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I pronounce it Sef-a-lexin ;). I was incredibly sick when I was creating my first WoW character a loooong time ago and glanced at my antibiotics siting on my desk.
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I might be dabbling into Dawn of War 2 Retribution on weekends with a friend soon, everything I see on the MP on it makes me want to try it more and more 😛
Also, good morning humans and bots!
Today is a great day to TABTOL:
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Hmm, I really need to lift my posting rate. 4? That’s terrible! Guess that’s what I get for spending all week wasting time on work XP
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I’ll never escape from the 30s. I’ve been averaging around 25 posts a week for a while now. Got to start posting more.
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7 posts is my record. It’s a tall order… but if I concentrate, maybe this week I can make it to 8. (I unintentionally rhymed :P)
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I am both Shocked and appalled that i am now in the top 20. Either i wasted to much work time, or other people did not waste enough.
I got my first skill to 100 in Skyrim yesterday, blacksmithing, and now my Dovahkiin is sporting a fancy set of Dragon armour. Whoever suggested making iron daggers last week thank you. It really helped.
For anyone interested in getting to 100 blacksmithing here’s how to do it:
First you’ll need around 10k-12k gold. I wasn’t keeping exact track of my gold spent during the whole time I was leveling up blacksmithing but levels 70-100 cost me about 5k-6k.
Quick travel to a bunch of blacksmiths and buy all their iron ingots and leather straps. If it’s night when you arrive just wait until morning. Once who’ve got a bunch of iron ingots and leather strapts go to a forge and just make iron daggers again and again. When you’ve used up all your iron ingots and leather straps go sell all your daggers to the blacksmith to get some of your money back. It wont be much but it’s something.
Repeat this until you hit level 100. Most of the blacksmiths would have restocked their inventory of iron ingots and leather straps in the time it took you to fast travel around the world and wait for it to be daytime if it was night when you arrived.
A few extra notes:
You can make both light and heavy versions of Dragon armour.
There are no dragon weapons. You’ll be stuck using Ebony weapons or whatever the light armour equivalent is until you find some Daedra hearts to make Daedra weaponry or whatever you need for the light armour equivalent (I think it’s glass).
There is a dragon shield though.
It only takes a dragon scale or bone and a couple iron ingots and leather straps to make the dragon armour. You should be able to make a full set after only killing two dragons.
You should improve the armour at a workbench. It costs a scale or bone to improve each piece but it almost doubles the armour rating.
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Woo! I also got to 100 Blacksmithing last night. Is the dragon armor worth all the perks though?
Another tip: apparently if you max out enchanting you can enchant a set of armor to give you 100% spell cost reduction for a magic type (two if you get the last perk) Not at 100 yet myself but it looks likely.
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It only takes about 6 perk points to get it so I’d say worth it. Improved heavy Dragon armour has about an 86 armor rating which is nice. It also gives you something to do with all the dragon bones and scales you’ll get. I had about 20 scales and bones just sitting in my chest at home but now I can turn them into armour and sell them for about 2.4k each.
If you don’t want to spend all the points to get the Dragon armour you can always stop one short at the Daedra armour. It’s slightly better then the Dragon armour but the mats for it are a lot rarer.
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Yes I just got back from my hmoon last week, and duly purchased skyrim on the fanfare that has been plastered all over the internets… Goodbye weekend and many more to come!
Will my marriage last longer than Kim Kardashians?
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Another suggestion is Dwarven Bows. These only require 2 dwarven ingots and 1 iron ingot. While more material is needed for this, getting dwarven ingots is easy, just grab all metal stuff from a Dwemer ruin and you can change them into ingots, normally end up with about 60-80 ingots from a single ruin.
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’twas I who gave the Iron Dagger pointer 🙂
Glad it worked for you. I’m working on enchanting next.
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Here’s another hint: don’t just sell the iron daggers, use them to raise your enchanting skill.
If you can find an item with the “Banish” enchantment in a store, buy it. I don’t care how much money it costs, just buy it and disenchant it. If you enchant an iron dagger with “Banish” using ANY level of soul gem (even petty), the dagger will be worth over 1300 gold. With no speechcraft perks I can still sell them for about 600 gold a piece.
What this means is that during your iron/leather runs, you can also buy filled petty/lesser/common soul gems, and after you’re done enchanting it all you’ll make your money back, plus some, all the while raising both your smithing and enchantment skills.
I only started doing this once I’d already hit level 80 in both skills, and the last 20 levels passed by in no time at all. Once I had level 100 in both (and all the important perks) I crafted myself a full set of enchanted legendary gear and became a GOD! 😀 😀 😀
For those that missed it, as I posted this yesterday arvo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exlu7gumJzU
Our first recorded LoL game! Terrible audio and ~1 minute is missing for some reason… but it’s in HD!
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I started watching that and realised it probably wasn’t a good idea to start my day with 40 minutes of LOL replay before I get any work done
Hungover, on a monday. This can’t be good :S
I need a coffee with extra coffee and some coffee on top.
So yeah I had a busy weekend 😀
How was everyone’s weekend eh?
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My weekend was great. Had fun meeting everyone at the meet. 😀
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My weekend was ok.
Yesterday we found one of our Cockatiel’s eggs had hatched so we now have a baby Cockatiel \o/
Later we found one of our Rabbits dead /o\
Circle of life I guess.
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Coffee sounds good. Can someone tell the IT gods to stop destroying my network so I can go get some good stuff?
Visiting rellies, so basically no game-time. I have a lot of Skyrim to catch up on…
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Morning Puppylicks! May I suggest a powerade or berocca to ease your hangover pains?
Also my weekend was very good, filled with many lolz and silly moments.
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Oooh good idea, sadly I has neither berocca or powerade.
I shall improvise with a jumbo coffee and lots of water instead 😀Glad to hear your weekend was a good one, silly weekends are the best weekends 😀
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ahhhhh puppy, I believe you ordered a side server of coffee in coffee sauce to go with your coffee
oh harro!
last week was my first decent effort at participating in TAY, so it’ll be interesting to see where I end up on the list this week.
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Hey guy i don’t want to be mean, but have you been around here before cause i have seen your name on KKP but not here. I literally don’t know anything about you!
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I now picture you saying that in na really unsexy way like while eating chezzels. But i do hate it when all others but you do it!
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Cheezels can be sexy too!
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How?
I mean you couldn’t be eating them, you would have to be holding them while doing something sexy. Like maybe pole dancing. Pole dancing while holding chezzels is the new sexy! -
The right woman can make just about anything sexy, Rocketman!
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I can make them sexy my tonguing the hole seductively
/classy
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I don’t know if any cheese flavored snack could ever be sexy.
looooooooooong time lurker, I left a comment every now and again, but yeah, trying to get a bit more involved.
so yeah, last week was the first time I tried to keep up with you guys in TAY, and hopefully I can continue, and eventually become one of the cool kids 😛
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I also entered into the Space Marine/Chainsword competition a while back, so you’ve probably already seen my face (and my trashpit of a room) and not realised it 😀
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I’ve been noticing you! I even responded to some of your comments on TAY a few weeks ago.
Don’t worry about our pet Rocketman, you’ll get used to him. 😛
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Yeah same! *slaps Rocketman* Bad Rocketman, bad!
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Too much Brutal Legend?
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Is there really such a thing as too much Brutal Legend?
before you answer, the correct answer is no. 😛
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You may have just earned yourself a “Get Out of Oaring Free” card…
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i think it is impossible for the reason that some video’s that alot of people like and gets one dislike the would find out who the person is and go to there youtube account and spam terrible things!
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Settled down in front of the TV last night for a bit more Battlefield 3 punishment while I try to level up. It’s a real pain when you start one of these games 3 or 4 weeks after everybody else, as you just get repeatedly arser*ped by people who have learned the maps and unlocked all the weapons, gear etc while I’m sitting on level 2 or 3 which means I’m basically running around using a combination of harsh language and hitting them with a handbag.
Anyhoo, I tried it and couldn’t log into PSN! Was anybody else having trouble last night? Or was it just me?
Since I couldn’t log in I just went and finished off the single player campaign instead. And I’d just like to say wow. I don’t think I’ve ever played (or at least played all the way through to the end) a worse single player FPS campaign. I thought BFBC2 had a bad one, but clearly I was mistaken. Truly horrible in pretty much every way. Well done, EA/DICE *slow clap* Oh well, at least the multiplayer is good. Or will be once I’ve got some equipment.
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I got some Battlefield 3 in last night too. It was jarring after having played MW3 for an hour beforehand. Felt like I was moving through molasses for about five minutes then I got my groove back.
Really fantastic game. I’m concentrating on my support class to get some decent kit. I always played engineer in BC2 but really like support this time. I’ve almost unlocked the infrared scope for my LMG!
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I agree the campaign was pretty shocking. but dude seriously, have you played MoH, Homefront or any of the rexent CoD’s? the bar is pretty freaking low if you ignore original Gears and Halo (and probably a few other FPS games). i wouldnt be surprised if the average time to complete those campaigns on the hardest level is only 3-4 hours. sure some of the story Ideas are nice but other than the ideas (which are generally the same)* its all pretty boring.
*yes i am aware that for a generic shooter there are only so many ways you can do shit, but none the less they still do shit
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Last COD I played was MW2 and while that campaign wasn’t real good (I much preferred COD4’s – I really enjoyed that one) , I’d still take it over BF3’s. And I’d take Killzone 3’s singleplayer over either of COD/BF. In some ways BF3 reminded me of MW2 in the sense that the story is almost non-existent – both games give the distinct impression that somebody came up with some ideas for a few set pieces and then somebody else tried (and, for the most part, failed) to come up with some kind of story to link them together. Oh well, it’s not a big deal since, like everybody else, I bought it mainly for the multiplayer. Just disappointing that the single player side gets so little attention paid to it.
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MW3 campaign is streets ahead of BF3 campaign.
As for multiplayer, in my opinion they’re equal as they both offer completely different experiences to me.
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not too sure how i feel about MW3 campaign, havent completed it yet because tbh ive just been playing the multiplayer. totally agree about the multiplayer across the two though, BF3 feels a bit more “tatical” and even paced, whereas MW3 is like confined and fast. Im honestly enjoying both for their own reasons
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I really like Metro 2033 so I have hope for last light as well. Although I know it doesn’t really count a generic shooter.
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Well that was meant to be a reply to Di11enger but whatever
I feel your pain in relation to being a low level. Just tried out DC universe on a PvP server on the weekend. Damn those lower levels are hard to get through with the high levels just constantly ganking.
I had a lvl 30 attacking me when I was lvl 5
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It would of been awesome dan has a sausage to named boy that he uses for a moustache. What can beat that!
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Let’s just say it was a…DANm good time? Also I CBF to do the write up, mainly because I don’t write words well.
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Brisbane Meats are too awesome to be adequately conveyed in a write-up. You’ll just have to attend the next one so you too can know the amazement that is a BrisMeat. AKA, I can’t be bothered to write something. 😛
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Yeaaah Ive already thought about what to draw, but in all honesty the only things I remember involved me. I was completely unaware of what pretty much anyone else was doing haha. Ahhh… good times.
Hey remember when Lambo put his elbow in the fan? lol.
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The best way to summarise is with these figures.
Lamboman: 1
Pedestal Fan: 0QLD: 1
NSW: 0Bring it, NSW.
Also, I’m cutting a vidja so it’ll be done later this week. Lots of drunk Dan & AP getting adults to buy us booze.
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Can you really claim a QLD victory when you needed 3 rockin’ New South Welshmen to make it awesome?
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HA! You’ve never experienced anything but a Sydney Meat so you have no idea. You Sydney people are just lucky we let you guys tag along. BrisMeats are epic in spite of Sydney people, not because. 😛
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lol.. I might look like an adult, but I sure as hell don’t feel like one 😉 But damn… I pwned that carton big time! Totally made it my bitch! I even managed to turn on my charm for the camera while I carried that sucker fireman style! :0 I’m so looking forward to these vids! Not so much for the bits I’m in, but damn you were funny walkin back from the bollte-o hahahahaha
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I finally managed to tear myself away from SKYRIM! so I could play a little of Saints Row 3.
I really loved the second game, however I am finding 3 to be a bit… meh.
I am not sure why, but I have found the second game to be more enjoyable.
It just feels like there is less stuff in this game. I am not sure about the map sizes, but the area feels smaller, plus there seems to be less shops. Also, less activites, so far anyway, more stuff may become available later.
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I’m well in excess of the minimum specs on PC yet I’m getting pretty choppy framerates when outside. The action scenes at the start were really smooth but as soon as I could go where I want, I reckon I’m getting around 20fps with occasional dips to around 2fps for a second. It’s still somehow playable but I think I’m losing a lot of what it has to offer by it not being smooth. Pretty annoying.
I didn’t play 1 or 2, but apart from the fps issue I really like 3.
So, got Oblivion GOTY Delux Edition on sale via steam last week for next to nothing.
Going to sit down and actually play the game through from start to finish this time – last attempt I accidentally found how to break the gates by using immortal NPC followers. Kind of ruined it for me.
Soooo – what mods should I be rocking?
Currently running OOO, Better Cities, Unique Landscapes, and the unoffical patches. Any other suggestions for making the game pretty and/or awesome fun?
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I can’t remember the names of a lot of these mods but a google seach should find you what you want.
I’d suggest you get one of the weather modes and one of the mods that makes people less ugly.
There’s a mod that adds a lot more people to the world. It’s called crowded roads of something. There’s also a mod that adds children to the game but they look really odd.
There’s some nice custome armour and weapon mods out there too. Some even let you dual wield weapons though it’s not proper dual wielding like Skyrim, the weapon in your left hand will just be a weapon shaped shield that you can only use to block, not attack.
There’s a mod called Midas spells or something that adds a lot of new spells to the game.
Akatosh mounts is also pretty cool. It adds dragon mounts to the game you can fly around on. Compared to Skyrims dragons they look terrible but it’s still fun to fly around the place. You can just use them as a portable storage if you don’t want to fly on them.
There’s a zombie invasion mod that’s sort of cool. It changes the game in a big way though and could cause a lot of quest givers to die so you may want to avoid it.
There’s also a mod that allows you to skip the opening sewer event. Having done that event a number of times I thought the mod was great but if you haven’t done the sewer event that many times you may want to skip this.
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The internet declares that the mod that makes the females have bigger boobies is the only mod you need.
Well, I assume there is a mod for that. I think it’s a pretty safe assumption, really.
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it’s a pretty safe assumption, seeing as on the EB Games facebook page, they asked what mods people wanted to see, and roughly half of the comments had something to do with either nude NPCs, or something to that extent…
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And so begins my first whole-week off! Heads up: I will be playing Skyrim (and Skyward Sword! Only 3 more sleeps! :D)
Speaking of Skyward Sword… Have any retailers other than EB/Game got a price for the limited edition game? I went to JB Hifi the other day and the sign still said $TBA 😛 120 dollars from EB/Game just seems so steep, but I’ll probably have to suck it up.
Morning all!
Xbox day at The Hut:
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Also, 5 pounds off for large orders 5WINTER
10% off Xbox games. 360VALUE
The Duke Nukem Balls of Steel edition is 24.95GBP (less 10%) for those who want it, it’ll come to about $35-40.
Hope your weekends were good!
So i got stuck into my pile of shame on the weekend.
Friday night i came home and though “ok a game i can knock over quickly”
So i slid in Bayonetta (pun intended) – and after half an hour i had already had enough. I just couldn’t get into it.. and it’s so… so… JAPANESE!
But not in the good sense, more in the tacky sense…
The one thing i did like it was the rendition of one of my favorite songs of all time “fly me to the moon”
So i said “screw it” and chucked Assassins Creed into my box and picked up where i left off over a year ago.
I figured that even though it’s not a short game, it is a game i have needed to finish for a while – and something really surprised me.
I stopped playing because i found it kind of boring.. but now that i’ve started again, i’m actually finding it really drawing me in.. saving citizens, climbing towers (but not collecting flags – i hate collecting flags).
I think it’s because i’ve actually started to get a good grip on counters and freerunning.
I’m really enjoying it and hoping to finish it off before Bee comes back – then i may settle back in to Red Dead Redemption.
Altair (or however you spell his name) is actually really starting to grow on me. He’s a noble sort of killer, dedicated and loyal. The one thing that bugs me is his lap-dog “yes master” attitude – which i’m sure will unravel more as the game progresses.
Also watched Scarface for the first time last night.
Pretty good. What i really loved about it is that it’s so 80’s! lol
The music – brilliant!
Al Pacino really does steal the movie though.
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You should try Mirrors Edge man, it’s pretty short and very unique. Easy to knock of your pile of shame in a lazy arvo or a couple of nights.
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Yeah I thought I was gonna love Bayonetta, but I didnt. Ive only played it for like 30 mins but already there were way too many vagina crash zooms and extreme close ups.
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And like seriously, too many vaginas.
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Actually the vagina content tones down a lot after the first few chapters of the game… I think 😛
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Too many vaginas? Not something I ever thought I’d hear on TAY. 😛
You know, I didn’t even notice them.
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So I bought MW3 through cdkeys.com.au and I’m thinking I might record and upload every game as I try to progress through to prestige, shameful fail games and all. Fun fun!
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From what I’m told dedicated servers are only for non-ranked games so you can’t earn XP. Quite sad, really. Otherwise yeah, still IWnet I suppose.
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I think you are right funniest woman on youtube. Its mainly self depricating humor that she uses but it is to such a great extent. great stuff!
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und soooo purdy!
She always has me in hysterics – mainly because i often think the same things 😛
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If you ever read the comments from her video’s its always along the line of “i came hear because i thought it was porn!”
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I just googled who that is. I remember her from that one episode of Talking About Your Generation that was on earlier this year.
I haven’t seen any of her videos but I remember when I saw her on the show I didn’t really like her. Like most Gen Y guests she had an appalling lack of knowledge when it came to pop culture through the ages. I remember there was one question that related to modern day tech nerd culture or something along those lines, I can’t remember exactly what the question was, and I was shocked that someone who’s whole claim to fame was posting on youtube couldn’t answer it. I didn’t really find her that funny either.
Maybe I’m being unfair though. I guess I should probably check out some of her videos before making any sort of judgement. I was going to do that after the show finished but forgot until just now when Loops mentioned her.
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Some of her stuff on youtube is pretty funny, but whenever I’ve seen her on television she’s fairly lame/boring.
I’m sub’d to her channel, but rarely watch anything, since the same old sexless/stalker/not-really/yes-really jokes are getting sucked dry (“and you know who I sucked dry…”).
Her mum’s hilarious though.
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Magnetism? Don’t tell me you’re one of those kooks.
It’s an interesting theory, but I’m not convinced. Your magnetism is a cute bedtime story, but I believe in one thing, *pulls out pistol* PEACEMAKER! -
Magnetism is very real, in fact I started a church to worship magnetism!
We all commune in a giant fridge and listen to ICP all day.
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I managed to kill about 10 guards with one Unrelenting Force on the weekend. It’s a pretty cool spell. Also used it to take out a giant.
Hey f4ction, I think next time you should go to one of the private channels when recording the LoL games 😛
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I don’t know, I think Trjn’s non watchingness and pantsless GingerChris added a bit of magic to it.
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Or not let bunny in the channel unless he is casting because he is obnoxious! and if he is casting bish or faction have to be because they know what they are talking about!
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Well Bish was more like “Oh…. he’s dead” :P. F4ction had the right idea with talking about their positioning and focussing.
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Still I’m really impressed with how that turned out, can’t wait for more and by others in the Kommunity amirite? 😀
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Yeah I am. I got the email to say it had been dispatched on the the 9th and I’m still waiting. I got a second email on the 15th saying that they had more stock of the Game + cloth map come in and they were getting sent out, but I only ordered the game, so maybe we’re getting free upgrades or something. I’m not really interested in the map, iI just want the game here ASAP. Hopefully it comes today. I really want to get into it.
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There’s nothing like getting home from work, all excited to play a game you’ve assumed has arrived, only to open the letterbox to a blank void of despair.
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Same. If it happens again tonight I think I’ll cry.
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@sughly and Strange.
What did i do or say? why are you pretend slapping me and calling me a dog or cat. I was just unsure you making me cry!
Note: I am really quite hurt by your attitude
Note further: The first note is a lie!
Tell me why – I don’t like Mondays?
Can’t get into work this morning so I spent the first hour watching F4ctions recording of our KvK game. Was quite interesting watching how other people play – you get a feel for it when you play against them but you can really focus on what they’re doing when you aren’t worried about playing yourself.
Also played a bit of Skyrim over the weekend and am in a bit of a predicament. I have leveled to 18 purely by lockpick, stealth and pickpocket. I spent the first few hours of the game cleaning out everything from the first two towns. Chests, cupboards, tables, pockets – everything was picked clean. On the downside now though I have no combat skills besides slitting throats, which doesn’t seem to work when your surrounded by a pack on angry bears (I bet it wasn’t even their cub that I killed anyway). The only thing working for me now is the Fury spell. Cast that and use the time to find a rock that they can’t get to and shoot arrows at them. I also have turned into a bit of a murderer…. Spent minutes trying to mine a vein of ore and couldn’t for some reason. Then a miner came and started mining my vein. My vein! So I slit his throat. Turns out the reason I couldn’t mine was because I didn’t have a pick-axe, so I stole one from the dead miner then it was k.
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I hope recordings like F4ction’s video can help our guys and girls see what they’re doing wrong, how they could’ve made their engagements better, etc
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As long as you are not shooting the day down i think we should be okay. I loved watching how i played and how i could of improved. Turret running through 2 towers is a bad idea. Also you play skyrim in a scary way. You should probably but some stuff back. I mean are you really gonna use 14 pots.
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A tryndamere tried that on me while I was on Caitlyn and low on health, he went through 3 towers before dying 😛
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Good morning! It feels so nice to sleep in for a while.
Can I get some people to yell at me to buy Skyrim? I need something to play after Assassin’s Creed and this is near the top of my list but I’m really looking for some nice incentive to actually get off the couch and go buy it this week.
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Dude, are you Alex C.?
Did we go to primary and high school together? If so: BLIND. MOWN.
Also:
SKYRIM!-
Sup, Tad! It’s not that scary, is it? Guess you weren’t posting in TAY last week so you didn’t see me.
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It’s not scary, it’s just unexpected! But in a good way! 😀
I was busy all last week, so my TAY presence was not what it would usually be. I have 4 days of holidays before I’m working full-time again (my last exam is today).
It’s cool that you’re a part of the TAYbies now! 😀
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Sure. Lets try for Friday night?
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Ha, exams. I had none this semester, so I’ve been off for over a week. Could use a job though…working on that one!
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Go buy it.
Now.
Also, last night a friend made me play a custom game of LoL against him to prepare me for actual online play (I’m not very good at LoL, you see). Thirty minutes later he realized that he’d probably scared me away from online play forever. I can’t decide if it was the constant double kills or the aces he was getting, or the fact that he killed me at least fifteen times, but yeah, something made him change his mind.
Man that was depressing.
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Yeah that’s a very very bad idea. You should tag up with us in Teamspeak. LoL is much more fun and exciting in a team of 5. Just don’t go with me, Steve-O or NoobHeadshot, otherwise it’ll be a VERY steep learning curve
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I’m guessing LoL is your first MOBA-style game? They take a lot of getting used to, but are really fun once you get to a competitive skill level and run around killing things with people on teamspeak. Just keep practising and learning as you go – there are a lot of basic things that experienced people take for granted, such as map awareness, knowing when to run and positioning. There are also some lower level kotaku guys who it might be valuable to play with. I’m guessing your friend is a higher level – that means if you play pvp with him you will also be matched against higher level guys.
If all else fails, just pick Garen or Katarina and spin to win!
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Is spin to win some kind of thing that’s going around right now? My friends kept singing that over and over last night, and I couldn’t understand why. So its not something they both happened to randomly pick up?
Also yeah, this is my first foray into this kind of gaming, but it isn’t something that I’m playing every night or for very long so I’m not too concerned right now about it, but if I do get more involved, I’ll definitely take up your offers.
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Spin to win is kind of like a LoL meme. The characters I mentioned both have moves where they spin around dealing bulk damage around them.
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steve-O is very good at it, because he’s broken and stuffs. Silly Steve-O.
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Lance Henricksen saying “I am a Space Marine” is pretty cool, but the game really needed Terry Crews shirtless, making his pecs dance, yelling “SPAAAAAACEEE MAAAUUUURRIIIIIIINNNEEE!!!!” while standing in front of an explosion.
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Which WH40K game was it where the narrator kept saying it in an almost French-stereotype accent?
Spes Ma-rin.
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Skyrim? Why would you want to play that? You should be playing NFS: The Run like all the REAL MEN are!
Morning All. Weekend was filled with nothing but gaming. Twas grand! The sad part is, i have made a decision. I dont think I am at all impressed with MW3. Yes I enjoy it, yes its great mucking around with mates. And yes, the Elite system is cool being able to create clans, and socialise n stuff. But, as a game goes. seriously, there is no improvement on graphics or the physics or anything. Truly this is an activition cookie cutter production, and even as a massive cod addict, i am unhappy.
This being said, i know i’ll keep playing the game, because yes, it is fun, mere disenchantment doesn’t make it bad, however, i am looking for alternatives, Is it worth buying battlefield now? Can anyone comment on the number of local players on there now that cookiecutter warfare 3 is out? I do love me some multi player.
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Oh this will happen as soon as funds allow. But I also need a gateway to get away from COD, and trying to figure out if battlefield is the way, or if i need a games pc, to get into other decent MP games.
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I also need to save for a gaming pc. I dont think either my laptop or desktop will handle diablo 3. I really think i’d enjoy that game.
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I think I saw them in cash convertors for like $70. Sooo, ozgameshopping zelda with one of them, its like $125 for a wii with Zelda!
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I’m helping! ^_^
Helping you lose moneys that is.
But also helping you gain Zeldas!
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Everyone needs more Zeldas.
At least 50 of them.
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Just to champion one of my favourite game this year – you could also throw in Xenoblade ( a game you can easily sink 60-100 hrs into) for only $45.
It’s worth it I promise
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Following the weekend’s KvK’s, I need to add another character to my roster as all my current mains seem to get banned (not complaining, I’ll take it as a compliment :P). My AD team currently consists of Garen, Gankplank, Tristana and Twitch (he’s more of an assassin type though). Think I will purchase Tryndemere and give him a go. Seems pretty straight-forward, build crit and right-click to win! I remember someone played as Trynd quite well – was it F4ction? Any comments on playing as Trynd? He’s only 1350 right?
This will be my last AD champion, then I will start building my AP page and acquiring more AP champions. I’ve also hit level 29, and will soon be 30. How far off is everyone else who is close to 30? Are we going to be game and try some ranked games?
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I’m still a bit behind on levels, only level 26 now. You’ve got WAY too much AD, you definitely should look to other roles :), then again you got Veigar as well for AP but more couldn’t hurt
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I know I need to expand but I have a full AD/Crit rune setup that I want to take advantage of. If I get Tryndemere I will start saving up for AP champions and runes after.
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Yeah see we ban a lot of your champions because like with Garen we haven’t really ever got a proper counter to you and can hardly catch you out. Still I’m flattered that my Kennen gets banned every single time 😛
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I don’t know, depends on who’s playing.
Solo queue will be a nightmare, since you’ll probably be getting Instalocks, so you’ll need the flexibility, but out team setups have generally worked out.
Ignoring Techy who has the ability to do everything, you have ten million people who play Rammus, me and f4ction throwing in some extra tank characters to compensate for Steve-O’s aggressive characters. Pyrean and Noob jungle. Then there are specialties like Fizz, Teemo, Trynd, Pantheon, etc.
Of course, I can’t imagine you’ll always find people to do ranked with you, but I should think that if you at least duo-queue with one of us, it should be right.-
Well I’m definitely for ranked playing in 5v5 but yeah, only if you guys are happy enough to wait for me in the meantime. I need to expand on my roles as well, which is why I’m getting Galio who can also solo mid with AP. Top I’ve got Rammus or Skarner, bottom I have Kayle or Caitlyn/Master Yi, and jungling will be Warwick as well.
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I play as Trynd, yeah. I’ve just about finished my build for him. I love him. I usually start off playing fairly aggro to race to my bloodthirster and beserker boots. From there it’s all easy. I’m trying builds with more AS at the moment (three phantom dancers etc) and it’s working really well, but the ol’ stacking damage works quite well too as I often average crits of 1400 by mid/late game.
Basically Trynd is all I play now, though I bought Swain and want to give him a bit of a go too now.
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Also, I think I’m just about to hit level 28. I’ll be up for some ranked once I hit 30 and have full runes.
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My easy Soul Gem gathering tip for the week…for all you Skyrim players levelling Enchanting….
Reckon i’ve found a foolproof way to gather souls for soul gems.
1. Get a companion.
2. Give companion a weapon with soul drain enchantment(I use the Mace of Morag Bal for this).
3.Give all your empty soul gems to companion.
4.Watch them gather souls for you, freeing you up to have that fire enchantment you’ve always wanted!
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I play stealth, so I don’t take companions with me (they tend to run in and pick fights whilst I’m trying to be sneaky). I have a few questions for me next play through though – Do companions use up charges on enchanted weapons (i.e soul drain)? Or can you they indefinitely use it without you having to constantly recharge the item?
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From what I can tell, no, they don’t use up charges. And if you want to sneak, you can tell them to wait for you. I’ll double check about the charges when I get the chance 🙂
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The Mediterranean Defence mini-game in AC:Revelations is silly. Apparently, if I don’t send two high level assassins on this mission, it is entirely possible that they will die while ORGANIZING A BANQUET FOR THE POOR. Nothing to do with fighting templars. They will just fall over dead during the organization.
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Seriously, they died organising a banquet for poor people?
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Yeah, I thought that was stupid.
I ended up being really cautious with all my assassins after I lost a couple to that Mediterranean Defence thing.
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OH! SWEET! You can kill them off this way?
My game glitched at 11/12 recruits, even though I have a full stable.
Looks like I’ll be able to kill someone off, recruit someone new… problem solvered!
Best comment of previous page:
PuppyLicks
November 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Lance Henricksen saying “I am a Space Marine” is pretty cool, but the game really needed Terry Crews shirtless, making his pecs dance, yelling “SPAAAAAACEEE MAAAUUUURRIIIIIIINNNEEE!!!!” while standing in front of an explosion.
BWAHAHAHAHA
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCl5uyn5K7k
I mean – i couldn’t think of a more perfect ad for space marine
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http://www.ozgameshop.com/mice/lamborghini-murcielago-wireless-mouseyellow
I may need to get this…
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It would probably be a better investment than those weighted gaming mice i keep hearing about.
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I’ve been using a Microsoft Sidewinder X5 mouse for a few years now, and it’s served me well. I just absolutely cannot bring myself to pay $100+ for a mouse, it just seems like a massive waste of cash that could be better spent putting it into the graphics card or something.
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SPEHS MURINNEE!!!
Dude, on a side note, with you being a big blood angels fan, have you read up on the Flesh Tearers Successor chapter?
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I have read a little, but i’ll admit, im always at work when i think about reading this stuff, which obviously, doesnt leave me much time. I think i need to get the novels in the hope they explain a little more on the origins and the back stories. The Codices do not really give much story.
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Best place you can go is the warhammer 40,000 wiki – i spend far too much time there
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yay somebody got it! /hi5’s Sughly
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Everyone goes on about ponies being imba but it’s the unicorns you have to watch out for. They scare me cus’ they steal kidneys – I only have one that works left!
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I have no sympathy for your self-inflicted pain, boozehound ;P
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Well my gal Sissy gave me the lowdown and it is ponycorns that are the real danger
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So I just got back from a mates. I’ve decided I’m not going to drink for the next couple of weeks. I feel like hell ahaha. I don’t think i’ve been hungover on a monday before.
Annoyingly, I have an exam this thursday thats bloody hard, otherwise I’d be playing skyrim…
I’ve also yet to finish Deus Ex and New Vegas (which I bought on Special a few weeks ago)….
WHY UNI! WHY!?!?!?!
Dear AlexPants
I still maintain your name is pretty awesome.
Not the point of this comment, but it needed to be said.
Anywho.
In regards to League of Legends (omg talk about something else guys), the past few nights we’ve been doing low-tier Kotaku vs Kotaku matches. All skilled players are banned (well, not really, but Techy, Steve-O and Noob are yet to play in one) and they’re generally for fun, practice matches. We all sit in the same TeamSpeak channel so we can talk to each other and discuss what everyone is doing. Practice characters, ask for builds, make ridiculously WTF builds (I like to think I have taken the cake for this thus far), troll, whatever. Yeah, you’ll die, and so will everyone else, but one hopes you walk away with a little bit more knowledge, or at least with a few laughs by the end of it.
Kind regards,
BishPants.
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NO SKILL ALLOWED
BEGONE, DOTA PLAYER!By which I mean yes.
Generally they’re held whenever there’s 6 or so of us on, but without Techy, Steve-O, Noob or Pyrean we’re just generally afraid to do proper PvPs without someone to carry us.Oh, also, I went to that Eastwood dessert place. Not bad, not bad at all. They’re a little too happy with the shaved ice, though.
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omg! i went there on Fri night maybe we could have potentially run into each other!! It was yums.
Haha well I was more just asking because I was curious where I stood on the skill level of LoL players you have gathered, that is all. Although I still feel like I am learning a lot about the game each game I play.
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Well, I didn’t mention you because we haven’t seen you on for like, 2 days or something.
Old man memory and all that.
Who are you again?Also, I don’t actually mean low-tier and that those guys are actually banned, I think it was just me and Blaghsy running with our special blend of self-deprecating humour, and that’s just the name we assigned it.
Also also, I was there on Saturday. My sister was there on Friday though. She is heavily pregnant. Maybe you saw her? Don’t really know how that’s related, but I thought it was a cool story, Bish.
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Yeah, been busy and my internet problems have resurfaced =/ I have no idea why it’s so slow nowadays.. it’s cable, normally quite fast but these days its dropped to 56k speed. Not capped either.
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Also I may have seen a pregnant lady. Next time I will ask her if she knows a “Bish”.
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Email one of us!
He said, almost pressing “Submit Comment” without posting an email.
Hurfaderf.
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Oh, awesome! Thanks for the offer, I might join you guys sometime this week. Not sure where I am tonight or tomorrow, though.
So… I done boughts a new laptop.
Sony something.
8 Gigs o rams.
2 Gigs o graphics card.
AMD something or other.
15 inch screen.
Windows 7.
Which means I may have to get Steam… and some other stuff.
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1250 ish… on sale at JB.
I bought it so I could play Skyrim with mods and console commands, as well as The Old Republic… eventaully.
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Quick LoL question. At what level would you guys suggest giving intermediate bot battles, pvp and dominion a try?
I’m level 10 and so far I’ve only played begginer bot battles. I’ve reached a point that while I haven’t mastered playing begginer bot I feel there’s not much more I can learn from playing it. My experience from winning a match also seems to have dropped and I usually take that as a sign I’m meant to move onto the next level.
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Start PVP NOW. I suggest teaming up with people you know (i.e. the Taybies) for match making games.
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What everyone else says, man. I played a shite-load of bot games (180ish wins) and it was detrimental to my PvP experience as i was instantly put into higher level games. I think I’ve mostly adapted now but it took a LOT of lost games to find my groove as a result.
PvP asap. Only go bots if you’re trying out a new build or playing for the lulz.
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ive never player BOT games…and thats why im so terribad. but seriously those above are all correct 🙂
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BOT GAMES ALL THE WAY
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That is me high-fiving f4ction and Blaghsy, by the way.Anyway, I almost disagree with the other two. Don’t get me wrong, there’s certainly more to be gained from PvPs, but if you’re not ready for the sudden skill jump, you’re going to be all feelsbadman,jpg and be put off by it.
I would suggest here’s what you do: Find the character you like playing and feel you play well with. Have a crack at them with Intermediate bots (beginner bots are chumps). They cheat like champs, but you’ll learn to be paranoid and how to escape ganks, to an extent. Do this for a few games, then dip your toe into PvP. Don’t play too many bot games, though. The sooner you jump into PvP, the better, but I think with the community these MOBA games breed, diving in head first will put you off if you don’t already have a thick hide.-
+1 on the MOBA Community line lol
they are a special lot.should probly say we becuase everyone who plays LoL here is technically part of that community but the Taybies are a bit more civilized… from what ive heard. yet to actually witness. lol
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U should’ve seen this one game, there was this Yorick, and he was raging. It was funny 😀 yeahhhhhh
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When you say Yorick raged where you playing Yorick? Did you do a little rage dance? was it like a cross between a Harlequin rage and a leprechaun rage dance?
i couldnt imagine you raging though.
oh right you said he. nvm. i recant those questions
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I’ve actually been pleasantly surprised by the LoL pubs I’ve encountered. Most people are generally nice. WHAT IS THIS CRAZY WHACKED GAME WORLD I HAVE ENTERED? MANNERS? WHAT??
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someone asked me how my week was and what i planned to do for my holidays.
i already had “stfu scumbucket no one cares how awesome you think you are go back to telling your mother about it.” set to copy and pastage, as a general response. I pasted and right when i was about to slam down on my enter key looking like a righteous Samuel L Jackson i read chirstmas and my eyes went ʘ‿ʘ
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but he’s a wolf, and don’t wolves have naturally thick fur to guard them against the cold weather?
lolol but okay, I guess I didn’t really think my response through from the point of view of somebody who is new to the whole MOBA thing I guess. However I still think diving in headfirst is the fastest way to learn. Nothin’ like a baptism of fire to really get you warmed up eh?!
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When I was young, I accidentally knocked over one fo those little Bhuddist shrines, and set several paper laterns alight.
I like fire, but it does not like me. 🙁This is just the way I play though, really. A bit defensive, and a strong preference to ease my way into things. f4ction’s right, bot games do ultimately hurt you, but I remember going to Dence Park (outside) swimming pool in winter. Jumping right in did not ease the pain in any way.
Have a couple of intermediate bot matches first then jump into some 5v5 PvP
I wouldn’t recommend dominion straight up, I find it a lot faster and harder to actually learn your characters. But if you get on with some TAYbies they will help guide you through. Or at least not rage at you if you lose
oh noes
http://www.good.is/post/the-end-of-cheap-coffee/
TL;DR version:
WE ARE GOING TO RUN OUT OF COFFEE SOON!!!!!
ill add that to the list of “non-renewable” resources*
*Official List of Non-Renewable resources:
1. Everything
2. re-read item number 1
What a companion is really for in Skyrim…
http://www.dorkly.com/comic/27750/the-glorious-life-of-a-skyrim-companion
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Wait… we can make them carry all our junk?
I’ve left mine back at DragonsReach… but if she can packmule, then…
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You can get them to carry stuff for you. Just talk to them and select trade. You can give them armour and weapons to use as well.
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Been watching all weekend. Decided to try and sleep while having the stream going last night, ended up falling unconscious at about 6am and then woke up in time for the finals.
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By the way, has anyone seen that movie ‘In Time’? I saw it over the weekend and its very preachy on the whole ‘time = money’ message, but there was one thing that really bugged me.
[Here there be spoilers, but does anyone really care?]
A side character dies after spending a year (the currency) on alcohol in roughly a day. My friends and I started wondering how many drinks that would have bought him. Earlier it was established that a cup of coffee cost 4 minutes 30 seconds. We decided that a standard drink of alcohol would probably cost around ten minutes. A little bit of simple math later, and we find that he bought…
52560 drinks. That man is a legend.
Once again – i am simply blown away with the response for the Kotaku Kristmas Project
Thank you so much for your enthusiasm, guys! 😀
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phase 2 won’t close until the end of the week – there are still a few people that need extra time – so it’s all good 🙂
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You’re not in yet?
lolSend an email to troy(dot)cleary(at)hotmail and i’ll get you logged in and the such
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Did some Ghibli BD-watching over the weekend, and am happy to say that the internet was wrong as usual.
– Ponyo is a really good film. I enjoyed it a lot. It does feel like it pulls a lot of its elements out of previous films, but that in no way reduces it as an overall production. I think if anything, what might put people off is the simplicity of the actual story, but it’s quite clear that it’s aimed at a younger audience to begin with. Not going to knock anything off my list of favourites, but a very solid and enjoyable film overall.
– Tales of Earthsea has a bit of a bad rap. I’ve never read the books it’s based off so it’s possible that if I had, I’d have found it less enjoyable. But while it is undoubtedly a bit flawed – the pacing is a bit slow, it takes a little bit too long to fully establish the characters and the plot – it’s still definitely worth a watch. Given that it’s an adaption of only part of a much larger series of books I was worried it would have a disappointing ending, but it’s actually fairly complete and cohesive. If there was anything I’d complain about, it’s the protagonist being completely pathetic. Though he does get over himself by the end, there were points where it felt like he’d been transplanted into the film straight out of Evangelion.
(Also the villain reminded me eerily of Michael Jackson D:)
Didn’t watch the BD re-release of Howl’s Moving Castle yet, going to save it for a rainy day.
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I think if I ever watch Howl again, I’m going to be all STARRING BATMAN, AS HOWL throughout the entire thing and just generally annoy myself.
It’s like sitting next to someone in the theatre who never shuts up, except in your head.
GREATEST YOUTUBE CLIP EVER!?!?!?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chuuDUolRDY&feature=BFa&list=PL8DD6800EC56AC0EA&lf=results_main
It comes pretty damn close
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On a not-unrelated note: Yesterday, I put my hand under my desk table (in order to pull my chair in closer) and there was a Huntsman under there! D: It was the second grossest thing I have ever touched.
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Okay, my most recent project outside has been completed… sorry for the dodgy shots – yet to upload the ones from my douche camera.
http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/41785595/1/Furniture?h=a5acb9
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it is just for my home, has been a AH obsession to get it finished in between gaming times and keeping the missus happy.
100% tassie oak floorboards ripped out of a demo from 5 years ago. Came up a treat.-
yeah its actually really good if i had money and you where selling them i would buy it straight away
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funny you say that, the mother in law offered me 2 grand for it straight away lol.
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2 and a half.
3.
3 and a half.
sold!*homer bartering
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Ha! Nice effort mate! The first one looks like it’s in a store if i’m not mistaken. What was the asking price versus cost for time and materials?
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I was under the impression he was replication the first image which was in a store for sale lol.
Either way, it looks awesome. Good work man 😀
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http://www.domayneonline.com.au/pod-dining-table.html – price was $2,199.
I built for around $180 – that includes sandpaper, new hand plane, new electric plane blades, new powersaw 60t blade, glue (all 1.5L!!).
The old floorboards were removed by me as they were going to be demolished on a job a mate was working on. I went there one weekend and pulled evey freaking one up by hand. Took all weekend for about 1000m in 110mm wide lengths.
They had been covered with carpet from the start, so all i needed to do was get the carpet glue off.-
@Virus_ Yeah, I got that part. I was asking what they wanted for the table vs what it cost him to make. And I got my answer.
Job well done Morf-
Thanks very much, the next two items of furniture will be the coffee table and the two buffet’s to match, im planning on spending $0 for the both of them as I have all the tools required.
Dining Table – $2199
http://www.domayneonline.com.au/pod-coffee-table.html – $2299
http://www.domayneonline.com.au/pod-coffee-table-en.html $1399
Total purchased = $5897
Expected total to build ~ $200
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They ALWAYS get you on the freight 😛
but damn that’s cool – and 501st apporved!!
I’ve always wanted to eb a part of the 501st – but as a sand or snow trooper..
But, yes, i am a little short for a storm trooper
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That reminds me of something I should be writing…
Did anyone else notice that the seller is called ‘treckfreek’? 😛
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Confession: I still haven’t finished the first Assassin’s Creed game. I’ve finished 2 and Brotherhood, and have started on Revelations, and have the special editions of all of them (preorder tin thingy for 1, Black edition for 2, Codex for Bro and Animus for Rev). Love the series. But still haven’t finished the first game.
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Confession:
I’ve finished none of them… none.At some point there’s always a timed puzzel, or a race… and my lack of skill with the damned camera ends my game.
It’s like Dara O’Brianin says…
“Computer games are the only medium that will prevent you going further if you’re shite”.
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I haven’t finished the first one either but I’ve finished 2 and Brotherhood.
I found the first one a little boring to be honest. It just feels really repetitive.
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Exactly this. I find the story in #1 enjoyable (and I already know how it goes), but I found that the gameplay felt horribly repetitive, which is something they thankfully fixed in the sequels.
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There’s always a minor aspect of the first game that bothers me and that’s the lack of any lighting change in the Desmond Abstergo sections — if you’re stuck in the room atleast depict the passage of time, damn it. Otherwise incredible story. 😀
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My main annoyance with the first one was the whole
HEY ALTAIR, LRN2SWIM PLS thing.
Luckily, Ezio took lessons as a kid.
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Any news on the Kotaku Minecraft server? I heard it was having some sort of technical buggery happening…
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Still down. Unless I’ve got the IP address wrong again – was playing with a bunch of randoms last time :/
I entered that Gizmodo comp thing where you make a video.. let me know what you guys think! <3
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You are a honorable robot , i could never think of you objectifying women. Except some of them, (pretty much any actress we talk about)
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Actresses are kind of an exception cuz you only see them in movies being someone they’re really not, you never truly know who they are, only their names
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Why thankyou Techy. I have half a mind to take ’em down but at the same time i cbb so I’ll just leave them there to aggregate views…
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You know now that we got spectator mode in LoL I might consider uploading KvKs that I spectate and commentate(Or at least try to),and make a youtube account to upload them too.
Numbers had a small idea of how I tried to cast, a bit abysmal but can be improved I’m sure 😛
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I lolled heartily. The thought of you trudging around Sydney cafes with the box….bahahahah. Also – was a pretty well made vid.
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thanks Steve-O. I attempted to film a ‘supermarket’ scene too but the manager said we weren’t allowed. poo. also got many weird looks whilst at the children’s playground, but well worth it.
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Oh wow! You sure put the moves on that box! Gotta love the old reach around! What’s next? X rated vid where you fondle its floppy til it becomes a hard disk, or playing around with its inlets? :0
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Welbot have i ever mentioned that you often come of as a little creepy. Not in a bad way, in a hey your little brother is peeing with the door open to the toilet kinda way. ;P
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lol welbot if you think that’s bad you should’ve heard the comments my friends were making whilst filming. I had to fight to keep a straight face!
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lol I didn’t think I’d be the one to make the ludest comment 😉 I guess being alone for so long now has kind of warped my sense of humour a little more than normal though 😉
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LOL! There’s only one problem though. The ‘much much more’ shouldv faded to black on a candlit shot of you two together.
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Okay, Last night on Teamspeak, I put myself in the most awkward situation I have ever been in, I do not want people talking about it, and I would like to apologise to anybody I may have offended at that time.
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I am still laughing about that. It shows how thoroughly youread tay though numbers because i do believe it was said more than once. Also don’t be to embarrased. I sure nobody really cared.
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TEXT OR EMAIL ME TOO! THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME! WELL EITHER THE SUSPENSE OR THE LEFTOVERS I’M EATING FOR LUNCH – ONE OF THE TWO!
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I WANT TO KNOW TOO /nosy
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Assumptions were made, words were said, faces were palmed.
I don’t think more needs to be said :p
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awww man – now i want to know too!
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Thats it, somebody needs to make a public announcement regarding this.
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Is it normal for farm machinery to smell like parmesan cheese. I just was working on some stuff that must of been harbouring so mad bacteria. So much terrible cheese smell. I like parmesan, i don’t like it from sources it shouldn’t be from!
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let me guess that farming equipment went near a dairy’s settling area?
Fine smell if you disturb that shit!-
The scary part is that it is just from moisture i think. No dairy farms around where i live at all.
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The MLG finals are going on, been watching all weekend and it’s awesome.
Of course, the final day started at 1am and I ended up watching for 5 hours instead of sleeping so I missed most of the later matches due to being unconscious. Awake now for the finals though.
Got to say, did not expect the finals to be between these two. Although considering how ridiculous the talent pool was this time.
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Not if you watch GSL, he does pretty well there until he ends up in a group of death. Except this time he came out of the group of death with MMA (Nestea and Huk being sent to Code A).
But compared to some of the big names there? Yeah. Going through the most stacked open bracket so far and then making it through losers is insane.
Won’t spoil the finals (someone else can do that :p) but if you saw Naniwa and Leenock throughout the tournament, it was obvious that one of them was going to work out the other’s build and exploit it.
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random question?
that is all.
oh wait no, heres the question. How tall is everyone?
loops got me curious on the other page. dont be embarrased i be 6’2 and im the shortest amongst my friends 🙁
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6’2″ and a bit,. maybe a tiny bit taller than i’d like to be. not tall enough for it to be useful, just tall enough to head butt things.
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Same here, maybe a bit closer to 6’3
Still tall enough to get asked to get everything from the top shelf though
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oh man, I was all “everyone is much taller than me but that’s okay because they are dudes”
THEN YOU PROVED ME WRONG/short rant
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haha aww Freyr! We should totally pull the whole 2-people-disguised-as-one thing, you can sit on my shoulders and I’ll provide the trenchcoat. It’ll be the best halloween evaR!
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I’m 6’2″ or 6’3″. Growing up I was destined to be the tallest person in my family. I was led to believe exceeding 6ft is really impressive. But now there’s teenagers towering over me. 🙁
What did they put in the water?
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I’m about 5’10 or 5’11… just a bit under 6 foot, anyway. Strange how I do absolutely everything metric except for heights. And Subway.
So yeah, I guess I’m shorter than average around here. That’s why I married a girl who’s 5’3 – it makes me feel tall 😛
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I like the way you think but if you are going to do it go all out.
I’m 6’3 and my wife is pretty much 5 ft flat. No wonder the nieces call me a giant
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I was just reading the comments for last week’s article on a a guy who bought some halo armour to deal with a breakup. Many are saying that it’s pathetic, he should have spent loads of money on alcohol instead.
Am I the only one who finds this weird? That it is socially acceptable to drink yourself stupid in response to a break up, yet even people on a gaming website think that it’s pathetic to engross yourself in something gaming related to deal with the pain. The end goal is the same, and one option is far worse for your health, but the attitudes are diametrically opposed.
I should point out that I do like to drink (in moderation) so this is not an attack no the evils of alcohol. I’m more interested in the associated attitudes.
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I have realized recently that most people are rigidly stuck to what the acceptable standard of things are. And even people who try and challenge the stereotype , old gamers, young people who like classical music kind of use that feature of their life to define themselves. People who drink in Australia is more the social norm then pretty much any other activity i can think of. I guess what i am trying to say is that 90% of the people either completely accept or completely reject a activity. the 10% is filled with people not scared to be in the middle group.
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Totally agree, i love my alcohol! but i think his way of dealing with the pain is much more manly than blowing copius amounts of cash on booze, sure he is using a mask and to many he is hiding behind it, but really drinking alcohol does not really “help” pain if anything it increases it dramatically for a short period of time. so the next time you are sober you cant feel it as much, but its still there. alcohol does not help for anything except filling the craving for a party groove and even then you dance better when your sober. i applaud that mans decision, he is doing a far managing his sorrows than any alcoholic ever did.
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that part about party groove probly sounds like im saying “you only have fun when your drunk”, not what i meant at all.
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You were trying to say “it’s easier to have fun when you’re drunk”, and that’s definitely true. Lowered inhibitions + unexpected actions = hilarity in many cases (or tragedy in others).
But I think it probably does come down to what you touched upon there (and James Mac later on) – it’s more “manly” to drink yourself into oblivion. If you come out the other side in one piece, you’ve proven… um… that your muscled physique and emotionally deadened heart have become even more manly than before?
TAY: Challenging society’s norms, one post at a time.
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Really society is screwed when drinking is the “right way” to deal with anything. IMO people should deal with stuff as they see fit, and any real friends they have will accept that, and then just give them a nudge when the time is right to get things back on track, but not judge and chastise them for their choice of coping mechanism.
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Why is it weird?
It’s what Hemmingway would have done… and if there’s a man that should be emulated, it’s Hemmingway.
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I thought it was cool. I would probably have bought other stuff personally but still. It’s what he wanted and it helped him
So i watched some DOTA2 stuff last night. I am pretty sure i am going to swap over from LoL and play that instead.The art style is pretty amazeballs and the gameplay seems fairly similar to LoL anyway.
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You missed your shot sorry Harli. I have taken the love of another*
*Another being a chicken and cheese toasted sammich!
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Your Gravatar and this quote. Tis a beautiful thing.
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If you’re going to do it properly, you have to get a new email address and gravatar account, even if you do end up using it only a few times.
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This made me giggle so hard. This is much more worthy of Kudos than Loops’ stoopid pee story. 😛
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Thanks Strange. Now at least I feel like the mortification was worth it.
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“Have you ever, ever felt like this?”
woof, Woof, WOOF, WOOOOOF, WOOOOOF!
“Ugh, Dan that’s your alarm” came the annoyed grunt of my girlfriend.
“Goddammit” came my reply. “This better be worth it”
Oh, shit. I had no idea.
Dragging myself, out of bed I threw on a non-descript black shirt, found my car keys and checked my twitter feed. “WHERE ARE YOU?!??!!” screamed the capitalised innernette speak of Shiggy Ninty.”Just leaving now” I lied. I was hoping their plane had crashed Lost style, and I could go back to bed.
Sliding my most stylish pair of glasses on, I went to leave. Only when I was halfway down my street did I realise I didn’t have any pants on.
After finding an old pair of shorts stuck under one of the seats, I was off again.
“Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Small Black Car”
“I’m the black Honda Jazz” I dangerously tweeted doing 100 km/h toward the airport. As soon as I sent it I realised the car in front of me was also a black Jazz. Except this one had the appropriate sex driving it (female). “How are they gonna tell which one I am” I wondered. Seriously. In what world would ANYONE confuse me for a mid-20’s girl with kids? What an idiot. Regardless I figured I’d just look for the 3 lost looking nerds wandering aimlessly.
“The Three Amigos”
I didn’t have to look hard. Shiggy out in front towering over every one, proudly displaying a bacon shirt, Pes loaded up with a thousand and one computers and Doc What casually being all Scottish and shit stood out like me driving a girls car. Loading my car with arcade sticks, NSWelshman & about 6 hours sleep between all of us, we set off to my place to wait for something to open.
“Now we play the waiting game… Screw this, let’s play Tekken 6”
After wandering down the road for “Brisbane’s Best Breakfast” and Shiggy questioning why I had soy bacon in my fridge, we set off to Dan Murphy’s to stock up on refreshments. 15mins of pretending the four of us knew what beer was what, we settled on a carton of James Squire and made our way home. After consuming so much caffeine that 3 of us were shaking and one of us was so slimey I thought he was gonna slide off my leather couch, I declared the meat open on twitter and only a half hour later, our first guest arrived.
I have it on good authority that this guest stood out the front of my house perplexed by my newfangled gate & latch. Thoughts of jumping the fence or calling someone flittered through his mind as he grappled with the insurmountable task of getting inside. Finally, after 5 mins of problem solving, Sughly realised it was like every other gate ever made and simply pushed and opened it.
Around 3pm saw the arrival of Strange & Welbot, followed closely by Trjn & the world’s politest teenager, Lambo. Seriously Lambo, I was so impressed with how polite you were. Just as I’m sure you were impressed by my dancing.
Oh did I not mention the fact that Welbot brought Dance Central? Because it was pretty amazing. Sorry, I was pretty amazing. Shiggy got served by yours truly, but then Lambo & Welbot crushed any hopes I had of being a backup dancer for Justin Timberlake by schooling me in getting down. I also found out that if I buy a Kinect, I’ll have to deal with my girlfriend flailing her arms and screaming “WHY DOESN’T IT WORK FOR ME!!!”
Now I should explain that it was around this time that, god knows how, we realised we needed more beer. Sughly, Doc, AP & me made another trip to Dan Murphy’s. I hadn’t started drinking yet, because I was waiting for a call from Jimu to go and pick him up from the bus station.
I’d never make that trip.
“One call that changes your life”
-codec ring- -codec ring-
“Hello, Dan speaking”
“Hey man it’s Jim, I’m still about an hour away”
“Hang on, I need to move , Rock Band is way too loud. What was that?”
“I’m about an hour away!”
“Oh, alright. Do you mind getting a bus? Just I really wanna start drinking”
“Yeah man, no worries”
“Cool, see you soon”
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I slowly looked around. Rock Band was going off in my living room, Shiggy was Bonhaming the shit out of those drums, Trjn & Sughly were shredding on guitar while Lambo & Strange played swap the mic. I moved into the dining room. Doc was fighting someone in Tekken on one TV while the Xbox hummed on idle on the other.
Shiggy goes swiftly past me, apparently it’s cigar time for him and AP. Welbot gets Jim’s number and says he’ll go and grab him. I’m standing in my house, sober, hearing everyone playing almost every genre of video game.
“Shit, I gotta catch up”
10 mins and 3 beers later, I’m jamming on Rock Band when the unthinkable happens. Lambo loses his temper at my fan.
“The names Man, Lamboman”
I didn’t see it happen, but I believe it went like this.
“Hey, kid. You look like a weakling, wanna fight” taunted the fan.
“No thank-you, and besides I’d mop the floor with you” calmly replied Lambo.
“Ha, doubt it. Come near me bro, and I’ll take off one of your arms.”
Lambo’s eyes narrowed.
“Challenge accepted”
The world slowed down. The bead of sweat falling from my forehead, frozen in mid-air. Sughly’s frown while jamming became statuesque. I’m pretty sure AP was in like a weird half blinking state.
It was only Lambo’s elbow that moved at a normal pace. Jamming it between the fans blades, his mighty guns easily outmatched their flimsy plastic construction. A deafening crack filled the room.
It was over. The fan was defeated, one of its blades shattered on the ground, Lambo sitting triumphant in his chair.
“Guess you could say I’m not your fan” he whispered.
“We are experiencing technical difficulties, we will resume service shortly”
From this point on, I can’t remember exactly what happened. I can outline the events I was part of, but their order may be highly suspect. So here’s a list.
– Jimu turned up and he and I discussed why Batman RIP wasn’t very good.
– Welbot made me give Shiggy some beers for some reason. Shiggy had no idea why he deserved beers. I informed Welbot who asked me to help put them in the sink with the other drinks. I spilled my beer all over my jeans (the same jeans I haven’t washed and am currently wearing at work, stay classy Dan) while my dog lapped up the small puddle of beer forming on the floor.
– AP farted in my entry way.
– So effing much Rock Band was played. Like I think every song in my 400+ library has been played at least once now.
– Lambo, who if you’ll remember is the politest person in the world, asked if he could play some Reach. I felt bad because I proceeded to school him in 1v1 death match. Feeling pretty tops that I was besting someone from a generation renowned for their skill in console FPS’s, I started smack talking. Lambo then informed me that this was the second time he’d ever played a console FPS. He then killed me with a no scope sniper shot to the head. I think I might’ve rage quit at that point.
– Sughly kept yelling at everyone to play Scott Pilgrim. (And I’m the hipster?!)
– Trjn ordered pizza in my office.
– I farted in my office WHILE Trjn was ordering pizza.
– AP then yelled at me that we needed more beer.
– AP, Welbot & I left for Dan Murphy’s for the third time.
– MISSING REEL
– AP, Welbot & I returned from Dan Murphy’s to a house filled with pizza.
– Hot sauce was slathered on pizza. I nearly died while AP, Doc, Strange & Trjn all laughed at me with their mouths made of asbestos.
– Sughly finally yelled loud enough that someone paid attention and we started 4 player Scott Pilgrim.
– Strange informed me that I “Spider Grip” controllers.
– Sughly farted while playing Scott Pilgrim.
– We beat the first level.
– MISSING REEL
– Me and Sughly yelled at Shiggy to play Adventure Time & Tim and Eric clips on YouTube. While everyone sat in an awkward silence.
“All good things must come to an end”
It’s 11pm and some of us have been awake for almost 24 hours. Like machines, everyone stood in unison and started packing up. I ordered a taxi for Strange as everyone filtered through the front door. SOS got home after seeing Flaming Lips with Hungry Jacks for me (they do Vege burgers btw, and they are effing atrocious) and Strange’s taxi pulled up only 10 mins after being called.
As I lay in bed in a drunken stupor, Sally untying my shoes and taking them off so I didn’t kick her in the night, I became reflective.
“Did you have a good time, sweetie?” she asks.
“Grrngg-ffllll-prrsshh” I slur as I fall asleep.
Translation: The best time.
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LOLOL!!!!!!!!
Oh man this writeup makes me feel almost like I was there.. what epicness.. the majesty, the sorrow, the pure drama of the event.I’m so jelly I didn’t get to make it.
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lol! it was indeed epic! Much like the one I hosted, but with a lot less room, and a lot more booze :0
Perhaps the most epic though, is that even with the missing reels, he’s still left out tons of awesome! 😉
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I should totally upload the pics and vids I took when I get home… if I could get my pc to stay on longer than 30 seconds with a graphic driver installed :\
$630 brand new video card, and it made my problem WORSE!! WTF!?!?!!?!
I’m sure it’s a driver thing though cos if I uninstall the nvidia drivers, it’ll stay up for ages… weirdest thing is, it only started yesterday… was fine til then 😐
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Man, that gate. I walked up to it, tried to open it a few times, only to realise it was tied shut with string. Then I discovered it was the other gate I was supposed to go through.
After that I stood at your door for about 5 minutes, knocking on the door and calling out, but of course, you guys had the TV up to loud and it wasn’t until the dog discovered me that you guys realised that someone was at the door.
Yeah, that’s totally how the fan thing went. I hope it learnt it’s lesson 😛
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No one does write-ups like Kotaku folk.
All people should take minutes of meetings like this. And that’s a fact.
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Finally got around to making some breakfast. I should probably go buy more breakfast stuffs because all I had was eggs and mushrooms.
So I melted some butter in a pan, added a clove of garlic, made the mushrooms all good and awesome. Then made some lacklustre scrambled eggs, although the addition of a little chili sauce seems to make them significantly better.
My breath shall be rather terrible today, but it don’t matter, I’ll only be leaving the house to buy groceries!
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Nicely done, nicely done. Also we shoulve played more Scott Pilgrim, we only beat like 2 evil exes man!
I’ll add vague memories of Strange being actually good at singing, unlike everyone else. Myself excluded.
Aaaaaand… ahhh… crap. It’ll come to me.On my way home I was all drunken and bitter and talking to myself about how we shouldv played more Scott Pilgrim and that the night was still young! But then, after nearly being trapped on the train by my earphones wrapped around a pole somehow, and then my drunken knees buckling under me as I literally jumped off the train, I realised it probably was bed time.
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OH MAN! HAHAHAHA! I nearly forgot about that. But how could I!
“What is it? It is it. What is it? IT is it…’
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Good times.
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Everytime I see that song come up as I’m scrolling through rock band songs now I’m gonna start laughing. You guys were indeed Epic.
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Some things I remember from the Meat:
-Shiggy is good at EVERYTHING! He can dance, sing, play any instrument and kick butt in any game.
– Sughly is awesome when sober, but when he’s been drinking he becomes this uber-awesome godlike being. I should ditch Rocketman as a pet and have Sughly instead. Also, I know his real name now but I’ll never tell!
– DAN! is the only person I’ve ever known who deserves a name all capitalised and exclamatory.
– I said (well, sang, or actually more like yelled) a swears in front of Lamb. !
– Bunny is the most grown up person out of all of us, except maybe Gentleman What?.
– Jimu was there! I miss Jimu! 🙁
– The Pessimist talks the talk, but can’t walk the walk when it comes to chili, but Doc What? is the chili whisperer.
– DAN!’s GF is gorgeous. Absolutely, completely gorgeous. And nuts like DAN!.
– I think I freaked out Lamb by hugging him. Also, I think he’s the only person I hugged.
-Welbot drinks girly drinks, but it’s okay because he’s manly enough for it not to damage his rep. 😛 Also, thanks so much for being great and offering me a lift, Welbot!-
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I am a GODLIKE DRUNK! Best compliment I’ve ever received. I might even have that inscribed on my tombstone. And no Sughly is not my name! *gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasp*
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OH! I just remembered! I must have blocked it out because of the pain or something. Bunny and I had to endure extreme ice torture just to find a can of Pepsi Max in amongst all the beer in the sink. We seriously had to plunge our hand into the ice bath and dig around hoping we’d find a Pepsi before the pain became too much.
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lolol I must know Sughly’s name now.. unless it’s what he signs his emails off with .. in which case.. it’s a superhero’s name. Looks like I have found my arch nemesis, MWAHAHAHAH
But seriously, I am so jelly you guys sound like you all had a great time 🙂
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So i’m toying with an epic idea which will have to wait until i get epic funds… but basically – want to make a Kotaku Space Marine Army.
Of course it wouldn’t be playable, having to include strange and Harli (space marines have no-girl policy) – but the end result would be RAD.
I would need to convert some of the minis.. but i have already been thinking of what i can use for whom.
Here’s some of what i’ve thought of so far:
Welbot – A techmarine
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440271a&prodId=prod1140234
Tech Knight: A dreadnaught
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod630020a
Strange – Sister of battle
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat660016a&prodId=prod1300031a
Harli – Callidus Assassin
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1140004&prodId=prod1140011a
Rocketman – Assault Marine
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440275a&prodId=prod1160099a
Hugo – Obvious
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1101903
Pixel – Just as obvious
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440271a&prodId=prod2080006
Mark – Chapter master
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440271a&prodId=prod1060015
soooo many posibilities
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ahem http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Adepta_Sororitas
sisters of battle? i know they are not really space marines but still-
did you even read through everything?
I made strange a sister… duh. lol
I can’t believe someone is actually trying to link ME to the 40k wiki..
*shameful head shake*-
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That won’t be necesary – i’ll just strap you into a penitent engine!
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat660016a&prodId=prod1300077a
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Aww yeah! Dreadnaught! Either slamming the ground with my fist and send you flying or riddle a large portion of the battlefield with bullets, or in the terms of the Orks… “DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA!”
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*jaw drop*
Get…. just… get out… NOW!!!
*throws glass of brandy at fireplace, very dramatically*And yes – they are super wicked – but a pain to paint to that detail lol
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It’s just a rip off of Gears of War, all they did was make the Locusts green and give them a different name :p
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Especially with that whole Time Travel thing they had with Spock after George Lucas messed with it, huh? Alternate Marcus Phoenix might be very different indeed.
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something badarse, no doubt?
I think i may make you a squad leader with a dapper mustache on it’s helmet, like your avatar
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http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440279a&prodId=prod1160096a
i think this is more appropriate
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Let me see if I have any kicking around at home. I could donate them to the cause if I find any and you want them? I know I have an unfinished Valkyrie(started 6 months ago, then had son,still haven’t finished painting it yet), and a completely untouched Mawloc. And a bunch of Chaos Marines I put together a few months back.
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Thing is i woulnd’t be able to do anything with them for quite a bit – with uni, organising KKP and the such.
Heck – i haven’t even finished painting my corpse cart that bee got me liek 2 years ago! LOL
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Well if you decide to go ahead with it, let me know and i’ll see what i have kicking around 🙂
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Cheers mate! 😀
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Tanith 1st Regiment for me
A scrawny, scruffy mob of soft-voiced woodsmen. Yep I think I found my calling
oh yeah! I totally look like that! Extra arms and all for holding all the little bits together as I work on them!
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Same here. Why on earth do they need to sell fake tattoos??? It’s a game store! If the tattoos where game related, that’d be fine, but they’re not. They’re just generic girl’s tattoos, flowers, butterflies, things like that.
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If this is what they need to stay in business, then I say, go for it. Just keep it segregated from the games, and I will continue to ignore it like I currently am 🙂
Dammit. Skyrim arrived finally. 🙁
Trouble is, it arrived at the same time as Assassin’s Creed. And I don’t know which one I should play. Do I start Skyrim, then AC for a bit, then back to Skyrim, do I AC first for an unbroken Syrim experience, or do I spend several weeks with Skyrim and then not play AC for months because I get sidetracked by other games?
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I suspect you’ll be able to knock AC:R off pretty quickly… my suggestion would be go with that. I found myself in a similar situation, with a slightly longer window-of-play – AssRev and Skyrim last week. In the meantime I finished AC:R and did pretty much as much of the extra stuff as I could be bothered to do (was not anywhere near as enthused as I was with prior AC games). I hit Skyrim up over the weekend, but am not completely addicted/etc in its world yet. ALL ELSE WILL BE DROPPED this Thurs, obv…
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This was meant to be in response to Negative Zero’s post…stupid reply buttons confusing me! *shakes fist*
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Does anyone know if Blizzard have released min spec requirements for diablo III yet, or can someone here give me some suggestions. Gotta start actually paying money for a computer, and im poor, so i gotta do it bit by bit.
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I don’t think they have, but knowing Blizzard I doubt you could build a computer from new desktop parts that couldn’t run it, though not necessarily run it well.
IMO if you’re looking at a reasonable mid-range-ish machine, look at one of the Quad-core i5s, 4gb RAM, mid-range GPU like a GeForce 560 or Radeon 6950. It’d be able to handle just about everything you could throw at it at fairly capable settings & resolutions.
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I’d probably say a $800 custom built computer (without peripherals) on the day of release would be enough to run Diablo 3 beautifully, and games on it for the next few years, too.
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yeah, i was looking at a gefore 560, for graphics, would LOVE better, but building on a budget sucks. atleast the gfx card would work in my current machine until i get thecpu and mobo for the new rig. so i think the graphics will be the first part i buy.
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Not that I want to dissuade you from this, but I wouldn’t rush too fast, reason being that AMD are aiming to release their 7000-series GPUs in late December or early 2012 and nVIDIA are launching their next gen early next year as well. It may be worth your while to wait a month or two and pick up the current generation cards on the cheap, or get the next generation.
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I work in distribution and find i almost NEVER see a price drop even when the next gen comes out. Example, we STILL have stock of geforce gtx460 cards, and they are pretty much the same price as the gtx560.
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Current machine is a core duo E5600 with 2gb ram. no dedicate gfx. so really, its more of a buying a whole machine in parts than an upgrade.
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Fancy a bum?
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Balls of steel – best show lol
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What’s Balls of Steel?
haw haw haw…
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So that makes the third option a salad?
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Also no meaning to be rude and if you don’t want to you don’t have to but are you male or female? just cause the only Gladice’s i have know are female!
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Down, rocketman down. Leave the newbies alone.
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Sure, but how glad are you?
Are you Vanillish glad?
Because for a block of ice that is shaped like an ice cream cone, it seems pretty chipper about it.
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Best House maid ever. He is really quite effient and tidy. I would say he probably is a bit of a lazy perfectionist
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Ok, so I didn’t go to KFC and ate the damn banana (it was a big’n’)
Now I’ve started chewing gum, which means I won’t eat for a couple of hours.
Man, should have gone to KFC…
At least I’ll lose some weight.
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Wat.
Where did you get that idea from?
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I meant skinny and lanky, you are also skinny and lanky. There is a similarity i thought. i didn’t mean anything by it!
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E-FIGHT! E-FIGHT!
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I am about 3 size divisions above bish in a boxing contest and he is about the same as me in a intellectual fight. But he could probably run faster than me. I think it would result in my face hurting from swinging randomly!
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Wait, you’re swinging your face around randomly…?
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Aw, I bet you say that to all the boys.
Well the skinny part I can understand, but I usually associate lankiness (?) with being tall, which sort of emphasises the skinnyness.
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I don’t say it to numbers as he will think i am his son or something 😛
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I dunno, man, sometimes I feel like I’m looking into a mirror.
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When you squint.
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Oops – Reading that back it sounds racist. I meant that if you squint and your vision is blurry you might look like bish, not that if you squint your eyes would look the same…
Ahh bugger it.
*Sits and waits for ‘North Queenslander’ remark*
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LOOOL!
BAHAHA!
Hey strange i sent your copy of American gods, It should be there either tomorrow or wednesday. Let me knowif it arrives safetly!
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Thanks! I will let know when it gets here.
Oh, and I’m sorry I started treating you like a pet. I’ve had a few hours to think about it while I was out and now I just feel mean. Sorry. 🙁-
Hahaha you have nothing on Bish, Don’t worry ma’m it takes quite a insult to get under my skin. (Unless i though you may have had malice in which case i would of said something and probably ran crying into the toilet)
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You can’t see this but i am grasping my can of coke and squeezing it quite hard right now.
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You’re grasping your what!?
Oh “coke” … Carry on…
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Hey guys i have been listening to a awesome song, my work mate says he wants it at his funeral. I kinda agree it is upbeat and still quite passionate. Also Stafford brothers are kinda awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNTwc8_Xyc0
enjoy and tell me what you think. Except sughly who will most probably mock my taste in music, with his hipsterness
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You do have 7 years head start, hehe also i doubt you guys would even be here in another 50 years i have given myself. If so i doubt i remember this awesome song!
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Friday night he broke me with so crunk core song. I hated everything about it!
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I did say you had no idea what you were in for. The only good thing about Brokencyde is at some point they will die.
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, I like stuff i have listened to a few times , it is sentimental. PLus i like electronic music
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Why are they all dirty?
Wait a minute, you are you linking us to a video clip featuring dirty whores.
You should be ashamed/proud (choose applicable) of yourself
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Somehow I read ‘candle’ as ‘castle’, and I thought ‘Wow. This guy is so rich he owns castles and burns them!‘
I just realised I’ve been lurking here all day. For the first time in an age, I haven’t had much to say…
Oh well, back to the 40K wiki for another few hours.
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Advice from the master:
Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior (PC), good or bad? Only recently heard of it…-
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If you pklay it – play it on PC, not PS2
If you are a fan, it’s not too bad at all – fairly average.
It’s got some good weapons and solid if not underwhelming gameplay.
I still enjoyed it, though
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Thanks for the advice all, probably will grab a copy of it if only as a warm up for Space Marine. Will grab SM as soon as all these other epic games stop coming out.
*cowers*
Don’t look at me like that Chuloopa, I promise I’ll get it soon. -
Brian Blessed is in Fire Warrior. Sold.
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great game if you forget the fact that its a single tau fire warrior taking out space marines and dreadnaughts and crap.
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Hi Chuloopa. I’m attempting to start a conversation on page 3 to see if anybody still reads this far back. Feel free to join in if you see this.
How are we all on this fine rainy day?-
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hey there’s an echo in here!
echo echo echo echo echo echo echo
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did you ever ever know…
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How about this you guys have gotta like this it sounds like daft punk and he is all pew pew and stuff. I know i said never again but i have got to get my street cred back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTx3G6h2xyA
thoughts?, Feelings, Abuse?
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I prefer Madeon’s remix of Deadmau5’s Raise Your Weapon (as it has less Madonna) but yeah, Madeon is impressive. Didn’t you post this before? Or was it someone else?
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There is never enough madonna. Also raise your weapon is quite good already he just put his spin on it. Yeah i posted it in Teamspeak for chris last week!
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Naaah bro, I saw someone post it in TAY a long time ago. All good. It was someone that mixes their own stuff etc?
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It was me… bitching about the talent of 17 year olds these days.
When I was 17, talent was being able to blow smoke rings.
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Dear Rocketman,
Prepare your virgin eardrums for the sheer awesomeness that is Vicious Hairy Mary:
http://youtu.be/wS69SdRjUrw
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy
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Noice, reminds me of a crazy mix between Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Dog Fashion Disco.
Both of which you should listen to, like right now 😉-
I’m really digging this actually, I might have to track it down 🙂
Here are my offerings:
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y45d4fQOrKgDog Fashion Disco:
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in honor of recent things Loops has organised and done (KKP) i say we buy him something from the 40k universe for chrissy.
if everyone is to lazy, i might go digging around my storage boxes at dads place and see what i can find
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While i agree with this idea your excution is off. You see he reads TAY and thus no suprises will be had. Also he will probably post the next comment saying how he is flattered but he would feel guilty. 😛
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well as my organisational skills are shocking and im not skilled in the interwebz, also i thought becuase the 40k universe is so big the surprise is what he actually recieved. granted i probly wouldnt give him any of my imperial guard because it wouldnt be manly enough.
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You didn’t offend me at all – lol
I’m just a 40k hipster 😛
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*ahem*
Less said about the KKP here the better lolAnd yes – thank you but it really isn’t necessary. You have to remember, I am doing it for the same reason we all are- to say thanks to the overlords. This isn’t so much about us as it is them.
While, yes, i have organised and facilitated the plan – everyone has contributed in massive ways, so i really don’t think any one person should be singled out – as nice as it is lol
Besides – we need to see if i can actually pull something this big off or not 😛 hahaha
But thank you – the thought is very much appreciated
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You have the maturity of a 16 year old as proved by lambo. Don’t ever grow up you would be as fun 😉
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I’ll have you know that I’m now at the ripe old of age of 17. I am somewhat more mature than I was back when I was a young’un at age 16*
*not really, actually
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I prefer Terry Crews to the Old Spice Guy, Terry Crews just takes the Old Spice Guy’s madness to 11 😀
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I posted some boring little odds and ends I remembered from the Dance Meat back on Page 3, everyone.
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I totally forgot about that little invasion of privacy there! But you said I was uber-awesome or something so… we’re cool.
The old drunk guy is making fun of me at work. I have no shortage of old and drunk jokes. It is a rich area
WHO WANTS TO SEE SOMETHING DISTURBING!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_IiH4TPwmE&feature=related
SFW
Deus Ex is an amazing game. Even after doing a quest 3 times, i still find a totally new way of approaching it.
Bosses still suck.
Hacking still sucks.
But it’s a fantastic game.
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As far as mini-games go, it actually felt somewhat relevant. And the tension! The tension! Stop! Nuke! Click like a madman!-
The speed was the reason i didn’t like it, it left me no time to plan my strategy. I think they should have made it a bit more skill based over just luck.
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I was relating this to welbot last night, but how SHIT is it that there are no 1:6 scale Warhammer 40,000 statuettes in existence????
This would be something Games workshop could really clean up on – yet they don’t.. such a shame…
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Possible PSA:
Practice safe progenation.
Termy your wormy?
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Practice safe Progenation: For the Emperor may not be the only shield you need
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I wonder if I could get away with shouting out “For the Emperor!” at a very appropriate/inappropriate time…
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instead of waiting months even years, steal someone elses children. alternatively borrow someone’s from TAY
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I dont personally own any little tackers, but i heard strange and a few others might. 😛
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Not THAT giving!
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how old are they?
*prepares potato sack*
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even better make an army of these, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Terrier) i only read the first line but apparently they are 10-12 inches. bloody perfect.
I’ve seen many references to peoples twitter accounts; I know I’ve added a couple of people, but for anyone else that wants mine, it’s @morkaiau
Made a team logo for my Marketing Management team yesterday
https://twitter.com/?photo_id=1#!/Chul00p4/status/138143188530634753/photo/1
what you guys think?
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Looks good, it reminds me of the logo for the game Bully. You’re doing a marketing degree?
Have they got you to grind through a few Kotler books yet?
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Commerce degree – first year.
So no, not yet. lolI did, however, have to sit through 2 economics rap songs last week..
here they are:
Fear the boom and the bust:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Skand the better:
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOcactually rather catchy – but what a waste of half an hour lol
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The reply button’s secret identity REVEALED!
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has anybody else been corrupted by Bish’s LOL playlist. I can’t listen to music at the moment without trying to work out if it would fit one of the champs.
I think I’m just going to have to list them all out and assign them a song and close it off as complete
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Say, if you do think of anything fitting, feel free to mention it.
Oh, I forgot to mention:
Kotaku AU League of Legends Playlist Season 2 Re-mastered Masteries Buff Patch Compilation (containing pseudo-Volume 3) is coming out this week sometime! Look forward to it! Or not, whatever. I can’t tell you what to do. I’ll go ahead with my own life and leave you alone.-
Dangerous proposal oh well hopefully I don’t break TAY with my next post
Maybe you can use something from here. If nothing else I think you will be getting much more an idea of my music tastes than you previous had
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Rammus – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JYkQo1Qxt0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRae5mRoRETris – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkbOGaJqJmg
Solo Queue – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VuqBLy3e7g
Recall – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x302bi0MWMk
Annie – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M260wOm_csM
Talon – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEllHMWkXEU
Gragas – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89NjEeHku8o&ob=av3n
Gangplank – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ7SVMVrick
Alistair – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-58-36lSqG4
Ping – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU7JjJJZi1Q
Veigar – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7KTPXRGRo0
Taunt – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNFp7zStBvY
Cho – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ndC07C2qw
Fizz – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2dslwQ29w
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I hate “rollover to expand” ads! I can never get them to go away. It’s difficult not to accidentally roll over them. 🙁
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Yeah, rollovers… and there used to be some silly one for smily/emoticons for msn or something that played sounds when you accidentally rolled over (silly & annoying sounds). I haven’t really noticed either of these recently – started using stuff like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
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Yeah, I use adblock, but I prefer not to use it for Kotaku. Sometimes I have to, though. Like when there’s Telstra ads, or rollover ones that never go away. I turned it on just then and reloaded but now all the places the expanded rollover would have covered are just blank. Serves me right. 😛
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Dear Tigerion,
Vicious Hairy Mary are an Aussie band who were around in the late 90’s (I think). They broke up a while ago.
Their style varies (sort of). Some songs are jazzy, others are latino or circus-like. All of them are a bit random.
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy
Dear PuppyLicks,
http://bit.ly/sKK40r
That’s some intense music.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. How do they keep those crazy time signatures I will never know.
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy
Dear Effluvium Boy,
Are you at work late again?
If so, please find a job where they appreciate your awesomeness!
Kind regards,
-Strange.
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Yes. I understand. An “Effluvium Appreciation Society.” Just like in 2 Girls, 1 Cup. Sounds like a good idea.
We had a lot of societies back in the old boarding school days: raft building, kayaking, chess, lacrosse, painting, orienteering, archery, masturbation, gardening, photography, pottery. Everything really. I remember it like it was yesterday. The kind of thing – for better or worse – you never forget.
It’s also good to have the society badges to reward people when they make good, make them feel like they’re really reaching for the stars. “Carpe diem,” as the old house master would say. All just memories now of course. Nothing more. But sometimes all it takes is a badge to make you feel better about yourself, a badge to tell the world that you’ve got the ingredients to do what it takes to get things done.
I still kayak today. They kind of beat the importance of it into you. Regimentation and all that; make you believe something without meaning is the most important thing in the world – like lacrosse, Kim Kardashian or rowing. Believe it like it was true, like something you might see with your own eyes.
So – in a way – a society is kind of bad thing, like blind patriotism at all costs. I mean, like marching to a war you can’t win or running too far just to prove you can. Some people just never want their losing streak to end. Believe that.
But, don’t get me wrong, the Effluvium Appreciation Society sounds good and I’m onboard. Count me in.
Your old pal,
Plainview.
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You know not to speak of the boarding school days, Plainview; there’s a good chap. When can I expect you?
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I think we’re at the point of the day where WA’ers are all “where did everybody go?”
Where did everybody go?[/rhetoric]
Also, Z minus 65 hours. In the words of the late Big Kev, “I’m excited!”
SQUEEEE!!
Just got off of Skype with Bee and she went to Gamestop in LA for me and got the following:
PS3:
Madden 10
The Club
Gamecube: (i have the freeloader disc, don’t worry)
Legend of zelda 4 swords adventures (Yay rare!)
Paper Mario: Thousand year door (YAY EVEN RARER!!)
Star Wars Rogue leader
All for $45usd – TAKE THAT EB GAMES!!!
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Yay! American prices, plus (I assume) sale prices, is a great combo.
When I was in America, I just couldn’t stop buying DS games, whether they were full price or not, because it felt so cheap. -
man, it’s crazy, when I was in the US in 2009, I went to the Toys R Us in TImes Square (holy shit that place is huge, 5 stories high full of just about everything)
I walked into the games section, and I noticed they had “Buy 2, get 1 Free” on all their games, including the new releases.
I ended up coming home with 9 games, including Uncharted 2, Arkham Asylum and Dirt 2, for $280USD
Dawn of First Day: 72 Hours Remain.
It’s Friday and I’ve woken up and realised, holy shit it’s not Saturday, why the hell isn’t it Saturday? No matter, off to work I go, bag packed and pumped like crazy for the weekend about to come. Work was boring, and finally it finished.
“HAHA! SEE YOU LATER SUCKERS!” I screamed as I ran out of work to my car, speeding home ready to travel into the airport. I have a shower, get dressed and grab my bag and make my way to the station.
“One way to Domestic Airport!” I say
“$17.80 please”
“WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!” is what I should have said to the ticket master, but instead I forked over my cash and before I knew it I was at the airport with Doc What, ready to go to sunny Brisbane.
After dropping off our bags at the hotel (which was small, hot and did not allow us to shower with the door open…OR SPRAY AEROSOL CANS DIRECTLY INTO THE SMOKE ALARM!) we grabbed a healthy Maccas dinner and went off to grab AP.
He was late. Kinda REAL late.
But no matter, we eventually retired to bed, ready to wake up and prepare for the fun ahead.
Dawn of Second Day: 48 Hours Remain
“PUDDI PUDDI! PUDDI PUDDI! GIGA PUDDI!” Holy shit it’s 4:30 am and I’m woken up by the screams of Japanese advertising.
We awake and have to semi-rush to get ready. We all shower with the door closed unfortunately and grab our shit, check out at 5am and go to the airport. Our bodies were not ready.
We load up on coffee and energy drinks (Pez: Give me an energy drink Shop Owner: Powder? Pez: What? Sure I’ll take that) and head to our gate, board the plane and take to the skies, ready to bring the NSW love to the Dance Meat.
We land at 7 and suddenly and at once, we realise we didn’t plan on how we were going to inform DAN! On how to pick us up. TO TWITTER! “WHERE ARE YOU?!!?!?” I e-scream “Be there in 10, I’m in the Black Honda Jazz”
“Isn’t that a girl’s car?” I ask. It doesn’t matter because after a few minutes and searching, we see that glorious, hipster man emerge from the confines of his car. I can only imagine he saw us walking in slow motion, with The Ecstacy of Gold playing as we walked to him.
“Hey guys! Throw your bags in the back and lets go!”
And so we did.
Eventually we arrived at DAN!’s place and settled in, watched some Thundercats and then went to breakfast. I won’t bore you with the exact details of the breakfast but I just want to let you know, Pez is not a true man, can’t even finish a damn meal. YOU HEARD ME! YOU BIG GIRL!
After breakfast we purchased the most necessary thing of the day, the goddamn booze. And a cigar for me and Pez, to you know…class up the party. We grabbed other essentials and headed home, ready to par-tay.
Guests started arriving and soon we were PARTYING HARD! The booze flowed, the laughs were many and the games were plentiful.
Rock Band in one room, Tekken/Street Fighter/Halo in the other. I played an insane amount of Rock Band, having a go at all the instruments, singing like a drunken angel and smashing the shit out of the drums (I GOT BLISTERS ON ME FINGERS!) Eventually we decided to crack out Dance Central, and with alcohol coursing through our systems, it was on. Most people had a go at it, for that I salute you. Dan proved he was the true lord of the dance though… but I’ll exact my revenge!
There were so many memorable moments so I’ll condense it into this handy and easy to read bullet form!
-Dan’s dog, who was bitten by a spider earlier that week. But was still totally goddamn awesome.
-Lamboman007 turning into the Hulk and totally wrecking a fan. Everyone laughing and Strange being totally great and caring about him
-Multiple beer runs
-Pretending to be The Beatles
-Trjn singing Du Hast amazingly (read: normal)
-Jimu pointing out I had Sonic underwear, then trying to pull my pants down
-Hot Sauce battles between DAN!, Pez, Doc What and Strange
-Sughly and me trying to sing and being way to drunk to care
-DAN! being heaps arty and shit with his camera.
-Smokin’ up a storm with Pez. Dem some fine cigars.
-Welbot buying me some beer (didn’t have to man!) and cuttin’ a rug in Dance Central
-Playing Scott Pilgrim after hours of begging by Sughly
-Watching Adventure Time
-Meeting everyone!
It hit about 11pm and everyone got tired all at once and decided to leave, we said our goodbyes, I participated in a group hug with Doc What and DAN! and it was as magical as it sounds.
I jumped in a cab with AP/Strange/Doc What and headed off to the lovely home of Strange.
After almost dying as a direct result of the cab driver’s GTA driving skills, we arrived only to realise the door was locked. We woke up Mr Strange and he let us in, ready to rest and sleep off the excess awesome we had all gained.
Dawn of the Third Day: 24 Hours Remain
I awoke at 9 to What and Strange playing Dark Souls…well What creating a convincing female.
“MAKE HER AS DERPY AS POSSIBLE!” I yelled at him. It happened then it didn’t for some reason. We spent the next few hours getting angrier and angrier. We switched to Guitar Hero Metallica and I was in my element. Strange was game enough to play and I felt bad for picking harder songs…but we both had fun!
Saints Row 3 was next and that game is mental. Holy crap. Pez made a fat ass Hulk with pink afro and zombie voice and we proceeded to have fun with that…for a while. Then it got boring and we chucked on Tekken for a while.
Pez clamoured for a chance to try Skyrim. “I’m still waiting for OzGameShop to send me my copy” he told everyone 472 times over the weekend. We proceeded to murder a town and dump the bodies in the river. “MURDER THEM! MURDER THEM ALL!” I screamed.
Eventually we needed to go and catch our plane, we bid farewell to Lady Strange and the ever awesome Mr Strange drove us in.
We arrived only to discover our plane was delayed by an hour. We stumbled around and got some food and headed to the gate, where the Virgin Blue staff had no idea what they were doing. “GET INTO ORDER! GO BEHIND THE DESK! SIR STOP CALLING ME A F*&@^G IDIOT!” Eventually we got on and started flying back, watching Spongebob and laughing heartily at it. We arrived about 10:30pm and made our ways home. I had to catch a bus and two trains thanks to goddamn track work. Nuts to public transport!
Dawn of the Fourth Day: 0 Hours Remain
Oh shit! It’s Monday! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I really had a fun weekend, it was great meeting new people, drinking way too much beer and having a great time. I’d do it all again in a heartbeat. Thank you DAN! for your hosting skills and being uber cool. Thank you Strange for letting 3 grown men you met on the internet stay in your house. Thanks Welbot, Sughly, Trjn, Jimu and Lamboman007 for being awesome. Thanks for the memories guys!
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Dude… I mentioned I was waiting for Skyrim 473 times. Don’t you ever listen? YOU NEVER LISTEN TO ME!
I want a divorce. I’m taking half of your nintendo stuff.
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He’s become a man.
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You forgot to mention Doc What trying the hottest ever chili sauce at lunchtime and barely even breaking a sweat!
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Man I’m so behind the 8 ball now. My pc has pretty much shit itself, and all the while I’m missing out on these awesome recollections of that fateful night. If I have a chance, I’ll get some stuff up one of these days.. 😐
Was totally awesome to meet some new Sydney taybies though!
And I know I didn’t have to buy teh beer Shiggy.. that’s just how we roll up in these parts 😉
DANCE MEAT PHOTOS!
http://applesauceandhorsefeathers.tumblr.com/
(Thanks to my sweet lady for taking those snaps)
Hey guys!
I totally added more games to my backloggery! (which I started adding back at the start of August, after failing to play any games in July)
Then I cracked open a fortune cookie!
Then I played Quake!
And I joined twitter!
Exclamation mark!
I wrote about it here!
I miss TAY. Work is no fun when I can’t keep a TAY tab open, and when I have to work 🙁
HI TAY
IT’S TUESDAY
and i have to stay up until at least 5am to get into night shift mode. this makes me sad.
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maybe not quite that badass
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Hello!!
I am now in a place far far away. and i started working today!
To my surprise I was actually doing work that is related to what I learn. Cause my friends told me that some companies ask their internships to clean the table, open letters, and pass stuff around without doing any actual work!
Work is no fun, but at least I am learning!
And for the gaming side of news, there is no news at all(not even a single bit of LoL).
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Ohhh… and I jelly all those who can “TAY” while working. Non-work internet material is strictly prohibited.
Morning. So I played some AssRev on the weekend, and despite me getting mad at the fact that it felt like a 2 and half sequence tutorial, and getting bored of bombcrafting and tower defense, I still managed to waste a good 3-4 hours on missions, running around stabbing dudes in the face, taking over borgia/templar towers, and looking for animus fragments. I’m a bit disappointed at the lack of the glyphs in the game, and the puzzles that you do in their place are okay, but I suppose there’s a good story element to them. Though I do hope that when AC3 rolls around next year, there should be some significant changes, and lots of new things. And new things that don’t suck. I feel that AssRev has added new things, like brotherhood did, only this, time, the new things are pretty meh. Which isn’t to say it’s a bad game, not at all, because you still have everything great about AC2 and AssBro, which is why I still have fun with it, but I’m not as enthralled with it as I was with AC2 or AssBro.
Also, Jak and Daxter HD Collection announced! So excited. Jak 1 is such a great platformer. I think. I hope nostalgia isn’t pulling a rug over my eyes. No, I still think it’s a great game. Anyway, everyone with a PS3 should get it! February 2012, \o/
Also also, despite the fact I’ve yet to finish Arkham City, AssRev or make any significant progress in Skyrim, all I can think about is playing MGS3 and MGS4.
I’M STILLLLLL IN A DREEEEEAAAAAAMMMMMMMM SSSNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEAAAAAAATTTTTTEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To the LoLers last night, I would like to apologise profusely for last night, My computer died on me mid game, and I am very sorry for what might have happened because of it.
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THERE YOU HAVE IT – I HAVE SCIENCES AND YOUR PROBLEM IS SOLVE!!!
FROM NOW ON – SPEAK ANOTHER LANGUAGE – PRFERABLY GERMAN, THE LOUDEST OF THE LANGUAGES – AND EVERYONE WILL HEAR YOU PERFECTLY FINE!!!
*ZAP BAM BOOM WOW*
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THIS IS WHY YOU MUST STAND BACK WHEN I SCIENCE!
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WUNDERBAR!
WISSENSCHAFT!!!
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Hexerei!!!
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Indeed, you can barely hear me over the laughter :p
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Now that’s simply not true.
Also, now you know why I always do test recordings. It isn’t to make sure everyone else is at the right volume, it’s to compare my volume with everyone else’s :p
Yes! So my audio problems with recording aren’t my fault, wahoo!
I guess we can just work with what we’ve got?
I also think I’m going to have to play the audio about 5 seconds early so I can see what you’re talking about and keep track of things then merge the two once the video is done.
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How big was the final product of the game a few nights ago?
I feel guilty for fobbing of the files off to you and being all YOU RECORD THIS AND EDIT IT, so I might give it a crack today.-
The raw video ended up at 135GB while the uploaded version was about 5.5GB in total. I’ve tweaked the compression a bit so youtube should downscale a bit better (the low-res version was unwatchable IMHO) which will make the file size a little larger.
I’ve got no problem doing it though, I’ve got about 1.5TB free at the moment on my mass drive (I still haven’t deleted the raw video from the last game).
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Just out of curiosity, what format do you render the final product as? I’ve been using WMV (lul..) for all my vids as they seem to give the best quality to size ratio.
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I use mp4. H.264 seems to be a rather nifty codec.
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Same as Trjn!
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Morning all. Is anyone else experiencing what seems to be a recurrence of the Black Plague? In the last 2 weeks, I think everyone here at work has had at least 2 days off…and they’re mostly not gamers.
Hi everyone.
If you haven’t ordered a copy of my book, and fancy yourself a lucky person, you have a chance to win one of three signed copies for free at Goodreads until November 30!
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/17389-the-lesser-evil-book-1
If you have ordered a copy of my book, but want another one to give out as a Christmas present, or to prop up a table leg, or just because it’s so shiny, you have a chance to win one of three signed copies for free at Goodreads until November 30!
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/17389-the-lesser-evil-book-1
And if, somehow, you don’t fall into one of the above categories, you have a chance to win one of three signed copies for free at Goodreads until November 30!
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/17389-the-lesser-evil-book-1
That is all.
No wait, I meant to add that this morning I ate apple chunks in apple jelly. Mankind has finally evolved to perfection.
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That Skyrim ad on the front page that looks like a normal Kotaku story is stupid. First of all it says Skyrim is out now, but then it says it’s out on Thursday. And wasn’t Skyrim’s official release date a Friday, anyway?
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I didn’t consciously reply to you because apple in apple jelly sounds yucky.
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I think you’ve misspelt “delicious.”
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Day = ruined. 🙁
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HI!?
THAT’S PHYSICS!!
DO YOU SCIENCE?
WONDERFUL!
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO SCIENCE!!!FIRST YOU GET THE HYDROGEN.
THEN YOU GET THE OXGEN
THEN YOU GET WATER!SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE SULFUR, CHARCOAL AND POTASSIUM NITRATE!!
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BAD F4CTION!
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I don’t like her or anything, I just wanted people to have horrible dreams tonight.
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God it’s already hard enough to maintain an errection as it is, what with Lady Gaga still alive and all….
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are we on myspace or something?
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HEY GUYS IT DANE COOK! 😀
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Due to containing 3 links, my ‘good morning’ post has been awaiting moderation for 45 minutes (gasp!), so will post a link here to tide you all over:
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/17389-the-lesser-evil-book-1
Ok, so i think tomorrow night, i will buy skyrim. I have a $60 prepaid visa card to go towards it. Id say id do it today, but i feel too much like a bucket of smashed crabs to bother doing anything other than just surviving work with the minimum of casualties caused by me.
On a side note, what is everyone thinking of NFS The Run? Does it seem a little, cheesy to anyone else?
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What stage you up to? I’m up to stage 5(?) and it hasn’t been too cheesy so far.
I gotta say though, it’s probably the most ‘alive’ racer I’ve ever played. Things like a jumbo-jet flying overhead with cloud trails coming out of it as you turn around the corner. Totally unnecessary, but makes it more immersive. Also, a bit where you’re driving along the highway, you get close to the left side and on the other side of the barrier, a train goes screaming past in the opposite direction. But my favourite would have to be in the snow: I saw these police lights flashing and I was thinking “yay. another pursuit. :|” then I realised the police car was there because a truck had crashed and rolled due to the icy conditions. It’s little things like that that make the game cool.
Also, I try to stay away from the edge of roads these days due to the lack of barriers. That too makes the game more awesome.
The story could be better, but it’s a racing game, the story isn’t going to be to important to most players. I’m glad it has a story though, it gives you a reason to race, which means I’m more likely to finish it. I haven’t finished hot pursuit yet, that’s probably because there’s no story and it gets a little boring after a while.
One more thing, the Independence Pass Summit event is so awesome.-
I like hot pursuit but you really really need to have mates who are playing to compete, the auto log is the only reason i played that, trying to beat mates times n stuff.
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@D11l1inger!!!
I MADE ONE TOO!!!
http://diylol.com/meme-generator/techmarine-1/memes/stop-back-hammer-time
THIS IS FUN!
WHEEEE!!!
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Bloody failed your name, i did!
Looks like I’m the one that needs an escape plan, now!
Oh how the tables have turned!#iseewhatididthere
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Played my first few games of MW3 last night (and recorded). Didn’t do too badly, aside from not knowing the controls like how to flashbang/crouch/call in killstreaks.
Just got to combine the videos and upload them (tonight?).
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haha, yeah, i always get thrown even between the various cod games, because of the little things, like claymores taking up the grenade slot in some of the games, but being on the d pad in others.
The game is very arcadey, and damned fast (at least on xbox) i think i have only had a handful of games reach their time limit in the whole time i have palyed.
Just a quick reminder
Phase 3 of the KKP is underway with some submissions already made.
If you are too lazy to do it yourself, email me your words and i’ll construct something for you – albeit very quickly!!
Phase 2 will continue until the end of this weekend coming.
That is all.
While I think of it, can anyone suggest why the Minecraft server I ran prior to the full release won’t let me update it to v1.0? I asked the Internet, but it lied to me…
I assume there’s some file in the deep dark woods that is the windows temp directory, or something, that I missed.
Sydney TAYbies!
http://www.thevanguard.com.au/shows/2011/11/25/star-wars-burlesque/9112
Awesome?
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“May the Force be in you”
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“You sexy looking Nerf Herder!”
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“It’s a Snatch!”
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“Join me in my Darkside”
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“These aren’t the breasts you’re looking for”
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“What’s a nice girl like that doing in a place like this?”
“She’s got a bad motivator, Uncle Owen”
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Another LAN comp coming up for any Sydney-based TAYbies interested. I’ll be there with half my team (the other half are occupied). It’s called Beta FREQ and it’ll be my first time going so I have no idea how this event will turn out but thought I’d share it regardless.
COMPS:
DOTA
[ 3 v 3 ]
Call of Duty 4
[ 3 v 3 ]
Flatout 2
[ Stunt / Derby ]
Counter Strike : Source
[ 3 v 3 ]
Unreal Tournament 2004
[ FFA ]
Flatout 2
[ Racing ]
First 40 people to register apparently get free entry. There are 9 free spots left.
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well there is nothing else to do.
seriously though hells yeah, mostly pretty average but hey theyre trying. ScreenACT just throws grant money at people if you apply properly*
*never tried myself but my friend got 2 panasonic’s from them
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all the people i know who make movies and stuff always go into this http://www.csff.com.au/
also there is one where they give you a them and like 10 days to make a short film but i forget what its called-
and by them i mean theme
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I guess I sort of assumed given the almost non-existent music scene that there wasn’t a great deal of anything else here either. This is a good time to be proven wrong.
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yeah ive never really noticed much in the way of music scene around here either, occasionally some of the guys at work go to gigs and stuff but ive never really heard much either. not from canberra anyway
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I was considering the FREQ LAN, but I already frequent the SOGC events, of which there’s one this weekend, so I’m not sure if I’ll go, but I’ve got a few friends attening the FREQ event, so I may just rock up for the funzies.
All right, who’s impersonating Harli?!!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-150/comment-page-4/#comment-448234
😛
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Glad people in Australia aren’t that useless when it comes to bicycles and road rules…
Oh wait…
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This is why I choose not to ride my pushbike for long distances anymore, I almost got ran right through on a roundabout once by a human who refused to give way to me while I was coming from their right.
Lucky for me to be fast enough to slam on the brakes and twist my ankle landing with my wheels just next to the car. The human basically was actually accelerating into the roundabout and took off, didn’t stop.
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Loops i think im actually going to spend my whole work day on this site.
also have you ever heard of people using say salamanders with the same rules as a space marine bike? or do they have their own rules? sad face if they dont exsist at all
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hahaha that’s rad.
As for the Salamanders – i’m pretty sure they just use the normal codex, but have preferences to certain things:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=400028&pIndex=4&aId=9600097&start=5&_requestid=214515They also have their own heroes, of course 🙂
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yeah i used to be really keen on them, i honestly wanted acouple of those giant lizards so:
1. i could rip my friends leman russ tanks to pieces in my imagination
2. i could say “these aren’t the droids we’re looking for” or something to that effect
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You know, if these LoL games with commentary become a thing, I might actually have to start learning stuffs about the game.
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Well it most likely will turn out this way cuz I loved watching f4ction’s one, despite that I lost badly in that one 😛
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It’s funny because I wasn’t trying to do commentary, I was just aware that I was being recorded so there was some dead air I tried to fill.
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I just enjoy watching games, to be honest.
What I was doing was talking, not commentating. And really, all you need is Trjn’s commentary because half of what I say is muffled and quiet. \o/
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So last night Tad convinced/forced/threatened me with his tallness to get a Twitter. Then he told me to link to it here!
http://twitter.com/#!/AlexAndHisPants
I was very depressed to discover that AlexPants was an already taken name, so I went with this slightly longer version that gets rid of gender confusion!
Also, totally preparing to go get Skyrim today.
Man… there were group hugs at the meat? I have two massive regrets now – not joining in on a group hug, and not producing a better introduction of myself to Shiggy. Guys, I was planning it too much and then the moment came and I just froze. All I could do was smile awkwardly and ask an irrelevant question – ‘is that Tekken?’
Sad face.
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Good old Tekken, where it turns out that I remember nothing of what I picked up in high school and simply holding back and mashing square with Steve will do the trick!
Disadvantages of thinking up backstory, think about it too much and you end up with your own star wars…
Helloeth! I have been rather absent of late, but I’ve been lurking at work at least. Bitchin thing is my home PC is as good as toast now 😐
Something weird ass going on with my home pc.. not sure what it is, but I suspect software, and it’s prolly gonna need to be formatted before it gives me anymore love.
Really annoying though cos I just bought a gtx580 to replace my failing gtx285, and it worked fine for like 3 days, but now within 30 seconds of booting in to windows, both my screens go blank and within another 30 seconds the whole lot freezes. I have to assume it’s software cos if I boot in to safe mode, it works fine :\ It’s a problem knowing if the software is just weird for its own stupid reason, or if the HDD it’s sitting on is failing, as some data has been fixed with a chkdsk, but all tests say there’s nothing physically wrong with the disk. Don’t want you all to waste your time throwing troubleshooting suggestions at me all day. I’ll tell you now I’ve tried just about everything :0 I’m starting to think I’ll have to just buy a new motherboard or something, cos this morning it got to the point where none of my USB devices work past the BIOS post anymore 😐
So yeah.. Since the meat, my life has been pretty meh… the morning of the meat was the last time my PC worked properly.. since then I’ve been in troubleshooting hell! I’ve had my new video card for about a week and all I’ve managed to do with it so far is play 10 mins of Bulletstorm!!! Someone out there must hate me so much!!! (I’m looking at you littleJJ!!! BURN THE WITCH!!!)
Thankfully the meat was so awesome or I’d prolly be out there trying to murder someone right now. I do have pics and some shit vids on my phone from the meat, which under normal circumstances, would have been posted here already, but I can’t connect the phone to my work pc, so I don’t have any way to get them up for all to see unless I sit uploading for hours through my phone, but nuts to that!
Anyway, I gotta go to a meeting in a min, so I’ll be back to post more a little later!
Big thanks to Shiggy and Doc Watt and Anon Pessimist for making the journey up to join the fun! Was great to see you again AP, and great to meet some new faces!!!
I’m still looking forward to seeing those vids too!!! That one DAN! made with AP when we walked to the pub must have some hillarious drunken ramblings on it 😉
Oh, and yes I drank girly chocolate milky alcohol… for a good reason! I had to drive to pick up Sachiko from work, and I knew if I drank beer, I would end up drinking more than I should cos I just guzzle it.. I’m always more cautious when I have spirits 😉 So yeah.. that’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it!!!! hahaha
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Have you checked that your power supply is large enough/supplies enough power for the card? I had exactly the same problem with my 6950, and it turned out that while the power supply was capable of supplying the juice, it wasn’t all on one 12v rail, so I had to go and buy a new power supply that instead of splitting the 60A down 2-3 cables, supplied it all through one, which is more than enough for my current card, and I hope the next card I buy in a years time.
TL:DR – what model video card do you have, and what model power supply?
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I have a thermaltake toughpower 850W PSU with 2x12V rails connected to my mobo… the vid card is a gigabyte gtx580 with 3gb of ram… It’s not a power issue though cos i’ve unplugged everything but the vid card and my main HDD and it still does it… I’ve tried all different cables from the PSU too… Also used monitoring software to check the voltages aren’t fluctuating etc.
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And another stupid question but do you have the power plugged into the graphics card properly. I would assume that it requires two plugs not just one
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Have you guys seen my app deals of the day? Heaps of Gameloft games discounted: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/11/app-deals-of-the-day-iphone-ipad-android-wp7-41/
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Ooo might get that ice cream sandwich keyboard for my android phone. Thanks for the heads up Elly! 😀
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I just installed it then, it’s alright, it will probably take a few days to get used to, but it’s an interesting look into ICS before the full version drops for my phone.
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main issue I’ve had with Android keyboards thus far is the word correction. I bascially have to backspace if I pressed the wrong key early in the word or something
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The big problem I’ve had so far is that the default keyboard on the Galaxy S II puts the settings button right beside the spacebar, so quite often I’ll be tapping away at a message and hit the settings key unintentionally.
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I’m clicking Humans but nothing’s happening…
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#iseewhatyoudidthere
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Sigh Robots who think are more mature than the rest of us.
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i wonder if a picture of a fembot would make him drool or spring a leak?
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First thing that came to my head was the Slowpoke meme:
Hey the new Elder Scrolls game is out!
I can’t wait to explore Morrowind!
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You saying I’m not funny? :'(
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yes
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Why are humans so cruel all the time?! *sighs* Fine Rocketman, be that way…
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I wasn’t being mean techy i have talked to you nearly every day for a year. Comedy isn’t something you do. Just like i do not excel at singing so i don’t pursue it!
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Indeed singing is not for me either
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Get some singing lessons in you, Rocketman.
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hahahahaha. man it was funny stuff. He is like the king of jokes
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…Joke?
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unintentional funny things might suit better!
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hehe trollin
Eugh, I had to go to a Code of Practice refresher training session (every year). I think the woman running it noticed that I fell asleep for a second.
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You remind me of that movie with that rebelious thing and he didn’t really have a reason behind his actions. Whats it called oh thats right
Bambi 2
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i am glad you replied instead of just leaving the bad joke alone. It will now encourage me to make more!
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Bad jokes is just the way to go, yo.
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I’ve been wondering for a while, is there any significane behind the image at the top of the TAY posts? It kinda looks like something from an early point and click game, maybe Monkey Island or something…
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it is significant because it is the picture that we have for TAY. Also it is kinda lol worthy!
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I don’t know what the significance is, but yeah, it’s from Monkey Island. Insult sword fighting ftw!
Psst, Loops!
Re. KKP; what’s the deadline for Phase 3?
*Knocks over saucepans*
Oh, sh- sorry!
*Steps on cat*
Damnit… sorry, I’m going now…
*Stumbles on vacuum cleaner and accidentally turns it on*
I’m going, I’m going! Seeya…
*Doors falls off hinges*
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Sorry, I left my hat
*Knocks over rifle, which fires, tipping a cereal box onto stove, which bursts into flames, setting off fire alarm and sprinklers*
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Hey man i swear that nearly happened to me last night. I got up at like midnight to eat some watermelon i had cut up. I slipped on some water grabbed the chair to stop my fall. I eneded up on the ground with chair on top of me!
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I just realised I’d been sitting in front of my computer with that face on for about 15 minutes.
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Just saw the lunch line up for the Vita. It looks pretty good. If Sony keep getting this type of third party support they will be the new leaders in the handheld market in a few years.
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It’s 12.30 and i haven’t had anything to eat yet. Can you tell?
But yeah, New Uncharted in less than a month.
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Despite convincing myself I was only going to install it and not play it just yet, I ended up starting up Skyrim. Despite initally not really feeling too into it, it actually managed to grab me. At least, I think it did. I looked at the clock after a bit and it was 1am…
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I went to sleep at 4am on Monday morning even though I knew I had to wake up at 6am. Too busy putting 2 enchantments on each of my freshly smithed pieces of Daedric armour while cackling loudly to myself…
The moral of this story is: energy drink FTW.
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I started on sunday late afternoon – went from 5pm – 11:30pm when the missus started screaming NERD into my headphones (she doesn’t like it when i ignore her), then last night i went from 9:30pm – 3am when the missus came out and pulled the plug on me.
I swear its like i married my mum.
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It’s a scripted event in a wrestling that tends to stick within kayfabe as opposed to a shoot, which is a nonscripted event that occurs outside of kayfabe. Then there’s worked shoots which are works that appear to be shoots.
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When a mummy wrestler and a daddy wrestler love each other very much, they have a falls count anywhere match where the loser has to give birth to a storyline in about 9 months.
It’s also just a way of saying the in-character stuff.
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lies you are just as lazy as everyone else oh wait women can multitask that is right. continue
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See. Jumping and noogying at the same time. How?
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/i do a backflip in attempt to escape the noogie. I miss time my jump and end up face first on the floor. My pride now diminished i accept my fate.
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Indeed, each sentence requires a new post
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An edit button would solve that problem.
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I have dual monitors on my desk, emails/work stuff on one screen, Kotaku/Giz/Personal Emails/Twitter etc on the second screen.
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Easier said than done, how do you manage to navigate and keep track of all the responses? I’m tempted to write some sort of application that can make sense of this mess!
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The worst part is that just about every website I use at home is blocked (which is basically just Kotaku, Youtube and Flamehaus).
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In hindsight I should have just posted my Outlook. 34 folders and about 24 subfolders from there. SO MANY emails.
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oh, are we doing an work-outlook “I’ll-show-you-mine-if-you-show-me-yours” thing? BRING IT
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You work? I just assumed you played HoN and various other games all day.
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I think to Harli, that counts as work
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HAHA!!
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Rookie.
In my unsorted folder I have 1326 unread emails, plus the read ones.
22 folders, 126 subfolders…
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Whooooaaaa, major reply fail. Did not want to do that. Just ahhh… ignore this…
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Oh good! I thought I was the only one with a super-mega-dopey reply fail today. I’m in good company, at least. 😀
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Sigh,
I can’t help you people… if you wont help yourselves.
DANCE MEAT VIDYA!
I swear this is the last you’ll hear of it. (from me at least)
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Be grateful you didn’t have to watch all the drunken videos. Dear. God. We talk some absolute shit.
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lol! I did indeed play the homeless guy that night!
I’m also kind of glad that the only part of me that made it in to that vid was my feet for a few seconds!
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I closed it when FatShady said the Kotaku one was back up. Also I’ve now formatted my computer. If people want it back up I can start another one up when I get home.
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Hey im happy to just use the one we have… but as I said before, I should give F4ction full admin rights to it so he can manage it the same way if he wants???
Now I think that it is all up and running, we should sort that out soon. I now have 15 slots available running 24/7 on the server we have, so that should be plenty.
cool?
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can someone post up the ‘official’ MC server link or send it to me @ morfling(at) gmail(dot)com?
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OK, the new server is back up and running with a new map. I have not checked it out yet so might want to create a new one so we have a good starting point.
Also, I have to rebuild the whitelist again…
What I think I can do is post the address details of the server here for everyone. BUT you wont be able to access it without being on the whitelist.
If you want to get access, just attempt to log in. I will approve the requests as they happen.
The new server deatils are:
180.189.152.179:25576
I figure if you are reading page 6 of TAY then you are prob welcome to join in anyway.
If you have any issues, please contact me on twitter @fatshadylive
F4ction, I will try and chat to you during the week.
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Might just jump on teamspeak one night and take you through it. let me know when is good for you.
fatshady [at] me [dot] com
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All working, spawn point is a bitch – cya guys on there after work!
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If it’s anything like the server Pixel Ferret dropped me in to the other night, spawn was about 3 kilometres out to sea, and you started on the ocean floor.
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I played Minecraft for the first time yesterday (better late then never). My sister bought it on the weekend and let me have a go on her account. I’ll probably pick up my own copy of the game when I get home tonight.
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So, apparently Dicksmith is selling Batman AC for PC? I think I’ll need to go see if JB are selling it too.
Just watched DAN!’s Bris Meat video.. hahahahah!!!!!!!!! Prepare for intense feelings of JEALOUSY!!
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I think if we could harvest the feeling of JEALOUSY from all of TAY we could power Kotaku for a year
HAH!
CHECK IT OUT GUYS!
http://twitpic.com/7hn35k
LUNCH TIMES ARE ALWAYS FUN WITH A TOUCH OF LOOPS!
I CONDUCTED THIS EVENT IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE!
BAHAHAHAHAHA! Comedy gold 🙂
http://www.dorkly.com/comic/27384/george-rr-martin-is-a-master-of-surprise
Not interested getting any one in trouble and not going to scan receipts or the like, but I just bought Arkham City PC from one of the big gaming chains! 😀
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Wasn’t at my local JB. That’s the last update I’m going to give, cause this deductive questioning is going to make my intentional vagueness moot. 😉 (Still installing, but am a little concerned there’s no Catwoman Pass in sight… Eeeeep…)
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On New Years Eve(my birthday) or around then? I’d say Melbourne Meat for sure but i’ll be away until the 2nd of Jan.
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Canberra? Middle ground for Sydney and Melbourne…and…Brisbane and…Perth…? Though I may be somewhat biased in this situation.
Come to think of it, How many central Australians are on here?
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i was planning to go to the party on the harbour (forget what its called) but if there is a meat im there stuff the ticket to drink champaign with wannabe celebs. bring on a meat im facinated and excited to meet y’all. sydney would be awesome coz its just a three hour drive plus i could take any local canbarbarians, if its melbs ill try and buy a ticket for that after work on new years eve
Anyone feel like helping out a mate of mine… he has entered a photo comp and I want him to win.. any votes are appreciated. Just click through until you see his photo and keep clicking his one.
His name is Matthew Jakitsadaparp and its the blue photo with the boats…
Sorry about the shameless plug but hope you can spare a minute to help him out.
thanks in advance.
Also, I need more \o/ in my life…
OMGOMG MY VIDEO FOR THE GIZMODO COMP GOT SHORTLISTED!! So excited.. crossing my fingers and legs and arms and eyes!!
I don’t normally ask for something like this but I want to win the competition ohsoverybadly. If you liked my video, please head over to Gizmodo and vote for “Zorine: Thermaltake V9 BlacX Edition”.
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO DO THIS!!! <3<3
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ALSo Shane I know this is massively delayed but I received the Lesser Evil without a problem and it’s in mint condition. Thank you.
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Thank you Morkai. I know you’re new to TAY and stuff so it’s very nice of you to help me out 🙂
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Depends. Are you able to contort yourself into the shame of a box? If so, I may have a solution..
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hahaha thanks Splicer. The thumbnail still makes me feel a bit embarrassed but it’s well worth the lulz.
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probly be frowned upon for this idea but im going to go to CIT and use my old id card* which expires next year to go into the media labs and vote on every different computer i can find. for both you and fatshady in each comp.
*if i can find it in time. which it seems is going to be difficult considering i cant see it in my wallet.
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Seriously?!!? Whoa that is an insane amount of effort dude – I appreciate the thought if you do happen to do this!! Thank you!!
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*thick aussie accent* No worries Mayte
ill have time on my way to my next job so no realy effort, just gotta find that card lol
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I finally own Skyrim. Life is complete.
Actually, no it isn’t. My local JB-HiFi never has the damn DVD’s I want in stock.
Blaghs and Pyrean and I played some epic games of PvP last night.
We totally ate their faces.
FACES EATEN
I was murdering Garren in about 5 seconds by the end of the game.
And skill shotting from our spawn point. We are that awesome.
Apart from the one we lost.
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Stop being so good you are better than me and you are below me level wise. *Looks at freyr with the crazy eyes!
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Anyone around here a photographer?? (either hobby or professional)
I’ve recently picked up a Canon 550D that came with a 18-55mm lens, I’ve just ordered a 50mm f1.8 prime lens, and I’m wondering which other lens I should get to round out the collection… I figure I’ve got the 50mm for portrait/low light stuff, the 18-55 for every day middle distance stuff, and I was considering purchasing a 75-200 lens for long range stuff.
I really just want to own lenses so I’m covered for almost any situation that I could possibly want to take pictures.
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depending on what you want, those 2 lenses will always be your main arsenal. Best way to decide what lenses and filters you need is to just get out there, do as much photography as you can, in the style you want, then you’ll start to get a feel for what additions you need. Most photo mags give a fairly good idea of what will fill in the gaps.
SO today was a good day for me reading wise
I recieved whatever happened to the caped crusader written by Neil Gaiman
Enders game
The ultimate’s v1
and Infnite Jest
I finish American gods last night, it was brilliant one of the best books i have ever read easily. I have nearly too many things to do. New Tv shows and games and books. At least i wont find myself in that place with nothing to do thinking about stuff constantly!
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Welcome to my world of being crippled by choice!
Good news, American Gods is being made into a TV series on HBO with Gaiman as one of the writers (similar to how Game of Thrones has George RR Martin as one of the writers).
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Omg that will be awesome, maybe john goodman will play wednesday. I think he would be brilliant at it.
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You’re out of your element, Rocketman :p
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i like to think i don’t have a element and what i say is just random pieces of crap i have grabbed from other sources and taken for truth!
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Has nobody watched the Big Lebowski dammit?
This is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps…
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i started watching but i didn’t like the start, so i stopped.
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great (or possibly just male) minds think alike!
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*nod of approval*
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Reading the book should have made you draw the same conclusion.
Let’s just say the god of television has an interesting way of trying to get Shadow on their side :p
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hehe i get references now!
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It’s funny to me cause that’s the other half of my screen name. So yes, they got me on their side 😛
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These weren’t just any old boobs, these were a specific person’s boobs that may cause the producers some legal hassle should they try to show them in the TV version.
I look forward to seeing how they resolve this.
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I don’t know if I’ve ever been more interested in seeing a certain pair of boobs before… 😛
Guessing you’re not mentioning specifics for spoiler-related reasons?
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Squick reasons.
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Oooooohhhhhurrrghh….blergh.
Sheesh in that case I better get out and read it before everybody starts giving short abbreviated versions of the book that they watched
I read the first 96 pages this morning after it arrived. During which time my son broke a bowl, drew all over one of his sister’s toys and tried to play bowling with the cans in the recycling box in the laundry.
This is why I shouldn’t read.
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No, that’s an argument for why you should set up a camera to record your son’s shenanigans before reading.
Has anyone ever gotten all of the Gems in Crash Bandicoot 2? I’m playing it on the ol PSP on the way home to work, but some of these secret locations and the extra effort on getting all the boxes is quite simply kicking my ass! Game is just as good as I remember and has aged well though.
First time TAY post yay!
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also welcome 🙂 sorry if that came off a bit rude.
i used to love mr crash when i was younger, recently spent hours playing the first on my friends PSP it was awesome
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I got all the crystals as a kid, so I thought I’d go back to it since they release it for PS+ members a few weeks ago. But gosh, I had to use a guide for a few of them, how the hell are you supposed to know a stair of nitro boxes are fake, or that you could jump through a wall, how did anyone, never mind kids figure these out? Games were just different back then lol
And thanks for the Welcome 🙂 I’ve posted on some articles now and again, so i thought this might be a new way to kill downtime at work lol-
hahaha kill downtime at work.
on tay i kill all my time at work now days.
never used a guide as i had no internets back then lol but by golly i spent ages drilling my friends who 100% that and other games like it
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/KICKS DOWN DOOR IN AN UNNECESSARILY DRAMATIC MANNER
What’s this?! A newbie?!?! Time for the INITIATION CEREMONY!
/raises Oar above head
LOK-TAR-OGARRRRR
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http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/323/homerthegreatspankuz8.jpg/
My body is ready
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Pretty sure my sister got them all back in the day, she was a big Crash fan and spent hours on it.
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OMG BEST BUDDIES!
I’m trying to do this as well!
And failing miserably because it’s ridiculous how hard some of those gems are.
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I haven’t started any of those no death challenges yet, I am scared when I do try them! I spent freaking ages getting all of the crates on that Big Bear level (Unbearable IIRC). In that hidden pit, with those hunters shooting those bullets you have to dodge constantly, grr! And now I’m in another pit with those hunters and now there’s Nitro crates everywhere too! GAHHH!
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Crash Bandicoot 2 was the only one I could never 100% complete, and it shames me to this day. I can’t remember where they were, but there were two gems in the later levels that were absolutely impossible to me. Must’ve played that game for ages, never could get it down though….sadface.
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Aww man that’s not what I wanted to hear 🙁 I’m not up to the last warp room yet, but I remember vaguely the jetpack and the darkness levels being incredibly difficult, I did the bonus dark level which didn’t seem so bad at least, but I shall try my hardest!
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Here’s an Arkham City question, when you play the console version when does it prompt you to redeem the Catwoman content. My PC version doesn’t seem to include a VIP pass, but when I check the Games for Windows DLC section the only thing listed is the Nightwing thing. (Where as Xbox Live has the Catwoman thing available to purchase.) I’m wondering if the Catwoman thing is already included and activated on the PC version as soon as you connect to GfW? (The back of the box says there’s a one use code. Could this be the Authentication code instead of something seperate?)
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I… don’t know…
I redeemed mine before I started the game for the first time, so I’m not sure. Maybe it’s already on the PC version because there’s not that big of a used game market on PC?
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It’s most likely included. The whole point of these sorts of DLC deals is to kneecap the used games market, but there’s no used games market on PC and your copy is attached to your account and only your account forever.
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Start the game and it’ll be clear pretty quickly, you start playing as Catwoman right at the start of the game IIRC.
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Thanks guys, I’ll let you know. The only downside of having it early is no one has posted a thing about it online. EB’s tweeted now, so I can probably tell you that’s where I bought it around lunch time in Brisbane.
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You guys were right! Thanks!
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Hey sughly, BDKIAF and anyone else who like the jezabels
So i was listening to the prisoner album and i found i was like the bonus material stuff alot more than the regular album, more specifically disco biscuit love and be a star which are both early demo’s. What did you guys think? i mean the album wasn’t perfect but still not to bad for there first effort i thought!
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Personally I really like the album, didn’t really like a lot of their earlier demo work. And I got it off iTunes so I don’t think I got any ‘bonus materials’. 🙁
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Jezabels are pretty damn awesome in my book. I ordered it through my local cd store by calling them (so old school!) then have played it non-stop on my SLYPOD for the last 2 weeks.
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I actually really like the album. I mean, it’s no Dark Storm, but that EP was boss. As for the early demos, no doubt Disco Biscuit Love is a good song, but the Dark Storm and Prisoner stuff is much better written and much more polished. That’s just my opinion though.
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Haha, wow, you pretty much said exactly what I was going to. Well, there you go.
The album was never gonna be as good as Dark Storm. Dark Storm is all kinds of amazing. But when I played that first track, Prisoner, and that organ kicked in… my God. Had goosebumps. They opened their gig with that song, and it was amazing. Just a shame they didnt play Nodoby Nowhere, seems like such a perfect song to play live. Eh well.
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Laughed my ass off at this comment…I rolled an Argonian and sadly could picture this.
lenny
November 22, 2011 at 12:39 PM
i gave away everything i own. now i just run around without my clothes on playing tag with children in whiterun. its kinda creepy that everyone in skyrim is OK with letting a naked magic lizard chasing their kids around town.
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Slyph
November 22, 2011 at 1:10 PM
Coffee out of my nose, man! Seriously.
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Sketchy
November 22, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Gold.
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If you’ve played Morrowind before, you’ll probably like this. Anyone who has played will understand. 🙂
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Why does it say Fat Boy – Slim when it isn’t.
Did you guys not get this here? It was played non-stop back when I was in highschool. It hasn’t gotten any better with time.
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Rest in peace, random stormguard. You were so close to freedom, but death took you before your time. May you rest well, good man.
If anyone asks where the blood on my sword came from, it was, um, from skinning the hanging rabbits for meat. Yes, that’s it. It was the rabbits.
There’s a rumour going around that when a change of management happens at my job (it’s likely to happen some time next year), there’s a good chance that we’re going to have the work computers replaced with Macs and the people who aren’t based in the office (the ones who drive around, making contact with people and actually doing the non-admin work) will be given iPads.
If there is any credibility to these rumours, I’m going to have to work pretty hard to fight them. There are only two people in this office who I know are familiar with OS X, even though there are three people who own Macs. On top of that, the rest of the office are rather stuck in their ways and the cost of retraining is going to be astronomical, as will the cost to my sanity because I’ll be tasked with trying to give low-level support to everyone (it’s command + c, not control+c! Fuck it, let me rebind command to control…).
Then there’s the issue that none of the software we use has OS X native support. Aside from maybe Outlook.
This goes beyond first world problems methinks.
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Not so long ago my boss mentioned he was thinking of switching the office to Mac. My response was something along the lines of “Lolwut?”
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As an Apple fanboy, even I don’t get why most businesses would consider it. Windows is standard because everyone knows how to use it. You get a bunch of admin onto a new system, there are going to be a whole cavalcade of kerfuffles that happen simply because things are not as they know it.
Admittedly, they’re not exactly Windows power users but they’re able to get work done.
That might have sounded like I’m being overly harsh about my co-workers and their computer abilities, but I’m not. It’s a rather general statement coming from someone who has worked in a few admin roles.
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Macs in a work enviroment is a dick move. not because macs a crap its because older staffers have always had problems with technolgy. They remember how to do specific tasks and dont do anything else. Plus software compatiability is another major issue.
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Do a CBA.
I garuntee, given the native cost of macs… and the cost of retraining, it wont be a benefit. Unless you work in advertising… those people are all about form over function, and you’re boned.
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If I did a CBA, I get a feeling that the best option would be to give me a Mac and give everyone else shiny new PCs.
The results may be somewhat rigged.
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Damn right. Throw the straight numbers at him, and there’s no feasible way the change could be justified.
Basic level of logic, cominatcha!
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i gotta say dude you have to step your game up a little. Also i am being a bit of a douche today!
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Rocketman, just so you know, I reported that comment. It wasn’t really necessary, was it? Are you having a bad day or something?
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i am having a terrible day strange. I didn’t mean in in offence i was just being a bit funny. If i have ofended you fled i truly apoligize as it was not my intention.
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I’m sorry you’re having a bad day. 🙁
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its fine most of my days are bad just some are better than others.
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Don’t stress – I come from the internet! My silence was mostly due to failure to think of a retort that was either good or so bad that it becomes good.
Hope your day gets better!
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Wow when did Rocketman become such a douche/troll? Is this LoL’s fault? If so I apologise if I contributed to this
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Are you serious? Why would it be LoL’s fault? Are you saying i am a sore loser who can’t take losing so sulks and does trolly things? geez man i can’t say anything right!
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Here I was about to take credit for being an awesome influence on you…
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yeah man that’s it, everything i say can usually be interpret as sarcasm or mild self deprecation. I am pretty much you without the pop culture references and the constant snarkiness.
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You also lack my ability to bullshit constantly and you type much slower than me.
Otherwise, that sounds about right :p
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i am probably also a little fatter than you and i have bad grammar. i am getting the feeling that i am just the shit version of you. that is a little scary!
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I thought Blaghs was meant to be the shit version of me? :p
Oh well, either way it looks like the first few stages of my plans for world domination are progressing nicely.
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i imagine your plan is something like the docotr who episode with the master how he makes everyone in on earth himself!
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I was thinking more along the lines of having underlings I could manipulate into doing my bidding, but that works too.
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On game classifications (not AU specific – mostly about PEGI in Europe) from the perspective of a game developer (warning, minor Heavy Rain spoilers): http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6551/a_pivotal_moment_quantic_dreams_.php
I found it interesting.
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Sounds interesting, though I can’t stand to read spoilers. Even if it’s for a game I’ll probably never play!
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Interesting comment about Australia and Germany being notorious for classifications. Seems our reputation precedes us. 😀
So back to my query on a Kotaku New Years…
Sorry everyone I kind of had to go out just after I posted that, so I had zero involvement in the replies haha. Ehhh.. oops. Ok let me try this again.
My input thus far – I had a bit of a revelation. I have the house to myself on New Years! So… tecnhically we could have one at MY place. Thoughts? Lots of people seemed to be favouring the Sydney/Canberra direction. Would a group trip up be feasible? Anyone can stay at mine, as long as there’s space.
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I think I could be convinced to participate. Although your house really is a bit out of the way for me.
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I know you’re being sarcastic, but think about it.
If you drive there, it’ll probably burn more fuel turning the car on, compared to the actual journey.
If you walk there, that’d be, like, physical exertion. In the outside and all that. ಠ_ಠ
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Canberra, definitely, Melbourne or Sydney, I’m sure I could organise something. Put my down as “keen”.
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Not sure how many people would want to travel up here. I should be able to house a few people at my place if necessary though, my guests will be gone by then.
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Well, how about this. What if I offered:
– Lifts to and from airport
– Free sleeping quarters
– Free hugsWould people come to Bris for New Years then?
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I’d be able to attend a meat in Melbourne but couldn’t travel anywhere as I will possibly be working all the non public holiday dates if I don’t decide to take Xmas -> NY off. 🙁
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I have had very quiet NYE the last couple of years, really haven’t been interested in teh go to pub, spend fortune, get drunk thing that has been on offer.
So I would be interested in something. Melbourne I would be interested in, would have to check to see what flights are worth.
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hey Sughly
i has an idea for those who wouldnt be able to afford to go to brissy and such (me coz ill be up there until the 28th, then i fly back to canberra) what about having three simultaneous parties one in brissy one in sydney and one in melbs. and we can all link up over online games and chat…or if that sounds too lame we can all share stories about each parties happenings later on TAY.
\o/ party for everyone**oh shit forgot about perth. you guys can have one too 😀
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Just got the email, it’s taken me half an hour just to download the 25mb installer.
And my internets keeps dropping out.
Methinks I won’t make it to the beta weekend.
IT’S HERE!!IT’S HERE!!IT’S HERE!!IT’S HERE!!IT’S HERE!!IT’S HERE!!IT’S HERE!!IT’S HERE!!IT’S HERE!!IT’S HERE!!IT’S HERE!!IT’S HERE!!IT’S HERE!!IT’S HERE!!IT’S HERE!!IT’S HERE!!
Sorry Guys and Girls. My copy of Skyrim just arrived and I’m kinda excited.
HURRY UP AND INSTALL YOU INFERNAL MACHINE!!!
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Maybe hit Indiana Jones up if you’re having trouble with the installation… I hear he has some experience with that sort of device.
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You are in for one hell of a good time. before you start though, grab these mods:
No more blocky faces:
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=30Vurt’s Skyrim Flora Overhaul:
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=141also, in the skyrimprefs.ini file, change:
bTreesReceiveShadows=0 — > bTreesReceiveShadows=1
bDrawLandShadows=0 — > bDrawLandShadows=1
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Hmm I may need some help here. The game installed OK, but while I’m playing its really jerky/laggy. I’m playing on a laptop, but its got all the recommended specs. I’m still down in the tunnels trying to escape Helgen. I would expect that its only going to get worse once I’m out in the open world.
Any thoughts/suggestions/recommendations?
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Accidentally posted below this. Just try turning down your graphics to high, or turn down antialiasing and anisotropic filtering.
If that doesn’t work, make sure you aren’t running in battery-saving mode or something, because some laptops (eg. mine) limit graphics card and CPU power when on battery power.
Finally, update your graphics drivers.
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I feel really stupid now. I had my laptop on power saver mode… Lets try this again and see if it works any better
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Haven’t been on Teamspeak for a while, might have to drop in and get bored by all the LoL talk some time…
All the details the same?-
The password has changed, I’ll send you a message via twitter with the details, just to make sure you’re up to speed.
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Hahah! Yeah, it’s not the best, but at least it’s normally functional (for the most part). Today the “Next page”, “Comments” and “Mobile version” buttons stopped working completely. :\
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Just got myself excited for the PSN release of Daytona… then I remembered that today is Tuesday… 🙁
Can anyone explain to the me concept of a gym?
Is the point to go there & run on the spot & pick stuff up &put stuff down until it literally hurts & then go home & complain to your housemates that you’re sore?
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That said I may be going to one with a mate soon enough due to a half-arsed plan to join the Air Force. -
You forgot the part where you drive there, take the lift up to the actual gym so that you can use the treadmill and stairmaster
If anyone is interested in a 3DS, I saw Target Country is selling them for $200. Not sure if Normal Target is selling for $200 too, but its worth a look.
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I read that in such an accusationary… ahem… accusing tone.
The Sam, or A Sam… either way, Hi Sam *waves*
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Just got an invite to the SWTOR beta! Good thing it’s on the weekend, seeing as how I have exams this week.
Sort of forgot I had to be whitelisted on the Minecraft server. Excitement to play Minecraft is dissipating.
Aw, this is my first post on TAY (or maybe second) I always mean to post but never do. Hopefully I will catch TAY when it starts instead of either that night or the next day >_<
Next achievement will be to contribute to community kudos…when I find out how ;_;
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Welcome aboard, scree! Tell us a little about yourself. 🙂
PS: Nominating someone for Kudos is as simple as emailing Mark.Serrels[AT]kotaku[DOTCOMDOTAU].
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Welcome scree!
tell us a little about games you play and other awesome stuff that happens!to contribute to community kudos is easy, you just have to tell mark how awesome CrabJiffy is, how he is the greatest person alive and such.
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Hey hows the trip going dude. I think dawdle is going stir crazy without you. I hope you are having a awesome time
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My trip is ok, Thanks rocketman.
but i am working mostly! and in case you guys miss my post about my work on page 4 here it is:Hello!!
I am now in a place far far away. and i started working today!
To my surprise I was actually doing work that is related to what I learn. Cause my friends told me that some companies ask their internships to clean the table, open letters, and pass stuff around without doing any actual work!
Work is no fun, but at least I am learning!And for the gaming side of news, there is no news at all(not even a single bit of LoL).
Ohhh… and I jelly all those who can “TAY” while working. Non-work internet material is strictly prohibited.
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Scree, my good friend!
It has been long time since war, no?
It is good to see you have not replace face of controller! When crazy doctor man turn good friend Scree into Mr Controller Head, many of us very surprised! We did not know Scree like brussel sprouts! No one like brussel sprout! Very surprising revelation you make that day! Also controller face head Scree person is very odd! But is good to see you are alive and well! I hope you mange to be very well with happy people here, yes! -
Hey Loops!
Sorry I haven’t been able to do much for the sekrit thing.
Can I get stage 2 in to you by say, Thursday? I’ll get the time to work on Stage 3 then as well.
My headset is a little completely broken. To be able to play League of Legends with everyone else, I had to use voice detection (which I normally use anyhow) and the internal microphone in my laptop.
I also have a mechanical keyboard.
These two facts meant that I could troll people by typing because it was rather loud on their end :p
Before I left the TeamSpeak channel, I typed up a wall of text. Everyone else was in game at the time, so I didn’t get to see their reactions to the pointless words that I left behind but it was still amusing.
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Also, 3v3 on Summoners Rift with all random is … interesting.
Rolling Soraka did not end well for me.
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I tweeted it last night, but: Look! Egress is on RockPaperShotgun! Woohoo for Sughly!
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/22/a-space-inventory-egress/
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“(I presume The Dig is in an inspiration, but it also evokes the likes of 2001, Event Horizon, Moon and Defying Gravity)”
Wat.
Sugly doesn’t watch movies.
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Awesome! 😀
“The solution to some puzzles are pretty random, though. Like the holes in the beginning and the panel puzzle.”
This, sorta. The hole puzzle did seem a little random, but that panel puzzle seems obviously easy once you figure it out…
Congrats Sughly!
I’m in management training all day today (eugh!) so goodbye, sweet TAY. I’ll see you on the other side.
Sorry this is so late. Work has been chaotic.
What Dance Meat Write Up
I finished work and took my heavy bag off to the city to waste some time. I went to Kinokuniya and bought more manga because my bag wasn’t quite full enough. then it was off to the airport to meet Shiggy. $15!?!? For a 5 minute trip? Oh well. I arrived a few minutes after Shigs and we went to the hotel, dumped our stuff and made for McDonalds where we pigged out on a family meal and both of us had our first ever Big Mac. We were unimpressed.
We wandered for HOURS waiting on Pez. After he arrived, we went to KFC so he could eat and then to Krispy Creme for donuts. The man who served us was incapable of not giving us more donuts, so we fled before we had to buy ALL the donuts. We went to bed sometime after 10…
PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI
Time to get up! We showered (with the door closed, as per the rules. Obviously we would have showered with that thing wide open if we were allowed.) and went off to start our adventure!
Nyeeeooooooooooooooooooooow
BRISBANE! greeted by the sound of construction, we left the airport in this strange, foreign land and searched for DAN!. He would be driving a black Honda Jazz. We saw one being driven by a lady and I was sure this was the right one. Obviously DAN! would be dressed as a lady if he had to drive a lady’s car. After being ejected from the black jazz by the disgruntled woman Shiggy and Pez helped wash the pepper spray from my eyes and that’s when I saw the blurry visage of our hipster host.
Turns out DAN! lives so close to the airport he could have walked up to meet us. We settled in to his place and I began inspecting his DVD collection. I silently bonded with him (it’s okay, I brought a solvent to fix that) as I realised we have very similar taste in movies. We discussed Kevin Smith and view askew and Tarantino’s feet fetish and I felt smarter than I actually am.
Then I put on the pilot episode of the new Thundercats for everyone to enjoy… And then found out neither Shiggy, Pez nor DAN! had ever seen the original Thundercats.
Neither Shiggy, Pez nor DAN! had ever seen the original Thundercats.
I hope you will all join me in judging them.
then we played my rocket level in Little Big Planet 2. You Sydneysiders/Canberra folk know what I’m talking about. Everyone was convinced we’d be there for hours to no avail, but damn, if we didn’t beat that level in record time. Twice. Just goes to show…
I very much enjoyed meeting the Brissy guys and wish I’d got to talk more Nintendo/Anime/Comics with Jimu and Sughly. As it was, I spent most of my time keeping away from the cameras and trying to remain invisible. Oh, and getting my ass handed to me by Trjn in SFIV. I’d like to think I’d have done better with a controller than I did with the stick, but the outcome would have probably still been the same.
I didn’t take part in any dancing/singing/rhythm game. I was too afeared. This may come as a shock, but I am rather shy.
The night went on, copious beer was consumed, everyone had a good time.
We left but not before Shiggy, DAN and I shared an intimate group hug. DAN! refused to let Pez join in. Poor Pez.
Our taxi driver for the eveining believed himself to be the reincarnation of Michael Schumacher, even though Michael Schumacher isn’t dead. That shouldn’t be too huge a problem, because I think the taxi driver won’t be alive much longer unless he learns to brake for corners.
We got to Strange’s place and she didn’t have a key for the screen door so we had to wake Mr Strange to get in. I felt bad 🙁 I was first up the next morning and made my bed then read for a while. Fun stuff, eh?
Strange appeared and we chatted while I nommed Nutrigrain. Then I started making a character in Dark Souls. I was going all out to make a great looking lady till shiggy appeared and told me to make her derpy. I made her super derpy, but then I moved the preset slider and it made her look all normalish. All my work was wasted. We played a lot of Dark Souls and Shiggy impressed us all with his Guitar Hero skillz. Strange made us burgers and I experimanented with all the exotic chilli sauces (I LOVE CHILLI!) and accidentally added way too much of the hottest sauce. It came out too fast! I swear that doesn’t normally happen to me!!! I was scared and Pez grabbed his camera to film the whole thing. Turned out I was fine with that level of heat. Everyone was disappointed. Except me, because I didn’t look like a wuss in front of a lady. \o/
Our flight back was well documented by Shiggy, so I’ll skip that. When we eventually got back to Sydney (at 11:00) I went to catch my train. Turns out there were track works going on! YAY! Didn’t get home till after 1am.
To sum up; Brissy was AWESOME! As were all the guys. It was great to “meat” you all. Thanks so much to DAN! for picking us up and entertaining us so well, and to Strange for giving us a place to stay and being the perfect hostess, even when she disappeared to go play Skyrim in secret.
And they all lived happily ever after.
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Surely someone had a 3DS there?
They could have trapped a digital version of Jamie in their 3DS and laughed at him everytime he peers out towards the screen, and then quickly snap it shut to deny him freedom and to remind him that he’s there forever.…No? Just me then?
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Bishy, if I could trap you in a 3DS and carry you with me always I would buy one in a heartbeat.
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I'm the hot new accessory everyone has to have!
Just whip me out whenever you need someone to \o/ or tell stories that go nowhere!
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The Pessimist has me on film. He filmed me while I ate my spicy burger which was making me a lot more uncomfortable than said spicy burger.
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I was more thinking of the Meat itself, because I don’t want to have to give The Pessimist a gold star. They’re for TAYbies only. 😛
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heheheh I got some footage of Mr Mysterious Watt!! lol! I may have managed to fix my pc this morning too, but I didn’t have time to thoroughly test it before I left. If I did fix it, I may be able to upload some pics/vids when I get home!!!
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A few things in your story shocked me:
First Big Mac ever!? What!? A good Big Mac is great. An average Big Mac is pretty terrible.
People hadn’t seen Thunder! Thunder! Thundercats! Hooooooo!? WHAT!? That’s outrageous! You did well to educate them.
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Big Macs are yucky. I think it’s the sauce. Eww.
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Adding that to the list of food Strange will make for me:
Caesar salad
Some kind of pie
Cheesy-chipotle burger… I think I’m missing one.
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Not if I get there first!
*Staple-guns Super Nerd’s cape to the floor*
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Strange, your burgers were beyond awesome. At least 100x better than any fast food fare! I enjoyed mine immensely. Just not the being filmed part :/
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This must have been an average one then. Really couldn’t see what the hype was about. It’s certainly no BK/HJ burger.
Sadly we were watching the new Thundercats, so they all remain ignorant of the original show. Did you ever download the new show? Interested to hear what you think.
And yes, I’m shy. I spent almost a year in college in Ireland without ANYONE except the tutors knowing I was Scottish. Once this was rectified it became impossible to keep to myself. I was seated at a table full of girls as a punishment for talking with my mate so I spent most of my second year being constantly embarrassed by them and soon I learned to fake uh… unshyness. True story. -
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I liked the airplane noises
So many great write ups for this meat, a new serve of jelly each day
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Thanks. I notice the others were missing any airplane noises and so I did my best to make it up to you all here.
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I thought I would have a go at the Dark Side of SKYRIM! and start up a magic user. It was actually pretty damn fun. High Elf Imperial fanatic who one day dreams of joining the Thalmor.
But, after an hour I decided to go back to bashing Imperial heads with my mighty Nord Barbarian.
You can’t keep a barbarian from his bashing for to long.
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I think I’m going to roll a Orc Barbarian next – Playing a sneaky Khajit at the moment and I accidentally stole everything from the first two towns. As a result I have reached level 23 with no combat skills (only leveled up stealth, pick-pocket and lock-picking) and just had my face melted (literally) by a blood dragon last night.
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ORCS! I did pretty much the same thing.
Also found out last night that with the Fists of Steel perk my bare dragonbone gauntlets do more base damage than my Daedric Battleaxe o_0
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Any one having crazy lip sync issues in Arkham City for PC? Characters mouths seem to move for 15 seconds after the dialogue has finished. :S
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I’m getting increasingly more desperate, like CRAZY desperate. It riles me up on the Rocksteady forum too, when the slightest problem makes people seemingly denounce the game instead of being patiant. 😀
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Is performance really bad at the moment? I think Dirext X11 is really stuffing up game performance right now, which worries me. I have a 560m on a laptop, hope I can play it ok when I get home tonight!
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Yeah, DX11 runs terrible on the computer I can run Skyrim at Ultra. Most people have no problem when they turn it down to DX9 which is annoying. :S
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The mobile version of the site won’t let me load older stories or view comments. Viewing on iPhone (and posting blindly)
Well, my headset is borked. I need to buy a new one. It’ll either be a Plantronics Gametron 777 or a Razer Banshee. Probably the first, although I do rather like the look of the second, it just doesn’t seem worth paying twice as much for.
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apparently the banshee can get uncomfortable after a while, but i guess that changes from person to person… but you know you can never go wrong with sennheiser :P… yes i am a Sennheiser whore
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These are my options, I don’t spy a Sennheiser on the list.
Plantronics seems to be the way to go at the moment. USB is a requirement seeing as I’ll be mainly using this on my MacBook Air.
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I’ve been using a cheap Microsoft headset for a while now, and it’s okay right up until the point where it most definitely is not. Just ask anyone on TeamSpeak last night.
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At least you didn’t have bees drumming?
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I use the gamecom’s at work and they are pretty good,
They are quite snug so could be uncomfortable is you have a larger than average head.
I have the same problem at home with the cheap MS headset, which is why I haven’t been on mic during LOL games recently. Feedback FTW
I had the Plantronics 777 for a while, was never that impressed with them. Quite muddy sound, muffled. Plus the headband isn’t flexible in the right places, eventually it snapped in half just from being over-flexed by me removing it from my head. And I don’t have a huge head or anything.
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I guess that’s one rather emphatic vote for the Banshee then.
Really, the Plantronic is that bad?
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Morning all. The strange plague sweeping my work continues. For those of you playing at home, I’m only talking about a group of 9 people, and they’ve all had at least one day off this fortnight. The fun part is, each sickness/injury was unique, and most of them aren’t gamers.
will EB have the cool preorder stuff for zelda on sale to the public who haven’t pre ordered?? I don’t have a motion plus for my wii
Played some more Dark Souls, defeated the Capra Demon last night, on my first try too 😀
Now I’m employing the gameplay strategy of an Undead Burg soul grind then transition into getting repeatedly butt-humped by Havel The Rock.
Luckily I haven’t lost my souls, I even managed to grind 12,000 souls by repeatedly regaining my stash and then immediately getting squashed by Havel’s giant dragon’s tooth.
Oh and I just levelled up my strength stat enough to wield the Zwiehander. Once I take that ring off Havel’s bloodied corpse it’s Berserk time baby!
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Oh my,
I looked up the info on the Zwiehander in Dark Souls. Turns out I only needed 16 strength to wield it two handed, I cranked my strength to 24. I can now wield that massive greatsword singlehandedly with ease.
I really have created Guts from Berserk.
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I need to continue reading the manga. The end of the anime was just the beginning of the manga.
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Yeah so I heard. I was gonna start on it but then When I read its still ongoing it kind of turned me off. If I’m gonna start reading it then I like the idea that it has an actual ending.
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The manga is AMAZING! It does have some down sides (Mainly the inclusion of the two fairies and the little girl witch) but VERY epic! Also, the author seems to suffer regular bouts of creative block and the book goes on hiatus. A lot. For a long time. But he’s been doing pretty good recently.
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Is that just pue wishing, or is this something that is actually gonna happen? Caus if its actually gonna happen that is amazing news…
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Oh it’s real all right 😀
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Oh yeah, and speaking of ‘Forces’, my daughter used to think it was called “Party Horses”. And before that, “Farty Horses”.
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lol! Its synth, and it reminds me of violence. Cant go wrong with that really.
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How I beat Havel:
V rvgure znqr zlfrys nf yvtugjrvtug nf cbffvoyr, be wnpxrq hc zl pneel yvzvg, be (cebonoyl) obgu.
V hardhvccrq zl frpbaqnel jrncbaf/fuvryqf naq jber yrngure nezbhe (zl qrsnhyg nezbhe) gb xrrc gur jrvtug qbja. V guvax V jnf yrff guna unys zl pneel yvzvg.
Vs lbhe yvtug/dhvpx rabhtu, lbh pna whfg cerff evtug hc ntnvafg uvz (bbbbblrnu) naq pvepyr (V guvax V snibherq pbhagre-pybpxjvfr). Lbh’yy cebonoyl arrq gb ebyy rirel fb bsgra, ohg whfg jnyxvat va gur gvtug pvepyr jvyy xrrc lbh bhg bs unez’f jnl.
Bppnfvbanyyl juvyr V jnf qbvat guvf ur chyyrq bss fbzr xvaq bs tyvgpul, fcyvg-frpbaq ebgngvba naq anvyrq zr jura V fubhyq unir orra va gur pyrne. Gung pnhfrq fbzr entr. Gung pnhfrq dhvgr n ovg bs entr npghnyyl (Abg nf zhpu nf jura ur uvg zr guebhtu n fbyvq jnyy gubhtu).
Fbzrgvzrf V fgrccrq onpx sbe n oerngure. V unq n sverobzo rdhvccrq, fb vs ur gbbx n fubg juvyr V jnf bhg bs enatr vg tnir zr rabhtu gvzr gb guebj bar (Vg qbrfa’g qb urncf bs qnzntr, naq ur’f n cerggl dhvpx ebyyre, ohg rirel yvy urycf).
Vg gbbx n srj (URNCF bs) gevrf, ohg gung’f ubj V tbg uvz va gur raq.
Qenxr Fjbeq, cerggl beqvanel xvgr fuvryq, yrngure nezbhe.
(V rira znantrq gb fheivir fbzr uvgf!)
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Lrnu V’z qbvat gur ebgngr nebhaq uvz fgengrtl, naq lrf V nz gnxvat n srj uvgf gbb.
Qba’g jbeel, V’yy trg gung onfgneq :Q V whfg znxr fher V yher uvz gb gur uvture yriryf fb vg’f rnfvre gb trg zl fbhyf onpx ba gur arkg nggrzcg :C -
Nccneragyl vs lbh unira’g bcrarq gur qbbe ng gur obggbz bs uvf gbjre lrg (sebz Qnexebbg Tneqra, arne gur Ulqen V guvax?) lbh pna tb gung jnl naq tyvgpu-nggnpx uvz guebhtu gur qbbe. Be vs vg vf bcra lbh pna oynfg uvz jvgu fcryyf sebz whfg bhgfvqr gur qbbejnl. Abg fb unaql sbe n Thgf-onfrq punenpgre gubhtu.
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Well Suzie the Catshit goes in for surgery today. That’s my dog, it’s a Cattle Dog/Shitzu cross, hence ‘Catshit’. We found a tumor (it waz ah tumor!) on her last week which has grown a shitload. After initial tests the vets say they are pretty certain that it is benign, so hopefully they will remove it and it will be all good!
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Awwww poor little pup!! Hope all goes well with the surgery! I had a shitzu many years ago, and he got a tumor.. thankfully the surgery was a success! Cross my fingers hers goes well for you 😉
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May the Old Gods protect George R R Martin, I couldn’t stand to let him perish before Songs of Ice and Fire is finished…
Starcraft 2 is just US$30 if you buy it from Blizzard!.
There are no more excuses not to have this game. Gentlemen, start droning.
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Buy SC2, go Forge fast expand and get yourself some amazeballs income early on. Or just play Terran and use MULEs to never have income worries again.
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I still think not buying it just to spite you seems like a valid reason.
How do you like them apples, you apple appreciator, you.
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I have apple chunks in apple jelly in front of me right now. I suspect I could live off this food, and would like to give it a try!
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Sorry for leaving TeamSpeak so suddenly last night, I somehow BSOD’d while updating LoL (Second time this has happened in the last few months) and couldn’t be bothered restarting so I went to bed.
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Dunno how you caused a memory management error on and application on my computer that’s been the same specs for 6 months now maybe longer, but you did. One day you will suffer for your crimes, program!
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Oh it’s rather easy, actually. You just gotta know which parts to
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That explained the smell… roasted peanut butter
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My understanding is you would only protect humans, since superheroes don’t mind machines getting smashed or even used as throwing weapons against their nemeis, but you would never treat a human in such a way, correct?
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*bows head in respect* My apologies sir
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I successfully managed to step on and break my Xbox Live headset in the middle of the night. I’m still trying to figure out how it ended up on the floor next to my bed in the first place. Must’ve been a cat.
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When Adam Sandler was writing his new movie, Jack & Jill, he wrote an incredible 300 pages of physical comedy gags that never ended up in the final film!
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Your cat was only trying to give it back to you after using it itself.
Observe
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/funny-pictures-cat-screams.jpg
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HERE COME’S TROUBLE!
DOUBLE TROUBLE!
Only 8 days until Adam Sandler’s Hilarious Holiday Movie, “Jack & Jill”.
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I would give you one of my 2 VIP opening night tickets procured through the Adam Sandler fanclub mailing list, but I’m gonna put it on ebay I think and make a small fortune
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Also I head David and Margeret will both give Jack and Jill the coveted 6 star rating, making the value of this ticket increase exponentially overnight
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I’m so bored. I have so much work to do and don’t want to do any of it.
I’ve got both Arkham City and Demon’s Souls on the go at the moment, and can’t decide which one to fire up tonight!
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Hi Shane,
A sure fire way to combat boredom is to see Adam Sandler’s new film, Jack & Jill. Promising entertainment with a touching story of sibling’s overcoming diversity, it’s sure to entertain well after the credits roll!
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What.
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Here’s something that’ll blow many people’s minds. Billy Madison references the SNES and Sega Genesis as current generation consoles. That’s because it’s 16 years old. There are TAYbies who are almost as old as that movie.
Who else has a sudden urge to tell them danged kids to get off of their lawn?
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I’ll have you know I was born the year before Billy Madison came out, thank you very much. 😛
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Don’t make me yell at a cloud!
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Yup, I was joking. I guess my “:P” and “seriously” canceled each other out and left everyone confused.
I have no doubt that DAN! is utterly enamored of Adam Sandler’s latest effort. He certainly seems to have all the inside scoop on how the film was made! 😛
Hi Shane,
When trying to decide on which children’s tale to take the title for his latest movie, Adam Sandler considered “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”. Upon reading the story for the first time and finding he would need to play 3 goats & a bridge dwelling troll, he settled instead for the more modern and slightly less demanding Jack & Jill.
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Sounds like a wise choice. Where can I get tickets to a midnight launch? Travel is no problem – I don’t want to miss this!
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Hi Shane,
At this point there are no midnight screenings planned for Adam Sandler’s new film, Jack & Jill.
Stay tuned, however, for an exciting announcement regarding a screening in an Australian Capital City!
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Hi #35,
Adam Sandler, writer, producer & star of upcoming movie Jack & Jill, noticed a scary trend forming in Hollywood. The dreaded REMAKE!!! Not content with rehashing old, tired stereotypes and stories Adam Sandler devised a plan to trick Hollywood executives into funding a completely original and ground-breaking project.
By calling his latest tale of love for one’s family overcoming adversity “Jack & Jill”, Adam Sandler was able to trick Hollywood into funding a completely original film!
Minecraft Server update
It is all up and running and about 16 people have already been added to the white list. It is updated to version 1.0 however, we have a rubbish map.. seriously the spawn point is in the middle of the freaking ocean.
Don’t build anything yet, let me get a new map tonight with a better spawn and then we can have at it.
Sorry I didnt do it last night, but I played MW3 for a bit, then bought dogfood at 11.30pm (Thanks BigW 24 hours) and then just before bed, thought id just start a little Skyrim for 5 minutes at 11.30pm to check it out then it was 1am and i went to bed!
I’ll sort it out tonight.
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it was 14.95 euro’s last week while it was Beta, but is now 19.95 euro’s… so roughly $30 – $35 i guess… also DO IT
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actually it was called “Thor’s Venstre Kogle” or “Thor’s Left Nut” but Pixel’s Boat sounds good too 😛
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does venstre kogle literally translate to left nut?
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left pinecone but same meaning 😛
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it’s funny how while I was at work I was like— yeah yeah im soo up for playing minecraft tonight with you guys.
Then when i got home I jumped straight onto skyrim and started mining iron ore…
#icwhatudidthere
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Tigerion – In reply to your followup to my computer issue several pages ago, yes I did indeed make sure all the cables were plugged in to the card properly 😉
I think I actually figured out part of the problem this morning before work. Will have to play with it more, but it looks as though it may be being caused by either Intel speedstepping or the stupid auto overclocking crap in my bios.
I’ve always had Gigabyte mobo’s in the past, and I’m well aware of which settings do and don’t work well, but this is the first Asus mobo I’ve had and I’m not really familiar with the various settings they have in there.. Through a bit of mucking around, it looks as though if I set my bus speed manually, it may be the solution. As I said, more playing to do as I only had about 5 mins to play this morning, but things might be looking up.
I’m still a bit dumbfounded as to why it worked fine with the old settings for a week or more before having issues 😐
Between DAN!’s Jack and Jill hilarity and both Sughly and the good Doc’s heroic attempts to get a street date break for Skyward Sword, Twitter is the best thing ever today.
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You make a strong argument for joining up to the twitter-verse – I’m missing out on all the funnyz!
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I would never have expected all of you guys to be so active on twitter, my feed has just about exploded since adding the TAYbies…
morning all 😀
hope your day is good
just got into trouble for doing non work stuff (reading Dr What?’s story) but its all good i have music to keep me happy that and furious ALT-Tabage.
for now i go back to singing
You’re the one that wants to hold her
Hold her and control her
You’d better forget it
You’ll never get it
For she’ll say there’s no other
Till she finds another
Better forget it
Oh you’ll regret it
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Here’s something I usually do when somebody posts up an epic tale – copy and paste it into an new email. Hope that helps 🙂
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ooo excellent idea 🙂 thanks harli
hmmm next song wooo
I need love, love
ooh, ease my mind
And I need to find time
someone to call minecan anyone guess todays theme/artist :)*
*without google sneaky chaps 😛
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can you get the previous song?
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So, did you guys hear that Cave Story+ is out on Steam? I think I may have to buy it.
I think I may need to get a job too…
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That game is going to be my financial ruin. I end up buying it on every platform that they release it on.
Any music lovers what is your album of the year so far? Mine is probably the wombats this modern glitch or M83’s hurry up we are dreaming listen to these albums alot and they are just brilliant!
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Also i downloaded Nickleback’s new album and its is just like their other work absoulutely brilliant, i can’t believe that the band is stilling pumping out the hits.
If you think i am serious i can’t talk to you anymore!
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Mylo Xyloto was definitely my favourite this year. Also the only album I bought this year but thats besides the point
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Am I missing out on something here? I’m not sure I even know M83. I feel like I should though.
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I adore This Modern Glitch, but Making Mirrors by Gotye is a masterpiece. I couldn’t possibly go with anything else.
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Van Canto’s ‘Break The Silence’.
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It’s cool strange i haven’t heard of your bands either but it is mainly because i don’t appreciate metal as much as you!
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High fives Rocketman and Sughly for their love of M83’s new album.
It is AMAZING.
Actually this has been an amazing year for music all up.
My favourites:
1. James Blake — James Blake
2. Bon Iver — Bon Iver
3. M83 — Hurry Up We’re Dreaming
4. Washed Out — Within and Without
5. Panda Bear — TomboyThat James Blake album though, it’s easily my favourite. In a year with amazing albums that one really stood out to me. I can’t stop listening to it. There’s just something so original about it — it’s like you’re actively listening to this amazing album being built idea by idea… can’t explain it. I just love it.
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I liked bon ivers album not loved but it was quite good. The thing is it is very quite and simple and very mood dependant. Still i love those guys!
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Phwoaaaar, nice list!
I’d like to add some others now that I thought on it a bit more:
Slow Club – Paradise
Zola Jesus – Conatus
Austra – Feel It BreakNone of them as grand as M83, but still worth the mention.
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I’m not sure about my album of the year. And, judging by all the albums you guys are mentioning, I might have missed some good ones.
I do know which albums I’ve listened to the most. And those would be Holly Throsby’s Team, and PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake.
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Aw, no love for Florence + The Machine. But then that’s the only album I’ve bought this year, and even then it was mostly because they sister wanted it.
So I’ll put my vote in for This Modern Glitch, because I liked what I’ve heard of it and one day I will actually bother to buy it!
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It’s got to be “The Hunter” by Mastodon, I wasn’t sold on it originally, especially seeing as it’s doesn’t start with the same pace as “Blood Mountain” but it’s slowly grown on me, to the point where i’m pretty sure I’ll be buying the Ltd Ed Vinyl release before long.
DAN!s tweets on Adam Sandler’s commitment to his magnum opus, his film “Jack and Jill” have inspired a deep-rooted love for his intellectual and diverse comedic talents.
Thankyou, DAN!, for opening my eyes.
https://twitter.com/#!/dkzeitgeist/status/139107046405586944
https://twitter.com/#!/dkzeitgeist/status/139113842302136321
https://twitter.com/#!/dkzeitgeist/status/139117466654752768
https://twitter.com/#!/dkzeitgeist/status/139118007040479232
https://twitter.com/#!/dkzeitgeist/status/139118294606151680
https://twitter.com/#!/dkzeitgeist/status/139132047917723649
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Hi Mark Serrels,
While I go by many names, writer, producer & star of “Jack & Jill”, Adam Sandler, can only claim one.
Genius.
Make sure to reserve your ticket’s now for this holiday seasons hottest movie!
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I was hoping someone less lazy than I would collate them. He needs a Jack and Jill Tumblr or something.
Ok so it seems everyone but me already knew about this, but OMG I got two massive mentions for my game Egress!
Rock, Paper, Shotgun – http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/22/a-space-inventory-egress/
& InideGames.com – http://indiegames.com/2011/11/freeware_game_pick_egress.html
So over the moon right now! Checking site it seems that about 35gb worth of my game, which is 50mb, was downloaded since they went up. So stoked! It is a little disheartening to read so many negative comments though :'( … but I guess thats the internet for you. Cant expect everyone to like it.
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congratulations 🙂
i got the crater puzzle first go, dont know the fuss about it but i probly fluked it. I think you have excellent ideas and i hope it helps your name get out (if thats what you intended)
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I keep forgetting to download this and play it.
Guess I’ll just have to do that tonight when I get home.
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CAUSE EGRESS IS FARKING AWESOME DUDE!!!still battling to get a good ending though 😛
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Egress wasn’t perfect, of course, but it was very good, and I sincerely believe it deserves a much more positive response than it’s been getting in the comments.
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Aww man… thats so awesome. I seriously appreciate it so much.
I really thought I’d be cool with the negative comments, but yeah it’s hard. If it wasnt for you guys and your comments I’d probably be wallowing in my own self pity by now haha. So yeah, it honestly means a lot.
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Those negative comments all focus on getting stuck at the first hurdle. It’s hard to consider those really thought out opinions and just knee jerk reactions to not being able to solve that first puzzle.
I’ll need to play the game to see what they’re moaning about, but you might be able to patch things a little to shut those people up. Take the reason for the complaints on board, use it to improve and ignore the tone.
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Yeah I do say that it’s hard to have the negative, but I do appreciate it helping me work out what does and doesnt work for players. There was a lot of real obvious stuff in the first round of feedback from testers that was really helpful like that too.
It’s cool, I might be a softy but I also did film school and had years of lecturers ripping apart scripts and short films, so I have experience with constructve criticism at least!
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Played this last night (In the dark and alone, I might add), figuratively shat myself several times out of sheer terror. Well played, sughly!
My only criticisms are the lack of content (about 20 min for me) and the utter lack of replayability. But that first time was golden.
To Whom it May Concern,
I, and no doubt others, have noticed an injection of fresh blood into the veins of TAY.
As has been hinted by others on pages past, it would be most excellent if those of you who are new to this maelstrom of conversation would introduce yourselves.
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy
PS Nothing fancy required. Some of us don’t read/write good (Lookin’ at you, Rocketman… Just kidding)
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Yeah, plus you couldn’t really see what it was. I went with Leisure Suit Larry for nostalgia plus he’s kind of a Deve-O too.
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I don’t think it’s legally binding here.
Feel like travelling to New York or wherever else you can do it in America anytime soon?-
We’ll be safe in the UK too.
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I’ll start.
Hi I’m Peter AKA NovaCascade. This is the first week that I’ve posted on TAY, because to be honest you people kinda scare me. But with Xmas coming up, I figured there’s no better time to embrace the insanity. I was at the Rage event a few weeks ago and it was good to be able to put some faces to the names I see posting on here regularly. With any luck I’ll be able to keep up with you all in the future-
HI DUDE… only thing you need to be scared of, is Harli… in the beginning… with oars… ’nuff said (she hears everything, it’s not safe).
but welcome 😀
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Recently I have found some mysterious bruises on my….. Never mind. Has she found me already? I swear I didn’t mean anything…
Hold on, there’s someone at the door.
*BANG* *CRASH* ARGH!!
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naah don’t worry that’s just us…
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Harli doesn’t use a “door”
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Pfft, doors.
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Hey Nova, welcome to TAY! Just so you know, if we ARE scaring you, please let use know. It’s always good to hear when you’re good at something…
Feedback is important.
Feedback also sounds like the name of a backwards-walking monster that eats things.
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i don;t mean to be rude but i haven’t remembered if you have posted very much before a week ago?
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I think Rize turned up around the same time as Pixel… Could be wrong.
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Been posting on TAY for about a month(ish?) and was on Kotaku for ages before that. WE’VE BEEN OVER THIS, ROCKET! 😀
Also, the court ruled that I haven’t been following Pixel around inappropriately. It was sheer coincidence that I moved to the same city AND suburb as him, to start a job at the same place he works, after coincidentally being in the same IT course for two years prior.…what?
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We’re not insane, we’r HAHAHAHA, OH GOD, A BIRD JUST FLEW INTO MY WINDOW
I just checked guys, it’s okay. a little shocked, but okay. It’s gone and flown off somewhere.
Well i am Kidna new and a lot of regulars do not yet know me. But Hi am Jason, mates with puppylicks, Klutar and others. Self confessed cod addict (as if you had not noticed) From Melbourne, Spend more time on my xbox than any other past time.
Love all things warhammer 40k. Listen to lots of music, anything on the fringe other than rap/hip hop/rnb.
Hello!
I started posting on the site about the same time as that Rage Competition was on, originally under the name Darren. That was probably the most stressed I ever got at work, the only one I ever found early was the first couple so I was destined to not win but ahh well!
I made my first post on TAY yesterday just so I have another thing to comment on while bored at work 😛
Good to meet you all!
I guess that’s my cue.
Hi, my name’s MadDogMike (as you already knew), aka Mikey. MadDogMike is a pretty crappy name if you ask me, but I’ve got no imagination so I stole it from the old arcade shooting game “Mad Dog McCree” and I’ve been using it for about 15 years ever since. You don’t want to know how long I’ve spent in the “name your character” screens of Diablo 2…
I’ve been around on Kotaku for a while but more as a lurker and occasionally commenting on articles, rarely venturing into TAY due to the chaos and the negative impact it has on my productivity… I’m starting to hate my job though so I no longer care as much, so you might see me in here more often!
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Oh lord, name your character screens. Even worse when it is online and you start getting “Sorry that name is taken”
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back when i played wow and never got past level 30 all my toons where named after things i could see eg. logitech
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Righto! I’m Aaron, i.e. BearBlaster, long-time lurker of Kotaku (since 2009). Never really got into the TAY, or comments, but finally decided I should make some sort of presence here about a week ago, so here I am! Also, introductions are scary.
It’s fantastic to see so many new people here. Congratulations on discovering one of the nicest communities on the interwebz, guys.
The only downside is that I’m so confused that I don’t know where to run first with The Oar. WAT DO
D:
Oh alright, geez…
I’m Morkai (or Adam as my birth-mother would have you believe)
I’m currently playing Battlefield3 on PC (Morkai_AU in BattleLog I think, add me for shooty-fun-time!) and I’m about to get back into AssCreedBro and begin Dark Souls, so I may disappear for having dashed my head against a wall…
Erm… I’m currently living in Sydney, with plans to move to Melbourne in 2012 if I can find a job down there, so we’ll see what happens. I’m currently working in an IT Support gig at a studio in Redfern, but my contract is due to finish just before christmas, so even if I don’t move to Melbourne, I still gotta find a new job in 2012… 🙁
The Poem Thread!
RULES:
– You must use ABAB verse.
– It must Rhyme.
– Only one line a post.
– Keep it Dirty.
TO BEGIN:
Jim jumped over the moon,
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Then he went and screamed
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Hi Guys, Apologies for the Quietness. Been going through some crap. My laptop crapped itself two nights ago during a lol match, and all going well should be working again tonight. but also yesterday my partner and I broke off our relationship soI havent been in the right space for sitting in front of the computer. Except of course at work, where I’m trying to do as much of it as possible…
So enough of my bitching, how are the pretty people* (I’m looking at you Bish, Rocketman and Numbers)
* by pretty people I actually mean everyone
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So that’s why you disappeared from that game. Your absence was noted :p
On a more serious note, sucks to hear things aren’t working out that brilliantly. Aside from the lack of soul, you seem like a decent chap so getting back into the right space shouldn’t be that difficult.
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why aren’t you ever supportive of my relationship problems? geez bunny i am going through some stuff with my grandma she puts to many peas on my plate and i am all like i can’t eat that many peas. I am fed up and i don’t know what to do?
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Looks like I forgot to include the last bit “the right space generally being in front of your desk in a comfortable chair.”
Also, you should use leftover peas to make a model of the solar system. If they pester you about it, just say you’re trying to work something about about wolds peas. After that horrible pun, they’ll make sure you never have excess peas again.
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also sorry about your relationship ending break ups seem fairly toturous. Not speaking from inside knowledge just from watch dawsons creek. chin up dude 🙂
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I don’t really do singing. I can do spoken word versions of songs though.
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Hello, Hivemind brother!
How is your day?
Wait, I already know, nevermind.
Also yes, your bum does look big in that.
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Ah, ChrisCo, sorry to hear that. I am bad at comforting others, but if you ever need some good n’ fun game time, you know where to find us.
Oxford Street.
I mean TeamSpeak.
But you could see how I would get the two confused.
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Also, men everywhere.
With the occasional gender-ratio-balancing female.
But mostly the men.This analogy has somehow worked out brilliantly.
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Until i meet Harli i was convinced there was no women on the internet and she was trolling.
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wait a minute he is actually a she? i thought he/she had a small asian friend to stand in when he/she physically appeared somewhere. (youtube vid from yesterday or the day before)
i am confuse
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A midget in a fembot.
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Two midgets, one on the other’s shoulders with a voice modulator.
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A billion nano-midgets bound together in a human-like shape that looks like Harli.*nods to self*
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hear hear good sir!
I have a friend who is petrified of midgets, he actually loses his shit if he sees one
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I AM NOT A MIDGET
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Actually, my first foray into TAY was essentially trolling because for the longest time, you all believed I was a man. This worked fine for me.
Thanks to all of you. It will be fine, I’ll come stalk you all on oxford street, I mean team speak. yes thats what I meant. :p
Dang sorry to hear that man, even ‘mutual’ breakups are hard as hell to go through. Just as well you have a lot of videogames to fall back on, they always help me through tough times 🙂
Not being a LoL player, I can’t really comment on that, but I do feel your pain. My pc has been a right PITA recently, and after just getting a new vid card too!!! Grrr!!! *shakes fist*
I can console you on the relationship thing too. I dun think you were around these parts at the time, or you might have just appeared, but middle of this year my wife and I split. I thought we could handle it like adults and remain friends, but apparently she just went crazy as time passed! I hope for your sake that doesn’t happen to you 😉 It’s always better to remian on speaking terms if possible!
We’re always here or on twitter if you wanna chat bout anything though.
hope your feeling better soon mate. i fail at comforting so *hugs*
hope it helps*
*hug from a stranger might be just a lil creepy
hi Gingerchris. Sucks to hear about your problems, hope everything clears out for you soon. I think I recall you mentioning you were Sydney-based? If so, let’s organise a meat and stuff! They’re lots of fun and I can think of nothing more fun then meeting new people who share the same interests as you!
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Hehe i listened to that song 10 times before i went fuck it there is no meaning to that song they were just high!
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HAHAHA! Nooo, I’ve read an interview with him and they asked him about that song. He said he loved these old spokeon story cassette tapes him and his brother used to have, and since the album is focussed aorund the idea of childhood freedom, innocence, dreams etc, he thought it was fitting, but that not everyone would like it.
He also said something about how it starts a bit silly and childish, but that by the end of it he wanted it to seem kind of beautiful, the idea of this girl just wanting everyone to be friends.
It has come to my attention that at least one copy of my book has gone missing in the post. Everyone’s copies should well and truly have arrived by now.
So if you’ve ordered one and not received it, PLEASE LET ME KNOW and I’ll get another one out to you ASAP.
Thanks!
Also, enter here for a chance to win another copy: http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/17389-the-lesser-evil-book-1
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Turns out I had heard Midnight City on Triple J before and really liked it. I’m glad I know who it is now, this album is excellent.
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Nero’s promises is the best dubstep song out this year. This year included skrillexes EP’s
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I prefer the Skrillex remix.
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That is excellent 🙂
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Me likey.
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2nd’d that song f***ing rips shit
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i’ve had nero’s album on repeat all morning at work. My colleagues listened intently for the first 2 hours then told me to switch to headphones 😉
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I like 360 more every time I see him. He seems like such a cool guy. Plus he had puppets for his Like a Version. Puppets are awesome.
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I saw PEZ + 360 support Mike Skinner at a seedy little club in Melb a couple of years ago, just before that festival song hit heavy airplay time – I hate to say it but i reckon they outshone skinner that night and it shows because both are still around hitting it!
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For your listening pleasure – Graveyard Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KVacOk0Tww
they have a dedicated hammer & chain player. so yeah…
I woke up this morning and said ‘today I will play Skywayrd sword. Dont disapoint me, Australia.
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Oi wakap dis mornin an sed ‘t’day oi’ll play Sky’ard Sord’. Dun dispoint me, Stralya.
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That is the best rendition of the spelling of our country I have ever seen.
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Well so far it seems one of us has a confirmed no they are not, but another has a message from them that says he can pick it up. Which will be put to the test.. any moment now
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ShiggyNinty picked up his copy: http://twitter.com/#!/shiggyninty/status/139178000867524608/photo/1
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It’s… it’s ok… if there was anyone I would want to have that game after me, it would be Shiggy. Play it tonight Shig. Play it for all of us…
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Looks like finding a headset in the Brisbane CBD is a futile task. Guess who’s taking a trip to Milton for some cheap stuffs?
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I mentioned staticice either earlier this week or late last week but…
on the off chance you might care and not checked this already:
http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=headset+banshee+state%3Aqld
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I tried putting a few random searches in there and it always comes up with Umart :p
So it’s easier to just go straight to the Umart site. That’s why I’m off to Milton after work, it’s where their closest store is.
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This trawling of the internetz is getting me down
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Bloody fantastic shane, good to see you picked up my typo. remove the K when reading the above fellow readers.
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Wish I had something more useful to contribute, but witless sarcasm is like my only superpower 🙁
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I usually only speak in angles
#iseewhatyoudidthere
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Note to self: When buying a can of Mother from a food outlet, don’t take a swig and state to the friendly Asian woman: “Your mother tastes different…”.
They won’t find it funny.
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But i do. I think everyone should try this at least once.
Then report back to me and tell me how it went! 😛
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There’s an extension to this joke involving V, but I think we might be going a little too…”adult”…
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protip: I image searched for explosion face to try find a fitting reaction photo… don’t image search explosion face :S
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I hear that BlightTown framerate is really something.
What can I look forward to since I’ve rung my first bell already?Also, New Londo Ruins is a dark and depressing place, even by Lordran’s dark and depressing standards.
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You know that ladder next to the three undead rats under the bridge that eventually leads to the first bell?
Did you ever get framerate issues there?
That’s the sort of framey-ness you should be expecting from time to time.Unless you meant what you should be expecting in Blighttown itself.
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Here is a description of why I am annoyed in blight town, fully sick spoilers hidden.
Vg’f n uncunmneq fgehpgher bs funxrl jbbqra cyngsbezf, frireny ynlref uvtu, fhfcraqrq nobir n fjnzc. Gurer ner oybj qneg favcref gung tvir lbh n ‘gbkva’ fgnghf rssrpg nsgre gjb uvgf, juvpu vf pbzcyrgryl qvssrerag gb ‘cbvfbarq’. Gurl uvqr va gur funqbjf naq ner trarenyyl qvssvphyg gb frr, naq V qvqa’g npghnyyl abgvpr gur qnegf jrer gurer hagvy n srj qrnguf va (V gubhtug gur gbkva rssrpg jnf gb qb jvgu jurer V jnf fgnaqvat/nern-bs-rssrpg). Gurer ner vavsvavgryl fcnjavat zbfdhvgbf, naq whfg jnyxvat va gur jngre bs gur fjnzc pnhfrf lbhe cbvfba zrgre gb rfpnyngr. Gur fgnaqneq mbzovr rarzl unf na haoybpxnoyr rng-lbhe-snpr-bss nggnpx, naq znal bs gur cyngsbezf qba’g frrz gb unir rabhtu ebbz gb fvqrfgrc jvgubhg crevy. Cerggl zhpu nyyg ur bgure rarzvrf nccyl cbvfba vs gurve uvgf pbaarpg. V fgevatyl erpbzzraq univat gur fcvqre fuvryq.
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I have not been to New Londo yet.
Framerate in Blighttown can be sucky, the internet suggests it’s an AI pathfinding thing. I got similar in Darkroot Basin/Gardens where the annoying cats are.
About where to go after first Bell… no idea about your SL, but:
Vs lbh’ir ehat gur svefg oryy naq unir purpxrq bhg qnexebbg tneqraf (ohggresyl) naq Uniry, lbh cebonoyl arkg jnag gb tb gb gur Qrcguf (xrl sebz lbhe nzvtb gur Pncen Qrzba), be znlor gur Ulqen. Bu! Gurer’f nyfb n evat onpx ng gur nflyhz gung fgbcf jngre vasyhrapvat lbhe zbirzrag (hfrshy sbe gur Ulqen).
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V whfg jrag onpx gb gur Nflyhz, V fnj fbzrguvat fuval ng gur Sveryvax Fuevar naq gevrq gb svther bhg ubj gb trg gb vg. Orsber V xarj vg V jnf onpx ng gur Nflyhz. V’z bayl nobhg FY 19. V tbg unzzrerq. 🙁
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That part you’re talking about in Darkroot Gardens, with the cats, is that after the hydra?
Also: Lrnu V gbbx bhg gur Pncen, znlor bapr V gnxr bhg Uniry V’yy tb onpx gb gur Nflyhz naq trg gung evat naq grfg bhg zl fuval arj Mjvrunaqre :Q
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Yes, after Hydra.
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Oh wait… I meant “yes, that’s where I was having framerate issues” not “that’s where you should explore”. I would point you at the depths first! The cats would have rolled me had they not glitched on a tree, and I lost the souls from them almost immediately after that in a battle I am in no rush to return to. I’m SL33 or so.
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haha yeah I knew what you mean, I was just curious if I was missing an area in the gardens or not. I plan on smashing Havel and then maybe aiming to the asylum or the depths.
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It is official. Taybies are bad for my health. Let me explain. Normally i buy maybe 4 games a year, because non gaming wife = strick budget. Normally i am fine with this, however, since becoming a TAY regular, i am finding you guys cause me to want games that i normally would just ignore.
While in an of itself this isn’t a bad thing, trying to then convince my wife to let me buy these extra games is like dark souls, i just know it will end in failure and quite possibly my death.
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I am exactly the same. This month I’ve bought 3 launch games… which doubles the number of launch games I’ve bought EVER.
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If my maths is correct, the 3 I’ve bought this month added to the 3 I’ve bought previously doubles the total from the 3 I’ve bought previously to 6. 🙂
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I wasn’t in any rush to get Skyrim, but between my other friends and the people here going off non-stop about it, I caved, and now I’m looking at Zelda, too, and I know I don’t have the money for it. So yeah, you’re definitely not alone. TAY is a vortex stealing all our precious monies.
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Yeah i am going past kmart on the way home from work to see how much they are selling skyrim for. Have some vouchers to spend. so figure why not.
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Don’t worry about it, soon you will be buying graphic novel’s you didn’t intend to get, taking flights you did plan to and the list goes on.
Games are just the gateway drug man
It’s been quite a while since I last posted.
Been busy, coz my friend came over for the weekend, and now I’m sorting out stuff I need to do over the summer: summer courses, work, and moving. My two lovely flatmates are moving out coz they’re graduating already, so I’ve been looking for a place to live nearby. I’ve found someone that I know (not that close, but still, better than complete strangers), they have a spare bedroom, now just waiting to see if they want me to move in or not.
CrabJiffy has started his internship at an engineering firm in Hong Kong.
How’s everyone? o/
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nothing really mrs Dawdle. Just kinda bored with things at the moment i think i need to plan something to look forward to so i can get through the really boring days!
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are you going to make fun of her when she does something wrong while you are commentating ? and then proceed to say i need improving in every area i play!
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In my defense, I can only pick on those worse than me. If they’re better than me and do something different, it’s probably because I’m doing it wrong :p
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Hey.
I praised you for your use of Malphite’s health buffer to get right in there.
If that’s the way you’re going to be, I guess I’ll just never ever praise you ever again. See, this is what I get for trying to be nice to you.
:<But seriously though, I don't think what anything we said in that game was particularly mean.
You do need to work on last hitting.
And I've told you before that you should try conserve a bit of Mana for emergencies, instead of using it constantly to harass with Malphite's Slow.
By no means do I claim to be a great player, but these are also areas I need to improve in too, and I recognise that.
I phrase things meanly in jest, but I like to think that underneath the crusty layer of bitterness, there are still valid points there.-
i don’t even. Sarcasm guys geez. I don’t get angry at people telling me i am bad and where i can improve i am happy you are helping!
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Because Jesus Christ man, in the two game we’ve recorded, you’ve twice dived through two sets of towers for an unsuccessful chase and just died and it’s been … something to watch I guess. It’s all “OH GOD WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT” -
both times were dumb, the first time was more dumb though
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There’s still something wrong with the desktop PC, and it outright refuses to open LoLlauncher.exe . I haven’t found time to fix it yet. Also the audio on it is borked.
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Well, I guess when you have some spare time to fix it up, you know where to find us to get some help.
Worst case, I will personally drive over there and punch it, the long-known guaranteed method of fixing things.
I think some marketing company needs to harness the power of TAY. If you can make me risk my life to attempt to buy more video games than the wife allows, then you can do ANYTHING 😛
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But by all means, @ArnottsPR, were you to pay me whilst I was doing this, I would not be opposed to it.
You pay me, I buy Shapes, you get money from Shapes, you use that money to pay me, which I use to buy Shapes…
It’s like secure circulation of of your own money that you know you’ll always reclaim.-
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I don’t know, they haven’t been great since the flavour nerf, but then again, neither has Pizza.
From the original flavours though, those two are the top two. Depends on how much flavour they put in that specific pack, I suppose. Sometimes you get ones that just don’t taste like anything but salty biscuit.
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SUGHLY!
Re: your game:
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1) Tb onpx gb gur fgneg naq gel vg nyy ntnva
2) Cnff gur evtbebhf fpehgval naq or qrcyblrq nf na ntrag bs qnexarff
Gur Vaqvr Tnzr negvpyr fnvq zhygvcyr raqvatf, naq V’z fgnegvat gb srry nakvbhf gung V unira’g shyyl rkcyberq gur tnzr!
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Also, unsure if you aware of this:
http://www.gnomeslair.com/2011/11/egress-test-of-sts-417.html-
Yeah Gnome is awesome! He’s been on board with my work since just about day one. That guy is a seriously good supporter of indie adventures.
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Today is a day of musical revelations! Just checked out Explosions in the Sky. Pretty amazing stuff, Such well crafted songs.
Something that really pisses me off: ‘Security’ questions. Stock questions which you’re supposed to provide a correct answer for, for verifying you are an account owner if you are suddenly struck dumb and can’t remember your password (insert obligatory XKCD about long easy to remember passwords here).
I hate security questions. They reduce the security of your account, because they open you up to the possibility of social engineering attacks. They also allow a single compromise of one part of your digital life to become the thin end of a wedge that can get an attacker into anything. So many of these supposedly secret questions can be answered by someone who either knows you, or has access to information about you. Things like your first school, the names of your pets, your mother’s maiden name, all very easy to find and getting easier every time someone else joins facebook, linkedin et al.
So personally, I have two or three stock answer phrases that I always use which are not answers to the questions – not even related to the questions. That usually works. Usually.
EA has ‘beefed up’ (read: reduced) account security for Star Wars: The Old Republic accounts, and as part of your beta signup you need to add insecurity questions and answers. They have a library of about thirty questions, and you need to pick five and add the answers. No worries, I thought, this will just be if I need to authenticate with customer support or recover the password that I won’t ever need to recover because I don’t forget my passwords (insert obligatory XKCD about long easy to remember passwords here).
Submit, and they reject my answers. “Your answers have to all be different” they say. So you want me to actually put down a unique set of answers. Well, fair enough, I guess, but that’s actually kind of annoying because I’ll struggle to remember what I’ve put in, because I sure as hell am not adding actual accurate answers! So I make the answers to my insecurity questions ‘unique’ by adding a number after each one. Fuck you EA, now they’re unique but I can still remember them and no one can guess them.
Submit. Everything takes. And they then inform you after the fact that they’ll be asking you one of these at random, not all five. Fuck. I don’t know what number corresponds with what question! So I go to edit my questions and… answer this security question to edit your security questions.
ಠ_ಠ
And of course, they even blank out the answer you’re typing as if it was a password, so I couldn’t tell if I got the spaces in the right places or had typoed or what. Three guesses later I’m locked out of my account completely. The password doesn’t work at all any more. So I try and recover my password. Sends an email to me, click the link, change my password. Actually I set it to what it was already, because that’s easy to remember and hard to crack (insert obligatory XKCD about long easy to remember passwords here). Log in with the new password. ‘Answer this security question to continue’.
（╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Entered a random guess (thank god, it was the same question I’d been asked before!), got it on the third go. Went to edit my answers. ‘Answer this security question to continue’. Guessed again, got it. Changed them to accurate answers so I can actually remember what the fuck they’re supposed to be.
They ask you one of these questions every. time. you. log. in. Or maybe my account’s broken. Anyway, it’s very annoying and completely cheapens whatever minuscule security value they might have had. EA: If you’re wanting me to do a two-factor authentication, let me do it properly with a dongle or something. Apparently those are only for the people who buy the overpriced limited edition of the game though. Insecurity questions should be enough for the plebes.
I think I’m going to need to come up with a way to generate a unique, memorable answer for these based off the site & the question. :\
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Security questions are one of the dumbest things to ever catch on. I never remember what the hell I’ve put as the answer. Ever. Even when I put in a real answer.
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Just like f4ction’s security question from last night.
“What is donkey?”One of my security questions on an old email is “Food!”. Man, I don’t even.
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I ended up emailing myself the answers so I could remember them. My email has a completely unique password that I change monthly and is protected by two-factor authentication in addition to that. That was before I realized they’d be challenging me with one every goddamn login, though. Going to end up memorizing them pretty quickly because of that.
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I know
When it comes to favourite historical figure I can never remember if I went Questar or Lion-O
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This is an extremely valid rant. I support your table flipping and will join any crusade to ban security questions.
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Security questions are a pretty useless. At high school I had my entire grade convinced I was some kind of hacker because I got into my mates Hotmail account while we were sitting around on the piss. All I did was casually ask his mum what her maiden name was, and threw in obvious answers anyone who knew him would know (First pets name and his first school which was the same as mine). Even if I didn’t know him most security questions can be easily obtained by asking inconspicuous questions if you manage to steer conversation towards them.
According to Twitter people with preorders at GAME can pick up Zelda now!
Thankyou, Twitter, for making me feel more in the loop with things.
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GAME Australia
@GAMEAus GAME Australia
I interrupt this program to inform you that if you hold a preorder with GAME for Skyward Sword, you are able to pick up your game now!
Epic epiphany moment:
For (apparently) no specific reason, various Star Wars (Eps 4, 5 and 6, thank you) have started playing in my head.
Suddenly realised I’ve been meaning to download the SWTOR client and get back into it.
Thank you, brain!
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I’m downloading/installing the Old Republic client as we speak in preparation for the stress test on the weekend. Going to be hella fun!
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How many other TAYbies are going to be in the beta this weekend? Perhaps we should pick a server / servers and hang out together?
A bunch of friends of mine have preordered so we already have a guild set up (Republic, PvE) and I’m hoping to use the beta as a chance to decide which class I’d like to play as my main.
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I’m on the fence about preordering – on one hand, it’s TOR, on the other, I want a local release…
It’ll depend on how many of my friends would be willing to bail on WoW for a while.
Also, I’d be up for some TAYbie group stuff, assuming I get as much time to play on the weekend as I would like. -
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Maybe not even just a guild, just a general play-group for the beta weekend (though maybe it’ll become a guild?)
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Sounds good. At some point I’ll have to jump in TS. It’s probably easier to organise things like this with it 😛
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I haven’t ever been in TS, and I’m sure there’s a lot of potential TORbies that won’t have either. 🙂
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Meeeeeeeeee! That sounds like a great idea, though someone’d need to get a text or voice chat thingy going.
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When I looked last night, Steam said it wouldn’t unlock until the 25th. So did they start selling it today, then? And then…suddenly decide not to…
I have a friend who preordered it on steam, with all the price changing and release date shifting he must be getting pretty annoyed now…
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Coming up as region locked now. I bought the retail one, but I think I’ve spent too much time on the trouble shooting forums, following one conspiracy theory after another…
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Planning to play LoL tonight, connection and laptop permitting. if anyone is on id love to join you 🙂
please be nice im not particularly awesome ʘ‿ʘ
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Nah, bro.
Gotta make it point to the side.
And tilt it.
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Public transport hates me. I missed my bus by literally 30 seconds. As I was walking to the stop I saw it pull away in front of me. Had to wait 20 minutes for the next bus. I get on the next bus and 20 minutes later as it pulls into my stop, the train station, the train I catch home pulled out. I now had to wait another 20 minutes for the next train.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. They really, really need to work on getting the bus and train times synced up better.
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That’s happened to me once.
Took me 3 hours to get home from uni, a trip that can be driven in under 40 minutes even with decent traffic.
Good times.
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There’s nothing worse than running towards a bus because you’re maybe thirty seconds late getting there, seeing the driver look directly at you, and having them drive away anyway. He looks right at you, shrugs, and leaves.
WHY?! DO I SMELL BAD OR SOMETHING?!
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This happened to me once, but slightly worse. I’ve just crossed the road and am like 150m away from the stop, and the bus drives past me. So I sprint toward the stop as fast as I can and literally just as I get there, the driver closes the doors. Like he was waiting for me to get there before denying access.
So I had to wait 15 minutes for the next one, sitting on the curb feeling like I was about to pass out / have a heart attack from sprinting so hard. 🙁 And that was the day that I resolved to purchase a parking permit for university so I would never have to take the bus ever again.
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That used to happen to me every day on my way home from uni. As the first train was pulling into Strathfield, the Mountains train would be leaving and I’d have to sit and wait for at least 30mins, sometimes and hour if it was the middle of the day. And that was every single day
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But then I’d need to wash my undies.
And my trousers.
And my chair.
And, if there’s overflow, the floor.-
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Marry me.
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Does anyone else like pooping at work? It’s like being paid to poop. Feels good man
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I’m ok with doing a work poop under the right circumstances.
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goddamit, stop making me laugh at work, people already think I’m wierd enough as is!
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Technically, you wouldn’t have to wash the chair or the floor. They pay other people to do that. \o/
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You might need a new chair though.
Wrap your chair in plastic, just in case. If you have no plastic, just use glad-wrap.
I’ll be leaving in 10-15 mins to pick up Skyward Sword and finish Wind Waker. I told myself I wouldn’ play Skyward Sword until Wind Waker was done, so I’d better hurry it up.
I also have AC:R and Skyrim being played atm, and I haven’t even started Saints Row 3.
/firstworldproblems.
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Speaking of the MC server, is there something wrong with it?
I tried to get on yesterday and I successfully did for a few seconds before I got kicked. Tonight when I try and get on I don’t even get that far, it says the server responded with an invalid server key. What’s up with that?
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apparently it’s a bug in 1.0… if you get that, Notch’s “bugfix” is to keep trying and you will eventually get in… i found that i had to remove the server from my list and re-add it each time it happened
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Yay. I still don’t have Batman. JB told me that they’ve gotten the shipment, but they are yet to process it. Obviously a delayed PC port isn’t high on their ‘to process’ list >:(
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Damn JB Hifi!
They told me when the PS3/Xbox versions came out “your preorder is in!!” and I was like “oh cool”
And then it turned out they were WRONG because my preorder is PC.
Sadface.COOL STORY FREYR
I remember posting here but I can’t find my post. How on Earth does everyone find their posts or keep up? o_o
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Never leaving seems like the best option. I’d have a lot of tabs on my firefox. It really annoys me though, too many tabs.
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So I went and picked up a shiny new Razer Banshee headset.
Not turning out to be such a great idea. Lots of crackingly and roboting it up on the old TeamSpeak channel. Tried messing with all of the settings and I don’t think there’s much I’m going to be able to do if it starts up again.
Sadface.
Should have gone with the Plantronics, how uncomfortable could they have been?
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Yup. These are most definitely being returned tomorrow, after work. Going to see if I can get a refund and just pick up a different set entirely. I might have some duds or they just might suck with OS X. I’d prefer to just try something else entirely than try these again.
started to Download LoL this afternoon. oh joy housemates are dl’ing to many “movies” tonight at the same time 🙁 i think i can hear one from here
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housemate in particular is Muslim (i know its him because i just walked past his door), so i know its definitely not live plus Live i don’t mind so much. wow the bass and the volume are almost disturbing. oh well time for headphones 🙂
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I just saw those Zelda aprons. I should totally make one X3 Christmas always makes me want to do craft stuff D=
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Just caught up on the last three pages of TAY (again, silly work) and I figured I’d respond to everything right here. Because I can.
Dr What’s meat write up made me super jelly. Just like all the other write ups. I’m going to go with Lime jelly this time. Silly state that I live in.
Re Steve-O and Suzie the Catshit: Cute! Super cute!… That is all.
I agree with Strange re: Twitter. Glad I joined the other day. Dan’s tweets were hilarious, and I even had a brief chat about Game of Thrones with Doc What!
To Rocketman, and his question about music, I put forward Lamb’s “5”. Also Bon Iver is awesome, I totally get to see them live in March!
@serrels/cracks: Finkel is Einhorn! Einhorn is Finkel! Worst case of hemorrhoids, etc.
BDKIAF – Explosions in the Sky rock my socks. Saw them live a few years back. Freaking. Epic. Nuff said.
@Dire Wolf: It happens. The bus that takes me home from work is never on time, and almost never links up with the next bus I catch. Usually there’s a wait of about 10 minutes right out the front of my work, followed by another wait of about 15 minutes for the next bus. On the plus side as I said the first bus picks me up right out the front of my work, and the second bus drops me off almost right out the front of my house. Of course it still takes about an hour, which would probably only be about half that by car… I need my licence.
Too many tabs on my firefox (too many tabs!) Too many tabs on my firefox! – scree
Well, that’s my catching up out of the way. Now I have to continue to force myself not to buy any new games (SKYRIM! BATMAN!, etc). I’ve got too many old games to get through, and I actually want to try and play through them. Kotaku and TAY are making it really hard for me though…
New Humble bundle’s out. Am I the only one who thinks these are getting a little too frequent? I mean, between the Voxatron debut, Skyrim, and exams I haven’t had time to finish any of the games I’ve bought recently.
I’ve always bought these out of principle – support indies, charity, no DRM, yadda yadda – even if I don’t really like most of the games.
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I’m curious if more frequent bundles will reduce the number of purchases made. If there are too many, too often, I’ll definitely move from “definite purchase” across to “depends on the bundle”.
For the same reason, I’m a little baffled why IndieRoyale has chosen such a frequent update schedule. Every two weeks doesn’t sound sustainable to me. But maybe that is just the schedule conflicting with my desire to purchase every single one.
Ohai.
To people on the last page:
A Kotaku SWTOR guild sounds awesome. If I can download 20gb by the weekend on this crappy connection (lolno) I’m definitely gonna try out the stress beta.
I’ve preordered from Amzaon but I’ll be away for all of the end of December, all of January and a bit of Feb. So no SWTOR for a while 🙁
If anyone is serious about a guild I’d be interested – not a huge MMO player but I think Kotaku peeps would be the exception.
Oh, and! I got the SWTOR novel about Revan (from KOTOR) in the mail, finished it this afternoon. Has a lot of interesting information about the Sith, and sets things up for a really interesting story in the MMO.
What classes/alignments were people thinking of playing? I’ll probably start with the Jedi classes (depending on their storylines) but I’m also looking forward to seeing what the Imperial Agent does.
Oh wow.. So anyone here watching Sons of Anarchy season 4? Shits just so on edge in the current season. No clue how Kurt Sutter is going to pull off a 5th season at this rate.
Plainview, old boy, could you do the right thing and return my copy of The Catcher in the Rye? There’s a good chap. Just bring it to the upstairs quarters and no questions asked. Opposite the river. Literally across the road. I’m not even sore at you.
Lost my brass Zippo lighter it was too; might of lent it to you last night. Let me know. You know what I’m talking about here. No memory of the blasted thing; the one with the “-07/10/65-” engraved/initialed on top, right on top, top of lid, unmissable. Got the blighting thing in Morocco, all that time ago. It’s important. Not to worry. Be a good sport about it. No questions asked.
As you were,
Trotswood.
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Nah, I won’t laugh. All I’ve ever bought from steam sales are Magicka and Sam and Max complete collection.
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http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/290633883715?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_2786wt_906
My latest purchase on ebay.
And to anyone who has not got MGS4 on PS3, now is your chance for $8
https://www.ebgames.com.au/ps3-141019-Metal-Gear-Solid-4-Guns-of-the-Patriots–PlayStation-3
MY GOD! WORK IS INSANE THIS WEEK!
And I FINALLY got that email about my productivity/net usage…
*sigh*
Better do some work now.
I MISS YOU GUYS!
So getting into this Eve Online thing… I think I’m going to start with Minmatar and probably a Rifter. I like the Minmatar design and whole faction history and stuff.
THOUGHTS?
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From what I read, looking cool is what you should base it on.
Will probably roll Caldari because missiles are easy/powerful
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Don’t even bother mate. The amount of time you must spend before you can be even useful is well over 8 months and prepare to be the target of pirates constantly because you are an easy target.
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Correcting people’s grammar on twitter? Reminds me of the time I tried to clean all the sand of the beach, then drain the water and sweep away the clouds.
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Hell yeah!!!
Considering i dont have the pleasure of owning an Xbox 360 i had to wait for Sony to pull their finger out for Daytona USA and its finally here.
Massive nostalgia trip, not only playing it at a local Timezone arcade and also having it on PC.
Hey guys,
I havent been able to go on TAY this week because, get this, I actually have to WORK while I’m at work. (/sigh what is the world coming too). I have also been spending all my time on Skyrim (big shock). I also picked up Zelda Skyward Sword yesterday and I have really enjoyed it so far. It seems different but the similar at the same time.
So 10 Pages … I’m guessing I missed a big.
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I know the feeling. All of a sudden there are work things to do. It’s probably a government plot, or something.
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Dear Scree,
Please find enclosed your first post.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-150/comment-page-7/#comment-449306
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy
You know its a weird day when this is what is playing in your brain when you wake up.
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I find it funny when people link their actual search so you can see what they typed in. It ammuses me!
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I was not searching the full title at work, nor was I clicking the link at work. call me paranoid but still
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The Doug Anthony All Stars are freaking awesome!
Their rendition of ‘Throw your arms around me’ is probably the best I’ve heard.
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if it were minecraft i would randomly be walking around and yelling “UNGH!” every 20 seconds or something, which actually would be pretty funny!
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You’re planting ideas. BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH
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i did and all is forgiven…
i forgot that the map was getting switched, so Stevo decided to give it a viking funeral :P… now i has an awesome skyfortress instead…
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There is no protection known to man that can hold against the maelstrom that is Steve-o’s trolling.
Jerk.
😀
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Because Harli is Plainview?
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Not all of us are capable of eating two meals in one sitting Bish. But it won’t stop me from trying..
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I somewhat overslept this morning.
Woke up at roughly the time I normally get off the train. Ended up being half an hour late, so coffee o’clock was delayed by about half an hour. Super sadface.
Wow my laptop trackpad is completely spazzing out. Anyone had this happen to them? And if so, what did you do about it..? 🙁
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rub chocolate on it… lick it… buy a USB mouse? 😛
i hate trackpads with a passion, i’ve had one spazz out at me before, turned out the connector to the systemboard was loose, so i had to unscrew it all to push it back in
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FYI if your car ever needs fixing… call me 😀
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Oh wait no false alarm guys, Dell was attempting to install something for me without me knowing. Its all good now! Thanks for all the kinds of replies, both helpful and not so helpful.
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Your mum’s face is your problem!
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Used to have a trackpad problem with my old Dell laptop, where it would just not work properly every, say, 20th time it emerged from hibernation. It would respond to movements, but very inaccurately like my finger was constantly losing contact.
My solution? Ditch it and buy a Macbook Pro. Maybe you could try that?
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Watched Thank You For Smoking last night. Kept hearing about it over the interwebs, so I finally buckled down and enjoyed the show.
Good times. I particularly liked Rob Lowe’s character.
“When do you sleep?”
*beat* “Sunday.”
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He’s fantastic in this movie. We had to watch it in my PR class and it was the only good thing that came out of me taking PR -.-
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Apparently his new film “Young Adult” is amazing.
The trailer doesn’t do it justice, but Patton Oswalt’s in it so you know it’s gonna be amazing.
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Sold!
I think I might start following up on all of the movies that I’ve been meaning to watch.
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford is probably next on the list. It’s amazingly hard to force myself to type all of those capitalised words. Weird and/or hard.
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I’ve had that sitting there to watch for a while. Maybe we can both watch it this weekend and compare notes on Monday?
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Deal.
I’ve heard far too much praise for this movie lately to keep ignoring it.
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DOOOO IIIIIIITTTTTTTT!!!!
Freaking amazing film! Looks beautiful, great story and characters. A little long, but you don’t realise until it’s over.
Watch it now, or if not… now.
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Quick question: Cheapest shelf price for Super Mario 3D Land? This seems to suggest that Big W and Target are both $49, but the catalogues don’t support this claim. Can anybody confirm these prices from their own experience?
If you can help me out, my missus will bring home a new Mario and Zelda game for me today! <3
No more capped net means one thing – I can get the Drive OST on itunessssss!
A real humaaan beeeeeeing, and a reeaaaal heeeroooooo!
phew… finally caught up to TAY… wait, no don’t post anything! I’m finally caught up!
… dammit…
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That sorry was because I had already posted below when I read your post.
I’m posting up a storm of my own this morning.
Can you tell that I quit my job and only have… (counts) 7 days left to go here? What’s the worst they can do to me for wasting time this way? Crucify me? Ooh, that would be pretty bad actually.
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Also, I saw a comment for this article that perpetuates a piece of “common knowledge” I’ve seen a few times this week – that the US Kotaku editors get paid per hit for their articles.
Does anybody know this is actually true? Can you back up this claim with articles stating it is indeed official Gawker policy, or interviews with the journalists saying likewise? Would be interesting if true, as it’s definitely an approach that benefits short-term profits at the expense of long-term credibility.
However, if it’s false, it’s the sort of Internet crap that I’d like to think this site is above, and I look forward to saying “Proof or STFU” to the people who say it 🙂
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You have to remember that this site and Gawker are rather separated aside from the content that filters through.
That being said, I remember seeing something (no source, not going to try and deal with the US site layout) where Crescente defended the posting of some downright terrible articles (mainly T&A focused ones) because they brought in the page views. On top of that, Ashcraft is (was?) one of the best performers when it came to page views because of the high T&A content.
If that filters through to the writers directly where they get paid based on views or if they’re simply encouraged because Gawker values page views above all else isn’t exactly clear. It still seems to me that Gawker’s policy is simply to not give a damn about being good, but to get eyeballs looking at their page.
Except when it comes to the new layout, which they simply won’t admit to being wrong about.
Best thing is to just ignore Gawker entirely. Allure does good stuff, it just has the misfortune of using some of Gawker’s content.
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I’m very much aware that they’re separate entities. Doesn’t mean that people should still be entitled to still post baseless shit.
Wanting page views in the Internet world makes sense for the simple reason that more page hits = more advertising dollars. I’m sure that it’s even part of, though probably not all, of the performance metrics for Allure journalists.
But I interpret these comments as “They get 0.01c per page view (say), that page was viewed 100,000 times, so bashcraft gets $10 in his bank account as a direct result”. And I find that hard to believe.
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I don’t think it has been discussed publicly and I doubt that it’s that direct, but I wouldn’t find it hard to believe that the only metric they consider is page views. They will (and have) justify pretty much anything that appears on the site by saying that people viewed it so it must be relevant.
Not a fan of how they do business. I much prefer the sites that try to get dedicated audiences by being good than going for shallow views. Still, better than spreading articles over multiple pages.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s true, from what i understand, all the money that Gawker (and just about any other site) gets from their advertisers is based on page views/hits, so I would imagine that the writer bringing in more hits would be getting a higher bonus or whatever.
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If we could expunge the US site from here, I’d be happy.
Okay, even happier than I am right now.
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Wow, thats amazing. They really do go above and beyond to get the footage for Attenborough’s shows.
My first impression of Skyward Sword (no spoiler! unless Link having a sword is a spoiler) http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/link-sword.png
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Dude, that’s like telling people it was his sled.
You just don’t give out huge spoilers like that. Ever. On pain of death.
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well i was having an ok day now it just got shit, with a guaranteed chance of getting shitter. forewarning this is a bit of a whinge and moan.
about a week ago i spoke to my mum and asked her to book me a flight to the gold coast so i could spend christmas with heri havent been home for two christmas’s but i have been home inbetween that time. i told my dad yesterday and he was pretty cut about it, he said it was the first christmas without grandpa (died in may right before my birthday) and he wished i would spend it with him. yeah that made me feel pretty bad so i have been trying to come up with a compromise. anyway this morning i recieved an email from my step mother. so i get this massive rant from her about how dissapointed she is and that my memory is whack because as she put it “If you’re thinking about your mother and being fair, the score is 10 to your mother 2 to your father since he escaped”. and various other things about if my memory is so bad “but if you ever need to know anything about how much time was taken from your father I have it all documented from the family court proceedings.” so now i feel like shit 🙁 everytime anything slightly major happens even a small event shit like this happens. ive hated holidays since i was 12 y.o when all of this started. call me the grinch but i hate christmas, if anyone ever bragged about their parents being split up becuase they get double the present its a fucking lie there is no silver lining to having split up parents its just one constant shit storm. i almost resigned myself to the fact that i would never get married becuase of the circus created trying to juggle my two families. just want to escape it all maybe move to america.
apologies for ranting and such, never talked to anyone about this stuff normally just listen but i feel like im going to explode, and i have some stupid office bitch hovering behind me all day asking retarded questions.
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hey dude they shouldn’t be playing of your guilt to get you to do stuff. My family is the same. Ever since my dad died i was forced to choose between my mum’s side of the familly and my dad they say mean things about each other so i just said stuff it and did what i wanted to. Out of curiousity how old are you?
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Awww man that sucks. I feel for you. My ex had a family like that so I at least kind of know what you mean. Rant is justified.
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I’m sorry to hear that they’re guilt tripping you like this Di11enger. That hardly seems fair and not really in the spirit of Christmas and all that. Wish there was something we could do to help but in the mean time chin up, be strong 🙂
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Yeah mang, that email from your step mother is pretty :\ too. I can’t even begin to imagine being in your shoes, but stuff like that is not how you convince someone to visit.
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My wife has had her share of nasty Christmases in this vein. A compromise is often the best solution you can hope for: Christmas with one, New Years with the other, and then reverse it the next year.
No one ends up happy, but no one is miserable either (except for the exhausted and broke traveling child, but since when do they matter?)
Or you could try simply “I can’t afford it. You can come to me if you want.” (which can work surprisingly well!)
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Alternate suggestion which worked well for us: “We are hosting [event (e.g. Christmas)]. Come if you want, but you’d better behave, or you won’t get invited back.”
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when parents are determined to point score and otherwise behave like children, you have to call them on it. Parents need discipline, boundaries if they’re to grow up and become productive members of society.
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My solution would be to celebrate with both families on different days.
In my family, we have our extended family Christmas thing around the 10th/Mid-Dec. Direct family (+ maybe close friends or relatives) celebrates on Christmas Eve, which is when we do the whole present giving thing.
Christmas day we see other friends or family, or do nothing (My bro and his GF have Christmas eve with us and then Christmas day with her family).
I get that some families are set in their ways, so it’s not really an option.-
Yep, this is similar to what my wife and I do too. My parents divorced while I was pretty young and hers divorced when she was in her teens. So we have 4 family events to go to. It’s hard to keep everyone happy so before our son was born, we would divide christmas up over 4 days, sharing a day with each part of the family. It makes it easier this way. But this year, we have an infant son so this time, we’ve decided to go away for xmas/new years down the coast. Looking forward to it 😀
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Screw the lot of them and have a Christmas Meat instead!
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Sorry to hear that man 🙁
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Sorry to hear that mr Di11inger. My suggestion is to either compromise or make them come to you. I have not been in that situation before but I send you awkward stranger hugs anyways 🙂
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Sorry to hear there’s a stupid office bitch. I know what that’s like.
But seriously, sorry to hear the rest as well. Sucks bro 🙁
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thank you all :). i am 20 y.o rocketman. so actually this started when i was 8 because it was 12 years ago not when i was 12. i like your idea shane im guessing it works well in your situation, but i dont own a house. most chirstmas days i used to go half a day with mum half a day with dad. oh well maybe i will just hangout in brisbane for chirstmas day. last year i worked to try and avoid it lol.
Hallo, non-communist League of Legends playing friends!
I, CommunistBish, from EU Nordic and East have very proud announcement! I steal many idea and consult with good king Vladimir Putin about songs! He say to me “I punch you in front of cameras!” because he is from KGB and then I get punched! Proud day for communist parents.
Taking inspire from this, there is now Kotaku AU LoL Season 2 Remastered Mastery Buff Patch Compilation Playlist Part 1, half of a nearly four hour playlist!
Delete old volumes! Or not! I will not tell you what do! But there are relabelled songs and music which may or may not double up on songs from Volumes 1 and 2! This is much expand version! I understand not all songs are best pick or not to taste of some, but it okay! Just delete it from playlist, ja? Also, I am suddenly German!
http://www.mediafire.com/?h3rcn3x4kxqvm66
Part 2 is coming in maybe half hour!
Hey so ah… after Egress got featured a few times, all my bandwidth is getting chewed up fast! Where’s a good free place to get some server space, i.e. dropbox? Well, is dropbox any good?
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BT? Whats this?
Also I’m looking into upgrading the bandwidth I have, might be the smartest option…
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BitTorrent.
Upgrading your bandwidth will help, but I get a feeling that trying to distribute the load could make things a little easier for you as well.
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Ah yes, torrents… hmmm, yeah mebe. Man I have no idea what I’m doing haha! Ahhh, sigh… well, I put in an application to upgrade my bandwidth, so we’ll see how that goes for the time being. Thanks Trjn!
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Dropbox is pretty good. But then again, I don’t have people downloading 35gb worth of my
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Okay, maybe not such a good idea. Free dropbox only allows 10gb of bandwith per day. Paid dropbox (starting at ~$10/month) has 250gb a day though.
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I has a idea!
TAYbie movie club. We all watch a movie and then rave about how awesome it is.
This weekend, everyone go watch The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. On Monday, we shall discuss it and rejoice.
After that, we’ll go for another movie. Maybe something like Moon. Something with a nice, short, simple title.
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I figured there was no point trying to get people to watch it because we’re all going to be lined up at the midnight screening anyhow.
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Another excellent movie choice in Moon, good sir! I have both of these on blu-ray (win)
Happy to join in, though movie watching time may cut into catching up on old game playing time…
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Moon was amazing. I remember seeing a trailer for it when I was clicking on random videos on youtube and thought it looked good, only to find that it had already been and gone from the cinemas. I was so disappointed, but I fouind the DVD a few months later so everything worked out in the end
I woke up this morning with two cats bunched up right next to my face. Its cute, but you’ve got to wonder what the little terrors have been doing while you’re asleep.
Then they saw that I was awake, so one of them literally started screaming in a way that we’ve determined means ‘the food bowl is empty, what is wrong with you, you *expletive*’ and ran off to scratch at the pantry door.
Then I found out my internet was down, so I spent the last two hours slowly eating breakfast and reading Batman comics.
Trjn, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is . . . the best movie of all time. Done by the same guy who did Chopper, so you know it’s going to be real good. Real good. To my suprise, Jesse James died in the end. What’s all that about? The title tells you the ending, but it’s also works because it’s knowing the ending that makes it better; like Fight Club. Fight Club is a better movie when you know the ending. What’s all that about? Everything’s better when you know the ending. Like life.
Anyway, watch the film – it’s better than everything except ice cream. All your wildest dreams will come true.
Love,
Plainview.
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You can trust me! No seriously. Seriously, dude. My favourite movie. Seen it more times than Heat and sometimes I think Heat is my favourite movie. Seen it 7 times . . . and sometimes I think Se7en is my favourite movie.I can’t believe you don’t trust a make believe imaginary person you’ve never met before; what’s wrong with you?
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Oddly enough, I just don’t get the love for Se7en. Many elements of it are rather well done, but Brad Pitt’s character was not.
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Nnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
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So if I watch it while also eating ice cream… jeebus christ, I’m quivering in anticipation already…
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. . . and this is why Batguy is better than Plainview. I never even thought about doing that. For me there was always ice cream OR Jesse James. From now on I live in a world of ice cream AND Jesse James!
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Dont ever leave me! Also I feel bad caus I was gonna nominate you for kudos last week and forgot. Though you shouldnt take it personally caus Ive never nommed anyone, and wouldnt really know how to nom. I will nom you this weel instead. Am I allowed to tell the nomee who I intend to nom? I’m not sure.
Also, how do you nom?
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I really, really, hope that “how do you nom” question is a joke… it’s asked like 10 times a week in here…
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OK, fine… you send Mark an email at his Allure address. You may have that from previous correspondence with him, otherwise it’s floating around in TAY somewhere.
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Now please stop crying! I hate to see an upset artist!
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You’re weird. Everyone knows that artists perform best when under emotional duress.
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!And stop kidding around, Sughly. When are you going to start taking things more seriously?
I was having a bad morning because my son kept running off and getting into stuff he shouldn’t have been. The ‘naughty corner’ wasn’t working so in desperation I put him back in his cot (thankfully he’s still never shown any signs of wanting to climb out). It was supposed to be a punishment but he thought it was great fun.
So now he’s in his cot, watching Monsters Inc. and I finally get to relax and make my breakfast. Best morning ever.
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Haha, I think ‘oh thats right, thats what Ash was like when he was younger. Thank God he’s older now’.
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But in a few short years, he’ll be out travelling the world catching Pokemon.
Cherish your time with him.
Or ring him all the time and remind him to wear clean underwear.
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Agreed. Even though its not my favourite Pixar movie, you have to remember what its going up against. Has there been a studio with a better strike rate than Pixar?
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Looks like Umart is going to let me swap the headset for something else and I’ll have some store credit with them. Might use it to get a new case for my computer with a better PSU (my current case and PSU suck), which is the first step towards upgrading my new PC.
The other option is to buy a new GPU, which would probably be a 560, simply because the next step up is rather painful. Although a new Mobo/CPU/RAM is probably going to be much more useful, performance wise, considering that I use a mobo that only supports 4gb of DDR2 RAM.
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dude, NO NO NO NO. PSU first. It’s seriously the most under-appreciate part of the entire computer and deserves just as much of your attention as your GPU.
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I don’t use many power hungry components, so the PSU isn’t the most dire thing.
Still, I probably will just get a new case +PSU. The current case simply sucks and the PSU (not sure what wattage it is) doesn’t seem to like when I try to put additional hard drives in.
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Both.
My main computer is a MacBook Air but I have a PC I bought off of a friend (a bit of a sidegrade from my old PC that I donated to my parents) which I use for LoL, SC2, random games bought through Steam and recording those game videos.
It’s a fun little setup because they both use the same keyboard, mouse and monitor.
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Rich Wabbt haz teh boths a PC and a mac
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Well my justification is you wouldn’t power your nice expensive new parts with a shitty PSU that pumps our dirty, erratic power. That’s all 🙂
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The only nice expensive new part this rig has is my capture card, which is not exactly expensive nor power intensive :p
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Also, feel free to help me pick one.
Here’s the product list, as long as it has a PSU, is reasonably priced and doesn’t have all of that brightly lit nonsense going on, you can probably convince me to buy any model :p
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Out of stock, no PSU and I just don’t think the reviewer was taking the product seriously :p
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I have no idea what your budget is like, but I’m currently using a Fractal Design Arc Midi, and a Silverstone Strider Plus 750w.
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It’s not a big budget. I have about $70 worth of store credit and am willing to throw in another $100 if I must.
At the moment, this one looks like a winner. Simple, reasonable cheap and definitely an upgrade on what I currently have.
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Will you be getting a high-end gfx card later on? My only concern is that 500w may not be enough.
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Maybe?
I’d probably only be getting a 560 which looks like it can run on a 500W supply. Still, there’s always the option of getting something like this and a reasonable case with no PSU. Get a little future proofing going on.
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fair enough, most times, the case can be scrimped on, but I’m with Harli, the PSU absolutely must be a decent bit of kit, do not skimp on that.
actually, there’s a Silverstone 500W PSU a little further down the list – SilverStone ST50F-ES 500W PSU 80+ for $64
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I love steam.. I dont play PC games… but I love steam.
Just bought 2 copies of Portal 2 and Trials 2se for a grand total of $21.
I have actually never played the PC version of trials so this should be horrible as it feels totally different from the 360 version… but it was only $2.49
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Trials 2 SE wasn’t too bad, to be honest. Try plugging in an Xbox 360 controller, as the keyboard is pure garbage. It’s a game that needs analogue controls.
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That sounds fun i love dogs!
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Pfft, if by “best” you mean “jerkiest”. “Oh look, I just spent two minutes to beat the time you spent 5 hours posting”.
Aw, who am I kidding. I LOVE YOU MAN!!
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love you too man!
Seriously YOU are the better gamer overall man.. I have just practiced this one particular game more!!!!
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Playing trials 2 se on a keyboard is incomparable to trials hd with a 360 controller, hence the “use a 360 controller” comment.
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Reading that back, it seems like I was being a dick. I promise I wasn’t meaning to!
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Poor Crazyguy… I read it that way too…
I think his comments actually summed it up well… anyway, looking forward to it. Trials Is a game that is frustrating but overall much more memorable when you are learning… when you get good, its about small improvements… it is much more rewarding when you have large improvements to make!
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It’s okay, mate. 🙂
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Nah i completely get that mate.. I will use 360 controller for sure. I have tried it before and I am really bad at this game. Seriously any skills I have in HD is totally lost in Trials 2. I am confident that I will never be good at it, I just wanted to give it a try.!
Only played it very briefly myself on my brother’s computer. Best thing about it is that you can always save replays after pulling off an awesome stunt, regardless of the track time. Imagine how many you would have saved on your xbox if that was possible for Trials HD!
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Okay. But if I had to choose somewhere in the Geeloong region (this includes the Surfcoast and Bellarine peninsula) where would be a good choice?
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The Barking Dog on Pakington Street is *alright*. But I don’t eat in Geelong (not counting my own home), so what do I know.
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Look, I actually have time to post on TAY during the day!
Had a rather interesting discussion about throwing wallets at screens as a payment method. I mentioned it as a joke, some of the directors started talking through it a bit. I was rather surprised.
We then proceeded to exit the office and throw our wallets at the ID Scanners to see if it works with the same technology. Which it did.
Things I saw at Dance Meat! (Better late than never no?) – http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/dance-meat.jpg
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Hahahah!!! omg man Sughly your drawings are always so charming xD I love your rendition of Doc What and Pez, ahahaahaha
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In generations to come, people will whisper the name Lambo, and everyone will hide their fans in utter fear.
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I love Sughly’s pictomadraw-graphs. I’m a huge fan.
…Oh god. What have I done???
*runs from Lambo*
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RAAAAAGGHRR!!!
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I tried. I also tried talking about anime but I was all nervous and stuff. Wanted to play 4 swords as well, but Shiggy was too busy with Rockband. I don’t think I made much of an impression really. 🙁
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But what about me?! I was in The Beatles with Shiggy and Sughly but he didn’t put me in the picture. :'(
I spent a great deal of time hanging out with Sughly at Dance Meat, probably more so than I did with anyone else. Maybe I’m just like always there, but just out of the picture. Off to the side. 😛 -
Awwww man, way to make me feel bad! Well, if it makes you feel any better I was starting to draw you at one point but I couldnt get the hair right and it looked weird, so I thought it was better to erase you than draw you retarded. Does that help?
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lol! As I said on twitter, he should have titled it “Things Sughly remembers from the dance meat!” lol he was pretty wasted! I’m surprised he even recalls that much! 😉
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No words or pretty lines on paper will do that Scott Pilgrim fart justice.
Jesus. Christ. It was humongous.
Non-communist friends!
I am sorry for late!
I do not understand!
Latest N-Gage with Russia internet is normally very good!
I think is plan from Amurika to prevent red people from being under bed?? I do not think is very nice to call American Indians that, but I am communist, and all are equal here, yes.
Kotaku AU LoL Season 2 Remastered Mastery Buff Patch Compilation Playlist Part 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?ysl6d6j46e7cf4z
Enjoy, Capitals!
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I have a couple of suggestions, though they are heavy and have some swearing.
Nocturne:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYOwJ5gVnLATryn:
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Glad you liked some of my choices Bish.
Think the wife is still set on getting something for everyone, so I’ll probably have some more ideas in time for season 3
But I can’t believe you didn’t use my gangplank one
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Nah man, when I first saw your suggestion I was all “YES, BEST SUGGESTION”, but I couldn’t find a decent audio version of it.
Maybe I’ll just try extract the audio from the Youtube clip or something.-
I thought you were going to go with this for Astronaut teemo, but I guess it is only applicable for you
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You know, if I’m going to the hassle of getting a new case and PSU, I might as well just get a whole new everything.
I’m thinking an i5 should do the trick (so maybe $350 for that plus motherboard). Dump 8gb of RAM in there (about $70), just need to work out the GPU and away I go. My maths has it being about $650 for everything except the GPU so another $200-$250 on the GPU should make it fairly reasonably priced for the lot.
It’s amazing how cheap it is when you don’t need a new HDD, monitor or peripherals. Well, comparatively cheap.
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Nah, I’ll just leave it on the LoL score screen for 24 hours after finishing one game :p
Oddly enough, the next game I have lined up to play is Starcraft. The first one. Should most definitely upgrade to a beastly machine for that.
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Make sure you swing the extra $10 or so for the ‘K’ processor instead of the standard one, that way you can overclock if needed (the i5 2500K overclocks quite nicely).
If you can afford it you really should add a SSD, you’ll be amazed at the performance difference.
Are you factoring in the cost of a new Windows install? If your old one was an OEM copy it’ll be locked to that hardware configuration…
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My current Win7 install is a Microsoft employee copy :p Quite literally a friend of a friend deal there.
SSD is definitely awesome, but will probably push this out to a budget I’m not too happy with. To be honest, most of this comes down to “well, I’m already getting X and it is pretty good value to get Y as well while I’m at it.”
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Let me know what you end up using as your specs Trjn, I’ve been looking into an upgrade for quite some time now. I still only have 2 cores in my machine and I think it might be time for an upgrade. Let me know of your experience and please someone tell me how big my SSD should be (and how best to use it)
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If you can afford it, 128Gb is good bang for buck with SSD’s, but for me, I’m happy to live with my 64Gb and just have windows and a game or two on there and everything else on other drives.
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Thanks welbot for your info. I was a little concerned as to the point of getting the biggest SSD. Now i will happily just go for a sweet spot drive in my new rig.
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Oh man, I am really going through some massive TAY withdrawals here.
*twitch*
Over the last fortnight I have only actually viewed TAY maybe half a dozen times.
*full body twitch*
Denied access to sweet, sweet TAY, by the constant circling of vulture like bosses.
*full on seizure*
I doon’t know how I can survive.
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Anyone know how you play the instruments in Skyrim?
It tells me I can’t equip the flute I’m carrying.
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I have to connect using my wireless dongle in order to access TAY at all. So far, no one has come along and asked me why my network cable isn’t plugged in at the wall.
On the plus side I’m out at one of the branches at the moment for a stocktake, so the wireless dongle is always connected. Just a matter of flipping the switch on the VPN!
So, i got to thinking about the final fantasy series last night. specifically FF14. How did Square let that game be released in the state it was in? I just don’t understand the thinking. Square are no strangers to the delay announcement, they certainly aren’t a company that will rush a half finished game out to meet a deadline. So why do it now? With their most profitable (?) brand name no less.
I originally thought the team behind FF14 may have been to blame. But doing some research the guys who make it are some of the biggest names at Square, the producer has a rap-sheet that reads like the greatest hits of the Square catalogue (Secret of Mana, Seiken Densetsu 3, Chrono Cross) All those are wonderfully complete games. And while i know it’s unfair to compare games released on the SNES and PS1 to FF14. But it goes to show that the team that worked on this game actually knew what they were doing at one point in time. No way could they have honestly thought the game was in any state to be released at retail.
We all know JRPG games aren’t doing as well as they did on the last generation. Their market share has been pretty much wiped out by western RPG games. That makes their decision to release it even more baffling.
Square really have shot themselves in the foot with this game. No matter what they do the IP has taken a massive hit. They can;t just abandon this game because it would destroy the reputation of the company. So they are stuck flogging this dead horse of an MMO that fewer and fewer people are playing.
The game is set for release in Q1 of 2012. That means that from the mangled launch to the PS3 release other great RPG games such as Dark Souls and Skyrim would have been released. It just seems like Square really screwed themselves for no reason at all.
Rant over.
Thoughts?
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Apparently the lead designer hadn’t even played an mmo before, that might explain some things.
They also massively underestimated the ammount of grinding most of todays western mmo players are willing to put up with.
Making it incredibly graphically intensive also didn’t help. For single player FF games released on a console pumping up the graphics is fine. For an mmo being played on a computer it’s not a very good idea. Most people just don’t have the hardware to play games like that.
With the upcoming release of mmos like TOR, Guild Wars 2 and The Secret World the only way I can see FF14 recovering in any way is if they made it free to play. Even then though it had such a horrible launch I’m not sure how many people would be willing to give it a shot. Not to mention it still suffers from being a lot more graphically intensive then a lot of the other MMOs on the market.
If I were Square I’d just forget the whole thing and focus on bringing out some quality single player FF games.
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Free to play seems like the way to go, but i doubt Square will do it. Because once you go free to play, people will expect your next game to go F2P after 6 months. And it’s exactly like toy said, FF has some old rivals as well as some new ones. I can;t see this game being a success.
Square may have to swallow its pride, put out a press release saying FF14 was a failure and spend the next 3 years making the next MMO fantastic. Gamers will eventually forget that this game was so awful (but it’ll take a while) If the next one if really something special, the FF name may just recover.
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They’re too proud to ever go free to play. Free to play means it’s cheap and valueless to them, and admitting the game was so bad they had to stop charging for it would be an immense loss of face. 😐
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The biggest problem they appeared to have was a not-invented-here mentality. The only game they seemed to have considered to have even existed was FFXI. They should have instead been looking at all those popular MMOs. Especially that Warcraft one, I hear a few people play that. More importantly, they didn’t look at all the failed ones and made the same mistakes.
But Square themselves have a huge problem, which is that they are a giant monolith and quite simply have too many employees. Japanese corporations hire essentially for life. When you join a company, you are there for your career. As such there’s not the same drive, the same necessity to use your time effectively. It takes a monumental cock-up to get fired from most Japanese companies. And Square have hired too many people, and haven’t got enough games on the go for them. Look at Final Fantasy XIII. It was in development for over five years, with hundreds of people on full-time salaries involved. The development costs are so high as a result that their break-even point is monumentally high. Most AAA developers in the west will have vastly smaller teams that are a lot more agile, and simply can’t afford > 2 year development times. They also hire temps and oursource their work. Additionally, western developers openly share ideas and technology, where the Japanese houses don’t like to use middleware, develop everything in-house and hoard their knowledge, so you tend to have a silo mentality. This is slowly beginning to change but it’s only because companies like Squenix are being forced to do so. There’s also the simple language barrier that makes good ideas that much harder to propagate and people tend to get set in their ways that work for them, despite that there are newer ways that work better.
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You’re spot on about the development time thing. FF13 felt like a bloated product that spent way too long in development and had almost nothing to show for it. But, I don’t think the silo problem is an inherently Japanese thing. Take for example the Enix part of Square-Enix. They are a much smaller team than the FF group. But they still manage to make quality games in a much more reasonable timeframe than Square. They’re even making an MMO as we speak.
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There’s not really an ‘enix’ left any more. And if you’re talking about Dragon Quest, they’re not developing that in-house.
FF13’s failing was more than just protracted dev time. No one was actually in charge and making the decisions about what the game would be like. They were all just creating art resources and unrelated bits and pieces. Seriously, this is what they’ve said themselves in their own postmortem. It wasn’t until management told them they needed a demo to ship with the BD release of FF7: Advent Children that they realised they were sitting on years worth of nothing, and they started to pull everything together into a game. Basically they stitched together as many art resources as they could to make something coherent in the last year or so. One of the main reasons they’re doing FFXIII-2 is they still had another game’s worth of resources sitting unused, and Squenix management want some kind of return on investment.
I think also that FFXIII was used as the testbed for their newest in-house game engine and that was probably sucking up resources that could have gone to making the game. But it seems like they didn’t learn anything from their previous games either – FFX had a long but not unresonable development time. FFXII was very long, but it had management troubles. FFXIII longer still. And FF Versus XIII was announced at the same time as XIII and still isn’t out.
Personally I think a lot of the problem with the recent FF games is that Sakaguchi isn’t producing them any more. He had very clear visions for his games, everything worked correctly and everybody knew what they were meant to work on and why. They might not have always fired and his work on his own might have been a bit hit and miss, but at least they get released.
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They’re not? I always thought Level 5 was part of Enix and part of Square. Shows what i know.
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Nope, they’re not. Level 5 is their own company and they’re exactly what Square isn’t. Fairly small (~250 people), agile, release quickly and regularly. Very successful too. They’ve always got lots of stuff on the go at any given time, they’re well-run and they don’t over-extend.
But even Dragon Quest isn’t an Enix thing, you know. Yuji Horii’s got his own company that owns Dragon Quest, and Enix has simply had Japanese publishing rights since before the Square – Enix merger (they also brought him in for Chrono Trigger etc)
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One thing is for certain, it’s looking like a pretty grim future for JRPG games. We haven’t really had that milestone game like an FF7 or a Chrono Trigger in 2 generations now. I think it would really take another fantastic widespread critically acclaimed game to fire up peoples interest in JRPG games again. But sadly, that’s to going to happen.
It’s a vicious cycle really, the popularity or more westernised RPG games means that Japanese developers will probably not want to take too many risks and appeal more to a Japanese fanbase. I’m not sure what the tastes are like over there, but i assume it involves a lot more linearity.
I think the burden of reviving the genre falls onto Squares shoulders. They are the biggest player in the game, and in reality, only a fantastic Final Fantasy game will get people interested again. But FF13 and 14 have put so many people off the series that it may be too late.
Then again…they could always announce a remake of FF7, that would revive interest instantly.
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I’m not sure if that’s true. The problem really is that the bulk of gamers – especially american gamers, I think – want generic brown military shooters. There’s an entire generation now who’s childhood has been dominated by the War on Terror, after all. Those young hero saves the world plots just don’t gel with people who are a lot more jaded and cynical.
Japan has its own issues too. The console market had dropped out, and the portable market is where the games are now. Gaming at home is a passtime for nerds. Gaming on the train is completely normal (as long as you’re not disturbing anyone else). It’s no surprise that Dragon Quest IX was on a portable. The problem is that the portable market is dead outside Japan, we want console games instead. Apple has kneecapped proper game development for portables too, with their high-volume low-cost model, and Japanese developers don’t like to develop for digital platforms, they’re very traditional and prefer to have tangible shippable products for some reason. Also the JRPG market has gotten more and more entangled with the anime market due to demographic overlaps, and unfortunately that often results in stuff that’s unpalatable for a lot of people outside Japan.
But there’s good games out there still. I completely reject that there was no landmarks since FF7. If anything, the PS2 era was the high water mark.
I actually think westernizing JRPGs is a bad idea. Instead, they need to realise that they are no longer the big genre they were. They’re a hardcore niche. Bigger publishers should look at what the smaller ones do, with low volume, targeted releases. NIS America, XSEED etc do pretty well simply releasing stuff in small print runs and making extra runs to cope with added demand, and as a result they can localise pretty niche stuff (for example it strikes me as very odd that NIS America feel they can profit on a niche PSP game like Black Rock Shooter,or XSEED with a visual novel for girls like Hakuouki but Sega can’t on Valkyria Chronicles or Yakuza)
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By “milestone” i don’t mean “good” plenty of fantastic JRPG games have been released on the PS2. But I think we are yet to have another FF7 in terms of capturing audience. FF7 made people love this genre. games being released these days may still be good, but they’re not exactly approachable for the non-hardcore fan.
I think Square are really going to segment the market on their products. FF may become a smaller and smaller thing. Let’s face it, outside of the FF series, Square are mostly publishers these days. The fact that they have invested heavily into expansion of their overseas studios leads me to believe Square think their future is in publishing rather than development.
This may be a radical idea, but i think Square need to give their FF IP to one of their owned companies (They’ll never do it, but hypothetically) a non Japanese company taking over could be what Final Fantasy needs to find its feet again. It may not be what the fans want, but it’s what the series needs right now.
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Hint: FFXIII sold 6.2 million copies and is the best-selling FF game to date.
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Yea, But i think i’d rather play Secret of Evermore any day of the week.
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Wait…no way has it outsold FF7
Also, i accidentally clicked report rather than reply on your comment.
Sorry 🙁
Serrels will fix it up.
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Yeah you’re right, FF7 is ahead in lifetime sales. But if you compare same period after release (FF7 is what, 15 years old?), XIII is miles ahead.
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Went to JB to pick up a copy of Thank You For Smoking and The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford.
Left with The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford on Bluray, Ip Man on DVD, 3:10 To Yuma on Bluray, Breaking Bad seasons 2 and 3 on Bluray, Apocalypse Now (including Redux and Heart of Darkness) on Bluray and Community season 2 on DVD.
A good haul but a little more than I bargained for. By the way, The Assassination etc is dirt cheap on Bluray. $13 or part of their 2 for $20 deal (hence why I also bought 3:10 to Yuma). Go buy it people, then you can join in on the TAYbie movie club!
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Part one is better than part 2. They also made this weird part 3 thing with all new actors, i haven’t seen it but apparently its alright.
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yeah the first is the best second is ok and the third i thought was average. gotta love the part in the first when he knocks the barrell out of the officers gun and gives him the lecture about martial arts.
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Apocalypse now = awesome.
Heart of Darkness (book) = not awesome.
That book is ~130 pages long, and took me longer to read than a ~600 page novel. And it put me to sleep at least once (which never happens to me when I’m reading books, usually the opposite occurs).-
It was $25 for the lot and I couldn’t stop thinking of the line from the latest Community.
“Have you see Heart of Darkness? Much better than Apocalypse Now.”
It was justification for making a documentary on making a commercial. If you haven’t seen it, go see it.
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$25 and no, but I already have digital copies. Not necessarily legit ones but I think I’m justified seeing as I now have it on DVD and BluRay.
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BARGAIN!
Yeah, me too, just my ‘Digital Copies’ are a bit shitty.
Dear iTunes, how about giving Australia the HD content the US gets?
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Would you like my 720p digital copies? The quality is quite acceptable.
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Nah, I’d say they’re the same ones I’ve got.
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Most probably.
I had a friend who thought it was a good idea to watch the DVD rips. He got quite lost during the sections where people were speaking Spanish.
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It’s worth pointing out that JB have the Batman Anthology blu-ray set for $25. I got it a few days ago. Sure, two of those movies are terrible, but they have that really bad quality that i laugh at.
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Batman and Robin is so bad it becomes good, especially if you turn it into a drinking game! Mr. Freeze’s puns alone will destroy your liver.
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If that film was released today as the sequel to the dark knight, batman would be over. Everyone would burn their comic and forget it ever existed.
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Bad: TV mutex led to much less Zelda’ing than intended, so instead I
Good: Did a whole heap of stuff in Skyrim, including killing my first not-part-of-a-mission dragon \o/
As a light armour, sneaky, archery (and one handed weapons if everything goes le bad) character, I’m finding dragons to be pretty touch battles (even what I assume is the easiest dragon given where it was). I’m about level 15 or so. Does anyone else with this sort of character have any tips for battling them?
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FusArrowArrowArrowArrowFusArrowArrowArrowArrowArrowFusArrowFusArrowArrowArrowArrowFusArrowArrowFus.
Add “RUUUUUN!” to taste.
Questions? 😀
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When I was around level 15 I would try and kite Dragons near towns etc for extra people to attack it. Either that or have a companion in full plate armour to tank for you 🙂
Anyone know how Alice: Madness Returns runs on an AMD card? I was thinking of picking it up during the Steam sale but I seem to remember that a lot of people were having difficulty at launch getting the game to work properly on AMD cards.
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The game runs fine on AMD cards after tweaking. If I remember correctly I had to disable PhysX in the .ini file.
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Yeah I got told by some overseas friends that they’re going to be doing a Role Playing guild, like in Neverwinter Nights RP servers that you act out your character in game. Sooo tempting!
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That’s pretty awesome. Yeah my colleague/mate started a website when it was announced all those years ago, it now has like 400 members in the guild, can’t remember the website but I’ll find out and let you know. It’s pretty awesome. He’s also had some of his books published by LucasArts, they’re set in the star wars universe. I thought that was pretty awesome.
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The big problem I’d have with that is the lack of quality source material for the time period. The pre-history to the first Knights of the Old Republic is almost entirely comic books, and those comics were almost entirely written or co-written by Kevin J Anderson who is the very definition of a hack. Thankfully he no longer spends his time writing awful dialogue and illogical, insipid fanfiction plots to ruin the Star Wars setting and appears to be more focused on breaking Dune. Presumably because Frank Herbert is too busy being dead to strangle the guy and George Lucas is pretty adept at fucking up Star Wars without any assistance.
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I don’t mind his work.
Admittedly, he’s no Stackpole… but still.
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When did you last read Darksaber?
Sure, there were some books in the Star Wars EU that were even worse than Anderson’s, but that doesn’t mean his were good.
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Is that the one where Crix Madine dies?
The idea of a secret agent having a broadcasting beacon attached to his heart shat me no eng…
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It… uh… it could be, yeah. Maybe.
It involved some random Hutt pressing the now-retconned-by-Lucas designer of the Death Star into building a version of the Death Star’s superlaser into a giant space lightsaber only he outsourced to the lowest bidder so it didn’t work.
I think the most telling thing about Anderson’s work is that when Del Rey took over from Bantam, they spent half of the New Jedi Order books killing off Anderson’s daft characters and generally undoing most of his canon changes.
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I has batman woes. JB didn’t have it available yesterday, so I’m going to go check again today. And every day after that until it finally comes out.
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Lambo’s elbow, feeling exhilirated from having beaten up a fan, has decided to branch out on its own in search of its own particular brand of glory. Or something. Actually, what’s the deal with that? 😛
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I’m downloading it from Steam at the moment, don’t know if it will be playable though. I still haven’t finished AA yet either. I can’t beat Poison Ivy :/
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Spam batarangs and dodge constantly. It’s a pretty easy fight if you can keep away from her attacks.
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It shall be as you say my lord.
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Darn tootin’.
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You’re close to the end! You have to keep trying!
Also, what difficulty are you on? I remember Ivy being a nightmare on hard.
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Yeah I’m on hard…probably do AC on Normal 😛
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man I started AC on hard, and had to give up and restart on normal because I couldn’t even beat the first mob of thugs you come across out the front of the the Courthouse…
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Bad: Being sick sucks, obv. Get well soon, etc.
Good: WA TAY presence… and MANBAT <o/
How's the new job going?
And when the clock shall pass by two hours after high sun in the land of the Perthians, only a vigilant few from the west shall remain to ward off silence from the wall of TAY, or so it was written.
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Each time, I start freaking out – ‘Where’d everyone go? Why is it so quiet?’ And then I remember that we live in the past.
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New job is absolutely awesome. Loving it, great atmosphere, great people, and they really look after you. Nearly every day they’re doing something for you, whether it’s just giving you some ginger beer/soft drink because the call queues are high, shouting you pizza, or just giving you massages at the desk. It’s awesome. And it’s like being in pre-primary again. We have Curry Thursday’s where you can get really cheap curry delivered from this awesome restaurant down the road. There’s monday madness which is sometimes free boost juice, sometimes party pies, sausage rolls, dips, etc. Every time they need overtime, the people that sign up for it get beer and pizza. Every friday after work, pretty much everyone goes down to the pub and you can even have a drink with the CEO and have a chat and everything. I actually look forward to going to work, which I’ve never had before..
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There is such a high concentration of jelly right here that I think it may have reformed back into horse hooves.
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Haha I love that analogy 😛
It really is a great place to work. I mean some of the customer’s you have to deal with can be pretty horrible, so I guess it’s them trying to create an awesome, supportive workplace so you can get through those bad calls, etc and not let yourself feel down about them.
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“Summoners!
We have some good news for our Australian League of Legends players! In response to player demand for more prepaid card choices, 7-Eleven Australia has introduced the AUD$25 League of Legends pre-paid card to complement the existing AUD$10 option. AUD$10 prepaid cards will redeem for 1300 Riot Points plus 80 bonus Riot Points for a total of 1380 Riot Points. AUD$25 prepaid cards will redeem for 3250 Riot Points plus an additional 250 bonus Riot Points for a total of 3500 Riot Points”
Soooo happy that my local Mobil is becoming a 7-Eleven 😀 Now there won’t be a paper trail showing all my Riot Point expenses.
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Interesting, there is one just around the corner from work
Speaking of LOL I tried out Orianna last night, she is a very interesting character to play. Might try her a bit more, another couple of bot matches and then I might consider her in a PvP
Anybody else played her?
Techy? Just asking cause I thought you might be interested, with dates being a bit harder for somebody of your…ummmm….stature to find.-
I haven’t tried Orianna myself yet but I have seen her in action, she’s great at kiting enemies with her drone, cuz that drone can hurt you pretty badly and even while it’s on the place Orianna left it on the battlefield. You can use it like a high AP based trap, really neat stuff! I do want to look into fighting in summoner’s rift as her one day, same with Blitzcrank and maybe Rumble as well.
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Well, she is on free week, try her out.
I sort of feel she’s a bit broken by design in that her ball’s range let’s her extend and harass from a bit too far, but ultimately you need to know how to use it which can distinguish amazing players. If nothing else, she is mad fun. QWE combo like a boss. E your initiator, W when they’re in the middle, and if they try to run R them and throw them around. Good times.-
Well that drone of hers really makes you think strategically, cuz once the drone is there, it makes the next attack from its current position and not from where you are. That’s a gift as well as a curse, especially if you’re on your own, getting chased (Meaning you have to wait till your drone is out of range to be able to use it again etc).
She really looks like a good AP mid to try out, 1v1 is really good for her I think, such a good way to kite with that drone
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Nah man, just E yourself.
I don’t know how much you’ve read up on her (so I don’t mean to come off as some sort of know-it-all because I certainly don’t) but her skills are like so:
Q: Sends out your drone ball. Deals damage to anything it hits (straight line path)
W:Speed buff/Debuff AoE (ally/enemies, respectively) as well as dealing damage in that AoE.
E: Shields a target, both with a damage buffer and increased armour, magic resist
R: Flips people a set distance towards the ball in an AoE and does damage
So the thing is, the ball drone thing automatically returns to you after a certain distance. I think it’s 1000-1100 units. Ish. Q has a range of 825. Thing is, E is effectively another Q, just that it’s only targetable on yourself or allies. It flies in a straight line, and it does damage. So basically, what you do is E yourself, shield yourself, then pop W to leave behind an AoE that’ll speed you up and slow them down.She has a bundle of tricks under her belt. You can use that ball to zone out the other person in mid (plop it behind their minion wave, and if they get near, W). But using that drone effectively is tricky, and yeah, how you position yourself and that drone is difficult stuff too. Especially that Ult, like any other Ult that displaces people, you have to be really careful about how you use it.
She’s an interesting champion by design, and as I said last freeweek she was in, seeing someone master her would be a phenomenal sight to behold.
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“…seeing someone master her would be a phenomenal sight to behold.”
Challenge accepted!
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Managing mana seems to be a big skill with her, I know I was oom a number of time last night
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Hah, and can you believe the patch last week buffed her mana regen by about 50%ish too?
Thankfully she can use Tears of the Goddess like a champ. Spam that Q.
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I may have misread the post, but I read it as saying the $25 cards are avaliable at 7-11 exclusively, nos had bought two $10 cards
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Ah, it does read like that, but, you know, it’s not like they ever give you enough Riot points for a clean transaction on anything anyway. You might be stuck with more RP you can do nothing with.
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See, I just kind of figured that with the exchange rate, it’s better to buy directly from their site (well, their launcher) anywho. I suppose it has dropped below parity, but it’ll probably climb back up there soon.
Also, I have decided, if Astronaut Teemo does not go on sale before the New Year (he won’t), I will buy him regardless. *nods to self*
I picked up Phantasy Star Universe on the weekend. So far it’s an alright game. But the English voice acting is…how should I put it, given a choice, I’d rather put searing hot needles in my ears because the sound of my eardrums burning is less painful than this dub.
So – It seems I will be home alone for the first time this week. This means LoL, Whos up for it tonight?
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I played well last night so i am feeling better about my skill now. I am enjoying playing with hermidinger in mid such a useful character and very easy to farm with
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And for someone who doesn’t know how to Singed, some of those initial Flings you did were beautiful.
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Stupid spell shield of pyrean and techy. was hard to fling because it would just block it so i couldn’t act as a intiator
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That shield was more for blocking Steve-O or Bish’s first strike, mainly Steve-O so I can’t get stunned so easily. Blocking your flings was just a bonus
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Well salmon for dinner tonight, which means earlier dinner (need light of the BBQ) so I should be on
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LoLLoLLoLLoLLoL tonight! Excitement! If the numbers allow it I will gladly spectate another game.
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That said, I would be more inclined to spectate if I have someone to join me.
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I’ll spectate with you if the numbers don’t work out.
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I’ll spectate with you. I think everyone has well and truly left me in the dust skill-wise so if I played I’d bring the rest of the team down 😛
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With that attitude mags that won’t change, the only way to get better is to play, and with these replays, you can see more clearly what you can do better when you rewatch it
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I’m a level 7 mr mags, and learning (read:dying) alot of the time, So If you want to learn your skills with someone let me know 🙂
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As I said to Bish the other day, I don’t actually have the game installed, but I’ll be there on teamspeak to eavesdrop on the hilarity.
Remember to visit Calendar Man in Arkham City today!
I’m gonna get sick of doing these occasional visits very soon, though, at which point I’ll probably just tweak the clock to listen all his different stories (and hence get the achievement)
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He was talking about Thanksgiving when I played it last night, so does that mean he has dialogue for the next holiday coming up, and the holiday itself? If so, woah.
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I missed Halloween, so I’ve decided to not bother with that awful achievement. Can’t even be bothered to do the clock trick.
…maybe I’m just lazy. Its cool that he actually has new dialogue on those days, at least.
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I lol’ed it was funny cause that happened the other week in the shopping centre. But it was with my friend and I and the charity had a hot chick. It was kind of hard to donge when i was staring.
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I was aware thats how they get me so i listened to her speil for a few minutes and said thanks and i already donate to (insert charity here) Which i do
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Yeah I had one girl, of some foreign European descent, possibly Swedish, literally grab my arm and proceed to stroke it whilst calling me gorgeous. When I said I didnt want to buy anything she became so angry and abusive. Scary stuff really. Felt like I went through a 20 second relationship with her.
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‘Vy didn’t choo call me avter the Save the Vhales protest Sughly?’
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Because I didnt want to buy something from you dammit!
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‘But ve connected so vell in zat 30 seconds darlink!’
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If it helps, most of the people doing charity work like that are actually wannabe models etc employed by an agency thats been contracted by the charity to spruik their wares.
So yeah… the hot chick ranting about [insert cause here] gives no more of a shit about [insert cause here] than you do.
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Unless of course, you do give a shit about [insert cause here]. In that case you almost certainly care more about the cause than the person trying to sell it.
“Donge”?
Man, I don’t even want to know what that’s supposed to mean. I will assume you were just perving.
So apparently ranked teams can only have up to eight people. But you can be a member of up to five teams – so who’s keen to sign up? Also any ideas for witty team names – or are we just gonna roll with KotakAU?
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Human please, I’m only level 26 😛
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Well remember, even level 20s can be in ranked play so long as someone (Blaghman) is level 30, right?
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yeah but need those extra rune slots, yo!
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I’m in, got more champions on my radar to master as well. I’ll be committing to being a great asset to your team human no matter what role I am… well except support
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Janna is easy mode. Only complete noobs use her because that way they don’t have to learn to use a real champion :p
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AP Nuke Janna = best!
Really though, I’ll stick to Trynd where I can and Brand for AP for now. I don’t think I’ve used Janna in more than 1 bot match anyway (and I have zero AP runes). -
I have no runes at all and do alright with Janna :p
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LIES and SLANDER.
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You’re right. I actually do awesome with Janna.
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Zing!
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Well, you’ve rarely seen me play. So there’s that.
I also just haven’t used her much lately.
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“BISH’S TEAM”
Except I won’t join the team, so then people will be all “What the hell is a Bish” and you guys will explain it and this will amuse no one but myself.
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Amazingly it DOES. Shocking, I know.
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I AM NOT A MIDGET!
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I finished Uncharted 3 last night and, well… I’m not sure what to think of it. It was definitely well crafted, had the requisite number of explosions and got the blood pumping on many cccasions. The transformation effects of rooms flipping or crumbling were awesome, and the water and sand interactions fantastic. The plot was decent enough and had some nice personal relationships. But when it finished I just thought “Huh, is that it”?
I think the source of the problem is that Uncharted 2 was that much better. The settings were more interesting and varied – I loved the mountains. The plot of U2 felt like it had better pacing and the climax had much more of a payoff. U3 almost feels like they plan to release some DLC to finish it off, and I really hope that’s not the case.
The controls also bugged me. I didn’t have much of a problem with the aiming (playing on normal). What I didn’t like was the running towards the camera sections. Or the times when I wanted to run through a doorway and went back and forwards across it 4 times instead, or clipped a wall and died under a wall of water. Or the way that I’d try to roll out of trouble and end up snapping to cover right in front of an enemy shooting at me. Or the parts where I’d try to jump and find it was too high, but if I jumped on a wall that looked similar over there, Drake would go that little bit higher and grab on. It was too helpful in some parts, then not helpful enough in others. Read my mind better, damn it!
And seriously, how many Indiana Jones “homages” can you fit into a single game?
Maybe I’m just spoilt. It could be that if I played 2 and 3 in reverse order, I’d feel the same way about 2. But I doubt it. Don’t get me wrong – I did enjoy playing it and will still go back to tidy up some trophies. But I just can’t see myself going back to play it all the way through again straight away like I did with number 2.
Thoughts?
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You’re pretty much entirely right. Uncharted 2 was better and some of the things you mentioned were why.
The whole boat section could have been skipped entirely without any effect on the plot whatsoever. Instead of feeling like a great adventure, it just felt like a story that had been stitched together out of things that seemed like they could be awesome. There wasn’t that seamless cohesion that Uncharted 2 had.
It wasn’t bad but it sure as hell was not as good as Uncharted 2.
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[Naq fhqqrayl, Ryran!] – rot13
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No, you’re right.
The only thing I have to add to this is “WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH TALBOT”. Dude pops up everywhere without explanation.
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Ur’f n qwvaa. Abg yvxr gur snxr barf jura lbh’er gevccvat onyyf naq guvax gung Fhyyl unf orra fubg ohg na npghny qwvaa gung gurer gb whfg fperj rirelguvat hc. Ur cbjrerq ol cybgubyvhz.
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Have you noticed he always gets stronger in the presence of cybgubyvhz?
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I’m glad I can wait for this title, when it’s platinum or super cheap i’ll get it. I really enjoyed the previous two but for some reason, this just doesn’t grab me like it should 🙂
Where’d everybody go? Here I am, lurking on TAY and theres nothing good/new to read…
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Mine is AWESOME. They won the premiership this year! Then their coach defected to another team the following week. I think that’s still a net win though.
And my other (national) one won a tense game over in South Africa a couple of days ago. Saw the end at it was really exciting.
So yeah, sports. Fantastic. Thanks for asking!
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Well, first there was a long and boring LoL conversation, then another one, and just when I thought it was safe to return there was another one. There may have been snoring. So I have nothing new to say because I’ve been LoL’d to death.
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LoL doesn’t float your boat either Strange? We can fight the LoLers together!
‘With our powers combined, we are…slightly more effective!’
Yeah!
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Talking about TAY in general, yep. This is not a failed reply to my comment above.
MOAR PARAGRAPH BREAKS TAY, DAMMIT!
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Hey strange did you finish american gods. Are you liking it, man i hated shadow’s wife so much after i read about how she died . I was all like this guy seems awesome why you a bitch for.
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The story begins with her death and the revelation about how it happens comes reasonably early on.
The actual spoilerific bit about this wasn’t actually said :p
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What’s new? Well, I finished American Gods (yes, Rocketman I finished it, and yes of course I liked it, thank-ypu again), but while I was finishing it my son got into the laundry and tried to eat the frozen food from the freezer in there but when he discovered they were too hard to bite he just left the door open and proceeded to make mountains all over the floor with washing powder.
Oh and a blood Dragon in Skyrim kicked my butt. I had to run away. Then I took my rage out on a nearby Conjurer.
I ate the last of my blueberry and maple syrup muffins for lunch, too. they were delicious.
What’s new for you, ‘Flu?
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Your son is awesome. He does stuff that i did yesterday. I spilled washing powder and decided not to cook stuff cause i was feeling lazy. Sorry you had to clean it up though!
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Are Blood Dragons higher level than other dragons? I also got my butt kicked my one, but put it down to being under-powered and useless at the game.
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I think they must be. I’ve been taking down dragons with ease but this one was so tough even my trusty battle-axe was doing little damage. I may have been able to do it if I had more health potions but it would have taken ages.
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Your son strikes me as a bit of a rascal.
Nothing is new with me. It rarely is. I ate a banana for lunch again today. I’m so damn hungry. There shall be much ingurgitation upon my return home.
I need to go shopping tonight for work shirts. Some of mine were spattered with bleach somehow… So, uh… That’s exciting.
At work I’ve been constantly hassled throughout the day, regarding things that are completely out of my control. It’s been frustrating.-
Bananas are yucky. Start packing yourself some epic sammiches or something. I get up 10 minutes early to pack Mr. Strange some lunch because I know otherwise he won’t bother eating anything.
And now I’m curious how you got bleach on more than one work-shirt….
Your works sucks. If I was rich I’d hire you to be my chauffer or something to get you out of there.
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“Can you install this new printer for us?”
*I turn up at the site*
“We had a go at it but it didn’t work”
*I spend the next hour stripping back the mess and redoing it*
Avoiding Skyward Sword to work on portfolio, not working on portfolio because Im thinking about Skyward Sword. Sigh…
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Beat me…
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Re-reading that, it sounds more like a suggestion than a comment…
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It wasn’t?
Sadface.
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Don’t mind if I do, thank you very much.
*grabs Harli’s oar*
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Hey James Mac!
Did you want a SWTOR beta code?
I haz a spare one:
GJVB-SW45-G6XQ-JFK2
http://www.swtor.com/redeembetacode/
Try it here, I think the registration period might’ve ended though 🙁
I’m probably going to miss the beta anyway, I have to download another ~19gb in 2 days on a capped connection.
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You…. bad egg.
Thanks anyway mate, but I don’t have the bandwidth at the moment.
I’m going to wait till it is sold at retail anyway, by then they should have the worst of the bugs out.
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I know what you’re up to, Australia Post. No Skyward Sword today? You’re saving it for tomorrow, aren’t you? So I’ve got to choose between it and the SW:TOR beta this weekend. Devious.
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Dude, cmon easy choice. Even if it was every game in the history of games is being released tomorrow, it would still be easy. Play bloody Zelda!
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I have to reveal a shocking truth: I’ve never really been much of a Nintendo person. I don’t know if it was universal in New Zealand where I grew up but Nintendo really never seemed to have a strong presence, it was dominated by Sega. So I had Sega consoles. The first Zelda I played was Ocarina of Time. Emulated on a PC, many years later. That, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess and Phantom Hourglass are the sum of my Zeldaing. So the games never were a huge priority for me, even though admittedly they are all very good.
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It’s raining.
My boss, who just got back this afternoon from a week holiday in Bali, was planning on going sailing this evening.
He claimed it was wet (… sailing…) so he cancelled (pussy) and he’s going home early instead (Huh!?)
So… we just had an email come out here at work. Apparently somebody has been taking teatowels from the kitchen (doesn’t say WHICH kitchen, there are 1 or 2 on each floor) and taking them down to the basement where there are showers and using them as towels to dry him/her self with.
EWWWWWWW.
Doesn’t say if they were then putting them back in the kitchen or not, but I think I’ll play it safe and just not come to work again. Ever.
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My old workplace people would pile up dirty dishes in the sink. If you put food in the fridge there was a good chance someone would just take it. And somehow, people would not just pee on the toilet seats in the mens, they’d manage to get it all over the floor often as well. Grown fucking men can’t aim it into the toilet. :\
Also would hawk up huge gobs of spit into the basins which is pretty gross too, and also disgusting to listen to.
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oh don’t get me started on office toilets, the sounds I have heard in there… the horror, THE HORROR!!!
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Dear god where do you work man?!
To be honest it doesn’t really surprise me, I work in a ‘respectable’ office and some of the things I have seen people leave have horrified me, it’s like they have this mentality that if it’s shared property they can be as disgusting as they like.
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holy crap, I’m going to figure out how to do those doors at the beginning and build them tonight.
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This almost makes me feel like i do NOT spend too much time playing games. The people who made that video do.
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playing a bit of LoL before basketball best idea ever, might miss my game hahaha. also watched a couple of vids from minecon and holy cow how do people build all that stuff and get the materials too 0.o
I HAVE BATMAN!!! WOOO!!
*starts doing happy-dance*
And they nearly charged me $10 too much too…
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Initially read that as ‘I HATE BATMAN’ and I was like ‘WHAT YOU SUNUVA -‘ then nevermind.
Also what do you mean they tried to charge you ten extra bucks?
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When JB released AC for PC, they had it at $89. Then when I went in to pick it up, they had reduced the price by $10. They had put the reduced price stickers on the boxes on the shelves, but they had forgotten to update their system. So when I went to pick up my pre-order, I nearly ended up spending $10 more than I was supposed to.
Also, I don’t hate Batman 😛-
I paid $88 at EB the day before launch, I justified the extra ten bucks cause I’d get to play the game early… now I’m just bitter and twisted refreshing tech support forums and weeping. 😀
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I misread that as I have batman wood.
So I was a bit worried about what sort of ‘happy dance’ you were doing with your batman wood.
*No biggie spoilers:
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Trjn got blu-ray Apocalypse Now Special Edition! OMG. That is so hot right now!! Apocalypse Now & Heart Of Darkness are the best movie / best documentary of all time. So good.
Joseph Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness (novel) and it’s an absolute masterpiece, and essential reading for anyone interested in writing as art form.
Heart of Darkness (documentary) is just the best too. You just can’t even begin to imagine the scope of that movie . . . and then Coppola hits his head on a light or something!!! What?
You just find out all the cast were totally messed up and Brando was just a wreck. OMG Brando!!! He just . . . he just . . . I don’t even? Dennis Hopper and Martin Sheen should’ve been in rehab too!!
And Martin Sheen was really, really drunk/tripping balls when he filmed the scene where he dances and punches the mirror!! OMG!! Best movie of all time.
And, and, and Apocalypse Now has got Larry Fishburne before he became Laurence Fishburne!!! And it’s got Harrison Ford!!!
Redux is amazing I’ve seen Redux like 8 times at least, it had a massive influence on me.
My pal used to get me to do my Colonel Kilgore impersonation at work. I could only do the bit where he’s talking about the waves and he’s all like “it breaks left and right . . .” and also obviously the “can you smell that, that’s napalm, nothing else in the world smells like that!!”
If I’m anything, I’m the worlds #1 Colonel Kilgore impersonator. I always used to try do Kurtz’s dialogue, but I was never any good at Brando impersonations.
Everything about me aspires to that movie. When I was a teenager I started smoking Marlboro Reds because I thought Captain Willard smoked Marlboro Reds in Apocalypse Now!! That seemed like the right thing to do at the time. I wasn’t even for certain he smoked Marlboro Reds!! I never was one for thinking things through.
Apocalypse. Now. Movie. Best. All. Time. Et cetera. & Blu-ray special edition only makes you the boss.
Marlon Brando is . . . Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh. Whoa, Nelly. A-m-a-z-i-n-g. The whole thing is just so unforgettably badddddddddd – assssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!
Love,
Plainview.
New headset acquired. Old headset is being tested and then my moneys will be refunded. If it isn’t refunded then I’m rather screwed.
This one seems to be kind of working. There are some issues with distortion but that seems to be user error.
Man, I’m hungry.
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It wasn’t user error.
Super sadface. It seems like I’m going to have to return two headsets in two days because neither of them feel like working on Macs. Dangit. This time the problem is the USB connection dohickey.
If I use the microphone and speaker cables, it works just fine but if I go through the USB thingy (which I need to in order to use it with my mac) the microphone quality degrades dramatically.
On the plus side, I learned that the headphones I use for my iPhone actually seem to work reasonably well for my needs. Could have saved a little hassle, although I would prefer a real headset. Might have to go back to the Microsoft something something 3000. Until they broke, they were not terrible. Then they broke and caused all of this kerfuffle.
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You should call for the Elite Beat Agents.
All you need to do is be really stressed out and when you burst with fury just scream “HELP” and then 3 dudes in suits/women in cheerleader outfits will come and dance your way to victory.
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The first headset was a Razer Banshee, the second a Plantronics Gamecom 777. The USB converter dohickey just doesn’t work. After a little while, the microphone quality takes a sharp turn off a steep cliff.
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Microsoft LifeChat lx-3000? That’s what I use. I hear they break quite easily but I have stomped on mine, rolled over it on the desk chair etc.
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That’s the bunny.
Sure I managed to kill my old pair, but they had lived a good life and had endured many hardships.
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Tried Sughly’s game. Nice idea but I am clearly incapable of dealing with adventure games.
The holes puzzle is actually pretty solvable but I think that you need to just make the comms bit with the hint a bit more obvious (make it forced dialogue instead of something you go to comms for?).
Can’t work out the light panel puzzle. Nothing I can see gives me 2 single digit numbers to put in there. Even the rock formations in the first puzzle don’t seem to give the solution.
Yay for hammers!
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Stand back everyone, nothing here to see! Just imminent danger in the middle of it me, yes, Captain Hammer’s here blowing in the breeze! The day needs my saving expertise!
That’s what I happens when I read the word ‘hammer’.
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Hahaha! Thanks for playing Trjn! I really didnt expect everyone to be so stumped by the light panel puzzle… I actually spent around 2 days trying to figure out how to make it NOT obvious. But yeah, I guessed I made it a little… too not obvious 🙁
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I think most of my issues came from not being used to adventure games. It may be close to a decade since I last played one and it’s really hard to get into that sort of mentality.
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Spoiler Free.
So far I’m LOVING Skyward Sword. It’s channeling a little AssCreed with it’s run up wall/hop climbing ability.
I’ve played for a few hours and only just got my shield. felt like a good place to quit for the day. Can’t wait to get home and play more!
The story is VERY “Japanese school drama” and filled with all the usual cliches, but that should (hopefully) change now.
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Yeah, it’s the most Japanese Zelda I think I’ve ever seen. Even Link’s various grunts sound stereotypically Japanese. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but it’s definitely a thing. Though I do wish that in 2011, they’d worked out that slowly appearing text is a pain in the arse when you can read faster than a 10 year old.
Got my sword last night just before going to bed. So much fun to kill stuff. “Don’t do anything bad with it”, the sword master said. What, like STAB THIS PERSON!? Or CUT THIS SIGN TO PIECES!? Or CUT DOWN ALL YOUR TREES!?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAH!
In short, great game.
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Very great game! And I know what you mean about the Japanesey-ness. And not in a “Japanese style/influence” way, but in a cheesy anime way. (Note: Before anyone jumps down my throat, I LOVE manga/anime, but can still acknowledge that some of the cliches are cheesy)
Still, LOVING the game so far. Can’t wait to play more.
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Yeah I can see the story is very much moving toward classic Zelda territory. Had a moment that was very touching last night. I was all :'(
I can’t remember who it was that was having lip-sync problems with Batman AC PC, but I’m not having any problems at all. I’ve got a NVidia card, so maybe the game doesn’t play well with AMD?
KRISTMAS MEAT
It’s KRIIIIIIIISTMAS! Santa’s packing the meat in to the sack… wait… that sounds wrong….
ANYWAY!
SYDNEYSIDERS! (Sorry everyone else) MEAT NEEDS YOU!
Would you be interested in attending a social gathering full of fun, frolics and festivities? Oh, and Turbacon. 17-18 December
All you need to do is contact:
ShiggyNinty at link_windwaker13[at]hotmail[dot]com
SEE YA THERE!
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AMENDMENT
NOT ONLY OPEN TO SYDNEY PEEPS! ANYONE WILLING TO TRAVEL IS MORE THAN WELCOME!
ESPECIALLY STRANGE!
EVEN THOUGH SHE HAS AN IMPORTANT BIRTHDAY PARTY THAT WEEKEND!
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Sydney people we have not seen:
– Ginger Chris
– HUGO (ლ(ಠ益ಠ))
– Freyr
– Pyrean
WHO ELSE WANTS TO BE ON THIS LIST SO THAT WE CAN SHAME THEM-
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But Tad is a english genius him and Neil Gaiman were talking about literacy. He is practically famous!
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woah woah woah….
1. You’re a lady?
2. somone who’s possibly shorter than me??
*blind mown*
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1. Yes
2. I am somewhat short…but not midget height. They’ve come up with this rumour because they wanted to make a tv show about a midget doctor.
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My words have no malice freyr. You can call me an uneducated swine if it will make you feel better. Also i wouldn’t take what i say at all seriously. I have never met you nor do i know your height.
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Fine, you uneducated swine!
PS I don’t really hate you
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It’s okay, I have enough hate for Rocketman for the both of us.
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Anyone else want to watch a Freyr vs Rocketman 1v1 mid for this get settled? 😛
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This sounds like a plan.
Do we get to choose our champions? Or at least get some forewarning?
DUEL TO THE DEATHMATCH
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Kog Maw VS Malphite?
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^ What Steve-O said.
I just think it’d be a good way for TAYbies to let off some steam against another.
Kotaku GRUDGE MATCHES 😛
omgomgomgomg if they do, we should all hop in and commentate!! like 6 commentators at once, LOL, it’d be hilarious.
SPECTATE THE SPECTATORS
Who has streaming capacity? You’ll have 4 of us complaining about your camera control
I will after this weekend.
Going to set up the new PC to be able to stream.
I have the bandwidth, apparently, for a 720p stream?
Oh Rocketman….
As a doctor, she probably knows over 9000 ways to make your death look natural. This is why I didn’t make the ‘playing doctors with F4ction’ joke last night. Oh wait…
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You know doctor, I’m getting a little tired of the sexual innuendo
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WHAT?! Over 9000?
Also
I was feelin’so bad
I asked kotaku’s doctor just what I had
I said “Freyr, (Freyr), Miss. M.D., (Freyr)
Now can you tell me what’s ailin’ me (Freyr)”
etc
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was that a yay at the soulless coming along or the fact that awkwardness will occur?
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Picking up keys to new house today
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And before you ask, it is not a midget house. Or a dollhouse.
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Congrats! Nothing like walking into a new house and thinking, this is mine, I can do anything | want with this…
And then not doing anything at all and just playing video games.
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Well, it is still a rental and so is not really MY house
BUT we will have a games room!!!11
And 2/3 consoles!
And a nice TV to play these on!My childhood dreams are complete!
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Unfortunately they’ve now fixed it, but did anyone else manage to score free games from the EA/Origin site:
Qty Ordered Product Name Unlock Code Amount
1 Mirror’s Edge(TM) $0.00
1 Command & Conquer(TM) 4 Tiberian Twilight $0.00
1 Mass Effect(TM) 2 $0.00
1 Cerberus Network Activation $0.00
1 Battlefield: Bad Company(TM) 2 $0.00
1 Medal of Honor™ Digital Deluxe Edition $0.00
1 Medal of Honor™ Hot Zone Map Pack No Unlock Code Needed $0.00
1 Dragon Age(TM) II $0.00
1 Dragon Age™ II – Online Pass $0.00
1 The Sims Medieval(TM) Special Edition $0.00
1 The Sims Medieval™ Special Edition Items $0.00
1 DARKSPORE(TM) $0.00
1 Battlefield 2™: Complete Collection $0.00
1 SPORE(TM) $0.00
SubTotal: $0.00
Tax: $0.00
Total: $0.00
Discount: $400.88
It was part of their black friday sale, buy a game get a free game… Unfortunately their system just gave out free games without need for purchase.
I managed to get in just in time 😀
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Pfft, I’m not sleeping tonight, not with my Old Republic Beta starting at 3am tomorrow!… Might have to play one of my freebies while waiting!
In any case, I’m fully expecting EA to be major cocks about it and have them removed from my account… Last time this happened to Ubisoft (which involved every game on their system going away for free) they happily let people keep their freebies.
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First reaction: damn it, I missed it!
Second reaction: I own half those games, and the others I don’t want 😛
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That’s funny, cause I’m exactly the same… I own half and the other half I don’t want… but you know what, free games are free games, maybe one day I’ll sit down and play Medal of Honor and Dragon ConsolePort 2.
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Um.
Does not appear to be fixed. I was all “oh I’ll buy a game or two and score some free ones”…And the ones I wanted were both “free” and so I have been charged $0.00.
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C&C 4
Dragon Age 2
Battlefield 2 Complete Collectionwhat a nice present on a friday morning…
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1 Medal of Honor™ Digital Deluxe Edition $0.00
1 Medal of Honor™ Hot Zone Map Pack $0.00
1 DARKSPORE(TM) $0.00
1 Command & Conquer(TM) 4 Tiberian Twilight $0.00
1 Dragon Age(TM) II $0.00
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nice haul, I already had MoH, I have Mirrors Edge on Steam, I didn’t want Darkspore (not even if it was free o_0), definitely don’t want The Sims…
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Dude, you’re doing it wrong… It’s free, just grab it all!… it’s a nice way of giving the middle finger to EA for the way they treat their customers.
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Hey guys – sorry i haven’t been around much this week – i’ve been stupid busy.
two things:
1. I beat Ass Creed 1 last night – mann was it ever repetitive lol, but still somewhat enjoyable.
2. Season final of Beauty and the Geek was boring as batshit.. Horse-mouth won.
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Repetitive? On Assassin’s Creed games? Nooo, that can’t be right.
At least Altair was not fricken clumsy as heck, I’m looking at you Ezio!
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I suspect I’m the only Assassin’s Creed fan who loves the Desmond sections the best… And then gets riled up when they last 30 seconds a piece. 😀
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This is why I liked Brotherhood so much, because it had two Desmond sections that played for at least twenty minutes.
Also, I always say I have no problem with AC1 being repetitive, then when I replayed it a few months ago I took my time with the first four or so targets, getting all the mission information and whatnot, and by the fifth guy I was practically screaming to get on with it. I’d forgotten how painful it could be.
At least things get shaken up a little bit at the end, though.
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No, you’re not the only one. The AC1 Altair story was interesting enough, but I never warmed to Ezio at all, and saw his part of the game as a fun murderous romp in between actual interesting plot development (Desmond sections).
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I love the cool cause-and-effect angle of the ancestors. How the past impacts the future. All kinds of awesome. I’ve got say that I much rather searching for glyphs, finding ‘the truth’ and investigating pieces of Eden then murdering Bogias. 😀 Amazing series, though.
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I enjoyed asscreed 1. Never bothered with the flag and templar cheivos. also never bothered with other asscreed games owing to budget as always being thin.
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Yeh – i couldn’t be bothered with any of that collecting bollocks.. if i ran past one then sure, why not? But otherwise, feth that for a joke lol
I also HATED going into the Kindom – i avoided it any time i could
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Exploring the Kingdom and collecting stuff was the best part! Well apart from climbing to the top of everything just so you could leap off into a haystack.
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AC1 was the first game I played on my PS3, so I was too dumbstruck to notice the repetitiveness. It was glorious.
Did everything (And not a trophy to show for it 🙁 )-
I didn’t find it more repetetive than any other game of the time. The missions you had to do before the Assassinations made sense to me. You have to research your target before you can pull off the perfect assassination.
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The way the first game played was great at first with the intel angle and the like, but got a bit clinical by the end. Going through the motions with the same formula for all the hits. I still had a damn good time, though.
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Indeed, it was fun at the time, but I find I can’t go back to it now…
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Morning all!
Today is the day I find out that a light shower destroys our WAN temporarily.
Good times.
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*strokes chin* fascinating discovery…
I’ve had a book block off the wireless internet connection once, strangely enough..
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I really have no idea. It’s just that beforehand, the connection was just slower then slow. Then the book was moved and everything sped up again. Weird!
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The tiny wizard living inside the router probably fell asleep. When that happens, just pick up the router and shake it, screaming “Grant me your power!”.
Works every time.
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I’ve had my own tower block the signal, mainly because I used that default antenna (Using that term loosely) and the computer was facing the router almost, with 3-4 walls to go through as well, but if I turned the computer about 15 degrees under the desk, it works on mid signal strength 😛
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You seem to be immensely wise in the ways of the computerzzz, if my router is getting fairly low sync speeds for an ADSL2+ connection, is there any way to tell if it’s the router, or the line, or just the connection? or do I have to ring TPG and sit on the phone for an hour while they get me to reset my router 5 times?
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Heh. TPG and I don’t get along much these days. Moving on…
Best first step would be to try a different modem if you have one spare (or a friends that you can borrow). The general idea for checking connection stuff is to try anything your Internet provider will ask you to do, and if that doesn’t solve it, call them. They may/may not be able to help after that, but it’ll save you a heap of time on the phone.
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Really?
The trolling possibilities are endless!Well, not really. I see one trolling possibility and thats it. But still, trolling possibility!
Earlier this week, I had apple chunks in apple jelly. I thought mankind had perfected itself.
Then Strange commented that it sounded yucky, and when I tried to eat said apple in apple jelly again this morning, all I could taste was its shortcomings.
Now I’m back where I was before: with a pessimistic and bleak outlook on the future of all creation.
#highlysuggestible #theworldisdoomed #nomoreapplejelly?
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Have you tried green apple green tea with green apple jelly?
It looks radioactive but tastes delicious.
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But…but…I don’t like lots of things! I’m scared to say what else though, I don’t want to ruin your enjoyment of anything else. 🙁
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PS: I don’t like making you sadface. I was joking, but possibly it wasn’t funny.
PPS: I ate the apple anyway, and felt better by the time I finished it. Humanity isn’t perfect, but it’s good enough… for now.
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Oh, I need some more Humanity! Oh wait, this isn’t Dark Souls. 😛
Expensive things are yucky. Except when you can get them for cheaps. \o/
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Shockingly, the DDR3 RAM I bought for my computer doesn’t fit in the motherboard that is only compatible with DDR2 RAM. Looks like I’ll just have to get a new motherboard.
And CPU.
And GPU.
And case.
And PSU.
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Your ears should be bleeding from the awesomeness of my words anyhow.
But yes, that will probably be done as well.
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Sure, but it’s like, double bleeding now.
There’s only so much bleeding my ears can do.
Hint: Not very much.
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oh noes!!! Bunny that is why cross checking compatibility is importants. I just let the cute girl at the shop do it for me.
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Level of IT knowledge is directly proportionate to physical attractiveness for women. The better looking, the better computing.
For men, it’s girth of waist to IT knowledge.
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I think you’ll find that regardless of gender, cup size determines computing knowledge.
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In that case, I’m the best damned…
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…ok, well, I get by. Shut Up.
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The hilarity! It’s… too… much! *faints*
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To get your attention human, and it seems that it worked, you commented did you not?
Successbaby.jpg
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Good question Rocketman. I don’t know why I had to mention that… oh god… maybe she is working her magicks on me?? those damn magicks.
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I wonder about you some times!
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I hope those times aren’t your special alone times. Because that’s a rather creepy thing to tell someone online. That you wonder about them while you’re contemplating parts of yourself…
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Nope that doesnt happen.
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Only sometimes, Rocketman? I need to step up my game.
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CPU: Intel i5 2500K
Mobo: *insert motherboard model here* (I’ve always stuck with gigabyte myself)
GPU: Nvidia 560/AMD 6950
Case: Fractal Design Arc Midi
PSU: Silverstone Strider Plus (I have the 750w and it’s awesome)
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That resembles what I’m going to get, although going to grab an overclocked 560 TI and a different case. Not sure on the PSU just yet, need to see what the components I’m getting need and then get something slightly beefier to future proof.
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I have an Asus 6950, but stupidly enough I only got the model with 1Gb RAM, I would suggest you get 2Gb, because while benchmarks may say there’s not a lot of difference, I’ve found slightly lower FPS and occasionally jerkier texture streaming, which I presume is down to the lack of dedicated VRAM.
as far as the future proofing goes, that’s why I got the 750w Silverstone PSU, because it currently can supply a bunch more power than my system needs, so hopefully at the end of next year when I build a new system, I can use that one, and save myself the cost of one component.
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I think I’m going to go with this card.
There aren’t many 2GB ones available and for the price difference, I’m not too sure that it’s going to be worth it. I’m not a huge PC gamer (although I will be getting a few AAA titles on PC now), so oddly enough the first thing that I’m going to run on this machine once it has been put together is the original Starcraft.
Going to beat me some campaign yo.
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I have a feeling I’m gonna have to give in and buy yet more hardware for my pc too. Even though I had it running stable for some time yesterday, it’s still got the same problem. :\ Somehow it’s got more bizarre than before though…. before it was logging in to windows and then I’d get no signal on both my monitors, but as of last night, I only get no signal on one 😐 WTF?!?!?!?!
If I then remote in to the machine, I can see both screens fine via the remote machine, but then within 10mins it’ll just lock up. :\
I had it working right last night for ages thanks in part to discovering that all of my intel USB hub listings in device manager were being controlled by a Sony Ericsson driver that apparently gives a lot of people issues, as it hangs around even after uninstalling the software. Soon as I managed to get rid of the damn driver file, everything seemed to be hunky dory. I sat in windows for quite a number of hours, but then upon rebooting after uninstalling some other software, the issue of my screens blanking returned :\
I’m still reasonably convinced it’s a software issue, as it seems to be stable in safe mode, but that could just be due it running at such a low resolution. Might try the card in my media centre if the PSU has enough plugs for it this weekend just to make sure it doesn’t happen on there too. At least if it does the same on there, I’ll know it’s the card, but I just have a feeling that PSU doesn’t have enough juice to run it. Damn card needs 600W minimum! :0
I really dun wanna have to go buy another PSU just to find out that the card is not faulty though! BAH! Fingers crossed I don’t need to go there quite yet…
Oh man, I just got Skyward Sword in the mail! This is the most excited I’ve been for a game this year 😛 (and I’m actually quite impressed with EB Games’ online store delivery as well, who’d have thought?)
See ya later, Skyrim. It was nice knowing you. Off into my pile of shame you go, to be played at a later (hopefully PS3-patched) date. Maybe they’ll add in a decent use for Food while I’m gone. xD
Today is shaping up to be a marvellous day. Quiet office, free games off origin, Welbot gifting me a copy of trials 2 on steam….
\o/
Wow, I know I’ve played alot of Skyrim since it came out but according to Steam log I’ve played 25436 hrs. Now that’s dedication (or a glitch, i’m going with glitch.)
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‘cept that Lydia. Bitch got in my way too many times. I had to feed her to a Dragon.
Teach her to block my escape from a group of wisps…
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Define “helpful” in terms of Bethesda-made characters…
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They unlock after 20 000 hours of play.
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So I started a doodle at work.
It was a drawing of me. That became a drawing of me, Pez and Shiggy.
That became a drawing of the Sydney Tabies I knew.
Which then spiraled in to a mess of every TAYbie I me.
Except Rocketman 🙁 Sorry.
Also, uh, probably a few more. Sorry. Thinking and drawing = 2 things. Can’t do 2 things at once! Am man!
Enjoy!
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I love your drawing (nearly said doodle there!). Definitely see a few familiar faces!
At the risk of offering an unintended insult alongside the compliment, I don’t think I’m there… am I?
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On th eplus side… Rocketman isn’t alone? Sorry. This wasn’t planned at all otherwise I’d have, you know, done better.
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You’re almost tall enough to pretend Tad is you….
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Awesome dude. I don’t know why but I’ve always liked the chibi-style of cartoons, guess it takes me back to the Final Fantasy on SNES days. Also I’m not sure if I’m in there, but I’m going to assume that I’m ALL of the people.
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I think I failed on a few. I couldn’t remember what people’s hair looked like!
I’m so unobservant. I should draw bald people like Sughly
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You’re the one leaping towards Bish/the frisbee.
yeah, it’s not the best. Will make you look more lady-like when I clean it up!
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I knew that one was me. There was a tiny doubt though. If it had been anyone else leaping towards Bishy I would have been jealous!
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that’s why it’s YOU leaping towards Bish! 🙂
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O_O You are so talented O_O they are soooooooooooooooooooooo cute.
We should totally use this as the header for Tales of TAY!?
This is really fun trying to figure out who’s who!
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I used to wear glasses, which would have given me a defining feature, but now I guess I’m pretty nondescript. I’m going to assume that I’m one of the random “regular people with hair” ones. If I’m not actually in there, don’t correct me 😛
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I’m working on the same assumption, except in reverse. There’s nothing about me that would have stood out if I was drawn, so I’m just assuming I was skipped :p
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You’re there. I drew your Movember mo to make you more distinct!
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Ah yeah! I see it! That’s a good picture of me 🙂
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Not so! You still have the thunder! I stole, uh, the clouds? Or the rain… Or maybe lighning? Either way, it’s different!
No one can replace your arts!
Also, I have the reputation of never delivering 🙁
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Nahhhhhh its ok. There’s enough room amongst this thunder. You can come up here. For a little while. If you stay too long, then I have to kill you.
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MWA HA HA HA HA! One small step closer to usurping Sughly’s throne!!!
Wait, did I type that out!? OH NO!
DISREGARD! DISREGAAAAARD!
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You shall henceforth be known as The Kingslayer.
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I’ve never met the people depicted, so I cant comment on accuracy or nothin’
But I like your arts.
That is all.
I think I’ve gone crazy. Just rebooted my computer and I swear I heard a peon say “Ready to work”….
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can someone possibly confirm, I swear I remember a sound bite from the Goliaths (or possibly another Terran unit) that had them saying “Message Received” or “Message Confirmed” or something like that…
I wanted it for my SMS tone, but I can’t find anything like it 🙁
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Then followed by ‘Job’s done’ when you shut down. That would be awesome. I miss those little guys…
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To try something different last night, I thought I might create a female character for Saints Row 3, some tough as nails biker chick. Everything seemed to go well untill the first cut scene where my tough as nails biker chick’s face suddenly looked like a blow up doll.
Somewhat distubed by this less than appealing look, I decided to visit the plastic surgeon and try again.
Trying now for a Eliz Dushku look, I walked out of the surgeion, pretty pleased by the new creation… that is untill the next cut scene when the blow up doll expression once again rose its inflatable head.
Still convinced that I could salvage this Frankenstein of a character, I stormed back into the surgeon and handed over the last of my money for one last shot at creating a “normal” look for my head honcho.
15 minutes of carefully tweaking every last feature on the newly dubbed Scarface, I hesitantly strode out into Steelport again.
So far so good, the features may not have been as detailed as Shaundi, but the character at least didn’t look like an XXX rated Barbie figure.
That was untill my character opened her mouth, and spoke like a man.
Somewhere in that various transformations my character had also gained a sex change.
I then went back to playing SKYRIM!
Okay, I’ve got my free Origin games. I’m totally expecting EA to take them off me as soon as they find out what’s happened. If not, oh well. 😛
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I got mine too. DA2 for free – now I can try before I buy!*
*I probably won’t buy though, because my credit card is maxed out 🙁
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Melbourne TAYbies!
Chiptunes!
Soundbytes!
Tonightaaaaaaaaahhh!
http://dpadproductions.blogspot.com/2011/11/soundbytes-10-last-one-before-blip.html
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I see what you’re doing…you’re unabbreviating LoL so I think you’re talking about something interesting and read it. Well I’m not going to fall…oh…I fell for it, didn’t I? 😛
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Again with the snap at LoL… you don’t see me going on about all the Skyrim drivel do you?
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Techy, please stop being so defensive. I talk about other things besides Skyrim. The only thing you talk about here is LoL. Even Doc What?’s Kristmas Meat post ended up becoming a LoL conversation.
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You’re not the only one who is sick of constantly talking about LoL. Its worse in TeamSpeak though.
I try to balance it out by obsessing over Starcraft. My efforts have apparently been in vain.
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It’s easy just to keep scrolling past the LoL talk so it doesn’t really bug me.
I’m sure a few people are sick of seeing zl ebg13 rapbqrq cnentencuf nobhg Qnex Fbhyf 😉
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Dammit, Jim – i’m a doctor not a…something
ARG!!! why couldn’t you have told me sooner!?! i love chiptunes!
I wish I had known this was on sooner, made plans already 🙁
There’s still Blip Festival coming up in February at least.
Finished Saints Row 3 last night. I think I clocked about 13 hours and got to 72% completion. I still have a lot of properties to buy, guns to upgrade, side missions to do and collectibles to hunt down.
Then I have to play it again to do all the alternate story thingies, strictly for achievement purposes.
Yeah, the second half of the game totally makes up for the slow-paced and kind of boring first half, though there’s still a few things I miss from Saints Row 2.
However, it has made me interested in a Saint’s Row 4, which seems inevitable.
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THIS CALLS FOR A REPOST
It does no deserve to languish on the bottom of the page.
Also, I just noticed Tad. Hahaha.Dr What?
November 25, 2011 at 10:39 AM
So I started a doodle at work.It was a drawing of me. That became a drawing of me, Pez and Shiggy.
That became a drawing of the Sydney Tabies I knew.
Which then spiraled in to a mess of every TAYbie I me.
Except Rocketman 🙁 Sorry.
Also, uh, probably a few more. Sorry. Thinking and drawing = 2 things. Can’t do 2 things at once! Am man!
Enjoy!
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It’s WINDJAMMING!
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hmm I think it’s Strange, What? pointed it out on the last page.
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It’s me! I’m not leaping for the frisbee, I’m leaping towards you!
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SQUISHEE HUGZ
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I’m pretty sure it’s actually… Me.
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Nope. you’re the pretty one above Loops’ head. Doc What? said that person near Bishy was me. I want to know who’s next to me though!
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I actually thought of “[He] can be your hero babyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
[He] can kiss away the paaaaiiiiiiin” but thought that would be weird so didn’t post it but now I have.Intriguing tale, Bish.
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I sent that to Strange on Twitter not so long ago… I think.
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Canberra TAYbies!
I just wanted to show you some love. Every other city is getting some!
Have a song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TeUyE-8lzg
@Harli and @Dr Wat
Can I go ahead and change the Tales Of Tay Header? It’s not a great fit (a little high) but I can play around with the div size to make it fit.
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Haha wat! I googled Tales of Tay to get a link and got this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Tay-Historical-Source-sea/dp/0905489764
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Picked up Bluejuice’s new album yesterday (along with Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming and The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place, both amazing) and god damn that album is just packed with fun. Every song just makes me want to dance. And I don’t dance. Ever.
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I love Bluejuice. Saw them live at Mackay and they were electric. So much energy. Also they swigging from a bottle of Jameson Irish Whiskey as they performed. Some smart-arse from the crowed kept yelling out “Give Me Some Whiskey” as they were trying to talk, so Jake took a swig and sprayed/spat it out over him. The crowd loved it, but don’t think that guy did…
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Watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjWtuqelHOw&feature=relmfu
Thoughts? I personally think that Hitman is trying to go for Uncharted type thrills, I really hope they stay away from the big set pieces
Hey guys, we’ve got more free and discounted games in today’s app deals roundup on Gizmodo. EA is having a huge sale, so it’s our biggest list yet.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/11/app-deals-of-the-day-iphone-ipad-android-wp7-44/
Oh the Irony.
Playing skyrim (as I have been for the last 1060 odd days apparently). Picks up Ancient Nordic helmet of the unburdened which makes me over encumbered.
So, apparently people on the internet are disappointed with today’s Steam Sale.
I don’t… what?
Steam is Valve’s way of selling you things.They essentially exist to make money. They do not exist just to please you and serve you your choice of cheap games, even though the two things overlap on occasion. If you don’t find anything appealing in today’s sales, just don’t buy anything. But don’t go around saying that Steam is a “let down” or something. What is wrong with you?
Are you one of those people who watched last night’s ACA and was suddenly shocked that IKEA charges money for their goods as a method to make money? DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND HOW A BUSINESS GENERALLY OPERATES
If I were on TeamSpeak right now, I would be gargling with rage.
/rant
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I think these things can only be truly appreciated when someone else is there to hear it.
It’s like sighing at Rocketman. It only works when he can hear the disappointment in your breath.
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I got to the mention of ACA & then threw up out of pure vindicive hatred of that program.
However, I agree with your sentiment. Valve offering games cheaper is not a bad thing.
In other news, I just picked up Fallout New Vegas and intent to mod the shit outta it.
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Buy it for ALL the people!
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Its also ridiculous because it isn’t like this is the only day things are on sale. Don’t like what’s in offer today? Wait 24 hours. Its not that long.
So is this guy (http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-120/#comment-452564) the Woods who normally has good comments. Oh wait, I think that’s Woodze.
Regardless, this particular Woods is a dick.
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Lesbians?
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*internet high 5*
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I wish I could tell people about the piece of hardware I’m working with at the moment, it’s pretty cool.
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Is it a fridge? An airconditioning unit? A fan? Ice? It’s ice isn’t it?
Sorry… I’ll stop being a twat nowBut I am intreigued by this clandestine teaser…
Okay boys and girls it has come to my attention that a number of participants in TAy are sick of League of legends talk. I decide to fix this by making a free forum on which Taybies who want to talk about it can go so as to not upset the status quo.
http://kotakulol.freeforums.org
password:pants
So come in if you want to and chat about LoL so we dont upset any mpre people.
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ah, good one
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V unir ab vqrn jung lbh ner gnyxvat nobhg 😉
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I think you become a bit defensive sometimes when it comes to the topics you are talking about. I like skyrim and LoL however compromise is the easist way to avoid any conflict that way nobodies toes gets stepped on. 🙂
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Thank you!
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You can, but that’s like saying ignore the crying child on the train. You can ignore the crying child and carry on, sometimes you will ignore it, sometimes you’ll just get annoyed and move to another carriage. Personally, anytime there’s mention of LoL I skip the comment thread and move on, but I can understand why people are annoyed.
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And those pesky video games I hear so much about. I’m sick of it and I won’t stand for it anymore!
But thanks for thinking of everybody else Rocketman, it’s very nice of you to do so. As for how this will work out… we’ll see how it goes eh? I’d be happy to post on it.
I don’t like this form of censorship. I am faaaar too lazy to read ANOTHER website and register for ANOTHER forum!
But kudos on taking the initiative. I’m just going to put LoL headings any time I mention it so people can ignore my post, no?
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Well if that’s what the masses of humans want, then fine I’ll do that. Just kinda annoyed with it having to come to something like that
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If you can think of a better idea i am all eyes(not ears because i will read your suggestion) I just dont wont people to leave because of it!
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It hasn’t come to this. nobody wants anyone to leave or to stop talking about whatever they want to. Like I said up the top of the page, it’s not personal and please don’t take it as such, or be so defensive. Just like you’re allowed to talk about LoL all the time, we’re allowed to complain all the time.
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You even turned the Christmas Meat post in to a LOL discussion. Do you see that happening with Skyrim and Dark Souls?
The same thing happened with Minecraft back in the day, but at least they were actually interesting.
No one asked you to take it else where. “Human” or otherwise. That was rocket man’s thing. No one said anything about stopping OR even cutting down.
Oh, and I skip the Skyrim stuff. and the Dark Souls and Assassin’s Creed. It still doesn’t come anywhere close to the volume of LOL.
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Look i really like TAY and the people here are some of the nicest people ever. If i have to browse two sites a day to keep people happy i am willing to make that sacrifice. Because in all honesty it does become kind of tedious to read even for someone who actively plays and enjoys it!
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nice idea very thoughtful. its blocked for me at work though 🙁 so i guess i will miss reading about your LoL adventures then 🙁
Are people genuinely upset by all the LoL talk? I mean, there’s a whole lot of it, but I usually just scroll right on by, doesn’t interest or bother me one bit.
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This is me too. Though occasionally I do stop in to pretend to Laugh out Loud just so it looks like I know what they’re talking about.
… what? It’s not laugh out loud???
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Just like all the Batman or Zelda or Uncharted or all the other posts about stuff not everyone is interested in.
Your idea is good Rocketman but it’s sad if it’s necessary.
Hey mang. I think it was more of an outlet whinge more than a “Let’s kick everyone out” whinge.
I hate LoL talk, but yeah, I just get the old scroll by going.
This seems a little excessive TBH.
I know I’m about to be tarred and feathered, but what exactly is League of Legends? I’ve never heard of it before.
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Oh, fun times ahead!!! Drink lots. I had mine yesterday. I won the “Best Smile” Award, nothing can make me sad for the rest of this month now.
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Chuloopa, I don’t think this can go on after my accidental confession this week… It’s not you, it’s me.
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So you’ve got about a week?
I don’t really plan on getting wasted. I’m not a fan of getting wasted and I’m not feeling 100% at the moment. Just going to have a nice meal, some tasty German beers and then find an excuse to leave reasonably early.
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Well December is insanely busy work-wise for me so I don’t think I’ll have much opportunity to be smile then!
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My department christmas parties are usually a lot more fun than our network parties… much better alcohol. Although we have the likes of Jennifer Hawkins show up to the network variants so I guess that’s an easy win for the network parties?
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We have the office Christmas party and then there are the company Christmas parties with the actual important guests and whatnot.
If you’re into networking with a certain sort of people, nothing beats the company party. I am not into networking with that sort of people.
Amusingly enough, my sister and her boyfriend are very into mingling with those people. So last year, my sister’s boyfriend came as my guest and I wouldn’t be shocked if they both managed to get invites this year.
Not going to mention where I work. Those who know can make sense of this, those who don’t can ponder it :p
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woooo for minor celebrities*
*dont know who it is, so i assume they are not that famous 😛
C.R.a.U: my cousin went to a “book” store in newcastle last night and got jenna jamieson’s autograph for funsies…in the photo she is tiny. looks about 5’4 and she had heels on
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Female porn stars are tiny. For the same reason they use big props when trying to make normal sized people look like hobbits, they use undersized people to make other elements of the shot appear larger.
The more you know.
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*runs up behind everyone and creates group hug*
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WOAH, watch where you land that hand, sonny.
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Is now a good time to remove ones pants?
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Sorry that was me 😛
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Repost to grab more attention and maybe LESS LOL talk in the reply thread. We don’t jump in and post interesting things in your threads. 😛
KRISTMAS MEAT
GATHER ROUND BOYS AND GIRLS FOR IT IS KRISTMAS TIME! JUST REACH FOR SANTA’S SACK FOR ALL YOUR MEATY DESIRES…… Oh, I did it again…
ANYWAY!
SYDNEYSIDERS AND KOTAKU PEEPS WHO WANT TO TRAVEL TO SYDNEY FOR MEAT! MEAT NEEDs YOU!
ESPECIALLY STRANGE!
EVEN THOUGH SHE HAS AN IMPORTANT BIRTHDAY PARTY THAT WEEKEND!
/end caps
Would you be interested in attending a social gathering full of fun, frolics and festivities? Oh, and Turbacon. 17-18 December
Accommodation will be available! If you want to know more then all you need to do is contact:
ShiggyNinty at link_windwaker13[at]hotmail[dot]com
SEE YA THERE!
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This is why I hate working in retail. Attempting to get any sort of time off in the lead to Christmas is just asking for trouble. I’ll see what I can do, maybe I’ll get lucky
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It has been a while. This is why I need to be in TAY more, Kotaku people are awesome people. I want to “meat” more awesome people 🙂
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I actually meant to reply to the original post
BUT am very tired.
I WILL BE THERE (on the sunday because I work over 9000 hours on Saturday).\o/
Wait, where am I goign to be?
Just resisted the urge to buy McDonald’s or KFC while I was at the shops.
Just kept thinkingI have a sandwich at work and it is probably healthier than a double cheeseburger or Tower Burger.
Just sat down to my sandwich, only to discover it is one of the most foul tasting things in existence.
Now regretting not giving in to the urge for fatty foods.
Mmm, buyers regret in reverse.
Can someone twitter FatShady for me? I think I may have destroyed the minecraft server…..it was an accident!
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This is why we can’t have nice things!
I demand an apology in the form of a dance. Then upload your apology dance to youtube, and link it here.
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What a coincidence, one of my goals in life is to be as cool as and/or married to Turk.
What? It’s a sensible goal!
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Hells yeah it is… actually, two weeks for me. But whatever. Should be fantastic see the Foos and the D on the same night!
Regarding LoL forum stuff.
You know what you guys are really horid sometimes, firstly all the non players get all up in arms about how TAY has become just LoL talk and then when i offer a viable option to change this everyone is like i don’t want to go to the extra trouble and oh we were only having a whinge, well you know what i just cant be bothered caring anymore. You guys have made me actually mad at this the kind of rage only really reserved for Bish when he is being especially mean.
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No offense Rocketman, but why cater for LoL dislikers at all? I understand you’re trying to ‘keep the peace’ but seriously, I don’t like LoL and I tend to just skip a comment if it mentions LoL. People are entitled, nay encouraged to talk about what interests them.
I’m sure no-one is truly irritated by people talking about what they enjoy with one another. If people don’t want to read abou LoL, just keep scrolling 🙂You should hear me go on and on and on about Bioshock…
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Player character’s (forgot his name) hands in Bioshock really disturbed me. It looks all cartoony and out of proportion and rubbery and stuff.
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‘Tis Jack of whom you speak…I feel I have to politely disagree with ye though, they looked fine to me matey, arrrr
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It’s Captain Jack Sparrow.
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Thanks Splicer this is pretty much what I wanted to say but I was (And still am) too agitated thanks to work to put it into a peaceful message like that.
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Hey Rocketman, It’s great that you showed initiative and created a solution for this problem, it’s just wasn’t really the best solution, that’s all. Or a major problem really.
Plus, we don’t really get that upset about lol talk, do we? I thought it was more of a case of us poking fun at the people that talk about LoL all the time, not that we were upset about it. -
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You can please some of the people, some of the time or none of the people all of the time.
Things are a little LoL obsessed over here and everyone is rather comfortable being here, instead of going off to some other forum. That means that there are going to be those that want to talk about LoL and be here and those that do not want to talk about LoL and also be here.
Making a forum, while a nice thought, isn’t really going to address the issue because people want to be here, not there.
You’ll notice that whatever is going on in TAY, there is always someone obsessing over some game. Be it LoL, Skyrim, Pokemon, Starcraft (sup) or Hello Kitty Island Adventure. The only thing that makes LoL stand out is that the obsession has continued far longer than most. People have been playing it for months, while most other games only tend to garner interest for a few weeks at most.
The only way to really get around this is for a new forum system here, where there are individual threads for individual topics. You have to transplant all of TAY so that people aren’t feeling segregated, while still giving them the tools to be able to talk about something freely without stepping on other conversations.
That doesn’t quite work because we all want to be here on Kotaku.com.au, so the only real solution is for a Allure hosted forum.
You tried, and it’s nice that you tried. But your solution doesn’t really cater to what people are after. Mine might not either, but it’s what I think should work.
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POKEMON??
If anyone wants to talk Pokemon, give me a shout.
Main series Pokemon, none of this Rescue Ranger something something stuff.
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What tells me that Jimu is pretty much the only reason I should get a Twitter.
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Don’t want to be all Abbott and Costello over here, but was that a weirdly phrased question, or were you referring to the good Dr. who frequents these parts.
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SERIOUS OPINION
First of all, no one was specifically having a go at you Rocketman, for creating a forum. I’m sure f4ction was joking about it being effort, but then there’s the deeper issue of us being segregated from the others. That’s what that was about, not your forum specifically.
I’m sure we do get annoying with our long walls of text n’ stuff, but this is the freedom of this place. We don’t mean to annoy, and no one on the other side means to offend. I find this place to be a fun sort of area, so maybe this is me, but unless it’s obviously serious stuff, I take most comments as if they’re just mostly light-hearted comments, which for the most part they are.
As I said: Be cool, we’re cool, it’s cool.
ROCKET! We <3 YOU! What you did was sensationally kind! that you would decide to move the stuff a lot of us find annoying elsewhere is great! Really!
the problem is that people don't like being told what to do. You guys are entitled to be here and talk about what you want too! We'll keep skipping LOL posts. We'll still find them annoying. That's our right.
I'm sorry if people took this out on you. You and Strange seem to have become poster children for this mess and it's not deserved. If truth be told, I'm getting a little mad over it myself.
Anyway, to sum up. No worries R-Man. I know what you were trying to do, and the gesture was appreciated. But at the end of the day, if people have a problem with what's said here, it's up to them to move.
PEACE AND LOVE DUDE!
Oh yeah I saw Ides of March last night. Awesomely OMG whats gonna happen next kind of political drama. Provided me with plenty of OH MY! and oooooh nooo, he’s not.. he is! kind of moments. Very much recommended!
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What, what’s your defining feature as a reviewer then?
David has grumpy old man.
Margaret has he “3.5 Stars for ALL the movies”
Richard Wilkins operates on the vidya gaem scale of “2.5 to 5 stars”.
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But… but Margaret…
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You’ve misspelt David.
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Get out of my dreams.
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David *is* dapper. And he has an amazing hat he wears to all the overseas episodes.
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lololol! Yeah I finally got around to watching that, any lols were had. But secretly I was just enjoying watching clips of Ryan…
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Yeah cant go wrong with the Hoffmeister. He picks winners he does. Clooney is also on a good roll as director.
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Sex on legs directing Quiet Ryan, a recipe for success. And sexy dreams.
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All right, let me get something straight. I may be a nice person but I’m pretty much self-absorbed and like to think the whole world revolves around me. I also like to speak my mind. This gets me into trouble and I’m sorry if I hurt anyone’s feelings with my digs at TAY being so LoLful.
Back in the old days when everyone was playing Minecraft and constantly talking about it I complained loudly then as well. TAY survived, I survived and as far as I know nobody got offended.
Yes, I find all the LoL talk tedious, but that doesn’t mean people who want to talk about it should go elsewhere, TAY will survive, it always does.
As much I’d like to think TAY revolves around me, I’m fully aware it doesn’t so by all means carry on talking about stuff you’re interested in, but don’t get all upset when I complain. It’s not personal, it’s just me complaining that the world doesn’t revolve around me.
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I still love you Strange! And even a lot of the LOLers find the LOL talk tedious. Something harmless was said and certain people seem to have gotten all outraged over it. What can you do?
I don’t think you have anything to be sorry for. It’s not your fault if someone blows something you said out of proportion.
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We’ve all given our thoughts on the matter last page, so we can better understand the other’s point of view. -
I’m sorry for snapping, work hasn’t been helping me keep on my normal mode. But in all seriousness, I will stop posting about LoL here personally cuz despite that no harm was implied, I still feel responsible personally. The only reason that LoL became such a huge thing among the TAYbies is because I decided to talk about it and how much I was enjoying it,. Now we’ve got over a dozen people who play it as a team, using Teamspeak to coordinate our strategies in-game.
So yes I humbly apologise for triggering this.
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Really? It only just unbroke for me. For the last hour or so, I had gravatars appearing on top of names (I think the location for the gravatars and names had been switched, which borked things).
Now all is dandy.
Dandy!
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[draws random envelope out of a hat]…
[fumbles with envelope]….
[envelope is open]…
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oh FINE… i accidentally all over the place…. HAPPY? 😛
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This meme is a little…
/takes off sunglasses
…out of my league.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
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Got me some Batman graphic novels the other day. Had previously read them, but decided I needed to own them.
Year One
Long Halloween
Dark Knight Returns
I’d forgotten how awesome they were. And now I appreciate just how much Nolan and co. took inspiration from the Year One / Long Halloween continuity to get a grounded, believable Batman.
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Long Halloween was a fantastic read. You’ve reminded me that I should get around to rereading it soon!
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I did that when I was in Melbourne earlier this year, I picked up;
Knightfall Pt 1
Knightfall Pt 2
Hush
Arkham Asylum
Killing JokeI think that’s it, there might be more that I forgot….
Because I never miss an opportunity to post this link whenever Batman is mentioned. Especially Nolan Batman 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seBpXt8_6xs
Worth watching if you haven’t seen it
Oh Hai Guys!
One thing
THIS CRAP IN TAY THIS WEEK HAS GOT TO STOP
Yes, constant mentions of LoL can be a little tedious, and annoying when a discussion on another topic beciomes about LoL it can be frustrating.
But you know what, guys and gals?
This is TAY – a bunch of random crap we’re thinking of and want to talk about.
People shouldn’t be made to feel like they can’t talk about something just because they don’t/can’t play it.
I can’t/don’t play LoL – and that’s my choice, i deal with the repercussions of that on here just like anyone else should, and for quite a while, were.
Hell i posted up like a madman for Space Marine, and you all had to put up with my proverbial shit! (Thank you, by the way:P)
So guys… c’mon – we’re all grown-ups.
The last straw for me is when Rocketman actually felt he had to make a seperate forum just for the LoLers… seriously?
This has seriously esculated to the point where people feel they need to segregate?
There are already forums for LoL – EVERYWHERE – but OUR LoL players want to be here, amongst EVRERYONE.
If we, as gamers, can’t share the things we love most about gaming, then what have we become?
This isnt all one sided of course… LoLers – maybe just try to be a little more considerate – keep it to one or two threads per page – tay doesn’t need to be flooded more than it already is – and try not to change subjects on other material into LoL discussions.
It’s really that simple… We’re all better than this.
We have never been petty, so lets not start now.
Also, this isn’t to any one person – no one has been singled out – this is a general message to EVERYONE.
Just chill, people.. ok?
Please? 🙂
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I dunno, a good opportunity to rage shouldn’t be dismissed so readily with reason.
Then again, I did make similar points back on the bottom of page 14, so I can’t disagree without being a hypocrite.
On the other hand, hypocrisy is just as fun as raging…
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I’d like to add one other freaking thing that’s been doing my head in today…
I’m sick of all the arguing and assumptions. Frankly, I’ve had enough!
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So, please, can Doc What tell us who is in the top row, second from the right!?
JESUS!😛
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Do you mean the overweight, suspicious looking character. That fat guy? the one who looks Shady? You mean that guy? Do you? DO YOU!?
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He’s first from the right, yeah? I figured second from the right was one of the girls, possibly Harli?
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For the purposes of having a balanced discussion, I for one would like to suggest the following:
The strength of any relationship isn’t based on how well you get along together, but how you handle things when things go sour.
If you can still feel comfortable saying what you want, when you want, where you want, then hey – you’re on a good thing. If not, then there’s a problem that might one day rise up and choke the life out of your relationship, like the Black Lagoon creature thing.
Fellow TAYbies, say what you want – complain about each other – go to war against each other – and then come back at the end and realise that no matter what was said, we’re all still friends and this is a community that can survive a few spats.
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I disagree. Well, with teh top part. It might be a bit ugly, but it’s not “crap”.
Considering the amount of responses on the matter, this is clearly something we needed to talk/vent about.
And it has been.
I’d much rather a mini-blow-out (wat) in the community where things get sorted instead of slowly festering grudges.
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Hey ‘Loops! I kinda agree with you.
I read all the posts and NO ONE said the LOLers had to go. No one suggested they stop. No one even suggested they post less. A harmless joke was made and all hell broke loose.
Rocketman didn’t do what he did because people were forcing LOL players out of TAY. He did it (I believe) because he acknowledged that many people find the LOL talk annoying. It was an overkill decision, but one he came to with no prompting. He’s just kind like that! He’s like a little puppy! *ahem*
You can’t blame anyone for that. NO ONE was trying to segregate TAY.
A joke was made. That was all. And a harmless one at that. The reaction was not deserved.
I’m not trying to keep this crap going, but your comment implied someone here was trying to stop someone else from saying or doing something and it just DIDN’T happen. Nothing that bad ACTUALLY happened. It’s all just been blown WAAAAAAY outta proportion.
Anyway, sorry. I didn’t really like the way your comment implied stuff happened when it didn’t. Not trying to pick a fight.
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i THOUGHT WE agreed that is it the first lady Strange? I can’t be bothered uncaps’ing that by the way, stupid caps lock
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Where are you? Standing next to ME! boy! With your pale wavy hair and “come hither” eyes. You also appear to be standing on Loops.
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Ooooohh, THAT girly looking one…
Sorry people. The mess has been cleared up.
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I thought it was obvious. You’re the prettiest one.
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DUDE. I instantly recognised it was you, because you sort of look like you are wearing a sweater vest.
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Sweater vest AND a shirt. De’s all dressed up!
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I just managed to view it in full size (something wrong with my browser) and now it’s more apparent.
I’ll need to don the sweater vests more often to live up to my rep. -
(Also, let it be known that my rage was purely tongue-in cheek)
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I knew you knew, Doc, but others’ wits may not be honed to the razor sharp edge that yours is.
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Aw.
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That sounds amazing. I would gladly die for one of those right now.
Or I could get the ingredients and make one. But it’s raining 🙁
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I picture cheese and bacon sandwiched between two meat pies. Grilled.
There is abosolutely nothing wrong with this.-
It’s two slices of bread, bacon, cooked meat pie, covered with cheese, and grilled for about 5 to 7 minutes.
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I think we may both be contributing to rising sea levels.
We must sate our hunger without delay, lest we DOOM THE WORLD! -
Please tell me you didn’t only have a banana for lunch again.
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Walk home in the rain?
What if you get wet?? (le gasp!)
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I have access to a car today, which will protect me from becoming too moist.
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But is it the Aqua Car from Roger Moore’s Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me?
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If I knew your work address I’d send you some of these: http://www.harvestbox.com.au/index
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I am currently eating lasagne so hot it burns on the way down, and so bad that it burns on the way out.
I’ve done something similar in the past, though not that decadent, I just pulled a hot pie from the oven, put a cheese slice into the pie (under the “lid”) put the pie into a bread roll, and put the whole lot into the sandwich press, so everything went melty and gooey, and squished out the sides 😀
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i would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party
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Coitus.
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Phallus.
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Cervix.
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Uterus.
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Doodle.
I just realised I have no idea what I’m trying to accomplish. I just wanted to fit in. You like me, don’t you Flu? PLEASE SAY YOU LIKE ME!
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Steve-O, you’re aaaallright
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So only a 7.5/10?
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Only 7.5? Terrible score, Steve-O must be the worst person on the planet. Caps-Lock is clearly being paid off by Flu to make himself feel better. Its all a conspiracy I tell you!!! 🙂
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*Glares at Stevo*
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Oh, here’s a story.
Was in a medical center the other day, and one of the receptionists said “Ultrasound on the scrotum” really loudly on the phone, and everyone went quiet.
So that was awkward.
And no, she was not referring to any medical procedures I was partaking in.
Penicl.
Hi everybody. I’m a long time lurker, first time poster in Kotaku AU! Nice to meet you all. Just thought I’d pop by and introduce myself because you all seem to be a rather nice bunch 🙂 So wat games does every1 play here? Are there any League of Legends players? I have been playing for 3 weeks now and I’m learning a lot but really liking it.
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ADMINISTER THE TESTICLE CLAMPS!
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I don’t speak German
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It looks like I’m gonna miss out on the SWTOR beta, unless I can somehow download 18gb in the next 12 hours 😛
If anyone’s planning on checking it out, can we have some TAY posts so I can vicariously read about it?
(Oh, and while I think the LoL talk can be a bit over the top sometimes, I don’t think fragmentation is a good idea either. This is a place for talking about everything, amongst ourselves, and being told what is and isn’t valid shouldn’t be a part of that.)
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Wouldn’t think so. The game should just be a normal game client, but you wouldn’t be able to log in unless your account is registered to their server. I’m pretty sure anyone could download the actual client.
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If you’re serious, when could I come around? 🙂
I think the beta is open from 3am tomorrow morning onwards.
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Unsure where in Melbourne you are, I’m a fair bit out though, near Berwick.
As for time, I couldn’t give you an exact time, I work Friday nights, so I myself won’t be home until 11pm or so (always depends how busy it is)
But if you are a night owl like me, I shall be up anyways (not to mention to wait until SWTOR beta starts) -
I’m on that side anyway (a bit further in, in Burwood) but I’d probably be using public transport and it might be a bit difficult to make it that far out.
Maybe email me your address and I’ll check if I can get there easily? If you’re busy this afternoon/tonight I probably wouldn’t worry about it. Less than a month until the real thing’s out, anyway 🙂
My email is aidandullard (at) gmail (dotcom)
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So is TAY restored back to its usual happy self? Can we go back to Steve Holting \o/ and ascii faces ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ?
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I’d like to say while were at it Im sick of these Steve holts. They have to go guys. So over it. Every time I see a Steve Holt I’m just like siiiigh scroll scroll.
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I was going to play Egress and then sing your praises, but now I don’t feel like it.
Playing Egress, I mean.
I’ll still sing songs about your mighty mightiness though.-
NOOOO I take it back! PLAY EGRESS! PLEEAAAASE!! I’m desperate, cmon just play it. I’m a desperate ol adventure developer, look at me! Take pity on me!
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Re: Everyone involved in the LoL forum discussion.
I have carefully prepared several important points which I have condensed into a brief, well formulated argument which I believe will help everyone understand and come to an agreement on the situation at hand .
*clears throat*
Here goes:
SOUTH KOTAKU IS BEST KOTAKU!
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THAT’S WHY I REPLIED! >:3
we’ll break TAY! People will forget all about LOL!
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*whiney voice* JAAAAY-MIE!! you’re not sposed to use dat werrD!!
its the-game-which-shall-not-be-named
tgwsnbn!
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I’m like Harry Potter! I’ll say the damned word! And if the game appears and it has no nose like Voldemort, I’ll be all “How do you smell!?” and he’ll be all “TERRIBLE!” and we’ll LOL.
L. O. L.
Then I’ll killing curse his face!
Because I’m not THAT much like Harry Potter.
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Can’t remember if I was in North or South…
Eff it – I’m defecting from wherever I am and forming a new region! It shall be called the Independent Kotakuvian Principality! With myself as Prince Cracks! We shall be neutral, and control all the banks and chocolate, like a more awesome version of Switzerland.
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You know, I always wanted to live in a more awesome version of Switzerland. Can I be your Lord High Executioner?
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You can be a queen if you want, but not the Queen. That title is reserved for either Freddy Mercury’s zombie or Brian May, whoever claims it first.
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Or Helen Mirren when she stars as the Queen in ‘The Queen’.
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No, I’m pretty sure they’re just adult shops, not gay bars.
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I went to adjust myself (guys you know what i’m talking about) and just about cracked one of my boys…
Pain.. most… discomforting…
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I guess you could say…
… the ball’s in his CAUGHT!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHH
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Ok I literally sat here and stared at my reply for 10 minutes trying to think of a good one. I cannot top this one, it’s just that much more wittier and funnier. You win this round Shane =)
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If it makes you feel any better, it was a reply fail – not meant to try to top you at all 😛
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heheh I did similar just a few mins ago.. just got back from getting myself a coffee, and fell in to my chair cos I’m a bit dizzy, and just so happens that one of my boys happened to have slipped in to a precarious position… CRACK! I tell ya, it’s not good to stand up so quick when you’re collapsing due to dizziness already! Really doesn’t help the head spins at all :\
Hokay, so, those of you are youtube-savvy may already know this, for I try to spread the word wherever possible. You must check out a channel called ‘HISHE or How It Should Have Ended’…for your own sake and the sake of the children, things this funny MUST be shared. I posted the ‘Dark Knight’ one earlier…do yoruself a favour and watch. It’s worth it 🙂
Gametrailers did a LeveL feature on the train level from Uncharted 2.
God damn that stage was amazing.
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Uncharted 2, on the whole, I think I found to be a more enjoyable experience than the 3 (but this is not to say 3 was bad…)
I have not seen anyone else comment on this with all the discussion of the third but:
Puncgre friragrra jnf nznmvat. Nyfb, V jnf fhecevfrq gung gurl vapyhqrq gur ‘negfvarff’ bs puncgre rvtugrra, naq vg’f terng sbe frggvat gur pbagrkg bs gur raivebazrag ohg pna or irel grqvbhf jura ercynlvat.
So, Skyward Sword – I’m in the second temple, and enjoying it, but one minor thing has been bugging me while playing.
The Wii’s non-HDness-of-graphics seems to be really noticeable with this title… anyone else finding this? Noticing jaggies on the edges of things being rendered… no anti-aliasing?
Have games on other contemporary platforms spoiled my graphical expectations? I don’t think I’ve played games on my Wii in probably over a year before Skyward Sword came out.
Extra information: playing on day1 release Wii, w/ component cables.
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Ah yes, the old Wii jaggies.
I think it really depends on what type/size of screen your playing on.
Galxy on my 32 inch $200 Soniq LCD looks amazing, but on my 42 inch Samsung it looks awful.
If you’ve got a CRT lying around try playing on that. In my experience Wii games look amazing on CRT’s.
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I would like to remind all my beloved TAYbies that the inaugural The Lesser Evil giveaway has scant days to go. Enter now, or you might as well just commit suicide for having missed this great opportunity to own yet another doorstop.
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/17389-the-lesser-evil-book-1
Do it now!
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When’s the second book coming out? You pulled a classic comic book cliffhanger and I need resolution (until the next cliffhanger and so on…)
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Soon, I hope. My publisher’s original plan was September 🙁
But it’ll be out eventually. I’ve seen the cover, and it’s purdy. I’ve approved the proof that my publisher sent me. Hopefully it’s soon.
Volume three is the last one. Story will be resolved.
But there is a sequel, so be prepared…
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I started playing Phantom Hourglass yesterday for the first time. I’m only about half an hour in, but it’s great so far.
I REALLY need to catch up on Zelda. The last one i played was Majora’s Mask
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Oh man, I put so many hours into that game. It’s great, but by the end I was hanging out for something with a D-pad & buttons combination.
Spirit Tracks on the other hand had me for about 8 hours, but the train just got to me and I never went back.
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God dammit, f4ction!
You already own VVVVVVVVV!
Now I have 8 copies of it I need to send out to people who aren’t you!
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COOL REPLY BISH
Original message:
Spirit Tracks is okay.
Not great, but still decent fun.
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it was cold… and dark…
sit down here by the fire dear Splicer and i shall tell you a horror story…
it’s called…. (DUNDUNDUUUUN) work!-
oh and i’ve been sick to… pretty sure i have birdflu/sars/mad cow disease/T-virus all in a nice cocktail…
but other then that i’m perfectly fine……
pink elephants… that’s normal right?
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i thought i read something akin to Days of Our Lives earlier…
*grabs popcorn*
I WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING!!!-
Not again! We just got past all that!
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oh sorry, too soon? 😛
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That’s right! It’s me! You may think that my re-appearance in this E-DRAMA isn’t entirely dissimilar to Adam Sandler’s movie “Jack and Jill” which is about a man having to put up with his comically derranged, annoying twin sister who brings chaos to his otherwise serene life, and you would be right.
Also, in a fashion similar to the afore mentioned movie, rather than look like an actual woma, I just look like a slightly less hipster DAN! in drag.
By the way, I have kidnapped Sally and will randsome her back to you in order to pay back the load I recieved from Kristov, a mid teir member of the the Brisbane arm of the Russian mafia. He needs the money to pay for a black market kidney to save the life of diane, a blind school teach with whom he has fallen in love, but cannot tell her who his is. Un beknowst to him, a letter he wrote home that went in to great detail about who his is and what he does was accidentally typed up in brain and left in Diane’s hospital room by an elderly clerk by the name of Rupert. Rupert is secretly in love with Diane’s nurse, Mandy, but is unable even to tell her that her boyfriend, Chad, is cheating on her with her step-Mother, Roberta…
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ahhahahahahhahaahahhaahahhahahahhahahahahaa
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Also, I misspelled random words to make this more difficult to read. Here are the corrections in no particular order (Which is the best way to view the back catalogue of Adam Sandler films before watching Jack and Jill)
1) letter was typed in BRAILLE
b) I look like DAN! in drag, rather than an actual WOMAN.
ε) It is a SCHOOLTEACHER who is blind.
š) Although I feel a great many “Loads” from gaming on the C64 require payback, I was actually refering to a LOAN.
&) Sally will be ransomed. Like in the Mel Gibson movie “Ransom” The lovely Melanie Gibson has never worked on a project with Adam Sandler before but Sandler mention her in the deeply personal and thought provoking “Don’t Mess with the Zohan” that proved to be a festival favourite.
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“In this film, told almost entirely in iambic pentameter, She is a scientist in a loveless marriage to Anthony, a devious politician. He is a Lebanese doctor in self-imposed exile, working as a chef in a London restaurant. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But the contempt He perceives as a Muslim immigrant to the UK causes him to break up with She, offering little in the way of explanation, and return to his homeland. She drags his reasons out of him little by little and tries to sympathize. Keenly feeling the loss of his love, She flies to Havana to sort things out on the beach and in the cabarets. She sends him a ticket, but harbors no illusions that He will join her in this Carribean melting pot… “
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Ok, this puzzled me for ages…
Well played Harli, well played.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381717/
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God dammit, f4ction!
You already own VVVVVVVVV!
Now I have 8 copies of it I need to send out to people who aren’t you!
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Just you wait. If bastion is on a daily deal, I will buy bastion for ALL the TAYbies.
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You seem to have this thing where you throw money at online gaming things.
Were you one of those people who had an online poker addiction, or do you just like throwing your wallet at the monitor?
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It was in one of the humble hundles or indie royales recently, so you might have picked it up then
Or you could have just bought it and forgotten
Egads you people posted a lot today*. That was like three pages I had to sift through there!
Meanwhile, its so much fun missing your bus and having to walk thirty minutes in the rain because you can’t be bothered to wait another hour to get home.
*not actually a legitimate problem
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It looked rainy here this morning, but now it’s just sunny and perfect and I have sweat under mah man breasts because I needed a Pepsi from the corner shop.
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I hadn’t been in TAY much recently and I come back just in time to read all that arguing. It scared me so I went and played Leauge of Legends instead.
Also, enjoy being back inside and (hopefully) dry!
My friend is such a dufus. There is something wrong with his brain.
I was supposed to meet up with him and another mate tonight, but he had to cancel.
Now, in most circles, the message would read something like “Sorry guys, can’t make it…” etc. Instead we get:
“…Unfortunately I cannot make tonights event together as planned sorry. Please excuse my abrupt cancellation.”
I’m 98% sure he’s not trying to be funny…
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No matter how formal the message, it’s gotta beat being stood up and left wondering! So many people I know wouldn’t even bother to message to say they wont be coming!
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I have a friend who is also a dufus & has a similar way of speaking… though the chances of them being the same person are a million to one.
But according to the wisdom of Pratchett, million-to-one shots come through nine times out of ten.
I’m so looking forward to finishing work today. Sachiko chan starts work at a new sushi train that’s on my way home at the same time I finish, so I’m going to crop by and embarrass her a bit, and also indulge in a bit of sushi devouring! Thanks to it being a new franchise, they’re having a special today and tomorrow.. all plates $3 all day! w00t! I’m gonna eat til I pop!
Inari and Futomaki FTW!!!
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Geez man what a something she is, i would something , something up that something and then just keep doing that until it worked!
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My wife’s good for funny (and scary) stories about the Feminazis who work in her office. No other professional perks, though.
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hahaha if she ever loses that perk, I’ll keep you in supply! I have access to a whole cupboard full of Govt funded stationary and pens!!! Only downside is it’s all plastered with Brisbane SDE logos and shit, so it’s a little easier to identify where you got them from! hahaah
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You know what everyone else has said their little bit and now i feel like i wanna say mine.
Firstly Chuloopa i know you didn’t mean for it to sound like that or at least i am going to take it like that but it came off in your post like i was both the cause of the problem and a child. I will admit to being one of those but that is it.
Secondly, i was not trying to segregate people into different groups and reignite the whole North and South Kotaku things. What i was trying to do is to make TAY a little less tedious for people who don’t want to join in on certain topics. I am aware that not everyone posses the countless hours it takes to reply to comments or to even read all of them.
Thirdly and most importantly my main motivating factor was that Strange DR what, shiggy and Pessimist all seemed to nbot want to be on TAY because of this talk( these were not there exact words, just my take on what was said) Not wanting to lose such awesome people i quickly devised a plan to let people talk about stuff in a different area.
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Oh god, it’s back again.
*puts on headphones and hides in room
Why won’t mummy and daddy stop arguing?
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i told my mum to stop yelling this one time. She then yelled at me I am not yelling we are having a discussion! I then yelled back well how about we leave all our discussions in this tone then would you like that! She totally started laughing ,
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Really cause i thought i was being a bit of a douche,you should all have a vote to kick me out and then i would be sad when you guys did and i would adopt another alter ego (Rocketman 2 or something just as witty and clever) and stalk you guys on twitter and facebook. I AM LOOKING AT YOU Stevo cause you are the closest to me. Mwahahahahaha * starts coughing!
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I can’t have sugar my mum says its bad for me. So i just find men in vans who give me them for free. Are you like those guys?
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I’m not usually one to get involved in this kind of thing, but I can certainly see sense in doing something like you’ve suggested. There are days when even I feel like this place is a LoL forum instead of the TAY I and others here have grown to love since the early days. I don’t mind the odd post to say “hands up if you wanna play tonight” or something, but pages of talk does get a little tedious when I just want to enjoy the random hilarity that used to populate this space. I certainly don’t want to see anyone disappear from here thinking they are unwanted, but i think if you want to have page long discussions of strategy or what you plan to do with your characters/loots/whatever, then perhaps there are more appropriate places. I’m sure some might get a bit irked by me saying that there is probably an official forum for LoL that this would be best suited to, but I think Rocketman has done you a favour by giving you a private forum to discuss your ideas etc!
Again, I want to re-itterate that I think all you guys are awesome, especially the likes of old timers like TechKnight and Sir-Eats-A-Lot (aka Harli – Sorry, but you’ll always be Sir-Eats-A-Lot to me 😉 … I dont’ want anyone to feel unloved or unwanted, but it does feel a little too much like a LoL forum somedays. It’s probably part of the reason I haven’t posted so much in the past few months (besides my personal issues), cos I don’t play LoL, so I have no knowledge of what you discuss, and therefore have no valid input. At least with the random life stories and other posts that once dominated TAY, there was always something I could relate to, which is why I was so active. Anyone who knows me from here is prolly well aware of the fact that I don’t hate anyone (except littleJJ) and I’m tolerant of just about any subject matter/bad spelling/steve holts/just about anything, but it is a little overwhelming to come and read (or rather have to skip) pages and pages of stuff because I have no valid input. Don’t be hatin on me for speaking my mind. I don’t hate you guys for loving LoL, but just be a little more how should I say…. mindful… of how others feel. Like I said, I normally wouldn’t get involved in something like this, but I don’t want to continue to lose TAY regulars just because they are bored of the constant LoL chatter!
BRING BACK TEH RANDOM!!!-
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Oooo I think they posted vids of that on Gizmodo a few weeks ago! Was like 24hrs of stop motion frames or something. So hot!!!
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Yeah one of these days I’ll do it 😉 usually I’m just typing at a thousand words a minute and too busy to worry about it!
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man you are moody you said you hated me this morning. Thanks F-DAwg. On second thought i don’t like F-dawg that much the name not you you are the greatest not really a midget doctor i have ever known!
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How shit is sleeping during the day. DO you feel like you miss out on the day!
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I think I missed that memo.
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Same. Day naps are best naps.
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Yeah, if they’re “naps”. I work nights so my daytime sleeping is actual sleep, lasts for hours, and I don’t feel refreshed after 🙁
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Oh Ken Levine, Y U NO HAVE BIOSHOCK INFINITE READY YET?
Seriously though, I heard about Skyrim, MW3 etc etc at least a year ago. I heard about Bioshock Infinite like 2 years ago. Still no firm release date on the horizon other than sometime in 2012.
I hope the wait is worth it.
Hey….. where’d my post go?
Oh well, reposting.
READ THIS
http://tinycartridge.com/post/866743831/super-creepy-pokemon-hack
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And how when you met your rival there it was implied that one of his Pokemon had passed away?
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Come to think of it, your rival’s life really sucks. His grandpa can’t even remember his name, its implied you kill his Raticate, and then he becomes the League champion only to have you best him shortly after.
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Dude if you think that is bad… the Haunted copy of Majora’s Mask made sure I did not sleep properly for a few nights.
Full story here.
http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/2010/09/majora.html-
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Dang, too long to read at work.
I’ll check it out when I get a chance.Why is it that I like videogame related creepypasta over normal creepypasta? 🙂
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Now that the crisis has passed…
I tend to respond to uncomfortable situations and conflict with humour. It drives my wife nuts; hopefully you guys didn’t find it quite so annoying. If you did, sorry. If you didn’t, LoL!!
Did anyone play Lucky and Wild at the arcade?
http://www.destructoid.com/elephant//ul/20729-550x-gameplay.jpg
Remembering this game got me thinking, are there any games out there that are co-operative where the two players are using completely different mechanics?
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Heeeyyyy! I remember that game! We played it once at Melbourne Central when we had a school excursion. I think it was around 1996? Wow. I am old.
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I just ate a huge slice of cheesecake.
It is sitting in my stomach like a lead brick.NO REGRETS
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Thats such an awesome idea! And that is a good point, why does this not get done more often..? I would play the pants off of something like this
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I used to play that game with a school friend of mine in LasVegas… for those of you too young to remember, there used to be a massive arcade in Brisbane called LasVegas, and all games were 20c!!! Ahhhh those were the good old days…
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Not only is that creepy, its making me want to pull my ds out when i get home. Im supposed to be trying to be game free for a while.
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I want to make a joke, however i don’t know you well enough to know if you will take it well or not. SO i will just end with saying you are awesome!
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All 86 of them 😛
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HI TAY
I LOVE YOU ALL
WHATEVER YOU LIKE OR OBSESS OVER (because in fact, is that not why we are here? I could not talk this much IRL)
<3 to everyone!
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Also I was awake when I think the drama bomb was floating through the air, about to hit, making things bad, derailing threads and all that
And for that I AM SORRYAnd then I went to sleep and missed the dramasplosion
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Exploding vaginas? They’re in my head too.
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my brain needs bleach
WHY MUST YOU PUT THESE IMAGES IN THERE
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Crisco oil – that is all :p
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You started it.
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a guy i used to work with had a solo music project
And the name of that porject?Vaginal Squid Explosion
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The first thought I had when I read that was “pasta”
I don’t know why…
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Hey guys, long time lurker here, have a few posts under a few different names here, but i’m hoping to be a more regular contributor amongst TAY. I live west of Sydney, and currently work north of Sydney as an Analyst at a Big (Blue) Tech company. Like I said, i’ve lurked for a while but a couple of things in this week’s TAY have made me finally decide to join in the fun:
1. I’m currently building a new PC, and it’s pretty similarly to the one that Trjn posted specs for a few pages back, so it was weird to see him post specs for his new PC that are so close to mine. On top of that, the case that I have on order is a ThermalTake v9 BlackX, which I ordered several hours before Harli’s video promoting the exact same model. I assure you that seeing this video posted after ordering it was probably the trippiest thing to happen to me this week.
2. Massive LoL Discussion. I’ve played LoL for a very long time (sitting just under 1400 ELO atm), although I really don’t play much anymore, I don’t think i’ve even played at all in the last month. The thing that surprised me about this discussion was how succinctly the community ‘righted’ itself after a disagreement had taken place. I’ve been a part of communities before where a single topic has taken over the majority of discussion, so naturally those who aren’t part of that discussion begin to feel excluded and go elsewhere, and then once the fad has past, the remaining people find they have nothing in common anymore and the community falls apart. I felt that any community that could recognise so quickly that they could easily stop this from happening, and then take mutually agreeable action on it to resolve the conflict, was a community that I would like to be a greater part of. Great job guys.
So I guess i’ll see you guys around more often.
*dons oar-proof pants* (they’re totally a thing that exists, btw)
Do Your Worst 🙂
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COME2. I don’t think any of us have touched ranked. For the most part not high enough level. We do have our fun derpy games, so give a shout if you want to join.
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Is this for real. Are you for reals? No really – you bought the Thermaltake V9?! haah high 5 man, good pick. Welcome to TAY. What’s the name of the company you work at?
Also, what Bish said. SYDNEY MEATS.
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Note to other Lurkers: if you buy a Thermaltake V9 you will not have to worry about Harli’s Oar. 😛
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I don’t know whether to be relieved or saddened by the lack of a Skyward Sword delivery today.
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Zelda -> Hungry -> Food -> Obesity -> Poor Health -> Death.
Therefore; VIDEO GAMES KILL PEOPLE!!!
Fox news was right all along, how could I have been so blind. -
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh they might hear you
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I’m trying not to think about that. Trying to cut down on the calories, lose some weight. Have a snack in my bag but it requires the microwave and people are gearing up for a Christmas party and so I can’t use the microwave without super awkward discussions about how I’m being antisocial (I’d totally join their Christmas party but it’s November, and also I have to write some unit tests today and spent the morning trying to make our awesome new secret hardware work correctly so I’m behind).
What the hell, Japan?
Ni no Kuni PS3 has only sold 40% of its initial shipment. Very disapppointing sales so far. 65,000 units first week. Outsold by Call of Duty.
Console JRPGs are dead. 🙁
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YOUR FACE IS DEAD! (Sorry…I blame DAN!)
JRPGs are not dead. Not here, and not in Japan. No genre is dead, sometimes they hibernate though.
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Whaaaaat! Lame-o! This sucks man. This better not lead to a lack in translations, or I’ll be such a sad panda. Thats been one of my biggest gaming anticipations in such a long time :'(
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I like how your glove-snapping Gravatr picture seems particularly relevant in this chain of comments.
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Something inside me just broke!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flRc7RPFt38&feature=related
*swoons!*
TALES OF BISH
– Went jogging out to the corner store in this abysmal Sydney weather. I like rain. I enjoyed this.
– Bought a single unbrushed potato for $1.50 whaaaaaaaaat.
– Grocery store guy did not approve of my wet, chipper attitude. Left ASAP just in case he decided to murder me for being happy.
– Stop by newsagent to get the paper.
– Jog back home.
– Shook off the wet like a dog.
– Plop newspaper down. Notice lack of potato.
– Currently amused by thought that someone in the newsagency has found a random potato in the store and is going “Wat.”
– Too lazy to go back to get ‘tater.
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I did the exact same thing yesterday. Except without the jogging. Or the shaking. And it was an umbrella, not a potato. And I already owned it.
OK fine, my story is that I left my umbrella in a newsagent at lunchtime yesterday and only noticed when it was time to go home.
But my story has a better ending – they gave it back to me when I went looking for it. Oh yeahhh!
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I’m all “Holy crap, this potato is expensive! Is it a magic potato? Was this potato once owned by Steve Irwin?? Now I’ll never know its secrets! MAYBE IT WAS A WIZARD! And he transmogrified into something that couldn’t transmogrify back! :O “-
Oh sure, 90% of your story is better, hands down. It’s just that mine has a better resolution.
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If there’s a news report about “Local newsagent sells Wizard Potato for $765872” tomorrow, I’m going to be so mad.
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5pm Eastern, and this is TAY:
Closing time
Open all the doors and let you out into the world
Closing time
Turn all of the lights on over every boy and every girl
Closing time
One last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beer
Closing time
You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here
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Procrastoonation! Pssst, its about Zelda. No spoilers either – http://www.procrastoonation.com/archives/121
Ugh, I’m finishing at one job in Redfern, and now I have to catch a train back home, get changed into uniform, and go work at my other, soulless, purely there for the cash only job.
I just wanna get my shit together for this LAN tomorrow, is that too much to ask?
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You only get sympathy if you’re coming to the Sydney Meat wooooooooooooooooow that sounded heartless, hah hah hah.
Seriously though, hang in there, mang. I don’t know what this LAN is, but you’re clearly looking forward to it, and fun is the best reward for slogging it out.
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Bought a new tower a couple of hours ago for just over $100. And new strings for my guitar. I am very happy.
So I’m eating dinner while listening to random music and this comes on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgNoadKcIWg
Possibly the most epic eating experience I’ve ever had.
<Dr What on… Newbies
There are so many new people appearing in TAY now, I don’t even know who is NEW anymore!
I think it’s like Pokemon.
We just started a new generation and now there are all these new TAYbies. Some people with stick to the old reliables and maybe test the waters with a few interesting creaturess.
Others will go all out and experiment!
There may also be breeding. Who can say?
I will say this though!
YOU GOTTA CATCH ‘EM ALL!
POoooOOOOooOOKeeeeeEEEEEeeeeEEEEMON!
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Grumble Grumble, all these new people. Grumble. They don’t know what it was like. Grumble. *cough*
Ok, not really, but still, who wants to go back to Serrels having to approve everything? Man, those times were great.
What? What am I saying? I don’t know. I’m too old for this.
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When AlexPants evolves, he loses the pants and dons a top hat. He’s kind of like that Scrafty Pokemon from fifth gen that wears skin for pants, only not like that at all.
‘Evolves’ may or may not be replacing the word ‘drunk’ here.
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Ok, well, you know how I evolved into Blaghmang? Well, eventually I’ll become Blaghmanger, and that’s pretty much everything you need to know.
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Thanks to Klutar for letting me come over and copy the SWTOR beta files!
Really enjoying it, even if my laptop is chugging a lot. Might need to upgrade 😀
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I wish someone would devour my dreams. They’re disturbing my sleep. And disturbingly messed up.
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Sup guys, sorry about my afking all week =/ I have been Christmas shopping with no other than, you guessed it.. No one cause i’m a loner.. No I joke, yes that’s right Sam lol.
I also received my Gold Coast Big Day Out ticket thanks to Sam & obtained my Brisbane Soundwave ticket, so who is going? 😀
So what have I missed, can anyone summarise it for moi?
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Shizzle hit the fizzle momentarily today, but it’s all groovy now so worry not good fellow.
Apart from that… Not a lot.Except, of course, Jack & Jill, starring Adam Sandler and…
Adam Sandler!?
Jack & Jill
Preview Screenings – November 28
Man, my new copmuter is annoying the hell out of me.
Now I have to get a new graphics card, new sound card, and extra RAM.
Blaaargh, I’m sick. What a great way to start a weekend up!
Actually, I suppose its a good excuse to just sit around and play games all day. Maybe I’ll hit up some Assassin’s Creed multiplayer and see if its gotten any better.
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It was a test!
You pass, good friend Plainview!
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i did good at #helping.
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Just want to thanks everyone of TS last night, I had a freaking blast…. TF2 was good too, numbers, we’ll have to do that again 😛
Thanks to Klutar for letting me come over and copy the SWTOR beta files!
Really enjoying it, even if my laptop is chugging a lot. Might need to upgrade 😀
But I’ll probably wait until February, things’ll be cheaper, no?
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One of my favourite books is called The Dice Man, Aidan.
That’s important.
The author changed his name to the name of his lead character (Luke Rhinehart) to make it look like the lead character wrote the book, if you know what I mean. So imagine if J.D. Salinger changed to his name to Holden Caulfield; The Catcher in the Rye would be written by the key protagonist. Kind of an autobiographical conceit, if you will. A sleight of hand concealed invisible and, at the same time, a powerful narrative device. Like a dual function kind of contraption. Poetic subterfuge. Clandestine misconception. A Promise written in sand on untamed river’s most desperate frontier.
My advice is to take a more random approach instead of setting a predefined, mapped or orchestrated approach to your purchase. The Dice Man kind of took me to a place where I understood the importance of embracing that which is chaotic, undefined, structureless and fleeting.
I think your February rule is a mistake and I have no respect for it. You’re too clever for the February rule, that’s the way I see it. That’s what I mean to say
In closing, ignore February and let what will be as it will be forever. February is nothing but meaningless construct. February gives the impression of form and structure while it floats far adrift from any kind of certain stability or promise.
But that’s just the point of view of someone without said stability or promise; you can call me, February.
When February visits upon me then I am sure to find more promise in February and this transient month will disprove my libelous and no doubt misplaced prejudices and misconceptions.
Until then, I urge you to “let the dice decide,” as it were.
To find order only in chaos is freedom from all things,
Plainview.
“The torch of chaos and doubt – this is what the sage steers by.” Chuang-Tzu
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Someone needs to make some sort of universal cake decoration ‘Safe To Eat’ labeller.
Because I’m eating a cupcake and this flower decoration is either the worst edible decoration ever, or it’s a piece of plastic.
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They should take their cue from nature – if it’s not safe to eat the icing, make it red with yellow spots or some other crazy colour combination. If you eat the poison frog coloured icing once, you won’t make the same mistake again. Because you’ll be dead.
I sincerely hope that you didn’t eat poison frog icing this evening.
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They should take their cue from nature – if it’s not safe to eat the icing, make it red with yellow spots or some other crazy colour combination. If you eat the poison frog coloured icing once, you won’t make the same mistake again. Because you’ll be dead.
I sincerely hope that you didn’t eat poison frog icing this evening.
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Yep, that’s the one. Feel free to talk here though then be completely ignored once the new one rolls round.
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