all the goats.
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Win.
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I like it, got a ring to it!
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Magnum, PI.
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all of the above:
Jamesmag aka jamesmag aka Mags aka jamesmage
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Jamesmag.
The nickname Mags doesn’t really work with Jamesmage and Mags cant be a nickname if it is your regular name.-
This is true. I like the way you think and/or move.
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Hence my solution. JamesMags. Mags can still be a nickname because it’s abbreviated and most importantly he’s all capitalised and stuff.
Plus, I’m the First Lady so he has to be called whatever I say. 😛
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Look at you, abusing your power and stuff.
*sighs*
Okay, you win.
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Or do you?
MWAHAHAHA
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Yes.
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Basically you just need go with whatever YOU like best. People will still call you whatever they want but call yourself what you want to be called. Just do yourself justice and give your name a capital letter. 😀
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Good advice, capitalisation is now in 🙂
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Man, that’s a lot of LoL talk.
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It’s all because of me that it got this out of hand xD
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I know that they are all words, and I know what they mean, but I have no idea what is going on for most of this page.
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If you went on the TeamSpeak server nightly you’d have a better idea 😛
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I used to think the same, I used to actually just skip all the LoL posts, until one day I was bored and decided to give it a go. Now I’m hooked! And I’m going to be very sad when I move next week and have no internets for a few weeks.
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I’ve really got to try LoL. I keep meaning to, I’ve even created an account, but I never get round to downloading the actual game.
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Do it, honestly, you won’t regret it.
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I’ve tried LoL once. Turns out I’m painfully bad at it. Perhaps with some practice I’d enjoy it, but I didn’t really have the patience at the time and never went back.
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Oh man, just ask Techie or Jo how bad I was at it when I first started :/
My first game after the tutorials was a 5v5 PvP with them, I was level 2 and they were all at least level 8. I got owned so bad, I think I died about 17 times or something.
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It’s only going to get worse if we start playing Ranked games.
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If you thought our normal games are hard, wait till we start 5v5 team ranked… it’ll be a total nightmare!
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I know, all this LoL talk makes me wish the HoN tournament would hurry up and be over already.
I watch a lot of Starcraft related content. It passes the time and Day[9]’s videos are in iiNet’s freezone so it doesn’t hurt my download limit one iota to watch them.
Recently he’s been focusing on this idea that you have a list of priorities (unit control, macro, worker production etc) with only so many things you can do at once as a new player. So you pick one thing to really focus your attention on. Don’t worry about winning or losing, just try to master this one aspect of the game so much that it becomes second nature.
After doing that for a while, you can go back to the normal habit of trying to win but you will find yourself able to keep up with whatever you focused on without it getting in the way of the other tasks you’re doing.
So, here are the tasks that I’m focusing on when I start playing:
1. Worker production. Above all else, I want to have a constant flow of workers.
2. Pylons. Simple enough, avoid supply blocking myself.
3. Keeping my money low. Ideally, I’d like to keep my money below 500 minerals. I’ll settle for under 1000 for now.
…
Last. Winning.
I don’t expect this to go well at first, but I might as well try to develop some good habits when I start playing, right?
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I work like the following:
1. Construct Probes
2. Construct Gateway
3. Construct Zealots
4. ???
5. Construct more Zealots and complain when they get smashed by Roaches and Reapers.
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4. Research Zealot Charge.
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3.5. Learn what zealot charge is and how it will be useful.
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3.51: Zealot charge gives the Zealots the ability to rush in quickly to melee range of enemy units. Extremely useful against ranged unit micro rather than getting easily micro’d without even harming one of the enemies
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Here you go. Researched at Twilight Council.
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= PROFIT~!
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Well I’ll be – It’s actually an active charge. I thought it was just a minor passive speed boost like in SC1. Cheers for that.
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No, it goes like this:
1. Probes
2. Gateway
3. Cy-Core
4. Stargate
5 – 100. Voidrays-
But I don’t wanna paddle the noob canoe 🙁
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Eh, I get the impression that until you get good and high on the ladder it goes like this:
Terran – M&M ball
Protoss – 4 gate
Zerg – uh, ling/roach rush?And the winner is just whoever has the faster macro. (ie whoever has played for longer)
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Zerg = 6 pool.
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Yeah, that’s the one.
Gets boring if you don’t have the motivation to stick with it and get really good.
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In terms of same race games, TvT is a good chance to get some sleep, PvP is a coin toss, and ZvZ is scissor/paper/rock. Thus why I hate PvP the most.
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PvP and ZvZ both have the scissors/paper/rock thing but PvP has the dynamite with 4gate so it really isn’t.
TvT looks boring as hell to play but some of my favourite matches to watch have been TvT.
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I so meant player vs player but sure.
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Ahh, yes. Right.
Well.
*cough* Awkward.
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BUT I LOVE PADDLING!
> ZERG <
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You’re such a queen :p
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o i c what you did thair!
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I have the problem that I’m too good at worker production.
I decide I’m going to 4 gate, and then realise that I’m on 1 base with 40 probes and no army…
Other then that though, it’s a really good habit to have.
I guess alternately there’s always:
send the first probe you build out to their base, build 9 py proxy.
11- gate
13- gate
zealots in their face over and over again and then some more zealots.
Oh, and you’ll need a py or three there too.
Oh beta strats, how I love you.
Chocolate….huh, HUH??!
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I owe a lot to chocolate. It has saved my life many a time.
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I lived off chocolte for around 3 days (Lion bars actually).
I remember wandering through dense fog, along a highway above the Arctic Cirlcle, in the middle of the night (possibly suffering from hypothermia). I was eating chocolate bars that were frozen solid. I had to bite down on them with my molars until they shattered.
I think I spent the next night in a train station… There was a homeless guy and a drunk who passed out in the telephone booth…
It was an interesting few days.-
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I honestly wonder if anyone out there goes “VINDICATION! CHOCOLATE IS HEALTHY FOR YOU, YA JERKS!” and then eats a 2kg block.
Also I thought we already knew chocolate has antioxidants?
Just saw this update on the Free Rotation notice for LoL:
“Karthus was on the free to play rotation for this week, but he has been temporarily disabled due to a bug affecting AOE damage spells. While we work to fix the bug, Kennen will be joining the free champions”
Electric Ninja Kitties for everyone!
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GORRAM IT! People are gonna be stealing Kennen from me! *robocries*… Fine! More reason to practice jungling
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At least when we play with Garren and Kennen who we are already good with we will have an element of surprise as some enemies may just think we are trying them out as they are free heroes.
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Like my teleport UNLEASH! surprise play? I sooo can’t wait to do that again xD
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When will it be fixed? 🙁
This saddens me. I was going to play as Karthus tonight 🙁
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Because I cannot be arsed to google right now and the mouse is too far away from me, can I ask how many heroes are on the free play rotation thing at a time?
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10 🙂
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Is that a cyclops with a uni-brow?
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…..yes. 😛
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This is why he wears massive shades/a head covering visor.
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Usually is fairly balanced with a Tank, Support, some fighters, some mages, some carries, assassins, etc. So no shortage of roles each week
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DARN! I wanted to try out Karthus badly!
There’s a storm brewing.
Severe storm warnings have gone out for pretty much all of Brisbane and the clouds are looming overhead. Hasn’t started raining though, but it will.
Soon.
Probably.
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They come at night…mostly.
DAN! Thanks for making me unbored. Though I kinda sorta want to know what ends up happening to the book and to Dennis.
So I finally watched Arrested Development for the first time last night, pretty much entirely due to Bish’s constant “STEVE HOLT \o/”ing.
I bought all 3 seasons today.
STEVE HOLT \o/
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I’ve made a huge mistake…
JB sales are pretty awesome, aren’t they?
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I can’t imagine how you knew. What was odd was they had a 2 for 1 sale on TV DVDs, so I had the choice of all 3 for $40 or the box set for $60.
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Let’s just say that I have several seasons of Mad Men on my desk.
And Deadwood.
And season 5 of Supernatural.
And Animatrix.
And I’m going back for more tomorrow.
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Seriously, if anyone from Arnotts, Eidos Montreal or… whoever made Arrested Development is reading this and wants to hire me as sort of advertising PR dude, give me a shout.
I’ve sold Shapes, I’ve sold DX:HR and now Arrested Development.
Have your people contact my people. Or just me. Actually, better if you contact me. Those people I keep in my basement are probably going to scream for freedom or something if I let them out.-
If I remember correctly, I started that meme here and stole it from Reddit.
So any credit should go to me. Not for any reason I could justify, but because I’d prefer to be making moneys :p
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Sure, but
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And yes, that is my entire argument.
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I’ve actually also bought Shapes and DX:HR because of you. You’re a marketing machine!
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I am the new Morgan Spurlock!
Well, not so much the McDonalds thing (oh man, I need to try some of those shaker fries /o\), but the advertising thing.
Kind of.
Not really.
But you get the point!
Bacon and egg McMuffins are delicious.-
I was always looking forward to DE, but your… uh… special brand of advocacy sold it for me.
I’m a hype sheep!
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I thought you started last week’s DEUS EX! THIS WEEK!
Certainly wasn’t me.
I just latched onto it like a tick.
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I helped with that!
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I prefer sausage & egg McMuffins.
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Er, yeah, that.
How I got that confused with bacon is beyond me.
/o\
That said, bacon is an alright guy too.
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I’ve been excited for Deus Ex since this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J–kiHSnB8
So at least in my case it wasn’t your doing.
The Shapes I bought though? All you.
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dat trailer. *swoon*
Yeah, you pretty much sold me on Shapes and Deus Ex. Damn you!
Bish: The Billy Mays of Kotaku AU.
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Isn’t he dead?
Am I supposed to be dead?
I’d rather not be dead.-
He’s only a little dead…
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So, I finished DE:HR. Dat Ending! /o\
Well worth my time, and may I suggest that everyone who plays it watched through the credits?
That’s all I’ll say at this point. Oh, and I chose the fourth option.
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Did Sam Worthington and Ed Harris find out what the numbers meant?
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Yes. Of course.
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IT’S HERE: SERRELS SPRAY TAN!
http://www.bellasugar.com.au/BellaSugar-Man-About-Town-Makeover-Series-Mens-Spray-Tan-Review-18912351
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YAY!
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I will never joke about pantsless Mark ever again.
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Reverent silence, or …?
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YAYAYAYAY!
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This deserves front page promotion!
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I just got some *really* weird looks from my Chinese teacher.
\o/
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whoa!!! Mark has abs!
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I know right?!
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Well he is a manly Scottish man of manliness, what did you expect?
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A keg, not a six pack :p
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This is amazing. Nice six-pack mark 😉
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Also, I just spent a good 15 minutes reading through BellaSugar. ho hums
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***faints***
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You seem to be quite strongly affected by the look(or looks…) of other men.
I’m genuinely not insinuating anything, I just felt like pointing that out.
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Pot. Meet Kettle.
Or was that some sort of Pop Culture reference I should really have recognised?-
How dare you accuse me of such things! I challenge you to name one example!
*Prays she doesn’t think of David Tennant, Hugh Jackman, David Tennant, Lord Zefron or David Tennant*
Anyway, I’ve never felt the need to faint at another man, or to wax lyrical over the sexy eyes of another.
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Oh man, you know what? Chris Hemsworth as Kirk’s dad in 2009’s Star Trek?
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Chris Hemsworth? He also played Thor in Thor.
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Oooooooh, FatShady.
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Those lyrics were really just a matter of coincidence. And then they sounded so good that I just rolled with it.
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I goes over the seas in a days few, I will take with me some games portable…the 3DS and zelda3d, DQ9 and Pokeemans.
I will take the hacked PSP- too many GNARLY emulated games to list.
Any new TV shows i need to see of the adventurish nature? I will try and finish off the Last two seasons of battlestar and have done all of Game of Thrones (will be taking one or two of the books). Any suggestions?
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If you haven’t seen the BBC series Robin Hood, I’d recommend that one.
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ta!
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New Doctor Who this weekend! \o/
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As in aired in Australia new?
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Well the second half of season 6 premiered last week in the UK, so yeah, new in Australia new. We’re only one week behind, which I think is a decent enough wait.
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Yeah, that;s too slow for me… God I’m impatient…
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I was tempted to download it, but I know I’d end up watching the episode on TV anyway, so I figured I’ll just try and forget about it. And for the most part, I have (damn you Bastion and Deus Ex!)
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I’m impatient too. There’s no way I’d wait a week for new Doctor Who if I didn’t have to. And I can’t get ABC on our main TV anyway.
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Is available now if you know where to look. New episode!
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I just had to go and buy some perfume for a friend’s birthday, I swear I must have been the first male to ever walk into their area by how surprised they looked.
I also found it funny that they seemed to feel the need to use simple words and sentences, all the while speaking very slowly when talking to me.
I felt like some wild barbarian, that needed simple concepts explained in their most basic terms as well as help being civili… oh… now I understand.
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They were probably rendered speechless by your amazing physique, cut abs, and fine, fine loincloth.
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I suppose looking like this, who wouldn’t be rendered speechless?
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_fZ7TvbeRp2A/TESD6mwyoQI/AAAAAAAAETU/vgsvVeRn2hs/s800/volstagg%20what.jpg-
Imagine if you looked like this: http://media31.onsugar.com/files/2011/08/35/2/498/4981324/6a311a53b80f8689_11.jpg
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I can but dream *sigh*
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Emperor Jimmu!
Thanks, I’ll try and remember to email you later tonight. I’m hoping by the time I get there next year I’ll be able to speak a lot more than I can now, so even non-touristy stuff should be ok.. maybe 😛
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That will help.
There are plenty of signs around in English but the locals only really know the basics.
They are a friendly bunch so no need to be shy!!!
I think they’re making some weird leaps of logic here. One guy whose life is destroyed does not an epidemic make…
Plus they spend half the article having to define ‘game’ and ‘avatar’.
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Players create an “avatar”, or online character, who operates within a startlingly detailed storyline and graphics. Playing makes the gamer feel like the star of a really awesome sci-fi movie.
Them’s good writings.
Did you notice that the man was selling a book?
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So, standard journalism?
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More with the Starcraft.
This stuff makes more sense if you set goals. My goal is to try to get to Platinum league by the end of the year on the SEA ladder.
It won’t happen, but I might as well aim high.
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Plat is easy. Cheese your way there, then learn good strategies against the real players there.
Getting past the gold league cheese is a bitch though. So much cheese.
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Okay, how about I get to Platinum whilst showing an aversion to lactose? That should be a bit more challenging.
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Then may I suggest looking up all the standard cheese strats, and getting good at countering them? I just trust that the unit control of gold people will be bad enough that I can beat any early pressure…
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How many are countered by a decent wall off?
Hopefully most, for I hope to make many a wall off.
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Hmm, let’s see…
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About three are.
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The Starcraft 2 gold pizza! Nothing but CHEESE!
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Boss Cheese? Someone called me?
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🙁 TAY’s gone quiet and I still have 2 and a bit hours left at work.
*sigh*
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Must be hard living at the edge of the world.
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You have no idea 🙁
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Give me a minute, I’m busy sneaking around and stabbing people.
Taking a break from Deus Ex is good for me.
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Are you playing through again?
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I will be soon.
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SPOILER
*high five*
I’ve spent so much time just doing nothing haha. A lot of the time I can’t find the stealthy way to do things so I just kill people. And that cop who was your friend you have to talk to and convince him to let you into the morgue. I blackmailed him and felt so bad about it.
/SPOILER
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I just failed that bit completely. :/
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I used credits on 2 Praxis kits and then bought the Social Augmentation 😛 makes conversations a lot easier.
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I had that.
I misinterpreted what it said, so all it allowed me to do was be aware of just how badly I was failing.
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Haha fair enough, I never really looked at how to use it, just saw where the bars were and picked the conversation that was the same as the bars.
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I still don’t know what half of the bars do.
I seriously just keep winging it. Also seems to be working out pretty well, so there’s 2 Praxis points wasted.
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While you’re talking to the person, it will show the 3 personality types, and when they say something, bars will show up in the appropriate personality type. There are 3 slots available so it’s usually best to try saying a few things first to gauge their response and see which personality the most slots lay. Then you release the pheromones and use the response that is designated for the particular personality the NPC is.
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I got the pheromone thing, but when I talked to him I didn’t get a chance to use it…
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Yeah it sometimes doesn’t show up until you’ve been talking for a while, I kept him talking, didn’t make him stop talking to me until the pheromone thing showed up.
So yeah, another SPOILER, but how the hell do I get to the storage area next to the police station?
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Someone maybe want to let Strange know to avoid page 5?
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I’m putting spoiler alerts 😛
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The reason I say that is I have the answer to your question, but I’d rather not post it when I know how spoiler sensitive Strange is with Deus Ex.
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True, I should probably figure it out for myself anyway.
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Why not go post it somewhere else… Like say, here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-10/#more-343319
I’m sure that article is feeling lonely, and it’s not like anybody is going to go reading it unless they’re specifically looking for what you say!
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/08/portal-2-sold-better-on-pc-than-on-console/#comment-357681
Wow…this guy’s a tool.
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The master race is strong in this one. Now he is just an ignorant youngling searching for recognition but with time he may become powerful in his hatred for the consolisation of gaming and whatever else it is that gets his panties in a wad.
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Nice. Also, nice reply to him. I doubt he’ll ever go back to that article and read it but oh well 😛
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If he did bother replying, I could also point out that friends to to buy the same platform as their friends. Especially if they’re interested in local multiplayer.
Oh, you bought Portal 2 on PC? I’ll grab it on PC as well so we can do co-op! (or in my case, I bought on PS3 so I could play on console and still play with my PC friends).
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The same person was also being stupid on the ‘Battlefield 3 won’t support PC mods’ article.
It’s nice that people here care enough to argue against illiterate comments when they turn up.
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Strange! Avoid Page 5, too many spoilers!
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Too laaaateee!
And my postman didn’t even bring me any mail at all today, let alone Deus Ex.-
So glad I held back on answering that question now.
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apparently there are plans for some Starcraft 2 going down?
i would like to join, if you don’t mind, i bought SC2, loved it, but then got distracted by other shiny things, and i would love to play it again!
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I’m going to learn to not suck, others may be joining me. You’re welcome to partake in the denoobifying as well.
Methinks we’re all Protoss as well. Should make for some fun.
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If you want some pressure challenges I can pull some funday monday strats against you guys, and tell you what I’m doing, so that rather than having to worry about what I’m going to do you can focus on mechanics.
Or not. Up to you.
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yeah, i usually play as protoss xD i say warp gate spam bases?
well, maybe this weekend instead of playing LoL i’ll play some starcraft!
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Man, I love Randy Pitchford. You can just tell how much he really loves games, and this tour of his office just exemplifies that:
What a productive night for my second playthrough of mass effect!
I killed ashley, and enjoyed every moment of it. It could of been better if i heard her bitter twitsted screams as the nuclear blast tore through every last atom of her xenophobic body.
And now i have just landed on Ilos to put my foot to Saren, but not befor getting Kirk-Freaky with Liara again.
Ohhhh Shep Yeah!
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… that was probably the best description of leaving Ashley on Virmire I’ve ever read 😉
I can’t remember whether you’ve played ME2 yet, but Liara + Shep have a really great scene in the DLC Lair of the Shadow Broker.
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Nah i haven’t played it yet – but i do own it. I do know he sees her in the DLC again, though, which is good.
Plus she’s in 3 😀
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Pffft, Liara’s only good in ME1 because there’s no better option.
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Says you! lol
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There’s plenty more chances to get your Kirk on in 2, you just don’t need to settle for the boring insipidness of Liara.
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Yeah, cuz Tali rules!
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zel-da…
5 ‘new’ Ork characters for Space Marine
http://www.spacemarine.com/blog-post/introducing-5-new-ork-enemies
So yeah, Weirdboys are a new intro, although we already knew they would be in the game.
But the others just have the word “pro” tacked onto the end. It’s pretty safe to assume this is to just stop new comers to the universe feel less intimidated.
The rest of us can call them as we know them, “Ardboys”, “Tankbustas” or “flash-git”.
One thing is for sure, though, and that’s that these guys look absolutely bad-arse!
Space Marine update #2 – apparently co-op details will be revealed/confirmed sometime this week – more likely around thursday/friday 🙂
Kotaku Chapter for Space Marine multi?
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Second one by far
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Lies, the first one looks better.
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Fine, if you’re going on PC I’ll make sure your death is quick, servant of the false emperor!
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I’ll get it on PC…..
…during a Steam Sale 😀
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Pre-order it NOW.
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I thought my Dawn of War scheme came out alright. I’ll do it at some point today if I have the time!
First one though, btw.
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I thought it looked pretty cool… AS MY CHAOS MARINES RIPPED IT APART! MUAHAHAHAHAH!
…No really I liked it
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I’ve never been good against Chaos as SM. Or anyone, really. SM are far too generic in DoW with the whole “jack of all trades, masters of none” thing.
That said, my Orks SLAUGHTERED all who opposed me!
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I wasn’t expecting you to be that organised hence why my anti vehicle/melee combat was virtually non existent xD
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Yeah, I was basically just lucky that everyone left me alone after I took the mid CP. I teched way too hard and would have been rolled over if someone had attacked my base to start with.
Still, all’s well that ends well!
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Yeah I rolled over Mag first cuz his turret kept pricking my marines like a needle 😛
You were just so quiet I thought you were dealing with Blaghman or Jo
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A Kotaku chapter would be awesome. But does it have to be lime green and magenta? 😛
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Yeah, pastel pink is much better!
My post seems to have vanished…
Scheme resembled this, though obviously without as much detail thanks to DoW’s limitations!
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o114/f4cti0n/spacemarine.jpg
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OHHHHHH!!
I really like that! 😀
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I’m now thinking I might make an actual chapter history led by the mighty Chapter Master Serrels and his Chief Librarian Chuloopa.
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And once again I fail to fix my name…
I will give up on using semi-witty name changes in future.
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Pretty sure the helmet would’ve been white as well but yeah it was pretty cool
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I like that better, but I’ll have to see how it looks in-game when my pre-order arrives NEXT WEEK 😀
I just left a serious comment on Mark’s bella sugar article. Which one of us left the Pegg comment, hhhmmmmmmmmmmmm???
Also, beautiful Sugar…since when??
Just played two games vs AI (easy) to try and get my head around Starcraft 2.
I can safely say that I constantly think about what the hell I’m meant to be doing and forget to do many basic things.
Like build probes, build pylons, build units, build production structures, build tech structures, use chrono boost, scout, attack, queue actions on workers so that they return to mining and if there is anything else that you do in SC2, I fogot to do that too.
It’s so easy to watch a stream and forget just why those guys are doing 200+APM.
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Chrono boost is imba. 😛 Miss a few? just spam them on gateways! Instant army!
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MULE > Chrono Boost.
Miss a few MULEs? Nevermind, just drop a bajillion of the things on your shiny new expansion. Then just swim through the sea of minerals you just mined.
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Mules are more imba because:
Terran: “Economy damage? Never heard of the stuff!”
Protoss: “I’ll just get back to building probes…”
Zerg: “Kill me. PLEASE.”
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I was playing against Easy for a simple reason: I didn’t care about winning.
My goal was to max out supply and try to get a decent economy going. Sure, on medium I’d have to worry about defending more and even doing counter-attack but right now my goal is simply to learn the most important part of the game so that I can do it without thinking too much about it.
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Exactly. It’s an opportunity to learn without distraction :p
Don’t worry, I’m only doing a handful of games like this before diving right into my placement matches.
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First, I cannot say how happy it makes me to see so many Steve Holting \o/ — this is seriously one of my favourite internet things, and its abundance in TAY makes me smile and lol at the same time. Smole.
Second, I was wondering what you guys would like to know about Gears of War 3, or what you’d like to ask CliffyB. Kotaku has been given a very short interview time slot with him (I think it’s short enough that if either of us were to accidentally hang up and then try to re-dial, half the interview time would be gone), and while the focus will no doubt be on Gears 3, I figured I’d hear from the community about what you’re interested to know.
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STEVE HOLT! \o/
They just announced that Gears of War 3 season pass thingy, which gets access to the first 4 DLC packs they release. Just wanted to know if that DLC was only multiplayer maps or cut single player missions as well. Also, has the game gone gold?
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According to CliffyB’s twitter, the DLC will be multiplayer maps and campaign content. He alleges this is not “cut” content – the game is shipping complete. They’re just adding extra stuff… somehow?
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I would love to know more on Gears 3, sadly I’m not the brother in the family that owns an Xbox 360 🙁
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Also! Arrested Development is boss!
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When it comes to shooters, I much prefer to play co-operatively than competitively. Gears of War was the game that started me along this path after an all-nighter playing the game from start to finish with a friend.
With Horde mode added in Gears 2, I don’t think I even played a single game of multiplayer.
Throw in the success of games like Left 4 Dead and imitations like Army of Two, and I’d like to know if CliffyB has plans to focus more on that aspect of multiplayer gaming (for Gears 3 and future titles) over the competitive multiplayer that is dominated by Halo and Call of Duty.
If he thinks that’s a bit risky, tell him there’s always money in the banana stand.
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I’d like to know the last game he programmed for, but I somehow doubt the relevance of that question to anything.
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I really like this question!
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***SPOILERS****
^^ That’s a lie. there are no spoilers, but if your reading this, then you are a rebel! A go getter with a can-do attitude and that’s why the millitary needs you.
War! What is it good for? THE ECONOMY!
Rambling over. Back to work today. Watched more Naruto on the train. It was the flashback to how Kakashi got his sharingan. Read it in the comic years ago but that didn’t stop me welling up on the train.
Told the guy sitting next to me that I got dust in my eye.
Then I punched him.
Had to get some manliness back.
Speaking of which, Look at Mark, sucking in the gut and clenching those abs for all he’s worth! 😉 Good going, mate. I wouldn’t have done it.
***END SPOILERS***
ROSEBUD WAS A SLED!
That is all.
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Did they ever explain what happened to the girl? ( I think her name was rin) I mean, I’m pretty sure they said she died, but like, how?
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All they’ve said is that she’s dead.
Probably saving the story for another time.
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Kakashi is sooooooo kewl. I wish I had a teacher like him.
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I have to wonder about his teaching practices though – A Thousand Years of Pain anyone?
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It’s okay. It seems he only likes doing that to little boys.
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They are training little kids to kill people for money so as far as morality goes a poke up the butt is nothing.
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Does anyone play into the sterotypes of people working in game stores?
Have you expeirenced them?
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I’m not sure what the stereotypes are.
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ummm things like…
Obnoxious
Know it alls
Ignorant
Superoiorty complexs
Know nothing about games…stuff like that.
i ask as i work in one and i just hear horror stories from people all over and sometimes get pre-judged myself. Just intrested in hearing other peoples stories
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I don’t remember the last time I went to EB or Game, but I don’t think I’ve ever come across people like that.
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I really try not to – but sometimes… gosh sometimes.
At EB once – male attendant
me: “Hi, you wouldn’t happen to have or know where i could get a copy of shadows of the colossus”
him: “Sure, what system is that on?”
*facepalm*At Game – female attendant
Me: Do you have any copies of gears of war 2?
Her: I’ll just check – what system is that on?
*megafacepalm*Also, i went into the Werribee store once and the staff was entirely girls, which is ok, but only one knew what games were – the other two looked like they just finished shifts at supre and kept giving me “um, yeah, ok.” looks…
ALSO:
It’s hard not to stereotype as when i went for an interview at EB once, the first thing the manager said to the group is “Ok, first of all, don’t worry, you don’t need to know anything about games to work here – you just need to be enthusiastic”*blink*
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I’ve had a couple of people who were knew, and didn’t know all that much, but the majority of the time I’m lucky.
They’re typically nerdy, friendly, and easy to deal with. It’s weird. Even the girls seem to know things about games.
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they knew little of how a store works, but that’s irrelevant.
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Goddammit. I really hate homophones.
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This lady gave me a look when I bought the Pokemon Platinum 700-page guide/Pokedex.
>:CDude who used to work at my local seemed like a pretty great guy. It’s a small store, and he genuinely seemed happy just to chat to people even if they weren’t buying anything.
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I spent a large part of my teen years working at EB games and I loved the job. Sometimes you get good customers, other times you get the know-it-all asses who will look down on you no matter how much knowledge you possess.
Whatever the case, just do your best to give at least some staff a good name.
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I remember the time I went into EB games in the CBD to get Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, I think the girl and I at the counter talked for over 20 minutes about it. Lucky for me, there were others there to take care of other customers xD
She had a lot of knowledge on gaming, even mentioning random games that I’ve played recently and she tells me what she thought of them. I was honestly quite impressed. It’s really relaxing that the person serving you at the counter knows games, cuz then it doesn’t feel so awkward 😛
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The only stereotypes I’ve ever seen play out in a gaming store have been from the customers.
The majority I’ve seen are just major a-holes, trying to trip up the sales staff about obscure titles.
Usually I get good service and some nice idle chit-chat. And usually I can tell who I want to be served by if I want to have a long drawn-out conversation about games, but honestly that doesn’t happen very often.
I finally got around to downloading LoL last night and played through the tutorial and a practice match with bots. It was fun but I get the feeling the game will start to feel very repetitive. I also hadn’t realised how cartoony the graphics were (not that that’s a bad thing).
After the practice game I spent about 15 minutes in the store browsing through the heroes and skins. Some of them look really cool. Some of them also seem like they’d be super OP and people who fork out the money to buy them are going to have a huge advantage over those who don’t.
Any of you long time LoLers have any tips for a complete beginner?
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Apparently don’t lane with me or Steve-O.
We killsteal like champs.
\o/Also I think, and this from me who has only played for a smidge over 2 weeks, it’s the competition that spurs you on. The map might be the exactly the same each time, but it’s what happens when fighting other people that keeps you going. At least, that’s what I’d imagine. I’m still flaffing around trying to pick some main champions. When you steamroll some Beginner bots, yeah, that’s a bit less entertaining.
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Also, best way to judge characters is by their /dance.
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There’s a /dance emote in the game? Why was this not in the tutorial. It’s valuable information.
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There’s a /laugh and a /taunt command too 🙂
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Also it is far more fun playing in an organised group.
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More annoying than boring really, cuz all it takes is one bad apple to ruin the game for you out of your team of 4 other randoms 😛
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Kill-steal! \o/
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It won’t get repetitive, trust me. There are that many unique champions that any enemy lineup could change your strategy immensely, including who your own team picks.
Any tips I can give you are these:
Do NOT be aggressive early game in your lane, it’ll 90% likely end in your death meaning gold for the enemy team and possibly worse, first blood.Be vary wary around enemy turrets early/mid game, they’re very well used traps by opposing PvP teams, and can tear you a new one if you’re not careful.
Try out all the champions to find the playstyle that suits you. Each week’s rotation is a new set of 10 champions to try, each having their own unique strengths, weaknesses and the roles they can play. When you find one you really like and want to master, buy it. Oh yeah, champions and runes that can be bought with money, can also be bought from playing enough games to earn the points as well. Nobody is really in any advantage since all champions are available for purchase by anyone in whatever way they desire. The only things that need to be bought and nothing else are things like character skins, which do not add to stats in any way.
Me and the other LoL guys will be happy to guide you over TeamSpeak on how you should be playing, you can even join us in our games if you’d like. I’m sure all the other guys will be more than happy to provide advice in real time
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Unless you’re playing as Garren – then you have to be aggressive! ARGHHH – Kill the enemy!
Now, to make me a meal with hot sauce!
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I’m speaking in terms to a beginner, once you’re better, yeah start being courageous, but this is to make sure he doesn’t risk being a feeder
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Yeah I was only kidding – was hoping to get that across by being so over the top and referencing the gaming competitiveness/hot sauce article.
Best thing to do Dire Wolf early on is focus on last hitting and staying with the creeps to earn experience.
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Awesome, I’d never seen the original.
What a great way to start Page 6 😛
Loved the “This man lose letter to dog” one 🙂
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Anyone else ever felt like declaring war on the Reply Button??
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That damn Reply Button is spoken of far too much, we need to knock him down a peg or two!
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Hear hear!
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Why do I always pick the hard to use, expensive champs in LoL?
I could have grabbed a cheap, easy Fiddlesticks or Veigar but no, I went for Brand.
This week I could use someone like Garren – simple and powerful, but no I want to try Lee Sinn.
Gah.
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That purple bar /o\
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Lee Sin is so much fun!
I still have no idea how to use him, but still.
FUN!
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He is that, zooming around like a monkey.
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At least for a more difficult champion, not as many other people would use it and you may get an edge in battle if they don’t know what you’re capable of.
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Lucky for me Kassadin is 3150, should I choose to purchase him 🙂
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Man we did pretty well last night. You did well with Lee Sin at the end, once you’d gotten the hang of him, pretty sure I died more times than you 😛
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I’m gonna be late tonight cuz of bowling but I might be up for playing as Kassadin some more tonight, I want to try out the build I put together myself after all the research I did.
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Sounds good man, well late for you is fairly early for me over here, so hopefully I’ll see you on there!
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I have posted a question on Whirlpool, but it’s been ten minutes and no response, so I’m turning to the TAY community for guidance!
I am considering purchasing a tablet computer in the near future, and am looking for some guidance as to what it can and cannot do.
The things I need from it are:
•ability to read pdfs and ebooks (I think this one is pretty much a guarantee)
•ability to store custom fonts and edit Office documents
•ability to run programs such as Paint Shop Pro 7 and plugins.
•ability to use PSP7 to perform low-level image editing
Is someone able to advise whether tablets (and their OS) are capable of performing said tasks please, and what specs I should consider investing in to achieve these goals?
Thanks guys!
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Lucky you, I had to do a report on this for my IPP class a few weeks ago.
Tablet PC, hmmm, the Ausu Eee Pad Transformer, but it’s closer to a laptop than a tablet, or mayby the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, both seem to be quite good
P.S. bothe of these are easily avaliable on the cheap (<$750 AU)
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Wow! I want one! I don’t care if I draw badly 😛
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Wow! That is friggin’ amazing!
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IS THIS S*** FOR REAL!?
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
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From Wacom Aus site
“Available in Aus mid-October. Roughly $200.”BUYING
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*Jump/Sky-Punch*
*Freeze-Frame*
*Roll Credits*
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That is so fething rad!
MY GOD i wish i could draw!
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HAHA! XD
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I cracked up at 1:18 where there’s an explosion in a lab of some kind and the guy inside is banging on the window for help. Jensen’s just facing the other way, doin’ the safety dance!
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Buzz Killington strikes again!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/08/you-can-dance-if-you-want-to-in-deus-ex-human-revolution/WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP!
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I was going to point that out but then thought I’d be nice 😛
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It’s my job to be Buzz Killington. That’s my lot in life, and I’ve embraced it with open arms.
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Good sir tell us that good story about the bridge, or the man having trouble on the old style bicycle!
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I cannot recall those tales, but I do have a great joke.
There was this mollusk, and he walks up to this sea cucumber. Of course, he didn’t really walk up to him, what with him being a mollusk, and normally they don’t talk, sea cucumbers, but in a joke everyone talks. So the sea mollusk says to the cucumber…
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NEMO!
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Dammit.
Seeing as page 5 is dead now, here’s one of my attempts to make a Kotaku-ish themed Space Marine chapter.
http://tinypic.com/r/34t515z/7
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NEEDS MORE PINK!
PIIIIIINNNKKKKK!!
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More pink = Emperor’s Children (Traitor Legion).
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MORE PINK!
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Yes!
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How about this, then?
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2d6qr1t&s=7
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MORE PINK!
(If I get this game I will be running around as a pink Space Marine, all pink and pink pink. LIKE A MAN!)
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Most excellent. *rubs hands together*
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I like yours the best.
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Not bad at all – i think F4ction’s pretty much nailed it for me, however
Will need to see it in-game, but it’s getting there thats for sure.
Good morning everyone! Got the Apple audit today so might not get much of a chance to be on here this morning once the auditor gets here.
Had an awesome AI game of LoL last night with my little shnookums (aka Jo). I tried Garen again for the first time since the Advanced tutorial and I got 15/4/16 so I was pretty happy with that. I can’t really have Garen as one of my mains though because Steve-O might rape me. Was disappointed that Karthus was unavailable, I was really keen to try him out.
Also, Bish and I had a good time discussing Adam Jensen’s lack of a metal penis to please the ladies.
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Doesn’t he still have a fleshy wang?
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Nope, he lost it. And he asked for a metal augmented penis so he could please the ladies, they came back with a metal arm and he was all like “I never asked for this”.
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Well if it was like a baby’s arm holding an apple I don’t see what the problem is…
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Unfortunately, ’twas not the case. It’s all he can do to hold back the tears, hence why his voice is always so raw and rough, he’s been screaming and sobbing.
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HAHAHAHA!!
He sure didn’t -wipes away tear- he sure didn’t…
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WHOLE COMMENT SPOILERS, KIND OF, NOTHING IMPORTANT THOUGH
See, that’s what I would have thought to, but his augs are pretty extensive.
Visibly, definitely his arms and legs.
In the trailers, he’s lounging at home topless drinking whiskey, and the exterior of his torso is still flesh, although the aug screen suggests some of his organs are definitely replaced.
The lower body region, however, remains a mystery./SPOILER
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SPOILERISH
They say what was badly damaged included his “chest cavity”, so I think they may have stitched his skin back over replacement organs. And given his inability to run for more than 3 seconds, I’d say they just put metal plates over his legs and pretended they were augmented…
/SPOILERISH
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He’s sneaking up on a guard and his leg casing falls off, clanging to the ground.
he whispers “Goddammit”
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Ahah hah hah hah…
I, er, that is to say, uh…
*runs away*-
Oh Bishy, don’t be shy.
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Once Karthus’ bug gets fixed up, he’ll take Kennen’s place. But I think Gorzilla’s already wanting Kennen badly xD
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Stop derailing this serious schlong discussion with LoL talk!
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A human? Ordering me around? Pardon me for laughing heartily at this pitiful attempt
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Yeah I know, but basically after tomorrow night, I won’t really get a chance to play LoL for a couple of weeks :/ I’ll be busy with my 21st and then packing 🙁
I hope he’s fixed before then.
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Well crap, I’m gonna miss you human while you’re away, hope you have a good time
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It will be torture. Internet will take ages to get hooked up :/ hopefully one of the neighbours have wifi I can piggyback off and then I’ll be able to play!
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Oh yeah that’s right you’re moving! Thought you were going on holiday, stupid NVRAM… STOP MAKING STUFF UP!
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Haha I wondered about your choice of wording 😛
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Good luck with the movings!
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Thanks man, hopefully get it all done in one day. I have to work the next day so if I can’t I don’t know what I’m going to do :/
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THAT’S IT MAGS! NO LUBE FOR YOU!
Nah tis’ all good mate – get Garren if you want, I’ve been practicing as Karma (support) lately and am looking into buying Leona as a tank so I’m not locked into playing only as Garren (I also already have Veigar).
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Good to see my way of doing things on LoL moving onto others 🙂
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HAHAHA! When I read that first line I was drinking water and sprayed it out all over my computer screen :/
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You can actually find some post it notes going something like “Buy broccoli and LUBE”. Lube is apparently underlined, too.
Just saying.
So – for those who don’t know yet – I GOT MY SHINY NEW HTC DESIRE HD OVER TH WEEKEND!!! :D:D:D
Man it is such a boss phone.
So i’ve already got a Snes emulator (rpg, yes please) as well as:
Alchemy – soooo addictive
Death Worm
iRunner
PapiJump
RacingMoto
Zombievilled
Kongregate Arcade
Eternal Warriors
Gem Miner
Ant Smash
Pocket Soccer
and a couple of other sound board thingies which are endlessly amusing.
WHAT ELSE DO I NEED GAME WISE?!?!
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oh and i’ve already played through angry birds on Bee’s phone.. and blast monkeys.. so… you know.. forget about them 🙂
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Don’t forget about 1000 Heroz, oh wait, that’s iOS only.
And Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, oh wait, that’s only iOS and Xperia play right now.
Also, there’s Infinity Blade. Dammit, that’s iOS only too.
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Looks like you bought the wrong phone 😛
(Note, I’m note endorsing the iPhone, in fact, when I got a phone I’ll probably go for the xperia play.)-
*twitch*
mustn’t… punch… fanboy…comment…*twitch*
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Its funny cause it’s usually the apple you can’t play much on and now it’s the opposite.
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Games? On phone? Eh?
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I’m addicted to Robot Wars, simple tower defense.
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I’ve been sinking a lot of time into Zenonia 3… it’s a korean attempt at a jrpg… simple: yes, flat dialog: yes… but endlessly grinding entertainment… oh and did i mention it is free?
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Try Robotek… it’s a free turn-based strategy game with awesome graphics and cool gameplay. 😀
I have been sewing all morning and I finally finished my super-secret project and it is AWESOME(read that in a Yo Gabba Gabba voice)!!
I put pics up on Facebook but I can’t show the rest of you guys yet, hopefully on Friday.
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Huzzah and hurrah!
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WWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go Strange!!
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To Facebo- WHOAH!
WHOAH! WHAT? HOLY SHIZBURGER!
I’m impressed, in case you can’t tell.
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Nice! Congrats. Curious to see….
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Aww I wanna see!
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I is are in awe!
Enemies! We need enemies!
I feel the warp overtaking me!
Just saw the skins for Chaos Space Marines in 40k:SM…awesome!
As part of my efforts to learn how to not suck at SC2, I shall be making a spreadsheet to keep nearby with all of the costs for every Protoss unit, building and upgrade. Probably some other information too, but those seem like things to keep in mind and have readily available while playing.
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Just a test:
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You need a spreadsheet for that? I can’t remember build times for everything, but unit cost is easy. And building cost, and whatnot.
Except for starport things, I can’t remember them. Because I never use them.
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Having more information makes more sense than having less information.
I don’t know it yet, so this will help.
Probably.
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Hello TAYbies! So father’s day is looming and I need your help!
I want to get my dad a boxset of some television series he’d enjoy. He’s a MASSIVE fan of Stargate, Stargate Atlantis and whatever other spinoff there is and I was hoping somebody would be able to suggest a sci-fi show in a similar vein?
I tried to get him into Firefly but he didn’t quite like it as much – he also watches a bit of Star Trek here and there.
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Buy him Doctor Who. Greatest scfi series ever.
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Being a huge Doctor Who fan myself, I tried to get him into it.
He fell asleep.
/sigh
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Farscape?
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THIS!
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Looks like it’ll be Farscape 🙂
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There’s always the risk that he’ll hate it. Even though I loved every moment of it(Except for the movie, but only because I haven’t seen it, leaving me with a mega cliff-hanger) I know that some people like to leave it to last when going through Sci-Fi shows, because it really is on the bizarre end of the spectrum.
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Battlestar Galactica?
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Actually, I was hoping somebody might suggest this. Is sort of the more sexier version of Stargate SG1?
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Its a more down to earth Sci-fi, think it as the opposite end of the scale from Farscape with Stargate in the middle.
Very good.But yeah, Farscape is great too.
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HMMMMMM decisions decisions!
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Battlestar Galactica ended up getting worse and worse as it went on IMO
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I’m actually kind of grateful that as it went on it became less, I don’t know, “sexy”.
Seeing Gaius hump thin air was weird.
Totally got lost in the 2nd and 3rd seasons, but 4th season was a ripper. But dat ending. /o\
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Red Dwarf or Hyperdrive for comedy sci-fi…
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I found the first ep of Red Dwarf terribly boring… meaning he’d probably love it.
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For shame!
They’re dead Dave. They’re all dead, everybody’s dead, Dave.
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He doesn’t love Firefly? I’m sorry, there’s nothing that’ll please this man.
I joke. Rocketmans idea of Doctor Who is pretty good.
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Sanctuary? It’s even got that blonde chick from Stargate in it.
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Bahaha.
That made more sense than my discussions with Cleverbot…
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What did I just watch?
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Man, Clevebot scares me.
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*Cleverbot, even.
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I’m more afraid of Cleaverbot
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Bahahahahaha.
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What. Amazing!
So the Apple guy just left. I THINK we did well in the audit, also the guy made a few meme references on the sly, which made me lol verily.
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Did he say the douche hat Steve Jobs ones? those all made me laugh xD
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Haha no, he dropped the “I see what you did there” and narrowed his eyes. And a couple of others I can’t remember but I remember thinking “this guy sure knows his meme’s”
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Read these and laugh xD
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Haha yeah I saw these on memebase 😛 they’re good
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lolol that’s awesomely funny, thanks for sharing Techy
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You’re welcome. Anything I can do to make the friendly humans’ days more enjoyable
*bows*
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I think this is the closest I’m ever going to get to getting a HP Touchpad for less than $100…
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/White-HP-TouchPad-16GB-Wi-Fi-running-Android-drawing-/220840920772?pt=AU_Drawings&hash=item336b2506c4#ht_802wt_1140
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I hope someone bids on that thinking its the real thing :/
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AHAHAAH!
Dont you hate when you start reading page 1 thinking its page 6…
Also, Hi everyone. New job sees me in here a lot less. Im not at that comfortable stage where you can slack off and get away with it. I’ll need a few more weeks before I reach that point.
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Ah the blissful stage of a new job where you actually do work. I remember that time..
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Yeah, I have been here 5 & 1/2 hours and done 2 hours worth of work which is pretty good for this week. Not because I am lazy, there is just nothing else to do.
I should get a new job before my brain rots beyond recovery but then I would complain about having to do work.
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Same here man. I’ve had the Apple audit and now I’m copying data from a hard drive from a dead macbook pro to an external hard drive. Exciting stuff!
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So, it looks like the xbox 360 is getting 3D very soon. http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/268652,3d-gaming-coming-to-xbox-360.aspx
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The 360 has supported 3d for ages, the downloadable title “Invincible Tiger:The Legend of Han Tao” supports both Anaglyphic 3d, and stereoscopic 3d on appropriate displays. The game was bad, but that’s irrelevant to my point.
Epic also showed a tech demo of Gears (2, I think) running in 3d on a normal 360 ages back.
And I argue with that article, as I’m pretty sure I could convince Halo:CE to run in 3d on my display…
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Yeah, Halo:CE for PC in 3D was a bit annoying though. All those lights would be flat, like they’re stuck on your visor…
So, it’s more like the first time you’ll be able to enjoy Halo:CE in 3D.
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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/8292296/woman-buys-wood-block-she-thought-was-ipad
Cos legitimate goods are always on sale in Maccas carparks!!!
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-1 to faith in humanity
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You had some left?
Lucky you.-
If you’re running a little low I can sell you some. Just meet me at your local Maccas carpark in two hours…
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HAHAHA!
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It’s a trap!
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Dammit, who reinstalled your Ackbar protocol?
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It’s always there Rabbit, it’s always there
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I started laughing. My colleague looked over. Within a minute, the entire office is laughing. Gold.
So both ‘Flu and and Mark are leaving for the UK tomorrow, right?
Coincidence?
Also, have fun, kids. Loot me something good, Flu! Or have those stopped already? Loot me something good anyway!
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I was about to say “LIES! Mark told me he was leaving on Thursday- ooh”
How is today Wednesday already?!?!?!
WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
I’ve had my tickets for this( http://www.70000tons.com/home.htm ) booked for a while but wasn’t sure if I’d actually be able to go.
Mum just told me she got time off work so she can look after the kids which means I can go! Yay! I can finally allow myself to get all excited!
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🙂 SO happy for you!!! I know how much you been lookin forward to this!!! Don’t ya just love it when a plan comes together!!!!
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Congratulations, I am exceedingly jealous.
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Nice! That would be awesome, although from the lineup I think Hammerfall is the only one I’d personally want to see.
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Man, Cannibal Corpse are so bad. I have no idea how they have a following :/
I wouldn’t mind seeing Nightwish, but I don’t know what their stuff is like now. Last album I heard was “Once” and the only song I liked on that record was “Nemo”, it sort of turned me off listening to them after that.
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Hahaha, they were only announced today and I was almost wishing I couldn’t go. Almost.
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Haha yeah, for metal bands with female vocalists, I much prefer Lacuna Coil. Her voice is better IMO, not to mention the girl is stunning!
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I like whatever album had “Our Truth” on it. I remember hearing it on one of the Headbanger’s Ball cd’s and then going out and buying the album the next day. My mum used to borrow the CD to play in the car, hahaha.
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Yep. Nightwish kicked their old singer out and their last album ‘Dark Passion Play’ was with a new singer. You should check it out, you might like it.
The old singer, Tarja went on to do some interesting solo stuff.We’re actually going to see them in LA just before the cruise too. They’re one of my husband’s favourite bands.
The Lacuna album with ‘Our Truth’ would be Karmacode.
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Tarja was what managed to get many people interested in Nightwish.
That being said, they’re a better band without her even if they are a little different.
I saw Lacuna Coil live at Soundwave a few years back. Their first Aussie tour I think.
Terrible.
I don’t know what was going on but there was a huge delay before they came out and the rear speakers were delayed so there was an echo that ruined most of it.
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Yeah the sound crew for Soundwave that year was atrocious, it wasn’t just Lacuna Coil, heaps of bands had issues with sound. I didn’t get to go to that one, but my friends did and they all regretted buying tickets.
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Some stages were better than others. The main two stages (Alice in Chains and Nine Inch Nails) were alright but the stage Lacuna Coil (and Lamb of God) were on was atrocious.
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That’s really a shame, Lacuna Coil are awesome.
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Guess I’m listening to Nightwish for the rest of the afternoon. Hello again high school.
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Ah, was Karmacode one of the albums you liked or?
Nice, sounds like one hell of a trip! Very jealous! Yeah I might have to give it a go. Although, as I said, I really don’t listen to as much metal as I used to. I used to listen to them a lot when I was playing a bit of guitar (which I am now hopeless at, really not like riding a bike, if you don’t practice, you get bad, quick), probably because guitarwork in metal is incredible. But then I started vocal lessons and focussing more on the vocals in music than in the instruments, and let’s face it, with a lot of metal, vocals leave a lot to be desired. There are definitely exceptions, but usually the singers I prefer to listen to are in rock bands and the like.
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Yeah, I gave up on guitar as soon as I saw how good my friends were at it. Worked out nicely though, they are terrible vocalists and I’m finding vocals a good deal easier.
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Yeah so far I’d see Hammerfall, Eluveitie, Grave Digger, Nightwish, Stratovarius, Therion and Tristania. But there’s still 21 bands to be announced and they save the biggest ones to announce closer to the cruise. It’s a lot to fit in though so I’m hoping I only like 2 or 3 of the rest of the bands. 😀
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Yeah definitely, I used to be huge into the metal scene but found I don’t listen to it as much now I’m older :/
I hate when festivals have a heap of good bands and then put them all on the same timeslot so you have to make a choice 🙁
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With 4 days of bands playing from 9am through to 4am in 3 different venues and twice each you rarely have to make a difficult choice.
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This is true, you should be fine then 😛 I haven’t been to a concert in a while. Probably the last one (apart from local bands) was Birds of Tokyo at Fremantle Arts Centre to promote their latest album. Man that was an excellent show
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I’ll be seeing Monster Magnet in a couple of weeks time. They’ll be playing the Dopes To Infinity album in its entirety. I can’t wait!
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Is it bad that I’ve never heard of Monster Magnet? :/
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Nope, it just means you’re not as old as me. 😛
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Haha well I’m turning 21 on Saturday, so given that you already have children, I would guess you’re just a bit older than me 😛
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The only song I know is from the Matrix soundtrack…’Look to your orb for the warning’…
My current handle sounds like a name for an awesome tablet.
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It actually does. That’s what I thought yesterday when I made it up for you 😛
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I wouldn’t buy you though, sorry. You sound awfully slow…although I bet you look all shiny and pretty and stuff in which case I wouldn’t be able to resist!
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I was going to mention the slow thing, but then didn’t know how to say it in a nice way 😛
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Is that the imperial shuttle?
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HAHA! That’s what I was thinking!
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HAH ditto on thinking that
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I think Jo has won the best-TAY-post-of-today award.
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2 days in a row! WOO GO JO!
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If you changed it into iDawdle… I might have to stop talking to you entirely.
I approve of e-dawdle though 🙂
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You’ll be relieved to know that I’m anti-Apple.
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You are now one of my favourite humans 🙂
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I concur; ಠ_ಠ
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I’m not anti-apple. But I don’t think they’re the best and I don’t worship Steve Jobs. Am I still one of your favourites Techie?
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Well I personally don’t hate Steve Jobs or the work he does, I’m just against their models on harsh control over their users and also against those that worship the ground under Steve’s feet. They act like Apple is supposed to be followed like religion and if you don’t have an iPhone you’re shunned from the society.
So really you’re alright as well Mags 🙂
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Although this harsh control is the reason I’m going to get my 10-year-old an iPad for Christmas instead of a laptop.
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Haha that’s good. Well I do have an iPhone 😛 but that was more just personal choice, not needing to have one.
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Is it used as a PFD? Cuz if it’s a PFD then I’ll be mad…
PFD = Personal Facebook Device
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It’s used as a phone? :/
I do have the Facebook app on it but I rarely use it these days. I just use it for text messaging, phone calls, playing games, browsing the net, recipe apps sometimes for when I cook, stuff like that.
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Don’t get me started on the word “app” either… xD
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I have to say though, the harsh control and how they don’t really allow hardware to be changed, etc. Makes diagnosing and fixing issues with Mac’s a breeze and as a certified technician, I greatly appreciate this.
If I wanted something that I’m stuck with everything on it except for what THEY decide to add, I would just get a console, not a computer, at least then I’d be stuck with something I like 😛
Yeah true, well I mainly use a Windows PC at home, can’t play many games on a mac and I like to upgrade. But mac’s definitely have their place, a lot of people don’t want to upgrade, just want something that works and is simple. And mac’s are very, very simple to use.
As someone who doesn’t particularly care about upgrading and has a laptop as their main machine, Macs are rather dandy.
I don’t mind them, my laptop is a Macbook Pro, and I use it fairly often. It’s amazingly quick to turn on and off, perfect for just checking something quickly.
MacBook Air, I don’t need heavy processing power but portability and instant wake from sleep are very nifty.
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Well that was interesting. Just tried to repair my girlfriend’s work-mate’s Ipod. It was shattered too bad for me to pull the glass off in one piece, and there is now tiny pieces of shattered glass on my desk and in my finger. After all this effort it turns out I don’t even have the right parts. FML.
tl;dr – I like taking things apart but am not so good at putting them back together.
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*high five*
After several attempts at fixing things I know nothing about and actually making them worse, I just leave it to the experts. I’m all over computer shizz though.
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Isn’t it your job to fix things?
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Yeah computer things. I’m good with computers, just other stuff, not so good.
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Strange, now I know that you’re into metal, my mental image of you is something like this:
http://moshgirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/tomb-raider-mosh-girl.jpg
Except with kids running around you.
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Make it prettier and chubbier and you might be close…. 😛
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I was going to say, except prettier 😛
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Having met Strange in person, I can second this.
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Having stalked her via Facebook I can agree. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
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Forgive my french, but what the shit?
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I google imaged “girl in metal mosh” to try get a picture, and that was the most hilarious one that came up 😛
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Is Yoplait really French for “yum”?
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I thought the slogan was “Petit Miam; French for ‘mmm, yum.’”
I could be wrong.
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Wouldn’t that be more along the lines of “Small(masculine form) yum.” My french is very rusty and exceedingly non existent though, so I could be wrong.
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Small masculine forms are pretty delicious.
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Oh, that’s absolutely what it means, I just thought I remembered that being the slogan. Though I don’t possess a great knowledge of yogurt advertisements.
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I just wanted to confirm that my French wasn’t total arse. And you may well be right about that being the slogan, in which case it’s dumb. Really, really dumb.
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Pardon my english but w**t the fuck?
DAMNIT, censorship fail
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AAHAHAA
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Damn you reply button and your estrogonical treachery… (because you know… report button is female… you know… *walks away*)
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The Reply Button was offended by your swear.
*sighs* You humans…
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HOLY CRAP!!!
I JUST PULLED THE LONGEST HAIR OUT OF MY NOSE!!
HOW DID YOU GET SO LONG MR. NOSE HAIR!?!?!
TELL YOUR FRIENDS I HATE THEM AND I’LL CONTINUE TO CUT THEM LIKE SOMETHING THAT GETS CUT A LOT!
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wow.. way to start a page in class, loops…
*shakes head*-
Oh Chuloopa! 😀
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Yeah… classy…
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*Slow clap*
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/sigh
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Do you sneeze whenever you pull a nose hair, or is that just me?
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I do as well. Do you sometimes sneeze when you’ve been inside, then go outside and the bright light makes you sneeze? I think it might just be me, usually people look at me really weird when I ask them..
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One of the guys I work with actually wears glasses most of the time because the sunlight makes him sneeze. I’m sure it has a name but I can’t remember it for the life of me.
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I’m not alone! Yay! It only makes me sneeze at first, and it’s always 2 sneezes. Once they’re gone, no more, I’m as happy as can be, until I go into the dark and then come into a bright place again.
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Photic sneeze reflex, apparently one third of the world’s population have it.
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And I’m one of them!
Much to the disapproval of my germaphobic ex.
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High five!
Meh, it’s just sneezing, who cares 😛
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Something I wasn’t created with! Thank you illusive creator! 😀
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“You said you were fine but you’ve got a cold, don’t you?”
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Argh! So annoying!
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That one’s a very simple recessive/dominant gene based condition. I’m pretty sure they’ve even isolated the gene that causes it.
Not just you, my husband goes into never-ending sneezing fits.
So, after watching Good Game last week, I decided to try out ‘Speed Halo’.
Even with only 3 players, it is easily the most hilarious way to play Halo I’ve ever seen.
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what the blazes… lol this looks so funny to watch alone
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The video does not capture the sheer insanity and speed these warthogs attain. Also, that video seems to have a heap of lag in it.
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Holy crap, that looks like fun. If only I had Gold. :/
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Playing locally on the same console or via LAN seems perfectly viable, if you have enough xboxs and controls 😛
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Well, I have one xbox.
2 controllers.
And 0 friends.
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Come live in Perth, then!
Wait, there’s something wrong with that statement…
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Better than Canberra.
Oh so much better.
Probably.
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BDKIAF, so our conversation does not get lost on the previous page.
Yeah that’s about the same time I stopped playing guitar, my friend and I started at the same time, I was given a shitty, out of tune, nylon string acoustic guitar with a bent neck, he had a brand new ltd bought for him. He progressed a lot further than I did :/
What style of vocals are you learning? I learnt classical, it’s the best for getting your vowels right and learning to sing “in the mask”. I really need to get back into lessons, haven’t had any in about 3 years 🙁
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Haha, well, so there’s no confusion, when I say vocals I’m probably not talking about the same thing as you. I’m talking like Parkway Drive, The Ghost Inside, August Burns Red kind of stuff. So, you know, not singing.
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Ah fair enough. Does also need skill, and not everyone can do it, at least not without causing serious damage to vocal cords 😛
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Hey guys, in case nobody sees it on the main page:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/08/the-lame-game-marathon/
Myself. my brother Dan and mah boi Klutar are planning to play some of the worst games known to man for 24 hours straight, all to raise money and awareness for the East Africa appeal, all streamed LIVE on the internets.
It’s gonna hurt, so be sure to check it out and spread the word to everyone you know. We’ll be handing out more info as we draw closer to the 17th.
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will there be live commentary by you guys?
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As well as direct-feed of what we’re playing we’ll have webcams showing our reactions as we play.
We’ll also have some mates commentating for us to keep things interesting 🙂
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Hip Hop fans… (the few of us)
Celph Titled will be in Aus late Sep/Early Oct. Touring Adelaide, Melb and Sydney.
Details here:
http://allaussiehiphop.com/tag/celph-titled-australian-tour/
Im going to Sydney show. $45 – Awesome.
http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=49693
For anyone who has seen a hip show at the Gaelic, its a good place and I enjoyed it last time. Only issue is Sydney is a Sunday night so I’ll try and get the day off Monday??? Anyone else want to go? I know AP was keep. Im taking abot 3-4 mates I think but I going alone if I have to!!!! Celph Titled in Sydney!
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Just booked tickets!!!!! Can’t wait!
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For what??????????????????????
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Either the formatting is failing again, or the Reply Button is going to have a field day…
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***glares at Reply button***
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For what?
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Whoa! Page went crazy!!!
Cheers Fatshady!!!!
Will suss out in Adelaide.
I swear I posted this on the last page but I must have forgotten to hit the Submit Comment button. Anyway, it’s Mr. Strange’s last day of being in his Thirties today but I can’t think of anything awesome to make his Thirties go out in style. Suggestions?
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Well, that didn’t take long.
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Well there has to be someone in the gutter.
And since AP left it’s pretty much just me again, though jamesmacusedmyhandle does drop in occasionally(to try and retrieve his wallet).
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I like that it seems like you had this site all bookmarked and ready to go. So, which one did you get for yourself? 😛
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I went with the “aweigh anchor” sailor costume.
http://www.eveadams.com.au/aweigh-anchor
Chicks dig a guy in uniform
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Though it was a challenge to not buy this one: http://www.eveadams.com.au/hello-sailor
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It’s slightly disturbing that I can imagine you in both of those….
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/swoons
Please wear one of those costumes in your next video..
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Wearing that, while singing K-pop?
I’m afraid not. I have a few shreds of dignity left.
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Hahaha.
Just kidding.
I don’t have dignity.
Unfortunately I no longer have it, it was lost in… an accident.
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http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/original/000/156/532/I%20lied.jpg?1312134407
You forgot to add that to the end of your previous post.
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Ehh, cbf’ed.
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Mana Bar!
Unless you don’t live in Melbourne or Brisbane…
http://www.manabar.com.au/
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Or combine them both? lol
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Good idea, but we can’t offload the kids tonight. 🙁
Step 1. Cut a hole in the box…
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but seriously??
A last supper. All the deep fried goodness you can muster, he is never allowed to eat any of it again because he is OLD!!!!!!!
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But if he’s not allowed to eat all that amazing deep fried awesomeness after tonight does that mean I can’t have any either?
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Of course you can! You still young and vibrant, tis his own curse for choosing a younger woman 😉
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LOLOLOL
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HAHAHA! SO GOOD!
Grow an impressive moustache, dress up in a bath robe, sit by a roaring fire with a monocle, a glass of brandy and a cigar/pipe.
Everyone else in the house is dressed up in formal attire, so you and your children will be in dresses and tuxedos.
I don’t know why I thought of this. I guess I’m kinda bored.
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Where’s DAN! when you need him hey?
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This should amuse you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9NU62JC7N8
Ha ha. That silly person.
Note: May not amuse you.
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That was rather awesome.
Except the bit where Inspector gadget was playing when there was a sonic screwdriver.
And for that matter, it’s a matt smith screwdriver, not a David Tennant one.
In fact, that video was rubbish. I am disappoint*.
*Quite the opposite.
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Sorry, my David Tennant screwdriver is too small.
Both of them are too small, now that I think about it…
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Work is so boring. I hate having nothing to do. I could be playing games at home instead :/
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Or sleeping. Sleep would be good.
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I love sleep.
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Same, and I still haven’t caught up on sleep from a fortnight ago. I’m having to have like 3 coffees a day to keep myself awake, yet when I get home, I’m not tired, so I stay up late again :/
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Blaghman you are everywhere today.
I like it.
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I just saw him in my work’s toilet :/
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If he had a goatee, you could claim you saw Jesus! (not really)
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If he had a moustache, I could say I saw Inigo Montoya! (not really)
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If I had overgrown stubble I could say I saw myself in a mirror!
Wait.
What?
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Get a head start on Movember!
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Or even Decembeard!
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I’m actually working on my Diableard.
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Respect.
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Not really, I just haven’t shaved for 2 weeks because I’m really lazy, and I need to because it just looks stupid.
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I haven’t shaved all week because it’s my 21st this weekend and I want to be clean-shaven for that. If I shave more than once a week, I end up cutting myself, probably because I rush, but anyway.
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I am really lazy at shaving, I always just do it in the shower, and I don’t use a mirror, so I sometimes end up with the worst jobs. :/
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I have nothing better to do!
And I generally do that on “Ask Me Stuff” anyway.
To answer your question, I am honestly not entirely sure as to the exact generation of my name, but I shall do my best to respond. To begin with, I was not “Blaghman” and he was simply a character I had created, a sort of Superman like being (I was 10, I hope you don’t expect creativity). Over time though, I began to associate myself more and more with him, for some reason or another. Until eventually I took this name. A talkative and extroverted being, the opposite of my nerdy, introverted 14 year old self. Since then I’ve simply stuck with the name.
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I just turned my television on and I swear you were on there. Or at least, a guy with a goatee and a moustache who was in Jamesmag’s work toilet was on TV.
You ARE everywhere.
Also, I respect your knowledge of historical deities.
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Interesting. It seems unlikely that I’m everywhere, simply in a great number of places at once, but to have me in so many places and unaware would mean… It’s time to kill my doppelgänger! AHAHAHAHA!
And I’ll be honest, my knowledge of Greek deities comes from watching Disney’s Hercules, and my Egyptian knowledge is only because I went on a holiday there.
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Disney’s Hercules is amazing. And “I can go the distance” is one of my favourite disney songs. Have you seen the One Man Disney Movie by Nick Pitera? That blows me away
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Nick Pitera is an amazing freak who I am super jealous of.
You know he works as an animator at Pixar? So amazing.
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Yeah man, he’s one of my singing idols 😛 along with Josh Groban.
My friend’s response when watching this video:
“That’s awesome, he’s gay though isn’t he?”
“Yeah”
“Meh, it’s not that great, he’s just a freak”
I wanted to punch him.
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http://youtu.be/bgo0CDL6bd0
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Watched her “A whole new world” version, and it just can’t compare with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9-CS2v8wcc
I think he does both parts better…
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Dear Hermes and Thoth.
Please hang out here with us more, I like you. And your name is the best one I’ve seen here since Hugo The Hungarian Barbarian.
🙂
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Oh god. Oh god it’s happening again.
Tears. Mantears of joy.
They accept me. They really accept me.Anyway, uh… whoa. Sorry.
But, I will be sticking around/getting involved. I at first aimed to better Blaghman’s number of comments but dear lord, he is everywhere.
Such a great community here and kudos about the kudos for the name.
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I have days when I’m quiet.
And I was only the third noisiest person in TAY last week!
I’m restrained!
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So, initiation ceremony?
My how we are growing. It feels like we have a ceremony every week now.
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Yeah, but I think Tracey failed stage one, so that one didn’t really count.
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and the lord did say
“B-Funk, you will buy that kit kat crunchy cookies and cream, and it will be good”
and the lord was correct, as B-Funk merrily ate the chocolatey goodness
B-Funk relpied “Lord, Thy kit kat crunchy cookies and cream was delicious, it is truly the chocolate spawned from the heavens”
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What is your opinion of the Kit-Kat Chunky 3s, i dont think they’re as good
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THIS!!!
it has mathematicly less filling, and i don’t wanna share my chocolate, it’s mine!!!
i was like, okay this is alright, but they are gonna go back to normal, right? RIGHT?!
so now i have to deal with the 3’s crap (in fact the one i ate was a 3 one, still good, but yeah, same complaint about getting less filling)
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Exactly!
But at my local Woolworths we have both, my brother and I always get the real ones.
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There was no point to this comment what-so-ever, I was just braging
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I actually really like them. Although I do agree with B-Funk’s logic. Mathematically less filling.
Also, Cookie Dough > Cookies & Cream.
I don’t understand why they got rid of them. I actually still have one left. It’s been in the fridge for over two years, waiting for a special occassion.-
THIS IS THE BEST DAMN COMMUNITY IN THE WORLD, COOKIE DOUGH WAS SO FREAKING GOOD!!!
WHY DO YOU HATE ME KIT KAT? I LOVE YOUR CHOCOLATES BUT YOU CHANGE THEM TO MUCH!!!
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Discovered earlier today that the flight I thought was departing at 10pm tomorrow is actually departing at 10am tomorrow.
Such a dufus…
This stress goes up to 11.
One nice thing though. Since my job is the way it is, my PC is usually running 24/7 (Sorry nature), so I usually have a whole bunch of spreadsheets permanently open, and often have around 50+ emails open at one time (either for reference or because I’m too damn slow/lazy).
I just closed all my spreadsheets.
Felt good.
Down to 27 emails.
18.
10.
0!
Oh, god, yes…
I feel so relaxed already…
I almost evacuated my bowels…
Time to go home and pack.
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Have a safe trip.
Don’t forget, food pictures are MANDATORY!
And bring me back some awesome flavours of ‘crisps’! 😛
Driver San Fran >> Dick Smith >> $79.94!!
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Scrap that!!
Kmart – $79!!!
I’m a little late, but Speed Halo looks amazeballs.
SPAAAACCCEEE MARRIIINNNEEEEE!!!!*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_nEi2SjrOk&feature=related
*not footage from the space marine game – but Deathstars are pretty great in a corny way 😀
Think Games workshop prices are tooo high?
Hitler agrees
Since I have school tommorrow (against my wishes, as always), I will not be able to post, at least until your nifty East Coast 4:30 PM
So to the night owls of TAY, I say, “Good Night and STEVE HOLT”
\o/
so just came back from my choir competetion, and i’m pretty certain we won!
it’s pretty good when the judge says things like “your music is inspiring/you guys don’t realise have a massive ability to move people with your music/ i actually had to stop writing just so i could hear the song properly” right?
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That’s some impressive feedback, and you’re part of a choir? Nice! What kind of songs do you sing?
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Well, catholic school, so some Jesus songs 😛 but we do some other songs as well
This is one of our performances last year, audio isn’t that flash, but you can still here us fine (and I am in this, but I’ll never tell which person I am 😉 )
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I went to an Anglican school and we sang Queen songs.
But then, there were two choirs, and when I was briefly in it I was in the crap one, not the chamber choir.
Also, you guys don’t sound half bad!
And I’ve totally worked out that you’re that guy. Definitely that one.
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That’s really good!
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Are you one of the guys singing?
I bet you are.
I’M A DETECTIVE-
You’re helping! \o/
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I help track down and identify schoolboys on the internet!
Nothing suss about that at all. It’s okay, because I’m not listening to WSFM. Yet.
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Lol.
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Holy shit, you got to TC?
I was 2005 dux at TC!
Small world.
Progress with Starcraft 2 is progressing.
Blaghman can confirm that my first few games against AI were abysmal. Got stomped by a normal difficulty bot, dropped to very easy and managed to win whilst being terrible.
That was a few weeks ago.
Now after just a few games, I managed to easily take care of some normal AI bots (my goal was simply to max out supply and worry about the economy). Winning was just a matter of selecting my vast army and sending them force into battle.
Sure, it won’t work against most humans, but I feel like I’m starting to get a grasp of the game.
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T-click everything!
Trust me, I know (very little about) Starcraft. That’s the one set in WW II, yeah? Great game.-
You really like helping Bish! \o/
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Yay for grid layout!
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I really want to get into SC2 but I keep getting distracted by LoL and last night Breaking Bad. This always happens though, I’ll get a nice new shiny game that costs $100, play it for a few hours and get distracted by something that was free. :/
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It’s fun but requires way too much dedication if you want to do well.
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Shiny free things can be troublesome.
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Is this another Thailand thing?
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Nothing is free in Thailand. Ridiculously cheap, maybe. Free, never. :p
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I’m not much better, I can play protoss and beat normal but not hard. Usually the normal AI tries to attack me with first wave, I crush it, then counter push and win. Every time
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Before I stopped playing I could beat hard AI and may have even beat a very hard once but don’t quote me on that.
Did not get far on the ladder though.
I suck now though.-
Not bad indeed, my strategy games skill is horrible compared to how I want it
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I think sucking is just something we do round here.
I know what I should be doing, or at least the general shape of it, but translating that into actual actions is difficult. Methinks me needs more familiarity with the game.
Oh well, guess the only way to suck less is to play more. Seems like a pleasurable cure.
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That’s my logic that I’m using on LoL currently
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We could start up a 3v3 team!
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If we did 3v3s, I’d probably just sit back and mass Carriers.
Why?
Funzies.
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4v4? That is if you want the awesomeness that is my zealot rush on your side.
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Kotaku monobattles!
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Anyone got any plans for tonight?
Ditch ’em. We’re doing this thing.
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Could do, though I think this is Mags’s last night he can play LoL for a while so I was thinking of joining him for a few games.
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Yeah if it is, I’ll be joining him in LoL too, we can leave it for Friday
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We’ll all be letting the team down.
Let’s play on the ladder on Friday (assuming plans for socialising don’t appear from nowhere). It’s not like anyone takes it seriously.
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I’m keen but I’m not sure if I’ve got other commitments that I’ve forgotten about for Friday. Also I haven’t played since last year, so shall be interesting.
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The only time I actually play Starcraft 2 nowadays is if I feel like the Star Battle custom map which is in no way, shape or form the core gameplay of it
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If you have a spare slot I can join in.
But I might be a little too pro for your group. *Trollface*
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You say that but I am pretty sure you are pretty good, a lot better than the average player anyway.
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I’m… okay.
I don’t have any build orders any more, so I tend to just wing it, which can be a bit problematic…
Watched Green Hornet for the first time last night… and you know what?
I was very pleasantly surprised – it was actually pretty bloody awesome 🙂
With Seth Rogan i thought that it might try to be over the top and stupid funny, but it was funny only when it needed to be, which was great 🙂
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I saw it when I was in the US. We saw it in 3D and the 3D was just useless. It was totally unnecessary.
However, the movie itself was quite fun.
I woke up this morning, forced myself down to TAY, and there it was.
A reminder of a different time, drawn in blood across my office door. “8:30AM MARK SERRELS”. We know that isn’t true, but that won’t help us.
I need to face facts. The King is dead.
Long live the King.
*Sprays a combined M & S sign onto the wall*
The rebellion has begun.
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We should dance to celebrate.
Because we can dance if we want to.-
We can leave our friends behind.
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… Something like that.
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My bowling last night, I beat my own personal record in two things. I beat my brother for the first time ever, and got a 245 game (107 over average). I also got the longest string of strikes in a row to get this, 8! 😀
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Nice Dude! My personal record is one. One broken rails thingy that is meant to keep your ball out of the gutter. :/
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I tried to shot-put a bowling ball like in that ad once and almost destroyed a tv.
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What the way Kramer did it? 😛
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Yeah, clipped the bottom of the frame that held the score tv to the roof and probably left a dent in the floor.
I then had to run out and give it a kick cause it did not go far.Don’t try this at home kids!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZaiB9jYCxI
I’ll just leave you with this. Yes I know it’s old but it’s still awesome.
So, emboldened by Pez’s purchase of a Mad Catz SFIV TE stick, I picked up a HRAPv3 SA. It’s on it’s way but I’m in the process of planning my custom art.
Anyone here got any experience customising an arcade stick? Helpful hints? I saw somewhere that someone had done a complete vinyl face wrap and it looked awesome. Didn’t post a tutorial though.
I am the King of birthday presents.
Got Mr. Strange Jayne from Serenity’s ‘Troublemaker’ T-shirt and leather wristband plus the River Tam statue from QMx, some Valkyria Chronicles 2 figures, an Aeropress coffee maker and the lenticular cover version of Infamous 2.
He thinks I am awesome now.
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He thinks you’re more awesome now.
And rightly so.
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I think you are awesomer now. I want randomly assorted Firefly swag. Is this the statue:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Firefly-Serenity-RIVER-TAM-Animated-Maquette-Statue-Qmx-/220756209332
‘Cos that’s pretty cool if it is.
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That’s the one. It’s so pretty!
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Wait, no. I’m silly. It’s this one:
https://store.qmxonline.com/River-Tam–Big-Damn-Heroes-Animated-Maquette-1_p_98.html-
Either way, it’s still an awesome gift!
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You are pretty awesome. 🙂
What Valkyria Chronicles figures did you get him?
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http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sega-Valkyria-Chronicles-2-Figure-Set-Cosette-Juliana-/110443377255?pt=UK_Collectables_AnimationCharacters_Anime_SM&hash=item19b6f03267#ht_1725wt_905
These two. Really wanted to grab a Selvaria one but they’re way too difficult to find now.
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VC1 was such a good game. But it had a ridiculous difficulty spike half way in that totally stopped me progressing.
Ignore what it says about 3d on the screen.
Watch this at 1080P.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkaM8cdY0g8
God I love animations.
(It’s stuff from The Lion King in 1080P. So gorgeous.)
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Disney does not half ass their BluRay transfers.
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Well, if you’re going to do it, you might as well do it properly.
Which is something George Lucas seems to have missed…
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Apparently they’re editing the latest blu ray release to make Yoda all CGI Ep 1 and make Darth Vader yell ‘NOOOOOOOOOOOO!’ when he
SPOILER
kills off palpatine, as opposed to him doing it silently.
END SPOILER.
Back to the point at hand, Lion King in 1080p looks amazing.
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Well, I have no problems with them making Yoda CG in Ep1.
Hell, they could put Jar Jar in every scene and I wouldn’t mind.
Because I simply won’t watch them.
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George Lucas doesn’t half ass Star Wars rereleases.
He uses his whole ass to bungle things. Over the years, that has become a very large amount of ass.
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Fair Point.
That is a very large amount of ass.
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Although, you’ve got to admit, the CGI Yoda in Episode 1 looks far better than the puppet they originally used. http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_863996&feature=iv&v=ywoUBV_pOiI and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOqzHTWK8B4&NR=1
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Also, let’s not forget who’s really responsible for the prequels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BMgegut3UM
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I don’t know how they managed to make the PM puppet so very derp.
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Or a comparison video.
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Wooo! Daysex has arrived!
Shall wait till the weekend though otherwise LoL and SC2 won’t get played.
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but hump day was yesterday???
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Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight,
gonna grab some afternoon delight…-
My motto’s always been when its right – its right,
Why wait until the middle of a cold, dark night…
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I’ve had it since last Thursday and only last night did I really get some time to get stuck in to it… I didn’t go to bed til 3, was late for work and now I’m just watching the clock, waiting to get back to it.
SC2 and LoL can wait. Trust me.-
This is true. It was 930pm I was thinking I should go to sleep because I was tired. I figured I’ll open up Deus Ex to see if the gamepad works or if it still wants to crash.
Next thing I know it’s 1130 and I’m even more tired.
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Now that Eff is gone, there’s no one left to laugh at all my jokes.
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Wooooooooooooo! First new page start for me!
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It’s okay Doc. I’ll laugh at your jokes 😛
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You better laugh, Jamesmag! You better laugh good.
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Oh I will. Bring it.
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What do you get if you castrate a trumpet?
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No idea, what do you get?
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A Eunuch Horn
Okay, even I admit that was awful, even for a joke I just made up.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That is AWESOME! I love jokes like that, “dad” jokes 😛
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I remember my friend’s dad used to live up the road from the cemetery and the cemetery was at the end of the road, one time we drove up that way so we could turn around and my friend’s dad called out. Don’t go that way, it’s a “dead end”.
It was so bad, but I laughed for ages!
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Dad jokes are brilliant.
My dad can’t even tell good dad jokes. 🙁
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That’s really upsetting. My step-dad is the king of “dad” jokes hahaha. The funniest part is when he goes into hysterics over something that’s really not funny, that’s mainly what I laugh at. How impressed he is with himself 😛
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If you tell me beforehand that it’s a joke I can pretend to laugh for you.
I can laugh at your attempts to make jokes.
That’s the same thing, right?
I think we broke Remember This…
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So the answer still wasn’t posted yesterday?
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Oh you’re talking about today’s…how silly of me..
I’ve been thinking about the learning to not suck at SC2 thing.
Aside from writing about it, I was thinking I might not use Protoss but instead play as Random. At least at the beginning.
Then again, this could be like using the grid hotkey layout where it seems like a good idea until it is actually put into practise.
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WHat I do is play as Brotoss for 1vs, and shift to Random for team games, if I played more analytically then I’d probably have learned all the main strategies and how to counter them or whatever, but I don’t and I haven’t.
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I think I want to play random just because I latched onto Protoss before even playing a single game. I liked what I saw and made the decision without actually seeing if they matched my playstyle in practice.
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The grid layout is great imo.
You just need to know where everything is, much easier than remembering a different random key press for every action.-
Something that I’ve noticed while typing and even playing games like Guitar Hero, is that I’m faster when my hands are moving.
That whole home row thing doesn’t really work for me. I don’t always use the same finger to hit the same key, just whichever one happens to be closest.
So using the standard layout, it just means that I have to hit the key that makes sense to hit for that action. Want to attack? A. Build a Nexus? B – N. Warp in units? W.
Sure with the grid layout I don’t have to move my hand, but there’s no mental link between the key that I’m hitting and the action that I’m doing.
That being said, I will try it out a little more just to see what the fuss is about.
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I don’t think I’ve ever used hotkeys for an RTS :/
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I have been told that it is a somewhat more efficient way to play.
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Undoubtedly. It would be so hard to get used to all the hotkeys though :/ and I don’t play many RTS’ anymore so..
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SC2 has an option that displays the hotkeys over the icon. Very useful.
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Oh yeah, still haven’t played SC2 yet 😛 or even considered purchasing it. Doesn’t help that my gf’s brother (who I completely loathe) plays it all the time and is always talking about it.
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Same here, I pretty much stared gaming with RTS’s; Warcraft 2/3, Starcraft, C&C Tiberium Sun.
But then C&C Renegade came out and I learned the joy of the multiplayer shooter.
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Dune 2 was where I started. Missile launcher spam for the win!
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I find it easier because I just have a image in my head of icon tray (or whatever it is called) and know where everything is on it.
Need to use a units first ability? It is the same key for every unit. Upgrades too – same 3 keys for every building.
The key to train a marine is the same as a zealot, the sequence for grabbing a worker and making a specific building is also near identical for each race.
So I guess it does not matter as much if you only play one race but if you play more than one it is a lot simpler.
You know that you only need to know 2 buttons, right?
W. S. *click click click click click click click*
Also, I would stick to one race until you get the basics down.
Once you have the hang of general macro then you can spread out to different races and their play-styles easier.
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Spoilsport.
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That said, Zerg are as crazy fun as they are crazy hard.
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Zerg aren’t hard, they’re easy mode. You build everything from one building! EASY!
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Pshh, I was playing Random back in the beta. When nobody understood the meaning of the word macro.
Nobody.
How awesome would it be to have a St Bernard as a playable character in Tekken 7
Make it happen, Tekken people
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Beethoven??
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Add in a Battletoad and you’ve got yourself a deal.
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We joke now, but give it another 2 Tekken games.
Remember, this is Tekken. That gave doesn’t take place on planet earth.
Oh look….a boxing velociraptor fighting a panda
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I totally mean’t to write Gave rather than Game…it’s how I roll.
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Urgh, I have to walk into a shop today and purchase a copy of Glee Karaoke for the Wii.
*shudder*
I can’t even order it online to avoid the humiliation because it wouldn’t arrive before my friend’s birthday.
I think I would rather purchase hard core porn from a busy newsagent filled with female senior citizens.
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I feel for you, I really do. I had to get a Glee box set for my step-sister for her birthday in March. The guy at JB Hi-fi looked at it, looked at me and just said “Really?”, then wouldn’t believe me when I said it was a gift for someone else. 🙁
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I had to buy 2 seasons of Gossip Girl. Really makes you feel like less of a man.
The worst part is that awkward moment when your deciding if you want to say something to the effect of “I’m buying it for someone else” 90% of the time it’s true, but you can just tell the cashier doesn’t buy it.
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Yeah, these days I just don’t really give a crap what people think of me 😛 makes things a lot easier. But when I used to be really self-conscious, man that sucked.
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I’ve been in the reverse situation.
At Toys R Us, buying Buzz and Woody toys (that now stand proudly next to my TV) I was asked “are you buying these for someone?” with that look firmly planted on the checkout girl’s face.
My response? “Nope, they’re for me. I’m just a kid with too much allowance.”
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Haha nice, I’ve done that with things before. Like one time my friends and I all bought cheap pirate/ninja costumes at red dot and then went around the city dressed up as pirates and ninjas. Was fun 😛
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I wear my green cloak while just doing normal things all the time.
I’m yet to try it while at the bank, though I imagine that would be hilarious, given their customer service levels. 😀
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hahahaha! that would be so good. If you do, please get a friend to film it on the sly 😛
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You should also bring a wizard staff and pretend like you think technology is magic and you know exactly how it works.
“So my dear, I would like you to summon some gold from my personal stash. I would do it myself but I know the sort of powerful wards you have up here.”
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HAHAHA THIS!
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Though I hardly ever use it, I have one of those rewards cards with GAME, so it should show that this is a freak purchase, especially considering this is also the only Wii game I have ever purchased.
Still, I might end up triple bagging the thing until I can offload it, and tonight I think I will be scrubbing myself clean until I am raw and bleeding, just so I can rid myself of its contamination.
This exact thing happened to me when I tried to buy The Best Of She-Ra for my sister.
You know how I handle things like that?
Act exceedingly camp.
Talk with a lisp, call yourself Spaulding, or Cecil, and dance around.
They’re usually too distracted to worry about what you’re buying!
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Unfortunately I do not have the coordination to pull that off. If I start dancing I would end up bouncing off people and shelves, pure mayhem and chaos would follow, police would be called in… it wouldn’t be a pretty sight.
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I think that would work perfectly!
Can you do the “camp walk”? It’s a great way of distracting people from the truth at hand.
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Hmmm…
I’m not sure if I have a camera anywhere…
This may take some time.
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I am willing to wait
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Or just look really willpunchyouintheface angry.
No-one will say anything and will probably assume having to buy the game is the cause.
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As I have been told this is the standard look on my face, this shouldn’t be a problem.
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High-five!
Also good for those people hawking stuff like foxtel at stalls in the middle of shopping centers.
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I think it’s because you’re a skinhead..
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The best were the Socialist Alternative people at ANU. They would pester everyone, but very rarely me. I think was the death glare I gave one of them as they looked at me. Something along the lines of “If you try to sell your insane socialist bullshit to me, I will find out where you live, and stab you in the throat as you sleep.”
Good fun.
They were insane.
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Apparently I have this incredibly angry/disgusted look on my face when people try and squeeze past me. I don’t feel any anger though. One time I was in KFC in the city with my girlfriend and my best mate, this old lady tried to get past and I pulled my chair in for her and then looked at her. I thought I had a perfectly fine expression on my face but she got scared and ran away. I turned back to my gf and friend and they were both looking at me and asked “why did you give her such a nasty look?”. “What? I didn’t” “Dude, you looked like you were going to rape her and then kill her and leave her in a ditch somewhere”.
True story.
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Ahahaha!
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HAHAHAHAHA
I manage to pull that look off without trying.
It even worked on market store owners in Thailand, who are pretty damned persistent. I guess I’m just a naturally unapproachable guy.
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What’s your secret??
People tell me I’m approachable… I want to change that.
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Step 1: Wear a shirt referencing some sort of vaguely alternative music.
Step 2: Glare at everyone all the time no matter what you’re doing(the sun is really bright, so that’s my default state).
And that should pretty much do it.
You ever slipped KY Lubricant into the shopping your Mum’s paying for? I have.
You’ll be fine.
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You’re the best.
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Ha, nice.
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Classy. Another great shopping troll is to go to a supermarket with a liquor section before your next big piss-up. Have just the required amount of money for the booze, and before you go to the checkouts get a pack of nappies. Then when the cashier tells you that you don’t have enough cash, weigh up the nappies and a bottle of vodka before telling the cashier that you won’t need the nappies. Their look is usually priceless.
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People did this when I worked at the servo.
‘Cept they did it for real.
“C’mon, man. Lemme off the $5.25, my kid’s have gotta eat.”
“You could just put the smokes back, man”
“F&%K YOU! BECAUSE OF YOU MY KIDS ARE GOING HUNGRY! MAY AS WELL GIVE ME A PACK OF 20’S AS WELL IF YOU’RE NOT GONNA HELP ME OUT FOR THE BREAD!”
-proceeds to pull more money out of crusty zip lock change bag-The Gold Coast, amiright?!
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Some people should be sterilized…
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DAN, you always have the best – and I mean, THE BEST – stories.
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Pro-tip.
Keep your jars of Vasoline and Vicks Vapo-rub in two very different parts of the house.
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New pics of Henry Cavill in Zack Snyder’s Man Of Steel super suit.
I understand most of the ‘changes’ are due to the lawsuit regarding the character and the creators. It’s the texture I’m not too keen on.
It looks like the costume has goosebumps.
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Poor cold super suit 🙁
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Penispenispenispenispenispenispenis bulge.
Sorry, what were we discussing?
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He just doesn’t look the same without the red underwear.
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Maybe someone took him aside and, in hushed tones, explained that underpants go UNDER the tights.
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qsdasfdas!@#!
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You love the bulge?
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I can’t look away. Some sort of mystical force? Damn them super powers!
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Must be, you wanna be his Kryptonite. Amiright?
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Is this something like David Bowie’s Area in Labyrinth?
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Not to be a nerdy internet cynic, but…
LOL WUT?
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Well, superman currently looks like this:
http://www.latinoreview.com/images/stories/Superman-1-new-costume-2011.jpg
So not THAT different really.
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So, at the encouragement of my publisher, I have signed up to Twitter.
I don’t get it, I’m lost, it’s a weird site, but curiously addictive.
Shane_W_Smith if you’re interested 🙂
PS: Mucho revamped website in my link!
(PPS: I want my TV back, so I can start talking games again!) 🙁
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Wow, your new website is snazzy.
And I’m now following you on twitter.
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What he said.
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Following!
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New website is cool. 🙂
select*from shane doesn’t seem to be working though….
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Is it bad that I laugh whenever I see that?
Such a nerd joke.
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Thanks JMUMH! It was a bad link that has since been spanked and sat in the corner.
Blaghman, I would say ‘yes’ it probably is bad… but it’s far worse for me. 🙂
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I too am following you on the Twitter train.
Woo Wooo!
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Thanks everyone. This is stupidly addictive. 🙂
I want cake.
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I had the chance for cake today, but then I was like, no, I want Nando’s! So work is buying Nando’s for everyone for lunch today to celebrate my birthday on Saturday 😀
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Wow… wish my work did that… I could go for nandos right now 🙁
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Well ordinarily it’s just cake for people’s birthdays. but I just tell them I don’t eat cake, so they feel bad and get takeaway instead 😀
Then on other people’s birthday’s, I eat the cake and say that I’m eating it to be polite and as a celebration of their birthday.
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Haha, smooth.
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I thought so 😛
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Happy birthday for Saturday!
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Thanks man 🙂 hoping it’s going to be an awesome party 🙂 still trying to figure out what I’m going to do with music though. I no longer hav an iPod, just my iPhone and I want to keep my phone with me, not plugged into speakers. I was thinking of bringing my laptop with the music on it, but then I’m worried that someone drunk, trying to change a song, will spill alcohol all over it :/
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Will you stick a candle in the Nando’s burger and get everyone to sing happy birthday? Because that would be pretty cool.
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I think we’re only getting the chicken and chips, but I’ll attempt to put a candle in a piece of chicken 😛
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Chicken cake!! nomnoms
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Seriously, how good is food.
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It’s like, delicious, with the secondary benefit of nutrition!?
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Precisely!
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I saw “cake” and “Nandos”.
Portuguese chicken cake!?
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I think it would go well with Steve-O’s quiche cake 😛
My aunt makes and decorates cakes, so I often get the off-cut pieces.
I love cake. Cakey, cake, cake. Here it goes down, down into my belly…
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A set out to make a quiche once. It turned out like a cake. A delicious, bacony and cheesy cake.
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That would be amazing. Please make one for me.
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me too!
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I think my dad makes something like that we call egg & bacon pie.
Pretty much cheese, egg and bacon pieces in pastry.
Tasty.-
The only thing my Dad makes me is sit outside when I take off my shoes.
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A 35min video with interviews with a ridiculous amount of pros about the first year of SC2.
I’m off to Taiwan…see you soon!
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Have fun Jimu! You’ll be missed!
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Have fun!
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GLGL Jimu!
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Get low, get low Jimu!
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Have a ball mate!! Enjoy the awesome streetfood and cheap goods. 🙂
Hope the little fella doesn’t give you too much trouble on the plane and you get some gaming/reading in.
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Have fun Jimu!
*obligatory Mario Kart 7 sentence*
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Also Pogeymons!
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Have fun jimu! Bring back some streetfood for me!
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JIMU! Have fun.
Okay fellow TAYbies. I would like some input from you on something. As most of you already know (because I’ve been saying it at every opportunity), it’s my 21st this weekend. I’m having a pretty big party at my mum’s house, it’s professionally catered, etc. However the music is a dilemma. I have some speakers I’ll be taking over there. But I don’t have an iPod, just an iPhone, and I’ll need my phone with me over the course of the night to direct people, etc. I could bring my Macbook and use that, but I don’t really want drunk people using it in case they spill something on it. What should I do?
And also, what sort of music should I be playing? There’s going to be a lot of relatives there, some of them quite old, so I don’t know if most of the music I listen to will be appropriate..
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Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I lied when I was seventeen? Why does it always rain on me? Even when the sun is shining,
I can’t avoid the lightning.Just play that. Over and over again. If you get sick of it, play Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce. Get your macbook and put it in a rubbish bag, and place it next to a bin. That’ll protect it from vomit/rain/drinks.
My plan is foolproof!
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Hahaha, and if I get sick of Barbara Streisand, I’ll put on that HEYAYAYAYAY song, because it’s awesome.
But actually, putting the macbook pro near the bin will protect it from drinks with my friends, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen them put drinks in the bin :/
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Four Non-Blondes: Whats Going On?
Of course you mean the He-Man version though cus’ it’s the only awsome version!
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EXACTLY! It’s the only version I really know 😛
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Hide Mac Book Pro with extra long speaker cable to speakers.
Use Remote App on iPhone to control the music.
As for what music… I dunno… The Hives? Errbody likes The Hives.
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Sorry mad a mistake.
Errbody LOVES The Hives.
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Actually, that’s a pretty good idea..forgot about that remote app..
This is true. Maybe I should just put on what I like because it’s my party and stuff everyone else? 😛
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I would put on the kind of music you like but a selection that won’t offend or really annoy anyone there.
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Yeah, well I’ve got some of that music, so that will be fine, and other people can put their ipods on or whatever.
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Borrow someone else’s mp3 player. Surely one of your mates has one.
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They do, but their music sucks 😛
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We can dance if we want to,
We can leave your friends behind!
‘Cause your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance,
Well they’re no friends of mine!Everybody likes Queen and Crowded House. It’s not party music, but at least it’s inoffensive.
FAT BOTTOMED GIRLS YOU MAKE THE ROCKIN’ WORLD GO ROUND, YEAH!
DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN NA NA NA NAAA NA
Completely inoffensive.-
Safety dance!
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It’s okay, because my aunty isn’t coming. So no one will get offended by Fat Bottomed Girls. Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen would actually be a perfect song, as well as being uber awesome.
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For some reason, whenever I hear ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ I want to grab a pool cue and start wailing on a zombie…
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Really? I love that song 😛 we used to always play Queen on roadtrips, it was awesome. Probably because we were always drunk, except for the driver. Poor driver.
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Not seen Shaun of the Dead, then?
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Not for many, many years. So I forgot that part until you just mentioned the name of the movie.
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Also, just got informed that because today’s birthday lunch for me has cost over $100, they won’t be offering it to any employees after today, they’ll just get cake.
MWAHAHAHA
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Sounds like a successful lunch to me.
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Indeed, now just have to wait for them to go pick it up :/ I’m hungry now!!
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Isn’t it like 1970 in Perth?
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…nar, 2011 like everywhere else 😛
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Actually, not all countries follow the same calender system that we do.
So you’re wrong.
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I meant everywhere else in Australia, should have added that. Sorry.
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Too late!
What has been said cannot be unsaid!
Statement followed by exclamation mark!
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E-FIGHT! E-FIGHT!
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Oh shi-
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*whispered*Challenge him to Starcraft, and announce me as your second, I can probably beat him. Maybe.
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Trjn, I challenge you to a game of Starcraft 2, I name Blaghman as my second. Seeing as I actually don’t own a copy of Starcraft 2, Blaghman will play for me.
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I accept your challenge and name Chris Loranger as my second.
Should one of our seconds be unavailable, I suggest we decide the victor by previous GSL results.
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GSL?
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Global Star League.
I believe we should include our seconds’ results to be fair.
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The Global Starcraft 2 League.
And he named HuK as his second.
And unfortunately, as a member of Code S, he has a much better GSL history than I do.
I’d recommend accepting his Second, but deny the second part.
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I’ve never heard of that before.
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All or nothing!
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thats awesome. When its my birthday at work i have to bring cake for everyone. So shit it cost like 30 bucks to feed everyone . I also have this feud with this lady at work who loves cake. She wont talk to me but she eats my cake. What am i meant to say.
“No cake for you, cause your a stupid ignorant lady”
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Hmm lucky I don’t work when you work, because I probably would. One of the managers here almost crashed into my car once and then the next day, had a go at me for not driving properly. Man, I was so angry, I’d already had a shit morning and that topped it off. I started yelling at him and then I told him to come outside if he had a problem with me, he got really scared. Since then, he’s been really, really nice to me, and we get along great. Threats do work sometimes 😛
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Bake a chocolate laxette cake. Just don’t eat any yourself. Worked for me…… 😉
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it would be my luck that my boss who i actually like would eat it. Then the whole shop would get screwed up big time.
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I just saw while going back over the posts I missed yesterday some guy got fired from Gamestop for planking.
I got fired from EB for dancing. (on a customer).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_8igKoEo7s
#thingsimstillbitterabout
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You’re bitter because it was an immensely bad idea?
Or you’re bitter because your employer doled out the appropriate punishment?
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Oh DAN!, oh you.
I am more bitter because of the way it was handled. I did my job and I did it well, I hit targets, lied point blank for sales and did everything for the company. I was a 17 year old kid who thought this was the best thing in his life. I was so wrong. The company changes you, man.
But aside from sounding like a really bad 1984 knock-off, I was bitter with the way I was fired. That video was up on youtube for 8 months, had around 700 views and 40 or so positive comments. People would say things like “man I wish you worked at my EB” etc.
When I was fired I was told nothing. My own manager didn’t want to fire me, but in the end he had to. If they dealt with it properly, I wouldn’t be bitter.
In the end, if I ran a business and my employees did this, I’d be pissed too. But dismissal, black-and-white with no reasoning? I don’t know dude.
#imtryingtonotsoundlikeadick
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That sucks that you weren’t reprimanded/given an opportunity to talk it out, but in hindsight you must see you left them with no choice.
You filmed yourself on EB premises, in an EB uniform, acting like a tool in front of a customer. Then you uploaded it to YouTube.
I’m not gonna lecture you on what you should/shouldn’t put online because you’ve no doubt learnt your lesson, and I do feel bad that you got let go in a less than fair way BUT at the end of the day EB had to act in a way to protect their brand.
Anyway, what do you do now? I hope it’s better than working at EB.
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That last line sounds a little dickish.
I mean, I hope it’s better from your perspective than working at EB.
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As I said brother, I was very, very wrong in believing that it was the best job etc. Retail sucks, although I love meeting people and being a genuinely nice guy, you just have to lie to produce what the suits want you to produce. It also slowly drains your lifeforce when people leave children in there and you get know-it-alls and all sorts come through. It is still however, my favourite working environment because it was just an awesome bunch of people. It was as if the entire community here worked together.
I was never going to manage a store or anything, it was a job for a 17 year old. Easy hours, easy money etc. I was at uni at the time and now have an honours degree in lab medicine dude. I was always going to leave the company anyway.
Yes. Filming yourself ‘not working’ on ‘work premises’ is wrong, but I stand by the fact I was dealt with in the wrong way. I never got to sit down with anyone and talk about it. It was them kicking someone out because they finally had a reason to get rid of people in the dire economic state. I was let go by the same person that actually told me they liked the video months before. I also ruined property etc. Trust me my friend, I know that I deserved to be dismissed. Doesn’t make me less bitter about the affair.
I guess I am just the sort of guy that, if there is a problem, I don’t go around behind people’s backs to sort it out. I just come out and say it to the person I have the problem with. Spineless beings sometimes go about it a different way.
#completelyagreethatIdidthewrongthing,butitsanawesomestoryanyway!
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Well I don’t want to start off on the wrong foot or anything seeing as how you’re new to TAY Hermes and Thoth, but I do agree with DAN.
Surely you don’t believe upper level management have time to take aside a 17-year old kid and talk to them about something they’ve done “wrong”? Those guys are busy.
But to end on a positive note, I used to work for EB and I absolutely loved every minute of it. Good times.
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Opinions are opinions Harli. Discussion is discussion. That’s definitely not starting off on the wrong foot plus you already said it was awesome before 😉
Again, DAN! (I love that I get to hold shift down for 4 keys in a row) isn’t wrong about their actions. You worked for EB? which one? not like specifics but state-wise?
I only wanted a dismissal and a dismissal reason from the guy who said I was fired. What irked me was the poor guy who had to fire me was my manager and someone that was a real good friend. He couldn’t explain the dismissal because he didn’t get an explanation either.
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Please tell me that’s really you. That was hilarious!
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Yeah that’s me, but “last year’s model”.
Well, more like 2008’s model.
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High five!
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If someone did that to me while I was in a store I would probably deck them.
Well, attempt to and fail, but the point still stands.
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I used to have a recurring dream where I’d try to punch people but my punches were really weak and I’d wake up really frustrated.
We should start a fight club. I’ll dream fight and you can regular fight.
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blaghman would have to imaginary fight too.
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I think you gave that dream to me, because I have it regularly.
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BWOOOOONG!
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I imagine you as more of the “dancer” than the “dancee” 🙂
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I don’t dance like that, particularly not the pelvic thrusts against other people.
There were certain incidents during my school years which have given me some rather nasty reactions to people doing that.
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Falcon Punch?
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Unfortunately I’m really a rather non-violent person.
So mostly crying to myself and wondering why some people have to be such dickweeds.
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Awwwww 🙁
***hugs Blaghman***
***walks away***Hey!!! My new wallet!!!!!!!!!
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Heh heh, gets them every time. *Sits in gutter staring mournfully off into the distance*
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Best.Video.EVER!!!!
***tips hat***
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Nice hat!
that is awesome.
I’m at work and I’m on TAY!!!
Huzzah! My manager finally came through for me and got it unblocked.
Now to start reading through all I’ve missed so far.
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Hurrah 😀
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And there was much rejoicing…
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Not much has happened Gorzy. Somebody told me that apparently I’m engaged. But it’s not true.
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That seems to happen/get hinted at every week by the other humans. I try to avoid annoying you with such things cuz I’m a friendly robot 🙂
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HARLI’S ENGAGED! ZOMG!
It all makes sense now – AP didn’t abandon us, he’s been busy preparing engagement rings n things!
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He’s totally the Groomzilla type.
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You have to face the truth Harli. You’re to be married at a beautiful white wedding, and all the Kotakuites will turn up and rejoice, and glorious fun times will be had by all.
You can’t ruin that for us.
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Indeed. Stop being so selfish Harli, have that magical wedding.
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Can I have some ice cream wedding cake?
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Of course you can Bish.
I guess now we get to wondering who the best man is going to be, and if she’s going to attempt to bring in people other than Dawdle and Strange to be bridesmaids.
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Who wants to be the drunk uncle?
WAIT, Jimu’s going on holiday. The farter needs to be there to give away his dorter!
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Oh pick me! I’m really good at being drunk!
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But then what role does that give me?
Oh, right.
I’ll be the bitter and alone guy in the corner.
Glad we sorted that.
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Wedding Singer????
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Hmm, that could work.
But every all but one song will be about how depressing life is, and what it’s like to be sad and alone and searching for love.
And the one other song will be the song “White Wedding” which is just an anti-marriage song.
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We will need to choose the venue with care, we may need more then the conventional number of corners.
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Well Gorzy, I’m sure at least 10% of the Kotaku community is extroverted, which just leave what, thirty-something? forty-something? people all trying to sit in the corners.
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So I’m not making your wedding dress then?
Finally!! The subject of the secret womens business emails revealed!!!!!!
hahaha!!
Maybe they meant you’re engaging?
Though I have to agree with the others that an Kotaku.au wedding would be inserting. The one nerdy wedding to rule them all!!!
Go and buy Jetpack Joyride! It’s the latest game from Halfbrick, on iOS (for the moment). It’s like the classic game copter, but with Barry Steakfries!
What time does the Ninty e-sstore update?
I WANT MY FREE GAMES BEFORE I LEAVE FOR THAT 8 HR FLIGHT!!!
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Apparently if you’re a yank it’s updated already. Damn Ninty Aus.
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I don’t know but I’ll miss you while you’re gone!.
Have fun though. 🙂-
cheers!
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Earlier today I did a bit of pondering about my typing habits.
More precisely, I realised that when I use a IM client or talk in game, I tend to skip capitalising words or bothering with punctuation. In all other forms of typed communication, I try to stick to what is right (or deliberately mangle things for my own amusement).
Methinks I may have nutted out why. It isn’t an inability to type properly at that speed. Hell, I’ve actually managed to show someone on TeamSpeak (probably Numbers) that I can almost type as fast as I speak. It is because when typing in game or using IM, I’m trying to replicate speech and speech is not the same as the written word.
Maybe I should make the effort, see how it works out.
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Yeah, I do the same thing, except sometimes it’s a bit odd. I won’t have a capital at the start, but if I’m typing multiple sentences then I’ll usually capitalise what’s after the full stops. I don’t know why I do it, and I know it’s so very wrong, but I can’t help it.
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i don’t bother with multisentence messages
it’s easier to just hit enter so that if the other person is also typing something they don’t stop to see what your message is going to be
hell, even that last one was a little long
damn most IMs and their need to tell someone that something is being typed
i blame that feature for this habit
(And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I type on MSN).
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Hey, I do this.
Probably a few more /o\s, \o/s, :\s and :Is thrown in though.-
the amount of times i end a message on msn with :p is pretty amazing
it gets to the point where my friends can occasionally tell me to stop it :p
the problem is that communicating in this way makes it hard to show that i’m being tongue in cheek
emotes help correct that a little
STEVE HOLT \o/
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I only really use two different emotes, and they’re “:P” and “:/” as that’s about the only two emotions I ever show..
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But that’s what is good about emotes: you can express things you can’t normally irl.
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Because there are some things that aren’t expressed well via text. Like tone.
Or this: (>^^(>**)>
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Is… is that a kirby giving another kirby surprise butsex?
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That’s actually what I was thinking. Get out of my head!
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…maybe?
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Or is that more like this:
(>^^(>00)>
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HAHAHAHAHA! I was thinking maybe the first one because it looked like the front one had it’s eyes screwed up in pain.
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I usually find when ai’m tring to type really fast that i start hitting keys in the wrong ord.er I sometimes even skip letters completly.
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I do that all the time.
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Trying to type faster than you’re comfortable with will make your accuracy drop.
If you keep it up though, you’ll go back to normal accuracy and have a higher average typing speed.
Or something like that. All I know is that I will occasionally miss letters when playing TypeRacer and cock the whole thing up.
Backspace is probably my most used key because I just delete everything after the error and start again. Easier than using the mouse.
Hey jamesmag, dunno if you’ve been told yet but Karthas has been fixed up on LoL, you can use him if you’re planning on going in tonight 🙂
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CURSES! I’m at my mother’s for dinner tonight 🙁
I’ll try get on tomorrow night 🙁
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Oh noes, we had planned SC2 tomorrow!
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That’s okay. I’ll just try him against AI on my lonesome 😛
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BAM, I am SC2-less. We can fight AI together! And get rolled by the intermediates. Best training.
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Yaysarooni!
We could also fight beginner AI and roll them, just saying. 😛
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Well I think we should stick to intermediate AIs in even learning champions now cuz beginners are way too easy
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But..but..but..last time we had to surrender :/
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We need to practise better teamwork anyway, and if we’re using champions we don’t know that well yet, vs Intermediate AI is a good idea. Besides, they’re not invincible, they are beatable
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Good point! Okay, I’m up for it!
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I reckon we should do that more often, even just to work on our teamwork.
Also, SC2 tonight?
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Okay sure
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How many of us are playing LoL now? Maybe we could do some custom games against each other?
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I keep suggesting this but people are worried about balancing the teams. For one, Steve-O and I do NOT go on the same team or something 😛
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Plus me and Techy aren’t allowed to stack two boots.
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By my machine honour, I will never resort to such tactics. But I sooooo want to do a friendly Kotaku vs Kotaku team LoL fight 😀
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I’d be totally up for it, balancing the teams should be fairly easy..
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Nah we won’t do that, that just wouldn’t be fun
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…or we could play SC2 tonight instead.
That too.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking…
I’m up for either – So what’s it gonna be, are we picking the red pill or the blue pill?
Purple!
Or whatever Starcraft is.
Gaming huh? I was suggesting we just abuse prescription drugs but – Hey! Your idea sounds a lot better!
I just wanted to see how deep the rabbit hole goes…
Techie, just to let you know, Nando’s was awesome 🙂
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My Jelly program is running, but I had sandwiches and some lovely chocolates after with some orange juice. Delicious
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Nice 😉 orange juice is actually awesome.
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It is delicious!
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Harvey Fresh Tempt is the best orange juice.
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Bestest Juice is
http://www.floridasnatural.com/
I’m not usually that big a juice drinker, but i guzzle this by the litre when i’m in the states
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I hate the people that own Harvey Fresh, so generally avoid it. Orange C is my orange juice of choice usually.
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Downloaded Mechwarrior 4: Mercs for free the other day:
http://www.mektek.net/projects/mw4/
I’m in love with it all over again 😀
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I tried to get it going a few months ago after I found an old pc at my parents with my old Battletech game on it. Sadly I couldn’t get the Mektek client working properly on my 64 bit OS. :/
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It took a lot of fidgeting but I did get that client to work eventually on mine.
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Yeah, absolute pain through that site on my 64-bit also. I used a different download client, and had no probs. I think it was this one:
http://www.defiantz.net/home/download.php?view.9
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Want.
WANT
There wouldn’t be a mac version available would there?
*ducks under table*-
Bearing in mind that it was published by Microsoft Game Studios, I’d say probably not.
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*Throws rotten fruit at the Mac user*
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So are we decided then? Kotaku v Kotaku custom game on LoL?
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At some point in the near future..
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Hells to the yes!
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Awesome! Can you pick how many people or is it just 5v5? I was thinking of for teams..
Techie, Jo, me, gorzi
Steve, Blaghs, bish, crabman
or something like that. and then numbers on whichever team, do we have another person on top of that? my brains not working very well
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Count me in as of next week
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Unless I can use my phone to tether and that is somehow stable enough for me to play LoL, we’ll have to count me out from next week until I get internet connected at the new place :/
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There is a possibility that there is unsecure wireless I can use, but I didn’t check when I was there checking the place out.
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Rofl I can just see it now, while you were on your house inspection you pull out your iphone, hold it up and scan for wireless connections, like it’s part of your purchasing decision process xD
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Hahahaha! It should have been! 😛
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I’ll happily host this match on my PC
Grandmaster B-Funk, Trjn (If he ever wants to come back) and f4ction are ones I can think of
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It’s only been a week and a half since I last played.
Admittedly, I don’t really want to play that much. SC2 dominating my attention and whatnot.
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Hence why I said “wants to come back” 😛
Doh! completely forgot about that, well we’d just need b-funk and f4ction to bump it to 5v5 if Trjn’s not interested.
Time to work on my LoL skills…
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Do itttttttt.
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Nahhhh, just be like me and forget what your hotkeys are mid-game and steal some kills.
It mostly works out fine.-
See this is why I want to avoid laning with you from now on
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*writes on notepad*
don’t…lane…with…Bish
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Nahh all snark aside he was a good ally that game, tanking for me while I was kennen.
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That said, I didn’t actually know I could block Caitlyn’s shot until you told me, so even that was a fluke.
\o/Hahaha, I so totally need to learn this game properly.
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You know the real reason why I didn’t tell you before was cuz you might’ve ended up overthinking it, since it was as she was about to fire, then move OUT of the way in a misclick instead xD
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Hahaha!
And you know what, I totally would have, too!
You know me too well, sir.
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I also do this. When there are team ganks going on, I lose sight of which one is me :/
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And then someone dies and apparently it’s you and you’re all “WELL. Okay then. How about that.”
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It’s how I roll!
I’ll just stick with Steve-O maybe. KILLSTEAL COMPETITION. Maybe I’ll buy Lux and be just like his friend.
I found the joy of kill stealing in a game I played with Jo a couple of days ago. That was so much fun. The other people on our team were getting so shitty though 😛
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Maybe they were just jealous of the affectionate man love between the two of you.
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Probably true, although they couldn’t hear us talking. So funny though, some guy kept yelling at Jo for kill-stealing and Jo just replied with “wahhhhhhhhhh!”.
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HAHAHAHA! xD
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Heh, not my fault he was not good enough to do it by himself 🙂
Besides it was AI, in a normal game I probably would have been more careful.
…that is, if I can stop playing Borderlands…
Dammit, work is so boring. How can I pass the time?
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Is there some sort of wall you can flatten yourself against?
Because I saw this great video which involves looking left and right when you’re against a wall.-
Tried that, hurt my neck 🙁
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Text based game time!
You are lying horizontally in a pitch black room. It’s pitch black, so black you can’t even see your hand in front of your face, in fact, you can’t even see your face in front of your face (in fact, nobody can see their face in front of their face) You think you can feel straw pressing up against your back.
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I remember my childhood and my version of rock, paper scissors, which included a lighter. I use that lighter to light up the room, and see that the straw is not hay-straw but drinking straws, in a gigantic cup of Pepsi Max.
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Huh, wah? That’s not how text based adventures work! The player doesn’t get to write them! Let’s just pretend you said “turn on lighter”
You grope around in your pockets searching for your lighter. You can’t find it. You fumble around on the ground looking for your lighter. Then, in a moment of sheer intelligence, you remember that lighter’s aren’t going to be invented for another 500 years.
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Lick wall.
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You stumble blindly in a random direction. You accidentally slam your face into a wall. Perhaps you shouldn’t have been stumbling so fast…
…you remember that you were going to lick the wall. You lick the wall. Tastes like mud. Perhaps you shouldn’t do that again.
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Feel in pockets.
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You find the keys to your horse drawn cart. You decide that they aren’t that useful right now.
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Find a door.
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You crawl around the room on your hands and knees until you find a door. You crawl through the door knocking over something on the way through. “What on earth are you doing?” you hear someone ask.
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Masturbate, furiously.
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For the sake of your dignity (or what’s left of it), this program is not designed to understand such terms as that. The only thing this program understood of your command was ‘furiously’.
You work up a furious rage. You stand up, and face the mystery voice. You open your mouth. “RAGAHAGAHAGAHAGAHAGAHAGAHAGAHAGAHAGAHAGAHAGAH”comes out of it. You feel less stressed now.
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LOL Lamboman this is greaaat!! go on .. I wanna know what happens next!
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Daysex didn’t come 🙁
foreveralone.jpg
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Wait, gimme a bit to find the foreveralone guy in game and screenshot it.
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Only compounding my pain!
D:
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🙁
You just know it’s going to come on Monday because Aus Post are all, “Haha! That guy! He doesn’t need to play it over the weekend!”. *shakes fist*
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People have been getting it in Australia from OzGameShop for the last few days, so… hopefully it comes tomorrow.
It’s a bit of a warning against ordering from overseas though, especially when some import shops (Dungeon Crawl in Melb for example) have it on launch date for only $5-10 than online.
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If you don’t know, haven’t listened to “Elsie” by The Horrible Crowes. I highly recommend it. One of the best albums of the year.
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clearly that first comma should be a forward slash.
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What genre?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TWBGDUStMM
a teaser brother.
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8 pages… and a new button…
What is going on here.
I left strict instructions about how little was to happen whilst I was away.
Also:
To celebrate my being back… I bring you music:
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Also, instant comment! And me! I arrived to TAY in your absence. Well met.
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How was Scotland?
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And a instant comments… and another James.
Scotland… the land that cooking forgot?
Excellent.I love doing the Tattoo.
Playing, followed by a tonne of drinking.
I got sick, but that always happens.-
Drinking is always good. Glad you enjoyed yourself! And there can never be enough James’.
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O rly?
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Welcome back!
Welcome back!
Say, you didn’t happen to see a Simon Pegg look-alike holding on for dear life to the wing of a passing by airplane screaming his head off (something about a tan being ruined), did you? 😛
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No, but I saw a guy in Heathrow walking around wearing a hat and sunglasses… so I very loudly asked people if he was Elvis Costello.
Yay! You’ve returned! Your dry humour will continue!
Yay! You’re back! You and your ninja-style comments have been missed.
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These insta comments are going to destroy my productivity.
But, I work for the government… so I was probably being to productive anyway.
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Dammit!
When is Tad doing the one that lets us edit?
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YAY!! WELCOME BACK JAMES MAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This.
Also, pictures!
continuing this conversation on thiss page, just because it seems amazing
CRACKS!
2005 dux, i would have been at TC in year 6 at that point! maybe we crossed paths at some point!
well just an update on the old school, my year is basically the last decent year, rest of the schools a bunch of dick heads and the headmaster’s a dickhead…
so yeah, it’s great now! /sarcasm
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B-Funk, you up for a Kotaku v Kotaku custom match on LoL at some point soon?
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Woo, Kotaku Vs. Kotaku custom games, I am so there.
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yeah i can do saturday afternoon, or really late friday (like, midnight for you easter staters.)
but i’m defs in if you’re organising!
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Yeah we’re trying to arrange a balanced 5v5 custom match on summoners rift. I’m happy to host this game 🙂
One thing I’m worried about though, isn’t TS only able to hold 10 chatters max?
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that 🙁 we’d have to have the whole server to ourselves..which isn’t fair on others..does Skype support group chat?
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I would suggest more Ventrillo if we had a server we could use. I don’t, sadly
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Huh… I might be able to grab the server software and set it up myself. Granted I never hosted a ventrilo server before, this’ll be interesting. I’ve hosted other things before like Neverwinter Nights servers and Minecraft servers, so I know the gist of what to do.
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5 person group voice chat, it might be really laggy for LoL to take.
We could try it though.
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Ah. Well, 5 is just the right number of people, at least. And it’s not like TeamSpeak is the most lightning quick thing either. Out of synch singing /o\
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True that, but it’s mainly cuz we’re talking over a remote server, and that’s constant. On a steam chat, it’s based on how everyone else is going and not really “hosted” anywhere, so it could impact on your bandwidth, maybe not by a lot but enough to be moreso
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I can only do tonight 🙁
up for kotaku lol match!
Yeah, the older peers are dicks, your year’s full of dicks, and the younger peers are dicks.
Welcome to life, have fun.
I would but I’m not sure when I’ll next be online in the afternoon. I’ll possibly be around this weekend.
Yeah, the school started heading downhill when they got rid of Tony Curtis.
Man, the first Zelda is weird.
And hard.
And it has terrible spelling and grammar.
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It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this.
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I almost didn’t enter that cave…
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Why would you choose NOT to enter a cave without a sword?
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That’s exactly what I did when I first played Zelda, I was owned quite soon after
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So. Super-secret project has reached its destination.
It’s The Pessimist’s jerkin he kept pestering me about. Except something’s wrong with me and I foolishly decided to make it an Assassin’s Creed II Ezio inspired jerkin.
http://flic.kr/p/aiqRsd
http://flic.kr/p/aiqRus
It’s far from perfect but I’m happy with how it turned out considering I’ve only been sewing for a few months and had to make the entire thing up off the top off my head.
And I got the hood completely wrong but after spending almost a day constructing the hood and it being the single most difficult thing I’ve ever tried to sew I couldn’t be bothered fixing it. I made a small adjustment so that it looked less like a chicken though. 😀
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That is freakin sweet!
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That. Is. Amazing.
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Wow! The sheer awesomeness of that cannot be expressed by simple words, threrfore I shall perform an interpretative dance of just how amazing that jerkin is.
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Strange you undersell your sewing skills, that is one awesome jerkin.
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Sew, will you make me a Trench-coat now?
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Holy. Shit.
That is all.
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I told you guys it was amazing!
I did, didn’t I?
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Read: mocked those of us who couldn’t see it.
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It was good fun mocking you.
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That looks awesome, now for a silly question: What’s a jerkin?
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A Jerkin is a man’s short, close fitting jacket, typically without sleeves, that is designed to be worn over your doublet.
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That is incredibly awesome. Become a seamstress and you will make PLENTY of monies. Such is your skill. Give yourself more credit. Done that? Good. Now give yourself even more credit.
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Thanks! I love you guys. I literally put all my love for Kotaku AU into this project, it only went to Pez because he kept pestering me for a jerkin. Seriously, I think the very first thing he ever said to me was along the lines of “Make me a jerkin!” 😛
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I think it also had the word “sir” in it. But I can’t remember the precise wording.
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Yeah, I remember a ‘sir’ in there somewhere, too.
Strange, you just keep showing how awesome you are. Mad props for the First Lady.
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Oh my god. That is freaking amazing. You have uber sewing skills. Well done!
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So awesome. Does it have any magical properties? Such as, invisibility? Imperviousness to broken bones from falling from great heights? 😛
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I think I’d have to add a cape for that. 😛
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Someone is very talented.
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Wow!
That is AMAZING!
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Not even kidding, my face right now = :O
So, Starcraft.
Could have gone better.
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So cheesy…All I did was build Brood Lords and sit behind he AI’s bases destroying their shizz.
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Seemed to work well actually.
I probably should have had a higher tech strategy than “build 12 warp gates and warp units into their mineral lines”
Or at least I should have gone Templars sooner.-
I probably should have had a better strategy than “drown them with marines.”
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Fun though.
Who wants to do it again?
Next time on a map with a shared choke point we can all defend so one of us does not get wiped out in 10 mins.-
In ten minutes?
I think we managed to lose a player in less time in both games.
I know I lost my main before the ten minute mark of each game. Yay for expansions!
Boo for trying to monobattle. Who was the genius who thought going mutalisks only would be a good idea? Oh wait, that was me.
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Heh yeah, if not for Terran’s flying buildings I would have been playing LoL 5 mins into the first game.
Would you want to do it again?-
I’m willing to try again, just need to actually try a decent strategy.
Nothing too complicate, maybe just build something to defend myself so I don’t get curb stomped.
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And here’s the problem with ai, since they’re all grouped together, they’ll just stomp you. In hindsight, I should have just scouted better.
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I think an early focus on units over tech and a shared defense would help.
Some maps have the bases close together with some sort of choke we could fill with bunkers and cannons to defend against that first push. -
If there’s a shared choke and we’re all producing some units, it shouldn’t be too hard to defend.
From memory, we had about enough time for us to get a couple of production buildings running. If I was playing Protoss and being a bit more serious, I might have been able to get 3 warpgates up before they attacked. If we could all get to that equivalent point, methinks we could manage just fine.
I’m still amused by the first game where I managed to survive my main going down and ended up with 5 bases. Say what you like about Zerg but late game they don’t need to worry about army size. So easy to rebuild, even if you constantly miss larva injects.
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When would you want to try again?
Not tonight as I think LoL is happening.
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I may or may not be heading out tonight. Sometime this weekend will almost definitely work though.
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I am so very, very, very, VERY tempted to get a Retro Lancer.
If it was the proper lancer I would already have ordered one, hell I would have ordered two, one to mount on the wall and one to run around the neighbourhood with.
So while not as amazing as the true lancer, the retro lancer is still pretty freakin cool.
So, should I or shouldn’t I?
To buy or not to buy?
Yes or no?
Eh?
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Do it, in the end, what else would you spend you money on?
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Yeah, who needs food?
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I just assumed Hugo wandered into bushland, clubbed some random wild animal, and ate that. He doesn’t need to pay for food.
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Gentleman, your words of wisdom continue to inspire me.
So shall it be, once the clock strikes 12 I shall go forth and order said Retro Lancer.
May the Gods have mercy on my soul.-
But if you get a Retro Lancer, won’t your club feel neglected?
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A little competition for my affection will be good for it.
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Wait, you can pre order those at EB? Oh god. I feel your dilemma.
I think I might. ‘Cos I can.
Damn it all! I was going to be lazy and get it from EB games, but they are only selling the Gold versions. Bah I don’t want no shiny lancer, I want it to look battered and scuffed and grimy, just like me.Grrr.
Does anyone know of anywhere else that is selling them? I think Gametraders are selling them, but for some ridiculous price. Damn Eb, grumble grumble.
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Gametraders have them for $127 if you’ve pre-ordered Gears 3 with them, or $147 otherwise.
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Mmm, not as bad as I thought, thanks for the info your Strangeliness.
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Is it wrong to want to send your kid back to bed even though they’ve only been up for 2 hours just so you can start playing Deus Ex?
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No, no it’s not.
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Parenting 101!
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Let him watch. What better incentive to try a no-kill run of the game 🙂
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There is nothing wrong with that. You NEED to play this game.
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I’d call that normal.
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My mum plays Lumines every night and when she does, we basically lose her for five hours. She ignores everyone, even our cries for food. I suppose it is ok because her children can take care of themselves…
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I was so engrossed in the game just then that I didn’t even hear my son yelling that he was awake. And I forgot to have lunch.
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This is what I had to choose from to have for breakfast:
http://flic.kr/p/ais8HE
I <3 USAfoods.
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My arteries are crying out in pain.
Mmmm, delicious food.
Good morning from Sydney!!!!!!!! TGIF!!!!!!!!
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*Grumble*… *Mumble*… *Grunt*… Ugh, mornings.
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You know at the Can’d Meat I’m going to get up at the crack of dawn and bounce around the house, right?! 😀
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Nothing says good morning, like a hyperactive Harli
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I will lock myself in my bedroom.
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I’m sure eventually you’ll come out after smelling the fire we accidentally caused.
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Also, sorry about your cat..
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It looked cold.
And you have one of those ovens that has gas mark numbers, not actual degrees celsius. How were we to know Gas 2 was 150 degrees? Seemed perfectly warm and toasty when I stuck my hand in. -
I love the fact that I have a cat now, and apparently an oven that is bad.
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Mmm Feline Flambé
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Mornin’.
Yay for Friday!
YES! ITS FRIDAY! TOMORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY! OH YEAH!
But really, you know what I’m excited for most, the entire tray of pork crackle that is part of what the caterer’s are providing.
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Pork crackle tray sounds awesome. For my 21 I think I’m going to have that aswell. Thanks for the idea mr mags.
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It’s the BEST idea 🙂
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Happy Birthday
Please accept this witty Kotaku comment as my gift to you.
Good morning from Melbourne! Still feeling tired though damn it… 🙁
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What’d you get up to?
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I was left working till 6:30 last night and didn’t get back till about 7:30. I watched some good game with my brother on my TechStation, I spent the rest of my night watching TotalBiscuit Starcraft 2 commentaries while studying over Kassadin’s build that I put together myself for LoL tonight
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I read TGIF and I thought of that terrible Katy perry song. There are only two reasons that the world puts up with Katy perry music.
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Her “Musical talent” and her “singing ability.”
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Those are the oddest breast names I’ve ever heard of.
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You know, I was about to say the same thing…
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And Trjn takes out the comment-of-the-day award!
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Yeah, but that was a joke from months ago in teamspeak, so I wouldn’t give him any glory for that joke.
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As long as musical talent is code for left boob
And singing ability is code for right boob.
in all honesty I think she is that terrible she just plays the I’m a whore card kinda hard.-
Woah, harsh. Just because a woman is blatantly sexual and comfortable with it doesn’t mean she’s a whore.
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I wouldn’t say she’s a ‘whore’ (because that really is a bit harsh) but I do think she should really tone down some of her music videos a bit.
Although I’ll admit I’m slightly conservative in that respect.
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I think she’s not the only one who needs to tone down their videos and/or songs. I hate that popular music has basically become all about sex now.
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Yeah. Won’t be long till they’re just showcasing porn straight out.
Music, what happened to you?
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Watch Rammstein’s music video to the song “Pussy”. It’s already there!
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I, for one, have no problems with this.
My issues with the ‘music’ itself, and not the videos that go along with it.
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It’s a sad country that we live in now cuz of this. 🙁
This is why I listen to Triple M. Though I cannot stand the talk shows in the afternoons… seriously those guys are just trying to remotely crush my CPU’s thought patterns with their stupidity. But yeah, none of that pop crap that the other stations play (And sometimes at the same time!) and just awesome rock!
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Triple M has the best music of the major stations but probably the worst hosts.
It’s one of those fun games where you have to change to another station every time someone opens their gob. I tend to go with Triple J when I’m not listening to Triple M, but I’m not in the car often enough for it to make a difference.
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Yeah.. especially the shouting of James Brayshaw and Billy Brownless going overboard over nothing… so so annoying, I basically turn the darn radio off whenever a talk show comes on. The Peanut Gallery is the worst though, they just do the silliest attempt at comedy I have ever heard of in radio… well the “Gotcha” calls on Fox were the absolute worst that I ever heard but yeah, darn close!
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See that’s why people invented mp3 players.
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Yeah my car doesn’t have the input for an MP3 player sadly. So I’m stuck with radio until I get that changed, which is probably never
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Connecting my iPhone to my car is pretty simple. Controlling my iPhone while it is connected is not (to the point where disconnecting, selecting album and then reconnecting is the go to method).
For short trips, I don’t bother. Most of my driving is in short trips.
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My cd player has a USB port, it is the best.
Her music videos are basically just softcore porn. That’s pretty much her entire schtick.
Take that away from her and there really isn’t much left.
Then again, that’s pop music in a nutshell these days. Almost all female artists are softcore porn actresses.
Why it works in the days of Redtube is a mystery.
Luckily there are still some decent female artists out there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5C-YHSy3Fw
The reason I don’t like her music videos is mainly because of my little cousins who watch that sort of stuff. They are only 9 year olds who should be not watching these sorts of things.
I am thankful every day that my 10 yr old daughter is sensible and doesn’t like this crap and is not all giggly and image-obsessed like the other girls her age are quickly becoming.
It’s so stupid that kids don’t experience a real childhood any more. When I was at school that sort of stuff was the least of my worries. I was to busy doing stuff with my friends and playing Mario.
I really Didn’t mean to offend and perhaps whore is the wrong word. But all I’m saying is she knows who her fan base is.
She did affectionately call Rhianna a ‘BearC*nt’ publicly over twitter. She won points from me because of that.
Was going to start singing, but after all this discussion, thought it might be aaaawkward.
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Depends what you’d be singing. It wouldn’t be too awkward if you started singing hymns…would it??
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!!!TGIF!!!!!
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Its sad you can no longer link to the original.
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One of the greatest online tragedies so far this year…
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Yeah the poor girl got forced to home schooling now IIRC. It’s really saddening to hear that it actually came to that.
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I didn’t fall for your dastardly trap.
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It’s lamboman, every youtube link he puts in TAY, suspect everything! Tricky human! 😛
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Usually only on friday’s… it’d make no sense to post friday on monday. (hmmm, that gives me an idea…)
Also, BTW, that other video I posted above in reply to Trjn wasn’t Firday, it was Brooke Fraser’s “something in the water” 🙂
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Currently on the app store, SEGA, Capcom, Gameloft and other games 80% during Labor Day sale:
http://wireless.ign.com/articles/119/1192056p1.html
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I have an Android phone. So yeah, scratch that idea.
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Shame on you…
jk 😛
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Is this for Australia too, or just for the US?
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Yep, it’s for Aus as well 😀
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Additionally 3 more new free iPad/iPhone games have been released including Bungie’s new game “Crimson Steam Pirates”:
http://wireless.ign.com/articles/119/1192051p1.html
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Found this episode from an old show I used to watch as a kid called “TUGS”, wondering if anyone else here has seen it?
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It’s Thomas the Tank Engine, but on water!
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It seems like a bOat version of Thomas the tank engine which was my favorite show as a kid. I thought it a bit weird that the conductor was called the fat conductor. Since then I think they have changed his name.
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TUGS is actually the sister television series of Thomas as it’s made by the same producers and some of the models were later reused for Thomas.
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You’re right Chubs is so much of a better name.
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His new name is chubs, really wow!
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His name is Sir Topham Hatt.
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Sorry Rocketman, I didn’t think you’d actually believe me.
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So…anyone running dual or triple screens? 😐
Seriously, I can’t think of anything else to ask. 🙁
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At work yes, can’t fit a second screen at home though. Once I move out, that will change!
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I was at one stage. I had a 19″ flat screen monitor and an older 17″ flat screen. But then the 19″ decided to die…
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I’m running two computers and two screens.
My main computer is a MacBook Air, which I have an external monitor for (so 13″ screen from laptop + 20″ external screen). Then I also have a Win 7 desktop hooked up to that screen as well (with keyboard/mouse for the pair connected to a KVM so I can easily swap).
Two computers, two monitors, one desk.
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I have a 18″ and a 21″ at home. Were you thinking of buying another monitor or something?
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Ah, no. Actually I’m already using a 19″ monitor on my 14″ laptop through extended desktop, and was just curious to see if anyone was running dual or triple screen setups. 🙂
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At work it’s a 24 inch 16:9 and a 20 inch 4:3. And on my edit suite it’s a 30inch Cinedisplay.
At home it’s all kinds of monitors, 20 inch 4:3, 32 inch Full HD Preview monitor, 24 inch 16:9 main display. And if I need the real estate, I’ll use my iPad as well.
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I have 2 screens at both home and work. At home i used the secondary screen on the PC and can alternate that between the ext desktop or the 360/ps3 via a HDMI port.
I have all sound through the monitor and then output to speakers… it works for me.
SPACE MARINE CO-OP DETAILS HERE:
http://www.spacemarine.com/forums/topic/3772
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I thought chuloopa was meant to do all the space marine update stuff. Lol
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I pick up the slack 😛
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I so can’t wait to play this on PC!
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You can use your custom Space Marine? With all perks intact?
YES.
Tech Knight, in regards to only having radio in your car. Get an FM transmitter. I grabbed one for $40 I think and that works great in my car 🙂
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I know nothing about car electronics to install it though 😛
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It’s just a little device which plugs into your cigarette lighter power in the car, then you set the transmitter to a specific channel (one that no other radio stations are on), tune your radio to that channel, and then plug in your mp3 player and away you go.
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They can also run off batteries.
I think this one is a battery one:
http://search.dicksmith.com.au/electronics/Mp3%20Fm%20Transmitter-
Yeah…but I hate changing batteries 😛
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Sounds good (No pun intended… maybe), got any recommendations on where to get one?
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Dick Smiths, Big W, Target, Kmart…all those sorts of places should have them 🙂 otherwise you can get them online.
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Step 1: Insert FM transmitter into MP3 player via headphone jack.
Step 2: Tune car radio to frequency that FM transmitter is broadcasting to.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Prophet.
Step 5: Establish new religion.
Step 6: ???
Step 7: Profit.
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I lol’d.
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Bacon and scrambled eggs in a meat pie…
Good idea or bad idea?
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Goodest idea.
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Gooderest idea.
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Effin’ Smart.
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Verdict: Pure win. Seriously, it’s one of the most surprisingly tasty breakfasts I’ve had in a while. I highly recommend it.
So what did we decide for chat tonight? And is it cool if it’s around 9 EST?
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Steam and if that doesn’t work, I’ll set up Ventrilo server
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Are you cheating on me?
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I might be…
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No Jo! I would never! I swear!
It’s just a chat server for LoL. You’ll be there too won’t you?
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I’m sorry Jo but he is cheating.
Just the other day I saw him type in ‘radio free zerg’…
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:O you said you wouldn’t tell. I HATE YOU!
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It’s a cool track so i will forgive you.
This time.Also, why not TS?
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TS is maxed at 10 people at once I think on our server, and if we’re having a 5v5, I don’t want to kick off the ones not playing it. So… alternative needed
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Unless of course we end up being the only people on there 😛
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Though ones like Rocketman and FatShady will have trouble logging in if they choose to tonight.
Of course that is also a possiblity, in which case I will chuckle and force the teams to split off the primary channel 😛
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Well we’ll figure out what happens. I’ll jump on quickly just after 8est, but i gotta pick up my gf like last time at 8:30est, so i’ll be good to go by 9est.
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Hahaha! Rocketman.
That guy!
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Feel free to kick others off…. if its just you guys then go for it??
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It’s against my ways to be rude and kick people just because they’re using space we need for our event 🙁
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Welcome back to the original Mac!!!!
My plans to secretly infiltrate your life in your absence were unsuccessful :'(
The nurses just made fun of me and my attempts to play the bagpipes were met with ridicule and mild beatings.
And anyone that says I referred to myself as “the original and the best” or “everyone’s favourite James Mac” is lying…. 😉
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Return of the Mac?
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Pfft, I posted that link last night.
This instacomment stuff is killing me.
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I had a dream last night all the Taybies met up at Las Vegas. Someone, I don’t know who, had scored a bunch of free tickets for something called an Ice Massage. Turns out it was naked ice fishing.
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I think someone’s had too many Shapes…
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LOL
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Naked Ice Fishing. 😀
I think I may even be giggling like Beavis and Butthead right now….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOQI-YHwvyU&feature=player_embedded
Jimu would have loved this, when he got round to watching it…
So The Beards did Like a Version yesterday morning. It’s about as amazing as you’d expect a band who sings about beards would be.
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God I hate Tom & Alex.
“Beards”
“Did you say beards?”
“Yeah, man, like beards!”
“BEARRRRDDDDDSSSSSSS!”
-both- “LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL”They’re like the most annoying episode of
Curb Your Enthusiasm ever.Sharp dressed man, though. S’pretty great.
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Disregard Tom & Alex.
Acquire The Beards.
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I said “hands down” the other day and it made me think of our very own hands down guy, Tristan Henessey(or something, fuzzy memory is fuzzy). Where did he go? Did he change his name or just disappear like so many others?
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Changed to Tristosterone then disappeared????
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Pretty much
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Maybe he got a new ladyfriend? People tend to disappear off the face of the internet when they start a new relationship.
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Imma never gonna be in a relationship ever again so I can hang with y’all.
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Or just make your partner hang out here too like Dawdle! did.
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Yeah… that’s the reason why I’m still alone too.
It totally has nothing to do with the hours I work, my chronic lack of confidence or my chosen hobby.
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I still got him as a friend on live.. not sure what he’s doing?
Hi all…
Long time lurker and anti-socialite here… quick question for you benevolent and magnificent beings that make-up TAY; i recently moved to Canberra, and saw your talks about can’d meat… i guess my question is when, where and can i come? *grovels at everyones feet*
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What’s the time in Canberra??
Blaghman should be up in bout an hour……-
Harsh.
But Fair.
And true.
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That makes a total of 4 of us in Canberra now. We are growing.
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They are growing, like rodents. We must exterminate them!
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Ferrets aren’t technically rodents.
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Call the piper!
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Dammit, I’m jet lagged…
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yes we will have to convert more to canberra’ism so that we may grow into a collective hive-mind… or you know… have great social outings…. which ever comes first….
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Oh dear. Soon Blaghman will have an army!
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Sydney TAYers better prepare immediately, you’ll be hit first!
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The NSWelshmen driving down still outnumber the Canberrans, though!
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You still easily outnumber us. :/
Although I could just rope some friends into coming and make them pretend that they go on Kotaku.Ha, just kidding. I don’t have any friends.
Wait.
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(shhhh don’t tell anyone but i actually live in queanbeyan so am technically still a NSWelshman… it’s all part of my devious plot of leaking intel to NSW to assist in the uprising)
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Maybe a bribe of Shapes in order?
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Edit button. I need an edit button!!
*a bribe OF Shapes….
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Hahaha, I failed at editing even!
How’s about “Maybe a bribe of Shapes is in order?”
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The important thing is you got it 🙂
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Pfft, I say a BRIDE of Shapes.
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i don’t know if i can pull of a wedding dress, let alone a Shapes one… BUT I CAN SURE AS HELL TRY!!!
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You’re new here, so I’ll put this nicely.
Either you make a sentient being for Blaghman to marry out of delicious Arnott’s Shapes, or so help me…
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i shall go in and do some science to achieve this… everything can be done with enough science
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if you tell me the order of which these disorganised Shapes should come in, i can give it a try… damnit… now i want Shapes
Sorry Pixel-Ferret, I was off playing Oni, so I didn’t respond earlier (yes, half an hour is a long time for me).
The Can’d Meat is theoretically happening at my house on the 25th of September , and of course you can come!
If interested, shoot an email to blaghman-at-gmail-dot-com and I’ll put you on my list of people who aren’t getting updates about it because I’m too lazy to actually organise anything.
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Cheers, really appreciate it… hopefully this is the beginning of something great… you know… in the none-creepy/stalker way
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None-creepy/stalker way?
Well that’s no fun.
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do not fret, because i go for the all out insane-kidnapper way, which is better…
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Hey, you’ve already sent around the date. All we need now is an address, and we’re as updated as we need to be. 🙂
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You mean saying “My house” doesn’t help you?
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Finally. NAP TIME! Hopefully he sleeps for his usual 2-3 hours. See you all then, I’m off to play DEUS EX!!!!!
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Have fun!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Everything was going so well today, but then I started Deus Ex on the PS3 and it told me I couldn’t play because I didn’t have enough hard drive space (damn you PlayTV), and then while I was clearing space I got a message from Mr. Strange about this:
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/news/local/29921/Monster-Magnet-tour-cancelled-
Oh what?! That’s so crap 🙁 I know how much you were looking forward to that show, and playing the game.
*hugs*
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Managed to delete enough stuffs and it’s installing…slowly. 83% and counting!
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Oooooh, it says ‘Press Start’ now. Yay!
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Words cannot describe how much you will enjoy that game.
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Could be worse.
How?
Uhhh… I dunno…
SUDDENLY! Dennis the Dragon bursts in. NotoriousR is furiously turning a sentient books pages.
“Don’t stop” the book says between pants.
Surprised you leap from the couch, grabbing the
1. Lit Torch. Like, not a fire and rags kinda torch, like a Dolphin Torch. One of the big red ones*
2. Dreamcast as it falls off the counter. Unlike I did as I saw it fall and watched as it slowly crashed into the ground.
3. The trapeze that’s just been erected in your house following your adoption of one Dick Grayson.
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*This torch idea is definitely not because there’s one sitting on my desk.
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How did you become so amazing?
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The Trapeze
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Hey! i did no such thing to the book! I wanted to burn it!
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Well it’s getting pretty hot…
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So Gizmodo have a Memory Buyer’s Guide on their site today. I feel sorry for the people that read it and actually use it as a guide for purchasing RAM, as they’re recommending Corsair. Rookie mistake.
Oh man, I went to open what I thought was the Kotaku pantry in the kitchen only to find myself inside some electrical cupboard, lights flashing, wires and cables dangling, and no food in sight. Mark clearly wanted me to starve.
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Make another Minecraft cake!
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Raid Elly’s desk for Sour Worms
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Or she could lick the Sugar girls to get the required sustenance.
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You didn’t just….
You did just!, and I LOL’d verily
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Delicious random flashing lights.
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why do i expect that tracey will be like Richmond from IT Crowd… “And this one, flash, flash, flash, then wait for it. Nothing for awhile. Here it comes. Double flash!”
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I used to think ‘Plant Room’ was where establishments kept their ferns when they closed at night.
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Yeah agree with Mags, another minecraft cake is in order!
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Someone in the office (who I have never met before) is having a birthday and apparently there will be cake. I have been hanging out for this all day. They sent around an email saying “cake at 2:15!”, so now I’m waiting for 2:15. In the mean time, I guess I will eat the electricity in the plant room.
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I love getting emails like those, but what saddens me is I get too much work to actually go and have the cake. Sadface.jpg
Secondly, being a robot, electricity is delicious and I wouldn’t eat wires personally… it’s basically robocannibalism.
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Cole MacGrath?
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mmmmmmm, cake
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Yes.. I miss cake so much 🙁
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I miss you too! o/
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T-shirt covered in chocolate. So ashamed. 🙁
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They’re testing the alarm system in the building.
Mostly it means someone is turning on the PA and tapping the microphone every once in a while, but there has been a siren or two as well.
Sighface.
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We had that yesterday! It was very exciting.
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Exciting. Yes. That was exactly the word I would not use. :p
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I guess you could say they’re also testing your… patience… Trjn?
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How annoying. One of my co-workers got a call today, so I walked the 30m to go tell him he had a call and the CEO told me to use the intercom system. I said no, because the beep and the over-loud voice is incredibly annoying. He informed be it was company procedure, so I said “well it’s not MY procedure” and walked off. Probably shouldn’t have done that in hindsight :/
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The policies are there for a reason. You humans are always rebellious, it saddens me. Why have rules if you keep having a tendency to want to break them?
I’m looking at you 95% of humans that speed past me every day while I drive the speed limit!
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I sit on the speed limit!
And I refuse to use the intercom, because it’s really not too far to walk, and every time someone uses the intercom, I get a headache because the volume is set to 11.
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Talk softly? 😛
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Perhaps you shouldn’t have had Nigel Tufnel install your intercom.
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We have a system through our phones, so if someone isn’t at their desk we can just do a general page and tell them to pick up the phone.
More often than not, it’s the receptionist who uses that system. She seems to have her phone set at a much higher volume than everyone else and often starts talking before the phone picks up.
Not a great system.
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Argue that you were exercising and fighting the sedentary nature of your job, and in the long-run, a healthier, more fit employee will save the company money by not being as vulnerable to health risks associated with being overweight.
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I think I love you..
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I wouldn’t say that so publicly, Blags might get jealous.
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Also Jo’s jealous rage?
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Seriously though, that’s how it is, apparently. Boosted productivity.
That said, mentioned it so that you could BS your way out of any confrontation on the matter, but it’s still a valid point.
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Oh god I want to go to sleep. Was in a 75 minute presentation. Almost nodded off a half dozen times. But:
It’s friday! \o/
3 hours of work left! \o/
But: where is q-bo and welbot and dawdle and tadmod AND OH GOD WHY ARE THEY LEAVING US /o\
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Also, zoidberg:
(\/) (°,,°) (\/)
woobwoobwoobwoobwoobwoobwoobwoob
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q-bo and Welbot have their reasons for not posting as much as they used to, they got a lot going on, especially Welbot.
Dawdle and TadMod however have no excuse whatsoever
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What’s q-bo up to? last I heard he was making his racing cockpit thingy ma thing.
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That is correct my good man. He is indeed making himself a racing cockpit. Hard task for a dood in a wheelchair, but damn! I’ve seen pics! That dood got skills! No way I could do what he’s done!! He will be back.. it’s just taking time for him to do understandably 🙂
I haven’t left you either. I’m slowly returning to my old self again. This has by far been the roughest month of my entire existance, and it’s taken its toll on how motivated I am to actually get in here and carry on with my usual ramblings, but I’ll get there again. Each day it gets a little easier in some ways, but in true LittleJJ style, just when you think things are going well, she has a way of turning your world on its head and making everything even worse. 😐
Things will be so much better when I don’t have to live with her anymore now. The past few weeks have been a bitch just coming to terms that she didn’t want to exist this way anymore, but now it’s more a matter of we’re stuck like this and how the hell do we get out of it :\ These things take time unfortunatly.. but we’re getting there… one day at a time..-
That really sucks man. I hope things pick up for you, and I’m sure they will. Eventually. But they will! So just hang in there.
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No wonder we heard no word from Qumulys. Where would one go to see these pics or should I just poke him in the side next time I see him on steam?
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I’d go the steam route.. he emailed them to me
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Welbot, you didn’t abandon us!
We all said words that made sentences that explained that we missed you.
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HAHAH a friend just showed me this LoL video. Makes me chuckle cuz that’s one of the things Master Yi is best at xD
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Stumbled upon this today:
http://i53.tinypic.com/25rclsx.jpg-
ROFL! Love it! xD
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This is how I’m going to imagine Steve-O playing as Garen from now on. Face and everything.
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You and me both xD
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Demacia!
(ಠ益ಠ)
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That’s how I’ve always imagined it 😛
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Steve-O, stop letting your friend play Lux… here’s why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA5wbNukqT0&feature=related
Lives are being lost! LIVES!
Haha that’s nuts.
Had my one year review!
Went well.
I’m not sacked!!!!
Got a 5% pay rise.
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Hurray!
I can still go around saying “I know someone… in the industry.” whilst winking! -
Awesome dude. Well done!
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Yay for not being sacked!
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DOC!
I asked four different people in Stirling if they knew you.
I’m beginning to doubt your previously stated ‘Stirling-ness’.
Winning.
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I wish YouTube wasn’t blocked at work 🙁
Yay it’s Friday! Why does it feel so wrong though..? usually it’s a time for joy and getting prepped to spend a weekend chillaxing and playin games, but I’ll be damned if it feels like Friday anymore 😐
I don’t want to spoil it for you guys, but FUCK i hate my ex for doing this to me. I used to love Fridays.. now it’s just another day 😐 And I swear to god, if I see one link to that Rebecca Black song, I’m gonna hunt you down and make 1000 yr duck eggs with your balls! GOT IT!?!
There… now I’ve had my vent I feel a little better!
Damn the man! You know you the man! Ramen this Sunday!! I’m stoked! I haven’t been out of this house for a socal thing since I went and unloaded on Strange, so thanks for agreeing to get together with me! I dunno how good company I’ll be, but at least we can have some of the best ramen you’re ever likely to eat outside of Japan! 😉 I’ll try not to be too much of a sad sack though! hahaha
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God damn these fingers… Damn the Man…
should be DAN the man!
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HE’S REFERRING TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Ima noodle the shit out my craw, dewd. And if you are sad, I’ll just spit on you until you feel better*
*Spitting may not occur. Once when I listened to metal and hardcore and was driving to Byron Bay every week to see shows, I was hanging out with some really manly men. They were all lining up outside and decided to have a spitting contest. They were all like “Do it Dan, it’ll be Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaad” (rad was in like a hardcore guttural growl) So I lined it up and spat down my chin onto my just purchased t-shirt.
Now I spit for no man.
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lolol no spitting required on my part i promise 😉
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Hey fellow bot good to hear from you man! I’m so jelly despite that I never had Ramen before (Don’t terminate me please!)
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Does instant ramen count? :/
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Does instant ramen count? hahahahahahahahahaha
GET OUT.
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It was a joke 😛 but I have not had the pleasure of real ramen :/ don’t actually know where to go to get it..
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You’ve never had ramen before?
Tech. I am disappoint.
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I am ashamed :'(
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Neither have I Techy – but I don’t have an excuse, I mean, I’m living in Mackay, the culture capital of Australia and you’re in bogan-town Melbourne right? 😛
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The city that is ridden with scum and villainy… yeah sure Melbourne is the best city in the world, so if you get mugged by a guy with a knife, that’s okay he must be from Sydney…
Then there’s Myki… don’t get me started on Myki, the trains just suck, the humans are so selfish and pathetic most of the time, can’t even clean up after themselves or stay driving under the speed limit (“Those speed cameras are revenue raisers and defective” wutwut?)
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welbot… I’m not going to pretend to understand what you’re going through, and your ex doesn’t sound very pleasant, but stay strong. There is a whole world full of potential in what you can do and achieve and it’s up to you what you choose to make of your spare time.
So look up and keep on being awesome 🙂
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Hi Welbot!!!
What she said!!!! 😉
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Thanks guys! I’m doin my best! It would be a whole lot easier if I had my own little space to chill out in, but yer.. being stuck this way just plays on your mind something fierce. Only time I ever actually feel alright now, is when they both leave the house, and unfortunatly, they just KEEP COMING BACK!!! What I wouldn’t give for a bus to just drop on them next time they go out.. :\
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+9001
Must. Fight. Urge.
Urge to sew an Adam Jensen coat rising….
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OMG! CAN YOU PLEASE SEW ME AN ADAM JENSEN COAT?!
I will love you forever and ever and ever. Hang on no, I’ll PAY you. You want money? I’ll give you money.
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DON’T DO IT! I’LL PAY YOU MORE!
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NAH-UH. I’LL PAY ALL THE MONEYS IN THE WORLDS
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I’ll pay all the monies and give you a cake!*.
*Cake may or may not be edible due to terrible cooking skills.
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I can match that offer! I made a cake that was good once. Also, I can make an awesome pasta for you, or a Thai green curry.
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Just so you guys know, I can cook at least as good as I can sew so offering me food will not sway me….
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Yeah, but you haven’t tried my cooking*. How about……..various video game related collectibles! no, that’s not going to work, I’m too attached to them.
Dammit. I’ve got nothing.
*You don’t want to.
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On a sidenote, how are you liking the game so far?
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I’m loving it. It has the same feel as the original Deus Ex.
If you do, lemme borrow it for a shoot?
I’ve got an idea for a Deus Ex-esque vidja.
If you do make one, I don’t wanna keep it, just use it for like a weekend.
Also, floral pattern across the shoulders.
Adam Jensen is so manly, you don’t even notice. And when you do notice, he’s so manly that he totally pulls it off.
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I like this idea.
That reminds me, now you have the game you can follow this link!
http://us.deusex-store.com/category/28_Deus-Ex-Official-Collection
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I’d buy one of those trenchcoats if it had the damned floral pattern on it, but they don’t. Gah!
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I really want one of those trenchcoats, and long sleeved shirts.
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What? Those trenchcoats aren’t even close to right. And their “cyber-renaissance inspired shoulder/sleeve design” is just topstitching.
I could totally make a better one but no matter how much money people wanted to throw at me I might wait a month or 30 before tackling something so stressful again. And I’d probably keep it for myself. 😛-
howcouldyoubesocrueltosomeoneasawesomeasme.jpg
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Pretty much exactly why I haven’t bought one. If I could get an actual Adam Jensen coat I wouldn’t even hesitate.
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So, I have 4 and a half hours left of work…and I’ve already done everything there is to do today. So, what the hell do I do now? 🙁
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I’ve spent the last hour learning to rainbow flick. I don’t even play soccer, I’m just bored.
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Haha, well I don’t have youtube access at work :/ or a soccer ball handy..
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Read up on LoL champion guides on mobafire?
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I do that sometimes, but I don’t really know who to read atm :/ are we all trying new people tonight or?
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I’ll be doing more Kassadin, I need to make a decision on him soon before he gets rotated out on whether or not to get him. My lvl 30 work colleague said he wasn’t impressed with him though
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Oh okay, what were his reasons? I shotgun Karthus!
Also, what do you do as a job? I keep meaning to ask.
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His DPS is kinda crap compared to other assassins like Xin Zhao. Now I thought I was just doing it wrong therefore I didn’t question that but I can kinda see what he means. I’m still going to try my build on him anyway, he might be pretty good since I’m doing autoattack effect with his nether blade rather than 100% spells while builds on mobafire avoid that entirely.
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Oh yep, well hopefully he goes well. He can’t be that bad, there’ll be a way to play him where he owns..
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I get the constant feeling he’s been nerfed to hell prior to me trying him out, all of his attacks feel weakened
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🙁 oh okay. That sucks, well if you’re going for an assassin type, maybe you should wait until Talon becomes free to play?
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He should be next rotation I think
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So you’ll give him a go?
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Yep! With my own build and everything!
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Yeah he never really looked that great to me.
Now Nocturne I really want to play, I kinda wish I had just bought him when he was half price the other week. -
OMG stop thinking like me Jo! 😛 Nocturne I had my eye on as a possible alternative. I mainly want an assassin-type, one that can surprise and destroy while they’re helpless. Kennen is good at it mostly but they can fight back against him 😛
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I was also looking at Irelia.
Her passive is awesome, add Merc treads and you get 75% Tencity when 3 or more enemy champs are near!
Chuck on a lot of life steal and attack speed and I reckon she could kick ass. -
Interesting, never really seen her in action that much, would love to see how she works.
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She was in one game against me as Rammus.
She would zoom in, pretty much ignore my taunt and all other cc, beat someone up and calmly walk off.
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75% Tenacity?! Yikes that makes her virtually status-effect immune in team fights
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Yeah is crazy.
The only thing that it doesn’t negate is Suppression, eg WW and Malthazar’s ults.
Oh yeah my job!
I’m a technical specialist in applications and networking in Telstra’s enterprise and government area. I primarily work on VM hosting for enterprise customers, getting them installed, configured, connected to the networks of their choosing, and secure SSL VPN remote access over the internet for management.
I used to work on other products too but this one is very popular, and with popularity comes high demand, so I’m needed in it most.
I’ve been in this job for over 2 and a half years now, I joined as a graduate trainee from TAFE, now I’m a full time worker 🙂
Nice work dude, that sounds good! (and hard).
But my Karthus has all skins unlocked 🙁
But I don’t think I’m rostered on anyway.
You can play as him if you want and I’ll go someone else. I don’t know if we have the 10 yet..
I’m cool. I’ll be on TS later so just let me know what the go is. I’ll be fine going someone else as long as it’s just Kotaku-ites (so no random people can witness the shame of my defeats!).
Who’s currently rostered on?
Download Jetpack Joyride for iPhone.
It. Is. Phenomenal.
Effing Halfbrick, man. Kudos.
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Jetpack Joyride! What is your high score? And what level are you?
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I would, but I’ve probably spent too much recently anyway. I move house on Wednesday and that’s going to be EXPENSIVE.
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What’s your Apple ID?
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(don’t laugh at me, it was made in highschool in my depressing days :P)
Why’s that?
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Hopefully it worked! Check your email or iTunes or something….
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Wow…thanks man. That’s actually really, really nice of you. It’s an awesome birthday present! 😀 😀 😀
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Not a problem. Though it does come at a price, I’ve now signed you up for lots and lots of spam sites 😀
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D:
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Who doesn’t want freerussiantacos.exe???
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I got the redeem email but I’ll have to do it at home, iTunes at work isn’t working for some reason. Thanks heaps though
Errr…….play trackmania nations forever? 😛
When TAY goes quiet, since I can’t post, I browse reddit, I mean, who needs a high school education
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Not you!
Do a barrel roll!
Holy shit! Just saw two birds beating up another bird. They had it pinned on the ground and one was jumping on it while the other was pecking it. It managed to fly away but those two birds plus about 6 more that seemed to come out of nowhere were all chasing it.
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Must’ve threatened some eggs of theirs or something. I once saw that at primary school, the bird fleeing went right into the side of the roof of the classroom, all of us hearing a loud thud on the metal roof. All I saw was the bird falling back down to the ground, not moving. Really made me sad -.-
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I sense some fowl play.
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Wow..thats horrible. Sounds like me at high school 😛 hahaha
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Whoa!!!
And you spewed at us for SPOILERS!!!!!!!
I haven’t even got to the level with the birds yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;P
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Dear JamesMacUsedMyHandle,
Just so you know, I never responded to this comment because I thought it was too awesome to even come close to finding an appropriate response to. You are made of fun.
-Strange.-
haha. Thanks Strange :)I feel so important with my name all capitalized.
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Suddenly feel like cheeseburgers.
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I know that feel, bro.
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I was in a presentation at lunch from 1200-1315 and all I could think about was the fact I was missing out on $1 cheeseburgers. Curse you Kotaku front page marketing scheme thing!
So what are the teams for tonight everybody?
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Dunno but I will probably try and fail at playing Lee Sin.
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we’ll find out when the whole group is assembled tonight, only then will we know who is in, and how to split the teams
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Divide it up by levels?
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Seen that before, I lol’d 😀
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Haha that sounds about right.
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Haha that’s so good 😛
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Tech Knight + SteveO
vs
Everyone else
Yes I am well aware this is a 5v5 game.
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So Steve-O, I go Kennen, you go Garen, both of us going the two boots build?
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There’s a custom game type in SC2 called “Macro or Die”. If you let your resources build up too much, ghosts will spawn and nuke your mineral line.
I like that idea very much.
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Oh my that is terrifying
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awesome… also what are peoples ID’s in this game? i need someone to hone my skills with cause i suck, and i don’t have any friends that play this game*
*i don’t have any friends
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Name: Trjn
Code: 643I’m not even in Bronze league. So if you’re considering honing your skills with me, you’ll probably find that I’m somewhat like a lump of clay in that regard.
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*cough* well, i haven’t played my placement matches yet, so at least i got that… i’ve owned to game since release, completed the campaign (on easy) and done some comp-stomping but that’s it…
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Yeah, I beat the campaign during Shameless Gaming Month (on Normal) and have done a handful of games vs AI (also on Normal) as well as some 4v4s last night vs AI (Hard) with some of the guys from here.
Fun times.
Haven’t done placement yet but I will definitely be Bronze at this point.
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nice, well i’ve been meaning to get serious about this, but i always do and then get distracted by other shiny things… but i seem to be equally crap at any RTS i play, so at least i got consistency
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If you’ve been lurking enough, you might have noticed there are a few of us around who are all at about that sort of stage.
We’re not good but we’re looking to improve. Or failing that have a bit of fun.
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i’m good with that, keep me posted, i’m both in SC2 and Steam so got a few options… just search for pixel-ferret, i should pop up (i can’t fully remember my steam ID, i’ll have to wait till i get home :P)
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I’m cTBlaghman, id: 498
Alternately my email address works as a real friend thing.
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cheers Blaghs, can i call you Blaghs? or do i need to pass the TAY Trials of Fire first?… i can now also now confirm that my Steam ID is “.-.Pixel-Ferret”
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No you can’t! RRRAAARRRGGGHHH!
But just kidding.
We’ll probably do a group initiation next week. should be…
Amusing.
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Interesting spam tweet I just got:
“[tags] @TrjnRabbit I’ve done so little work today I flattened a fully charged iPhone and half battery Sams… [link]”
At least they tried to make it seem legit.
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HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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Awesome!
Oh hey NotR 😀 I’ve just started my uni mid-sem break so haven’t been getting up as early as usual.
I went to watch Jersey Boys at the Theatre Royal Sydney last night with Jiffy, his sis and his sis’s bf. It’s been so long since I last watched a musical. We got the student tickets which were just $39 for ~$100 originally priced seats. 😛 It was a pretty nice experience, except for the aunties that sat in our seats and refused to move in the beginning. Most of the other audience seemed to be ‘Pas and ‘Mas though. xD The musical setting reminded me a bit of Mafia 2, haha.
I’ve also just gotten a email reply for a part-time job interview tomorrow. I hope it goes well, wish me luck! : )
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Good luck dawdle!
Also, musicals are boss.
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Thanks! A pre-happy 21st to you as well!
I would watch more musicals if I had the monnies.. >_<
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Thank you!
Yeah they’re good. I saw Wicked! earlier in the year and that was good. But my all time favourite would still have to be Les Miserables.
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Not all of them though…
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Of course, but a lot of people dislike musicals themselves, just for what they are. There are good and bad musicals.
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Good luck, don’t be nervous, be yourself!
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Good luck with that Dawdle! Just keep your cool and you’ll be fine! 😀
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She lives! I read Jersey Boys as Jersey Shore and was appalled. But it’s okay now.
Good luck with inter-ma-view!
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Same! On both points.
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Techie, don’t wanna make you jealous. But I just got an email from Tracey 😛
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… *sniffs then cries* I’m never loved… :'(
…Okay that’s it! You’re on the OPPOSITE side of me in LoL tonight! 😛
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You’re ALWAYS loved. You’re awesome Techie, don’t let anyone ever convince you otherwise.
And relax! It was just about Community Kudos! Nothing sinister! I want to be on your team!
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Alright I’ll think about it… 😛
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You have to think about it? But I just jumpstarted your self-esteem processor!
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Relax I’m sure you’ll be on my team, but as I said before, depends on who shows up to this in order to maintain balance 🙂
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Haha it doesn’t bother me much anyway. I just have to make sure that I don’t die 😛
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Couldn’t have said it better myself!
And Jamesmags what email address did you use? I just sent my noms to the Tips address but I’ve never sent anything to that address before.
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tracey.lien@alluremedia.com.au
She responded within 5 mins, she’s on the ball!
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I shall use that one next time then.
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She is just honeymooning. I’m sure the famous Allure “spam filter” will kick in soon enough….
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Hey guys,
I recommend sending things to my allure media account because the tips box can be a bit dodgy sometimes (e.g. sometimes an email will arrive and we’ll see the subject line but it won’t display the body of the email. No one really knows why that happens. :-/), so sometimes legitimate emails look like spam. Also, I always have my email open but not the tips box so I can respond faster if you send things to my inbox.
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I’m playing Bastion and From Dust whilst I wait the eternity it takes for OzGameShop to deliver Deus Ex.
I’m not sure if I love or hate Bastion… but it’s bringing about some feelings.
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from dust is pretty great… except my villages don’t seem to appreciate my effort of moulding a statue from hot lava in the middle of the village…
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I’ll tell you what it needs though… I’d like a sandbox mode. It’s just such a great world modification engine, I’d love to just muck around with it.
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very true, the game would hugely benefit from that… i’d have endless hours of fun modifying the landscape to find interesting ways of ending – i mean, enriching my villagers lives… i haven’t made it past the 5th (i think) level, because i’m having too much fun just destroying and creating things
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Really? I absolutely postively love Bastion (would be GOTY for me so far, if it weren’t for Portal 2). What don’t you like about it?
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I don’t know, I can’t quite put my finger on it.
I’m in deep love with the narrator though… I might copy his voice when I’m reading stories to my kids one day.
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@lambomann007
Just saw your response to my last command in the text-based game.
My next command is “move towards voice”.
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You blindly stumble towards the mystery voice. You collide with a big bulky burly body. The body pushes you back and cries “Hey watch it! What on earth are you doing stumbling around with your eyes closed!?”
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Open eyes.
Apologise.
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You open your eyes. Instantly, you are blinded by the brilliance and intensity of the natural light around you. Before your eyes can adjust, however, everything fades to black…again. In front of you appears a red glowing sign that says “To be continued…”
You think it would be rather useless to apologize to a sign…
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Just realised in my nom email to Tracey, I started off with “Hey Racey”…
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Maybe she’s a really big racing fan?
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naah just insanely fast at everything she does, from cake making to email answering 😛
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Possibly Bish, as long as she doesn’t take it as racy – sexually titillating.
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Racey ay?
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GOD DAMMIT STEVE-O. YOU KNOW I CAN’T WATCH YOUTUBE AT WORK! D: D: D: D: D: D:
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It’s good ‘ole Racey from 32 years ago. By golly, she has aged well for someone who should be over 50 years old.
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ATTENTION ALL LEAUGE OF LEGENDS PLAYERS
There is Schedueled livew maintenance from 2AM PDT until 3AM PDT
This translates to the following
WA: 5:00PM – 6:00PM
SA/NT: 6:30PM – 7:30PM
QLD/NSW/ACT/VIC/TAS: 7:00PM – 8:00PM
THIS HAS BEEN AN AUTOMATED POST*
*not really
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I live in one of those places!
Go me!\o/
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Well our scheduled game for tonight wasn’t until 9PM EST anyway so that hopefully won’t affect us.
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That’s 10:30 & 11:00 for those playing at home, from a different State/Teritory
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EST, not WST. It will be 7 o’clock my time buddy 😛
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*to self* “Never eat salted wheeties”
*to Jamesmag* Damn you’re right, that changes everything
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Did you mistake the salt for sugar? 😛
And yes, I know, I wouldn’t make it that late for people!
I just need to have time to get home and stuff. Of course you’re all welcome to start a game without me, I really don’t mind. I know it’s hard having to work around a minority who live in a different timezone.
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Try playing Neverwinter nights on a Role Play server when the admins are only on while you’re asleep, you get nowhere! 😛
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I can imagine :/
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It’s a mnemomic device to remember the compass points, I used to mess up East and West a ton as li’l 10 year old Numbers
And yes, I very much prefer sugar to salt on my wheeties
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Wheeties were actually the best cereal when I was younger, not so fond of them now. Ah I see, ours was Never Eat Soggy Weet-Bix. So pretty much the same thing 😛
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But numbers, do any of us play Leauge of Legends here? I sure don’t, nor have I heard of it…
I play League of Legends… is there any maintenance for that?
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MOTHERF***ER, I keep misspelling that, like how I spell friend occasionally (freind)
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I occasionally cook some Legumes of Legend.
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If I remember correctly, you were meant to be cooking me some legumes last night, but I never received the dish Bish.
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I am not your Jeeves, good sir.
Speaking of which… would he technically be out of the job since AP isn’t here or what? -
Not sure..
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Quick, Gary Oldman! Put the Jeeves-signal in the sky!
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Well as I sit here on a friday afternoon pondering what type of alcoholic lubricant I shall use for my pwning engine this weekend, I just wanted to say a few things. Firstly to welbot, although I’m pretty new around here and haven’t had the pleasure of conversing with you more, you are quite the loved bloke around here as can be seen by the support TAY is showing you following your recent tribulations. The TAY community, seem to have a pretty good judge of character (they let me in but everyone makes mistakes) and I’m a firm believer in good things happening to good people, so hopefully some good comes your way. To JamesMag, the new TAY Spam-Leader, may your birthday ooze awesomeness and kick-ass. Have a drink for me. Or several. Remember that birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake! To the LoL’ers, see you in game over the weekend. Finally to everyone else, have a great weekend!
Cheers
P.S – Strange, the jerkin is workin! Looks sweet as!
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Thanks man! Rest assured, there will be several drinks in your name, and then several in everyone else on TAY’s name 😛
There’s meant to be some sort of awesome cake, I’m just excited about the pork crackle! Hopefully see you on LoL tonight!
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What alcoholic lubricant are you thinking of using? 😛
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Thanks Steve-o! I swear if something doesn’t somewhat decent doesn’t happen to me soon I’m gonna have to call the whole year a write off. So far the only decent thing that’s happened to me all year, is Kotaku. I shit you not. Everything else has just turned to crap. If it wasn’t for the wonderful peeps here coming to my place when I invited them for the first Bris meet, the one and only good thing to happen to me this year, would have been customs letting mortal kombat through for me. :0 And I even got in trouble for that from my wife 😐
So yer.. if it wasn’t for the wonderful people here, I might have gone to play with the traffic blindfoled a long time ago!-
Well, you got your business name registered too. How’s that been going? Been getting a decent amount of customers?
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Yes I did get my business name registered.. I guess that was a good thing. But business has been slow since tax time. It was fine up until then, but it’s dropped off sharply since, and I’m struggling in a big way. Stuck in one of those vicious circles. Can’t afford to advertise to bring in new customers, and the customers I have are only just keeping me afloat. :\ Now with this divorce on my plate too it’s just getting harder and harder. I may have to give it up soon 🙁
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I’d happily pay an extra $5-10 to OzGameShop if they sent things quicker….
>_>
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Did Deus Ex still not come? Man, that really sucks 🙁
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Not really life and death, but it’s annoying that I could’ve walked into a store any time for the past week and picked it up for only a bit more than what OGS was selling it for. 😐
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Yeah I just got the Steam version instead. Got it for $34 a couple of days before release.
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I hear ya man… I’m not due back at work till the 19th… and I’m willing to bet it rocks up that week.
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Check ebay, I got Daysex on 360 for $64 and it was delivered in 3 days.
Guess it does not help you now but next time…-
Good point.
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I won’t be able to join in on the LoLs tonight guys. I’m going to be busy tonight, tomorrow night and Sunday night. I’ll be able to join in on Monday night though 🙂
Besides, I think you already have enough people for 5v5.
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You can replace me on Monday night as I shall be absentee for at least a week or two after tonight 🙁
so i bought a $10 LoL card today, felt like i should spend some money on this game i love! 😛
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/06/10
this will happen soon though, i can feel it…
(yeah i know this has been put up already, but hey, it’s funny)
Man, you know what’s annoying?
Getting roped into doing manual labour in the backyard.
And the fact that I’ll have to do the same tomorrow.
And probably Sunday.
Damn parents wanting the house to look respectable. And for it to not cause blackouts of the whole street when our trees hit the power-lines…
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Manual Labor? You poor thing.
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My poor frail body cannot take it!
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Resident Evil 2 – PS1 Original – $18 Bucks – F**K YEH.
Happy Birthday to The James Of Mags!!!!
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Ooo birthday greets!!! Hippo Biffday Dood!!!! Hope you have an awesome day and get lots of teh loots!!!
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Yes, happy birthday old bean.
What did you get us?
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I second what this devilishly handsome man said!
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Happy Birthday lover boy!
May chipmunks swarm about your person bringing gifts of rum and massages. -
Happy 21st!! 😀
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Happy Birthday, James! see you in LoL, GLHF!
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Thanks everyone! I had a great day and an awesome party. Will fill everyone in on the details in next week’s TAY!
So I already had my job interview. I have no idea how high or low my chances are. The Chinese interviewer didn’t seem eager to ask me much, and I think I’m competing with 20 other people or so? Well, he said he’ll be notifying me tomorrow of the outcome.
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good luck dawdle! Hope you get it! 🙂 Couldn’t go to a nicer person!
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You go dawdle!!!!!! Course it yours. 🙂
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good luck and feed me with your job!
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before any of you say anything about this, thats right i sponge off dawdle for a living!
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軟飯王!!
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Google translate: “King of Soft Rice”.
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I put it in, and its first decision was that it was Japanese, and translated out to “軟飯 king!”
Thanks Google translate.
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Mix it up a bit and it could read “Flexible meal King!!” or “Software food King!!”
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Just FYI for all those still wondering what 軟飯王 means:
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Is that a penis / manhood reference?
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Gl, gl, Dawdle, and CrabJiffy, sponging off people is what real men do.
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That’s… almost someone giving a thumbs up?
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That is so cute!
Good luck!
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That was very much not what I was expecting.
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From that first verse, I thought it would be touchy & heartfelt, boy, was I wrong
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lol that’s a classic! it’s like the weirdest kinda churchy song hiding behind a ghey tune STAB IN THE FUCKING HEART!
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Haha, harsh.
Guess who has two thumbs and a working, formerly-scratched copy of the original Crash Bandicoot
This Guy!
P.S. I really need to get a PS – USB converter, or get a PS3 cantroller to work on my machine
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Me? I have all of Naughty Dog’s playstation games. So I literally have a box full of Crash 1-3, CTR, Jak 1-3, Jak X, Uncharted 1 & 2. I can’t wait for the Uncharted 3 Special edition, which comes with a case that can fit 19 PS3 games so hopefully my Naughty Dog collection will fit in that.
Yeah, I’m a bit of a fan.
Also, you can use your PS3 controller on a PC. Google ‘Motion in joy PS3 driver’ and that’ll hook you up. For me, it was a bit iffy and sometimes it connected, and sometimes it didn’t, but i’m running win 7 64bit, which i’m told the support isn’t exactly great for it.
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I’m in the same boat, 64-bit Win7, not the best for MotionInJoy
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well, i have a ps1/2 to usb converter (which also works on my ps3, so double bonus) i only really said that to brag…
but i’m pretty sure if you plug the usb charger for the PS3 controller into your PC, then download some files you can get it to work, google it!
Thought this was a really interesting article (slight spoilers for ME2 DLC Arrival) http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/139142-space-jihadists-mass-effect-2-arrival-just-keeps-digging-its-hole-de
Well, that was an interesting night, I got roped into going out to Civic, but unfortunately I remained far too sober. Also, I will never understand why nights always seem to end at Cube(the gay bar), and why I manage to get closer to girls there than anywhere else(I was dancing, and at one point I ACCIDENTALLY BRUSHED HER HAND(true story, no, really)).
I suck at this clubbing thing.
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I like the part where you went to a gay bar and found $10.00
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Thanks Rocketman. I wish I’d found $10, then I almost could have afforded a single drink there.
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I too got roped into going to Civic. Except I didn’t remain sober. At all. And I’m almost certain some girl stole my drink straight off of the table.
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Unfortunately for me, I’m an expensive drunk, and I have no money, so in all my years of going out, I’ve never managed to achieve a properly drunk state.
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I just don’t get clubs. At all.
Not even in the slightest.
How are you meant to communicate with people? That seems like something that is vital to the whole set up but is completely missing.
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This.
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Well, it depends which club you’re at. At some, you communicate through dance, at others, you communicate through what they call dancing, but is actually just making a gyrating motion with your hips in their direction.
At even some others, you communicate by sticking your tongue into someone else’s mouth.
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Civic… video?
That’s right, I know where the cool kids hang.
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