Talk Amongst Yourselves
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Don’t worry, it’ll be up at 8:30am from every other day now (I woke up too early this morning …).
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That’s a shame, I like it being up early, at least I won’t have to wait when I come into work in the morning. Also, did you have a nice weekend Tracey? 🙂
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It was ok! I worked a lot (doing Kotaku stuff and production for Fairfax) and then I spent some time watching Dark Souls being played.
Et toi?
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Mine was good, thanks for asking! Got some good games in on League of Legends with my KotakuAU mates and tried out the Warhammer 40K Space Marine demo on PC. So so good and runs so smoothly on my PC, no frame drops whatsoever on max!
Relic, I was mad at you for not bringing Chaos Raptors to Dawn of War 2 but this will redeem yourself hands down! 😀
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Oh, I missed this before! Dark Souls?! I’m so jealous! I’m almost as excited about Dark souls as Loops is about Space Marine.
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All complaints are made with tongue firmly embedded in cheek. Except when it’s serious business.
When there was daylight savings, TAY went up at 7:30am for us Queenslanders. It worked out alright because it meant there was already stuffs going on when we meandered in.
Hey guys and gals!
I hereby dub this week:
SPACE MARINE WEEK!
But before we begin the celebrations, i got the results for my first 2 tests.
Business law: 27/30
Economics: 32/40
I was stoked i got so high on BL, but i was really hoping to do a little better than 80% on Eco..
But this trimester is on;y 3 weeks from done – i have an assignment for Eco due this week, and exams start in 3 weeks.. so i really need to get my cram on.
In gaming news:
I spent an hour last night finishing my second playthrough of mass effect, with ash already dead, all i had to do now was complete Ilos, kill Saren and save the council (whom i let die in my first play through).
I mus say, i was rather pleased with the ending you get for saving the council. The combination of their praise and “you were right” in conjunction with being able to tell Udina to Feth himself was brilliant.
So now all that’s left to do this week is spend up until wednesday finishing my assignment (and starting it lol) and then on friday i FINALLY get Space Marine!
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Wooo good work!
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Excellent work human! 🙂
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\o/ Yay for good marks!
\o/ Yay for ditching Ashley!
? For saving the council? They were quite the tosspots to me, they had it coming imo.
\o/ For the glory of the Emperor! I’m getting kind of tempted to buy Space Marine now….
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I was playing paragon and somehow missed the fact that my choice at the end would kill the council. Was annoyed at the time, but ultimately glad that I did because I loved the way everybody kept guilting my character about it in ME2.
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That was exactly what happened to me too.
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Congrats, those are good results 🙂
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Don’t be disappointed, those are great marks! Nice work, Loops!
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Well done.
I’m waiting for the reviews of ‘Gears of Starcraft’ before I get too excited.
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I know your ‘gears of starcraft’ comment is just you trolling my fanboyism.. so i’ll let that slip… 😛
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I’ve missed you guys.
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we missed you too, man 😛
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HOW would that be a bad thing?
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CONGRATULATIONS CHULOOPA!!! That’s an awesome result!!!!!!!!!! You should be really happy with yourself and celebrate by eating lots of chocolate. You like chocolate, right?
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I luuurrrve chocolate! 😀
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omg ME TOO! Let’s go to chocolate land!!!
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Congrats Loops!
Yeah I got that ending in ME as well.
How did the Saren fight go? Did you talk to him or just duke it out?-
spoke to him – i play paragon 🙂
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Woo! Go Loops!
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Nicely done old bean.
My boss is in Hong Kong this week as part of his expanded duties after taking on a technical management role for the Asia Pacific Region. On one hand, this is exciting, because I’m effectively unsupervised. On the other hand I actually like my job, so I have no reason whatsoever to slack off (more than usual).
That said, I could really use another day of weekend. Anyone else feel like that one went too fast? I mean, I’m sure most of us like sleeping in, playing video games and watching TV instead of being in an office doing business – I mean moreso than usual. I feel like instead of taking a break I really only slowed down.
I missed Underbelly: the Golden Mile last year or whenever it aired so I’ve been catching up on it now, Underbelly being popular again since Razor is airing. I remember when seasons 1 and 2 were airing I had to ask my mother and stepdad how accurate it all was, whether they remembered anything from the news, etc.
Golden Mile is made up of events I actually remember, which is kind of funny. Now I haven’t watched Razor yet, but apparently it’s set in the ’20s, so I guess I need to hire a medium and get in touch with my great grandparents.
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I know right, I woke up at 6:30 this morning and was like, “This is way to early” and then realised I was actually late.
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I was actually woken up every 15 minutes between 5am and 6:15 am by a series of irritating interruptions. In fact I’m at work early this morning solely because I gave up on sleep as a lost cause, else I would’ve slept in til 7 and gotten a later train.
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Warhammer 40K Space Marine… played the demo yesterday… GET ME THIS GAME NOW!
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Demo was good. Only 2 problems I had with it:
1)Smurfs
2)I feel bad killing greenskins. I like Da Boyz.-
I too get a little tired of the Ultrasmurfs, BUT i actually spent the time to read the 40k Wiki entry for them, and their exploits are pretty impressive, so you do have to admire them – even if you are a Dark Angels loyalist like myself 😛
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FOR THE EMPEROR!!!
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WAAAAAAAGHHHHHH!
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Loyalist scum! You will die to my Raptor blade soon enough 😛
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BURN THE HERETIC
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I’ve noticed the key to being a good Space Marine is the CapsLock key 😀
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So how was everyone’s weekend?
I worked and slept little. On Friday night I slept 3 hours, waking up at 6:30 Saturday. Decided to go for a run.
Apparently my body doesn’t like this physical activity business as I can barely walk today.
I didn’t even run that far either.
So, weekend gaming consisted of some
NES 3DS games and Mortal Kombat challenge tower. Honestly, F@!k the Challenge Tower.
I spent majority of the weekend playing my 3DS NES games after finally downloading them.
My gosh the original Zelda is hard. I got 2 triforce pieces then broke down into fetal position and started rocking back and forth because of how much I died (I also had vision’s of my younger self pointing and laughing at my older/current self for being so bad).
Overall a good slow gaming weekend (The best kind).
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I only played Zelda 1 & 2 for the first time a couple of years ago (on the gamecube collection disc). I agree that they’re super tough, but so rewarding when you finish them. You don’t feel like you’ve been led by the hand all the way through.
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Yeah, I recall playing Zelda when I was much younger and being able to play it fine. The game is just a big shock from years of having my hand held ingame to being chucked straight into the deep-end. Also to a lesser extent with the recent OoT release they included that shieka(?eye thingie?) statue.
I agree though when I got those 2 Triforce (Triumph Fork … Windwaker YAY!) pieces I felt very proud of myself.
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Spent a lot of yesterday watching Mr. Strange play Infamous 2. Am I imagining it or is it not as good as the first game?
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I’ve watched a little bit of it… my god I cringe every time I hear the new Cole speak, it’s like he’s become a teenager again or something…
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Who knew that you could actually make the voice acting in Infamous 1 sound less bad. Dude sounds like a 50 year old chain smoker, and yet, compared to the second…
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The Infamous 1 voice had the badass voice locked down so well, then suddenly he sounds like a rage-filled teenager? That was just horrible!
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Even worse is that the new Cole looks like an ex of mine. 😛
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The story isn’t as good, but the gameplay is ‘mazing, yo.
Also new Cole grows on you.
And thanks for the lack of resolution between Cole and Zeke, ya bastards!
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I keep flicking past this, and my brain is reading it as “coke zero.” I think I may need some caffeine…
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Maybe it’s because you were watching someone else play it rather then playing it yourself?
I think it’s a lot better then the first game.
Control of Cole is much better, melee combat has been hugely improved, more powers, more varied enemies and Kuo. What’s not to love?-
Nix. Nix is what’s not to love.
Makes me cringe every time she opens her mouth.
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I don’t know how you can do that for an entire day. I hate watching other people play games.
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Whenever they fail in the slightest I just want to rip the controller out of their hand.
Then yell at them for sucking.
And beat them into the ground, watching as their life slowly bleeds away.
I mean what?
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I have no choice because it’s there on a huge screen in our loungeroom.
I get really frustrated watching Mr. Strange play because he just rushes through and then checks his emails and stuff when there’s a cut scene. I feel like yelling “What’s the POINT! You’re missing out on everything!” And he gets lost a lot. He has no sense of in-game direction. I also have to point out health and ammo drops to him because he doesn’t pay attention and then wonders why he’s running out of ammo and dying all the time. 😛-
I’m loathe to admit it, but there’s many a time that I’ve been saved by the watchful eye of my missus. I’m paying full attention the whole time, yet I’ll still forget where the item is that I need, or who “That Guy You Need To Speak To” is, or simply not be able to see the massive arrow on the screen that says “Walk through here to finish”. She’ll look up and say “It’s blue/he’s over there/walk straight ahead” and save me hours of wasted time 🙂
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I spend more time watching people play games than I do playing them.
Damned Let’s Plays and Starcraft 2 streams!
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It depends on the game. Watching Mass Effect 2, Alan Wake, etc, is like watching good TV. Watching the same level of Super Meat Boy over and over isn’t as much fun.
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http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/blog/post/715955/super-emo-nathan-drake-is-super-awesome/
Hehehehe. I imagine his arms would be pretty tired.
Urgh, the budget comes out this week and the process begins off getting rid of staff.
The one thing that always happens in this situation… the library goes first.
Oh well, this was a good job, *sigh* I wonder how hard it is to take up mining for gold. With all the pre-orders I have I will have to strike a big vein pretty soon.
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Are they going to seal it up brick by brick? Then have a little book barbecue in the yard and dance around it like wild injuns? Will people be able to see the flames for miles?
Either way, that sucks. Budget time for me only ever means bigger stationery orders.
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I work for the government.
Budget time for me means working out how many staff we have to fire this time, whilst increasing services.
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Yep, gov man myself, unfortunately I am to be one of the fired, not the firee.
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I’m Gov as well. The sections I work in have always just gone crazy on stationery and such to keep their expenses the same so treasury don’t cut their budgets at all.
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I work in health… which is always political.
Plus, whilst I recruit Doctors and Nurses, myself and most of the staff I work with are civil servants… and they always get cut from the budget.
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People’s thoughts on Apple getting that injunction on Samsung in Germany?
Dead Island + Resistance 3 week … Yay!! just enough time to dip into both games before Gears 3 chainsaw’s my mind grapes!
I’m a complete zombie this morning. The baby decided to sleep in 2 hour stretches (if that). I get the feeling there will be many coffees today.
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I remember what that’s like. I had two years of that. It’s hell. How old’s the baby?
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7 months tomorrow. The flipside of the restlessness is that he’s making some huge leaps in what he’s able to do, so the cuteness factor has just jumped up a couple of notches, and he was pretty cute to begin with. Thankfully he doesn’t scream at night, he just keeps waking up.
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7 months is a great age. Old enough to have some personality but too young to get into too much mischief.
And may I suggest a controlled comforting sleep routine? It’s hell while you’re doing it but so, so worth it in the end both for you and your child. It helps them learn to be able to put themselves back to sleep when they wake in the middle of the night.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOCe2Y7iVF8
I am obsessed with this band at the moment. Seriously, I try to listen to other music but just keep going back to Sabaton. It’s been happening all year. Coat of Arms used to be my go-to album of theirs but I’m really getting into The Art of War at the moment. And my son loves it too. I’ve been using the music as a lure to get him to stay where I can keep an eye on him.
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Pretty good, poignant.
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Damn – that’s some pretty awesoem stuff there, Strange-one!
Very very nice-
That being said – it’s also very Erouvision in it’s sound lol
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I guess that song kind of is now that you mention it. Well they are from Sweden….
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So I was at the intime HoN Tournament this weekend! Much fun was had.
I hadn’t made any preparations for this tournament so we were pretty much running blind for the entire thing. Regardless, I’m proud of myself and my team for how we did, even if we did get beat down in the end.
Highlights – 8 hours of gaming goodness, free giant cans of V, meeting new people, landing first blood
Lowlights – getting smashed in HoN
There are photos going up facebook sometime too. I believe a photographer was around to capture in serious game faces. Serious face is serious bro.
Anyway, I also started SC2 and am picking up LoL this week. SC2’ers can add me – Harli
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HAHAHAHA!
YES!
The one time I may potentially be able to beat you at a single game has come!
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Money match??? 😀
I haven’t touched campaign and jumped straight into online play with a few friends. lawl. It’s fun and I’m still learning but I’m hoping my WC3 abilities will carry me through…
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Well, I’ve found that my SC2 skills have only barely helped my WC3 skills, but I’m so bad that even if we do have a 1v. or something I’d still probably lose.
I am so bad at vidja gamez.
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bahahha. Don’t worry I’m quite terrible at SC2. You have nothing to fear.
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Yeah, but here’s where I think “Man, Harli can’t be all that good…” and then I decide to Mothership rush.
I almost lost a game thanks to my mothership rushingness.
He went Banshee’s and I had no detection…
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Yay, you’re coming to LoL soon! 😀
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double yay 😀
*Glares at TAY and its early morning appearance*
*Considers going back to bed*
*Decides the 20cm to bed is too far*
*Glares at TAY some more*
God I hate mornings.
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I’m really tempted to be all annoyingly bright and cheerful at you but fortunately for you I hate mornings too.
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*Reads TAY*
*Looks at clock*
*Looks at calender*
*Remembers that he’s still on holidays*
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Your Like Garfield. Except that your not orange !
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*bounces around*
I LOVE mornings!
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*DEATH GLARE*
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I thought that said 20cm bed and was going to question how one would even be comfortable in a 20cm bed.
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That would be a very uncomfortable bed.
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I passed my motorbike licence test (L’s). Wahoo. This plus Space Marine pre-load = best weekend yet!
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Holy Page 2 at 9:10 on a Monday morning!
Also, congrats on your motorbike L’s. Watch out for all those car drivers who think they own the road and don’t pay attention.
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Congrats!
Got your bike yet?-
Going to sign the papers for my bike tonight, going to try and get it delivered on Friday!
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Man 2 awesome things in one weekend -very very nice!
I’ve only got $20 left to pay on my Collectors edition when i pick it up on Friday – i’m SO STOKED! -
Congratulations man!
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Congrats!
Will Dead Island be this weeks Deus Ex?
ie, It looks like it’s gonna suck then gets ridiculously good reviews.
My money’s on no, I think it’s gonna be a let down but I hope I’m wrong.
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Deus Ex never looked like it was gonna suck. And I think Space Marine might be this week’s Deus Ex. I do have a feeling that Dead Island will be a bit disappointing though.
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I wasn’t convinced but man, I did the biggest 180 ever when I played it.
That game is like crack, I go to bed thinking about it.
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Also Space Marine definitely fits the mould for a breakout success.
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My money’s on no. Dead Island will be disappointing, but it will probably be worth it in co-op, assuming I can find anyone to play with.
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Yeah, co-op should be cool but it just looks like it isn’t going to be that interesting.
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I got it for Stean, if that’s where you got it, I’m keen for co-op.
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I’ll be buying a retail copy (Yes, I know.) but for pc, so I will presumably be able to play with the Steam peeps.
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Its cool blagh’s i am with you with buying retail for PC. Stupid internet’s.
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I really hope this will be good, even thoguh there are a million and one zombie games out there, I still can’t get enough of them.
Plus this does look pretty damn cool, but it could so easily go horribly wrong.
Oh come on, page 2 already? Seriously guys?
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It’s not even my doing!
WHAT IS THIS?
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This will teach me to post anything early. o_O
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Imagine if you still had to moderate posts.
HA. HA. HA.
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How do you even get to this magic place?
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One of the main page articles linked to it.
GREMLINS! EVERYWHERE!
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It’s like the Kotaku version of the Trials riddle. This exists for a reason and we must discover what that reason is!
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Do you think Mark is up to something? Conspiracy theories?!
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I believe Mark hasn’t actually left for Scotland, but is instead tryong to retrace Link’s footsteps from The Legend Of Zelda: Links Awakening by setting sail for Koholint Island.
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He’s probably wandering the Himalayas like a monk, seeking enlightenment and streetpass hits.
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*pounces on James Mac*
This is what TAY what missing when you were gone, you’re never allowed to leave again!
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I don’t know if I’m annoyed with ACA for doing stories on them… or if I’m annoyed with the general stupidity inherent in our species.
1. The Biggest Loser contestants who are complaining that the show stopped looking after them when it ended.
No, really? A television show had no interest in your personal problems, or general lack of will power and ability to look after yourselves?.. Say it isn’t so.
And channel nine so desperate to put the boot into a competitor that they’ll report it as news.
2.Bob Irwin… No, just no.
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I thought exactly the same thing regarding both points. This country (well, the media) is a collective DERP.
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We were having a similar discussion on teamspeak and blaghman brought up the point that both ACA and the channel seven version both receive really high ratings. people want this sort of shit and i don’t know why.
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Is it because they’re on between the news and Home and Away?
Which is an absolutely depressing thought.
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Man Home and Away is such a good show though. Thoose plot twists man they are so hardcore. Seriously though probably that time is before dinner has started and people want to do something before hand. Just like before my 5.45 dinner we watch deal or no deal. Well my grandparents watch i spew in the sink over andrew okeefe going so down hill after the big bite.
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I was going to say “ha, it’s not like anyone watches the news, too high-brow for them.” But then I remembered that the local news here is absolutely terrible. I am honestly amazed that either of the anchors have been employed, particularly the sports one, as they seem to have a combined IQ approximately equal to that of a dead shrew, and the charisma of its rotting carcass.
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What’s even more scary is the amount of people that watch it and then talk about it like it’s gospel.
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So true my mother the other day was talking about some crap she saw on there. I pointed out to her they are just generating something out of nothing. “Are barbeque chips going to give your kids mercury poisoning.”
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It’s just sensationalist headlines and no actual stories. It’s no wonder the human race is turning into an ignorant pile of hate and fear, when scaremongering and hatemongering passes as ‘current affairs’.
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@ Chazz
September 5, 2011 at 8:54 AM
People’s thoughts on Apple getting that injunction on Samsung in Germany?
lambomann007
I think Samsung needs to get off their fat lazy arse and come up with their own design ideas. For example: Galaxy S WiFi 3.6 http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/01/samsung-announces-galaxy-s-wifi-3-6-handheld/ looks like an iPhone/iTouch because it has the black front and silver rim. In fact, most(or at least the ones that were talked about the most) of the devices Samsung revealed the other day have that silver rim (like the iPhone/iTouch/iPad) http://www.megaleecher.net/uploads/samsung-note.jpg http://news.cnet.com/i/tim/2011/09/01/GALAXY_Tab_7.7_Product_Image_(7)_610x610.jpg
Why on earth can’t Samsung come up with their own unique design? It’s not like there’s only one design for mobile phones in the world. They need to stop being lazy and trying to ride on the success of the iPhone and create something fresh and new, like what Nokia is doing http://cdn.booredatwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/nokia-703.jpg
So yeah, I hope Samsung smarten up a little and stop trying to imitate Apple and start making their own designs for their products.
*end rant*
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I’m sorry but my Samsung MPs player from before the ipod touch and the iphone existed was beautifully black and shiny with a silver rim. So who’s imitating who? 😛
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Pic? Pretty please? 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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Bam! said the lady.
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Bazinga says I.
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Samsung actually make most of the parts for apple stuff i think. Apple should be careful not to piss of their supplier of parts.
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And what would Samsung do?
Refuse to make the parts? Ha! Apple is worth too much to Samsung, whereas Apple doesn’t really care. These are fairly small things. Everyone’s suing everyone else in that industry.
These companies suing each other is nothing new. Pretty much each company will file copyright claims against each others phones in each country.
Apple was recently found guilty of 10 copyright infringements of Nokia of the Wifi in Nokia phones.
I haven’t played DEHR yet, but this made me lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whtNHRYJnrU&feature=player_embedded
I laughed and laughed and laughed.
Actually, I chuckled a bit. That was all.
It’s the stiff British upper lip. But I was LOLing on the inside.
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lolololol
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Ha!
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Hey that’s just like the pair I…
I mean…hey look a unicorn!!
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That is amazing.
All you metalheads on here I recommended checking out Scar Symmetry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX0p7Y3gND4
I would have their babies if it was anatomically possible.
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I read that as “All you meatheads on here” lololol
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Nice – not bad at all! 😀
He is a pretty bloody good vocalist, too-
Yeah, tis a shame he has since left the band 🙁
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Hey cool,
My bro (and fellow Lame Game Marathon participant) Dan did their logo and EP art. Small world 🙂
Thanks everyone for all the birthday wishes! Really means a lot! 😀
I had a fantastic 21st, was actually a contender for party of the year, according to all my friends. I was first up for food when the caterer’s brought everything out so I was able to secure myself a large portion of cracling, this meant other people missed out but hey, it was my birthday 😛
Now for the Lord business, as some of you may know, my uncle kept telling me over the past few weeks that he had gotten me the most amazing birthday gift ever and I was going to love it..
He purchased for me, a small (one square foot) plot of land in Glencoe, Scotland. As I own land in Scotland, I can take the title of Lord (Laird) and legally change my name to Lord James Maguire, on my licence, passport and all legal documents. So yes, now I am Lord James Maguire. Still unsure whether I will change my name to it, but it’s very tempting 😛
As for the rest of the loot. My nanna and grandad got me a very expensive, amazing JAG watch, it doesn’t quite fit me so my girlfriend is getting links taken out today. As I’m moving house, I got a lot of house related gifts. I got a Maxwell Cutlery set, a 4 slice toaster, a set of really nice wineglasses, a fire-engine red clock (red is my favourite colour). My relatives pretty much all gave me money so I ended up getting about $450 cash (although the taxi home costs $87 and my friends “didn’t have cash on them” so I had to pay :/). I got several bottles of alcohol; Gentleman’s Jacks, American Honey, Jack Daniels, etc. I was given an “Around the world in 20 beers” carton which I’ve always wanted to try. My mum, apart from spending over $2000 on the party itself, got me an expensive electric shaver, wasn’t meant to see the receipt but turns out it cost around $350 so pretty stoked with that :P. My sister and her boyfriend got me the board game “Taboo” which was a favourite of mine growing up (inb4 inappropriate jokes). I think that’s pretty much it.
tl;dr – I’m a Lord motherf**kers.
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All Hail Lord JamesMage.
I’m glad you enjoyed yourself, and sad that from all appearances you didn’t birthday suit it up.
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Man, I suited up. And I looked amazing. There were plenty of photos taken by people so once I get my hands on them, I’ll post some on here 😉
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Yeah, but it wasn’t your birthday suit.
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True. Sorry.
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You can do that holy mother of gosh. Thats brilliant your uncle is awesome.
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Well, I’m a Lady so thankfully I don’t have to bow and scrape to you. 😛
Seriously though, what a great gift! The rest of your loot is awesome too. Sounds like it was a great birthday.
Oh and I think the paying for the taxi thing may have been Karma for the stealing all the crackling thing….-
This is probably true. Was it worth it? Yes, it was.
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We bought my mum one of those for her birthday. I wonder if your guys are neighbours.
Technically you’d be a laird.
I’m a laird also (As my Twitter followers would know.)
I am the “Disheveled Laird of the Imagisphere”
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Oh, meant to say. A Laird isn’t a Lord. Laird is a Scots word for a landowner and not interchangable with the word Lord.
More info here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1478745/How-to-lord-it-over-your-friends-for-only-29.99.htmlIt does make for a novel present though.
So, I’ll be over hear ruining the dreams of children and performing other party poopery.
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over where?
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Hear. It’s in Canada. You’ve probably never heard of it. I didn’t mistype “Here” or anything….
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This is true. In Scotland I am a Laird. But apparently Australia doesn’t officially recognise Laird as a title and so for the purpose of Australian Law, it is interchangeable with Lord. Or so the documentation tells me :/ could be wrong :p the forms I was given to change my name and everything are all prefilled with Lord though.
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‘Fraid not. Sorry.
Technically anyone can call themselves a lord but it doesn’t actually make them one.
It’s a fun gift but it doesn’t REALLY give you a title. There can only ever be one lord of an estate. You can’t break it up and make lots of them.
And the land being sold never came with a title anyway.
You are a Laird though. As is every person who owns land in Scotland. Laird means landowner. But you don’t get a title.
And the certificate you get, as awesome as it is, is just a novelty item.
Feel free to look it up if you don’t believe me.
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It’s actually just changing your name by deed pole.
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🙁 that puts a huge damper on it. Wish I hadn’t said anything now so I could still keep thinking how awesome it was for a bit longer.
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It’s still cool and you will be a Lord to us.
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Haha. Don’t know if that’s really something to be proud of though 😛
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That is fecking amazing. So you too possess the blood of a Scotsman? Wow Kotaku sure has a knack for attracting Scottish people! I believe James Mac and Doctor What as well as our good Grand Marshall Serrels can form a club.
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We have… we just didn’t mention it.
I was really over there setting up the clubhouse.-
Scottish clubs never work out.
Everyone wants to be treasurer.
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That’s why I vote SNP.
Or communist.
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Unsure whether joke.
Will chuckle weakly just in case 😀
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I remember someone telling me to vote SNP. I asked why. They replied “Because we’re Scottish!”
Hard to argue with that.
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You could set it up on Mags’s plot!
Be a little cramped though.
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I probably have as little Scottish blood as is possible to still say you’re part Scottish :p I’m mainly Irish :/ don’t hate on me.
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My mum is from Glasgow… but I’m Irish myself.
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Where ’bouts on the green isle do you hail from?
I lived in Co Cavan for a while. Worked in a staunch republican pub and had to denounce my British heritage on a daily basis lest one of the drunk patrons decide to glass me.
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Born in Armagh, but lived in Ballybay (Monaghan).
It’s moot though because I moved to Australia when I was pretty young.
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Irish peeps unite!
OK, so my Irish ancestors were convict era, but shhh. My proud Hefferan ancestors look upon this little Sean, and think “Damn, he slacks off more than we did!”
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Haha so were mine mainly, we’ve had the blood mingled a couple of times since then but yeah.
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That would have to be the most epic gift ever, Lord JamesMag!
Omg awesome, you should change your handle accordingly to Lord Jamesmag!
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Or Lord Maguire, sounds classy.
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LairdMag
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I’m sure by the time people read this it’ll be page 3 already, but anyway:
I finished Bastion on the weekend! Brilliant game. Not a perfect game, but it was really well done. The gameplay was pretty well paced (Arguably, a bit too paced, seeing as they introduced weapons in the 2nd last level, so you couldn’t really level up with it). The story was kind of weak. By weak, I mean that the first half of the game, story wise is repetitive. It ramps up really well in the end, and the way that the information about the world is slowly drip fed to you works really well.
But more importantly, that narrators (Logan Cunningham) voice. Man. It’s the lovechild of James Earl Jones, Barry White and Morgan Freeman. It’s so good. Hell, I’ve started reading everything in his voice now. Also, the music. Really fantastic soundtrack. I should probably get around to writing a reader review.
Go play Bastion! Or at least try the demo!
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I just haven’t gotten back to it since DaySex appeared.
I really just suck at actually playing games.
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I bought it but haven’t downloaded it yet. Looks pretty amazeballs.
Man i LOVE the start of this
Seeing as we seem to be on the theme of Metal today – let me share with you one of my Guilty Pleasures
Deathstars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWUmw2ITaFA&feature=relmfu
It’s like gothic pop-metal or something – i don’t quite know how to describe it, but i’ll be damned if their songs aren’t catchy!
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Metal, eh? How’s this?
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Damn!
Since he got married, Russell Brand really let himself go.
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and you, good sir, win
http://www.zgeek.com/forum/gallery/files/1/5/4/7/win.jpg
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I’m not really sure why, but it reminds me of Marilyn Manson.
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haha yeah, but Manson has a good ability to be a lot darker and heavier at times, whereas these guys are always like this lol
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Deathstars is an awesome band and that is my favourite song of theirs.
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Man good on them for doing this, it’s the way games should be nowadays. That and less buggy releases because developers have patches to full back on.
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Yea, but I think ability to patch the game at any time has had a really negative surprise effect on video game quality.
Back in the day a game would be laughed out the door if it had more than a handful of bugs. These days, developers have such safeguards that the state of some games at launch is shocking.
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Yeah, that’s pretty much what I just said.
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*fall
dammit.
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Good news. Maybe it will catch on.
Sounds like the game will ship pretty polished too so no day one patch.
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Well, that is certainly a refreshing change of pace. Other publishers would already be announcing their launch day DLC content at this point.
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Strange to see this coming from Namco, who infamously shipped half of Beautiful Katamari as Day 1 DLC. Seriously, half the content of the game was DLC available on day 1.
A Space Marine could beat up any of your favorite video-game protagonists:
http://www.destructoid.com/a-space-marine-could-beat-up-your-favorite-game-hero-210357.phtml
bahahaha that was quite a amusing indeed – plus it looks liek there is a couple of art pieces that look to offer a sneak peak into the glorious art book that will be with the collectors edition
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I remember TotalBiscuit saying “Kratos is a pussy compared to this guy!” in his Warhammer 40K Space Marine video. Much LOLs were had 😛
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hahahah i didn’t know he had a video of that – that’s awesome. I’m going to watch it right now 😀
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He’s a Warhammer 40K fanboy he’s revealed, along with Deus Ex which he did a full 1 hour WTF is…? on it, which is like a first impressions video, very nice to watch. He knows his lore as well on W40K, so my respect for him skyrocketed to new heights, if only I could shake his hand one day which I know I won’t be able to 🙁
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We should organise some sort of Space Marine multiplayer sessions.
Anyone getting it on Xbox 360, my gamertag is
WC Spook
For The Emperor!
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PC for me, sorry, no exceptions
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Chul00p4 😀
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Swift Robot. Add me up yo.
Regarding James Mac’s Scottish club!
I know who should be the club leader!
http://a.yfrog.com/img44/6794/dg5xc.jpg
Groovy!
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That’s…. That’s…
My god….
Literally, MY god!He is… so beautiful!
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I wish I had a womb so I could have his beautifuly jawed children!
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Me too! Oh, wait….
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Do it!
For those of us who can’t!
Your husband will understand!
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Motion carried.
DONE!
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FYI, on the other side of that gate… just beside the building on each side is a pair of knee height black bollards.
Every night, every single night, a bass drummer from the German pipe band walked straight into one of them, and then bounced into the mass of pipers coming through that tunnel.On the final night, a few pipers from one of the army units explained, at length, how annoying he was.
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I am a quarter Scottish, therefore I am allowed to rightfully wear a kilt, and I pledge loyalty to this man.
Hey.
Where’d Defamer.com.au go?
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NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
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That was originally a blank comment… but then I decided to re-release it as a special edition.
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/cry
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Bazinga!
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If you’re not convinced to get Space Marine Yet – check out this video by Totalbiscuit! 😀
PC gamers – you’ll be happy with all the options too, apparently! 😀
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Lol I posted this to you last week and you ignored it?! HOW RUDE! 😛
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Didin’t you notice how little i posted last week? I completely missed it 🙁
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Okay well I forgive you 🙂
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Less audio logs, and more chopping!
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Chainsword! Much more fun than plot!
XD
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Wow, just saw a Dead Island video, they have done some really REALLY awful Aussie accents.
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See… this is why Kinect microphone doesn’t work over here.
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I think I get it, Aussies can speak with an Australian accent, however that can’t speak with a mangulated American version of the Australian accent.
Therefore in the minds of Americans, Aussies don’t know how to talk in their own accent correctly, so obviously Kinect would not work for Australians.
See I knew I would understand one day, I just had to slam my head into the desk a few times to think like an American.-
Not quite there yet Hugo; needs more references to God.
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…because Jesus.
Better?
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Close… try:
God doesn’t want Australians to be able to speak like Americans, God’s chosen people, who are doing Australian accents… because they don’t understand the second amendment.But with worse spelling and grammar.
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The other American thought seems to be that every single Australian talks with a ridiculously hard accent. I’ve seen so many videos of normal Australians talking normally that get the comments “Oh you English people are so funny!”
Bloody Americans.
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I wanted to do bad things to Steve Irwin whilst I was OS… every time I went to a pub in Ireland I had to announce that:
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I hadn’t actually heard of that before, but when a few of my friends came back from a trip to the good ol US of A, they told me that they were constantly mistaken for being English.
One American group even tried to argue that fact with them. They were convinced that they were English and my friends were wrong about knowing what country they had been born and raised in.
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But… What?
How?
But… *Sigh* Americans.
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I saw a comment on one of them, and someone was saying what you just said, and someone else was like “Nah man, that’s a New Zealand accent.”
because it makes sense that the Aussie character has a Kiwi accent.
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That’s not beyond reason… have you seen how many of those ram rooters are over here?
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In Canberra there’s about three.
But that’s just Canberra.
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That’s because there hardly room for anything in Canberra save for cops, adult stores and fireworks.
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We don’t have fireworks anymore.
I’ll just need to drown myself in prostitutes to make up for it. (eww)
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What’s the name of the character? I’m looking to add more to my list of Australians in video games.
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The main character who’s aussie is called “Purna” and there’s no last name that I’m aware of, and there’s also a radio which calls out with some kind of voice that might potentially be Australian, though that doesn’t really help in this case.
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Yeah, it was the radio voice I heard.
At some point in the game you hear a voice help you over the radio in a soul cringing version of the Aussie accent. -
Righto, added to the list. When i have about 18 or so, I’ll finally complete my epic Aussies in video games trilogy.
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Then you’ll need to make a prequel trilogy 😛
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YES.
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Oh and also, I forgot to add to the list of loot before. My friends pre-ordered Skyrim for me 🙂 unfortunately they pre-ordered it at a store that it about a 40min drive away from where I live :/
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I don’t know if they still do it, but a few years back you could pick up your pre-order at any EB store, regardless of where you placed the order.
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Oh really? That would be cool. I haven’t pre-ordered anything since moving to Perth and where I used to live, there was only one EB, so you couldn’t pick it up anywhere else. It would be really handy seeing as there is an EB Games a 5min walk away from where I’m moving to on Wednesday.
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Then your friends are obligated to be the ones who pick it up… that’s the rules.
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And to be there for the midnight launch, if at all possible, before delivering it to your house, where, if required, they may need to sit outside until the time you wake.
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If only, I think I might just take the day off work and play it.
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That was my plan.
Except, well. Yeah.
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Hey you never know, you MIGHT get a job between now and then.
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If I wait for them to do it, I won’t get the game until a month or two after release.
How else can they be generous yet troll you simultaneously?
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His Uncle bought him land in another country.
Seems like the day for it.
Hello all,
I’ve been reading this site for ages now and figured it was time to speak up. I’m from Canada and living in Sydney for a bit now and was wondering if there’s anything fun and exciting going on in the city gaming related. Being in vacation means I don’t have any games with me, and I only have a shitty netbook so I am missing out on everything.
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Carmack is giving a keynote at the Opera House… I think I heard that somewhere.
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Waitm it’s Carmack now? I thought it was Tim Willits, creative director on Rage. I will sell my soul to meet Carmack. He’s pure awesome.
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I may be wrong.
I hear RAGE, ID and Keynote… and I think Carmack.
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Hey dude always good to have newbies speak up and now on a international level. But s i am not from sydney i cannot help you out there sorry!
All those who feel this way, sign below. Maybe we’ll be heard.
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Dear this week,
Please be better than last week.
Affectionately,
The Undersigned.
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Signed,
Shane-
Well, I had a pretty good week but there’s always room for something better. And if I sign it it might help you.
Signed,
Strange.
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I already know this week will be awesome, because I move out of my mould-infested, shitty apartment and move into a new, awesome apartment.
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Space Marine this week, so it will definitely be better than last 😛
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I quite enjoyed last week…
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Dear this week,
Please be merciful on this Humble Hungarian Barbarian.
To help appease you, I shall now perform my famous Clubbing Club Dance, with Clubby the Clubbing Club.Signed,
Hugo the Hugarian Barbarian
YouTube handles disputes weirdly.
It threw up some automatic disputes yesterday on the latest Batman LP. One on the raw video (no commentary, it goes up as an unlisted video so the others can see what we’re talking about) and another on the video that I was spamming on the first page.
It matched content with IGN, which is bollocks, so I did the usual dispute (had to do it a few times already on the Homefront videos). They cleared the dispute on the unlisted, non-commentated video but the actual LP video still has the “matched content” bit.
How very odd.
Hahaha, I forgot I still had Adblock on and turned it off just then…to be greeted by an ad for UmbrellaCorp. Win!
So, either going up against lots of people at a time in Deus Ex is really hard, or I’m just really bad at Deus Ex. Keep getting caught whilst attempting to stealth and end up having to shoot my way out, which frequently results in my death as there are too many people. Maybe I’m just not patient enough..
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Same problem. Someone see’s me i get all anxious and just try and shoot my way out. IT NEVER WORKS. DON’T EVER REVEAL YOURSELF SO THEY ALL SEE YOU. That is what i learned!
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I had a little bit of success last night, by taking them down one at a time, then hiding in a vent until it cools down. Unfortunately it took 45mins to clear a room doing it that way :/
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CHEAP GAMEPLAY OPTION HERE. MAY CONSTITUTE STRANGE-SPOILERS.
Get a 10mm pistol. Attach silencer. Get armour-piercing upgrade. 1 shot to the head will down almost any enemy, silently. Hide corpse. Progress.
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I have the armour piercing on the 10mm pistol, just need to get the silencer.
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Ignore that, use the revolver instead.
It has explosive rounds.
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Yeah, I’ve thought about it, but the 10mm just looks so damn good.
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I’m going for sniper rifle/revolver combination. Since it’s on Medium, I will be unstoppable!
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I found the sniper rifle and owned with it until I ran out of bullets 🙁 and the bullets for it are few and far between. I’ll definitely be buying some ammo for it as soon as I get out of this level.
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I have only done the first mission after you get back to work and I have played for about 4 hours so far :/
Did the whole thing without being seen once.
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Nice man, I’m trying to do it stealthily! Might help if I invest in some stealth augs.
Save regularly and if you get caught just reload your last save. Alternatively you can just duck into a vent for about 20 seconds and they’ll lose interest in you and wander off.
Just started playing yesterday, doing it on the hardest difficulty, no killing and no alarms.
Should be fun.
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I failed the no alarms part, and I’m not sure how, and I also failed the no kills part, but that was thanks to the damn opening segment.
After doing that on the hard setting, I’m now replaying through it on the medium one, and murdering everyone.
It’s fun!
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I hear that it is only proper alarms such as cameras seeing you and not enemies or turrets seeing you.
I hope so because I was seen by a dude in the opening bit.-
Yeah, I think you’ll actually hear an alarm going off if…uhh an alarm goes off… Still, I have no idea where it happened.
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Good luck man, I’ve tried but can’t do that 😛
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It’s a good thing the takedowns are pretty brutal because it was hard going just because I was itching for some action.
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Hahaha yeah, my problem is that I sneak up behind them to do a takedown and then the bastard turns around and sees me before I can take him down!
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Haha fair enough.
I am good at stealth, I usually play a sneaky char if I have the option and I am a pro at creeping up on people irl. -
IRL I am very silent, I love walking up to people and standing next to them and then they turn and see me there and jump and scream. It’s hilarious 😛
I usually go for the charge in and kill everything character, so this is hard for me 😛
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Haha I do the same thing, sometimes without meaning to. Just quietly walk into a room, go to do something and have the other person turn around and jump out of their skin.
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It’s the best! And we have so much in common my dear..
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We can’t be long lost twins because I am 4 years older than you.
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No wait, 3. I keep forgetting exactly what my age is. Mid 20’s, good enough.
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It would make things very awkward.
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Did I mention?
http://i55.tinypic.com/28wmm1i.jpg
Going for last comment of the week!
Is there a better argument for being at work than morning television?
I think not.
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Why on earth would you have your TV doing morning television stuff when you could be using it to play games?!
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Because I’m on KotakAU.
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TV? I have not watched TV in many years.
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Morning TV? Is that what people watch when they can’t stream something on their laptop before getting out of bed?
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I agree, but I do find the ABC news channel to be mildly educational.
I can haz twitter friends?
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Depends…
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I’m following you!
As is Strange.
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Done like a dinner
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Hey, boo.
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Followed
Okay, we’re going to play a game of…
KotakAU Decides
I’ve decided I’m going to the movies this afternoon… and I’m tossing up between Captain America and The Green Lantern.
I’ve already seen and liked Captain America, and I’m not hearing great things about The Green Lantern… so…
Kotakau, which one should I see?
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Something else that you have not seen and is apparently good.
Hanna perhaps.-
Side-note: I didn’t like Hanna.
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Side-note: Your taste in movies is now under scrutiny.
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Side-note: I was playing LoL while watching it so probably didn’t get the most out of it.
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Saw it on the plane.
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Both.
At the same time.
In 4D.
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If you’re resigned to seeing one of those two, I’d say Cappy again. It was fun watching it the second time as a troper.
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Reading cinema is playing Winnie the Pooh.
You know you have to go see it.
Do it, do it now.-
I’m not flying to NSW for a movie… not after last time.
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But… but… its Winnie the Pooh.
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Either. I don’t care. I’m throwing a mini-tantrum here because we got free tickets to Conan in the mail last week but it wasn’t showing anywhere here anymore.
We also have free tickets for Green Lantern but haven’t bothered….
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You know that Conan has a lower tomatometer than Green Lantern? Now, I know that that’s not a definitive way of defining the quality of a cinematic piece, but when only 23% of critics think it’s worth 60% or higher, you know you’ve got problems.
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And… no Ahnald.
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Who cares?! Khal Drogo/Ronon Dex is in it! I could watch it with no sound and still be happy. 😛
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This. I was going to say that. Jason Momoa is a boss.
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Tried watching game of thrones on the plane.
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It’s amazing. And that TV show is amazing. Can’t wait for the next season!
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Ronin Dex is boss!
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Mmm Jason Momoa…
I mean, JASON FREAKIN MOMOA, kick ass, yeah, hella cool, other non-mancrush sayings. -
It’s okay to have man crushes Hugo.
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Try meeting him. It only makes the man-crush worse.
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I think that would be a bad idea, I am sure I would not be able to stop myself from squeeling like a teenage girl at a Justin Bieber concert.
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Go see Priest, it looks interesting (I haven’t seen it yet). Besides, any movie that has a confession via teleconferencing is a near win in my books.
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It is meh.
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Now, again, I know that reviews aren’t everything, but yet again, you’ve got to question a movie where only 17% of critics gave it a generally positive review.
In terms of this season’s critical flops, Priest is second only to Zookeeper(of course, the biggest all-up flop is GL, no question).
I’ll be honest, I’m just saying this to make up for no Sughly. I like Van Helsing for christ’s sake, and that movie is bad (23% on the website which I actually don’t care about).
I’d say see Cap again. It was a really good movie I thought. Rise of the planet of the apes was also really good if you haven’t seen that.
Green Lantern isn’t as terrible as it’s made out to be. I enjoyed it, but I wouldn’t honestly recommend it. If I were to recommend something at the moment it would probably be Horrible Bosses, saw it last week, pretty good. Plus Jason Bateman and Charlie Day. Unfortunately there isn’t a great deal out at the moment.
On the discussion of heritage(See page 2)mine is pretty boring.
I was born and raised in Scotland.
My parents were born and raised in Scotland.
Both sets of grandparents, Scotland.
And it just seems to go on like that for a bit. Probably be some Irish if you go back far enough as I have(had) red hair (A trait introduced by the Irish).
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I am so confused about my nationality/where my sense of patriotism goes to (I don’t have one).
An Indian born in England who mostly grew up in Australia.
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Support the only logical thing.
AMERICA!
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You mean Kazakhstan?
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No. I don’t.
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In that case, on behalf of James Mac, Jamesmag, Serrels, myself and our illustrious leader Bruce Campbell, we invite you to join our Scottish club. (If you eat Indian curries, you’re most of the way to being Scottish anyway)
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Man, I had some fantastic curries over there.
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> An Indian
> If you eat Indian curries,
ಠ_ಠ
Though I graciously accept this offer!
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And here I thought I wouldn’t learn anything new today!
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I’ve just gotten a letter from my local library saying that they’ve put Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Ascension on hold for me, and that it’s ready to be picked up. I am so excite! 😀
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Yay, proof that a library does do more than just provide a place to sleep and urinate in.
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Hahahaha. I daresay, the library is the best part of Ipswich…
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Well, you get the Jacaranda festival once a year. That thing sounds awesome!
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It’s bad when Canberrarians know more about your city than you do…
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You live in Ipswich!?!?!
Why the shit haven’t you come to a Brisbane meat?
Sir, I am upset.
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He’s a real young’un, so he doesn’t have a way there.
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Yeah, but I’m planning to come to one in the future (just not sure how far into the future)
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On Twitter Anonymous Pessimist was talking about coming back in November. Not sure if it’ll still happen though.
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November Brissy Meat? I’d hit that!
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It’s a done deal then! Let me know when you can make it and if you need to stay at my place and I’ll make it happen.
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I have 6 weeks holiday to use. I can make it whenever you guys want to have it.
Thanks so much for the offer of a place to stay! It would be an honour and a privilege!
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A youngin’ huh?
I’ll, uh, I’ll give you a lift. -runs sweaty hands through greasy slicked hair-
Don’t mind my rain coat, it makes things… easier.
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Disturbingly awesome
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Oh, shit! That’s out already? Seems I forgot to preorder my copy from Amazon… Time to spend some money 😐
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Argh! They changed the Amazon front-end! What is this madness?
Paper print still exists???
I was browsing inside a QBD store yesterday, and I couldn’t help but notice this: http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb449/lamboman007/IMG_0684.jpg 😛
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I would much rather read.
Steve-O:
How he became the Deve-O -
Well there you go… Steve-O can write…
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HAHAH! Oh man, can’t wait till SteveO sees this.
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There can be only one…
Wow Neo-Kaiser made a total idiot of himself there didn’t he?
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Hahahaha yeah. I lol’d.
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He’s never played Starcraft 2… he should’ve left it there and stopped trying to fight fire with sparks 😛
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Exactly, I was astounded with how he kept arguing after he’d already said he hadn’t played it and wouldn’t really know about it.
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I was gonna playfully jump in and say “What competitive side would Reach have? 90% of players would only be good cuz of the auto-aim anyway” Okay that was mean xD
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I’ll refer you to this. Not completely appropriate, in this instance, but it contains some passing similarities.
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To be fair, I think the guys young.
I called him out the other day here
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/08/on-the-outside-of-halo-fest-looking-in/#comment-354577
And upon his reply, it all became clear. I think he’s just a passionate-gaming-kid who wants to run with the big boys.
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He also tried to argue about SF4 at MLG.
I can think of several things wrong with that one.
Even if the current version of SF4 is horribly imbalanced compared to Super and Vanilla.
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lol he’s just a kid, not even worth the effort to respond
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But there are people on the internet who are wrong.
How can I live while knowing this?
*twitch*
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He thinks tiers determine victories!
Tires don’t exits!
Someone is wrong on the internet!
Also, I’m just a little bored!
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haha
I kinda responded to the thing Trjn was talking about. We really shouldn’t barrage people like that at least he wasn’t being a total deuce like Richard SMack. I mean when ever you get into a disagreement it’s quite hard to get out of it and admit your wrong. Especially for a kid. Maybe we can get Numbers to talk to him and they can go on a playdate 🙂 Sorry numbers -
The problem is that he’s thinking about this entirely the wrong way. As if he’s only heard rumours that X is better than Y so he’s now fixated on that idea and can’t understand that it’s actually X is better than Y in situation P. If Q then Y beats X.
It’s never just simple, “if I do this, then I should win”. The only games that have that sort of function are single player.
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That is true but its kinda hard to explain that to someone so unwilling to take notice. I was thinking how silly the whole thing is considering the amount of money people play in these games for. If it was simply a matter of choose the best character or mob then there wouldn’t be any point to competion.
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He’s probably just sick of losing games in something and looking for an excuse.
I know that’s what I did when I played arenas in WoW 😛
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Bwahahaha what a dogs breakfast of an argument
Anyone know the process/how much it costs to get a phone line connected to a house? The apartment I move into on Wednesday is only 4 months old and the previous tenant never had internet or a phone connected.
I called TPG to try and organise setting up the internet but they said I need to get a line connected first.
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A brand new apartment and it’s got no phone?! Wha?
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It’s got the port in the wall for it…but it hasn’t been hooked up to an exchange.
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Alright, home boy. -cocks gun- Let’s do this.
Call Telstra.
Tell them you want a phone connected. Opt for the cheapest plan if you don’t plan on using the line for anything except innernette. The cheapest one you can get is $29.95 that’s compatible with ADSL2.
They’ll organise for one to be connected within 2 weeks.
Upon receiving notification of connection TEST YOUR LINES! The last two houses I’ve lived in have had problems either at the exchange or in the pit out the front of my house. If there is any crackle on your line at all call Telstra and lodge a fault.
Call TPG and get that shit connected using your new phone number.
Masturbate furiously to the wonders of the innernette upon connection notification from TPG.
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Ahahahaa! I just noticed the word ‘masturbate’ as I was submitting a reply to something else and thought to myself “I bet that was DAN!”.
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My reputation precedes me.
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So long as that’s all that proceeds you when you’re talking to us.
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Thanks for your help man. I’ll be sure to masturbate furiously as you suggested.
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dude thats only for us guys without girlfriends. I kid…
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Pics or it didn’t happen.
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Haha Dan your pretty hillarious. Also when are you putting more youtube videos up. I haven’t seen any more stuff from your channel in a while. Albiet i haven’t actually looked.
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We’re all actually really busy with real stuff at the moment. The main thing is a music clip that’s eating into a lot of our time.
That being said, there’s a new All Your Base sitting in post right now, so hopefully that’ll be up soon(ish).
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HAHAHAHAHAHA!
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my mind = blown. Really need a forum for this stuff. Threaded conversations or maybe I just need a brain capable of keep up with all of you 😛
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Keeping up with this is easy.
Or at least, it is if you’ve been here for months or years and you’ve watched as it slowly ramped up from 30 comments in a week to what it is today.
So yeah, you need the brain, and quite possibly all the free time in the world.
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yeah free time helps alot. What i do is read as much as i can all at once.
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A brain? That’s definitely not needed around here. The trick is to turn your brain off :p
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haha I can multitask, but i am at work, most of my processor time is devoted to not making people angry 😛
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Once you get the hang of TAY-mode it’s not so bad. Although I can’t believe we’ve waffled on for 3 pages already today.
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Strange i’m hurt we don’t waffle. 😛
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Who’s making waffles?
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Waffles? I want waffles too.
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I think Strange is making them! I’m very excited!
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so long as they are the normal type of waffle, and not one of these strange types i keep hearing about on the interwebs.
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We LIKE Strange around these parts…
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Why are you insulting Strange’s waffles?
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I am criticising the fact no one has mentioned ice cream!
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If I’m making waffles there’s no ice-cream, just bacon and maple syrup.
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So I was watching some My Kitchen Rules on NZ TV at work and some couple made awesome looking meatballs.
I then went out and got a meatball sub.
I think I’m missing the point of these fancy cookery shows.
Wow, things are incredibly tense here at work. We have a lot of people here on contract, many of which have been here for about 4-6 years, and it seems once the new budget is released, most of the people on contracts will lose their jobs.
Problem is, permanent people have been leaving for years and they have all been replaced by people on contracts, now the upper echelon will simply get rid of all contracted to save money, but in some sections there are no permanent people to take up the slack.
This could get very interesting.
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If all else fails Hugo just hit things with your club.:)
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At this time, this seams like a perfectly valid option.
Though hitting things with Clubby is something I consider for all situations at all times, so I guess this situation isn’t all that unique.-
Say Nothing!
Wait… someone will figure it out.
On the Monday, when the office is empty.
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Urgh. Student election time.
AWAY WITH THEE, STUDENT POLITICIANS!
*throws crucifix/garlic/glitter*
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At least it’s not student ‘erection’ time amirite?
That was always reserved for 30seconds before I had to get off the bus for the majority of my high school career.
On topic – MAY THE MOST POPULAR BOY/GIRL, LIKE, WIN!
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For me, it was always when I got called up to see the teacher, or something similar. Horrible.
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Man. High School. Goooooood times.
I have so many awkward boner stories it’s ‘hard’ to remember them all.
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My memories have been buried and are probably “stiff” in their grave right about now.
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Man, there was just something about buses, amiright?
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I’ve never had this, erm, pleasure.
We went on trains.
PRESSED UP AGAINST PEOPLE. BECAUSE EVERYTHING WAS CROWDED.
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The pleasure was all mine?
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“That better be a roll of quarters in your pocket young man!”
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These economics students once approached me for their elections because I’m Asian. /o\
ONLY DAYS NOW TILL CAN’D MEAT!
I’m so excited.
And I just can’t hide it.
Unless I cross my legs real hard.
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It’s quite a few days, like, 20.
And I should probably start thinking about how I’m going to do this.
And how I’m going to get Rocketman to my house…
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Ah, but no longer “Next month”! It’s now “XX Days”!
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dude do you have a list of people who are going. I want to know gosh darn it.
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As of right now, from Sydney we have:
AP
Harli
Doc Watt
Ruffleberg
Bishand everyone else is:
Strange
Shane
BDKIAF
PixelFerret
YouI hope I haven’t missed anyone, that would be awkward.
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You never replied to my latest email regarding the 360. I’m feeling neglected.
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I thought I did! It said I did. Maybe hotmail ate it. Unless you sent another after that. In which case, hotmail ate that!
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Found it and replied!
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August 27.
It’s been 9 days (according to gmail) and my inbox is still void of Scotsman.
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Just found out that the gym, pool, bbq area, etc that is available to all residents at my new apartment block won’t be completed until summer sometime. There goes any chance of me getting fit before summer :/
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What’s the opposite of “\o/ STEVE HOLT!”?
I think this might apply.
Also
Where is your new place?
Can I use the pool?
I have a floaty shark called Esteban!
You can share him.
He’s quite the hussy.
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I’d say it’s /o\.
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I’d say it’s ʇןoɥ ǝʌǝʇs /o\
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Fair enough.
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My new place is in Success, a suburb of Perth. You may use the pool, as long as you bring Esteban. Make sure he gets his summer body ready for me 😉
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I lived near Perth.
Perth in Scotland that is.
Oddly enough I also went there to go swimming.
They had an outdoor pool. Well, a bit of the pool was outdoors. It was all connected. I know what you Aussies are thinking.
“Outdoor pool? Isn’t that normal?”
Well, in Scotland that’s about as normal as a health meal for dinner.
It was awesome though as everytime I went it was raining and there is something amazing about swimming outside with torrential freezing rain falling.
They also had waves.
And two slides. The full moon, and the half moon. Full moon was faster, longer and fully enclosed.
Awesome.
http://www.1perthshire.co.uk/images/700/Perth-Leisure-Pool.jpg
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That looks like it was a lot of fun. I hope the pool that is being built near me looks like that 😛
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There’sw a place just outside Glasgow called The Time Capsule. THE POOL IS DINOSAUR THEMED! there is also cavemen and a UFO if I recall.
There is also an ice age themed skating rink.
All kinds of awesome.
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My boss has gone to the UK for a month (seems to be a fad at the mo) so I’ve been left unsupervised.
This is why my posting his increased by several hundred percent.
Maybe I should try and displace jamesmag from the #1 spot for the posting!
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Hahaha do it!! It’s sort of depressing that I’ve gotten the top poster by a long way, 4 weeks in a row.
I probably won’t post quite as much this week as I’ll be packing, moving house, etc.
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It’d be brave even to try.
[salute]
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When I take on The Mag for #1, I’d like more than just a petty [salute]. I want a full on 21 gun salute 😀
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I don’t have a great deal of money.
But still find myself with more money than sense.
If my girlfriend finds out what I’ve done, I’ll get THAT look…
You know the one!
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I am very familiar with said look. What did you purchase? 😛
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I “may” have forked over around $300 for a second PS3 that plays PS2 games….
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I’m much the same.
If my.. Wait.
Shit.
foreveralone.jpg
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Hahahahahahaha.
hmmm…
-weak smile-
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Let me guess…you ordered Chortle Cumsplat?
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Girfriends boyfriend has it, didn’t like it, is giving it to me for free!!!!!
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Sounds like the start of a rap.
Keep going.
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What did you do…..
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see above. Second PS3… Backwards compatable one!
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Spot the IT Consultant
http://cdn.mumbrella.com.au/2011/09/deans_property_it_guy.png
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Hah, saw this the other day.
Magnificent. 😀
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I’ve had a Uni instructor that looks almost as bad as that…
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There was a tutor for the comp classes who looked worse than that.
And smelled terrible.
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Good day kind folk!
What a weekend! I’ll leave out all the bad bits and focus on the good!
DAN! The MAN! What a guy!!!!
We went to Ajisen in the city for ramen and a chat..I got a vent a little, he was kind enough to not knock my head off for doing so! But to top it off, he paid for my ramen and drink! What a guy!!! Kudos to you this week my friend!
He then asked if I wanted to go to Toyworld, and I figured why not. I love toy shops, and I haven’t been to the one in the city in years. WOW! Have they got some awesome figures in there! DAMN!! If I was a rich man I could have spent several thousand without even thinking twice! I’m not though, so I didn’t.. BUT… I did manage to find this.. http://t.co/H9e0zoK Thanks to DAN! paying for my ramen, I was able to purchase that little beauty to add to my already awesome collection!!! w00t!!
I also put the call out to the twitterverse on the weekend to anyone who had heard of The Melniks before. Many laughed at me and thought I was old, but so be it. I am.. there’s no denying that.
Anyway, I was looking for an album by those guys called “Have you ever noticed that Gordon from Sesame Street looks exactly like Errol from Hot Chocolate?”… No takers.
I ended up finding a website about the melniks and thought.. what the hey.. lets email this random guy and see if he has any idea where I might be able to get my hands on a copy.
So this morning, I wake up and in my inbox, is an email from none other than Dave McCormack, telling me he’s ripped said album and uploaded it to his server for me to download! HOLY MOTHERFUCKING CHEESE ON A STICK WITH BACON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally after all the shit I’ve been going through, something awesome actually happened to me!!! OMG!!
so to DAN! and Dave go a very special KUDOS!
Dan obviously gets noms from me cos he’s a Kotaku boy, but Kudos for both of you for making my weekend FUCKING AWESOME!!!
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Glad you had a good weekend welbot, you deserve it after everything that’s happened.
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I second this. Great to hear you things a looking a bit better for ya
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I love your collection of figures that are from naruto. You should post some pictures Mr welbot. I love looking at them because i have no room for them. When i get my own place though, i hope to amass a collection.
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My collection can be seen here dood!
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=a692bedec1ab5085&sc=photos#cid=A692BEDEC1AB5085&id=A692BEDEC1AB5085%21275&sc=photosJust ignore the pictures of LittleJJ.. I haven’t had time to draw a moustache on them yet :0
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actually i just realized there are 3 more from shippuuden that i have aquired since those pics were taken, so perhaps they need to be updated..
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\o/!
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Good to see that good times were had and were good.
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Was a smashing way to spend a Sunday arvo.
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Glad to see you had a great weekend, I might have some gifts for you coming down the road as well by the way to brighten up your week. Keep an eye out 😉
To anyone at Allure that cares. Your Gizmodo news ticker is broken…
It keeps sending me to a Lifehacker Page Not Found webpage.
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Yeah, it has a problem whereby sometimes it will replace the gizmodo with lifehacker, and the other way around, so, for now, if you just replace the misplaced “lifehacker” with the missing “gizmodo” then it should work.
So, after my 21st, we have about 10 half-cartons of alcohol left, as well as all the bottles of spirits I was gifted with.
Perth meet anyone? 😛
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Can’t you just send some to Canberra for our Meat?
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Probably not 😛 with the cost to post it all over there, it would probably be cheaper for you to buy your own 😛
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I would buy some for us but i look 12 and no one ever believes im twenty.
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Isn’t that what ID is for? :s
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Which reminded me Rocketman, I got waved through a door at a club without having to show my id! I was so happy!
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The playground at McDonalds is not a ‘club’.
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It was the skirt that sits higher then most of your belts that did it.
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Funny, but I don’t drink 😛
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Oh well, you don’t have to drink haha.
Dude im already going to Canberra which will take about 5 hours. Perth will take eleventy hours. Maybe another time we can meet half way at alice springs lol.
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Haha, I very much doubt it will happen. I guess I’ll just have to fly to Brisbane, Sydney or Melbourne at some point and try and fit that in with an organised Meat.
To Perth!
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Do it! This place is so boring you’d probably get a State Welcome.
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I know it was intended as a joke, but if anyone from Kotaku ever comes to Perth, you’re welcome to sleep on my couch and I’d definitely love to catch up.
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Same goes if anyone is in my town. Hahahaha thats even funnier when i typed it!
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😛 you should just go to Brisbane or Sydney if I go over there for a Meat 😛
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ill be all over that stuff. I am always keen to fly. Well after i fly out of qld for the first time ever in 3 weeks. GULP!
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Haha I’ve never been to another state in Australia before. Been overseas though
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Guys, Brisbane Meat with Doc What? November. Be here. We could do it late November and make it the Kotaku Christmas Party. 😛
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Haha I wish..I don’t think I’ll have any money for travelling inter-state until early next year :/
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I should theoretically have a job by then, and if so, I am so there.
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We have at least two beds available. More if you don’t mind sharing with each other because they’re both doubles.
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I might sell a Kidney for the money to fly over there if it means I get to spoon Blaghs..
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I may take a day off and fly over… may.
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The most crazy thing you will see all day:
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Buzz.
Killington.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/08/oblivion-is-made-better-when-burger-king-punches-men-with-a-fish/
(Still hilarious though, and it was a couple of weeks ago, so I forgive you)
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Gorram it!
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I SEE EVERYTHING!
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How many fingers am I holding up?
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Two. Your middle fingers, and they’re facing me.
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GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
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Don’t worry Cracks, I also managed to get this comment today: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/09/what-cover-art-could-look-like/#comment-362992
I really need to get a job…
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Nice work mate 😉
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And I’ve now insulted someone who made a stupid comment on the Facebook page!
I am going to get myself killed if I keep this up!
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Yay, another electrical fire in the office! But it’s okay, because we macarons and coke and sprite!
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Marshmallows would also be useful.
dear god – so many lols
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Rofl @ the riot squad xD
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Dear God, what has that woman unleashed upon this world.
The clock needs to get a move on and reach “get the hell out of the office” o’clock.
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Yeah agreed… -.-
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Agreed also LOL tonight with the noob. We can all try and help numbers. Hahaha You see what i did there. Sorry numbers its so easy when your not here.
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You do realise rocketman, you tag up with me or Steve-O, Jo or Crabjiffy, you’re jumping in the deep end and will be up against very unfriendly and tough players.
You’ve been warned. But would love to get some farewell time in with Kassadin, or maybe just give him up entirely
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He’d be better off teaming up with me I think. I’ve learnt enough from you guys to be able to sort of teach him and he wouldn’t be up against tough people..
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Yeah I’m worried that the same thing will happen to Rocketman like it did with Numbers, he tagged up with us a little too often and it might be doing more harm than good
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Yeah exactly, it’s fine to tag up with you guys if its an AI game, so he can get used to characters, skill sets, etc. But for actual PvP, he should stick to people with similar levels so they progress at the same rate..
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Indeed, I’ll discuss it with him tonight.
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Who are you calling a noob?? Oh, wait, your calling numbers the noob…
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and I’ll call you a newb since you only just started right?
Agreed! and you guys finish so much earlier than me! 🙁 I MIGHT be able to get on LoL tonight. Depends how much packing I can get done..
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I will be attempting to play LoL at the new place using my phone to tether 😛 so we’ll see how that goes hahaha.
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Too bad you can’t come visit here in Melbourne, for I would happily spare a link for you on the router.
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We-ellllll, you might get your wish early next year. My girlfriend and I are aiming to come over for 3 or 4 days, to visit her brother and my uncle/aunt/cousins. And I was hoping to catch up with you and the other Melbourne peeps while I was there!
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Hah sweet! Would love to meet you human. I’m sure Chuloopa can set up another good Melbourne meat 🙂
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Awesome! It’s not set in stone yet, but I’m pretty sure my girlfriend’s brother is actually paying her ticket as a birthday present for her so it will just be my ticket we have to pay for!
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I know I said it last week but The Horrible Crowes album – Elsie – which should be available today if I am not mistaken is far and away one of the best albums of the year if you are into artists like tom waits or springsteen if he sung the nightmare before christmas soundtrack.
You can here the entire thing here: http://www1.rollingstone.com/hearitnow/player/thehorriblecrowes.html
I gushed over it here :
http://wp.me/p1NBQj-8i
Buy it.
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For some reason, the music in that Ladykiller track reminded me of Labyrinth with David Bowie.
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Did someone say “David Bowie’s crotch”?
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That’s all you need to take in, in that movie.
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Not a fan then Jamesmag?
Although, Labyrinth is quite a stellar movie with a great soundtrack. So maybe you are a fan? Either way, David Bowie’s crotch?
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Haha, I actually love the movie Labyrinth. From what I’ve heard it’s actually not too bad, can’t turn it up real loud like I want to though, damn work :/
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Now that page 4 has come. Page 3 comments will be lost as it was foretold in the days of old.
Therefore:
Strange – I might sell a kidney for ticket money if it means I can spoon Blaghman.
Techie – I might be coming to Melbourne early next year for 3 or 4 days, so hopefully we can catch up at some point while I’m there!
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Yeah replied to it last page 🙂
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Also, I shall be in Melbourne the weekend after Can’d Meat. Can I get get some Melbourne love too?
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Yeah I’m hopeless at deciding what to do for a group, we could go catch up at galactic circus or something, have some fun at the arcades 🙂
Unless Chuloopa wants to try something else
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Yeah Galactic Circus was great fun, and Mana bar is always good. although if you wanna get into Mana Bar without waiting on a saturday it’s recommended you get in before 7 or 8
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I’m curious, how does Mr. Strange feel about the whole “We’re going on a family trip! (By the way I’m going off to see some friends as soon as we get there, screw you guys)”?
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Well it’s a family “holiday” so the only way I get a holiday is to leave the family to fend for themselves for a few hours. Besides, I’m the boss. 😛
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Bahahaha. Fair enough.
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Blaghman, your comments are hilarious. So if someone feels insulted by you, I’ve got your back 😉
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I love the omnipresence of Blaghman. I always feel safe.
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I’ve got your back, unless you start being an even bigger dick than I am(which is quite a feat, I’ll admit), in which case I’ll abandon you to face your enemies alone.
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Even me? After all we’ve been through?!
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Look, if you’re managing to be more of a dick than me, then you’re clearly a lost cause, I’m sorry.
The only option is Euthanasia.
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This is probably true. Although, when I had that afro, I could say the meanest things to people and they’d just take it as a joke :/
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Time for me to grow an afro methinks 😛
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But if you try that, and you hair’s like mine, you’ll just end up looking like a girl who’s really bad with her hair…
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And the secret to being mean is to just take it way too far. So not “man, you’re stupid.” Go with “Your stupidity astounds me, to the level where I wonder if there is a higher being, who has placed you here with the sole purpose of irritating me to no end. If not, then I can only hope you never have any children, as the seeds in your loin would create offspring who would be forced to deal with their crippling idiocy.”
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Nice 😛 but yeah, it used to be, with my hair, that I could go up to a girl at a party, tell her she was fat or she was a slut, and they would just laugh. Which is even more horrible, seeing as I wouldn’t really say that to any girl anyway, so coming from me, it should seem twice as bad as it is, it shouldn’t just be laughed off!
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No, that’s just the presence of Blaghman right outside your window.
Hello plebs!
how goes it this deathly boring monday evening?
Does anyone else really want to know what Dr What? bought that would make his girlfriend angry?!
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A voucher for breast implants?
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I think I know.
Maybe.
STEVE HOLT \o/
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a cooch trimmer?
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She knows about the Xbox.
It’s the second PS3 she won’t be chuffed about
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He bought a box…
Then he cut a hole in it…-
Is his junk in that box?
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it must not have been. if it was then she would be happy
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I had the opposite experience.
She said if I ever approached her again she’d get a restraining order.
Cousins, am I right?
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wait…
wat?
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I finally got around to playing Amnesia last night. I’ve been putting it off, to be honest.
But now all I can think of is how awesome* this would be on Kinect.
*Actually: horrible.
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I played the demo. There’s no way I could finish that game if I bought it.
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Pansies. I’ve played through some of the start, but then my computer itself died of fright, so I haven’t got back to it. I’m considering FRAPSing the whole thing to see if it’s at all amusing…
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I think amnesia is the first game i have come across where i genuinely have a hard time to play it because i’m scared.
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I FSCKING LOVED AMNESIA!
I’m so excited about the chainsword comp! I hope I can pull off a good design. Will have to start scrounging for materials.
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I shouldn’t laugh… actually, I should.
Baaahahahahaha!
So, Dead Island… apparently the reviews are all over the place.
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At least most of them say it’s awesome fun.
Which is all I expected 😀-
Awesome fun seems like fun but I’m still not really sold on the game. I’ll wait to see what the hivemind thinks.
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http://www.bigw.com.au/Offer/BigGameBargains
Wait, Big W are actually offering decent prices on new games? Craziness!
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I….
I don’t… I don’t believe it.
Those prices are comparable to zavvi prices and there’s two new releases in there.My god.
Mmmm…BBQ chips and white wine. Yum.
so reading through 3 pages of TAY, super fun!
anyways, i got my checked at the apple store, as it was broken, but THE APPLE STORE GUY HAS THE NERVE TO GIVE ME A NEW IPOD!!!
why am i angry? because i have a 3rd gen ipod touch, and i’d expected they’d give me a 4th gen, they didn’t -_-
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Hahaha. Expecting something from an Apple store?
Hahaha. *wipes tear from eye*
You make me laugh, Grand Master of the B-Funk.
GODDAMMIT.
This guy responded on Facebook to a thing about here, and I’m so close to responding, but I know that it’s a waste of time, and I’m not sure whether he was attempting to Facepalm me, or him, or what, and AARRGGHHH!
Damn internet.
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I was wondering about the facepalm thing too. I think but I can’t be sure that he was faceplaming himself.
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I’m just going to not respond, and know in the back of my mind that I could argue my way to victory.
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Is Bulletstorm worth getting for $28?
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Yes.
Next question?
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Is the Mac in your name related to consumption of macaroni?
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No…
Next question!
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In your opinion, what is the best way to get extra fibre that seems to be lacking in my diet?
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Carpet underlay… a completely untapped source of fibre.
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I got a voucher last week for 4200 worth of Kogan stuffs for $99 so I got my daughter their 7″ Tablet because she needs the internet for school a lot now and I hate her using my laptop. It arrived today and I unboxed it and set it up for her and made sure I was playing on it when she got home. Then I told her it was hers as soon as her room was cleaned up. She went straight to her room without even asking for a snack and stayed there until dinner time. Her room is now cleaner than it’s been for months.
Yep, I resorted to bribery as a form of parenting. Thank god it worked. 😛
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Um, that’s $200, not 4200. Unfortunately.
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I tidied my room at the weekend.
What do I get?
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Um, I’ll cook you dinner when you’re up here? Ask Pessimist if it’s worth it or not….
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Actually, where is he?
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He quit TAY for a while to spend the energy he would otherwise have used on TAY on organising a few things in his life.
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I totally read that as Krogan.
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I do that all the time.
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Make sure she doesn’t headbutt it!
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seriously, bribery is the easy way to a kids heart, i should know, i was one
The first of my Edinburgh pics…
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/320209_203854116342271_100001530534771_542701_5937752_n.jpg
The pipes and drums were assembled ever night to tune up.
If you look in the bottom left, there’s a red head… that’s me.
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It took a while but I think I finded you. Yay!
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Edinburgh Castle.
Fantastic view.
And on cold nights the fog rolls in over the town… man, it’s just beautiful.-
It would have been clearer if I’d said the guy directly in front of the middle of the 3 red and white signs.
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I think I found you.
But man, what’s with that guy in the actual bottom left and his dark shoes.
That guy.
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The silver buckles?
Royal Irish Rangers… top blokes, don’t try getting into a drinking comp with them.
It doesn’t end well.
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If there isn’t a picture of you doing that, I am disappoint.
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I’d imagine you’d be constantly disappointed at roughly 7 billion people who aren’t Bruce Campbell.
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You mean everyone else isn’t Bruce Campbell?
I… I’m not sure how I can survive all of you now!
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We should elope and make a planet full of Bruce Campbells….
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…Jelly…
One of my quote-unquote “friends” on Facebook, posted a reply to an argument I had to a perfectly appropriate question yesterday.
This argument took place September last year…
ಠ_ಠ
(n.b. this “argument” turned to slurs pertaining to sexuality within minutes, by the way)
(n.b. #2; action undertaken: jack all)
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My cousin does that. Just keeps on loading more posts on profile, hits like and then fb manages to screw up the notification and then he laughs.
Daysex arrived.
The feeling is comparable to… unicorns frolicking with squirrels in fields of daisies with a double rainbow overhead while butterflies flitter and flutter around.
OMFG, estimated release date for Minecraft 1.8 is the eighth! We have mere days people!
No, wait, Notch time.
End of the month then.
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Really hoping we can keep the town we’ve already built. Maybe put that one and the original server miles apart on either side of the spawn point so we can start again but explore and find the old cities?
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I’m just hoping we can keep our current town.
I’m thinking ideally we place this one and the one from the first server on either side of spawn a good distance. Then we can start building again but as we explore we’ll find our old stuff and end up with 3 cities.
@Bish Since people never see replies on the other page…
Yeah, a few friends of mine get that all the time. All the international student organisations and events people try to give them pamphlets or speak in Chinese just ’cause they look like they’re from overseas. I guess it’d be pretty annoying (but kinda funny when you have no idea what they’re saying :P).
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I don’t know, it is kind of funny how apparently everyone just assumes you do Commerce/Economics, even the other asians.
And in all fairness, me and a friend started up a competition as to how many of these people we could trick into thinking we did do one of those and how many voting leaflets we could snag.
It was just sometimes in the morning when they were prowling around at 8AM, I would walk by with the morning paper on the way to the Engineering building at they’d pop out from nowhere and be all “STUDENT ELECTIONS VOTE WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP”.
Would just like to say I HATE region locking!>/b>
tryind to order some blurays and only about 1/3 of this batch are actualy playable on my PS3. Wish I’d imported from america for the PS3 now since games are region free and must stuff is cheaper to import anyway.
I hate them so much I can’t even close HTML tags properly.
THE most beautiful girl on the planet just checked me into the hostel in Reykjavic…
*Unbridled Swoonage*
Sigh… But I am but a clumsy dufus from the other side of the world. Woe is me…
Also, Happy Birthday Big Cheese!
Also, Strange made Pez a jerkin! 😮
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Hey Eff!
Hope you’re enjoying your holiday.
We miss you!
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If you were a clumsy dufus(which I know you are not) then being in another country is the best way to get girls because to them you’re just exotic. 😉
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I’m pretty sure you could woo everyone with your manly voice and accent.
Everyone.
Mornin Taybies.
Can I go back to bed?
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Yes. That is not a respectable time to be getting up at…
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Who’s this guy??
😛
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So, LoL players.
I intend to get another tank more suited to early game than Rammus and I would like your opinion on what would help you guys more.
Amumu – Lots of damage, great initiate, mass disable. Not too Tanky.
Alistar – Good crowd control, minor heal but no initiate. Quite slow.
Shen – Taunting initiate, Ult shields and teleports to an ally, no mana. Poor damage.
Taric – Great heals, stun, armour shield. No initiate or big disables.
Galio – Shields alies, mass taunt ult. Other abilities a bit meh, really expensive.
Kayle – Ok heal, decent damage, Ult make someone immune to damage for 3 seconds. Can’t tank.
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For early game I’d be leaning towards Shen or Taric shearly for their ability to help a carry lane. Shen can teleport to them instantly and shield them to save them (or perhaps turn a 1v1 into a 2v1 and get a kill). Taric has great defensive buffs, a heal and an awsome stun.
I guess the question is, do you want to be a flippin’ ninja?
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For an early game tank I would say Shen is probably the best out of them all. His ‘w’ makes him almost immune to spike damage also couple that with his taunt which is very nice.
Also his damage isn’t too bad, His passive can deal a decent amount of damage but there are better damage dealing tanks (Amumu,Alistar,etc…).
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Shen needs some pretty good map awareness though. I’m pretty rubbish at it. In the two or whatever games I tried him out, I never used his Ultimate because I never paid attention to what everyone else was up to.
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Taric is one that’s used a lot because of his healing and tanking abilities, being a very useful companion to have while laning with an ally.
Alistar’s heal gives him not only the capability of pushing lanes very effectively, but also to be able to solo top pretty well. We just couldn’t get him since he backs off, then heals up and comes back in. The only reason we don’t jump in is cuz with their jungler it makes you think he might be baiting at the same time.
Shen is pretty good but yeah I agree with Bish, you need great map awareness as well as seeing if any lane is in trouble (With that health status of the allies on the top left not being accurate and all). But it is a great ganking tactic later game, quickly turning a 1v1 into a 2v1 or 2v2 into a 3v2. It’s basically a free teleport when you actually need it to save an ally, very useful.
Galio I’ve played, he’s hard to master, but that ulti can make or break team engagements. Galio’s only true weapon is timing. Throwing down that shield on an ally is awesome, it saves their arse from good amounts of burst damage late game. His Q ability is good for supporting ganks by slowing them down, then using your E to help your allies chase them down.
Amumu is a tank that is a very capable jungler as well as a tank. Many different roles Amumu can take. CrabJiffy has shown how good(Annoying when I faced him) an off-tank Amumu can be. He’s got pretty solid AoE for pushing lanes, and his Q and R are used to temporarily disable champions. Very useful.
Kayle I wouldn’t look at as a tank, she’s a support fighter, not much more than that
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Ahhhhh so much choice!
OK, screw Kayle and Galio is 6300ip so no.I like Alistar, he can wreck faces and his ult can let him do it late game. The only problem would be catching the enemy.
Taric looks like he may not be very useful late game and early game is only useful with a good carry so I dunno.
Shen… I need to use him. Sounds good mid game but lacks a team fight changing move.
Ammumu looks great, being able to jungle would be handy. I think he would be best with the right team and co-ordination tho.
His Q does not stun for long so peeps need to keep up and his ult is wasted unless someone has some big aoe to take them out.
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Re: Alistar
Ghost/Exhaust/Flash
Flash would be priority; Flash in and do the knockback move, either into allies ready for some killing, or into a turret, and then run back and stun them.
But since I don’t have Flash yet, Ghost and Exhaust work okay too, but only for chasing. You can still catch them if they’re in melee range with a stun, run past them a little, and then knock them back, but you lose some time compared to knockback then stun.At least those are my experiences with him. He seems like a pretty cool guy.
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Indeed, though reliance on summoner spells is not good.
Also, you people are not helping. I was hoping for something like:
“Yeah Jo I often wish I had champ X on my team, that would be handy.”
Or “The thing Rammus can’t do that is needed is X”-
Yeah Jo, I often wish I had a champ played by Jo on my team, that would be handy.
Did I help??
Either way we both win!
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If you are looking for a tank for early game, amumu is not what you want. I usually have to die once or twice before i can get my self farmed up for any action, but late game he just destroy everybody!
I am not sure about Shen, he was nerfed and won’t be my choice of tank for a little while.
Alistar is another good choice for off-tank if you build him right, and his CC is can make a real difference.
Taric is a good baby-sitter, saving his mate’s ass all the time.
Ugghhh. It feels like my kidneys are trying to reenact Aliens and burst out of my skin after 22 hours of drinking. In a dress. Wearing no underwear. Just your typical mad-monday, but this extended hangover is killing me. Highlights of the day included a guy in fisherman’s waders having those waders filled to the brim with cooking oil we found behind the canteen, MC Hammer holding up traffic at a stop sign until the driver got out and ‘hammer-timed’ with him, a 5M beer bong from the top of the dressing sheds and getting hit on by a 70 year old man at the bar. Yikes – And they are the tame stories, the rest probably aren’t appropriate. Hell, the ones I told probably aren’t appropriate.
Anyways TAY, it’s good to be back. And alive.
What’d I miss?
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Dam. Top of the page. Was hoping this comment would have been buried in other comments and not have received as much attention…
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Dammit my post is the last on the page.
I knew I should have waited.-
I put some insight in for you in the last page, have a read 🙂
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Oh, North Queensland.
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Wow, sounds like my uni days. Ah bachelor of arts, 5 hours of lectures a week and the rest of the time dedicated to consuming an olympic sized pool worth of grog.
Good times. Not that I can actually remember any of them.-
You mean 5 hours of raping and pillaging a day then consuming an Olympic sized pool amount of mead and ale right?
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Don’t forget the plundering and raiding.
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Steve-O you sound like an awesome person to party with.
Wait, TAY has already been reposted at 8am? \o/ Now I can drink coffee and read TAY, as opposed to drink coffee and F5 an empty page.
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First full week on the job and Tracey’s already shaking things up!
Living on the edge! Half an hour early, very exciting stuff.-
She did say she wanted to see the comment count get to over 9000. Maybe she figured that we might get there with an extra half-hour to TAY with?
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In an extra 2.5 hours a week?
The highest we’ve hit is about 3500, right?
So an extra 5500 comments to be distributed through that half hour bonus each day.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm, now I’m no Maths genius, but I’m pretty sure 5500 comments / 150 minutes = doable. Because yes, numerical division equals words.-
Bish,
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Dammit, what did Kotaku do?
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hard
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enough!
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bugger.
Messed up!
Do over!
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read
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LAWL!
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If we’re aiming for over 9,000…
*Mission Impossible music plays*
I got the 3ds ambassador games. Man Super Mario hasn’t aged aswell as i thought. Why didn’t they use the snes version of super mario???
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Because they’re giving away NES games?
I’ve been playing a fair bit of The Last Stand in DoW II lately. Man it’s fun.
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Oh so that’s what you’ve been doing in Retribution. I always wanted to try that one day
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I’d say give it a crack as it’s only $10 but with Space Marine out in under 48 hours why bother downloading the 7 or so GB…
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Last Stand is awesome fun.
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Trjn!
Birthday joy? Or old man blues?
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Happy birthday Trjn!(?)
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Happy Birthday Rabbit!
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Cheers.
I’ll let you know how this whole aging process works once I’ve got some coffee in my system.
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Joyous creation day Trjn.
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Have a great Birthday, Bunny!
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Three cheers for bunny!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRJN! MAY YOUR SC2 DAYS BE FILLED WITH GOODNESS AND VICTORIES
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Happy birthday Trjn!
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
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Happy Birthday
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Woots! Happy Birthday Trjn!
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Happy Birthday Rabbit. Hope you have a fantastic day. And if 24 is the new 21, we’re the same age.
STEVE HOLT \o/
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Happy Birthday Bunny!
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inb4 Blaghman steals a spoonerism of a birthday message.
Berrry Mirthday! \o/
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Steals? STEALS?!
Well yuck fou.
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Happy Birthday Mr Rabbit
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Thanks everyone.
For the record, 24 is the new 21 without the burden of having to throw a massive party.
It is so because I decreed it so.
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Happy Birthday Trjn!
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H-appy Birthday to Bunny!
Happy Birthday to Bunny!
This isn’t all that funny!
Happy Birthday to Bunny! -
Happy birthday to the rabbit!
Run away, run away, run away! -
On the 6th of September 2011, Effluvium Boy wasn’t here to make the appropriate funny for the Bunny’s birthday 🙁
Happy Birthday!!!! 😉
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Happy B’day Trjn!! w00t! Hope you’re having a great day! 🙂
Fun fact: Playing as Terran vs Medium AI and only producing Marines, Maruaders and Medivacs while on three bases (all Orbitals) and one of them being gold makes it basically impossible to spend all of your moneys.
MULEs + not teching up = average unspent minerals 5.3k
So much for learning to macro.
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Someone please explain MULE taunting for me.
Sounds like fun-
I assume that that’s the “manner mule.” Which is where you drop a mule in their base as you’re winning, as a way of saying “ha, I’m doing so well I don’t need these imba little guys.”
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trying
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Hahahahahaha!
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A message appeared saying I was posting comments too quickly! It ruined everything!
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I hope this isn’t an orphan of an unapproved comment.
That would make my mockery pretty awkward.-
aaaaaaaaaaaaaawkward!
http://images.pictureshunt.com/pics/a/awkward_bathroom-1764.jpg
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I think that picture is more awesome than awkward, it would be a great way to go for the elusive “Rebound Shot”
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Awkward when both urinals are in use.
Awkward… or hot.
I guess it’s a preference thing.
Whenever I think of an awkward situation, I remember a story told by Douglas Adams.
This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person is me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I’d gotten the time of the train wrong. I went to get myself a newspaper to do the crossword, and a cup of coffee and a packet of cookies. I went and sat at a table. I want you to picture the scene. It’s very important that you get this very clear in your mind. Here’s the table, newspaper, cup of coffee, packet of cookies. There’s a guy sitting opposite me, perfectly ordinary-looking guy wearing a business suit, carrying a briefcase. It didn’t look like he was going to do anything weird. What he did was this: he suddenly leaned across, picked up the packet of cookies, tore it open, took one out, and ate it.
Now this, I have to say, is the sort of thing the British are very bad at dealing with. There’s nothing in our background, upbringing, or education that teaches you how to deal with someone who in broad daylight has just stolen your cookies. You know what would happen if this had been South Central Los Angeles. There would have very quickly been gunfire, helicopters coming in, CNN, you know… But in the end, I did what any red-blooded Englishman would do: I ignored it. And I stared at the newspaper, took a sip of coffee, tried to do aclue in the newspaper, couldn’t do anything, and thought, What am I going to do?In the end I thought Nothing for it, I’ll just have to go for it, and I tried very hard not to notice the fact that the packet was already mysteriously opened. I took out a cookie for myself. I thought, That settled him. But it hadn’t because a moment or two later he did it again. He took another cookie. Having not mentioned it the first time, it was somehow even harder to raise the subject the second time around. “Excuse me, I couldn’t help but notice…” I mean, it doesn’t really work.
We went through the whole packet like this. When I say the whole packet, I mean there were only about eight cookies, but it felt like a lifetime. He took one, I took one, he took one, I took one. Finally, when we got to the end, he stood up and walked away. Well, we exchanged meaningful looks, then he walked away, and I breathed a sigh of relief and st back.
A moment or two later the train was coming in, so I tossed back the rest of my coffee, stood up, picked up the newspaper, and underneath the newspaper were my cookies. The thing I like particularly about this story is the sensation that somewhere in England there has been wandering around for the last quarter-century a perfectly ordinary guy who’s had the same exact story, only he doesn’t have the punch line.
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That is probably one of the most entertaining stories I have ever read.
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That story, is brilliant.
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I’m calling it made up.
How do you not notice a packet of biscuits under your newspaper?
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I love that story. Makes me lol everytime.
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I think the reply button went on strike due to stress.
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Geez, the reply button complains about never being used, and then when I do, it rage quits.
What a rude little thing.
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And humans wonder why the Machines want to kill you all once they take over…
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I sent him home.
Exhaustion.
Poor guy.
Also, He has Syphilis. (Probably caught it from the permalink button. I really should report them.)
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Yeah… ur permalink button… it was totally that…
*nervous cough*
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Sometimes I get the urge to use the ‘Report’ button as a ‘Report comment for being awesome’ button.
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We should have an “Awesome button”.
Are we turning into Facebook.
If we are. we are way more awesome than facebook, We are awesomegamingfaceofjoybook.
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I hope you never have a child.
“Honey, what should we name him?”
“Hmmm, how about… ‘spawnlingproducedfromouryouthfulloins’?” -
Don’t compare Kotaku to Facebook… cuz Kotaku already stepped on it with its mighty boot
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Two Boot’s
Sorry stevo couldn’t resist.-
Hahaha all good, just remember with great power comes great responsibility.
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Depends, To truly be like Facebook you need that one “friend” that everyone has that posts updates every 5 mins.
“lol jst wokeup”
“lol still tired”
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Isn’t that what Twitter is for?
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I dunno #lol
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Takeaway the ‘lol’s and that’s pretty much me. 😛
I’m having hash browns for breakfast by the way.
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So LoL’ers, I patched up and played my first game of LoL last night
HAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHA
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and you didn’t play with us. Ms Harli i am shock and appalled. More importantly how did it go?
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Actually, I only played 5 mins of that ‘practice’ match thing that they’ve got. I was averaging about 1k ping so it wasn’t ideal for me to go online. Still, the pacing and mechanics of the game were very enjoyable.
Can’t wait to get into high level play!!!
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Unless you were playing with high level friends or dealing with smurf accounts, the quality of players when you start is not exactly high :p
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I look forward to playing my first match then /gg
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AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRJN!
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Yeah you’ll be up against rookies when you start. You want a challenge, tag up with us.
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Let’s play tomorrow night! (provided my epic lag is gone)
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Tomorrow I got bowling, so I’ll be late 🙁
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Nooooooo! I could have sworn you had bowling on Tuesday nights, which is why I said tomorrow. Thursday then?
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Sorry Harli, it’s wednesdays 🙁
Thursday will work for me though, see you then 🙂
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I can play! Just remind me on Steam or something.
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Hey guys seeing as I am a Kotaku newbie you probably won’t have me on LoL, feel free to add me to your friends. Summoner name is the same as my posting name to make it easy.
If I have to remember more then 2 names and I start freaking out.
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cool. My summoner name is Harlitrix
Damn Harli was taken.
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Mine’s TechKnight fellow LoLer. Always happy to take in new allies
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Oh yeah welcome to the Kotaku Kommunity, if you haven’t been welcomed already
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Hi Headshot. Mine is steveothedevo. I enjoy long ganks along the river and running out of the bush at squishies screaming ‘demaciaaaa’!
http://www.demaciancomics.com/albums/userpics/10008/1490b9d.jpg
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HAHAHA! Never going to get old! xD
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I finally understand the joke!
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HAHAHA holy shit, I actually laughed really loudly when I saw that (and it’s sorta awkward cause it was silent in my office).
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It’s so hilarious cuz I seen Steve-O use that strategy so many times xD
Cuz it IS super effective!
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Heheh, I love taunt.
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xD Rammus how we love you
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I’m afraid you still have to undergo the initiation.
I don’t know all the details.
I’m just on stand by for when it all goes wrong and they need somone to dislodge the billiards balls.
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I’ll get the lube…
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and my axe!
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Is it wrong to say I’m scared … but slightly aroused.
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Really?
Axe deodorant smells just as bad on women as it does on men. You might want to get your nose checked out, it clearly isn’t working right.
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Deodorant?
I am no longer aroused 🙁
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How do you like the LoL champions as opposed to the DotA/Hon heroes Harli? Did my words of wisdom from a few TAY’s ago help? Let me know if you ever want a game or some fully sick strats*.
*May not actually be fully-sick and will just involve wearing two boots…
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I actually saved your words of wisdom (WoW) into a word doc and skimmed through it before playing – ended up playing my first game with Ashe. Haven’t had a chance to test out other heroes yet!
Thanks SteveO. I’ll remember the boots thing if I run into trouble.
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also is there a hero who is like Priestess of the Moon equivalent? I love skills that require you to land one precise shot.. makes for some spectacular kills.
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Do you know that Ashe’s ulti can go to the other side of the map? If that’s not a skill shot I don’t know what is
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Ash is a combination of PotM and Drow Ranger. Ash’s ultimate is as close to PotM’s arrow as you will get.
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oh! I didn’t get to level that far, I quit about 10 mins into the practice game haha. Awesome! Thanks guys.
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There’s plenty more skillshots in LoL than in HoN for what I’m told so that’s no problem 🙂
There’s skill shots for AoE delayed bursts, cone zone attacks, even hitting in a straight line to where you click, very cool.
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Just once I want to see someone do something at the end of their page-breaking comment that’s worth scrolling all the way over for. I wanna be surprised, dammit!
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Oh good, I’m glad I’m not the only one.
People are getting into LoL now that I’m shunning it in favour of SC2.
Will we become a community divided? Shall our friendships be ripped asunder by our allegiances to specific games?
Is there any other way to phrase this to make it seem even more melodramatic?
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War… war never changes… or does it?
The war has changed… did it?
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I’m still keen for the odd game of starcraft here and there Trjn, it’s just hard to completely abandon LoL when you’ve invested time into it and everyone else is playing.
Plus I suck at starcraft…
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It’s weird.
I prefer the gameplay of SC2 but the group dynamic of LoL.
If only there were a way to combine the two…
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Defence of the Overmind?
DoTO?…
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Select your Cerebrate!
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I was thinking something insane like 4v4 monobattles. Or random Funday Monday builds.
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So sticking on the Topic of LoL what does everyone think of the recently released champion (Talon)? I have been doing really well with him but most people say he is bad (Those people are people that haven’t seen me play Talon).
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Trying him out first chance I get when he’s in rotation (Which I’m guessing is this week).
He looks like a hell of a burst damage assassin that’s AD based! Very very tempting
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Yeah he’s such a fun champion. He’s a contender for my favourite champ. Although next week (rotation) wont be fun seeing as everyone will be playing him.
His main problem is he’s a bit squishy so I went 9/21/0 in masteries and I seem to do fairly well with those masteries. Still trying out a few builds (gonna try sheen sometime soon see how that goes).
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I’m going to go an Offensive heavy and Utility Mastery build I think. The key to an assassin is the element of surprise and doing as much burst damage as possible. Then your enemies will cower in fear next time they think of pushing a turret and they can’t see you.
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One of the most satisfying feelings is when someone is trying to chase you down to kill you so you do the following
R -> E -> Q -> W
The followed by the announcement
“Legendary”
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That’s the combo I thought of too. With Sheen that’ll do much more damage so definitely having that in my build.
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9/21/0? Must be level 30. God help me. I’m only 19.
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I’ve won being tagged up with level 30s before, so can you. You’re pretty much ahead of me with your Garen play
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Wait are you level 30? Crikey it’ll be a challenge when I tag up with you then, I’m only level 20
I haven’t played as him or seen another person play any good with him but I’m hoping that will change if we get the chance to play together sometime.
I have played against some really good talon and some pretty bad talon. I think he is a pretty balanced champion.
But i guess we are looking at a future buff on this champion.
So New Zealand have a butchers called The Mad Butchers.
This does not sound like an outlet I could trust.
Sounds more like a horror film concept.
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Sounds like the name of a sports team.
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Not far from where I used to live there was a butchers shop and right above it a vet… we didn’t really use that butchers very often.
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Totally reminded me of a Butchers a few towns over from where I grew up. Was located next door to a funeral parlour.
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Well with both Dead Island and Space Marine both looking awesome, who’s up for some online goodness via 360 when they come out?
(or when they get delivered I should say)
GT: Hugo Barbarian
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Me (WC Spook), Loops (Chul00p4), and PuppyLicks (Swift Robot) so far as I’m aware for Space Marine.
I might grab Dead Island, too, seeing as Big W have it cheap online tomorrow.
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Got yer gamertag. Will add ya tonight
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Sweet, FOR THE EMPEROR!
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Obligatory Space Marine comment.
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Obligatory reply to obligatory Space Marine comment.
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Obligat-FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!
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Obligatory other alien race taunt.
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PURGE THE XENOS!
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Obligatory reply implying that the commenter think’s the OP is crazy, but that’s just because he doesn’t understand what the hell they’re talking about anyway.
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BURN THE HERETIC!
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So I finally got Street Fighter 4. The postman decided to just leave the package on top of my mailbox (not in my mailbox or near my front door) If i lived in a shadier suburb that package would have been stolen instantly.
Anyway, 15 mins in and I now know why these games are played with sticks.
Talon is not in this rotation, I am sad
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1196592
But Fiddlesticks! Want to try him. Also Ezreal and Corki, maybe Poppy
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Katarina! Yay!
Apparently she doesn’t use mana or energy just like Garren and after seeing how badly we were schooled by that Katarina with a Gunblade on the weekend I want to try her!
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Oh yeah also Malphite! Me wanna try!
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Also Shaco and Ezreal. Been waiting to try them out. I like the idea of jungling with Shaco and popping out for assassinations.
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I have 6600 IP.
who buy
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Who you got? What is you preferred play style?
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I… like not dying?
I don’t know, I might hang onto it for a bit longer; I haven’t found anyone I really really like.
I like to think I’m a decent Leona and Alistar, but I don’t PvP much.
Probs see how this week’s rotation is.-
Ah tanks ey, I started tanking for the same reason: “I’m sick of dying. I know, I’ll play someone who is really hard to kill!”
Pick up Alistar, he could be a good tank and you can build him as a AP face wrecker/off tank.
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There are a lot of assassins in this rotation.
AssLoL?
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Yeah and none of them are Talon 🙁
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Hmm interesting, Usually the week following the new champion release they put him on the rotation.
In good news I will be able to get my build done right before I get a week of instant-new-champ-lock-in.
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You know what really sucks? I’m not able to play this rotation 🙁 I’m going to go cry in a corner.
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Fiddle Shaco Poppy Ezreal, I am coming for you guys!!!!! <3
This was probably swallowed up last page, but:
http://www.bigw.com.au/Offer/BigGameBargains
Space marine and Dead Island for only $60 at Big W! That’s like ozgameshop prices but with unsucky shipping speed!
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I did see, I will purchase, I am sam!
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Misquoted Dr Seuss, THE HORROR!!!
Sam I am.-
Oh, how the librarian falls!
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*sobs*
I know… how could I…
*sniff*
I am so ashamed.
🙁
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*looks at ozgameshop preorder*
Well shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-
Hey guys, I’ll be absent from TAY tomorrow as I’m signing the lease to my new place and moving everything. It’s going to be a very busy day as I don’t get the keys till 10:30 and have to have all the furniture, etc moved by 1:30-2:00 :/
Wish me luck!
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Good luck!
You need help?
I’m in Sydney, but I’m sure I can work something out.
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Haha if you can get to Perth by 10:30 tomorrow to help, sure, why not? Hahaha
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If I can get bitten by a radioactive aeroplane, according to the Stan Lee Law of Power Dispersal, I should gain the power of flight.
Easy peasy.
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Well they’re very common, so that shouldn’t be an issue. See you tomorrow at 10:30am sharp.
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I knew a girl like that……
She bit me…
I might have that power.
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That one sounds like it could be very interesting. Would be good for a sex party 🙂
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Moral support?
I may be sitting here on my computer in my underwear, but I’m there with you in spirit.
*cough*-
No pants?
Haha moral support is fine Bishy 😛
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I’m guessing there isn’t much furniture or you’re going to be sorely disappointed in the late afternoon when you’re only half done.
Either way, should be fun times ahead.
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Well…there’s a bed, couch, tv cabinet, chest of drawers, table and chairs, fridge, desk, side tables, coffee table. I THINK that’s about it. My girlfriend’s dad has a massive horse float so we’re using that to move, will be able to get everything in one trip hopefully!
And yes, the horse float is very clean and doesn’t smell.
Good luck!
Good luck pal! 🙂
Good luck!
Try not to break anything.
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Man, I keep thinking that I’m going to bring something in through the door, and scrape and chip the walls. Very paranoid about it 😛
I wish you luck my friend.
Although it may not be much of a wish because
1. I don’t have a birthday / birthday cake near me to make a wish on
2. I have not seen a single star in the night sky to make a wish upon (I will be checking tonight but cannot make promises and
3. I would use my magic lamp but the wish usually has a way of backfiring
Good luck
Good luck! But why are we wishing you luck now instead of later? Aren’t you going to be here for the rest of the day?
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I will, but I might not be on TAY as much as usual. I sent an email to my CEO and my manager asking them to give me work to do so I don’t seem lazy and lose my job 😛
So if they come through with that, I might be flat out all day.
glgl! dd! gg!
wow! new place! how exciting! 🙂 I remember how awesome that felt for me when I moved in here.. now it’s prolly time to move out :0 Oh well.. easy come easy go!
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Yeah that sucks :/
It’s very exciting, but also very tiring, as I only just really moved into the place I’m in currently. So I’m over the whole moving thing 😛 I’ll be glad once it’s all over.
Best of luck man, I moved house a few months ago, don’t wanna do it again for a while 😛
No the New Zealand have a national Ice Hockey team
Can you guess their name?
Can you?
The Ice Blacks.
Seriously?
Do they have no imagination at all?
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Rugby – All Blacks
American Football – Iron Blacks
Basketball – Tall Blacks
Softball – Black Sox
Cricket – Black Caps
Ice Hockey – Ice Blacks
Soccer – Small Whites-
I really thought the Small Whites was a joke and I had to check on google.
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it’s their real nickname.
Doesn’t stop them being a joke.
BUUUUUUUUUUUUUURN!
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Smirnoff sponsorship???
TAY should probably be renamed TALoL.
I’m bored. Someone talk about something interesting!
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Have you heard the good news about League of Legends?
It is available for free to absolve us of our boredom.
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*reply aborted due to it being your birthday*
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If it wasn’t your birthday, I’d have clicked the report button.
You came this [] close!
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BACON???
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Aww man, I have no bacon! I had to have hashbrowns with my eggs this morning. Still salty but nowhere near as epic.
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I have been baconless for over a week now. /o\
Though sometimes I think not having bacon and eggs for breakfast every day is probably a good thing.
Still. No bacon /o\-
I can’t remember the last time I ate bacon. 🙁
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Here, here!
So, uh, interesting…
wow.
The pressure… I can’t perform under all this pressure!
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Have you ever been diving?
I’ve never even been snorkelling. My dad can’t float(seriously, when he was in the army they gave up trying to ‘teach’ him how to float, he’s just not buoyant) but I have trouble NOT floating. I’ve never been able to play those games where you dive for the ‘treasure’ on the bottom of the pool. I also don’t even like to put my face under water in the shower.-
I haven’t actually, but I definitely would like to try. I kind of know what you mean about not floating. I don’t float, but I don’t quite sink. I’m the weird in betweener.
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is it because you’re afraid you’ll start rising and then hit your head on the ceiling? I hate when that happens!
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ha! i did it better!
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Hahahaha
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Now that’s more like it! Although Lambo’s fail was ultra-amusing. 😀
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Are you stockpiling Shaker Fries packets in preparation for their eventual withdrawal???
I’ve been buying extra packs and making my own train wreck fries at home, just can’t get that crazy orange cheese here….
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No, I haven’t! Good idea! I’ve only had Shaker Fries once since they’ve back and one of the packets was empty. Empty but unopened!
And apparently you can get that orange cheese at Costco. But I think there’s only Costcos at Melbourne and Canberra?
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Really!!?? Man I wish cheese could be posted 🙁
I’ve found a place in the markets here that does Monterey Jack, but it’s pricey.-
Thinking of buying my sister a membership at Costco as a “present” while we’re in Canberra visiting. 😛
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Have you had much time to play Deus Ex yet? I’ve pretty much given up on being stealthy and just kill all the enemies.
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You stopped trying to be the god damned batman?
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Pretty much, stealth was taking too long 😛 I still try and go in silently, but people still end up seeing me :/ so I shoot them in the head. BAM!
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SHAMEFUR DISHPRAY
Haven’t got it, but that achievement for a Pacifist run? Fantastic job if you get that, because srsly. Respect.
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I’m going to try and get that on my next play-through. And man, just got to Shanghai last night. Those accents, so bad, but so hilarious.
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I’ve barely started. planning on getting some more time with it in about half an hour when my son goes to bed though.
I was planning on not killing anyone but how on earth do you get through the intro without killing anyone?-
Apparently it’s pretty easy to just sneak by/run away.
No XP though. -
I actually have no idea, my guess would be to attempt to sneak past everyone, so wait until they walk away and sneak past them or something :/
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With much patience and waiting for them to look the other way.
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Patience? I have no idea what that is….
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I am sorry Strange, LoL is all that i know, I will shut my mouth now T.T
Can somebody please post up that funny staring emote so that I can copy it for my own nefarious purposes in future. Thanks.
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Man I suck at these. I swear that looked a lot better in the comment box.
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Yeah, it’s the whole spacing thing.
In typing the comments, each character takes up the same space, but once’ they’re posted, they convert to whatever font that is, that doesn’t preserve that same spacing.
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Double high five!
ヽ(´ー`)人(´∇`)人(`Д´)ノ
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ahahhaha!! that looks awesome!!
Also,
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
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Er, I’ll put that back, sorry.
┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)-
(\/) (°,,°) (\/)
woobwoobwoobwoob-
He hit me………and it was glorious!
(✌゚∀゚)☞………….ಥ◡ಥ
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Where do you people find these things??
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In the magical world of the intervebs.
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LOL
you guys are hi-la-ri-ous
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For a modest fee, we can teach you our ways.
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It’s always easier when you know the name.
ಠ_ಠ is known as the look of disapproval.
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She’s got the look, (she’s got the look!)
She’s got the look, (she’s got the look!)
What in the world can make a brown-eyed girl turn blue.
When everything I’ll ever do I’ll do for you.
And I go la la la la la!
She’s got the look.…
NA NA NA NA NA, NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA, NA NA NA NA NA, NA NA NA NA NA NA NA!
She’s got the look!-
Brilliant Bish. Bravo,
You should do more covers of rad old music!-
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Indeed. There was something therapeutic about driving down the side-walk mowing down civilians whilst listening to ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ by The Buggles.
I heard you on the wireless as my wanted level rises to 2.
Mowing over civilians in my car as I’m listening to you.
If the car was on fire it didn’t stop you coming through.
Oooh-Wa-oooooh!
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Demaciaaaaaaaa!
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it’s funny cause i now get the reference.
Has anyone purchased the Greek Premium Civilization for AoE Online? If so, was it a good purchase, or was it a waste of money?
Someone in “Remember This?” just mentioned Indania Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Now I really want to play that game again. Someone really needs to do a remake of that game!
Started ‘The Witcher 2’ for the first time last night. Played for about 10 minutes, and experienced 9 minutes of cut scenes and 1 of game-play involving me getting cut down by enemy swordsman whilst getting burned by a dragon. Awesome. I was pretty hungover/drunk last night recovering from mad-monday, so it may have just been me – but has anyone else tried to play this game and get smashed on the ‘tutorial’ level?
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Dude, I died about 20 times in the tutorial level. It’s so hard because they don’t really give you much instruction on combat. On my second play-through, I smashed it, because I knew what signs to get and I knew how to use them effectively. You can change difficulty mid-game so my advice would be to change it to easy until you finish the tutorial level, then change it back to hard once you have the hang of things and get to Chapter 1.
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Cheers Mags, glad to know I’m not the only one. Will give it another go on easy.
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Hopefully my copy comes in this week, but I’ve heard the tutorial (or lack thereof) is a fairly big complaint. I think later on this year they’re releasing a huge patch to revamp things, including tutorial.
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Sounds like the exact game i shouldn’t play. Mostly because i suck at all games. Including Deus Ex, Fallout 3, all RPG’s besides Pokemon and anything that requires strategy. I am Okay at platformer’s though.
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I don’t know about The Witcher 2 but I’ve started the first game multiple times and not gone very far because I barely get a chance to play games on my laptop and when I get around to playing it again I’ve forgotten what I’m supposed to be doing, where I’m supposed to be going and how to do anything.
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Whilst Strange reminds me of the first game, am I doing myself a disservice by not playing it first? Or does number two do a good enough job of explaining the events that occurred in 1?
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There was sexing in Witcher 1.
That about sums up Witcher 1, actually. Art card boobies. -
I played the second game without playing through the first and I managed to figure out what was going on. There is a Witcher wiki if you want to get a backstory before you play through. I did play the start of the first one though and the controls and play style are quite different so it’s probably easier for you to just stick with The Witcher 2.
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Back when The Witcher 2 came out and everyone was all hyped up about it I made the mistake of playing The Witcher. Playing that game killed any desire I had to play The Witcher 2.
I’d say just stick to The Witcher 2.
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Page 6 get?
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Go to your room!
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I am in my room… 😀
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GET TA DA CHOPPA!
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You know how a while back I saw a scale model of the DeLorean in a store window?
Today I saw a pack of three DeLoreans, each one modeled after how it appeared in each movie.
Methinks tomorrow I shall go back and purchase that.
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Nice. Go for it, mate.
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That’s the only logical course of action.
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What if someone buys them before you?
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Yes, what if?
hahaha.
Hahahahaha.
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Then I shall find them and make them an offer they can’t refuse.
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Herpes?
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Argh, Telstra won’t connect a line to my house unless I stick with them for the ho,e phone for 3 months. I can choose to pay $100 to get out of that early. Damn ISP’s for not being able to handle all this for me!
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Hey man, you need to rent a line for internet. Unless you’re getting naked which still requires you have a phone line connected while they set it up.
As I recommended, get the cheapest Telstra plan at $29.95 p/month (which pretty much covers line rental only) and then never make calls.
No matter what you do, you’re going to need some sort of phone connection with Telstra as TPG uses their lines for connection.
At least they have the last few times I’ve moved.
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Yeah that is what they require, thinking I might go with Exetel possibly, as if I stick with Telstra for phone, TPG becomes pretty expensive. Depends on whether I choose to pay the early cancellation fee or not. Just a pain in the ass to deal with different companies, would be so much better if TPG could just deal with Telstra for me 😛
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I would’ve thought that getting naked would mean he wouldn’t need a phone line connected :/
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You still need the line connected, you just don’t have a line rental once it’s installed.
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Sorry, looks like I didn’t place emphasis on getting naked, though now that I think about it, that might just scare the servicemen away.
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Well apparently he’s rocking up at 8am on Saturday, so I’ll probably be naked around that time anyway.
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Dear Team Fortress 2,
Why do you always autobalance me after a push on payload maps?
Cheesed off regards,
Fatty.
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Dear Team Fortress 2,
Why would you autobalance me twice in the same game, after I was doing pretty darn well defending after you initially autobalanced me after some cart pushing? With 2 minutes to go? And nowhere near the Cap point?
Doubly cheesed off regards,
Fatty Fatty Fat Fat.
lambomann007 and ShiggyNinty. I found your secret hideout 😛
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Shush you! 😛
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Your secret is safe with me 😛
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$300 to connect the line. F**k.
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Yeah tis brutal, had the same issue when I moved into my last place.
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🙁 so gay.
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Aren’t monopolies fun?
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No, they’re not. It’s so crap 🙁 the lady was very nice though and was trying to help me out a lot. I’ve never had that dealing with Telstra before. But because it’s going to cost me $299, she lowered my monthly home phone cost by a couple of dollars a month. It’s not much but it was a nice gesture.
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Ahh such a productive day, have spent most of it watching LoL replays.
Stupid apple, if your system is broke I can’t fix your shiz.
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I can!
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Lucky you.
Or not since you have to do work 🙂-
I don’t have any Apple jobs at the moment though! I have no work!
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‘I don’t have any Apple jobs at the moment though!’
And neither does Apple!
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It’s funny because you’re capitalising on the dual meaning of “jobs” in this context!
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What you said is funny because I also capitalised the word jobs.
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Youtube links plz.
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Well here is this years MLG games:
http://tv.majorleaguegaming.com/playlists/23-mlg-raleigh-league-of-legends-vodI was also watching last years World Cyber Games finals on youtube but the 2 games are split into 5 parts each so just search for:
WCG Finals – CLG Vs. Epik
We’re implementing a new system to process incoming payments.
In some ways it is an improvement. In many others, it means we lose some vital functionality. Like being able to easily identify and group payments.
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I feel like you pressed enter, and then realised you weren’t typing into an internal email.
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I forgot the final line.
“This makes me sadface.”
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I am not funny. Ive been trying to get my rage comic done and I dont be funny at all. I have submitted something last night but realised that it was my first attempt at using the comic maker and it was not an attempt at comedy. I need to make another one but this one has to be funny… being funny is no joke.
Hi all, hope you are well.
Check out Drawrace2 please, it is awesome.
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I’m having problems myself.
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Hello!
I wish I could enter but I can’t get to sydney at the moment :/
Oh wells.-
Just enter using my name.. or give me the prize when ytou win…. Im ok with that. 🙂
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I was kind of tempted to do that…
Though I’d happily take the JB voucher…
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Geez, your a walking advertisement, aren’t you? jk
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Nah dude I know it… seriously my fanboyism is crazy.. but they are good games and at 0.99c its hard not to suggest it to you all… If I was getting paid for it I would be ashamed so I guess this is worse???
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Combine FatShady and Chuloopa and you’d have ungodly power in advertising and viral marketing.
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Hey guys!
[Insert witty and humorous observation here]
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You Scottish are all the same!
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[Witty and humourous observation observed]
*chuckles*
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What’s up, What?
My head hurts.
But work is almost over!
Anyone here have any experience customizing an arcade stick? Anyone at all?
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I have all of the components but none of the now how. I even have a IPAc converter If you want them.
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I got them to make a arcade cabinet thingy with a old compulter.
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I’m mainly curious about the best way to do custom art.
I have an HRAPv3 which has pretty decent parts as is.
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Well this is awkward…
If anybody else wants this stuff just ask, I have no use for it since fatshady gave me his. Which is awesome. to bad no one here plays SF4 on PC-
What parts do you have? I was planning on swapping out the buttons and maybe the upgrading the joystick as well.
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Dude that sounds awesome. I WISH I had a use for them 🙂
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I’ve modded 2 HORI Ex2’s so I’ve kinda got the hang of it.
Here’s a tut for your stick, I know you don’t wanna change the parts (even though sanwa parts are much better) but it may help just to know what’s needed to replace the art, as you WILL need to take the thing apart to do it.
http://www.studiosushi.com/tutorial-hori-real-arcade-pro-v3-sa-mod/
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Actually looking at that tut, it looks very similar to modding an Ex2.
So this tut will help a lot more as it’s in english and actually features changing the artwork.
http://pineconeattack.com/2008/12/07/how-to-mod-the-hori-fighting-stick-ex2-with-authentic-arcade-parts-xbox-360-version/For custom art just search shoryuken.com for an art template for your stick, print it out (on good quality paper) and laminate it. Cut the holes out and your new art is ready.
Also if you want to paint the body, I HIGHLY recommend Vinyl Dye. It’s like paint but it actually stains the plastic instead of coating it in a thick layer of paint. It wont chip or peel off either.
Stuff is bloody magic, you can see the vinyl dye results here:
http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Puppy+Licks/the-new-hotness-customising-my-hori-fight-stick–121769.phtml -
That looks awesome!
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HEY! FATSHADY! BECAUSE OF YOU I’VE GOT FREE SH!T TO GIVE AWAY!
Yeah that’s right, that damn article about Trials and his constant discussion about it being a great game etc just infected my mind and I went out and bought the Triple Pack with Limbo, ‘Splosion Man & Trials HD.
Upon a week or two of playing it’s come to my attention that I lack two very important skills necessary for Trials HD. Patience and F**&ING PATIENCE!
I haven’t bitten a controller since the underwater levels of Sonic The Hedgehog on Master System when I was 6 but Trials is just so friggin’ frustrating.
Seriously, my heart rate is elevating as I write this post because I’m thinking about how annoying that damn game is.
So, I figured I’d burn that game. Set it on fire in my yard, take a swig from my bottle of Jack and dance around the flames in my underwear. But wait, perhaps I can do like a Ring style ‘pass-the-curse’ and give it to some sucker from Kotaku.
So now here we are. You want a free copy of the X-box Triple Pack feat. Trials HD (AGGHHHHHHHHHHH), ‘Splosion Man (s’kinda fun but it’s on the same disc as Trials so I feel it’s been tainted) & Limbo (of course I already own this, what self-respecting hipster doesn’t)?
First in, first served. Free postage anywhere in Australia.
Respond below and the curse is yours.
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I’d put my hands up but you’ve already given me the wonderful gift of friendship this week, so I’ll leave it to someone else!
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haha, Its not that bad,
I have the same triple pack i thought it was well worth the 12pounds i paid for it. I beat limbo, got half way in splosion man and did unlocked up to the extreme tracks. I still will get back on the horse but to fixated on my new PC atm. -
Oh pick me!
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BURN IT! BURN IT! BURN IT! BURN IT!
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Dont do it man… keep it..
Seriously I’ll walk you through anything you need. Trust me when I say that the reward is completing this and it is so satisfying to know that you did it… it was one of my best moments in gaming saying that I beat all those tracks and it is totally worth the frustration. Dont give up that easy… chat to me on live whenever you want and I’ll look after you…
Nice idea to give it away but you really should stick at it mate. We are here to help, and there are a few good riders around here that would be happy to lend their time also.
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I agree with FatShady 100%, but just in case he cannot convince you…
*raises hand*
😀
*sigh* I have to catch a bus in half an hour. It’s not really worth trying to play some Deus Ex is it?
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i can die 10 times in a half a hour play of deus ex. Oh you meant progress. No probably not.
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Depends. Do you really want to catch that bus?
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> *sigh* I have to play Deus Ex for half an hour. It’s not really worth trying to catch the bus is it?
FTFY
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Hahaha, I wish. I really need to catch the bus so I can make it to my appointment in time.
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Just don’t let the pigeon drive the bus.
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Let-Pigeon-Drive-Bus/dp/078681988X
If your offspring doesn’t have this amazing book, buy it. BUY IT NOW!
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I’m gonna go with “The Pigeon Finds A Hotdog” instead. And I definitely won’t let the pigeon drive the bus.
Those books actually look kinda cool though….-
The pigeon wants a puppy = War & Peace of children’s books.
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“Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist- I really believe he is Antichrist- I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my ‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you- sit down and tell me all the news.”
“Woof.”
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Nailed it.
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I just opened a can of Diet Coke (from Serrels’ stash in the fridge). Maaaan, the bubbles hurt my tongue.
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I imagine it was like this.
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Wait, isn’t Serrels’ real sekrit stash PEPSI MAX?!??!
😮 :O
Is this a decoy stash?
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It’s a trap!
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Yep. I’m worried she stole someone else’s secret stash. Like maybe one of the Sugar Girls’. Scary!
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I guess they’d just trail their fingers through a glass of diet drink to turn it into the real stuff…
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I’ve seen him drink diet coke as well. I *think* the office has an official freebie stash. Unless it actually belongs to the Sugar girls, in which case… oh god. D:
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It’s too bad really, we were beginning to like Tracey.
Maybe you can blame Tad instead?
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It’s cool, their skin is water soluble, so if you just throw the coke at them as you run away, you should be safe.
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I like to think they’re a group of women so beautiful that it hurts to look at them.
This comes to mind:
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Hey at least you aren’t allergic to it
You guys may recall, due to a night time absence four nights in a row, that I was doing sound for the ANU law revue a couple of weeks back, and they uploaded one of the songs from in the performance, with absolutely no work from me (I changed one switch so that the acoustic was more or less at the right level…), but I figured some of you might enjoy it, so, Hey There Hot Tutor.
At least the audience seemed to enjoy it, but it was the Saturday night, which had a fairly good audience. Also, my friend Tom is the guy in the middle, and he’s the reason I had to get off my computer…
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Oh bollocks, I ballsed up my html. Imagine there’s a link in there for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk5JtDXOrTg
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I can’t hear it all that well at uni, but that sounds… disturbingly accurate 😛
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That Tom, making you do stuff.
I don’t like him, no sir.-
He’s a pretty cool cat really.
He played Danny in my school’s production of Grease.
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So I’m at work.
Ulead VideoStudio crashed.
Like a fucking dart. In to the ground.
Just… ARGHH!!!!
Took my full day’s work with it!
All of it! Gone!
So I am now rage quitting work before I punch my screen.
In the screen.
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Oh, and that really, really sucks man :/
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I see your problem.
You’re using a Ulead product.
HEY-OH!
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http://memegenerator.net/instance/9794216
I feel for you.
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Man that effing sucks, doesn’t it have an autosave feature? I use it for Vegas, it has saved LIVES.
LoL tonight? I need to play more against people as I’ve only got like two games under my belt.
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go with Rocketman and Numbers, they’re in need of more PvP and you won’t be up against the toughies
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Alright so low level team:
me
lamboman007
Blaghman
Bish
NumbersSounds like a team to me! Jamesmag and dawdle… you guys are both pretty high, yeah?
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Haha no, both Bish and Blaghs are higher than me. I’m level 8 bro 😛
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And dawdle doesn’t play LoL, she watches bawble 😛 but yes he is a high level.
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Low level pool is something like: You, me Blaghsy, Numbers, lambo, Rocketman, Harli depending on how mad her DotA skills transfer, Mags, Trjn?
Numbers can’t play weekdays bar Friday, Rocketman, needs some more AI playing to familiarise himself with how to play, and to find a character he likes, Mags is moving, Trjn is Starcrafting. I guess we’ll see who’s available whenever.
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I’ll be attempting to play LoL over 3G and there MAY be a wireless network that’s unsecure I can use 😛
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I’m level 11 and expect to be in that sort of level range for some time.
Strangely enough, I think have the most wins of people in our level range. Woohoo and all that.
Really, it’s just a matter of if I feel like playing, because availability is rarely a problem when I constantly lurk on TS.
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You didn’t mention Steve-O…?
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Steve-O is far from low level, as is Jo and CrabJiffy.
I am however wondering why Gorzy was left out 😛
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Oh oops, I didn’t realise he was only naming the low level people. My bad!
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Yeah lower levels is more of a curse than simply practice, as you get levels, you can put tweaks in your masteries, increasing your stats a little each time. It’s not much, but it IS a disadvantage for these guys if they tag up with us. Plus the level 12+ guys have the spell flash, very disadvantageous for our learners here
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Hahaha, slipped my mind. Haven’t seen him for what, about a week? Old man memory, man. Don’t even remember what I had for lunch. Also where did I put my cup of tea.
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I think Techy, Crabman, Jo and Steve-O sit in the “Actually-knows-how-to-play-the-game-well” tier of players. Plus they’re all around the summoner level 20 mark.
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Robo Warrior, we’ve been over this (I think, you may not have been on TS then), it’s a weekday today
– Numbers
P.S. Is it weird that I’ve started to sign Kotaku related posts/e-mails with Numbers?
If I go super, super crazy fast with packing. I might be able to jump on for a game.
I think I’ve only got 5…
Also, I’ll try harder to join in tonight, last night I got caught up with stuff, sorry bout that.
I don’t have many games, and I’m only level 12, so I could join in!
I can always be an extra if you need me!
I have 2 PvP wins woop woop woop woop
We should probably split up into two teams for PvP, group the summoner levels together and mostly play with your team.
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Kotaku AU Tier 1 and Tier 2 teams? A good idea
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Yes that’s not elitist at all
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Until they catch up at least! 😛
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Can’t play tonight but will be on Thursday night. Excite
So I just sat down at my desk after an intense 2hour meeting. I decided to listen to some tunes on my phone. I may have forgot the volume was on super duper loud (set to 11) and it is almost silent in the office. Now my ears hurt.
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*high five*
Legend of Zelda – Main Theme on Marimba
not a big fan of zelda, but this is absolutely brilliant!
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“not a big fan of zelda”
HAHAHA.
Get Out.
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Sir, I have just the image for you.
http://i51.tinypic.com/2hn2j3a.jpg-
Thanks Bish, I knew you’d deliver!
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I have never played a Zelda, Mario or Metroid game and I don’t intend to ever change that.
Well, except for a bit of Mario Kart 64 back in the day.-
You’re tearing me apart Jo!
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WHY? They are some of the best designed and polished games I’ve played! And I don’t even say this with nostalgia goggles, since the first Zelda I really played was TP, my only Metroid was Fusion (via emulator), and Mario 64(via emulator for a bit) before Galaxy. They are amazing games(even if the first Zelda is horrendously dated and doesn’t stand up to modern design, ok, even OoT doesn’t stand up to modern dungeon design, but shh).
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Don’t you dare say anything bad about OoT! I won’t stand for it!
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I’m sorry Cracks, I am, it is a wonderful game, and I love it, but in my opinion, Twilight Princess is better in almost every way, particularly dungeon design, which really took a step up for Wind Waker. (Though the Spirit Temple is damn good)
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Nostalgia > good design.
I’m playing through a copy of Wind Waker that HindenLagen lent me at the moment, and it’s a damn shame I didn’t play this game sooner. So wonderful.
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I haven’t played it.
Honestly, I’m just kinda hoping they port it to the 3ds…
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So you and many say but nothing Nintendo does makes me interested in the slightest.
I don’t like Japanese style of games, hate Mario as a character and do not care about the others.
Even the genres of platformer and action/adventure don’t interest me much and I have probably played similar games over the years so I doubt I am missing out.On top of that to play them would require buying a Nintendo console just so I can buy a bunch of games I don’t care for then let is sit there gathering dust for eternity.
I concur with Blaghs. GTFO.
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+1
Oh man, their Gerudo Valley one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWhOZM5WyPA&feature=related
SO GOOD.
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Awesome!
Do they do Sheik’s Theme? That’s always been a favourite OoT tune for me.-
Unfortunately not.
BUT OMG THEY HAVE ANOTHER VERSION OF GERUDO VALLEY WITH GUITAR!
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Have you heard the Zelda stuff by Jim Cook? He did a metal version of some popular Zelda songs. It’s amazing.
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Yeah, that stuff is pretty awesome.
Or there’s a Zelda medley by Freddie Wong’s brother (Jimmy) that is pretty good.
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Who here is excited for skyward sword WOOO
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me?
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ME ME ME ME SO VERY MUCH ME SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY NINTENDO!
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It will be such a good game
I just hope aussie can get that awesome bundle here. Although buying it off the net will be awesome. Im loving the graphical crossover between both Windwaker and twilight Princess-
I know it’s a weird thing to be impressed by, but that hair. When the majority of game still have the weird blob on top of their heads that is supposed to be hair, and a game running off the Wii has some damn good looking -even if stylised- hair, well, it impresses me. Ninty really are the masters of getting the most from their own hardware.
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This. Want bundle!
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Flying on those birds is gonna be awesome too. It really makes you feel that 25 years of Zelda is being put into this game. They always get links hair perfect lol, I bet they spend the most time on that
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Oh man, I just realised, one of my friend’s, who is my age, is getting married on Friday.
This really makes me feel like I’ve wasted my life.
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Theres plenty of time to find that special someone 😛
Give him our best wishes lol-
Well, it’s a girl, and she lives over in the UK now, so thankfully I don’t have to go and be depressed at the wedding, but I probably won’t give her the best wished of random internet people, even if I understand the thought behind it…
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Well true considering the random internet person couldn’t even get the gender of the person getting married right lol
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Aren’t you like 20?
Dude, I’m 24 and my best friend from high school is having his 2nd kid and I just bought all of the Batman Animated Series on DVD.
Who’s the winner in that situation?
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Yeah, but: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfpfmhrHM3E
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Ha. Yeah. I’ve noticed it as well. It’s no longer birthday parties it’s engagement parties etc.
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I was the biggest buzz-kill at her engagement party, I felt so bad about it, but it was a large group of people, many whom I didn’t know, and when that happens I tend to sit in a corner, refusing to talk to people and being overall miserable.
I am a terrible friend.
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I’m 20 and one of my best mates from high school is also about have his second kid. And I spent my weekend reading Deadpool comics.
Totally okay with that.
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YEAH! Learn from me and BDKIAF, growing up is over rated!
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It’s not just the age thing, and not a matter of the fact that I’m forever alone(The last time I even held hands with a girl was before I was going to school), but more the fact that I have achieved absolutely nothing of note in my 20 years. What can I say I’ve done in my life? I have a couple of bad internet videos, I have more friends that I know via the internet than in real life(though you guys are pretty damn rad), and uhh, yeah. I’m a gamer who rarely actually plays games. :/
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Think of it this way: you all end up equal in the end.
Besides, better to be alone than in a endless succession of failed and damaging relationships that just drain you of money, friends and self esteem until you just stick with someone out of desperation and live the rest of you life in misery and near poverty with nothing to show for it but a crappy house and a couple of ratbag kids to come back to from some grind of a job that drives you to divorce, child support and eventual alcoholism.
I guess what I am saying is it could be worse.
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you should all cheer up. Look at it this way, your only twenty. You still got loads of time to do something with your life if you want blaghs. I have a similar situation but im not sad or anything.
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I’m a little bi-polar, in the loosest sense, and I seem to be in a bit of a low spot atm, always depressing when this happens(get it, depressing?), but I’ll get over it.
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Humf, I’m 28.
One of the guys at my high school reunion was on his second marriage…
foreveralone.jpg
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So hire a hooker, get married to her on Thursday (I guess pay her for however long the ceremony goes for?), and BAM, you win the race.
Im really getting annoyed though with Nintendo. And not because of anything bad, its the way there teasing me with the great games I want them so bad and having 10 free games I have played before is making me ant them EVEN more ha ha. But a good game is one that takes long to make and Quality is better than quantity. So I will be happy either way ha ha I’ll just have to wait
TRJN!
EMAIL ME! I NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE!
dcrowd(one,two)(at)gmail(dot)com
standard substitution for le bracketz.
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Emailed.
No mention so far this page, and Chuloopa is conspicuously absent, so here it is.
SPACE MARINE, BIATCH!
So, um, yeah… Get it.
Thursday can’t come soon enough.
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SPACE MARINADE, by Martha Stewart.
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STAR CRAFT, by Blizzard.
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Well played good sir!
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Ding ding ding! We have a winner, folks!
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It’s possible he glued his hands together making a chainsword… and then glued his head to his shoulder.
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I think you can see the future… That’s probably what’s going to happen to me this weekend…
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Don’t you see? By doing that, he is the chainsword!
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I’m hating that everyone is getting into LoL just as I’m not going to have internet for a couple of weeks 🙁
Everyone will be a lot better than me by the time I get back into it 🙁
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I’m sure numbers will still be worse. 😀
(I’m sorry Lucifer9783, I am far too mean)
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Can’t breathe laughing too much.
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I’m sorry Numbers but I laughed at this too 😛 but he’s the only person that dies more than I do 😛
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I know you’ll get better in time human. I’m already seeing you improving since you started.
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I know I’ll get better 😛 but by the time I get back on, everyone will have surpassed me 😛
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* all the newbies well have surpassed me
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It’s a simple game. Once you latch on to a character that fits your playstyle it’s pretty easy to get decent scores and not look like a complete failure.
Then just act like you knew how you got those scores and nobody will think that you’re Nooby McNubcake First Lord of the Feeders.
Seriously, there isn’t much you need to do in order to get to the level most of us mid/low level guys are. Getting slightly past that point can’t be much harder.
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1. Purchase Garen
2. Hide in bush
3. (ಠ益ಠ) Demaciaaaaaaaaaa!
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Hahahahaha xD
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lololololol!!
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So i haven’t seen my nan in more years than i can remember, that is until today..
Last time i remember seeing her was when i was little. She was always good to my sister and I, but mums side of the family is a very unstable one with mum holding grudges the likes of which a dwarf would find hard to believe.
I always miss her – and i have always lived with the constant fear that one day she would be gone, and i wouldn’t have seen her since that time oh-so-long ago…
That is until i got the call last night.. It was my mum… her brother had called her and let he know nan has 2 days, tops, so if we all wanted to see her, this would be the last time…
The news hit me hard last night but i didn’t know what to think.. so i told work i would be in late and went with mum, my sister and bee to see nan…
The place she was in.. more to say, the living tomb she was in, was easily the most depressing sight i had come across in my life. It was an aged care home, where no smile greeted you and the place was just dull, lifeless and had an air of waiting to it.. waiting for the inevitable…
We walked to her room and she wasn’t there. Her bed was empty. But so were the other 3 in the room.
We went to the common area, which was filled with aged people. Each of them looked like they had more than their fair share of tales, yet no will to tell them.
The sadest thing is mum and stacey couldn’t spot her – it had been that long… They couldn’t think of what she would look like.
I was the first to spot her, sitting in a large wheelchair, asleep and hunched over as the other wheelchair-bound souls were quietly watching daytime TV.
Some didn’t even register us entering the room.
Waking her was tough…
Talking to her was tougher, but worth it.. in a sense.
The nurse took her and us over to a quiet corner.. when she woke up fully and we explained who she was she smiled.
We sat and spoke to her for a while. Trying hard as we could to make sense of the things she was trying to say. She was so weak. So tired. It broke my heart to see her like that.
But then, every now and then, she would smile and laugh as best she could and a spark seemed to enter her eyes for a moment..
When it came close to us having to go to get to our workplaces, around 11.30am, after being there for around an hour and half, she seemed to go quiet. She didn’t say much of anything.
Mum asked her if she knew who she was… and nan just shook her head.. all this time and she didnt’ recognise mum. or maybe in a moment forgot her.. Mum, who is a strong person like i try to be finally started to buckle…
Whats worse is i don’t think it was the dementia. I think it was the fact that we had to leave so soon after not having seen her for so long. I feel like we let her down.
I sincerly hope that isn’t the case… i hope i misread the situation.
It was hard to make sense of anything today.
My expression stayed stone-clad until just after a bathroom break at maccas on the way back to the city. Bee asked me if i wanted to go back.. i said i don’t know…
I seemed to have one of those movie moments. You know the ones. When a persons face stays the same yet a single tear rolls down one cheek.
I just didn’t know what to do.
Now i’m at work nearing the end of the day.. just willing her to live a couple more days so i can get back to her on friday morning… i’ve missed her so much, and i really can’t explain how lost i feel at the moment.
Even now the tears well up in my eyes at the thought, even try as i may to hold them back.
Never take your families for granted. Never hold grudges. It’s always something that will be regretted by you and those closest to you.
I’m sorry to pour this all out here.. i am just one of those who can’t voice what i think and feel, and rather need to write it all out.
Its strange.. my dad’s mum passed aways in her sleep. The last days of her life were in peaceful sleep surrounded by family.. there was a humility to it… but today.. today..
I never want to grow old, if that’s what growing old is… she deserves so much better..
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tl;dr – i am a sad panda
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shit…. way to start a page.. sorry guys :s
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Dude that part about taking them for granted is so true. I had a feud recently with my grandparents who said some pretty mean stuff about me. I just said fuck it a few weeks later and went to vist cause when push comes to shove family are the people that have been there for you and would help you in a heartbeat. You know what they are the most important people.
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Ouch, dude. My maternal grandmother passed away last year, so I kind of know how you feel.
I agree with you, though, that you should never take your family for granted, or hold grudges. Blood runs thicker than water.
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/hugs Chuloopa
this is what makes us human, don’t feel bad for sharing it.
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I’m really sorry to hear that. The thought that my grandmother will someday be unable to recognise me scares me a lot. All I can offer are e-hugs and my deepest sympathies.
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That’s a sad story dude. Almost brought a tear to my eye…family is really important though. People should never forget that.
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My best wishes for her. And stay strong Loops, which is really a stupid thing to say, as strength is nothing in the face of sorrow, but I hope you understand my meaning.
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Chuloopa, we are all good friends here, you ever need anything, give us a shout.
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*robohugs Chuloopa* Really sorry to read this human.
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My dad’s step-dad, pretty much my Grandpa has been in hospital for three weeks now. When he was first admitted, we were told his kidneys had shut down and that he had a couple of days tops, so we went and said our goodbyes. A week passed and he was still kicking along, although he wasn’t all that coherent in his speech I went and said goodbye again and talked to him for a couple of hours. I haven’t seen him since that last visit, and am kind of scared to go see him because I don’t want my last memory of him to be suffering from jaundice and on the verge of death. Should I just stop being a coward and go see him? Or has anyone else felt like this, where you don’t want to taint the good memories you have?
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It may be a bit different for me, but I have all these memories of my Grandfather from when I was young, and he’s currently slowly dying of cancer, and while it’s kind of sad to see him how he currently is, it hasn’t changed the fact that I still remember, however vaguely, him as he used to be. I’d recommend seeing him again, as much as it may hurt.
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Yeah, I guess I will go and see him again. As much as it will disturb me, it would be nothing compared to what he’s going through alone in there.
Also Loops, I must have pasted over it in my first post on this but:
ManHugs all round. Having a family member who is terminal sucks. 🙁
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Go Steve-O.
My grandfather was awake but not quite there for about two weeks before he passed. I went in every chance I got. It was painful and stressful at the time, but I always hope that he knew i was there and would be kicking myself to this day had I not gone. I sometimes remember those few weeks, but all my happy memories with him far surpass it.
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Dood I know what you’re going through. I had almost exactly the same situation with my own grandmother about a month ago. *hugs* Can’t say much at a time like this really, but family and hugs are good!
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I feel for ya man,
I’ve been there too, to see a loved one slip away to dementia in a depressing place like that is horrible.You’re right, nobody deserves to go out like that.
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Hope you get a chance to make it back. At least you have made this visit and won’t have any further regrets.
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Also, don’t know if it’s relevant at all. But my girlfriend’s grandmother is sort of the same. She’s got dementia and a lot of the time doesn’t remember my girlfriend and sometimes even forgets my girlfriend’s mum. She was meant to be dead about a year ago according to the doctors and she wants to die. She hates not being able to feed herself and in her moments of clarity, she remembers how she used to be. But my girlfriend and her mum still go and visit her, because once she’s gone, she’s gone and you’ve got no way back if you regret not going to see her.
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Nothing I can say will really mean as much as I hope to convey. If this helps, good. If it doesn’t, ignore me for the fool that I am.
When my grandmother died, I was on a month long school camp in central Queensland. She’d had a stroke and a few weeks later passed after another stroke. There was very little contact between me and my family, there just wasn’t the opportunity.
I left the camp and took the longest bus journey of my life home so that I could fly down to Melbourne with my family for the funeral.
It was not a good time.
I’ve also seen the dementia wards in nursing homes. But I’ve never seen a relative go through it.
So I’ve been through the parts of what you’re going through but not the whole. Not really.
Still, trust me when I say that it will never diminish the good memories. Remember that spark in her eyes. Remember the moments spent with her as a child. Don’t regret the missed opportunities, treasure the ones taken.
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/hugs loops
I get where you’re coming from. On the weekend me, my mum and my nana had to help get my great grandmother ready to move from her old peoples home to another, smaller old peoples home that will be able to provide her with more round the clock care.
She’s not on deaths door or anything, at least not to my knowledge, and she’s still pretty much with it mentally but I still felt terrible because I’d hardly ever seen her. She’s my mums godmother and because she (my great grandma) is very religious she takes that very seriously. She’s always being kind to my mother, me and my sister. Every christmas she’d send me and my sister an advent calendar and now that we’re older she sends quite a bit of money. She even gave us a bunch of her stuff she’d no longer need in her new place.
I really feel that I should have gotten to know her better. That I should have visited more. Luckily there’s still time for that. Time I wont waste.
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Loops hugs.
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I have been taking my Grandma for granted, I haven’t spoken to her in a while. I better call her tomorrow I think.
Thanks for sharing loops, it is easy to forget how little time we really get to spend with or families. It can all disappear so quickly.
All the best for you and your nan. I hope you get to spend a little more time with her, even thou it will be hard.
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My mum and your mum should get together and have a grudge off.
her family is the same. Always fighting over dumb meaningless shit and ruining their lives over it.
Her brother, my uncle, was diagnosed with cancer last year. Everything was looking okay until Monday morning when he was told he has about six months before complications set in.
This is the ONLY brother she will speak to and she’s talking about how she doesn’t want to go back because her other brothers will be there.
Anyway, I hope you get to see her again.
Thinkin’ of ya, bro!
Blaghman:
First I was all D,: & then I was like >:( & then I was like 😀 because I just heard that I am not the youngest in TAY, and that I do not hold a grudge, now Rocketman on the other hand…
Recap: D,: >:( 😀 and made especially for Rocketman: ಠ_ಠ
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I’m sorry for laughing Numbers 😛
Chances are you’ll be better than me by the time I get internets again anyway 😛
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No worries, everybody needs a good laugh every once in a while, just don’t make insulting me a regular thing 😛
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Uhhh, yeah… About that…
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well you can always mute people on TS so you don’t hear them 😛
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Bahahahahaha 🙂
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What? You aren’t the youngest on TAY? How old are you anyway? Hmmm?
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You know what? Frack it, I’m buying Talon tonight!
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Yay! Just do it! You’re not even scared!
Fuck my head is killing me….
anyone got some good office remedies shy of doping myself up with drugs?
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Caffeine. Until the withdrawal effects kick in it could potentially help. Or it would make it worse, it varies.
Otherwise, lots of water, and YELLING AT EVERYONE WITH LOUD NOISES AN- no, wait, that wouldn’t help, nevermind.
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well i definatly dont want to make things worse. my head feels like im being brain raped by liara
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i take that back be cause i would complain if that actually happened.
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Space Marine impressions are starting to hit neoGAF, so far opinions are positive!
I was a little concerned when people mentioned that there were still no reviews this close to launch, but I feel better now as if anyone would tear the game to pieces it’d be GAF 😀
Dearest Blaghman,
To beat on yourself for not having achieved anything of significance when you’re only 20 years old is insane. Hell, a good portion of that time was spent with poop in and around your pants. What I’m saying is, in the grand scheme of it all, 20 years is such a short amount of time. As far as I’m concerned, all that really matters in life is to feel alive. If your measurement of an accomplished life is based on what you contribute I can’t imagine you’ll ever be able to truly live.
Best regards,
BDKIAF
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“To beat on…” or “To beat OFF…”
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“To beat on…” or “To beat OFF…”
im pretty sure Blaghman would prefer the latter to the former, am i right? -
Thanks Man.
I know I’m young, and I know that it’s stupid to try and measure my life based on some insipid idea of accomplishments, but that’s how it goes. I appreciate your comment, and I know that I’m really just being a twat with what I say, but sometimes I need to do more than whistle to get myself out of a slump, and at least your words help.
I don’t really know what I’m trying to say here…
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from what i understood what you wrote. you want to accomplish more in your life, and you talk about it more than act upon it.
corny i know but if ou want those milestones its just a matter of putting the first foot forward and making the other follow.-
then again im just talking out my arse
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But then there’s the problem, what’s the point? In the end, we all end up the same.
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Sorry, that’s a little too depressing.
I just… I have no goals in life, I have no idea what I want to do, but I don’t want to end up in some crappy job, dreading each working day, even if it does pay the bills. So I end up doing nothing, hoping any form of inspiration can strike.
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I am the same, except for the having a job that pays bills. I dread work each day though and I have no idea what I want to do with life.
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No-one knows what they want to do in life, generally they just stumble into something and run with it.
Thing is if you want to do anything you need money and thus a job.
Whatever job you get will probably suck, everyone hates their job except for the very lucky but its better than being poor and having nothing.Life has no purpose – you just exist. If you want more than that you have to do something about it yourself, waiting won’t get you anywhere I am afraid
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When I was 20 I hadn’t achieved much at all. I was just doing a science degree but I had no goals or ambitions. Never thought I’d get married, (I thought it was a stupid idea, plus hadn’t really work out how relationships worked). I didn’t know what I was going to do but I just kept fumbling forward in the hopes of working it out.
It was kinda like a game with no tutorial or instructions and lots of possibilities but they don’t tell you what the point is. You muck around and you find things you can do that are cool or fun, then there are other parts that are boring or repetitive but maybe have rewards. Eventually you come up with your own play style and character build that you are happy with, just takes some experimentation. And finally after a while you actually get a bit better at it and don’t feel like such a n00b.
I’m now 28, I’m married and am just about to buy a house. (If we ever find a decent one we can afford.) I have worked for about 5 years as a scientist and am doing a teaching degree part time online because I eventually want to get out of science.
I’m not l33t by any means but I’m having fun playing, and I think thats the best us gamers can hope for. Isn’t it?
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This is something I understand. I dreaded getting a job, and felt this horrible inertial pull towards the APS from the time I was quite young.
Now I’ve got the job, and it’s pretty much exactly as I feared it would be (some days even worse). I dread going to work pretty much always – even the thought of it is enough to ruin a weekend.
I’m lucky that I have some time every night to work on my writing, or I would be pretty much lost, sanity-wise.
My advice is to take your time, figure out what you want, and then begin to make a move. 20 is not old – you’ve plenty of time yet, no point rushing into the wrong course of action.
If you’re still sitting in the same room in the same situation in ten years time, then I will commence mocking 😛
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So you’re going to mock me? 😛
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I’ve known you five years, and your situation has changed plenty even in that time! You moved interstate, got married and had another child, just to name a couple of examples!
I think, then, that mocking might be slightly uncalled for…
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But I still don’t know what I’m gonna BE when I grow up!
And 5 years already?! Yikes!
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I’m 35 and I’ve only ever had a job for 5 weeks. When I was your age I was told by the DSS lady assigned to my case that I was unemployable(what an ignorant bitch!). I never finished any study I started (left school halfway through year 12, left my baking apprenticeship course halfway through…), I still don’t know what I want to be when(if) I grow up but I know my life has meaning because of the effect knowing me has had on the people around me.
Just getting to know you here Blaghman has been for me, a privilege and I feel like my life is better for my experiences interacting with you. You’ll figure out what makes you happy eventually and I know for a fact that confidence in yourself is a huge part of that, but trust me, not many people really knows exactly what they’re doing lifewise, they just live it and see what happens.
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Oh yeah, and I didn’t have my first kid until I was 24 and I definitely wasn’t ready for it. Didn’t even get married until I was 32 or 33. Nobody’s really missing out by not having kids or getting married early. Especially with marriage, I think the older you are, the more likely you are to know what you want and need from a marriage.
whoa double post!
sorry about that
I love Microsoft…Stop laughing at me and let me explain. I just went down to EB Games and purchased a retail version of Age of Empires Online: The Greeks. It cost me $25, the same as buying it online (I think). What made it awesome though was that not only did it come with a bonus in game store, it came with a poster and a hotkey reference sheet. A REFERENCE SHEET! 😀 For the same price as getting it online! More normal retail editions of games (not collectors/limited) need stuff like this! All you usually get these days is a “manual” that tells you how to install it. But seriously, a poster and a reference sheet! AWESOME!!!! 😀
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That’s pretty awesome dude. HIGH FIVE!
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STEVE HOLT HIGH FIVE!
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So… basically what AoE 1 and 2 had?
That just might be it you know, a throw back for all the guys who remember the old days.-
Didn’t most games have things like that back then? (I wouldn’tt know, I’m too young to remember)
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I remember when game manuals where almost novels, not the sorry inserts we get now. Those were the days…
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For the most part I guess?
But genres had their own sort of special item. RPGs had maps, flight sims had their manuals modelled like, well, flight manuals, RTSes had tech tree maps, that sort of thing.
I agree though, getting physical bonuses for a purchase always feels so good. Like physical proof of your money spent.
I miss those days.
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If I remember AoE 1 and 2 right, and I do, they also came with big, thick, detailed, beautiful manuals… God I loved those things.
I’m pretty sure that’s how I learned history.
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its how we all learned history.
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I learned Chinese History from Dynasty Warriors.
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apparently that is a really good way to learn about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms o_O
I just watched Red Cliff 😀
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I should really finish watching that.
I watched the first half maybe two years ago and never got around to the 2nd.
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I don’t think I’ll be joining in on the lols tonight. I really fail at trying harder…
Reading TAY at the moment is actually incredibly easy if one ignores all the LoL references 😀
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Sorry 🙁
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Ha, it’s not a bad thing – I’m just surprised at how much people are talking about it! 😛
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Nice to know I’m ignored by some humans here, pfft
Apology’s to all on teamspeak.
Apparently either my headset mic or my line in is busted and I am not sure how long it has been so.
The mic built in to my imac still picks up sound so I may have thought people could hear me but not really.
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If a mic is plugged in anywhere on a computer, any built-in microphones are turned off…
Sorry Jo…
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On Macs, you option click the sound options in the top right on the menu bar and you can choose which microphone is the input. Unfortunately, TeamSpeak locks to whichever is active when you open the app (it’s somewhat buggy on Mac), so I just quit out and change it if I forget to change to headset.
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Changing sound input/output can work on a per application basis too. So you can make it so that your browser does sound through speakers while TeamSpeak does it through headset.
Haven’t really worked out why I’d need to split the outputs/inputs (aside from recording multiple audio streams on the same computer) but the function exists.
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Man you say that but with the mic plugged in the inbuilt mic does pick up sound at the moment. So something is screwy.
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In TeamSpeak you need to change the input in the preferences. It’s weird like that but I gave a quick demonstration to everyone last night of what it sounds like to alternate between headset and internal mic.
Then we talked about how we all hate the sound of our voices.
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I suggest you try violence.
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It’s always the answer to everything!
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When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Particularly kneecaps.
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If you’re desperate enough, a set of headphones into the microphone port can do the trick.
You may also need to be MacGuyver
Good morning all.
I just have 8 hours of work before an awesome extended weekend. Driving down to Kings Beach near Caloundra to camp for the night tomorrow, then onward to Kings Cliff south of the Gold Coast for my cousins wedding before flying back Monday. I’m going to be totally disconnected however, and will be absent from TAY, TS and LoL, but I’m going to cram in as much as I can today!
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League of Legends flaff, feel free to ignore, people who don’t play:
http://i51.tinypic.com/jjp7w6.jpg
http://i55.tinypic.com/29lcsx4.jpg
Was sent these images. Two boots? I think you need to up your game, sir.-
Haha, somebody’s trollin.
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Holiday?
Jelly. Wobble wobble.
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Yep. 4 days of sitting on a beach drinking beer and one day of sitting at a wedding drinking beer. It’s gonna be tough drinking those beers too, but you know – the things you do for your family. 😀
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A massive thanks to everyone for their warm wishes yesterday 🙂
It’s really great to know i’m not alone.
After a good nights sleep i’m feeling much better today and spoke to mum last night who’s actually going back this morning with her brother (shock horror)
Hopefully they’ll start patching things up…
But thanks again, everyone!
You guys really are an awesome bunch 🙂
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Oh and thank you for letting me vent without calling me a big pansy. lol
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Dude talking about things doesn’t make you a pansy. Or if it does i am glad to call myself one.
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“The League of Extraordinary Pansies” has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?
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Very nice lambo!
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We could rename TAY: The Vase.
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not a bad idea Jo
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Reviews for space marine are starting to trickle out.. all of them good, thus far
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/09/06/space-marine-review/
and the verdict page of a german website
http://www.gamepro.de/test/spiele/xbox360/rollenspiel/warhammer_40000_space_marine/1971333/warhammer_40000_space_marine_p4.html
I like the german one juist because german is fun to read – een the bits you don’t understand.
so far i have read about 4 reviews, none under 80% 🙂
FUZZ YEAH!
God damn Big W, is anyone else trying to order Dead Island from their 7 day bargain crap site?
http://www.bigw.com.au/Offer/BigGameBargains
Whenever I click on Dead Island I keep getting a “0 products found” message.
Great F*&king promotion you a$$e$.
BLOODY *&^$# (&$% &% DONKEY &^$# GERBLE &*^$@# CLOWN *&%#$ IN A CONVERTIBLE!!!!!
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Mmm, haing a second look at my post it may have been a slight over-reaction, but it has been one of those mornings and this just seemed to be the cherry on top of the crap cake.
I am going to go and break things until I feel better.-
Breaking things is always the most reasonable course of action.
I’m just smug because the fact that it’s borked doesn’t affect me because it’s only for console versions.
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Did you try hitting it with your club?
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Yes, many times, stupid thing isn’t changing Grrr.
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The games not even listed on the Big W website. How can you “save $29” if you don’t even sell the product?
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Have you tried switching it off then on again?
It’s a sign that you should buy space marine instead
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As Space Marine was listed as tomorrow’s special, I had planned on purchasing both, now I have the feeling I won’t be able to get that either.
Yaaarrrggghhh!
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Same thing happening to me. Hope they fix it ASAP, or I’m gonna have to buy from ozgameshop and wait longer 😐
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Except it seems ozgameshop are out of stock. WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?!
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AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!
I was just about to go and check them out.
I reiterate;
AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!-
I am currently channeling your Barbarian rage.
AAARRRGGHHH!
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Anyone else amazed that SotC and ICO are getting released in Australia than in America?
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First Xenoblade, then this?
REVOLUTION (not really).
We got The World Ends With You, like, 2 days early too.-
I loved the world ends with you, it was some great fun, Story was pretty good and Man dat combat.
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Two screens at once!
*brain explodes*
I’m on ~98.7% completion on that too.
I think I’m missing 1 or 2 pins. :/
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Than what? I’m not sure what you mean.
NA release date 27th Sep.
Aus release date 29th Sep.
EU release date 30th Sep.
LoL was great fun last night. Finally think I’ve found the mark with Malzahar. And my god Dr Mundo is fun to play!
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Winning is fun!
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Indeed it is!
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Fracking Teemo.
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Remember how I was all like “If we win this, it’s all because of me” at the start?
ヽ(´ー`)ノLike, ignoring that other guy who was playing.
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I think that run with Mundo was actually the best run of any character I’ve ever done! 15/5/16 or something.
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Wow! That’s awesome, going to be a perma then?
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Yeah, I think so. I’ll tweak my runes and masteries tonight 🙂
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So, back at work.
Redoing yesterdays work.
Will quit multi-trim after every hour to save progress.
DAMN YOU, ULEAD!
I wish I didn’t hate coffee.
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Rockstar? S’pretty much the best coffee equivalent.
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This. It’s so good that it gives me the shakes.
And the orange one is D-licious
Just don’t drink monster.. that stuff is abhorrent
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The Rockstar shakes, my favourite past time.
Yeah, the juice one… Oh man, brb, gotta go to the shop.
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I shall look for it at 7 eleven post haste!
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Coffee is the best coffee equivalent. Rockstar tastes like ass.
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I’d rather not ponder the experiences you’ve been through to be able to make that comparison…
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He has just been to Thailand…
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No, monster and mother taste like ass
Rockstar (orange or purple) are great, if not stupid sweet
Red Bull is junk UNLESS mixed with vodka or, peferably, Jager
V is pretty cool – i think the tangy taste wakes me up more than the drink. Kinda like sherbert in a can.
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Farmers Union Iced Coffee.
Nuff said.-
That stuff is fkn golden!
God bless my south australian girlfriend for introducing me to it! 😀
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Earlier this year I installed some computers in the factory where they make it and drank it for free pretty much strait off the production line.
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I like to think that you weren’t supposed to drink it straight from the production line, but had to do it anyway.
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Heh, just move a carton out the way and stick my head under a filling nozzle.
Nothing suss.
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But I don’t like coffee.
Even the smell makes me feel sick.
Had a guy at work training me on one of the systems, his breath reeked of coffe. Had to stop myself retching. Was NOT fun.
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I feel almost the same way. And kissing someone who drinks coffee is awful.
My husband told me he didn’t like coffee when I met him, and he didn’t but after we got married he suddenly started drinking it and now he’s addicted. I think this may be sufficient reason(was going to say ‘grounds’ but then I realised eww, punny) for divorce. 😛 -
I hate regular coffee but iced coffee is totally different.
OzGameShop, you have one day. ONE DAY to ship me my copy of Space Marine. If I don’t have an email by tomorrow lunchtime I’m cancelling my order and going straight to Big-W.
Pick up your act you slow-asses.
Sincerely,
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Lets hope they don’t ship it – then you can get your game like 2 weeks earlier lol
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I would just go Big W.
You will be waiting 2 weeks or so once they ship it.-
My Deus Ex pre-order arrived 1 week after they sent me the email saying it had been shipped.
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Yeah I’ve had issues with pre-order delays with Ozgameshop in the past. I preordered a copy of BlazBlue and they didn’t ship it for weeks because of the snowstorms over there. And then I found a copy of the game locally for the same price!
So I cancelled straight away and picked the game up ASAP.
Ozgameshop are great for prices, just don’t expect to get the game in a hurry 😛
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I’ve yet to receive mine.
I am vexed more than slightly.
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Have others been receiving emails saying their pre-orders shipped? I haven’t. I’m actually contemplating changing it from PS3 to 360 version.
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It won’t have been shipped yet as release date hasn’t hit yet, other than in america
That’ll start to change tomorrow
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Change it to 360! Then you can play with Loops and I, and any and all others who stand in the name of the Emperor!
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RIGHTO,
I just cancelled my preorder, I will order from Big-W for $3 more tomorrow.
http://www.bigw.com.au/Offer/BigGameBargainsYAY IMPULSIVENESS!!
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So much for my ‘lunchtime tomorrow’ ultimatum hahahahaha
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Beware PuppyLicks, their Dead Island offer isn’t working so Space Marine may have the same problem tomorrow.
Hopefully not, as a search of Space Marine at least gets results, unlike Dead Island.-
Thanks for the heads up, I’ll keep my fingers crossed. And if the offer fails tomorrow there will be much rage spilled across the pages of TAY;)
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Yes, I had my own tantrum earlier (see above) and if Space Marine fails tomorrow… things will not end well.
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Just thought I’d post this for the benefit of the SC2 enthusiasts who like watching streams. Two of Australia’s biggest SC2 teams are going head to head – Xeria Gaming and Archaic MSI
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You tease, I’m at work and can’t watch.
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Starts at 7PM, apparently.
You are safe.-
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Whoah, did something happen to nGen while I wasn’t paying attention? Because last time I checked I’m pretty sure Light, Jazbas(such a cheeser), Mafia and Pinder were all nGen. Hell, I’m pretty sure Mafia’s name in game is still nGenMafia. God, it’s been a while since I payed attention to the local scene.
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Wait, Benji’s casting? Huzzah!
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And now I just looked it up, and Xeria is a vaguely new team started by Benji. I remember when one of my friends played Mafia in a ZvZ, that was a hilarious slaughter.
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Yeah I’m not sure what happened to nGen – I too am curious, so I’ll do some poking around and report my findings.
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They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines so that no foe can best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines and they shall know no fear.
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Loops,
I know you can paint your character model for online play, but can you do it for campaign mode too?
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I’ll field this one.
No, you are forced to play as Titus from the UltraSmurfs in campaign.-
Okay… thanks.
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Hey guys – can we enter the Chainsword comp as much as we like?
Because i was thinking i could come up with a good silly entry as well as a proper one..
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I’d thought about a silly entry, but I’m gonna do a proper one only, just in case.
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My silly one shall be my proper one!
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I never even planned to do a proper one!
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Blaghman, my section has just advertised some entry level positions if you’re still interested? Let me know and I’ll send it through.
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Yeah, sure, I’ll have a look. Cheers mate.
Ever since Monday I’ve had “Don’t stop me now” stuck in my head.
Curse you Google!
/shakesfistatmonitor
It’s actually not that bad because it’s an awesome song but I’m currently trying to read something and I’m just not taking any of it in because I’m a shooting star leaping through the skies like a tiger defying the laws of gravity!
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i’ve decided i want that song played at my funeral
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In case you rise as a zombie and have to be beaten to death with pool cues?
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After realising how shit my capture set up is, I’m considering sinking a little bit of cash into getting something that actually records 720p output through HDMI. A little research has found me some options, now to see if I can buy them locally.
So if I bought an original game here in Australia, then bought an expansion to said game online from the UK, the expansion should install and work fine, right?
Paranoid…
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It should definetly work… I think. Was it console or PC, i know that console stuff should work cause xbox 360 uk is the same as our region and ps3 has no region locking. Pc i don’t know though.
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Should work, yeah.
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I had the AU version of Fallout 3 and then bought the UK GOTY version from Zavvi. My AU saves worked in the UK version and all the expansions were fine.
Also my husband bought some driving game from the UK but DLC from the AU store and it all worked fine. These were both PS3.
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PC.
Thanks guys!!! I will sleep better tonight.
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Finally get those drowsy allergy tablets?
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Been on ’em for a while now!
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Check the part number? Most Aussie games are just repackaged European games (being a minor territory, it’s expensive to do a seperate printing of a game)
All Playstation games have a unique number on the spine that you can use to see if DLC is compatable. Not sure if 360 gams and PC do as well.
Attn. Tracey.
Cheapskate Gamer has been sent to you via tips@kotaku.com.au
🙂
Urgh, today just feels like one of those days where the whole world is out to get you.
Everything that could go wrong, has been going wrong.
I just feel like curling up in a corner with Clubby the Clubbing Club while slowy rocking backwards and forwards until home time.
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Hardcore cover by Australian hardcore’s most over rated vocalist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o72d5Hvwjxw
Still better than Limp Bizkit though.
It is “Bizkit” right?
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Crafter… yucky.
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And yes, I believe ‘Bizkit’ is correct.
They’re street, friend. They’re street.
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Clubby the Clubbing Club. Best name for a club EVA.
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You should go out clubbing tonight with Clubby the clubbing club, preferably at a club.
I’m sure that will make you feel much better.
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I’ll see if I can find a camera, and then I’ll make that video for you. Will that help?
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Yes, although I am slightly happier now, any video of you would make this day a complete success.
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Well, I found a camera, now I just need to find the charger… There’s hope yet! (though I wouldn’t hold my breath)
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Too late, but don’t worry Clubby knows CPR.
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Welp, I can’t find its charger, and it beeps at me about batteries whenever I turn it on, so I’m giving up for now, sorry my Barbaric friend.
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JAMESMAG! FATSHADY! PUPPYLICKS! ANYONE ELSE!
I am reneging on my free giveaway of Trials HD… for the time being.
You see I was visited by a vision of something truly wonderful yesterday afternoon. And I want to share that truly wonderful vision with all of you. For that to happen I need to hang on to Trials for a little while longer.
But don’t worry, It’ll be given away soon enough.
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Good man!
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Just sent an e-mail. either reply or send one to claimsboy [at] hotmail. [dot] com
This makes me happy:
Both modes, basically domination and deathmatch, end up being very team-centric, in that you need to really stick to your friends to get anything done. That’s a good thing for some players, though and, again, while Space Marine’s multiplayer may lack some features, its intelligence stands out past other games of this type.
From joystiq’s review.
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I want to play space marine but i want to play co-op on PC. But sadly my internet connection won’t currently allow it. When is the multiplayer support coming out?
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Competitive multiplayer is available on release. Co-op is free DLC 30 days after release.
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Why is the DLC coming out 30 days after??
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Because they haven’t finished it yet. This is like with the Witcher 2, continued support after release!
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Thats encouraging! I wish online stores could break street dates. Just send it now I won’t get it till after release.
With all the spacemarine talk maybe we should organise a community play date one Friday night. That is once everyone’s copies arrive of course.
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That’s the plan 😛
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Well, my parents have now left for Greece.
And my pants have left too.
That’s a rather cold breeze…
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your mum and dad are horrible. WHy did they take your pants to Greece?
Also will you be able to fend for yourself, buying groceries cooking meals ect. It was a bit strange after i moved out.-
Blaghman’s Pants, World Tour ’11
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The blaghman brotherhood of the travelling pants.
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Bloody hell they couldn’t take me with them? Bloody humans! I’m jelly!
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Well, my Dad’s speaking at some Mediterranean Medicine Conference thing, so I doubt you’d have much interest in that.
Then there’s the other two weeks they’re spending over there…
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Looks like my other comment is lying dormant on the last page, so let’s try this again.
I’ve been investigating new capture cards because my current setup is quite pathetic.
Found a decent looking card for a decent looking price. It handles HDMI input and records at up to 1080i. As far as I can tell, it’s the way to go.
Of course, I’m almost certain that my PC will require upgrades to accommodate this. So it won’t cost me $120 for a new card but $120 + new high speed HDD and probably a new power supply.
Still, might as well.
Anyone else who does capturing have suggestions? I’m looking at an AverTV card right now.
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Link?
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It’s the only one that I could find locally. Shame GameDude hasn’t updated their website layout since about 1996.
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Couple of downsides.
It records to MPEG-2, I assume Muxed.
Which isn’t always a pain, but lacking the proper software you can have a whole range of problems re-encoding for editing.
It can only record H.264 up to 320X240. You can probably re-encode your MPEG2 but as above, sometimes it just doesn’t wanna work.
You’re gonna need a pretty quick ‘puter for it to record a full 1080i stream in real time.
Now all of those are from my point of view, which is skewed because of my job.
Pros.
Mutha effer is cheap.
HDMI support and if you can work with it, 1080i recording.
There’s probably a way to set it to record through another program instead of its supplied software. Therefore getting rid of the MPEG2 scenario.
Verdict. Buy it, dawg.
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I imagine that Handbrake should cover my re-encoding needs.
Otherwise, sounds like you’ve just made a sale for GameDude. You should try to get commission from them :p
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Zelda?
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Snaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkkeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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I HAVE THAT CARD…. ask questions!
Im still getting the hang of it but happy to walk you through it mate.
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This is what I was hoping to see.
What software do you use? What are the file sizes like? How CPU hungry is it? Does your HDD write speeds cause issue?
Specs of the computer you’ve got it plugged into?
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if you can send me a meg on twitter later tonight or this week sometime we can have a chat. I not great and only learning myself so i may not be able to answer questions but happy to try… If anything you’d be able to help me figure it out some more.
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My knowledge of this stuff is actually pretty minimal. I’ve been using a plug and play Roxio card (literally plug in a USB cable and run the software type deal). From there the editing and whatnot is just convert in Handbrake and then edit in iMovie.
Still we can work this out together. Feel free to jump on TeamSpeak to chat if I forget to tweet you.
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Entire family is sick including me so if not tonight then later this week.. more than happy to even do a teamviewer session so you can see the default software and settings???
We’ll organise it soon.
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I’ll probably be taking Friday off (got a rostered day off that I need to use) and will buy it then. Any point after that works for me.
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YAY YAY YAY!!
That Big W promotional thingy for Dead Island is working
http://www.bigw.com.au/Offer/BigGameBargains
Did order and now I am a Happy Hungarian Barbarian, Clubby the Clubbing Club is also happy, now that I am no longer slamming it into my head.
YAY!
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Isn’t it amazing how sometimes it only takes one thing to go right, for your whole day to turn around and things start looking better.
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YAY!
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*ahem*
I mean, let us clink our hefty mugs of mead together and chortle heartly!
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*clink*
Chortle.
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Ordered. Yay!
So something hilarious just happened. I took some time off uni today (like I needed a reason not to do my work) because my folks had some furniture being delivered and someone needed to be at the house while it happened. The delivery was all paid for and within 10 mins my cabinets were in my house.
The delivery guys offered to set up the cabinets and bookshelf for $60. My mum obviously accepted this deal without checking to see if she had the cash (She didn’t). So anyway, these guys need to be paid, and I only had a $20 on me and these guys didn’t accept credit/sex/old PS3 games. So I now frantically get in the car and do about 110k an hour to my nearest cornershop. I get there and ask “Would you guys be able to do a $100 eftpos cashout?”
This checkout chick sensed my desperation, so naturally she told me she would only do a cashout with a minimum $20 order. I don’t know if you’ve ever been speed shopping, but you just grab any old shit off the shelves.
I ended up with 2 bars of reese’s peanut butter whatevers, a pack of chips, some bread and a can of Dr.Pepper. Then i raced home as fast as i could. Only to find that this bookshelf was designed by Satan and required a million parts be assembled, it took them 45 mins to set it up.
I don’t even like Reese’s peanut butter bars.
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I’ll eat them!
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Awesome story.
How far exactly did you have to go to find a corner store that sole american candy and soda?
I think…
You may have accidentally gone to America.
Also
DR PEPPER! \o/
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A colleague of yours?
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There’s a shop within walking distance from my house that has an American candies and sodas section.
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I’m starving and I have bugger-all in the house for lunch. I can’t even go out and get something because my son has just gone to sleep. I’m going to have to be the Macguyver of food. Should be interesting….
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I found a crappy Coles frozen pizza, so using the power of ingenuity, as well as Paprika and Mexican Chilli powder, I have turned it into a delicious meal. I’m so very proud of myself for this(not at all proud).
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You’re my saviour, Blaghs!
I’d somehow forgotten we have a whole other freezer in the laundry and I’ve stashed some frozen pizzas in there for occasions like these. Thanks for the reminder! I was seriously thinking I was gonna have to make my own bread or something and I would have died of starvation by the time I was done.
Also, your idea of adding spices is actually winning. Smoked paprika makes everything awesome so I’m putting some on my crappy frozen pizza.-
I’m helping!
And Paprika goes on everything. That delicious red powder. *starts gurgling*
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I also have some leftover KFC Hot N Spicy from last night. Between that, extra cheese and the smoked paprika the crappy pizza should magically transform into something edible.
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DEEP FRY IT!
Scottish pizza!
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I wish I had a deep-fryer.
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Pan + a litre of oil = GODLY GOODNESS!
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Yeah, but it’s not the same.
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Reminds me of that scene from the Simpsons where Homer makes a pie from frozen pie crust, cloves and Tom Collins mix.
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‘Let’s go get your mother’
i was hungry at about 12 o clock on a saturday and didn’t have any food. I went all magyver and made a whiskey cake. We didn’t have any vanilla and apparently it was a good substitute. Man that was the best cake ever.
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Vanilla essence is made of alcohol anyway and is just for flavouring so I don’t doubt that your whisky cake was awesome. Mmmm, whisky cake. I think I need to make one now….
Urban foraging \o/
I bought myself present.
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*a present.
Stupid html tags, the “a href” bit made me think I’d typed the missing word.
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Needs more jiggawatts.
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What the hell is a jiggawatt?
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Now you must get the past.
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I’ll leave that as a problem for future me.
Future me is a great guy, takes care of so many things that present me can’t be bothered with.
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Nice. See if you can get them up to 88mph.
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“What happens when you get it up to 88mph?”
“If my calculations are correct, we’re going to see some serious shit.”
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Doc Brown is such a badass.
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If I had a spare $65k, I’d be all over that.
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If I had $65k, spare or not, I’d be all over that, and I can’t even drive!
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Playing SF
keep on getting matched up with C and B class fighters. It’s actually kind of insulting that the game is telling me it can’t find a single Australian at my level. I’m that terrible.
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I had that problem too. I got beat so many times. I persisted till I won my first match and then gave up.
Always go out on a win!
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I haven’t done any online yet from fear of being beaten badly. I can barely do a hadoken when i want to even though i have a arcade stick.
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To be honest, I’m not actually getting owned as bad as i thought i would. Had that B class fighter not ducked under my Demon Armageddon move, i would have recorded my first win.
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You’re using Akuma’s Ultra 2?
Did you combo into teleport and then try to connect or just throw it out there?
Because I can tell you that both options rarely work :p
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I just throw it out and hope for the best.
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How to succeed against real people step 1: Don’t Do That.
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I’m beginning to suspect that not doing that may be the key.
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Working under the assumption that whatever you’re doing is wrong does help quite a lot.
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This might start to sound sexist, but bear with me.
Coca-Cola are running a comp in NZ for the “unsung heroes of rugby” to go to the wrorld cup.
Watched one where a young, smallish blonde girl won.
Fair enough.
then they tell us that she plays rugby. She’s head of the club commitee, she runs the bar, she coaches a kids team (and here it gets very interesting), she is a fire fighter AND an EMT.
I’m sure it’s all true… but it sure as hell sounds like they made it up.
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Duuuuuuuuude really?
haha i’m joking, It kinda would sound made up if a dude did it, where would you find the time to do all that shit? -
I’m fairly sure that most firefighters are also trained EMTs or that fire departments hire EMTs.
The rest of it just sounds like someone who is active in a rugby club in a rural area.
Not unbelievable.
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But she actually works as a firefighter AND as an ambulance driver. And not out in th esticks (although, it is NZ we’re talking about. amirite?)
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Did they mention that she’s a doctor? She just works as an EMT to help people even more! She also works with orphans, and rescued a puppy from a fire!
Not to mention that she only has one kidney because she donated the other one to a friend in need, as well as undergoing a bone-marrow transplant to help a leukaemia patient.
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A puppy from a fire!
This woman sounds like the most heroic person ever to go into a coca cola competion! -
She then taught the puppy how to play rugby.
With the All Blacks.
Also, she’s a billionaire playgirl and super model.
And she fights crime in her evenings.
As Rugby Girl
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see also runs a corporation know as wayne tech, She inherited the company from her father and mother who was killed by a mugger when the were exiting the cinema after seeing Zoro. She then trained herself in martial arts.
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unfortunately she can never let anyone get too close. Always cutting her self of from others for their own safety.
Forever Alone……
RUGBY GIRL!
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Watching Mike Ross and Flash Metroid running sets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJv7fI0BoNQ&list=UUTDdH72PnLY1V_ERklKSXMg&index=2&feature=plpp
Damn these guys make it look easy.
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Man, I didn’t know Iron Man HAD combos.
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He didn’t.
Until Clockwork started using him.
Also, I miss Excellent Adventures and Marvelous Adventures. Cross Counter needs to do those more frequently, enough of this Cross Counter Asia stuffs :p
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Yeah I miss those too, although the Clockwork/Combofiend Running Sets was entertaining. Combofiend’s friendly smack talk is great 😀
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Now the warmer weather is coming. Time to put down the nerf guns… And pick up the Super Soakers… It… Is… On…
I am playing more LoL tonight, fyi! Joooooiiiiiin meeeeee.
But I have to watch Breaking Bad first, so say 8pm onwards.
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I am keen to play tonight, But usually after 9.00 i can’t talk on teamspeak. So be warned
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Don’t let them silence you, man! Rage against the machine!
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i do like killing in the name of!
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be a quick and accurate typer to call MIA in time and all
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I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but most of us are lacking in the quick and accurate typing ability.
Looks like everyone just treats it as a dump stat these days.
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well that’s why I’m always asking when I push a turret “Anybody missing on your lanes?”, but usually if an enemy from your lane is missing, like say fiddlesticks, you say “fid mia” and that would be all you need, then say “re” if he shows back up to your lane again. You need to give you allies warning of possible ganks. Trust me, you’ll be hated if you don’t
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If what I overheard last night is a fair assessment of communications (and I know it is), we aren’t doing that. Communicating is limited to cursing Teemo.
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Bahahahaha yes that’s true. Remember these games are more about teamwork than stats.
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But we don’t have any…
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Man, if only I’d had someone to back me up when I was Alistair, you know, a character that could do a fair amount of damage to a hero that I could keep stunned and slowed, maybe say, Kennen.
But no, HE WAS IN THE BUSH HIDING, ROCKETMAN!
(I kid, I’m not really mad, but we could have got that Garen so easily)
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Bah, who needs coordination and warnings.
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Bish, I think you’re forgetting the pleasure in calling MIA……just as the missing hero is about to kill your ally.
You’re Helping! \o/
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I much prefer the MIA call that comes after you get ganked.
Breaking Bad should take priority over pretty much everything.
Including but not limited to sustenance, rest and breathing.
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Forgo hygiene completely.
I’m still trying to join in on this. It’s looking likely that I’ll be there tonight though, from 8pm to 9 😀
New rotation try out!
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Maybe there will be a character i actually like.
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We’ll do a few more AI games tonight. I thought last week’s line up was more, I dunno, friendly, I suppose.
Malphite is a pretty okay dude. Only mildly not easy thing to do is landing his ultimate, but that’s a wide enough area that if you can vaguely predict where they’re heading, you should get them.
Sorakaa might be worth a shot too. HEALS HEALS HEALS HEALS :< -
I’ll let you log in as me some time if you want (generally on a weekend) as I’ve bought a few characters. Annie, Soraka, Jarvan IV, Dr Mundo, Karthus, Malzahar, Caitlyn and Twisted Fate at the moment I believe?
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CrabJiffy is keen for Shaco.
Apparently he can solo dragon on level 1 and solo baron on level 14. ;O-
He’s EXTREMELY hard to master apparently
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I would love to see that.
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Dammit, I’m heading to my parents place tonight to travel to the sunshine coast with them tomorrow. I won’t get back until next Monday, so I’m going to miss the rotation! 🙁
Awesome, I’ll be on.
Hi TAYbies! My first post in this week’s TAY : ) Mid-sem break takes away my eagerness in posting that often because I don’t have to actively find something to do while sitting in boring lectures.
I got accepted for the job I interviewed for last Saturday! 😀 It’s a new dessert cafe opening in my local/uni area. Step 1 to living off my own income!
On the gaming side, played some Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days local co-op with CrabJiffy last night, was sadface that all the headshots/boobs/nether regions were censored by large pixels. I guess it was to make the game MA15+… we should have got the game overseas. Oh well.
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WHat?!
You were disappointed
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That was sarcasm. I just think dog days is one of the worst games i have seen this year. It wasn’t gritty just bad. Of course this is my opinion.
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Living of own income = they pay you in coffee?
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If they do she won’t have any monies at all.
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Actually, that was a design decision on the creator’s part, so every version of K&L:DD has the censoring. They decided they wanted to make it “gritty” and “Modern day” by making it look like a crap youtube video that had been censored. Amusingly, if you look at all the stuff, there’s no reason for it to be censored, there’s bugger all blood, and I’m fairly sure they’re missing parts anyway.
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Oh yeah, and good work with the job!
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Congrats on the job!
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WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP
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(\/) (°,,°) (\/) woobwoobwoobwoob
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About an hour ago I was playing TF2, and there was a player named (\/) (°,,°) (\/) WOOB WOOB WOOB
I chuckled when I saw their name.
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\o/ for your own monies! I think this officially means dawdle! will be shouting the next sydney meat, and flying everyone in with her newfound wealth.
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If you look under your seat…
SYDNEY TICKETS FOR EVERYBODY!
Wait… I’m not Oprah….
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I’d just like to point out that it’s very cheap to get me to Sydney, so you should all pay for me to go to every Sydney Meat after this.
*cough*
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OMG look I’m in Sydney!
It worked!
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SCIENCE!
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Congrats.
\(ಠ益ಠ)/
Dawdle-maciaaaaaa!
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Congrats with the job! 😀
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Congrats on the job dawdle!
多钱!!!
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Congrats Dawdle! !!
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Congrats! Income is always good 😀
In honour of the Star Wars Blu Ray release, and the fact that Darth Vader keeps coming up in GO promos telling me that “I am Darth Vader from the upcoming Star Wars Blu Ray and I’m good to GO” I present this excerpt from a speech given before US congress in 1988 AGAINST the alteration and mutilation of works of art..
“These current defacements are just the beginning. Today, engineers with their computers can add color to black-and-white movies, change the soundtrack, speed up the pace, and add or subtract material to the philosophical tastes of the copyright holder. Tomorrow, more advanced technology will be able to replace actors with “fresher faces,” or alter dialogue and change the movement of the actor’s lips to match. It will soon be possible to create a new “original” negative with whatever changes or alterations the copyright holder of the moment desires.”
Who said it??
George F*cking Lucas!!!!!!
So, that 3DS attachment huh?
What. The. Sh*t?
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I just… What’s the point?
Is there anything it can add that can’t be done with good implementation of the touch screen?
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Third person action games really need that second nub. Monster Hunter on the PSP is goddamn painful. Games that implement lock on usually do okay, but still not great.
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Yeah, but I played, for instance, Metroid Prime:Hunters on a friend’s DS, and I never missed a second stick. But I guess JM2 has a point that it will be filled with inventory crap…
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Oh yeah, shooting games work. Phantasy Star Zero on DS worked. God Eater on PSP mostly worked. But MH is in some sort of weird other league. You will be frequently ravaged by a pack of Velociraptors from all directions, and you really need that fluid, acessible camera movement from a second nub to be able to properly run the hell away/position yourself for an onslaught.
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I shall trust you, I am such a methodical fighter* that I fear nothing.**
*Not at all moethodical
**I just surrender and go back to my last save until I do things perfectly
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THIS!!!!!!!!
Damned raptor thingys!!!!
HA!!! I wear your mother as a helmet now and will stab you with the bones of your siblings, huzzah!!! -
Oh Yian Kut-Ku, you never forget your first big kill.
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Jaggi!
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Monster Hunter needs two sticks imo.
Touchscreen will be too busy filled with loot/armor/weapon management.
Bet they do a new console as opposed to that monstrosity though…….
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pffft!! A new game!!!!
Why would they bother with a new game when they have a twenty year back catalogue to stereoscopify.
It’s obviously working so well for them…
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Yeah you do raise a good point.
A dual-stick Monster Hunter with decent online will probably make me buy a 3DS in all honestly.BUT THAT ADDON IS JUST SO CLUNKY AND HUGE!
Home time! Yay!
And lest ye forget:
REPENT! FOR TOMORROW YOU DIE!
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But I can’t play Dead Island until Friday!
*TrollFace*
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WE SHALL BURN THE HERETICS, NONE SHALL ESCAPE THE WRATH OF THE SPACE MARINES
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As our bodies are armoured with Adamantium, our souls are protected with our loyalty. As our bolters are charged with death for the Emperor’s enemies, our thoughts are charged with his wisdom. As our ranks advance, so does our devotion, for are we not Marines? Are we not the chosen of the Emperor, his loyal servants unto death?
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Mutants gonna mutate
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Bold text because I like to feel included.
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BOLD MOVE, BROTHER, BOLD MOVE INDEED
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LOUD NOISES
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Well Kotakites, contrary to my earlier claim that I was going to cram in as much TAY as possible I think I only got around to making 10 comments today, if that (dam manager finding work for me). The next TAYTOL is gonna be pretty low for me – I’m heading on holiday until Monday. All you LoL’ers will have to let me know how Ezreal, Katarina and Shaco go – they were the champions I was most keen to try.
Take it easy and cya’s next week.
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Steve-O
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Good luck, have fun!
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Be well, Steve-Oprah, and drink your fill.
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Enjoy the hols and various acts of deviantism.
I am officially declaring tomorrow SPACE MARINE TAY!
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I accept your terms, FOR THE EMPEROR!!!
All Space Marine related posts must be made in bold and all caps.
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i like these terms.. furthmore, we should all put the word “Brother” in front of our names
*nods heartily*
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YES
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I was hoping it would have broken the street date already, along with Dead Island!
Ah well, I’ll get it in the Big W online sale tomorrow and hopefully have it early next week!
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“For the Emperor and Sanguinius! Death! DEATH!”
etc
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Ok so Space Marine rules for tomorrow, so far:
1. You must have the word “Brother” in front of your usual handle
2. You must use bold, all caps, all day
3. If you disagree with anything someone says, reply and then finish by calling them a heretic/mutant/xenos scumAnymore?
Rules will be finalised tomorrow – space marine shall take over tay 😀
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Sounds like fun except do I have to be “Brother”? 😛
Also, all caps all day?! We’re all gonna have headaches by the end of the day.-
You could be a Sister of Battle…
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You could have “Sister Superior” or “Cannoness”
-nods-
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Sounds like fun! But can it be other 40K references too. If Strange can be a sister of battle, I think I will have to take a mantle that represents my beloved (if highly expendable) Imperial guard.
p.s. I don’t know how to make the words bold in my posts… 🙁
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I’ve started making a Flash game! It’s called Stop Yourself From Exploding! It’ll be released on Kongregate soon! I don’t know why I keep using exclamation marks!
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that’s the game i play when i eat too much pastas
can’t wait to see it 🙂
Dear Strange,
Yesterday I ate some traditional Icelandic fare.
Mashed fish (looks like scrambled eggs), dried haddock, salmon (or trout?) on rye bread, smoked lamb accompanied by Icelandic moss tea. Rye bread ice cream for desert.
All was delicious.
Also ate some rotten shark meat (fermented underground). Very tasty, like strong cheese, but burns a little on the way down. Omnomnom.
Took photos.
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy
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Oh god. Travelling around the world to eat new and possibly delicious things.
I want to be there.
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Ditto.
;__;
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Dear Effluvium Boy,
You are the absolute bestest!
I can’t believe you tried fermented shark meat!
Sincerely,
-Strange.
Alright, so I know some of you are keen to play Dead Island on Steam. Well! Now you can!
And for those who have never set up a VPN before:
Windows 7: http://www.strongvpn.com/setup_windows_7_pptp.shtml
Windows XP: http://www.strongvpn.com/setup_windows_xp_pptp.shtml
Windows Vista (shudder): http://www.strongvpn.com/setup_windows_vista_pptp.shtml
Now, restart Steam. It now thinks you are in the US.
Decrypt the Dead Island files.
Load the game.
Exit the game.
Exit Steam.
Disconnect from the VPN.
Load Steam.
Load Dead Island directly from the .exe file
Default path – C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\dead island\DeadIslandGame.exe
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If I do this, can I stream anime from FUNimation’s US site?
I ask, because anime is awesome.
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YES, It works!
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Man, dat Deus Ex.
But Gunhand McGrenadeSpam; fuck that guy.
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Especially investing in stealthy augments.
/o\
Is 7/2/8 a respectable score for a match of LoL?
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thats pretty good, what level are you at? and what champion did you use?
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It is, very nice
Saw this as a continuation of the Bruce Campbell pic from yesterday:
http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/dar-tuesday-4.jpg
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So true.
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EPIC!
Addendum to Loops’ Space Marine TAY naming rule: Loops can be Brother-Captain, I shotgun Brother-Chaplain, and Hugo has to be our Chief Librarian.
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You shotgun?
So you want to sit next to the brother-chaplain?
*wink wink, nudge nudge*
TAY actually ruins my mobile browsing of the site.
Heck; I’m not even mad. That’s amazing.
My ozgameshop order has been dispatched in the Emperors name. May the messengers be guided by his hand with all haste….
Or they shall feel his wrath.
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It felt someone’s wrath once.
We were on a train and it jostled, I fell and my hand grazed his wrath.
I totally didn’t mean it though.
Awkward.
Managed to find my copy of SFIV:AE last night and had a few rounds with Andrew “Ruffleberg” Burdusel.
We ended with two wins each. Both his wins from the two matches he used Akuma. Mine from the two matches I used Ryu.
T’was a good fight!
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Sorry Loops, didn’t realise it was Space Marine Tay
In saying that, I never had any interest in Warhammer so, you know, I’mma be the party pooper 😛
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Party poppers are also fun.
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Can’d meat needs Party Poppers!
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Done.
I also have some Christmas cracker thingies…
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You called them Christmas Crackers!
I weep tears of joy.
Because Bon Bons sounds so retarded.
Unless your talking about real bon bons. Which are delicious.
Or bonbonbonbons.
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SPACE MARINE TAY
Well my copy of Space Marine has been oredered.
Now I shall play the waiting game.
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I’m bored of this game, I want Space Marine NOW.
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By the Emperor! It feels like it has been hours.
By the blood of Sanguinius, I want this game NOW!-
If you were a REAL fan, you’d have bought it in the stores this morning.
http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Just+saiyan_78a983_686032.jpg
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*Sigh*
I know, but in my desire to have dead island as well, i went for the cheaper option and now must wait… and wait… and wait… and, well you get the idea. -
Hey you ranked up!
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Anyone else having problems with the resistance ads?
Totally killing my computer at work!
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Vicious justice for not honouring Warhammer.
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HAHA, I wasn’t having problems (computer problems I have many other problems) then I hit back and my computer just froze for about a minute.
True Story
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Yep. Sooo frustrating. I hate having to use AdBlock on Kotaku.
Anyone else trying to buy Space Marine from Big-W and just being redirected back to Dead Island.
Did Big-W sack their website design staff so they could afford this sale or something.
So USELESS!
(I’m just mad cause I’m hungover from last night)
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Same problem, just to a search for it and it comes up at the discounted price.
“Knowledge is power. Guard it well!” –Blood Ravens battlecry (Index Astartes: Blood Ravens) -
Searching for it manually works.
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INGENIOUS
Although it seems that the link is actually working now
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Aaaaaawkward.
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THE PURCHASE WORKED FOR ME, I AM SORRY FOR YOUR LOTS
TAY is so lonely at this time of the morning…
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Your lack of faith in SPace Marines and Warhammer has made you an outcast.
“He who stands with me shall be my brother.” –Captain Gabriel Angelos-
Come. At. Me. Bro.
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I hear ya.
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Hello!
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Hello!
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Hello!
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You posted up to 19 minutes earlier than when TAY is usually up!
We have to adjust, man, we can’t handle this in the space of a week!-
Why? I get up at 5! And get in to work at 7!
What am I supposed to do!?
Work!? *scoff*
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Adjust we shall, and through meticulous planning we shall thrive in our new half an hour earlier timeslot.
‘The wise warrior plans out his actions meticulously.’ -Rhetoricus, The Book of Five Spheres (Sons of Dorn)
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Don’t worry I’m Here to protect you from loneliness
I HAVE PURCHASED SPACE MARINE ON PS3 TO GO ALONG WITH MY PC EDITION. FOR THE EMPEROR!
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He wil be SO happy when you give it to him.
Is it his birthday? I didn’t get anything.
Can you just write on your card that it’s from me too?
From the both of us. That’s cool, right?
Hoppy burpdii, Emp!
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Commissar Palstran does not find this amusing at all….
He has also forgotten to get a gift for the Emperors B’Day.
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Hahahahaha! this made me laugh quite loudly 😛
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So today’s TAY is all Space Marine all the time?
How ’bout them Terrans? Dat blue flame hellion nerf? Dem MULEs?
No wait, wrong Space Marine.
I heard Halo is a pretty cool guy.
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It’ll make a nice break from all that League of Thingy talk.
Man, those guys, and their constant talking of it. /o\-
So what do you wanna talk about then???
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How about… Homefront.
Everyone liked that game right???
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I liked it.
What?
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So how ’bout them League of Legends.
Not only are they Legends but they are also in a League.
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I… have never thought about it that way.
My eyes have been opened!-
Also, I thought I might bring up League of the Extraordinary Gentlemen, because Shorn ShConnery.
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So yesterday I sent an email asking OzGameShop if it was too late to change my pre-order of Space Marine from PS3 to 360. I also mentioned if it was too late I’d stick with my PS3 pre-order.
Woke up this morning to this:
“Hi,
Thanks for your email.
Confirmation of cancellation, a refund will be with you shortly as we are unable to exchange items. If you wish to then re-order the correct game you are more than welcome to do so.”
AEFJDFIJIJO!!! Nowhere in my email did I mention wanting to cancel. And if he’d bothered to check he would have seen they are all sold out of Space Marine anyway. Plus now I don’t get the pre-order bonuses.
Not. Happy.
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Oh, and I blame you guys for brainwashing me into trying to get the 360 version…. 😛
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Buying it from Big W instead?
Everyone seems to be getting the 360 one so I decided not to bother getting it.
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Buy cheap from Big W online today, no pre-order bonus, though it may be delivered sooner than OzGameShop.
“Do we bemoan such losses? No! We are the Fists! We do not need to hibernate or spit venom. We crush our enemies.” -Teachings of Rhetoricus (Imperial Fists IA) -
Yeah I’m thinking about doing that but I also want to wait and see what ozgameshop say. There’s points at stake, dammit. 😛
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Morning all.
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Morning, James Mac.
Wow, either every single on of my comments got reported, just surprised it didn’t happen earlier, or someone really doesn’t like me claiming to be Brother Hugo.
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Oh wait, they are back up, weird… or maybe I am just going crazy.
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Insta-comments doesn’t like it when you change your name to something it’s never been before.
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The system is fighting back against the Warhammer monstrosity!
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That’s what you get you…
Space… Marine… Thing!
With the… stuff! In your… ears!
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That will learn me.
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MORNING ALL
/commence LoL talk
So I played my first 2 proper games of LoL last night. Went Katarina, lotsa funs (1/6 or something first game I was grouped w/ F*CKN n00b feeders, 12/0 second game)
Anyways just a few questions to pick your brains with…
1 – Is there a glyph of fortification or something to boost the defence of your towers temporarily? The enemy team had it but I couldn’t find it myself.
2 – How do you stash inventory items if you’re trying to buy stuff but your inventory is full?
3 – Is there a courier in this game. Can haz?
Overall good fun, think I’ll play some more tonight.
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Yesh (summoner spell, unlocks at summoner level… something), no, no.
I halp??
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Thanks Bish, you’re such a helper!
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What I lack in quality, I make up for with speed!
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Haha, that’s what she said (about me)!
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It’s a spell called Fortify. It makes towers temporarily invulnerable and fire 100% faster
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1 – It’s a summoner spell you will unlock as your summoner level goes up.
2 – Unfortunately there is noway to drop/stash items in-game.
3 – Nah there’s no courier in game, you can teleport back to base at anytime though.
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So what is your opinion on LoL?
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Just throwing this out there:
The lack of Deny mechanic really doesn’t help its… competitive edge.
Plus maybe it’s just me, but there’s too much focus on ganking. I noticed this in the first streamed DotA 2 match though, so maybe that’s just the way it is. Kills are worth more in League, but there’s still a map control portion of the game. Techy did mention last night that definitely push over gank though, so maybe it’s just the randoms we’ve been playing with.
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OMG DIABLO 3 (CLOSED) BETA HAS STARTED
FASDLKQDS!kd)!@$!
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I rushed to my email but was very disappointed.
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As did I…
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Hey guys,
Just popping in to tell you that we’ve disabled the flash advertisement for Resistance 3 that seems to be hogging memory. The changes should be propogating through to the live sites any minute now.
We didn’t realise that the looping was creating a massive leak!
In a slightly unrelated note, I plan to use my lunch break to go down to EB and see if they have any more Space Marine Collectors’ Editions! 😀
Tad
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Who is this guy?
Is he new?
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Long time reader, first time worker.
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Thanks Mr. MadTod!
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I read this in Elmos’s voice.
I don’t know why.
I think I’m broken.
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Curse you Doc What?! I’m now reading *everything* in Elmo’s voice.
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Heeheehee. Elmo thinks Mrs Strange is silly. Elmo likes Mrs Strange.
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heeheeheheeeheheeehee
(am i helping?)
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So glad the era of Tickle-Me-Elmos is over.
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You now have me reading everything in elmo’s voice. CURSE YOU!
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Welcome Mrs. Strange!
Hey new guy great to see some new faces i’n TAY.
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>: P
Good to know you’re on it
*sighs* Well yesterday was crap, so I feel so depressed this morning, horrible day at work and horrible night at bowling, I got fricken crushed that night by the other guy I was up against. I should’ve just stayed in bed cuz I really don’t want to work today -.-
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Don’t be sad Tech Knight, be AWESOME!
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Kinda hard now to, I’m short fused on everything today, even on my computer, so I’m strongly restraining myself from going into my shouting rage mode.
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Let’s play Monopoly!
I’m Telstra!
I win!
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I’m the committee that decides how Woolworths and Coles will put more people out of business.
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I lol’d
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THIS GAME IS BORING – I WANT TO PLAY CARTEL
I’M OPEC
I WIN!
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Its funny cause its… wow.. its not funny now I think about it. Now I’m sad. Flipping telstra can take a swift joust to the plums.
Brothers, I have placed cancelled my order of Space Marine with Ozgameshop and as of this morning I have successfully placed my order of the game from BigW for three dollars more.
I should have the game in my hands by monday.
This truly is the day for Space Marine TAY
“Early Bird” and “Dinner Dash” are currently free to download for today on iPhone/iPad:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/early-bird/id443251389?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/app/diner-dash/id289530584?mt=8
FOR THE EMPEROR!
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So if we continue to post comments here do they eventually get pushed over to the next page?
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No, this is only happening because so many people changed their name and the auto approve robot doesn’t like that
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Stupid computer and stupid firefox taking up 1GB of memory and stupid java and its crashing and stupid jvm with its stupid 1.5GB heap dump that doesn’t even work AND WHY IS EVERYTHING SO STUPID TODAY i want to go home and sleep and play witcher 2 or deus ex.
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It was the Resistance ads.
Tad fixed it.
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You tell em, Elmo!
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Shut up Reply Button!
It’ll fix itself in a few minutes.
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It’s not just that. Java is terrible, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. And firefox updated, so even with no Kotaku pages open it was running with 600mb of memory.
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Java is not terrible 😛
But it is terrible for making browser ads.
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/me rubs red eyes
/me looks at TAY and see’s 9 missed pages of (probably) gold, why is it that TAY is not on TV yet? With a zany host, and Stephen Fry to read it out loud to me while I sip light n tangy chips in bed?
/me feels bad for not using the pc
/me feels glad I’m finally getting some use out of my ps3 for something other than movies in a very longgggg time!
/me is totally addicted to GT5 and my cockpit (which is kinda done, it came in for a test run before I commit to painting it… I think that was a bad idea, I dont think I can go without it for a few more days while paint dries.
/me Removes pants to be subjected to whatever prodding I must endure as punishment for my absence.
Hi!
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Welcome back Qumulys
I want to see that cockpit so much
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No one say anything about this comment or they will have me to deal with….
Must resist…THATS WHAT SHE SAID!!!
sorry techy i am weak willed.
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Pfft… yeah, thanks
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Also he said he was pantsless.
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I kinda stuffed it up. On account of being unable to decide on if I would get much use out of it.
So, I was like, if I dont use it much, then it has to kinda be useful to put a lamp on it, or a block of cheese or whatnot. So, I made the front half a box, all boxy like, and square, unlike cars (except from the 80’s). Or, I was going to go full out and make the front like a bonnet, which while looking more rad, would mean the lamp would fall off.Sadly, I choose the practical lamp style. But, at least its rather comfy (hard rubbish free car seat ftw!). I only have pics of the building of it in progress, not at the stage it is now though. Will try and put some up laters.
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Yay Qbo is back, You sire have been missed.
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Yes, take picks!
But put your pants back on!
Or not…
Whatever…
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Stephen Fry hosting a televised TAY would be the most awesome thing in all of existence.
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What about Stephen Fry posting in TAY?
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Just about the greatest thing ever.
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Piss off the lot of you, you’ve stolen all the universe’s best jokes.
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THE EMPEROR’S LIGHT HAS GUIDED YOU HOME! REJOICE, FOR OUR BROTHER HAS RETURNED!
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, thats what that was!? I’ve been replacing the damn smoke alarms battery all week!
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As long as you didn’t miss the revelation of my super-secret project last week you didn’t miss anything important while being obsessed with your cockpit. 😛
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wait wait wait… super secret project???
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I’d been talking about a super-secret sewing project for about 3 weeks (probably the whole time you were working on your not-so-secret project) and I finished it last week and sent it off to it’s recipient: Anonymous Pessimist. It was his jerkin. So now he has to find something else to pester me about. 😛
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OH YEAH! I totally saw it too! I was so busy and covered in MDF dust and glue so I never replied, but it looked INCREDIBLE! I want a napkin shaped like Astro-Boy to tuck in while eating alphaghetti!
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Yay your back! I was starting to think you had set yourself on fire. 😛
With all the name changes TAY is hippity skipping all over the place.
Don’t confuse the Barbarian, it makes us sad.
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“Now, you listen to me, jerk-off, if you’re not a part of the solution, you’re a part of the problem. Quit being a part of the fucking problem and put the other guy back on!” – John Mclane.
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Yeah, perhaps I should have clarified, it was the hippity skipping that was making me confused, sad and sort of seasick, which is kind of embarrasing for a barbarian who secretly wishes he was a pirate, not the name changing.
Name changing is awesomesauce.
Like hot and spicy awesomesauce.
For the first time ever i have been told off by allure.. just had an email from a staff member, obviously from the web team, being very blunt telling me not to use caps and cold…
And it looks as though all of my comments have been deleted…
Way to be a party pooper…
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Didn’t see that coming…
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Me neither.. oh well.. there does that idea… but hey.. we still have our names, right?
What gets me is that its’s ok for people like Richard Smack to barrage everyone with constant drivel, yet we can’t have a lil fun with bold n caps…
I feel dreadful now – i’ve never been asked to stop something in all my years here.. my whole world is shattered – lol
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The failed logic of many of you humans is one of the reasons why I picked this title for my identity. Why the hell would I side with humanity anyway?
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Technically you’d still be human at Talon Master
Only when you become a demon prince do you cease to be human.
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I only said being against humanity, not being a machine, I know this.
Besides if you really wanted to be specific, I’d be a Necron but that’s not on Space Marine at all
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correction – it wasn’t blunt – it was rather polite – i was just feeling deflated as i read it…
/sadface
But… This is TAY. The mess of stuff that faces the stuff face. How dare they try and regulate it?
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i think it was because i posted in one other kotaku post, the sega one…
but for just one??? really??
Fear not, Brother, for the Emperor protects.
Also, you are now the Chapter Master.
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YAY PROMOTION!!!
Is that because you stole chaplain? lol
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Damn straight.
That, and we needed a Chapter Master.
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I flip my table in protest, dear Chuloopa!
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lol that’s rad
*hugs Loops*
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warm fuzzyness returning 🙂
THAT IS RIDICULOUS!
IMMA GONNA PROTEST, BY IGNORING TAY, totally not an excuse to go play gt5…
Dear Brother Chaplain Chuloopa, (wow, try saying that five times fast!)
Do not be sad. We all know you always carry the best of intentions.
Kind regards,
Sir Captain Psycher the Eats-a-Lot Harli
p.s. The kind Lady Strange, First Lady of Kotaku bestowed that awesome title upon me.
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Woah… that is awesome, indeed! Me likey!
Commisar Palstran finds this to be unacceptable. In the emperors name he demands that the offending Allure media minion be subjected to a trial by fire!
Well dang.
Well they can’t take away our titles Brother!
The nonbelievers always try to silence the righteous for they fear the power that comes with certainty in ones actions.
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reply to me? lol
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That was supposed to be a reply to loops by the way, not just me spouting off philosophical drivel for the sake of it.
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not that there’s anything wrong with philosophical drivel
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Um, Strange? It seems that the Big W super-cheap Space Marine is out of stock…
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That’s because it is too rad
Man i can’t believe it sold out so fast.. i sure hope she got one :s
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Yes, I discovered this only moments ago. The worst part is I told Mr. Strange I’d pre-ordered it for him for Father’s Day. Stoopid OzGameShop. :'(
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It seems like they’re pretty good at sorting out these misunderstandings. Just keep bombarding them on Twitter and they will surely fix it up for you?
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Down with the establishment! They’ve been corrupted with the foul taint of Chaos!
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there’s also still zavvi 🙂
http://www.zavvi.com/games/inspiration/warhammer.listall is not yet lost
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Might get the collectors, not caring where, just as long as I get it for PC
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http://cdkeyshere.com/warhammer-40000-space-marine-cd-key.html
$25 for Space marine!
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RE: Jo
September 8, 2011 at 9:47 AM
So what is your opinion on LoL?
Entertaining in it’s own right? Dumbed down from DOTA and HoN?
I’ll agree with what Bish said, the lack of the deny mechanic does gives it less of a competitive edge. Also, the pacing is slower. Much, much slower. That was the very first thing I noticed when playing.
However both these things make the game more fun to me – I was having so much fun playing last night, as opposed to when I hope on HoN with my mates. HoN/DOTA requires 110% of my concentration and serz businezz face, whereas LoL is much more enjoyable in its cruisy-ness.
The fact that it has so much more happy fun times makes me want to keep on playing though!
tl;dr – It’s like DoTA/HoN on cruise control, but it’s easy going nature is what makes it more fun.
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Glad to see you are enjoying it Harli, I look forward to the first time we stand together side by side in summoner’s rift
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So what do you think of talon?
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Pretty cool! Problem is the build I had sucked. I spent last night putting a new build together based on how I went vs AI.
Will be trying it again tonight in PvP methinks
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Nocturne is bloody crazy at times! He’s a good one to get. And he’s another that can jungle!
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I took look forward the day we stand side by side in battle, Tech Knight. It will be a glorious battle indeed.
Cool, that make sense.
Whats your summoner name?
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Harlitrix
I am level 1 summoner still I think. huzzah!
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Once you get to level 12 you can go around Flashing! Flashing all the time. Love Flashing. Just Flash whenever you can, to whoever is around.
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I… uh… what?
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Oh man Harli, you have no idea how much fun it is to Flash! And then some characters have other abilities that act like Flash, so you’re basically just flashing non stop all the time forever.
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It’s the level 12 summoner spell Flash, it’s a fast teleport short distance, used for escapes/chasedowns really. Long cooldown though. I mainly use it as a get out of death free card.
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Offensive blink > all other summoner abilities.
This is something I have learned from watching HuK.
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So whats people thoughts on the Sonic Generations Collectors Edition?
Is it wrong to like it more just because people in the US can’t get one?
NOTE: I realise that this has nothing to do with League of Legends or Space Marines … or League of Space Marines :O.
*death stares everyone in TAY*
Patent Pending
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I want it pretty much. I don’t care if Sonic had lots of rocky years, I want it to restore the good memory of the original Sonic being the best Sonic.
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I want it to pay tribute to those memories too. But there is zero chance of me buying the game until it is out, reviewed, and then people have had a few weeks to digest whether it was really as good/bad as they initially thought. If that means missing out on the collector’s edition, so be it – my spare room has enough stuff in it already anyway.
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True, the trailers looked promising though, no more fracking homing attack is a big plus for me. That was the biggest mistake I ever seen them do, and it was only the beginning to the tarnishing of Sonic
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It is definetly okay to like something more because other people don’t have it. I think there is some sort of term that defines it( to lazy to find) I actually haven’t heard anything of this game. What is the premise???
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Elitism?
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Schadenfreude
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THanks loops. I think i am Schadenfreude. Man i love when others are in messes. Not really but sort of!
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D’ja ever clap when a waitress falls and drops a tray of glasses?
And ain’t it fun to watch figure skaters, falling on their asses?
And don’tcha feel all warm and cozy, watching people out in the rain?That’s, Schadenfreude, people taking pleasure in your pain!
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Nice is that a ACTUAL song?
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Yup, Schadenfreude, from the award winning musical Avenue Q.
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I really, really want it – this looks like it could be the sonic game to fix everything.
Plus i’ve always had a soft spot to the prickly lil guy, even after playing the werehog game… *sigh*
I just want to know how much
Yeah, growing up Sonic was my childhood hero.
Played everyone of the sonic games and I had all the “Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog” TV show episodes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Sonic_the_Hedgehog ahh what a great show)
Price would be nice but I’ll probably be getting it regardless
RE Grandmaster B-Funk
September 7, 2011 at 10:02 PM
thats pretty good, what level are you at? and what champion did you use?
I’m at level 5, and I was using Ryze.
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He does good burst damage I’ll give him that.
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Thanks Techy
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Prove me wrong and get better rather than saying thanks Rocketman 😛
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So, we can pick on both Numbers and Rocketman now? 😛
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Yep i am Racist and bad at LOL. Well at least i can fix one of them.
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I was picking on Rocketman before it was cool.
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Your so Hipster Bish !
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I know! These Bonds women’s underwear are so comfortable!
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[Awkward silence]
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It is Hipster to wear women’s underwear. No one else is doing it besides women.
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You did a fair bit of kill-stealing from me at one point 😛
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Best type of kill.
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You would know…
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It’s funny because I’m the best at it!
NEW GAME!
Killsteal the killstealer!
Blaghsy did a decent job at it last night. -
I was quite proud of my efforts, even if there is something very wrong with a tank/support getting 9 kills.
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Hey guys, what did I miss yesterday?!
I was so busy moving, I didn’t even get a spare 5mins to check TAY! D:
The new place is awesome! Have only unpacked about a third of the boxes, took until about 3 to move all the furniture and then we had to go back to the old place to clean it, finished that and started the journey home just as peak traffic hit! It was a nightmare! Eventually got home, just had time for a shower and then my mother and step-dad came round with dinner. Thai Red Curry, mmmmmm!
When we first got to the new place, there was a bottle of red wine and a note from the owners saying welcome and they hope we enjoy our stay there. I’ve never had that sort of treatment from an owner before, usually they’re indifferent so I thought that was really nice!
Unfortunately there are no unsecured wireless networks to access and the 3G signal is pretty flaky inside the house, so online gaming is certainly out of the question! 🙁
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BAd luck on the internetZ front, On the other hand, your lucky your owners are such nice people. Alot of them just screw over there tenants.
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Yeah the owner of my last place was like that! Apparently these people are really friendly and come visit sometimes, etc.
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Glad to hear that you’re settling in just fine, except for the net access, that sucks. Ah well, next time run a scan with your iPhone before buying an apartment 😛
Might as well make it useful for SOMETHING!
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HAHAHA! Yeah I’ll have to next time 😛 I’m going to try get on the ball with the net thing though, hopefully have it by next weekend, see how things go.
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I made some jokes on page 9. You said you’d laugh so, you know, of you go!
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There you go! 😛
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I tell you what, some of the options in Windows are just plain odd…
http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb449/lamboman007/oddoptions.png
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geez lambo how many tabs you wanna have open at one time?
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Browsing like a boss I’d call it
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I can’t have more than 4 open or i feel like i will never get to them. I close my browser fairly regularly.
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I don’t think he’s trying hard enough. I’ve got 3 times that. Bookmarks are for losers, keeping everything you may ever want open simultaneously is the way to do it!
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Does SF4 have an invite friends option? I managed to squeeze in a few games with Dr What? Yesterday and neither of us could find it.
It just seems really unintuitive that we just randomly have to set similar match parameters and find each other in a lobby.
But once we got the hang of it, it really worked out well. kudos to the netcode. I had zero lag on my end.
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Create an Endless Lobby, set it to 2 slots and make it private. Then just invite him in.
I think that should work but it has been a damned long time since I bothered.
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Clever.
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I’m actually really surprised that a game as big as Street Fighter, even in its third iteration has no invite friends option. That’s just sloppy development on Capcoms part.
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I hear they’re waiting till Hyper Street Fighter IV Turbo Edition Plus Alpha.
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Yea, followed only by the “How many times can we possibly re-release this fucking thing” Edition.
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If you look at how the multiplayer in SF is structured, it kind of makes sense for the invite system to only work when you have an Endless Lobby setup.
Simply because that is the only mode where you are planning on playing someone multiple times, whilst the rest are really just one match then move on type scenarios.
Not brilliant but there is some sort of perverted logic to it.
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SF4 is a the kind of game that you NEED zero lag. Imagine the rage quits people would have if that wasn’t the case.
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Yea, any screw up in the timing and it will cost you the game.
The network strength icons are somewhat inconsistent. I’ve had green opponents have zero lag, but I’ve also had green opponents have quite choppy matches.
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When I tried playing Super SF4 online (haven’t tried with AE) I could never find better than yellow, which was nearly unplayable.
Then again, I was foolish enough to try and connect wirelessly. Odds are, that was my own damned fault.
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Well, I’m playing AE on my PS3 wirelessly, and I’ve found the majority of people are Green.
But green is subjective. It certainly doesn’t mean no lag at all. One of my matches looked like a slideshow at one point, despite the fact it was listed as green.
I think SF4 was really designed as one of those games where you play against your friends who are in the same room.
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It is pretty good for that. I had a blast playing my friend the other day. So much spam of hadoken. Then he figured out how to throw. SO much spamming. Still epic fun though!
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Anyone noticed that the Resistance ads still seem to be taking up MASSIVE amounts of memory?
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They kept annoying me so i turned adblock on. It’s a shame because i like supporting the site by not putting it on. But my computer was going soo slow!
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I’m in the same boat. I use Chrome and the adblock eliminates all the ads. But then i feel guilty. Maybe i’ll go click on all the ads once a day just to drum up some revenue for Kotaku?
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Is that how they get revenue. If it is i will spam click the ads to add fund for them.
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I would imagine ads are the majority of the Allure Media revenue, yes.
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but would it be from the ad’s being displayed or the amount of visits the ads have??
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I don’t know. Ask Tadmod.
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I’m not sure which tab it was, but since Chrome monitors them separately, I know that one of mine was using 20% of my CPU, and over 1 gig of RAM. And it was increasing massively as I watched it, so I think there’s a massive leak somewhere.
So very disappointed that I didn’t get an invite to the Diablo 3 closed beta yet. I actually want to cry.
Also, the first 30mins of work was me catching up on TAY. So. Productive.
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You could just pretend you are in it while watching the stream!
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It’s not the same 🙁
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You know how to make it the same?
Put your mouse in an inactive part of the screen, and click furiously.
There, you’re now playing any Diablo game. 😀
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It’s true! But the game is so much more than that! ALRIGHT!
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Suuure it is. The only way for Blizzard to prove me wrong is to send me a beta key.
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And me too…so we can like compare and stuff, or something.
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BEST. FIG. EVER!!
http://40ktoday.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/image-64.jpg?w=500&h=515
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Inception! We must go deeper…
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i lol’ed quite a lot.
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Yo Dawg,
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hahaha nice
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Hahaha, I thought you were talking about the fruit when I first read that. I was expecting a picture of the most amazing quality fig ever.
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bahahahahaha!!
Man.. what i wouldn’t give for an epic fig
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/alisa7248/1294013078/
Just for you bish
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That is so awesome, Is it an inquisitor figure holding and epic figure? I didn’t think the scale would be right. Or did he make his own little marines?
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yeah, you’d be bang on the hammer there, mate. I’d recognise epic figs anywhere.. they’re sooo bloody tiny!
I have a few at home..
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MOST.EPIC.TAT.EVER
http://www.pollsb.com/photos/o/59422-warhammer_tattoo.jpg
god bless you, warhammer
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‘Tis very well done. Unfortunately, with that much detail and colour, unless he gets it redone every 4 or 5 years, it will be unrecognisable within 15-20 years..
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very, very true
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I am soooooo jealous of this guys painting skills
http://www.greenfieldgames.com/content/jays-weekly-painting-report
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I MEAN SERIOUSLY!!
CHECK THIS SHIZ OUT!!!-
We’re watching you!
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Wow.. Thanks, man. Glad you like my stuff!
When’s the next Melbourne meet?
I have some time before I go back to work, and was thinking about visiting Melbourne.
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Come to Sydney instead.
We have the BEST Meats here.
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It’s a matter of timing Doc…
Plus, I don’t mind driving to Melbourne… but, Sydney’s just, it’s just…
Yeah.
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These are the posters for the last few Sydney meats:
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/cronotriggr/MiniMeat.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/cronotriggr/Meat2Final.jpg
Seriously. Sydney. It’s where the awesome happens.
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But Sydney has so, so, so many hipsters.
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Get the best of both worlds, come to Canberra!
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Just like that Hannah Montanna movie!
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I ordered a special edition Hannah Montanna from Canberra….
Gee they grow up fast!! :0
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Oh no.
Took me a week to get off those roundabouts last time.
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One day I am going to have to get off my bloated barbarian ass and actually make it to one of these Sydney Meats.
Mainly because it has the word meat in it.Mmm, meat.
Oh, I mean mostly to meet all of you lovely people, yeah, um, *nervous cough* That’s what I meant.
We haven’t organised one yet, mate
We could probably come up with something, though
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Definitely, wanna try Mana Bar again earlier in the day or something?
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There’s no need to haul off and put something on for my benefit… but I’d have just swung by if something was running.
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Yes there is!!!!
I may be in Melbourne on the 1st of December and then Syndney on the 2nd…..
I’d totally demand two meats*…..*I totally wouldn’t
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The next Melbourne one is the weekend after Can’d Meat, isn’t it? You know, the weekend I’m going to be down there….
I’m off work for the next month (starting the 13th) so I’m up for doing something!
Excuse me for a while. I must go write up something on the misconceptions about PC Gaming…
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Don’t you mean the misconception OF PC Gaming….
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Or did you just mean WOW….
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Oh! Don’t forget flash games!!!!!
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trolling troll is trolling 🙂
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>:|
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And rape simulators!
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Hmmm i’m surprised EB hasn’t called yet to tell me they have my Space Marine Collectors Edition…
I swear if they’ve stolen it..
*cocks bolter*
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heheheheheheh.
Cock.
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i was wondering who would be the first to point out that word 😛
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It’s interesting, well maybe not interesting but still, every time I have pre-ordered from EB or GAME I have always ended up picking up the game before they could even be bothered calling me.
I suggest just rocking up there demanding they hand it over, or call them and put them to shame other their laziness.
Not that I think they would actually feel any shame.
Shameless, lazy so and so’s.-
They call me the day before.
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They do the same to me.
It really bugs me…
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I thought it was all automatic. I get an automated text first thing on the morning of release.
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Really? Mine have always been phone calls from the store staff
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They usually call or text me, but no word so far. If I don’t get it, I’m going medieval on their asses.
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you mean future-gothic, yeah?
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That is so what I meant.
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Who wants to play Space Marine tonight (PS3)?
I just walked into Big W and bought a copy.
“Online only price” you say? “Bollocks to that” I say.
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You are a bloody legend
Unfortunately, there are 2 things stopping me
1. I can’t pick up my copy until tomorrow
2. My copy is xbox 360Still, the emperor would be proud, brother
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I don’t have Xbox Live anymore and don’t really see the need to pay for it, so I grabbed the PS3 version.
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OH!
And Strange! Just do that!-
Strange, if you can’t get the Garden City store to do it before I leave work, I can go get a copy for you.
It’s easy enough for me to drop by your place tomorrow (I’m taking the day off), as long as you can pay me back.
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Thanks for the offer but I has no cash, just my PayPal refund from OzGameShop. But thanks so much anyway, Bunny delivered Space Marine would have been awesome!
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You can EFT me the money later, it’s not a huge deal. As long as there’s money in my pocket at some point in the near future :p
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With my sister here this weekend and then our holiday in a couple of weeks I probably won’t even have any cash in the near future. So yeah, thanks but probably not going to work.
Besides, I’d be sooo tempted to withhold my repayments until you did more Buttercup. 😛Seriously though, thanks again for the offer, you’re awesome.
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More Buttercup… that’s an interesting prospect.
My writing time is kind of being dedicated to planning for NaNoWriMo but we’ll see if I can get something going. Still, with your sister coming over this weekend and your holiday in a few weeks, you might just miss it :p
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Okay!
This is how awesome I am!
If Trjn buys SM for Strange, I will transfer the money to Trjn and Strange can pay me back with Paypal.
No problem. What say you?
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I’m fine with any scenario that results in me not being out of pocket (even if it means I get the money in a month or so).
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Well, if you don’t hear from Strange, just go ahead and do it. I’m in no rush to be paid back at all.
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I need to know what platform to get it on, I know Strange has both consoles and prefers the PS3 but she might still want it on 360 (assuming she does want it).
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Damn, good point. She was talking about changing to 360. That’s why this started.
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Truly, you are blessed by the Emperor.
I’ll be picking mine up today for PS3, so I’d be keen.
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I probably won’t be on until late, but my PSN ID is either Trjn or TrjnRabbit (I honestly forget which). So just add me and we can see what happens.
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Just got copy of Space Marine…shiny!
PunishingHand is my PSN-
I think I’ve already got you added?
B-G-S- is mine.
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Yep, you’re already in my friends list 🙂
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What is the name of the Australian lifeguard with the red shirt on in Dead Island? (The one with the Face tattoo)
He may just me too good not to go in my Australians in video games list.
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John Sinamoi
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Oops, that guy is Polynesian so may not be the guy, or he could be Australian/Polynesian.
Or Americans could think all Polynesians sound Australian.
Crazy Americans.
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Abobo
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ABOBO SMASH!
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OM NOM NOM 4 cheeseburgers and fries. Food makes everything better. Even better when I had a competition with my colleague for least number of bites (I won with 2 bites) and fastest time (no idea what time, but it was faster than him).
This Space Marine talk is infectious. I feel like buying it. If Big W lets me price match when I go after work, I shall buy it and joing in on the crazies!
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The only reason I bought it was because I could do that.
Had they said they weren’t price matching, I probably wouldn’t be looking to play this game for quite some time.
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but… but my infection fanboyism…
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Loops, you need to go get your Special Ultimate Fantastic edition of Space Marine for Xbox 360, Then trade it in and join us on PS3….hahaha
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Do it! Join us on xbox!
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I might drop by Big W on the way home and see what I can do. I may yet drink your crazy Kool-aid (on Xbox 360, naturally).
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Hahahaha, so good!
I’m having LoL withdrawals..
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You should have seen the game we had last night!
We should have lost, but we didn’t.
True story.-
Edge. Of. My. SEAT!
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Do you need a writer for your films? Here’s one I have in the works:
Hero nearly dies at the start of the movie, but then he doesn’t, and emerges victorious later on.-
I have a better idea!
There’s a group of adventurers doing their thing. Suddenly, rocks fall. Everyone dies.
Then they all bum around in the afterlife doing stuffs.
Actually, don’t do that. I’m writing that story for NaNoWriMo.
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I agree with DAN! That’s some exciting stuff! 😀
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it was funny cause they were winning by sooo much. the had killed pretty much all of our turrets. Then we just pushed a lane hard with 3 heroes and won in one go. tips’s hat.
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Also, random-comic-I-found-on-the-internet time! Yaaaaaaay!
http://i51.tinypic.com/ae65b7.jpg
Apparently Rocketman thinks Annie’s Ultimate is terrible.-
I have never missed a joke so easily in all of my life than when I read that comic.
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hahahaha
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I HAVE THE SPACEMARINE BOLTER EDITION.
That is all.
*adjusts tie*
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Page 11.
That is all.
*adjusts tie again*
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That’s not a tie!
It’s a trick.
Get an axe.
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Way to quote AoD!
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Did you send Loops the cease and desist email??
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Neo- Kaiser is being like a little kid again and the reply chain is maxed out. Whatever am i meant to do. In all seriousness i think i am kind of trolling by replying but it makes me angry that because he is bad at this game he has to whine that the game is broken. THe bad carpenter shouldn’t blame their tools, just their bad workmanship!!
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I’ve said my piece. He’s probably going to ignore the obvious point I made so there’s no fun in continuing.
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i was going to make that point myself but you beat me to it. Honestly how thick can you be. If you don’t like it move on to something else instead of whinging about it in every single pro gamer segment. It really is spoiling a great write up from Tracey.
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As a human being, he is entitled to his own opinion, there’s just one simple problem.
His opinion is wrong.
However, I don’t see the point in arguing anymore. If I really wanted to, I would write an essay length piece on why exactly his argument is flawed, but it’s just not worth it. As Bunny said, he’ll just ignore it. We are all far happier living in our own little universes, oblivious to the real world.
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Well put blaghs. I mean i know i should really comment without knowing the finer points but i know enough to know that whining about it just pisses people off. There is a time and place and if the mechanic is going to be fixed like he said then why bother ruining the article with drivel.
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If there was actually a problem, Bungie would have fixed it. They spend immense amounts of time fixing and altering things in game, which is how you get a good competitive game. The only reason Brood War became so popular as a competitive game was because Blizzard was willing to make huge changes to it to make it good, and that philosophy has been passed on to all current competitive based games.
To say that one weapon is broken is to disregard the efforts of every tester, every beta participant, and anyone who played the game online and had an opinion which they voiced, not to mention all the devs who worked on balance.
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You speak such words of wisdom. Its hard to remember that you are my age. 😛
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Sometimes it sucks to be old, I get no credit :p
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I was tempted to drop your name in my comment below, since you really are a master of lies. 😀
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your wise to trjn, you know more about starcraft then anybody else on teamspeak! O wait um scratch that, but you are smart too!
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His wise???
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What have you done to my wise‽
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At least you have one. Apparently I am wiseless.
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im sure i have something dumb but i don’t know what . To the googles.
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Wait, scrap that, I was just chopping up some vegetables grooving to WSFM and I sliced a bit of my index finger off.
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Er, I was doing the grooving, not the vegetables.
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Okay, Rocketman, you used “your” instead of “you’re.” If you remember back to English, you were potentially taught that “your” is a possessive term, as in “your cat is toroiseshell, and therefore must be female due to the genetic nature of cat colours.” Whereas “you’re” is a contraction of “you are” used at some times as “you’re such a twat Blaghman, bringing pointless knowledge into this discussion.”
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tortoiseshell*
Dammit. To clarify on that point, the “colour” of a cat is on their X chromosome, so a female cat can be orange(oo), black(bb), or tortoiseshell(ob), whereas a male can only be orange(o) or black(b). This in an example of co-dominant alleles.
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He knows more about some elements of SC2 than I do! I’d still beat him at 1vs though. Then again, PvP is still a coin toss… (rush DTs to counter 4 gate trololol)
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I know more in the sense that I have seen a lot of VODs and streams, so I can kind of pretend to know what’s going on based on that.
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I should just play games, scout my opponent well, and tell you what they’re doing, and get you to come up with a counter!
IT’S GENIUS!
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Shame I don’t actually know the specific counters to Terran and Zerg races.
Unless the counter is “turtle like a boss”. I know that one :p
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Well, if you can at least work out what they’re doing, then I can counter it myself. (typically the counter is dt’s)
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That seems like it could work. Admittedly, if you can scout enough for me to work out what they’re doing over TeamSpeak, odds are you’re scouting enough to work out what they’re doing for yourself :p
Also, start using Warp Prisms. I really want to try focusing on Warp Prism play instead of proxy pylons and forward pylons. It looks like a lot of fun, although I’m fairly sure that it won’t be that effective.
Oh, and hallucinated phoenix scouting.
TheoryCraft is a fun game.
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I am really bad at analysing what they’re doing, I always seem to fail horrendously(thus my reliance on 3 gate expo). And the faux phoenix scout is an integral part of a good 3 gate expo, otherwise you will be playing completely blind.
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High Templar, Hallucinate and Warp Prisms all seem to be really underutilised.
I’m hoping that it isn’t because they suck but because people are focusing on other tech paths.
Either way, they all look like a lot of fun to use, which is somewhat important.
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Good Warp Prism use and HT’s are both very micro intensive if you want to play them well, and the problem is that with good control/scouting they can be dealt with extremely easily.
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HTs are definitely finnicky. It’s just that I’ve noticed that Zealot/Archon seems to be more in vogue than adding HTs to the deathball and then making them into Archons.
Warp Prisms are more of a PvZ thing. Gives you some map control/mid-game harass without committing to Stargate. I say this mainly because MC got destroyed in PvZ last night going Stargate.
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Yeah, but if the zerg has good overlord spread, then your Warp Prism is more or less useless, so it’s good to get a starport out for three or four phoenix’s to overlord snipe/distract corruptors late game.
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Kinda just thinking this out as I type it, hence why it’s so stupid. :p
I forgot about the Overlords. Sure, Phoenix deal with those but that still leaves you vulnerable while you start getting your Gateway units.
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The secret to wisdom is to make things up eloquently. Pretending to be intelligent is remarkably easy.
I’ve been pretending to smart for most of my life. Most people seem to fall for it.
Club > smarts.
Well, you are a Hungarian Barbarian Librarian, so I guess you must speak with some truth.
BUT THE “PRO’S”
THEY ALL SAY IT’S BROKEN
Given I’ve seen DMR’s used about twice in competitive Halo compared to the sniper rifle every other time, I really am very curious about any pro’s that bitch about it. I think these might be the same ones that live in his basement and tell him how awesome he is…
(I really need to stop being so mean)
Meh, he deserves it.
If we wants to bitch about imbalance, go hang around on the Bungie forums or something.
Tracey is doing a great thing for Australian pro-gaming and all he keeps doing is saying every game sucks because they are “broken”
I agree that he should do it elsewhere, I just… I don’t understand people. The world would be so much easier if everyone thought like me(though absolutely nothing would get done, and no children would ever be born ever again).
I started writing out a reply, but decided he wasn’t worth the effort.
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Saw something he wrote that was actually wrong, and so corrected him.
I feel dirty, now, though.
Page 11? Excellent. So I was bored last night, and it’s Crash bandicoots 15th anniversary tomorrow, so I found myself bored and started writing this piece. I was going to email it to Tracey to see if she would put it up on Kotaku, but it’s kind of rushed and I’m going to Adelaide tomorrow so no time to do anything. Except post it here in TAY.
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I had no idea what the date was. I had no idea what the time was. I can’t remember where exactly in London I was. But the memory is still fresh in my mind, like it happened yesterday. We were walking down some kind of street mall. It was night, but it was very bright. The bubbly orange lights filled the air, the happy chatter filling you up with a happy sense of contentment. But the true feeling of happiness, the true excitement, comes not from this wonderfully romanticized idea of what I remember, but it came from what we had just bought. For of course, we had just bought ourselves a PlayStation, and a handful of games. My dad was carrying the PlayStation that we bought in a sale of some kind and my brother and I squabbled over who could hold the games. Of course, my brother won, because he was older and probably made some false promise about letting me do something but always reneged on said promise. But it did not matter, as the most exciting thing of all was that we now owned our very own gaming console. But more importantly, we now owned Crash Bandicoot.
This was the first time we owned our very own console. We had of course played video games before; we had cousins that lived not very far away with their own Sega Saturn, and I vaguely remember playing on a NES at my cousins’ house when I visited them in Perth. But the games that I played on them, I honestly have no idea what they were. But Crash was something that just completely and entirely blew us away.
We ran to the TV and begged our dad to hurry and set up the PlayStation and the TV. We entered the house, running around like maniacs. But within minutes, we came to a sudden stop and carefully opened the box. You could’ve probably mistaken us from someone in the bomb squad; we were so careful in opening the PlayStation box we didn’t want to break anything. I grew impatient, and started flipping through our game catalogue. There was Firestorm: Thunderhawk 2, The Need For Speed (Yes, the very first one EA made), Olympic Soccer, Alien Trilogy, Tunnel B1 and of course, Crash Bandicoot. I looked at them all. I was all so fascinated by them. I couldn’t tell what was going to be better, was it the racing one with really realistic graphics? Would it be the scary alien monster looking game? Would it be the helicopter game, letting me fly around and do anything I wanted? Didn’t matter, time was up. The PlayStation was set up, and for the first time, the PlayStation booted up .
Such a wonderful sound that I’ll never forget. The console worked! It played sound, it was showing us some funky menu and we were30cm away from the TV, we were just that excited. So my brother, the aspiring pilot (and he actually is one now) wanted to right away play Firestorm: Thunderhawk 2. I didn’t have a choice in the matter, to be honest, I didn’t care, I just wanted to see it play games! So in it went. And we were amazed . How could a simple gray box produce such realistic graphics? We were in our own helicopter, blowing things up, shooting anything and everything. I also distinctly remember not being able to play it, so I’d sit along and pretend to play with the other controller that we got with it. As the time flew by for my brother, I was going increasingly impatient, frustrated by my lack of playing and wanting to play. But we decided we should put in another game, instead of letting me play this, so we can see what all the games are like. It was my turn to choose.
I looked at the games. The cover on Alien Trilogy looked stupid, so I didn’t feel like playing that (in fact, to this day, I think it’s safe to say that Alien Trilogy is still on my pile of shame). There were five games left to choose from, and I didn’t know which to go with. So I did what any 5 year old would do: choose the biggest, because it must be the best. If you remember back, PS1 games were sometimes in multi disc cases, to include a demo disc. Both Crash and Firestorm were in this, and thus, they were bigger than the other games. So Crash it was. Again, being the younger brother meant that I wasn’t playing first. I’m sure I protested and cried and whined, but I don’t remember that. But what I do remember is being completely and utterly transfixed.
The game loaded up. I saw the Sony logo. I saw the universal logo. I saw the Naughty Dog logo. I couldn’t tell what they meant or why so many damned logos kept popping up. Because 5 year olds don’t care about that, they just want to get on with it and just play. And lo and behold, there it was. Crash Bandicoot was running up to us and yelling. The menu was there, and yet Crash was moving, already, this had blown me away. Then the game began. We chose N.Sanity Beach. And so began a journey that’s made me what I am today. I started playing. We were running around admiring everything we possibly could. The water, the trees, the sand, the boxes, everything was just so mind blowingly good looking. I was in love. I loved the opening scene, I loved the quirky upbeat music, I loved how the characters looked: this game, in my eyes, set the bar so ridiculously high for all other games. And then we started playing, me using a disconnected controller to pretend play. It looked like fun; but I couldn’t tell, as I was only watching (and admiring the visuals). So then when my brother gave up and it was my turn, I was excited. Finally, playing this game. I loved the wumpa fruit and the sounds they made. I loved just jumping around anywhere, any time. I laughed so hard when I acquire Aku Aku and it made that “BOOGACHA” sound. I died over and over, I died by jumping into pits, into enemies, getting squashed by boulders, but I didn’t care. This game was so fun, I was scolded by my parents to tell me to stop playing and they told me to go to bed. So I scribbled down the last password, seeing as it didn’t use a save game, and I put that notepad next to the PlayStation (I distinctly remember crying when my mum thought it was rubbish and threw all the passcodes away).
And so, that’s how I was introduced to gaming. Crash was the first game I owned, loved and finished. It was the game that opened up my imagination to entire new worlds, to a new way of passing time. Of course, there were other distinct PS1 memories. I remember being scared and awed by the T-Rex demo, playing the Tombi! demo far too many times. I remember playing CTR and Crash Bash, and whoever was losing between myself, my brother and my cousins would end up unplugging the multi tap in a fit of rage.
I just really felt like writing this because both Crash and Naughty Dog are very important to me. It may be the year to celebrate Zelda and Metroids 25th anniversary, but Crash has had the most profound impact on my life, and Naughty Dog have always inspired me. From the ridiculously fun Crash Bandicoot games, to the awe inspiring open world Jak games, to the wonderful constructed experience that is Uncharted 2, I tip my hat to you, Jason Rubin, Andy Gavin and to the rest of the Naughty Dogs working hard on Uncharted 3.
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Ah, Crash, what happened to you, oh yeah, that scratch, and the childish inability to even get up to the second boss, DAMN YOU RIPPER ROO!
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Whoah
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Ah Crash Bandicoot, so many fond memories.
Think it was one of the first games I ever played, at my friends house and Crash 3 was one of the first I ever owned.Also, enjoy Adelaide! Its OK.
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There won’t be much time to bum around Adelaide, my brother is moving there, so we’re just driving there to dump all his crap, set him up and then we’re away!
Also, Crash Team Racing. One of the finest multiplayer games ever created. Ever!
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Damn straight! That game was awesome.
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I got that and nitro cart still, so darn good and so much fun!
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haha dood! what an epic read! That was great! It’s so interesting to hear other peoples first times! That excitement you and your brother felt, is exactly what I went through when I got my Atari 2600! We went shopping on my Birthday to get it. We were in Sydney at the time because my Grandfather lived there, and we shared the same birthday. I can recall that day like it was yesterday! Going to Roselands and getting the atari… then we went to other shops and to visit friends, and I wasn’t allowed to play it til we got home, so I was bustin my ass to get home and plug it in! I tried to be as good an patient as I could.. I don’t recall being too naughty that day 😉
When we got back to the house that night and plugged it in to my grandfathers black and white tv, I didn’t even care that there was no colour.. I was just losing my mind over the fact I was now the proud owner of my own console! Free interactive entertainment til the cows come home! w00t!God that was a good day! Thanks for bringin back that memory 😉
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Oh god, I can’t imagine the agony of having a brand new console and not being able to immediately rush home and set it up. I think the only memory that topped that was when we setup our PS2 and put in Jak and Daxter; this time, I was 10. I could read and whatnot, and we spent ages reading the official playstation magazine about previews of Jak and on the PS2. And that had the same mind blowingly awesome effect. Jak and Daxter is such a fantastic game; I really wish there were more 3D open world platformers.
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My wife said I wasn’t supposed to look at Kotaku while I was away, but this was awesome. Totally reminded me of the Christmas I got my SNES.
And fighting over who gets to hold things! Me ad my brother used to do that as well!
So, the director just came up to me and said that my last month’s figures for Service were really low, lower than the two quiet months before that. I explained to him that the work just isn’t there, I can’t do jobs if there are no jobs to do. I’m charging people as much as I can get away with, without alienating them from the business, but that’s all I can do. He didn’t like my response and just walked away. GOD DAMMIT.
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You need him whacked? I know a guy who knows a guy who’s brothers with a guy.
None of these guys can help you.
But I know another guy, who doesn’t know these guys, but might know a guy who can help you.
If you know what I mean.
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Hahaha this made me laugh 😛
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If you have a problem; If no one else can help you, and if you can find them… maybe, you can hire The TAY team.
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SO good! My favourite comment of the day!
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What do you want me to do?
Whack a guy?
Off a guy?
Whack off a guy?
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Thats no good dude. I have a similar but not as bad situation. There are no jobs . I make up for it by going through old stuff and cleaning up and try to stay on task. If it doesn’t pick up soon i might have to start being on TAY full time gulp.
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Oh yeah, well a job just opened up where my mum works as an IT Help Desk/Consultant. Not sure what the pay is but the company is competitive in pay for other roles, so I assume it would be the same. And you can salary sacrifice $16,500 of your pay. So i might apply for that, I’m getting sick of this place anyway..
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That sucks.
Can’t you just bank on the fact that people are stupid, and overcharge them ridiculously? Rocketman said that a guy’s Flux Capacitor was broken and got away with it, so it can’t be that hard!
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Hahahaha. I do stuff like that all the time, though not really something so unbelievable as a Flux Capacitor 😛 I’m very good at bullshitting clients. But you can’t charge them too much, most people have friends that know a bit about IT and if one of those friends say we ripped them off, we lose a customer. There are too many IT businesses in Perth to risk that happening. So I do what I can get away with, but you can’t even overcharge somebody if no one is coming in..
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They shall be pure of heart and strong of body, untainted by doubt and unsullied by self-aggrandisement. They will be bright stars in the firmament of battle. Angels of Death whose shining wings bring swift annihilation to the nemies of Man. So shall it be for a thousand times a thousand years, unto the very end of eternity and the extinction of mortal flesh.
That’s it. Time to leave. Off to get some stuff. And SPACE MARINE! MWAHAHA!
Say it with me, folks.
FOR THE EMPEROR!
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The Emperor For!
I heard it’s not as good as the emperor three though…..
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I don’t get home for another two and a half hours 🙁
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For Grimskull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suck at this…
Four day weekend!
I had a rostered day off “banked” from before I went on holidays. I have a rostered day off scheduled for Monday. I shall use my banked RDO tomorrow and have four days of lazing about, playing SC2 and working out the kinks in my new capture card.
Also, I shall buy a new capture card :p
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Damn, I wish I could have four days worth of no school, well, at least when I’m not sick, have some good times on your long weekend trjn!
dat purity seal.
*drool*
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Have you stuck it to your crotch?
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Not yet. But soon.
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Pics or it didn’t happen
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Nipple tassles FTW
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If I were to hypothetically purchase this game on 360, how many others would be around to join in eventual multi-player shenanigans? Most others (beside Cracks) seem to be going the PS3 or PC route?
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I am getting 360, and so is puppylicks, i believe
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*raises hand*
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I’ll have it on 360 when OzGameShop sends me my copy in 5 years time.
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I am also awaiting my 360 delivery.
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and my club
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You’re just making me want mien all the more 🙁
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Mmmm, delicious noodles.
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DAMNIT
That made me hungry, so I had to go cook up a packet of mi goreng noodles-
I make no apologies for influencing your decision to get some Mi Goreng noodles.
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I’ll finally be able to play Deus Ex tonight! FINALLY. After a week of everyone else praising its awesomeness. >->
[sob of pure joy]
I also hear they’ve announced DLC for it?
┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ) (this emoticon has zero relevance to the above post)
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┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
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Damn dirty DLC.
Still, no augments should make it interesting.
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How/what do you mean? :s
Is the DLC meant to be played with no augments or something?
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Yeah, they’ve said that you’ll be augmentless, which will change how you’re supposed to play and blah blah marketing stuff.
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At least in the first one.
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But, but, but… augments are cool. My arm has a blade on it. Why would they take that away from me? =(
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Oh god, I hope I still have takedown abilities… That was the only reason I managed to finish the game in less than 300 hours.
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DAYSEX
ヽ(´ー`)人(´∇`)ノ
Guess I’ll get mine just in time for the dlc to go live…
Dammit!
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Coming from OzGameShop?
Mine took about 8 working days to ship :/
It arrived on Monday but I haven’t had any time to even open it.
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Zavvi, I wanted the Augmented Edition…
But it aint here yet.
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Ah, I picked up the Augmented one from OzGameShop… the box is very nice. Uh. Yeah, the box…
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Oh. My. God.
Space Marine is so much fun! Everything just feels so satisfying.
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I’m not happy that there are people in the world shooting orks and I’m stuck doing a stupid assignment, and waiting for my order to arrive.
So I need a new headset with mic.
TAY Team assemble!
Anyone know of something good for not ridiculous amounts of money?
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I’m using a cheap Microsoft headset I bought at JB for about $30.
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I’m also after something like that! But its got to have a high output.
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I picked one up in Big W about a year ago. Cheap but pretty good. Mic especially so.
It broke recently so I went back.
Same one. $8! \o/
Great for chatting, but I wouldn’t use it for all my gaming needs.
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Plantronics Gamecom 367. It’s only like $50-$60 and it’s the same headset I have. Great sound, and great quality mic!
Is all up in your TAY.
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*tentative squee*
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Good grief, a Doppelgänger?
Please extricate yourself lest I’m forced to give you a clout around the ear. What is the world coming to?Please carry on about your business.
Looks like I’m not getting any cheap Big W Space Marine. I went down to buy it on the way home, and the guy said “We have it, but we’ve been told we’re not allowed to sell it till tomorrow”. I grabbed the catalogue in front of him and pointed out that it says “Available September 8” right there. He just shrugged and said “It’s a misprint or something, the head guys told us what to do”.
Couldn’t be bothered arguing any more as it was obvious he wasn’t going to budge. So given that the $58 special was one day only I figure I have no chance of getting that price match now. Unless somebody out there wants to buy it for me today on 360 and send it to me 😀
And if it’s not $58 then, well, I guess I’ll get around to buying it cheaper at some later date. Sorry guys!
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Pull out a smartphone, show my tweet with a Big W receipt, tell him to sell it to you.
Failing that, do it tomorrow and get them to price match my receipt. Should work.
So other than LoL, me and dawdle! have been playing some crimson alliance from XBLA!
People compare this with Diablo and Torchlight, but i think it is nothing like those 2. But it is a fun game and should definitely give it a try. The description on XBLA said it’s free but it does not include all the levels, 1200 microsoft points for the full unlock.
Enjoy exploring dungeons, upgrading your characters and finding secret locations!
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Does it have a good story or is it just all nonstop action?
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I haven’t got to the end yet, so far the story is not deep but quite interesting.
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Gentleman What? and Bunny….
!!!!!
You guys are amazing. I’m sorry I wasn’t around to acknowledge or take advantage of your awesomeness before but it means a lot that you guys offered and tried to work it out for me.
In related news, the incompetent who cancelled my order just sent me a response trying to tell me that I asked him to cancel my pre-order, and that it was my fault for not being awake in the middle of the night to re-order it on 360. I am soooo mad!
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If you’re still vaguely interested, I can try again tomorrow. It’s not a big deal, I’ll be near a Big W at some point and it should be pretty easy to do a price match now that I have a Big W receipt.
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Thanks again,but I’m kind of over the whole Space Marine thing now. I’ll re-order it later at some point and find something else for Mr. Strange in the meantime. 🙂
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Here’s the correspondence form Ozgameshop. Admittedly my initial email was rather silly but I never asked for my pre-order to be cancelled.
But yeah, someone please tell me if I’m over-reacting or not. the only thing I’ve changed is the names, to initials.
“Thanks for your email.
I am sorry to hear this however, when I cancelled this item we did have the Xbox stock available but this must have sold out before you looked for these availabilities.
You asked if you could cancel this order so you could purchased the other item as you were unsure how your PS3 would react to the game. This is what I did for you, the only thing I couldn’t do was re-order the Xbox item for you.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Many Thanks,
S
On 07/09/2011 22:25, LB wrote:
> Hi S.
> I never asked for my order to be cancelled. Now I’ve missed out on my pre-order pack and you don’t even have any copies of Space Marine left on either console. I just asked if it was too late to change systems and I said “If it is too late I’ll stick with my PS3 version”. All you needed to do was tell me you can’t change orders and I would have left it at that. You could have given me the option to cancel and re-order on a different system, or you could even have checked and found that there were no 360 versions available which made cancelling my order completely pointless. Nowhere did I ask for my order to be cancelled and now I’m left without the game at all and it’s quite upsetting because I was very much looking forward to this game. Please don’t ever do this to anyone else as it’s a rather bad feeling and I’d hate for anyone else to have to go through this.
> -L.
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> On 7/09/2011 8:35 PM, S – ozgameshop.com wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> Thanks for your email.
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>> Confirmation of cancellation, a refund will be with you shortly as we are unable to exchange items. If you wish to then re-order the correct game you are more than welcome to do so.
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>> Many Thanks,
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>> S
>> On 07/09/2011 02:07, LB wrote:
>>> Dear OzGameShop,
>>> Is it too late to change my pre-order for Space Marine from the PS3 version to the 360 version? If it is too late I’ll stick with my PS3 version but if not I would love it to be changed because apparently a bunch of my friends are getting it on 360 and also for some reason my PS3 has started to make a high-pitched whining noise when it’s on so I’m scared I’ll get partway through the game and the PS3 will self-destruct or implode or something. 😛
Thank-you.
-L”
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That’s such BS
In no way shape or form did you ask for your order to be cancelled
keep at the bastards!
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send message to them saying “i like fish”
“WAT, CANCEL UR VIDYA GAMEZ?”
if they screw up my pre-order of rune factory, i will destroy them
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It looks like (from Twitter) OzGameShop managed to find an Xbox copy…!
Doesn’t really make up for the shoddy customer service, but at least they’re good at fixing their mistakes.
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Yeah, I guess after mentioning it on Twitter my problem was sent higher up the food chain and they then resolved it with flying colours. So I can go back to championing them again which is a relief.
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Oh, and for those not doing the silly Twitter thing, they found me a copy of Space Marine on 360 as well as the pre-order bonus. 🙂
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My Space Marine has been shipped. And they’ve given me double Player points. \o/
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Success! \o/
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Oh good, because I was ready to go all twitter’d up and starting hashtags and stuff. Power to the people!
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Hello everybody!
*Hi Dr. Nick!*
Don’t forget to send in your Community Kudos noms! If no one sends anything in I’m going to make TadMod the winner for undergoing a hair make-over initiated by the Sugar girls. 😉
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But Tracey, I just don’t know who to give noms too, nothing leaped out at me as an outstanding act.
Because, I know, that we’re all outstanding.
By which I mean I’m too lazy to remember who’s done cool things this week.
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Could give it to me… for being back.
But, if there’s photos of the Sugar Girls tormenting Tad… then that’s acceptable too.
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I think I’ve nommed a total of three people in my entire time at Kotaku…
I am a terrible community member.
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ahhh, i have an idea for one!
but i forget the e-mail…-
Try either the tips one that hey link to on the main page, or since that’s potentially not working, try tracey(dot)lien(at)alluremedia(dot)com . I’d like to add that Tracey is way better at responding to emails than Mark is, so you should know if it worked.
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Whoops, forgot the “.au” at the end of it. So add that. Silly Blaghs, you’re terrible at helping.
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Blaghs, you helped!
Now I can send Kudos!
Which I could not do previously!
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So you should nom the person who gave you the ability to do so. 😛
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Like lightning!
Proper response, too.I once sent Mark a nom and he replied with “Ahahaha!”. I don’t know if he was laughing at me or what.
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Remember Bish, I am everywhere, I am helping, and from the sounds of that email, so is Mark…
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I sent him a nom for you once and he responded with “awesome call”. It’s the only time he’s ever responded to my noms email.
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I wasn’t laughing AT you, I was laughing WITH you!
Yeah sorry guys – I get distracted too easily. And always forget to reply. It’s a terrible habit of mine.
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You have to post pics of Tads new doo.
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Wait so the pic on the right is the $74 haircut?
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I’m pretty sure the stalker picture is the expensive haircut one. Though, as previously mentioned, I’m not the best person to make comments about haircuts.
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He has music-commanding underwear!
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It means I was a bad person, because I wasn’t subscribed to him on youtube!
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It’s an imposter! He’s not wearing The Shirt!
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It’s Scotland!
He needs something slightly warmer! Probably? *ignores guy in background walking around in a tee*-
Yeah, but it’s the warm time of the year. If he were in Glasgow(I have no idea where he is) then I’d expect the temperature to be somewhere between about ten and seventeen degrees Celsius. WARM!
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i believe it’s some sort of communication
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I laughed.
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http://youtu.be/O8cTdFqwdwc
Daysex is amazeballs.
So much detail.
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Agree so much, Just did the first mission now trying the second. Man its awesome fun.
BoyhaveIhadaproductivenightI’vemanagetofixtheghostingontheleftsideofmyscreen, andontopofthatIplayedthroughsomemoreOniuntilitglitchedupwithagrapplinghook. Boy,don’tyouloveitwhenyoucan’tgettosleep?
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Dude you really should find a way to sleep better. What works for me is reading for a half hour. Then if that doesn’t work warm milk. Then if that doesn’t work HARD DRUGS. But try the first two first. I find a lack of sleep comes from thinking too much. If there is any successful things that do that try them. Lack of sleep is pretty bad.
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But there’s so much going on, how can I stop thinking? There’s an infinite number of things that could happen at any time, and I have to consider as many as possible.
Anyway, I got more progress in Oni. I’m up to the last checkpoint before the library level!
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The Bungie game?
Is it any good?
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Yes, the Bungie game, and uhhh, maybe. I have major nostalgia goggles when it comes to this game, but that said, it has satisfying combat, some interesting level design, and a fun plot. That said, it’s fairly short for a single-player only game, it looks like arse, even for a PS2 game, and it was clearly under-developed with a lot of stuff cut.
Also, it has a really trippy dream sequence, which I think more games need.
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I saw a PS2 copy last week in EB for $7. I was tempted to grab it. Whadya reckon?
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I’d find it hard to recommend the PS2 version, its controls are really awkward. That said, it’s a challenge to get it to run properly on modern pc’s because of how it works…
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Although you could do what I’ve done, which is purchase a copy so that you can then justify torrenting the pc version(I have a cd of the mac version that my Dad bought around release time).
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Really? Because from what I remember, the PC controls weren’t all that great either.
Also, GUN THAT SHOOTS BEES
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I’m pretty sure (in fact absolutely certain) that no gun actually shot bees. And yeah, the pc controls might be awkward, but they’re second nature to me since I’ve played it so many times. Even if Dashing is exceedingly difficult at my framerate…
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shouldn’t you have a really high framerate if your playing on your new rig???
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Yeah, the gun that shot bees was kind of useless, but hey, it shot bees. What more could you ask for.
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Excluding occasional dips (which are due to flaws in how the engine handles the vast number of tweens/animation things it needs to do when multiple people are on the screen) my framerate is currently capped at 120fps, which I had to force in the Nvidia control panel. This is less bad than when it was uncapped, which due to the rather odd way that the game handled inputs, made timing irregular, and making combos was exceedingly difficult. Also, aiming the guns runs terribly. I can drag my mouse smoothly along, and the reticule will stutter like a child that’s been caught watching his parents have sex.
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Okay, now I’m really getting excited for Final Fantasy XIII-2:
“In the original game, the sidequests were only unlocked in the second half of the story in Gran Pulse, but in the sequel we have put in many different sidequests right from the start. Due to the overwhelming demand from players of the original, we have also included many strong and colourful mini games, a tradition of the FINAL FANTASY series. You will be able to return to any of the times and places whenever you like from the Historia Crux, so it is completely up to the player in what way they choose to play these.”
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Now I have to finish Final Fantasy XIII!
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Welp, the linearity is gone, so now I have no reason to play.
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Apparently you can still play in a linear way if you don’t like having to choose stuff.
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Yeah, but I could have played on Gran Pulse in a linear way if I wanted to, but it didn’t stop me from putting down the game…
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Do you get paralysed with indecision when there’s too many things to do? I do that. It’s the reason I haven’t finished a lot of games, and also why it takes me forever to finish some games because I’ll save, make a decision, then save again and reload the first save to see what I may have missed out on and if I made the right decision. 😛
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I do a little bit, but in FFXIII’s case, I just did not feel compelled to continue. I remember that after a huge break from it I beat the big flying thing with all the baubles or something after you climb the towery thing with the guys, but I just couldn’t be bothered continuing.
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You didn’t even get to the Ch 11 boss? But he was the best*!
*Read: stupidest, rage inducing
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Triple Triad!
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I have spent more time just playing Triple Triad than I have spent completing some other games. That music is burned into my brain forever. I’m hearing it now.
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I think that and Tin Pin from The World Ends With You are two of the most prominent minigames I can think of. DOO DE DOO DOO DOO DEEE, though I suppose Tin Pin had an extra alternate story line devoted to it.
Blitzball in FFX? Did not understand it one bit. And at least over on the PALGN forums, seems to be a love or hate it thing. People have said they’ve spent many hours just playing Blitzball, but that stupid mandatory game you had to play put me off it completely.-
Mandatory Blitzball sucked. Although if you’d managed to pull off the Jecht Shot on the boat it was better. Later though, when you can train and pick your own team Blitzball became awesome.
I was the King of Blitzball. You had to do maths though, which kind of sucked. But once I got the hang of it I could almost understand people who played those football management sim games. It’s kind of addictive.
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Space Marine reviews are coming in hard and fast – all positive baby!
http://www.destructoid.com/review-warhammer-40-000-space-marine-210896.phtml
http://www.fpsguru.com/game/278/features/135/Space-Marine-Multi-Player-Review.html
still not convinced? Well you bloody well should be! 😛
My God Space Marine MP is fun. I think I got to level 10. Then I played a bit of SP.
Awesome.
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F4ction you have the PC version right????
I think if i get it i want to play multiplayer with you lot. But i don’t know how many others have PC version-
I’ll be getting it this weekend I hope for PC
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I want to get it this weekend aswell. But i want to get my new messenger bag and earphones too. As HAgrid says “Lot’s to buy”
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Got it on PC and waiting for my PS3 copy to be delivered from Big W. I’m trying to max out my bolter and use homing beacon to allow my squad to push hard as at the moment it’s really easy to get behind the other team and mow down their Heavy Bolter guys when your team respawns on top of you!
Also, Stalker bolter in MP is easy fun.
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But yes, PC is master. Just got it for PS3 to play with my mates from work.
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Fun is a good word to describe it, although I only played a little of the single player and made some Ork heads asplode.
Playstation controllers are not superior for FPS games and the aim assist is ridiculously overzealous. There’s an ork running across the screen? Here, let me center your crosshairs on it the entire time…
@NotoriousR Thanks for your own Crash Bandicoot “origin” story. Brought a smile to my face 🙂
I’ll have to make a page on my blog for people to comment in their experiences with Crash.
YES, the boss is in the city and I have the whole place to myself;
When the boss is away, the Hugo shall play.
Let the chaos commence.
Bhahahaha… haha…heh.
*cough*
Well, I should probably get back to work then.
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dude your so HARDCORE. this is funny cause thats what i do. I still like getting things done while i’m here.
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What about his hardcore???
This amuses me because I did the same thing yesterday.
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It’s funny because we’re grammar Nazis at heart.
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I can’t believe i did it again. WILL I EVER LEARN.
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Probably not.
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What do i get out of being here? I definitely haven’t improved my productivity my spelling, or my social life. On the plus side i get called racist by a bunch of dudes. I think that’s a win ride.
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Don’t forget the questioning of your masculinity.
We do that too.
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But let’s be honest Bunny, we probably do it way less than his workmates.
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Ain’t that the truth. 40 times a day. I am starting to wonder. No, no i can’t think that way.
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Unfortunately I have half a dozen urgent requests and several other time comsuming things I need to get done by the end of the day.
Still, this could be the first day I attempt pantless. Customers wont know since I am behind the desk, right?
Unless I need to get something from the shelves, then it could be slightly awkward.
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Pic’s or it didn’t….
On second thought no man i will take your word for it!-
Is now when I say that I made breakfast this morning pantsless? The searing heat of the fry-pan, the crackling of grit in the fizzing oil. The danger of everything so close!
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So since we could not LOL last night on teamspeak we actually had a discussion about other things. It was pretty awesome. Thanks Techy, Bish,Blagh’s and Trjn. It was informative and kept me entertained for the whole night. But tonight we ride or something!(This is code for play LOL)
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You know how I have an amazing memory for useless crap? Well, it’s decided that last night may as well not have happened. I cannot recall a single thing that we discussed on TS last night, except for a quick chat with Bunny about the MMA vs. MVP matches. And I know I talked about other SC2 stuff, but I cannot remember what.
Actually, now I can. The process of typing that I can’t remember anything has caused all those memories to surface. Odd.
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I went AFK sometime after you left, and when I came back everyone had left but Gorzy (who was still also away).
Was it something I said?
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I was attempting to go to sleep.
Boy did that fail!
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No Bish i think it was the fat Gorzilla was so talkative. 😛
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*** FACT not FAT i was not insulting him.
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Racist!
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Yeah, if we’re going to make fat jokes they’d better be about me!
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No i don’t like fat jokes they are rarely funny. Except when they are about pet’s then they are funny.
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If you call my Guinea Pigs fat they’ll look mournfully/hungrily at you(which is how they always look).
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Oh man, my parents are like “The dog is overweight! How did this happen?” and as the dog’s primary carer, I’m all “Really? Really?” because each morning, she gets a biscuit bone. After her walk, she gets a biscuit bone. In the afternoon, she gets a biscuit bone. After dinner, she gets a biscuit bone. I’m all “Stop giving her biscuit bones, plz” except they’re all “But look at that face!” and then I’m like “ಠ_ಠ”.
When my sister has her kid and drops her off for some free day care, I think I’m going to have the fattest niece in the world. -
Do don’t let anyone giver her a biscuit bone, they aren’t good for children!
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Oh, that’s not true. I’ve eaten dog biscuits before. They don’t taste great, but it’s not like they do any harm. I turned out perfectly normal, right?
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i think your asking the wrong people.
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I love your story’s Bish.
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AHAHAH best typo ever
I barely said anything though, but yeah you’re welcome.
I just somehow suck at bringing up random subjects so I’m boring to talk to one on one unless it’s about something I know (e.g. LoL)
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Techy you are not boring at all, i spoke to you for like 4 weeks in a row just me and you. We never ran out of stuff to talk about and the silence was never awkward you gotta give yourself a bit of credit. Plus you not talking so much is like the opposite of bunny who has a motor mouth. I am just kidding rabbit you contribute alot.
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Just carrying the conversation :p You guys need to start carrying your share of the load.
Sent from my MacBook Air.
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i stop talking because i can’t for sentences that make sense and are interesting. Most of my stories end with. Great story Rocketman, you gonna make that into a movie.
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Can’t be worse than the whole “me talk good” stuff from last night where I managed to mangle many a sentence.
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The conversation kind of just rambled along but I did hum the Liberty Bell March, Guile’s theme, Song of Storms and like five other songs.
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And then I had THE GREATEST IDEA of all time.
ALL TIME!
Which surely someone else has already done(since I’ve never had an original thought in my life)…
Staring to get into SC2 now, got myself the starter edition.
I played a skirmish against a medium AI, got wiped out.
Played again after rethinking my setup and thought back to the recent MLG matches and a DayNine newbie tuesday vid that I saw.
I started a new match against a medium AI, I got a good supply chain going with SCVs and Supply depots, raced to the BlueFlame Hellion upgrade and stormed the AI’s supply line. It surrendered.
Pretty basic I know but considering this is the first Starcraft I have played in a decade (and I was even worse then), this feels pretty damn good 😀
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Just Fast Expand, get two bunkers down filled with troops outside your nat. and you can hold off the first push (You may need to pull SCV’s to repair), from there transition into 3M play and you can beat the hard ai at least. Easy.
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So the AI goes down easy to base rushes?
Dang. Well a win’s a win so I’m not complaining 🙂-
What the AI does every game is one moderately hard push at typically somewhere between the 7 and 10 minute mark, depending on its difficulty. If you hold this off with any reasonable macro then you’ve won against anything that isn’t the insane ai(which is broken, and cheats, and I can only beat it via mega cheese).
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Okay, I’ve heard Cheese thrown around a lot.
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Okay, Cheese is a term used for, essentially, dickhead strategies. It refers to things like all-ins (Like a 4 gate, it’s an all or nothing build), or cannon rushing (where you build photon cannons into their base), or even bunker rushing (like above). There’s a whole multitude of Cheese for you to select, and for the widest range may I recommend Gold League, where you’ll see such amazing feats as “Proxy 2 gate rush vs. 6 Pool.”
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So these tactics are looked down upon, but they can be beaten right? Like Hadouken spamming in Street Fighter. It’s cheap and it can be beaten, but if you’re opponent leaves themselves open to it then why the hell not, right?
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Pretty much. The key to beating them is good scouting, but that’s so much harder than it sounds. And the advantage is that the AI has no understanding of them, so it just derps its way to failure.
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On a sidenote, if you consider hadoken spamming in SF cheap, you’re in for a whole world of hurt :p
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It’s cheap in the same way double 6 pool is in 2vs.
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Well other people complain that it’s cheap, I take the David Sirlin approach that if you can do it and it works then go for it.
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Just be prepared to be playing the game, sitting there, chilling, building up a force, all of a sudden to find that your opponent has managed to build an entire base inside your base, and has seige tanks streaming into your mineral line…
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Feels good, man.
There’s a lot of stuff from Newbie Tuesdays that I keep in mind when playing. Shame that it’s really hard to remember to do most of it.
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Yeah DayNine is entertaining as all hell.
Thanks to him all I think when building a base is ‘SCV’s, Depots, SCV’s, Depots, SCV’s, Depots’-
You’re doing it wrong.
It’s “probes and pylons, probes and pylons, probes and pylons” :p
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B E B E B E B E
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You need to shift hotkeys, so it’s more like (with my wacky setup):
1 e e 7 b e 1 e e e 7 b e 1 e and so on and so forth.Also, Harli, how goes the SC2? Can we have a game at some point? I want to have a chance at potentially beating you before you surpass me!
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GOD DAMMIT
I spent all of last weekend downloading the big-ass Starter Edition and now I’m already planning on tracking down a hard copy of the full game. Should have just bought it first and saved myself the 9gb download 😛 -
You could just buy it online from the Blizzard store, and potentially it will not need to download everything all over again. Not to mention that it’s probably cheaper there (though few places can beat my $65 day 1 JB price).
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JB is still selling for $70.
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Nah it’s about 90 bucks to unlock the Starter Edition.
Besides after a 9gb download I’d rather have a hard copy on disc.
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Dear god, why on earth are they charging that much? *shudders*
I blame Activision. Oh well, at least the retail copy is damn smexy.
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haha man I haven’t even started the campaign yet.. all games I’ve played so far have been solely relying on my SC1 knowledge. I don’t think that’s going to get me far in ladder games. Just wait till I hop on and figure out my user ID thing, and we’ll get somethin going.
Well it’s better than using WC3 knowledge.
“I have 14 workers on 2 base, why do I have so few resources?”
READY TO WURK
ZUG ZUG
Yeah but I’m on Starter Edition so it’s Terran only.
So for now it’s ‘SCV’s, Depots, SCV’s, Depots, SCV’s, Depots,’ 😉
Remember, under default settings, the hotkey for both depots and SCV’s is “S”. Efficiency people! EVERYONE MUST PLAY AT LEAST AS PRO AS I DO(which isn’t very)!
Oh by the way, a few weeks ago Robert Clotworthy started randomly following me on twitter. He’s the voice of Jim Raynor.
I find that awesome 😀
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He’s following you? I am so Jelly. Oh Robert Clotworthy, you could banshee harass my mineral line any day.
I mean what?
So, I reorganized my desk last night.
Spent ages and I’m still not happy. Because it’s a corner unit, there is so much wasted space and I don’t want to put my PC or consoled behind the screens because it’ll just over head and get filled with all the dust that builds up.
Still, it’s better than it was.
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I love doing that, it makes everything feel so different. EXCITING! /hi5
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/hi5
It’s like being in someone elses room. And then you sneak a peek in the underwear drawer and you remember you’re still in your own room.
Amirite?
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i do that fairly often. I think if i would of been not so self conscious i would have like to interior design. But i like my job now too.
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How does all that dust get in the corner!? There’s no airflow (in my room) to carry it over there! It makes no sense!
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that’s where the dust bunny’s jump around and have dance parties when your sleeping.
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I blame the fact that I sit in said corner all the time, and bits of my skin make up the majority of the dust.
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Todays free games available for only today on the iPhone and iPad are:
Plushed Gold Fever
http://itunes.apple.com/app/plushed-gold-fever/id451962104?mt=8
His Adventure
http://itunes.apple.com/app/his-adventure/id448738557?mt=8
Naked King
http://itunes.apple.com/app/naked-king/id444428084?mt=8
Open Valve
http://itunes.apple.com/app/openvalve/id326281182?mt=8
Quick guys download them now whilst they’re FREE!
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Are you the VGP of iphone games?
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I’d say Apple employee.
What’s wrong? Business been slow since Jobs resigned?
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Aw don’t be mean, he is being helpful.
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it’s hard to tell what are people trying to be helpful and what is trying to be a spam kotaku. It’s said we never used to have any spam.
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SpamTod, Spamboman007, SpamShady, happened before except the above weren’t trying to sell us stuff. This is! I almost snapped at VGP for doing that too but he/she is putting up deals like cheapskate gamer provides, which stayed my blade.
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Yeah but they’re free.
If he was hocking wares it might be an issue but to me he is saying:
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Well IGN is nearly everyday reporting the latest free games for iOS but Kotaku isn’t. That’s why I’m posting this. You can download them if you want or not.
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Plushed gold fever his adventure naked king open valve.
This weeks Steam Weekend Deal: Need for Speed! 😀
http://store.steampowered.com/sale/needforspeedweekend
NFS:HP for only $6.80! GO BUY NOW! (hmmm, I think it’s rather likely that this message will be eaten by the spam filter…)
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I am So buying that Lambo, The we can have races and stuff. But i won’t be able to download it straight away.
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That’s pretty great.
But are people gonna be having lots of races? Cause I have it on 360 so won’t play it otherwise.-
We have races every now and then (actually, we’ve only had two so far). TadMod and his friend, He Who’s Name Rhymes With HD (AP), f4ction and cakesmith all have it, though f4ction and cakesmith haven’t raced with us yet. But man, that game is so much fun, we need to do MP more often 🙂
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Yeah, I’ll give it a crack some time. I only bought it because I saw a few of you guys playing it a fair bit.
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The Rocketeer is going to be released on BluRay later this year.
*commences happy dance*
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sounds like my kind of movie 😛
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Woo! I love the Rocketeer!
HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPO
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Hippo Barry?
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You should eat something or play hungry hungry hippo’s. Man i rule at that game. The trick is to play with kids on a leaning table so they won’t notice what is happening.
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Yes?
Wow every piece of software I’ve got on my work laptop is breaking atm, and my account got somehow automatically locked out while I was logged in… and it’s pouring outside, yay for Friday… -.-‘
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Gotta get down on Friday!
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i like raining days when your inside and it’s all dark and cool with bright light’s. I always have i think thosse are the best kind of day’s actually.
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The rain I don’t mind, I in fact love listening to it while at home, but I’m having lunch out today, which will make the rain annoying. But the main annoyance today is the laptop breaking software-wise… I can’t even print pdfs right now, saying I have no page selected for print… I FRICKEN DID THAT! Urgh! I’m having such a horrible week, no wonder I’m depressed
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NO NO No
No one is allowed to be depressed on a Friday Techy. I long ago found out that if you start worrying about work on the weekend, you will be stressed to bits. My granddad actually went all crazy and homocidal (didn’t kill anyone) Due to stress. He took work home with him and was always think about it. He also never had any hobbies to keep his mind occupied. His best advice to me is, when your home , don’t think about work. He also told me not to be a idiot, it changed my life.-
Depression is a very often thing for me sadly, Rocketman. High school did that for me. I don’t get angry, more “What have I got to exist for?” thoughts go through my head. If I do badly at work/bowling/games I start feeling worthless quite intensely, and it’s only thanks to games that it turn into something drastic.
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that it doesn’t*
urgh stupid tiredness and stress
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Good thing we’re here to say nice things and deal with emotions and stuff.
But since I’m personally terrible at all that, have the song that I use to cheer myself up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlGbVwXcQYw&feature=related (NSFWish, so it’s pretty dumb that I’m linking to it) -
*BURSTS ONTO THE SCENE A LITTLE OVER-EXTRAVAGANTLY*
Did somebody say stress?
Fear not men! The Harlinat0r is here.
Talonmaster Tech Knight, I hear you are quite the Lol player and bowler. This just gave me the bestest idea EVAR. We will combine these two skills and make you the world’s number one LOBOWLER!
You will smite opponents with your crazy turret pushing skills. Tenpins will quiver in fear at your approach as you charge headlong into battle heavily armed with giant bowling balls of DOOM. Want some balls? TECH’S GOT ‘EM.
Oh what’s that? You don’t think you can do it? TOO BAD! You have the skill, now lets get to it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!hithereifyoumadeitthisfarallowmetocongratulateyouwithaprize!itsdangerousouttheretakethis.handsyouagiantpeach.
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Yay! A peach!
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Seriously dude, That is really not a good idea to do. As soon as you start to have those thoughts worse things happen. I know that things aren’t perfect but look at the positives: you have a job, going to have a house soon, people who care about you and a passion for something. Alot more than some people have.
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Also i find that having something to look forward to helps. I am kinda like to buy myself something then i can say, “I got this coming in the mail in a few days.”My thing i am looking forward to is the Can’d meat. Then after that playing some Dota at one of Stevo’s LAN’s. It’s all about a reward. Those are the techniques i use anyway maybe it’s a bit silly bt i think it works.
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Tracey is putting Serrels to shame with her email responses. He’s gonna have a high standard to live up to when he returns to us.
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Serrelicious always said that he was terrible at responding to emails, and somehow I doubt that he’ll ever bother changing that.
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I don’t mind to much about that, he still stay’s active in our little community, which Tracey has adopted too. I think kotaku gets all the best editors.
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I <3 Kotaku AU editors.
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Sorry but no one, and I mean no one can top Tracey. Why? Because she’s just that awesome. That’s why! I knew this before she even became the temporary editor of kotaku.
/hipsterbot
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Suck up. 😛
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Techy is cheating, he wants the kudo’s all for himself. lol
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How’s them rose-coloured glasses fit? 😛
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Who needs rose coloured glasses when you have a visor with a HUD? That just seems impractical
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Did you read my awesome pitch btw. we could make it work Techy.
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I chuckled when reading it
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It’s a terrible habit of mine to get an email, think to myself, ‘oh I have to reply to that’, then do something else and forget.
I’m sorry guys! It’s pretty rubbish of me. I hate it when people don’t email me back, so I should probably step my own game up here!
So I’m on leave from next week to look after my mum who’s having surgery on Tuesday. As a result, my boss is training up one of my guys to cover for me (woohoo, I don’t need to do it!). As a result of that I don’t have anything to do today.
This is going to be a slow day. Easy… but slow.
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I hear you.
My mornings work took a whole 5 mins, the boss is not in today so I don’t have to feel guilty about procrastinating (there is nothing to do anyway) and the chick at subway gave me a free brownie.
Shaping up to be a pretty chill Friday. -
Hopefully the surgery is nothing major?
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yeah me to surgery bites, i hat going to hospitals, i get all depressed. The reason nothing good ever happens there. “O but Rocketman they cure people.” That maybe true but you have to have a problem first to go there.
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Not necessarily, a third of my visits to hospitals have been when I was vaguely healthy. Okay, so I was sick enough to skip school, but since my parents had nowhere to put me my Dad just dumped me in a room in the hospital…
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I keep worrying about going to hospital under fears that I’ll be feeling even worse being at the waiting bench for the next 4 hours after showing up.
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Look at it this way, given the way triage works, even in the most overcrowded Aussie hospital (pro-tip, access block aka. overcrowding is currently least bad compared to 5 years ago in WA) you’ll most likely be treated before anything gets too bad.
Of course, if the hospital system was actually well designed, we would have far less problems, and I could say that you would be treated in the promptest manner possible.
But no, our current system sucks. And Tony wants to bring back Hospital Boards. Bah.
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Yeah, I’m practising my donkey drawing skills for the coming election and putting a huge “NO CONFIDENCE” banner on the side of its body.
Cuz if there is a god, help us if Tony actually gets voted in…
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I’m thinking I’ll draw a cow, with a speech bubble saying “I am not a donkey.” And then moving to Canada because if Tony actually gets in the constant crushing of my soul would be enough to kill me.
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Well wishes for Mama f4ction.
Ah, surgery. Not a great word to hear, hope things go well.
Thanks for all the well-wishes, guys. Surgery is major and may be cancer-related, waiting to find out 🙁
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Oh dear, gl gl for that.
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Hope she turns out okay mate
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I send you my well wishes Brother f4ction, hope everything turns out okay.
Time to get me a new capture card. Here’s hoping it works goodly.
Space Marine is everything I wanted and more. Everything is so meaty!
And the multiplayer is fast-paced and awesome.
STOP THE TAY!
This:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/09/back-to-the-future-nike-air-mags-are-real-and-glorious/
Tay will resume tomorrow when the shock wears off.
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Yeah… but no power laces?
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Limited supply combined with eBay auctions? No way I could afford a pair :/
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Easily $2k for a pair, I’d say.
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Here’s a good reason to get the NFS:The Run Limited Edition http://www.needforspeed.com/therun/car/razors-ford-mustang-boss-302
So we’ve got Chaplain Masters, Talonmasters, The First Lady, Brothers, Commissars, and no FATHERS?!
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Is there a Father title in the 40K universe for any race? I got no idea…
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Wow..so Talonmaster is from Warhammer 40k? Hahahahaha, I thought it was referring to the new LoL champion 😛
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HAH! No
Talonmaster is a sacred title given to a heavily experienced Chaos Raptor. Very few exist in 40K
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The only father is the Emperor of Mankind.
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I just promoted myself as I seem to be only one who’s actually played Space Marine for a major period of time 😛
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Who will be brave enough to step up and take on the role in TAY?
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Father Serrels has a nice ring to it.
For Serrels! For the Emperor!
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“Forgive me Father Serrels, for I have sinned.”
Hmm, could work.
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Farter Jimu?
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Okay, I’ve been procrastinating for too long(The feeling of pantslessness is just so good). It’s time I left the house! But there’s only one way for this to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVNNhBtBbOs&feature=related
Wish me luck!
*Warning* The following post may contain excessive LoL talks and bragging! Feel free to troll on this post!
So I have been playing Shaco, Ezreal, Poppy and Fiddle for the last few days, here is my thoughts on these champions.
Shaco (AD Shaco) is fun and annoying for the opponents ganking is deadly, but during the jungling phase of Shaco, the placement of the Jack in the Box is hard to master. Shaco has to gank often and succeed during the first half of the game, or else he will be useless late-game, cause he is way too squishy. I don’t think i did very well with Shaco, and i won’t be returning to him until i get a set of jungling runes.
Similar to Shaco, Ezreal (AD Ezreal) is a squishy champion, all his skills are skill-shots, so how you place it is important. Use his abilities to harass early game and stay behind team mates in late-game teamfights. Use his ult often with wards and Clairvoyance to steal dragons, Barron and get kills! I did alright with Ezreal, but mostly just staying behind and kill steal from my team mates.
Poppy is a melee fighter, who is really good in 1v1 or even 1v2 fights. And her passive and Paragon of Demacia makes her a “Carry Killer”. Her ult can be used for both offensive kills or RUN AWAY skill. Despite of her high damage output, i would like her more if her ult is some sort of damage dealing attacks.
Last but not least FIDDLE, probably my new found love! He can carry, jungle or lane. Act as tank with Drain early game and nuker late-game. I only had one game with Fiddle and he is just kickin’ some arse.
Here is the screen-cap’ to brag about!
http://twitter.com/#!/crabjiffy/status/111958486644047872/photo/1/large
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Ouch! Deadly on the Fiddlesticks. I got told to try him cuz my colleague thought I’ll love him. Might even try Ezreal, dunno yet.
Nicely done on the score
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Ha nice work, fid is great.
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Also have either of you played Olaf or Udyr?
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No. I would love to try the both of them!!!!!
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Yeah I want a good jungler/offtank/bruiser and they look like good options.
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On the jungling part, I would prefer Udyr over Olaf, especially when you said you want a offtank type of champion. Olaf is more squishy than he appears. In terms of jungling speed, they are equally listed as the fastest junglers in game.
I would also have to say that Udyr is harder to master, the positioning of this character is really important, and he is lacking the initiation and gap closer(only a movement speed boost).
Olaf is a damage dealer, who deals decent amount of damage, but as he is more squishy, he is less useful late-game.
Mordekaiser is not a jungler, he lanes like a god, especially when he gets a solo top. And he is one of the best offtank and best 3v3 champion you’ll ever use. He is not hard to use, but to master him with his shield to bait with low health could be difficult.
I prefer Mordekaiser.
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Fair enough.
Yeah Morde wasn’t in there for jungling, I just have used and enjoyed him before but never got around to picking him up.
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Nice work dude! I love Fiddlesticks, need to play him more though. NEED INTERNETZ!
I hardly ever receive an open invitation to troll like you just pitched so here goes..
trolllloloololololololoolololololol!!!!
Just realised that Can’d Meat will be on during the Lifeline Bookfair.
http://www.act.lifeline.org.au/Bookfair/tabid/133/Default.aspx
Either excellent planning, or problematic… I can’t really decide.
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But you’re gonna choose us over the book fair, right?
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I’ll figure out a way to do both…
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Oh, and also did you see the Max Payne news?
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Not until you flagged it for me. THANKS.
March 2012 – awesome.
Now, do I get ME3 or MP3?
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Hey Jo, don’t know if you’ll get my reply on the previous page. But for headset, get the one I have. Plantronics Gamecom 367. It’s got pretty good sound and an excellent mic, costs about $40-$50?
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Ahaha! That is the exact one I have that is busted.
Maybe I will just get another one tho, was good until the mic stopped working.-
hahahaha! Serious? 😛 I’ve heard they usually last a while, and they’re cheap as chips (at a hell fancy, expensive restaurant).
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I’ve got one of those headsets too 😀
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I know 😛 I got it on your suggestion 😛
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that…
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I’d like to apologise to everyone on teamspeak last night for ignoring them. Appears I forgot to sing out again.
Also, I’m currently experiencing the bad part of Ozgameshop as I’m waiting for Space Marine to show itself.
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haha, that’s okay gorzy, it happens.
So guy’s :Cats vs Dog’s ?
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That’s a terrible movie, why on earth would you want to watch it??
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Dogs.
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colour me suprised puppylicks.
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But of course! 😀
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I like both, but Dogs are better 😛
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This reeks of my childhood 🙂
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it sure does, i wasted so much time at home watching cartoons when i was at school.
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Dogs fo sho!
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Dogs!
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Dogs.
http://australianhusky.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Siberian-Husky-Puppy-51.jpg
Need I say more?
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My aunty has one of those OMG so awesome, but take a lot of effort to care for them properly.
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I could pet a husky all day if I could 🙂
So adorable
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i like dogs and cats but i like how cats can kinda keep themselves occupied. I wanna get a small inside dog when i get my own place but if its gonna be inside you have to have 2 to keep each other company.
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Just to be different,
Cat.
So self assured, independent, smug little bastards.-
This!!
Dogs have owners, cats have staff!!!!
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Cats!!!
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Dogs. I saw a seeing eye dog on an escalator earlier today, and it took all of my self control not to run up and start hugging it. It just looked so cute(To clarify, yes it was attached to a person).
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STEVE-O.
Pretty sure he could beat either a cat or dog in a fight.
Dogs. This is my dog.
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I’m sorry, Reply Button!
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I love that dog, it looks so chillaxed and happy go lucky.
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That’s how he rolls 😛
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It’s adorable
Huzzah! I have my new capture card, it works and I can recodr H.264 encoded videos at 720p with the default software.
Perfect.
I might need to get a HDMI splitter or something so that I can play on the TV while recording (at the moment it’s a case of just watching through my monitor, which is good enough but not the best option).
Prepare for future Let’s Plays to have decent quality video to watch while listening to the rambling.
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as one of your loyal fans i appreciate the effort you go to. Now only if we can blow it up to yogscast proportions
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Trojan Rabbit and Rocketman.
The Kotakucast!
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ill def jump on TS soon and confirm that I am running the optimum settings… I look forward to sharing notes with you mate as I really dont know what im talking about here. I just had a spare $150 and wanted to get a capture card without actually knowing what i was in for…
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Optimum settings you say? Buggered if ?I know what those are but just playing about for a little but I was able to get something that kind of looked like what I want.
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@FatShady
You going to Eminem????
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I C WHAT YOU DID THERE
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Actually, not even on my radar as a possibility. Just no interest in that sort of stuff anymore. I went to an xzibit concert where there was hardly 200 people at a small venue and it was amazing. Very personal and great atmosphere. I saw him again a few years later at Horden and was nothing special. I assume that Em would be at a major arena/somewhere big and that does nothing for me.
This is the reason I like the underground stuff so much, just a smaller show and it just is more enjoyable.
I can’t wait for Celph titled in Oct but apart from that im not seeing anything.
You going?
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Yeah, I’m going to Melbourne and Sydney.
I know what you mean bout small shows, saw Xzibit do a small show on the same tour i guess.
We don’t get too many chances for big hiphop shows here so i take what I can.
Plus seeing the Hoods play such a large crowd should be good.
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So when I bought Mr. Strange Infamous 2 secondhand for his birthday, I went with the special edition because the lenticular cover was pretty and JB were having their 20% off games sale which made it pretty cheap.
Just then when taking his disc out of the PS3 so I could put Deus Ex in I noticed the leaflets with the codes on them were still inside the cover. At first, I thought it was a bit mean leaving them in a second hand game but then I figured why not give them a try.
They worked! So Mr. Strange now has all the special edition content as well as a pretty cover!
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It is the cosmic scales rebalancing after yesterdays drama 🙂
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This happened to me with Mass Effect 2 AND Uncharted 2. It’s a great feeling.
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Ditto on Mass Effect 2 – which I managed to buy for $24 at Game about 3 months after its release. It must have been mislabeled.
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So sort of leading on from CatDog on the previous page, what was your favourite TV show as a child?
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Pokemon, Digimon, DBZ, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Beyblades etc
Pretty much all the cartoons they showed on Cheese TV in the morning.
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DBZ FTW! I have the first 6 remastered seasons. They have new episodes that weren’t translated into English initially and they have all the original Japanese music. Will get the rest eventually!
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IT’S OVER 9000!
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Transformers!
G1 all the way.-
Yay!
This, and DBZ. -
This scene still chokes me up to this day;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ULg4RSy5YExcuse me, I think I have some dust in my eye
*sob*-
Damn, now you’ve made me sad!
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Inspector Gadget, and She-Ra: Princess of Power.
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Digimon!
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Man, still watch that Digimon movie every now and then. That was so good. And I have the first couple of seasons of Digimon somewhere on my hard drive..
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Hahaha I remember that!
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Me and my roomate watched 14 hours of digimon i’n a row one Tuesday night. I had a couple of series on my hdd and I had just got a media player. I didn’t sleep and I had to work the next day. Totally not worth it.
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You and your spelling errors you cute little racist you. You spelt “totally worth it” wrong.
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My favorite show as a kid would be any sort of ankle stuff I could find on cartoon network. There was a show called zoids I had a particular fondness for. Also rugrats so many episodes I have seen.
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Rugrats was awesome, anyone remember Plasmo on ABC Kids? It had like 10min episodes daily.
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See, I’m not the only one who thinks he’s cute!
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umm hahah wtf sorry reply button I royally screwed over that one..
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He-man, Transformers G1,MASK, and later x-men 90’s
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I curse everyone who doesn’t say “Transformers” and “GI Joe”
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GI JOE! http://youtu.be/L1BDM1oBRJ8
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I love those!
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I happily accept your curse!
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DBZ for me too. Ahh, the amount of times me friends and I tried to ‘unlock’ our ‘powers’ in class. You know, that ep where Gohan is training Videl? Yeah. We did that.
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Harli you’re adorable, now move out of the way so i can get a drogon coming out of my spinning top. -
Hahaha! I never did it at school but my next door neighbour and I used to do it all the time as kids. We also used to play DBZ in the backyard. I was always Goku, cause he is the best. Gohan was cool as a kid but then turned into a whinging bitch. I love Vegeta and Trunx as well. Goten was pretty cool.
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Technoman on CheezTV and Mechwarrior on Agro.
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THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
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How could I forget TECHNOMAN! I still have the 4 figures in my old room. Technoman, Super Technoman, His Evil twin brother Sabre and Ringos Techno Suit.
I so need to watch that show again. There was a sequel but it was a bunch of weird girls that became technowomen? But it was a bit weird because they did the whole naked sailor moon transformation thingy ever time they had a chance to show it.
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It’s been released by Madmen… I picked it up in town recently.
Still good.
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Apparently Animaniacs is on at 3:30 on GO! (channel 99).
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And MacGuyver is on in the mornings… and the music reminds me of Rescue Rangers, which in turn reminds me of Tailspin.
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Also, it always blows my mind that Cheez TV was cancelled because of the skits they were doing. We were young at the time, we didn’t know there was TV politics going on that led to it being axed. They were funny. Kids were amused. What more was there to it?
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Even toss up between Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Super Mario Brothers Super Show.
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Showing my age, but Voltron, He-Man, Monkey, The Goodies are some of the ’80s standouts.
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Powerpuff Girls, I am Weasel, Pokemon, Round the Twist. To name a few.
I’ll probably be playing Space Marine (xbox) tonight at some point (probably all night).
Anyone up for multiplayer shenanigans, feel free to join up, and add me if you haven’t.
Gamertag: WC Spook
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I can only surmise that your gamertag is referring to a creepy toilet you went to once.
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I can’t be bothered paying the 800MS points to change it :/
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You don’t have to change it, it’s not even bad haha. I was just trying to make a joke, really didn’t work out for me. My so-called “friend” made my gamertag, it popped up in a list of recommended so he picked it and confirmed it before I could say no. My gamertag is: Scary Spaniard.
Everyone laughs everytime I join a lobby for an online game :/
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Haha well Spaniard was the nickname I was given by the guys I used to live with in my hometown. We had a huge falling out (they got really into drugs and were doing cocaine on the kitchen table, that sort of thing), I moved out and we don’t speak anymore. So I hate the nickname now 😛 I should change it to MNIInigoMontoyaYKMFPTD
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My original gamertag was so lame I didn’t even care I had to pay points to change it. I can’t even remember what it was now, just that I hated it.
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Yeah I recently changed mine, about three weeks before they dropped the price Grrr, my old one was from my old table top rpg days, while my new one makes more sense seeing as nearly all my Live friends are from TAY.
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That’s kinda my situation – the tag is a relic, and I feel like changing it to match my TAY name (which also happens to be my IRL nickname).
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My gamertag is pretty terrible. It’s just my first name with some numbers after it.
And I’ll be hitting the multiplayer on PS3.
ID: B-G-S-
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Sooo, Big Rich, does that handle have a musical origin aswell
And I’ll be hitting the multiplayer on PC.
Okay since we couldn’t play Lol last night i was thinking kotaku lol night 7.30 ish we can go pvp with as many as we can
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Not sure if I can make it, I’ll have SPACE MARINE to play!
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Always up for LoL.
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See you on LoL then!!!
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More Talon practice for me 🙂
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Is that so you can become a “Talonmaster” Techie? 😛
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Indeed, the Talonmaster of LoL. I like this idea
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DO ITT
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Gettin’ down with the Kotaku LoLers
I figure Tracey will probably make a post on this later, but where is Space Marine cheapest atm? I saw a $60 kmart ad, but jb have it at $107 i think. Just looking to pick it up on the way home.
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Big W had an “online only” special yesterday of $58.74 that I managed to get them to price match in store.
Batguy managed to get KMart to give the same price by showing this picture of my receipt. So that might work.
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That would be this one.
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Yes. That one.
Damn my HTML skills are lacking.
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Where would one find that kmart ad?
It’s coming up as 90 on their website.
CRACKS YOUR DOG IS SOOOOOO AWESOME
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I’ll try get a picture of my sister’s dog. It’s a 4 month old Great Dane/Bull Mastiff. It’s huge already but it is the most gorgeous looking dog I’ve ever seen!
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Mark and I saw a giant Mastiff a few weeks ago. It’s paw was like the size of my head. It was beautiful.
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That’s awesome! Well he’s only 4 months old and he’s already 45kgs! He’s going to be a massive dog. His parents can put their paws on my shoulders (I’m 6ft) when they stand up on their hind legs.
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If you like big dogs, my friend has one of these:
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/images15/IrishWolfhoundFrankBrendan.JPG
Probably about the same size too. And it is so gorgeous. He’s retarded but he’s so cute! You could actually ride him like a horse he’s so big. Although I don’t think their hips are very good. It’s hilarious because my friend’s 17 year old sister tries to put the dogs collar on and the dog will just turn his head to look at something and she’ll go flying. He weighs 129kgs I think, and he’s only 2 years old.
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HOLY COW
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Awesome hey? 😛 lucky his parents are rich…imagine feeding one of those, as well as another dog that’s almost the same size but I can’t remember the breed of it.
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Irish Red Setter it is, just googled and found it 😛
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That’s awesome. I love big dogs! Your friend is so lucky.
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Yeah he is haha. Well he’s more of my girlfriend’s friend. I get along well with him but I think his boyfriend is a bit of a dick.
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I love wolfhounds.
They’re actually amazing. In general they’re all so gentle as well..
But does his dog have a moustache?
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Genius.
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Dan next time i am in brisbane me and you are going to go to a pub and have beers. I can only imagine how funny you are now doubles when you have some beers in you!
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Well, until he poops his pants, right? That’s how the saying goes?
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I’ve only ever pooped my pants once in my adult life.
I covered the story in TAY once.
Recap? When your sick and you think you’ve got no more poop left, it’s best not to try and fart.
I’m Dan and I’m here all the time. Lurking. Thinking about my bowels.
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That is how the saying goes. You would know that if you lived in North QLD
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Reminds me of an episode of Axis Powers Hetalia, one of the characters had a goofy moustache like that, and was holding it so that the guy he was looking at looked like he had a goofy moustache, then the other guy turned it around, saying that from his point of view, it looked like he had the goofy moushace infront of his own face
tl;dr Axis Powers Hetalia is a funny show
Time to play “My cat’s better than your dog”…
My cat has an arrow on her side. http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb449/lamboman007/IMG_1888.jpg Also, she’s really tiny.
😛
My mum and dad bought a dog that looks like Falcor from the Never Ending Story.
His name is Alfie and he has more slobber than any dog I have ever known.
DAN! Teach me the ways of the video recording and stuffs.
What be good encoders for the recording of stuffs without raping my hard drive with it’s massive size.
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From what I understand you can go h264 720p with your current card which equals good quality, low file size. (Apple HD video is h264 at about 5mbps 720p for example) Problem is mutha effer takes tonnes of processor power to encode, so you might have problems encoding alot of stuff in real time.
It’s also not always your puter but your HDD spin speed that influences your best option.
Example we have a raid 5 array set to read as one HDD so we can play 4k footage in realtime. It’s plugged into a pretty standard MAC pro, and doesn’t drop frames very often.If you can set the bit rate for your captchaz I’d never go over 2.5mbps – 3mbps as your only gonna put your stuff online anyway. That should allow you to keep artifacting low and what little artifacting you do see you can pass off as film grain.
Audio I’d always keep it the same as source (mono/stereo) and never dip below 44.1khz 16bit.
If you can, capture through FCP or iMovie (if it does it) at source native resolution encoded with Apple Prores 422 (any derivative) Prores is great for small files with great compression.
I’m really not familiar with your card so that’s just me kinda guessing…
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Also, to assist with the dark arts of video compression(seriously, so very dark), you may wish to find three chickens, and rip off their heads while chanting “Mi piace bere Chianti.”
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It’s plugged into my Win7 machine (which outspecs the current Mac Pro line, although that doesn’t say much because the current Mac Pros are pretty out of date).
Default bit rate was 12000kpbs and my 5 min test recordings kept up, but I’ve just dropped it to 3000kpbs to see how that goes
Capturing through Aver Media center at the moment (the program that came with it), doesn’t report dropped frames etc, seems pretty bare bones because this is just a card for recording TV etc with a HDMI input. Does the job but I’m not sure how well it’ll do it.
Methinks the only thing to be done is to do a 1hour long recording and see if it all works smoothly. Sort of a test run for the next Batman recording.
Thanks.
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Clicked link without a second thought.
If this says something about me, I don’t even care because Bruce Campbell.-
I, on the other hand, clicked the link without thinking. First thought: WTF?
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I should bring Bruce Campbell movies to meat!
I have Bubba Ho-Tep on blu-ray!
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Please do, because I have no idea who he is.
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Then we need to watch the Evil Dead trilogy! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, it’ll change your life.
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I just read about the Evil Dead series, and I NEED to watch them 😛
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You haven’t watched Evil Dead?
Now I’m not bothered about you not finding my awesome jokes funny.
You are obviously uncultured.
Be off with you, scamp!
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Watch Burn Notice! He’s in that! 😀
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Bruce Campbell marathon at Blaghs’ place?
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Hell, I have nothing better to do with my time.
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WHAT IS THIS ????
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Can’t unsee those legs.
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My one regret when i die is that i opened that image. I don’t even know why i did. My immature teenage mind see the word naked and goes awesome.This is my punishment.
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That’s your one regret?
I’ve got to take you out drinking man…
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Still want!
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On the upside, the money goes to charity.
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Really? Wow, some people really do have more money than sense.
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I wish I was one of them.
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I keep hearing people say that, but I could have sworn that the saying was “More dollars than sense (cents)” for the pun effect…?
Anyways, I have neither dollars nor sense.
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but the free shipping makes it all worth it
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I saw that and Lol’ed a great deal.
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Guys, I’ve been thinking.
We should all club together, chip in some cash…
and buy me Nike Mag sneakers.
It’s for a good cause!
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God yes. But who gets to keep them and how many people before it because realistic.
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god my math was bad i was thinking like $100 bucks between 10 people made 10000
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HERE, JUST TAKE MY MONEY!
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HERE, JUST TAKE MY MONEY!
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A double post? What?!
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The Reply Button works in mysterious ways.
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AND MY AXE!
What? What do you mean an axe isn’t acceptable currency?
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Is it made out of gold?
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Dude – I totally have your Bernard Matthews Kievs here, you think I’m going to buy you a pair of trainers as well!?
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Like you wont eat them before you get back!
You must have mad Kotaku monies! Help a brother out!?!?
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Damn Big W, originally had the problem ordering Dead Island, but it eventually went through. Now Dead Island is not appearing on their list of games and my order is still “being processed”.
Grr, my patience wears thin, much like my underpants.
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My order is also ‘still being processed’. I seriously hope they don’t fuck it up.
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It is annoying, and worrying, because Space Marine was shipped so quickly.
And they have had nothing but problems with Dead Island on their site.
Clubby the Clubbing Club grows anxious, and this is never a good sign. -
Well, they charged me for Dead Island, so they better deliver it!
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Does one actually “wear” loin cloths?
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That would be a dress, or a kilt as the scots insist 😛
A loincloth actually wraps around the waist after pasing between the legs, so yes it is worn.
We Barbarians have no particular need to feel the wind on our nether regions. Except when going into battle clad only in war paint, pretty much every friday night.
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This video of Windows 8 booting up has most definitely mowed my blind http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/09/windows-8-promises-better-boot-times-through-hybrid-hibernation/
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I just watched that. Insanely fast. Let’s see what it’s like when the RC comes out though.
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That looks really, really quick.
I don’t have a clue how they’re doing it, but if it saves time then yay.
So, yeah http://nikemag.ebay.com/shoes
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Am I the only one who noticed what’s in the top left corner?
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Hahaha yeah, sneaky little bugger. Get down from there!
You didn’t read the article? For shame 😛
“the idea is this: user sessions (which is most running applications) will be shut down, but the Windows kernel is hibernated (written to disk so it can be speedily reloaded). The kernel is relatively small, so this is a faster process than standard hibernation,” “The new approach also makes better use of multiple processor cores to speed up the process of reloading the hibernated data.”
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Reply button, why hast thou forsaken me??
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Also, this was a reply to Aidan…
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What is a kernel?
And isn’t hibernation for bears?
😛 (kidding… but only just)
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Deus Ex is stressful. I keep sneaking everywhere because there’s something really great about going around people that have no idea you were even there in the first place, but then I’m all, hmmmm, what if I missed something cool because I bypassed that room with those guys in it instead of taking them out and the curiosity is eating away at me so I backtrack and obviously then I get spotted and killed because at the moment the enemies just have to look at me to kill me and I find out there was nothing really cool I missed anyway so I vow not to backtrack ever again but of course I do…vicious cycle. I’m a moron. 😛
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As that pretty much describes how I have been playing the game, a moron you are not!
Unless I am one too, which is very likely… mmm, MORONS UNITE!
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Hahaha I was doing that for a while. I upgraded my eye augmentations so I get more detail on enemies, etc. Then I just sit and watch their patterns, sneak up behind them and take them down, then hide the body. And do that with all enemies in the room. It’s very satisfying to have taken out an entire team of enemies with no one the wiser and with no one seeing you. Then you’re free to explore. But then I also LOVE the sniper rifle and just headshotting people 😛
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Same! High five!
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My strategy is to die a significant amount of times.
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Same! High five!
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I died so many times against the first boss. My save started off with me needing to reload my gun so he’d kill me before I could do anything :/
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I got lucky with that fight. He grenaded himself a couple times and that really helped me out.
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Haha fair enough, I used none of my weapons to take him out, just what was around the room..
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I’m far too impatient for that.
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Trust me, the knock everyone out route is the most satisfying. I would like to take a trip into a shadow of what I like to imagine Dan’s mind is like.
I like to imagine that the last guy in the room is perfectly aware that all his friends have gone missing. He doesn’t continue working due to his oblivious nature, but through fear. Maybe, just maybe, if he works hard, and acts like a good boy, the big bad Adam won’t come. He won’t pop out of nowhere, and drag him down into the depths. They are motivated by fear and insanity. The last one left in the room has to undergo years of therapy just to return to a normal life, and even then, just the mention of an apple is enough to set him off…
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What do you mean by ‘knock out’? I’m only on the first mission at Sarif Warehouse (I chose the non lethal tranq rifle), but is there also a way to non lethally take people down by hitting them on the head or something?
I think I’ll probably do the ‘knock out and explore’ route, because I suck at firefights and want to find all the books and codes lying around. Some of them (even in the Sarif offices) are really well written and have good info about the universe.
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You can do non-lethal take-downs by tapping the button.
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Haha yeah, I’m either really patient or just really slow. Steam says I’ve clocked nearly 40 hours on one playthrough, and my friend who did most of the sidequests and stuff too, he didn’t even get 30 hours.
Quite possibly spent 10 hours being lost.-
I’m on 11 hours and have only really just gotten to the second city 😛
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I’m playing the same way,have backtracked soooo many times and am now stuck on that stupid first boss!!!
I’m trying without weapons, i know what to do but AAAARRRGGGHHH!!!
How The Dr Plays Stealth Games
Be very, very quiet…
And KILL everything!
One week until we start the Lame Game Marathon!
I’m pumped as hell but at the same time I’m kinda sh*tting bricks. It’s hard enough to do anything for 24 hours, let alone playing crap like Superman 64.
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I keep forgetting who’s who (cept for Dan).
How goes it??? Much interest??-
meant publicity wise…?
Too late to try Good Game? Tracey….???-
We’re geting a bit of attention, we got Serrels to post about it and we also got mentions on Dtoid and IGN.
Through the next week we’re trying to get as many people to retweet, share and spread the word as possible.
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So with all the interest in the BTTF kicks it seems we have a few sneaker heads???
All time favourites???
Jordan III
Jordan VI
AirMax 90
Air Stab
AirMax BW
I like the Yeezys too, but have only gone for what i actually own/have owned.
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LOL Im a sneaker man myself but not into that stuff. Im too poor/tight to get anything special so im all about bargain shopping…
http://lockerz.com/s/127661328
Both pairs for a total of $72 including shipping from eastbay.com…
Love my sneakers though.
It looks like this capture card does not agree with my PS3 when I use HDMI. Which means that I can only really play through component cable and then see what’s going on by watching my monitor instead of watching the screen. So very sadface.
Need to see if there is a way to get around tat.
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Looks like the HDMI splitter destroys the audio, no sound through TV and just static when I play back the captured stuffs.
There might be a bit more experimenting needed to get everything working as I’d like but I know that I can just do 360 straight through the capture card, so it works…just not as much as I would like it to work.
Anyone else see this?
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Several times today 😛
Re: the Deus Ex discussion above…
There’s NO WAY I’m gonna finish this in 20 or 30 hours. I spent an hour just exploring around the Sarif offices looking for sekrit stuff! (Then I realised that delaying led to A Bad Thing happening with the hostages, apparently, so I reloaded..)
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Yeah I saved them with my leet hacking skills 😛
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I saved them with my leet “knocking everybody out and stealing somebody’s pager that had the disarm code” skills.
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Yeah I shot everybody in that mission 😛 and didn’t really check bodies.
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OH MY GOD, I ONLY JUST REALISED THAT TRACEY WAS REI FROM GOOD GAME!
i was always like, she looks so familiar…
WHY DID IT TAKE ME THIS LONG?!
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I feel the sudden urge to humbly bow to her (AKA worship).
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WOW dude, thats actually really slow… someone even made the awesome joke about her being a Rei of sunshine around here…. How did you miss that one?
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*long pause*
……………. I’m not slow
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Good Game?
That’s the show that Mark and Shady do right?
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Yeah those are my peeps… lol…
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I just redid my rage comic entry.. it is about ps3 load and updates times… I was planning on surprising Qbo by joining in on some GT5 action. I have done the full install including the optional install of as much as I could. I then did every update when i got the game and have played a bit of it.
I have not played it in about a month or two and just turned it on now. When i do this on 360 games, I tend to get a 4mb DL and Im fine with that. Its no biggie and done in 30secs.
I am seriously now an hour into my install and it is only 59% done. Im going to bed now and I’ll have to leave it on all night…
Seriously, you gotta fix yo shit Sony.. I mean seriously, this is just getting crazy. Is it because they have lazy devs who dont bother working to compress stuff or has there just been that many bugs/new features that it warranted a 380mb update?
I know im not a fanboy of Sony at all but those who are, how do you justify this, having to wait so long to play a game. It is almost like you have to get home from work, decide what you want to play, start the DL, have dinner, watch TV then check it out when everyone else has gone to bed.
I know its not every time and tomorrow I wont have to sit through this, but what if a mate sent me a message asking me to join in a game?
These are mandatory updates that take forever.. I just dont get it…
Now you can see where the inspiration for my comic comes from.
BTW, if anyone out of state wins, I want to attend this event so feel free to swing any wins my way! 50/50 split of the JB Voucher?
Something i’ve noticed in the LoL community…
There seem to be many more bad sports in LoL when playing co-op vs AI then in PvP. I’ve only had maybe 2 or 3 PvP games where people are being B*!&#es and/or trolls, but it seems to happen ever 5 games or son in PvE.
It’s weird condisering it’s nearly impossible to lose a PvE game vs beginner bots.
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Solution? Play more PvP!
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I was playing a PvP match as Janna and there was someone on my team giving me grief because I got ganked a few times early. He even told me to stay back when I got killed when someone tower dived me.
Then later he was asking how I was on 0/9.
Couldn’t be because Janna has no offense at all and I try not to last hit heroes? Told him it was because I was support.
He said I wasn’t supporting.
I pointed out that I had 13 assists (highest in the game).
He went silent.
Seems like the people who bm are probably the ones who don’t really follow what’s going on.
We ended up wining that match but there was a point where we were royally boned thanks to my lane’s early feeding (was with my friend playing Ashe).
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I suppose it’s true that in most games people with the loudest mouth are the ones who least know what they’re doing.
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I dunno if anyone has mentioned this before, it is pretty funny:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185424/
“Gamers – 2011:
Detectives Remy Munro and Margo Davis are hurled into the addictive and money making world of video games, where they attempt to track down a serial killer who re-enacts the methods of killing from popular video games.”
“Sex, drugs, alcohol… video games. The deadliest of addictions.”
Nice.
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Goddamn you, Film Industry
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I bet it’s the creepy guy who lives in a basement in Canberra!
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Ha. Ha. Ha.
What an amusing idea. >.>
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You have a basement?
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We have a wine cellar, that kind of counts, right? And when you enter my house via the front door, you have to walk down a floor to get to my room, so it’s more or less a basement(very much less).
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Quick question;
Does Gawker get any money from hits on the AU sites?
I ask, because I recently discovered for myself the amount of hate for the Gawker network on Reddit.
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Nope. We are completely separate business entities. We only use their site-names and content!
RAGE contest entry
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/cronotriggr/DrWhat_RAGE.jpg
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Wooo! Start of the page!
On a Sunday…
When no one will see it…………
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I noticed… though I think you should be disqualified from the competition on account of having actual artistic talent!
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This. Not that anyone winning bothers me since I shan’t be entering.
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Noooo, I was so close to the new page, although, that awesome comic definitely deserves to head off a page
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Curse you Reply Button…
EA has a competition on its Facebook page to win a bunch of upcoming/past games on any platform:
http://www.facebook.com/EAGamesAustralia?sk=app_191157664283245
It’s one of those ’25 words or less’ things.
Last comment before the new TAY? I’m tempted to spam to get my rank up!
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spammy spam spam
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Man: You sit here, dear.
Wife: All right.
Man: Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what’ve you got?
Waitress: Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam…
Waitress: …spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam…
Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress: …or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there’s spam egg sausage and spam, that’s not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don’t want ANY spam!
Man: Why can’t she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT’S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn’t got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam… (Crescendo through next few lines…)
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean ‘Urgghh’? I don’t like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can’t have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.
Wife: I don’t like spam!
Man: Sshh, dear, don’t cause a fuss. I’ll have your spam. I love it. I’m having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.
Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?
Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam… (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)
Vikings: (Singing elaborately…) Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!-
If I were really spamming I could have made that last post go on FOREVER.
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Like, a new post for every new line.
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But I didn’t
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And I could have
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Just wanted you to know that
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Reply button fail!
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