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I almost triple my comment count from the weekend before and still didn’t manage to crack the top 20! xD You guys are insane.
This must be one of the few communities i am part of that i only say 1000 words in a week on. I am usually the one talking peoples ears off. I dont like this change in the state of the universe, and hear-by declare that i SHALL type like a fiend from this point on.
In case you missed it yesterday, I am now back from my Metal adventure.
I feel like forwarding my notes to someone who writes good though, because my write-up will probably make it sound boring.. 😛
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Welcome back Lady Strange!
While you were gone, THIS happened:
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Impressive!
Thanks for doing that for us, should make things a lot easier now. 🙂Oh, but why are some of Jimu’s redacted? I KNEW he was a secret agent! 😛
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There’s a good chance I’m wrong on this as I’m not much of a word smith myself but, shoudln’t it read “forwarding my notes to someone who writes well”?
Also, someone who writes well, I remember reading something about the punctuation for the end of the sentence should be included fefore closing the ” yet having the ? there just doesn’t feel right.
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It was a deliberate grammar mistake to add emphasis to my point. I actually have fairly good grammar, spelling and vocabulary, I just think my writing style is inherently boring and wish I could write like all the cool kids. 🙂
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Yeah, it was confusing me as I’ve had far to little sleep and you usually pick up other people on their grammar.
I was attempting to use they’re but I couldn’t bring myself in the end.
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Oh god, then I go and murder it anway. I need sleep.
Damn 12 hour shifts mixed with looking for units!!!
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Welcome back! You missed a crazy week in TAY. 5500 posts and four new Soul Knight bits.
I twittered three of them to you. Here’s the last (it of course has links to the others, as usual): http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-154/comment-page-24/#comment-526258
You also missed a Can’d Meat. I’ll forgive you. Once.
Can’d Meat 2 Write Up
Didn’t go.
But on Saturday I did by far the most spontaneous thing I have ever done and had one of the greatest (and subsequently, on Sunday night, worst) weekends ever.
I had been really bummed I was missing the meat but man, I’d pass up 100 meats for another day like last Saturday.
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Spontaneous behaviour? Sounds good, but need more with the details.
Less vague, please, or it didn’t happen!-
Even if I gave you more details with illustrated diagrams and photographic evidence, you wouldn’t believe me.
Hell, I lived it and I’m not sure I believe it.
/Even More Vague
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You can’t not tell us! I’d believe you, you’re an honest gentleman, after all. 😉
But seriously, the best (and then worst) day of your life and you’re not telling the whole world about it?!
Also, I hope you’re happy when I die of curiosity! 😛
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Must be something dirty.
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Has anyone here seen sherlock, i’m in love. But possibly up to 2 years for the next series. What about the season 2 finale, arrrggghhhh!
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I loved the first season and have been surprised how faithful it really is, despite the setting.
But season 2 episode 2… I can’t help but be that guy who’s read the books and doesn’t like what they did. Irene Adler is a woman who really got to Sherlock. He ended up referring to her only as “the woman”. So what does this series do? It introduces her as someone whose business name is “the woman”! Godammit, but that’s just getting it backwards!!
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Do you mean episode 1? Ep 2 Was Hounds of Baskerville. I can understand where you are coming from, the ending shit me a little. I didn’t expect them to do it like that, but it could of gone down so much better. Oh and Moriarity, the guy they got to play him is a genius.
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I had a bucks party (not mine) last nght and now it’s morning, I’m sore, I’m tired and I have no memory of how I got home last night/this morning.
Going back through my phone looking at pictures makes me scared. We got one of the groomsmen so drunk, we convinced him to get something special.
NSFW: https://www.twitter.com/#!/a_sharples/status/163740964677091329
Mornin’ TAY!
Epic weekend of gaming, meating, and laughing so hard I think I got a little dehydrated from the tears (yeah…that’s what did it).
Can Meat was simply amazing. In summary:
Bish claimed the kitchen. (He cooks! He cleans! He games! THIS! IS! BISHING!)
Shane claimed our money (BOOKS!)
Blaghs claimed superstardom though his voice (I feel his awesome hair helped).
Pixel claimed he was foreign, but I couldn’t understand him. (…bork?)
Pez claimed the prize for NOT being the biggest alcoholic there (I’ve got your back, man!)
Freya claimed dual titles of “The Best Zombie Dancer” AND “Most Team-Kills in a Game” (Little Big Planet 2)
Nova claims “Most Paranoid non-drinker”, after several of us had a discussion on how to slip some alcohol in his juice (and failed…or did we?!? OK, no, we failed.)
Faction claims the award for “Most Beards in Canberra” (Incidentally, I think Loops may fall for you on sight.)
And me? I made everyone else look sane, rational, and sober. Woo! \o/
P.S. Blaghs, tell your sister the Internet said “Hey.”
Started playing Tiny Tower on my android phone over the weekend.
Uhm.
Aside from trying to random build the right shop to match a dream job, is there anything to actually…uh…”do”?
It seems that it’s simply a stock, restock, deliver VIP, stock, restock, build, rinse, repeat game.
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I don’t really understand the appeal of games like that. Sure, I played the beer one on the ti83 but that’s because hey it was a calculator so a game at all was pretty amazing, and the alternative was doing maths.
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My meat write up
Blaghman asked me to help TAY get to 5000 posts.
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Yeah same here man, was hoping to do something to do with the hot weather, ended up playing Halo all day haha
I just finished watching bored to death. Great series, too bad it was cancelled.
Oh, Morning TAY.
Harro everyone. How was the weekend, when not filled with minecraft racial slurs and such? (That story made me lol)
I’m thinking of jumping on board with this whole twitter thing.
trying to make @GorzillaAU (gorzilla was taken, damn!)
It’s already starting to piss me off. It made me follow 5 people before it let me click next but now it’s making me follow 5 things I’m interested in which appears to be either celebrities or companies. I really couldn’t care less about celebrities and I’m not looking for more advertising.
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Yeah, it’s a bit weird like that. I think the point is to let you know that you can. Good thing you can just unfollow afterwards.
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I just ended up searching abc and adding all their variou things as i figured they’d be easiest to find and un follow later.
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Fat Shady, F4ction, Chuloopa Blaghman and Bish have the honour of being the first people I follow in twitter (mainly because I happened to have TAY names open about there and they were the first names to jump out at me). Quick, tweet something humorous!
MORNING ALL
I played and finished Halo Anniversary over the weekend.
The graphics update is amazing considering they put the new art on top of the original xbox game, and the nostalgia is awesome (storming the beach on Silent Cartographer is sill an epic experience).
BUT…
God damn the level design shows its age, and I’m not just talking about the Library level, the Control Room Assault was so long and it felt like I was going through the same rooms over and over again. I actually think it may have been worse than the Library because it definitely felt a lot longer, AND you have to backtrack through it afterwards D:
Also I feel it’s a bit crap that there’s all of this extra content in the game that I can’t access unless I go out and buy a Kinect. Sure I can’t scan everything but shouldn’t I be able to access the model viewer after I beat the game even if I don’t have a kinect? I paid for the game so why can’t I just access the extra material on the disc?
With that all said though, the Warthog ride at the end, still awesome.
SideBar:
I played UMvC3 online last night and some guy called me a homo for using Hulk. Lawls.
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I’ve always felt that the game nosedived straight into the shit when the Flood arrived and that every subsequent game went crap once you had to start fighting them as well. It’s one of the reasons I enjoyed Reach a lot – no Flood.
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on the plus side, it felt as though they nerfed the shit out of the Flood in subsequent games… 2 and 3 the flood felt much less like a chore then it did in CE…
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Well it’s a well documented fact that only homosexuals use Hulk. You can argue against me on this, but can’t argue with science.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that though, some of my best friends are Hulk players, just because he’s not my preference doesn’t mean I have a problem with it.
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I got this recently and have only cleared the first level. Really love what they’ve done with the new graphics and the ability to switch back. Overall it’s pretty amazing how well the gameplay holds up.
I’ll see how I go with the flood, as I was one of those weird people who actually liked that level. Maybe it just felt old school, running through endless dark corridors shooting hundreds of enemies with a pistol and shotgun.
I haven’t played Reach multiplayer for ages. Is it still active? I read ages ago they were redesigning the pistol or something. Did that happen?
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To be honest I didn’t mind the Library all that much, the Control Room dragged on way too long though.
Actually I didn’t try the Anniversary MP yet, I hear they have a playlist with the super pistol in it and thats about it.
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Halo 3’s multiplayer is still active! and yeah so is Reach! I quite like Reach as an MP game it’s got a good balance of run n gun as well as strategy with the armour abilities.
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I think that ‘same room over and over again’ problem was already a problem in Truth and Reconciliation, all those damn corridors that looked the same. As someone who had never played the first Halo (but knew quite a lot about its plot and everything), that level really got on my nerves, and I had to stop playing for a while.
That said I think the graphics update made The Maw a fantastic looking level, and Keyes’…um…new look was a lot more disturbing.
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Hey, when was The Consul’s Car case for L.A. Noire added onto the Australian PSN store? How’d I miss that? $6, though!?! Almost the price of the Rockstar Pass. :S Any one played it? Worth buying? (I personally loved L.A. Noire, so more of the same isn’t neccessary a deal breaker.)
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All of the DLC cases came out pretty soon after it was released xD (Makes me think they were pre-made :P). They were all pretty good though, but the arson case is by far my favourite.
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I’ve played every thing on the Rockstar Pass, but didn’t know The Consul Car case was released seperately for some odd reason. I personally loved The Naked City DLC the best.
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So I tried the Space Pirates and Zombies demo because the game was $4 on Steam this weekend. Why couldn’t I just commit to the $4? I dunno, but after playing the demo I decided not to buy it. The weird thing is, I liked it. It’s definitely worth the $10 it’s normally priced at. But after playing the demo I said to myself “I don’t really see myself playing this long-term”.
What? WHAT? Monday-morning me has a few words to say to you weekend-me, and none of them are pleasant. It’s FOUR DOLLARS. YOU BOUGHT A CUP OF CHIPS AHOY THIS MORNING THAT COST $2.49! $4 is not long-term commitment money. No one is asking you to marry SPAZ. No one is even asking you to stick around and make SPAZ eggs in the morning.
You know who you’re hurting when you’re stupid, past self? Me, your future. My present. God, I hate you.
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Oops, I didn’t mean to post this here. I mean to say:
I don’t recall seeing the Consul’s Car DLC, is that one a PS3 exclusive or is it relatively new?
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It was exclusive for the North American PS3 version for some reason, but has since been released on all platforms without any fan fair by the looks of it. (I think it’s included with the PC version too.)
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I realised I only did 17 posts… but those 17 posts had a total word count of 2k!!! Sorry, that gives away I’m a writer. 😛
Morning TAY!
Epic weekend, consisting of weddings sever heat and an extremely hungover wife. Sadly this meant i didnt get a huge amount of game time in, but i did get a bit of time on SPAZ, and i can see this game is going to have MANY hours of fun. Feels like i have spent a long time, and i have only just jumped out of the first start system. I am scared.
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I’m thinking I should try this game,
also I’m thinking I should play games on my laptop more.But not in summer, laptop too hot on lap this summer :/
Beat Orcs Must Die on the weekend.
Good game although being a tower defense, odds are you’re just going to end up using the same handful of defenses every time. I know I did. Started on Nightmare mode, where they get rid of your prep time for each level. That’s a bit of a nuisance because I use that to suss out what traps to use (and the other things to ramp up difficulty).
So instead, I’m going back and getting 5 skulls on all of the levels before doing that. The finale will be an interesting. Only just made it the first time with my Paladin guardian spam. Might try something else. Anything else. Something effective even.
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Seeing as I have my streaming software working now, I might do a live review style thing (like Giant Bomb’s Quick Looks) and put that up. Have people in TeamSpeak watch as I play and possibly give me arbitrary restrictions to make it interesting.
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I have been debating picking up that game, i played the demo on xbox and it seems fun. I know i enjoyed trenches which is basically the same play style.
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I picked it up in the Steam sales, so I’ve been playing the PC version. Can’t be sure just how differently things play but I did got for a very crossbow orientated style where I picked off as many orcs as I could with headshots.
Not too sure how viable that is on the Xbox (as in I don’t know how well the controls port over, considering the accuracy mechanics).
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Well from the small bit i played, i’d probably play better with the xbox controller just because, thats what i am used to. I still feel weird using the mouse on my laptop somtimes.
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I’m okay with both controller and keyboard/mouse but accuracy decreases the faster you fire. So I don’t know how that might make things more difficult on the controller when I didn’t use it.
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Yeah, that last level was tricky. I tend to rely on pendulum/tar pit combo for everything and there is no way you can get enough coins to gover all possible paths that way for that level.
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That pendulum trap is the worst idea ever. It’s so damned awesome to use that you feel compelled to waste all of your money on it.
I think for the last level, I might use the pendulum/tar/arrow wall combo and just sell them between waves to set up again wherever they’re coming from. At least, until I have the money to not have to do that. Then just a bunch of arrow guardians in the middle with tar/lava should do the trick. With the weaver that gives double money for spell kills and chain lightning, it might just work.
I’ll report back :p
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How’s the learning curve on Orcs Must Die? I’ve been meaning to give it a go, but unless its casual and I can jump right into it, my attention is already devoted to finishing Dungeons of Dredmore and Space Pirates and Zombies.
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It’s pretty good. You get granted new traps and abilities with every level. Each level tends to then make use of the new stuff.
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SPAZ really does eat your attention doesn’t it. I was losing track of time playing it last night. For such a simple game, its really well delivered.
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Learning curve is quite good, you shouldn’t have any trouble on the first half dozen levels, unless you want to replay them to get 5 skulls (perfect playthrough)
The skulls are then used to upgrade your traps so can be worth it but certainly isn’t essentialI think I have one maybe 2 levels left to play, just need to find the time to finish them off
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[No spoilers]
I’ve been reading Dance of Dragons (aka Game of Thrones book 5), and I was doing just fine until I got to this sentence:
The ship groaned and growled beneath him like a constipated fat man straining to shit.
I had to stop reading for a moment, but couldn’t do much else on the train because my Jetpack Joyride save decided to delete itself and I’m annoyed at it.
Then, in my weakened state, this happens:
[redacted] made a point of sharpening his sword each day, honing the point until it gleamed.
Certainly not as egregious, but that is just sloppy.
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Even in Storm of Swords things are starting to get a little sloppy.
This is what happens when someone gets granted protection from editors.
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You only read the dialogue yet you still think it’s “vastly superior” to the Night Angel trilogy?
I am disappointed in you for giving that away instead of waiting for a while and trying again. Did you eat too much purple pencil when you were signing books or something? 😛-
I was exaggerating. I love GRRM’s style, but will admit that books 4 and 5 could have been cut back a little 🙂
But Night Angel… didn’t love, sorry. I read for 150 pages, and found it blandly characterised and the style pretty unengaging.
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I started Deus Ex: HR over the weekend, and while I didn’t get too far in, I’m enjoying it so far. At Ruffleburg’s insistence I’m going for a stealth playthrough and it really is a lot of fun, as someone who doesn’t usually go it stealthy its quite a refreshing feeling, and I love that there seem to be multiple ways to approach different situations. Even if a lot of the choices are for how to enter a room (take the door, take the vent, take the other door, etc) it sort of makes things a bit less linear. I’m looking forward to playing some more of it.
But then, two of my friends bought Saints Row 3 yesterday, and now I can co-op with them. That’s also quite fun, but I really wish they’d kept the multiplayer from the second game so we could all play together.
MELBOURNE TAYBIES!!
WHO’S GOING TO BLIPFEST FEB 17TH AND 18TH!?
http://australia.blipfestival.org/?page=settimes
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This sounds do-able if i dont have anything else on. I keep skipping out on chiptunes events coz im lazy, but definitely need to catch one with you. We should make a plan of attack. *starts making leather man tyle bracelet with resistors for looks
Good morning TAY! I only just woke up… (9:30 is a very long sleep-in for me :P). I was at a tennis-final-watching party at a friends’ house until very late last night. The game was amazing though.
I kind of understand the people that go crazy during sports finals now. Watching a game with friends really ups your enthusiasm to 100% (I doubt I would have stayed up until 2am to watch it all otherwise).
…I still don’t think I’d be able to last while watching the football or cricket or anything though. I’m only human. 😛
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How can you sit through more than an hour of tennis o.0 like seriously tennis is the same thing over and over again for 4 hours, its like cricket but with the same two people. Dont get me wrong I used to play tennis and it was lots of fun. I Just cant watch sport unless its basketball and even then I never watch an entire game unless I am in the stadium. Everything else just seems so slow and drawn out :(. anyway 2 am solid effort watching sport lol spose the atmosphere would make it fun :).
oh yeah goodmorning 🙂
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I normally don’t watch sports but the AusOpen gets me every year, especially from the semis on.
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I honestly don’t know. xD It’s the only sport I can sit down and watch without needing some sort of distraction Football, cricket, etc, just bores the life out of me. 😛 I used to play tennis as well (and still do occasionally, but not seriously) so that might have something to do with it.
I think the main thing I like though is that each point is usually worth watching, and it delivers them in short bursts of play so you’re not just sitting there looking at a continuous play for half an hour. I can understand why people wouldn’t like it though.
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Yeah there is no way I could watch football or cricket lol. Imo sport is fun to play but I hate watching it because it just makes me want to play it not including football cricket athletics or swimming. Im too lazy for the last two and the first does not make sense to me and cricket well for me its possibly the most boring sport. no offence to any cricket or rugby fans :] dont hate me 🙂
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I see Hollywood finally took my “Liam Neeson fighting an entire pack of wolves” idea seriously. The trailers for his new film look awesome.
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Maybe, but haven’t those two genres basically become the same thing now days.
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This is true. Lets be honest Liam Neeson is pretty awesome. Ive enjoyed almost every movie with him in it so far. Aside from Chloe and C.o.t.t but even then they werent terrible in my books lol
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Indeed, the great Master Qui Gon
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At least he recognised the abomination that is jar jar from the begining!
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Ok, I’ll finally unveil some information seeing I caught many people’s interest a couple of days ago.
I’m assisting Nyu Media in the release of a series of japanese doujin games on Steam. They already released a small shooter called Satazius, which by all means I recommend you to try since it’s a great homage to the classic Gradius.
The series is called eXceed, and it was developed by Japanese circle Tennen-Sozai. You can see a preview of the games here:
http://nyu-media.com/products/exceed-2nd-vampire-rex/
http://nyu-media.com/products/exceed-3rd-jade-penetrate-black-package/
Just be on the lookout for more news because these beasts are coming soon to get your soul!
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You need coffee, sir.
Here, use this as stimulation:
http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/26/2633/N5CMD00Z/posters/sapper-peter-a-steaming-cup-of-coffee-on-coffee-beans.jpg-
I’ve already had one. And I dont normally drink coffee.
Of all the bad decisions I’ve made in life, this is defnitely one of them./
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Apologies for my lack of attendance at the Can’d Meat on the weekend, I had issues to attend to which I would rather not discuss. Let’s just say I’d much rather have been playing games and drinking.
So I tried the Space Pirates and Zombies demo because the game was $4 on Steam this weekend. Why couldn’t I just commit to the $4? I dunno, but after playing the demo I decided not to buy it. The weird thing is, I liked it. It’s definitely worth the $10 it’s normally priced at. But after playing the demo I said to myself “I don’t really see myself playing this long-term”.
What? WHAT? Monday-morning me has a few words to say to you weekend-me, and none of them are pleasant. It’s FOUR DOLLARS. YOU BOUGHT A CUP OF CHIPS AHOY THIS MORNING THAT COST $2.49! $4 is not long-term commitment money. No one is asking you to marry SPAZ. No one is even asking you to stick around and make SPAZ eggs in the morning.
You know who you’re hurting when you’re stupid, past self? Me, your future. My present. God, I hate you.
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If it’s still on special by the time I get home from work I’ll buy it. Until then there’s not a lot I can do.
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I bought it for $4 without playing the demo.
Not too sure I’m going to keep playing it though. Gave it a quick try and just wasn’t in the mood. Might have to wait for Techie to be overenthusiastic about it again and then try again.
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That’s my point though. It’s FOUR DOLLARS. It doesn’t matter if you’re not in the mood right now, or if you only play it for a couple hours. It’s FOUR DOLLARS.
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That’s how Steam gets you.
They price the games so cheap that most people don’t even think about the money.
Seriously, making it easy for people to give you money is such an absurdly simple way to make a lot of money.
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Haha, I was really only ranting about the stupid decisions I make, but the lack of SPAZ. I’ll just buy it when I get home. Probably.
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MATT DAMON!
We didn’t win any of the categories at Game Jam Melbourne, but we got Matt Damon on the front page of KotakAU so that’s weekend success for me.
(I’d be swearing a lot less if a sync bug didn’t creep in to my 1024 player network code. SO FREAKIN’ CLOSE!)
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Congrats at just making it through the event – it seems pretty hectic. I would love to participate in something like that one day, but don’t really have any game development skills. If you don’t mind answering, what language and tools do you guys use to create games?
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My natural environment is C++ and writing code from scratch.
For the event, we used Unity and C#.
If you want a job in the industry, you need to know C++. If you’re working by yourself or have a compressed time limit like we had on the weekend, use an environment like Unity (or XNA if you/your team is experienced enough). Knowing all of the above is advantageous.
.NET sockets are SO MUCH NICER than using just plain Winsock. First time I’d used them. Took me about half the time it normally would to set up a server/client system. But there’s one thing you can’t do in a .NET environment – heavy optimisation.
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Smashing work at the Jam, wish I could have gone but I need to build mah skills.
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Making a game in 48 hours was fun! But it upsets me to immediately find myself at the start of another work week.
Morning TAY, epic long weekend 🙂
Getting further along in Skyrim, but the PS3 framerate issues are really giving me the s**ts now.
Gave up, started playing Heavy Rain.
Now I understand ‘Press X to Jason’…
Enjoying it so far, very, very similar to Fahrenheit. It’s got the wife intrigued about a video game, which is always good. Very jelly about not being able to attend the Canberra Meat…sounds like an awesome time was had by all 🙂
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Ah, playing Heavy Rain for the first time. How I envy you. Haven’t felt that connected with a game in some time. Enjoy, man.
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My brother has a tendancy to call every thing shit.
What do you think of this game? Looks like shit.
Did you play this? Yup, it was shit.
Heavy Rain on the other hand he watched quietly and complemented it. That’s gotta stand for something, right? 😛
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Sounds like my brother.
He hates most new games and only plays Fifa 07 and older games.
Everything else in his eyes is shit.
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I’m probably a quarter way through the game, I want to restart the whole thing and fail ALL of the quicktime events like this for laughs
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Very intriguing game, there are a few(but only a few) annoying bits but overall, great game. I particularly like Jayden’s ARI glasses/glove combo…I want! That would be awesome!
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Holy crap, TAY is on speed these days. I just left to drop my daughter at school and pick up some breakfast and Page 2 already?
First breakfast without awesome American Bacon. 🙁
You know, I’m going to research and try and make my own amazing bacon. That can be my project for the year.
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They don’t use the round bit, just the long stripey bit. And it’s super-smoky and super-tasty.
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I always thought the round bit was the best bit. Do they not like it becuase there is less fat-to-meat ratio? #sterotypes
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They sell the round bit at a premium and call it Canadian Bacon.
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Apologies to anyone who likes them, but they are seriously close to becoming one of the worst bands ever. I only saw about one song and couldn’t stand any more. The vocalist is such a pretentious, arrogant wanker (I was actually standing next to him in the line to get onto the Ship and he had someone else roll his wheeled luggage for him. Wimp.), and he threw a tantrum on stage. Almost everyone agreed they were the worst-performing band on the ship.
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That’s a shame 🙁
I haven’t heard much of their newer stuff but I dig their old stuff.
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Oh man, speaking of awesome guitarists and princesses, my (used to be) most favouritest guitarist in the world, Thomas Youngblood from Kamelot, turned out to be a bit of an asshat. 🙁
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When I went to the U.S. last August I had a burger with stripped bacon every night basically. I regret nothing. So damn tasty.
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Sorry Harli! I wanted to answer you but couldn’t think of anything to say seeing as I’d already spoken about the bacon in response to someone else. 🙁
Oh, OH! When I was waiting at LAX for the plane home there was this tall, graceful girl with long hair that was covering her face while she was reading and when she looked up and I saw her face for a moment I thought she was you!
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😀 !
Saw your posts on FB, looks like you had a heaps wicked time. You can have ALL OF MY JELLY (it’s strawberry flavoured).Oh my! Now my face is the same colour as the aforementioned jelly.
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*shakes fist at sky*
Damn you, it was nice. Sunny even. So much so that I put on a freakin’ wash. Then you have to rain. Oh, you’ll pay. Don’t think you won’t pay.
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The sky is an unpredictable, unrelenting, cruel mistress waiting to crush your hopes and dreams.
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Hey, why don’t we just go eat some hay, make things out of clay, lay by the bay? I just may! What’d ya say?
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There was another European SC2 tournament this weekend. Shockingly, Stephano won.
By beating Grubby.
Every single tournament Grubby enters, he seems to get knocked out by Stephano. I’m a big fan of both players (particularly Grubby because of the Brotoss love), so I don’t mind but it is amusing that it’s always Stephano.
They were both top Warcraft 3 players, with Grubby being the undisputed best and Stephano being his apprentice. Or something like that, I didn’t follow the War3 scene. It’s just something casters love to mention whenever these two face off.
Anyhow, Stephano is pretty much the top non-Korean player and probably the top Zerg player. Dude is making a ridiculous amount of money from all of the tournaments he enters. The funny thing is that he’s mentioned that he’s only doing this for a year to make money for university.
Methinks he’ll probably keep playing anyhow. Just not as much. If he was a professional gamer from before SC2, why would he stop after just a yea? There are plenty of pros that are currently at school (Leenock is still in high school and he won an MLG then came second in GSL).
Should be interesting to see how it plays out.
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So the apprentice is now the master eh?
* exaggerated profound look*Hey do you Funday Monday much? I don’t play but I watch a ton of day9 and I think it’d be awesome to see you show up on there one day 🙂
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I only really just started playing recently, so I haven’t had a chance. Still, if an interesting Funday Monday topic comes up, I’ll definitely have a go and if there are any games that are particularly hilarious, I’ll submit them.
If only to see Day9 fail to pronounce Trjn.
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I was, as I had the office to myself. Then the other I.T guy who wasn’t meant to be at work today decides to come in and do a half day. How rude of him. I’ve turned my monitors so he can’t see what I’m doing so I’ll try it out soon.
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white list = false should mean you can join right? though if the server actualy shows up you’ve gotten farther then i have via internet.
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Not sure if that’s because of the same problem i’ve been having or becasue someone called my land line and blew up my internet. Only just got it running again. I really can’t wait to move some plache with better phone lines.
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I just got my first royalties. Ever. I like being paid for writing. Even if it doesn’t even cover the cost of the gas I used to go to the store to buy the string to tie the bundles… 😀
Also, discovered that book 2 of The Lesser Evil has a typo on its spine. A corrected version will be published shortly, making these volumes RARE COLLECTOR’S EDITIONS. I have three left – if you want them, just send $250 my way (it’s an investment, trust me).
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I’ll take one, but at the reduced price of nowhere-near-250-dollars.
Just let me know how much you really want – you have my email and postal details!
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I think it’s safe to say that this first birthday cake was a triumph.
Not actually his birthday till next week, but that doesn’t stop us from having birthday cake!
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Awesome picture! I can’t believe it’s only been a year. Remember how small TAY was compared to now?!
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Sure – it was an only slightly more manageable 840 posts the week that he was born!
But yes, it has flown by. He flipped the walking switch into overdrive this past weekend and went walking unaided for minutes at a time. It was only a couple of months ago that he learnt to crawl. Soon he’s going to be beating me at video games and shipping me off to an old folk’s home.
Time, you bastard!!
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I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS!
It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.I did, however blog how I made the cake if you are interested.
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O rly?
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The antivirus that came free with my laptop expires today.
It’s Mcafee.
Should I renew this, or go get something else? Is another paid one better? Are the free ones good enough? I’ve installed Microsoft Security Essentials on another PC before and it seemed to run well. I might do that, unless the TAY hive mind suggests something else.
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I am using Avast at home, and im quite happy with it. Its better than AVG by a long way, and the virus database gets updated if not daily, then multiple times in a day.
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I use Zonealarm for my firewall and AVG for my anti-virus. Seems to do the job and they’re both free! FREE!
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I use MSE. I can’t honestly say any AV will ever live up to my expectations, but MSE has come closest so far, and it works really well for a free* program.
*free if your copy of Windows is legit 😀
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AVG has worked without any issue for years for me now. And I use Spybot S&D regularly to clean out any spyware. It’s amazing how much accumulates without even doing anything particularly out of the ordinary or unsafe.
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@puppylick, with the Chip tunes event, I’ll give you a call during the week once i have conversed with my social planner (aka the wife) And see if i can make at least one of the days. We can make this an unofficial Melbourne Meat if enough people are keen in coming.
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Sounds good, thinking of doing saturday and hitting up Mana Bar beforehand, more details to come 😀
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I am happy to pass on the mana bar. Coz really, i can play games and drink at home cheaper and in a LOT more comfort, but def keen to do something.
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Hello Taybies! How are we all this week? How was everyone’s weekends?
I joined a gym, went to a star trek convention and got sunburnt, I now look like a red haired lobster!
In other news I come bearing gifts.
Who wants the following?
2x greed corps, demigod, SMNC beta
1x steam mobile beta, borderlands GOTYE
Let me know and I’ll organise it 🙂
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I’m intrigued by this steam mobile beta thingy I keep hearing about. What do you need, email address? batguy dot kotaku and google’s email thingy.
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Then jump on it missy. Borderlands was one of my favourite game this generation. The description of Diablo with guns is very apt. Plus there is a shotgun…that…shoots…wait for it….rockets.
Rockets!
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I remember the first time i found a rocket shotgun. I think i may have messed myself a little.
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Borderlands is awesome especially co-op with friends 😀
The story was horrible but tbh I don’t think that bothered anyone 😛
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Borderlands had a ncie visual style and great shooting mechanics, but it basically had no story. It is ONLY fun to paly co-op in my opinion. In co-op you can sorta blaze across the desert running and gunning and generally going crazy and it’s cool because you’re doing it with buddies and everyone’s having a good time.
Doing it alone just makes you feel lonely, and the game is grindy.
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I played through the majority of the game solo and I still had fun but as soon as I jumped in co-op with some mates it became so much better. The duels/arena things weren’t really implemented well but it’s pretty funny destroying my friends with Mordecai’s falcon. My falcon had that perk that made it slow down whatever it hit and once I hit my friend he was complaining that the duels were unfair since he was apparently ‘lagging’ 😀
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Steam mobile app is currently awesome. I can’t see it being in closed beta for long, though I’m not sure how it’ll go on lower powered devices (I’m on a SGS2).
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Red haired lobster? 🙁
I’ll take Greed Corps or Demigod if no one else wants them :P. I saw a friend playing Greed Corps once and it looked interesting and very confusing…
I don’t really have anything else to offer except my friendship. But that’s not really worth it in my opinion 🙂
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All these are free offerings. I accumulate games from time to time and I like to give 🙂
I ask for nothing 🙂
I got sunburnt after 5minutes in the sun yesterday 🙁 but I will live 🙂
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🙁 I know a ginger who doesn’t get sunburnt and tans. It’s weird 😐
You asked for scree’s Steam name above so I assume you’ll need mine if no one else claims them. It’s Greenius :). Thanks! And if someone else claims them, thanks anyway for the kind gesture!
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So time for me to complain about the latest LoL patch.
Nerfing Lee Sin?! Why in God’s name… he’s terribad unless played by a skilled player (ie those that invest time to get better with him are good with him). Seems completely silly and he’ll go the way of most junglers these days, being nerfed to death. I like the activation option for Jax’s stun/dodge though. Oh well, have to wait and see the full patch info.
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hi f4ction! o/
As a LoL player I figured you’d be interested in seeing 2 of Australia’s best LoL teams face each other at the Sydney Gamers League last weekend. Here ya go
http://www.gamestah.com/file/view/5452 -
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I think this nerf is more an attack on the Tank DPS meta because there are a lot of people QQ’ing about it currently (lee-sin being the most QQ’d about)
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Lee Sin’s late game has always been terrible though (if the game lasts over 30 minutes he’s pretty useless unless you’re one of the top tier players), so his only edge has been early level ganks via jungling. I have no problem nerfing his Q a bit as the % combined with such a low CD was a bit crazy. Nerfing his jungling seems mean (and using the excuse that he’s the dominant jungler doesn’t hold up when Riot keep nerfing the junglers).
But what do I know, I don’t play ranked.
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I wouldn’t say his late game is terrible. He is more of a sustained damage champion being able to stay in the thick of battle do decent damage then jumping out with almost no risk of death.
The problem with him IMO is that he is a tanky champion with a hell of a lot of mobility which tank champions should under no circumstances ever have. When a tanky DPS runs in they should have to stay in the battle till it’s over, not have more mobility then most squishy champions out there.
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If you watch any high level streams, Lee Sin is pretty much an insta-pick. They could just be nerfing him so that people play someone else for once.
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I’ve been smashed by lots of Lee-Sin’s. I think they did need to nerf his execute damage on his resonating strike – he has a lot of burst already. I was keen to try him out though but might hold off until I can see how he performs after this nerf. Also, hexplosions! Seems a bit similar to Gragas though.
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Yeah, agreed about Lee Sin, he only dominates jungle with a guy/girl that can use him very well, as it is with any champion really in any lane it’s built for.
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There are plenty of champs that require no skill to dominate with and it bothers me that they don’t address these champs and instead seem to be trying to drag everyone down to this level.
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If it’s on the extended edition of Color and the Shape, then that is just another reason why that album is one of the greatest of all time.
Oh no! all these “you are now being folowed by” twitter notification emails just sent me to 666 unread emails
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Yeah they had everything the bible said is bad in there. Sure there is a bit of really bad stuff but some of it is awesome! Oh and you cant Die in there its like play GTA but with the Devil and assorted assholes to kill/rob/run over with a car!
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Morning to all my friends on TAY!!!
Had an OK weekend, my monitor died so I had to buy another one. The one I bought came with 12 input connections (i think) so I decided to connect my old sega megadrive up to it and I also bought a Super Nintendo S-Video cord so I can play my Super Nintendo on my monitor too.
Spent most of the weekend playing Sonic 2 and Rocket Knight, twas a nostalgia filled weekend.
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How big is the new one? I’ve noticed that in the past three years or so, 24″ has become pretty standard. I mostly peer at my 11.6″ laptop screen, but every now and then plug it into a 22″ screen I bought ages ago for xbox.
I am thinking I will buy a proper PC around the end of this year and will be looking at getting some sort of massive monitor with it.
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My two monitors are 27″ (the old one was a 24″) and it cost $279. I think anything beyond 27″ starts to get a bit pricey.
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Any one play Dungeon Siege 3? That and Borderlands are the last games in my pile of shame. After finishing my replay of KotOR 2 I feel like another Obisidan game. Does it follow their M.O. of being so damn flawed, but also kind of good?
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First, disclosure: Dungeon Siege III is also on my pileofshame (and, yes, I insist on writing that as one word).
My understanding of DSIII so far is it is a lot more polished than a typical Obsidian game and has all of their wit. Its main downfall is it is just slightly mediocre. But I am very fond of it anyway and fully intend to complete it soon.
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Thanks, McGarnical! It looks a little like Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance — a game I was a little obsessed with in 2003. I’ve haven’t played the earlier Dungeon Siege games, I hope that’s not a deal breaker.
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I haven’t played Dark Alliance but it looks like the sort of game I would like.
From the whinging I’ve read on forums, “real” fans of Dungeon Siege hate III but everyone else really likes it. So I think you’re in for a treat.
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Outstanding! Just moved up in the queue, its pile of shame days numbered…
From what I remember ‘real’ Baldur’s Gate fans hated Dark Alliance too. Looks to be an identical situation. 😛
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Record the event and sell copies of it for $20.
Suddenly, riches (which then may be needed for a hospital visit).
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True story. Saddam Hussein had a copy of the Koran written in his own blood.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/19/saddam-legacy-quran-iraqi-government
so, thanks to certain TAYbies, i’ve loaded Skyrim up with it’s first few mods… namely Skyrim HD textures and everything else HD related… man dose graphics!!!!
that game looked good before but HOLYCARP
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This Is one of the few things that makes me wish i had a gaming pc. Skyrim just doesn’t look as stunning on the xobx.
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i was never really part of the “master race” however, skyrim was one of the few games that i decided to hold off with, till i had a decent PC….
i’ve seen Skyrim on Xbox, and it still looks pretty decent…
BUT ZOMG ON PC WITH EVERYTHING TURNED OFF…
screw the story, THIS GAME IS GORGEOUS AND THAT’S ALL THAT MATTERS!!!!-
I can imagine wandering aimlessly through the world would take on a whole new charm with full HD graphics. There is a tiny bit of texture popping that is enough to be annoying on the xbox given the res isnt that high to start with.
But no doubt about it, the game is beautiful in general.
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Yeah, there’s few visual awe moments in gaming equal to the first time in Skyrim that you see an aurora, or enter Blackreach.
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yeah, i can understand how people can pour hours and hours into that game…
“what’s that? quick travel?… baaaaah than i miss out on all the scenery”
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I use quick travel only when i want to get a group of quests out of the way. But if im just doing normal travel, i take the long road. Just so i can be distracted by random scenery and bandit caves and what not.
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From this day forward, I will always think of the artist Gotye as ‘Game Of The Year Edition’.
Thanks GingerChris 🙂
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haha, sadly i have thought that for the last 6 months. Very frustrating actually. And fact that they got #1 on the hottest 100 hasn’t helped this mind set.
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It was only when I saw the Hottest 100 list that I realised Boy and Bear was not something like Bouillabaisse.
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What? I was just leaving the server. It’s not far from the spawn point to your house anyway 😛
At least I haven’t made any penises!
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Where’s Pez? He said he would make an appearance in TAY this week. I mean, he’s had almost 3 hours, that should be long enough.
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Im waiting for the video of blaghs dancing and everyone copying him. IF YOUR STANDING YOU ARE A BACK UP DANCER!!!
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Freyr, Bish and F4ction have pre-release codes maybe they will share them with us. At least I think Bish does he was pointing his 3DS at people and it had a red Light so I assumed it was a camera and started to act even more retarded
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Also, HD or not HD? That is the question. Pretty sure I’ve still got my phone recording at 720p
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Definitely HD.
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Quite definitely. Needs some HD to balance out my terrible 3DS camera.
Gahdammit, should’ve bugged my sister to return my phone that has a decent camera /o\
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OH GOD i forgot about them
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erhm, in accordance with what Shane said about resemblance between him and me… that is definitely Shane in the videos… aayup, can’t be anyone else…
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Forget it shorty 😛
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Who are you calling shorty, shorty?
Dude you left before I arrived. Sad fase.
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Eye sorry 🙁
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Its ok. It is completley my fault. I planned to arrive at 4 and I didnt get there until 6. due to basketball and asking a bottle-o for directions to blaghs
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Both of you are giants. Needed to be said.
To be fair, from my perspective, everyone was a giant…
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hehe, it’s funny cause you’re short…
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aahh screw it, yeah it’s me
*starts shuffling*
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It’s cold! …inside.
It was terrible yesterday though. I went outside to talk to a friend for maybe… 40 minutes? And I got sunburnt. I didn’t even plan on going outside! D: The sun saw its chance and took it.
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heat? HEAT?
*stares out window*
it’s pouring down rain… pretty sure i’ve heard At least 2 car crashes outside our office today…
maaan Canberra drivers can’t drive in wet weather for poop-
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ACT is only scary to drive in, outside of peak hour 😛
Peak hour is when the drivers that know how to drive generally comes out, where as if you happen to drive outside of this, you’re shit out of luck 😛except for when it is raining… people seem to turn into degenerate retards that either drive waaaay to slow, or drive so aggressively they end up on the nature strip
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I figured everyone may have missed it all because of two links.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-2/#comment-528831
Here!
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I should probably add, Alpha Prospector is trying to help us out here. He wants to give away stuff but you need to help him. Please read what he’s written and also consider how to help him best get Mark and Tracey’s attention.
It’s likely what he’s writing will go to the spam filter and I want to make sure that he gets all the help he can. It will be awesome for everyone.
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What the almighty scree said. Help me help you help me! And such 😀
Also, if anyone started playing Skyrim on the PC thanks to our commentaries, hell YEAH!
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I think I’m more worried about confirming the fears of the schmukmup forums about the small amount of shmup players…
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I suggest reposting because people have told me they’re interested
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Same here! I’m terrible at them, but I love them.
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Well, at least these are a bit more story driven than the usual. Hopefully they aren’t Mushihimesama Futari Black Label in Ultra Mode at Max Rank, heh. 😛
I’ll just say eXceed 2nd REX has a scoring system and mechanics similar to Ikaruga so many might like that.
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so following Alpha’s comment, how do i get a chance at winning said free “swag” hmmmm? i seem to be unable to read anything about, or maybe i’m just being a nincompoop
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This is why he needs to emails Mark and Tracey. Wink wink, nudge nudge =D
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And what scree said, yup. Damn, scree is the official mind reader of TAY!
If you are interested in a very accessible shmup, I highly suggest you to pick up Satazius (also released by Nyu Media, an ASTRO PORT homage to Gradius!), Jamestown (a glorious western bullet hell with VERY accessible difficulty modes and the sweetest pixel art I saw in years plus some damn fine music, almost NeoGeo-like) and Beat Hazard for its music-oriented game mechanics (translation: you use your own music).
Of course, the eXceed series once we get it out on Steam, hehehe.
Also, the music is veeery particular in these games. In a good way. You’ll see. (Or hear)
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heh. Fear not, we are arranging that and will get to it as soon as we get more info. At the moment, lips are sealed! (The horror, the tension!)
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Oh, hi there AlphaProspector!
I’m guessing you joined this circus last week while I was away so I don’t know you yet. Looks like you’re a friend of Scree’s though so I look forward to getting to know you. 🙂
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ooohhh you missed out on mini-scree too,
i like her… she’s awesome… cause… MLP… and stuff…she’s the reason why i am now guiltily streaming MLP from Youtube whilst gaming…
i’ve… i’ve become a Bronyalso…
HI STRANGE! \o/
late to the party, but WHO CARES? 😀
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Wait, there’s a Mini-Scree now, too?! Looks like I picked the complete wrong week to go to America.
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well she didn’t know what to call herself, so she calls herself
“Insert_Username_Here”
but most call her mini-scree by now 😛
Yes I forced* two people to join TAY this week
*they came completely of their own free will after hearing me talk about how wonderful TAY was.
Sorry Strange, i didn’t welcome you back.
WELCOME BACK!
The heat has rendered me completely useless.
Thanks, Scree. It’s raining up here in Brisbane. Apparently it’s been raining the whole time I was gone. It’s good because I didn’t have to come back straight away to searing heat, but it’s bad because everything is damp.
I’m glad that it’s not too hot. And I’m sure you can air out the damp. It’s much but then heat.
These are PC games which will be on Steam right? And actually good? Because assuming those two things, you should try passing them on to Rock Paper Shotgun. They like doujin / indie games and are specifically a PC publication, plus bullet hell shmups are fairly unique so you might get some coverage that way. As I recall this was one of the ways that Recettear got off to such a solid start.
Also it looks like you’re doing #2 and 3 in a series? What about the first game?
This interests me greatly as I quite like this style of shmup despite being terrible at them. How do they compare to some of the other games in the genre? You mentioned Gradius but I always associated those games with being sideways-scrolling a la R-Type and the like. The screenshots in the descriptions you linked look more like a traditional scrolling shooter like the Touhou games or Raiden.
Are you a bit of a genre buff? Maybe there’s a possibility of doing a ‘history of the shmup’ essay or something that might be a bit more interesting for Mark etc to put up instead of just a straight-up advertisement, if you’re trying to go that route? Content is always better.
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Some interesting commentary here. Damn, you people are awesome! I was missing this kind of discussion.
Well, let’s see: yep, these are PC games and they’ll be released on Steam soon.
I’m a BIG fan of shmups. Here is my youtube account, which might resume what I’m talking about, heh: http://www.youtube.com/user/GloriousLight
Anyway, the first game will also be released but it’s not mentioned there because the original devs no longer have access to the source code. Thus, we can only get it released as a japanese import. We are still going to provide a story resume (and I’ll suggest the creation of a spoiler-based one for those whole clear the game and want to know wth happened) as well as an explanation on how the scoring system works.
I mentioned Gradius because Satazius is pretty much a love letter to Gradius ;D The graphics might not be the best by a long shot but it’s damn solid on the mechanics and difficulty side: never too hard, never too easy.
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As for the history of shmups…
Check a game called GENETOS. It’s freeware for PC. You might love it since it’s precisely what you asked for: the history of shmups and an insight on their future. IT’S GREAT!
There is also this article at Racketboy, which maybe Kotaku could link, about the history of shmups:
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/shooters/shmups-101-a-beginners-guide-to-2d-shooters
I recommend everyone to read this. It was the collaborative effort of the shooter fans.
I think I didn’t warn people I currently do all my gaming on the PC…
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What Negative zero is saying is if you also do an article on the history of shmups as well as advertising eXceed, it’ll be seen less as a blatant advertisement (which may have a few commenters in an uproar), and it’s more likely to be published.
I know what your real incentives are with contacting Mark, but even so, would this hurt?
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I’m sure that you should be able to handle this one. I’m pretty bad at shmups, despite liking them. I always end up hitting a bullet just as I’m doing well.
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There is a whole level of coordination that is required for Shmups….i do not posses this level. or any other level of coordination
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Hey that sounds awesome.
Well to get the word out about the games I’d recommend shooting Shmups.com an email or mentioning it to their twitter account, they alway post about new shmups coming out so I’m sure they’d dig it.
And as for Mark and Tracey just send them emails at mark.serrels-at-alluremedia.com.au and tracey.lien-at-alluremedia.com.au.
They probably haven’t replied since friday as they’ve been busy as hell with the Game Jams that are going on, but have patience, they do check their mail, and they check here sometimes as well 🙂
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Oh, I’ll send them the press kit ASAP. “It’s on fireeeee!”
Strange > Thanks! Although circus remind me of Killing Floor Summer Sideshow Event… I can already see the crazy Patriarch announcing the power of the THREE.RINGS.
Anyway, yeah, don’t fear this shmups. They come with twists and loads of help to those unfamiliar with them. Of course, if you want a challenge, these beasts can and might probably mop the floor with people’s egos.
So, I started playing Dante’s Inferno the other day. Anyways, I got up to Greed. Progressing along nicely. Save game, go into next room, go down an elevator thingy, notice on the way down that the sound was dropping in and out. Get to the bottom of elevator and nothing’s loaded. Run in circles for 10secs trying to see if I’ve missed something. PS3 freezes. Reload. Same thing. This time I hop off the elevator and fall through the floor until the PS3 freezes. Hoping it’s the game and not my PS3 on the way out.
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Same thing happened to me with Ass Creed 2 before my launch fatty died.
I’d start saving those sweet lootz for a new one…
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Trying to decide if FFXIII-2 is worth getting. I tried to play FFXIII but as much as I love FF games I just couldn’t finish it.
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Did you play the demo? Best way to decide.
Also Techy, just because the action was called “auto-battle” doesn’t mean it was anything of the sort. The battle system is actually really deep and involved and just pressing “auto-battle” all the time will get you killed pretty fast.
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Sweet thanks,
I have to agree I almost yelled out in Pain when I Techie said “auto-battle” but by the sounds of it the battles are better (because I like to actually play the game for some reason). Also didn’t realise there was a demo, going to have to download it tonight.
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I agree with this. The ‘auto-battle’ was unfortunately named. I found the combat to be frenetic and engaging, and the strongest aspect of the game.
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It wasn’t the auto-battle that turned me off of the Final Fantasy series. It was the horrendous pacing. A demo isn’t going to show if that’s still a problem or not.
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I’ve got it pre ordered from ozgameshop as final fantasy and Total War are probably the only 2 products I’m fanboy enough about to buy regardless of glairing faults. I actually quite enjoyed XIII (though not as much as most of the predecessors).
The way they are making the DLC for this one by obviously leaving stuff out to include in dlc (I’m including ones that are included in various pre order bundles) really puts me off it especially combined with reviews that say the story doesn’t really end properly. Those sorts of business practices make me very reluctant to spend money.
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As far as I can tell, very close to the beginning of the game you get access to a hub of sorts where you get to choose from a bunch of different times and places to go next, so maybe this will help anyone who had issues with the pacing in the first one?
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I was playing XIII and I almost fell asleep with that capability, using it manually always took too long compared to auto-battle since it doesn’t pause while selecting your skills. XII allowed you to either use gambits to autobattle using your instructions or you could go to the command menu which pauses the actual battle so you can plan it out accordingly per character.
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I found XIII’s system to be all about shifting paradigms (corporate speak!) at the right moment and selecting the targets in the right order. More of a puzzle than a combat IMHO.
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Well all I went with was start with Buffs/Debuffs/Defence, then after buffs on pure damage and chaining, if HP too low on one guy, Healing/Defence. That was basically the only time that I actually had to press something other than X
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I think it was more choosing when to use paradigm shifts that made the battles involved. Timing when to use them in the ebb and flow of battle could make a huge difference in the outcome.
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I really enjoyed the demo. I did play through FFXIII but it was a chore, except for Gran Pulse. But I think I’ll pick this one up.
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man, those Roman Numeral’s are throwing me off. I’m starting to think to only reason that we are teaching our kids Roman Numerals is so I kids can tell if we are on Final Fantasy 23 or 24.
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Apparently kids struggled to understand that Grand Theft Auto IV wasn’t called Grand Theft Auto Ai Vee.
That can’t be good for Eff Eff Ecks Ai Ai Ai Dash Two. The failure of Eff Eff Ecks Ai Vee as an Em Em Oh Arr Pi Gi might have been caused slightly by this.
That and it was terrible.
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3 pages in 3 hours? I’m not even going to bother trying to keep up in the day. You guys are nuts!
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It’s true. He passed through the soul detector without setting it off. Of course, there was a metal detector right afterwards which caused some issue.
Not too sure why anyone would set up a metal detector and a soul detector. Maybe they only want vampires to enter?
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What can I say? I like easy targets.
Mainly, I just like to say the word “ranga”. But really it’s just because I have a fondness for “Dad jokes” where people have heard them so many times they just groan.
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Dont ever knock dad jokes. They are my forte also!
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I still chuckle at ‘dad jokes’ regardless xD
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Dad jokes are the best. The main reason I like the Muppets so much.
And the reason for the curious dynamic between intense amusement and bemusement (and c-musement – dad joke) that keeps my wife interested in me 🙂
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Awesome – thanks for letting me know! I can’t recall if I let you know your fundage arrived – if not, it did, thank you! 🙂
@Shane
I’m not sure I could be trusted with some of your blood. The temptation to create a clone that I can chain up in the shed to make him (it?) do nothing but write new novels featuring myself as the main character would be too strong.
Also the ethical implications? What kind of monster would I create? Would it have a soul? Would it have your memories and miss your wife an child? If it did and escaped, would it hunt you down and kill you to take your place, grinding your body into mince to make tacos on Thursday night.
Ohhhhhhhh. This could be a goo experiment! Send some blood this way!
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As soon as I receive your $250, it shall be done!
I guess in your line of work, you would routinely see locked secret cloning facilities.
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Actually can I write this? I think there could be a decent 20 page comic in this. (With credit, of course)
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Well, the taller one is, the further you have to fall and the more time gravity can take effect on you.
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I’d better lie down then!
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No he’s calling you NTFS…
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@Shane
Not sure if you saw Bish’s post further up (Man, TAY is travelling fast today)
He requested that you sit. Are you sitting?
@Shane ( the timing of this worked out so well).
I just finished reading your last four Soul Knights. I am more and more impressed each time.
I especially loved the tribute to Ruffles’ poor PS3.
I was happy when I got the links you sent me but couldn’t access them on my iPod while I was away.
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Thanks, I’m glad you like them 🙂
PS: They’re all kind of dedicated to you (cos they wouldn’t exist without the copy of DS you bought), but that goes without saying.
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@Shane, I would like to purchase one of these book to send to Alpha. He is a budding author and I feel might learn from your book.
Basically, Link, please?
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Thanks Scree, it’s cheapest here: http://www.bookdepository.com/search?searchTerm=lesser+evil+smith
Also, my website, shanewsmith DOT com has more info about the book and other stuff I have going.
If a signed copy is more to your liking, I’ll be getting some copies at my place soon. Shoot me an email shane AT shanewsmith DOT com.
But be warned. They were good enough to get published, but not much more so… so any lessons gleaned from those pages should definitely be tempered by reading something of real quality like Stephen King or Tolkien or Dickens or Herbert, etc.
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I will need both 1 and 2 and yes, I would like them signed if that’s okay. Any coloured pen would be fine, it doesn’t need to be purple.
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Don’t you worry, my purple pencil days are over 😛
Fling me an email, and I’ll get you well sorted! Thanks 🙂
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It has been sent =D
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Hi, @Shane. Well, my writing usually revolves around a mixture of realistic stuff with science-fiction or paranormal things (I want to say Lovecraft is one of my inspirations but not many seem to like that) and sometimes I also lean towards more fantasy-oriented themes or even real-life ones. But since I have enough with real life, I find it a bit sickening to be writing about it… I mean, it’s not too entertaining for me to write about John and his toast with marmalade instead of trying to tell the kids an engaging story about mysterious letters from a lost old man that was reputed to be a powerful alchemist or something crazy like that, heh.
I do write from time to time “serious business” pieces, which are heavily philosophical or more abstract than usual.
My main worry is that it’s been a while since the last time I wrote something… Work, life, some really awful events that occurred last year and during 2010, they all played against my inspiration. But I’m not giving up. Hell no!
@Shane everyone seems to be starting their comments like this. I just want to be a part of the in crowd.
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I have no problem with this, but I need to stop checking for more @Shane comments and do some work at some point! 😛
@Shane
Feel free to use as a story base. I’m great at ideas but my writing style is too disjointed to do anything with them.
Can’d Meat Write up
So, like, there I was, sitting around, wondering when the party was going to arrive, when, I realised that, as a total babe, I bring the party with me wherever I go, so, then some people turned up, and I was all like “Hey guys, I hope you appreciate like, everything I’ve done, because, like, I’m pretty amazing.” And they all fawned over me. Then we went to bed, because as a babe, like, I need my beauty sleep.
So then I got up, and there was Bish, being a total babe, watching tv, and like, I was thinking, this ain’t so bad, but then, some stuff happened, and the morning just flew past, like that one time I took some pills off some guy at a party, and he said that they would go great with my vodka raspberry, so, then there were all these people at my house, and, like, I knew that I was the life of the party, and so I started to dance, and all my babes were like ‘Oh my god, you’re so amazing,” and I was like, yeah, I know. Then I started singing, and everyone agreed that I was amazing.
Then it all ended, and, I was mega sad, and, so totally not babe like.
xoxo <3 <3 xoxo
ily all. *mwah*
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I agree. Lets both agree that we both are awesome & are good company, kay! =D
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I think I’ve had enough of this staying awake nonsense. BED TIME!
If anyone needs me send a messanger wombat.
Someone just pointed out to me that I can install Chrome on my work computer. This is the best thing. I am unreasonably happy about this.
I can’t believe Amazon UK is not offering free shipping to Australia any more.
I also can’t believe the internet is not alive with outrage. It’s just quietly stated in the delivery terms in size 8 font that the offer was only until 15 January 2012.
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11:30 for Queensland! Which makes it seem even more impressive. (despite the fact that it is the same amount of time)
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Yup my 3 hours of work have pretty much been spent on reading/writing TAY, and playing Tiny Tower on my iphone
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mine has been
“pick up phone,
alt + tab to tay,
press F5,
talk on phone,
F5,
pretend to troubleshoot issue,
whilst keep alt + tabbing back to TAY,
and press F5”F5F5F5F5F5F5F5F5
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On the upside you’ll be able to go back to having pineapple on your pizza without marking yourself as a pariah.
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Watching live video’s of Alice Cooper from Montreal this past weekend. Despite being in his 60’s he still has an amazing voice live.
A movie called “Exam” was mentioned a few times on Reddit lately. The only thing I knew about it was that it took place entirely within one room. After being sold on In Bruges and Drive from Reddit posts (I was somewhat interested from TAYbies and then someone on Reddit would say something to push me across the line and watch it), I decided to download it.
It’s not a great movie but the premise is somewhat interesting. Eight people are candidates for a very prestigious and mysterious job. They in a room for an exam. The invigilator tells gives them a set of rules (don’t spoil your paper, don’t communicate with the guard or invigilator, don’t leave the room). There’s a sheet of paper in front of them with “Candidate X” on it (where X is a number between 1 and 8). There’s nothing else on the paper.
The invigilator told them “there is one question before you and one answer required” or something like that.
The movie is them trying to work out the answer.
Not to spoil anything but the answer is rather derp. The question is also rather derp. Actually, if you sit back and think about it, most of the movie is rather derp.
An interesting premise but handled poorly, methinks.
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The question is…….would you recommend others waste their life on this movie? or should we just derp and walk away?
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It tries to be a rather intense thriller. That doesn’t work when you actually think about it.
Could be good for sitting back and laughing at how ridiculous most of what’s going on is.
Wouldn’t say that this is something you need to go out of your way to see though.
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The best ‘one room’ movie is 12 Angry Men. Technically there’s like 2 other locations (outside the courtroom and inside) but… yeah…
12 Angry Men!!! Henry Fonda!!!
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Because I attract nicknames.
That and my username used to be TrjnRabbit (and still is in other places, like Twitter). “Rabbit” is easier than “Trjn” for most people to work out how to pronounce and things just naturally progressed from there.
There’s also my bouncy personality and fluffiness.
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One more question! Have you seen the anime tiger and bunny?
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I have not and I don’t mind what people call me. Although I am always amused when people can’t pronounce Trjn.
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Was that correct? Otherwise is it pronounced “trin”?
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trjn sounds like Trojan to me for some reason. Like Trojan rabbit instead of Trojan horse.
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A trojan rabbit? What a silly idea.
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I know it’s supposed to be a truncation of ‘Trojan’ but I hear it in my head as “Trrj-n”.
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It doesn’t hurt that I use a toy rabbit for my profile picture everywhere. Well, it’s a toy bear dressed as dog that looks like a rabbit. I call him Bunny Puppy.
No it’s good as in…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/
#6 on imdb’s top 250 greatest movies of all time list. Yep it’s that good.
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I was talking about exam, otherwise known as derp. It was a reply fail on my part Greenius.
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I figured but why not 😛
As long as I can spread the awesomeness of 12 Angry Men all is good!
I keep meaning to watch that.
Oddly enough, I think the first Saw counts as a pretty good one room movie.
Say what you like about how the rest of the series turned out, the first movie (built entirely around the idea that they would only have a budget for filming two dudes trapped in a room, obviously when they sold the movie in America instead of Australia things got a little more elaborate) was pretty solid.
Just read the Wikipedia summary (because I am too lazy to watch movies, apparently). It sounds like an interesting premise but the payoff at the end just doesn’t seem worth it. I don’t want to sound like a smartass but it seemed a tad predictable. But then maybe the whole thing flows better when you’re actually watching it…
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It doesn’t really.
They use flashbacks to repeat the Invigilator’s rules quite often. They don’t give any flashbacks to the most relevant bit until the end (where they do a whole series of flashbacks of every characters saying something about the question/answer).
The rule of not communicating means that you can’t actually answer the question within the time limit (and the “winner” doesn’t). The time limit itself doesn’t serve a purpose aside from giving the people more opportunities to break the rules (by making them think they have to act before it’s up).
In Bruges was quite good, although my favorite bit of the movie came when I was watching it with my girlfriend who was eating raspberry jelly at the time – The old fella jumped from the tower and took her by surprise, spitting out the jelly in a copy of the blood spray from his landing.
So after some deliberation I have decided to commence Project TAYdam. For this to work I shall require a DNA sample from each Taybie, a donor womb and someone with a shotgun and moderate to high hunting skills in case of an emergency.
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Don’t make the mistake of splicing in reptile DNA. It ends badly.
Also don’t let an obese man work on your computer security.
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Haha, I watched that the other day, and my two year old said “Bless you dinosaur” when the raptors growled! 🙂
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Don’t let children watch it, it will give them false expectations which will be completely dashed when they find out that in reality, a Velociraptor was like a particularly angry turkey, complete with feathers.
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But also, Velocirator was the size of a turkey or a large chicken. The dinos in Jurassic Park actually stem from an error of source material that Michael Crichton drew from. There was one book in particular that was published about the time he was doing research, which quite controversially suggested that ‘Velociraptor’ should be a name for a whole group, and he reclassified Deinonychus as being a type of Velociraptor. This was never accepted by mainstream science and was discarded pretty quickly, but unfortunately Crichton didn’t do his research completely enough to realise he’d read something that was wrong, and as a result we have the much larger and meaner Deinonychus running around in the books being referred to by an incorrect name. It’s one of many errors that he made by only consulting one or two sources for his work.
When they went to film it, they decided that Velociraptor was a cooler name. A lot of the things in that film are wrong because they’re “cooler” that way. :\
<– nerd
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Wikipedia is your friend.
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I have asked Harli to train me in the ways of HoN. I don’t want to spend money on it though (aside from that one champ I purchased when I first tried MOBA games). TRAAAAIIIIIN MEEEEEE
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Just be wary that you may not survive the training. If you think the oar is bad, that’s just for welcoming people!
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Seriously?! I am in shock. You love LoL. LoL is your baby. It’s your child. Your darling. Does not comprehend this sudden interest in HoN!?
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Got to prepare for DOTA2 somehow, I guess! And anytime the LoL server is down for maintenance no-one wants to play HoN so I figure if I’m going to solo I should have some experience.
Also, HoN is pretty.
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Cool cool. I’m not sure how we can do this as HoN has no bots but we can still make prac/no-stat games. It’s also a lot faster then LoL 🙂
Unfortunately this week is a pretty crazy one for me so I won’t be able to play till the weekend. In the meantime, I would advise just signing up for a free account in the meantime – for free accounts they have a hero rotation similar to LoL. You win matches, get coins and buy more heroes etc.
Also which type of hero do you tend to favour?
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I started LoL doing ranged AP but moved to melee AD and stuck with that for a while. At the moment I’m going through a support phase, play a lot of CC and tail-end support (ie. Zilean, Soraka, Leona).
My HoN name is f4ction, by the way. I remembered my old login (funny that).
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AP = Ability power
right?
i.e. Annie and stuffs
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@Shane My reply just in case: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-3/#comment-529297
Also, nothing like a summer rain to bring more humidity, more heat…
… and mosquitoes!!!!
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Thanks for that, it’s always good to know about potential future competition 😉
For my part, I work mainly in science-fiction, but not the kind that requires me to know heaps about science. I’ve always seen my writing as an almost-autobiographical exploration of my thoughts, beliefs and emotions in a safely exotic setting (galaxy far, far away). Of course, it is both more and less than this.
I write in graphic novel format presently, because I found it reasonably easy to break into, but hope to one day return to prose. Ultimately, I aspire to write an unholy blend of Asimov’s themes, Stephen King’s style, Tolkien’s plotting and George R R Martin’s characters.
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So I finally beat ME2 earlier today. It’s been sitting on my shelf for years untouched :P. I sorta rushed through it though since it’s been so long since I last completed ME1 that I have no idea what’s going on. Because of this barely anyone was loyal and I screwed up the final mission 🙁
I’m still holding out for a Super Ultimate whatever edition that has all 3 games and DLC packed in 🙂
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Hmm… like 5 or 6 I think? 😛
I tried to send out the ones I don’t care for (lul Grunt) but ended up losing ones I didn’t mean too :'(
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Nope, I lost Archangel which makes me sad :'(…
I never played or bought any of the MEs at launch I’ve just been borrowing them from the same friend :P. I think he’s buying ME3 on PC so I won’t be able to borrow it off him so it looks like I’m passing on ME3.
I’m still hoping for a complete package thing though so hopefully they’ll release one 😀
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All the talk of Phoenix Wright in last week’s TAY has really got me wanting to play some cases again. But I can’t figure out where to start from.
I guess that’s the big problem with games like Phoenix Wright. Once you’ve played them once you know how everything is gonna play out. Hopefully enough time has passed for me to forget most of the details about each case.
@Shane, your graphic novel is still yet to arrive, though I have not purchased a copy as of yet. This is probably why.
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I should do so =D
Time to hold a “friend” to gun point and get them to buy me & everyone else they know a copy!
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Good Day TAY,
I’m feeling some serious remorse about not getting in on the Melbourne GameJam when I had the chance. I had stupidly assumed it was more of a programmers scene and that there wouldn’t have been much room for artists after seeing a lot of last years demos. After speaking to a mate on Thursday he said there was actually a huge shortage of artists and that I should have absolutely gotten onboard.
Reading all of the GameJam letters is just making my lament that much stronger, and not only for the fact that I could have been harassing Tracey and Serrels in person. Oh well, there’s always next year. NEXT YEAR!!
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I wish I could participate in the GameJam stuff as well, but I’m not experienced enough in programming for games to be able to put together a game in 48 weeks, let alone 48 hours. 🙁
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We have a lot of developers/animators/artists here on TAY. We really should set up a public host for assets and source and collaborate on something. Even if it’s a total fail, it would be easier to learn stuff with the support of like-minded nice people. And myself.
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I’d be happy to help test it, cause my creation abilities are somewhat lacking. Hell, it takes me like an hour to pass any game’s character creation screen. Seriously, not exaggerating (sadly).
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I’ve got some kind of restrictive policies in my employment contract regarding writing code. Not impossible but got to be careful otherwise it require legal approval etc. Can’t touch open source stuff either.
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I think puppylicks had some ideas but not sure if he is planning on running with them himself
Happy to be involved and do what i can, I know a little coding but have very little time these days to do anything.
Maybe something small to get us going and see how things work.
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@Shane
Can you please inform AlphaProspector that I am a huge fan of vertical schmups would like to volunteer any help I could offer with what he or she is trying to get off the ground. As soon as I figure out what that is exactly.
P.S. horizontal schmups can die in a fire. Except Thunderforce IV. That game was brilliant.
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Hi! I’m a “he”. Hopefully, I didn’t sound too girly in my previous posts 😛
Ok, you might wanna check my posts on page 3 when scree helped me drag everyone attention, hehehe 😀
Here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-3/#comment-529112
What we are rooting for is to not just make a press kit and wait for a simple preview. We would like people to get to know more about shmups, doujin games in general and to get them involved.
Most people look at a Touhou game or any bullet hell and go “Sh!”, impossible!” when it’s actually not THAT hard. There are scoring systems, tricks and aids behind that help less experienced players survive the crazy barrages and lead exchange. I won’t say I’m a superplayer or a mega-expert but I have my fair amount of years being a fan of this genre and playing them to death but I always appreciate that kind of stuff and I’m glad to point it out to the people in case they find the games too brutal. 🙂
The eXceed series is a great opportunity to get into more “arcadey” japanese doujin shooting games. The voice acting (especialky on eXceed 3rd, where the voices are done by professional actresses and that was kept intact for the localisation) and sound effects all have a very noticeable arcade feel.
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I think the point that touhou started to ‘click’ for me was when I realised you don’t actually look at the bullets. You look at the open spaces. It’s a pretty zen thing when you realise it I guess.
Huge fan of those games (to the point that I have Cirno sitting on my desk at work) for peripherally related reasons as well. The music scene it has is amazing.
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HEEEEEEEYYYYY YAAAAA!
Anyway, finally gotten into Reddit. Loving it. Not a fan of all the religion hate that comes up, but the funny and picture subreddits are great.
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Then you’ll love the frequent circlejerk that pops up complaining about r/atheism being as bad as the fundies they mock!
Seriously though, if you don’t like it just unsubscribe from r/atheism and it disappears.
Anyone else realised that “derp” is a truly fantastic word? Probably the best thing Matt Stone and Trey Parker ever did.
@McGarnical: did you make a decision re: antivirus packages yet? Interested* to know your choice.
* vested interest
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Yep, if I ever get sick of your energy and humour and infectious enthusiasm around here I’ll start talking about “internet security”.
Hah. As if. Keep it up Mr __!
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Ah good, good. My plan for mortals to like me is falling into place. Next step world domination muahaha!
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I think I’ll install MSE.
From what I understand, a paid antivirus is not really necessary and I’ve had memory-hogging experiences with AVG so I don’t want to use that.
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Haha, I was wondering what your vested interest was!
I discovered AVG a couple of years ago when my wife’s laptop was running really badly and I didn’t want to do a full reformat (the old favourite solution, but not my favourite any more as I am now in my 20s and have a job and stuff) so I checked task manager and it was being especially inefficient. I did some googling and found quite a lot of commentary saying MSE was good.
I installed it and it ran absolutely fine. I was about as pleased with it as a man can be pleased with an antivirus solution.
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Gah, bad proofreading.
* I discovered MSE…. AVG was running inefficient
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I use it at home myself, and have since before I worked on it.
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TAY, Alpha is a little overwhelmed right now and that’s why he’s not responding. He’s been like this for an hour now.
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Are you sure you don’t want to take any responsibility?
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I’m not known for doing positive things around here. I’ll keep my reputation in tact.
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Alright then \o/ I will take your share of the blame.
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Wooow, only 26 days until Soundwave Brisbane yay! Anyone else from TAY going to the Brisbane Soundwave?
Anyone from TAY going to Soundwave at all?
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Soundwave Melbourne Will Be The Best! Better Than The Rest! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Hell yeah! Hopefully it’s not too hot. Big Day Out weather would be awesome for Soundwave I reckon!
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@DanMazkin @Scree @NegativeZero @Developers, @Artists
Following the conversation from above, would you (and any other developers/artists) be interested in messing around a potential game project together? We can set up a free account in source forge (or other free source hosting sites) and see how far we can get. I’d suggest we start small and simple, to get used to collaborating remotely. Also, I’m not sure about you others but I’ve barely dabbled in game development before so it will be a learning experience.
Potential ideas I have are:
MUDKIP – Multi User Dungeon for Kotakians In Progress. I was thinking along the lines of the RPG that loops hosted on TAY last year, with the application helping to keep track of characters, rooms, monsters etc. Possibly with an editor similar to Sleep is Death. Would be a server/client setup with the server also being the input for the DM. When the DM is done setting things up, emails could be sent out to registered players informing them that it is their turn, someone has died in a pile of their own filth or an event has occurred.
Probably a bit ambitious, does anyone have any simpler ideas?
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And I guess since everyone is mentioning things… I can do 3D modelling and rigging. I suppose in theory I can do animation but I’me very lazy. So lazy that I saw that typo and decided to leave it in rather than move my hand to hit backspace.
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I can do 2D and 3D art. Also make sure someone give me a deadline otherwise i procrastinate.
Usually on here.
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This isn’t the first time a Kotaku game idea has come up. The last one didn’t get too much further than putting together a group of about thirty people…
I’m in. I’ve got no skills other than possessing a pen that produces purple prose prodigiously.
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Usually it take a person to crack the whip to get it to actually work. Also smaller group work better usually.
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*reads Shane’s post up to the word “prodigiously”*
*assumes it means something dirty*
*grins*
*looks up meaning on dictionary.com*
/o\
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It’s not how dirty a word is on its own, it’s how dirty it is in the context you use it. “Prodigious” can be a very dirty word indeed.
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I can draw stick figures as well as drool on all the code. (read i am useless at all these tasks) I am good at testing and thats about it.
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Same!
I can look over someones shoulder as they are coding and every second word say “whats that mean?” and “whats that do?”
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i do that, except i push random buttons when they’re not looking so 2000 lines of code later and it spits up a syntax error i can sneak away 😀
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That is just evil!!! as an Ex coder, i would punch you….in the spooge if you did that to me.
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lol, i’ve only done it to a simple 5 line VB script, because i know what a pain it is, i would never do it in a serious situation 😛
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I don’t know if anyone would want to play it, but I created a moderately simple RPG fighting system(single player only, you’d choose an area, it would choose an enemy for you to fight based on that, your health regenerated out of combat, etc. etc.) that with a bit of work I could update to be relevant to TAY, and if I had a host(the whole thing was php based), and people to do art assets, I think it could work as a fun little aside(Though I never got the equipment to work properly, there were significant gaps in my code, as well as the fact that it is not optimised at all, also, it’s on my external hard drive, which loves to have little hissy fits.).
I used to run a DikuMUD. Forked the codebase and modified it myself. But that’s not really relevant since MUD = text.
I’d be super into participating but for safety for me it needs to be freely available and not monetized in any way, plus nothing GPL. Even then I might not be able to participate beyond ideas. 🙁
I’ve been tooling around with some game design ideas for a while now. Nothing solid yet, just using my ideas as practice for making a proper design document.
So I am more than happy to help with any game design facets, I’m also an okay artist and animator too so I can wear many hats 🙂
Just another thought on the style – Was thinking to simplify things, we’d have a grid based map, with items and characters taking up on space (potentially 2 with height, but not physically in the upper grid) and use pixel art (I made a quick rough image of what I thought my Drunk Rogue from the Kotaku Role playing would look like (Yes, he is soiled). I like pixel art, and thought we could be a bit rough with sprites and pass it off as our art direction.
If you need a writer to help with the GDD I’d like to volunteer to do so. I’ve done it before.
Well I can do coding, mostly I work in C# these days but have some java knowledge and can pickup other languages as long as it is only simple stuff we are working on.
My thoughts are we start off with a single player game rather than multi-player as that adds a whole new level of complexity that isn’t really required.
The RPG style game based on kotaku seems like it has interested a number of people so could be a good place to start. I might see if I can spend some time tonight looking at different editors / and tools like AGS, sleep is death and Quest.
At the moment AGS looks good, seems to be more of a sierra style game dev platform
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AGS has been used to create some awesome games. Check out Yahtzee Croshaw’s Chzo Mythos. Scary, fun and deep. Well, the best games were 5 Days a Stranger and 6 Days a Sacrifice, but 7 Days a Skeptic was pretty cool, being all Alien/Jason X like.
So, yeah, I reckon AGS is a good idea.
For those who haven’t picked up the new Drednought assault DLC for Space Marine…
what the hell are you waiting for?
AlphaProspector,
The most trouble I ever got into with a friend was when a collector nut mate I mine found out I was actually playing my copy of Radiant Silvergun. He completly flipped out and called me all sorts of names. I just told him that the game was awesome.
#pointlessstorythatgoesnowhere
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Your friend should remember that a game’s true value is when it’s actually played, not when it’s sitting on your shelf.
Send him a photo of you (carefully) licking the disc to make him cry.
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I approve of the idea to troll your friend.
My suggestion is to get some KFC grease on your hands (how you do this is up to you but eating some KFC is the usual solution) and give the shiny side a good greasing up. One or two two-piece-feed fingerprints ought to fix your friend right up.
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I think these things would lead to me being knifed in my sleep before anything else.
His problem was that Radiant Silvergun was going for hundreds of dollars for a sealed copy at one point an he made a living trading games.
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Did you guys ever hear of the sealed game collectors? Now those are one hell of a kind, eh? 😛 I wonder what they’ll do when retail goes boom and most releases shift to digital… Collect unopened Steam gifts?
Speaking of Radiant Silvergun, now that’s an awesome shooter! Pity the scoring is a bit annoying (kill only the red enemies and only them during pretty much half the game in order to level up the weapons and rake up huge chain bonuses).
Ok guys, it’s serious Blaghs time.
Fo’ Serialz, yo.
I’d like to thank everyone who came to the Can’d Meat, also, to BDKIAF, it’s a shame you couldn’t make it, and I hope everything’s ok on your end.
Secondly, for everyone who was there, and who had a good time, may I suggest you nominate Bish for Kudos. While I may have provided a location, Bish did a massive amount of work helping to make things run smoothly, and while it’s just what he does, that’s what makes him great. While I disappeared to my room to calm my mind for 5 minutes, he was maing sure nobody set fire to anything, and even when I was there, e was basically running and doing everything. So, if you feel like nomming anyone for the Can’d Meat, make it Bish.
Hell, everyone else, nominate him anyway, I’m sure it’s been too long since he got Kudos.
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Thanks to both of you 😀
To everyone there You are all awesome and hilarious. To everyone else well I cant judge you yet 😛
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thank you for putting up with me… it occurs to me that i may sometimes have come off as a complete prick
*waves*and Rize’s plus my internal humour and calling each other out on shit all the time may have weirded some people out, don’t worry we’re like that all the time despite not hating each other 😛
i am remotely normal, i swear
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You didn’t come off as a prick, at least not to me, you at least didn’t try to murder me when I made jokes about ABBA being your national idols, so you get a thumbs up from me!
And why would you want to be normal? Normal people are dull and boring.
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funniest thing is i basically know no ABBA what-so-ever…
i know the choruses to
*counts*
3 songs, if that… couldn’t sing even one full song from them…
but OMG dat Queen, that was funny as all shit…
also had a good time being a backup dancer when all else failed…
Pixel the Backup Dancer Viking <— this guyalso, in all seriousness, i never take any racism to heart, except if i really despise the person saying it… i think it's kinda funny most the time actually… which is why i'm living up the whole "Swedish Chef" Thing
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ABBA were more popular in Australia than in Sweden I think.
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i don’t really understand why, i mean sure catchy music and epic facial hair from the blokes, but still…
also, i think ABBA was more popular EVERYWHERE outside of Scandinavia 😛
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also, is there any singstar/Guitar Hero that has Stan Bush on them? cause i’ll be all over that sh!t….
imagine the way we were belching out “Bohemian Rhapsody” but “You’ve got the Touch, YOU’VE GOT THE POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH” instead!
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It was particularly bad in Australia, and then after their popularity died, Muriel’s Wedding came out, and there was a resurgence of their popularity in the mid nineties(Yes, I blame one movie for that).
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As a Canberran, cold tap water tastes pretty amazing. Adding ice change nothing. Our water is fantastic. (Disclaimer, I get sick if I drink water that isn’t from a major city, which has spoiled any enjoyment I can have of water outside of pretty much just here)
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I left a comment about the potential MUD on page 4. Basically I just wanted to share this as a potential art style. For those that weren’t around when we did the Kotaku RPG, I rolled a Drunken Rogue, who was armed with a bottle and soiled underwear. He met his demise attempting to throw the underwear at a giant spider, critically missing, slipping over, hitting his head and dieing in a pile of his own filth.
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I think you guys should start working on a leisure suit larry game but base it around Steve-O doing Deve-O things.
RC in Australia but released to the rest of the world in 2013!
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I’m pretty sure one of the reasons games have gotten RCd in the past is being able to do things to corpses…
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Rather than art style, probably the biggest thing to nail down first is the type of game, ideally going for something not too complex. Also consider platform and technologies to use.
I know C/C++ very well. Have tinkered in Java a little but not for a long time. A smattering of PHP, Perl and some Ruby. I’ve done a bit of OpenGL stuff in C but it was a while ago and it was pretty basic.
I made a game in Javascript once though! Best you don’t ask about that…
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well, my character was a necromancer, who was very profficient in raising celebrities from the dead.
so i’d say he’d probably wear a suit, because he’s sort of a manager to his legion of undead actors and musicians, but also with some sort of bad-ass cape
so if it does get made, maybe B-Funk the “manager of the undead” could make an appearance 😀
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and also to the other guys, I WANNA HELP OUT!
please give me something to do! since school has ended, and uni hasn’t started, i’ve been doing nothing, and this might help
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You’re doing Computer Science right? Getting a look into some actual code if something eventuates from this is a massively useful learning experience.
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that”s actually what i was thinking as well!
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That game was awesome fun, plus I got to stab myself in the foot and the punch a giant spider in the FACE.
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And then another day in paradise.
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So, in lieu of having a sneak preview of the words of my holiday write-up, here’s a sneak preview video of Therion, one of the most amazing live bands on the Cruise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUxzgJSZQQ&list=UUy2_iZp4vSVK1-UQWXyCdNg&index=1&feature=plcp
(recorded by my husband)
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Not bad. Never heard of them before now =P
Did you happen to catch Alestorm? Of course you probably did cause it would be hard to miss some acts lol.
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I did indeed manage to catch some Alestorm. I saw them in Brisbane last year so they weren’t high on my list of bands to see though.
Which was just as well because the first time they played the ship was in the smallest venue of the 3 on the ship and they were the first band to play so it was completely packed and I couldn’t see a thing. I caught a lot of their second show, up on the pool deck though, and it was suitably Alestormy. :p
I saw the singer a whole bunch of times though. I don’t think he stopped drinking the entire time. I even saw him wobbling around in Hell on Grand Cayman Island.-
Alestorm in a nutshell:
“This, is a song about RUM!”
“This, is another song about RUM!”
“This is a song about wenches. AND RUM”-
This.
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Yep. And don’t forget “This is a song about Rum. it’s called…’Rum’.” 😛
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Damn I forgot that one.
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Ah cool, I wanna go next year provided the line up is as awesome as this years was =D
Haha, why does that not surprise me he was constantly drinking.. Since most of their songs revolve around booze.
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I really liked Therion until they released a really boring album at one point and also I found out that their lead guy was an absolute loon, so nutty that if he was a chocolate bar there’d be no room for nougat or caramel. So I kind of stopped listening to them.
I imagine they’d be amazing live though.
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” so nutty that if he was a chocolate bar there’d be no room for nougat or caramel.”
What a great turn of phrase 🙂
Hi… wow, page 5 before Perthian lunchtime.
This post is about Dark Souls, so people with no interest in it or who don’t want to know any information about it can just skip, I guess.
So still not past the dynamic duo in Anor Londo. I thought I was ok at this game, and then this boss fight has pretty much killed any thoughts along those lines.
I went around and cleaned up various other parts of the game – the Great Hollow, Ash Lake (climbing back up the Great Hollow was… fun), Stray Demon, the Painted World of Ariamis… Forest Hunter covenant PvP to get the Ring of Fog. Are there any other ‘side parts’ you (yes, you) can think of that I can reasonably attempt prior to finishing Anor Londo? (PvP applicable if the convenant rewards are good!… I also intend to get the ring from Shiva of the East’s ninja bodyguard)
Sidenote: I think I kinda cheated in the PWoA, I fell off that first bridge on the left down to the blobby guys like the first boss in DeS (when I first saw them there, I was all “ZOMG! I know this!”), and could open the shortcut to the bonfire. From there, could pretty much get to the exit of the area pretty quickly/easily. I did not fight Priscilla, but intend to make a return (to get the loot in the areas I neglected to visit).
Thanks for your time,
Delegate fled,
Stationed in the Perthian Empire
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Sounds to me like you’ve procrastinated enough. Time to give those two bastards what for.
What level are you at? I highly recommend summoning some help with that fight.
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That sounds about perfect for an O&S summon. I think I was about there and I got a jolly co-operation buddy who did all the work.
I didn’t properly fight O&S until my NG+ and by that time my powerful gear meant that I destroyed them in attempt number two. I felt like such a boss.
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Hey you guy! (fled)
*possible minor spoilers*
Anor Londo is really only a bit over halfway 🙂
You could always go through the New Londo Ruins. Can even take out the 4 Kings early if you kill Ingward. But uh, I wouldn’t recommend that till at least NG+.
My tips for O&S is use the pillars to divide them up and concentrate on Ornstein first. For some reason I find Giant Smough a lot easier to handle.
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Also, I learned this late in the game. Don’t be afraid to two-hand your weapon and be aggressive. It’s amazing how much health you can take off a boss by rushing. Learn their moves, especially their telegraphed warnings they are about to do something and take opportunity to rush in and wail at them.
And biggest tip of all: listen to Freeze. He knows what he’s talking about.
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The general recommendation seems to be to destroy Ornstein first, but I was really hoping to get the armour/ring becomes available if you kill Smough first (and maybe do the dragonslayer spear thing).
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Here’s a true story. The dragonslayer spear is almost completly useless. Far outclassed by almost any other weapon. And the ridiculous range and power of Giant Ornstein make the acquisition of said spear even more disappointing.
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Yeah I found that fight the hardest part of the game.
Did it by myself though, melee fighting only as was my custom, and got the spear.
And yeah, it’s not that great.
@Dill
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-5/#comment-529549
Awww…just…aww…
OK, fair call 😀
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Oh yeah, Rize, I have your Guitar Hero Drum pedal thing, do you want to come by and pick it up? After today I’ll be at an equally inaccessible location as my house, somewhere in the general Woden Valley area, so if you want to pick it up, then I’ll probably take it with me there(given my parents are never home), or I could just ignore it…
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Craaaaap. Coulda sworn I grabbed it. Might have to organise to swing past and grab it whenever you’re available, then :P.
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Actually felt pretty good, though partially due to the fact that, upon waking up at 8:30am (…9:30? *shrugs*) I made the responsible decision to just go back to sleep till 12. After that, I was fine 😛
Excluding the amount of water that I drank…
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“The difference between members of Slash’s solo band vs. Axl’s solo band is that when Slash’s bandmates talk about a new album, its actually believable.”
Ahaha, so true. Spotted that comment on an article relating to Slash’s new CD that is due out this year.
So I’m thinking about getting into some portable gaming. I’m undecided about which type of DS to purchase.
The 3DS and DSI are releatively close in price theses so which one should I purchase?
Note, I cannot see the 3D correctly and I want to use this for traveling, so charging will be an issue.
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A 3DS can play everything available on the DSi, the same is not true in reverse. You can also turn off the 3D on the 3DS.
I’d say the 3DS is the better choice, just turn off the wifi etc so that the battery doesn’t constantly drain.
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Pretty much this, i own a DS XL and i constantly kick myself cause i miss out on some very neat titles for the 3DS…
i don’t have any hands on experience with the 3DS, however turn the 3D off the 3DS and you’ll still have a very capable and entertaining little handheld, that can play all DS games-
Be warned that even when playing DS games, there is a noticeable difference in battery life between the 3DS and the DS. If you get a 3DS, and you’ll need to play something for more than about 3 hours over the course of a day, then you might want to consider getting one of the Nyko(or if other companies have them, maybe them) battery extender thingies.
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Get the 3DS, turn off the 3d, plays 3DS and DS games…that’s good.
Alas Trjn beat me to it.
What he said.^^^^-
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From what I’ve found the battery life of the 3DS…
3D on full blast
Brightness on about 2/5 (I think)
Volume 3/4 of the way
WiFi offIt lasts me about 3 hours like this playing a 3DS game. With the same settings but 3D off it can last about 4 and a half – 5 hours while playing a 3DS game. The 3D is cool but isn’t really necessary and without it it’s still a great console 🙂
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Never underestimate the Scout’s code!
We should be friends, Teemo.I mean what, related content?
DS Lites are cheap, but yeah, the 3DS is probably more logical if you want to future-proof yourself. There’s enough DS games out there such that you could entertain yourself for a long time before you would consider moving onto the 3DS, but on the rare occassion a 3DS game does come out, it would be nice to be able to play it.
Battery wise? My DS Lite used to get maybe 8 hours off a charge and the reports of 5 hours of 3DS seems accurate enough. I’m not sure what sort of travelling you do, but it’s certainly enough for a return trip on a long train ride.-
Also, don’t worry about not being able to see 3D.
It’s neat, but I haven’t heard of anyone who actually plays games in 3D.
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I do about 2 one hour bus trips a day, but every couple of months a few plane rides.
Next week or so I’m flying for 9 or so hours, so that’s the real test for anything I buy.Yes, the Scout’s code is powerful. I guess we can be friends
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As someone mentioned before, there’s a battery addon pack sort of thing you can get, but I can’t remember how much extra life it gives it.-
I guess I’ll just have to go in and see what happens.
The Battery packs seem to be about $30, so buying one isn’t out of the question.
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I intend to buy one of these when I can afford it. Shush Im Broke.
http://gadgetsin.com/solar-battery-charger-backpack-integrated-speaker.htm
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Or this
But this will take a bit more time to get…
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My Little Pony, My Little Pony,
I-I-I-I
My Little Pony, I used to wonder what Friendship could be,
My Little Pony, until you all shared its magic with me,
Big Adventure, Tonnes of fun!
A beautiful heart, Faithful and strong!
Sharing kindness, It’s an easy feat!
AND MAGIC MAKES IT ALL COMPLETE!My Little pony, do you know you’re all my very best FRIENDS!
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I was singing it yesterday with a friend! It was very manly. So manly.
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Oh yeah I could just imagine how ‘manly’ it would have been 😛
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CHEST BUMPINGLY MANLY…
i imagine you could hear the Chest hair grow and become bristle like, and by the end of it you both had manly manly beards as well… right? RIGHT?
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Unfortunately my facial hair refused to grow, but I gained another inch of chest hair thickness, so that probably makes up for it.
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MY GOD that’s manly… i don’t even think Arnold could beat that amount of manliness
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It doesn’t count as chest hair if it’s just your lovely locks descending to chest level.
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seriously?
it’s probably one of the most mature shows ever, the moral at the end is always so true, and teaches everyone great lessons!
MLP = Immature? maybe
Pixel = Immature? HELL YEAH…
really depends on your view of immature… am i immature? most people would say yes, i like LEGO, i play games, i watch cartoons, and i laugh at the lamest jokes… and yet i am 23 years of age…
to sum up… i guess it is? BUT WHO CARES? i embrace it’s awesomeness
I don’t think it’s immature. Childish? Yes, but its primary demographic is children, its secondary demographic is the 18-25 market, and it’s designed to also be watchable by parents who have to put up with their young children’s usually terrible taste.
Now, Beavis and Butthead? That is immature.
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that’s a good point,
*mental note: difference between Childish and Immature*
i wholeheartedly agree with this statement, ignore the one above
Maturity isn’t a boolean thing.
What’s mature for a 5 year old might not be for a 25 year old or a 55 year old.
MLP is mature for the target audience but immature if you consider the themes they tackle as applied to adults.
Honestly, it doesn’t matter. If you’re comfortable with what you enjoy, then who cares about if it’s mature or not?
@Freeze, I ended up belting out about some dialogue for this clone story. It’s not quite as you envisioned. It’s not even as I envisioned, and I can’t decide whether it’s underwhelming, or whether it just needs artwork to shine.
Needs to be fleshed out a bit before anyone but me can read it though. It’s 50 pages of graphic novel, but the entire script is 971 words. None of the dialogue is even attributed yet. 😛
Thought you might like to know anyway.
Five pages already, deary me. 😛
I’m absolutely buggered right now. Just went and played a game of tennis with a friend… so that’s my exercise done for the year. xD Also, a cold shower, watermelon and weak cordial is the best way to cool down.
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I went to a BBQ on the weekend and somebody had left half a water melon on a chair. A little kid, maybe around 4 saw it there and decided it looked nice.
He just grabbed hold and planted his face in it and started eating. It was so random and cute at the same time
@NegativeZero and other developers who want to help with the game:
What language do you want to use/learn? As this is a collaboration focused more on learning than the actual product, does anyone have any specific language they recommend/want to learn? NegZero said earlier he is experienced in C++ – C++ is the optimum language for serious game developemnt as you manage your own memory. I have used C++ at uni and am kind of familiar with it. Otherwise we could go down the managed route and use an SDK to help get us started. I’ll point out XNA, but I am biased as I use c# regularly.
Also NegZero is correct – we really need to nail down ideas. I like the idea of a simple turn-based mutliplayer game, hence why I put forward the MUD idea. I would like to learn how to send network data (in a gaming context) and think doing something that is not in real time would be easier. However a 2D platformer could also be a good starting point.
tl;dr – Any suggestions for the type of game? And language to use?
Disclaimer: I’m not expecting this game to get even half-completed. Its just to promote some of us to delve into game coding and see what it is about, and if we learn something, that’s a bonus.
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Or some sort of scripting based language could be an option if we are using one of the game generators
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BEST LANGUAGE
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C++ or C# (I don’t mind learning a bit) would be a good idea. Also consider the possibility of doing all the actual enginey things in C++ and doing the actual game scripty stuff in an embeddable language like Lua.
I actually have a bit of experience developing a traditional old 2D RPG. it was actually a ground-up rebuild of an old shareware game I used to play and I abandoned it after a while because of legal issues around the ownership of bits and pieces. Anyway, something RPG-ish might be easiest because:
– It allows people with artistic ability to be more involved
– It requires a writer and a story, which allows us to add a more TAY flavor
– You can build an engine once and make many adventures in it
– There’s less need for exacting work in animation systems etc if you have a turn-based setupAlso I like RPGs 😛
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Another option if we’re wanting to see how the other half live etc and potentially gain some skills outside the coding comfort zone would be to grab a commonly used game system like Unity and run with that instead. Gets a lot of stuff for free that way, but at the loss of some flexibility.
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I’m happy with JRPGs. It allows as to do a story. With several writers it could be awesome.
I say we assign someone as the project leader and then leaders of each section. (Story, Design. Art, Programming). This will help us complete it. I am not a leader and I know this, I’m a follower. =D
So yeah, as long as someone tells me what to make, and when to have it done by, I will do it X3
Of course, first things first. Organising it. Type of game etc. Then story should be written with the design document.
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*Looks*… ok, not the most recent page anymore.
I have some coding experience… these days I’m mostly knee-deep in C/C++ (job-related), but I find that the more I code at work, the less motivation I have for doing so in a hobbyist capacity.
I’ve toyed with OpenGL and DirectX stuff in the past, but mostly to the point of “Proof of Concept™” before abandoning.
Language-wise, I don’t really have a particular preference.
Something maybe worth considering is a framework like pygame. I learnt Perl back in the late 90s, but these days I find it pretty difficult to recommend Perl over Python. Python is pretty nice syntax-wise (once you’re at peace with significant whitespace), and largely platform independent (this might also be a reason for considering OpenGL based things over DirectX stuff). Libraries like SDL, Allegro, Clanlib etc.. can help with this, too.
Anyhow, just some ideas.
Faux-Coast-Guard fled,
Watching the waters for invisible Tektites
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Man, I was going to be like “Holy crap, where’s the Canberan version of that?!” But then I remembered what prostitutes are actually like. *Shudders*
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“Applicants were required to be unmarried and preferably single, to be willing to have protected sexual intercourse with prostitutes and to be willing to provide sworn evidence in court.”
“Your honour, she was a fantastic root, I rest my johnson!”
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OHS Officer, sex style:
Yes your honour, it is my professional opinion that she is an efficient boinker, but her Missionary puts people at risk due to it not being ergonomically correct.
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OH GOD now i can’t get this out of my head:
Brothel Health inspector, each prostitute stamped with a smiley face depending on their hygiene level
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hahaha, oh man! They should like getting little report cards for hygiene so they can report to their bosses at the end of the week xD
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ooohh Syphilis hey? looks like someone earned a frowny face!
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imma stop myself right here before i take this too far 😛
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I thought we went too far already with my johnson comment.
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Is it safe to come out? Have all the crazy DayTAYers left yet?
EGADS! YOU’VE DONE FIVE PAGES ALREADY!! *Passes out from shock*
*thud*
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Hello lambo! I posted this in the old TAY but you already left so you probably didn’t see it 😛
Out of the top 250 which well known movies have you seen? You said you’ve only seen like 22 or so :O
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you wrote a list of top 250 movies? o.0 can I read it and compare what I have seen to everyone else. Also add to the mountain of movies I want to watch
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*slaps self in face*
Right.
Wow Ip Man Is number 233 o.0 thats awesome personally loved it would not expect it to be in the top 250 though.
Damn my favourite movie (two versions) is number 53 and number 225 🙁 I think they should switch places though. At least they are in the list 🙂
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I still haven’t seen Infernal :(. The Departed was good (even though I can’t remember most of it) I just remember my face being :O at the ending
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Departed is like an hour longer than IA loved them both IA has a sequel and a prequel but I have not watched those. oh and Departed is supposedly getting a sequel with centred around whalbergs character.
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Ok, so I’ve seen 78 of the top 250, I’ve sen bits from about 30 more, and probably another 50 are on my “to see” list. That is… painful.
Fret not, the all seeing lambo-eye/s see/s everything. I just haven’t had time to reply yet…
The Dark Knight
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
Inception
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Toy Story 3
WALL·E
Back to the Future
Singin’ in the Rain
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
Up
Batman Begins
Toy Story
The Wizard of Oz
Finding Nemo
District 9
Ratatouille
Star Trek
Avatar
A Beautiful Mind
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The Incredibles
Monsters, Inc.
It turns out I missed a couple, I’ve seen 25.
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The bottom 50 or so always changes but that’s a good list :). You need to catch up on some classics that you wouldn’t of seen because of your age (which is exactly why I started watching the classics). Just keep in mind that some of the movies on the list are REALLY OLD as in black and white and silent :P. But those Chaplin movies are amazing (City Lights <3!)
So out of curiosity I went through the list to see how many I’ve seen.
….aww I’ve only seen ~104 🙁 I’ve cut down on movie watching the last few years as well. There’s a lot that I’ve heard of and even have but never watched. One day I’ll watch you all. One day….
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I’m sitting on 90 with 16 movies in the top 250 being in my DVD collection unwatched.
Oddly enough, I noticed Infernal Affairs is in there. Significantly lower than The Departed.
I’m not sure that’s a fair assessment (I do prefer The Departed but I think the margin is much thinner) but that could be down to the language barrier. Watching with subtitles always takes something away from the movie.
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I don’t mind subtitles/foreign movies but I guess it does make it better when you can understand what’s being said :P. As long as the movie is good then I don’t mind. Some of my favourite movies are in another language (Amelie, Pan’s Labyrinth, City of God) and some of them are silent films (City Lights, Modern Times) so all’s good 😀
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I’ve never been satisfied with subtitles. They always take away from the actor’s performance in some way. Either by not letting me know where they’re putting the emphasis or by simply appearing too early so I’ve already read what’s going to be said in ten seconds time.
Even if they’re done perfectly, it’s still a distraction that is drawing your attention from the film itself.
This is why I prefer dubs over subs.
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Presonally not a big fan of dubs. although sometimes they are enjoyable. first time I watched IpMan and Infernal Affairs they where in cantonese without subtitles and my mate was sitting next to me occasionally explaining what was said, actually quite hilarious and I still enjoyed both (hired them both the next day and watched in english though lol).
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when I watched them again they had english subs. loved pans labrynth and city of god.
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Let’s be honest, most dubs suck. They just don’t care. The concept of dubbing is what I prefer over the concept of subbing. The execution means that it is very definitely on a case by case basis.
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Im tossing up wether or not to dub/sub all of my short films/film projects in the future in chinese. No particular reason other than for my friend felix for laughs
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Good dubs I’ve seen:
Recent Ghibli films.
Full Metal Alchemist.Uhhh, yeah. That’s about all I’ve got.
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^ This. That’s why I like to watch it with subs but if the dub is good enough or I see it first/it’s what’s available, then I don’t mind. I think I’ve only seen 1 dubbed movie in recent times and I thought I just had a dodgy DVD version of it. A problem with dubbed movies that I’ve found is that the voices/sound hardy sync up with the actors lips. At least with animation they can make it work a bit better.
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“^ This” was for “Let’s be honest, most dubs suck. They just don’t care. The concept of dubbing is what I prefer over the concept of subbing. The execution means that it is very definitely on a case by case basis.”
😛 I typed too slow so dem replies appearead outta nowhere
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Ive seen 121 of the top 250 and will be making it 123 by the end of tonight with for a few dollars more and all quiet on the western front 🙂
Im kind of cheating though because Ive worked in dvd stores since 16 when I got my first job in a tiny little dvd store in bilambil lol
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As do I. But Di11 is kind of cheating 😛
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I think I averaged like 2 movies a night for about a year when I first moved to canberra. I have two accounts so the boss wont get pissed off that I hire too many movies, but even then he doesent really care because I bring them back the next day mostly
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I never did anything like that. I just buy a lot of DVDs and happen to go on binges from time to time where I’ll just watch a reasonably large amount of movies over the course of a few weeks. Then I have the fun part of putting them all back in the right place on their shelves.
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yeah there is no way I would rent that movies if I actually had to pay for them all. At blockbuster they get like 50% off dvd hire or something, we just get to take them for free as long as its not brand new/high demand. The only reason I did that when I first came here was because I was lonely lol now its more like 2-6 a week
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*rent that many
dammit lol
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Being a shift worker with no friends and no mortgage (i.e. having money) wins! I barely see movies these days though.
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I was half expecting you to say it was a work related thing.
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It’s five pages, but it’s quite a low comment density. We’re only in the 700’s on page 5, which really is very inefficient. I blame when everyone did the whole “@Shane” thing. And there’s probably lots of other things.
I think I’ve see about 85 of them but the actual number would be higher. I think I may have seen some of the westerns and older films but not exactly sure on the titles to consider it see eg. Cool hand Luke
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Well for one thing, Cool Hand Luke is a prison film so you can probably knock that one off of the maybe list :p
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FUN FACT: I’m pretty sure I saw bits of Cool Hand Luke on the way to a prison for a school excursion. That’s right, we went to a prison to talk to prisoners for a school excursion \o/
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If you were a smartass, like me, you would have spent the whole excursion saying “permission to *blank*, boss?”
Permission to feel intimidated, boss?
Permission to tie my shoelaces, boss?
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It’s those damn midday movies on weekends and school holidays. I have watched so many of them but don’t remember all the titles so if i recognise a name I don’t know if I have seen it or just have heard of the title
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So many comments,
so little time.
You are all INSANE, but in a good way.
Not much to report, madly making preparation for my trip to the good ol US of A. Should be very interesting to see how this turns out, still haven’t got my passport yet.
I have started another game of Mass Effect 2, so that when 3 comes out I will have 4 completelty different saves I can port over. I guess it is not really different, basically it is just who I slept with. Oh and something about a reaper and some such.
Now really hyped for Kingdoms of Amalur, still over a week to go, damn it.
That’s about it.
Oh wait, how did the Xbox Live night go last week?
Anyone up for another one this week?
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I missed it because I was at a dinner but it totally happened, I think..
I’d be up for some Reach multiplayer. Especially if you folks have got the Anniversary maps because I haven’t tried them yet.
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I’m keen, but I have less games than others, so it depends on game choice. Happy to bow out if, say, GoW3 is played.
I DO have Reach and AvP.
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I couldn’t play because of freelance work deadlines.
And I think my TV is being hijacked by the GF tonight, oh well.
At least that means I can focus on some game stuff on my laptop 😛
So, I think I may compile my list of free stuff I have on Steam (and, come to think of it, some disk-based goodness) and chuck it up here some time soon, possibly/probably tomorrow.
They’ll be up for grabs to whoever asks first, as long as they’re polite.
Victorian era polite.
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Screw bribing him, I’ll threaten him!
Rize, I have you Guitar Hero pedal thing. If you want to see it again in one piece I demand something something something.*Brandishes knife*
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Would you like me to write the threats for you?
“Rize, not only do I know where you live, I know where you work, I know the name of your partner, at any point in time, I could call your home phone, and because I know you so well, I could tell you who would answer it before you knew. You cannot breathe without my knowledge, you are only allowed to live through the graces of my kindness. I could end you, financially, socially, in every way, at any moment.
You will never be safe.”
Something like that, but better, and with more hookers, and blackjack.
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man… see us vikings are all about physical stuff, we don’t do words well 😛
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Really? I put “I will smash you with my axe” into Google translate, under “Viking,” and that was the translation that came up in English.
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I threaten my housemates with “I know where you live” all the time.
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Does it work?
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What you looking at, go back to ya own farkin town ya………
oh Victorian era polite, nevermind. Carry on
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Oh hey Rize, may I proclaim my interest in taking up your offer on dem free gamez? But only if no one else wants them 😀
*puppy dog eyes*
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Gaming? What is this foreign concept?
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I don’t think it’d make much of a difference.
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Haha, right =P
I’m currently gaming as I post now xD
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And this will mow your blinds:
If you had that job, your employer would be being paid to pay you to pay to get laid.
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Just sent one of those emails where you have to be a jerk.
Could come back to bite me.
I tried to be a polite and friendly jerk, but who knows how they’ll take it…
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It’s my responsibility to get my leave approved before I take it and I can’t do that if I can’t put it in the system.
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Hi TAY!
Just letting you know that I bought Sonic Generations the other weekend when it was on sale on Steam, and I really have been enjoying it. Mostly the classic sonic versions of the levels over the newer 3D sonic, but both have been fun. One thing I have noticed is that some of the classic levels seem to have a lot going on. I remember playing the originals and after a couple of runs you’d know the quickest route. The problem was timing the jumps, and making them first time. In Generations I’ve kind of found that in a lot of the classic levels it’s a little hard to tell which way to go sometimes, or even find the route. Maybe it’s just me though…
I am having fun playing a new sonic game though, and trying to beat all the challenges and get an S rank is proving an entertaining (if sometimes frustrating) way to spend my time.
I might play catch up on the last 4 or 5 pages now…
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Hello Mr. Phoenix,
I was at a local liquor store a few weeks ago and the gentleman manning the checkout took it upon himself to give me a tour of some of the new beers they had in stock, as they did not have my regular.
I was open to the prospect of trying a different beverage to my usual. There were a few I had encountered in the past, but not in a way which would encourage me to purchase them – their taste did not appeal.
The man got to the end of his list and mentioned one which I had not tried before. This piqued my curiosity, so asked him to name a more conventional beer that was similar. His suggestion was Victoria Bitter. I was surprised at the sales tactic.
I ended up getting something else, but that’s not important.
The reason I mention this is the name of the beer that was likened to VB was Phoenix, and when I see your handle, I am reminded of the incident.
Faux-Blue-Shell-Supplier-And-Legitimate-Businessman fled,
Making leading the race a little bit less fun
I forgot to ask whether the noodles were spicy.
My poor, innocent mouth.
(Also, hello TAY!)
Also, it wasn’t until I read Strange’s post this morning that I realised what I’ve been eating for the past week or so – AMERICAN BACON! Though I do miss the roundy bits.
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Hello,
I cannot deal with super spicy stuff very well.
I’m curious about “American Bacon”.
How does it differ to Australian Bacon? I know “Canadian Bacon” is a movie with John Candy in it, but beyond that I can’t think of an instance where bacon has been linked to a specific country.
On the topic of bacon, I found myself at a hipsterish cafe on Saturday morning, after being dragged along to a comic/collectables fair where I felt a little out of place. I quickly scanned the menu for the first mention of bacon and promptly ordered it (and the other things it came with), along with a bottle of Limonata. The bacon was very nice.
Faux-Cardboard-Box-Factory-Worker fled,
You can hide in them too, just like Snake
@negativezero
about using unity, i actually do have a bit of experience in unity, so i might be a small help in that 🙂
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I’ve never touched it and know nothing about it.
I think whatever we do, we need to decide the type of game and have a basic idea what we want to do before we go deciding what tech to use. Right now we’ve got Steve-o’s original idea pitch, but nothing else. Maybe worth taking a few days and throwing it to the floor, come up with a basic design concept etc (as detailed as you like) and then we’ll talk them over? That way it can still be pretty inclusive and it’s not the tech-oriented people dictating everything 🙂
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I think, if you decide on RPG, a big thing will come down to just how complex you make it. I know, traditionally, JRPG’s keep their stats in the open, though it’s often hard to tell what they mean, but you could always design things into it like glancing blows, multiple levels of critical strike, things like that, although, then it does risk becoming a matter of luck over anything else…
Also, if it’s an RPG, so obviously we should mention RPG maker, as while it’s fairly simple, and has a low entry point, there is a lot you can do with it if you dig deep enough, and even though nobody’s really willing to admit it, Flash is a very good tool for making games(though you theoretically have to pay for it, which does put a bit of a dampener on stuff).
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I remember looking at RPG Maker years and years ago and being disappointed with its battle system which IIRC was Dragon Quest style rather than 16-bit Final Fantasy style which I vastly prefer personally.
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I’ve never used it, but I’ve seen stuff made in it, and I’m pretty sure you can customise it to work however you want, though I wouldn’t take my word as gospel. As I’ve said, the only fighting system I’ve created was in php.
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I used Unity for the first time over the weekend. As a programmer who is used to a bit more control over the code, it was a bit of a pain to wrangle, but I can definitely see why it is popular (especially for 3D games).
Additionally, I feel like Unity does manage to give a lot of control to the artists. The interface allows artists to do a lot of work within the game environment, which seems ideal.
But you are definitely right! No use picking yourself a game engine before you are even sure what you are making. That will probably just lead to design limitations.
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I am back! Unfortunately so is the sun. It come sand goes and just as it cools down the sun comes and ruins it all! Ruins it!
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I just had this pop into my head, thanks Blaghs.
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I prefer this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5v2cLMhhhU
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I’d dance to that!
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My dance moves are better.*
*so much worse, I can usually only think of two steps, because I always forget to Jazz hands and Spirit fingers.
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You come and go, you come and go-ooo.
Loving would be easy if your colours were like my dreams,
Red gold and green, red gold and gre-een.
SQUEEE~ Spirit camera is confirmed for Europe! I would love if it came to Australia but if it doesn’t, I can still play it =D
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It’s a spinoff from Project Zero / Fatal Frame and those games are pretty terrifying so I doubt scree would be mean enough to make you play it if you didn’t want to. Personally I found Crimson Butterfly to be really disturbing, never finished it and never played the others. Incidentally, I am reading that it is getting a remake?
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she’s making me play the 4th one when I come over next. She’s not scared of making me not sleep at night. not at alllll…
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It turns out the Metallica shirt I ordered has been delayed by 2 weeks 🙁 I am sad of this news.
It is a pretty cool shirt! http://www45.instantestore.net/merchant29529/pd-metallica-damage-inc-tee.cfm
Got it for free thanks to Coke unleashed =D
Wow sometimes I think past me is so much cooler than current me, I get to tafe this morning to find out that last time I was there I had a little extra time left over(like 2weeks) and decided to get a headscarf on the block I was working on today. Turns out 90% of it was done b,y me back then. The teacher guy said I can take the competency tomorrow if I want and the supposed 2 weeks I was meant to have at tafe turns out to be 2days. Pretty pumped actually. Also I haven’t eaten all day so I am going to make myself a big sandwich now”,
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Goddammit, that was supposed to be a reply to Virus__.
I was going to make a snide comment towards you, Rocket, but then you came on TS, which rather defeated the purpose.
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I don’t know what we’re talking about, but I’m hoping the next line is a case summary of a metaphorical homicide of a prominent radio broadcaster by a new and upcoming form of media gaining large amounts of popularity.
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Headscarf is code for i wanna do nasty stuff do you flu. Actually nearly everything i say is code for that. I am just messing with you, or AM I?
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Man you just complete me. lol thanks flu, now my plan is to say that to all the people and see their reaction
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Dat Game of Thrones Season 2 trailer. HHHNNNNNGGHHH.
Varys’ actor absolutely nails the character.
My monthly shipment of horrible mind-rotting space-consuming wallet-antagonizing plastic crap is all in stock and being packed, the artbooks I impulse-purchased are shipped and my copy off FFXIII-2 has been ‘manifested’ according to Australia Post, which I hope means that they got sent the shipment info and not that it’s demon-possessed.
\o/
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I know you’re an art book fella but what about dem strategy guides? Are you going to buy their FFXIII-2 Limited edition one?
Piggyback does some really nice guides and I was impressed with my impulse buy of their FF ones. Technically FFXIII didn’t need it but it seems like it’ll be more helpful for XIII-2 :).
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Strategy guides tempt me sometimes, I have a couple but generally I only go that way if I want to get absolutely everything out of a game in a single run as efficiently as possible, or if I was stuck in a game and online guides were not helpful.
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I pretty much only get them for the pictures and art :/. I’d go for art books but they’re mainly in Japanese 🙁
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Wikipedia sez:
“Nine people have been abducted by a mysterious kidnapper who uses the alias “Zero.” They find themselves on a ship— possibly a replica of the RMS Titanic and are told that they have nine hours to escape before the ship sinks beneath the waves. Zero is running the “Nonary Game” – a game “where you will put your life on the line.” The group is forced to split up into various subgroups and explore “numbered doors,” behind which lie Zero’s puzzles. Zero promises that escape lies behind a door numbered [9]. The characters must work together despite suspicions of each other to advance, as well as to discover Zero’s motive and identity.
The game is very text-heavy for an adventure game; more emphasis is placed on the characters, their motives, and the mystery of the situation than the puzzles.” -
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Look at big cousin scree playing the protector of values and morals. Such a nice thing to do, i wish someone protected my childhood a little more.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlkJTYIjqcQ&feature=g-vrec&context=G2b83d9aRVAAAAAAAABQ
That is pretty much my whole life.
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Whereas my life is more like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La9kIXRyzMs&feature=related
Wait, what?
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You now, if I cap my internet early again this month, I’m blaming you for it 😛
Or I could just blame lambo, like everyone else does…
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who needs school and text books when you’ve got TAY?
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lambos’, eh? As in multiple lambos? Gosh, can you imagine what it’d be like if there was more than one of me? :/
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Yeah we’d have every article on Allure with broken comments =P
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you…the sound of my partner attempting to buy something from a random vendor in Fable II:
*brandishes sword* Ahh!*magic* AHH!*magic*AAAAAHHHH!*fires three rounds from a gun*AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!
Me: “What are you doing to that poor man?!?”
Her: “I COULDN’T FIND THE A BUTTON!!!”
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Look on the bright side, at least it’s really hard to accidentally kill villagers.
But when you purposefully kill them, oh, that’s glorious.
HALP!!
I have enough golds now to partake in the purchasing of a video entertainment game.
BUT I DON’T KNOW WHICH ONE!!!!
Silent Hill HD is looking very tempting as is Kingdoms of Amalur. But so do many others.
HALP!!!
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If they had a trial I could use to see if it runs or not then I totally would. Not willing to drop the dosh on a maybe.
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Were you thinking of an upcoming release or something that’s already out?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_in_video_gaming
This is helpful for upcoming releases and the dates should be similar to ours 🙂
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So I jot down a bunch of points I wanted to mention in the meat writeup, and now it’s over 100 lines long. Can I outsource this?
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Meat Write up (The Ryffleberg Edition)
Questions?
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I should start changing my name based on the context. If I’m laughing hysterically i’ll be Roffleberg
Winning something = Raffleberg
Bag = Duffleberg
Gym = Buffleberg
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Cranky = Gruffleberg
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Cardshark = Shuffleberg
Your mention of ‘Cranky’ first made me thing of the “Donkey Kong Country” series.
Thank you.
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Appreciator of fine food: Truffleberg
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1920s murderer = Stifleberg
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Everyone! Talk Virus into buying a DS so he can get the world ends with you!
HE IS MISSING OUT!
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I think on Page 4 there was 3/DS discussion. Most stuff has already been said but I can say more if you want 🙂
Last time I checked Virus said the next handheld he’d buy was a PSP for PSX emulation though 😛
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Original DS (phat)
+ cheap
+ good battery life
+ gba slot
– bad design
– doesn’t play 3DS gamesDSLite
+ cheap
+ good battery life
+ better than the DS phat in pretty much every way
+ gba slot
– doesn’t play 3DS gamesDSi
+ access to dsiware/eshop
+ good battery life
– no gba slot
– doesn’t play 3DS games
– more expensiveDSiXL
+ bigger screens and stylus
+ good battery life
+ access to dsiware/eshop
– no gba slot
– doesn’t play 3DS games
– even more expensive3DS
+ next-gen
+ plays DS games
+ access to dsiware/eshop
– bad battery life
– even more expensiveeh, that should help anyone whose interested in a DS 😛
I’ve only ever had the PSP1000 so I’ll only comment on that. It’s fat (not really a problem) the battery life is OK but the earlier models have a dodgy LCD and there’s lots of ghosting and such :(. Should be cheap though but I’d recommend a later model (probably not a GO or E1000 though)
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I’ll probably get a 3DS, but imo they need to make a 3DS XL to fit in my man hands >=[
Re: PSP, i’ll defs be getting another 1000 model, since they’re plentiful & cheap, Saw one on ebay last night with 12 games & plenty of accessories for 150 bucks =O
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I usually don’t like to upgrade things like this… but I would totally upgrade to a 3DS XL. I would never have thought that I would miss my Phat DS. It was ugly, but man was it comfortable to hold.
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Yeah that is my only real gripe with the DS line. All but the original & XL are honestly too small for my hands =/
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You left out the bit where DSi specific and 3DS games are region locked 🙁
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Was thinking about it but figured Virus would know 😛
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Man that game its all like “hey bro -broette, i hear you like multitasking and shit oh you don’t well here you go anyway” The combat is amazing on that game freaking amazing!
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Exaactly. Virus doesn’t understand my hype, but I really think that we need to make him realise just how awesome the game is.
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buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS buy a DS
convincing eh?
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I instinctively expect to see ‘little buddy’ following the phrase ‘you crack me up’. When I read your comment, I actually said it in my head before getting to the ‘I’.
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Trapped like ring-tailed rock wallaby
Last time I checked, I have completed 98.7% (or maybe it was 99.7%?) of the game, mostly because I’m missing a pin and its evolution.
Pretty awesome game, but man is that a stylus/screen killer.
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I’ve done as much as I can without tin pin slammer because I am awful at it. I need someone to do the tin pin parts just so I can get 100% completion.
Btw, 100% completion is a rare thing for me. I usually play through the story and that’s it.-
Yeah, I rarely get to 100% either, but I don’t know, something about this game.
The story was good, gameplay marvellous which is fantastic, and I think the pin collection tapped into the whole Pokemon mentality thing where I wanted to get them all. Tin Pin was a nice little addon, and I don’t think I fared too badly during games, so I guess all the elements combined perfectly to make me want to 100% it.It’s that good, Virus
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Did it still have Assignment Ada in it and the extra guns like the lightning one from the PS2?
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As far as I know it’s the complete version, with Ada Wong and (I suppose) anything else extra. I don’t know for sure though because I haven’t finished it yet.
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Apparently the Wii version is the best though 😛 (I did my research a while ago since I wanted to buy RE:4 and ended up buying the Wii version)
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Wii version has the motion controls which apparently makes aiming easier. But the Xbox / PS3 versions have got the aitch-dee.
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lol… I actually googled ‘aitch-dee’ before realising what you meant :/
Yeah I saw your post about it for $30 at JB but I managed to snag a new copy for $16 from eBay 🙂
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if my information is correct, i think the HD ports are based on the Wii Version, so all you’ll miss out on is the aiming (and i prefer a controller, don’t know about you)
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That’s so unrealistic. Now my little pony, THAT’S what you call realistic. Talking ponies, getting along, eating cupcakes.
I’m going to drive you all nuts with MLP mwahahahahahahahaha
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the thing is, i’m already nuts, and i like ponies…
SO I’M OKAY WITH THAT! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
*runs off, flailing arms in the air and starts singing the MLP theme song*
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Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate. They had something similar in Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine as well.
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My sister absolutely despises the way the protagonist holds the light sabers in Force Unleashed.
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“Hey Chief, can I hold my gun like this?”
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Well if it works…
😛
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Wow I saw this on Steam but never bothered to click/look more into it. Actually looks kinda cool 😀 I love games with style
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I watched a video of this game maybe yesterday (maybe not yesterday, but definitely not today) and it reminded me of Super Meat Boy, for what I guess are obvious reasons. I played SMB a little obsessively back when it came out on PC, and I could see this filling a similar “a wild time-sink has appeared” role.
At the moment, I have other games vying for my limited gaming time, and any sweeping I do will probably just be of the real-world-in-my-house variety.
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Okay, the dick head dog owner strikes again. I swear this guy hates me for no apparent reason. I have done nothing to upset him.
Last week when it was cooling down I took Sid over the park. He was ahead of me as usual because he always gets so excited when he’s going to the park. I saw a Chocolate Lab called Nara and the dick head dog owners dog. Let’s call it wrinkles. Anyway I panicked but Sid had no interest in the dog as he saw a soccer ball. He was playing with that.
Anyway the guy came over the park afterwards and apologised to Nara’s owners. Two females and a male. I was actually with them and my two cousins at the time. He didn’t even look at me. I stormed off talking about what a dick he was to my cousins and went over to pat another dog because it made me so angry.
Later Nara’s owners said he was such a nice man and had explained everything. I said I didn’t understand why he was so rude to me twice, especially when the second time was completely uncalled for. (I was walking on the street and the way to the shops just happens to pass his flat).
Today Sid wanted to go over the park so I did so. He was playing with a Rottweiler puppy names Pepsi. There was a Weimaraner puppy walking around the park track. Anyway I saw the Dickhead dog owner with wrinkles standing outside of the park. I quickly told Pepsi’s owner to hold onto her as she is a puppy and may want to say hello. I didn’t really say anything other then, “the dog is aggressive and is part Japanese Tosa a restricted breed in Australia”. He held onto the puppy to stop it from doing so while I held onto Sid. I then noticed that the owners of the Weimaraner has let it off the lead so I quickly ran over to them, with Sid dragging me to warn them of the aggressive dog. (He nearly pulled my shoulder out of place.) I explained the dog was aggressive and to keep their puppy on a lead just to stop it from going to to the dog. I ended up telling the owners that the Dick head dog owner told me himself that his dog would kill mine twice.
Anyway, another dog called Baxter came over and I let Sid go because he’ll focus on the ball. And my shoulder was sore. I went over and warned Baxter’s owner as well. To be honest, both Pepsi and Baxter’s owners were male and I felt much safer being in the presence of two guys.
Anyway, it was getting cold so I decided to head home. I said bye to the others and headed off, but I noticed that dick head sog’s owner was hanging around and looking over at me and Pepsi’s owner. I had a sneaking suspicion that he was waiting for either me or Pepsi’s owner to pass to say something. I crossed the road and pretended to head home but doubled back a bit so I could see the back of Dick head dog owners shirt but he couldn’t see me (Advantage of being short).
Sure enough he stopped Pepsi’s owner to have a chat with him. I have no idea what he said but I’m sure that it was nothing good.
I seriously do not understand what I’ve done to him. I feel like I’m being bullied. =(
All I was doing was warning the owners and only giving them information that he had given me himself.
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Rant all you want! We’ll listen.
I can’t understand why someone like this bloke would go out of his way to just be an asshole, he must get off on it or something. Sounds like you need someone who’s large & intimidating to hang around with you haha.
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I think he’s just a dick. People are complicated, without knowing exactly what’s happened, it’s hard to gain a good idea of the reasoning behind what he does. You can try directly talking to him, but it’s unlikely that that will necessarily help. He might just take offense at what you say…
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Do you know anyone who looks scary?
You should convince F4ction to join you, and look intimidating. He’s the kind of guy I would not want to meet in a dark alley, except that he’s really nice and everything…
But in all seriousness, while I don’t endorse trying to intimidate him, particularly since it probably wouldn’t work, there has got to be a way to open a dialogue with him in a situation which is safe for you. I don’t know how you could do that, but there has to be a way…
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Let me put it this way. I have only ever been polite to him, or not said anything at all. I think he just sees me as an easy target as he has done the same to two other women. I think that the best solution is to involve the police so that maybe he will get the hint that I don’t appreciate it.
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This is all way too complex. I’m only good at things where the solution is “punch it” or “hard reset.”
I live a very simple life.
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Some people can just be straight up dicks to one or two people and be fine for everyone else for no discernible reason. Or sometimes stupid reasons. I don’t know if you look foreign or have an accent or whatever but sometimes that can be enough. Even if you simply look young. I know my wife has been treated extremely poorly before simply because she looks like she is 15, even though she is about to turn 30.
Oh oh oh I’m in that story! see “I was with my cousins at the time”
I feel so special :’3
Okay, enough of that. That dog owner is a complete and utter ass. Scree, he threatens you again, Call the police! He doesn’t deserve a dog and I find the law that says “if its a cross breed with a dangerous dog its okay, but full is not allowed” absolutely stupid! There is still danger with that dog! And another thing, he should have a mussel, and obviously the owner actually wants his dog to kill yours because he doesn’t bother buying one!
The nerve of some people! I swear, he needs to watch a bit of MLP and learn some important lessons about friendship!
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oh, and don’t get me started on the counsel that doesn’t actually care about this problem! arrrgggg!!!!
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Rule number one in the world:
People are a***holes. Wherever you go, there will always be some wanker there that gets joy from other peoples misery.
Sounds less like a problem with an aggressive dog and more to do with an aggressive dog owner. But be aware that if you’re not calm around dogs they are extremely good at picking up on it and it can set them off as well, and that can be even more of a problem.
Anyway the guy sounds like the sort of person that would beat up other kids in primary school. Interesting how they say that people’s animals reflect their owners. I think you’re doing the right thing, especially in the case of puppies – my own dog was attacked by a crazy aggro dog on the park when he was a puppy too. Most likely the guy thinks he can bully you because you’re a girl and presumably are walking your dog alone.
Have you taken this to your local council? Tried the dangerous dogs hotline thing the state government set up recently? The Japanese Tosa is a restricted breed and he’s got a lot of obligations, eg it has to be microchipped, have a special dangerous dog sign on his property and have the dog leashed and muzzled at all times in public. If he’s not doing that he could be breaking the law and at the very least, you should ask the council to ensure the dog’s microchipped and registered (because a lot of dogs aren’t, and the councils eyes light up with dollar signs if they think they can get extra money out of someone…)
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I think my addition to this went into moderation for some reason. :\
Check the DPI website, the Department of primary industries. Pets -> Dog Care -> Restricted Breeds -> Frequently Asked Questions.
There’s heaps of info there. Including the fact that as of September 30 last year, cross breeds of restricted dogs are still restricted dogs.
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“From 30 September 2011, all dogs fitting the Standard, except where exemptions are given by the Standard, are considered a restricted breed dog.”
Also according to the DPI there are no known Japanese Tosas in Victoria so the guy could just be blowing smoke, but if he actually has one then it’s unregistered and not registering a restricted breed is a crime. Would be a shame if he got in trouble~
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Well if he is just blowing smoke then I can still get him from the police side of things right?
I’ll wait and see if he said anything about me to Pepsi’s owner.
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I know it’s not a problem with the dog, but rather the owner.
I called the dangerous dog hotline but they said it’s a problem with the owner.
So basically, if he tries to bully me (I will find out from Pepsi’s owner what he said) I will be speaking to the police. I will also get his cars registration plate so they can friend his address.
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Is he walking the dog on a leash at all times, with a muzzle? Because he’s required to now, by law. Tell the council he’s got a Japanese Tosa cross, it’s a restricted breed.
DPI FAQ again:
“If you set your dog to deliberately attack a person or animal you can be sentenced to a maximum of 6 months in jail.If the dog is already a declared dangerous or menacing dog, or is a restricted breed dog (registered or unregistered), and the you are found guilty of this dog endangering life, the Magistrate can sentence you to a maximum 5 years in prison.”
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No, he doesn’t have it muzzled but he does walk it on a leash. He doesn’t have dangerous dog signs or anything like that.
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Restricted breeds have to have a special bright colored collar, muzzle and chain leash, he has to have special signs up and everything.
You know what I suspect? I suspect in addition to being an asshole, he’s also a moron who thinks he can intimidate girls by telling them about his BADASS FIGHTING DOG that will rip you to shreds on command. But in telling you that it’s a BADASS FIGHTING DOG he stupidly stepped on a bomb, because if the dog really is a BADASS FIGHTING DOG then it has to be treated as such. But if it’s not, you catch him in a hillarious lie and emasculate him terribly. Win-win.
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I will contact the council. I don’t know his exact address but I think they’ll know when I say it’s in one of the flats. Knock on the door and whichever one barks is his house
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Use this against the dickhead owner if he ever threatens you, or your dog again scree 🙂
Can’t argue with the law.
D:
Like Notty said, some people are just a**holes 🙁
I hope this helps cheer you up a little http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNcDI_uBGUo 🙂
I think it’s time for a Brooklyn Beatdown, and by that I meat the kotaku peeps need to come together power rangers style and kick some ass.
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I’m for this! Strange, Bunny, Freeze, Lambo, DAN! & other Queensland TAYbies lets road trip to Melbourne! \o/
Talking too him could help but it could also make it worse. From his perspective it might look like you’re talking some really bad shit behind his back about him rather than just warning the other owners about a potentially dangerous dog. But he sounds like a genuine ass so it’ll probably be best just to avoid him and his dog alltogether…
I dunno… just my 2 cents on the situation based on what you described
Tayberinos! I shall see you next week, for I am in Sydney talking to people about submarines all week! But i shall be here in spirit! Also on Twitter.
Hey gang. Should I watch 24? I saw it when it was brand new but never really followed it past midway through season one. It seems like the sort of thing I would like and it is quite a long series. Is it any good?
Cheers
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The beauty of 24 is it’s fairly self-contained to a season, sure there’s aspects that carry over but if you’re worried about investing a huge amount of time in the show there’s no obligation to watch it all. I’ve only seen the first three seasons and thought they were incredibly good. I hear the later seasons became more erratic — sometimes great, sometimes not. If you liked season one you basically know what to expect.
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In my opinion, it gets increasingly bizarre and hilarious to the point where you think the creators were having a tongue-in-cheek parody.
That being said, it’s a good drama series and I’d definitely say re-watch season one if you stopped before.
Isn’t the person behind Homeland (that new series) a veteran of 24?
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It’s not too bad you trophy whore :O. I didn’t really bother with 4 but with 3 a lot of them were tedious and one of the challenge mode things was genuinely hard.
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The trick is to buy games that have an easy plat and are actually good. Borderlands springs to mind.
Kingdoms of Amalur’s dev apologizes for buggy demo. http://au.pc.gamespy.com/pc/project-mercury/1217452p1.html
There’s talk of the game’s insane online pass too, despite the fact there’s no actual online content. :S
I feel weird posting a non-Kotaku story on Kotaku. 😛
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I think my favourite thing from the original article, is when he said “If you have the 360 version, and a hard drive, for the love of god, please install” or something along those lines, so putting quotation marks there is a little derp.
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I really don’t get the whining over online pass stuff. But I also buy all my games new I guess.
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Eh, I just think it’s walking a fine line, one that PC has been dealing with for years in the form of DRM ‘solutions’ that ultimately take things away from the gamer… or something… too sleepy to articulate a coherant arguement. 😛
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My meat writeup
the journey there
– got stuck in theatre all day on Friday. Tweeted Pez to let him know I’d be running late and that I was super sorry.
– it then took TWO HOURS on public transport to get to Bankstown
– we then travelled along the long and distant highway to CANTOWN
– mandatory stops at the McDonald’s were had, where Bish and I proved our appetites are greater than Pez or Nova
– we talked about random crap the whole way but mostly LoL
the arrival
– we arrive at Blaghman’s house at the stroke of midnight
– it appears quiet and deserted. No answer to the repeated knocking on the door
– but wait! The door is unlocked, so like good internet randoms, we storm the house
– or rather, Bish runs downstairs yelling BLAGHSY! BLAGHSY! BLAGHSY! while the rest of us stand uncomfortably in the foyer
– and that’s how I met Blaghman
Bish Bishes some hot sauce
– tears are shed
– milk is drunk
– at this point, Bish reveals to us that he is lactose intolerant
– he then quietly cries himself to sleep on the couch and we all proceed to BED
Preparation
– I am awoken by Bish cleaning the kitchen and arranging tea on the benchtop (he would continue to do this all weekend, by the way)
– a shopping trip is made early on the Saturday morning
– we clean out the local supermarket of all of their bacon (3kgs)
– we then return to the house of Blaghs where jelly vodka shots are prepared, after an epic quest to acquire shot glasses (I had to seduce a local alcohol seller but then we did get the shot glasses for free)
– Pixel and Rize appear with alcohol, and at this point we declare MEAT BEGUN
DRINKING TIME
– DRINKING DRINKING DRINKING DRINKING
– nova doesn’t drink
– I don’t actually remember that much happening at first
– THEN F4CTION ARRIVED
– A GIANT BEARDED BIKER TYPE CHAP WITH TATTOOS AND RED BEARD AND BALD AND DID I MENTION THE BEARD
– I was actually a little too scared to say anything to him and so pointed to the kitchen where Bish is doing…something? Making a manwich!
– Bish yelled FRIENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDD
– we all stood awkwardly in the kitchen and then failed to introduce each other
– Shane arrived around now
– more awkwardness ensued
– AND THEN TIME OF FANTASTIC TROLLING WAS HAD IN LITTLE BIG PLANET 2
– Pez smacked me a few times. I deserved it.
– and then Shane sold us some books and left
– around now is when we started having vodka jelly shots (http://flickr.com/gp/75512413@N03/EL0807), I think
– and then I said to Rize that he should leave some for everybody else
– Di11 arrived about now…
– we then kicked off an awesome round of Queen Singstar, with dancing performed by Blaghs, Pixel and Rize (go here http://flickr.com/gp/75512413@N03/mzJ242 for video!)
– I WAS TEH WINRAR
– and Di11 was TEH WINRAR AT LOSING
– and then Di11 left to go sleep in his car
– at some point during this Rize ate the leftover jelly (bowl of jelly from making vodka jelly shots, so probably about…8 standard drinks?)
– also, Guitar Hero. That was played too.
– for some reason everybody except Rize slowed down their drinking. Rize seemed to take this as a challenge to finish all the alcohol!
– THEN I WENT IN THE KITCHEN
– wait, this is out of order now
– BISH MADE AWESOME BACON CHOWDER (with the guidance of Pez)
– I hate bacon but I loved the bacon chowder
– Bish is an amazing cook
– we should really nominate him for kudos guys
– then Bish offered me other peoples’ alcohol
– HE REALLY DESERVES KUDOS
– anyway I have no idea how to end this, but at some point I decided I was tired and went to bed. I think it was around when we started playing Mario Kart
– I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED NEXT BECAUSE I WAS SLEEPING
the morning after
– many a regret was had
– I woke up Pez because I needed a lift. Also because we could not remember the last time we had seen him and we were worried he was dead
– and then I went and had boring family times
– THEN F4CTION DISAPPEARED WITHOUT SAYING GOODBYE
– tears were shed
– and then we said GOODBYE after many a streetpass and buttwaving
the journey home!
– we stopped when we saw a GIANT SHEEP (http://flickr.com/gp/75512413@N03/09a106)
– more McDonald’s was had at the hilariously incompetent McDonald’s where they tried to give me more than one free drink :/
– and then MORE McDonald’s was had
– the drive back was fun but not really worth writing about
– then Bish and I awkwardly got on the same train
– And then crazy family got on the same train with us and much yelling was done at Jayden. Also smacks. And then some “you’re just like your dad Jayden, do ya wanna be like ya dad?” (imagine that in horrible bogan Australian lilt)
– we sat awkwardly and played our 3dses until horrible people got off the train
– and then we said goodbye.
MEAT ENDED THERE
Sorry if I missed anyone! Also I apologise for rambling!
PS I am not a midget (http://flickr.com/gp/75512413@N03/u9v05M)
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the giant cup is not helping your claims.
I recognise Blaghman but I don’t know who is who otherwise.
Thanks for posting that Freyr-
Rize is the backup dancer in blue, Pixel is the other background dancer, Di11enger is the other singer. (And in the background in the kitchen sometimes is Bish)
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And a normal sized sheep 😉
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HI TAY
I JUST POSTED A LONG POST OF DOOM ABOUT THE MEAT BUT IT HAS LINKS SO IT PROBABLY WON’T BE UP UNTIL TOMORROW AND THEN NOBODY WILL READ IT
SUFFICE TO SAY IT WAS FUN
AND I LOVE EVERYONE.
Also I am starting a blawg. I have to finish both ME1 and ME2 before ME3 comes out so I am going to give up LoL (!) and play ONLY THOSE games for the next month(!)
I think I may die from the withdrawals.
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Ooh somebody else playing Mass Effect. I must ask, as I’ve asked like everyone so far (in fact I may have already asked you once but WHO CARES) WHAT’S YOUR RELATIONSHIP STATUS IN THEM GAMES?
Okay that wasn’t meant to be in caps but now that I read it back I like the energy there, so it’s staying.
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I LOVE CAPSLOCK
I…I have not yet started these games really. Like, I have played about 4 hours of each so…single?
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Well then, you’re gonna have an interesting month.
I don’t mean to advertise relationships as the defining aspect of the series, I’m just crazy enthusiastic because there are some great character moments in there and I’m a sucker for those things. There are plenty more wonderful things about the series!
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I’m very enthusiastic about some of the new things they’re doing in ME3.
A couple of new characters in particular sound very interesting, but I won’t spoil anything because some taybies would probably kill me.
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I have two games I have ported from ME2:
1) Male Paragon, relationship with Liara in ME1 then reconciled with Liara via Shadow Broker DLC in ME2.
2) Female Renegade, relationship with Liara in ME1, failed to reconcile with Liara, went with Garrus in Me2.
I also have an ME2-only game because I didn’t have any viable ME1 savegames when the game first came out – male Paragon, relationship with Miranda.
I am also planning to do another playthrough of ME1 + 2 at some point as a male and avoid relationships in the first game and go after Tali in ME2.
My wife has about four or five playthroughs, though her personal favourite is playing her female Shepard as some kind of space slut. She pursued Kaidan and Liara in 1 until they forced her to choose, then chose Liara. She pursued Jacob until there were no more dialogue options left, then pursued Thane until he hinted that things wouldn’t go any further because of Jacob. Then she pursued Garrus until he said things couldn’t go further because of Thane, then dropped Thane. She went with Garrus AND reconciled with Liara.
She’s rather proud of this.
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Do you play as femshep or manshep?
Also, Mass Effect 2. Yay! I was going through it again before my PS3 died. Renegade playthrough is so much fun.
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I use both, but femShep is great. It’s probably a cliche to point out how well done Hale’s voice acting is (although I’m definitely wondering what happened with Jacob’s romance) – her ‘Shepard as military commander’ tone is fantastic.
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This is going to sound totally misogynistic, but given the choice of gender in video games, I always choose male. I never choose the female because I can’t roleplay as well if I’m a lovely lady. I just can’t fully immerse myself unless I’m a male. Sorry. I’m a horrible person, i know.
Don’t hate me, ladies of Kotaku.
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I relate much more easily to maleShep, true (even if I’m anything but the burly space marine type) – but I don’t find it so difficult to separate myself from a character.
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I play as manshep by default and play Paragon – which is usually closer to how I think I’d act in real life.
Then I do femshep playthroughs and paly as renegade. For some reason when I choose to play a female character it’s because I’m planning to be evil/a badass. This has held true for ME1/ME2, Fallout 3/New Vegas, and Saints Row 2/3 (though there’s no real character morality ‘choice’ in Saint’s Row, it counts because you’re a criminal, and I chose to play as a female).
I’m also playing as a female in Skyrim but I couldn’t tell you if I’m being evil or not. I’m making what I think are logical decisions and there’s not really any morality in play.
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This is going to sound totally feminazi, but given the choice of gender in video games, I always choose female. I never choose the male because I can’t roleplay as well if I’m a manly man. I just can’t fully immerse myself unless I’m a female. Sorry. I’m a horrible person, i know.
Don’t hate me, men of Kotaku.
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I generally choose female characters too, even if they look nothing like me. Just easier to relate to them and to the voices :/
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Dammit, I forgot to mention in my meat writeup that
I WAS THE ONLY GIRL
WE NEED MORE GIRLS AT MEATS GUYS. (Scree, I’m looking at you – Harli and Strange seem to hold up their ends at meats)
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I didn’t really give enough warning for people, and since there are no female TAYberrans, it makes Canberra meats rather… dudecentric.
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But I’m in Melbourne D=
I know, you guys came to me, deal? XDAlso, you would be like “who is this child at our meat?” And it would be me. =D
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Oh I thought you lived in one of those silly states like South Aus or New South Wales! I will help you intimidate that dog man (man dog?)!
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but but SGL!! Sorry I couldn’t be there. Next time we’ll have many happy fun times Freyr!!!!!!!!
And is f4ction LIKE HUGE?!?
So I direct downloaded and installed the Humble Indie Bundle 4 games but now I’m adding them to Steam with the key from the bundle. Do I have to re-download them again through Steam or will it just automatically recognise that they’ve already been installed on my computer? Also will the save files work on the Steam version? Thanks in advance 🙂
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What a crap page get 😛
Well it seems like Steam has to re-download them :'(. Will my save files still transfer though?
Jamestown, NightSky, Shank or other? Which should I play?
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Too bad it’s 2gb :(. It’s gonna take a while to re-download but I could technically play it outside of Steam but eh… Steam has grown on me 😛
Since it’s finished downloading looks like I’m going to be playing Jamestown. I’ve read that some TAYbies like it so it can’t be that bad can it?
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Eh the page get was reffering to my above post which WAS the top post of the page before Freyr’s post went through moderation 🙂
The now current page get is awesome.
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Jamestown all the way. Yeah, totally not biased, lol. But, yeah, Jamestown is THAT great. Excellent music too!
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So I got Mac OS X Lion up and running on a VM. Considering how negative the feedback around how bad hackintoshes supposedly are, i was rather surprised to see it work quite well. The animations are a bit janky and a bit slower than running on a real mac, but the iPhone simulator runs exactly like that on a mac and on an iPhone/iPod. Now, to learn how to make games…..
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I have not heard Simple Plan in years. Wow, that certainly brought back the days of being a young teenager and liking wanna be punk bands.
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I’m yet to hear a decent *actual* non-70s punk band, or a decent non-British punk band either.
Most of today’s ‘punk’ music is rubbish, and has nothing on the likes of the Clash, Sex Pistols, etc.
Most of what made the old punk music good was genuine class rage, something decidedly lacking from non-British punk, and most hilariously lacking from modern offerings. Modern punk bands don’t really have anything to be angry about, and it is reflected in their woeful music.
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Sex Pistols are nothing but trash imo =P Only time I can tolerate them is if someone covers them =/
Though I love The Misfits, what are they horror punk technically? The Ramones are good too =D
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Scree, from my legal books I’m studying
Assault is defined as A person who strikes, touches, or moves, or otherwise applies force of any kind to, the person of another, either directly or indirectly, without the other person’s consent, or with the other person’s consent if the consent is obtained by fraud, or who by any bodily act or gesture attempts or threatens to apply force of any kind to the person of another without the other person’s consent, under such circumstances that the person making the attempt or threat has actually or apparently a present ability to effect the person’s purpose, is said to assault that other person, and the act is called an assault.
So even implying to set his dog loose is still technically assault. So yes the police can do something about it.
Oh noes, I forgot about university timetable registration and it opened like 12 hours ago.
;___;
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I’m overloading this semester so it was going to be hard to make my timetable work anyway… and now I’ve gotta deal with stuff being full.
(I can do evening classes fine, but morning ones are shockingly bad.)
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My degree had pretty small class sizes, the kind where everyone knows each other — that approach totally wouldn’t work.
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Yeah, sounds like it. I had lectures with around 100 people in them. Pretty easy to slip in and out.
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LEctures are easy since no one checks attendence and hardly anyone goes to them anyway. Tutorials and Seminars on the other hand, a bit trickier.
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This reminded me that my uni’s timetable registration opens at midnight tonight, so I logged into my account early and surprise surprise, they’d opened it early. Only when I went to enroll in tutorials (conveniently it automatically throws you into the lectures, so that’s some effort saved at least) it came up with a stupid message saying ‘enrollment for returning undergraduate students starts on Wednesday the 6th February’ which doesn’t make sense, because the 6th of February is next Monday.
D: Uni hasn’t even started for the year yet and I already hate it. Though that may also be because the way I’ve organised my timetable has me starting at 9 a few times, which is way too early for me.
I’ve never done an evening course at uni. Last year I had a film course that ran until six, and in Winter that meant it had already been dark for a while, so it was already freezing outside. I hate to think what it’d be like waiting for a bus in that weather later in the evening…
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Campus usually has a different atmosphere at night, it’s weird but it feels more… uh… intimate I guess? *shrugs* It was a bitch to catch the bus at night, though. Brisbane’s nothing if not inconvenient when it comes to public transport. 😛
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“starts on Wednesday the 6th February’ which doesn’t make sense, because the 6th of February is next Monday.”
Something about the way you wrote this made me laugh 😀
That sucks. I’ve been fiddling with my timetable (we have a magic ‘register for all classes’ button) and half the subjects don’t even have any tutorials open yet. As in, there are none to enroll in.
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One of my lectures was 8am on a Monday. It took me over an hour to get to Uni because I was attending at the Kingswood campus of UWS (near Penrith) and lived in Lidcombe. Soooo… guess which lecture I never went to.
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drat.
I have a clash, and the classes can’t be moved to other times. I’m going to miss either a Japanese tutorial, a Chinese tutorial or a politics lecture. The politics lecturer apparently never records them, and I was looking forward to that subject most of all.
Grrr.
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Ouch. Might have to fire off some emails then. In my experience there’s always two or three people who drop each course within the first week so you might be able to squeeze your way into a different tutorial somewhere?
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Unfortunately there *aren’t* any other tutorials, even full ones.
My only hope is that usually the Japanese department don’t organise enough tutes (or organise way too many) so they mix them up and change times a lot in the first, oh, five weeks.
Hopefully something like that happens this year. I’d hate to skip a lecture in my only politics subject for the whole year 🙁
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I think Aidan might be gunning for future Foreign Minister, by the looks of it.
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I just received the 2 Steam gifts. Thankyou very much for Greed Corps and Demigod 😀 I look forward to playing them!
So something I noticed about Yakuza 4.
EVERYONE is smoking ALL the time. They could have made the graphics 10 times better and put a fog in that only rendered about 10 feet an it could easily be explained by all the goddamned cigarette smoke.
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I don’t understand why you’re standing around enough to notice this instead of PUNCHING ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE FACE
ALL OF THEIR FACES-
Just reminded me of one of my favourite quotes from Scott Pilgrim (comics, duh):
‘If your life had a face, I’d punch it in the balls.’
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I’m curious if once it finally makes it to Australian TV wether it will rate at all. Seems like most of the people who wanted to watch it already have and will own it on disc by then. I know I myself have already got at least another 8 or so people plus their partners hooked on it as well as whoever they have passed it too.
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Pretty sure they’ve played the first season on Foxtel. But only on one of the paid extra channels (one of the movie ones?).
You’re totally right about owning it on DVD though. I’ll admit to having downloaded it due to impatience, but I’m buying the DVD as soon as it’s available, in the most expensive edition they make available (if they make any different editions, of course). And I’ll do the same with season 2. No way I’m waiting for that stuff to become available legally over here. It’ll be on DVD before TV! I will, however, wait until all the episodes are available, so that I can consume them en masse in a monstrous glut of awesomeness.-
Yeah, it’s on Showcase which is basically the closest Foxtel has to HBO. They’re currently running an add advertising Game of Thrones season 2 , but they’re usually a month or two behind the U.S.
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Most people I know either never had Foxtel or got rid of it due to being mostly the same drek as FTA with just as many ads. Doesn’t hurt that FTA is picking up its game recently.
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Also, anyone else actually looking forward to FFXIII-2?
I rather liked XIII. Sure, it was incredibly linear, but the combat was enjoyable, the visuals were stunning, the music majestic, and I liked the story. Some of the voice acting got on my nerves after a while, though (Vanille *shudder*).
Linear games don’t bother me if there’s an enjoyable story.
Remember, most games are incredibly linear. The good ones just hide it better.
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There was one point in FF 13 where it wasn’t a straight line and I got lost. It branched out into two paths, and they sort of made up like two halves of a circle, so for 20 minutes I just went around in circles. Good times.
More seriously though, I have to be honest, maybe this is just hindsight, but I preferred the linear bits over Gran Pulse. Possibly also because I got lost in that, but I think that at least with the linear sections, there was a sense of progress. You’d move from one small section to another. Gran Pulse was just a massive mostly samey looking piece of land of optional quests and I never felt like I was achieving anything.
On a third note, whilst I do love open world games (usually) and FF6, I don’t look at FF for open worlds. I stopped caring long ago what NPCs in towns said (though I would happily rifle through all their belongings), and stretches of open land were always just areas where you encounter random battles. Moving around most FF games is not like moving around in Skyrim or Fallout. It lacks that similar vein of discovery and journey those games do.
Although I’m not sure I would say the story drew me through, because I honestly have no idea what happened there. The combat in later chapters was good, and I think it was moreso wanting a resolution to the game rather than wanting to know what happens is what kept me playing.
So yeah, I’ll take a glance at FF 13-2. We’ll see.
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I didn’t mind the linearity either and tbh FFXIII was a fun game. A disappointment but not horrible. Only thing that really bothered me was the amount of extra stuff to do, it just felt like there wasn’t much…
Despite lower scores than the original, most reviewers are saying the game is better than the first in every single way except for maybe the story. So it should be good 🙂 definitely looking forward to it (mmm sexy preorder steelbook case <3)
Alright, night TAYbies, as you may have heard me mention, I’m currently house sitting, and I feel like working on my pile of shame while I’m here, and while I’ll work on Layton in my spare time, I also brought:
Darksiders(I’m probably about halfway through)
Nier(somewhere between halfway and 2/3rds of the first playthrough)
Castlevania:LoS(not very far through)
Prince of Persia(2008? The weirdly coloured rebooty thing)
Oh, and Dark Souls, but I’ll be playing that regardless.
So, anybody have suggestions for what I should start with?
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Holy crap! You just listed my favourite games from the past couple of years.
*twitch* PLAYALLOFTHEMATONCEGETTHEMALLINJOYGASM!!!!Uh, I mean they are all fairly decent. You probably can’t to wrong with any of them.
(Go on shoot me. I really liked that Prince of Persia)
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I’m glad to see there were others who enjoyed the 2008 Prince of Persia. Admittedly I’d never played a PoP game before so the dramatic gameplay shifts meant nothing to me, and though it did get a bit repetitive (or maybe a lot, depending on your opinions) in its structure, the scenery was amazing, and the ending was pretty different, in a good way.
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I really enjoyed Prince of Persia (the awesomely coloury bright one), and it isn’t overly difficult or longs, so that might be a decent start.
I also really enjoyed Darksiders, which also isn’t overly long, nor overly difficult even on the hardest difficulty (which I had set on my first playthrough). Also, it’s very Zelda-ish regarding the dungeons and puzzle elements, which is only ever a good thing. A little on the easy side, but still enjoyable. Also, Mark Hamill.
I haven’t played Castlevania, so no help there.
Haven’t played Nier, either, but I’ve heard it’s awesome (being halfway through, you’ve probably formed an opinion on the awesomeness or lack thereof by now). I’ve also heard it’s long, as it supposedly encourages many playthroughs.So, I’d say Darksiders if you want Zelda-ish puzzles, hack-and-slash combat, cool post-apocalyptic scenery and Mark Hamill.
Or PoP if you want a light-hearted romp in a brightly coloured world.-
I think I’ll start with PoP then, then move on to Darksiders, then probably spend many more hours grinding in Dark Souls…
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Seems like you’ve already made your choice but eh I’m bored enough to write my thoughts on each game :D. I’ve played, beaten and own and thoroughly enjoyed all of them so…
Darksiders – Excellent Zelda-esque action adventure that copped a lot of flak for borrowing elements from a lot of different games. Feels a bit short (about 12 hours) but still fun and pretty! Has a nice comic book theme and story which I found was good enough to keep me interested.
Nier – A fun JRPG that has flaws but is still a blast to play through. Fugly looking game but the design is good and the story is amazing. Definitely worth a 2nd playthough upon completion for a very different perspective on things. Gameplay varies a lot through a lot of genres, perhaps a bit too varied at times but it’s still fun. Sidequests are kinda repetitve though.
Castlevania: LoS – Amazing action adventure hack and slash which also copped a lot of flak for borrowing elements. Gameplay is awesome and combos feel heavy and like they’re doing some real damage. Bosses and fun except for those big boss battles which really don’t belong… I like how they handle NG+ in that you can go back to whatever level you want, when you want, with the upgrades you have. Graphics are good and so is the design of the monsters. Epiccccc! Story is meh but who cares…
Prince of Persia – Tis pretty! Was fun throughout but felt wayyy too easy and just didn’t feel as good as the Sands of Time trilogy.
😛 my 2 cents. After writing about half of that I realised that you’ve already played them and therefore don’t really need introductions to what they are but since I already typed it out I guess I’ll leave it there for others to see.
TL;DR – play them all, they’re all good 🙂
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More than a few alleyways that are blocked off by men who speak Chinese and won’t let you through. It seems Chinese only exist to impede progress.
Reading too much into things and seeing stuff that isn’t there is fun!
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TONIGHT ON TODAY TONIGHT
DEM CHINESE
BUYING OUR LANDS
DURKA DURRIne could also say something about despite being migrants, their refusal to integrate with the rest of the ciity(/Japanese culture) and keep within their own circles says something about migration and assimilation or something.
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Maybe they could just be Triads. Im sure Yakuza and Triads dont exactly get along lol
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They’re not against Japanese just people who can’t speak Chinese 🙂
You can go in as soon as you learn Chinese 😀
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Dude, did yo ever play Shenmue II? Everyone in Hong Kong is ugly as heck except Ryo (who’s Japanese) and like, two girls.. I actually found it really offensive.
Is anyone here a fan of System of a Down? If so what’re some songs I should check out, I basically only know, Chop Suey, BYOB & Toxicity.
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Chik N Stu, Know, CUBErt, Cigaro, This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I’m On This Song and Psycho for a start.
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It depends which style of music you prefer. They have always been “pop metal” for lack of a better term. The whole album Toxicity is pretty damn good, although Mesmerise is probably my favourite album of theirs.
Still my favourite songs of theirs are:
Sugar, Prison Song, Deer Dance, Aerials, Toxicity, Chop Suey, Science, Chic ‘N’ Stu, Innervision, Boom, I-E-A-I-A-I-O, F*ck The System, BYOB, Violent Pornography, Cigaro, Kill Rock ‘n Roll, She’s Like Heroin, and I could probably keep going. Anyway, I really Like System.-
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I can understand why people aren’t, they were quite a big shift, but I really liked them. Their discography as a whole was one of my post played playlists on my ipod.
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waaaaayyy back in the day I used to like SoaD.
Sugar
Peephole
Needles
Mr Jack
Lost in Hollywood
Soldier SideIn addition to the ones you named, they should give you an oversight of their discography.
But I cant really remember much else to be honest.
All I know is I saw Serj Tankian supporting Fantomas & that was a pretty disappointing experience. But then again, he was playing off against Mike Patton, so not many people would look good in those circumstances.
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Cheers, Blaghs & Freeze! I’ll probably check them out at Soundwave given they do not clash with any other band =D
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if you get a chance to see Limp Bizkit, throw a bottle at Fred Durst & tell him it was from me.
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But how will he know which bottle is from you amongst the many hundreds that he will receive that day?
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ok. fair point. gotta stand out…
Virus, or anyone else going to Soundwave, how do you feel about smuggling a pillowcase full of screws into a festival & hoiking em at Durst?
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Im never gonna forgive him for how he acted at the Sydney BDO.
Crowds going apeshit, so he eggs em on. Security guys trying to drag people outta the crush, & he’s calling em pussies & spraying water at em.A young girl fucking died in that pit. And Fred Durst stood there & encouraged the behavior that caused it. Fuck him.
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Yep, this is why I hate the bastard as well. I can’t believe he did that. God how I would love to see him & Corey Taylor of Slipknot finally get to battle it out. Pretty sure Corey still think he’s a giant prick as well!
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We should totally start up a chant of “IR-REL-LA-VANT” at his show!
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YES! Limp Bizkit had their place, when I was 10 and being a rebellious little kid liking everything with swear words in it. 21 year old me, thinks they’re boring & irrelevant.
I guess same could be said for Slipknot, but they hold a special place with me, they’re the first band I actually bothered to follow & by CD’s of & such & i’ve made some great friends via their music, plus they kickass live!
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The Witcher just blue screened my laptop. Again. I hope this isn’t becoming a thing. Because I am not impressed.
RE: Game of Thrones Season 2.
I really hope we see Hodor in this. Was he in the first season at all?
(I only ask because he becomes pretty much indispensable to Bran’s story post-Clash of Kings, and I get the distinct impression GRRM loves including him in dialogue just so he can write things like “HODOR… hodor hodor hodor HODOR HODOR!!”)
And didn’t the producers say they were beefing up Robb’s role because the actor impressed them so much in season one?
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Yep, you even get a good look at his wang!
Um, not that was the high point of his appearance. Certainly was a lengthy sequence though, if you catch my drift.
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Oh we catch your drift Freeze 😉
you’re saying he had a large penis, which was on display during a scene that went on for quite a while, right?
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Sure am. That scene gave the character some real girth. And it was a truly weighty performance from the actor.
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He really rose to the occasion and put in the hard yards.
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Hodor! Hodor Hodor.
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I love when GRRM finishes a long conversation with multiple characters with:
“Hodor,” said Hodor.
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Good night, people!
Damn, I just feel like a vampire… Woke up, it’s raining instead of being horrendously hot (yay for summer!) and I’m planning to play Sonic CD all day long.
DAT JAPANESE FUNKY OST.
Morning TAY. Just finished watching the short film in the article http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/overcoming-world-of-warcraft-addiction-or-six-years-single/
I think a lot of us can relate a little to this. Days we have put off things just so we can game. As someone who has had a number of borderline game addictions i really like this film. Worth the 5 minutes to watch it.
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Didn’t watch the video, but DID read the piece that Fahey linked in that article. It’s lengthy, but definitely worth a read. Really insightful and Fahey was courageous to post it. Much respect.
PS: I know this won’t get read since we’re now on page 9, but it’s a really good piece.
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Well, when I mean “write up my Meat wrap up”, I actually mean “procrastinate about writing it”.
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Well it was rather cold and rainy this morning, which made me happy.
Then of course, metro cancelled two trains on me and I got packed in like sardines on the train. Such joy.
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I LOVE B.O.
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But it’s not the temperature threshold: Where everything with the word ‘train’ in it, the organisation of the service goes completely off the rails…
I had that issue yesterday so I was forced to stand in an express train going home, but there were some lovely human ladies standing near me and they had very nice perfume on so it was a pleasant trip, though my left leg component doesn’t agree. Way better than smelling sweaty humans males I’ll tell you that right now 😛
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I was always paranoid when I had to get on the train. I didn’t want to smell of B.O (I may not but if I think I do, I do) so I would always spray impulse or something nice smelling before getting on the train. I know how horrible it is to smell it and I didn’t want to put other people through that.
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I always take all stations trains. Less crowded, I always have a seat so my leg will be okay, more time for playing FF tactics Advanced on my DS in transit and much less chance of getting a smelly human nearby. Still happens though
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@Freya’s meat write up and video:
AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Also, I couldn’t figure out why (the morning after) I felt like I’d drunk more than I thought I did. Turns out someone (Bish or Pez, I think) handed me a bowl of jelly, which I ate. It then became apparent it was more alcohol than jelly.
I guess I’m somewhat suggestive regarding jelly..
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I’m pretty sure I ate about half the bowl of Jelly(Pez double dog dared me so I couldn’t refuse), so you didn’t have that much…
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I was packing the dishwasher and saw the bowl of empty green jelly, and last I remember someone was telling Blaghsy to eat it so I was all “Blaghs, did you eat all of the green jelly?” (which was probably half a litre, so about 150mL of vodka in it). He replied with “No, only half of it.”
“Who had the other half?”
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Plus just before I left at like 11 there was only a tiny bit of jameson left in a litre bottle. so yeah I only saw you drinking it o.0
Side note freyr looked like she was going to puke after drinking butterscotch scnahps…it was a hilarious face she pulled
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Oh, I knew how much Jameson I’d had 😀
Also, that Butterscotch was delicious! It came straight from a freezer. Tasty!
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Hey guys and girls interested in the KKRPG (Kotaku Krappy Roughly Programmed Game), I have set up a sourceforge page to store details for it. You can find it at https://sourceforge.net/p/kkrpg/. Feel free to create an account and let me know the username. Then I can add you as members of the project and we can use the project forum to discuss ideas. I sent loops an email last night and he was kind enough to let us use his story/universe from the Kotaku Chronicles. I though this would be awesome to use in a JRPG – Marines, Aliens, Soul Eaters etc. Then KKRPG can stand for Kotaku Chronicles RPG! Anyways sign up to sourceforge, let me know your username and post some ideas!
BTW: Sourceforge is free for open-source non-profit applications, so just so everyone knows – we are making this game for fun, not for profit.
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you will, it still has a long way to go yet.
I still need to find the time to write part 4… or am i up to part 5???
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I’m pretty stoked.
Quite a few things will need to be changed before it could translate into a game, however, but it is very workable.
So to the people who wanted to make a game on Kotaku, I suggest we decide a platform and the genre of game we would like to make. Come up with ideas. Create a timeline. Then assign duties to people. If we don’t treat this seriously, it’ll never get off the ground.
I also Nominate Virus for music.
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Genre: Dunno, if you have a writer, make a Visual Novel. Ren’Py is one of the most accessible languages I’ve ever tried.-
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b-b-b-but you told me to post D: I did and… I already screwed up. My bad. I need to be more alert.
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I’m not good at making music just so we’re clear on this =P
Though I guess I could be if I relearnt how to use Garageband or something similar.
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“Productive”, something I think I can be… but it’s still very hard to pull off!
Anyway, been playing Sonic CD a lot. Freaking hard I tell ya. Some very speedy falls caused me vertigo, jeez!
@Freyr – Nice writeup! Also, in that video, is that Bish in the background cleaning the kitchen?
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I believe the one in shorts is Nova, and Pez wanders into shot for a bit, and I hover over the sink near the end.
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Freyr: I loved your Meat write-up, it almost felt like I was there. That all-singing all-dancing video was superb! 😀
PantsAlex: My first ME character is a male, full Paragon who originally went with Liara in ME but found he really couldn’t be with her anymore after she changed in ME2 and started a relationship with Tali instead. He really wanted Tali in the first game and had had to settle for boring Liara instead, anyway. 😛
My second character is a female, no-nonsense type. She does whatever the situation requires so she usually has both Paragon and Renegade meters full by the end of the game. She fell for Alenko in the first game and stayed faithful to him despite being attracted to both Garrus and Thane. I’m looking forward to the pay-off for that in ME3 (crosses fingers). The message Kaidan sent her after they met again in ME2 was one of my favourite little things about that game.
Cracks: I’m very much looking forward to FFXIII-2. It’s the only thing softening the blow of being home again. I got all excited last night when I noticed Game had taken the rest of the payment out my bank.
Blaghs: Finish Nier! Don’t worry about sidequests, just do the main story stuff so you can do a NG+. It starts again from halfway through so it doesn’t take too long to do a second playthrough and it’s well worth it.
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I thought you’d be excited about FFXIII-2.
I left it a bit late to preorder (last week), but still managed to get a limited edition for 360. I love (LOVE!) steelbook cases, so it was a must for me.
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I’m surprised at how many people have characters who stayed faithful to their ME1 companions in TAY. The non-TAYbies I know who’ve played them all switched to new romantic interests and never looked back.
Also, from asking everyone this question, I have learned that no one has had a relationship with Jack, or Jacob (and probably not Morinth, but then that is a good thing, I would imagine).
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My manshep went with Ashley in ME1 and then Miranda in ME2. I’m not sure if the default manshep was ever with Ashley in ME2 (I never imported my save) so whether I remained faithful to her or not is unknown :P. I met Ashley during that story mission on that human colony but she seemed sorta bitchy… I never knew you could be with her again until I read it online.
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If you have “relations” with Morinth, you die. Nonstandard gameover.
It’s also not possible to seduce her mother, assuming you kept her around instead.
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Thanks Strange!
I wish I’d taken more video now, many a lol is to be had at the dancing from those guys
@Aidan re AGoT board game.
I got mine from here: http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Board-Second/dp/1589947207/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327963510&sr=8-1
It was cheaper after shipping than I could find it for pre-shipping from Australian places.
So Trials Evolution has leaked. Its not a final build, but its the most up to date build ever seen. It is available on torrent sites around the place, but is only playable on consoles that are either Devkits or JTag’d boxes (Not sure if anyone here has one?)
There was a video but it has been taken down. I watched it a few times but really there were no real surprises tbh.
Kinda sucks for the dev team who have put so much work into it, but given that this game is so focussed on online leaderboards, multiplayer gaming and also the track sharing site that is there, I doub;t this will have a negative impact on the release.
But knowing that there are pirates (wooden legged type!) who are out there playing my game. and I can’t.. kinda shitty.
Also it was interesting to speak to the dev about this.. Hearing him talk about not sleeping last night because of the leak and the frustration caused, made the whole story a little more real. Not good… Glad I’m not a pirate any more.
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Pre-release piracy is never a good thing. The devs are already worried about getting everything final in time and it just adds more things for them to worry about.
On the plus side, Trials is the sort of game where anyone who would be interested enough to pirate it pre-release will probably buy it day 1.
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it’s pretty crap – but i’m still going to buy the hell outta that game!!!
I just wish they’d stop making us wait! lol
@Steve-O
I made an account on that open source thingie. My account name is NoobHeadshot (surprise, surprise). I’m not quite sure how I can be of any help (no coding skills / drawing skills) but …
I don’t know where I’m going with this.
Look i’m not going to lie to you people, i’m a semi-regular commenter and i’d like to have an avatar to go along with my name. But i’m not sure how i go about it. I leave my naivety with you in the hope someone can help me. Ciao.
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I’m not going to lie to you shane, i always read your comment with great interest and i appreciate you’re help. Let it be known, Shane is a good egg. 😀
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Yeah, like shane said, use Gravatar.
Also, be sure to set whatever image you use to a “g” rating, or else it won’t appear on the site
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I see it!
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it’s there now! 😀
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AM I A GOOD EGG?
(The answer to this is an emphatic “no.” I just felt like being an idiot, apologies for derailing you being nice to people who are being nice to you.)
PS. Your name is groovy.
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You win good egg status for saying groovy. Thanks again shane and loops, my next question is. Does anyone know where the picture is from?
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Also i said you people at the start and you guys still helped me, lol.
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Act Yr Age?
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We have a winner, i was hoping it would be too small to guess. But i suppose that would only be if you had my eyesight. 😉 I cant believe it was only number 20, sigh.
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Great song. Great clip. Definitely thought it’d place a bit higher.
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So, I found out this morning that the land my parents bought last year will have NBN infrastructure ready by the time houses are completed. So excited. \o/ ^_^
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That’s amazing. You lucky bastard. The apartment complex next to mine is getting NBN infrastructure. So disappointing.
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Switch the numbers on the building and see if it confuses them enough that they wire up yours instead
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Jealous… With any luck though my area will be rolled out soon. The town literally 10 minutes drive already has full NBN working. 😛
Morning All 😀
Everyone is writing something about the meat and it is epic so I dont wanna be left out 🙂
at 5 on saturday I charged out of my house after just having a shower. promptly charged back in the house and put my shirt on. this happened 3 times because I kept forgetting various things.
I started driving down to Curtin (ibeenheretwoyearswherethehellisthat) with a street name and a brief outline of google maps in my head. this was not planned well. after about 15 minutes of cruising the streets of curtin. they see me rolling they hating. well probably not because no one hates dropkick murphys. no one! 😛
eventually I decided it would be best to ask someone for directions. the bottle shop man was really nice, the people in the line behind me not so much. he took out a map and showed me we shook hands and I forgot where I was going as soon as I was in my car. more patrolling then BAM I spotted the street hidden in the hillside. I arrived! outside that is and then cautiously looked towards the house. I hope this isent a joke and I went to the wrong place I said to myself, but then I could hear the sound of Guitar hero! I knocked on the front door and there was blaghs! obviously he had no idea who I was so cue funny stares. I introduced myself and awkwardly did the same to the rest of the room. Hi guys. *shy face*
Blaghs said I looked nothing like what he expected. He expected jokerness. I agreed. So people talked a bit while playing guitar hero. Freyr was good at drums Rize complained that they moved along the floor to much? Bish and Pes where in the kitchen cooking amazing food. Blaghs offered me a drink but then I was like I dont wanna drink someone elses stuff which he replied drink it bitch. (sort of not really)
more guitar hero was played and I did ok on easy ( only touching the guitar) I soon discovered that the majority of people playing GH could sing. Blaghs freyr rize and f4ction could make a pretty smexy quartet as long as they dont let rize have the mike during the wavy lines part. apparently it is his que to start ripping on people lol.
then we ate food! it was BACON CHOWDA. say it right man its chowder. CHOWDA. nvm. it was awesome.
more drinking and then Singstar! Im the worst of the worst. so I restorted to funny voices while playing. plus I couldnt stop laughing. I blame the back up dancers! because they where hilarious. Sorry for anyone if my laughing disrupts any of the videos. and sorry to everyone for making you have to put up with my wierd ass laugh. more drinking and discussion about games. Rize couldnt figure out the name of a night time city in FF that started with T. he was really upset about this until someone used the internetz on thier phones (I felt left out because Im the only one without internet capabilities in my pocket). Freddie murcury proved how sexy he was/is. everyone questioned how come no one guessed his sexuality or something along those lines?
MORE FOOD bish and pes still in the kitchen this time it was chicken and bacons and cheeze? not sure about the exsistance of cheeze but still the whole thing was amazing.
We played more singstar i think and then super smash bros! whos that di11enger guy damn he sucks at that game. we followed on with mario kart!
and he sucks at that one too. someone needs to teach this fool how to play. Bish played a round of mario kart (first time Id seen him touch any video game aside from his DS the whole time) and damn he was pretty good. He lost to nova though. so nova must be pretty good as well.
around about this time 11pm I realised I had to drive home due to early start in the morning :(. No I didnt sleep in my car Freyr lol. got home then played nba 2k12 for an hour because I was too excite to sleep.
Had lots of fun! Drank some booze! laughed alot! Met some awesome people!
Thanks again Blaghs for having a meat at your place 😀 and for putting up with everyone! Thanks to bish and pes for the food! Thanks again to bish doing bishly things! Thank you to everyone for being awesome? well you where awesome 🙂
oh yeah side note I could not hear pixel’s accent for the majority of the night. And shufflepixelshuffle 😛
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I flipped through a couple of pages of your novels. Loved it. will be buying a copy of each when I return in three weeks 🙂 if that is ok
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Today is going SO SLOWLY.
I have so much work to do, but just cannot focus on it. Instead, I spent the morning overhauling my website: http://shanewsmith.com – added two new pages to the ‘published’ section and a couple to the ‘work in progress’ section.
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Oh, and also, a few of you commented last week on this picture that I produced: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28754200/shanewsmithdotcoma.jpg so I thought you might want an update:
The wife doesn’t like it. She said it looks nothing like me. I got sadface.
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I have kidnapped the entity you knew as Shane, wiped his mind clean and replaced his lifeforce with my own. (don’t tell anyone, mkay?)
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Oh cripes! It did escape. Oh what a fool I’ve been. They warned me. Told me of the consequences. But i didn’t listen.
I HAD GOOD INTENTIONS. God have mercy on my soul.
*click*
*BANG*
*thud*
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I’d like to volunteer help for the game project. Don’t really have any skills per se but I did a bit of sound design at uni before I dropped out and I can come up with ridiculous ideas at the drop of a hat.
Plus I make a mean sandwich!
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We can be a team freeze. You can make the sandwiches and I’ll get the coffee’s.
WE’RE HELPING \o/
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Pah! Who wants weak and subservient tasting sandwiches. My sandwiches taste will punch you in the gentials, bang your wife and sister (at the same time!) and steal your wallet, car keys and shoes.
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Sign up to sourceforge and contribute your ideas on the forum! Or post them on TAY, but I don’t think everyone else would appreciate us spamming the comments.
all these meat posts are making me very very jelly 🙁
sounds like you guys had an awesome time..
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I’m amazed by how many there are. I guess this is what I get for making a meat that is… AN ADVENTURE!
Or something. I dunno.
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i’m more amazed that:
1. No one was stabbed
2. no one lost a shoe
3. no one had a fireworks related incident
4. no one became addicted to porn-
Pez lost a thong, but he found it again so it was OK.
And we don’t have Fireworks in Canberra any more.
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Edge. Of my. SEAT!
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In the spirit of recommending-things-that-I-like-to-TAY:
Has anybody else played the game ‘Evil Genius’? If not, you should! It’s a base-building “sim” where you play a stereotypical evil genius out for world domination. You have to recruit henchmen and perform acts of infamy all over the globe while keeping your base safe from secret agents, etc. Pretty much every character is a stereotype from some sort of Bond/Spy movie, and it’s all done in a similar art style to TF2 so it’s pretty fun.
It does show it’s age a bit from 2004 (no widescreen mode :P), but it’s only $10 from Good Old Games (also Steam, I think?). As good as Steam is, I prefer GOG. Plus, I managed to get Evil Genius (PC only) working on my Mac through WINE, which I wouldn’t have been able to do through Steam.
Anyway, from this I’m sure you can guess what I’ve been up to this morning. xD
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Enjoyable game, once you get some ideas on how to connect traps to each other. I really should re-install but it ends up driving me crazy when I never have enough (insert minion type here) to complete a mission
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i’ve always looked at that game but have just never gotten around to picking it up as of yet, unfortunately.
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Ummm guyss…
while i was looking if there was already a wiki on a brand we’re bringing in, another option came up.. the world naked bike ride…
“World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) is an international clothing-optional bike ride in which participants plan, meet and ride together en masse on human-powered transport (the vast majority on bicycles, but some on skateboards and inline skates), to “deliver a vision of a cleaner, safer, body-positive world.”
The wiki is here, but is very unsafe for work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Naked_Bike_Ride
On a side note, the guy in the 3rd picture has an impossibly small penis. I laughed. I’m going to hell.
PS. I’m pretty sure jimmy is at the bottom of the page with his afro on rollerblades….
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If it’s the World Naked Bike Ride, how can it be clothing optional?
Surely clothing isn’t an option.
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It would just be easier to not use the cumbersome term “clothing optional”.
Something about that term really bugs me and I don’t know why.
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I get what you’re saying, but what else could they really say in its stead?
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Nudity/nudism.
People just need to understand that you don’t have to go all the way.
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yes… but people are stupid and fail to understand even simple things
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It’s odd that the people who are the most enthusiastic about nudity are often the ones who have the less than impressive bodies. I can udnerstand fat elderly perverts being into nudity because maybe they’ll see pretty young ladies.
Anyway, the point about the small penis (I haven’t looked, because I’m at work). I have one friend who’s big into nudity and yeah. He has an undersized peen. He once entered a nudity related event at Big Day Out one year and everyone called him ‘Tiny Tim’ for the rest of the day.
Good on him for not letting it bother him though.
Omg thats hilarious
Im so doing this*
*Probably not for a couple of years and you wont recognise me coz Ill wear a giant bear/ape head.
@People Re: KKRPG
I have made a concept artwork based on Final Fantasy sprites for a potential KKRPG. Also, scree and nobshot – you should now have access to the forums. Anyone else interested in helping post your SourceForge usernames and I’ll give you permissions.
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Actually that link wasn’t great quality – try this: http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m504/steveo_the_deveo/BattleSceneBIG.jpg.
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The first comment is in moderation limbo. I was saying that I have made a concept artwork based on Final Fantasy sprites for a potential KKRPG. Also, scree and nobshot – you should now have access to the forums. Anyone else interested in helping post your SourceForge usernames and I’ll give you permissions.
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omg! <3
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I’ve signed up as Powalen. I’m not sure how much help I can be (never made a game before, I do more web programming), but I’m interested nonetheless!
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^ This was a reply to Steve-O… somehow I broke TAY. 😛
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Post your ideas Powalen – Get involved in the forums. We are in the design stage at the moment, so anyone can contribute – we all know games here.
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Forum? Games? What is this madness?*
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There has been talk of organising a community project to see if the combined powers of TAY can produce a game. I think the main discussion started about page 4 and some of it onto page 5.
Steve-o has setup a sourge forge page http://sourceforge.net/p/kkrpg/discussion/general/ for people to throw ideas together that don’t get lost in the dim deep past of two pages <<<
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Oh Superbowl, your Ads are the best part
The Tube – Part One
Concept by Freeze S. Preston Icequire and Shane
Written by Shane
For a very long time, Shane regarded the needletube in his hand. He turned it over and over, sometimes seeing it for what it is, sometimes watching the light bouncing off the glass surface. He didn’t read the label; he couldn’t face what it said. Not yet.
“I don’t know how I feel about this,” he said softly, not taking his eyes off the tube.
How had it come to this? What this tube represented, what it forebode, what it said about him… he had asked for none of this. He liked it even less.
Katherine stood behind him, resting her hands lightly on his shoulders. “You did what you had to do,” she murmured.
It was the belief in her voice as much as her reassuring tone that sent a spike of frustration into his gut; he shrugged away from her touch. “Is it?” He waved the tube at her, as if this mess was somehow all her fault. “Is this really the only option I have?”
She looked away, eyes to the floor, apologetic. “I don’t know,” she whispered.
He was on his feet in a flash, standing before her. “I’m sorry,” he said. “I didn’t mean to snap at you. I just…”
“I know,” she said, putting her arms around him. “I know.”
Shane put the tube on the dresser. “We’ll deal with it in the morning.”
He reached over and flicked off the light switch.
@AlphaProspector
Yes, Jamestown is awesome :D. Wasn’t really expecting much and I didn’t even know it was a shmup until someone posted about it (Chuloopa?). I don’t really play shmups but I do enjoy them :). Not really a fan of their difficulty or how hectic the screen can get sometimes but I do love upgrading my ship/weapons to become an ultimate killing machine
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@Greenius
Jamestown is renowned as an “entry point” to the genre. Plenty of difficulty modes available, challenges, unlockable stuff, etc. Believe me it’s super-accessible and that’s also what makes it so good. I cleared the Gauntlet on Divine (spent all credits, heh) and I’m really not that good of a shmup player.
If you can get three more buddies, playing it in 4-player local co-op is simply fantastic!
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Funny you should say that, because everytime I saw your old avatar I used to think “wow, it’s Adam Baldwin!”
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Can you try post on the forums? I haven’t added you as an admin but don’t think I have too – I’m still trying to figure out sourceforge. I think you only need to be admin to upload files (art assets and such) but I will add you anyway.
Dear Harli,
How did the SGL go? Were any noobs introduced to the paddle (like the oar, but for shaming instead of welcoming)? Have I obliviously missed a write-up posted a few pages ago?
Herping-the-derp,
Steve-O
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Herpa-da-derp derp,
I think TAY is progressing too fast for me to keep up at my work-swamped office. A write-up will be up soon 😀
Harli
The Tube – Part Two
Concept by Freeze S. Preston Icequire and Shane
Written by Shane
He could remember a time when his daughter could have been held in the palm of his hand. She was so small, so helpless. For months, he would come into the hospital, sit by her humidicrib, read her stories and watch her tiny little chest struggle up and down with each ragged breath.
That time more than any other had awakened in him a fierce protective instinct. He had always loved his family; had always been devoted to the sanctity of the family unit; but never had he anticipated the sheer force of the hormones. The incredible moral leeway he now felt to do anything to ensure the survival and happiness of his family.
If it meant that that little girl would take just another breath, he would have gladly taken any life, or paid any price. His own life was as naught when compared to the love he had for his wife and daughter.
Six years later, he sat at the breakfast table, an untouched breakfast going cold in front of him, thinking about the needletube in his pocket, and trying to get that feeling back. Somewhere along the line, that protective instinct had shriveled a little… or maybe it was just him that was shriveled.
“Hi daddy!”
He turned just in time to be greeted by a crashtackle hug from six-year-old Anne, who planted a big wet kiss on his cheek.
“How did you sleep, sweetheart?” he asked, smiling despite everything.
“Good!”
“Are you nearly ready for school?”
Anne was already eyeing off his untouched breakfast, and was reaching for a strip of bacon as she answered: “Yep.”
Shane smiled a little wider. “You might need some shoes. Why don’t you go and find them?”
Anne looked down at her mismatched socks. “Oh! Shoes!” she cried, and then ran back up the stairs to her room.
He watched her go, his heart swelling with pride and joy for the wonderful child that sick baby had grown into. She was so precious, so smart, so funny, so energetic… she was perfect in a way that only a father could see.
He couldn’t leave her. Not ever.
He thought about the needletube again. If he couldn’t leave, it was his only option.
He picked up his briefcase and walked into the kitchen.
“I’m going to do it,” he announced to Katherine. “As soon as I get home tonight, I’ll do it.”
She nodded, not speaking, but tears welled up in her eyes. Whether from relief or despair, he couldn’t say for certain, but he took her in his arms anyway, and stroked her hair. Breathing in the scent of her, feeling her heart beating against his, he knew that he was making the only choice available to him.
“I can’t give this up,” he said. “Without you and Anne, I couldn’t live.”
She didn’t say anything, but began to sob. He patted her back and wondered what she was thinking.
Morning.
So does anyone know if there are problems with hanging a sign for a political candidate on the front of your property if you are renting in Queensland?
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There really shouldn’t be anything stopping you, but if you have doubts just pester your landlord to see if there is any reason for them to stop you.
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I think Trjn is right.
I’d be very surprised if there is anything stopping you.
You could ask the residential tenancies authority for the legal position: http://www.rta.qld.gov.au/Contact-Us.aspx
But you obviously don’t want to get on the bad side of your landlord, even if you are on the right side of the law, simply for ease-of-life considerations.
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I don’t buy stuff inside Australia very often. Is AusPost’s tracking system reliable or is it often out of date?
My FFXIII-2 collector’s edition thing shipped from EB (yes, I did 🙁 Apparently I paid them $20 extra to shit in my ear :\) yesterday but AusPost’s tracking hasn’t updated since it went from being ‘manifested’ to ‘lodged’ whatever the hell that means.
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Not reliable at all. I had an item ship from Brisbane that was apparently only in Sydney the day it rocked up at my house.
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@NegativeZero (just incase this reply falis)
Did you buy the Limited Edition or the Crystal?
Not really sure about AusPost. But when I ordered something from ebay and it was being tracked, it stayed as “Manifested” for days until it changed to “On hand with driver” (something like that) the day that I received it. It didn’t even tell me when it arrived in Victoria or anything detailed 🙁
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I bought the super ultimate deluxe version, whatever they called it. The one that comes with the whole 4 CD soundtrack and stuff and was EB exclusive.
And then I found out that they’re doing what they did with FFXIII again, and releasing it in Asia with Japanese Dialogue & English/Chinese Subtitles. So I’ll be importing that in the end and not playing my AU version in the end. But at least I’ll have the soundtrack! Ear-shitting that it apparently is.
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Yep that’s the Crystal Edition. I heard the soundtrack/music was good minus that stupid rap song and the heavy metal chocobo song *cringe*
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Yeah I was just having a whinge at the Kotaku review. Game’s not out, and to have someone say that buying a preorder-only collector’s edition of a game was the equivalent of paying someone to shit in your ear really irritated me. Shouldn’t have expected anything different though. I’m one of the people that liked the fact FFXIII was linear. I stopped playing when I got to Gran Pulse because it suddenly lost all focus and turned into an open-world monster-hunting game.
You know what one of my favourite JRPGs ever is? Grandia II. Played that game through four or five times. It’s utterly linear. Utterly. No sidequests, even. Just a solid plot, some nice characters and a great combat system.
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It’s such a relief to hear something like that. I love linear games, I enjoyed the linear bits of FFXIII.
The linearity allowed them to put together the single best difficulty curve I’ve ever seen in a game ever, and maintain the intensity/urgency of the plot.
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But linearity is bad! Every RPG has to be Skyrim!
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That “shit in your ear” thing was just a reference to what he thought of the soundtrack, not the game. And I do remember when playing the demo that the music was pretty dire.
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No, the shit in your ear comment was specifically directed at anyone that decided to buy the collector’s version. It’s condescending and spiteful and completely uncalled for in a review published right when the game is being released. It’s the sort of line that you’d expect to see in a troll comment below the article, not the article itself.
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I’m sick of Kotaku US reviews. I stopped reading them or caring about them a long long time ago. Please decide on a format that works?
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@The Cracks
Damn you and your fondness for steel books! I think they’re pretty cool as well but I don’t really have any.
I was going to pass on MGS:HD until it was cheaper but the Limited Edition does entice me. It was kind of a bummer when I found out the art book didn’t have artwork for MGS so I was going to pass on the Limited Edition (and it was ~$70 more 🙁 ) and just buy the game at a later date. But after reading your comment and thinking about how awesome steel books are I think I’ll probably pick it up now :/. The American Limited Edition is now sold out so that leads me to believe that this Limited Edition is in fact, limited 😛
I was also going to pass on The Last Story for Wii but I might as welll snag that Limited Edition with a steel book :/
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Yep but that’s a preorder for the UK/PAL limited edition. I was referring to the American one that came out a few months ago. It’s a similar edition (minus the t-shirt and steel book) and it sold out really quickly. It goes for around $150 on eBay :/
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I hate steelbooks. So often the cover art for games is putrid, but at least with a standard plastic case & slick you can swap it out if you have to. Plus the one or two steelbook cases look out of place on a shelf where everything else is normal.
You know what I actually miss? PAL PS2 cases. Where every game had the black PS2 logo and then a white spine with the name in black lettering. No logos, no bright colors, no crap. Big collections of PAL PS2 games look awesome on a shelf.
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😛 you’re right… I never really noticed but my game collection is just a colourful mess. Since it’s already messy I don’t really mind. Randomy limited edition boxes and whatnot that stick out don’t help either :/
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Unfortunately I haven’t taken a photograph of my collection in years so I can’t reciprocate, but I totally agree on the limited edition boxes count. What I often started to do was put the bigger boxes to one side of a shelf.
The different spines thing is really annoying. Sony deciding in the middle of the PS3 lifecycle to change their packaging for example, or Microsoft deciding that Kinect games should be purple instead of green. Nintendo’s Wii stuff is pretty consistent since its mainly white, but then if you buy New Super Mario Bros Wii for example you end up with a bright red case in there.
If I had heaps of time and money I’d print off my own customized minimal cover slicks. There’s a thread with a ton of them on NeoGAF, but I tend to have a lot of obscure games so I’d probably have to do custom jobs for a lot of them.
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Looks pretty beautiful to me.
I would put a picture of mine up but it’s in about 8 different locations around the house, my parents’ house and my brother’s house.
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So I was complaining about problems with enrolling in classes for uni this year last night. I neglected to mention that the online services are shockingly terrible and can’t handle the overload of people trying to enroll in classes the night registration opens. The same goes for getting exam results and whatnot. Everybody at uni has come to expect this of the uni, because, now in my third year there, absolutely nothing has changed about the site’s ability to handle things on these important days. And every year the uni goes ‘oh we were very disappointed to discover our servers are having issues, we’ll look into improving things’ but they damn well never do.
I’m one of those lucky people who manged to get into the site after a bit of refreshing but there are people who’ve been up all night apparently because they need to get their timetables to fit with their jobs and whatnot. The amount of uproar on the uni’s Facebook page says it all, really.
/mini rant. Feeling much better now that I’m properly enrolled! Now to play all the video games!
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Choosing timetable preferences at my Uni is easy since you literally just pick whatever times you want. The system locks itself for like a week and then allocates everyone into classes based on their preferences.
Now the bad thing is when the time table is released. You usually never end up with the preferences you wanted and to change classes you need to change into something that’s got spaces. But the system only allows a certain number of students to be logged on at once. It’s an absolute nightmare and it’s almost impossible to log in when the best times are available… Definitely not looking forward to it
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Sounds like the Monash timetables system? They had just introduced it when I was in 1st year.
The trick back then was to go to one of the assistant lecturers for any subjects that were problematic and get yourself moved into another spot, because they had the ability to manually override allocations the system made.
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Yep I’m a Business student at Monash 😛
Honestly my timetables have worked out well from what my friends and I planned. First semester I only had 2 days but they were FULL ON 10 hour+ days (including travel and breaks). I was pretty beat by the end of them so second semester I went for 3 days. Worked out really well because I had classes in the morning so by the time I was finished it just felt like nothing 😀
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Yep I’m a Business student at Monash 😛
Honestly my timetables have worked out well from what my friends and I planned. First semester I only had 2 days but they were FULL ON 10 hour+ days (including travel and breaks). I was pretty beat by the end of them so second semester I went for 3 days. Worked out really well because I had classes in the morning so by the time I was finished it just felt like nothing 😀
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@Alexpants/Greenius (Just incase my reply fails again…)
My Uni tutorial enrolment works on a first in, best dressed schedule. The times to enrol in each tutorial/lab for each class are posted online, then at that time the submissions are open until the class is full. It’s a good system, but only if you’re quick! 😛 Some of the more desirable tutorials fill up in less than 30 seconds sometimes.
At least the website never crashes or anything while enrolling (or, hasn’t in the 3 years I’ve been there :P).
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That system would be so bad for me :P. I always seem to have trouble getting in and stuff and would probably end up with all the shitty times 🙁
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@Everyone who replied
Some of those enrollment systems sound quite complicated! I’d hate to sort out my preferences only to have them all swapped for something completely ridiculous. Despite the website constantly failing on the first day of enrollment I’m at least comfortable with the knowledge that I have more control over exactly what my timetable is going to look like. Although it’s amazing either way how stressful the whole situation can become.
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What someone already has Di11enger on sourceforge 🙁 noooooooo oh well time to revert to old nickname
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Steve-O broke TAY by posting a comment with multiple links and then replying to it. People replied to his reply and because most of us can’t see the parent comment (because it’s waiting for moderation) they get bumped to the end as individual comments until the parent comment gets approved.
It’s a WordPress thing.
Really, it wouldn’t be an issue if people didn’t reply to their own comments that are awaiting moderation.
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Sometimes I hate how easily anything from xkcd turns into a meme.
On Reddit, whenever someone types “sigh”, there will now be a reply of “girl look at that body”.
Every damned time.
I’d go beat a dead horse too, but it took an arrow to the knee.
Taking a joke that is kind of mildly amusing and repeating it ad nauseum doesn’t make it actually funny.
Sigh.
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I saw that xkcd comic, but relegated it to the large pile of ones I simply don’t understand. I might slap myself when you tell me, but what’s the joke?
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He’s helping, in his own special way :p
It’s a case of a “finish this sentence” type joke. They’re song lyrics (Sigh. Girl look at that body. Sigh. Girl look at that body.) so you just finish the line.
Just like whenever you hear someone say “this one time…”.
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Dammit.
."..at band camp..."
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As far as I can tell, LMFAO is either always taking the piss and can’t take anything (particularly themselves) seriously or they enjoy copious amounts of cocaine.
Possibly both.
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I think so?
I think the whole idea of LMFAO is a bit of a joke. They were good to watch live though, a lot of fun.
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The swinging cockandballs cannot be unseen.
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I saw them in person. Yep. That’s not going away.
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I assume from context it’s an LMFAO song. Having resisted every request or impulse to listen to an LMFAO song, I don’t get it either – apart from appreciating the context.
Kind of like when I saw the original TMNT movie as a kid and Raphael mentioned that Casey Jones had a “Jose Conseco bat”. I didn’t know who Jose Conseco was so I inferred that either:
1) Jose Conseco is very popular and a bat endorsed by him would be very expensive – therefore Casey Jones likely stole the bat; or,
2) Jose Conseco is very unpopular or his merchandise is of poor quality, so Raphael was ironically appealing to his opponent’s common sense, asking him “PLEASE tell me you didn’t actually pay for this crap”.
Either way was funny, so I appreciated the context that a joke was present, even if the meaning I could derive from it was in a state of quantum flux.
I was a very complex eight year old.
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That never occurred to me.
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This is why I’m the funny one.
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Funny sounding words hasn’t been a recognised field of comedy since 1994.
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Objection!
In the episode of The Simpsons “Homie The Clown” (original airdate Feb 12, 1995), Krusty gives a lesson on funny placenames. This indicates that inherently funny words were an accepted form of comedy until at least a year after your claim.
In addition to that, the TV Tropes entry on inherently funny words contains many recent examples.
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You’re going to use an outdated comedian from a fictional television program set inside another television program as your primary reference?!
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Yes.
Because I forgot that Pinky and the Brain ran until 1998.
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Did it really? Wow.
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And rightly bloody so. It is excellent.
If it’s funny in it’s own right it will bear repetition, but only to a point. I don’t really think the arrow to the knee thing was ever funny, whereas ‘cake is a lie’ kind of was.
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Nope.
Chuck Testa.
The problem is that there are just so many people who jump on memes that are kind of slightly amusing and oversaturate the joke.
As someone who likes to abuse memes for fun and profit, even I know that you’re meant to use them either in context or wildly out of context. Not just whenever the mood takes.
So I’m off work for the rest of the week with this frigging shoulder injury (original thread for reference: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-154/comment-page-28/#comment-527428 )
There’s literally nothing else I can do except read and play Xbox. Can’t even sit at the computer for more than half an hour without pain. And I’m really keen to play some Gears 3. If there are any others of you that would like to play, my Gamertag is TheLastQuestion. I’ll probably have the Pathological Horder title by the end of the week -_-
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Do you need to get surgery for the shoulder, or have you already had it? Dislocations are nasty nasty business.
Clearly you’ll need to get a Wii and a copy of Skyward Sword for your rehab. 😛
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Oh man, would that be bad. I’m in good health but I need a little rest after big battles in Skyward Sword because I’ve been flailing my arms around like a maniac.
The other day our puppy decided I was teasing her with the cord and started going for it. It was too hilarious for me to do anything about it and I couldn’t stop in the middle of a fight so I just tried to fight and keep the cord away from her at the same time. She can jump pretty bloody high too.
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Already got a copy of Skyward Sword that I was actually just getting into before last weekend. It’s heartbreaking to think that I would be able to touch it for months 🙁
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I should be getting my copy of Gears any day and I’d be up for some multiplayer. I work long hours and commute too far though so I don’t get to get online much. But if you see McGarnical on there, we can get our bro on.
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@Steve-O: I will join up tonight, can’t discuss specifics of a project like that while at work. :\
Am I crazy or is Michael Jackson’s demo version of We Are the World so much better than the USA for Africa final version. The lyrics are darker too. I blame Lionel Richie. 😛 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRUSpB5ezoA
@Blaghs,
I was going to try an get a hold of you today and see if I could grab my drum pedal off you, but due to the sheer incompetence of someone I work with I’m going to be tied up all day.
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Trust me, if he was as outright useless as this guy, I’d tell him up front 😛
He’ll know who I’m talking about, too. I’m pretty sure this guy doesn’t have a freakin’ qualification, and just told everyone he did at his interview.
I’m going to cut this post short before it turns into a rant…a very, very angry rant.
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That’s cool, since I’m not at home at the moment, could you email me(blaghman-at-gmail-dot-com), and I can tell you the address of this place.
Just found out the baby we are expecting is going to be a boy.
I really didn’t care whether it was a boy or girl, but I’m pretty excited.
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First week of July, approx. Doing my best to appreciate a good night’s sleep and gaming time in the evening, but you never really appreciate these things until you don’t have them.
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Congrats. I have a 3yo boy and its awesome.. its also a massive PITA but you grow to love ’em.
As for gaming.. don’t worry man, I did more gaming after he was born than before. He would wake for a 1am feed. Wife would go to bed at 9/10 and Id stay up gaming until his feed. Id then go to bed and wake at 6/7 for work. Wife would wake at 4am or so for another feed. We both had a decent nights sleep and i got to game..
but congrats man.
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Also a massive PITA:
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Why did I laugh at that? Out loud too. I guess some of my wife’s pregnancy hormones are affecting my brain too
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That’s really awesome!
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Damn you people and having boys!
I mean congratulations. I believe high (2+3)’s are in order.
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Dude, what happened to your arm.. hope you’re ok? Here, I’ll only raise one arm in support brother
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Have you considered any names other than Billy? Because you’d be wasting your time if you did. Your spawn must be named Billy, by decree of the internets.
Also congrats but mainly the Billy thing.
Congrats! I hear men are happy when their progeny is male. Makes them feel super-manly or something.
I’m one of the lucky ones with one boy and one girl so I get the best of both worlds and never have to be pregnant again. \o/
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I’m mostly happy because I think it’ll be easier for me to play with them and down the track we can go go karting and paintballing and stuff.
I’m probably being really stereotypical but I can’t help be someone who automatically would give a girl a doll and a boy a Tonka truck.
My wife would prefer a girl because she wants someone to go shopping with and talk talk talk talk with.
Yep, all we need is a picket fence and a labrador and we’ll fit the picture.
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True. I think every child has the right to Lego growing up.
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This is not a universal thing. I think I’m much better suited to having daughters. I’m actually a little scared by the idea of a son.
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I think you end up with the child you were meant to have. When I found out my daughter was a girl I panicked. I’ve never found it easy to relate/talk to girls and was worried this would be the case with my daughter. I worried for nothing, she was and is made of awesome and likes cool stuff and is 11 and still not gaga over boys and clothes and the colour pink. I’m happy with this.
As for my son, when I found out I was pregnant I worried I would never be able to love him as much I loved my daughter, because for so long it had just been me and her. And I also worried I wouldn’t know what to do with a son. Again, I worried for nothing. As soon as my son was born everything fell into place. 🙂
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It’s easy, Shane, just introduce your spawnling to “Uncle Blaghs,” the best influence this side of a beer bottle!
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What is this, someone breaking TAY without me? :'(
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Okay, my sourceforge name is lambomann007 😀
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Really tough one.
In no order, my favourites are Ratatouille, Up, Toy Story (all of them), and The Incredibles.
Least favourite is easier. Cars.
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Cars is actually pretty good. I know a lot of people like to take pot shots at it for being the weakest Pixar film (until the sequel) but there really are a lot of positives in there. And this is coming from someone that hates Owen Wilson.
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I mentioned this last time there was Pixar talk, but cars is entirely worth it for what it’s created at Disney’s California Adventure.
http://www.westcoaster.net/updates.php?updateCD=013012&page=5
It’s… beautiful. 😀
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Holy shit. Holy shit. HOLY SHIT!!!
IM GOING IN OCTOBER!!! HOLY SHIT!!!
SOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!
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Are you mocking me? :P\\
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No way, man!
If I’m mocking you it’s way more ambiguous.
I found out that Disneyland has submarines the other day and I lost my shit.
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The Disney parks are a thing of beauty. I’ve been to the ones in LA, Orlando and Paris now and still haven’t gotten enough of them. Have fun, man.
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Agreed with Cars. I was really intensely disappointed by it and enjoyed it not at all. I thought Hoodwinked was more fun, and Hoodwinked gets a 2/10 on the Shane scale of movie scores.
As a fanboy, they all have merit.
The Incredibles is pretty damned remarkable, being a solid deconstruction and reconstruction of the superhero genre.
Wall-E is one of the most charming movies I’ve ever had the fortune to see.
Up is simply beautiful. From the opening montage to the visuals to Doug’s affection.
But I think that I have to go with Toy Story 3. I can’t think of a more satisfying conclusion to the trilogy.
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Might damage my manly street cred, but when Randy Newman’s You’ve Got A Friend in Me started in Toy Story 3 there might have been tears. 😛
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Reporting for duty? And I’m not even a ranga.
Also, I’m not really a fan of Randy Newman.
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Me. I have no soul. Toy Story 3 was in no way worthy of my tears.
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Definitely For the Birds, but I am a huge fan of the one with the Jackalope too: http://youtu.be/k1sF2TbOPjI. This is only the first half, I couldn’t find the full thing in my two-second search.
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I really don’t get the dewy-eyed fanboy love Pixar movies get. Even before my kids made me watch them a bazillion times I wasn’t that big a fan. Except Up. Up is made of awesome. It’s the only one that doesn’t make me want to stab myself in the eyes and ears every time it’s on. Cars and Wall-E are the worst.
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You forget that a fanboy does not think clearly about the object of their affection.
Trust me. I have one of those aliens from Toy Story on my desk.
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That’s okay, though. People like what they like. If you don’t dig them then you don’t have to explain yourself to any one. I’ll just secretly judge you. 😛 I think it’s the purity and innocence of Pixar movies that moves my bitter, cynical innards. Reminds me of a time when I wasn’t broken. 😛
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Speaking of Pixar music, I love almost all the original themes. Le Festin in Ratatouille is kind of beautiful when you see the translated lyrics. So relevent to the movie despite the fact almost no one will hear it translated. Michael Giacchino, you’re awesome. 😛 http://pixarplanet.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=58769
Who am I kidding, it’s kind of beautiful even in French. 😛
All were inferior to Rango!
And just to really upset the cradle, I enjoyed the Astro Boy movie more than most Pixar movies.
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Rango is awesome! Had that old school Western feel
But are all Pixar movies inferior to Rango? No. Probably just Cars and Cars 2 😛
Guys, I’m trying to promote the word ‘Dinosarus’ as a viable alternative for the collective noun for a group of dinosaurs.
And dont give me that ‘but but but… dinosaurs is already a word!’ nonsence. I wont have a stick of it.
Anyone here willing to get behind that? Just start using it in conversation (coz we all know collective nouns of extinct reptiles comes up all the damn time) & tell anyone who questions it that they are behind the times.
that is all.
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As in, “Oh look a dinosaurs of velociraptors is coming into our yard. It’s ok just close the door.”?
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no, I explained that rather badly. basically. dinosaurus as a viable alternative for the word dinosaurs.
either way, I’m gonna continue using it / sounding like a fool.
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Guys, Fortune Summoners is out on Steam. Since all I play is PC games, this was very relevant to my interests:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/203510/
Yayifications anyone? It seems it’s also priced fairly, even for australians!
I know I should be talking about Serious Sam 3 and all but, well, this thing just defeated freaking Skyrim on the top sales!!!!! Daaaaaaaaamn!
I need some help TAYbies… please if anyone has any advice I’d appreciate it.
I need to get access to some specific classical music for a for-profit type produciton that I am making. I need to obtain Royalty free music for it.
I have already selected the music, all classical music, however on the versions I have, I can’t say where the recordings are from. I need somewhere to buy or legally use for commercial purposes royalty free music.. I have searched around and found a few places, just wondering if anyone has had experience.???
Shit I hate this legal crap. Seriously does my head in trying to put a video out and taking about 6 times longer to make and authorise because of the stuffing aroundd because of the legal stuff.. I guess it’s for protection of the artists but its a PITA. As thios music was composed hundreds of years ago, I just want a recording of it and Im sure there must be some around that are free to use for commercial purposes> but no idea how to find them>>>>>
DAMN I hate this!hopefully the last hurdle I have to get over.
Any help is appreciated. I can give track names if needed, but happy if you know any good sites??
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I wish I could help more, but all I can do is stress the importance of doing this right. I can see you are already taking it seriously so this probably not necessary. But IP could screw you bad down the track if you accidentally step on any toes now. I know the music is really old, but the recording itself has its own fresh copyright. You might need to hunt around for very old recordings or ones done under some sort of free-to-use license.
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I am actually working with Intellectual property lawyers so they are making me do it right. I have already had to re-do about 10+ hours work this week to remove a bunch of footage becuse, while I know the owner of the recording, and was able to gain approval in principal, it had to be escalated up the chain so to speak adn caused a lengthy delay that was just easier to avoid all together…
I really want to do it right though, but it is just hard. The information is so easy to find on every website but you never know where it comes from. 🙁
It’s just been a long hard road to get here and I’m still not there.
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Have you tried asking Pez via twitter? I think he would probably know a bit about all that, given his remixing and the like.
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I’m not sure if you’re being serious, or making a joke that has just soared over my head on wings of steel, but: http://soundcloud.com/jamesflamestar/sets/drumnbass/ as an example.
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This is probably the best resource I can find.
Mainly because it’s a link list so you can refer to the Project Gutenberg and Library of Congress ones (and I guess the Wikipedia one) and because it mentions the copyright status of the songs at those sites.
Hope it helps.
Failing that, it doesn’t hurt to look for things under the Creative Commons license. As long as you don’t modify and attribute them correctly, you should be fine.
McGarnical
Are you getting (or have got) a 4D scan? They are pretty rad. You get a great image of your kid from it.
I saw the 4D image at around the 13 week mark, and the sonographer said don’t pay any attention to the detail because the computer is half making it up. She wasn’t kidding. The kid had 3 arms for a second! I imagine they’ll show us more at the 20-week scan we have coming up. That will also confirm to 99% or so that it really is a boy. I’m basing gender so far on a quick look by the obstetrician today but he said he’s pretty sure.
The Tube – Part Three
Concept by Freeze S. Preston Icequire and Shane
Written by Shane
“You made a decision yet?”
Shane sighed and stared despondently at his sandwich. “No, not yet.”
Mike let out a laugh. “I don’t understand why you’re getting so worked up about this. Room and board, and the pay is much, much better.”
“It’s all right for you. But what about Katherine and the kids?”
“Kids? Plural?”
“Oh, yeah, we found out the same day the company was sold: Katherine’s pregnant again.”
“Wow, dude, congratulations!” Mike slapped him on the back.
“Thanks. I can’t leave them, not for this.”
“OmniTech bought your contract. Do you actually have a choice in the matter?”
Shane sighed. His contract was pretty ironclad. He dimly recalled a world where a unionized workforce was able to avoid being sued for punitive damages for skipping out on a contract. The days of fair work and of unions were long gone; he was indentured to GenTech (now owned by OmniTech) for another five years, and if he left early for any reason, he could lose everything.
“Can’t leave them. Can’t bring them with me. I can’t quit.” He was muttering, but to Mike it seemed like Shane was talking almost to himself, turning over the same old problem again and again in his mind.
“What are you going to do?” Mike asked.
“I’ve got some leave coming up. I was saving it for when the baby was born, but OmniTech have graciously allowed me to take it now, while I make my decision.”
“You want my advice: don’t take too long about it. These guys mean serious business. I heard the takeover of the exec board of GenTech was bloody; not corporate-bloody, but real bloody.”
“That’s just a ridiculous rumour,” Shane said. “They still have to operate under the law.”
“I heard they’ve got the chief of police, a couple of judges and an MP on their board. I don’t think the law is necessarily their greatest concern.”
Shane almost told Mike his plan, nearly spilled the secret of the needletube in his wallet. But he couldn’t. He didn’t especially care that he was about to break about eight federal laws and a bunch of minor ones; but he was aware that it would all be for nothing if he was caught. And best friend or no, Mike had a careless tongue, especially when he’d had a couple.
“It might be a long shot,” Mike said, “but why don’t you talk to them, see if they’ll let you out amiably, or work out some kind of part-time arrangement?”
“I tried,” Shane said, “but I’m the only one who knows this generator system they want to install.”
Mike’s eyes tightened noticeably. His voice was frosty when he said, “I designed that system too. Just because my contribution didn’t win the Nobel…”
“Look, Mike, I’m not trying to take anything away from you. You kick-started this whole design. You should be real proud of yourself; I couldn’t have done any of this without you. But ultimately, I took the idea and ran with it. I know the system inside and out, whereas you…”
Mike was on his feet, fists clenched, his chair sprawled on the ground three metres away. “You fucking sanctimonious…”
It was almost a relief when alarm bells started to ring. The klaxon sound flared in their eardrums, and continued to resonate even as a robotic female voice proclaimed the end of the universe.
Shane and Mike were already running, zipping up their hazard suits.
“What the hell is going on?” their supervisor demanded. “This system you designed…”
“Is a little temperamental,” Shane said. “You knew this going in, Henry. It was agreed that the greatly increased energy output was worth the extra maintenance.”
“Is it going to blow?” Henry asked, a little nervous.
“Not if we act quickly,” Mike said. “What’s the error code?”
“HGR-56789.”
“It’s the valve on the third regulator,” Shane said instantly.
Mike was flipping through the documentation, his fingers swiping frantically at the screen. “No, the manual says it’s the secondary coolant pump in Sector Eight.”
“Trust me,” Shane said, already halfway up the ladder. “You coming?”
“If you’re wrong,” Mike said, following him, “we die.”
Does any one else hate the pretentious Melbourne commercials as much as me? Makes me want to never go there again. 😛
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You know — hipsters, weird hair cuts, running through art galleries with indie music in the background. Basically every Melbourne ad for the last decade. 😛
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LOL whenever I think of Melbourne ads all I can picture is that guy with the plant nurseries who says “Hello Hello” and often runs around in either a tutu or the nude – once you see it – it can’t be unseen
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Only ones I remember are the old Me! bourne ones or whatever
I don’t watch much TV so it doesn’t bother me 😛
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This is probably the only time a Tourism Victoria as hasn’t disgusted me. 😛 I suspect it’s only because of the song, though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEqtcmn-ePU
Think I’m going to fade out of TAY for the rest of today. After all the annoyances at work, I’m having a hard time maintaining a positive enough attitude here, and don’t want to offend anyone.
Man, that sounds emo! Anyhoo, catch everyone later.
@Everyone,
Is my story spamming annoying anyone? Happy to not do it anymore or put them elsewhere and link from here. Just say! 🙂
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No it’s fine 🙂 I like reading your stories.
I read part 1 a bit too quickly and wasn’t really sure what was going on :/ I’ll catch up one day though!
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I really love your stories when I get a chance to read them. Usually, I TAY when I should be working and I’m not committed enough in my procrastination to properly digest them except when I get home and do it all in one go. Sometimes takes a long time. I am about five posts behind in your Demons Souls stories for example and have not yet read a single one of the Shane/Mikey saga. I will though and really appreciate that they are there. What I have read of your writing I really like so I promise I will get around to them at some point and I am sure I will like them.
In other words, please keep it up even if I don’t say anything!
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Cheers. One day I’ll post some mega-post with every link to every story ever, and really show you the meaning of procrastination.
PS: Every story I’ve ever posted here was written while at work. 🙂
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Stop stressing and just keep writing, story slave. 😛
Seriously though, I’m pretty sure if people got sick of your stories (pfft! as if!) they’d let you know pretty fast. With whinging and backhanded jibes and the like.
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I know with myself I tend not to comment because I feel like I can’t say anything that will look good after what I’d just read.
To you it may seem like a stony silence, but to others it’s more likely a companionable silence, or possibly even an awestruck one. 🙂
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It’s so hard to tell the difference!
Last week when the wife wasn’t talking to me, I just naturally assumed she was awestruck. Imagine my surprise when I learned the truth 🙂
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Well if you can’t read your wife’s stony silence by now you deserve your wife’s stony silence. 😛
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If you mean that I fear you will become bitter if this story lands me a Nobel Prize, then yes, that’s what it means. Most everything else is fictional. 😛
Although I for one wouldn’t be upset if you ‘happend’ to put permalinks in the post underneath
Just saying
LoL talk!
Take a gander at this: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/new-items-locket-iron-solari-and-remade-aura-items
Basically, Riot re reworking some of the aura items to be a little more supporty.
Anyone have thoughts? Personally, I think the shield from the Locker looks a little derp, because it would only realy help against a team with a moderate amount of AoE, as it wouldn’t make that much difference when someone’s being focused down.
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I dunno, that shield does look like a useful thing for team engagements. At max level, that’s 230 damage it’s soaking up with a decent health regen aura. Not going to make a huge difference when someone is being focused down but it would make the team engagement as a whole slightly better for your side simply because your team is bulkier.
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I like the idea of EVERYONE taking the locket then taking it in turns to pop the shield (since you can’t stack it due to being unique and all).
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25-30 seconds of a shield like that for a whole team would be interesting but would it be effective against say brands ulti if your all grouped together (assuming you are “nearby”)?
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I think there’s some pizza on these mushrooms…
GTFO mushrooms. You do NOT belong on pizza.
Discuss.
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I have a friend you could rant with, she shares your sentiments. I personally think the more mushrooms the better.
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I normally don’t like mushrooms at all. But I like them on pizza. But not too mushroomy please.
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Mushrooms do not belong on anything I am going to eat. If they’re going to be on a pizza I usually replace them with jalapenos.
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I don’t understand this whole “___ doesn’t belong on a pizza” thing. Everything edible belongs on a pizza.
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Good point. Strong cheeses and strong mushrooms aren’t actually edible, so this theory holds up.
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Maybe not all at the same time. But yes, anything edible can go on a pizza. It’s like the way that everything goes with bacon.
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Was it really Plainview? I thought he just went along with it after it was already a thing.
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It was a Plainview thing. I think. But then, I’m old so my memory could be bad.
I’m pretty sure Plainview started it and Bawble mentioned it but because Plainview’s thing was a late-night, previous page thing most people attribute it to Bawble. Or something. I’m a little fuzzy on details. -
You’re getting old.
I went and checked, it was bawble’s fault. It’s the only reference to pineapples in that entire week’s TAY and Shameless Gaming Month wasn’t a thing before that week.
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Nice detective work. You must be batman.
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I’m not sure, I think Batman is one of these guys.
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His detective work was flawed. There’s no way that was the earliest mention of “pineapple of shame”. Look at the context. Dawdle assumes everyone knows what she is talking about.
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No mentions of pineapples on any previous page of TAY that week. “Pineapple of shame” makes sense in the context of the post and the posts leading up to it where I’m spamming the idea pretty heavily :p
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Just checked the week before. Only two mentions of pineapples. Both referring to Bish’s pineapple buns.
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I did my own detective work (Googled “site:www.kotaku.com.au pineapple”) and can find no earlier reference than Trjn’s 30 June 2011 reference, and see a cluster of them in the week after 30 June. I think he’s right.
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HOLY CRAP! In that TAY there’s a link to the TAY a year before that
AND I’M IN IT 😐
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Dawdle!’s boyfriend (either bawble or CrabJiffy depending on what mood you’re in) apparently apparently called the pile of shame pineapple of shame. I liked it. It stuck.
I don’t know that it did.
The no pineapple on pizza thing started from the Geelong meat recently. We were ordering pizzas and Morf made the mistake of suggesting Hawaiian only to be told that ‘pineapple does not belong on a pizza’ by several people (not me, I don’t mind it).
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I’m on top of the “pineapple on pizza” controversy, but had also seen the word “pineapple” used for “pile of shame”.
Thanks all for explaining this. I’m a little gratified it is complicated and fuzzy because I feel better about not knowing where it came from now.
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Mark was confused by the pineapple thing when he made the banner for Shameless Gaming Month. I think everyone was confused but it’s just that sort of thing that I latch onto and go with.
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Pizza without pineapple is like pizza with pineapple, but delicious.
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PIZZA WITHOUT PINEAPPLE IS LIKE BEER WITHOUT ALCOHOL, POINTLESS!!!
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Pizza without pineapple is like chocolate cake without mustard
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No, seriously. ಠ_ಠ
What bothers me is that this is a Meat Lovers pizza… We’ve (family) bought it from the same place for years and it’s never had mushrooms on it 🙁
I just took them off and put them to the side. Not really troublesome at all 😛
Mushrooms are the best food going. A few years ago I was indifferent to them, but lately I absolutely love them. xD Must be getting old?
(Actually when I was a kid I remember I used to not like pizza at all. I have no idea what was wrong with me, either).
I’m making a pizza tonight with last night’s leftover roast lamb. It’s going to have lamb, olives and pumpkin on it. But no mushrooms. 🙂
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Interesting thought…
Lamb is pretty much my favourite animal carcass to devour, and pizza is an ol’ favourite, too.
I don’t think I’ve ever combined the two.
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MUSTSHOULD RECTIFY THIS.Faux-Sewer-Worker fled,
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If you want to do it right, I can tell you all the details.
I make the pizza bases and roll them out, topping them with regular pizza sauce and a bit of mozzarella before pieces of lamb, olives and roasted pumpkin. A touch more cheese on top before cooking in the oven and then when they come out I put some baby rocket leaves on top and finish with a squeeze of lemon. Tastes awesome. 🙂-
Also consider adding roasted capsicum, cherry tomatoes and replacing the second helping of cheese with crumbled feta. Seems kind of cliche but it works well.
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y’all easterners got it sooooo goood!
i mean, you get krispy kremes… WE DONT GET THEM AT ALL!!
so, i emplore you, whenever you bite into that glazed, doughy goodness, remember how lucky you are to have it, and that someplace, somewhere, a west ausralian 17 year old is crying himself to sleep, because he can never get those donuts.
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I have never had krispy kreme. You may wish to withdraw my easterner license, but there it is.
Is this something I should be getting into? I do like junk food.
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It’s good but somewhat expensive.
Last time I checked a lot of the stores were shutting down but if you can find it try out the original glazed ones 🙂
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Krispy Kreme in QLD before…
Oh, wait, I think I saw one at the Sunshine Coast once.-
There is/was one between Queen St and Adelaide St a few years back, not sure if it’s still there but was álright eatin’ the one time I went. Don’t let it haunt your dreams, though. Wasn’t THAT good. 😛
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There’s one in the Myer centre and there used to be one where the 7-11 I used to work at was (near the Commonwealth Bank on Adelaide St). It’s nice but not something worth going nuts about. They kind of buggered up the Aussie launch by having too many stores open at once. They simply couldn’t justify having so many stores.
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Imo, you’re not missing out on TOO much. I think the reason people rave about them is because they’re “rare” (outside of the major cities, anyway). I much prefer normal cinnamon doughnuts, to be honest. 😛
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I suppose, ignoring the fact that the nearest store is more than a 15 minute drive away. Closeby, possibly, but hardly access to them all the time.
Don’t get me wrong, I like doughnuts, and I like the Krispy Kreme glazing they put on their doughnuts. But their sugary goodness is hardly unique enough for me to crave them, nor am I willing to spend so much on an experience which is something I’d call good, but not great, and which would only last a few seconds anyway.-
nor am I willing to spend so much on an experience which is something I’d call good, but not great, and which would only last a few seconds anyway.
Oh man.
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I agree with you Bish. They are over rated.
I can’t actually eat them because they set off the sensitivity in my teeth. =/
God-dammit /v/.
Look at this Star Fox image, look at their legs.
http://i.imgur.com/wf6ivl.jpg
“Legless pilots can handle more Gs than their legged brethren. When gravity forces blood from the brain to lower extremities, it causes the pilot to black out. But if you have no legs to force blood to, more blood can stay in the brain, and it’s easier for the heart to pump blood back to the brain.
Their legs were probably voluntarily amputated as these are all trained pilots. Their futuristic society allows for prosthetics that allows them to walk and run normally so there’s no loss in performing these amputations.”
D:
Today was so peaceful! So glad all the feral kids are back at school. xD
School is over for the day though… D:
Hi TAY…
it’s okay, i’m alive… sort of… got tied down with *shudder* work all day, just spent the last 30 minutes catching up with you guys… i’ll be honest, i gave up :D….
10 pages, IT’S ONLY TUESDAY…
one thing i did notice though, is that apparently visual evidence exists of my backup dancing… \o/ i’m farking awesome!, i is on the internets, i’m famous now
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I saw a video from the Can’d Meat.
Your horned helm must have fallen off while you were dancing…
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…yes this is definitely what happened :P…
actually i was looking for it at home, but disappointed myself greatly when i was unable to locate it… i will have to have a bigger investigation going and rectify this issue for the next Meat….
that or steal a hubcap (god knows there’s plenty of those in canberra) and slay a bull… this is legal right? -
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May heaven help me (or the bullet hell too!).
I’ve contacted Mark and Tracey with not just the preview but a proposal for something more community involved.
Anyway, my mind is at its limit today. Going to sleep!
Everyone have a nice, glorious and safe day!
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I hope so! The perspective of free games (in bold) should be a nice booster! 😛 But our main objective is to at least help with the change of mentality started by Racketoy with the Shmups 101 article and with Jamestown as the first serious western effort at making bullet hell something human while also having a big inhuman side.
Plus betentacled martians and their spanish allies.
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I’m trying to write a witness statement for events that happened in 2006 for a court case I’m preparing for. I had a cute little theory as to how a concept came up in a meeting and the witness agreed to it. Turns out the theory is not possible because the concept came up on 16 June and my theory depends on a discussion that occurred on 19 June. I just spent the last TWO HOURS working this out. Now I need a new theory. #firstworldlawyerproblems?
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Well I was guessing Mike was me (Mike =Mike) and the generator was the concept of the story?
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Ah well, in that case you got it right 🙂
It’s not a direct analogy, but rather just real life fodder used to fuel a story
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It definitely had some merit but I can’t help but think it would have been better if Affleck had stayed behind the camera.
I have no issue with him as an actor but to be the main character in your directorial debut? Seems like a rookie mistake to me.
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I forgot about Gone Baby Gone.
I dunno. Something about that movie seemed off to me. A missed opportunity, something just not being right, I’m not sure. I put it down to Affleck doing the actor/director thing because it was the most obvious thing to come to mind.
I was also just a little distracted when watching.
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Were you getting hot secks from a lahdee?
I bet you were, you devil…
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You are correct in guessing that it was a date. The rest, not so much :p
Only had a few dates with that girl before we both just kind of stopped talking to each other. She probably lost interest first though, because I’m clearly such a chick magnet :p
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Just did some research. The original cut was almost four hours long. The theatrical release? 2 hours 8 minutes.
I think I found the problem.
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Same!
Man that Sir Dan guy. What a rad name he has.
What’s that?
Oh, I hadn’t even noticed. I guess we DO have the same name.
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It is amazing, love the humor in it… found the Camera slightly frustrating at times, but not game breaking
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I saw it and wasn’t even aware it existed. Someone had traded it in. I quickly grabbed it and purchased it =D
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Hi everyone,
Gonna pimp and run. I’ll be putting up The Tube as a daily (weekdaily) serial on my blog. Part two (which has already been posted here) goes up at 9am tmrw.
http://shanewsmith.com/blog/category/the-tube/sort/_post_date-pp-asc
Have a great night!
So, through my wizardry and all-round likability (apart from the peopel that can’t stand me), HarveyNormanAU have just started following ME on twitter.
This brought something to mind; these guys can’t POSSIBLY be related in any way to Gerry Harvey. They are generous and constantly courteous to customers and never complain or try to upsell something through twitter.
What the?
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I would have thought a rogue employee. Someone competent at customer interaction slipped through the vigorous Harvey Norman screening process :p
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maybe i’ve made a mistake by pointing it out, and he’ll soon be fired for acts of generosity and not upselling $100 HDMI cables?!
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they have like weekly prizes and as soon as someone says they have a problem they help them IMMEDIATELY.
And yet, here’s Gerry being an absolute dinosaur.
I sometimes feel sorry for the staff whom have to be associated with him and his lackey’s ways…
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Oh oh oh! I just remembered, my local The reject shop sells bionicles of war 2 figurines. I ended up buying one for $2 and I’ll try to take photos later.
Anyone wanna just which franchise they’re ripping off?
So, “Professor Layton: The weird-arse village with an impossible tower” is complete. Well, not 100%, but like, 96% complete, and that’s all I ever do with games, because I’m awesome. And I meant to spend today doing something other than having to look up the solutions to some puzzles online because I was clearly dropped on my head as a child.
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You mean curious village. Don’t get angry at it. Everyone looks up the solutions. I know I do =D
The puzzles are freaking hard, but then there’s also the easy ones-
Yeah, exactly, Professor Layton and the mystery of the enormous mustaches. I’m not angry, there were some where I was like “well, I know how to solve this, but it would require remembering things, so… LOOK UP THE ANSWER!”
I am very slack. h and Bish 100%ed it in 2 hours less than it took me to finish it…
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i brushed off this late last year… must admit, finishing that game felt a lot more like an accomplishment then some other games has,
i think it has to do with the nature of the game, and it actually challenges you… i quickly picked up the other Layton’s, and i must admit, they never seem to get old-
Thanks to Bish I have 2 and 3 here, waiting to be played.
Since I’m lazy, and can’t be bothered looking it up, does anyone know how many Layton games there are available in Australia/ in English?
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i think a 4th one has just become available, i believe there are 6 all up, but we only have access to 4 so far… but like you i am lazy, i’ve had a long day and CBF’ed 😛
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1. Curious Village
2. Pandora’s/Diabolical Box (NA/EU names, respectively)
3. Lost Future/Unwound Future (NA/EU)
4. beginning of prequel trilogy, Spectre’s… something. Again with the 2 names. Spectre’s Call? Spectre’s Flute? Something like that.#5, Mask of Miracle is a 3DS game, but only out in Japan right now.
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You dear Blaghs, just got Bished \o/
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I spent the whole of the weekend getting Bished, so this is nothing new.
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The last specter here and with the American spelling D=
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Wasn’t it “hell damn fart!”?
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Yup.
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All those puzzles with just one single solution usually found my trial and error are the really hard ones (those slidey block ones, jumpy board ones, chess ones etc.) the hints are practically useless for them too 🙁
I have never played a Layton game 🙁 By the time they were coming out, I’d pretty much shelved my DS.
So Tafe is done and dusted, i don’t know why i was so worried, the test was a little challenging but it wasn’t anything i couldn’t handle. Now i am back to my regular roster tomorrow. Only a few courses left until i am certified.
Bastion is 600 points on XBL from today and for the next few days… Not sure if its up on Aussie site yet..
http://majornelson.com/page/2/
Ive not seen this but hearing good things ill likely get it for 600 points. Thats been my strategy with Portal and Limbo and shaddow complex actually so its a good thing.
Can’t tell you to get it but others will, but its cheap so just reminding you all 🙂
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Hey good pickup! Very tempting. I tried it on both xbox and Steam and it felt like a control pad game to me so I thought I’d wait for an xbox sale. Now I am being tested.
Also on that list is the Syndicate demo. I am looking forward to that!
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Surely M$ won’t put out the Syndicate demo in Aus though.
I couldn’t get excited for Bastion, I’m still waiting for Braid to go on special – I can’t justify 800pts for something that’s likely to be short but 400 I could.
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Haven’t checked on the xbox yet but I’ve been checking this every couple of hours and it’s still showing L.A. Noire DLC
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-AU/Promotion/dealoftheweek
Hopefully that 1 month gold voucher I have still works 😛
Have any of you fine people seen The Butcher Boy? It’s an Irish movie from 1998, and never really had a big profile to start with. I will be surprised if anyone has. The movie has been on my mind lately. It is very sad but also very funny. I always find this a very realistic combination. Brilliant movie.
So I gave in last night and purchased RE4HD over the Silent Hill HD as I am nothing if not impatient. Should be downloaded by the time I get home. Hopefully my PS3 has nOt fried itself from being left on all night.
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Is this for a first playthrough? I’ve been playing through it, for the first time, on xbox. I think about 1/3 of the way through. Some of the set pieces are INTENSE.
Hi TAY! I am back!
So filling out an application for a job right, I forget who my references are, uh-oh >.<
In other news, check this ant out I found today, it was a good 30mm long, and it's pincers are something fierce!
http://i39.tinypic.com/21c8gn8.jpg
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Big ants are scary but mainly because there’s lots of them and I fear that they’ll crawl up my legs and bite everything 😛
On one of my high school camps we had this Aboriginal guy come in and show us some pretty cool stuff. He showed us this nest of ants and told us to eat the abdomen so we did :). It was all soury and sweet and actually tasted pretty good 😀
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Yeah, i’d hate to think how much it would hurt if that bastard bit.
Sweet & sour ants, interesting haha.
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We have ants at plague-like proportions here at the moment. nothing is getting rid of them. They invaded my kitchen this afternoon. I have to make pizza dough but I’m scared there’ll be ants in it. 🙁
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They add a bit of crunch.
Although, given that they’re pismire’s, they may not taste the greatest.
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Oh man, I remember once I went camping with the family and we (somehow) put up the tent right on top of nest of huge ants like these (except they were black). All night you could hear scratching coming from underneath the tent and when we woke up in the morning we had been overrun! haha
It’s funny now but I’m sure I wouldn’t have laughed back then. 😛
You’ve just got to love it when the busiest week of your year at work begins by being interrupted by a client ringing you to tell you their server HDD has just packed it in. :\ I really didn’t need that on a Monday. I’ve been working like an absolute mofo for 2 days straight to try and get them back up and running, while also working my day job supporting 4000 enrolments at our school that just started back in the past 2 weeks 😐
So glad the crisis with my client is finally over. Perhaps next time they’ll listen to me when I tell them the importance of spending money to have a daily backup routine in place instead of having to spend 2 days crapping their pants, and thousands of dollars to get everything back up and running. I’m just about ready to die now. I’m really lucky that the heart attack yesterday didn’t kill me though 😉 I really don’t need another moment like that in this life time k thanks!
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I have time to stick my feet up for a couple of hours this evening thankfully.. doubtful I’ll be able to hit full chill mode for a while though.
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aww shucks! Thanks lady strange! I am here and ok.. just been going a bit mental of late. I spoke of a Bris meat last week while you were away, but didn’t organize anything specific til we knew you were back. We should definitely start planning something soon though I think!
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Before I left I was gauging interest in a late Feb/early March Meat Meat (BBQ) at my place. You should totally come over here just to play Guitar Hero or something before that though. 🙂
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🙂 Sounds goodly!!! I shall find out what my schedule’s like and let you know!
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Yay!
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Hhuuuuuurrrkkk. Steel Panther are playing Soundwave? I totally missed that. \o/ for Steel Panther!
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“Death to all butt metal.”
“No, not butt metal. Death to but metal!”Ah they should be awesome to see! They’re actually an amazing Van Halen (Roth era) & Motley Crue cover band.
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Yeah man, Soundwave is looking mighty tempting.
Trivium, Lamb of God, Mastodon, System of a Down… -
I so much wanted to go, and my husband promised me he’d buy me a ticket but then he forgot and now it’s sold out. There’s no good Sidewaves in Brisbane either. 🙁
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System of A Down, Bush, Machine Head, Lamb of God, Mastodon, Bad Religion, Alter Bridge, DTP, Steel Panther, BLS, Holy Grail, Meshuggah, Biohazard, In this Moment, and most especially Turisas were all the bands I wanted to see.
You’d think this would give me a good chance at a Brisbane Sidewave I liked but no. :/
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Lol. You’d almost think I was jealous or something 😛
I’ll keep an ear out. Nearer to the date I’ve usually got plenty of mates who keep trying to sell me their tickets. Almost without fail for any event really. If I get offered a couple I’ll let you know.
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I think people are going to be even more mad at me when they find I only saw about 14 of the 42 bands on board, and not all of those were full sets. This may have something to do with why I’m delaying my write-up. 😛
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Oops, forgot to say thanks for the offer of keeping an eye out for me. 🙂
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I’d sell you my ticket strange, but OMFG Alter Bridge =D!
There’s also other bands I want to see, but dat Myles Kennedy, mans so dreamy! lol.
Good news everyone! I’ve been on holidays 2 days and already finished a game in my pile of shame!
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Dante’s Inferno. I’m trying to decide what to do next:
Final Fantasy XIII
Infamous
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time
Red Dead Redemption
Dragon Age 2
Alice: Madness Returns
Uncharted-
Go Uncharted next. Not overly long but still very enjoyable. Red dead will tie up massive amounts of your time off.
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I probably should point out that the longer games there (FFXIII, DA2, Red Dead) are games I started but haven’t finished while the other ones I haven’t actually played yet.
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RDR is pretty much the only game I finished off during the shameless gaming discussion last year. Turns out I was really near the end and it only took me an hour to finish it.
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Best ending to a game ever.
At least it would have been if they had actually ended it there.
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^ this. I didn’t bother with anything post-game…
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Out of those I would probably choose Uncharted. It’s not as long as some of the others so it’d be good to keep momentum going! (That, and it’s the only one in the list I’ve actually completed myself :P)
@Virus: EDF 2017 = Earth Defense Force 2017 aka Chikyuu Boueigun 3.
It is a terrible game that is awesome because of how terrible it is. It has awful voice acting, a terrible plot, bad graphics and everything. It’s basically a SciFi B movie made into a game.
But it plays so well and it’s so generally stupid that it’s brilliant.
I think this review by Kieron Gillen summed it up best:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/earth-defence-force-2017-review
Good way to start relaxing at home: find out my ADSL2 is syncing at 3200 kbps, and my ISP can’t find the issue.
…yay.
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Yesterday evening when I got home, my ADSL2+ was syncing at LINK DOWN and was still like that this morning. I played offline Dark Souls, mostly clearing out areas I’d not explored thoroughly/reinforcing weapons.
From the online admin panel, I can see that it connected ok after I switched my account mode to “worst. line quality. ever”… the frustration being that yesterday I could not access that panel without net access! My current house has always had horrible connectivity/sync. sadface.jpg
Faux-IT-Support fled,
Has tried turning it off again and on again and off again and on again and…
I’m thinkin’ of giving Mass Effect a go tonight! I got it in the Steam Christmas sales.
So what am I to expect TAY? Other than apparent pure awesomeness?
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From 1?
A clunky shooting system and a good (but arguably somewhat unnecessary and bloated) RPG system!Sold? Eh, eh?
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You’ll get to experience a game made up almost entirely from elements that have been cut out of the sequels in order to make the game into a bleh mainstream sci fi shooter.
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It’s a memorable story-driven adventure with some awesome voice acting and a middling combat system.
The sequel gets more cinematic, adds much more character writing but loses the strong main plot of ME1.
@fled
I’ve got nothing to say except that I hope you reply to this so I can see what “Faux ___ fled” thing you come up with :P. I also thoroughly enjoy reading them.
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Consider it done.
Faux-Make-A-Wish-Foundation-Volunteer fled,
Phenomenal cosmic powers, itty-bitty living space -
Evening TAY. You know those days where you’re not really sure what happened, or what you did? I’ve had one of those. I know I went to work for a few hours. But even though I only finished a couple of hours ago I don’t know anything that happened there. Or what I did this morning before work. Did have some tasty home-made lasagne for dinner though, so thats a plus
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I have this a lot… except while driving. haha
I’ll arrive at my destination and be like; “How did I get here?” xD
Totally safe.
I’m installing XNA onto my ‘backup computer’, my backup computer being my younger brother’s old pc I use when my sister’s on my pc ಠ_ಠ
@Greenius
Re: steelbook.
Quick count shows I have 6 steelbooks on my shelf 🙂 With two more in the next fortnight.
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😛 I only have 2 (Uncharted 2 and FFXIII-2). I did preorder MGS:HD and The Last Story though 😀 so 2 more on the way!
Hey Steve-O, I joined SourceForge as ‘aidanllamas’ (after trying a dozen other names that were all taken)
I can’t do much in terms of game design other than perhaps writing item descriptions or the like, depending on what sort of game we’re going for. But I’ll look through the forum and see what I can do.
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Also: Loops and lambo. I hope you don’t mind that I posted some ideas about the setting in the forum thread.
I’m not entirely comfortable with basing the whole game around religion myself (even though I’m not religious myself) because it feels unnecessarily divisive for what should be a community-wide project.
Instead I thought it might be better to have a quasi-Deus Ex theme of human potential and traditionalism vs innovation – we can still have the ACL as baddies wanting to restrict human freedom, but it doesn’t need to necessarily be religious.
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I like your ideas 🙂
Perhaps we should also take it a step further and not have the ACL, call them something else, cause who’s our audience here? Just the people in TAY, or will we get Mark to stick up an article about it once it’s done? We probably don’t want to do anything that get us into trouble, legal or otherwise.Also, also, in case you couldn’t tell, I like the idea of a secret order/vigilante group, secretly dealing justice and keeping the peace right under the Allure Empire’s nose. Masters of swordplay and stealth, they are like a small army of batmans. With swords. 😛
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Actually, now that I think about it, this could end up quite interesting. Imagine the types of situations you’d have between Harli and the dude from the secret order (preferably me :P). Harli, being a Soul Consumer (whatever that’s supposed to be) and part of the ASO might be a little on the arrogant side, and finding out about someone who’s skills slightly exceed hers, then finding out that there’s an entire order of people like him that have managed to stay hidden from the ASO for a significant period of time, yet still have such an active role in the runnings of the galaxy would be quite a shock to her. :3
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I’ll just go post these ramblings of mine on the KKRPG forum. They’re more likely to be seen by the DAYbies there.
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Welp, I’ve done a (tongue in cheek) analysis of my blog’s statistics since I started my little challenge thing, so, new blog post! http://blaghman.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/stats-are-fun/
And now I will dance.
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Must be cause scree’s not here 🙂
She’s going to kill me when she sees this
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Hey, we were all thinking it. Or maybe that was just me.
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Just you. I was busy blaming lambo… 😛
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I didn’t say it wasn’t your fault. Just that we could trace a major portion of the quietness to a lack of Scree. It’s probably your fault that she isn’t here. 😛
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vvvvv Apparently I can give people illnesses over the internet now. 😛
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I won’t kill you. I’m just unwell Nova.
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Aww I’m sorry then. Hope you feel better soon
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Have you tried punching your sickness? No? Probably for the best.
Although, a friend of mine complained of a stomach ache, another said “I’ll fix it,” punched her lightly in the stomach, and she got better.
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I think if I did that, I would end up in hospital.
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On the bright side, at least you’d get decent care in the hospital!
No? Not a great bright side? Fair enough. Anyway, I hope you get better.
I hope you get better soon scree 🙂
Perhaps a MLP video would help?
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*Ahem* I said, maybe a MLP video would help?
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Mini-scree? Hello? Don’t make me go find a MLP vid for Scree on my own, that could end badly 🙁
😛
So, I thought to myself, if I was looking for a My Little Pony vid, what would I search for? Ironically, I was actually looking for a My Little Pony vid, and the ramblings in my mind were relevant to the task at hand (that doesn’t happen very often :P). So I searched for the first thing that came to my mind. Daft Punk My Little Pony. It exists. (Of course it should, this is the internet we’re talking about. Everything’s been done on the internet. Okay, so no one’s appeared to have done Daft Punk on an ocarina yet, but give them time!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q4OQAkrxcI
😛
Forgetting someone are we, Nova D=
Oops, sorry Virus__, I’ll be sure to remember you next time the spam level drops a bit 🙂
Good man =P
I think he actually meant me.
He definitely meant you, Bish.
Aidan,
I have not played Mass Effect 1 yet so I’m relying on the news for my information. Not tried it yet but the ability to sodomize whatever, whoever and however I wish sounds brilliant. Why they didn’t put it in 2 I have no idea. Unless it was an Xbox exclusive feature?
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I believe you mean “Sexbox”.
I was most disappointed that Bioware removed that feature from ME2. Where else am I going to have virtual-chip orgasmic 3D gameplay?
Guys I’m going to be in melbourne next weekend 11th/12th! Does anyone want to meet up? I’m staying on lonsdale st and need to get to the airport by 4pm Sunday.
Let me know if you are interested. I’ll be available from midmorning Sunday, so who’s game?
Guys I’m going to be in melbourne next weekend 11th/12th! Does anyone want to meet up? I’m staying on lonsdale st and need to get to the airport by 4pm Sunday.
Let me know if you are interested. I’ll be available from midmorning Sunday, so who’s game?
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-7/#comment-530326 from a few pages back, incase you missed it
Thanks again! I played Demigod for a couple of hours but I had absolutely no idea what I was doing at first since I’ve never played DoTA/LoL/HoN (those types of games) before 😛
@Shane
Yesterday, I bought the last copy of your first book in stock on the Amazon UK site. I know everything (read: nothing) about the process of restocking books, so here’s how how the process takes place when you are informed that Amazon UK needs more of your books to sell:
1. Ring Amazon, informing them of an impending book delivery
2. Place bag of books in a catapult located at your publisher’s office
3. Test for wind (VERY IMPORTANT! We all remember the great book catastrophe of ’94 [Hint: It’s how Facebook got it’s name!])
4. Launch books
NB: I write all this knowing the distinct possibility that you may not have anything to do with the restocking process, I know if I were a published author, I would have minions (children) carry out all my tasks for me, ethics be damned.
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You are indeed correct… on all counts. I have nothing to do with the process, but I have it on good authority that 9 out of 10 books prefer to travel by catapult.
I was getting all excited about Soul Calibur V since it’s out this week. Glad I went and checked the character list before purchasing! Thanks for yanking all three of the characters I actually like to play with and only replacing one of them, Namco.
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
(No, knockoffs made via the character creation system is NOT an acceptable alternative)
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The 360 version has Yoda, the PS3 has Vader, both have Starkiller. They might have also got the cross version characters via DLC, I can’t remember.
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Soooo, PS3 players are evil?
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Oh they’ve gone one better this time. There’s Edge Master, who has all the styles, Kilik, who now has all the ‘Male’ styles because he’s Edge Master Mk II, and some angel chick who can do all the ‘Female’ styles. So three wasted slots for gimmick random-weapon characters.
Meanwile, Talim and Seung Mina removed from the game entirely (no replacement characters, just gone) and they basically split up Sophitia and Cassandra’s movesets between two new characters and took those two out of the game as well. No Amy either, so it’s like they systematically went through the lineup and took out every character I was remotely good with or liked except Mitsurugi. 🙁
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Aww, I was thinking it was bad that Seung Mina was gone but okay because Kilik was still there, but he’s gonna be another random weapon dude? Lamesicles.
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There’s a new staff wielder guy to replace Kilik. I guess they’d argue that Kilik and Mina were very similar in style (despite that every installment since the first one the two characters styles had grown more and more distinct) so they took out the less important character and went back down to one. Also they still have Hilde in so they’ve got a ‘spear’ character. Doesn’t explain why they’d dump Talim though – I’d have expected them to keep her in and use the 17 year time skip to justify giving her enormous boobs like they do with everyone else. ┐(‘～`；)┌
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probably the best emoticon I’ve seen in a long time 🙂
Don’t really have anything to add to the discussion just wanted to say that :/. I enjoyed SC2 but SC4 just wasn’t as fun for some reason… I don’t know 😛
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Oh, it can’t be that bad. Really. It’s just a few fighters.
*Checks list*
What? No Yun-Seong?
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Oh Well. Still have Cervantes, so not all is lost.
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You’re right, they excised him with no replacement as well.
Meanwhile adding a character that fights with a floating ball of magical energy. :\
I’d actually be okay with it if they had actually gone back to the original game’s gameplay and wiped out the entire cast to start over, but the haphazard way they’ve taken characters out and replaced them in some cases but kept around others and the fact that their big new mechanic is Street Fighter’s super bar makes me pretty sure that I’m done with the series forever.
Unless those characters are added back into the game as DLC or something. And this is Namco so I could totally see them doing that 🙁
So. My Mother-in-Law is unwell and has been in a home for the last couple of years. My husband’s Dad just called to say someone went into her room and punched her. WTF! She’s a helpless old lady who wouldn’t hurt a fly!
Apparently the staff aren’t being too helpful in the matter, either. Grrr!
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That’s pretty shit.
Is a a home that houses older people with mental conditions as well?
I’m assuming it was another patient who punched her.
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Yeah, they house a bunch of differing levels of old people with mental health issues. I can see how it happened but it’s completely shite that my mother-in-law still has to live in the same building as someone who punched her. With no guarantees that it won’t happen again, and not even an apology from staff.
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I’m having serious difficulties comprehending that. Seriously, what?
Hope she’s okay, Strange.
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Um wow. That’s wrong on so many levels. Words should be had to the person in charge of the facility! Behaviour like that towards your mother in law should not be tolerated.
Sorry mum works in Aged Care has for 30 years, and it annoys me greatly when people are like that to the elderly, including staff not giving a shit like that.
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Another patient?
There are things that can be done about it but I can’t remember off hand. There are secure wings in most of those facilities and problem patients (read: those with dementia) tend to get moved there so that they don’t wander off. Couldn’t hurt to ask if assailant was moved to one of those wings. If they’ve done it before, there are probably other complaints from families that might help get the facility over the line.
Oh man this Makers Mark, Whiskey Bourbon is amazing. I don’t want to have anymore cause its so amazing!
Free game of thrones is free! (Unless someone’s already posted it TAY. In which case, you only have yourself to blame for talking too much on TAY). Also, if you don’t have Kindle on your mobile device, you can read it through a browser. So yeah.
Ah yeah I think I need to visit Melbourne before the end of the year! Damn friends enticing me that I should move there D=
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Enjoy the unpredictable weather! 😀
Hot the past 3 days, humid with rain yesterday, freezing cold today 🙂
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Yeah I heard about your silly weather down there. I don’t think i’d survive the lead upto winter. Let alone winter D=
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Melbourne’s positively balmy in winter! And Canberra’s been doing its best to pretend that it has Melbourne’s crazy weather lately.
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I am so glad that I waited until the second season of Sherlock started before I started watching the first. Don’t think I could have handled the wait after the way that ended.
@Strange: Health care in this state is a joke, especially mental and aged care. The sad part is nothing will be done as noone wants to spend the coin. If they did there would be none left for politicians to add to their pay each year. How will they congratulate themselves on doing an excellent job otherwise?
@Virus: Makers Mark is okay but it is no Glenfiddich 12yr Special Reserve. Do yourself a favor and grab a bottle. Even the smell of the empty bottle I’m keeping is enough to make people say Wow.
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If that is the Whisky I am thinking of, then it is fucking amazing. Dad had a bottle that was of similar description. Oh man best I have ever had, so so smooth.
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I just finished the first ep for the first season a while ago. Contemplated asking about it but then I’d look stupid :P. Since you’ve already posted about it I might as well ask my stupid question here…
*very tiny spoilers I guess*
What’s the deal with Watson’s leg? I don’t get it :/. Probably something blatantly obvious but from what I gathered. He had a limp then he didn’t?-
Ok, I don’t consider it a spoiler, so I won’t ROT13 it, but:
Watson’s leg problem is psychosomatic(also more correctly known as a Somatoform disorder), which means that it’s entirely in his head. He got shot in the shoulder, or something along those lines, but the trauma caused by conflict caused him to manifest his mental problems as a limp. The point of psychosomatic medicine is that it’s about “mind over matter,” and so because he was firstly: being distracted, and secondly: having fun, he “forgot” about his imaginary leg injury, and so didn’t need to limp.
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They’re finally splitting the admin and operational sides of Queensland Health after the umpteenth colossal fuck up.
Admittedly, it’s mainly a stalling tactic for the next election but it’s the first move in the right direction we’ve seen for a long time.
Well, sure is quiet in here today.
Yes, a little too quiet, if you know what I mean.
Hmm… I’m afraid I don’t.
You see, Taybees usually make a lot of noise. No noise – suggests no Taybees!
Oh, I understand now.
[a Taybee flies by]
Oh look, there goes one now.
To the TAYmobile!
You mean your Laser?
Yes.
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Technically, that’s LASER. It’s an acronym. Not that I care or anything (I actually don’t, just wanted to make conversation).
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Though I suppose the word laser has evolved from an acronym to an actual word now, so whatever.
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Well, that’s what I get for not reading carefully. *shameface*
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That would imply Ford think at all =P
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I’m more of a transient TAYbie.
I go where I will, and the constraints of night and day will not bind me! I am not beholden to the clock!
I am The Cracks!-
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Look, my lord! I have discovered purest green!
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Ha! I just finished rewatching the entire series on DVD not to long ago.
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A splat of purest green 😀
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Ah classic!
We need some Monty Python up in this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8
Ah Meaning of Life, you crack me up.
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Pineapple plan
Well I went into my steam account the other day and starting looking at my pineapple. For the hell of it (and to scare me into stopping buying new games) I entered them all into howlongtobeat.com
This gave the figure of 72 days and 5 minutes required to complete all uncompleted games in my steam account.
So my goal for this shameless gaming month is to knock off that 5 minutes and get it down to a manageable 72 days. This figure will be the main criteria I am using to gauge my progress, however as a target I hope to be able to do the following at a minimum
FPS: Finish the ball
Action: Complete Batman AA
Tower defense: Finish Orcs must die
Joint: 100% psychnauts
Platform: Complete Limbo
Achievements: Get all keys in rock of ages
RPG: Finish ME2
As I complete each (any) of these I will update with a new game to focus on
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I was going to check all mine but I started with White Knight which clocked in at 130hrs so I gave up there 😛
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Orcs Must Die is probably 6 hours worth of content, less if you just power through all of the levels. Good game, worth the hassle. Gorzilla and I can probably give you tips on that one, we’ve both beaten it.
Oddly enough, looking at the friends scoreboard thingy there is a noticeable drop-off after a certain point where it’s pretty clear that people just kind of stopped playing.
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I’m close with that one, I have a couple of TD games that are 75% done so just need the extra incentive to stop playing new ones and finish the ones I have.
And just need to avoid buying more games which would make it a good start towards reducing that number
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I’ve been going back and getting 5 skulls on all of the levels. Only the last 4 to go!
Just a heads up, the last level is an absolute pain. So many paths to defend.
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Dude. Limbo takes like two hours start to finish and it’s brilliant. I do not understand that one. ಠ_ಠ
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I only bought it recently and has been waiting to be played. I just need to sit down and play it.
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My tongue was firmly in my cheek. It’s a game I like a lot. The atmosphere really grabbed me. I intend to go back and play it through again. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did, because you’re in for a treat! 😀
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I didn’t think you meant anything by it but you touched on a sore spot. I know I want to play it, but I want to have the time to sit down and play through it and properly experience it rather than to it in distracted bit and pieces.
But I shall succeed with month
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Morning everyone. How are you all? I’m pretty tired; slept through my alarm and had to race to work.
Still, things aren’t all bad. I’m the only one in the office right now, which means I’m hard at work on part 4 of The Tube. Part two goes live on my blog in thirty minutes!
Free serialised novella pimp: subscribe HERE! http://shanewsmith.com/blog/category/the-tube/feed/
I misread the clock this morning.
More precisely, I didn’t look at the hour hand at all.
Came into work an hour early, the lift didn’t work. Turns out your need a keycard to get in before 7. This is new information for me, seeing as I’ve never been here before 7:45.
Got coffee and a brioche. Been on Reddit and TeamLiquid for the last half hour, will be there for the next half hour.
What the hell is wrong with me?
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I’m guessing that’s a rhetorical question, because I’m still busy writing my meat wrap up. There’s not enough time in the world to write about both.
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This is the reason why I have Clubby, makes typing much easier.
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I woke up at 6:15, said “five more minutes”, hit snooze, rolled over and went back to sleep. Suddenly a wild 7:30 appears.
Me walking into work 20 minutes late.
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That’s how things normally go for me. Which is why my alarm is set so early, to compensate for it.
This is the first time that it’s caught me out though.
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I have alarms set on my phone for 5:50, 6, and 6:10. I have to have three because they are basically primers – I turn them off in my sleep but they usually (99% of the time) get me ready to wake up on my 3rd alarm.
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I space them out a bit more than that, but yeah. Same thing here.
The best part is that my last alarm went off while on the bus and I still didn’t realise that it was an hour before I thought it was. The amount of times I saw the time and it didn’t register is somewhat amazing.
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I’ve had to resort to setting a separate alarm clock in the bathroom set just after the one in the bedroom.
That and my bedroom clock is set fifteen minutes fast for the just woken up “oh shit i’m late” shock factor. Thankfully i’m too braindead in the morning to remember that my clock is fast.
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@Steve-o
So I guess I can’t post in the KKRPG because I have to ask you for some sort of access rights? HELP MEEEEEE. f4ction be me, as one might expect.
WORDS.
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I shouldn’t have to add you – just go here: https://sourceforge.net/p/kkrpg/discussion/general/
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I do. Each time it takes me to the login page, tells me I’m already logged in then tells me to link to an OpenID account. Did that, now it permanently takes me back to the OpenID login page.
I officially give up. If I have anything to say it will be on TS. Didn’t have much to say anyway.
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Never give up!
Never give in!
Keep on fightin’ the good fight!
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They ran out of good ones, apparently, and didn’t want to flood us with substandard rubbish. It’s been abandoned as a regular feature, in favour of Remember This?
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I was apologising because I wasn’t well last night and barely posted. I explained that I had another bad anxiety attack but I didn’t need to go to hospital this time.
I also copy pasta’d an email Nintendo had sent me. One of the 3 Zelda posters has an error so they’re giving me one with the correction.
If anyone else got the posters, hold onto them =D-
Sorry to hear about the anxiety attack, i know they are not to be messed with…
i’m fairly lucky and have never had one, but my better half have had several (see what influence i have on people) and i’ve seen what they do to her…
at least as you said, you didn’t have to go to the hospital, so are you doing anything preventative to control them? or are you just learning to handle them better?-
well I need to start seeing the psychologist again. I only have 2 technique and one contingency plan. The first is a breathing/distraction exercise, the second is play games.
The contingency plan is Valium. If both of the techniques don’t work, then I do have this fail safe so I don’t end up in the hospital wasting their time. -
well at least you have games right? 😛
seriously though, that’s really sucky… do they happen for any reason or is there particular triggers?
i sound like a bloody psychologist now 😛 please do not take any of what i say as sound advise, cause i am a numpty and i know nothing -
Pixel the Psychologist Ferret Viking.
ehh, doesn’t roll of the tongue as well.
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Mine is really complicated because while yes I do have triggers, I also have OCD anxiety, generalised anxiety, phobia anxiety and I also have mild depression due to all the anxiety.
Unfortunately my triggers evolve. Because I was playing Mass effect and I wasn’t calming down, it’s actually become a trigger. However I can push through it. =D -
if you can push through it means that you’re a lot stronger then some…
well if there’s ever anything we can do to help i’m sure we’ll be happy to… not that i think there’s much we can do, you know, online and all -
Letting me talk about it really helps
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well i’m always happy for a talk, i’m a good listener… reader… whatever 😛
and you know you always got backing from us… we don’t judge, we all have our problems, both small and big…
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Scree, you don’t need to apologise for barely posting. TAY that quiet was kind of relaxing. Though a little confusing. Whre was I? Oh yes, you can’t control when you have an episode, and you only have minimal control over the post-event recovery. Anyway, t least you didn’t need to go to hospital!
Oh, and if you bug Mark or Tracey via twitter, they could probably search the spam filter to see if your post ended up there. Though knowing Mark he might say “I’m on it!” and then forget.
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Of course you do, we’re awesome. 😉
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Just stick your head in the door and say hi any time you want to. We certainly don’t expect a certain amount of posts or anything!
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Blaghman did on the weekend!
But I was happy too. I post a lot because I like being here!
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I said it jokingly… I didn’t expect you to take my suggestion, run with it to the nearest space shuttle, and hurtle yourself off into space to push TAY to heghts it had never seen before.
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It was a joke? ._. I have warned you that I’m gullible and to tell me when things are a joke!
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If it’s from me, then it’s almost certainly, if not a joke, then at least tongue in cheek, or not very serious.
Bleh,
Had plans after work to go to my first Mana Bar trivia night with mates. While on the train into the city I get an email from a freelance client wanting work done by the end of the night.
I had to turn around and head home, not to mention the time spent with train delays and cooking dinner and all that.
By the time chores and work was done it was about 9:30, I got to play one game of Halo Anniversary firefight (I did see a hunter use a mancannon, pretty scary stuff) and head to bed.
So yeah, bleh.
With that said, here is a 5000x5000px nightmare vision fo yo ass!
Bonus points for peeps who know this.
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I didn’t realise that they did trivia at mana bar, is it a regular thing or an occassional special event?
Damn clients, business would be so easy if it wasn’t for staff and clients
Dang. There I was thinking I’d give the Syndicate demo a spin, and go back a page in TAY and see that N0NEoftheAB0VE has pointed out we probably won’t be getting it here because (derp) the game was RC.
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And then just in case, I go check http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-AU/Games/GameDemos?SortBy=ReleaseDate and see that a demo was released on 24 January for Black Ops. What the?
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Morning all.
Just want to gauge interest on the idea of setting up a private TAY league for the super coach in the NRL this year. If there is enough people here into it that is.
I took a look at the howlongtobeat website (what a great site!) and keyed a few of my shortlisted pineapple games in. One thing that struck me is that the time to beat Witcher 1 is twice as long as the time to beat Witcher 2.
I’ve found Witcher 1 to be fairly opaque as to what to do next (read that as non linear if you wish) so I’m guessing Witcher 2 is a much tighter and better designed game.
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I think The Witcher 2 is more tightly designed, although, I’ve only played an hour or so of it.
Also, the entire second act of the game is completely different, based on a choice you make. From what I’ve seen, it’s a massive amount of content that most people won’t see.
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That sounds great to me. I think I’d prefer a shorter game that had branching paths and decent replayability than one long game. I’m sure Witcher 1 has branching paths but considering how slow my progress is so far and how much running around back and forth Chapter II requires, I do not see myself completing it more than once.
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The only thing to keep in mind is that it uses people who have finished the game as the average to calculate
Often this is only 2 or 3 people
Dear News.com.au:
Pick up your game.
This:
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/television/special-investigation-the-five-key-differences-between-sunrise-and-today/story-e6frfmyi-1226258432579
Is the sort of stuff I would expect to be written by a half baked hack writer in the US.
How is it even news?
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It isn’t. It’s a fluff piece to appeal to the news.com.au readers who see Today and Sunrise as some sort of important part of their daily routine and have drawn up staunch battle lines between the two, basically interchangeable, shows.
In essence, they’re trying to get this exchange going in the comments.
Expecting any level of quality from news.com.au is going to leave you wanting. Especially when looking at the entertainment section.
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I’ve always preferred Today myself, even before Karl’s drunken whatever. But since I now live 40kms from work I don’t have time for any of them. We’re planning to move soon, and I think I’ll be sticking ABC24 on.
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The channel works best when you don’t watch it a lot. This way you don’t notice the recycling. I’m really glad it’s there though.
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Yeah, I watch CNN International and it repeats so damn often. Atleast they don’t try to fill the time with spin and commentators like the U.S. version of the network.
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Welcome to the 24 hour news cycle, where there aren’t enough journalists to cover most things that happen and the demand for more content denies them any time to do proper research.
At least ABC24 has Gruen Transfer repeats :p
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They’ve taken a horrific slide in quality over the last year ever since the redesign, I really don’t know who they’re trying to appeal to with headlines like: “Oh noes! My breakfast television is all the same!”
Thinking of getting the Xperia Play tomorrow.
What are your thoughts?
I’ll be mainly using the Xperia Play mainly for emulation and the ocassional casual smartphone game.
How are the emulators? Can the XP run GBA, PSone games fine?
Anything else I should know?
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I want to know all about it when/if you get one. My husband “bought” one for me with his Coke Unleashed points that should be arriving any day now.
I tried to start playing Metal Gear Solid 1 remake (Twin Snakes) last night and my only Gamecube controller decided to die! The wii must be punishing me for not playing it for a few months.
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Got a cashie’s just 5 mins drive down the road from me, also got a gametraders just 15mins away from me. I’ll just stick to Cashies because they it will cost all my monies at Cashies whereas gametraders will charge all my money + 1 vital organ + my car.
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Really? My Gametraders always give me awesome deals. And let me have a whole bunch of laybys going at the same time
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hmmmm interesting, but then again they are independently run (unlike EB / Game) and the guy that worked at the Gametraders was a jerk who knew nothing about games. Although I have heard the one near me is under new management so maybe it’s worth checking it out.
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My experience with Gametraders and Cash Converters is the opposite of yours.
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Any one know where to get good pizza in the Brisbane CBD? Did a google search, their totally objective answer was Dominos. 😛
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For the record:
Best pizza: Giant Steps in Healesville.
Runner up: Vegie Bar in Brunswick St.
Best city pizza: Tazio’s.
Best franchise pizza: Crust.-
Notes taken!
Trjn> Bingo, more notes taken!
I think this goes without saying but I love pizza, heh. Must part of my italian legacy…
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New York Slice is only good if you’re drunk and/or hungover. Day old pizza hastily reheated pizza just isn’t that great.
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There’s a Pizza Capers in Spring Hill on Leichardt St and a few New York Slice stores scattered about. There’s also that Italian place in Albert Lane if you’re after dine-in.
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Dominos are so crappy now. I recently got pizza from there for the first time in a year or two and their pizzas had shrunk. They were significantly smaller than they used to be, but still the same price. Dodgy.
I’m not sure where to get good CBD pizza but Pepperoni’s at Wishart has some pretty awesome pizzas.
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Dominos depends entirely on the store, but is generally pretty shite.
I’ve been getting my pizza fix from Eagle Boys almost exclusively these days. The main selling point? Real Kalamata olives instead of the little rubber tyres.
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10 years ago I wouldn’t be caught dead eating a Pizza Hut and always had Dominos or Eagle Boys but Dominos have sucked since they changed their sauce and the Eagle Boys near us is run by incompetents who consistently made us wait an hour (at the shop!) only to find they’d got the order wrong.
So now we mostly get Pizza Hut because they have the 3 Pizza Mias for $12 which feeds my whole family. And the “mini” mias are the same size as Dominos’ “large” pizzas. 😛If we’re feeling like a treat, then we’ll get the aforementioned Pepperoni’s. Haven’t been happy with the last few orders from Pizza Capers or Hell Pizza.
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Assuming you went to the same ones that I went to when I lived in that area (Pizza Hut near Mt Gravatt AFC and Dominos opposite Garden City), you aren’t wrong to go with Pizza Hut there.
Now that I’ve moved, Eagle Boys is the clear winner. Even when there was a screw up and my order wasn’t placed properly (online ordering isn’t quite perfect yet), they managed to get my order done in a bit more than 10 minutes.
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These days I usually make my own pizza, haven’t actually gone out for pizza in the longest damn while. I do remember that our local Dominos tends to be soggy and moist. Not something you want in a pizza. 😛
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When I lived at Summer Hill (inner west of sydney) we went Crust, out west in Carramar where I am now it’s all about Eagle Boys. Pizza Hut and Domino’s are just terrible, and overpriced for the quality.
I do miss Crust but they don’t cover the Western suburbs yet. I remember the first time we ordered Crust the delivery guy got lost and the pizza was over an hour late. We called to complain and were given fresh pizzas which arrived within 15 minutes. We were only slightly satisfied, so this happened:
Me & wife: This better be the best damn pizza ever or we’re never ordering from there again.
Crust: Challenge accepted.
Me & wife: Mother of God.
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Thanks Trjn and Strange. (McGarnical too.) Man, I miss New York City where there was an authentic pizza place on every damn corner, where one slice is as big as an entire medium pizza here. 😛
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Now you’re making me miss Italy, where there was pizza everywhere, and the street side vendors were actually amazing.
And now I miss their coffee. MMM, delicious coffee.
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There’s an amazing pizza place at New Farm (about 10 mins from the CBD) called Vespa.
It’s a little pricey, but god damn it’s delicious.
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On the other side of the river at West End there’s Slice on Boundary Street. Really good, big pizzas and they do a 36 slice pizza if you’re feeling peckish.
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Thanks, man. Much appreciated. Slice seems to be just down the street from Three Monkeys, a place a know well. Might be a good option.
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Noted. *walks away ever so slowly.* 😛
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If we’re straying out of the CBD, Arrivederci in Milton is also pretty good. Their pizzas come in three sizes: 25cm, 50cm and 1m. That makes me rather happyface. Tastes good too.
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GAAAAH. Ok, people, might need some spiritual support: any guides on Sonic CD? It’s driving me crazy. All I know is that I have to go to the past and find a machine and destroy it. Then do that on every acts 1-2 to get a “good future” and clear the game for real.
Or am I doing it wrong?
Why Sonic CD JP soundtrack is so damn funky dancey awesome?
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The problem with Sonic CD is precisely that I cannot do that 😛 You have to backtrack a lot, travel to the past and explore a fair bit to get 50+ rings.
It’s fine, found some Youtube guides. Can’t believe how hard is to get to some of the machines that the player needs to destroy… (Or at least I feel it’s hard, heh)
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Thanks. I started aiming at the time attack mode. It seems somewhat doable but implies beating most stages in a minute at most. Damn.
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You always pop in with random acronyms or people with no context and I never have any idea what you’re talking about! Is this because I’m old and/or self-absorbed? 😛
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Out of idle curiosity, is anyone else doing a last run at ME2 in preperation of ME3?
I am finishing up a game now that I will mostlikely use as my first tansfer, however I am now also looking at a couple of the other playthroughs I have done.
While I am happy with the difference between them, I noticed that one hasn’t completed the arrival dlc and the other hadn’t done the Shadow broker dlc.
This got me wondering how much of an impact these might have on the story in ME3 and whether it would be worth doing again. This then lead to seeing if there was anything else I may have missed, because I had completed it in a seperate playthough.
My paranoia has now reached critical limits and I feele that I must complete every aspect of the game in at least 3 different playthroughs.
Also, since Kingdom of Amalur is coming out next week, I feel that I have a much shortened deadline in which to complete these games.
Anyone else feeling the pressure?
Anyone?
oh 🙁
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I had 3 and a half playthroughs done on my old laptop. I had intended to have 1 with of the 6 classes, so I could branch them all as much as possible for ME3. But then my old laptop died and I lost the saves. I’ve managed to get 1 and a half redone as close as possible to where I had them. But I need more time before 3 comes out to get them all back. And I’m starting TAFE next week, so god knows when I’m going to find time
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My main problem seems to be juggling three different playthroughs at once.
Do I just concentrate on what will be my first transfer, or do I try to finish as much as possible on all 3, so I have the option of importing different saves anytime I want?
Decisions, decisions.-
I’d focus on them one at a time, but get them all completed eventually so you can import any of them.
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I got my PC Shep ready for Mass Effect 3 in 2010 and my 360 Shep ready last March. I felt that same pressure of having all the DLC too. So much so that I bought every piece of DLC twice for PC and 360. :S I regret nothing, was all kinds of fun.
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I’m starting to feel the pressure too, gotta start and finish metal gear solid 1 in time for the HD collections release and I also want to actually finish FFXIII soon so I can play XIII-2 AND Kingdoms of Amalur is coming out soon. Why are so many good games coming out at the same time?
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Nope, I only have one playthrough on ME1 and 2.
My Shepard’s story must be completed before I will start again.(btw I got through ME2 without losing anyone. feelsgoodman.jpg)
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I have an almost unhealthy obsession on these type of games for finishing them multiple times, each one as different from the others as possible.
And when I found out each would carry over certain aspects to the next game? It became a biological imperative that I have as many different options for transfering characters as possible.
Yes, I know, I need help.
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Likewise, pal. I felt a little smugness when I watched my sisters playthrough, they dropped like flies, man. 😛
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Me too! For a heartstopping moment I thought I was gonna lose Garrus but he came through okay. Yay!
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I almost lost Tali at the end, considering I romanced her in ME2 it was quite an ‘OH SHI-” moment.
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No. I’ve done each game once. I think that for me, redoing it would undermine the actions-have-consequences thing. Once I reach the end, mayhaps I’ll go back and do the whole trilogy again.
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Main transfer: ME1 Liara, ME2 Remained faithful to Liara.
basically my goody two shoes guySecond Transfer: ME1 Ashley Williams, ME2 Miranda.
My bad boy.Third Transfer: ME1 No-one, ME2 Tali.
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Just slowly start absorbing everyone’s posting traits…soon you’ll be breaking TAY like lambo does!
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I’m quite interested in doing a complete run through of the first and second games with a new character this month, but I don’t know if I have the time to do it.
Assuming I do, I’d like to play as a FemShep for once, but regardless of gender I’m sitting here now wondering exactly how I want to the playthrough to go, i.e. do I want to be Renegade this time around? I’m a really weird person in that I don’t really like being evil in video games very much. I saw a friend do a bit of a Renegade run of the first game and the way he treated his crew members was a little bit depressing. But at the same time I’d rather do a Renegade run because its pretty much guaranteed to get me a different result at the end of the third game.
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Nah, you just need practice. Since December, at work, I’ve written over 12000 words of stories that I’ve posted in TAY, and probably about 500 posts in TAY… and it’s been a busy month here 🙂
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I’m only really on TAY when at work and am consistently up the top of TABTOL for most comments and most words.
Clearly, you just need more practise.
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Tell me about it. I used to be consistently in the top 20 of TABTOL each week, now I am lucky if I make it to 43 🙁
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i hate to be that guy Hugo… but i think….
I think it’s time you dump clubby… he’s taking up too much of your time and is smothering you…
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tell him you need your space, and time for Friends… then come on to TAY more often again…
TAY has gotten slightly less Meady and Beardy in you absense
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So, still waiting for Tracey or Mark reply… Hopefully we can have that giveaway that actually includes free games… *cue scree bold text* On Friday there’ll be some extra announcements for the win and more.
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So, still waiting for Tracey or Mark reply… Hopefully we can have that giveaway that actually includes FREE GAMES*… On Friday there’ll be some extra announcements for the win and more.
*free games are completely dependant on Mark and Tracey
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free games? FREE GAMES?!? \o/
hell, with some of the stuff Alpha has been showing us, i’ll settle for FREE GAMES*
*dependent on the availability of funds on my account
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Goddammit. Well, trying to fix the problem clearly didn’t work. Though I did manage to post something with greater and lesser than symbols, so it’s almost a win.
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yeah i tried as well… man you must be psychic 😛
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We were only two posts away from a new page when I posted this! If we had only been halfway through a page, or earlier, I wouldn’t have done it.
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Try getting his attention here, chances are they probably need special approval or something to make a comp happen but they can fill you in on the process at least.
I thought it was notoriously difficult to give things away here, I remember after the Steam sales that seemed to be the case.
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Oh, point taken. It’ll be fine if it’s not possible. Such is the life, can’t say we didn’t try. But it would be cool if it’s actually possible. The games are very challenging. Hopefully more info will be available sooner than later.
All this talk about Mass Effect 2 has got me wanting to play it some more and get ready for 3. But I also have Arkham City, 999 and the Witcher 2 all untouched. What should I do?
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Mass Effect 2. Your playthrough actually has consequences for something being released in a little over a month. There’s no rush with the other games. Arkham City is a thing of beauty, though. Once you start you’ll find it hard to stop.
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Dedicate certain days to certain games, that way you’ll get more enjoyment.
Above all, play them! 🙂
Howdy Tay!
Been a little absent the last 24 hours, due to well, lots of reasons.But i am back now, i am still waiting for ziggurat to come out on the app store, but im passing my time playing Hatchi! Who doesn’t love tamagotchi clones?!
So it seems that a good bunch of people here play League of Legends. I’m always looking for more people to add to my friends list that are closer to my time zone. Mostly so I don’t have to take the chances of doing Solo Queue.
So if you want to add me, my name online is Akranadas.
I use That Teemo here because the Avatar I got from linking my email 😀
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That reminds me,i downloaded LoL and create an account…..and never logged on.
HAHAAHA! *ahem* excuseme.
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Fair warning: some of us are real good, others of us are not. But at least not as derp as solo queue!
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I bet it was scree. Her bold remarks covered the entire TAY with an extra layer of ink. Or we could say it was Ika Musume’s fault ~de geso.
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Some musings on RE4HD from a guy who hasn’t played it since the GameCube release.
GAAAAAHHH! I forgot how panic inducing Baghead was. Heard the chainsaw rev and immediately fell into a blind panic. Go away go awaygoaway!
I don’t remember the controls being this twitchy? Seems like the sensitivity o the sticks is jacked way up but there is no option to adjust it. Plus both layouts just dont feel quite right Half my time is spent fighting the controls.
No subtitle option? Nooooooo. Feels weird without subtitles on. Makes it hard to follow when the kids are screaming and charging around like madmen.
Overall it doesn’t seem as awesome as I remember. Still a great game but for some reason I remembered it as my favourite game of the era. It could just be the port though. Something doesn’t seem right with it but damned if I know what it was. Wish I had the original GameCube version still so I could compare.
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I haven’t played a Resident Evil game since RE3, after all the talk the other day I was intrigued by RE4HD. Watched some videos on YouTube and it still seems to suffer from the things I don’t particularly like in Japanese games. Weird character haircuts, overly precise/odd dialogue (luckily no where near as bad as that Jill Sandwich line.) and oddly designed menus. Looked all kinds of atmospheric, though.
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I came to RE4HD pretty fresh off RE5 and it was my first time with RE4, and I think it’s fantastic. You can really see where all the ideas in RE5 came from (like, ALL of the ideas). The controls certainly aren’t as slick, and are probably the most dated part of the game. Once I got used to them I found the game to be really enjoyable and more scary than RE5. I’m not that far into it at the moment.
So TAY,
Gaming-wise I have some time until DanMazkin finished Dark Souls and we can start playing RE5. So until then I have three gaming choices:
1) Play Halo Reach online (haven’t done this in ages)
2) Play SSFIVAE online (haven’t played this in a while either)
or 3) Just keep playing UMvC3 online (I’ve been getting beasted online and have been quite disheartened lately, thus my wanting to play other games)
Any thoughts?
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I think i am going to get back into street fighter might be fun to get a character i am not terrible with, Plus i have barely used the fighting stick Fatshady so kindly gifted me.
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http://gouki.com/Image/Show/34d1372a-8868-44f9-86fd-1cfb4a50abe1
To bad i am horrible at all fighting games to utilise it properly. My proudest moment so far is when i spent like a hour and a half perfecting hadoukens so i could do it every time i wanted to. So needless to say that is my strategy for winning.
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Also what else did you expect fatshady is awesome, I think he one it in a competion where he also won a PS3 here on kotaku! Thanks again buddy!
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YAY im awesome!!!
I couldn’t even use the thing. I completed a few extreme tracks on Trials HD then gave it to you.. Won it from the Kotaku WWE wrestling video comp.. MAN that was a good comp!!! Anyway, always happy to give it to a happy home rather than collecting dust at my place… Glad you are having fun with it though man.
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I think he one it in a competion where he also one a PS3 here on kotaku!
FTFY bro, you’re welcome. 🙂
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Which, as I just pointed out in the last page, is why I didn’t stop myself from doing it. We were only two posts away from a new page.
Please don’t hurt me! 🙁-
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It’s seriously no excuse. Just because we’re on a new page now doesn’t mean everything written on previous pages is null and void and fodder for you to mess around with. People still read it. And not everyone can keep up-to-the-minute with TAY. Respect for other people and their words/time is something i’m finding more and more lacking around here and it makes me sad.
Like I said before, not cool Lamb. Not cool at all. (insert angry face here)
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Agreed but not that big a deal. The bold just seems like everyone is making their point loud and clear!
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I DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE YELLING ABOUT!
Seriously though, I’m with Strange on this one. TAY moves at a startling pace, but that doesn’t mean it’s cool to mess with the previous pages.
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I know what you mean i ate a big red candle!
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Yes, this latest is not a big deal, but it is a symptom of a wider disease of disrespect that I’m finding increasingly disturbing.
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I think it’d be best if we kept all breaking of TAY to a minimum.
That means not doing it deliberately and if you do it accidentally, not making things worse by replying to comments that haven’t been moderated yet. If you make a comment that has to be moderated (more than 2 links or new username) do not reply to it with a comment that gets auto approved.
It was kind of cute when it first happened, but not that we know what causes it, it’s best to just avoid it in general.
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I can think of one time when it was OK to break TAY deliberately: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-149/comment-page-19/#comment-487747
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We try not to mention that page anymore.
It has become a lifeless void, of breakage, chaos, and general devastation.
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Silly Strange don’t be grumpy, I am sure troll lambo is sorry, Its okay to have a little fun with it sometimes, sure the page looks a little bolder, but it is still readable it isn’t like he set it on fire.
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While we’re talking about such things, I’ve found that lately the language in TAY has taken a dive straight for the gutter. Whilst I’m not entirely opposed to it, it just doesn’t feel necessary to be dropping “f***” and even the occasional “c***”. Yes, that “c***”.
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Seriously?! If I’d noticed that C word I’d have hit the Report button so hard it flew into next century.
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Sorry, that was meant to have ‘hit in head by flying report button’ after it. I put it in angle brackets so it must’ve been interpreted as an HTML tag.
Man i have started swearing like a pirate on TS, I think it is because it is the launguage i use at work all day. Sorry guys i should do better. No need to type that stuff though.
It’s fine on TeamSpeak, I don’t think anyone who appears on it has a problem with swearing, it’s just that it’s a little different on TAY, where everything’s text, and all that jazz.
Really, Rocketman? I was going to claim credit for that and you had to go and blame your work environment.
I swear around here occasionally. Sparingly and in context. I really don’t see why anyone gives a damn about profanity. It’s taboo because there is a taboo, a self-reinforcing situation that can be solved by ignoring the taboo.
Gosh Darn it bunny stop being logical with your points i cannot refute. I agree that it is just not done because it is not done. My grandparents get a little mad when i swear sometime but the context is more important than the actual word used. HOWEVER, if people do get offended by it i would rather stop using it than risk offending anyone.
What you mean is always much more important than how you say it, as long as you are able to get your meaning across.
It’s rare for anything I say to contain any venom and when it does I can guarantee that it won’t be profanity laced because I enjoy a good rant.
It’s not about taboo, it’s about respect. These are not respectful words. We used to have respect for each other around here.
If it’s about respect, how are those specific words disrespectful? I get that some people do not like the use profane words but it seems equally, if not more, disrepectful of them to demand that I limit my vocabulary because they are offended than it is for me to say those words in their presence.
If a real reason for the dislike of those words can be provided, I will abide. I have yet to ever be presented with a real reason. It’s a social taboo that has propagated this idea that they are disrespectful, the disrespect seems to come from not abiding by the taboo.
I’m not having a go at you, this is just one of those things that really irks me. It honestly makes no damned sense.
Trjn, this isn’t a case of refuting social concepts, it’s a case of not offending people. It’s incredibly easy to just not use the words.
That seems pointed, I don’t mean it to be.
Being offended and being offended for good reason are two entirely different things. Saying you’re offended really does mean nothing (to paraphrase Stephen Fry), if you can justify your offense then you’re presenting a counter argument to the position being made and giving reason for people to stop that behaviour.
I’m offended that there are people out there who will ignore the content of what I write or say because of the inclusion of a few arbitrary words. That effort I might put into something, or thoughts I consider worth articulating should be dismissed because of that.
You’ll notice that I rarely swear around here. That’s because the comments I post rarely have a context that requires it (just like how my comments rarely use the word “kerfuffle” because there isn’t much cause for it, unfortunately).
OH GOD, HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT CARS!
SO MUCH FILTH! 😛
But I agree, the language here seems to have turned to shit. 😛
Flip off, chum.
You know specifically what i do for work and it has very little to do with cars. I AM DISAPOINT. No but truthfully i will try and stop with my language!
@Rocket, since this whole thing is a mess. The cars thing was towards BDKIAF, when he mentioned people saying the c*** word. In my mind, that word is “cars.”
Do you mean with self-censorship (“***”) or without?
Without. I’d find the exact comment, but I don’t want to call anyone out.
Asterisking out words when everyone knows what the word is serves no purpose whatsoever.
How is “fuck” offensive but ‘f***” not? You’re going to fill in the blanks anyhow. This sort of thing genuinely confuses me.
Agreed. Let’s try and keep TAY safe for work.
I drop an occasional F and S bomb but lately I try to self-censor to clean it up a bit.
Course language is a funny thing.
I’d very rarely use it at a person, but to emphasise a point that I feel strongly about, yeah, I’m guilty of that.
Its about context. More so, it’s about the ideas being expressed. If the idea behind the words is offensive, the lack of four letter words wont make it any nicer. Conversely, if the idea is not offesive, I’ll rarely find any ammount of swearing offensive.
the only exception is using the c word (hint: its not ‘cars’) that word really doesnt have much of a place anywhere.
Course language is a funny thing.
I’d very rarely use it at a person, but to emphasise a point that I feel strongly about, yeah, I’m guilty of that.
Its about context. More so, it’s about the ideas being expressed. If the idea behind the words is offensive, the lack of four letter words wont make it any nicer. Conversely, if the idea is not offesive, I’ll rarely find any ammount of swearing offensive.
the only exception is using the c word (hint: its not ‘cars’) that word really doesnt have much of a place anywhere.
I’m gonna stick up for Lambo, I thought it amusing and it did not really hurt anyone.
The reply breaking thing or messing with stuff all the time isn’t cool but that was just a bit of fun.
Yeah, it’s somewhat annoying, but otherwise Lambo’s an awesome valuable member to TAY. Don’t feel too bad, man.
You best quit that shit mate, remember when we wanted to post everything in TAY in bold for the Space Marine launch? Loops was given a very polite warning that bans could happen as a result.
Hey TAY.
Hows stuff?
Anyone else think that theses a chance that Soul Calibur V will break street date today?
Also, hows the KKRPG going? I’d like to get involved, but my programming talent is non-existant, so I dont know if I’d be any use… oh well 🙂
Oh, and I FINALLY started watching Breaking Bad. 2 episodes in, and I’m really liking it.
Anyway, I’m about to head off to see a doctor regarding a crappy chest infection. fun times.
Can’d Meat 2
Bish @Bish_Mang
@JFlamestar Off to B-town now! If I don’t make it, tell my wife I said… “Hello”. Make sure there’s a pause.
James Flamestar @JFlamestar
@Bish_Mang it takes an hour and a half to get to b-town from your place on public transport?
Bish @Bish_Mang
@JFlamestar More, apparently! the train i was goimg to catch just got cancelled, aw yeah
BEST START TO MEAT
But that’s cool, I get to Strathfield station and wait for the train to go out WEST (side), and there’s this lady screaming her head off at the guy on the station who waves the white flag to indicate the doors are good to be closed. “THE MAN IN THE RED AND WHITE JACKET, HE’S ABOUT TO HURT SOMEONE!”, apparently. The train pulls up and I (as well as many other people who heard the screaming) we spot this supposedly dangerous man walking heading into the train. The lady drags her son towards her away from him (even though he was a carriage and a half down) and starts abusing the CityRail employee for not doing anything, with his sage advice being “Just sit near the guard’s compartment”. I board the train to Blacktown, and have a fairly quiet train ride, so I assume no one was murdered. It’s awesome because this is really not related to the Meat at all, so maybe I will stop typing about this.
Anyway, my point is, Blacktown wasn’t as bad as I thought. Mostly.
From: Pez
OK peeps, here’s the Friday plan (WE, WE SO EXCITED):
– Meet Pez at the Blacktown station at [7PM]. Wait on the Boys Ave side. I’ll be in the Pezmobile (it’s missing a side mirror. I’d say ‘funny story, that’ but it’s really not a funny story).
– Noms along way (we stop roughly when I start asking ‘are we there yet?’)
– Canberra
– Pick up supplies Fri night when in Canberra (mostly Bacon)
“Wait, what’s a ‘Boys Ave’?” I ask myself. But I wander down one of the sides of Blacktown station and wait at a pickup area. So I stand around lost and confused and vulnerable which is the best way to be standing around in Blacktown. Thankfully, I spot Nova heading down the stairs and greet him. We loiter momentarily before Pez arrives in the Pezmobile (sans side view mirror), and I wave at him as he stares suspiciously at us before realising that as non-residents of Blacktown, we meant him no harm. We wondered if Freyr was arriving anytime soon, but then decided food was totally more important, so went to the classiest joint around; McDonalds. We parked in the Maccas carpark where I saved Pez $2 by reading the instructions on the ticket dispenser and discovering that parking was free under 2 hours, and remarked on the spider habitat now forming in the shell of his side view mirror. He’s a nature conservationist, I suppose. We wandered in and bickered over what to buy; I suggested 2 Dinner Boxes, and Pez tried to argue that we couldn’t have 2 burgers between 4 of us, to which I replied that I’d be having one of the dinner boxes to myself. Turns out that Nova already had dinner-ish food, so after more bickering we deemed only one Favourites Dinner Box ($25) was necessary. Pez fumbled around with a pile of coins (about $15), trying to offload them on the poor androgynous Maccas counter kid, and I slammed down a $20 note to make things easier. In his infinite wisdom, Pez decided to give the androgynous kid the whole stack of gold coins anyway, confusing both of them, androgynous kid not understanding why he was so overpaid, and Pez denied the opportunity to get rid of his coins.
We wander outside with our Dinner Box and contemplate the order in which we eat the items. I start on a Big Mac as Pez goes for a Quarter Pounder, and we sweat nervously as a police car parks next to the Pezmobile, one of the officers probably noticing the lack of side view mirror/colony of spiders. Pez moves onto a Big Mac and decides to combine that, fries, chicken nuggets and sweet and sour sauce (as a glue agent). I tell him that’s not going to work, but he claims it will be delicious, which is totally a valid counterargument. He seems chuffed as he pieces it together into a final product, and manages to get halfway through it (respectable) before it starts slopping everywhere and he messes all over his hands. I didn’t want to say I told him so but, oh, wait, yeah I did, because I did and was VINDICATED. And then I ate Freyr’s burger. If it’s any consolation Freyr, that Quarter Pounder was gross and rubbery, so I practically did you a favour!
Pez, being the media savvy… guy that he is checked Twitter and timed it to see when Freyr would be popping up around Blacktown, and with our bellies full/less empty, we headed on over to pick her up. We managed to spot her moving away from the station, and we pulled over and picked her up which probably seemed super suss because Blacktown. With some sort of misfit crew, it was then OFF TO CANBERRA!
Freyr: So Bish, do you ever wear anything different?
Me: Excuse me?
Freyr: I’ve seen you wearing that jacket before.
Me: Oh, I li-
Pez: Hey yeah!
Me: OH WHAT, now you’re starting!? I can’t wear my favourite red hoodie anymore? Fine! >:C
*I take off my hoodie and throw it in the back and sulk because I am mature*
Whatever, guys. Things that happened on the car ride there:
– Talked about how amazing Europe is to travel to. Mainly for the super cheap alcohol though. And how you can take advantage of them because their economy is in the pooper! They need your money, hah!
– NSW driving and road systems. Craaaaaaaaaaaaaazy.
– We are nerds, talking about games. Mass Effect 3, Diablo 3, Hitmang: Absolution, League of Legends (more of a 2 person conversation though), Hat Fortress, Left 4 Dead, Pez’s experience with DotA, League of Legends (because, yeah), The Old Republic
– Dem jobs
– Woooooo Maccas again
– CHOCOLATE SUNDAES ARE SUPERIOR
– Freyr swore very loudly in the presence of a young family
– Young family left soon after
– One could say Pez and Nova got overzealous with their meals but I am pretty sure they just have weak stomachs
– I messed on my teal hoodie /o\
– I commended a guy with multiple soft serves while we were leaving
– I was disappointed when he said the 4 ice creams were not solely for him
– On the road again
– We passed by a Formula 1 Motel and complained about them. Apparently they still have tiny CRT TVs! Who has those! Also, apparently you can’t shower with the door open or else it sets of fire alarms, wat.
– We saw a numberplate with the subline “ACT – Not as bad as you think”, heh. I think the car was also a Porsch, and we oogled at it.
– Pez decided to challenge other cars on the road to a race. Such as a bus stopped at a red light that looked like it was 20 years old. The man knows how to pick his battles.
– We passed Parliament House, and we figured that maybe we should have asked Julia Gillard for directions.
– I figured that’s how it works, right? We all get to ask her one question? Like a wise holy man on a mountain or something
– Is it bad I recognise The Lodge just from all those years of footage of John Howard going on a morning walk? That is probably my one lasting memory of him. Apart from his eyebrows.
– Pez slowly cruised the streets of Curtin unsure as to where to go and we were all “Turn here! No, not here! There! /o\!” but someone we managed to make it to Blaghsy’s place!
I ran to the door and knocked and ran away (no flaming bag of poop), because I am an adult. I headed back to the car to grab my stuff (also ended up carrying the box of Bulmers) and headed back to the front door expecting Blaghsy to be peering out from behind the blinds. He was not. I couldn’t be bothered trying to get his attention again, so, like any normal person would do, I suggested that we just open the door and let ourselves in. I should point out that since my hands were full, I’m pretty sure Freyr opened the door and I bet her fingerprints are still on it so it was totally all her and not me. Anywho, we barge into the house and I’m yelling out “BLAGHSY! BLAGHSY! BLAGHSY!” like some sort of shrill old lady as I head down the stairs towards his room. I knock on the door and yell out “‘SUP!” and he’s all “SUP!” from the other side, and that’s how I announced to him we were here. I head back up and make myself at home, alternating between slumping on the couch, and heading to the kitchen. I enjoyed the awkward “HI”s exchanged between Freyr, Blaghsy and Nova. Dat silence and leaning on things. So good. We unpack a bit and Pez is all “HAWT SAWSS”, as I ignore him and rummage through the fridge for something to eat. I settle on grape tomatoes because for some reason there were 3 tubs of it in the fridge. So here’s the thing. I thought Pez told me to try some, or at least indicated I should have some. There have been conflicting reports saying that I just snatched the bottle and put some on my grape and just ate it. Either way,
[MISSING REEL]
I remember getting milk. I remember having lots of milk. Then my tummy hurt. Antonio Banderas was on TV. I hear the term “Bishcave”. Later on, I rubbed my eyes. Apparently there was still hot sauce on my finger even though I washed my hands like a good kid.
So that was sort of not a good nights sleep.
BUT BAM! 6:30 AM and the sun is all “HEY MAN WANNA WAKE UP??” and I am all “NO” and it is all “YEAH YOU DO, BUDDY!”. So I’m up and about, switching between unloading the dishwasher, setting up tea, watching MacGyver (the episode where Jack pretends to be dead, I believe) and later on, Animaniacs. Blaghsy, Nova and Freyr eventually woke up because I was making a ruckus and the kitchen was right above them (sorry guys!), and we did a whole lot of nothing because someone hadn’t woken up yet so we couldn’t go get supplies. Eventually I got bored of being polite and I barged into Pez’s room (and took a picture! Best picture) to demand he drive us to go shopping, which he gracefully agreed to.
We got to Coles and I snagged a trolley and I was all “WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!” as we scooted through the aisles. When we got our 3 KGs of Bacon, the deli lady eventually scooped up all the bacon that was in the tray and put it in the bag. Turns out ALL the bacon was 3.2KGs, so like the accurate measurer she was, so put 2 slices back into the tray and gave us our slightly-over-3KGs of bacon. I hope nobody else in Curtin wanted bacon that day. At least, not 3 slices of it. Shopping for le grand feast: Bacon (overshadowing all), chicken breasts, beef sausages, eggs, milk, chocolate milk, lime jelly, passionfruit jelly, purple jelly, orange jelly, tasty cheese, swiss cheese, eggs, cream, smoked paprika (Pez has not had this /o\), juice, Baileys (I’m Old Gregg), a Spanish onion instead of a brown onion (wat), potaters, celery, flour, soft drink, bread, corn, V, brown sugar, corn, other stuff I am forgetting, point is, there was a lot of stuff. And Kamal the checkout guy was a really cool guy, bearing with our (no doubt) inanely ridiculous discussions. And he was the only guy there who didn’t look like he wanted to end his life. Good on you, Kamal. Oh, also, he was a wizard because he looked at our trolley full of stuff, and he was all “Hmmmmm, might need 6 bags for that”, and how many did we fill up? 6. So do not cross the mighty wizard Kamal from Coles Curtin.
Back home and we unloaded stuff. A wholesome meal of bacon/sausage & eggs [Mental cooking note: buns would have been amazing if I grilled cheese onto them /o\]. We played fridge Tetris! \o/ And then Freyr told us off for not buying shotglasses/shotthings because we are boys and can’t be trusted with shopping /o\ So then her and Pez went off to get some (I hear it went very well) but Rize and Pixel came while they were out! \o/ They rang the doorbell and I was all “FFFFRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIEEEEEENNNNNNDDDDDDSSSSSSS” from the kitchen and headed to the front door to usher them in. I was all “Oh man, has Alfonse gotten younger? Who’s this guy with him?” but it turned out to be Rize and Pixel. Now that I think about it, I don’t think we introduced ourselves to each other, but I think you guys figured out who I was from “FFFFFFFRRRRRRIIIIIIIIEEEEENNNNNNDDDDDDDSSSSS” and I recognised Rize from his voice, and I figured partner in crime Pixel was in tow, so I’m glad that worked out! But then they left because we did not have alcohol to their tastes /o\ But then Freyr, Pez, Pixel and Rize came back soonish after, and then IT WAS DRINKING TIME. For the rest of them. Pez kept shoving a cider in my face (I think he was hinting at something) but I declined, and Nova enjoyed his juice real good. I packed the dishwasher real good like and Pixel pressed the ‘Start’ button and I high-fived him. That’s teamwork right there, guys.
I started making cheese stuffed sausages wrapped in bacon (made Pixel uncomfortable as I cut the sausages lengthways, for some reason), which turned out disappointingly bland. Don’t know how that could be improved, possibly just a terrible idea to begin with. We made jelly shots and I nerded it up as I mathsed out the amount of lquids we needed. Blaghsy’s sister joined us at one point (awkward), as did f4ction and Alfonse. OH MAN, f4ction! He headed into the kitchen with a very large amount of more Bulmers Cider (I thought to myself that we couldn’t get through all that on top of the ones we had already) and I heard his voice straight from his face! And he had a ginger beard! I said I would touch it but I was afraid to touch it. The others started setting up Guitar Hero, and I was still a bit bored (er, not because you guys were boring, felt like I needed to make something), so I made a horribly lopsided ‘manwich’. I would have said lopsided stacked sausage, cheese and bacon burger, but manwich was deemed appropriate, I suppose. I put half a grape tomato on the side just to be healthy. And then I was pooped for a bit so I went to sit on the couch away from everyone else with a drink while everyone else was busy socialising in the kitchen/dining area. YEAH I DID IT AGAIN ROCKETMAN, WHAT OF IT. Then f4ction joined me because frriiiiiiiieeeeeeennnndddddd. We resumed the game of Little Big Planet 2, witn f4ction, Shane and myself being willing to abandon our friends in the name of progress (so if there ever is a zombie apocalypse, you know who to stick with to survive).
Shane started heading off but we managed to rope him back in with promises of book sales! He was trying to find a signing pen and I was all “Use this purple pencil!” and then he did! Best idea. Pez and I managed to snag an ultra-rare edition of purple pencil signed Book 1, and an awesome limited print ‘typo’ edition of Book ‘1’ 2. But eventually he left after he took all of our monies. ;_;
I went back to the kitchen (MY RIGHTFUL PLACE) and I believe Guitar Hero started up, and Dill arrived at some point. I’m pretty sure we introduced ourselves properly this time. Apparently for some, it was a bit jarring that he was so tall, when we’ve played games with him, he plays a short character. And at some point I packed the dishwasher real good like (again) and Freyr pressed the ‘Start’ button and I high-fived her. That’s teamwork right there, guys. Again. We began cooking, on instruction from Pez:
– “50 grams of butter? Isn’t that a bit much?” I ask, but I was reassured it was fine. I melted the butter down and Pez came over and he was all “That’s a lot of butter” And then you could see a layer of butter on the end product and I /o\’d at Pez.
– Pez should not chop up onions /o\
– Speaking of which he got the wrong type of onion /o\
– Pez and I are the kings of the “boy look”! What is that can of tinned corn right in front of us, certainly not corn no sir
– We had JELLEH SHOTS. Everyone became all self conscious when trying to eat them and it was hilarious
– I also maybe offered Pez’s Butterscotch Schnapps to other people because it was delicious
– It’s chowder! Say it Frenchie! (not related to anything, really)
– OH MAN I should have made herb croutons from the bread instead of just making sticks from them /o\
Singstar Queen! Preparation of meal #2 started up: Cheese stuffed chicken breasts wrapped in bacon with rosemary seasoned roasted potatoes. Made to more loving tunes of Queen in the background. We needed another drink run (They certainly showed me in drinking all that alcohol. by the time we left, the rest of that bin was pretty full), and responsible, sober Nova drove the tipsy Pez and f4ction to the shops. Unfortunately, I kind of forgot that the chicken was in the oven so once they were back, it had been sitting in there for a while, so it was maybe a bit overdone. You know what though, maybe some herb garlic butter slathered in the middle of the breast with the cheese would have helped flavour it more and moisten it. Also, though the dried rosemary smelled nice, it really didn’t add any flavour to the potaters, so that was also a bit disappointing.
And then we all politely ate dinner around the table/kitchen area. Exciting.
Pixel left us, the beers had finally letting slip some of his European accent, and we bid adieu. Then we thought we’d fire up the ‘ole Wii for some 4 player fun! Which was actually just 2 player fun because we did not have batteries. There was a brief round of Super Smash Brothers Brawl, before the two participates suffered a shameful defeat at the hands of AI, and we moved onto Mario Kart Wii, where Nova smashed everyone. (PS, I hate you Toad).
There should have been bacon dessert, but I guess everyone was full-ish and tired, so there was no bacon dessert /o\. We trickled off during the night; Pez just disappeared, Dill headed off too, Freyr, f4ction and Blaghsy went downstairs to sleep, yet Rize, the drunkest of them all was still standing (also laying on the floor a lot). As Rize and Nova conversed, I managed to fall asleep on the couch in the middle of conversation, so that was pretty cool. When Ms Rize rolled around to pick him up, we said awkward hellos, and wished her luck with him. And then, to bed.
Day 3, because I am lazy:
– Woooo, 7:30 AM, managed to sleep in
– But I missed half of MacGyver /o\
– Cleaned more things
– PANCAKES
– I should have made you guys who didn’t want Baileys pancakes chocolate pancakes oh god im so sorry /o\
– Freyr left us to go see her family because we are not cool enough I guess
– There was a Scooby-Doo episode where the gang used a series of lights and mirrors to create a hologram. Ah, seventies pseudo-science, you are hilarious.
– We discussed whether or not females really did go out and compare and touch each others legs (it was a shaving commercial), to which I replied “I do that all the time!”
– OH MAN, POP ASIA, BEST SHOW
– Mr Taxi – Girls Generation Apparently being a taxi driver in Japan is possibly the best profession in the world
– Trouble Maker – Trouble Maker, the engrossing story of two spies targeting each other, planting surveillance. What happens when one of them gets found out?
– We realised Freyr did not have Pez’s number so that she could have a lift back from family
– “Why don’t you just call her” I suggest, “Which would work if I had her number” came the reply. I’m a thinker!
– F4ction left. Goodbye friend! FFFFFFFRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDD
– Freyr came back
– We watched Magnum PI and Tom Selleck was in shorts and I was talking about how amazing his legs were and how I should touch them and Freyr gave me a weird look
– Blaghman left us because we are not cool enough I guess
– I explained to Nova and Freyr the cocept of Good Chef, Bad Chef, the show with Adrian Richardson and Janella Purcell
– We mocked their silly salads
– Adrian made some awesome looking brownies that we totally need to make one day
– Blaghman came back because I guess it was technically his house
– We mocked David Hasselhoff in Knight Rider
– THEN OFF AND AWAY, BYE BLAGHMANG
– We laughed at Canberra for a bit
– Talked about gaems, like Batmangs, Bioshock
– Stopped by Goulburn for le foods
– Poor Goulburn Maccas kids, so imcompetant
– I neatly undid my burger boxes at the glue joints to throw away but then Freyr crushed the other box “because it was faster”, and Nova just crumpled up his bag and threw it into mine as I got up to throw out the trash and I was both sad and /o\
– Went to the giant sheep
– Stepped on some fresh gum, which was awesome. Spent the next five minutes dragging my foot around the dirt while we added another image into the ‘Freyr is not a midget’ collection.
– On the back of the Goulburn directions board? This. Funnier if you know what my name is, too. Stay classy, Goulburn.
– And off again
– We (by which I mean Pez and Freyr) talked about tattoos, piercings and cars. That non nerd talk, I have nothing to contribute.
– ??? Probably some stuff here, but I was tired, not really paying attention
– Back to Blacktown, woo!
– We thanked Pez for his chauffeur service, and left him with pretty much all the booze as payment.
– Blacktown station’s lift smells like urine
– Said Bye to Nova, did that awkward thing where Freyr and I got on the same train
– Remember when I said Blacktown wasn’t that bad? Well, this crazy family got on the train with us. Jayden was not a happy chappy.
– The best things always happen on the train ride home from Canberra, eh Ruffleberg?
– “JAYDEN! STOP LAYING ON THE FLOOR!”
– Also extra awkward because I’d look down to my right and he’d be there staring at me.
– Had to resist joining in yelling “JAYDEN” because that would be very bad if I did.
– Hence, awkward silence times with Freyr
– BUT MAN, she would make the best Let’s Play videos. Because she was yelling at her 3DS. “Come here flying box! I want things from you!” “No Mario, get back on the screen!”
– And then my train swap station rolled up and we bid farewell. Also did that awkward “BYE! I’ll… talk to you tonight, I guess?” (because of TeamSpeak) thing again.
– I played Mario Kart 7 on the way home and I had an awesome run and only got 2 stars. >:C
WORDS
That’s a lot of them.
Other Meat write-ups:
– Shane
– f4ction
– Nova
– Dr What
– Rize
– Trjn
– scree
– Blaghman
– Freyr
– Di11
Also, guys, there’s been a bit said about me doing stuff and all that. Here’s the thing, I did that because I enjoy it, and just because I wasn’t there directly involved with the drunken singing/gaming doesn’t mean I wasn’t there to enjoy it. I still scooted in to sing (because Queen!), and sang it in the kitchen. You probably notice I have my moments of stillness and quietness at Meats, and I suppose that’s because I’m perfectly content when other people are enjoying themselves. I don’t need to be right in there, I’m happy sitting back and listening. Like a stalker. It’s everyone at the Meat that makes a Meat, so thanks to you guys for making it a blast. Thanks to Blaghsy for offering his place again, and thanks to everyone who showed up for being rad!
I now finish this write-up with this: http://youtu.be/RYnfI9Sy0wE
Of course they stop dancing once I start filming, but you can see Dill getting into it in the background as well.
Also I am too lazy to proof read or check the HTML tags, so fingers crossed.
Keep an eye out later in the week for when f4ction uploads his vision! Glorious HD embrassment!
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How can you possibly hate Toad? He’s adorable. With his muchroom hat, and high-pitched voice. What’s to hate?
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Bish write ups = best write ups
I can almost see you taking notes and chuckling to yourself in the kitchen during the meat, planning for the next post.
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What’s your favourite original song from a game’s OST? (The kind with lyrics.) Something written especially for the game. (So not counting songs like Far Away from RDR.)
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Or Still Alive from Mirror’s Edge – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TERyxFfMqDk
Reply fail below
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Good point. Build That Wall made me stop in my tracks and just stand there listening. Iconic moment.
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Sierra games used to have all kinds of obscure songs in their games. Like Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist theme, the Soylet Clear song from Space Quest 6 and one of the more disturbing songs in gaming history: the Archeologist Song from The Dagger of Amon Ra. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2QZ8osW2Hg
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I do believe Poets of the Fall specifically wrote War for Alan Wake… so imma go that…
if not… erhm…. eeeeerhm…. The Deckard Cain rap? 😛
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I swear at some point they offered free downloads of Poet and the Muse and that Children of the Elder God song on the Alan Wake website…but then that was almost two years ago so they might not be doing that anymore…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=480DBbvrWTQ
Anu Orta Veniya from Panzer Dragoon Orta.
Or any of those Ar Tonelico Yuki Kajiuraesque chants.
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Otherworld from FFX. No idea who wrote it. Nice to see some original metal in a game for a change.
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(I Always Kill) The Things I Love from L.A. Noire was pretty incredible too. Definitely helped establish the mood. Original songs like this is something I’d love to see more in games.
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http://www.rockstargames.com/lanoire/features/soundtrack// — yup, its creation is detailed a little here.
Risen up my iTunes most played list in the short time I’ve had the song.
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One Winged Angel – Nobuo Uematsu (yes, I am aware the original doesn’t really have ‘lyrics’ as it’s a midi track).
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That’s actually a difficult question, most of the memorable game music for me is stuff without lyrics.
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We can do that too, if you’d like. In that case:
The Hospital Room by Leon Willett on the Dreamfall OST. Beautiful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGtXZqXSzNc
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Too many I like to narrow it down to just one. No access to youtube at the moment either. 🙁
One of my personal faves though off the top of my head is ‘The Sun Rises’ from Okami.
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I was going to jump in with a silly suggestion but I don’t know a lot about Xbox so I googled worst multiplayer game on Xbox. All it gave me was CoD and BF.
Troll fail.
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For the record, the answer to your question is Chromehounds. Not only did it suck, the server was shut down about 2 years ago.
Alternatively, Shadowrun.
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I really hope this is a quote of some sort that i just don’t understand otherwise i am confused :/
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I haven’t heard his voice, but I agree.
Narrate the shit out of stuff, brah!
TIIIIIEEEEEIIIGGGHHHHHTTTT!!! -bro fist-
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“Dan agreed. He raised his fist in anticipation of bumpage, and was pleased when the gesture was reciprocated…”
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How do i get in on this brofist stuff?
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“Rocketman felt left out. He raised his fist, meekly, in the hope that it would be noticed. As luck would have it, Effluvium Boy possessed two hands, and thus was able to make two fists. He bumped them against both DAN!’s and Rocketman’s simultaneously. In a far off solar system, in a far off galaxy, a sun exploded.”
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“Although it was addressed to Strange, Rocketman responded to Effluvium Boy’s comment. He had a suggestion for a possible career change…”
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Even though you typed it i read it in your voice. It soothed me. Also of course i am going to reply to your comment. It was all alone and i wanted my name to be next to yours. Lol
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dude you should hear his voice after a late night out. It gets even huskier and growlier if that were even possible.
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Yeah, my voice isn’t all that low most of the time and it gets pretty high when I’m excited, but the morning after a big night I am Barry White incarnate.
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“It gets pretty high when excited”
HA-HA…
my work here is done*pulls cape over face and disappears mysteriously*
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With your voice and virus’s pheremones we could take over the world mwahahahaha
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“Rocketman sat back and let the imagined narration wash over him. As if on cue, Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On began playing on a radio nearby. With his eyes closed, Rocketman smiled. At this moment, he was content.”
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Wait no now i am becoming some sort of character in a terribly written story by a grade 10 girl who is trying to recreate her fantasy because she is to scared to say anything. That was oddly specific
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“As Rocketman sat and relaxed he reminisced. His thoughts travelled back to a time when he was sixteen. Before the operation…”
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ahahahahahaha
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Oh! And absolutely not directed at you/anyone. Just kind of how I’m feeling. 🙂
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*Highfive*
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Awesome.
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Go to Google..
Search Trials Evolution Limbo… then go buy mocrosoft points
Then search Oil Crisis, then Elevation, then Moto Madness… then browse around at any of the oter tracks that have leaked.
Im not happy about them leaking, but surely this is the best advertising in the world man… this game looks freaking awesome.
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I seem to remember hearing this was coming to PSN this time. Or was that just another one of my episodes?
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I think FatShady said in a previous page that it was an Xbox exclusive because of some deal with Microsoft they had.
I know how much you love Trials FatShady and your original easter egg article was what got me interested in the game. I eventually purchased it when it was cheap and had a lot of fun with it. Those EXTREME DIFFICULTY levels were pretty much impossible for me though… :P.
Unfortunately I have a habit of being a cheap-ass and usually only buy XBLA games when they’re cheap (Bastion) :(. I’ve bought about half my XBLA games when they first came out but rarely played them. They always have a habit of dropping in price after a few months so lately I’ve been waiting for this to happen before buying.
However, I’ll definitely pick up Trials Evolution when it’s cheap though :D. I’ve seen nothing on the game except the first teaser/reveal trailer but it does interest me :). I do have a surpluss of MS Points (3000+) so I might just buy it at launch. Who knows 😛
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did you watch the videos online.. buy it at launch.. I wont stop until everyone on this site has it… so i wont stop bugging you.
I really want to run a Kotaku type comp where we select a track every week and compete for the best time.. I am happy to NOT compete in it, I just want to encourage you all to get involved. Perhaps a multiplayer comp also where we have the first 2 of 4 move onto the next round…
Its gonna be awesome… Oh, and I can’t promise anything, but I will certainly be asking for some free codes for Kotaku to give away in a comp… Im pretty confident that they will hook me up because ive got a pretty good relationship with the team 😉
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So I just woke up and here’s some random video game related thoughts…
– FFXIII-2 has DLC. Boooooo!
*insert DLC rant here*
– I also received the same email as scree from Nintendo about a fault in the Zelda posters. I took them out of the tube once to look at them and put them back in. Didn’t notice anything wrong but a free poster doesn’t hurt 😛
– SSX has a cool online pass system that I’m ok with. If you don’t have the online pass code you can still play online but you miss out on in-game credits received from these online races. They’re still collected for you so you can buy the online pass at any time and get access to all the credits. More games should have something like this instead of “NO ACCESS TO ONLINE AT ALL”
– I’m going to buy Bastion. Heard lots of good things about it and it looks good but it didn’t really seem like a “Must Have” for me when it came out. But for 600 points I have no reason to complain.
– Early RE6 demo in Dragon’s Dogma? Coolies. Makes me more interested to see how DD turns out. Looks ok but not amazing, not really sure what all the fuss is about.
(not video game related but)
– What’s the deal with the bold stuff in the last page/strike in a previous TAY? I didn’t think it was actually possible to break TAY (minus that whole replying to an awaiting moderation comment thing).
– Now that I’m a regular TAYbie \o/ I try to read everything that’s been said whilst I was away and it takes a long time to catch up on TAY :/
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I’ve got to say, I’m really looking forward to the new SSX. In some ways I miss the insane, over-the-top tracks from the original game but this one looks like pure quality. I agree, the online pass is definitely a step in ther right direction.
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Likewise. It looks like it’s going to be great. But if I’m remembering correctly, it comes out a week before Mass Effect 3, so I’m probably going to wait until after that before buying it.
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I’m not a fan of the whole big mountain thing and I prefer having tracks like the older ones but it still looks good 🙂
I’ll probably pass on it too until it’s cheaper since there’s so much games coming out soon and I’m trying to cut back 😛
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I might get both, I live with my sister and we both like Mass Effect. Will be good to have a console game to go to when the other wants to save the galaxy.
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damn you and your midday wake ups, I have been up since 6 and i don’t think i will be home until 5:30 today. FML
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This is the latest I’ve woken up recently 😛
I’m usually up around 8-10 so not that bad but still pretty lazy
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Reverse response time!
– You get good at reading everything very quickly, and you get used to the format of TAY fairly quickly, but it will take time before it’s easy to catch up.
– Blame Lambo. If you nest some html within html, you can break the page like(as a short description).
– I hope Dragon’s Dogma is good, but I’m skeptical. I don’t really care about Resi games though.
– Bastion is amazing, I love it. Its soundtrack is the best part, but that’s only because the soundtrack is absolutely amazeballs.
– Not that I’ll play it online, but that SSX thing looks cool. I am really excited for that game, I spent many an hour at a friend’s ouse button mashing through Tricky and 3.
– Mmmmm, free stuff.
-I’m more annoyed by the store exclusive/preorder crap that FF13-2 has. Have they confirmed other DLC? It all seems a bit silly.
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Yep… More DLC confirmed and likely already in the works/made
It’s not that significant and I can live without it but this is likely an indication of more DLC to come :(. I hate store exclusive preorder incentives/DLC makes me feel like I’m missing out on something.
As far as I know the only store exclusive one in Australia was some weapon for Noel that JB has. I can live without a weapon and apparently it’s not that great anyway. One good thing about Australia’s preorder bonus though is that it contains pretty much all of the US store exclusive packs in one package. One of the reasons I even bothered to preordered it in the first case.
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I think Mark posted one earlier this week about Metal Gear collection, I think he mentioned that it was really the first big week of notable releases for 2012.
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Sure was, I posted about Raiden’s hot taint.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/this-week-in-games-36/#comment-529079
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I think this quote from Shelley’s Frankenstein has a lot to say about the increasing popularity of Kotaku AU, the removal of moderation on posts, and the increasing amount of nasty people making comments. Here is the full quote I found:
I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs. I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited, where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life.
Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.
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I’m not that cranky about it, really, although some of the posts do terrible things to my blood pressure for a split second. I just really enjoy reading writing like that and felt it was at least a little appropriate.
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To be honest I often feel like I don’t contribute anything of substance here, I might just go back to commenting on the main articles. I feel for the pioneers of TAY who have lost the thing they loved. It’s always sad when something you build changes. Just know that people gravitate towards TAY because they honestly enjoy reading what you guys have created here.
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I wasn’t talking about TAY, because I think I’m one of the “new people” who came in and ruined it at around the end of last year…
But I personally really value your contribution to TAY so I for one would like to see you stick around!
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Thanks, man. Honestly that wasn’t a woe is me post, though, just a conclusion I’ve reached while soul searching a little. I intended to scale back how much I posted here anyway, it seems to consume a good chunk of my day. 😛
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TAY is great and all but I must say when people say that they miss the old TAY or that the old TAY was better it makes me feel pretty unwelcome.
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It makes me feel sad, because I like new TAY. I like old TAY. I like “somewhere in the middle” TAY.
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i’ll be honest, i sometimes feel as though i’m one of the people doing the alienation, i wasn’t here during “old-tay” and i sometimes fear that my crude and sometimes misunderstood humour gets in the way of their impression of me….
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I fall into this trap too. You write something, no one responds, you assume they hated it. Probably (I speak from experience from reading your posts) they have smiled and just moved on without commenting.
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presumably gobsmacked by my pure awesomeness right?
i just know that sometimes i take stuff toooooo far, and i apologise for that to anyone who took offense from it?
group hug?
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Mostly, I find that Hugo and you often post together and I find your gravatars hard to tell apart at a glance!
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Guys, I know I am the WORST person to be saying this, but if you ever said anything that annoyed or offended me, I would pull you up on it. It’s just that it’s very rare for something like that to happen.
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I learned that especially within TAY, people pay more attention to you than you realise. I’ve had people reference comments I’d made months previously that had never been answered. So stop being paranoid, everyone. Just because there was no response, it does not mean that people didn’t read or enjoy it. 🙂
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@McGarnical
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-10/#comment-531107
I know what you mean!
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Don’t worry Pixel. I find your posts to be great.
But then I’m “New-TAY” also so I guess my opinion doesn’t count 😛
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I don’t know if I’m old TAY or new TAY. I don’t even remember (not even to the year) when my first post was.
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You count as old TAY, Shane. I’m fairly sure your first posts were before I started commenting in TAY, although I became a regular commenter very quickly, whereas I think you slowly built up to becoming one. “Old” TAY really isn’t that old. No offense to the very old TAY, but it didn’t start being fun until a few months before I started posting, and that was less than a year and a half ago.
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So, there’s old TAY, old-old TAY, presumably old-old-old TAY and then a corresponding set of new TAYs? I’m well confused.
I am in TAY. That’ll do.
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You should have a look at “first TAY.” It was basically just Q-bo talking at a wall.
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They say that every family has a black sheep, and if you think your family doesn’t have a black sheep, then it’s you.
So maybe you (like me) are one of these new players who has “changed” TAY from what it used to be like.
Every now and then someone from the old guard (no names) mentions on Twitter or here on TAY that it’s not the same. I echo Puppylicks’s sentiment that it’s alienating.
I’m sure they don’t mean it this way as nostalgia for different times is part of the human condition.
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I would normally be the black sheep of my family but I have a batshit crazy uncle (like, in a mental institution crazy) so yay me I guess?
(Incidentally I’ve been posting on Kotaku AU since late 2007, does that make me one of the old guard?)
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Google tells me I started commenting in September 2010, but I was mostly a lurker rather than commenter until around December 2011 when I made a big effort to get involved in TAY.
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We don’t really consider it to begin until you post in TAY, and at least semi-regularly. I’ve been reading the site since before KotakAU existed, but I’ve only been part of TAY since October-ish of 2010.
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Sometimes I miss Old TAY. When I think this, and I’m assuming it’s similar for the other ‘old guard’, we don’t mean in any way that new TAY is bad, or worse, or anything like that.
Mainly it was just plain easier to keep track of everyone and everything when there was only about 10 pages in a week, rather than in a day. That’s what I miss, and I think that’s what the others miss when they refer to Old TAY.
I love that there are so many people in here, who have a diverse range of opinions and interests, who feel that they can share anything in here and find someone to talk to. Don’t change. Unless it’s a good change, that would be okay.
And never, ever, feel like we don’t want you here. We do want you here. This place isn’t just for certain groups, it’s for anyone and everyone who wants to use it. And if it wasn’t there fore everyone to talk amongst themselves about anything they wanted, then it wouldn’t be TAY anymore. Just another forgotten part of the internet.
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I agree with that. Hell, it wasn’t this hard to keep up even 6 months ago. I think that TAY itself has outgrown the threaded comment blog format and really should be a full forum. Too hard to keep up otherwise.
Either that or more posts per page.
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*hugs Cracks* THIS!
I care about all the people who’ve posted here, past and present, I just miss being able to keep up with everything easily like when it was under 10 pages a week. And I miss the respect that comes easily within a small group of people but tends to occasionally fall by the wayside when a larger, more diverse range of people are involved.
When people say they miss “Old TAY” it doesn’t mean they hate all the “new” posters in TAY.
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Oh, good.
I don’t like generalising to include other people (because I don’t speak for anyone other than myself), but I feel like I know you guys well enough to know what you think about some things. And I’m glad to see I’m not wrong in this instance.If anyone feels alienated by something that someone has said, say so! Most of us don’t even realise it when we say such things, because it isn’t our intention at all!
The only time I feel a bit like that, I don’t think I have ever said that as I am mid tay maybe, or likely new aty.
The main time I think that is when people are posting for the sake of posting which proceeds to boat out the number of pages without adding anything to TAY (for me, and if that is what makes people happy I am not saying you need to stop)
It is more that people only look at the past couple of pages and peoples questions, insights or requests for help are missed under half pages full of “Are we at new page yet?” “Not yet” “Hey why is it quiet”
I’ve been lurking for years, and simply never had the time to get involved in TAY.
From my perspective, as someone who has recently found the time to post once a week:
– Yup, stuff’s changed between a few years ago and now
– Yup, language and general respect levels have dropped somewhat
– Yup, there’s constant referrals to “old guard” that would likely alienate any new posters, or people who lurk before jumping in
Stuff changes, and that’s both good and bad.
And, in another opinion that will not win me friends and help influence people:
Kudos used to be about strong comments and community involvement, recognising and encouraging contributions to article comments and discussions.
To be honest, each week it’s now more like “Which of the select group of TAY friends will win?”
I know that’s a product of the regular commenters coming here, and a lot of TAYbies being awesome, and being active in their nominations, but still. From the outside, it just looks like a closed mate’s club.
Anyway, discuss, grab pitchforks and torches, whatever. I feel it’s worth throwing this in here.
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I keep nominating people from outside TAY and they get mentioned, but never win. This irks me. And I do worry that it does make Kotaku seem like those who are in the club versus those who are not.
I think a lot of it has to do with Mark not moderating all the comments anymore, so he doesn’t see everything now, the way he used to.
Dear Strange,
I was going to Reply up the top but i couldn’t so i will make a ne wpost here. Are you sure that you are mistaking respect for not wanting to have a different opinion. Back in the day when i first started here, i wouldn’t of dreamed of having a different opinion for fear of ridicule. Now i realize that i can say stuff and its fine. I will always have a healthy respect for everyone here. But these little rants everyone including myself are guilty of of getting mad at someone because they aren’t following our “rules” seem a little silly. We all are allowed to want stuff to run smoothly and tastefully but sometimes that can;t always happen. Getting cranky at that person is just going to make them feel unwelcome. Also i am not having a go, I really value yours and everyones opinions.
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There a pretty massive difference between disagreeing with someone and just being disrespectful. Some people do choose to see them as the same thing though they tend to be idiots.
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Also the whole argument about swearing thing. That’s mainly because it irks the hell out of me.
I don’t mean disrespect for anyone when I swear.
As far as I’m concerned, the onus is on those making the positive claim to prove their point. Swearing is harmful. Swearing is disrespectful. Those are positive claims (whereas swearing is not harmful is a negative one). Proving a negative is impossible, that’s just not how logic works. Disproving a positive can be done based on the evidence presented and if the positive cannot be disproved then obviously I would change my mind on the situation.
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See, that’s the thing though. It’s not about you, it’s about the other person. And swearwords are harsh, jarring things. They’re meant to be, they’re expletives after all. If someone can’t recognise that sometimes people are shocked by the jarring effect of those intentionally violent words then it’s disrespectful.
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My problem is that I cannot understand or sympathise with why people find them jarring. It’s completely arbitrary and I think it’s worth considering why you have a problem with the words themselves.
It can’t be the meaning, because synonyms are acceptable.
It can’t be the intent (if used in a non-directed way) because minced oaths are okay.
It can’t be the sounds themselves, because then the shift in what words are considered profane wouldn’t occur.
Instead of telling me to change my behaviour, you should look at your own reasons for why I should. I’m not trying to be disrespectful by swearing and that is clearly not my intent. If you are finding it disrespectful then you need to examine why that is so and if there is a good reason for it then you would be able to convince me to change my behaviour.
I’m offended by evangelism. I find it offensive and disrespectful because it requires approaching someone and assuming that whatever they believe in is wrong.
All I’m asking is that if you have an issue with a behaviour, you justify your problem with it because that is the only way to actually give me a reason to change my behaviour.
Again, to make it perfectly clear, I rarely swear around here. I am making this argument because I really dislike this idea that a group of arbitrarily selected words hold special power regardless of context. It makes no sense to me and nobody has ever presented me with a good reason why I should not use those words myself when the context requires it.
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For the record, I never told you to change your behaviour, and I was very careful to use the word ‘someone’, instead of the word ‘you’ in my previous post so it didn’t seem directed at you personally.
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Asking people who do swear not to is asking them to change their behaviour. I’m using language like “me” and “I” to make it clear that even if you aren’t directly addressing me, you are asking it of me (and everyone else who swears).
It’s also just a helluva lot easier to articulate.
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I wasn’t the one who asked people not to swear. I just said I’d have reported the c word because it’s not necessary or appropriate for a place like this.
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I don’t think anyone did directly, but referring to it as disrespectful makes it pretty clear that you want it to stop.
Now we’re actually making this personal. Let’s not do that.
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“When the context requires it” Exactly.
And I was talking about the sound of them being jarring. It’s because as expletives they’re designed to sound shocking.I don’t personally find swearing offensive. I just feel these words are too often used unnecessarily and out of the required context.
Also, you sound mad at me. That’s as jarring as a swearword. 😛
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I’m not mad. I’m in rant mode. Trust me, if I was mad I wouldn’t actually be posting. I’ve been on message boards and forums for long enough to know there is nothing to be gained from an angry rant. A rant to prove a point? That’s just me flexing my brain muscles for fun and profit.
As for the words themselves sounding jarring, I think I already addressed why I don’t believe they should be jarring. As for why people do, it still goes back to the taboo.
Words aren’t designed. At least, not in most cases. That’s just not how language works. Swearing isn’t designed to be jarring, people find them jarring because they know they are “bad words”.
When I’m talking about context, I’m talking about things like articulating yourself clearly. Think of it a bit like how I use “bishing” to refer to anything. The joke works because it’s nonsense. If you were to replace “bishing” with “fucking” the joke doesn’t work because fucking has distinct meanings and using it as a replacement word just turns the sentence into gibberish.
That’s what I mean by context.
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I was pretty sure you weren’t actually mad, I know how you like to argue and rant and use your wordy words.
I don’t, though. It makes my head hurt. And this swearing discussion is reminding me of a break-up I had where I was all “I’m breaking up with you because you don’t understand me. You don’t get me.”
“But why?”
“You don’t understand me”
“But why”
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A really useful trick for arguments, particularly ones on the internet, is to try to complete detach the argument from the person making it.
Makes it a lot easier to stay clear headed and actually try to address the points at hand. I like my arguments because they make me think about my own positions on things.
“But why?” is one of the greatest questions imaginable for that sort of approach.
Break-ups are emotional arguments. Logic doesn’t work there :p
I wrote a reply back up there, but then I decided not to post it as I was having difficulty forming a well worded counter argument.
Basically, it’s really simple to avoid offending people. Don’t swear. I get where you’re coming from, and in most situations I would totally agree with you. I’m just tired of this free speech mentality. Sure, if you’ve got a point to make, make it, but free speech doesn’t give you free reign to offend.
This obviously isn’t targeted at you. As you said, you rarely use foul language, and you articulate yourself quite well. I didn’t realise when I made my initial comment this would cause such a kerfuffle.
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Yes, it is easy to avoid offending people.
But to refer to Mr Fry: a quote in image form.
If the reason for offense is not given, then the statement of being offended is meaningless.
I am against censorship in all forms unless harm can be proven. Show me the harm that comes from being offended. Show me the harm that comes from the use of profanity.
It is arbitrary. Like I mentioned the first time around, it’s a social taboo. It sticks around because people don’t examine the reason behind it (just like saying “bless you” when people sneeze even though I doubt people really believe your soul is trying to escape when you sneeze).
Annoyingly, the right to not be offended does exist to a limited extent in Australia. When arguing against Americans, I like to point out that they do not have such a right. Over here, it is limited to racial abuse and defamatory language. To use profanity in a casual, non-directed context does not fit under that bill. Only when it is used as a part of directed abuse and even then it is not the use of profanity itself that makes the abuse harmful.
It’s the directed verbal attack on the person. Something I do not do (except with my tongue deeply embedded in my cheek).
Similarly, providing a counter-argument should not considered offensive either but unfortunately some people hold their beliefs so obstinately that they identify themselves through their beliefs. To me, that doesn’t seem like a particularly good thing to do.
Beliefs that cannot be changed through evidence and reason should not be things you hold proudly.
So when you address an argument of mine, don’t worry about offending me. I am not and hopefully will never be offended by someone trying to prove me wrong. When they’re right, it’s a good thing for me and if they hold the same attitude that I do, it should be a good thing for them should I prove myself right.
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I wasn’t the only one who clicked that link expecting to see a Futurama clip, right?… Right?
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Someone mentioned Bastion, which cause me to read all those ‘Flu narrations above in Rucks’ voice.
Greenius: Since you showed your game collection off, I feel I should reciprocate: http://i.imgur.com/tpMIx.jpg
Not pictured: AssRev, Rock Band 3 because I forgot the cases are on my couch. A whole pile of PS2, DC, Xbox, Gamecube stuff because they’re boxed up in a box that disappeared somewhere. 🙁
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Nice 🙂 Does this include your pile of shame (from a previous picture)?
It’s all one big colourful mess :P. Now I know what you mean about the boxes looking out of place. You have a lot more boxes than me so they really stand out more (Rockshooter :P). I’ve also noticed there’s a lot of Japanese games. Can you understand Japanese or just import them anyway?
PS. nice Prinny 🙂
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I import them anyway. But I am also learning. Not learned enough to be able to play some of them though. Several I got due to simple morbid curiosity. Also BRS because I assumed it would never get an English release and I wanted the LE White Rock Shooter figure that’s bundled with it. In all honesty, BRS is kinda crap, but I absolutely love the aesthetic it has. Of course the exact day my copy arrived, NISA announced they’d be releasing the game in English 🙁
Most of my pile of shame is in there, but not everything in the collection is in the pile, thank god. And yeah, it tends to look a bit messy. I’m very tempted to go through and print custom slicks as I mentioned, but I look at the size of my collection and the amount of cost and work it’d involve and get scared off.
Hero Prinny was bundled with NISA’s LE release of the first Prinny game. And they forgot to mention that it was in there on the customs declaration so that package remains the only import I’ve ever had opened and inspected by customs. Presumably they thought there was a bag of cocaine in with my game.
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Lol… about the prinny. The only gave I’ve ever had opened and stuck with one of those ‘Customs’ sticker thingies was Muramasa on Wii. Don’t know why though 😛
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They randomly open some packages sometimes to keep you honest. Normally don’t bother with properly-labeled stuff but they could if they wanted to. Customs can basically do anything they want.
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Spoilers for Dance of Dragons, aka A Song of Ice and Fire book 5 aka Game of Thrones book 5. You’ll see from my comment where I’m up to (around midway) so anyone who responds please keep that in mind.
V pna’g oryvrir Glevba unf orra fbyq vagb fynirel!
V pna’g oryvrir Neln unf ure fvtug onpx nyernql!
V pna’g oryvrir Qnibf vfa’g qrnq!
V pna’g oryvrir Gurba vf funxvat bss uvf vaqbpgevangvba sebz gur Obygba onfgneq!
V pna’g oryvrir TEEZ vf jevgvat nobhg fghss gung unccrarq va gur fbhgu fvapr guvf vf fhccbfrq gb or gur abegurea obbx!
Lrnu, xvaq bs rawblvat nyy gur cybg fghss unccravat urer.
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I know!
The second half of the book is equal north/south. I don’t think that’s spoilery enough to rot13.
First half of book 5 is really book 4.5.
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Does anyone Remember dubstep interlude guy, I forgot his handle anyway, I think i am going to restart it.
DUPSTEP INTERLUDE
WUB WUB WUB WUB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MITA4FhVjD
Tell us what you think
Also no comments about how terrible dubstep is because it is all the same. If you are of that opinion I am fine with it just no need to say it.
OKAy WUB YOU ALL
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If you’re going to post comments about how bad dubstep is, they have to be in audio form. So that someone can make the dubstep remix.
Oooh, this is exciting:* http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/ask-me-stuff-116/comment-page-1/#comment-532251
*Not that exciting. But still, great suggestion by Bish.
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BIG WOOPS. I got confused with Crazyguy1990’s request to have bold and underline buttons on the comment box!!
I just committed a cardinal sin!…….turned off my computer without shutting down properly. and you know what. I am proud of it!
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You know how on the edge i am!?!? i dont have a coaster under my cup! its leaving rings on my desk *gasp*
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How are you still alive? I don’t understand, a man of such recklessness should have perished long ago. I salute your ability to escape Death. Or at least your being rich enough to pay him off
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*gasp* Next thing you’ll be telling me you unplugged a USB device without “safely remove”ing it first!!!!
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That is serious business if you’re on a mac. I’ve had USB sticks require formatting because everything on there was busted.
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I’ve had it happen more on PC’s than Macs. But it’s two to one, so it’s not exactly massive numbers. It’s only a problem if something is being written to the drive at the time, because Flash drives are really weird. It’s less bad in a lot of ways to do it to an external hard drive, because all you’ll really leave is a corrupted file, rather than frying the whole thing.
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I am an impatient GEN Y? member.I have no time for data integrity!
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Man. All this talk of Old Tay vs New Tay, unresponded posts and offensive behavior has got me hugely paranoid.
Or maybe it’s the government chip implanted in my skull.
All I know for sure is [redacted]
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If you guys keep up this paranoia I’ll have to sing you all a song to clarify things. I don’t think you want that.
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I’m extra paranoid* and only a video of you singing a song to clarify things would make it better.
*not really but you singing another song would be the best thing ever.
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All this talk about Old Tay and New Tay… you guys are forgetting Pre-ginge Beard TAY and Post-ginge Beard Tay.
Post-ginge Beard Tay is best!
@Chuloopa
So all this Old/New TAY talk made me go back to a REALLY old TAY article that was linked in a link from this TAY (linkception?) and I saw an old comment from you about wanting to go back to school.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-48/comment-page-1/#comment-140651
This was well over a year ago and from previous TAYs I know you’re at Uni doing a business degree so I’m assuming everything worked out :). Are you still going to be a teacher?
Forgive me if I’m out of line for asking this I’m just curious 🙂
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Forgot to add that I went back to that TAY because it turns out I posted in it. I didn’t go back just to stalk you 😛
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Paypal is investigating, but now I have to go 7-10 business days with a nearly maxed out credit card 🙁
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That’s a load of bollocks. I understand they need to investigate, but it screws with people’s lives.
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At least it’s easy to file a claim for a hacked account.
#lookingonthebrightsidePretty upset now.
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@ Shane…not to gloat or say ‘I told you so’, just a piece of advice about Paypal.
I have Paypal linked to an account that never has any money in it unless I put it there right before I make a transaction. Never had a problem.
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This is good advice.
Would you say ‘I told you so’… did you tell me so before to make this statement valid? 😛
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No, I just didn’t want it to come across in a wiseass, know-it-all kinda way 🙂
So there 😛
But seriously, it’s hard to have money taken from you that isn’t there
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I used to do this with a CC that has a tiny credit limit (like $300 or something) that I’ve had since I was a student. But it grew to be too much effort so I stopped.
Now I’m thinking maybe that’s not such a bad idea to set up again. Might stop me impulse purchasing all the time too.
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i have my paypal linked to an email that is no longer in circulation, which has greatly inproved the security of logging in – i no longer get any spam and/or phishing scams!
Would anyone know why my iPhone 4 is randomly heating up to the point that it is painful to keep it in my pocket?
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My 4S randomly becomes very hot, and it’s not from charging it. it just seems to happen
This is me saying “hey me too” rather than actually helping.
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Try turning off location services. I find the heating up most often happens when im on google maps , or something that uses locations. Dont know why.
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Your or NegZero has it, I can feel it my bones. I suspect it’s the location services, ie the GPS chip. When I use the TomTom app it gets really REALLY hot.
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For lack of better judgement, reposting because it’s buried:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-13/#comment-532627
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I’m glad you reposted that because I hadn’t seen it. Back in November I had similar feelings and stuck my hand in the air in a Community Kudos article: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/community-kudos-58/comment-page-1/#comment-453655
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You have been nommed before my friend. I nommed you for your awesome name. And for the fact it makes me read everything you say in McGarnical’s voice. It was late last year I believe. Mark agreed that your name was awesome, sadly you did not win Kudos.
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The nom came after that, and it was much appreciated. From memory, I’ve been nommed twice and won once. It felt pretty amazing, to be honest.
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I think I was nommed once too. So you’re not alone 🙂
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I forgot to say thank you for your kind words. Thanks! 😀
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I think those are fair enough comments. I rarely nominate people for Kudos, simply because I feel it would be stupid to just go ring-around-the-rosie with free things for people, so I only do stuff when I think people are being extra rad. I know TAYbies tend to get it, but we are generally(big generally) some of the best posters on the site. There are many people who are not TAYbies who are awesome though, but I tend to not read the comments in most articles, so personally I don’t notice them. I can’t remember what else you said…
The best advice is to get more people involved or to start throwing in noms for the things you’d like to see get noticed, which is probably where it’ll lie. Can’t just mind-will someone else to nom people you think deserve it, unless you nom them yourselves. That’s fair enough.
And also, just because someone is a TAY regular shouldn’t disqualify them for being awesome.
Maybe a few guidelines would kill the whole idea, but if it really came down to “decent discussion or comment in either article or TAY” and “hasn’t won in the last two months”, it might help shake it up a bit? With, of course, the exceptional clause of “Did something outside of this that WAS SUPER AWESOME! (other than gifting games/hardware)”
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One problem I can see occurring recently is that the commenting standards on the main articles has dropped terribly, and I think a lot of the more decent commenters have started to turn to TAY (thus the upswing here) as a result. We might be getting a bit too much of a silo mentality going on and that’s bad.
Way way way back (like, 2008) Logan ran a competition on the site to try and encourage people to comment. He had something like 5-10 copies of Lost Odyssey to give away and the competition was for the most interesting and/or insightful comments and discussions on any of the AU articles. I wonder if something like that might be good again?
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6 February 2008, to be exact. Google ninja strikes again.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2008/02/make_a_top_comment_win_lost_odyssey/-
That’s the one.
(It’s stuck in my mind also because I was one of the winners)
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I haven’t read that story in – appropriately – four years!
Also, nice addition from Greendude
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I agree that the standard of comments in some articles is appalling.
Not trying to be elitist, but well thought-out posts and intelligent discussion is drowned out by a sea of inane rubbish.
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i agree with the kudos sentiments,
and i’d hate to sound like a brat but, i’ve been here for over a year, much longer than some people, and i’ve never won a community Kudos, i have been nom’ed every once and a while, but thats it. maybe i haven’t done enough? but sometimes it’s hard being a young guy, i can’t afford to give you guys games (although i’d love to, seriously), i can’t organise meats, and i can’t post over 150 posts in one week on TAY. but i still really like this community, but sometimes i feel like the community sort of doesn’t really notice me.
i think maybe it’s the physical distance between us, i mean, there are no Perth meets, all in eastern states, so you guys all meet eachother, and have real world identities, but i’m just a person on the internet, that none of you know.
ergh, i hate how i’m sounding in this, but i’ll post it anyway. please don’t see this as sort of a hissy fit, i’m still gonna put the same amount of time into kotaku as usual, just sort of venting my feelings atm.
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I honestly don’t care about Kudos anymore.
I won it twice. Once almost a year ago for writing the Buttercup stuff and once for the whole Shameless Gaming Month thing. The first time feels more like there was nobody else to claim the prize, the second I feel like I did earn.
It’s because of the first time that I don’t really value it much.
Kudos shouldn’t be a weekly thing churned out for whoever managed to do good that week. It should be a special thing given for exceptional efforts. For Loops’s KKP stuff, for Shady’s Trials article, for big efforts that have an impact on the community.
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Under the current system, I probably did :p
But having it as a weekly thing does somewhat diminish huge efforts. Just look at Loops. He won Kudos how many weeks in a row and was awarded the 3DS because of community demands.
He definitely earned all of that. Not so much the grief that came afterwards.
When someone makes a big effort, we should go out of our way to congratulate and reward them. I just think that’s diminished when every week someone gets a prize for doing something significantly less.
It’s nice to reward people but it would definitely help get rid of this circlejerky feeling if it was limited to exceptional efforts.
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I agree that it can be hard to get noticed, my Kudos noms have been one from hosting a meat, and another two from having no shame, and singing badly on the internet, excluding those occasional moments of silliness, I rarely get nommed. They also stand out because I usually post such crap. You’re consistently here, and posting good comments, so nothing stands out. But I at least see what you say, and in this case I see what you’re saying.
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yeah i don’t worry much about the Kudos…
i nom people on occasion, when they’ve done something awesome that has affected me somehow… such as hosting meats, organizing stuff, giving stuff away… aside from that not really… i don’t really think it should be used to measure popularity, cause if it is, holy shit i am unpopular :P…i’m fairly content with knowing i am part of an awesome community, with awesome people who i see eye to eye with and can stand my horrible humour…
there’s been a bit of negativity on the last page, and just wanna say that i love you guys, you rock!
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This is what I said:
“I keep nominating people from outside TAY and they get mentioned, but never win. This irks me. And I do worry that it does make Kotaku seem like those who are in the club versus those who are not.
I think a lot of it has to do with Mark not moderating all the comments anymore, so he doesn’t see everything now, the way he used to.”
^^^Have read all of the above.
This is my opinion, and is mine only, but as a non-regular commenter on TAY (much more frequent on articles that take my fancy, and/or depending on time!), I’d like to see it transition more to a general recognition thing.
So if it’s supposed to support community-ness, and decent commentary/discussion, then it doesn’t need to be weekly. But it could be at a random point that highlights someone’s continual contributions/high quality comments, or exceptionally awesome one-off “thing”.
Thousand Deaths is an example of a TAY-based long-term awesome contribution.
McG’s pretty much daily contributions to articles that are thoughtful and of high quality would also be up there.
We could still nominate people we see doing awesome, and the editorial staff could keep an eye on that and see if it’s worth it.
Again, my opinion only. I’d just think that recognising article-based commentary is more likely to spawn even more good comments – which is a win for everyone!
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Zap, are you talking about me when you talk about “McG”?
I don’t really know how to say this without sounding lame and like I’m polishing your boots. Here goes.
Coming from you that means more than any CK win for me, since I have consistently seen your name next to the most considered reasonable posts that appear in articles that have otherwise become sidetracked troll fests. You seem to have the ability to stick your head in the door and just state something logically and fairly and make everyone else look like a wailing child.
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Sorry, shorthanding – five different work tasks on the go, and surprisingly, posting here keeps me from exploding in five directions!
Yup, totally meant that to be you.
Also, thanks! Nice to be noticed! (Also, I try to post how I’d like to read other people’s posts)
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I try and be light hearted and positive about games but every now and then I get a bit snappy at someone and regret it later. I don’t know how you keep your cool. I think I should think before I write sometimes?
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I do that too, it happens! Nothing wrong with it.
In general, I tend to write my post, take a minute, then re-read it before I hit “Submit” and see if it’d annoy me if I read it.
But that’s not for everyone, which is fine. (It’s also not terribly fun!)
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I think “recognition of an outstanding community contribution outside TAY” should be something of a focus for Kudos, or at least another way to win.
Because there are some really fantastic comments in articles that I come across that never get any acknowledgement, and Kudos almost inevitably goes to someone who posts a lot in TAY, or does something nice in TAY.
It’s good to recognise people doing nice things, but 99% of contributions to other articles on the site *never* get any attention. Except if it’s a feminism article and the trollfest comes over here.
Ooh! Guess what just came in the mail? XENOBLADE! (and Mario 3D Land :P). I’m amazed that Ozgameshop got both to my house in one week! It used to take about three… They’re doing something right over there. Also, they sent me a packet of Mario badges as well (that I didn’t order), how nice!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be playing with my Wii for the rest of the afternoon. Good day!
ps. Also, regarding this whole Old vs New TAY (I haven’t heard any complaining, just the discussion on the last page). I just want to say that if it wasn’t for Old TAY, I probably would have stayed an article lurker around Kotaku, instead of getting a bit more involved like I’ve been trying to recently. It’s very intimidating joining (what seemed to be) a close-knit community, but it was worth it. I don’t really have a point here, just felt like saying that. 😛
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What’s that you say? XENOBLADE?! Did I ever tell you how much I love that game? (lol)
Gogogogogp layplayplpaylpaylayplay! Post your thoughts/first impressions 😀
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I don’t want to see another comment from you for the next few days. You have an awesome game to be playing. Its more important than we are 😀
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I started to play Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods last night…. Worst mistake EVAR!!! I loaded it up thinking …”I’ll just see how nice it runs now I’ve got my new graphics card working properly”… 6 hours later….”OMG!! Is that the time?! I need to go to bed!!!” Now I’m sitting at work having withdrawls… DAMN you Gothic!!! Why do you have to be so awesome!>?!?!?!?!!?
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I thought you were going to bag it. I haven’t played it but I’ve seen the community reviews here: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/gothic_3_forsaken_gods and the consensus seems to be it’s not very good.
Interesting. I got Gothic 2 for free when I bought Witcher 2, should I be playing it?
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Hell yes you should be playing it!!! It’s one of the most awesome RPG’s EVER!!!!!! I spent over 150 hours playing Gothic 2!! If you can get your hands on the expansion (Night of the Raven) make sure you load that up before you start so you don’t have to play all the way through again 😉
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I have the gog version: http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/gothic_2_gold_edition, which “Includes Gothic II and the expansion pack Night of the Raven”. \o/
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sweeet! Lucky sum biatch! Honestly, it was so good, that even though I had completed the game when I got Night of the Raven, I played through the whole thing again after I installed the expansion! :0
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Hah, that happened to me with SPAZ. I’ve been watching the clock with the Witcher while I’ve started playing that (I restarted cuz my choice of stats were impacting my sidequesting). Gotta say, the combat is really weird but pretty interesting. I think the only irk I’ve had so far is the NPCs with perception of the current time. I’ve had multiple times where I finish a quest and I can’t even find the bloody guy who gave the quest even when I sleep till daytime and after taking several attempts at sleeping (wasting my dang flints :P) they just randomly showed up where I found them initially.
So yeah, having a digital watch in front of the screen is very useful 🙂
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I’ve had trouble with the time in The Witcher as well.
Guard: “Come see me in the evening”.
I wait to evening.
Guard: “Come see me in the evening”.
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I think the idea is you have to sleep in another area compared to the person you need to see in order for it to work properly.
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This, but also that sometimes they’re very specific with times, sometimes you have to dick around until 9pm or whatever because you can only pick four times to meditate until – 6am, 12am, 6pm, 12pm. Those are the middle of the particular time period and sometimes you miss people because of it. Also got to be aware that the AI in the game has people having a daily routine, so if the AI says the guy should be chillaxing in his hut with a bowl of cheese, then that’ll be what he’s doing a lot of the time.
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I’m pretty sure you can also drag the slider and meditate for specific periods of time like 7 hours. The pre-set times just set the slider for you.
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Yeah, I played the Witcher about a month ago, and i’m 99% sure you can pick the specific amount of hours to sleep…
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I remember when i first started playing FF XIII, i had to put a clock above my screen, because it’d reach 1:30am before i even realized, i thought it was 10.
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I had a similar experience with Assassin’s Creed 2.
Sat down to play for half an hour or so around 10pm. 4 hours later I had finished the game and didn’t realise so much time had passed.
Did I mention that I had taken a sleeping pill when I started playing? The reason I was only going to play for half an hour was because that’s when the pill normally started to kick in.
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i apparently sleep played through an entire 8 hour game after having a sleeping tablet. Got up in the morning to find i had completed the game, and remembered nothing.
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Some sleeping pills have sleepwalking as a potential side effect. As an extension of that, sleep painting and sleep driving are even possible (there was apparently a case with someone who took the pills I was on doing just that).
Sleep gaming seems almost tame in comparison, but it would be useful for Shameless Gaming.
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Well it was Stilnox and i have done stranger things than sleep game. while on that stuff.
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That’s the one.
I haven’t taken it in years and completely blanked on the name.
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Just be glad that your subconscious didn’t decide to play a multiplayer game.
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“I don’t remember going on a massive winning streak at 4 in the morning… damned sleeping pills!”
Does anyone want an invite to the capcom event today? I was planning on going but I can’t get to Sydney in time.
The event is at 7pm. Let me know and I’ll email you the invite.
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We weren’t gonna say anything, but Ruffles, you gotta stop wearing thongs with socks everywhere, man.
People are talking and they think you’re over 40 and walk as a grounds keeper at the primary school. (You should also figure out why you always smell like fresh cut grass and two-stroke fuel)
I’m not telling you this to embarrass you, it’s because I care.
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I would have loved to meet you but stuff happens. At least you can write up an impressions piece when you return.
Any takers yet?
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Ok so, i am giving up on twitter. For the last week i have had a constant issue with having to refresh before posting or similar stupid with error messages that really make no sense. If you want to contact me …..tough. LOL.
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I’m tempted to give up on twitter and I only started a day or two ago. I can’t keep up with TAY and twitter is nearly as crazy.
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i don’t even bother trying to keep up with twitter. I use it mostly to follow cycling anyway so it is more of an info source for me rather than something I try to keep up with
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AusPost says my FFXIII-2 is ‘in transit’ in Melbourne as of 10:45am but it has not arrived yet 🙁
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Yeah but isn’t that just because it’s super behind due to the drivers etc not bothering to scan stuff half the time?
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Probably 😛
Last thing I had tracked said it was on board and with the driver at around 9am I think and I didn’t receive it until about 3pm. It never updated before saying that and the only other update I received just said that the item was delievered to me.
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Package arrived \o/
Not FFXIII-2 /o\
Artbooks \o/
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\o/ ! art books are awesome even though I don’t really have any
I hate that feeling though. Waiting for something to arrive only having something else arrive instead (but in your case it was just as good) 😀
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Yeah it’s pretty darn cool, it’s like a mix of Pantheon and Nunu’s ulti, I’m really trying to resisting purchasing him atm, I’m focussing on grabbing Mordekaiser first.
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Am I the only one creeped out by his “kill icon” (When it says “Champion A has slain Champion B”)?
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I’ve liked the look of him since the first picture was revealed
Think it will take some getting a handle on placement, a bit like gangplank. Can either be great or useless based on where and how you use it
Agony induced screams and paramedics in games = \o/
Agony induced screams and paramedics in lounge room = /o\
Late night last night, my wife had severe abdominal pain that had here crying out in agony. Had to get the paramedic over who i must say were very good.
Still it is such a terrible feeling having a loved one in pain and being totally helpless to do anything even when they are almost begging you to help.
Everything seems ok now, the pain started to settle down after about 30 minutes and she managed to get some sleep a few hours later.
But late night means stocking up on the coffee today
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Whoa!
Hope she’s all good, man!
My sweet-lady has a real temperamental gut, and I know what it’s like when she’s in pain. Sucks.
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It can actually be worth going and getting tested if that’s happening a lot. My sister uses to get wierd gastric issues all the time and went off and did a battery of different tests and was found to have a problem with Fructose, which is in all sorts of random foods.
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Yeah she has had all that done. She has fructose malabsorption along with varies lactose and IBS type stuff.
This was a bit different as it came on super intense, super quickly. They think it was probably a bowel cramp or something of that descript.
Basically she is just taking it easy and see what happens today
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So is she okay now? Any idea what caused it? I assume they didn’t think it was appendix related or she’d be in hospital…
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That must have been frightening, I’m really glad to hear you say everything seems to be ok now. Best of luck to you guys.
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i feel for you dude, last time i went overseas to my parents with the missus she was very ill. one day she just started crying and yelling in pain.
paramedics arrived and took her to hospital, turns out she had a urinary tract infection that had escalated and become a kidney infection which ensured we had to stay in the country for an additional week and miss our flight…but it is the worst feeling in the world watching helplessly as they lay there and you have no idea what to do… didn’t help that 95% of the doctors in the hospital didn’t speak english so she had an anxiety attack too… not the best holiday….
hope she is better now?
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That would have sucked to have happened on a holiday.
Such a bad feeling, you would do anything if there was just something that you could actually do
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Thanks guys, probably should have been clearer but she is ok now.
A bit tired and weak but just taking it easy for the day-
Good to hear that she’s doing better now.
Can’t say I envy your position one bit. Or hers. Here’s hoping whatever it is clears up without any more fun.
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It’s pretty disturbing that the only US Presidential candidate strongly supporting space exploration is… Newt Gingrich. Sigh.
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I know, but then again he is from Florida isn’t he?
Glad I don’t have to vote there, would have such a dilemma on if I could bring myself to vote for him
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I think it’s remarkably easy to find reasons not to vote for him.
How many Speakers have been charged with ethics violations? Just Newt.
Dude’s pretty scummy. Actually, the entire Republican field is pretty scummy. Few things of substance between the lot of them and their obsession with cutting every social structure around is disturbing to say the least.
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It’s even more disturbing that the only US Presidential candidate strongly supporting evidence based policies that would help get America out of the current position that it’s in doesn’t exist.
So i just got in to work after my last Marketing class before exams next week, and the boss arrived 10 minutes after i did… for the first time in 2.5 weeks!
Today is sure to get busy now that he’s back with orders to pass on to me and work to palm-off 😉
While my holiday was exhausting it was also exhilarating. I forgot how much my ordinary life is just plain exhausting.
My son has only just gone to sleep, almost 2 hours after he was supposed to, and I have to wake him up in 20 minutes when I have to walk up to the school in this muggy heat to pick my daughter up and then push him, his pram and a very heavy bass clarinet home from the school where I will then be finishing the dishes and cooking dinner and then doing the dishes again while trying to keep my son out of mischief and helping my daughter with her homework. I need another holiday already. 😛
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Mothers are truly the backbone of humanity.
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Yeah, I was going to say it could be worse, I could have to work on top of doing all the other stuff, but I ran out of time before I had to leave.
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TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
Hi.
Also Strange, sorry to hear that. Being a mother is extremely hard work. =(
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I need to go out and buy some though @_@ Or I could have a nap. It’s probably not the best option though
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not the best? or THE best? or, you know… get some coffee… or Delegate, delegation is always good
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Just got my PSN points card from the KKP contributor prizes from Mark. First time I’ve ever used one of these things! Only, now I don’t know what to spend it on. This is where you people come in. Recommend stuff! I mean, like, if you want, I’m not demanding or anything…
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Just the PS3. At the moment I’m browsing through old PS1 games for a bit of a nostalgia trip. I’m pretty open to most game types but I usually avoid shooters and fighters for the most part. I also don’t have too many games for the PS3 so in terms of add-ons I’m very limited. I think the only add-on that’s interested me so far is the inFamous 2 stuff.
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If I had a PSN card (and a Playstation 3), I would buy Metal Gear Solid 1. That might just be me though.
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I…have never played one before. *confessions*
If I were to buy one, which would be recommended most?
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Rule 1 of Final Fantasy: Never ask which is the best Final Fantasy. Everyone will start shouting and they will all get named.
I LIKE VIII!
Like above. Although everyone else seemed to hate VIII. VII was pretty universally loved. Could start there. VI is great too if you want 2D.
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VIII is my favourite, too. I’ve found here, more than anywhere else I’ve hung out on the internet there’s a lot more VIII fans.
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As much as I’d like to play Witcher 1, or SWTOR, or Reach with Pixel, I think I might just be playing ChatChat when I get home. :/
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must be the sheer amount of testosterone in the air when we’re around, or outr husky manly voices (BAHAHAHA have you heard me talk?)
either that or we’re both too handsome and awesome for our own good, that our presence merges together to makeHugo Pixel the Hungarian Ferret Barbarian Viking…. Prime
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Re: swearing in TAY.
I find a handy rule of thumb to live by is “don’t be a dick”. It really doesn’t seem that difficult.
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on that note, i think i know the answer, but i just want peoples opinions…
i seem to use Feth (thanks loops) a lot, which i don’t see as a problem, but i seem to have started using fark a lot… does people think that it’s too close to the original and unnecessary? i do it out of habit more then anything
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I’m trying to cut down on the swearing because of the whole baby-on-the-way thing. The easiest way to do this is
a) Never be late for anything.
b) Never drive.But I’ve also been trying to use alternative words. A favourite is “flap”. But it doesn’t quite have the same cathartic ring to it. Every now and then you just need to say bu sbe shpx’f fnxr!
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yeah i dunno what it is, my vocabulary grew about 50% after i started driving… go figure 😛
so i think that is very sound advise… i generally try not to swear while i’m at work, at worst, i censor myself so if i get really frustrated i go to say a (bad) word and end up sounding like i’ve been censored 😛
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You probably don’t want my opinion on this one.
Seeing as I think that minced oaths are completely pointless unless they’re more interesting to say than the original phrase. Case in point: fustercluck. Such a brilliant spoonerism (and yes, they count).
As for the whole swearing thing, “don’t be a dick” means not doing it because others don’t like it. Dwelling deeper into that rabbit hole means going back to the arguments on page 13 all over again.
I know that I’m somewhat of a dick around here but I like to think that there’s a difference between being a dick out of malice or ignorance and being a dick out of a general sense of familiarity. Poking people’s buttons and expecting the same in return in the same way you’d call your best mate a bastard.
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I wasn’t going to say anything, but now that it’s been started up again, I’ll put my two cents in.
I personally am unpredictable when it comes to swearing. Clerks II is one of my all-time favourite movies. If you swear in an unimpassionated context, I might think less of your vocabulary, but will otherwise probably pay it no heed.
But.
That doesn’t mean that it’s inoffensive. If someone says something’s offensive, they don’t have to prove it. They might not even understand it. They’re just offended. A decent person will moderate themselves around that person in future, if it’s not too much of an inconvenience. The first person, also being decent, would probably also try to recognise that it wasn’t personal, and both parties would meet somewhere in the middle to exchange big, squishy hugs.
I moderate myself constantly. I check what I say in front of family, work colleagues, even my wife. That’s part of life. It’s normal behaviour to be at least a little careful of the context in which you speak.
All that seems to get thrown out the window where the internet is concerned. People’s feelings don’t matter as much, because the internet is MY PLACE TO BE ME AND VENT HOWEVER I WANT.
This is fine if you want to be a troll, but if you want to participate in a community, the real life principles of managing your communication based on your audience apply.
You don’t have to follow these principles, but you’ll wind up with less friends for it.
TL;DR: I can’t stop you, you can’t stop me, but I’d like to try to compromise! 🙂
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When someone is offended, the problem is that they are offended.
There are two solutions.
1) Avoid the problem by not doing whatever triggers the offense.
2) Address the reason why the person is offended to find a reasonable solution for all parties involved. This is much easier to do online where you can detach yourself from the emotional aspect of the argument.
We butt heads a lot and I know that I come off as a dick more often than not. Trust me when I say that I don’t consider this my own personal playground for venting with no consideration for others.
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We could always Rot13 the swear words?
Like, Tbgpun. V’z abg fjrnevat urer ng nyy!!!
*This is not a real suggestion.
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Don’t play L4D with me. I only usually swear when I’m angry or it’s a slip of the tongue when playing a game. I apologise afterwards if it’s a slip of the tongue.
The thing is that it’s not even swear words. You can offend people buy using any word it just depends how that person interprets in.
I Hate the C word. Virus thought he’d upset me at which point I told him I didn’t think any less of him, I just hate the word. He wasn’t to know.-
You swear? I. I don’t know what to think now. Everything I thought I knew is put into doubt. I may have to go into hermitage for a decade or too until I work things out.
Oh and 😛
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We need to get you on TeamSpeak playing some L4D tonight.
It’s vital that we do this … for science and stuff.
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I probably swear more than anyone else here on TS. I avoid it here, however. You know how it is… heat of the moment and all.
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I’ve already said as much on this issue as I can without delving back into page 13.
I also now have great appreciation for Trjn’s logical and level-headed arguments, even if I don’t entirely agree.
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It’s one of those things that I learned to love doing. Arguing is the best way to learn things if you do it right.
As long as you considering “doing it right” to be my way and not just endlessly parroting the same talking points without consideration for what the words you’re saying actually mean :p
Arguments aren’t about winning and I’m a damned competitive person.
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So I was a little productive yesterday, until things went insane.
Today is another day, so i still have an opportunity to be productive! =D
Yeah, so, dem links huh.
Various Meat album: http://tinypic.com/a/2p250/4
I’m sure you can figure out what picture probably links to what description.
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but but but there aren’t enough pictures there
Where is the formal dining? and the rest? oh well at least best picture is there
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Some were from Pez’s Twitter album thing.
One was the chicken: https://twitter.com/#!/JFlamestar/media/slideshow?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitpic.com%2F8cni7p
and the other one was just a picture of the label of 3KGs of Bacon.
Completely unnecessary, but taken and there nonetheless.
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And reply fail too.
I think I should give up on TAY today. Well, anyway:
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So Star Trek Online has just been released as a free to play title.
I’ll might have to give it a try but wondering if anybody else has played it and what they thought. I heard it started a bit slow but some of the updates may have helped.
Also “Fatty now owns Dustforce.” All is right in the world
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As a movie nerd, Patrick Bateman.
It works even better when you think about the fact that most people mainly recognise him as Batman.
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I personally wouldn’t wear either of them so not sure how much weight you want to put in my opinion
I think the 2nd is a better design but still isn’t really something I like. But would be more likely to wear the first if I had to choose one
So who in melbourne wants to meet up with me for drinks/lunch in melbourne on sunday the 12th of feb????
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Possibly. Scree what suburb are you in? If I do I’ll be coming from Geelong so detours kinda don’t bother me.
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I would be interested, would need to check with the better half to ensure we don’t have anything on
Did you have anything in mind or just working out what before we start getting to the what and where-
Just working out if there was interest first,
I’m staying on Lonsdale st but should be able to get prettymuch anywhere that public transport allows, or get dropped off in what ever suburb by my family before they head off. I’m up for anything really, Gaming/Lunching/Socialising
Really I just want to meet more TAYBies,
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I’ve got a post-return-to-Australia lunch with family on the 12th, sorry, otherwise I’d be right there.
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You mustn’t kill time, boys, you must cherish it. Seize the day!…Can I have some change to go get loaded?
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that’ll get you in with any bum, and they already smell like a distillery so you’re off to a good start… right?
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Excellent! Well, if you fine folks will excuse me…I have some bribing to do.
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Just had a heavy meeting with my boss.
Although I didn’t straight up tell him I wanted to quit, I finally had the balls to say I was toying with the idea.
Also managed to tell him that I was over working with the other boss (his brother), plus that I wasn’t a necessary employee and that a large portion of my role could be filled by some slightly nerdy kid just out of high school.
Went relatively well. Although, he still doesn’t “get” me like he thinks he does.
All in all an ok result.
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Yeah, it’s funny because he’s mentioned on multiple occasions my habit of “only speaking when [I’ve] got something to say” and how that means that “when [I] speak, people listen” which, in this office, is complete bull poop. It’s impossible to get a word in between the brothers (Directors) and some of the other staff.
This time around it was just the two of us ( http://youtu.be/WOuI4OqJfQc ) and he said his bit then completely shut up…
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it’s always good when that happens…
i’ve had heated discussions before, but it’s always nice to be able to sit down as adults and say “look this is how it is” and then reach some sort of agreement or at least feel like you’ve made progress
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Whatever, I’m sick of working in an office though. Once I get my finances sorted (i.e pay off my car) I might look at diesel mechanic apprenticeships etc.
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Diesel mechanics are pretty valuable at the moment.
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What I saw when I read that.
Effluvium Boy kicking in the door and screaming demands at his terrified boss, who is now covered in splinters of said door.
On a serious note, good on you. Lucky you had a boss who was willing to listen. The one time I went to see my boss about my work conditions being really terrible I got told that I was free to quit and could easily be replaced. Made me feel real good.
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I want to say positive things about all this, but all I can think of is this awesome video of Obama kicking down a door: http://youtu.be/q3SFXQfE4kk
Also awesome is the YouTube comments triumphantly declaring the video a fake.
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There’s a reason why YouTube comments are considered one of the dark recesses of the internet.
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Yay for having the courage to stand up and say what you think!
Did you feel like you were going to throw up? I would have.
BDKIAF!
Go for Bateman, the 2nd shirt looks like an Ed Hardy original.
Also, have you read Archer’s book? I’ve read the first chapter and wanted to know if it’s worth it before I slap down the cheddar.
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Every time I see an acronym I read it out in my head, such as WTF, or STFU. The only exceptions are ones that have become words in their own right such as scuba or laser or qantas.
I still smile every time I see “BDKIAF”.
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DAN!!
I’m not sure what I was thinking. With Patrick Bateman as an option it shouldn’t have even been a question.
I wasn’t even aware there was a book by Stirling Archer until just now. You have dramatically improved my life.
@Gingerchris: I might also be up for a meetup. I’d be driving in from the Eastern suburbs so if someone else is interested and needs a lift, say so 🙂
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I contemplated this before realising I’d be overseas at the time :/ (whoops)
I don’t think I’d fit in at meats or other gatherings though 😛
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That’s a foolish thing to say. We are a wide range of people who happen to have a hobby in common. If you like games then you will fit in
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I say that mainly because of my age. I don’t think any of us younger ones/teens have been to any meats 😛 (unless I’m mistaken).
I also live pretty much out in the middle of no where and don’t have my drivers license. Public transport sucks around me too 🙁
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So, in final Fantasy XIII – 2, is anyone else thinking of having a tomato as their main monster party member? FFXIII has some seriously scary tomatoes.
Forgot to mention: Got some marketing results back today:
Mid Semester Test: HD
Mini Test 4: HD
Group Assignment – Presentation: HD
Group Assignment – Report – D
Pretty stoked, but at the same time i was disappointed that we made soem REALLY stupid mistakes that lost us some marks.
I now need to answer 3 questions correctly on the exam to pass the unit. LOL.
Me being me, however, i’m aiming for the 80% to get a HD overall for the unit, but i’ll also be happy with a D.
Now to really focus my attention on Macro Economics, last revision class for that tomorrow.
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Fail a pre-med, save a life.
No wait, that doesn’t work here.
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The first time I glanced over this, I just saw a list of things ending in HD and thought you were talking about upcoming HD rereleases of old games.
This is much better.
Huzzah!
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I don’t know, Mini Test 3 HD kind of turned me off of the series. The difficulty curve was ridiculous and they apparently cut a lot of content at the last minute.
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Man, mini test 2 i only completed 68%.
I thought i was ready for it, based on the previews, but there was some content that just came up out of nowhere that i was completely unprepared for, so i rage-quit.
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I got that a while ago. But it’s not as good as you think. Girls are just a faceless parade of sameness, I’m kept up all night by the damn air raid sirens and my wife won’t stop complaining about the stains on the walls.
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Did you have to have Pyramid Head as your supervisor?
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It’s pretty great to hear you’re still doing well in classes despite all the time you poured into the KKP last month. Congratulations, man!
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Eagle-eyed gamers will see what i saw when you go to this site:
so we distribute this guy’s DVD’s – he’s an australian enduro legend, really.
But when you go to his site, have a look at which game the webdesign team have ripped off. Look careful or you might miss it.
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I haven’t seen it! I haven’t seen it! Halp!
I’m sure I’ll feel silly once you point it out to me.-
I think they’re ripping off Youtube.
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Amazing!
That I don’t get it either.
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Even with that help, I didn’t see it for like another minute. I see now, right there at the top. I never look above the URL, but now I see it. That is pretty head scratching.
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Thanks for that, I don’t play WOW so I had no idea what I was looking for. xD
That’s pretty blatant once you know what it is… It’s even worse considering it’s really not that hard to make a favicon. 😛
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Classy, I can just imagine the web developer meeting
Damn we don’t have an icon. Can’t you make one. nah just google an icon search. Hey that W will work. *cut paste*
Well at least we now know the “work” that has kept Hugo busy and away from TAY. He has been modelling
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I’ve been enjoying SPAZ, though it’s taking forever to upgrade clockwork past the 3 ships you can manage after the tutorial. I think I get too distracted by side missions. A serious problem in a game with unlimited side missions.
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Argh, that was the wrong reply.
In VC related topics, Have the built another one for PS3 yet or are they sticking to PSP?
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Just PSP.
Apparently, the third game isn’t even being released outside of Japan, which is why I ordered a copy from there recently.-
Damn, I really liked the first one but I can’t justify buying a psp for the others. Seems there isn’t enough money in it for them.
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If you have acquired said artbook, then I’m quite jealous.
In other VC3 related news, I recently bought the game, but I don’t know Japanese… HELP!?!
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It’s worth noting that that “cry for help” isn’t directed at you (NegativeZero), nor is it urgent.
To be honest, I haven’t even finished Valkyria Chronicles. So I have some time to learn Japanese, while playing the first two games in English.
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Going in a different direction with the swearing discussion.
Something that amuses me greatly with American media is the idea that “compound swears” are inherently worse than normal swearing. That’s why when someone says ‘asshole” they bleep the “hole” because “ass” is fine by itself.
Similarly “goddammit” is considered a much harsher level of swearing than “dammit” for the same reason (an episode of The Simpsons once edited the audio on a line “aww, dammit” because it sounded too close to “goddammit” which had already been said that episode and would have pushed them over whatever ratings barrier they were straddling).
How do people decide on these sorts of rules?
More importantly, what do those people think of the word “twatwaffle”? I personally think it’s quite fun to say.
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I think “twatwaffle” is a great word. I can’t imagine ever bringing myself to say it out loud without feeling foolish though. 😛
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That’s exactly what makes it so great.
I also think the word “silly” is rather silly and feel silly if I say “silly”. Not entirely related but it’s true.
And rather silly.
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now, I’m pretty liberal when it comes to coarse language, but t********e is going way too far.
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It’s a strange situation. 6-7 years ago, I would have sworn that I made it up. It’s a word that I used irregularly simply because it was so ridiculous and worked perfectly as a mocking way to swear at someone.
Then I started encountering it in the wild.
Now I don’t know if I genuinely created it and it caught on or if it’s just a case of me hearing about it a long time ago, starting to use it, misattributing the creation and then having the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon kick in.
But yes, it is a word. Of sorts.
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Oh no!
one must be careful when mixing reading TAY with work. I just started typing twatwaffle into an account because I was reading your post whilst typing notes…
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I feel like I’ve achieved something today.
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Apparently there was a not so serious attempt to get it in as Webster’s Word of the Year in 2006.
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As long as people don’t say d****, h***, i******* or X************* I can handle it. As soon as they are mentioned I just lose it. So disrespectful.
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Woke up early this morning and CBF’d studying, so i played a little bit of SPAZ.
HOLY CRAP THAT GAME IS AWESOME!!!
I also managed 10 mins of drednought assault on space marine before live dropped out. That is pretty freakin rad too.
@CrazyGuy:
Almost forgot your reference to Rob Hulls’ resignation about a bazillion pages ago. It’s probably for the best, since he had a health scare, but he was one of the former government/current Opposition’s best performers.
His efforts to stop the reintroduction of exemptions for antidiscrimination legislation for religious institutions like schools were pretty awesome. Futile, in the end, but awesome.
@AlexPants
Buy FFIX! I’ve played and finished 7/9 and played about 6 hours of 8 but I still feel like 9 is the best out of those 3. It went back to what made FF awesome and I just love everything about the game (Vivi!). I’m not a fan of JRPGs that make each character a sort of ‘jack-of-all trades’ kind of thing where they can learn any ability. I prefer it when each character has a specific class, since this actually makes each character unique.
But to be honest any of the PS1 FF’s (7-9) are excellent and you’d be fine buying any and all 3 games hold up well (I only started playing them a few years ago). I haven’t checked the actual store but I saw ads online saying that they were on sale as part of a ‘January special’ promotion going on. Perfect chance to pick them up at a discount 😀
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Over the years that I’ve had IX I have played it up to the final disc countless times but never finished it. No idea why.
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Sounds like me and FFX. It was my first FF and even though I really enjoyed it, I didn’t beat it until 2009 or so.
I would play it up to a certain point then move onto something else and since I always found it hard to return to games (especially RPGs) after not playing them for a while, I’d just start a new game before repeating the cycle all over again 😛
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Pretty sure the default is “Q”. Same button you use to holster your weapon.
I think there used to be a bug that made the game tell you the wrong button, or something…like it was bound to Q but it said E.
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Thanks for that. It didn’t give me instructions at all. I figured stuff out instead
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I spent way too much time in that Mako, and all I can say is:
LIFE WELL SPENT!
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Thanks for your help Rize! Maybe I’ll play it for a bit before bailing and watching pony videos. XD
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With those choices, you can’t lose 😀
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It was frustrating, but they went overboard and removed it completely in ME2.
Plus the problem wasn’t with the vehicle so much as the environments. In the missions with flat roads (the story planets, basically) it was really fun.
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I actually really liked the mako with the crazy low gravity and awesome jump jets.
Intentionally bouncing around the environment was crazy fun!
Think of it less like a baron alien landscape and my like jumpy castle!
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I hated the way the mako controlled, but really really loved the sense of exploration that the mako segments allowed. You were traveling around uncharted worlds looking for interesting things which were scattered all around. Downed salarian escape capsules, random pirate bases, thresher maws… absolutely loved that. The replacement vehicle stuff in ME2 was shit in comparison, just a linear tank segment that could have been from any third person shooter.
I wish they had instead fixed up the environments to be less of a pain to traverse and put way more stuff to discover in. Actually fleshed out the mako, rather than ditching it and replacing it with the Probing mechanic (which is mind-numbing, repetitive, slow and generally awful, and also pretty much required to be able to avoid your team dying at the end).
I was ordered to play Xenoblade by Greenius/Novacascade… but I need a break, dagnabbit! I’ve played it for about 4 hours (just up to the first cave when I turned it off), so I’ll post my first impressions (as I was told :P).
First thoughts are great. The story is alright so far and the graphics are decent (for the Wii :P), but the main thing I like about the game is that it’s very streamlined. It has none of the fat that RPGs seem to have. Not having to return to quest-givers (which doesn’t make much sense, but I’m glad it’s there), being able to open the menu while running, etc. All great.
The combat is the other thing I like. Imo it’s the perfect mix of turn-based and real-time RPG combat. Auto-attacking frees you up to perform the special attacks/watch out for your teammates, which I love. Oh, and one last thing: I like that the game rewards you for exploring the world. You can find quest items before you even start the quest (not having them appear once you start it), which also adds to the streamlined feel.
I said much more than I was planning too… but that about covers it. 😛
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Glad to hear that you’re enjoying it 😀
Breaks are good so take a breather and relax 🙂 no need to force yourself. I think I ended up right at the entrace to (Tephra?) cave before I took a break the first time I played it. I don’t usually play games for hours upon hours but I think I always ended up playing for about 4 hours with Xenoblade before stopping.
The story will be interesting enough to keep you going but I never found it to be that amazing. Graphcs and presentation are top notch given the graphical capabilities of the Wii. The ‘not returning to quest givers’ thing is awesome and more games should have it. Sometimes you need to return to them though but the quick travel/warp thing makes it so much easier.
Combat is fun and I love doing those back stab thingies (completely forgot the name…) with Shulk. I like how a lot of the moves require you to be in certain positions before performing them. Certainly makes combat a lot more interesting and fun.
You’ve probably read it in my last
essaylong commment but sidequests are easy to miss and certain ones become completely inaccessable/missable after certain points during the game. To find out which ones were missable I had to look online and got some things spoiled (booo) so I’d advise against it. To be honest they aren’t really necessary but I just did them for the sake of doing them.Looking forward to more Xenoblade discussions Powalen! Enjoy the game :D. In case you were wondering I did every sidequest except for one and beat the game in 112 hours.
To other people reading this. See! Xenoblade is awesome and you should totally play it 😉
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I really want to play it. It’s in my pile of shame at very high priority. FFXIII first, then FFXIII-2 and before that I want to get through the entire plotline for one character in SWTOR.
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The only time I have actually found this meme funny..
My friends use it conversation with me cause they know I don’t like it x.x
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So, after this morning’s ‘issue’, I had two options, I could either apologise for my mistake, or I could just sorta run away and come back when everyone had forgotten about it… I chose to run away. Brilliant idea. That just left me feeling stressed and depressed all day, cause you guys are practically the only serious friends I’ve ever had, and I don’t want to lose you guys 🙁
So, I’m here to apologise. I’m sorry for what I did this morning, it was immature and disrespectful, and I should have known better. I’ll try to behave better from now on.
Yoda: “Do or do not. There is no try”
Shut up Yoda. 😛
So, are we still friends?
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What are you talking about? Wasn’t it your evil twin sister who has kept you locked up away from TAY all this time?
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What, you mean I could have blamed it all on her and not have to have apologised?? http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/000/578/1234931504682.jpg 😛
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Oh man, where have you been? You missed all that drama caused by that Lambogirl!
Women and their drama amirite?
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If I ever figure out how to understand them, I’ll be hailed a hero, methinks…it’s really not worth the effort though…
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You won’t get the chance. The secret society of womanhood will have you assassinated before you could reveal anything.
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No your fine. It’s not women it’s women!
(I don’t know what the problem is but I know that asking just makes it worse :P)
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You’ve just confused me
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Now you know how I feel!
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Okay. I don’t know anyone that bad.
Mind you I am constantly told by my Mother that I should’ve been born a guy.
Until I started sewing that is XD
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That awesome moment when you go into your local Woolies and find a huge stash of Dr Pepper and Irn Bru.
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My local Woolies is the same. They also have those amazing New Zealand Ginger Nuts.
Can’t say I’m a fan of Irn Bru but the proper Dr Pepper is rather good. Shame they only sell by the can and for more than seems reasonable.
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Until now I had to get Dr Pepper for $2.50 a can from IGA. Woolies has it for $1.79 a can, so it’s a bit better 😛
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Blaghs! Scree & I think they modeled Young Professor Layton off you, see! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5KLgYkEmxI&feature=related
Also for some reason your voice when in game, reminds me of Badger from Breaking Bad xD
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English Gentleman ahead? You just need to find yourself a Luke and Emmy.
I think it’s the hair mainly.-
As I have not played those particular ones, I do no know who Emmy is, but if someone wants to give me enough money to turn myself into a gentlemen, and to support myself, I will happily give up my current life to go around solving puzzles.
I will even find a little boy(I’ll put Rocketman in big kids clothing), and a token female(to make Rocket and my relationship less weird), to join me as I do this.
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Well, I just got back from seeing the muppets. I think my sense of humour is broken, because I was laughing as much as the rest of the cinema combined. When most of the non-original songs appeared, I would collapse laughing in my chair.
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I really really want to see this movie. Muppets are awesome, Jason Segel is awesome, NPH is in it, etc.
I’m thinking the rest of the cinema has a broken sense of humour because they weren’t able to keep up with your laughing.-
They were laughing at stuff, but not nearly as much as me. Also, the children there just didn’t “get” it in the way I did. Also, it was a fairly empty theatre.
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I find it funny when no one else seems to want to laugh in movies, except me…which makes me laugh harder…
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Everybody seems to be raving about this movie EXCEPT the people I normally go to the movies with. ಠ_ಠ
They don’t see the brilliance of The Muppets! I don’t think they have souls.
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Is it a perfect film? No. From a directorial standard, it’s very “TV”ish, and it has some problems.
But it manages to nail the feeling of “The Muppets” perfectly.
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That’s basically what sold me on the movie. All of the reviews basically just said “it’s a Muppet movie”.
They were right and that is the greatest praise the movie could be given.
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Fozzie’s shopping centre joke: I was the only one (of about 40 people) who laughed. And I LAUGHED.
The reporter on CNN news talking about the Sony CEO/President’s resignation said Sony had lost ground to Nintendo in terms of gaming.
I don’t follow the business side of the industry that closely, but surely that’s not right? Isn’t Nintendo flailing, itself?
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I wouldn’t say they lost ground to Nintendo.
I’ve always considered the Wii as a second-tier console, for pretty good reason.
Most of the console base would buy wither an Xbox or PS3, not both, because there’s enough overlap and they’re pricey enough that sticking to one or the other only means missing a handful of games.
But the Wii? The Wii was a universal “kiddie” console that everyone could buy and enjoy – it helped that it was cheap, too.
So, really, the Wii had a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge install base, even if it didn’t have a very high retention rate – and the experience was so different, it wasn’t at the expense of the PS3, unlike Xbox purchases would be.
Handheld? Yeah, the 3DS is going well now, and it “took” an exclusive from the PSP stable. Will be interesting to see what happens post-PSV Western launch.
Then, of course, you’ve got to consider the growing PS2 third-world/developing world market.
Overall gaming? Sony still “wins”.
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The only thing that is really relevant to most people is the install base. If everyone you know has a Wii then you would probably consider it a bigger success. The rest of it is just random gibberish that only matters to people who care. That isn’t CNN’s audience.
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Yeah, that’s what I thought.
But Kotaku’s articles are full of speculation that Nintendo is doing rather poorly in terms of sales and profits, which made me question if they’re really ‘more successful’ than Sony as CNN claimed.
But I guess simplistically the install base or units sold would work for a business report…
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So it’s the first of February and I still haven’t decided who to cosplay as.
I’m thinking perhaps Emmy from Professor Layton and the Last Spectre or else Elizabeth from Bioshock infinite.
At least with Emmy I would be able to pose easily (Plus I can try making a jacket!)
But at the same time I would love to go as a game that would’ve just come out which makes it hard to pose for photos at manifest. Especially if I get them done professionally.
Anyone have any idea for other characters?
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Well, Cave Story recently had its re-release, so you could try Curly Brace, though it might be pretty unrecognisable: http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/081/a/a/Curly_brace_lineart_coloured_by_xristosx.jpg
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Hmm, assassin’s creed revelations had Sofia… http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111111180456/assassinscreed/images/b/ba/ACR_Sofia.png That would take a while to make though, and her sole character trait was “likes books.”
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The Darkness 2 is out soon, which features Jackie having issues about his dead girlfriend Jenny: http://images.wikia.com/thedarkness/images/f/fc/2n12tx-1-.jpg
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To follow in the realm of ridiculously easy characters, how about Alice Wake? http://16armandor.edublogs.org/files/2012/01/alan-wake-scene-4-23s8bw2.jpg All you need to do is wear clothes.
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Alice wake is the only one I know, but unless I also have an Alan (which I won’t). No one will recognise me.
I’m really worried because I do look 16 but I haven’t played any recent games where the main characters are 16.Also, jeans will most likely be a pain in the arse to make.
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Go as Vanille from Final Fantasy, ooh, or Serah. *Troll Face*
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I like this idea because the first game was much fun. I’d be a little worried if anyone whould notice someone dressed up as her was actually cosplaying though as she’s essentially dressing up; as someone not dressing up.
*Darkness 1 spoiler*
Maybe use some make up to create bullet wounds? (i think she was shot)
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Speaking of the Muppets I swear that Rizzo was only in it for a quick flash and had no lines. Was their any reason for this? Or did I just miss him entirely?
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Best page get.
And yes, Rizzo wasn’t really in it. Him and his family kind of just show up a little in the background and that’s it. Which is pretty much what they did before he got promoted to the main cast.
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Shame as he was always one of my favourites. Tried to find out why he wasn’t but there is barely any info about it.
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I think that the simplest explanation is that The Muppets follows on from The Muppet Show, The Muppet Movie and The Muppets Take Manhattan.
Whereas the movies that feature Rizzo are movies that have the Muppets playing characters whereas the other movies have the Muppets playing Muppets.
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See this is why I usually try to avoid dissecting things too much. I always miss the most obvious things.
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@Blaghman: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-15/#comment-533378
@ everyone else: Paypal gives same day service. I’m getting my $1000 back. 😀
@syvRaen
Now I’m not the only one with a plain coloured square as a gravatar :'(
Unless you had it before me but I’ve never seen it before. If that’s the case then I’m sorry :'(
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I have had it a while, but wouldn’t be able to put a date to it. So let’s assume that you were first, and that I’m totally cramping your style. 😀
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Mines only a few weeks old so yours was probably first 😛
This town is big enough for the both of us though 🙂
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It certainly is big enough.
Also, I rarely post. When I do, it’s usually on old, abandoned pages. So, you will still be the most prominent coloured square.
Your square is also a particularly nice shade of green. I’m very envious.
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Why thankyou. Your square is also a nice shade of khaki (I think?)
There’s enough contrast and difference in our gravatars that I can still easily find my posts while scrolling. So all is good 😀
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Now I want to change mine to a slightly different shade of green, just tot troll you.
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Seeing this comment chain makes me want to use a coloured square as well… I’ve got dibs on orange if it ever comes to that. xD
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Nononononono.
Well, actually, I guess I might have inadvertantly said something along those lines, but I meant no offence to anyone except myself!
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but I meant no offence to anyone except myself!
and offence to all those poor plants you killed :'(
R.I.P. Shane’s dead plants.
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So, Paradox Interactive makes some amazing games, Y/Y.
Europa Universalis III is the only game I’ve been able to play for a month.
Dear Friend whom I went to school with & have on Steam, play something other than Counter-Strike: Source. At least play TF2 for god sake!
Wait, I don’t need to be physically at my Xbox to buy Bastion at 600 MSP, do I?
Cause if I can buy it now, I may as well. I’ll probably forget before Feb 6 anyway…
Bastion! \o/
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flweffdsfkja;jafl,
The 600 MSP price is Gold-exclusive, and my Gold membership is in my letterbox 9000km away.
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:'( I know that feeling. I used a 1 month gold voucher just for Bastion but now I’m all outta back ups…
I think they had a $1 for 1 month gold thing on the Dashboard but I’m not sure if you can claim it on the computer
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It’s not a huge deal, I’ll buy it when I get back…. just would’ve liked to get it now in case I forget later 😛
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Oh so you’ll be back before the sale ends? That’s alright then 🙂
I assumed you’d miss the sale, thus the frustration 😛
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There’s another song that plays through a later mission like that, and it was quite surprising how thoroughly effective it was. Although the one you linked to was probably the best anyway. :p
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But if I was to post in the middle of TAY… :3
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Last level? I thought the worst was the second for the odd scrolling and half of stage 4 when things start getting hectic in the middle, heh.
Never had mad problem with the last chapter because the walls offer a lot of cover and the music is hellishly awesome.
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So i’m checking out the first ep of Boardwalk Empire, not bad, not bad. I know there’s tits, since it’s on HBOOBS, lol.
God Terraria is addicting. Got myself a grappling hook, magic mirror and a gold pickaxe and all of a sudden its dig dig dig teleport sell, dig dig dig teleport sell.
Rinse and repeat
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And as I say that, I fall into a lava pool. And I have no idea where it was. Don’t think I lost too much money. Hope not anyway, because I don’t think I’ll be getting it back
I’ve been here a while now and I’m seeing you guys and gals post regularly. Thing is… I have absolutely no idea what some of your gravatars are. Some of them I recognise/see/know, some of them are too small to see and decipher and others I can make out but I’m not sure where it’s from.
Care to enlighten me TAYbies? 🙂
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Mine should be fairly obvious. It’s a face.
Technically, its name is Froobface, and I made it a few years back when I first attempted sculpting in some program. It’s a little bit creepy, but I’d say that fits me well.
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28754200/shanewsmithdotcoma.jpg
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Probably wouldn’t have guessed it just from your gravatar but I saw your original post way back when that had different versions of it, so I instantly recognised it.
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**Sterling Malory Archer aka “Duchess”
Didn’t know it at first but then I started watching Archer 🙂
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Mine I randomly found when I was browsing through DeviantArt. Which is strange because I never go there.
Here’s a link – http://tyomi4.deviantart.com/gallery/#/dw4op8
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Mine is of South Park me!
Pretty spot on in ways, I always look like i’m gonna kill someone as my mate says lol. I do wear Auscam pants often, they’re like the best pants ever. But I do not own a Master of Puppets Metallica shirt, yet…
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Pants with a thin red X over them. This is because somebody once suggested that my name should be Al, Ex-Pants instead, and I ran with a rather lame pun after that.
Although I was thinking of changing it to Beaker, the Muppet…
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I actually don’t have the original version of mine any more to show you full-sized. I’ve used it for ages.
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Mine is pretty obvious I suppose, but it’s my 3DS Mii. I zoomed it in because I thought it looked funny? I don’t know. 😛
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Silly Harli, penicl pig isn’t a pokemon.
Mine’s Bunny Puppy. One of those beanie kid toys that an ex bought for me because she thought it was a rabbit but it turned out to be a puppy. Somehow it just stuck around.
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I can help. I’ll keep your account safe, all I need is the details.
Any tips on getting into the beta? Or is it just random luck, like the D3 one?
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Ha, go our other cat! It caught it’s 2nd or 3rd rat this week! I just spotted her being all proud about it at the back steps. Hopefully she keeps it up, we’re sick of the bastards attacking our vegetable garden, mostly the Tomatoes & Beetroot.
We suspect the bloke over the back with the chickens is mostly attracting them with the chicken feed D=
D= I just saw an article on Gizmodo that the musician in me hates so much. A guitar amp with Auto Tune for your guitar in it. So your over priced Gibson Robot guitar can now actually sound like a robot, just lovely.
Give me a Fender Strat or Gibson LP coupled with a Marshall stack & a cry baby wah pedal any day over this stuff.
I’ve really started to get into Scott Westerfeld’s sci-fi.
Has anyone ever read anything of his?
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Author of Leviathan, Behemoth etc?
I have them in my literary pile of shame…I will start them soon…hopefully.-
Yep, that’s him. Those are more like steampunk/biopunk (if biopunk is a thing) but he also has some really great sci-fi from earlier on in his career.
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I think my favourite is the woman shooting pistols while riding a bicycle. haha But that entire end scene is fantastic.
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Damn, Australia went so sleep. Any vampires left? Anyone staying up late? hehehe.
While you guys were sleeping, Rock Paper Shotgun put a very concering article on digital goods. Worth a good read: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/01/thought-do-we-own-our-steam-games
They seem to be pushing this for consoles too, which would kind of make retail extremely redundant unless you can deactivate the code that comes with the game or something weird like that.
If anything, start buying those indie bundles and saving all those DRM-free installers!!!! Maybe in a not-so-distant future they could save us!
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No but you have some late sleeping, had coffee and started work people now.
That was an interesting post and a fairly scary proposition. My steam account is worth over 3 grand and I would hate it is that decided to go bye bye.
But even buying physical copies of games is no help as with online activation and requirement for GFWL or other services you can have a worthless disc that you can’t play if they lock you out of that.
Morning all. Part three of The Tube is up now. The chapters will be published at 8:30 every weekday morning to coincide with the TAY revival! 🙂
http://shanewsmith.com/blog/category/the-tube/sort/_post_date-pp-asc/
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I’ve written 5.5 chapterettes thus far… or, actually, I mean, no, not hoarding at all!
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Unfortunately, the release date for the item(s) listed below has changed, and we need to provide you with a new delivery estimate based on the new release date:
Sega, Raita Honjou “Valkyria Chronicles 2: World Artworks”
New Delivery Estimate: May 04, 2012 – May 16, 2012
🙁
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From the demo, it was what sealed the deal.
“What, I can capture monsters and make them fight with me?”
“They have limit breaks?”
“I can level them up? And make them eat each other?!!”
“OMG I can play dress-ups with them!!! SOLD!” 😛-
YOU CAN PLAY DRESSUPS WITH MONSTERS???
So is this Demo on the PSN?
I assume it is.
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I got mine from US PSN the other week. I’m guessing it’s up for AU PSN now.
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…that…that almost sounds like the old style of Final Fantasy games.
I’m totally going to put this on my “very soon list”.
By the way, I actually enjoyed FF13, once you moved away from expecting chocobos and airships and a world map. I found it fun.
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I told myself I have to do the vacuuming before I can play it. I’m an idiot.
It’s not here yet though. I ordered it from Game as well and they guarantee release date delivery. I just hope it comes with the parcel lady (10am-ish) rather than the postman(3pm-ish).
Twisted Metal coming out March 1? Sadface.
Twisted metal only having an rrp of $78 in australia? Makes me worried that sony think they don’t have high hopes for it. I’m hoping when i go home the multiplayer demo will be awesome.
Morning TAY!
I’ll probably be quiet again today. So much to do, so little skill…er…time. I meant time!
Ok so a couple of things:
1. For those of you that don’t use twitter/missed it. I thought of starting up a video blog sometime this year which would be a weekly thing bringing people up to speed with the most important gaming news and some fun loopiness for good measure.
Would this be something you guys would be intereted in seeing?
2. I have been thinking a lot about the return of the KKP this year and whether or not it would make a return after the shit-storm that ended this last one.
I have decided to man up and do it all again, though.
However it will be back in a new charity-driven form, but still feature giveaways from whatever source wants to donate things.
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I think if you did do the KKP, $10 limit on donations would be a good start. I think when people start forking over larger amounts is when problems occur.
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As i said, it’ll be charity based. The donations won’t have effect and i’ll be using a middle ground rather than using my own paypal account. Something akin to kickstarter, but for charity.
100% of all donations will be going to charity. I’m not leaving room for problems this time around
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2. That’s awesome mate! Feel free to delegate or call for volunteers this time around though, if you like. I’m sure that someone (or someones) else would be equally happy to take care of it this year!
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I will be, mate.
I’ve already got a fair bit in mind and i will be asking all states to get involved. This will be a much bigger event for all people of Kotaku to get involved with as much time as they wish to donate.
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After the sh*tstorm last year I’d recommend against the KKP, that was hell on you and for all your hard work all you got was grief at the end of it.
I’d suggest either a secret nerdy santa (with Strange’s suggested defined price limit) or a straight up charity thing. We have plenty of things already, why don’t we extend our generosity to those who need it more?
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As i said. It IS a straight up charity.
And anything given away would be the same as the indie developer titles which went fine.
I won’t enter anything i put up.Secret santa is just too much stuffing around.
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Hi Chuloopa!
I did see the various posts and stuff and really wanted to say a lot to you about it but didn’t know quite how to put it down in writing. but I’ll try.
Does it really matter what a bunch of jealous tools think? The TAYbies all know your awesome, the kotaku offices know you’re awesome and I’m so inspired by someone who could act so selfless and work so hard on a project with little personal gain.
There will always be haters no matter what you try, can’t please everyone. If you feel the rewards were worth it then do it again! It’s all entirely up to you.
my 2c
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I’m happy that you didn’t let it put you down. Perhaps get a team of people so that no one can blame you solely for it.
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man, i missed the sh!tstorm, but just went back and reread it… while i understand some peoples disappointment, being ungrateful turds is just harsh…
i applaud you Loops, for having the confidence and the motivation to do that again, you’re truly an amazing person and i don’t know how you do it
So we were talking about the Sims 3 last night. Interesting how people play it. Some of us just like building houses (big, fancy houses!), one of indicated that they enjoyed finding ways to kill Sims (although, to be expected from Trjn, I suppose), and one boring person thought it was fun playing a family with humble beginnings and moving them up in the world. Almost like how you’re supposed to play it, boring.
I don’t really think there’s any shame in liking Sims 3.
I say this under the guise of discussion of gaming tastes because: http://store.origin.com/store/eaapac/en_AU/DisplayProductDetailsPage/ThemeID.850400/productID.243652900
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probably no surprise, but i would get bored and then just lock them in dungeons and make them piss themselves until they die.
I’d also enjoy removing the ladder so they drown. Stupid sims deserve it for not knowing how to exit a pool without one.But mostly i’d use cheat codes to build the houses of my dreams!
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I just find it satisfying to A: have earned my dream house, and B: to make it a hideous Frankenstinean monster of different styles. Is that so wrong?
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I play the Sims the same way I play Minecraft. Build the best houses/structures I can and don’t worry about the life/survival side of things. xD If they brought out a Sims: Architect edition, I would just buy that.
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I used to do a, perhaps very very strange, thing where I would make Sims of a particular group of people (maybe different groups of friends, or characters from a TV show) and run ‘death experiments’ with them. ‘Who can survive the longest when there’s eight ovens catching on fire?’ ‘Who can last the longest without any food? (However the winner of this one must survive long enough to order a pizza and have it arrive at the house or else it doesn’t count)’. So, basically, what loops said.
So remember yesterday I mentioned my epic walk I’d had to do? Despite having a rather large-brimmed hat on, I think I got sunstroke.
My brain felt like it had been boiled by the time we got home, and after I’d made dinner(great night to have home-made pizza, including the base, Strange! 😛 ) I felt too sick to eat it. I went to bed just before 9 and completely crashed until 7am.
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Thanks, guys. 🙂
I was lucky this morning. When my daughter saw me getting dressed to walk with her to school she told me she’d go by herself. <3
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Take it easy and please get better soon. Keep hydrated.
You’ve obviously brought up your Daughter to be a caring person =D
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Wow. Ok. The latest Hollywood Babble On is a bit different. Ralph Garman is away so they have just put up 2.5 hrs of nothing but jokes about Liam Neeson’s penis.
And I mean there is literally nothing but. No filler or anything else. Just dick jokes.
Was pretty much non-existant in TAY and KKRPG talk yesterday – sorry guys! Just really struggling with some stuff at work at the moment – The stupid MYOB driver doesn’t like to work in Windows 7, refuses to work when you set compatibility mode to XP and refuses to work in XP Mode as a virtual machine. For those posting in the KKRPG forums, there are some really good ideas going around. I am going to try and have a play around with some of the free game engines that Harli listed today.
Sigh.
(Girl look at that body)
@Aiden
How is EU3?
I’ve been watching a few vids and reading about it for months, and it seems like my sort of thing, but I don’t have any free time to be caught up in a timesink.
Impressions?
Anyone thinking of getting into 3D art?
DAZ3D has the Pro editions of all its software for free for a limited time! Get all three, and you’ll ‘save’ upwards of $800.
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I’m interested! I want to get back in to comics/animation but character modeling isn’t really my thing.
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The beauty of this deal is that DAZ3D also sell very well-priced models that can be used in this software, so you don’t need to build from the ground up.
Everybody wins!
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FREE TUTORIAL:
https://www.daz3d.com/i/shop/itemdetails/?item=13531It’s a learning curve, but it’s not particularly onerous, and you’ll feel you’re making progress all the time.
It’s a bit like Demon’s Souls really.
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FREE FREE FREE!!!!!
Sorry just want to put that out there as I missed it the first time I read the post from Shane, I thought it was a sale but not that it was free.
You can also go store >> Select on sale only >> then order by price lowest to see all the things that are currently free
Hey guys!
I’m still here!
Hey Strange!
I haven’t left!
Uh…. How about them [insert preferred sports team]?
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Yeah, it’s been a while.
Do you still like Shapes. I remember you used to like Shapes. You were always all “Shapes!” and we were all “Oh, Bish!”.
Good times, eh?
We should hang out in the not-too-distant future.
Maybe go for more All-you-can-eat pizza.
You remember that one time we had all-you-can-eat pizza and I got jelly, then you got jelly and got jelly which made Mark jelly so he got jelly too?
And thing of other sentences-we-can-hyphen-together for some reason.
Man, dem hyphens, eh? If they came in Pizza flavour…
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So, I’m pondering what to get with my PSN $ card, and I can’t quite remember the name of that game you said was awesome. Was it “Where is My Heart?”?
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Dear Scree,
Re. Cosplay ideas: Go as the guy from Load Runner
http://bit.ly/w33p5F
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy
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That would be awesome! However it is incredibly hard to find patterns for Overalls. I’d rather make it then buy it.
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Dear Effluvium Boy,
Scree could not answer your email in time,
In other news – Purple Sperm Suit!Sincerely,
-Morf
Special Comments – Resident Timber Board Advisor -
That would require just buying a morph suit. That and I have no idea how I would go to the toilet. O_O
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zipper in the crotch area!
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Set up an elaborate system of pipes, in the style of, uhh “Pipes”(or pipe dream, or whatever else those games are called). Make your costume meta.
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Hmmm.
Hmmmmmmmm.
Well, this is awkward. The internet at the place I’m house-sitting at it acting like it’s shaped. Given it is currently the second of February, this worries me greatly. I’m hoping there’s something else going on, but I fear that whatever it is may be my fault…
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It’s possible their rollover date is not the same as when the month changes. I’m pretty sure ours is somewhere mid-month.
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This is very true. Ours is the 22nd of each month. I presume it goes from contract start dates, rather than by calendar months.
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I’m aware that it can not be, mine used to be on the eighth of the month, then it changed magically to the first, which my Dad didn’t tell me about. But, I’m just a little concerned since I haven’t been downloading that much, but I also forgot to ask if I should be mindful of a download cap.
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mine is on the 12th of every month – considering i now have about 20 gb spare so i can d/l TF2!
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so I just had a couple of students come into the library. they’re talking about Mass Effect 3 & at the desk. The an appoximation of the following exchange followed:
Student: You gonna be getting Mass Effect 3?
Me: Oh, I am indeed most certainly going to be getting Mass Effect 3
Student Did you hear that the script was leaked?
Me: Yes, I did hear something to that effect. However, I am not at all interested in having the slightest bit of knowlede of the information contained in this leak, for I wish to experience the game without having heard any spoilers, so I thank you in advance for not mentioning anything you have heard.
Student: [silence for a moment, and then…] ****PRETTY DAMN BIG SPOILER****
Damn. If only it was legal to punch idiot troll students.
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You work at the library? How about “Oh, it appears you have a book that’s been out for approximately a hundred years…here’s the bill.” ? 😛
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So…. you work at the library?
So you have access to this student’s library details yes?Is some student about to instantly rack up hundreds of dollars in unreturned book fees? I sure as hell hope so.
Anybody else having issues with the mobile version of Kotaku? The links down the bottom aren’t working for me, so I can’t get past the first page of articles, and when viewing an article I can’t view any of the comments.
Mark? Tracey? Anybody?!?
*crickets chirping*
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Yup I’m having the same problems. Can’t switch between mobile and desktop versions at the moment either.
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I blame Brian Ashcraft for this.
Don’t know if he had anything to do with it, but it seems to be the fashionable thing to do.
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Marcey was used in the Game Jam letters. I don’t think they were too impressed
I propose that if you don’t get a reply to an email to Mark that you need to cc Tracey on that it is addressed to Marcey from now on
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So the Occupy Sydney mob have been moved on.
I’d have more sympathy for them if more than 2 of them actually knew why they were there.
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When the occupy movement first started up I thought it had the potential to be a good thing. But then it quickly became apparent that it was 99% composed of unemployed (unemployable?) hippies with no ideas, only slogans.
So my brand spanking new (second hand) 3ds arrived yesterday.
It’s pretty bloody spiffy looking. There are no games, aside from the inbuilt ones, so i may have to look into getting one from OGS once exams are over.
I did get a chance to check out the 3d, and even on the lowest setting it gives me a damn-near-instant headache… bloody hell..
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It’s alright Chuloopa, the 3D isn’t necessary. In fact the best part of the 3DS is the spotpass/street pass feature.
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Thanks! I wanted it for Alpha. Don’t worry, he’s completely trustworthy and I have none him for years! (9 years to be exact!)
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*known I only saw the error after I presses reply. >_<
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I get this with my PS3. I turn the 3D on and don’t even get all the way out of the menus before I have to go back and turn it off. Why I got a 3D TV I’ll never know.
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I second this recommendation. Definitely the best made-for-3DS download software available at the moment.
As I said to That Teemo the other day, 3D is a bit neat, but so far it’s just been a novelty. You flick it on for a second, judge it, then turn it back off.
Enjoy your 3DS, buddy!
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Personally I don’t think it will ever get promoted beyond novelty unless they can rectify the medical issues that so many people have with it…
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I love 3D! It doesn’t give me a headache and when I finally get my 3Ds I’m planning on sliding the 3D slider all the way just to spite all you gloating 3ds owners who don’t use 3D.
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There are some games where the 3D actually makes it look worse though, and many of them have weirdly calibrated 3D depth, so if you actually slide it to the max, you get an impossible viewing angle, which is a hctib elttil.
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Hey, well if 3D makes you happy, then I’m happy!
It’s not that I’m against 3D, I just see no reason to use it, personally.
I agree with Shane in that it can’t ever get past being a novelty until they resolve the potential health issues with it, but novelties aren’t implicitly bad or anything. They’re there to be enjoyed, and if you’re going to enjoy it, then youredoinitrite.
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Hey Loops i have Tom Clancy Shadow wars for the 3ds that i haven’t really used, its a bit of a strategy game and i am not the biggest fan of that genre. If you want it it is yours. I got it free when i bought my 3ds so it isn’t like i am out of pocket.
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no i would not let you do that, If thats a yes send us a email to
rossfear(at)msn(dot).com
and i will ship it today if i get the time!
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Hi, Chuloopa, by royal command of the scree, who kindly told me I should ask you, I am at least advising you I’ll send you a mail soon about the game release we are planning. I cannot put all the details, at least not until friday, so please bear with me.
First and most important, you don’t mind if I send you a mail, right?
Thanks in advance. Asking “please” never hurts, heh.
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Gamecube version is a glitchy port of the N64 one.
3DS is a beautiful remake.
Since you don’t have the sentimental attachment to the N64 version, play it on 3DS.
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hello Peoples
I still have free things for people.
Greed Corps, Demigod and a copy of Magicka.
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I’ve been working hellsmuchly. Back in the office so access to kotaku restored!
Been up and down, and been going to the gym. Things are good. 🙂
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Um well there is this so much right now haha i kid, really atm nothing is going on whatsoever. I have been reading batmangs and listening to music mostly. A good combination i think!
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I wish I could be musicing and batmanging…. 🙁
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“I don’t know what happened it was like magic”
In my Terrible Uncle Vernon voice
“Theres no such thing as magic”
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It’s a pity I don’t know if it’s actually shaped, or if this terribad computer has somehow caused an issues(Viruses I haven’t found downloading stuff, or causing a DDoS, or anything like that). I should just eat some bacon to take my mind off it. Mmm, delicious bacon.
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Hi Scree
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So alone…
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Don’t see what’s so great about Page 18…
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“Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie;
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.” -
‘Cause I’m all alone. There’s no one here beside me…
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My problems have all gone. There’s no one to deride me…
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But you gotta have frieeeennds!
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Man, now they’re halfway through Page 19…
Things move so fast these days, it’s difficult for an old timer like me to keep up. -
(NB – That was a comment on life in general and not the whole “Old TaY” “New TAY” thingumy)
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Ever watch a cartoon called Bobby’s World?
Probably not.
It was awesome. One of my favourite shows when I was a kid. It was on early on Saturday mornings, but I’d get up at 0600 or whenever just so that I could watch it.
It might even be where the concept of “noogies” originated… (That will require further research) -
*Hums theme tune from Bobby’s World*
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Sooo…
I have a lot of crap on my desk at work. Light bulbs, allen keys, wall brackets, documents, folders, lots more documents… Yet people always assume I don’t have muh to do. -
I like rain.
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I can see on Page 19 Scree.
Ignoring me.That’s cold…
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Only kidding 😀
I wouldn’t expect you to look back here… but if you do, Blaghs probably will too.
So…
KarmaKarmaKarmaKarma Karma Chameleeeoooonn… -
“I can’t go out there. They’ll only laugh at me.”
“That’s because… YOU’RE A CLOWN!”
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Actually… I’m not really sure where I fit in the Old TAY/New TAY scale.
I imagine that, if it was measured like comic books, I’d fit somewhere between the Bronze and Modern Ages. -
I didn’t have lunch today.
It’s been raining and, although I usually don’t mind, I didn’t feel like walking around in the rain today.
I could have just ducked accross the road to KFC, which is my usual rainy day reaction, but… It’s rained a lot lately, so I need to keep my wits about me. Otherwise I could turn into a “Junk Food Junkie” (Ominous voice)
That’s a reference to a video we had to watch multiple times in health class back in High School. It was British and quite old, as most educational media was at our school.
Man we had some old text books in Science class. There’s no way a significant portion of the info could still be relevant. -
So… What’s happening?
Hi Virus.
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Like how I did that?
I’m predicting the fuuuuuutttuuuuuurrree *spooky fingers*
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Here’s hoping Blaghs and Virus__ do read this, or else I’ll look foolish.
Then again, I look foolish most of the time, so I may as well throw caution to the wind.
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*Throws cushion upwind*
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Oh, maybe insert_username_here will read this too.
Hello insert_username_here 😀
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Have fun at the beach?
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Ok, HOME TIME \o/
I’ll be seeing you guys later, but for now just go on commenting on Page 19 (Soon to be 20), completely oblivious of my soliloquy… -
Ok I’m back!
Yet still no reply… 🙁
Scree, why do you despise me so?
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How do you make a hankerchief dance?
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You put a little boogie in it! 😀
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*much to do (^ Typo up there)
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So here’s the intro to Bobby’s World: http://youtu.be/gSX9bqsifR0
Cute right? He was sort of a precursor to Rugrats and probably a few other shows. He’d get lost in his imagination and go on crazy adventures. Awesome.
He had a funny voice. Also, that guy in the yellow shirt with the hearts is his uncle (Ted I think) he’d often say “Time! For! Noogiiiieees!” and mess up Bobby’s hair (Much to Bobby’s annoyance).
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I tried to tell you, but still you deny this conversation even existed.
A devastating blow. -
I guess nobody else will read this after all.
Thanks for the company #35 -
I hope you enjoy your PSP Scree.
My PSP was probably my most used/cherished/reliable consoles that I ever owned.
It doesn’t get much use these days, but it still sits proudly beside my bed.
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hey. having a conversation with yourself in the past? that sounds pretty post-modern. I hope you warned page 18 about the trouble coming up on page 19.
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Howdy #35! Glad you could make it to the party!
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Sorry but when you started talking to me, I believe I was out buying tactics ogre, a book, material and a bean bag pattern.
Forgive me for not looking back. I’m amazed I am still awake.
Also, don’t feel bad, Blaghman usually drops hints about back pages, I don’t get them and then he has to just tell me via steam.
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I was just kidding around. It’s all groovy 😛
However you should check out that Bobby’s World intro.
And also can you guess the movie quote up there? ^ -
I have no idea. I don’t watch many movies outside of horror.
Ooh I should try and find that mirrors movie.
I’m in a I should do this, but I can’t be bothered mood.I will checkk out the intro now. Also, I don’t have you on twitter. Can I get it?
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Mirrors movie?
Oh the one with the guy from 24?You only watch horror? Well, then yeah, you probably wouldn’t have guessed Pixar’s A Bug’s Life
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Man, an old page conversation? Normally I would be all over this, and I would have seen it way earlier, but man, this “shaped” thing is painful. So, what’s up guys? The ceiling? Oh, ho ho, you’re so witty, you kidders you.
Cool story, I know.
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I have seen that movie, but it was a long time ago.
I don’t exclusively watch horror, but it’s usually what I watch.
I’m talking about the Asian Mirrors movie, not the American one.Hi Blaghman!
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Awww yeeeeah! Blaghman in the HOOOOOOOUUUUSE!
Yeah man, this shaped net is horrible. I haven’t been NocTAYnal the last couple of weeks because it gets so tedious.
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Oh, okie dokie.
I don’t watch a lot of horror.
There’s a movie called The Hidden that I have fond memories of.
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Blaghman or I?
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I was pretty much brought up on Horror so that’s probably why I like it so much. The american remakes of Horror movies are usually comedy in comparison to the originals.
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Blaghs or you what?
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About the cushion
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OH GOD THAT WAS PAINFUL.
It took like 12 minutes to refresh this page, as it kept failing 90% of the way through it, so I’ve forgotten what I was going to say.
Wait, no, yes, I did see that stuff Smelly, and I enjoyed it.
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Oh, the comment referring to the comment was directed at Blaghs.
The comment in general was directed at whoever found it funny. Which would likely be… nobody 😛
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Tell me about it. Sometimes it loads quickly, sometimes it takes an epoch.
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I do not. Sorry D=
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I don’t think the RDR thing was directed at me, but I’ll answer anyway.
Yes, I do! Sadly, it’s an american version, and it doesn’t work properly with the free DLC(because it hates me(possibly the paid DLC as well, I’m not sure)).
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No worries.
Me, the Doc and some others were just mucking around in a posse last night and it was pretty fun.
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still going eh?
well…
…umm
…carry on.
Shall do
I will gladly carry on, at this pathetically slow pace!
I can’t speak for the others though.
I will try! =D
I’m watching a movie called Ballistic. It has Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu, but also that guy who played Toad in X-Men. God that guy is a terrible actor…
I followed you on Twitter by the way (Scree that is)
@Scree Do or do not, there is no try.
@Flu That was on Friday night after the Canberran TAYbies appeared at my house. I was so confused.
That’s the one.
It’s… not so good.
I followed you also! I didn’t realise you weren’t there.
Fun fact. Since every time I refresh this, it loads it in big chunks of text, I usually scroll down, and read the bottom thing before the next chunk loads. Currently, it’s stopping just under where you said “Hi” to me Scree, so I’m all “YAY, I FEEL COOLSKIES! PEOPLE KNOW ME!” before it disappears in the mass of text. True Story. And then I found ten dollars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvjNYNDUI4Y&feature=related
Don’t spend it all in one place
Hi Blaghman
Alrighty, I’d best be hitting the fart sack.
G’night lady and gent.
Has been a pleasure.
(And sorry for all the confusion Scree, I was just being silly)
Hi Flu!
Have you been feeling tired today? I’ve felt tired all day, it’s really quite weird. Another cool story from me, I know. Anyway, it feels way later than it really it. I blame terrorists, and video games. Taking our jobs with the foreigners.
Hmm, Oh well. I guess it’s just me, alone, waiting for Godot.
Hello (Hello, hello…)
Is there anybody in there..?
Just nod if you can hear me…
Is there anyone home?
(Man… Pink Floyd are the greatest…)
what up ‘Flu?
& yeah, PF are pretty damn amazing.
Going to see Roger Waters later this month.
Mornin’ Fellas. I have nothing to say!
jelly to the max. where’s he playing at?
The Wall – Live
Acer Arena (Now called “Allphones Arena” but that just sounds absurd)
It’s going to be amazing.
Check it out: http://youtu.be/Ig9cdA1zD5o?t=1m22s
Hmm, so. With my Playstation “coints” I can either get Shadow of the Colossus HD remake, which I’ve been wanting for ever so long because due to weird circumstances I never got to complete this game . But then I have to download it, and then I’ll be sad I don’t have HD Ico, too. But Shadow of the Colossus!
Or, I can grab Where is my Heart and a bunch of other stuffs including Lara Croft, Guardian of Light or whatever it’s called, complete with Kain and Raziel DLC. But SOTC! But Kain and Raziel!
Halp! I can’t decide.
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You said coints, that is a awesome word.Also i have no idea what any of those games are, sigh no PS3 for me mainly because i have no room for another console!
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If it’s just a space thing, put one of the others away and get a PS3! It has my favourite exclusives.
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Go for the lots of stuff one. The disc version of the Ico/SotC upscale is fairly cheap, so you might as well wait a bit, and then buy that when you have a chance.
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I got SOTC and I have been reliably informed that everyone wants to be like Mike, so there’s that.
#helping?
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yep – i’d go with the lots of small stuff edition – i’d much rather have both SotC and ICO on a pretty disc
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@ alpha&Scree i guess
Your super secret project to give away games might be slightly hampered that the community here and Mark and Tracey Really don’t know you that well. They probably get hundreds of emails a day asking for kotaku to post a feature on small indie games. I am not saying its a bad idea to try just i am unsure with the amount of success you will get.
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BTW i am stictly guessing that is what you guys are trying to do if i am off base then just ignore my comment!
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That’s fine. If you got the wrong idea, then other people can get the wrong idea so it’s good to clarify.
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We’re not asking for a feature. In fact, we’re not really asking for advertisement at all. We’re just trying to give away some games.
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Have you seen these guys they wouldn’t take ice from a eskimo simply for the fact that they might put the person out by taking it. I am all for free stuff but it might be easier to confine it to TAY instead of the whole kotaku reader base. Hey just my opinion guys don’t have to listen to it!
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Unfortunately it kind of needs to be official because it’s on behalf of Nyu media. The website launches on Friday, so there will be more information then.
I told Alpha to speak to Chuloopa about the best way to go about it.
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My personal goal here is to actually get more people to the shmup army… Or at least tell people the genre exists and it’s not all “Snes graphics” or Space Invaders.
But I’m not a fan of pushing things so when I see a no, it’s no and, well, tough luck.
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Which is why I am involved! I’m here to push Alpha! You must get this competition going D= People probably like the games and they just don’t know it yet! ELITE BEAT AGENTS ARE GO!
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And I’m always grateful about that. (And it’s one of the reasons why you are awesome).
Thanks for the support guys, I just don’t feel too confident (not about the games of course, I freakin’ love ’em!) but about forcing/pushing things. I’m not much of a fan of doing that.
I’ll contact Choolopa as advised by several people here. Scree helped me by explaning the prior events at Kotaku so now I get a bigger picture of the situation.
I came here because I was told there was a bunch of awesome and sane (or insane? =P) people, and well, it’s been VERY true so far!
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You shouldn’t take what i am saying to heart its just that loops is a community member from way back who has done lots of things for this place, thats why people told you to contact him. Its just if i was a game journalist on a fairly popular website, i would imagine several dozen emails a day coming in asking to support my indie game. If they make a exception for community members the other people who also do this will call “NO FAIR” faster then a missisipi tree stump.(WTF IS THIS METAPHOR)
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Ah, but the difference is are they giving away free copies?
I mean, we’re talking about it plenty on TAY and that’s fine. But Alpha is trying to give something back to the community.
Nyu media tried to contact Kotaku US, only to get turned away simply because it was a shmup. We’re not trying to take any other indie games place, just to give some awesome games away.
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Oh, yes, that’s a very valid point indeed! Yeah, I don’t want exceptions. I would like to propose an idea and if gets turned down, well, can’t say I didn’t try! Bu, yes, I’m not a fan of exceptions and that kind of stuff.
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I can dig that man, more power to you for doing something like this. I will most certain have a look at this website when it launchs
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Alpha will post a link to the website as soon as it goes live =D
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Morning my friends, hope you’re all well. I’d like to see if you ladies and gents can help me out(again) because you are a helpful and knowledgeable bunch of people. So heres my problem, ordered two different lots of items from ozgameshop about a week apart and only one item from the first order has arrived and an item from the second order arrived this morning. Has this happened too anybody else? Should i be worried? I’ve had dealings with them in the past and they’ve been fantastic. I look forward to your reply. Ciao.
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You should be fine man, they will usually ship once the game has been picked of the shelf and lately they have been shipping stuff very quickly. I would say you will have all your stuff by the end of the week unless its out of stock.
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Ozgameshop are really hit and miss sometimes.
I ordered a couple of games from them (Sonic Generations and something else) and it took Sonic Generations a month to arrive but the other game came within about a week and a half.
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Yeah this has happened to me before, just thought it was a bit weird when it says its been dispatched and an item from the second order arrives first.
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I’m somewhat new, i lurked for a while then i posted irregularly then i won a competition. Its quite a story my friend. So interesting i’m sure people dont want to hear it.
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I rate this story a seven out of ten. Execution and events were good, but I feel it lacked for a “Cool story bro(or potentially “cool story TheJiveMan”)” or even a “and then I found ten dollars.”
I look forward to your future(groovy) attempts at storytelling!
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May I say, I like your name Jiveman, mostly because it reminds of that episode of The Simpsons when Homer joins a freak show at a music festival.
“Quit Jive’ing me Turkey”
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I’d wait a while before you start to fret about it, most of the time the problem is inconsistency on the side of Australia Post…. Or Lambo.
Freakin’ Lambo.
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I’m guessing so, my stuff has been fingered by customes before(i’m sure theres a better word than that but it seems appropriate as its a first world problem). Plus i live in rural nsw so i’m guessing its aus post. Just thought the delivery order was a bit funny.
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http://store.steampowered.com/sub/13143/
I will be sad if you people don’t buy this. PSYCHONAUTS IS IN THAT PACK. What are you waiting for?
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DO IIIIIITTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!
I am doing a 100% play through of psychonauts at the moment. That one missing figment on a level can be so very annoying
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Yeah, it’s pretty much everyone’s most favourite title that nobody had (at least when it was only available at brick-and-mortar stores).
Faux-Psychonaut-Agent fled,
Yes, I teleport using bacon. It’s a most delicious way to travel.
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I think people missunderstand what i have planned for this years KKP.. .it would be more like ‘childs play’, the penny arcade charity, and almost nothing like the last one.
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Nope.
Portable gaming is pretty hit and miss with me and until there are titles that I simply must have, there’s no reason for me to get that console.
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I might give the Vita some time. I REALLY want to play the new Uncharted game but, I don’t want to buy a Vita just to play one game. Might wait for some more releases.
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Unit 13, Gravity Rush, Escape Plan, Uncharted, et al. are all peaking my interest.
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But yeah, I am trying to decide if I wait for a price drop or not. I want to help it get established but I don’t want to fork out twice as much as what people will be paying in three months.
Also, no word on Metal Gear Ac!d as far as I’m aware, so…. I dunno.
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I’ll wait a while before I consider getting one. I want to see what the games are going to look like post-launch. With Sony touting the ‘console games on the run’ angle of the Vita, I sure hope they don’t just port PS3 games onto it. I’d rather developers design games around each system, rather than a catch-all for both.
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Me!
Right now I’m thinking AU system but buy US games. So I’m not sure if I want to import the games then go buy the system when they arrive or buy the system at launch and have to wait a few days.
Looking at my launch lineup being Uncharted and Disgaea 3, plus Gravity Rush once it’s available (I think it’s ‘launch window’ but not at launch). Also hoping that the recent Tales of Innocence port gets an english release so I can buy that. Also Persona 4 better get an english release too, been watching the anime adaption recently and it’s making me angry at myself for not playing it but it’s so hard to go back to PS2 games now.
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Nah. I’m sticking with my 3DS, because you know there’s going to be Pokemon for it. Pokemon’s the only thing I really get into with handhelds.
So, the Capcom event was yesterday, and it was pretty awesome. Although I didn’t know the exact place it was being held, i still got there about 30 mins early and it became incredibly easy to find once the ratio of video game shirts started outweighing the general Oxford Street fashions about 10 to 1. Anyway, a few of the Kotaku people were going to show up, but then they didn’t (I’m still crying about it) So I get in the line pretty early with only about 15 people in front on me. I figure this is about as many people that are going to turn up. But the line eventually became super long and i was glad i wouldn’t be waiting outside for an hour as security were doing bag and ID checks on everyone, this was made worse by the fact that heaps of people had to explain what they were doing with cosplay gear to 30 something security guards that had no idea.
Anyway, i was standing next to what seemed to be 2 games media types. One of them seemed to be high on speed judging by how much he couldn’t stop talking about his fighting game technique “That shit is SOOOOOOO easy to punish, low kick into launch yo”. Anyway, i distinctly remember these two guys saying “Is Harli here?” and the other guy saying “She might be at the back of the line” Coincidence? I think not. Harli is famous. Eventually got in, and immediately noticed how small this place is, no way is this venue going to fit 100 people. But whatever, i was one of the first 10 inside and i instantly start a game of Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City. It’s a pretty good game. Think L4D set in the Resident Evil universe, that’s pretty much the game. My only gripe with the game is the characters move so slowly. News flash idiot, zombies are chasing you, hurry the fuck up. Or are they zombies? They didn’t look like zombies, anyway. After about 10 mins on that i move to Asura’s Wrath. A game i had literally heard nothing about until walking up to the screen and Capcom event person to play it. He said if i wanted a challenge or something easy. I told him to put me on the hardest level and set it to hard mode. He laughed, but i wasn’t kidding.
Asura’s Wrath is….interesting. It’s like GOW and Dynasty warriors had a lovechild in the dirty alley behind a store that deals exclusively in drugs that make everything in your life play out like a DBZ episode. Calling this game batshit insane isn’t doing it justice, I’ve seen unfinished games made by homeless head trauma patients be more coherent than this. It had nice SF4 style visuals and i didn’t mind the mainly QTE battles, but the game just drags on. I get the feeling the game is very short (it’s downloadable, right?) the game has strategically removed a skip option, and cutscenes just go on forever with pointless line of dialogue after pointless line. I appreciate that they are trying to give it a story, but this isn’t the game people are going to take seriously, no matter what you do. Seriousness went out the window when i was fighting a giant reanimated robot budda with my arms torn off.
Anyway, after that I met up with fellow Kotaku person of interest Morkai we had a chat about some things and a guy got undressed right infront of us (I’m serious). Then they had some presentations Seth Killian from Capcom was there. I noticed his distinct lack of giant ying/yang stomach eyeball thing. I’m disappointed, Seth. A producer of RE: Racoon City then spoke and offered to buy anyone a beer (Too bad i was driving) The CEO of Cyberconnect2 then did a little pose on stage and then they had a raffle for some cool personalised signed Asura’s Wrath art. I swear they called at least 15 tickets that were within 10 numbers of mine. Once again, Ruffleberg gets nothing.
I chatted with Morkai a little bit more, and by about 9 i needed to be going as i had an hour train ride just to get to my car to drive the rest of the way home. I gave Morkai my raffle ticket (My Ruffle ticket?) and on my way out I discovered that this place has a whole second stage area where at least 5 rigs were set up playing X Tekken and old school street fighter on arcade cabinets. I watched that for a bit, told Morkai about the whole business with the not knowing half the venue existed, took a few posters and got out of there. I couldn’t stay for the X Tekken tournament or the second raffle, but I wouldn’t have won anything anyway.
So that’s the Capcom event.
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Also, i have 7 of these posters
http://twitter.com/#!/Ruffleberg/status/164672946516930561/photo/1
If the Sydney meat people want one, let me know.
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Man I really, really, really wanted to go to this one. Unfortunately it happened to fall on one of the busiest weeks ever and I was stuck at home working. FML.
Good to hear Resident Evil was not a disappointment. Is it as scary as the latest titles have been? i.e. not scary at all?
And Seth Killian!! How is he in person?
Also most importantly did you try Street Fighter x Tekken?!
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Sounds fun, if the cricket wasn’t on last night, I would have come (I saw one friendly TAYbie trying to give away their ticket, and I would have happily taken it, silly cricket)
BTW: I’m voting for you being called Rucksberg when you’re telling a story (Bastion reference for those who haven’t played it)
Re: Mass Efefct 3 spoiler jerk tawtwaffle situation.
my retaliation involved a subtle movement of a decimal place in the cost of the item he borrowed. and a shortening of the loan period.
from four weeks to 2 days. & from $87.90 to $879.0
In short, 3 weeks from now, when the system switches the book from overdue to ‘assumed lost’, this little snotty bastard will have quite a scare when he sees the replacement cost 🙂
/petty revenge
thank you Strange & PuppyLicks for the idea 🙂
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Mass Efefct 3 spoiler, in public, before the game is out, when specifically asked not to.
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If you really believe this is worth it (ignoring the below stating that no actual fee is expected to be paid for this) then I have serious doubts about the sanity of certain people.
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From #35 post i had assumed that there wouldn’t actually be a fine that needed to be paid. I certainly don’t think that the guy should have to pay $800 odd for doing so.
Personally I think his friend should have punched him (not in the face or anything like that).
But #35 hearing / being told what he didn’t want to know = shock at receiving bill before he realised it was a mistake
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Nah, this place doesnt charge overdue fines & the students know it. Its automatically generated by the system, but we override it.
The absolute worst we’ll do is not let him borrow til it comes back. & that happens regardless of the cost of the item.
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again!?!?!
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F4ction, I think you may be right. Its a wee bit much. The cost is back to what it was, but the due dates not gonna change.
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You are not alone there. However, get one mildly powerful, hook MAME to it. Get 3 more buddies and fire up Armored Warriors. PROFIT!
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Usually because the performance you want from modern desktop gaming is typically pretty hard to compact into a laptop to try achieve the same results on a comparable price point. There are a lot more factors you have to consider with components, especially with power usage. It’s a really big balancing act.
/unnecessary serious answer
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you can get a laptop that will play everything for around $1000 at the moment – problem is the screens aren’t that great.
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To make you realise that they aren’t worth it.
Any gaming laptop is too large to function as a portable device, so you’re better off spending half the money on a better, custom built PC.
No seriously.
Laptops are for portability. That’s why netbooks are crazy popular.
If you’re gaming, just build a decent rig and for any portable uses, use the extra cash to pick up a netbook.
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i hear ya trjn, i have a 3-4yr old netbook that is still going strong (with windows 7 on it). But my gaming rig was custom built 2 years ago – Its still going strong but it is nearly time for an upgrade.
The current rig will be moved to become a dedicated home theatre/multi-room audio system.
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My PC is a gaming laptop. It is an Alienware (please keep reading) M11x which I bought for ~$1000. i3 processor, 1GB Nvidia GPU, 4GB RAM, big HDD. It plays everything I want and even brand new games run well on medium or low. Anything a year+ old runs on high. It is well built, compact and solid, and the 11.6″ screen is really high quality. You can probably buy faster ones than mine for the same money. For a gaming laptop I’d recommend it very strongly.
So, if you don’t follow me on twitter and are wondering later where I went: https://twitter.com/#!/Strangist/status/164858957276520449/photo/1/large
*happy dance*
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Is that the standard edition? The logo is a lot bigger than usual but it still beats that crap box art of XIII (give me the classic logo on white background please!)
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*shakes fist*
You probably won’t see this. I’m so jealous.
Hope mine rocks up today – EB shipped it on Monday and advised of 4-5 business days delivery.
Did any of you play this game called Limbo? I’m finding it infuriatingly frustrating despite it’s super-stylish looks…
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I have set the goal of finding the time to play and complete it this month
*slight trepidation *
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Limbo is awesome 😀
Been a while since I last played it but I don’t recall ever finding it too frustrating or hard. Trial and error I guess 😛
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I was playing with the keyboard. That was my mistake. I switched to a USB 360 pad and my movement problems solved.
Wireless keyboard+this kind of games = NO.
The spider part is really unnerving!
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It CAN be frustrating – but when you work it out it was pretty simple the whole time lol
Famously, it’s been one of the VERY few games bee has actually sat down and played with me. We sat doesn’t for several nights straight and beat the game together. It was just awesome.
I wish there were more games like that, that i could share with bee
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I am playing through psychonauts with my wife at the moment and she is enjoying that. Also costume quest could be a go if you want to try something else
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Limbo is very much a trial-and-error game. Don’t worry about failing, and try something different each time – eventually you figure out what to do, and sometimes feel silly for not having seen the solution earlier.
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Yeah, I’m already feeling silly. Several times I thought the solution was over-complicated when it was piss easy and right in front of my eyes!
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lol Portal 2 co-op made my friend and I feel so stupid for over thinking and complicating such easy solutions 😛
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There is a particualar section where the floor because electrified after a ball goes to a switch.and you have to time a jump to be so ridculously perfect that i did the section at least 20 times. But overall i enjoyed it hole heartly. The graphics and sounds made that game!
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As an Arachnaphobe I suggest against playing this game.
But it is very frustrating and awesome.
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So, the New Zealand TV I’m monitoring at work today had G-force then Blades of Glory back to back. That’s A LOT of Will Arnett.
Anyway, back to work!
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also this needs to be inserted here :p
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and now to find a way to convince my partner that a rack-mountable NAS is a perfectly good decoration for the living room
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I’m still contemplating getting a NAS. The only thing holding me back is the whole Thailand thing.
HDD prices are still a bit wacky, once that calms down I think I’ll have to grab one.
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Don’t get a QNAP box. If you have a fault, they’ll fuck around for ages assessing your warranty.
Mine’s been with them for nearly 3 weeks now, no news at all (and I’ve pinged the retailer twice and they’ve chased them several times). It’s getting pretty ridiculous now, thinking if I haven’t heard from them soon I might need to go up to QNAP directly and get them to ask their Australian distributor what the hell is up.
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It’s a shame because the actual hardware was awesome and I was really liking the system until it started randomly powering off. 🙁 Pretty sure if I had a different one it’d work flawlessly.
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Saw a story on the front page of the Courier Mail today.
Apparently Anna Bligh (Qld State Premier) is rated much higher outside of Queensland than inside. It didn’t take much to guess why, the picture that went along with this piece was a “political cartoon” of her holding a picture of WA.
The Courier Mail is aggressively anti-Labour, so it’s not really that surprising to see that the one place where there is media that loves to report on all of the failings of the State government happens to rate the State government lower than places where they only get to hear about the major things that happen to Queensland.
Don’t get me wrong, Bligh is not the best Premier ever but if the alternative is Campbell Newman, I’ll stick with Anna.
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Man i meet anna bligh when she was education minister and i was in grade 7 she said she liked my haircut. THE WOMAN GETS ALL MY VOTES.
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Rocketman, what will you give me if I say I like your haircut?
A vote is worth more than money, but I will settle for money 😛
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I would give you a smack and say stop lying because i haven’t had a haircut in 3 months and it looks terrible!
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I cannot stand Bligh one bit. But given that the alternative is a guy who has been in state politics for ohhhhhh never, along with a party that don’t know what their party goal is beyond Labor Sucks, means that it’s a choice of the lesser evil. (Hey, the lesser evil. That’d make a good book title. Someone should write that.)
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A government is only as good as their opposition. A good opposition keeps the government in check and works with them to make strong policies.
A bad opposition just bleats on about how the government is a failure.
A terrible opposition does nothing at all.
Queenland’s opposition is part of the last group. The only reason to vote for them is because they’re not Labor. That’s pretty much all they’ve offered.
That and the possibility of a tunnel from Brisbane to Cairns, because that’s how Campbell Newman rolls.
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Oddly enough, there’s no company policy on how to vote.
What with that being illegal :p
There’s also no obligation to join the Labor party, although there are people around who are more than willing to help you out with the paperwork.
There’s also no obligation to help out during elections, although if you’re willing to stick your hand up the higher ups will look at you slightly more favourably.
Fortunately, I’m in the admin side of things so I can be completely removed from that if I want to be.
Unfortunately, my sister is heavily involved with the Labor party and I was roped in by her long before I started working here.
For those that know where I work, please don’t mention it. For those that don’t know, sorry but you’re just going to have to keep it a mystery :p
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Just to clarify, I don’t mind people knowing where I work but I’d prefer not to have anything written down that directly connects me to my workplace.
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you work on the internet, that’s good enough for me
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That’s the spirit!
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If by MI6 you mean the hot dog stand in Queen St then correct!
Oh No I spilled it! Sorry Trjn.
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There’s a hot dog stand on Queen St? Damn, I’ve been missing out.
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No. No it’s not.
Pay no attention to the unmarked vehicle that is about to arrive at your location.
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Do you and I work for the same place? I’m in a VERY similar situation.
I doubt it, but I’m 99% certain that our employers provide the same service.
ZOMG THEY SELL HOTDOGS? 0.o
Hot dogs are super serious business.
You guys are much more sensible than my husband. He’s very much Anti-Labor and always votes Liberal purely because it’s what his Dad does and because of something Labor did that according to his Dad completely ruined country Victoria years upon years ago. He will not listen to reason. *sigh* Listen up kids, ALWAYS talk politics with your prospective partner BEFORE you agree to marry them. 😛
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That’s like never voting for the Coalition because of Joh Bjelke-Peterson.
Then again, the reason most people don’t like discussing politics and religion is that they don’t think about it. They identify themselves by their affiliations and see any attempt to change that as an attack on their person.
Things would be a lot simpler if people could detach themselves from that sort of thing. But alas, we are emotional creatures.
Cracked awesomness for anyone who hasnt seen it yet:
http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_312_27-things-you-never-noticed-in-famous-video-games_p2/
@AlphaProspecter, can you let me know your email addy please? If you don’t want to post it publicly, can you shoot me an email at shane AT shanewsmith DOT com please?
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Hi, Shane, I’ll send you a contact mail to your address just in case. While I do have non-business mails, I realised I gotta be a bit more cautious than I used to be now that (technically?) in the game publishing thing.
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No worries, I’ll keep an eye out for your email.
And I’ll get your username right one of these days! 😛-
There we go. Mail sent.
It’s ok. I never realised there was a PixelProspector until I had him following me. In this case, the “Alpha” of the name goes for typical mecha denominations, as well as a personal joke on how many releases are published in alpha state, lol. But I decided to keep it for the serious-business vibes it has.
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And…replied!
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Here’s me thinking everyone would all be depressed because I haven’t been posting much…
Might actually get a chance to be involved later this arvo \o/
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You and pixel made me lol for like 10 minutes with your dancing. It was quite good that was the scary part it was all in time like you guys have done that before!
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@Strange, re: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-17/#comment-533758
I like that you’re clearly excited to read more, something clearly facilitated by the careful rationing of story tidbits.
I dislike the being-avoided part.
Conundrum!
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Nobody’s really avoiding you, you know.
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One thing that’s starting to bug me about Mass Effect 3 is this whole “galactic readiness” meter thing I’ve been reading about. From my understanding, the higher this meter is the better outcome you have at the end of the game? Correct me if I’m wrong (oh dear god I hope I’m wrong) but to increase your galactic readiness you need to do special things like play the game co-op and play the mobile/handheld/whatever other versions of the game they are going to release.
I’m probably being a cranky old guy but back in my day when we bought / played games you weren’t forced to play different games / play co-op mode. Why can’t a single player game BE a single player game?
/end rant
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They have said that although these other modes will contribute to the meter, you can max it out in the single-player campaign anyway.
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Ah well that’s good to hear. I haven’t really been following it closely but my friend was telling me about that galactic readiness thing and it just got me a little cranky.
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Except that only doing it through the proper game instead of all the tacked on shit they’ve added will take you much longer. :\
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You can get it to its highest level just by doing stuff-in the singleplayer. ”
Sidequets, the ‘search and rescue’ mini-game (replacing planet scanning), etc.
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Have they said what this “mini-game” is like because so far there planet exploring (ME1) and planet scanning (ME2) have been possibly the extremely boring. If it’s something like fly to planet, kill people and save person / recover item (rinse and repeat 50 times throughout game) I might give it a miss as a day 1 buy.
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Only that it has to do with searching Reaper-occupied sections of space for ‘missing people’, which can include important people in the galaxy or survivors/refugees from conquered planets.
I don’t think there’s combat involved, that’s for the singleplauer side missions.
Bioware have generally been pretty forgiving about endings in the past, I usually get the ‘best outcome’ just by playing how I do normally – doing every quest I can get my hands on, talking to everybody, preparing properly, etc.
I highly doubt maxing out ‘Galactic Readiness’ will be difficult at all.
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BOT MATCH,
I MEAN RANKED GAME
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I’ll do some ranked games but I think maybe we should figure out who’s going to do what. Rather then the whole “we’ll figure out what to do in champ select” that we usually do in normal games 😛
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Yeah, that doesn’t seem to work for us. Especially when people go talking about other stuff and we just sit there until the last 10 seconds!
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Yeah, we also need to work on counter picking and things like that. Also maybe specialising in certain area’s would be good. For example My skills seem to work something like Top > Jungle > Mid > Bot (AD Carry) > Support.
I’ve always thought if I’m going to do Ranked games, I wanna do them right. Which is why I don’t solo queue ranked games.
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I think you just need to sort out what roles you’ll be playing before you start. After that, champion select pretty much sorts itself out.
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Learning Counter-picks wins games, If you can out zone your lane/counter-jungle with a counter-pick you can strongly impact the course of the game.
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That’s true, but it doesn’t hurt to get the basics sorted out first.
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Yeah true, lets get the basic’s first. I think I’m getting a little ahead of myself.
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Confession time! I own Portal 2 but have yet to play the co-op even for 5 minutes. Does this make me a terrible person?
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It makes you a complete failure of a human being with no hope for redemption.
Unless you actually go back and play the co-op.
Seriously, it’s one of the most fun gaming experiences I’ve ever had.
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PS3. I never had anyone to go through it with and by now everyone has done it. I could imagine how it would be knowing what the solution is and sitting there waiting for someone to figure it out, screaming at the the screen “IT’S NOT HARD YOU MONKEY!”.
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PS3 means you can play with anyone who has it on PC as well. So that’s a plus.
There are people who haven’t done the co-op, so it’s worth trying to track one of them down because this is not the sort of game you want to play with someone who knows what they’re doing.
It’s frustrating for them and irritating for you.
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the ping tool is by far the most innovative and fun thing to use in a co op game in a long time… screw voice chat, i completed co op by my partner and me only spamming the ping tool for communication
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We didn’t use it anywhere near as much as we could have.
It’s a damned good tool, somewhat amazing that nobody else has come up with a similar system for other co-op games. A simple, in-game communication system for giving explicit directional instructions.
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that’s exactly right… i still find it concerning that even without voice chat, my mate and i managed to have a full on argument with the ping tool 😛
but yeah, such a simple thing, with so much power… it’s the virtual version of pointing, and it works so well
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I started playing Co-Op again last night with a friend. I tried my best to say NOTHING or at least pretend I’d forgotten how to do the puzzles.
It was pretty hard.
On the plus side, she was solving the puzzles exceptionally fast and required on a few minutes of experimenting before getting what had to be done.
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I haven’t done it yet, but I don’t own the game yet. If you’re still waiting if/when I get a copy, we’ll run through it together.
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I can guarantee I won’t have by that point.
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@Loops: If you were thinking of making KKP something like Child’s Play, I think that’s an awesome idea.
@Zap: EU3 is definitely worth it, but it’s also a huge timesink to wrap your head around the game mechanics. An average ‘game’ from 1453-1820 (earlier if you have some of the expansions, say 1399) takes hours and hours, even on the fastest speed. You can slow down and speed up the passage of time to give you an opportunity to respond to events or speed things up when nothing is happening.
I’ve had it for months now (even years?) and though I don’t play it often I’ve got a long way into a fair few playthroughs as various countries. But even then, probably because I’m not a stats/mechanics/calculations person, I’m still just flailing around when it comes to really knowing the gritty details of what I’m doing.
It’s definitely possible to jump in and do fairly well, once you spend an hour or three learning the most basic controls and menu items. There are probably hundreds of modifiers and gameplay features to pick up on, but many of them are subtle and I don’t bother even learning what they do. I’m sure some people do, and it probably helps them a lot.
The game is bursting with graphs, numbers, sliders, charts and modifier buttons – if you take the time to quasi-know what most of them do, it does make the game easier. I know some players who are fans of the genre and spend days working out what the effects of certain numbers are on gameplay (and that’s awesome, good luck to them) but I’m not that die-hard a fan, and I’d go crazy if I approached it as a numbers/stats thing like people approach RPGs or, say, LoL or the like.
That aside, it’s a really great historical simulator. If you’re at all interested in the period, I’d give it a go. The fact that you can play practically any country of the time, and do crazy things like try and colonise New Zealand playing 15th century Vietnam, is pretty fun.
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Oh, I just remembered, attempting a Byzantine renaissance is also amusing.
The game gives you dynamic ‘missions’ specific to your country, many of them are generic (‘build a port here’) but they adapt to your situation (if you have an enemy nearby, you might get ‘Annex ____’) and many of the larger or more famous countries have unique missions that reflect their aims of the period. You can choose to do them, or not – it’s just a way of giving the player some structure and direction, since it’s very much a sandbox and you could go mad trying to work out what to do next.
wait wait… final fantasy x is getting remastered for the PS3?
why did I wait til now to find this out?
hurry up TBD date!
also, would starting FFXIII-2 be a bad idea without finishing the last chapter of FFXIII?
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Re-read my comment and it sounded a little snarky.
For clarification; I meant there are a few articles kicking about should you fancy a look for deets, not that “UR DUM” for not seeing them.
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No stress mate. I didn’t read it like that.
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Vita & PS3 it would seem.
I do hope that they either a) redo the english voice acting, or b) give an option for the original japanese dialogue with subtitles. some of the dialogue was just painful.
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I’d settle for them just resyncing the mouth movements to the dub properly, because that’s what really makes it seem off, not the crappy acting (that just doesn’t help much)
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Yuna you might be able to get away with maknig sure she’s sync’d right. But Tidus was awful. Just awful.
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I think the problem was that the English actors spoke their lines trying to fit the japanese animations… which resulted in rather odd speech patterns.
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The acting was not great, but I don’t want it re-recorded.
Twin Snakes was a terrible remake of MGS because they re-recorded the lot and I think negatively impacted the feel of it.
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Anyone see that Game AU cancelled that game swinging function, I wonder if they’ll ever admit they hired prostitutes to attend that joke of an event.
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When I first heard of it, I clicked through, thinking it was some cute way to refer to some sort of innovative peer-to-peer game trading system, where GAME would take a nominal fee.
As I am married, I was disappoint by the truth.
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Don’t get disappointed. That is where you put your creative skills into convincing your wife that she really wants to go with you 😛
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Trying hard at Sonic CD time attack. I almost have it but, man, SCREW COLLISION CHAOS ZONE. SERIOUSLY. God, I hate that stage.
On the other hand, Stardust Speedway is by far the funkiest stage ever. DAT FUNKY MUSIC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytp5AotU65o
Make up your own lyrics, ladies and gentlemen!
Dubstep interlude
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH3CdVFf7fk
GIVE THE LINK SOME WUB
man WUb puns are dumb anyway tell me what you think.
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Thanks for the offer but I’m fine now that I have my high horse out on the porch
I am always happy for people to post new music and I will listen to it. In this case I didn’t like it, in some other cases I will. But dubstep is just a step to far for me, but I have never really ‘got’ electronic type music if you know what i mean
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I fully expect alot of people to not like it, HOWEVER for the few people who do enjoy it i think finding new music is cool!
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Hive Fire is a better tune from those guys in my opinion look it up its quite good. I found out the other day 2 of the guys from pendulum are in knife party and i was like AWESOME!
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Don’t think I’ll be playing it immediately, want to finish FFXIII first, and before that I want to finish one class plotline in SWTOR.
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Soul Calibur V DLC = Final Fantasy crossover?
Actually, that could potentially work pretty well.
get to it SquareEnix / Team Soul *clap clap*-
Lightning would fit Soul Calibur really well actually. Better than Link or Spawn or Darth Vader did at least.
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A few characters could fit in. bearing in mind I’ve only played X onward this list is incomplete.
Auron or Khimari from X
Balthier or Fran from XII
Lightening or Fang or anyone but Hope from XIII
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This is funny, cause my US copy of Soul Calibur V arrived today as well as my FFXIII-2!
Okay… Not THAT funny…
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I discovered something today.
It is far too hot to be wearing long pants, long sleeved shirt, gloves, helmet and face mask.
@Strange
My discussion on politics with my wife:
What is your opinion of the labor party?
Why would anyone want a labour party? Wouldn’t you be in too much pain to enjoy it?
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Looks like you guys are lined up for a fantastic life together. Hard to have political disagreements if one of the people in the relationship doesn’t give a damn.
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yeah pretty much this…
i gotta best honest, i know it’s important and stuff, but i know there are more qualified people then me that gives a damn (except the people currently in charge amiright? heyoooooh) but i guess that fact that i haven’t taken to learn who’s who of the australian political parties helps-
Just do me a slight favour and when it comes to the next election look up the major party’s positions and more importantly, if they have announced any way to turn those plans into reality. Then vote for whichever one you think will work out best.
Ignore the soundbites “stop the boats”, “moving forwards” and particularly any nonsense about the surplus.
If people actually knew and cared what they were voting for, we might have a much better political landscape instead of one where all we see is media mudslinging.
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Alas, I know and I care, and I can but despair when I can find very little difference between the primary options, and no one whom I feel represents me and what I stand for.
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Yup, things are pretty bad at the moment.
Probably the biggest difference between the two is that Labor prefers to invest in infrastructure and the Coalition prefers to optimise/limit spending and allow for private businesses to arrange infrastructure needs.
My preference is always in favour of government owned assets. Infrastructure tends to lead towards monopolies and in an ideal situation, a government controlled monopoly can be held accountable more than a privately owned one.
For ideological issues, I’m pretty much entirely on the side of the Greens. They have non-environmental based policies as well and I think if they manage to get people’s attention with those they will be able to help pull voters back to the left (and hopefully force Labor to follow them to the left instead of trying to compromise with the Coaltion and being dragged to the right, allowing for a bit more difference between the major parties).
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Yup, Greens are the way I lean too. Their enviro policies are fine, but I resonate with a lot of their non-green stuff!
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I try to take a general interest in politics, especially around election time but the problem is whoever you vote for you always get a politician.
Both major parties are deceivers who’s biggest concern (I nearly said only but decided that was being unfair) is headlines and the next election.
Also, it takes me forever to vote as I fill out the entire voting paper as I don’t like the idea of someone else deciding where my preferences go even though it makes very little difference in the end.
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alas my residency status states that i am not allowed to vote 😀
however i will do this when i become a citizen and “i’m doing my part” (/starship trooper ref.)
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Gah the amount of time and effort that goes into justifying/confirming there will be a surplus.
A surplus just means that you have taxed me more than you needed. Although I can see the point, governments have previously spent way more than they should have but the
surplus = good financial management
does annoy me.
If you are doing a major public works project that needs to go in to surplus but will improve the lives / economics / HDI of Australia and the people here then I have no problem.Actually I would likely vote for anybody who could issue policies that had a goal longer term than the next election
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The obsession with getting a surplus is ridiculous. The whole GFC thing made people think that deficit = bad, surplus = good. Things got oversimplified and well, this is the result. Actually, oversimplifying political issues in general is a terrible thing. Sometimes it isn’t simple and not being able to adequately explain something in two lines is not a failure.
I’m with you on the long-term thing. It’s rather important to commit to trying to improve the country over the long-term because the nation’s needs don’t stop just because some people stuck paper in a ballot box.
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Oversimplification, soundbites and mud slinging rather than policies is such a dangerous thing but that seems to be all we are getting.
The media is certainly making things worse. Election time it makes me want to find a journalist and shake them silly when I read the “indepth analysis” of the party positions which basically come down to a table with a “If you are a middle class couple earning a combined income of $100,000 voting for part A would make you personally $120 a year better off”
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I ordered Skyrim OST. And it shipped earlier this week. FUS-RO-DANCE! I can’t wait for it!
Did anyone else commit to the 4CD physical release of this gigantastic OST? Any old dinosaur like me still playing loads of CDs?
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OH GOD now i want this… i collect game OST’s, and that stuff is amazing… love big orchestral pieces
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I wish I knew where my player was. I unearthed a pile of MDs at my mothers place while helping her clean out a few weeks ago and I’m really curious to find out what 17yr old me was listening to.
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lol that is true… when i was cleaning out my old house back home, i stumpled past my very first Walkman (NOSTALGIA!!!) and found some of the tapes… amazing what 3 year old me was into, surprisingly more hardcore then you’d think… in amongst all the disney songs, i stumpled across stuff like D.A.D – Sleeping my day away (for those of you who don’t know who D.A.D is, it’s a very popular danish rockband) and the like…. i was a AWESOME kid
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I have a CD stacker in my car and I find it more annoying than anything else. It can hold 6 CDs but I seriously can’t keep track of what is in there! It also takes an SD card, so I’m thinking of just loading a bunch of MP3s onto one and relying on that.
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My car has a line-in socket in the glovebox. I just connect up my iPad and use that for music. Double benefit: don’t have a song/album and want to listen to it? Buy off iTunes over 3G, download it and listen in the car.
But I actually mainly use it for listening to podcasts during my commute.
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On the topic of CD’s I buy CD’s whenever I can, their sound quality is so superior than the quality of MP3’s, no matter the bit rate. Until iTunes start selling in lossless or high quality lossy, I still don’t see why I should buy digital over physical.
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CDs in my life have a very low chance of surviving until their first birthday, because they get straight in the car with me and my wife is known to sometimes take very bad care of them (storing them in the car doors without cases, etc), and once the electric windows came down for no reason while the car was parked and soaked all my rare 78 Saab CDs. 🙁
I’ve managed to keep Danger Days in my car and alive for over a year though, and I’m quite proud.
PS: I emailed you back.
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I am still trying to get my jaw back from the floor, Shane. Thanks for the message!
Also, good to see I’m not alone in the CD collecting… I have like 300 CDs at home. Add to that my editor heart, which means I also have roughly 300+ books. Maybe more. Every time I get visits they keep saying “wow, look at that amount of books and CDs!”
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Did you know I have a movie pile of shame?
I finally started watching Pan’s Labyrinth last night. Pretty impressive so far. Only got 30 minutes in because midnight happened and I’m an old man.
Also on the movie / tv series pile of shame: Taxi Driver, Once Upon a Time in America, Blade Runner, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy. There are others, but can’t think of any more just now.
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I have a rather impressive movie pile of shame as well. It’s actually kind of fun to decide to sit down and catch up on them.
Do yourself a favour and watch Game of Thrones and Blade Runner first chance you can. Both are brilliant and really worth the time.
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Blade Runner especially. Such a brilliantly designed film, and extremely influential as well. You see elements of the visual design from it all over the place in modern pop culture and other stuff, and I doubt that a lot of people realise where it came from. The soundtrack is still amazing too.
I wish someone would make a GTA-style open world game set in the Blade Runner universe or a close facsimile. That whole gritty, dirty urban future look and the Noir trappings. Done right it would be amazing.
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I grabbed the BluRay set with all the cuts from JB a while back only to later discover that apparently it is quite rare (in Aus, anyway. Someone imported it then never came to collect so they put it on the shelves). I watched two versions then sold it to my mate who is a massive fan. I just got it as I hadn’t watched it before.
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I have that set as well, also purchased at JB. Didn’t know it was rare but it was pretty expensive. Basically my sister was talking to me and I mentioned the film (IIRC I quoted the ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’ poem) and she was like “I’ve never seen Blade Runner” and I was like (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ and went and got the film on Bluray so she could see it and the only version they had was the one with every cut ever. Worth it for Blade Runner though.
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It’s really that rare?
I picked it up (it wasn’t a box set, just the discs with all of the available cuts in a normal BluRay case) a while ago on a whim.
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(on the ones I’ve seen)
Pan’s Labyrinth is awesome and it’s one of my favourite movies. But you probably already know that from seeing 30 minutes of it.
Taxi Driver is Taxi Driver (you talkin to me?!). Didn’t think it was that great but still enjoyable.
Once Upon a Time in America by Sergio Leone, nuff said. I liked how it followed the main cast from childhood to adulthood. Makes you get attached to them :). Can drag on a bit though 😛
Game of Thrones. Everyone likes Game of Thrones.
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As I said earlier, I try to avoid stuff with nudity and sex in it, so I haven’t read or seen A Game of Thrones. If it didn’t have that stuff in it, I’d most likely enjoy it, from what I’ve heard of it. Virus, on the other, I’m going to assume he’s seen/read it, and doesn’t like it because he’s a terrible person 😛
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Not having seen it is not the same as not liking it.
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Technically, “not having seen it” is a subset of “not liking it”
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Depends on whether it’s “I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet” or “I’m not going to read it”. The latter is my situation, and it’s close enough to not liking it. 😛
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*seen, not read…
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“I will not see because I think I won’t like it” is not the same as “I don’t like it”.
Not having seen something in general is different again because of the multitude of reasons for possibly not seeing something. Like not having it legally available to you. Hard to justify a negative or positive opinion on something you haven’t had a chance to form one on.
Of course, pre-release hype for games makes it look like people try their best to prove me wrong.
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Here I am trying to discuss something with trjn ‘the king of logic. This is going to end badly. For me. Oh well, at least it will keep me from being bored 😛
Okay, the thing is, I’m not saying “I will not see because I think I won’t like it”, I know I won’t like it because of the nudity/sex in it.
Okay, I’m thinking of an analogy here, but I haven’t got the brains to word it properly right now, so I’ll just say, “zynga games, won’t play them because I know I won’t like them, therefore meaning that I don’t like them”, and I’ll just let you try and figure out what I mean. 😛 -
“King of Logic”
I like. I should get it printed on business cards and hand it out to all the pretty ladies.
Anyhow, there are more than a few times where “even though” is a useful phrase.
Even though Cars has Owen Wilson in a lead role, I enjoyed it.
Even though Game of Thrones has sex and nudity, it is a damned good story.
Anyhow, what’s wrong with boobs? Everyone loves boobs. Even my gay housemate loves boobs.
Actually, let’s not get into that. It won’t end well. I know this as I am the King of Logic!
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‘zynga games, won’t play them because I know I won’t like them, therefore meaning that I don’t like them’
Ah, but until you actually play them, your deduction is merely a hypothesis and cannot be presented as factual.
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I fell asleep watching it, nothing grabbed my attention when watching it, I hadn’t even seen a pair of boobs. Also the setting of the show is not my thing, i’m more a modern day setting, or a early 20th century setting person myself.
Though that doesn’t mean I don’t like Lord of The Rings, I absolutely love LOTR. Read the books before I saw the movies.
i am a bit all over the place, i like fantasy, i like sci fi, i like modern settings… I LIKE IT ALL…
what really clicked with me with Game of Thrones except for the story, was the fact that we finally had a fantasy story, where hitting people with sharp objects has the effect you’d imagine… Thanks HBO for not being afraid of showing blood and guts 😛
same reason why the Witcher clicked with me… it just seem like the not nice pink and fluffy MLP version of Fantasy… it’s violent, it’s gritty, and people aren’t afraid to swear
Game of Thrones totally caught me off guard. I had no idea what it was about and I didn’t even know it was based on books when I started watching it.
Language, violence, sex, nudity and taboo themes (incest O_O)
but you look back on any history, hell try following the history of the danish Royal house… HOLYSTUFF the amount of incest/backstabbing/assasination/whoring around etc etc… but yeah, i was caught a bit off guard, but it’s a really intriguing story, with lots of very deep characters… and Sean Bean
Honestly you guys need to do a bit of reading about ancient roman emperors… They were all raving mad people trying to outdo each other to a point where life for a peasant/servant/friend to anyone in power was meaningless.
I’ve started Once Upon a Time in America like three times. One time I got about midway through. It’s my true “pile of shame” movie, really.
My Movie pile of shame consists of movies that I taped when they were on TV, but then have forgotten to watch. Right now, the pile contains Spiderman 3, X-men 2, X-Men Origins Wolverine (I think) and the Incredible Hulk. I think there were more, but I can’t remember…
I was thinking the same thing to myself recently that i am getting a movie pile of shame aswell. I have Howls moving castle and Spirited away to watch that i just bought as well as 2 seasons of breaking bad. I also have a number of blu-rays that i have bought but not yet watched including LOTR series, BTTF series, Harry Potter series and a bunch of awesome old disney movies. I also have book pile of shame and a digital music pile of shame (i buy albums download them and want to listen to them the way the artist arranged it and i like using my good headphones and not doing anything else but listening to the music. Basically my life is just big piles of media that i am yet to consume. I also get bored frequently and rewatch things i have already seen just for the fact i don’t have to think.
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I have watched 2 episodes of the first season, but i get distracted by LoL and TS. damn you internet friends DAMN YOU but not really you guys are aight
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When season 4 was airing in America, I would get on TeamSpeak after work while downloading the latest episode and then once I had my grubby little paws on it, mute you guys and watch.
Go watch it.
If you can’t pull yourself away from TS, just go to bed an hour earlier and watch it then. Sure you’ll end up going to sleep 4 hours late but it’s worth it.
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I do that occasionally as well but meh i will get to it eventually!
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“Eventually” better mean “tonight”.
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Aidan, I scrolled back a page or two (I was feeling brave, and didn’t want to get into my work just yet) and I noticed you have a little problem of not being able to buy Bastion unless you’re signed up with Gold. I think I have a couple of 24 hour passes lying around at home that I can’t use because I’m already signed up, would one of those help you? I could email you a pic of the code or something.
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Those don’t work I’ve tried before >_>
Only a month and above let you access Gold only deals. 24/48 hour trials are just for online :'(
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Oh, well that’s a bit annoying. Maybe Aidan you could buy an emailed code off ebay? I did that once and it worked well.
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Scroll back a page or two?
I do this pretty often – generally there’s a whole bunch of pages in the morning (westside-time) from NighTAY and people being enthusiastic to procrastinate work in the mornings.
Sometimes you get the evolution of some conversation as people do the
@guywiththehair I agree that your hair is glorious
thing on later (but still old) pages.
I am a time traveller. Sometimes I leave posts, too, knowing that there’s not much chance of them being read… but I’m okay with that.
Faux-Doctor fled,
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Thanks for the offer, but I should get back with about a day and a half to spare before the offer ends.
If my Gold membership arrived in the mail when I was here (and it’s been like… three weeks, so not even ozgameshop could miss it) I’ll just use that on the 5th or 6th and get Bastion then.
@number.30.five: you know who else would fit in as Soul Calibur DLC?
All the classic characters they decided to ditch from the game. 🙁
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Indeed. If there is even a hint of bringing back a classic character as paid dlc, i’m not gonna be impressed.
free dlc on the other hand…
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I wouldn’t be happy either. I’d be unhappy all the way to the store and unhappy as I purchased my copy. 🙁
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I must really be depressed when I eat chocolate usually. ZING! I feel better is the usual thing.
But I’m in a pretty good mood today and eating chocolate now, and it’s not doing much for me…
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keep eating* it’s like running you’ll get a second wind**
*don’t do this
**by wind, i mean you’ll probably fart a lot-
Do not make me run! I am full of chocolate!
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Flatulence is like getting a mushroom in Mario Kart, instant speed boost…
…
wait what were we talking about?
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Do you remember the 90s Pepsi ads where they would secretly replace people’s Pepsi with Coke and it would make them do uncharacteristic and undesirable things (eg made MC Hammer sing instead of rap D:).
That’s what’s happened. Your normal chocolate has been replaced with sugar-free chocolate substitute and you’re secretly MC Hammer.
@LoL players
Was looking through the LoL forums and looked at a post called “I applaud riot for making bots like real life players”. The op said: “I had a game where Garen fed me 7 kills then went AFK for the rest of the game”. Made me laugh so hard
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Stuff tristana bot right in her dirty little mouth her and annie bot were killing me so many times. They have lifesteal items now . WTF is that about. THat game was fun though
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Haha. Must try these new bots out.
Also, anyone played Zigg yet? Was watching Guardsman Bob play him today and it looked pretty op.-
He is as OP as you make him. You stack AP items on a mage and they are OP. Those guys have the ability to farm like champs and get silly amounts of gold really quickly.
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I was watching that stream too – Dat ulti man. When fed a bit and equipped with the deathcap, that ulti can wreak so much havoc. I also thought I saw talk about playing ranked tonight – is it still on?
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I was also watchin Saintviscious’s stream just now – Was quite hilarious. He and TheOddOne were against each other and taunting each a lot, saying many not-so-nice things. Saint won the game and went into solo queue again. He just happened to be paired up on the same team as TheOddOne. Quite funny watching them try to win the game without helping each other.
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Saintvicious is such a troll i prefer watching his and dan dinhs stream because they actually start talking about strategies and stuff and they also have awesome music
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Guardsman Bob has the best music. They always have good timing too such as Electric Avenue playing as he uses Kennen’s ulti.
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I’ve played one game with him. He’s fun and like any other AP, if he’s fed and stacks AP items he does a heck of a lot of damage. Love his landmines, personally.
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Continuing the book theme here http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-19/#comment-534473
(Plus, the awesome Skyrim OST talk)
Did anyone watch an anime series called “Read or Die”? Both the original and the sequel? Pretty strange and cool series!
Ok, my room looks kind like that when I pull out all the books… And that’s not even counting my mother books. (She has just as much as me, which instantly gives away who influenced my book-reading future, hahaha!)
More about books, Yen Press has this series called “Book Girl”. I didn’t read it but heard that, despite some weak points, it’s pretty solid. Did anyone manage to get it?
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The original Read or Die OVA was great. But the TV series was very disappointing. Sudden personality changes for characters, nonsense plot, less interesting leads…
Book Girl is supposed to be fairly reasonable. There was a movie animated by Production IG a few years ago, maybe check that out? The main criticisms I’ve seen stem from the fact that the novels try to do multiple story genres at the same time and end up not executing any of them that well.
@Shane http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-18/#comment-534315
No, you are!
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Burn.
My brain. It is melting. The following Florida law has been brought to my attention. It requires that every vending machine (except those in churches or synagogues) contain this notice:
NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS:
FLORIDA LAW REQUIRES THIS NOTICE TO BE POSTED ON ALL
FOOD AND BEVERAGE VENDING MACHINES.
Report any machine without a notice to 1-800-352-9273.
You may be eligible for a
CASH REWARD.
DO NOT USE THIS NUMBER TO REPORT PROBLEMS WITH THE
VENDING MACHINE SUCH AS LOST MONEY OR OUT-OF-DATE
PRODUCTS.
What the? That is the entire notice. I really don’t get it. Refer: http://dor.myflorida.com/dor/forms/2011/gt800041.pdf
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Hahahahaha, that’s awesome.
Like the sign “Do not remove this sign.”
Must be a code or something. If you read every seventh letter or divide by pi or rot13 the whole thing and then multiply by the square root of the number you first thought of…
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I saw that on reddit the other day, The guy explained it is to prove that the vending machine has been registered. Fairly stupid but i don’t know of a better way to do it!
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Except the vending machine companies get to generate their own signs.
What they should have done is have a standardised sign that is issued to vending machine companies when they register them.
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I thought that couldn’t be the solution, since – as Trjn points out – they generate the signs themselves. If they want to make them register them and prove it, oughtn’t they provide them with a registration sticker of some sort complete with an identifying number?
Even with that explanation it’s a stupid sign. It ought to say at least “this machine is registered”: at the top, or something.
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I had a cup with boobs on it.. and I just accidentally knocked it off the shelf, and it broke…. now I am sad…
Lol. Listening to an old guy in Talkin Sport go ape about Michael Clarke wearing a Vodafone cap while the rest of the team have the baggy green. He’s getting really upset.
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It’s a disgrace to the captaincy and to all who died so that young men could make a fortune with bat and ball!
This nation will not stand for such insolence! The selection panel must act and strip him of the captaincy immediately!
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@lambo, why do you generally avoid sex/nudity in media?
If you’re not comfortable answering, it’s all good, you don’t have to answer. It’s mostly that I’ve never come across someone who has said that…it has piqued my curiosity 😛
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I did at his age. We only had one TV so whatever I watched my mother did too. Made watching porn an uncomfortable experience….
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oh god my mum was visiting when i watched the first episode of Game of Thrones….
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I remember watching Around The World with my parents back when I was a young lad. For those that don’t know, it was an ABC show where a group of kids went around making short documentaries about various places in the world. It’s where John Safran started his career.
One particular clip was set in a strip club.
Awkward.
I also watched R18+ movies like The Godfather with my parents back in those days. I don’t think they were particularly fussed about how that content would impact me and so far it looks like it didn’t warrant much fuss.
Even now, content advisory stuff is generally ignored. I didn’t watch much TV with my parents before moving out but nobody felt the urge to hit the pause button during those awkward moments. We just powered through.
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I accidentally a word.
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Man i miss that show, that was absolute essential viewing when I was at high school.
Then they had the low budget Race around the block
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Nah, I’m fine with answering that 🙂
As I pointed out in the KKRPG forum a few days ago, I’m a christian. Therefore I don’t believe in nudity/sex outside of marriage, so I try to avoid it as much as I can. 🙂
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Aah, fair enough.
Well, as an FYI, I think you can censor The Witcher so there’s no nudity etc. Main reason I’m saying this is because it’s a brilliant game, and one you shouldn’t miss out on.
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Seriously, you can’t imagine how hard it would be for me to convince my mother to let me buy a game that has on the front of it “MA15+: Violence, Sex scenes” 😛
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No nudity outside of marriage?
Don’t you find the cut-off jeans rather restrictive?
Oh well, at least you can take solace in the fact that there are dozens of you. Dozens!
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In Ipswich, mostly everyone’s fat. You just naturally tend to look away from people wearing cut-off jeans 😛
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I didn’t see you at the convention.
@Lambo, watch Arrested Development already.
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Arrested Development <3
Watch it lambo gogogogogo
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ego = busted 😛
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Said as Mr Strange leans back in his chair with his hands behind his head, smiling and nodding.
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By the way, I’m not going to bother trying to convince you that you’re wrong. I’ll come off as more of a dick than I normally do.
But having been on the other side of this (dating a girl who believed in the same general idea) let me tell you that it causes a lot of strain on the relationship. Even though I was never going to pressure her into anything, it was always something we were both aware of.
I’m still good friends with her and know that it still causes strain even when both people agree on that one.
Not trying to convince you, just letting you know that there are times when that decision is really going to suck.
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Im confused why aren’t you forcing your will on the young , I thought that was the 5th step in world domination
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I’ll be honest, everything before step 73 doesn’t really have to be done in a strict order. The numbering of the steps is really just there for ease of reference.
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Is Trjn being intellectually dishonest?
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In addition to being the King of Logic, I’m also somewhat of an enigma. You’ll just have to work it out for yourself :p
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Which is why I shall buy myself a hut in the middle of nowhere and live the rest of my life as a hermit. Mwahahahahahaha!
In all seriousness though, I’ve never even been in a relationship before, so I don’t really know how/why it “causes a lot of strain on the relationship”. You mind explaining it a little more? I don’t mind if you sound more dickish than usual, I like being well informed. 🙂
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Also, don’t be alarmed when I don’t reply for an hour or two, I’m about to go outside.
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Go where?
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Outside. God, Harli, don’t you ever listen!?
Quite simply, sex is normal.
You’re going to want to do it, she’s going to want to do it. You’re both going to have to convince yourselves that you don’t want to and most people aren’t comfortable lying to themselves.
Not only that, the first time you have sex is going to suck. Let’s not get into that one, but don’t build up big expectations for your wedding night.
Not only that but also the fact that the world is filled with corruption and whatnot. I take it you are going to university this year and you will find a group of friends who share similar interests. Peer pressure is a strong thing man, anyone who says its not is a idiot we have all been convinced to try new things that you otherwise wouldn’t of ever thought of. Having morals is fine but i know when i was hanging out with people who partake in activities you may not approve off will have a bigger influence on you than you may think.
ALSO ALL HAIL SEX MASTER RABBIT
NOW WE KNOW HOW HE GOT HIS NAME
Yup, we all know where I got my name. (SFW)
Though, If and when you do decide to go there (and by you I mean everyone) Trjn has some important significance.
What he said. Sexual compatibility is an important part of a relationship, regardless of how much people don’t want it to be. Your with a girl you really like for years, you wait until after marriage then find that there’s no spark there. That is where unhappy marriages and heartbreak come from.
As Trjn said before, not trying to change your mind, just putting it out there.
So I wrote a comment a while ago but Kotaku broke while it was being posted and thus it was lost in the void…
Basically I was just surprised at how much those three 25th Anniversary Zelda Club Nintendo posters were going for on eBay 😛 (~$50+). I took mine out of the tube, looked at them, then popped them back in for all of eternity. And good job on Nintendo for sending me another poster because one apparently had an error :P. Never noticed it but free poster so who can complain? \o/
(might as well ask here instead of making a new comment later)
How exactly do I nominate people for kudos? Do I use the Contact button below or do I email Mark, Tracy or someone else? If so what’s their email? Thanks in advance 🙂
PS. It felt good destroying Freeze in Words with Friends.
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Also “job”. As we know from Blackadder, it is a positively filthy word.
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@Trjn I will be a pedant and say: “I don’t like it” is a statement that means “nothing has yet convinced me to start liking it.” It’s a passive statement, and its meaning can include such things as “I haven’t tried it” and “I suspect that if I tried it, I would dislike it.”
“I hate it” is a more active statement which requires more careful qualification.
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On that note, it’s been a great day, TAY. I’m off home. Catch you after dinner hopefully!
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HEADLINE: overzealous reply click destroys argument
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I claim a victory by default!
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Ok just sent it a couple of minutes ago…
Is it too late? 😛
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Strangely enough I tend to play shorter words with 2-3 letters 😛
Half of them are just random crap that I’ve seen other people play and memorise though
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Everyone knows the trick is to make as many words as possible from as few tiles as possible. Running one word alongside another so that you make an extra 4 2 letter words is pretty damned awesome.
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That’s good until it screws up the board giving you barely any places to go 🙁
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As long as it screws the other guy more than it screws me!
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QI, JO(E), ZA anything with X in it just to name a few 😀
You’re pretty much the complete opposite though with dem big long words :(. Half the words you played I’ve never even heard of before xD
Does having breakfast at 11am count as lunch? Because I think I haven’t had lunch, and I’m hungry.
Reply fail earlier.
@Trjn I will be a pedant and say: “I don’t like it” is a statement that means “nothing has yet convinced me to start liking it.” It’s a passive statement, and its meaning can include such things as “I haven’t tried it” and “I suspect that if I tried it, I would dislike it.”
“I hate it” is a more active statement which requires more careful qualification.
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On that note, it’s been a great day, TAY. I’m off home. Catch you after dinner hopefully!
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“I don’t like it” can be perceived as a neutral statement but in context it’s clearly a negative one.
A unambiguous statement of “I don’t know if I like it” is more accurate and can easily be followed with “but this reason makes me think I will/will not”.
Pedantry is fun. Don’t get me started on the word “sennight”.
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Was waiting for this, but couldn’t be bothered finding it. Teens these days wouldn’t have any clue what the hell this is about.
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They might know her from that dancing show
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But it’s just not the same…
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Nup.
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So you are (probably correctly) differentiating the use of ‘do not like’ and ‘dislike’ – the former being the absence of liking something, but without necessarily disliking it.
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*Laments lamenting early* -
♪ La la la la la-menter ♫
Faux Mariachi fled,
I lied – I am not a captain, but I play one on TV
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*hears the lamentation of the (wo)men*
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One time in uni, I think I got mark down to writing too in-depth a comment about how one of my functions worked.
Good times.-
Yeah, I got Mark down. I dragged him all the way from Scotland and forced him to write a paragraph describing how a dozen lines of code worked.
He doesn’t like to talk about it.-
Someone who will go to the next Sydney Meat, for the love of god, remember to ask Mark about this!
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Once at work I coded a flash program so shoddily that I actually left an apology in the comments to whoever would have to edit the file after me.
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I think they discovered my plan to post photos of the Bionicle of war 2 that I have bought from them. =/
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Lewd photos?
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You naughty, naughty Bionicles.
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Yeah, gears of war 2 rip offs
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Wow… I just get random aussie indie bands no-one has heard of (including me), or old retirees from the US…
Back from my last Macro Economics class and revision!
Now it’s time to study my arse off until the exam on monday… /sigh.
A week and a bit more and i can go back to playing games… fun
Hello all! I am back from the beach, very tired and sore, and I have to go to school tomorrow (nuuuuuuuuuu)
We stopped off at Scree’s house on the way home and she made me play L4D1 with Virus. So Scree and my brother got to watch me cover my eyes while running and shooting while Virus got to hear me sooking. (Don’t you just love first impressions? =( )
I haven’t yet caught up with reading these 19 pages so I’ll do that in a minute.
And who is this lambomann007? What has he done with lambogirl? I don’t evennnnn!
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You know, we said the reverse when lambogirl arrived. Who is she and what has she done with lambomann07?
I think there was some sort of sinister body switching thing going on.
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You should look forward to school, I’ll give you the Blaghs tips for surviving education.
Step One: In class, sit in the corner, don’t talk to anyone, unless tey talk to you first, if it’s the teacher, do your best “genuinely interested” voice, if it’s anyone else, answer efficiently and promptly, you don’t want to be rude, you just shouldn’t care about their anything.
Step Two: Outside of class, find somewhere you can sit, preferably with a good book or twelve. Follow the above steps.
Step Three: When people resort to throwing food at you to try and get a response, ignore the little blighters. And look on the bright side, now you don’t even have to prepare a lunch.
Step Four: Convince everyone that you’re an exceedingly introverted, possibly depressed, hermit. Then, when given an opportunity, where something strange to school(in my case it was a pink and white mini-skirt, worn over purple fisherman’s pants), confusing everyone who thought they understood you.
Step Five: If you’ve followed the above steps properly, you shouldn’t have any friends, but on the off chance people have somehow stuck around you for years despite you being a complete twat, you should abandon them to go listen to music, or read a book, because clearly, they don’t matter. Because you’re a dick.
Congratulations, by following these steps you’ve officially, essentially, become Blaghs. Welcome to a life of being sad and alone, but hey, at least I enjoyed school.
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Really? Pink and white miniskirt over purple fisherman’s pants? Talk about dedication to chaos.
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Nope. It was world harmony day, and the school gave different parts colours to wear. As a senior, my colours were pink and purple, so my sister was like “wear this!” And I was like “K!”
And then a dickweed in my Maths class spent the whole lesson pulling on my skirt…
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Urgh. Visiting Beijing Zoo reminds me why I really don’t like most zoos.
Went there mostly for the pandas, and at $2 to enter I thought it’d be a nice day. Turns out the animals are kept apart from each other in isolated glass rooms or open rock/sand pits for visitors to gawk at, the pandas were mostly really dirty, had no vegetation and I’m pretty sure one of them had a face tumour or skin disease. Then there were all the usual tourists banging on the class to wake them up.
So, kinda depressing. It’s not that difficult to make the conditions a bit more comfortable.
(A friend who went to Tianjin Zoo, which is in another city, said it was even worse than Beijing because they didn’t get any Western tourists who would complain about it)
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I gathered as much, I just felt like keeping you informed on everyon’es locations, and I figured there was no way I could do it without sounding at least a little like a dick, so I went whole hog.
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I noticed that the tongue was even written in capitals.
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Oh, that’s just because I have small eyes and a large mouth and tongue.
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He is correct Scree.. I am in Bris. I’m guessing DAN! must be hangin for some ramen by now! Any others wanna come along for a feast of kings?!
I don’t know why, but I expected TAY to be at page 20.
I sincerely hope this post doesn’t push us over to it…
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I kind of want us to go over soon(without spam) as it slows to a crawl on my slow, shaped connection, and takes forever to load, and respond.
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The worst part is that this is the second time I’ve shaped my internet in less than a week. Admittedly, I’m at a different house, but still. WHAT?
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What?
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Last weekend, some time during the Canberra Meat, I managed to Shape my connection. On Monday, I started house sitting for some rellies, and I’ve managed to Shape them, and I have no idea when their connection resets.
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Awesome*
*Not awesome
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While I’m at it, what on earth is going on with article comments lately? They’re a bit of a cesspool.
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I have been avoiding comment sections like the plague for quite a while now. I’ll only read them if I think they’ll be amusingly bad(people not knowing the word “wont” for instance).
I know I should report people, but I always forget.
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Some child named “Billy” made an awful pun over here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/pixeljunk-eden-hits-steam-today/
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Bish, man, these Australia-shaped Shapes are pretty dammn nommable.
I probably shouldn’t have opened a pack just before dinner :\
I think, as a connoisseur of said savoury snacks, should try some and share your thoughts.
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tslurped as an unknown HTML tag?Inquiring minds need to know!
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I enjoy deciphering your crazy posts especially when I overlook one letter and it doesn’t make sense 😛
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Maybe when/if I do it again, I should just omit a letter to prolong your enjoyment. :7
Also,
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Faux Edward-Roivas fled,
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Sorry did I say ‘crazy’?
I meant awesome. Or did I?
Faux-fled-impersonator Greenius,
Not really though just felt like doing it once and I needed more letters.dem tags better work
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The T-Shirt included with the FFXIII-2 Crystal Edition is too small for me. 🙁 Way too tight around the chest & shoulders.
Also it’s a size ‘F’. Puzzling.
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Fits no one?
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Flatulent French Females From Farms Forbidden From Fornicating Furiously?
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finding F forms (is) freaking f***ing frustrating. =D
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Forlorn Futurists From Florida?
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So TAY, I went a bit crazy on the PSP games. So far I have bought
Tactics Ogre Let us cling together
Lord of Arcana
The 3rd Birthday
Castlevania the Dracula X chronicles
Medievil: Ressurection
Wipeout Pulse
Every Extra Extend*
Lumines**
Sega mega drive collection*
Locoroco***
*Played at least once
**played at least twice
**keep playing this
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I also love collector’s editions of things. I like collecting, and I like shiny extras, like statues or artbooks, etc.
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And sound tracks! I love them when they have soundtracks!
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Game soundtracks I own:
Halo 3
Bastion
Dark Souls
Zelda 25th Anniversary Orchestral
Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary
Assassin’s Creed Revelations Animus
Space Marine
probably a few more somewhereAnd I’ve *ahem* acquired *cough* a couple of others along the way.
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Get some Xenoblade!
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Oh man, that Zelda one, so good.
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When I was playing through Wind Waker for the first time late last year, I found myself only barely able to recall the music, and fully expected not to recognise it on the orchestral soundtrack. Boy, was I wrong. Remembered it. So awesome.
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Bit.Trip.Runner
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I have Persona 4
Demon souls
Lord of Arcana
Zelda 25th Anniversary edition
Alan Wake
The world ends with you (American and Japanese OST)
I have more but I would actually have to check ^^;;
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Soundtracks are the best extras. If a CE comes with a good soundtrack (and not just a 5-track sampler or something) then I’ll often go out of my way to get it.
I remember the NISA Disgaea 3 LE release came with TWO soundtrack CDs. One from D3 and one a collection of stuff from the previous games. It was awesome, even if I didn’t listen to them much. I think the best soundtrack pack-in though was Ar Tonelico II. Love that game’s soundtrack so much.
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So anyone who shops is a woman? But that…what?
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I like shopping (When I’m actually buying stuff)
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No, Shopping is a feminine activity(not just for women, just feminine). Typical men do not “shop,” We go buy things. There’s a big difference. Forager mentality vs. Hunter mentality.
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I definitely ‘go buy things’ rather than ‘shop’.
Except for DVDs at JB Hifi – then it’s a case of trawling through the shelves to find something I don’t own that costs $15 or less. -
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Can I have one of everything too?
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I don’t know how to describe my way of doing it.
Usually I have a vague idea of what I will be looking for. If I find something that is harder to get I will buy it where as other things I will put off, um and ah about.
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OK, my Dad is the epitome of “autistic hunter.” He will spend hours looking stuff up online before he will buy anything. He spent half an hour just to work out what GPS he would get for my mother. Whereas I go to a store looking for “speakers” or something, and then I will browse through them there, and pick one up.
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Why is there no Persona 3 Portable or Half Minute Hero or Valkyria Chronicles II in that list /o\
@Steve-O:
“I don’t like it” is absolutely amazing.
@AlphaProspector
I know what you mean, my bedroom is *completely* full of books. I have two bookshelves that are overflowing and piles just stacking up on the floor.
It’s getting to the point where I probably haven’t got the lifespan left to read them all.
(and I bought another five or six on the interwebs while I was away)
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Can’t remember whether it was in Nanjing. Shanghai or Beijing (most likely Beijing though) but the Zoo I went too in China was pretty depressing as well. I went with my school a few years back so we were all excited to see pandas and whatnot but man it was just sad. Animals confined to really really small spaces and some were even scratching themselves so badly that they were bleeding… 🙁
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That sounds like Beijing.
The pandas looked really out of it. Because there was only one in each little area, they basically just sat still staring at the wall.
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They couldn’t climb anything, graze at food etc… it was just an empty rock pit thing with no vegetation. 🙁
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Actually I think it might’ve been a Shanghai zoo. The panda exihibit did have some vegetation and was quite spacious if I remember correctly so it might not have been Beijing. Still just as depressing though 🙁
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I know, and as I said, it’s pretty horrible. But I was making a joke given just what Pandas are like in the wild.
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In regards to the books thing, you can ask anyone who’s been to the Canberra Meats about my bookshelves, and that’s after my sister moved out and took a bunch of her books with her…
Really want a cold drink but all we have in the fridge at the moment is Midori and Pineapple goon bags.
Warm water it is…
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I’m jealous that you’re at home. I’ve got a few more hours left I think. Maybe if I didn’t spend so much time on TAY..? No. Mustn’t think like that.
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Just get someone to take you off the case.
Hell, I’ll do it for you.
You’re off the case, McGarnical!
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Strange! Since I can’t tweet you, I found someone selling a Soundwave ticket on the Gold Coast if you’re interested, they want 180 dollars though D=
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$165 I paid from the cooly hotel, whack another 15 on from ticketek or oztix for registered postage though.
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Also to clarify, the tickets themselves are $155, but you have to endure the 10 dollar booking fee no matter who you buy through and if it’s not a digital ticket or bought at a vendor, you then have to shell out about 15 bucks for registered mail x.x
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@Blaghman and miniscree in regards to your school ‘advice’ 😛
You actually wore a skirt Blagh? :|. Interesting school you went too 😛
I used to hate school but not because I didn’t have friends or fit in, I just found it incredibly boring and a waste of my time. But you’ll definitely miss it when you’re gone :P. Now that I look back on it I actually did have a pretty rad time at school. Lots of friends, lots of shenanigans and best of all lots of memories. Just have fun at school and it’s actually not that bad :). Pay attention and do well you since never know when that knowledge might be required!
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I wore a skirt once. The senior co-ordinator was very clear on things, the correct uniform had to be worn at all times, except on uniform free days. Then you could do whatever. My sister once wore full on emo face makeup to school, and a different teacher as telling her to wash it off, and he just saw it and laughed.
And I should clarify, usually in class I was with my friends, and I’d make snide comments at the back of the room, but, since my school had such excellent teachers, I was able to sit through entire semesters where I wouldn’t really talk to anyone in the class. In terms of Senior School, which is all that really mattered to me, I would turn up to class on time, leave on time, make sure I was at the next class on time, and so on. When I was in class, I was there to learn. Outside of class, I had a few friends, and when I wasn’t having a week or two long hissy fit where I’d refuse to talk to anyone about anything whatsoever, I was quite good at all that socialising stuff.
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My school was pretty strict on uniform even on free dress days 😛
“having a week or two long hissy fit where I’d refuse to talk to anyone about anything whatsoever” that’s me on school holidays and from year 12 to now. I just enter an epic hermit mode and don’t talk to anyone about anything but now I’ve got TAY (you’re my friends? right?). I also don’t go out and see anyone either because I just can’t be bothered… I’m a bad friend.
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I don’t wish to call it depression, because I’ve never gone to a doctor, and I can’t see that I’m actually depressed, and I would hardly consider myself that bad. Anyway, I would just spend anywhere between about two days, and two weeks, refusing to speak to people, and moping. Lunch would be spent sitting, listening to my iPod, and I’d only talk to people if they forced me into engaging with them. It was really dickish of me.
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It’s sort of depressing that I am practically Blaghs, except for the skirt wearing, and the going to school bits…
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Dear Scree,
So, uh, was it something I said?
One moment we were have a wonderful, in-depth discussion about the PSVita, the next you’re completely ignoring me, and I find myself blurting nonsense in the direction of no one in particular…
You cut me.
You cut me deep.
Solemn regards,
Effluvium Boy
PS – For the good of all involved I should note that this is purely in jest.
I got bored at work.
PPS – Dinner Time \o/
PPPS – If you’re reading this, Bish. Shapes, man. http://bit.ly/uTMAFY
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Dear ‘Flu,
As your name suggest, it might be because you smell.
Regards,
Cracks.PS – wow, i just realised that our names pair up shockingly well in the context of odourous emissions.
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Yes, well I figured that much out. I’m not a complete dunce 😛
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Dear Effluvium Boy,
I do not understand why this was directed at me. I was talking about the PSP, I won’t be getting a Vita for a while.
I am very confused.Sincerely,
Scree-
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number.30.five knows what I’m talking about.
Also, it wasn’t really a conversation, just a comment. I just ran with it.
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Dear Effluvium Boy,
Now I’m even more confused. I talk a lot on TAY so you have to remind me.
Sincerely
Scree-
*cough* Page 17 *cough*
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I didn’t get the tweet, but I understood the coughing! =D
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We don’t follow eachother, so you’d have to look under @Scree06 to see it.
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@Trjn, Icequire, Rocketman
Thanks for your thoughts. I really like that we can discuss these sorts of things here 🙂
I had thought of something to say in return, but I’ve forgotten it now, and I can’t think what it was, and I don’t really have the brains to think up something else right now (plus I keep thinking it’s Friday…not that that’s related in any way to the current conversation).
But yeah, thanks again for your input 🙂
Oh, and rocketman, I’m not going to uni yet, I’ve still got year 12 stuff to do, I’ll still be doing uni over the internet though. Wow, I can’t believe it’s my third year of uni all ready…at this rate, I should be finished my degree by 2020 😛
@miniscree
You didn’t know I was a guy?? Scree said she’d tell you! 😐
Anyway, I suppose it was because I was bored of being me, so I decided to try being someone else (cause it’s really easy to do that on the internet), but I’ve gotten over that now 😛
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I’m interested in hearing what you actually said to her, because I can’t remember if I clearly explained why I did it, and I’m assuming you had to make something up! 😛-
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She listed all the girls on TAY and I said “what about lamob?”
and she said “no, hes a guy”
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Sure, you just avoided the topic least it lead to awkward questions and you had to give her the ‘birds and the bees’ talk.
Been tossing up the idea of a trip to Sydney again.
Thinking the weekend of March 10-11 at the moment. Rocketman is also involved in these potential shenanigans.
Thoughts residents of Sydney and potential tourists?
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March 10th my friend is getting married. So I won’t be able to attend any shenanigans. 11th should be ok tho!
Evening TAY
I just got a new bass amp \o/
The guy in the store game me a discount coz he couldnt find the box / instructions!
No worries, I say, I can figure it out.
Get it home…WTF DOES A POWER SQUEEZER DO?!?! /o\
Anyways, hows stuff?
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haha… Im currently making the transition from 6 strings to 4. been playing bass for about 8 months, so really, I’m still learning bass.
as for equipment, I play a Warwick Corvette & the new amp is a Roland cube20 practice amp.
as for what style… the songs i’ve learnt for practice are from At the Drive-In, Fugazi, The Bronx, Thursday & Death From Above 1979.
Basically, I try to play a bit of post-hardcore, but I’ve got a soft spot for the blues, so I try to incorporate that into anything original I play or when I’m playing with my mates. Sort of like The Holy Soul, Two Gallants or The Drones.
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And it didnt like that link… hmm…
heres a pic of the bass:
http://www.allansbillyhyde.com.au/images/products/1504030305CAALD.jpg
hopefully that one will work.
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So at uni today, one of the boys was gracious enough to lend me his copy of occarina of time for 3ds. Neat-o!
He posts on here now, too, now and then, thanks to my wonderful influence. If you see him around, say hi and make him feel welcome.
He posts as “Zac” – because, you know, that’s his name. He’s a really good bloke.
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Fella with the blonde Mario avatar? I’ve seen him around. One of the few commenters on the articles that don’t make me want to climb a clock tower.
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yeah, that’s the one.
I would have said ‘top bloke’, but i didn’t want to sound like a complete ocker. lol-
dammit – the second half of that comment was meant to be at blaghman…
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so tired.. so much study…
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Bahaha, I gathered the meaning. And fair enough, I just feel like we need more boganism around here. 😛
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Yay OoT!!
I still haven’t clocked it yet because I had to start again and I can’t explain why without wrecking the story so I will zip my mouth.
But it’s the best game I’ve ever played besides Skyward sword =D-
I am ashamed to say that I only played half way through that game before moving on to something else…
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If you need/want to discuss spoilery things, in general, go to http://www.rot13.com – it can encode text, making it look garbled until someone chooses to decode it for themselves.
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Pop culture has killed my brain.
I am reading “Keynes” in my textbook as “Kanye”.
Although, both of them do solve problems by throwing copious amounts of money at things and burying their heads in the sand until it blows over in the short run…
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I think that’s the first ever macroeconomics joke we’ve ever had on TAY.
Bravo, sir.
(I’m guessing it’s something to do with counter-cyclical Keynesian stimulus-y stuff?)
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But it’s not the first “macro” joke.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-19/#comment-534829
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http://distoorted.livejournal.com/3251.html
OMGOMGOMGGOMGOMGOGMGOMGOGMGOM I love this!!!!
sorry, but I’m really excited
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This TAY was somewhat lacking in MLP stuffs while you were gone D:
I had to go find a Scree a MLP all by my self. I’m not entirely sure how well that turned out… -
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lol wtf
I read some of the comments before it loaded so I had absolutely no idea what everyone was talking about 😛
I’m not sure if i shared these when i saw them in class.. but as part of economics, our lecturer showed us 2 macro economic rap battles…
The second one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc
… is easily the best…
@Miniscree, I don’t hate you, kay? I have no idea what gave you this idea, but I don’t hate you kay! D=
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Because the majority of English men I have met have been the rudest people I have come across? =P
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Sadly. But these I speak of were male & for some reason despised Australians & still thought we were convicts. But the women I have met were lovely, mostly. Total opposite to the males.
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I’d say they despise us because the are a lot of Australians over ther and many of them are complete and utter butt holes.
When I lived there I grew to dislike Australians in general, and still would, as a generalisation, consider us to be far ruder than the British, on average.
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Scree said you thought I didn’t like you & other such things D=
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What did I say. Shes eeeeviiiilllll
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I never thought she was evil though, maybe we have a different idea on what is evil?
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I think evil’s really simple!
(Could some insert Spike’s Evil Laugh for me here? What with my net, I can’t.)
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@Chuloopa
Has anyone found you that PSP Splinter Cell game, yet? If it was Splinter Cell Essentials, then the EB website claims that there is a copy in a store that is close to me, so maybe I can check it out for you.
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Excellent.
I checked the EB website when you were first asking about it, and saw a copy in a nearby location, but just had no time to get there. Figured I would revisit it when I had a spare moment, in case someone hadn’t got it for you. Glad someone was able to!
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It’s slightly unsatisfying.
I love me some Splinter Cell, but I think Syphon Filter did a better job with the control scheme and other elements (different game though, I know).
Welp guys(and girls), here’s a question that I don’t expect you to have a satisfactory answer for. What’s something I can write about? I feel like writing something tomorrow, but I don’t know what. It could be creative, or analytical, or over-analytical, or based on whatever, I don’t know. I just feel like writing but I don’t know what. So. Any suggestions? (Feel free to give stupid responses, because that’s all I do when people ask for help)
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Or you could think up some characters and create a novel.
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But if I did that I’d reach “B,” and then get stuck for hours on that “Blaghman” guy. Man, what a wanker.
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Two mice.
That’s all the prompt you’re getting. Two mice. Come up with whatever you like about two mice.
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Anyone else get the FFXIII-2 crystal edition? Wondering if the shirts are all size F (whatever that is) or if I got a girl-sized edition.
If they are all the one size (likely, it fits like a medium) I’ll probably give it away because I doubt I’ll ever be able to fit it. This is why I hate shirts as LE game pack-ins. Never possible to pick a size that will fit everyone.
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I can’t even find a shirt that fits me in the shops let alone hoping a pack in shirt would fit 🙁
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Even if I wasn’t overweight, I’m bit across the shoulders. I used to get these medium size shirts as pack-ins with anime box sets and I just really felt like Madman weren’t really in touch with their audience. 😛
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I’m exactly the same. Whenever I lose weight’s because I up the exercise and I end up getting bigger across the shoulders so it’s even harder to find shirts. I remember those madman pack-in shirts too and they were very a very small medium. I might have been able to get into one when I was twelve.
The only pack-in shirts I can remember that have actually fitted me well are one that came with the original LE version of Half Life 2, and one I got as a pack-in with the DVD release of Kannagi when I imported it from the US, and that one is really a bit too big, rather than too small.
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OH GOD I have discovered why the reject shop is following me O_O Because I discovered their rip off toys.
They’re waiting for photos but how will I say want I want to say normally?
They will know ,_,
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The won’t do anything. They just want you know know they know that you know. By following you they know you know that they know you know. So now you know.
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Dear Scree,
The list of games you bought pleases me greatly as this means I gave my PSP away to the right person.
Also, I had some voucher left over on redbubble, so I bought a sticker from you. So I guess there’s like $1 coming your way? \o/?
Kind regards,
BDKIAF
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Ah, so that’s who bought the Scree sticker. I guess you found me that way XD
I think it’s like 20 cents from every dollar. The rest is a manufacturing fee.
But thank you for thinking of me =D
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Turns out that when you’re paying out the arse for 200GB limit on ADSL2+ and end up with 2.5MB sync, no one seems all that worried. I started with 8…wasn’t that s*#t enough?
Bright side, I was offered a technician to come out and, if it’s an internal problem, fix it.
For $220, for the first 30 minutes.
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, 220 dollars?!
Also is this 2.5 megabit or 2.5 megabytes? Either way man, that’s just messed up,
So yeah, cosplay. I still haven’t decided.
Emmy,
Elizabeth
Red sweeper from Dustforce.
Those are the ideas/suggestions so far.
Cosplay can be such a pain in the arse
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Yup! Here I am as Tao http://luckydogofdeath.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4e6wiy
I couldn’t see, I couldn’t use my hands. I had to strip to go to the toilet or eat.
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But the most annoying character to fight against.
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Thanks. It took roughly a month to make. If I’d had time I would’ve included slots for my hands to get out XD
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that’s soooooo fething cool!!!!!!!!
you’re now my idol even though i have no idea who that is!
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Taokaka is the best character in BlazBlue.
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My current mousepad:
http://i.imgur.com/Rc5dT.jpgWas a pack-in with the actually limited UK LE release after it was delayed for several months. 🙂
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I have that same one! 😀
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That’s adorable! ^0^ If only I was shortwe I could cosplay Chibi Toakaka
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That is pretty freaking cool. Would be a pain to do, well, anything in.
It really was. Luckily the head comes off. So while I had it off I could breathe and eat, but I couldn’t feed myself. A few times my friend had to feed me. Otherwise it was costume off.
I had a t shirt and shorts on underneath =D
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Emmy from professor layton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxBl93J1KIs
Elixabeth from Bioshock infinite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2yz8_FLSv0
Red sweeper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOe3GKOAP-I&feature=fvst
Generally-bad-lambo-suggestionns-007 😛
Lilith from Borderlands?
Carmen Sandiego?
An imposter from Gotham City Imposters?
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I’m sure you’d look great as any of them! #Nothelping #TakinglessonsabouttalkingtowomenfromPyrean
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The best gifts for women are
1)Flowers
2)Chocolates
3)Promises you don’t intend to keep#LessonsinwomenlearntfromCogsworth
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2 votes for Elizabeth. The good thing is with a dress I only need to buy one pattern =D
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@Scree
You have stuff on redbubble?! linkage please!
And yeah, i sold a sticker yesterday and got 20c too! /
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One of you shirt making people, make some Zelda shirts with the Godess Pearls on them – one for each Godess.
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That’s definately doable – but i think it would look better much more minimalistic!
I can have a crack after exams if no one else does and you remind me?
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Why don’t we both do our own take on the Shirt?
I would definitely use illustrator and possibly change it in my own way-
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Now I just need to stop being lazy and do it XD
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Damn TAY is moving too fast for me tonight. Star writing a reply & then theres a new page already… anyway…
@Virus__ gear & style
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-20/#comment-535139
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Man the Warwicks are such a fine instrument. I looked at one when buying my Bass (Epiphone Thunderbird) but was a little out of my price range sadly. I really need to start playing again. It just annoys me that I have to pay about 5x as much for strings as I use to when I played guitar..
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My first bass player was into epiphones. & i still this that they have a very sexy look & sound to em.
How long have you been playing & what style do you preference?
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Well, I first started playing in 2007, but when it came time to the HSC in 2008, I pretty much stopped playing, apart from when I was doing filming/recording for my Multimedia Major, which was a tutorial DVD for Bass which pretty much sucked imo in the end. I then after that went more the route of IT related studies & such after high school & have only picked it up every now & then.
Playing style & such, i’m a pick guy myself, mostly what I listen to/attempt to play doesn’t require much more effort than that xD No Black Sabbath for me, Geezer is a hell of a player. My god.
Last I remember being able to play wasn’t much or that complicated, well what I recall anyway was Powderfinger, Motley Crue, AC/DC, Dope & Murderdolls.
Most of it I learnt because I was in a “band” and that’s what we played at Battle of The Bands/School talent quest etc lol.
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It seems like there are enough musically inclined TAYbies to form some kind of TAY band. That would be pretty damn cool. The logistics puzzle me though.
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Its doable. even onboard sound cards have input jacks & good enough recording quality to play around with. just need to agree on a file format that everyone can use. build up each track based on what everyone else is doing, & then mix em together.
This is how I used to do it with my mate when he was living in the UK.
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This idea actually really excites me. Except I’m a vocalist in a hardcore band, so I can’t imagine I’d be that useful, unless it’s something heavy.
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I like this idea too.
Though, like I said last page, I’m still learning. Composition isn’t my strong point, but I can play along with others to a degree. & heavy is ok. heavy can be good 🙂 as far as vocals go, I’ve been told I’m a natural born backing vocalist. my singing voice is too deep for a lead apparently. And not enough like Mark Lanegan so that its cool *sadface*
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Loops!
I don’t remember what page it was on, but I asked earlier if you’d like Lego Star Wars for 3DS! Just say the word and it’s yours!
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oh god! So much generosity!! lol
I do need games – is there anything i can give you for it?
I keep asking this and people keep saying no! But i have to ask! Game compensation? Freight? Sexual favors?
hahaOnly if you don’t use it as well.. that would be so awesome
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You had me at sexual favours.
Seriously though, hit me up at ryanmchalker(at)gmail(dot)com. It’s yours.
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I wish I could sing like fluttershy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnn03taw-cY&feature=related
Blaghman, teach me how to sing?
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Singing is easy! All you need to do is go in with a smile, sing loudly and with confidence, and if you have a good arm up, you should be right! What do you mean that doesn’t help? I was taught how to sing by my sister(I had a few lessons from her before auditioning for a musical), so I can’t really help!
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*bragging*
I was in two stage productions of High School Musical, and I played as Ryan in one of them!
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Ummmm, that’s probably something I shouldn’t be bragging about, is it?
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I was in a musical that the Prime Minister of the time (K.Rudd) came to see. Before the show, while I was wearing stage make-up, and dressed up like a Greaser, I went up, said hi to him, and shook his hand. He was so confused, and had no idea how to respond. It was great.
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Oh jeeze I’m out for three hours and suddenly there’s two more pages. 😛
Just watched that Chronicle film at the cinema, I think it only came out today, maybe? Not sure. It was alright, I guess. Surprisingly short (considering the last few movies I’ve seen, like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, ran for over two hours) and I’m torn between whether the fact that the whole of the movie is shown through various cameras and video feeds that the characters themselves are using was a well executed concept or a snobby attempt at looking cool.
Anyway, while I was waiting for friends to show up I had a quick look at the new games out this week, and I have to admit that despite never playing a Final Fantasy or Soul Calibur game before, I am mildly tempted to buy them. However, I will admit that a big part of my interest in Soul Calibur admittedly lies in the inclusion of Ezio. 😛
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If you’ve not played a FF before, play the demo of FFXIII before you splash the cash – they’re not for everyone (especially XIII)
If you like fighting games that require more skill & technique than button mashing, then Soul Calibur is a good pick (playing around with it now… tis pretty damn fun on multi)
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FFXIII is a very polarizing game. Have you ever played a JRPG before? It really will depend a lot on what you like to get out of your games.
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Yeah, I’ve never properly played a JRPG before. 😛 Perhaps starting with the most expensive newly released one is a very bad idea.
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Not so much that. FFXIII-2 as a first JRPG would be pretty hard I think. Not going to suggest you go back to FF7 or something though, that’s dated awfully. I’m honestly not sure what the best JRPG to recommend as a starting point would be. There hasn’t been very many really good ones this generation, and those that have been have also been fairly niche (eg Tales of Vesperia – very good, but not for everyone).
Well, I know what the *best* starting point would be, and it’s Chrono Trigger. But the problem with that is that it’ll ruin you for everything else. It’s dated amazingly well as well, though it is still very much a SNES game.
I guess you might want to see if you can grab FFXIII (instead of XIII-2). Likely to be in bargain bins now because they’ll be wanting to sell extra copies off the back of XIII-2’s marketing.
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I think FFX is a good starting point. I jumped in at IX, then went back and played all the older ones, and stopped at FFXII cause it was freaking terrible, but I think FFX would be user friendly enough for a gamer who’s new to JRPG.
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shake hands with the unemployed = best euphemism ever.
Anyway, Freeze, I’m glad to see you’re willing to give Crazyguy a hand.
too much?
/sleaze
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Put a song you like on, and dance to it.
That’s what I do, anyway. When you’re dancing to “Walking on Sunshine,” nothing can bring you down.
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Watch Kirby dance, no body can be bummed when Kirby is dancing – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzM_-YTnQo0
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Everyone is showing youtube videos, so I went to find a Futurama one to add to the list… 10 minutes later I settled on this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-52R32_nV_w
Wow, I feel like I haven’t commented in days. Too much digging. All I know is the ponies are back (among other things), and I’m starting to feel the need to go watch the show again. Nice work every one 🙂
Browse through this gallery, when you see it you’ll poop bricks ;D
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I laughed my arse off and I was telling you so when you posted it.
Miniscree, avoid this link like the freaking plague.
http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=31 This will make you poop bricks-
I had an inkling what was going to happen, so I grabbed the scroll bar and ran it straight to the bottom. It still freaked me out.
And you know that by telling her not to click on something, she’s just going to want to do it more 🙂
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Nope, once I told her it was horror related she didn’t want to click on it XD
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I probably should have known better too. Oh well, at least I didn’t read it right through. Then I wouldn’t be sleeping at all
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Sorry about that. At least you went through quickly
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Same thing happened to me. Wasn’t expecting it all and literally jumped D:
No sleep tonight.
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Sorry about that. But it was still enjoyable, no?
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Haha, I see it. I wonder what the slayer of the Greek Pantheon is doing at a Brazilian music festival
I avoid anythin that says poop brix unless it’s obvious. No one likes a screamer vid out of no where 🙁
Seems like scree’s link is a freaky ghostly one too. Which is why I clicked on it, read the warning, covered my eyes a bit before closing it 😛
I HATE DEM SCREAMER VIDS
Sooo, about half an hour ago I was going to post something along the lines of “I get out of washing the dishes tonight because I made tea/dinner/whatever-you-want-to-call-it!…Probability that I’ll end up helping with the washing up, about %89 percent…” then my Dad came in asking me to help with the washing up…
/o\
Two fat blokes in a pub, one says to the other, “Your round.”
The other replies, “So are you, fatty!”
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An actual conversation from the trivia conompetition I went to last night.
MC – True or false, Salmonella was named after a man by the name of Doctor Salmon
Me – I think thats true
Other team – Actually Its Doctor Tuna
Me turning around – Holy mackeral, are you sure?And there was many groans of disgust 😀
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Hmmm, probably best for my own sanity if I don’t. I have an idea now though, so I shall consider running with that.
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oh man, i finally got uncharted 3, damn it’s so good, like, wowsers
anyone else have it? if we have enough, maybe we could finally have a kotaku PS3 playdate? 😀
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As someone who has never played Uncharted multiplayer before, if enough people were interested, I would totally join in.
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Competitive multiplayer sucks 😛
Played the beta for 2 and didn’t touch it in the main game. Played it in U3 for a couple of mins with friends before we all gave up.
However, I did like the co-op mission based level things that U2 had. Haven’t tried it out in 3 but if it’s anything like 2 it’ll be good 🙂
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I just realised that “Good night” posts are a good way to get your spam word count up for TABTOL 😛
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REsponding to posts like these with ‘good night’ is even more useful … if you’re the last one to go to bed.
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Oh Lambo, dear sir, you should know that it’s not all about post count. It’s all about the word count within those posts. So, short little things like that are of no use to you. No, no, every post of yours should be a minimum of three sentences, each one filled with short words that sound impressive, unlike these, because I am tired and cannot think of anything. It’s all about the words, mang. All about the words.
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I don’t take sucker bets
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I’m fairly sure you’re closer to 70% of the total TAY word count with that post.
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You should stop slacking off at work then.
Or… slack off more.
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I like that Youtube thought advertising Garnier BB cream would be an appropriate match for that clip.
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I guess Youtube decided Pokemon is for kids, this song is for adults, therefore the ad should be aimed at teens!
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So I was planning on trying to find a drunk MLP or something equally stupid to post. I have returned from this voyage of discovery with the following:
NEVER EVER EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE SEARCH MY LITTLE PONY WITH SAFESEARCH OFF!!!!!!
EVER!!!!!!
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Yup, the amount of pony porn is so great that even with Safe search on some of it gets through.
I’ve seen some messed up shit with safe search on (which is always is).Remember this is a show aimed at young girls and their parents.
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Welcome to the world of clop clop.
As with most things on the internet, I’m rather annoyed by the fact that I know it exists.
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I’m really digging writing in prose again. For years, I’ve been working with graphic novels, which is fun enough, and I’ve learned stacks about 3D art and image manipulation, post-production, and story flow
… but having just sunk my teeth into a decent prose project again (The Tube [ http://shanewsmith.com/blog/category/the-tube ]) it feels almost like coming home again… or something equally corny.
I can’t describe it. If you write, you probably know what I mean anyways.
@Freeze, I know it’s probably no big thing to you, but I really appreciate the free reign to run with this idea. I’m having a complete ball! 🙂
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You = too hard on yourself.
Your writing is clear and engaging, and capable of bearing great humour. Also, your thought processes are generally quite detailed and well-structured. In other words, good. 🙂
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I refuse your compliment, and substitute it with my own.
(My own is, “sure Blaghs, you can write, like a 5 year old!” HAHAHAHA, You’ll never compliment me alive!) 😛
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I know that feeling. When you think everything you write is terrible and cliche.
Just me? Okay.
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I know that feeling. It never really ever goes away, sadly. Still, take comfort in the fact that you’re your own harshest critic – there’s a lot to like about that arrangement!
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I guess this helps round out your writing style!
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Thanks – love a good Bish pun-a-thon!
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Just wait until his next productivity report!
Oh wait, he’s in the public service. IT DOESN’T MATTER! AHAHAHAHA!
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I was more getting the image of Shane bursting into his house yelling “Honey put the kids to bed. Tonight we are doing it Alfonse style!”
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… and you want to take credit for this? 😛
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Okay, I don’t even know how I found this:
http://www.nuffy.net/cool/pics/worlds-craziest-restaurants.html
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I would love to go to that place in the Maldives. Hell, anywhere in the Maldives would be amazing.
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Heh, I hope Scree genuinely went to bed, and missed this. If so, then that would be hilarious. I think I’m a bad person.
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By which I mean the page get. And I genuinely don’t know. I don’t know what the good racing games on the PS2 were.
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Its one of those words that could go either way I guess. I’m just happy I could come with a haiku calling you out on it though 🙂
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@Alexpants: replied to you re: JRPGs back on page 21. Summary: don’t start with FFXIII-2, but I don’t know what would be a good starting point for JRPGs, especially not looking at this generation.
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You couldn’t even make a suggestion where to start with FF. New ones aren’t even similar to the older ones.
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Yeah, and there’s only been three in the last two generations of consoles (not counting the MMOs which should never have been numbered entries in the series). And each of them is wildly different.
The other major JRPG franchises are more consistent, but Dragon Quest is very traditional and might not have much appeal outside its niche, Tales is hard to find, split over multiple platforms and can be a bit simplistic and anime-ish (not a bad thing necessarily). Star Ocean is pretty niche, Persona is not a good example of a standard JRPG and isn’t on the current platforms and is super-niche and then there’s a whole mess of one or two installment games or games for JRPG fans. Or non-traditional JRPGs.
Oh! Got a Wii? Follow the Greenius and get Xenoblade.
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I’m still getting cranky as I have yet to get a new Breath of Fire. I need my Ryu fix dang nabbit!
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Breath of Fire seems to be a casualty of this generation. Same with Suikoden and Wild Arms.
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@Alexpants: what platform are you playing on?
If you’re on 360, give Lost Odyssey a go. Or Blue Dragon
If you’re on PS3 maybe Eternal Sonata or… something.Oh and avoid The Last Remnant. I found that Disappointing.
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Disappointing as in ‘broken engine.’ Ideas werent too bad. cant comment on story coz I couldnt make it through more than a few hours of it…
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Tales of Vesperia on 360 too. Just not confident that it’d appeal – though it would appeal more than Eternal Sonata unless he’s really into Chopin.
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The battle system was fun I guess. I liked shooting arrows with that chick… (can’t remember the name). Gave up with the game though and to be honest the only reason I played it was that I needed something that somewhat resembled Vesperia 😛
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Chrono Trigger is a good start though.
Golden Sun Dark Dawn is still designed in the old style of RPGs, and Final Fantasy 4 is always a solid pick for older Final Fantasies even though I think it’s a bit boring. Keeps getting remade so it’s freely available too.
I think on consoles games like Eternal Sonata and Star Ocean probably fit into the classical style of RPGs too. I can’t imagine any of those to be too stressful to start off with RPGs.If you want some more zanier hybrid genre RPGs, Nier, The World Ends WIth You, Valkyria Chronicles are good’uns. Maybe Resonance of Fate as well, and I’d love to suggest Yakuza 3 and 4, but imagine if you’re not prepared for JAPANESE STORYTELLING, that might be offputting.
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This is a ‘first JRPG’ suggestion here – Resonance of Fate is really, really not a ‘first JRPG experience’ game. Neither is Nier really.
I stand by my assertion that Chrono Trigger is still the single best JRPG. Simple yet complex mechanics, interesting plot with multiple twists and many endings, solid characters, great combat, iconic look, great soundtrack. It’s a rare game that never has been fully remade and probably never will need to be.
I’d half like to see what Sakaguchi and Horii could come up with if they collaborated like that again.
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Yeah, second half was more of a “These are vaguely RPG, and they’re good” rather than a “good intro RPG”.
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I had a good time with Dragon Quest 9 on the DS. Its got a decent story, and it was interesting enough for me to put a dozen or so hours into the post game material. Mainly dungeon diving.
And yes if you have a Wii, get Xenoblade. I’m certainly not the biggest JRPG fan, and I loved the hell out of that game.
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Dragon Quest 9 was pretty good, but I think a lot of the humour of the Dragon Quest series is based on knowing JRPG tropes, so I wouldn’t recommend it as a starter.
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Also to AlexPants
The best JRPG this generation is Xenoblade.
+1 on Lost Odyssey. Blue Dragon was alright but I like Lost Odyssey more. If you’re on Xbox there’s also Tales of Vesperia which is also excellent. And Nier, Eternal Sonata, FFXIII and FFXIII-2 which are multiplat but I think they’re all better on PS3 (Eternal Sonata has more content and I think the other ones just run better)
FFXIII-2 would probably be the most expensive of the lot so if you want to save money buy any of the others. Especially XENOBLADE!
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Whoops totally forgot about handheld JRPGs (which there’s a lot). I figured you meant console ones anyway but go with what Bish and Nova said.
Just want to add Tales of Eternia on PSP, any FF and Radiant Historia for DS
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PSP has a whole mess of good ones. The updated ports of Star Ocean 1 and 2, Tactics Ogre, Persona 3 Portable, Trails in the Sky….
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Yeah there’s a WHOLE lot of good JRPGs on handhelds this generation (they probably have better ones than consoles) which is why I’m not going to list them 😛
Ni no Kuni looks absolutely amazing though. Ghibli <3
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Ni No Kuni looks like what I can only imagine sex is like, but in game form.
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Replying to this particular post although in reality it goes towards everyone posting on this particular topic because I don’t want to make multiple replies!
Wow that’s a lot to consider. Come to think of it, though, I believe I do own Blue Dragon. *disappears momentarily to check* Yes, here it is. I remember mostly being interested because the character designs were done by Akira Toriyama. I remember getting through most of the first disc and enjoying it, but can’t remember why I stopped playing…may have had something to do with Marumaro making me suicidal.
I have a friend who highly recommended Tales of Vesperia, but to my understanding it is rather hard to find in stores here.
In terms of consoles I’m not restricted much as I have both a 360 and a PS3, I have a DS but I do not have a PSP.
Anyway, thanks for all the insights, its much appreciated. I guess I’ll be taking a look around over the next week for any of these games and see if they pique my interest!
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I really think you should get Chrono Trigger somehow, especially if you’re a Toriyama fan – he designed the characters.
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I keep trying to post a link but it keeps disappearing. Ozgameshop have the DS version in stock. $26
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#35
I was going to reply back on page 21, but I figured a new page wasn’t far off and it’d get lost.
I’d definitely be keen to try something, I’m sure finding a couple of guitarists and a drummer wouldn’t be impossible.
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I’m keen to have a go at getting something together. We need volunteers.
Step 1 – harass TAY til it gives up a drummer & guitarist
Step 2 – find common ground
Step 3 – play stuff
Step 4 – [insert sex & drugs to accompany rock & roll]
Step 5 – break up because of ‘creative differences’
Step 6 – REUNION TOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-
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Why find a drummer when drum machines exist! Actually there is a drummer on TAY, I forget who it is though i’m subbed to his YouTube channel where he posts drum videos. Wow I feel like such an idiot not knowing who it is.
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I love the look of contempt on his face.
‘once i get out of this, i’m gonna fck you up. for real’
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@Freeze – I meant the contents of the Limited Collector’s Edition not so much the game itself. I know FFXIII was disappointing though… 🙁
@scree – Awesome cosplay :). Never played BlazBlue but I’ve seen that character around. I’ve got no suggestions on what you should cosplay as though except for go as something people would recognise :P. I have no idea whether Emmy is all that popular or not but she’s got my vote as well as Elizabeth.
@Crazyguy1990 – I wanted to do a C-C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER to the haiku fiesta but it’s now lost within the old pages… 🙁
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Can’t remember who but some TAYbies were wondering whether to pick up FFXIII-2 even though they haven’t completed FFXIII. FFXIII-2 has a short story recap for each of the first game’s chapters. It’s not really indepth but it should get you up to date with the story for XIII-2. The story isn’t that great anyway so don’t worry 😛
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Yeah same 😛
But to be honest I have no idea what happens in any Final Fantasy during the ending sequences.
Who’s this? What’s this? Where is this? When is this? Why am I doing this? How am I doing this?
I conteplated reading the novella that connects FFXIII to FFXIII-2 but I really just can’t be bothered… :/
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Or, Squall is dead. I’m just saying.
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FF8 has the best plot with the absolute worst execution ever. The whole thing is a giant cycle. The witch at the end of the game, the final boss, is Rinoa. She waited forever for Squall to reappear and he never did. She had Squall’s ring, which was actually a Guardian Force (she summons it during the battle) which feeds on the memories of people that use them. So she lost most of her memories but was left with the emotions of loss and regret and that came to be directed toward Squall and his companions and she went all evil trying to ‘compress’ time so she could travel back and stop him at multiple points in the timeline. Posessesing Edea as her vessel to do so, then uses herself later as well, trying to stop the chain of events but actually causing them. And then Squall breaks the cycle when he finally returns, having defeated her GF and allowed her to remember the truth and revert back. Or something like that. It’s quite an elegant time travel paradox thing but none of it is ever actually outright stated in the damned game, it’s all hints and implications and things lost in translation. And so instead of being extremely clever, it comes off as completely random and stupid and full of dumb leaps of logic and massive plot holes and unreasonable coincidences and is impossible to follow.
I loved FF8. Personal favourite.
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Sort of a spoiler I guess so be warned if you haven’t played FF8
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Squall ruined 8 for me, just the worst FF protagonist ever…
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FFVII clearly had the greatest ending. I can’t remember it too well though. Something about Cloud mowing a lawn I think.
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Everyone dies of old age and the world turns into a post-apocalyptic wasteland populated by Red XIII and his many cubs, presumably after engaging in some hot hot inter-species furry loving. If you want to know more about that, I’m sure multiple people in Japan have drawn it in multiple positions.
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So I’m guessing you haven’t read Cloud Mows the Lawn yet?
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Sorry. Thought about it after posting it. 🙁
But on the bright side, FF8’s actual plot is so atrociously delivered that you’ll never figure any of it out. Absolutely nothing is explicit. The final boss literally comes out of nowhere in the last hour or so of the game (though if you read between the lines, she doesn’t).
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Don’t worry I didn’t read yours (no offence or anything :P)
I saw Blaghman’s blaghs and was like nuuuuuuuuuuuu then I avoided yours just in case
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Mine’s not a spoiler, so don’t worry. Mine’s, hmmm, a theory? Epileptic Trees, as it were? About FF8, which says that everything that happens after the end of disc one, is basically a fever dream while Squall dies.
I know that’s what you were saying. I was just being grumpy as I haven’t liked a Final Fantasy game since X. What makes me even grumpier is that all of them up to and including X would all be in my top 25 games of all time.
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I also feel they lost their way after X, though I didn’t mind XIII that much. I loved the plot and style of XII, but I really dig Yasumi Matsuno’s stuff, and the gameplay in that really jarred with me.
I just want to go back to the old ATB. There was nothing wrong with it. It was fun! Also the whimsy and the bits of crazy humor and so on. Other JRPG franchises still do it, but the FF people seem to have lost their way completely, they’re all stuck up and full of themselves and want to be all arty and high concept or something. I don’t know. But the games are clearly a bunch of artists getting together to design a game. There’s no overarching design, no one who seems to be able to point and go ‘that’s shit, take it out’. Matsuno was able to do that but FFXII burned him out to the point he had a nervous breakdown. Masato Kato was able to do it, but he left Square after the first FFXI expansion. Sakaguchi was obviously able to do it, but he left after X. It’s like all the writers and directors left and there were only artists remaining.
Finally got MLP after a week of shaped internet.
Initial observation: Fluttershy is best pony.
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Same with me before I started watching the show. It was significantly Applejack over the others.
When I first saw ep1 I was like “this pony is cool, I like her” (in reference to Applejack) then I heard her speak and was like nahhhh… But I do like apples and she’s pretty kick-ass after seeing a couple of eps.
Applejack is da bestest. Fluttershy is too quiet and shy. Speak up please?
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No I mean that’s what I got on the test. I’ve already seen most of the show, I’m maybe two or three episodes behind in season 2.
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Yeah I know I guess I wasn’t that clear 😛
“Same with me before I started watching the show. It was significantly Applejack over the others.” was in reference to the test. The chart thingy was significantly in Applejack’s direction with the other ponies being way behind. The personality description is not really like me and to be honest I’m probably a mixture of all the ponies (but who isn’t).
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Hey Freeze (and anyone else going to Brisbane soundwave) the timetable is up!
http://www.soundwavefestival.com/about/news/brisbane-timetable-now-available
Bad news (for me at least) Wednesday 13, BLS & Slipknot all on at the same time. Same with Alter Bridge & HELLYEAH.
That is the biggest load of shit. Looks like I am dropping an hour of Slipknot to see Wednesday 13 & dropping all of HELLYEAH’s set to see Alter Bridge & not bothering with Black Label Society *sigh*
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Very much so!
Also I want to know the genius behind putting Wednesday 13 on at the same time as Slipknot. I think they just out names in a hate and drew them at random. Since both bands share a good majority of fans.
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Conflicts:
System Of A Down and Lamb of God
Bad Religion and Mastodon
Machinehead and Dillenger Escape Plan-
Wait, Staind are playing?
Wait, people still listen to Staind?
WAIT, people listened to Staind to start with?
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Well this is what I want to see;
Steel Panther: 12:40 – 1:20
HELLYEAH: 2:00 – 2:30
Alter Bridge: 2:00 – 2:40
Marilyn Manson: 5:55 – 6:50
Black Label Society: 7:20 – 8:00
Wednesday 13: 7:20 – 8:00
Slipknot: 7:00 – 8:30
System of A Down: 8:30 – 10:00
Lamb of God: 9:00 – 10:00I can live with the SOAD & LOG clash, the others on the hand, Wednesday, Slipknot, Alter Bridge & HELLYEAH were kind of the reason why I got a ticket >.<
Massive LOLs are due I think. The wife is watching Resident Evil Extinction and the ads are crammed with ones for Michael Crawford and Richard Clayderman albums.
Not a huge overlap in audiences I’m guessing, but the marketing gurus don’t seem to agree with me.
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Wait, ResEv Extinction is on?! Maybe it hasn’t started yet in Perth!
While I’m aware of how they butcher ResEv plot, and how their plot isn’t overly good, I still enjoy the ResEv movies for what they are: dumb action movies with zombies and Leeloo (who totally tweeted Tad and Q-bo). -
I hope not everyone went to sleep yet… This is gonna get so ronery…
Glad to have Miniscree back! (So that’s her official name now, right?) This place was sorely lacking on the pony department.
It’s also so weird that I see MLP coming back with such strength. I watched the original show when I was a kid and even had a small MLP figure that survived most of the house moving, probably stored by my mother out of pure nostalgia and to tease me/remind me I watched silly kids show right before I entered the Transformers/Robotech/Mazinger mecha awesomeness that would change me forever.
Anyway, does anyone think we can reach 30+ by the weekend? I hope so.
Another one, let’s talk about dreams. Does anyone dream anymore? Did anyone play Yume Nikki? *dun dun DUNNNNNNN*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVSTUHdWVVM (What a kickass owl!)
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So much random topics of discussion in that post lol
– I’m here. Hello! *waves*
– I’m glad miniscree is back too. Needed some MLP in TAY
– You watched the old MLP and had one as a kid? Wasn’t that one for little girls? ._. no offence though 😛 since I did watch Powerpuff Girls as a kid. But then again the main demographic for the new MLP is something like men in the 18-35 range. Interestingly enough the person who adapted the new MLP for TV (Lauren Faust) also worked on Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, both are awesome shows 🙂
– We’ll most definitely reach page 30+ (if that’s what you were referring to). By the weekend though? Probably not.
– Yes I still dream. I love dreaming and I get some pretty crazy (but awesome) dreams 🙂
– No I haven’t played or heard of Yume Nikki :(. Did a Google search and it seems creepy
– Kickass owl it is. But I still prefer the classic dramatic gopher 😀
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I think it was indeed a girly show but I’ll explain what happened: my brother wasn’t born yet, I was barely 3 years old, my cousins were all girls and older than me so they just sat me there to watch it with them, lol. After all, it’s not that I could put up much of a fight, I was extremely shy. I kind of still am (work has forced me to be more open but I still play it safe).
And one day, after my bro was born, they tell me there is “this awesome shows with transformable robots” And a man was born! 😛
I grew up building robots with my Legos, jeez.
Ok, everyone go check Yume Nikki! It’s awesome and freeware and contains some of the most gratuitous, greatest crazy moments around.
http://www.theneitherworld.com/yumenikki/ <<<< *hint hint*
In lack of scree, I'll be spamming for a bit 😛
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When you mentioned Yume Nikki I got my wires crossed and thought you meant Yume Miru Kusuri which is a visual novel. Was going to point out it’s not really creepy (at least not in the horror sense of the word :P) but realised you meant something else.
That looks kind of cool. Wish I had more time.
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It really isn’t horror. (For horror, play LSD on a PSX emulator) It’s very dreamy-like and, like dreams (pun intended), weird stuff is bound to happen.
Also, I quite gave the nostalgia shock to everyone, eh?
They were showing Predator and Commando on TV. Commando is one of the defining action movies. Right?
Wrong!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_IRWgpojw
Listen to that super ’80s music, lol! Yes, it’s a defining one. They better don’t remake this… Unless the main guy is Liam Nesson. Else, it’ll never work.
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Yes, quite the nostalgia trip 😀
Although I’m a bit younger than you lot so it’s not that close to my heart as it is for you guys. Cheez TV was the shit when I was growing up so DBZ and Pokemon mainly but also Digimon, Beyblade etc.
Basically horribly dubbed Japanese anime which we considered to be normal cartoons 😛
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I’m kind of envious of people who got to see Robotech as kids. Must have been awesome. I missed it and saw it as Macross and don’t regret that (since Macross is great too) but I’m looking at it from an adult perspective.
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I tried to watch robotech as a kid but I had to catch the bus to school and never got to watch the morning cartoons.
Taped it whenever I could though. Cheez TV was the bomb.
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I grew up with Transmetal Beast Wars. Not as good I’m guessing 😛
The actual toys were badass though since animals > vehicles
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Hell no, Beast Wars was brilliant, especially in the second and third seasons when they started dealing with darker themes and concepts (Code of Hero is one of the single best episodes of any cartoon ever) and also tied it strongly into the original TF canon.
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From memory (a bit hazy), Beast Wars is better than the G1 stuff. The overall canon and story of G1 is awesome, but on an episode-by-episode basis, it’s largely pretty weak on the story (Decepticons find some new way to make Energon Cubes, Autobots find out and attack, Decepticons fly away to do it all again next episode).
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Yeah, Beast Wars had multiple talented writers actually writing a solid story, it wasn’t just a glorified toy ad. G1 Transformers was quite bad that way, especially the first season. I remember it spinning me out when I watched it (and I must have only been six or seven at the time) when one episode the Decepticons went after the RUBY CRYSTALS OF BURMA and I thought that sounded pretty naff even at that age.
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>_> after some Google research the show I grew up watching was not Beast Wars. It was Beast Machines… Apparently it’s not as good?
Grew up with both toys though 🙂
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Beast Machines was a completely different team (Beast Wars was Mainframe, they also did Reboot which was a cool show) and nowhere near as good.
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The thing that marked that era was the awesome ’86 movie where they finished off plenty of popular and loved characters.
A very bold move for what should’ve been a long-play toy’s advertisement, lol. It was animated in Japan as well so it still looks freaking sweet!!! Unicron was the shit.
Oh, more on Robotech/Macross: back then when I started elementary school the show got a re-run and, man, everyone wanted to be a pilot and dreamed we could get at least a Gerwalk mode on planes!
Having a massive nostalgia-driven morning here!
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That movie defined my childhood. I had a huge stack of sticker and coloring books that went everywhere with me at the time.
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I have a 1/60 scale VF-1 in Max’s colors on my desk at work. 🙂
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The Stan Bush music in the transformers film was what made it. There really wasn’t a huge amount of other stuff that was that cheesily epic even back then. Only other one I can recall was ‘Never Say Die’ by King Kobra, which was the end credits theme for Iron Eagle (watched that film over and over as a kid):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZwsCIfo9n8\m/
Speaking of nostalgia, I downloaded me the 80’s cartoon version of Inspector Gadget I loved the shit out of that as a kid XD
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I grew up in New Zealand. We didn’t get either of those. 🙁 We got some other cheapo cartoons, they were a dime a dozen in the 80s. Only one I remember clearly was Saber Rider & the Star Sherrifs. It had a badass opening. At least it was badass when you were six.
What I do remember though is that we got cable TV when it was first launched there. They had a whole stable of cheap animated films they’d picked up and they’d play them in the afternoons, usually after a pretty non-kids film (eg there was a period where The Good, The Bad and the Ugly was on repeatedly. My parents didn’t know I watched the whole film through multple times. Gunfight at the end is awesome). The animated films that I most remember that I can actually name are The Secret of NIMH, Flight of Dragons, The Fantastic Adventure of Yoko and The Snowman (‘Walking in the Air’ is one of those amazing songs that sticks with you forever). There was also this absolutely horrific film that was scary as shit. I have no idea what it was, would love to know. It was on more than once but I don’t think I was really into following it – basically the setup was something like a young mother’s kid disappears or is taken or something and she sets out on a journey to find him and then meets witches along the way that guard gates, and in order to pass she had to sacrifice things. Her youth, for example, and she turned into an ugly old woman. And her sight – one witch literally took her eyes. That scared the crap out of me as a kid. Pretty much all I remember of it. No idea what it was but it was way too mature to be on at 3pm on a weekday. There was also a dark vampirey one they played a couple of times. It was animated but I don’t think it was kid-friendly. Can’t remember much of it. In retrospect it may have been the original Vampire Hunter D, but I’m not sure about that at all, I don’t think the timing is right.
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Secret of Nimh is a fantastic movie. I actually went and grabbed the DVD for my eldest but it scares the crap out of her and she won’t watch it. This from a kid whose favourite movies are the Jurassic Parks.
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Sometimes you just can’t tell with some films. When I was 3 or so there was a theatrical re-release of Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs (the Disney film) and the evil queen/witch/whatever the fuck she was scared me so much that I had to be taken out of the film. Scared me half to death. Don’t know why. We had a big overseas trip to Disneyland a year or two later and there’s a Snow White ride there too and in that she pops out at you unexpectedly and that had the same effect. At least this is what I’ve been told, I don’t remember it despite remembering almost everything else clearly. Must have repressed it.
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@NegativeZero
So I saw a pic of XIII-2 Crystal Edition on eBay and it looked like just the UK edition with an Aus rating stuck on it. I was wondering is yours the same? Bascially I wanted to know whether the disc inside is an Australia one or UK.
I ordered the Limited Collector’s Edition from an online website but it’s unlikely to reach here within a reasonable time. So I preordered it at EB for the bonus and to play until the other UK copy arrives. I’m asking because if the disc for the Australian Crystal Edition is a UK one it means that a UK disc will likely work with my Australian save and it will also work with DLC from the Australian store.
Sorry if I made that too complicated or blabbered on too much :P. Thanks in advance!
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Yep, stickers on the crystal box, no AU ratings on the game inside (might have been on the shrink wrap) and the AU rating was printed onto a slick that bound the extra steelbook case rather than onto the case ifself.
It’ll be the one copy of the game for all of PAL. In fact if it’s anything like FFXIII, all the international releases are intercompatible. I’ve got the AU release and the Chinese release of XIII (chinese release has JP dialogue, english and chinese subs), you can load AU saves in both copies. FFXIII-2 is the same engine and the games are being released at the same time so they’re probably the same code even, just different resources.
I was going to import the chinese release of XIII-2 to actually play but it seems like DLC is going to be a big part of the game so I didn’t want to go through having to get an account for the right region and PSN point cards to get the DLC. So back to the bad english dub for me. 🙁
What have I done, people… I nostalgia’d everyone, hahaha.
Now go and watch Robocop! Stop-motion ED-201 for the win!
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Same here. Maybe we should leave it for the morning! Someone offered me some ’80s movie collection so I’m having a blast to the past.
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Immediately and all of them! You’ll get them back when you have rectified this situation. Maybe.
Please tell me you’ve seen at least one of First Blood, True Lies, Raw Deal, any Death Wish, American Ninja or Toy Soldiers?
Also you may be interested to know that McBain was a real movie.
(Also also I know True lies is 90’s but it’s damn near a perfect film)
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Have seen First Blood (also have seen it dubbed in Japanese, which was surreal) and True Lies and Toy Soldiers.
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Just a a point of interest, McBain was played by Christopher Walken and Maria Conchita Alonso from The Running Man.
OH OH! If you haven’t seen The Running Man also do so.
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The Running Man is SO AWESOME! I read the book, found it nice but I’m one of the few who thinks the movie is actually far better and enjoyable thanks to Arnie, lol.
“hey, hey, you, Christmas Tree!”
“One of us is in deeeeeeeeeep trouble.”
So many glorious ones liners! Like the Sub-Zero one. “Now plain zero!” haha!
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Best movie ever featuring an obese oprea singing man wearing a Christmas light suit that shoots lightning.
And Arnie makes everything better!
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@NegZero re Stan Bush, Iron Eagle etc
Go find Blood Brothers: First Blood. It’s an album compilation of 80s action movie songs, feat. Stan Bush, that Iron Eagle song, John Farnham, Eye of the Tiger, Final Countdown, etc. Awesome stuff.
If Loops reads this, he’ll get all excited again 😀
http://maddecent.com/blog/blood-bros-first-blood
The difference in maximum temperatures on Sunday at the place I’m landing compared to the place I depart from is 36 degrees. o_o
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Damn! Lucky you I guess? Here it’s still stuck at 36ºC. We had a deluge yesterday, which only brought more humidity instead of lower temperatures…
Hi All
Im in Indonesia! wooo more specifically Jakarta 😀
Its Hot damn Hot
ok maybe not that hot…lol
I will catch up with TAY when I get a Chance hope your all having a good week 🙂
FRIDAY…. WOOOOOOoooooohhh i’m too tired for this
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hi…
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Work seems to be getting in the way of my Skyrimming… i do not approve of this…
how is everyone else this cold, windy, wet and overall miserable excuse for a day?
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well okay is better then not okay, which is subsequently better then bad, which is quite a lot better then crap i suppose 😀
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Morning all!
For those of you who don’t yet know, I am putting up a free novella on my blog, relating a tale whose origins emanate from the dusty and long-forgotten recesses of this week’s TAY (a page 3 comment by Freeze for the eternally curious).
Part 4 went up just a few minutes ago: http://shanewsmith.com/blog/category/the-tube
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Did you know that if you take the word NOW and turn it upside down, you have the first three letters of MONday.
Interesting, isn’t it?
#NotCompletelyOffTopic
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I feared I broke TAY with my massive spamming… Good to see it back.
I spent so much talking about the ’80s and action movies I forgot to tell you all I contacted Mark. hopefully he will reply! (Big thanks to @Shane and also to @Chuloopa and, of course, the almighty @scree! Thanks to Mini-scree too and everyone else now that we are at it)
Can the Show & Tell feature you, the aussie gamers? I mean, you guys achieved this rather than me, lol. That would be really cool too. I bet the japanese devs won’t believe all this either!
Ok, going back to talk about analogical FX, puppets and that cool stuff missing thanks to overdone CGI…
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I wish my friend would’ve dressed up as boobie lady but she was my feeder/leader for the day.
Also i meant this http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-21/#comment-535248
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I’m no children and that stuff caught me totally off guard, dammit! MY MECHANICAL HEART STOPPED.
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That’s why I was apologising! =D
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It is SO well-done though, really creative and clever and perfectly tailored to the webcomic format.
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It is extremely well done. I can’t imagine how many frames they had to make for the animation part
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scaring? what’d i miss?
*start spinning 88MPH on my chair and holds a battery that conveniently outputs 1.21 Gigawatts of power*
ooohhh page 21 hey? that’s ancient history for some…
cosplay… cosplay OOOHH cosplay
*clicks link*
THAT’S TOO FREAKING AWESOME!!!
why would anyone be scared by that?
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I’m glad you enjoyed pooping yourself. When I first saw it, it was only in Korean. Luckily someone posted an English version which is what I posted here =D
Well it looks like I’m cosplaying Elizabeth, I have to look at her dress and stuff now. =D-
You have to look at her dress now? Does this mean you’ve followed everyone else on the internet, and thus far just looked at her breasts? 😛
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Actually, no, I have looked at her dress before, however, I don’t quite remember the cut, nor her shoes, nor the bottom of the dress.
There’s a lot to consider. How it falls, the neck line, the sleeves, how to get the best over all look.
Also, what colour her eyes are, will I need contacts? Can i get the wig on Ebay. There is a lot of preparation before I even make it
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Fine then, ruin all my fun with a logical and sensible answer. 😛
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I can’t see it, due to being shaped and all, but I think I know what it is. Despite having seen it before(The first time in a language that was most definitely not English), I still jumped like a scared little girl on the second viewing. I’m Manly! Unless it’s something different, in which case, I’d probably still jump like a Guinea PIg on Acid.
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it’s probably the same comic, but it is terrifying. I jumped the first time I read it, mainly when it took over and moved by itself
I wasn’t scared , well besides my regular constant fears of birds running into my head while outside. You never know when its going to happen, in particular when its magpie season.
Oh yes i had a point, nobody was scared scree.
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I was really apologising for the comic I posted. I added cosplay so people would see it =P I never have anyone to show off my hard effort to =(
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Actually, my friend made the hoodie from scratch and then I added all the details incuding the ears, tail, claws etc.
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credit where credit is due, in the words of the great and almighty Loops, IT’S FETHING AWESOME… i’m hoping to do some cosplay for the next Armageddon Expo in Melbourne… if i get the time :S
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Would you Cosplay as yourself? Because that would be pretty amazing. As it stands, the most effort I’ve gone to was to dress up like “L” from Death Note. Best Cosplay.
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i would cosplay as “Me” however it seems like last time i did it, i was close to getting arrested…. don’t know why… might actually put clothes on next time, but that not really “Me”…
i was thinking of ways i could pull off Raziel from the Legacy of Kain Games… and i’m thinking the best way to pull it off is probably a morph suit, not body paint 😛
if not, i dunno 😛
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Who would you cosplay as? As you can see, sometimes this is the hardest part for me.
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Thinking Raziel from Soul Reaver, if i can be innovative enough to pull it off 😛
http://soultemple.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=82904060
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Hm…If I could see a better picture I could probably help in some way
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I didn’t see the comic but i am sure it wasn’t to offensive. Last night on teamspeak what i posted was offensive. What i found out trjn on reddit is not trjn on kotaku. Just take my word don’t go searching .
Also your cosplay is pretty awesome!
So I don’t refresh in 12 hours, and suddenly there’s discussions about politics, Christian ethics, sexuality, societal norms and pressures, and other fun stuff.
AND I WASN’T INVOLVED. :(!
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Don’t worry, today on the list of important topics we have to discuss: Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
Stay tuned!
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We all know it was you bish, who else would of eaten 20 cookies in 3 minutes besides you and the cookie monster.
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It’s alright Zap, this is like that time at the Canberra Meat where they sung Under Pressure without me. 🙁
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Feel free to start up a deep and meaningful! I look forward to a well-reasoned Zap essay every now and then.
Let’s start with Bish’s idea.
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Everyone go out and buy Lana Del Rays new Album.
1. She is hot
2. She is a fantastic singer
3. All the songs are fantastic
4. Refer to number one
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Or, alternately, I could just go listen to the songs on youtube. Because that’s how I get all my music.
It’s not a very effective strategy…
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my wife’s wedding aisle song was video games in late september last year! she has been on my back to get the album…
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Yep, she makes Norah Jones sound like the Prodigy.
Much prefer someone like Adele or Caro Emerald if I’m looking for a sad-ish singer.
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RPG catch-up from overnight discussions. (By the way, I find all this “night TAY” and “day TAY” nonsense a bit silly)
@Negative Zero: I miss wild Arms. *sniffle*
@number.30.five: I loved The Last Remnant! The battle system was brilliant, and I was having loads of fun with the game. It was too long though, I never got to finish it.
@Grandmaster B-Funk: I was completely in love with Squall when I first played FFVIII.
@Freeze S. Preston Icequire: The Final Fantasy games lost their souls when Sakaguchi left. They have no souls now. 🙁
Also, new Shane. Yay!
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Thanks, I actually think it was good for me because that sleep I had when I crashed and burned for 10 hours was the most rest I’ve had for ages. 🙂 -
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No no no, it’s Daybies and Kotaku knight krew.
But we’re not serious about it because some people are on during the day and night-
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Right Power!
Screw them left-handers….
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I’m left handed… 🙁
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You’re special.
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And some people wish that they were on the day far more frequently. 🙁
And anyway, there is a difference.
The time of day where stuff is posted(And the KKK has me, so it’s far superior(HA, Read that out of context!)).
Morning humans! I’ve decided to replay SPAZ on a slightly harder difficulty and playing it in a different style of research and it’s like I’m enjoying the game all over again, pretty awesome. This is the kind of gauntlet I execute for games, play it, try again on the next difficulty, then the next, all the way to the hardest, beat that then be all “VICTORY!” on the game 😛
So in case you missed it me and trjn are planning to travel down to sydney for a meet on the march 11-12. Would be cool to know if Sydney guys are free -interested in a meet in sydney on the saturday night? Just to work out wether or not its worth going down then!
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Hey Rocketman!
I replied to Bunny back on page w/e, but its probably hard to find. I’m free on March 11th but not 10th.
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I was planning on staying a few days, because i haven’t ever been to sydney before, so it would still work out okay i guess?
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Noogie is definitely not some sexual innuendo is it? Because if it is i feel like you are overstepping the boundaries of our friendship. lol
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Geez Rocketbuddy you’re gonna have to stop these little fantasies of yours!
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Nope i got nothing, serves me right for trying to be funny.
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Oh Harli…
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good morning Bunny!
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Icky. Mornings. I need to ingest some coffee or go back to sleep.
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You people and your coffee dependence.
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Oh TAY, how I have missed you.
As I am desperatly saving money for my US trip, I am finding it harder and harder to resist the deals being offered at the moment, especially with JB Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Dead Rising 2 off the record for only $30 each?!? so very very tempting.
Plus both Darkness 2 and Kingdoms of Amalur are out next week, oh gods, so very hard to save the monies.
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Yeah I’m saving for my US trip too, it’s a stressful bitch having to worry about money like this.
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1. Toast Crumpets
2. Cover in butter (wait for butter to melt through)
3. Cover in Maple Syrup
4. Top of with nutella.
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but how does the nutella adhere to the crumpet with the melted butter and maple syrup in the way?
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But that’s the brilliance of the crumpet – the butter and syrup melt through the crumpet ‘pores’ whilst the nutella sits on top.
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There was a crazy guy online last night talking about this new Trials Evolution Gameplay Trailer… You might have heard about it.
I was relaxing at home and turned in for an early night so I have not seen it yet. Sounds like it may be of interest to some of you.. not me though. This game is not really for me. 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XaqYm1_51M
Let me know if its worth watching.
Cheers
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Oh Shady, so nonchalant.
And Id tell you about the trailer, but unfortunately I’m shaped, and so I can’t watch youtube videos.
Anyway, maybe you should judge for yourself. I’m sure you could find some enjoyment from the game. It might be a bit of a struggle for you, though.
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I really torn with this game, the trailer and possibilities make me interested to get it but I know how pathetic I am at the game.
I just assume that the multiplayer section is 5 players and I am the one that is so far behind I’m not even on the screen.Then again with the editor it could give me access to a range of games / levels that don’t require me to actually have any control over the bike. When just the clip itself shows Marble madness, Ski jumping, Pinball, Top down racing, Angry birds,foosball,schmup,FPS I figure there might be something for me in there
Powalen’s Powerful Pow-wow to wrap up the week:
– The bird that I identified as an Eastern Koel earlier this week has come back every day since and won’t stop singing outside my window. She has been named: ‘Shut Your Pie-Koel’.
– I’m hooked on Xenoblade (11 hours already :P), but I’m trying to force myself to stop playing it so much, otherwise I’ll burn out too quickly… just like with every other RPG I play…
– My Uni has changed the available tutorial options, so now I have to rearrange my entire timetable. I had it all neatly planned/colour-coded/printed out and everything! ;_;
– My work-experience “boss” finally emailed me back about when I can start working again (I’m making a website for a local company to add to my portfolio). Last time she contacted me was before Christmas. Naturally I assumed the company had gone out of business and nobody bothered to tell me…
This concludes Powalen’s Powdered Powerboat… Summary of the week. (I couldn’t think of another word that started with ‘Pow’…)
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– The other day an Indian Myna woke me up 🙁
– Yay for Xenoblade!
– That sucks about the timetable :(. It takes me a while just to work out the best preferences for my timetable…
– Can’t comment about work though since I’ve never worked :P. But money is good I guess 😀
Scenario as follows:
You live in a household with all the TAYbies. All of them. You’ve learned long ago not to question how this works.
It’s 10:30PM, and you’re feeling peckish so head down to the kitchen. You say “BRB” to all the people on TeamSpeak, even though you live under the same roof and could literally walk out of your room, down the corridoor a few meters, and knock on Blaghman’s door. He wouldn’t let you in of course, his room being some great big private mystery, but still. As you walk down, you analyse what you’re looking for. Something sweet, something simple, something easy to hold with one hand to game with the other. Leftover sushi? No, too savoury, and perhaps too heavy for a light snack. Maybe a banana? Gross no, they’re healthy. Ah, a cookie perhaps. Sweet and light, but maybe a bit too dry? But that’s okay, a small glass of chocolate milk will help it do down. Mind set on cookies, you enter the kitchen.
You walk through the doorway and look around you. The place is a mess! There’s still a pot with curry on the stove, bacon strips strewn across the benchtops, and the bin overflows with bottles of empty Bulmers. You feel sorry for Jeeves who will eventually clean up this mess without a word of thanks, and privately salute him as you step over Rize, passed out on the floor. You think you accidentally kick him in the ribs, but all he does is chuckle to himself and roll over a bit. You open the snack cupboard and scan the shelves for the air tight jar of triple choc macadamia cookies, but you can’t seem to spot it. You turn around puzzled, and then you see it; an empty cookie jar knocked sideways on the benchtop, crumbs trailing out of it, the crumb pathway heading in the direction of the entertainment room, but slowly getting thinner and thinner until it vanishes completely.
Also there’s a revolver that smells of burnt gunpowder nearby, and because you’ve watched too much CSI, you notice one shell casing in the chamber, indicating the gun has indeed been fired.
So you ask yourself…
Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
What do you do?
A. Investigate the gun further
2. Yell for Jeeves
III. Search the Kotaku Kitchen for further clues
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omg i love these choose your own adventure games!! hmm okay tough choice (made tougher by the odd numbering scheme) but ii would go with
A. Investigate the gun further
mainly because i’ve never held a real gun before and that would excite me.
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You crouch and pick up the gun with a pen, careful not to get your fingerprints on it.
Then you realise you’re not a forensic scientist and for a few minutes lament your choice of studies in school, Tafe and uni. You could have worked with Ted Dansen, man. You stand back up, head towards the kitchen, as the thought becomes a reality: Ted Dansen is a pretty cool guy and you’ll never get to meet him now. You are now sad.-
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this game sucks! etc. etc.
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2: YELL FOR JEEVES! (How could I not go into my own room? Why would I knock on my own door? I don’t even!)
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“JEEVES! JEEVES!” you squawk up the staircase.
You wait impatiently as you wait for him to emerge around the corner.
“Sir?” comes his voice from behind you, startling you.
“Sonofa-, ahem. HI”
“Hello sir, how may I help you?”
“I was wondering if you managed to spot a kitchen thief earlier tonight?” you say in an inappropriate cockney accent for evidently no reason.
“Ah, apologies sir, I was giving the young master a sponge bath. You know how he is, sir, he believes he is a wizard and that water melts him.”
“Uh. Aren’t those witches?” you inquire.
“Him confusing the weaknesses of supernatural beings is the least of your worries, sir. Unfortunately, it means getting him clean is quite the struggle. It took me 2 hours to get him to sit still in the tub.”
“Yeah… maybe let’s not get into any further details.”
“Indeed, sir.”So it turns out Jeeves was occupied and didn’t see anything. Well, he saw many things. But we don’t speak about it.
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Batman symbol) Laugh at Steveo and Rocket’s attempts to inflict pain on a man filled with Whiskey and Jelly, and;
#Q) Look for more booze infused jelly bowls
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2b4)Grabs boxing gloves and starts hitting rize until he dances a funny jig. It probably takes a long time
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Hey in North QLD if you are sitting on the floor in public people kick you, it is a way of life.
N.B> Not a actual way of life
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III. Search the Kotaku Kitchen for further clues
Hopefully I find a banner that reads ‘Kotaku Kitchen’ because giving it a title makes it just that little bit more awesome.
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You investigate the kitchen further.
One of the first things you find is a banner that reads ‘Kotaku Kitchen’. “That’s awesome!” you exclaim to Jeeves.
“Indeed, sir.”
“Help me, Jeeves! What do you notice about the kitchen!”
You two make a list of observations, past and present:
– Curry on stove
– Bacon everywhere
– BULMERS EVERYWHERE
– You investigate further to see bottles of Ginger Beer also in the mix
– The crumb trail
– Steve-O and Rocketman poking Rize
– A tube of searing hot resin
– A cake with a hammer through it“This is quite the damning evidence!” You say to Jeeves.
“How so, sir?” he asks.
“I don’t know! Quick, ASSEMBLE THE SUSPECTS”
“…And those are?”
“I don’t know!”
There is an awkward silence between you two before you think of the options.$) Change into a short skirt and take off your underwear and interrogate random TAYbies
8) Propose to Steve-O and Rocketman that it’s time for BUTTERSCOTCH SCHNAPPS
(O.o)) Delay as I think of more random tiny details about the kitchen which have FURTHER IMPLICATIONS-
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(O.o)) Delay as I think of more random tiny details about the kitchen which have FURTHER IMPLICATIONS
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“Jeeves! Bring out the thinking jug!”
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Well, you know what they say… “if in doubt, pick ‘(O.o)’”
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Here The Cheat, have a trophy! http://www.hrwiki.org/w/images/2/23/crazy_cartoon_cheat_trophies.PNG
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So I guessed right? XD
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Morning TAY,
so, last night BDKIAF, Virus__ & myself were talking about a potential TAY music project. Basically, It’d involve recording your instrumental parts & sending em on to the others involved & then compiling em when its done.
So far, we have 2x bass & 1x vox, and we need some guitarists & someone capable of playing drums and / or a drum machine.
So far we haven’t talked ablut what style or what context or anything, so yeah… Anyone interested?
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Can you wait ten years for me to become proficient in a musical instrument?
I wish I had musics 🙁
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I replied on page 22!
Also you might want to ask Pez, he’s mad talented at doing the drum thing.
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Why would anyone not want an ocarina player?!?!
I used to play trumpet as well… wonder if I’ve still got it around… anyway, trumpets are pretty cool in certain types of music.-
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if you’re learning the ukelele, perpare to be asked ‘why’s your guitar so small?’ pretty frequently.
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i can play the Trombone… cause… you know, it’s real hipster… and stuff… yeah…. no…
also i don’t actually own a Trombone anymore but that’s not important right now… my Guitar skills are limited to be able to play Behind Blue Eyes, and that is it 😛 -
If you’re really in need of people I can play piano and guitar 🙂
I guess I’m alright on them but there’s probably better people out there than me :P. I’m also very lazy when it comes to learning songs and it can take me a while to learn one. But I’m willing to help if required 🙂
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wow. theres more musical talent on TAY than I could’ve hoped for 😀
maybe we need two bands & have a battle of some sort…
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That happened to me A LOT at the office. They probably gave you what I call the “oil car” coffee. It smells and looks like coffe but it’s something else entirely. Or maybe it’s the black oil from X-Files!!! D:
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So. This happened yesterday: http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/several-injured-after-car-crashes-at-mansfield-primary-school/story-e6freoof-1226261092787
It’s scary because if it was a different day it could absolutely have been my son and I at the main gate at that time. I hope that boy is okay. 🙁
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I’ve said it before, and i’ll say it again.
Fucking commodore drivers.I swear, when you see any late model commodore on the road, you just get out of its way. It’s the car of choice for people who really shouldn’t be driving.
Also, that is really scary – hopefully they’ll all be ok.
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Hey i drive a commodore, its not really late model (2006) but still. Alot of old people can’t drive very well my grandfather got his license renewed and he is 84 and terrible driver. It should be mandatory to retest drivers over 65. But they will never bring it in because the old people will throw up a fuss about they deserve to drive as much as everyone else.
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i don’t consider 2006 late, so you’re not included in that vast generalisation.
I find the people in the much newer commodores to be better drivers as they cost a bomb to buy lol
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I know they do that in NSW if their license has expired. A family friend who is 93 had to do this, thank god he failed & was a stubborn old fool about it as well!
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@Rocketman
Dan-Dinh is streaming a jungle malphite at the moment. Might interest you: http://www.own3d.tv/live/38854/Dan_Dinh
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Hmm thats weird – I posted a holy crap response to the accident, which didn’t go through, and my normal post went instead :/
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The Sons of Anarchy theme song is AMAZING. I have never seen a specially-created-for-a-show song that fits half as well, not even the Firefly theme.
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Shelter Me isn’t by the same bloke it’s by Tab Benoit, who is from Baton Rouge where Red Jacket Firearms is based.
Where as This Life, is by Bob Theile Jr.
Still both are awesome songs & awesome songs for shows! I have a thing for southern blues based songs/bands I reckon it’s an amazing style of music.
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Strange! If you didn’t see my post from last night I was aiming to get your attention about Soundwave 🙂
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-20/#comment-534913
Finally had a decent crack at Gratuitous Space Battles last night.
That game is great for people who like strategy but suck terribly and multitasking and micromanagement (like me)
If feels awesome when your custom built fleet absolutely decimates the enemy armada, its even more awesome when you replay the battle with a third of your fleet cut out (for extra cash) and they STILL wipe the floor with the enemy 😀
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i had a quick go at the tut and was delighted at how simpleit was while still giving me plenty of variety – i can’t wait to play more of it.
Also – SPAZ is quite brilliant – i’ve played about half an hour or so of that
What the hell. People are now resorting to stealing liquid fertiliser off the back of peoples vehicles… Dad had about 50 bucks worth of organic liquid fertiliser on the back of the truck and he thought he took it off here at home, turns out this is not so, since he can only locate 2/3 of the 20 litre containers. I am puzzled about this since they only nicked that, when there were all sorts of tools & wheel barrow they could’ve taken…
Oh well, hope the persons garden is blooming nicely!
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Lol, nope! All it is, is wormcastings & rain water. Dad probably puts some other organic stuff in it, but it’s nothing you can make said bombs from.
If I remember correctly (which I am pretty sure I don’t) that was a potassium nitrate based fertiliser farmers used to make explosives.
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call the terrorist hotline & tell them that a large ammount of fertilizer was stolen. as Harli said, explosives can be made from that stuff.
use the word ‘suspicious’ as well. that word isnt used enough.
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The only thing that is going to explode with this stuff, is their garden. Since that’s all it will do lol.
Though 20 litres will go a damn long way, since it can be watered down a lot and still be super effective..
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so go around town and look for a suspicious(!) garden. that is to say one that has bloomed alot in a suspiciously(!!) short amount of time.
then pour salt all over it.
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I’ll just take a leaf of my neighbours book & blame them, even though it wasn’t them. Seems to work for them when something happens to them, they just blame us.
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Well, at least no one’s blaming me! \o/
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Stevo i have watched him and saitvicious do jungle malphite, They were horrible, I have no idea why they even bother to be completely honest. Yes he needs farm and jungling is a good strat. However YOU CANT GANK BEFORE 6 unless the person you are ganking is way over extended and on half health. Yes his ulti is the best intiate in the game. But thats not alot of help pre six. The jungle also doesn’t give him the amount of farm he needs to be truly tanky. You have to lane for 15 minutes aswell as jungle which i don’t think is that viable.
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Rocketman is expressing his dislike of a certain strategy used in LoL where a champion he likes to used is used in a way that is highly inefficient.
I was just watching Dan Dinh’s stream. Not sure if it was just him playing poorly but he really did nothing of value as jungle Malphite.
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There are an astonishing number of verbs there I can’t translate at all
ganking
jungling
laneI like to make up random meanings to turn it into something dirty.
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I can show you some videos of other people doing that if you like they are NSFW though. Mainly cause i can’t watch YT at work
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Ganks are attacks of opportunity to try and kill an unaware opponent.
Laning and jungling refer to ways of farming (or creeping) where you kill automatically spawned enemies (creeps) for experience and gold. You can do this in one of the three lanes or in the jungle, with the person in the jungle trying to make as many attempts to gank as possible.
Alternatively, they all refer to depraved sex acts and LoL is actually just a cover story for a secret society of sexual deviants.
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This last is what I have always assumed
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When in doubt, assume it’s sex related. Works for Shakespeare, works for the internet.
The only exception is bishing, where the safe assumption is helping.
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And how!
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@FatShady
I saw the new Trials Evolution trailer and it’s got me excited :). I had no idea so many different types of levels could be created. Might have to pick this one up on release if I’ve got no other games to play 😀
By Spring do they mean Autumn for us? Is there a more definitive date than that at the moment or is that all?
The Million Deaths of the Soul Knight
Part Twelve: Message in a Bottle
The castle walls pressed in tightly around him as he descended the narrow staircase. He dared not slow, nor be careful; he could hear the ravenous clamoring of the demons hot on his trail. Too many to fight off. He’d already lost his sword, shield and helmet in combat, and was now only armed with a splintered length of wood he had managed to grab as he fled. Blood ran down his face, and into his eyes; he blinked in a vain attempt to clear his vision. He tasted salt on his lips, but wasn’t sure if it was blood or whether he was weeping for fear of losing his life.
The Nexus was weakening; every time he came back, it was a little slower, a little more painful. One of these times, probably very soon, he would not come back at all. He would be dead, actually so. Although when faced with the prospect of immortality, true death had seemed a relief to contemplate, now it was before him, he could not face the idea with anything but horror.
And so he ran.
In the dark, he tripped over an unseen chink in the stone step and tumbled head over heels down the staircase. His hands grabbed frantically for a handhold, but there was none to be found. He fetched up against a wall, one leg dangling precariously over a long drop. He lay there for a moment, breathing heavily, cursing the need for haste in this matter.
He dared not lie there long; they were coming. And fast. He could see the flicker of torchlight at the top of the spiraling staircase. He attempted to stand… and bit back a cry of pain, and then of terror as he almost overbalanced over the edge.
He had turned his ankle when he fell. From the way it flopped uselessly, it might even be broken.
He closed his eyes and allowed his head to rock back until it met the stone wall. He wasn’t getting out of this one, that was for sure. He began to steel himself for the bite of the rusty blades, something he had felt all too often on this journey, and prayed that the Nexus had enough strength to revive him again.
After a moment’s pause, he became aware of a glyph under his hand. It glowed lightly – not so bright that he would have noticed it while fleeing past, but enough that he could see it now. As he watched, it formed itself into five separate symbols, which then morphed into a single word that he was capable of reading:
LEVER
What was this? Some sort of divine intervention? On the wall behind his head, he noticed for the first time, a stone jutting out from the wall, somewhat unnaturally but not overtly so. Desperate, he clawed at it, pulling and pushing it until it finally shifted – up towards the ceiling. He let out a huge sigh of relief, allowing himself to entertain the possibility that death was not quite yet at hand.
With a short judder, part of the wall began to shift away, revealing a narrow alcove. He crawled into it gratefully; and not a moment too soon. The cacophony of demonic hunger passed by only moments later, continuing down the stairs, apparently not noticing the hidden passage in which the Soul Knight huddled, unarmed and terrified.
He decided that his best course of action would be to explore this fissure in the stone, and see if it could lead him somewhere safer; if not, he would head back up the stairs, away from the demonic horde that was pursuing him.
About ten metres in, he came across a skeleton. From it he gleefully retrieved a fresh sword and shield. The items were well-balanced and hardly scuffed, as if they had never even been used. The skeleton looked old, but the items fresh and un-rusted; he had no doubt of their magical properties, and was elated by the find.
There was no way forward, however. The skeleton denoted the end of the passage, which terminated in a blank wall of stone, completely smooth and featureless. The Soul Knight turned to go back the way he came, a little more confident for being armed again.
Alas, before he could make use of the exit, the stone wall slid back into its original place, sealing him in completely. The darkness was absolute – he could not see his hand in front of his face, though he stared desperately for over an hour. He suspected that no fresh air would be forthcoming… ever – but even if there was air, he had no supplies to sustain a lengthy stay.
One way or the other, it seemed that he had been destined to die this day… again.
It would be some long time before he perished entirely; perhaps the Nexus would be glad of the recovery time… or perhaps it was ever weakening against the ceaseless assault of the demon world…
Only time would tell if he came back again.
He pressed up against the stone wall desperately seeking an exit. He found none. Taking his sword, he began to scratch at the stone, scrawling a simple, desperate message. He did not understand the mechanics or rules of the system of glyphs that had brought him here, but instinctively he knew that he could contribute to the collective message, that his words might reach some poor adventurer somehow treading the same path as him, but in another universe, another time, another phase of existence.
TRAPPED
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The Million Deaths of the Soul Knight
Part One: Neverending Night: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-149/comment-page-16/#comment-486609
Part Two: Dragonsbane: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-149/comment-page-21/#comment-488021
Part Three: Fire In The Hole: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-2/#comment-494899
Part Four: The Ultimate Treasure: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-3/#comment-495142
Part Five: Stormy Weather: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-6/#comment-496073
Interlude #1: The Ballad of Ostrava: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-6/#comment-496210
Part Seven: Don’t Let the Bearbugs Bite: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-10/#comment-498027
Part Six: The Lost Boys: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-158/comment-page-14/#comment-499465
Part Eight: Entombed! http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-143/comment-page-13/#comment-515609
Part Nine: Baby, It’s Cold Outside: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-154/comment-page-12/#comment-522281
Part Ten: Into the Light: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-154/comment-page-14/#comment-523260
Interlude #2: Many years later… http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-154/comment-page-22/#comment-525841
Part Eleven: Bloodshot http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/01/talk-amongst-yourselves-154/comment-page-24/#comment-526258
Part Twelve: Message in a Bottle: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-23/#comment-536020
Tay! I thank you deeply. I now know who I am going to cosplay as for manifest.
I will probably need your help in the future gathering reference pictures and deciding on what colours she’s wearing. (I say deep blue and Ivory, but everyone else seems to think white).
=D Yay!
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http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/incredible-cosplay-elizabeth-of-bioshock-infinite
In these photo’s it looks white to me. But I have no idea what colour Ivory actually is. Off-white? Stucco? Mother of Pearl?
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wow that is AMAZING! It’s a perfect replica of her!
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All i have to say is wow that woman in cosplay is ridiculously hot. Her eyes are staring into my soul.
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She looks hot in anything. But damn, her take on Lara Croft. Da-yam!
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with you there…. HOLY CARP!
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Here’s the link for those of you playing along at home…
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I love her Moxxi, but yeah she is stunning in anything
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How can you have confidence in this?!
Scree, you just became a million times cooler. BioShock is one of my all time favourite games franchises! Can’t wait to see your take on this =D
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But…How can I top that? =(
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I’m sure you will find a way =D!
After seeing your previous cosplay, I have faith in you that it is going to be amazing.
BAHAHAHAHA!!
Shit Perth People Say:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpW1dv6rTgk&feature=g-logo&context=G21cbb69FOAAAAAAABAA
Love the melbourne stuff after the coffee lol
Can Perth people please confirm this?!
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BAHAHAHAHA!!
Best comment:“Come to Townsville. We have fat chicks with tattoos. And a whole lot of other crap.”
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and most of them are actually jerks. How does everyone know what townsville is like?
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I worked up there for a month or two.
Went out a few times and kept hearing girls mention AJ’s
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Ok TAY, i’m writing a biiig video gaming article, and some input on a few topics would be fantastic:
– Have you ever looked at the criteria for an in-game achievement/trophy/medal etc., and thought “Wow, that’s never going to happen” because it was too grindy/boring/impossible. If so, what game, and what achievement?
– When a game has adjustable difficulty levels, what level do you play on? Do you have a specific criteria for choosing the difficulty, or is it more just a mood/gut feeling thing?
-Have you ever felt that a game was ‘broken’ due to difficulty imbalances? (ie easy was too easy, hard was too hard)
All responses appreciated 😀
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I don’t really look at the trophies to be honest. But when I do, I always shy away from the ones involving anything online.
Whenever firing up a game for the first time, i always play it through on it’s normal or medium difficulty setting. I like to think this is how the designers envisioned their game being played.
I think a game feels broken when you are playing through, not having an overly difficult time and the BAM! Difficulty is ramped up like crazy for either one section or the rest of the game.
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Yeah, the difficulty spikes was what I was trying to point at. Any examples you can think of?
Also, noticing your name, BioShock had fantastic difficulty progression (at least on normal and hard) Can’t comment on BioShock 2, it’s on my shame pile (but not for long, gotta go through it before Infinite). Man i’m looking forward to 1999 mode in Infinite, gonna be off the chain!
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Yes, Uncharted 3. That’s a great example of just having fundamentally unfun moments caused by difficulty spikes.
Combat sections where you’re being bombarded and unable to find cover are frequent and almost unforgivable when the whole shooting mechanic is cover based. You have to resort to trying to dodge everything and you’re up against big guys with guns.
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Gears of War has two massive spikes. The charge to the vehicle at the end of act 4, and the very last boss battle.
Final Fantasy XIII on the other hand is the single most impressively constructed difficulty curve I have ever seen in a game.
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If we’re talking about the first Gears, the part I found hardest was probably the section near the end where you’re underground fighting Theron Guard that are in some sort of pagola type structure and you have to take a long way round to deal with them.
That does remind me about the Modern Warfare games where on the harder difficulties, the way enemies spawn mean that it’s not about how proficient you are with your aim but how quickly you can make it to certain safe areas to prevent enemy spawns. The TV station section in COD4 is probably the most glaring example, but the Favelas in MW2 was a pain too.
Amusingly, two of the three game sections I’ve just mentioned have coincided with massive hardware related issues.
With Gears, I was at a party thing and we were doing pass the controller co-op. My Xbox was standing up for some reason and a drunk guy accidentally knocked it over. The Xbox survived but the disc was mortally wounded.
With the Favela section of MW2, my Xbox GPU just straight up died. The water textures in particular got rather trippy.
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Finish Bioshock 2! Immediately!
Games with bad difficulty spikes…hmmm…well the Uncharted series has been mentioned already. I’m having a mental blank on the others though…
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Feather collecting in AC2 i mean seriously stuff that. SO MANY FEATHERS AND SO LITTLE CARE
I usually play on normal
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Yeah, my first playthrough is usually on normal too. I especially liked what Saints Row 3 did, where on the description for normal difficulty it included the phrase ‘play the game how it is meant to be played’.
Followup Question (HOPE YOU BROUGHT A CALCULATOR!):
Does your personal experience with the game or genre play any impact? For example if you were the best AC-series player in the world, would you want to test yourself by picking the highest difficulty in AC3, or would you still pick normal? Also, if a game much like the AC games was released, would your prowess in the AC series affect your choice of difficulty in the new series?
[Questions not just for Rockets, obv.]
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Most definitely it does, I consider myself quite a good platformer player. So i tried to collect all the medallions in VVVVVVV and tried for the achievements in limbo. In contrast i am terrible at shooters so i dont bother really with that. Puzzle games are another game genre which i may or may not try for achievements, mostly because those sorts of achievements are typically benchmarks of how good you are at the game other than perserverence.
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I’m more likely to select Hard on a Western Action/Adventure game (Darksiders, AC, Batman, inFamous) than a Japanese one (Ninja Gaiden) or most other game genres.
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I play as hard as I think I can handle, and that means that I tend to bump the difficulty up and then if I start failing, ease it back down.
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i’m in the same boat as Rockets, most games are played through on normal, i might bump it up once i know what to expect.
the only exception to this is stuff like Survival Horror, for instance the Dead Space games i play through on the hardest difficulty available ( i hadn’t unlocked the hardest yet) because that game is meant to make me feel terrified and helpless… which was very successful 😛
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Almost anything that involves collecting useless crap, oh, and the kill some ridiculous number of enemies things, like in the Gears of War games.
And I usually default to the second from top difficulty, though depending on the genre, I might go straight to the hardest.
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There are probably hundreds of achievements I’ve seen and simply dismissed as being no fun to get.
Assassin’s Creed item collection ones stand out for that but also the FFXI one for getting max level with each character class. That was never, ever going to happen.
I tend to play on the highest difficulty available or if I’m not familiar with how the game plays, normal. It’s only when I get completely emasculated by the game that I’ll drop it down. Like Trauma Center Second Opinion, that was one I had to finish the last two levels on Easy.
There are more than a few game that are fundamentally imbalanced. In multiplayer games, it makes them unplayable and in single player games it turns them into an exercise in how obstinate I feel like being. There are also some games where it is so easy that it just isn’t fun.
Games that manage to find that balance by being hard but fair (Demon’s Souls) are pretty damned rare because most games seem to err on the side of caution.
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– With certain games I’ll start with the intention of trying to score all the trophies. Others I don’t bother (particularly one’s with a large multiplayer component)
– If I am going for the trophies I’ll probably play on Hard. If not, most likely Normal.
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Assassin’s Creed collectibles were much easier in the later games.
I think in Brotherhood you could buy feather maps.
In Revelations, after you collect 30 or so the rest are revealed on your map. It also tells you how many you have found in certain areas of the map, so you know there’s a higher probability of finding them in different regions.-
AC Revelations is an interesting example, where I went out of my way to get 100% sync, meaning all collectibles, all missions 100%, etc etc. But having achieved that, I was surprised that I still had about eight unclaimed single-player achievements.
Thought that was interesting, and stopped playing. 😛
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Guh?
It was the parachute for 2 million miles and hit the water achievement, and the stun with caltropes and assassinate achievement and the kill 5 people with hidden blades in 5 seconds (I got these ones, but that kind of thing)
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It’s mainly the flags in the first one that bugged me. I just straight up ignored them in the later games.
The pigeons in GTAIV were pretty terrible too.
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1. Yes I have done that. The most recent example being the Skyrim achievement where you have to get x amount of dollars bounty in each city or something like that. Just couldn’t be stuffed doing that. 😛
2. I almost always play on the easiest setting (unless the game has the description for “easy” as “have never played a game before”, then I’ll go the next one up). Most of the time I play games to relax, so I don’t really want to have a challenge that is TOO big, if that makes sense.
3. Hm, not really. Can’t really expand on this because I can’t think of any examples. 😛Hope that helped!
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– in-game achievement/trophy/medal
There are generally two types of games that I have this reaction to. Mostly MMO where it is a dedicate your life to getting all these, or ones that require a high level of skill in multi-player that I don’t posess. Things like get 15 headshot kills in a row without missing or dying.
I don’t have a problem with any of these sort of achievements, there are just some that I see and know I will never be able or have the dedication (if that is the right term) to get.– When a game has adjustable difficulty levels, what level do you play on?
It is more of a gut feel based on the type of game. Generally I have a fair idea of what my skill level is like for most sorts of games and go with that. Generally I will choose the one that will give me a challenge, I expect to die on a playthrough but not so much that I get held up too much in a single zone/area/fight/section.
-Have you ever felt that a game was ‘broken’ due to difficulty imbalances? (ie easy was too easy, hard was too hard)
Generally I find this will due to my lack of skill rather than anything specifically wrong with the game. The example I can think of is darksiders, with the big bat boss. I am terrible at aiming with a control pad and up until that point accurate, quick aiming hadn’t been required.
Also HL 1 with it’s stupid jumping puzzle
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What shirt did you end up getting?
Also stickers are A LOT quicker and easier to replicate than tees. At least part is on the way 😀
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@ The Cracks – i started on those shirts you wanted to see made – as i said i went somewhat minimalistic… is this what you had in mind? Or does the pearl need to be more orange?
http://www.redbubble.com/people/chuloopa/works/8422676-dins-pearl
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I think I might buy one of those.
Now make the others, shirt slave!
Seriously, that’s pretty much what I had in mind. Those images I linked were more a guide for the pattern than a ‘use this image exactly’ thing.
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Random question. Krang from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (early 90’s cartoon version)… what the hell is that thing?
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An alien from another dimension who had his physical body stripped away from him and was left in that… pink brain-like form.
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Thanks Bish & Flu & Pixel!
Just saw a pic of Mr Krang & had weird flashbacks to 1991…Kid’s shows are weird. Biker Mice From Mars?!?! Widget the World Watcher?!?! Kids shows havent made sense to me since Trapdoor & Danger Mouse.
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Holy Hell! I remember Street Sharks!!!
so weird.
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you sir, just went from being cool, to being AMAZING… Samurai Pizza cats… best intro song evah!!!! and just a overall cool show 😛
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who you gonna call when you want some pepperoni?
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Something something something
And you know it ain’t baloney!
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Ah yes, Samurai Pizza Cats was a great show. Part of my morning lineup. Pretty sure the old harmony gold episodes of Robotech were on afterwards. I miss those days, quality cartoons.
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I vaguely recall a cartoon on channel 10 in the mornings that may have been Robotech. i remember it being about a guy in a robot suit cutting up aliens in space with a bladed lance or something. it was quite gory for 7.30 in the morning. I also remember be quite disturbed by it & having at least one nightmare about it.
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Hmmm…jusy is out on whether that is Robotech you remember. It was Humans vs Zentraedi(I think thats how its spelt?) fighting each other in giant robot spaceship jets. Epic.
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after a bit of research, I discovered that it was Teknoman that freaked me out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeknomanI apologise to Robotech for implying that you are bad for viewers’ mental wellbeing.
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oh man i just started watching this, it is quite good actually
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotech
Here’s the info for anyone interested…
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ROBOTECH…. i love robotech, got all the DVD’s and stuff, Macross is still the best story line though
All I ever really watched growing up were Monty Python inspired talking vegetables telling bible stories. I appear to have missed out on a lot of things…
VeggieTales is quite clever though.
WHAT’S WEIRD WITH BIKER MICE FROM MARS HUH?HUH?
i used to love that show… cause it’s giant mice… ON BIKES… it’s freaking cool mkay? 😛
i see where you’re coming from though 😛
i still have the TMNT both original series and the 3 first movies on DVD…. love them to death
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Oh dont get me wrong, I though BMfM was amazing back in the day. Had all the toys & stuff.
but I’ve gotta say, its a weird concept. Most early 90’s kids stuff seems to be made by prefacing a random plural noun with a random bunch of adjectives.
Octogenarian Educated Fashionable Eels = next big thing
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yeah i had most the toys as well… Modo was by far the coolest… Mechanical arm man, no discussions…
but i agree with you, looking back at it, pretty weird concept, but we swallowed it up whole right?just like Power Rangers, i thought was AMAZING… i rewatched some of the episodes, and while i had massive nostalgia trip and loved it, something in the back of my mind kept saying “wow, this is actually not all the great”… still love it though weirdly enough 😛
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*cough * dodgy Voltron ripof *cough*
Somethings really don’t age well when you go back to watch them. I remember doing a movie night with friends and my wife wanted to watch the dark crystal and everybody thought they would love it.
About half way through I was the only one that wanted to keep watching. I was also the only one drinking so unsure if there is causation there.
You have to remember that everything in TMNT was a parody of the “gritty” stuff going on in comics at the time.
Everything.
Then it somehow caught on as a kid’s cartoon.
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if i remember correctly, the original comic, like #1 was quite violent… while taking the piss of other stuff, it was not for kids what so ever
He is a weird brainy thing…
no seriously, he was “banished” from another dimension, and the briny tentacly thing is his form in the TMNT dimension… that and he’s awesome 😛
Loops – question on page 23 answered.
Repost your link here, I’m sure there would be more people interested in stuff like this.
Reposted as suggested by THE Cracks, and design suggested by THE Cracks.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/chuloopa/works/8422676-dins-pearl
So, I decided I wanted to listen/watch You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid by the Offspring, so I typed the song name into Google.
Second result: what the hell? MLP is everywhere! (also, being The Offspring, the language is a little NSFW).
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=you%27re+gonna+go+far+kid&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
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One of the few songs from their recent albums that I like. I still think Smash and Americana were their two best albums.
(NB – This post is a repost from a conversation with Blaghs & #35. It’s sole purpose is to make people severely jelly. If you’re not jelly after watching the video, you are either going to the same show, or have pathetic taste in music.)
Going to see this in a couple of weeks:
Roger Waters – The Wall – Live
Acer Arena (Now called “Allphones Arena” but that just sounds absurd)
It’s going to be amazing.
Check it out: http://youtu.be/Ig9cdA1zD5o?t=1m22s
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Yeah, I bought tickets for my parents for Christmas, plus myself.
My wallet took a severe beating :\
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$) Change into a short skirt and take off your underwear and interrogate random TAYbies
INTERROGATION: Notoriousaur
Unspecified TAYbie: Where were you, earlier tonight, possibly around 10PM???
Notoriousaur: In my room, I guess?
Unspecified TAYbie: AH-HA!
Notoriousaur: Wat.
Unspecified TAYbie: You did it!
Notoriousaur: Did what?
Unspecified TAYbie: The cookies, man, you took the cookies!
Notoriousaur: What cookies?
Unspecified TAYbie: THE cookies!
Notoriousaur: Cookies? I took some Ginger Beer, but that’s all. Cookies don’t really go with.
Unspecified TAYbie: AH-HA!
Notoriousaur: Wat.
Unspecified TAYbie: That is extremely logical and makes sense!
Notoriousaur: …Yes. Yes it does.
Conclusion: Notoriousaur did not take the cookies.
INTERROGATION: Dr What
Unspecified TAYbie: Hey so I have this rash right here and…
What: I think that means we should take out your spleen!
Unspecified TAYbie: But I like my spleen!
What: Clearly not enough!
[What lunges at the TAYbie]
Conclusion: I wake up in an ice bath, with a note stuck to my forehead “Thanks for the kidney!” and a $10 note, too. I don’t think What took the cookies. He had curry on the stove if he wanted to eat.
INTERROGATION: Effluvium Boy
Flu: ‘Sup.
Unspecified TAYbie: Your voice is amazing.
Flu: Thanks, man.
Unspecified TAYbie: Never stop speaking.
Flu: Uh. Not much to say though.
Unspecified TAYbie: *Content sigh*
Conclusion: If Flu stole the cookies, it’d probably show up on his skin and bones frame.
INTERROGATION: Chuloopa
Chuloopa: So the other day I was peeing, and my wang w-
Unspecified TAYbie: OH GOD I AM NOT SURE I WANT TO HEAR THIS
Conclusion: Let’s never speak of this again.
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Notoriosaur is a dinosaur.
Yoshi is a dinosaur.
Yoshi likes cookies.It’s pretty obvious that this interrogation needs to be revisited.
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INTERROGATION: Harli
Unspecified TAYbie: The coo-
Harli: Who are you! What does “Unspecified TAYbie” mean! ARE YOU NEW?? BRING OUT THE OOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRR
Unspecified TAYbie: Wait, I just… Jeeves, what’s that!?
Jeeves: An oar.
Harli: Correction, Jeeves. THE oar.
Jeeves: Apologies, Lady Harli.
Harli: We begin the sacred blessing of the oar, so famous it should be Kotaku Core. To inititae the newbies, (better than herpes), don’t worry, it’s normal to be sore.
Jeeves: … I feel like maybe less mentions of STIs may be ideal, ma’am.
Harli: We’ll tweak it later, Jeeves. But for now, we have a ceremony to attend to.Conclusion: I’m sore ;_;
Interrogation: Bish
Bish: FFFFRRRRRRRIIIIIIEEEEENNNNNNDDDDDDDDD!
Unspecified TAYbie: Friend!
Bish: Friend!
Unspecified TAYbie: Friend!
Bish: Friend!
Unspecified TAYbie: Friend!
Bish: Friend!
Unspecified TAYbie: Friend!
Bish: Friend!
Unspecified TAYbie: Friend!Conclusion: Bish did not take the cookies because he would have been too busy cleaning up. Certainly would not have left a crumb trail unswept.
INTERROGATION: Shiggy
Unspecified TAYbie: I uh, apologise for bringing you down here, Hammer King, your majesty but…
Shiggy: IT’S COOL MAN!
Unspecified TAYbie: Sweet. So did you take the cookies?
Shiggy: Were they bacon cookies?
Unspecified TAYbie: No?
Shiggy: THEN I HAVE NO USE FOR YOUR BACON-LESS FOOD
Unspecified TAYbie: I’m sorry, your highness! I offer you this bacon to appease you!
Shiggy: I AM OKAY WITH THISConclusion: Shiggy has no interest in things not bacon based.
INTERROGATION: Cakesmith
Cakesmith: What am I doing here! I have cakes to make and Steam games to buy! Buy all of the Steam games! I need to crack 500 games!
Unspecified TAYbie: I’m sorry!Conclusion: Probably too obsessed with caking to steal cookies.
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If that’ the “Bish” one, what would the F4ction one be? Just the same, again, except with the conclusion “F4ction is scary, so I would never accuse him of taking any cookies”?
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If you think it’s worthy, I suppose!
It’s a sloooooow Friday. I am actually just procrastinating from doing work.
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INTERROGATION: Tech Knight
Unspecified TAYbie: You were in the kitchen! I know it!
Tech Knight: It’s true.
Unspecified TAYbie: Don’t try deny it, I saw that canister of searing hot resin!
Tech Knight: Oh, did I leave that out? Sorry about that. Must have been distracted.
Unspecified TAYbie: DISTRACTED WITH COOKIES???
Tech Knight: Uh, cookies?
Unspecified TAYbie: COOKIES
Tech Knight: I don’t eat cookies.
Unspecified TAYbie: COOKIES
Tech Knight: I’m a robot, I don’t eat that sort of stuff.
Unspecified TAYbie: COOKIES.
Tech Knight: Are you okay?
Unspecified TAYbie: COOKIES
Tech Knight: I’m going to leave now. Have a good night.Conclusion: DOMO ARIGATO MR ROBOTO
INTERROGATION: f4ction
f4ction: Hi!
Unspecified TAYbie: COOKIES DID YOU TAKE THEM
f4ction: Chill man, stop yelling, no need to be so worked up.
Unspecified TAYbie: I think your voice in itself is a soothing effect.
f4ction: I get that a lot.
Unspecified TAYbie: It’s funny because you actually look like you could snap me like a twig. It’s a bit terrifying.
f4ction: First you were afraid, you were petrified?
Unspecified TAYbie: Kept thinkin’ I could never live without you by my side;
f4ction: But then I spent so many nights, thinkin’ how you did me wrong
Unspecified TAYbie: And I grew strong and I learned how to get along
f4ction: And now you’re back from outer space, I just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face
Unspecified TAYbie: I should have changed that stupid lock,I should have made you leave your key, If I’d’ve known for just one second you’d back to bother me
f4ction: Go on now! Go walk out the door!
Unspecified TAYbie: Just turn around now, (’cause) you’re not welcome anymore! Weren’t you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
f4ction: Do you think I’d crumble, did you think I’d lay down and die?
Unspecified TAYbie: Oh no, not I. I will SURVIVE!
f4ction: Oh as long as I know how to love I know I’ll stay alive; I’ve got all my life to live, I’ve got all my love to give and I’ll survive,
Number of TAYbies who have come in to join the singing: I will survive! Hey heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey! DOO DOO, DO DO DO DOOO, DOO DO DO DO DO DOOOO, DOOOO, DOOO DO DO DO DO DO DO DO DOOOOO, DOOOOOOConclusion: f4ction survives on a diet of frozen dumpling and alcohol. Cookies fit nowhere in either of these food groups.
INTERROGATION: Trjn
Unspecified TAYbie: I don’t know how to pronounce your name!
Trjn: And this amuses me greatly.
Unspecified TAYbie: Well played… guy. The cookies. Did you take them.
Trjn: No.
Unspecified TAYbie: Really?
Trjn: Yes.
Unspecified TAYbie: REALLY?
Trjn: Think about it. I have steak. Steak is delicious. Why have cookies when steak?
Unspecified TAYbie: Sure but-
Trjn: No, I don’t think you see my point. I like Steak. There is steak available. If I were hungry, I would have steak.
Unspecified TAYbie: I suppose that-
Trjn: That it makes sense? That it’s logical? That it’s obvious? Yes, it is obvious. So why would you call me down here. You are a bad detective, and you should feel bad because of it.Conclusion: Trjn is mean ;_;
INTERROGATION: Rocketman
Rocketman: what are youre doing?
Unspecified TAYbie: I… excuse me?
Rocketman: oh is thsi about the cookies? i dont know man but maybe it was xena!!
Unspecified TAYbie: I honestly have no idea what you are talking about.
Rocketman: NO U DONT-
Unspecified TAYbie: “Don’t”. You forgot the apostrophe for the contraction.
Rocketman: i cant-
Unspecified TAYbie: “Can’t”.
Rocketman: -escpae you grammar nazis!!
Unspecified TAYbie: Technically it’s a punctuation mark.
[Rocketman storms out]Conclusion: Aw, Rocketman, you keep on trying, little buddy!
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WA-TSSSSHJeeves: I think he’s dead, sir.
Damn it.
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HAHAHAHAH! Ahhh that was just what I needed, thanks Bish you’re a champion of a human.
P.S: This robot can eat cookies 😉
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However, I am a Tech Knight, not a Tech Thief, it is not in my programming to take something, even to consume without permission. Do not jump to conclusions human
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Has anyone seen Sughly around lately? Someone said he was in Melbourne recently…maybe Creepy Postman got to him…
Afternoon TAY. Just thought id pop in and let you know i am alive, i have not killed anyone…..YET. But another 5 hours of being pretty much the only person in the office, while i get on average 10 emails every 5 minutes from other staff members asking me to do things for them may cause some form of violent outburst.
Stay cool TAY, and i’ll catch you on the weekend…..maybe….if prison has interwebs.
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Uh oh. Now all I need is for Harli to noogie me and I’m done for…I’ll have become Rockets Mk II. Eek!
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It’s not so bad.
Peeing standing up is pretty cool.
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My response to night/day TAY:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-11/#comment-531736
Also, Aidan, where’s my origin story?!
I am not at all for the segregation of TAY. We are all TAYbies. United under the the love of all things nerdy!
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Okay, so apparently once upon a time I responded to someone with a simple “Yay!”. Because when I tried to post a “Yay!” to you I was told I couldn’t because I’d already posted that.
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Yep. As a man of few words I get that fairly regularly.
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Diabolical!
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Shane, just so you know, I did indeed read and enjoy your latest Soul Knight Wordy McWordersons. 🙂
Also, Bishy, those interrogations are spot on. I laughed heartily.
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Thanks.
I think they’re starting to get a bit samey (possibly because I haven’t actually played the game in over a month and have no new fodder), so I don’t know how much longer they’ll be going for, sadly
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@Harli: DAMNIT NOW I WANT SUBWAY COOKIES. D:
Wait, best idea ever: cookies at the airport. Yes. This will be a thing.
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hmmm… I’m going to be at an airport next Tuesday (flying down to Melbourne, huzzah!) and this sounds like a profound idea.
I have managed to successfully retrieve my memory stick, aided by a pair of large tweezers. \o/
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Back in the day I once saved my PC’s floppy drive using a chopstick, rubber band and fishing hook.
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I once got a CD out of my computer’s drive with my bare finger. May sound impressive, but it wasn’t much really.
No, seriously, it wasn’t much.
I just pushed the eject button.
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So I keep checking Team Liquid to see if there are any decent SC2 streams. I’ve fallen into the habit of ignoring most of the event ones and just straight to the streams of players I like.
Except none of the players I like were in there.
Because they’re competing in the MLG qualifiers right now. Something I didn’t see because it was in the events section.
Missed so much.
On the plus side, I turned it on and it was a Grubby game! Yay! Me likes this kid.
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He Bunny did you see that ludicrious display last night
The thing about grubby is he always tries to walk it in-
I know this means nothing to you but Grubby normally goes for Phoenix heavy PvP builds and it looks like he isn’t doing it this time and he’s getting crushed. So weird seeing him play Immortal heavy in this match up. He went from using the most mobile army composition to the least mobile.
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I’m going to stop pretending that I know how to analyse.
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Picked up season 2 of the Muppet Show for $12.95 at lunch \o/
Written enough The Tube to last until the end of next week, so even if I stroke out tonight, you won’t know about it until the following Monday when no story appears.
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Drat, well at least you have it.
It is something my wife would have liked. On the plus side it does save me money
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Going through old emails, I just found a draft script I wrote for a short film!
I really should get around to filming it.
The idea was pitched as part of a competition between a few of my friends. The film had to be 3 mins long with the theme of ‘breakfast.’ Anyway, here it is:
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INT. NIGHT.
The screen is pitch black.
An industrial droning / buzzing musical noise starts low and gradually gets louder and louder until it is almost unbearable to hear, then it is abruptly cut off with a CLICK to be replaced with several seconds of tape hiss…
cuts on with CLICK, then fades out…
TAPE HISS continues for several seconds…
JIGSAW: Hello, Bread.
SPOTLIGHT turns on , illuminating a loaf of un-sliced bread placed on a cutting board on a table. CAMERA SLOWLY TRACKS BACKWARDS AS DIALOGUE CONTINUES. Revealed next to the board are several implements of torture (bread knives, toaster etc) The room itself is bare. ERRIE STRING MUSIC BEGINS TO SOFTLY PLAY.
JIGSAW: [Cont.] …tonight you get to make a choice. The choice is simple: Will you make something of yourself today, or will I need to do it for you?
Once the timer begins, you will have 60 seconds to escape. The door is unlocked. All you must do is pass through it.
Let the game begin.
FRANTIC INDUSTRIAL MUSIC BEGINS
THE CAMERA WILDLY PANS AROUND THE BREAD. INTER-SLPICED FRAMES OF A TIMER COUNTING DOWN.
THE TIMER REACHES ZERO…
EVRYTHING IS STILL. CAMERA FOCUSES ON THE BREAD WITH A TENSE HIGH-PITCHED STRING NOTE PLAYING…
JIGSAW: You have failed the test. Because of your apathy toward life, it has fallen to me to make something of you. Now you will know what it is to be part of something greater…
ZEPP’S THEME STARTS PLAYING
MONTAGE OF PREPARING THE TOASTER, CUTTING THE BREAD, BREAD INTO TOASTER PUSHING THE LEVER DOWN.
CUT TO: BREAKFAST TABLE SET UP WITH COFFEE & CONDIMENTS.
A PLATE WITH WELL-COOKED TOAST IS PLACED ON THE TABLE.
CAMERA STARTS SLOWLY TRACKING BACKWARDS.
JIGSAW TAKES HIS SEAT WITH HIS BACK TO THE CAMERA & TAKES A SIP OF COFFEE.
JIGSAW: Game over.
SCREEN FADES TO BACK WITH MUSIC SWELLING.
CREDITS.
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Que?? What is this mysterious que you speak of? Anyway, it’s from this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6IeASZZf1c and I quoted it wrong…
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aww… ive never seen that before. and here i was thinking it was original 🙁
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Politics: on.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-03/increasing-speculation-over-pms-future/3809774
This annoys me. I dislike media in this country that continually asks the same question, day on day, to try and provoke a reaction that is newsworthy.
Asking it again and again to try and sell a paper or create a story where there is none is terrible journalism.
What they should be doing instead is asking questions of all ministers regarding the implementation and timelines of programs in their departments, and asking for Opposition answers on what programs they would/would not have, and bright ideas they might have, or in general: what are the policies and priorities of both sides of government.
Asking week after week about a leadership change is just so…sloppy.
Also: Alan Jones is everything that is wrong in Australian political “journalism”
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Also, that procedure would require ministers to say something other than the party line soundbites they rehearse in front of the mirror.
THE UNIVERSE WOULD IMPLODE.
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I open up the Telegraph (the tabloid News Limited paper here in Sydney) and you see things like Peter Slipper photoshopped to have mouse/rat features. Is this what it’s come to? Front page articles that blatantly mock the government, through terrible photoshops, rather than actual reporting or justified criticism? No, of course politicians shouldn’t be exempt from any of that stuff, but all you’re doing is pandering to idiots here.AND MAN, DAT AM RADIO
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heres the thing: this country has no politicians worth their skin anymore. on one side we have labor who are too gutless to do what is in the interests of this country. coz that would involve getting behind unpopular legislation such as carbon taxing, pokies reform, immigration etc. damn, Labor have very little chance of winning the next federal election, so go all out – put through the unpopular stuff, if you’re gonna loose, make a difference whlie you still can!on the other side of the fence, is the librerals. a party that have no policies whatsoever. they have misunderstood what it means to be ‘in opposition.’ Pro tip Abbott – if you dont have a viable alternative policy, you are worse than a party who pushes a bad policy through.
It makes me sick that politics is played by making the other side look bad, rather than making yourself look good by actually doing some work & making good policies.
Really, I was brought up in a Labor household & I would not & will not trust any liberal government to do anything but impliment policies that benefiet the more wealthy citizens. But the current state of the Labor party is just crap. Although they’ve done quite a bit of good, the timidness & popularist side of how theyre playing the game is getting tiresome.
Also journalists. Murdochs tabloid crap in particular, have their own agenda. and their agenda is not for the good of the people. so the sooner the consumers of right-wing conservative media realise this, the sooner we can get a proper & unbiased journalistic institution.
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And sadly, the modern Liberal party is far better at playing the scare game than any other party. or maybe they are the only party that thinks its ok to use muck raking as their primary political weapon.
I think we need a viable third party option. A coalition with Rudd & Turnbel at the helm. They are centre left & centre right, respectively, so that would work provided that they focus on getting things done & not on opinion polls.
/rant for realz this time
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Oh man, politics… I keep aware of them, and I’m passionate about certain issues(and I don’t care about many others that I should care about), but damn.
I am left wing. Very left wing. But I’m also a realist. If it was how our political system worked, I would vote for Turnbull at the next election. It’s not though, so I’ll be going Greens, with preference to Labor, with preferences to DONKEY VOTE! Anyway, back to what I was saying, Turnbull actually appears intelligent, I agree with him on some core issues, and I think he’d actually be able to lead, unlike our last two PM’s.
But then I’d also have to vote for the Libs, and the scars from Howard will never fade…
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See I have been upset with Political Journalism since the Ken’s at Kensington incident. the way political Journalists are going out of there way to make Politics “Dramatic and Exciting” is bloody disgusting. These Journalists dont seem to have respect for anyone, not just the politicians they are talking about
Just out of curiousity, what is the average number of posts per page (including replies) in TAY?
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3700 posts (random guess), 24 pages.
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Oh man, I wish I hadn’t gone out this morning, if only to continue this kitchen investigation thing with Bish. For reference, my answer would have been a combination of $ and 8: $8) Change into a short skirt and take off your underwear and propose to Steve-O and Rocketman that it’s time for BUTTERSCOTCH SCHNAPPS
Although investigations are fun too.
TFIFF!!! I’m just about ready to check out of this week completely. Only a couple more hours to go and I can forget about you forever!!! Mwooohahahahaha! Who wants to come over and make me dinner while I veg out and play games all night?
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The Cracks, I’m working on my variation on Din’s pearl, but I’m feeling exhausted. I will come back to it later. Forgive me for taking so long ^^;;
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Call him Cracklelacklekins, he prefers that. Alternately, on his behalf, I’ll say that just “Cracks” will do.
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Well, you say it quite a lot to newish people, and to people who don’t pay attention to every comment ever, so I figured I’d save you some time. :p
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No worries – I’m looking forward to see what you come up with, but don’t rush or feel beholden to my whims.
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Executive meeting at work, and they have subway and cookies supplied. I have eaten two leftover subways and have taken all of the cookies from the back of the packet and put the packet back on, so it looks like it is still full. I also left a cookie on the admin lady’s desk, so hopefully she will be blamed first.
#EvilMastermind
According to my calculations, we will reach page 25 soon.
As in within 3 unreplied posts.
Math is surprisingly interesting.
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Aw, man, does this mean my importance piece of advocacy below is near the bottom of a page, where science says no one will read it?
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I totally nostalgia’d TAY, eh? Now I can go to sleep with a smile! 🙂
Bring the coffee too, people. My god, tomorrow’s gonna be a hard day…
Sharpen your pitchforks, folks: http://www.zdnet.com.au/conroy-flags-law-changes-from-optus-win-339330970.htm
Especially this:
The government is also currently reviewing the 2006 amendments to the Copyright Act 1968 that includes the provision allowing individuals to record TV broadcasts to watch “at a time more convenient”.
They can take my TiVo from my cold dead hands.
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nowhere, i’d sayWe don’t have any stores that sell really old stuff, unfortunately. All the tech stores are the “latest and greatest”…
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It was a Relatively simple problem I wanted their help to deal with. I just wanted to cancel a preorder I had of final fantasy so I could re order the collectors edition (that wasn’t available when I placed my original order). I was worried the fact that it was part of a bigger order, the rest of which had already shipped, might cause issues.
They responded promptly and helpfully to my queries and got it sorted out for me with a minimum of fuss.
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That’s reassuring to hear. I am still put off a little about the time one of the screwed up Strange’s order though. It has made me a wary customer.
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I’ve had a fairly bad week so it was nice to have something go smoothly.
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INTERROGATION: Ruffleberg
Unspecified TAYbie: You’re here about the cookies.
Ruffleberg: Cookies?
Unspecified TAYbie: Yes, the cookies.
Ruffleberg: COOKIES? YOU WOULD SPEAK TO ME ABOUT COOKIES??
Unspecified TAYbie: I, what?
Ruffleberg: MODERN COOKIES MAKE ME MAD. THE COOKIE INDUSTRY IS SO RUBBISH COMPARED TO THE OLD DAYS WHEN COOKIES WERE MADE OUT OF LOVE. WHATS THAT, ARNOTT’S? YOU MEAN I CAN BUY YOUR COOKIE FOR OVER RRP BUT ONLY GET 80% OF THE COOKIE. WOW THATS AWESOME THANKS A LOT, YOU *******! I’LL TELL YOU WHAT YOU CAN ******* DO WITH YOUR ******* COOKIES! YOU CAN ***** ** ****** ******* **** ****** ********* *** **********!
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Conclusion: I, uh, don’t think Ruffleberg likes cookies?
INTERROGATION: Scree
Scree: Oh no! Did I do something wrong? I’m sorry!
Unspecified TAYbie: Sorry for what? I haven’t even said anything yet!
Scree: Oh, sorry for interrupting you!
Unspecified TAYbie: No it’s fine, you have nothing to apologise for! Stop apologising!
Scree: Okay, sorry! Oh no, I did it again, sorry!
Unspecified TAYbie: Nono, I’m not blaming you for anything, I didn’t mean to make it sound like you were at fault! I’m sorry!
Scree: But you didn’t do anything!I didn’t mean to make you feel bad! I’m sorry!
Unspecified TAYbie: No, I’m sorry!
Scree: Sorry for what?
Unspecified TAYbie: I don’t know!
Scree: I’m sorry for confusing you!
Unspecified TAYbie: Stop apologising! You have nothing to be sorry for!
Scree: I’m sorry I’m saying sorry so much!
Unspecified TAYbie: /o\!
Conclusion: /o\!
INTERROGATION: Steve Holt
Steve Holt: STEVE HOLT! \o/
Conclusion: \o/
INTERROGATION: Freyr
Unspecified TAYbie: Actually, you know what, you can probably go.
Freyr: Why’s that?
Unspecified TAYbie: Because I’m not sure you could reach-
Freyr: I AM NOT A MIDGET >:C
Conclusion: So apparently that’s a touchy subject.
INTERROGATION: Greenius
Greenius: So why am I here?
Unspecified TAYbie: Cookies, Greenius, tell me about the cookies.
Greenius:Okay, well, think back to the first time you ever heard of cookies. The constantly changing fashionable take on cookies demonstrates the depth of the subject. While much has been written on its influence on contemporary living, it is yet to receive proper recognition for laying the foundations of democracy. Since it was first compared to antidisestablishmentarianism much has been said concerning cookies by the over 50, who are likely to form a major stronghold in the inevitable battle for hearts and minds. Relax, sit back and gasp as I display the rich tapestries of cookies.
Unspecified TAYbie: No I mean the ones in the kit-
Greenius: Much of the writings of historians display the conquests of the most powerful nations over less powerful ones. Comparing the electoral politics of most Western and Eastern European countries is like comparing the two, equally popular approaches to cookies. If the reader is unaware of these, they need only to turn on the television, or pick up a newspaper or popular magazine. Take a moment to consider the words of one of the great political analysts Kuuipo Woodpecker ‘A man must have his cake and eat it in order to justify his actions.’ Considered by many to be one of the ‘Founding Fathers’ of cookies, his words cannot be over-looked. I feel strongly that if politicians spent less time thinking about cookies and put more effort into their family life, that we would have a very different country. The question which we must each ask ourselves is, will we allow cookies to win our vote?
Unspecified TAYbie: I don’t mean cookies in gen-
Greenius: Increasingly economic growth and innovation are being attributed to cookies. We will begin by looking at the JTB-Guide-Dog model, a lovely model.
Unspecified TAYbie: OKAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR INPUT
Conclusion: Cookies are important politically and economically.
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And just in case, I of course type this in light jest.
We make fun of Rocketman’s spelling, I don’t mean to imply Ruffleberg swears like Judi Dench, just that’s he’s angry at game a lot of the times, Scree is pleasant and apologetic for almost everything, and Freyr isn’t that short but we make fun of it anyway.Just in case.
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You know what bish you can put your **** in your ***** and you can see if i give a *****.
Its cool man i thought it was funny!
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Freyr is definitely that short. *wispers to self* Shutupshutupshutup, Ignore the lies, substitute with truth, yes, your truth, the only truth that matters.
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I was half expecting Scree’s one to have every time she speaks has a 1 added to her name. TS people would know what I am speaking about xD.
Otherwise, this is gold! xD
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You know what would be disappointing, Bish? To be a TAYbie and not get one of these interviews. You have a lot of work ahead of you. 😛
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Actually, I don’t mind if Bish doesn’t point out that pretty much all I do here is link to my website 😛
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You have a website? I hadn’t noticed. Did you know that I have a blagh? You can access it here: http://www.blaghman.wordpress.com
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I was aware, and enjoy a good blagh, but I keep forgetting to check back regularly unless you’re waving the link in my face.
(I think I assume everyone behaves like I do.)
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I know you know, I was just trying to spam… … Nevermind. And yeah, I think most people forget about it. Now that I’ve finished my less-than-a-month-of-updating-it-almost-daily-ish though, it will be forgotten forever. Left out to dry like what my laundry would be like today, except that it’s raining.
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I know that you know that I know. I just wanted you to know that I knew that you knew that I knew. That way I could know that you know that I know that you know that I know.
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Well, I’m glad we clarified that, I was mildly concerned. *wipes sweat off brow*
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I think you’ll find that these are only for the people I like, Blaghman.
Is what I’d say, but I haven’t done anything for Strange or Shane, for example.
BUT SERIOUSLY THOUGH I’m going to go do stuff for now so that might be it for this week.
Enjoy your afternoon, kids!
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No worries, man!
I was raised to be polite!
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You know what the worst part of the word “chortle” is? Thanks to, I think it was Q-bo, I can now only imagine it in the context of “Chortle Cumsplat.”
Thanks Q, you’re the greatest(Cooooommmeeee baaaaacccckkkkk).
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/talk-amongst-yourselves-151/comment-page-24/#comment-536263
Starts here. There are I think three lots on that page!
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Thank you!
A simple yes would have been enough but you saved me the effort of having to go looking!
TAYbies always seem to go that little bit extra for other people.
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They are also up on Tales of TAY!
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I’m sorry that I wasn’t here to read this when you first posted it!
I really am that bad sometimes, especially when someone else says they’re sorry and I’m like “Don’t be sorry, it’s fine! I’m sorry for upsetting you”
So you pretty much got me to a T.
I am having a very good day of much writing. In addition to the 900 word Soul Knight I posted earlier today, I’ve written three more chapterettes for The Tube – almost another 2000 words.
The only problem (or not-problem, I haven’t decided yet) is that the official outline I laid out for the story has become almost entirely obsolete due to impromptu on-the-fly changes.
Last advertisement until tonight (just want to catch morning-TAY, lunchtime-TAY, and afternoon-TAY 😛 ). Check out the free-to-read novella-in-progress. It’s not long, and it was conceptualised by our very own Freeze!
http://shanewsmith.com/blog/category/the-tube/sort/_post_date-pp-asc
You can also subscribe 😀
AAAAANNNND the last one..
There you go, cracks.. all done!
http://www.redbubble.com/people/chuloopa/works/8423184-nayrus-pearl
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it’s ok – i only made them because i thought it was a cool idea – no purchase required
do what the masses demand, i say
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Yberz vcfhz qbybe fvg nzrg, pbafrpgrghe nqvcvfpvat ryvg. Shfpr cynpreng, zntan ng vnphyvf cergvhz, qvnz rebf cynpreng hean, rtrg fntvggvf zv qhv frq zv. Irfgvohyhz iruvphyn ynphf aba ynphf pbaqvzraghz n nhpgbe znhevf pbafrdhng. Va hg neph avou, iry nyvdhrg qvnz.
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Rot13 Latin, you sneaky devil
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*shrugs* Oh well, laughed at again
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I’m sorry Tech Knight. Know that you have helped enliven what has otherwise been a dull week, a week of which the chief problem is that it is exactly like last week.
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I’ve barely been on TAY to comment thanks to work this week being way more stressful and hectic than usual so my mood is more foul than it’s been for a while. You don’t need to apologise McGarnical, sir. 🙂
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It’s not even that, it’s a made up series of words that is designed so that when you look at it, nothing stands out. It’s often used for testing web pages, and the like, to see what a wall of text would look like.
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I briefly had a job writing content for a website.
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Sounds like a disappointing website. 😛
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It looks latin but i stuck it in a latin translator and it didn’t work right some words worked but not others.
I dub this a swipe by Friday McGarnical. As his brain withers and dies, in its last twitches it lashes out at all he holds dear with mischief and menace. Henceforth, you have been warned.
Ahhhh Lorem Ipsum, the great space filler, made amusing with GoogleTranslate! 😀
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indeed – bring on monday so i can get this exam over and done with and never listen to this stuff again
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You forgot a “C” there. Sorry, hate to be the guy to point out typos, but this one is pretty important.
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I didn’t think it was a typo. I thought there was actually a rap.
I am disappoint. And somewhat relieved
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Now I don’t know what to think!
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That is exactly what he wants. Fight it Shane!!
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Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection is currently available on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/205350/?snr=1_4_4__103
GORRAMIT POSTMAN! BRING ME MY FFXIII-2 ALREADY! AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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Boo!
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Oh, God
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Won’t someone think of the children!
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says the bloodstained avatar!
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It’s sauce. From the tacos. Yeah.
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Quick, someone get a fresh pint of Guinness and a bowl of hot chips. That’ll lure him back into his cage.
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Actually, I was hoping that you’d burst into song, and we could do a heart wrenching duet/cover of a classic Beatles song.
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we didn’t reply cause we were stunned by the shear awesomeness of MLP…. don’t take it personal, it happens a lot 😛
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Presuming LoZ stands for Legend of Zelda?
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Awesome bag 😀
My high school had it’s own bag that everyone had to have so no personalisation :(. But if I saw you or someone else walking around with that I’d comment on it 🙂
Pretty much no one at my school really liked Zelda either :'(
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Oh. I thought you were saying you posted something about on here, and none of us had commented on it… Sorry for the confusion everyone. I’ll just sit over here in the corner and try and get my brain working again 😛
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yup. On a friday…. really stupid .
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really? a friday?
private school, i assume? they have crazy in/out times!what year level are you doing this year?
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haha, private? I wish. I go to the crappiest school around.
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can’t be much worse than what mine was lol
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maybe
*dons sunnies*
it’s the same one… dundunduuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun
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But don’t you go to a crazy school where everyone likes COD and nothing else?! D:
Worst. School. Ever!
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But don’t you want to be into guys? The ones of your age are fascinatingly one dimensional, moronic beyond all belief, and smell quite terrible. They’re just wonderful.
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Oh yes, BO, so attactive :s
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*puts on plaid bathrobe and dons a pipe*
these kids nowadays i tell you… in my day, we had quality games… carpel tunnel syndrome was a real hazard, but we sucked it up… like real gamers… COD… pfffft
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I thought it was funny but then I read “Every guy is into COD and every girl is into guys. =.=” and it became hilarious.
@Zap:
Re: *politics mode engaged*
I’m a political junkie. Unashamedly. So while I *do* get tired of reading ridiculous speculation about political leadership, Alan Jones, and the absence of any serious policy debate in this country…
… occasionally it’s worthy. Some of the ‘journalism’ is atrocious, ideological, agenda-based or reliant on party hacks and flimsy ‘inside sources’. Sure. I regularly facepalm at some of the dreck that passes for political debate in this country, let alone some of the media.
But if the dysfunction of factional groups affect the way policy works in this country, it’s important to know about it. It’s in the interests of people in the government to minimise any leaks about infighting (so we have constant repetitions of “[X] is a strong leader, we’re all united”) and it’s in the interests of the Opposition, whoever they are at any particular moment, to say “[X] are fighting amongst themselves and they can’t govern the county, rah rah rah”. But if you put aside the defensiveness of the government and the ‘going for blood’ approach of their opposition, leadership tension can affect policy.
The tender for the Australia Network (the channel we broadcast overseas to people in the Pacific and Southeast Asia) was delayed and eventually scrapped because people from the Gillard/Rudd camps kept leaking stuff to the media. Eventually the contract was given to the ABC, after Rudd’s department had recommended Sky. The tension undermined and made political what should’ve been a neutral and fair decision.
So yes, I agree. The media shouldn’t be asking the same question day after day after day, circling like jackals in the hope that a minister will slip up and reveal that [person X] is actually a vampire with ambitions for leadership.
I guess they’re all miffed that they completely missed the last leadership spill.
But *if* there’s a serious question mark about the leadership of a party, it deserves to be aired. It’s always been the case, it was done when Tony Abbott replaced Malcolm Turnbull, and I’m sure it’ll continue to be done. They’re asking those questions not to undermine any particular leader, or create the impression that they’re harried, but in response to very obvious signs that things aren’t going well.
It could definitely be toned down, and I think a focus on policy (for *once*) would be amazing, but leadership reporting in the media isn’t necessarily a bad thing, when it’s in response to obvious omens.
(side-note: if you’re interested in the death of policy debate in Australia, George Megalogenis’ Quarterly Essay “Trivial Pursuit” is a great start. He charts the collapse of debates about policy in the media and the parties, and the rise of focus groups, polling, etc as a way to replace any genuine vision)
http://www.quarterlyessay.com/issue/trivial-pursuit-leadership-and-end-reform-era
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I kind of agree with this, but am of the view that if there is no election looming, then I would be just as happy to hear about a leadership spill as it happens or even afterwards, rather than being bombarded with constant and ultimately probably groundless rumours beforehand.
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Fair enough. I’ve heard often enough that it’s easy to forget not everyone especially cares about the machinations of party politics 😛
I guess as media becomes more fragmented, it *does* become easier to avoid politics if you don’t like it, and be exposed only when there’s something huge or there’s an election coming on.
(On the flipside: political wonks can surround themselves solely with news of politics. Hmm.)
That doesn’t fill me with confidence, though. I’ve noticed anecdotally on TAY that people just couldn’t give a crap about politics, political parties, elections or policy – they’re turned off by the negativity, the stunts, the fighting, the lack of leadership, whatever.
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So, have been missing all day due to fitting stuff to $9000 mahogany and stained glass double doors. One slip of the drill or screwdriver and I may have well quit on the spot.
FRIDAY QUESTION TIME!
A genie grants you the wish of being able to resurrect a dead or long-dormant videogame franchise or I.P. with a top-notch awesome quality sequel or remake.
What game franchise or I.P. do you choose?
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Can I say Call of Duty?
I should clarify: I’m fond of these games, but would love to see the trolls get an unambiguously awesome reboot shoved right in their faces.
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And I want to see a classic Nazi magic storyline, with Bioshock levels of quality in the writing. Dreaming? Maybe. But it’s a nice dream.
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Oh, I actually answered this last night. Are you stalking me Stalky McStalkington?
Breath of Fire.
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Only stalking if you want me to 😉
Never played BoF though I hear it’s extremely well loved.
It’s a tactical RPG yeah?
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LEGACY OF KAIN: BLOOD OMEN AND SOUL REAVER…
no discussions… i will literally slap you in naughty spots if you disagree
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RIGHT!
*pulls out a paddle, and axe and a dead fish*
which one would you prefer to be “slapped” by
you got 1 second to answer*WHAMPF*
too late
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*sob*
I wish, my computer couldn’t handle sloitare and as I am “between houses” I have to rely on a real poopy (heh poopy is funny) internet connection.
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It wouldn’t handle solitaire either.
Stupid chubby fingers.
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Imperium Galactica, best RTSS I’ve ever played, if only it scaled like Supreme Commander, think of the battles! It would be so glorious
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Never played that (I’m poo at RTS anyways), but a Supreme Commander that goes intergalactic would be boss.
Also Homeworld 😉
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Haven’t played Shenmue or Vagrant Story, so HD sequels or remakes would be an awesome chance for me to get into them 🙂
And yes yes yes to Soul Reaver
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i’ll be honest, i do believe this will be released… what year is an entirely different subject, but i do believe it will get here
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Actually, Black Mesa Source will genuinely be out soon. About 2 weeks after their new website launches, it should be out. And their new website should be up within the next month, 2 at the most. That’s right, I have faith.
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@Shane – you may be interested in this:
http://tafecat.tafensw.edu.au/uhtbin/cgisirsi/BdE75xTnqg/BRA/30700065/13
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Step 1 – http://www.tafecat.tafensw.edu.au
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YOU ALL TOLD ME NOT TO GOOGLE MLP WITH SAFE SEARCH OFF!!!
WHY?!?!
THIS IS AWESOME!!!!
http://theuniblog.evilspacerobot.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/mlp-aveng-flat.jpg
AND I’VE NEVER EVEN SEEN MLP!?!
*note – this is not porn, thankfully
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YOU HAVEN’T SEEN MLP… GO WATCH IT… YOU CAN CATCH IT ALL ON THE U TUBE…. ALSO WHY ARE WE YELLING?….AGAIN?
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after a few episodes you mind would have become almost liquified, you will start drooling and not be able to stop watching…
on a side note, it is pretty fantastic and fun 😛
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hehehe you’re REALLY into your Christian stuff, hey?
I listened to the last song of theirs yuo showed me, and you know what, they actually aren’t that bad.
Two things about this song:
1. If it’s serious… wtf?
2. It’s it’s a bit of a larf – then it’s awesomely hillariousKind of makes me want to do ‘chap laps’ with it blaring…
Come to think of it… chapel street…. family force 5… do i see a trend?
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I only really started listening to their music a few weeks ago. It’s kinda hard to tell when they’re being serious or not 😛
Also, Daft Punk are the only non-christian artists I listen to, so my expectations from music are both high and low all at the same time 😛
Don’t get me wrong, the christian music industry has it’s gems, but the rest of it, well let’s just not get into that…
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For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwNY63DksQM
You may actually like Friday after listing to this form of verbal torture…
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Start here you will either thank me later or hate me for subjecting you to that crap. Usually it’s the latter but maybe i can get another person to like it WHO KNOWS?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw-
Good place to start. It’s where I started. Didn’t really get much farther, because I’m usually too lazy, but I like what I’ve heard so far. It has its place, I reckon.
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OK, so, go and watch “Bubble Pop,” and when it suddenly shifts into a different type of music, that’s dubstep. It’s a K-pop song, with a dubstep interlude. Just think about it. It’s amazing.
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Skimmed the song and yeah not really in the genre of dubstep 😛
I used to listen to Family Force 5 but I didn’t their second album was that great so I stopped listening to them :/. I think “Love Addict” was the first song I heard of them which I still somewhat like 🙂
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And, yeah Dance or Die, the song isn’t that great, I think, but I like ‘Fever’ and ‘Radiator’ from that CD.-
Also, note to self, never believe youtube comments. (you’d think I would have learnt that one buy now…)
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*BY NOT BUY! Brain, why hast though turned against me? :'(
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This is the best dubstep I’ve heard in ages:
http://sonnymoore.org/media/audio/skrillex/golden.mp3Skrillex/HORSE The Band
@number.30.five
Your idea is original enough. The bread wasn’t annoying! And I thought it was funny 😀
COMPLEXTRO BREAK DOWN
lambo stole my dubstep interlude so i thought some pump up music on a friday would be better
Hi,
I’ve been lurking around for a while now. Thought it was about time I introduced myself.
I hear there was some drama this morning with people being hauled off to secrete interrogations? Glad I missed, those. I was busy with lunch.
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I should probably point out that I exist entierly as a joke account, in case anyone missed that and is excited that there is a new TAYbie
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you forgot the starting bit!
-o o- FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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bahahahahahaha
well done!!!!
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This one worried me for a moment until I realised it was someone returning a high five.
It is someone returning a high five right?
HOLY CRAP GUYS, ESPECIALLY 40K FANS!!!
Check out these AMAZING black templars! these are easily some of the best painted space marines i have EVER seen!
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=1200012-gws&_requestid=1671320
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Speaking of “especially 40k Fans”
All WH games are 66% off on Steam this weekend, including Space Marine. Go.
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ooo didn’t know that – that’s awesome 🙂
I have them already, though… being me 😛 lolEVERYONE – BUY SPACE MARINE!!!
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All of my life, I’ve been comforted by people telling me that size doesn’t matter.
They were lying to me.
Turns out size makes a huge difference.
Also, I bought a new monitor.
Bish, I read the rest of your impromptu interrogations and by the end of them I had a tears in my eyes from the effort it took not to burst out laughing in the middle of work.
@Aidan (and others!!!!)
I’m too lazy to nest a response that everyone would have moved on from.
I should also clarify I am a massive political junkie and could spend hours and hours per day reading news, reports, and discussing/debating each one with other such minded people.
I personally think that the Greens need oh so much scrutiny in both NSW and Federal spheres, and now that they are technically “in government” at a Federal level (although, not, of course) they should be held to the same level of responsible, mature, and realistic political appraisal as the two bigguns.
Political coverage is bullshit now, which feeds into politicians being careful and stage-managing everything, which leads to journalists being terrible, which leads to politicians being careful and stage-managing everything, etc.
I feel, however, that as much as we want politicians to be more open or expressive, or the tone of debate to be elevated in this country (or at least I do, in order to drive engagement with the younger generation) – there needs to be a way of dragging Alan Jones and his ilk to account to some of their crap. The lack of respect shown by him to the PM on a regular basis is frightening.
I don’t want us to become like America, with partisan hate-camp broadcasters having a massive impact on public discourse.
As a general comment to other people involved – some politicians, especially as a state level, certainly are lacking. But there are plenty of great people in both parties doing the right thing, they’re just never in the spotlight.
Lindsay Tanner was fantastic, as is/was Stephen Smith. Shame Lindsay never had a run as party leader.
…dammit, that’s it. I’m going run for Federal parliament on the policy platform of “I’m not an idiot”.
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I’m assuming that’s when you turn 18 and thus eligible to vote?
If so I’ve been 18+ for some time and there hasn’t been any elections and I still don’t care for politics 😛
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Oh, well, that’s reassuring. Anyway, my strategy for voting when I end up having to vote: pull names from a hat, or just vote for the Fishing Party 😛
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I started caring about politics when I was about 13. Earlier, if you think having an opinion about Asylum Seeker treatment counts as caring about politics.
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Not being an idiot means you aren’t relatable. People like to vote for someone they could have a beer with.
Democracy really is the worst system available, aside from all of the others people have come up with.
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Will you join my party? It doesn’t have a name yet, but the posters will say:
BLAGHMAN FOR PRESIDENT!
It’s not my name, and it’s not the role I’m running for.
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Speaking of which:
Australia should be a republic.
The role of president should replace the role of Governor-General, not an American-style idiocy. Primary function should be as per Governor-General – “brand promotion and establishment” of Australia, etc. Can be popularly elected, or selected by Parliament – second option is probably best, we don’t want Eddie McGuire as president.
Flag should become the Eureka Stockade flag.
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It’s the election versus selection of President that drags down the issue.
In 1999 division between republicans who wanted a directly-elected President and those who wanted one appointed by Parliament was exploited by people who didn’t want a republic at all. We know how that turned out.
Unless that is resolved, I don’t think republicanism is going to get anywhere, even if on the surface it’s an attractive proposition.
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As for the flag… it’s a flag. I don’t particularly care.
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erm, that wasn’t meant to be a reply here….
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It’s kind of relevant here though!
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Hello Scree! You’d think other me would have learned to switch his email back by now, but he’s too foolish to! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA. NOW IS THE RISE OF EVIL BLAGHMAN, THE WORLD WILL BE MINE!
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Back in your box! *hits with stick* Back, no, no whimpering, back.
Good boy, now have a treat. Man, he’s worse than a Guinea Pigs sometimes, always demanding attention. C’est la vie, I had a good run without him.
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I’m glad Evil Blaghman chose Spock instead of a slightly different/same shade of green.
I know that by saying this I’m giving evil Blagh ideas but I’m a nice guy so why not?
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He’s really my clone, rather than an alternate dimension evil version, but I let him keep the picture he wants.
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And nobody wants to remember how that came about.
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That poor llama…
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Normally he’s content to subside to simple machinations, located far away from me, and what I want to do. Though, sometimes he interferes, or tries to kill me, so I have to lock him up in his cage. Sadly, he’s quite good at escaping.
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Does this mean that it’s on the pile of lay-by’s you have? The towering inferno of things you are yet to purchase?
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I don’t have many cashies near me =(
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@Virus__
To answer your unaswered question from last night (silly Virus__, asking questions after I leave :P), I cooked roasted vegetables: potato, carrot and cauliflower.
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Sounds alright, no meat? (or are you a vegetarian?) I haven’t had roast veggies in ages, curse you for breaking oven!
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It wasn’t easy to break Oven.
A man only gets a name like that for good reason.
When we dragged him in, it took 3 of us to hold him down while I injected the sedative. I must’ve gone through 4 needles trying to get it into his neck.
When he came to we tried the usual.
Intimidation? He laughed in Eric’s face, then bit off his nose.
Water? Bastard could drink it faster than we could pour.
At one point as we were hammering the bamboo into his knees, he started laughing. Said “I’ve always wanted to own a Panda and you pansies are gonna bring them right to me”
But I broke him.
It’s amazing how fast a man will spill his guts, when you spill his child’s.
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http://bit.ly/xQXHzC
They already have my measurements.
All you have to do is say those four words…
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I like to think of myself as half-vegetarian. 😛 I eat fish and chicken, but that’s it.
And yeah, no meat last night.-
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I consume an unhealthy amount of peanut butter. Wait, is it even possible to have an unhealthy amount of peanut butter??
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Studio: Disney
Film Title: Curse You For Breaking Coven!
Audience: Family
Director: Michael Lambeck
Cast: The Rock, Vin Diesel, Jackie Chan
Budget: $250, 000, 000 USD
Pitch: To round out his 10 picture deal with Disney, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will continue his tradition of family-friendly pictures. In “Curse You For Breaking Coven” Mr Johnson will play the lead witch, EWZmerelda, of a secret underground Coven in 1800’s Salem. Fast & The Furious star Vin Diesel will play his hard as nails over-seeing Warlock, McCricnkle, who is furious to find out that his top witch has let HIS top student escape!
What follows is 90mins of rollicking adventure, comedy and fun set in pioneer country America.
While searching for the escaped student, EWZmerelda will enlist the help of everyone’s favourite Kung-Fu master, star of the Rush Hour series, Jackie Chan.
With a plot outline already submitted to a 10+ writing staff, and famed Disney director Michael Lembeck already over seeing pre-vis effects, “Curse You For Breaking Coven!” is a film you won’t want to miss the opportunity to invest in!
Note: Cast is yet to confirm involvment.
Note: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is on loan from WWE Entertainment a subsidiary of WWF (World Wildlife Foundation)-
A lot of Disney movies are probably written by 10 year olds.
Oh, you meant 10 people working on the script…
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Now, to do the housework.
Also, POSTMAN GET HERE NOW OR I WILL THRASH YOU! GIVE ME MY THINGS!
DKFJAHLIERVBALRGFALRIFGALVJBALERIULIJHMGALJFHALUGFLAWUBVAALIERVBLAKRGVLAHRFSDKLJGVWCULEIFBHALUEFAHWUEFAHLWE!!!!!!
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I Rot13’d that:
QXSWNUYVREIONYETSNYEVSTNYIWONYREVHYVWUZTNYWSUNYHTSYNJHOINNYVREIOYNXETIYNUESFQXYWTIJPHYRVSOUNYHRSNUJHRSNUYJR!!!!!!So who’s Jhoinny?
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Almost brings a tear to my eye.
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It get’s better when you see what I was channging my name back from. It’s still awaiting moderation so may have to wait until tomorrow now when everyone has forgotten about it.
I remember those days when anything I posted at work would have to wait until the following day to appear.
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No time to chat. Busy with work stuffs. But I just thought I’d say this:
2 boxes of $2 shapes were purchased last night from Coles ($4 total = win). I just finished the first box. Mmm chicken crimpy. I shall probably nom the barbecue shapes tonight.
Oh god Coles are getting rid of the coke zero vanila line at 1 dollar for 1.5L so worth it at that price!
I also bought shapes since they were 2 bucks a box \o/
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You and Phoenix clearly have no idea about how to abuse the Shapes market. $2 a box is the most I will pay for Shapes, the absolute most. $1.80 is a decent prize, $1.50 is good. And $1 is absolutely amazing, though ridiculously rare.
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Pssh! Shapes are awesome, plus it beats the usual 3/3.50 they’re sold for or w/e =/ plus I wanted shapes! =D
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Standard Shapes Price is $2.60. The 2 major chains are in a minor Shapes war with one another, whereby at any one point in time, you have a 2/3rds chance of it being $2 or less, assuming you have access to both a Coles and Woolies. Logic dictates that you should also stock up on Shapes, just for those off weeks. I particularly recommend doing that when they’re around $1.60 a box. You must pay attention to the Shapesconomy.
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Yes, I have over-thought this.
I blame Bish,
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D= maybe Woolworths have the same special on the coke! =D
I have 3 Coles a Bi-Lo & 2 Woolworths in my area. Which is a lot to cater to about 40,000 people.
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Loved this comment from Crikey’s gaming blog:
“The preceding generation who had sole domain over politics and the media portrayed video games as an infantile pursuit but in the next decade rather than seeing politicians being asked “Have you ever smoked pot?” I hope they get asked “Did you complete Mass Effect 4 as a Paragon or a Renegade?””
(and not just because more Mass Effect would be awesome)
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We should clarify Scree, we don’t mean any offense by this.
Just that we find it amusing. Well, I’m talking on Flu’s behalf, I’m sure he won’t mind though, even if him talking with his own voice is far sexier.
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But I can’t help it!
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The correct answer, Scree, is “I’m Sorry, I can’t help it!”
Geez, get it right. 😛
Anyway, we’ll probably continue mocking you for it, but so long as you know that no harm is meant, it should be alright.
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@Greenius
I’m finally at a computer with speakers so I watched your guitaring / pianoing vids that you posted earlier.
You’re pretty damn good 🙂 and your guitar is uber-sexy.
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Such a nice guitar. *drools*
I think we should probably try putting together a cover of something. Probably when next TAY comes around. I’m really digging Lonely Boy by The Black Keys lately. Just saying 😛
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I’m at work and don’t have speakers but that is a nice looking guitar.
I’d also like to volunteer my bagpiping skills, such as they are, if you should discover there is a place for them. I strongly suspect James Mac (I think he was the other piper) would be a better option though as I’m still every noobish at them.
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oh you poor poor man.
It’s not the ponies you should be scared of, it’s the people who made the pictures
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Three week anniversary of me taking my not-working-right NAS in to PCCG as a warranty claim and having it enter a black hole from which no updates or information ever escape.
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I actually got an answer. Normally it’s 2-3 weeks but Chinese New Year has been screwing with parts supply etc.
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I hate waiting for games to be delievered 🙁
I’m assuming you ordered it from an Australian retailer? (EB, GAME, JB). You should’ve received it by now if you did :(. They’re a day late!
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THE CRACKS!
Here is my version.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/luckydog/works/8423618-dins-pearl-simple
I’m sorry it’s not that good! /o\
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YOU SHOULD NOT FEEL SHAME WITH DESIGN
BROWN ON RED VERY MATCH
I FLIP YOU
（╯°□°）╯︵ \o/
YOUR TASK FOR TONIGHT IS BE JOYFUL
USE \o/ MANY TIME-
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CAN I FEEL SHAME NOW \o/?!
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NO YOU MAY NOT, WE FORBID IT! BUT THE \o/ IS A STEP ON THE RIGHT TRACK. YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY! YOU SHOULD DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY!
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I WOULD DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY BUT MOTHER IS WATCH HOME AND AWAY SO NO JUST DANCE 3 YET D=
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NO
NO ALLOW
MY EYESIGHT FAILURE IS NOT YOUR SHAME
DO NOT MAKE ME TRAVEL TO MELBOURNE AND PHYSICALLY MAKE YOU \o/-
YOU MAY HAVE TO. I HAVE BAD SELF ESTEEM. XD
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US YELLING AT YOU IS OUR ATTEMPT TO HELP WITH THAT. AS MY FRIEND ALWAYS SAID, LOW SELF ESTEEM IS FOR LOSERS. THIS WOULD MAKE ME CRY MYSELF TO SLEEP, BUT THAT WAS OKAY.
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THIS JUST MAKES ME SAD BLAGHMAN. DO YOU NEED A SOCIALLY AWKWARD HUG?
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I WOULD LOVE A SOCIALLY AWKWARD HUG! IT WILL ALSO BE AWKWARD BECAUSE I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO HUG PEOPLE! STRANGE WOULD PROBABLY MOCK ME FOR IT TO THIS DAY IF SHE WERE AS BAD A PERSON AS ME!
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IT’S OKAY. I THOUGHT I WAS HUGGING WRONG FOR YEARS. STRANGE WILL PROBABLY MOCK ME ALSO IF SHE WAS AS BAD AS YOU.
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*SOCIALLY AWKWARD TEXT HUG*
BASED UPON WHAT I”VE SEEN FROM PEOPLE HUGGING, THE SYSTEM IS THAT THE SMALLER PERSON MORE OR LESS JUMPS ON THE LARGER ONE, WHO STANDS THEIR AWKWARDLY. SADLY MY ONLY EXPERIENCE IS FROM FRIENDS OF MINE WHO ARE SMALLER THAN ME HUGGING ME.
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NO! You must Steve Holt like a champ! LIKE A CHAMP! WOULD IT HELP YOU TO BE JOYFUL IF BISH AND I DANCED FOR YOU? THAT CAN BE ARRANGED!
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BRING OUT THE BULMERS!
And, like, apple juice or something.. For Bish..
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I don’t drink either =D
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YOU SHOULD TRY SOME OF THIS FANTASTIC DRINK, IT IS AMAZING!
POST SCRIPT, I AM NOT ATTEMPTING TO GET YOU DRUNK.
I love Vitamin C!
That’s okay. You don’t need to dance for me.
You can dance for the others if you wish.
*grabs popcorn*
I’m sorry Lambo, but I don’t have a camera to record this with. Believe me, it’s an amazing dance though.
Thanks for the nice comments everyone. I’m just disappointed because it didn’t turn out how I visualised mainly because I didn’t know how to do a bevel in illustrator.
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But I didn’t give any nice comments! ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
Oh, you weren’t talking to me…
Well, it looks good scree! I like it with the light blue background/shirt slightly better than with red, but that’s probably because I like blue more than red…-
*smacks lambo with rolled up newspaper*
No!
Bad lambo!
It’s a symbol from Zelda associated with the Din, the Goddess of Power, who is closely linked to fire and the colour red.
Hence, this shirt can only be in red.
Anything else is sacrilege.
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He should go and play all the Zelda’s. ALL OF THEM(Technically, Wind Waker is the only real Zelda game that I have played none of. I am so ashamed)
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I hadn’t played Wind Waker til a few months ago.
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Basically, my reason for playing it is that it just looks SO GORRAMN PRETTY. And since I’ll run it through Dolphin, it will be that pretty, but at a decent resolution. Making it even prettierer(not a typo). Also, everyone says that it’s the greatest Zelda… That too, I guess…
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Technically, I didn’t leave a nice comment. Well, at least I didn’t leave a nice one about the Shirt, but that’s just because I’m capped, and so Redbubble won’t load at all at the moment. As such, I have no opinion on it. I’m trusting in Bish’s opinion of it, though, as he’s usually right, and we agree about lots of things, but we’re completely different, and definitely not the same.
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We’re not really that exactly the same.
Although, you should have seen Bish when he first turned up at my house for the Meat. He just plopped himself down on the sofa, and was all “It’s cool, we’re like brothers!”
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IT/Tech-savvy TAYbies please help me out!
(I’m on 64 bit Windows 7 PC using wireless internet)
For like a couple of months now my internet has been disconnecting whenever I use uTorrent to download torrents. Sometimes it happens, other times it doesnt… No idea what’s going on but this is usually temporarily fixed if I click on that “Internet Access Bar” on the bottom right of my desktop (no idea what it’s called), disconnecting from my current connection then reconnecting to it again. This will make the internet work for a couple of minutes before it happens all over again.
I’ve disconnected and reconnect to my internet before in the past without any problems. But because I’ve been doing this often (due to the disconnecting problems) my whole computer just freezes sometimes when I disconnect and I have to restart it manually.
Anyone know what’s going on and how I can fix this?
Not really a major problem but since I’m on the topic of internet problems I might as well ask here. Sometimes my 3DS, Xbox and PS3 can’t connect to the internet. As soon as I go to my router and turn it on and off again they can connect. It’s getting kind of annoying having to turn it on and off again every time just to connect to the internet :(. So any solutions/reason to why this is happening?
Hopefully I’ve been clear enough in my explanations and haven’t been too demanding. Thanks in advance 😀
<3 luvvvvvvvvvvvvv you TAY!
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This is probably your router dying or your ISP kiling the connection. uTorrent will often open thousands of communications ports extremely quickly and that will flood even more expensive routers. It could also be that the sudden spike in network traffic is causing things to go wierd.
Your 360/PS3 problem is probably the same thing. uTorrent opens too many ports, never closes them, your router runs out of memory and crashes or starts to have wierd errors. Rebooting clears the memory out.
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Justification time!
I do it for TV shows which I either watch, then immediately delete or watch once and never watch again. To me it’s like streaming the show without having to wait for it to buffer. I’d start a download and leave it running whilst I do something else. In the US they let you stream shows legally from either the Network’s own website or something like Hulu but unfortunately this isn’t available in Australia which is why I download.
I have Foxtel IQ 2 so I can record and watch these TV shows anyway but a few episodes/days behind their US/UK air time. I get pretty impatient so I’d rather watch it when as soon as it’s available. I rarely watch TV at the TV and prefer to watch it whenever I want infront of the PC so this just works better.
I know you were probably joking but I thought I should put this out there 😛
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Well, according to EB’s website, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection is now releasing on the 16th.
WHY?!
SNAAAAAAAKE?!
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Why?! It’s bad enough PAL regions gets the game later than the US…
I was going to pick it up with my FFXIII-2 but saw that the date changed to the 9th for no reason… But another delay? Booooooooo!
I wasn’t going to get it but your steel book talk made me want too :P. Originally the price different between a UK import (Zavvi) and buying locally wasn’t that much but Zavvi decided to reduce the price a bit so it’s a fair amount now. I decided to import it after seeing that the local release date was delayed and they shipped out my copy a few days ago \o/!
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Rant time.
I’m sick of delays to games for region/localisation. Twisted Metal is launching 2-3 weeks later in EU/AU than the US because of localisation and they have to get rid of some of the cutscenes. MGS HD launched in November in the US, and was supposed to launch yesterday here, then next week, and now in a fortnight? F*** off. Jak Trilogy is launching two weeks later in Australia than the US. Hell, I don’t even think Trine 2 is out on the EU/AU PSN, but it’s been out for months on the US PSN.
Just what the hell. Delay a game to make it better, fine, I’m all for that. But delaying a game a few weeks/months when other english speaking countries get it? What a load of crap. You’ll make the argument that Europe covers many languages, which is a fair claim and a true one. But why not delay it so that you have a worldwide launch? Argh. It makes me mad, because now Twisted Metal, Mortal Kombat and Jak Trilogy will all come out at the end of the month/start of March, and I’ll be back at uni and won’t have time to play them because Mass Effect 3 will also be out. FFS.
/rant
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Could it be that they do it so if it fails in other territories they won’t bother with the “outside” release?
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Man, Kotaku really needs an edit button.
I should clarify. When a developer makes a game, I think they should aim for a worldwide release. Making the german and french and spanish and whatever other language dubs/subtitle is something they should strive for in gold master, not just oh hey, we haven’t done that yet! But english is done, we’ll send that out to whoever can sell, those europeans sure can hold on for another week. Or two. Or a month. Who cares, america is where the money is, why should we care about Australia/UK/France.
That devolved into me talking to myself. I should stop that.
I’m just mad because I really wanted to platinum MGS3 before uni started/ME3 came out. MGS3 is the best MGS. And one of the best games made, ever. Alas.
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This ^
It especially annoys me when everywhere but Australia gets it first. And it’s even a bigger “F*** YOU!” when it’s the exact same game disc (Skyward Sword and Xenoblade in recent times).
There’s pretty much no excuse for that…
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ALSO BISH,
I was dancing to video killed the radio star in the shops. There was no music, so I had to sing it.
I got minimal strange looks. I may have to do it with a TV on my head next time
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I find that the best system is to dance to music, as you grab things that you’re buying. I had to pull off a 720 degree spin, in front of the deli section at Coles, because there was some stuff I wanted.
Also, at my local shops, I got weird looks just because I went there bare foot. Admittedly, I walked there, and it’s somewhere between about 1 and 2 k’s, but still.
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I keep trying to start a flash mob in the shops. Everytime I do though I get arrested and charged with indecent exposure.
Why they don’t save the confusion and just call them dance mobs I’ll meet understand.
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That is awesome.
I really want to play Vice City now, such an awesome soundtrack in that game!
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@Bish
I just caught up on TAY, your interrogations are amazing and an excellent way to finish off a very long/tiring/busy/crappy week. And whilst we’re on the topic of Ginger Beer, I’m not sure if they’re doing the same thing in Sydney, but in Melbourne they’re offering a new flavoured slurpee each week. Last week was Lemon Lime Bitters was a decent enough translation to slurpee. This week was ginger beer.
Don’t. Just don’t. ‘Twas rubbish. The first time I ever threw out a 3/4 full slurpee.
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It was a load of sugar with a slight burning sensation that may have been them attempting to replicate ginger.
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Fake ginger is so bag, it makes me cry. Like bad ginger lollies, they are so bad, but real ginger is delicious.
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bad* Also, replace one of the “bad”‘s with “atrocious”, and another with “terrible.”
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A real-time demonstration of why we need an edit button 😛
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Or, potentially a real time demonstration on why I should learn to proof-read, and possibly not post while mildly inebriated.
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Also. Very excited that Gameinformer will be doing a cover on The Last of Us, they usually reveal a lot of good info, both in the magazine and their website.
BUT
Disappointed you don’t play as Ellen Page. Simply because I would’ve loved to have seen how Naughty Dog handles (story and character-wise) not only a female protagonist, but also a teenager. Still. They said ammo is something you have to actively hunt around for, and it looks so very pretty. And it’s Naughty Dog.
Also, what do people think that the Uncharted 3 team will move onto their PS4 franchise and the Last of Us is their PS3-swan song? No jokes about “Unkarted” and their 3 games and a kart racer, plz. kthxbye.
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It’s not a joke. I would play the shit out of Unkarted. Crash Team Racing is my favourite “Mario Kart” game(I know they’re Kart racers, or whatever but pshh).
And I don’t care about who I’m actually playing in a game, so long as the game itself can show mature relationships, realistic characters, and good development.
Also, I think having The Last of Us as a swan song could be really good for them, as most people I know consider Uncharted 3 to be not-quite-as-good as Uncharted 2. And let’s be honest, it’s hard to top Uncharted 2. That really was a fantastic game.
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I like Crash Team Racing more than Mario Kart. Come at me haters! But i’m biased because i played CTR before mario kart, so that was my introduction to kart racers.
True and i think it will have good characters, but I think female protagonists in game aren’t that common, and there aren’t many that are really well realised.
And yeah. Uncharted 2 is my favourite current gen title. I never expected UC3 to be better than UC2, and I really didn’t have as manu difficulty spikes as others seemed to have. But meh. I play a lot of uncharted 2 co op and multiplayer, so thats probably why. But having said that, if they did make UC4 and it was just more of them same, i’d be very disappointed.
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Well, I figure that so long as one of the… Hmm, what’s the word… deuteragonists? Something like that, so long as one of them is slightly different from the standard “GRR SPACE MARINE GRR” archetype, then it’s fine. For instance, from what I’ve played recently, from a storytelling perspective, it would make no difference if you were playing as Elika in Prince of Persia(2008) than when you’re playing as the Prince. Since everything they do is together, it would potentially allow her to be a good character, even though you don’t play her.
But yeah, I agree that there isn’t enough variety in protagonists. One of the games I’ve done some scrawling/designing about starred a late thirties mother, searching for her child. It’s a shame that such a good concept(essentially Aliens) is not used more often.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK4Kp7r-y4w&feature=related
I am quite confused as to why they made Rainbow Dash floating in mid air.
It’s as if they were thinking “hmmm where to put this pony. Oh I’ll just chuck her above fluttershy’s head.”
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Well, technically, as a Pegasus, she can fly, and, given the size of her wings, it’s most likely though magic, not the flapping of them. So yes, you’re completely correct.
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Do not question the magic!
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*gulp* yes sir
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We should insert the picture of Cracks wielding a rather large ChainSword of his own making here, that should put the fear of god into you. 😛
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That chainsword comp was one of the best!
Didn’t enter though but enjoyed the entries 😀
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I agree with this post. Although, I meant to enter, but then I didn’t, true story.
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I preferred the WWE one
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I like photo comps cause it’s easy to go through entries rather than having to watch videos 😛
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The WWE comp was one of the only big ones that I’ve entered, so that probably made it more exciting
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Yeah, but I’m dreading it, because if it doesn’t happen tonight, then it will probably happen tomorrow morning/afternoon, while I’m travelling home from here. And I’ll miss it, and be sad.
Stupid slow Australia Post.
mumble mumble
I better get my FFXIII-2 and ResEv:Rev on Monday, or else!
Which means Skyward Sword and SWTOR tonight.
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But of course I did.
I didn’t have a WiiMotion Plus, so it was pretty much a necessity.
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I put the Zelda songs on my ipod, but I’m constantly turning the volume up and down because some bits are really quiet and some are really loud. So I’ve decided not to get any orchestra songs on my ipod anymore.
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ALL LOUD ALL THE TIME!
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I AGREE WITH THIS COMPLETELY! YOUR EARS CAN TOTALLY HEAL THEMSELVES, THAT’S HOW THEY WORK!*
*As Blaghman’s attorney I feel it prudent to point out that that’s not how they work, and that Blaghman is not a licensed practitioner of anything.
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LIES! See you in Hell, Blagh’s attorney!
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MY ATTORNEY’S A DICK, NEVER LISTEN TO HIM, HE DOESN’T KNOW THE MEANING OF FUN, OR THE FUN OF BEING MEAN.
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MAYBE IF WE YELL LOUD ENOUGH AND PLAY ZELDA MUSIC LOUD ENOUGH WE CAN DEAFEN HIM INTO SUBMISSION!
LA LA LA!
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DUM DUM, DA DA DA DA DA DA DA, DUM DUM DA DA DA, DA DA DA DA DA, DA DA DA DA DUM DA DUM, DA DUMDILLYDA, DA DUMDILLYDA, DA DUMDILLY DA, DA DA. DUMDUMDUM, DUMDUMDUM, DUMDUMDUM.
And so on and so forth.
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I love how, despite this really clumsy approach to approximating music as dums and das, I am hearing the music that you intended.
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Yeah, you could substitute almost anything in there, and so long as it has a passing resemblance, if you know the song well enough, you’ll translate it out.
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I finished Skyward Sword the other day(as you’d know if you read my blog), and damn that is a fantastic game. I know some people had problems with its length, and pacing, but I loved it the whole way through.
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I find it has very convenient break spots, where you can feel comfortable with walking away for a few days. Like the spot I’m in at the moment (Tbg gur Znfgre Fjbeq, hfrq Tngr bs Gvzr, abj onpx va Fxlybsg).
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You’re… Getting close to the end? I think… Some people have said that it’s too long, and they don’t like how it goes back to the same areas, but it only reused a dungeon, what, once? So it’s really not all that different from other Zelda’s. Also, I thought that some of the boss fights were absolutely impeccable.
And it’s pretty as, and I’m a sucker for pretty games.
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So far, my only complaint is a minor one to do with the sword handling. I love how it makes you be precise with your swings to hit from certain angles, but I hate how slow and deliberate you have to be when adjusting which angle you want to attack from, lest you accidentally swing the sword rather than reposition it. Perhaps if they made you hold down a button to have it register as a swing rather than a reposition?
I love the art style, love how they’ve redesigned some of the classic enemies, love the boss fights, love how creepy Ghirahim is, love how it sets up some stuff for the other LoZ games.
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Yeah, the controls are a bit derp. I have particular problems with how the “beetle” controls, but that’s because I sit in a position really close to the sensor bar, so it never realigns, unless I move back the controller. Really annoying, although, the way the game realigns the controller is really cool.
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I’m pretty close to my TV / sensor bar as well, so I have noticed this a bit, too. I agree that it’s awesome how you can re-center the cursor at any time. More Wii games should have this feature.
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There’s a bit, a few hours on from where you are, where they play the song of the hero, aka. the Overworld theme. And it was so good. I was so happy, I didn’t want it to end. That’s unrelated to our actual conversation, but it was so good that I thought I’d mention it.
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This doesn’t happen often:
squeeeee!
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Where are you up to in SWTOR?
It’s been like… six weeks since I’ve played anything. Last I remember I was at level 26 ish headed to Nar Shadda.
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Yeah…
I’m currently level 44, on Belsavis.
Still haven’t done most of the flashpoints, though, so I’d be up for those. And I wouldn’t object to helping you out when you got back if we’re both on, etc.
Really fun, but as a Sentinel you might hit some brick walls in difficulty. Weren’t too bad for me, being a tanky Guardian, but I’ve heard reports of some Knight encounters being near impossible unless you outlevel the content by 3-4 levels.-
I’ve been outlevelling the content for a while, I think. All the flashpoints and Heroic quests give good xp.
Yeah, I’ve read some horror stories about stuff in the Knight’s main questline. Thing is, they seem to rely on complicated RPG strategies that I have absolutely no clue about. I guess I’ll deal with it if I ever come to it.
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Mostly it seemed to me that people didn’t know how to use interrupts.
I haven’t used any ‘complicated’ strategies. You just need to know how/when to interrupt key enemy abilities using kick and the variety of stuns available (Stasis, etc).
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It says 2 days left so I’m guessing free weekend whatever that means.
Although if anyone wants to give me 40k related stuff I won’t complain…
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free multiplayer this weekend.
and im saddened that the sale doesnt apply to Space Marine’s drednaught DLC 🙁
Just wondering if anyone else saw this?
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/teen-buys-back-snatched-djokers-shirt-in-radio-charity-auction/story-e6frf7jo-1226258826664
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Well, the silver lining is that the money is going to charity.
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Yeah but she still should’ve given it to the 14 year old fan. As a 14 year old girl she would be absolutely distraught. As an adult Yael should not have been bothered
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Oh, I agree with you there.
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anyway, the real problem is why people like Djokovic in the first place.
i think he’s an absolute twat
Yup, so EB just let me know that Metal Gear Solid HD Collection has indeed bee pushed back to the 16th of Feb.
kasjfh8kayf78e*&T*#&HKhibqutdiuw&T(IFU4e
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I’ve also never played a MGS game. The HD collection looked like a good place to start ^_^
Contains MGS2, MGS3, and Peace Walker.
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Hmm, that does seem like a good place to start, though it’s a shame it doesn’t have the first one. Oh well, I’m sure nothing of import happened in it(Reads the plot summary)- OH GODDAMMIT.
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Yeah…
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The collection is a good place to start :). I started with MGS2 and 3 but never beat them. Then went back and beat MGS then 2 and 4.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the overall story in Metal Gear 😛
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But I do care. You can’t make me not care, you’re not the boss of me!
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If you didn’t care you wouldn’t have read the plot online : )
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double negative? fail? confusion? what did I type?
**If you DID care you wouldn’t have read the plot online : )
herp derp
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Knowing the plot, and playing the game, are very different. I’ve had Bioshock ruined for me, but I still want to finish it, at some point in time.
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I can know the story for something, but still enjoy the storytelling.
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It’s different for me I guess. I like playing games for the story and if I get that ruined before I play the game or before the I beat it then I something inside me dies 🙁
I also had Bioshock ruined for me but I was never too engrossed in the story to care that much. Since I already played Bioshock before it got it ruined, the atmosphere and gameplay was enough to make me want to continue playing through it. I still haven’t though…gotta get my hands on that again one day!
But I guess it really depends on the game and the genre and whether I care that much about it or not.
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I’m a believer in Gameplay first, Story second. Sure, give me a good story, I’d love to see it in a game, something that makes me want to continue, but if I can’t get over the hurdles of gameplay, then I won’t play a game.
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People who’ve played Saints Row 3: do you remember the Lady Gaga-esque costume you can wear? My co-op character was wearing that when I was playing with a friend, but it was a new character who hadn’t done anything past the character creation menu in single player. So when I launched back into the single player, my character was in her Gaga costume for the opening mission, which normally isn’t possible. And it made everything that much more hysterical.
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Lol, I’ve only just started playing that game but I know the one you mean. Would have made those cut scenes rather… interesting.
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OH oH OH OH
i just finished Uncharted 3!
it’s been a while since i’ve finished a game in less than 24 hours (note: no little credit to the game, i played non-stop pretty much, that’s why)
ANYWAY, SPOILER TOWN, AND COZ I’M SO INDIE, I’M WRITING IT IN “AL BHED” INSTEAD OF YOUR MAINSTREAM ROT13! (use this: http://www.pixelscapes.com/twoflower/albhed.html)
Cu, tet yhouha amca naymmo vaym mega cimmo fuimt tea eh dra aht?
mega drao cbahd y mud uv desa uh rec yht Tnygac pylgcduno, yht y mud uv rehdc fana kejah (mega amahy dammehk res du pa suna lynavim fedr cimmo)
famm, madc zicd cyo dryd frah Tnyga rymmilehydac cimmo toehk, e pameajat ed vimmo, zicd palyica e druikrd dra kysa fyc maytehk du dryd buehd.
but yeah, awesome game!
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wait, it’s already been done before?
GAH, THAT MAKES IT NOT INDIE!
(on another note, hell yeah Final Fantasy X rules)-
I only discovered rot13 in TAY a while back 😛 (seriously thought everyone was going crazy with some intense inside joke when I first read it). But there’s an Al Bhed translator? FFX ftw!
Ur yht E yknaa fedr fryd oui yht YmaqByhdc cyet :). E ymfyoc vamd dryd dra cduno fyc ped sar eh I3…
Oooo! I like how they tell you how to pronouce it 😀
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Aw I like rot13. D:
E fyc dra cysa: pameajat ed vimmo, druikrd ed fyc dra nekrd drehk du tu kejah dra cryba uv dra cduno, yht eh y cdnyhka fyo fyc semtmo tecybbuehdat dryd ra fyc ymeja eh dra aht. Amahy yht Lrmua fana sygehk cilr y vicc (yht nekrdmo cu) ypuid ruf Hyda’c tacena du payd Synmufa fyc megamo du rind cusauha, pid eh dra aht hudrehk lusac vnus ed, yht ed teth’d caas mega y ‘kaa syopa E cruimt pa suna lynavim ypuid biddehk so vneahtc eh tyhkan mega dryd’ susahd ajan rybbahat…
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oayr, ed cuihtc gehty sayh, pid e cundy fecr cimmo ryt teat, fuimt’ja paah yh ehdanacdehk bmud buehd…
ymdruikr e naymm otu muja cimmo yht ruf ra nayldc fedr Tnyga, cu dra vyld dryd ra tet cinjeja ec ymnekrd yc famm :T
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So stupid me applied for a job as a part time PC tech without realising how far away the store actually is from where I live. If only public transport was better in this part of the country x.x
Curse me for not having a license & a car…
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Bahahaha. If it was like, Bangladesh, I’d feel a little sorry for them, but as it it… Oh Pakistan.
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If only she stopped being so shy spoke louder during the show I wouldn’t have yelled at her!
Also Applejack is the bestest :o)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP0f5rvVkAU
I love her singing
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I think my favourite is when Flutterguy sings Pinkie Pie’s song.
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She’s an evil enchantress
And she does evil dances
And if you look deep in her eyes
She will put you in trances
Then what would she do?
She’ll mix up an evil brew
Then she’ll gobble you up
In a big tasty stew
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7PGKcikaGY
~oh pinkie, it doesn’t sound anything like your song~
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No, don’t set deadlines, they’re the procrastinator’s worst enemy!*
*There’s probably a reason I have achieved nothing in the last 20 and a half and a bit years.
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Hi everybody.
So I’ve had a long day, had to drive to Canberra and back today. Had to go to a funeral for one of mum’s best friends from when she went through nursing training. It was a nice service but of course it was sad too.
I’m going to the Harry Potter exhibition tomorrow \o/ I’m probably going to dress up too. Hopefully my friends remembers to bring me a cape, its really all I’m missing. I already have a Hogwarts jumper and a wand.
Also Bish, Y U NO INTERROGATE ME? I mean, I’m obviously innocent. I have no interest in the sweet delicious cookies *drool*
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Well, if you’d asked me while you were in Canberra, I could have given you a cape. Admittedly, it’s a cape designed for 12 year olds, but shh, don’t bring your logic here. Also, that drive to Sydney and back is terrible to do in one day. And it’s a shame that you had to come down here for that reason.
Finally, I think Bish just hates us both. It’s the only logical explanation.
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Thankfully my dad is not a good passenger, so whenever we go anywhere, he drives. No question. Last week, I hadn’t really decided to go in costume. Its really only to embarrass my friends who don’t think I’ll do it.
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I don’t make up the reasons, man!
I just agree to them.
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This. Is. Awesome.
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:The_Milkman/Life_Lessons_from_Mass_Effect
(the comments have more)
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That’s probably for the best.. I love orange and poppyseed cake… minus the crap.. crap never goes well in a cake.. unless it’s a crapcake!
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That.. Explains a lot..
I have some apologies to make. brb.
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I’m a simple man, so, probably a triple choc cake, with two types of chocolate icing/filling. Nothing fancy, just delicious chocolardiac arrest.
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Cookies and cream cheesecake that used to be sold at my local bowling club. And then they got rid of it. :'(
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CHEESECAKE! Every day and every night. I would eat it in a house. I would eat it with a mouse.
Fruit cheesecakes are the best. Passionfruit especially. Or raspberry. 😀
Best Teamspeak post thus far tonight.
Steve-O:”Bish, are you pumped?”
Bish:”I’m eating shapes, so yes.”
Oh Bish. And drunk Steve-O.
Woah, after this it’ll be 4912 comments (hopefully), and I honestly can’t fathom what it would feel like to hit 5000+ comments two weeks in a row…
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It’s pretty nuts. I remember the first time we hit 1000(old man voice), we were all so shocked at how talkative we’d been.
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Hey, TAY, I need a huge favour. I cannot find any pictures of the bottom of Elizabeths dress. It’s kind of important so if someone can it would be much appreciated.
Also, do people want to see the cosplay making process?
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I want to see the cosplay making process!
And normally I’d help with the other part, but, yeah, capped, so instead I’ll sit here uselessly.
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This one sort of shows the bottom half – http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/296/1/0/bioshock_infinite_elizabeth_by_narutox79-d31dsag.jpg
And yes, definitely would like to see the process you go through.
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I was about to post that one. Damn you Nova!
Also, this. Not great, but the best I can find on capped net.
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110701160504/bioshock/images/f/fe/Elizabeth%27s_Gold.JPG-
I still can’t see it very well >_<
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I’m sorry!! D=
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Don’t be. It’s not your fault they wont show us her hem and feet. Obviously boobs are far more important
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I was kidding 😛
Also, sex sells. Hence the boobs. Unfortunately I don’t think they’re tailoring to tailors.
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Probably XD
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I’ve never been overly interested in cosplay (skimming the Kotaku articles are about the extent of my involvement :P), but I’m sure the process would be interesting to see if you’re willing to document it.
Can’t really help you with images though. :\
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Screen shots only please. You can be mislead by other peoples cosplays.
Also, I thought Elizabeth’s hair was a much darker brown, almost black
If people are interested then I’ll make a blog about it. Don’t expect regular updates though. I will go from the very beginning too so be warned, it’s a lot XD
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I will refresh it like a hawk! (Totally not creepy)
Also, if nobody else finds appropriate screenies, I can take a few from some of the gameplay videos tomorrow, I’ve been meaning to analyse them properly for a while now.
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Like Powalen, I’ve never been into cosplay or looked into it at all but I’d be interested to see the process 🙂
I’m more a visual person so can you take lots of pics as well as dem words please? 😀
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Yes I’m quite the visually creative type (or so I tell myself)
Although I don’t do it as often as I’d like, I’m pretty good at drawing and artsy stuff too :o)
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Artsy stuff? Errgghhh. I’m pretty sure if my High School “Art” teacher’s could have fired me from the class, they would have.
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I didn’t do art in my later years of high school and I probably should’ve. Looked soooo easy.
We started to pick electives from year 9 onwards and I sorta just picked whatever really. Wasn’t really planning ahead or thinking about VCE (not sure of the ACT equivalent). I think photography in year 9 was my last artsy subject. Piss easy and got to be in a class with some of my best female friends : D
I went with general useful stuff after that like economics, law, maths, history etc. enjoyed them somewhat but not really. Had this crazy “WTF AM I DOING!?” moment at the start of year 12 where I had the sudden urge to change all my units/subjects since I really had little to no interest in them and they were hard :P. But I totally manned up and did them anyway with little to no effort as usual (lazyyy) but still ended up with a good score for Uni 😀
I always figured that creative subjects like art, music and stuff was something that couldn’t and shouldn’t really be taught :/
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Awesome 🙂
Looking forward too it and good luck!
Sorry I’m not helpful in the Elizabeth picture department 😛
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That’s fine Greenius. =D
Take a look at the E3 2011 Gameplay footage (I think it was E3 anyway). Should be about 9 minutes long. First time you see Elizabeth you get a full bodyshot. A screencap I took from it: http://i41.tinypic.com/10yianc.jpg
Forgive my poor ability to describe clothes but: Seems like under the blue dress is a frilly white part. (best description). Seems like regular black boots. If you can’t find the video, I’ll take another screencap.
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Awesome! That’s a petticoat, something I was going to make anyway! So the hem is plain and he dress doesn’t go up like the cosplay miniscree posted (I think that’s what initially threw me off because I was sure until then)
admit it, ever since I came to TAY your all using a hell of a lot more gigs.
~but you love my mlp videos~ ^^
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Nah, those videos have barely impacted my dl’s. Particularly for the last few days, but that’s a different matter entirely.
And maybe I do, but only because MLP is awesome.
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Directly by watching the vids? No.
Indirectly by having the vids convince me to get my hands on the series? Yes. ~30gigs worth of full 1080p HD My Little Pony goodness. Only seen like 8 eps though 😛
So I started the 3rd Birthday and I have a question that I think is pretty important.
When Aya takes over the soldier in the past, what happens to him? Does he die? Is he just suddenly erased from the past?
I do not understand
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I think they tried to cover up the holes in the story with Aya’s clothing damage. I think you need to start paying attention to her clothes (/lack of) more.
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Apologies, it’s loading too slowly for me to achieve anything, when this game is over(no idea how long that’ll be) I’ll get Bish to send it to you.
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Sup guys. I just applied for about 20 million jobs. (not really more like 20 or so) within the Coles & Woolworths groups. Lets hope this gets me somewhere /sigh
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I applied for a whole bunch of jobs back in the day at Coles etc. And nothing ever came of them. Ever.
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Bahahahaha Hahahaha. HAhaha. Oh dear, I probably shouldn’t laugh so much at that.
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😛 Heh
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Anyone feel like giving me a job? No? Fair enough.
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What about me? No as well? Oh ok…
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I did this too. General ones for Coles and that Wowcareers things for Woolworths. At least Woolworths replies saying I didn’t get the job 🙂
I just apply for them cause I can. No experience and over 18 so highly unlikely I’d get hired 😛
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Yeah i’m in the same boat. I’ve only briefly worked in OH&S doing web design >.<
Though I did learn a lot about OH&S in that short time haha.
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I ave all the spare time, and I’m… Uhhh. Above average? That’s about the best I’ve got.
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Same here. Although my HSC begs to differ with some subjects. Mainly cause I hated those subjects >_>
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Hey, Scree. Not sure what other people have posted, but this official concept art could be a pretty good indication:
http://beefjack.com/files/2012/01/BioShock-Infinite-Art-By-Alex-Garner-600×616.jpg
It seems pretty accurate when compared to screenshots:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6dHEiFPGVsc/TgTwRvyIWII/AAAAAAAAAYY/LnWaRh6IfHY/s1600/Bioshock%2Binfinite.jpg
Looks like a tiny bit of the hem
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Hey, Scree. Not sure what other people have posted, but this official concept art could be a pretty good indication:
http://beefjack.com/files/2012/01/BioShock-Infinite-Art-By-Alex-Garner-600×616.jpg
It seems pretty accurate when compared to screenshots:-
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6dHEiFPGVsc/TgTwRvyIWII/AAAAAAAAAYY/LnWaRh6IfHY/s1600/Bioshock%2Binfinite.jpg
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Bollocks, how about this:
http://beefjack.com/files/2012/01/BioShock-Infinite-Art-By-Alex-Garner-600×616.jpg-
Yeah that works \o/
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Bollocks is a good word.
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Posted back oon the last page, but just in case:
From the Gameplay footage which is about 9 minutes long: http://i41.tinypic.com/10yianc.jpg
White frilly bit, black boots.-
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Yeah, it’s about 7 minutes in when you see Elizabeth.
The video claims to be 1280×720 resolution, but that screencap sure don’t look it.
There’s probably an awesome HD version floating around that’ll help.
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OH GOD! concept art appears to contradict the screenshot! And I thought the confusion from Madoka was bad! (It’s was much, much worse).
Concept art: Frill on the hem
Screen shoot: No frill and the petticoat is only visible when she moves!-
Not to mention that in the concept art her sleeves look far more jackety than they do in game. I think.
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It’s not actually a frill connected to the hem like it is in the concept art, it’s under the dress and is actually a petticoat.
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Something just occurred to me, we have at least 2 comments in moderation. Odds are, the unmoderated ones don’t appear in the post count at the top of the page.
What we see as the five thousandth post, will be more like the 5002nd. But we won’t know that until Monday, when TABTOL is posted, assuming someone comes in and moderates the posts over the weekend. OH GOD, it’s so confusing!
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We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
‘Cause your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance
Well they’re no friends of mine
I say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind
And we can dance-
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We’ll find out on Monday 😛
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http://cosplaythescreeway.wordpress.com/
Unfortunately, I think my liking of purple got better judgement of me XD
Theme suggestions?
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I might have more to say if it ever loaded!
And I went with a simple design for mine, elegant, and plain. Because I’m boring.
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I am apologising because a simpler design may have let you see it =(
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I doubt it would help! Stop apolololagising!
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I like the houses at the bottom especially the one on the left that’s just casually floating C:
oh cool, you cosplay?
i’ve been wanting to make my own cosplay costumes for a while now, and was actually considering starting soon, as i now don’t have troublesome school to deal with!
hopefully my first project will be this http://i.animecrazy.net/druaga00_07.jpg
a bit ambitious maybe, but somethign i’ve wanted to do for a long time!
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Does Scree Cosplay? Oh B-Funk, a bit behind, aren’t you. If i was in a helping mood(by which I mean if I had functional internet), I would link you to the pictures of her floating around, but I can’t, so you’ll just have to trust that they’re somewhere in TAY. Not this TAY, only some of them are in this one, others are in others. MUAHAHAHAHAHA.
Also, Good on you for considering cosplay, it’s something I am way too lazy to do properly, and if you’re going to do it at all, I really think it should be done properly.
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Man, that first statement came off way more dickish than I meant it to. Apologies my funky brother.
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It doesn’t appear to be stark white like others have used. It appears to be an off white or slightly yellow. I gathered it was satin because when you look at the screen shots the colour of her corset changes slightly. It makes it quite hard to determine what the colour actually is. I don’t believe it’s white though
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Everytime I try to talk to someone it’s “sorry” this, and “forgive me” that, and “I’m not worthy…”
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Wait, when did you become a doctor?!
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I’ve always been a doctor. Technically, I’m an honourary Professor of “Sir, please put your pants back on.” But I don’t let that bring me down.
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Ah. That explains it.
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Alright, we got to 5000. I can stop holding my breath! Now, I’m going to bed because I’m megas tired. 😛
Fun Fact: 10 mins of playing the Phoenix Wright games while laying in bed makes me fall asleep. They’re amazing games, but they put me out like a light any time after 7pm :P. I shall inform the insomniacs.
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FUN FACT: I pretty much played all the Ace Attorney games whilst lying on my bed before going to sleep. That’s my special handheld time 😀
FUN FACT 2: A few years ago we had this insane hailstorm that had hail the size of tennis balls in Melbourne (my area was hit the worst). I was playing Ace Attorney Investigations at the start of this before the hail broke like 7 windows 😛
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Yeah!
I think those types of games work better as Sit in bed and play sorts of things. Like reading a novel!
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For future reference, the correct way to follow up “I must go now” is “my planet needs me”.
Kids these days…
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I know, right?
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OMG Bish’s …screenplay?
BEST EVER.
EVERYTHING IS THE BEST
NO ROCKETMAN, I’M NOT DRUNK.
I AM ALSO…NOT A MIDGET
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Okay. Would you prefer height-challenged, or person of diminished stature?
😛
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That song is amazing!
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Man, I remember when I did that. It was so glorious. Good Work, the game just KEEPS GOING from there.
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The question is now what weapon to make with the demonite I got as a drop. Decisions decisions
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Night’s Edge (the sword)… or you could save it and make sure you can make the pickaxe after the next boss.
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Correction… Light’s Bane. Or the Demon Bow.
Personally my priority was the next pickaxe though.
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Oh my god. No way! Brisbane Soundwaves time table has been adjusted! So now I can fit everything in with minimal clashing! I am soo happy!!
Steel Panther: 12:40 – 1:20
HELLYEAH: 1:30 – 2:00
Alter Bridge: 2:00 – 2:40
Wednesday 13: 2:20 – 3:00
Marilyn Manson: 5:55 – 6:50
Slipknot: 7:00 – 8:30
System of a Down: 8:30 – 10:00
Lamb of God: 9:00 – 10:00
Only clash now I care about is Alter Bridge & Wednesday 13, this is awesome news!
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I saw the LoG/SoaD clash on the Brisbane timetable and shed a brutal tear.
Then the Sydney one came out and I have zero clashes!
STEVE HOLT \o/
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Nice man! I’m not a huge fan of SOAD or LOG but I want to catch some of each live so i’m cool with it! =D
But I still think Wednesday should have his hour setlist like originally & be on around 4pm =/ he has quite a following here in Aus, I was lucky to get tickets last time he came out here solo in 2010 >.<
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It helps that I’m not a huge fan of a heap of the bands, so it’d be pretty hard to have the ones I really want to see clash.
I’m keen to have Steel Panther kick off my day though.
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Same! I wish Soundwave Revolution went ahead in ways since Van Halen was meant to headline & only to have Steel Panther show them up singing their own songs, since Michael Starr is just amazing at David Lee Roth era VH, he use to be in a VH cover band apparently same with Satchel..
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I never spam, I always just post.
It just so happens that i post to EVERYTHING.
Unless I have nothing to say, in which case I sit in my room awkwardly…
Wow, this place is even really active at night?
Normally I only really browse TAY when I have some free time while at work… but, well, I thought I’d drop in to see if anything had appeared since I last looked (a few hours ago now) and there’s a few more pages if I remember correctly.
[darksouls]
That Tomb of the Giants. What a fun place. The catacombs seemed kinda easy after hnghnghgnghg’ing so much in Anor Londo… the boss died w/ 3 great fireballs.
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My internets at home have been suffering badly this week… sporadocally just having zero connectivity some nights, but it seems OK now. Fingers crossed for the weekend.
I tried to preorder the MGS HD collection yesterday, but was told I couldn’t because it had been released. But they weren’t getting stock/selling it until this coming Thursday. This was confusing to me.
Faux Satiated fled,
I’m really quite hungry – time to Kirby (it’s a verb now?) some dinner
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Tomb of the Giants SUCKS. In all the previous areas I would explore every nook and crannies, I tried to do that with the tomb but yeah… Ragedquitted and ran through that god forsaken area as quick as I could 😛
RE: MGS HD
I think The Cracks said it got delayed until the 16th in Australia which is just utterly stupid…
@Virus Good luck with the job search! I know how that feels because I spent three months looking for job in late 2010. And it wasn’t nice. Burned pretty much all my savings… Argh.
Also, guys, hope not everyone went to sleep, I have some RELEVANT INFO prepared, lol.
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Thanks man! I’ve been on the look out for a job for almost 2 years, it sucks not having an income so much. I’m really close to applying for government monies & going back to TAFE to study x.x even though I don’t want to.
So, yeah, I woke up and noticed the official eXceed site is finally live! (the founder is still working on it)
There you have most of the info covered.
I’m uploading replays of the demos in Youtube (played by yours truly!) to help people with the games and show what kind of stuff they should aim for… and what they shouldn’t do, heh.
You are on the edge of a thick forest, facing north, out into a field.
You see a log cabin in front of you.
To the west of the cabin you can see three cows, grazing in the field.
The forest to the south is too thick to travel through.
A path runs east/west along the edge of the forest.
In the distance you can see some snow-capped mountains.
Exits are: NORTH, WEST, SOUTH
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You decide to ignore the path – paths are for suckers.
You make your way out towards the cabin, but the bovine beasts catch your eye and you turn and walk towards them.
As you approach them, you notice that they are absolutely still. You realise that these are not actual cows but a cunning ruse made from paper mache.
Your plans twarted, you notice that you happen to be standing directly under the sun. How about that.
Points to investigate are: COWS, LOG CABIN
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Although, is it legal? I fear they might gang up on you just out of pure trolling. Those bloody winged black horrors!
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The content of the article is pretty horrifying, but the comments are… interesting.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/video-gaming-interrupted-by-sadistic-sisters-cruelty-ensues/
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Now I finally get what you guys meant about Kotaku US…
Yes, that does NOT belong to a game site at all. It belongs to a horror story book.
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Normally I react to comments that complain about the author of a story (“Ashcraft sucks! Plunkett only writes one line!”) in much the same way as I react to people who say sexism/homophobia/gender articles don’t have a place on Kotaku – nobody’s forcing them to click the link, and if people are commenting there must be something to talk about.
However. That article is ridiculous. It’s so tangentially related to video games that I can’t for the life of me work out why it’s on the website. Kotaku isn’t a crime blog, and if the kid was walking his dog when he got the invitation Mr Ashcraft wouldn’t have touched it. If the American arm of the website wants to be taken seriously as a host and producer of good content, it could start by making sure its articles are relevant (and punctuated, but that’s another issue).
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Well, I didn’t even know who Ashcraft was until you guys told me. Goes to tell how much I knew about the general gaming press. Not so long ago I had no idea who Jim Sterling was. I barely knew Yahtzee due to his Zero Punctuation reviews and that was it.
I agree, that the article is absolutely ridiculous and, like I said, it belongs to somewhere else entirely and to see someone picking something like that and have the nerve to put it as a headline doesn’t make me trust said person all that much.
I DO like the general level (and punctuation) of the comments in Kotaku Aus.
This is a totally unbiased comment definitely not influenced by @scree.
*Ok, scree, you can stop pointing those Kathyusha missile launchers at me!*
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Katyusha? The Stalin organ? I remember that level from Battlefield 1942! 😀
But I digress.
Kotaku’s comments are generally great, especially if the post they’re replying to is reflective/opinion and not just gaming news. I’ve seen some brilliant and fantastic posts that manage to argue a point (or just make an observation) civilly and articulately.
Often it’s the Australian pieces (some of Mark’s reflections, or Tracey’s articles on the games industry, or guest posts) that have really fascinating discussions. The “Objection!” articles are usually awesome at getting these debates going.
But more than occasionally, in news posts that highlight some new game or talk about a particular game company, the comments descend into a cesspool of madness and immaturity. It’s really weird – the quality goes from being really interesting and well thought out comments to bickering, insults, childishness…
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It was only when I began packing my suitcase that I realised I probably brought more books than clothing.
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a) Yes.
but
b) ‘Brought’ as in ‘brought from Australia’. I’m packing to head home, turns out most of what I had in my suitcase was books… 🙂
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While you guys sleep I’ll be spamming Commando one liners like “Let off some steam, Bennett!” or remembering how awesome the Naked Gun series was. I just love the part where Nielsen (rest in peace you great old man!) crashes the police tank into the zoo. The Simpsons (old ones) owes a lot to that awesomely chaotic scene.
Also, The Thing! What a masterful display of puppetry and FX!!!! AND, moreover, that awesome dog they used! Proves once again the budget on CGI could’ve been spent on a real FX team…
Let’s see if we can get to 30 pages today…
How is the summer treating you, fellow aussies? It’s not treating me to well here… In fact, I got sunburnt on my neck and arms just by walking 15 minutes under the sun. 🙁
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Whereabouts are you located? I hate this summer that melbourne’s been going through. I want winter again. At least it’ll be autumn soon.
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I’m in Argentina. Buenos Aires has pretty much the same brutal summer as Melbourne although maybe a bit more “tropical” due to global warming and the horrid policies regarding green spaces/trees (more like, lack of them, gotta start planting trees!).
Still, sun is murderous down here. So if anyone is planning to go to the other side of the south, remember it’s also summer here! 😛
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Yeah I sometimes forget that not everybody who visits this site is Australian. 😛
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That thought never occured to me except for maybe New Zealanders 😛
He did say ‘fellow Aussies’ so my guess is that he’s an Australian who’s either working/living over at Argentina or on holiday there. But then again I’m probably wrong 😀
This probably explains why you’re up and posting at strange Australian times 😛
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No no, I’m Australian. I just got up early this morning because I couldn’t stand going back to sleep. haha
I’ve seen the occasional person in article comments say they’re from the UK or somewhere, but that’s about it.
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lol yeah I know you’re Australian (or living in Australia)
The last sentence was supposed to be for Alpha 😛
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^ it’s hot again for the weekend…. At least it’s cooler (low 20’s) next week though 😀
One thing about this summer I somewhat enjoy is that we haven’t had any killer 40+ days yet
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heh, sorry, recently I’ve spent more time talking to australians and people from the UK than people over here. You can blame scree for that too. She passed me the “aussiness” but it turns I need MORE aussiness.
Like, toodles. And flammin’ galahs and all that stuff 😛
We only had 2 days with over 40ºC and I think that was enough… I’m also happy you guys use Celsius and centimetres like us. Those US people with their inches, feet and Fahrenheit!
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“Aussieness”. Sorry, the heat is affecting me again…
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My thoughts exactly! I have artwork uploaded at RedBubble and that is an australian project, yet all the measures are in freaking inches because of the US people! So every time I have to measure one of my pictures I have to do the bloody conversion back to centimetres (2.54cm IIRC). ARGH, so annoying!
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I had the worst sleep last night (That’s why I’m TAYing at 7:30 on a Saturday D:) I’m not at home at the moment and I have the most uncomfortable bed. The pillow is about twice as tall as my usual one which is horrible…
…Or is this a normal pillow and the one at home has been used for so long it has compacted into itself? :O Mysteries…
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That pillow thing happens for me. I keep two or three pillows in my room, but each one is about the third the size of a normal pillow, so in theory, depending on how I’m feeling that night, I can optimise my head cushioning.
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Good morning! B-b-b-b-but you can’t be lazy on me! I’ve, like, been working the entire day! Playing video games! (I wish I was kidding, lol, but I’ve been indeed playing and uploading scoring runs)
Ok, I did serious work too.
What’s all this about shirts and such? Something awesome a brewin’? *curiosity*
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Cracks requested shirts, and shirt type people rose to the call. Including me. Well, just Chuloopa and I
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I’m here! But I’m not doing anything constructive…
Just browsing random websites while semi-listening to terrible music on TV 😛
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I am here now! I got up a bit before 7, got dressed, decided I should start cleaning, and then went back to bed. I then got up half an hour ago, and started cleaning. Luckily there’s not too much to do here, so now I’m making pancakes(the lazy way).
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What a coinkidink, I made pancakes for breakfast as well!
Well… I helped make them.
Well… I stirred the batter.
The important thing is that I helped eat them.-
Mine are just from those shake and pour things, although, with Baileys added. I’m hoping the Baileys extended its shelf life, as you’re supposed to use up the batter within three days of mixing it up, but it’s been six days…
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It’s just unusual.
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It’s VERY unusual.
Sometimes I’m on at like, 5 am, but that’s only when I’ve stayed up all night.
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I’ve noticed that before XD
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Some of my best posts have been written at 5am.
Many of my worst, too…
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to be loved, by anyone.
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DAADOODAADOODAADOO! #terribleattemptatmakingmusicalnoisesthroughtext
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~~ Tra la la la la la ~~ ♪♫
#myattemptatmakingmusicalnoisesthroughtext
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http://soundcloud.com/blaghman/last-blaghmas
#Apotentiallylessbadsystemforshowingsoundthroughtext
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Hi TAY
my other comment is waiting moderation because I accidentally spelt my username wrong.
damn it ._.
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I remember, back in the days when Mark had to approve every comment, someone, I think it was JamesMacUsedMyHandle, misspelled part of his name, and it was like that for two or three days. It was glorious. So, look on the bright side, at least you don’t have… that?
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I can’t believe Kotaku AU reposted this:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/02/video-gaming-interrupted-by-sadistic-sisters-cruelty-ensues/comment-page-2/#comments
Talk about a REALLY bad move for PR. It’s a damn shame that the content of the american site is reflecting so much on the AU site.
As per usual i would tell people to get over it, but seriously – where is the relation to games in any way shape or form other than that the kid was playing them before he was tortured by sadistic rednecks?!
This is one of those rare times where the outrage is completely justified… i can’t help but facepalm in copious amounts at this massive fail on the parts of all those involved.
I would like to know who at Kotaku AU thought this would be good to repost?
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Yeah, Aidan and Alpha were discussing that last night/earlier this morning. It’s certainly… an odd choice.
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I tend to agree. Normally I can see where the AU editors are coming from when they re-post the other articles that get a lot of hate (the rants or one-line articles). That they promote discussion, you don’t have to read it, etc. But this particular article was just written in poor taste, I think.
I don’t know. I usually try not to get involved in these sort of articles.
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This is why i don’t like this article.
As i said, i give a lot of leeway to the US writters most of the time, and i enjoy a lot of them and don’t click on the ones i know i won’t. Heck, i think it’s even neat to see some of the awesome cosplay sometimes.
But this? Just… no…
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Oh god, feeling sick after one and a half pancakes. Milk was a bad choice!
Don’t let it end this way, tell them I said… something
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We stand here today to honour the passing of the one and only Blaghman. His final words will be forever etched in the sands of time, may we never forget his immortal words – “Something” RIP
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Supposedly, those were the last words of Pancho Villa(Just the latter sentence, the middle one is a quote from Anchorman, and the first one is just the truth). Though odds are he didn’t actually say that, as last words go, it’s pretty awesome.
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Futurama time! http://youtu.be/5DbAs203r3Y
And, for a bonus, check out the like/dislike bar..!
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That like/dislike bar 😀
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I do love how youtube banded together to make all Neutral videos Neutral. It’s pretty cool.
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So I’m going to Lincraft today as I bought the wrong sized blinds for my windows.
D’oh.
At least I can find out how much the simplicity pattern is =D
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In future you should keep an eye on http://sewingpatterns.com/ because they’ll often have great sales on and even with postage costs they come out waaaay cheaper than buying patterns in australia. Not good for when you have time constraints though.
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I kind of just assumed that this was Blaghman replying. There was a staggering disconnect between content and poster. I need to go back to bed I think.
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You… assumed that it was me? Huh. I used to do that sometimes, back before we had images, and it’s very disconcerting.
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Why did it post twice when I only clicked “submit” once?
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So I’m going to Singapore for a week, in about a week and right now I’m playing FFXIII-2 and Bastion. By the time I get back I should’ve received Resident Evil: Revelations, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection and Resident Evil 4 in the mail. The Last Story and Tales of Graces f ship within a few weeks of me coming back. I’ll also be back at Uni by late Feb >_>. And on top of that I still have pile of shame games that I want to play. There’s also a few new releases that I’m interested in but passing on to try and save monies (Jak Collection, Amalur, SSX)
Soooo much games! Sooo little time! (actually I have a lot of spare time :P)
#firstworldproblems
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I have all the time, and yet I fail at completing games. And it’s not like I can really afford new ones either!
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I have plenty of time, but also a reasonable amount of disposable income. I still have games I’ve never touched. So many games.
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Sometimes I wonder if I enjoy buying games more than I do playing them.
Well, I play every game I buy (except for certain bundled games) but often for only two hours then I stop. Maybe there is something in the concept of the “second hour” in a video game. Do I just like novelty..?
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I just like buying games. When I can afford them, I go on mad spending sprees, picking up everything I can find. It’s pretty nuts. I still have something like eight games from Pineapple of Shame Month, that I have not played at all.
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HI TAAAAAAAAAAY
how’s your weekend progressing?
I purchased Evochron Mercenary last night, and for those look for a fairly in depth space sim, with hints of X-Wing alliance, Wing Commander and Tachyon, i can highly recommend it…
Graphics are decent, but when you get up close to space station etc, you can tell it’s an Indie game, because it gets fairly blocky…
but i am loving the whole “Do whatever you want” thing… so far i’ve Cleaned a solar array, Cleared an asteroid field to make way for a trade route, run emergency supplies to a planet in need, mined oxygen from a barren planet, and that was just the first hour…
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hmmmmm interesting
How does it compare to something like starlancer? Looking at the screenshots the hud looks really indepth, how much of that is actually used?
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you have a PS3 component cable?
it’s the same one, in fact, it’s the same one as the PS1 as well…
IN FACT every playstation (except for the original PS3) uses the same power cord as well!
sony doesn’t like change much-
….*blink*… yeah… I know… all Playstation cables are compatible with PS2 and PS3.
Except for the RFU adapter, which isn’t supported by the PS3.
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Ah, but you were pretty much on the money with what you said. 🙂
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Wait what? I don’t know anything about cables and TVs and stuff… but a while ago I tried to hook up my PS1 to a TV and it didn’t work 🙁 something to do with the cable not displaying images correctly
I do have a PS2 and a PS3 (fat and slim) so does that mean the cables will work for a PS1?
inb4playyourPS1gamesonaPS2andPS3
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No, PS1 can’t do component video.
The only was to get the best video quality possible with a PS1 was a SCART connection.
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THANK YOU Kotaku Australia, for removing that terrible Ashfield article!
You guys continue to maintain that journalistic integrity that the US site lacks, and we are all better for it.
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They removed it? wow. This place keeps surprising me! All I can say is that thank god they took it out.
Hats off to Kotaku.au!
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WelL i just got this official message from Kotaku. Maybe you guys can learn something from that
You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.
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Okay…. maybe it’s because you’re posting three or more comments within the space of fifteen seconds.
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Yeah it was. Because I was getting the links for scree I had it in a notepad file and because of the 1 link limit I was just cut and paste the posts with almost no delay
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@Scree
Are you still looking for source material for your cosplay,
The below screenshot looks like it is offical advertising rather than somebdy else’s cosplay. And looks petty good compared to the videos i’ll post below
http://info.onetgry.pl/news_images/20110822/1314043719_2089.jpg
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Like… 4-5am tomorrow or something ridiculous, at HK airport. Then not until the evening Australian time 😛
(I have until fairly late on the 6th, I should be fine)
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Alright, so I have to be logged into my Uni website on February 13th at 8:09, 8:23, 8:34 and 9:10 to enrol in the tutorials for my subjects. (I talked about this in TAY before, but my tutorials are ‘first in, best dressed’). I’ll have my finger on the refresh button that night!
It was funny last year though. They scheduled all the IT courses for Feb 14 (Valentines Day) night… I thought it was funny, anyway. xD
Woo! I managed to free up about 40GB on my C & D drives, then 200GB on my 1.5TB external \o/
I really need to buy an external enclosure for my 1TB Green Drive from my old PC. I’m gonna need the space soon >.<
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I’m hoping for 500 odd posts today, and the same tomorrow. And if nobody else steps up to the plate, it will be time for Blaghspam!
Got the yard work done, had a BBQ lunch in the park with the wife and kids. Good day. Time to settle down with a good game.
Oh man what the hell! Original Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward has publicly stated he will not be staying with Black Sabbath unless he is shown some respect & an actual contract is drawn up. Thanks a lot Sharon you money hungry b*tch!
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Also trying not to post, because I honestly can’t think of anything interesting to talk about.
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Let’s talk about Twisted Metal!
I’ve never played it before but the ad that’s constantly on the side of Kotaku makes it look pretty fun.
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Nope. I’m not a real ninja 😛
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I think replying within 3 minutes counts as still being here 🙂
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Okay then, I’m going now, for reals 😛
No, I’m serious this time.
Stop giving me those funny looks.
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See you in 24 more topic posts to claim the next page-get!
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My neighbours are a pack of arseholes. I just mowed the lawn for the elderly man over the road, because his lawn needed mowing & he could not do it & the neighbours on one side of us starting mouthing off about me when I entered my property, nothing new. I’d like to see them do something as nice as that for a neighbour, but I know they will not.
Sorry guys, just I don’t see anything wrong with what I did, I did it out of pure generosity for this nice elderly man who is frail. Is there something so wrong about that?!
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You people disgust me!
Being helpful and generous!
Where has all the selfishness gone! We need to bring it back!How does one exactly mouth off at something like that? General abuse? Because the worst case specific insult I can think of is “Look at goody two shoes, mowing whashisname’s lawn. Man, that guy!”. All things considered, I don’t think I would be too offended if I were “Man, that guy!”ed.
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Nah it’s more stuff like “Oh f*cken typical c**** sucking upto everyone in the neighbourhood expecting sh!t” etc, we use to even help them once upon a time. Until they threatened to kill my father & burn our house down *sigh*
They even snap when you politely ask their kids to stop throwing rocks & sticks at our colorbond fence x.x
Just so you guys know, we have had to take an AVO out on these people before, and ring the police on 3 separate occasions & have meetings with the department of housing about their abuse to us. All of which have resulted in nothing.
Also if anyone has seen Houso’s on SBS it pretty much depicts what my neighbours are.on this side.
Though since getting a full front to back 6ft colourbond fence it did stop a lot of this abuse & them enter our yard to steal things like tools & related things from our shed.
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Oh yeah, total class man.
Turns out a friend in the ACT has an identical neighbour. The neighbour is so dumb he doesn’t realise her husband is a cop with the AFP. Is he in for a shock the day he finds out if they ever successfully are able to get legal action against this bastard.
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Sad thing is i’m kind of use to it. But at the same time I am not. As a child I use to be scared shitless by them, thinking they were going to bash me. My mother is the same, she’s also pretty tiny.
But now I don’t think he’s game to even have a go at me considering the size of me & my father.
Also makes me laugh when one of dads mates ever came around for a visit, they’d shit themselves cause he looks like a bikie. But best thing he isn’t, he’s a panel beater LOL
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Man that’s some messed up shit especially when they threatened to kill your father and BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN… WTF?!
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Yeah he’s been convicted for attempted arson. He tried to burn down Tweed River High School, he’s been done for trafficking, possession AND cultivating of drugs, then there’s the break & enter x2 of Tweed City he has been done & theft & domestic & spousal abuse. He is in his 30’s lives at home with mum who is just as psycho & has 2 kids. Yeah he’s a real model citizen!
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How is he not dead or in prison by now? Bloody hell…
Sounds like he could snap at any second and go mental… best to avoid him 😛
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Yeah that’s what puzzles us, we think everytime he got busted for drugs he cut a deal to dob someone else in to get out of doing any time. Most I know he’s done is over night in lock up for bashing his mother who then bailed him out?!
Best thing is he’s a cripple after getting run over by a 4wd when riding a dirt bike illegally on the roads around here. He also had to have his leg amputated. He can walk, but not without a limp. Also our other neighbour, who’s a hair dresser was telling us the idiot sliced the tendons in his foot the other week LOL! Dropped a knife and got his foot. Too funny tbh.
I’m honestly not scared of him, I just find him annoying. These days he wouldn’t dare act out anything he says I reckon anyway.
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So he has plenty of practice beating brainless lumps into shape
Sounds like just the man you need
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Hahaha! Oh man that’s great xD It must be the beard & tatts or something
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I don’t see how, he’s a nice bloke haha.
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Heh! He (arsehole neighbour) actually got done for growing hydro in his back garden shed a few years back. He also use to have crops out on Ukebargh island (stuffed if I know how to spell it) over in Minjunbal reserve. We still think he is dealing as well, more so white substances than green, since he takes a lot of 2-5 minute trips via pushbike to other streets in the neighbourhood. It’s extremely noticeable when he has a motorised pushbike too.
what were they saying? I dont understand why mowing someones lawn counts as being abuse worthy.
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Will it just be “\o/”? Because knowing how blogs work, you’d get more views with that than one of my 1500 word rants. 😛
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Hi Scree!
Have not been able to TAY much but good choice on the cosplay, look forward to seeing it.
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I don’t think the world is quite ready for a big-grin D smiley face and Steve Holt. I think you need to calm down. -
Hey Scree, hope I’m not too late to help, but I’ve got a few things, firstly, this is about the best shot I could get of her shoes. They’re tied with a thin black string/ribbon, and while it doesn’t show it here, I’m pretty sure they have thick(Width/lengthways) heels: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=dqg02h&s=5
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Next picture, about the best shot I could get of her necklace/whatever it is. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=b6y69l&s=5 As well as showing off her sleeves.
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The, uhh, hem line? From the side of her dress(stitch marks? I don’t know.)
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The dress also goes up on the left side(from behind): http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2wf7n6g&s=5
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Same thing, but from the front: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=rhrinq&s=5
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Are your sure it goes up on the side? It doesn’t look it from the other videos. I need to be certain before I start making it. >_<
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It’s a bit weird that way, it clearly appears to when she stops moving, but if she’s already standing still, or when she’s running, it’s far less noticeable. The dress also has more stitching on that side, as in the “folds” where the dress skirt part narrows in, so it could just be a matter that it’s “tighter” there, and so rides up more easily. Certainly, if it does actually go up, it’s to a far less pronounced degree than it does there.
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You should probably make sure, I’d hate for my work to make you do it wrong. Anyway, I just had a quick squiz, and if you check this: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-bioshock-infinite/717145? (Where I got the shots from), and look at the 15ish second mark, you can see the side of the dress going up. Give me a sec and I’ll try to find some more pointing either way…
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Gosh darn it. I still can’t tell. It appears to be lifted slightly on the back left. It’s possible that the ones that look normal are the front right. I will have to make sure I’ve got the right legs though.
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Hee hee hee. You said “Gosh Darn it.” Sorry, probably shouldn’t laugh. Did I make it clear that the side stitching seen in my fourth comment is only on the left side(for her)? I don’t know if that helps… And sorry for giving you more work to do… Geez, apologising like this, almost like I’m you.
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Yeah, I noticed the stitching and your comment about it. I think it is up slightly on the side.
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It’d definitely… grey-ish? Like, it’s obviously not white the whole way over, but apart from that, I’m terrible at this stuff. Trust Strange, she’s good at this stuff!
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Personally I’d just make it in white/offwhite because the reflection of the blue trim could be what’s making the colour difficult to make out.
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I think it’s off white (I said Ivory but it’s more a cream) and I definitely think it’s Satin.
Sorry I didn’t respond to you sooner Strange.
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It definitely goes up a the left, I don’t think it’s hitched, I just think it’s cut that way. And I’m fairly sure the white is not separate from the rest of the dress, so not a petticoat, just white lace/ruffles added on at the bottom like the white cuffs.
Added at the inside, not the outside.
Hm, Are you sure there’s no petticoat? In the screen shot that Bish posted it looked like there were 3 sets of ruffles. And it would make sense to get more of an hour glass shape.
Thanks guys too ^^
Ok, so the first coupla minutes are probably your best bet, as it has lots of walking and stuff.
Don’t worry about modifying the pattern. Put it all together and then at the last minute before you do the hem cut the left side and then do the hem as normal. 🙂
And sorry I can’t be more help in this particular case, there’s a distinct lack of high quality videos which actually show a lot of the game, it’s generally either the teaser, or the teaser for the gameplay vid in high quality, but not the actual videos. Also, I don’t understand the physics of skirts…
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I’m just really confused because when she’s walking it appears to be flat. In those pictures it looks like there’s lace underneath but in the videos it looks like a petticoat. The stills and videos appear to contradict one another >_<
Achievement Unlocked!
Told kids to get off my lawn.
20 Geezer Points.
I don’t know if that is awesome or incredibly sad.
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You’re making an awesome old man. You live in Tweed, right? So did you do it while wielding a shotgun?
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No I’m in Currumbin. Which isn’t far from Tweed but we have a different type of populace. My problem is overly spoiled kids that keep coming in and trashing our yard. You go see the parents who insist that their little angel wouldn’t do something like that.
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Ahaha, that’s so true of Currumbin man, especially Currumbin Waters xD
Now if it was Palm Beach you’d need a fully automatic assault rifle with grenade launcher attachment.
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My next door neighbour does this regularly, but I suppose luckily for her she actually is an old geezer… (not necessarily a bad person, just imagine an old english teacher and that’s what she looks/sounds like. xD)
I tried to wash my car on her lawn once (our houses share a driveway and we don’t have grass on our side) and she went nuts about me using her water. Had to stop with a half washed car. lol
Anyone here have MGS: Twin Snakes? I’m contemplating getting it to finish off my MGS:HD Collection (I can live without Portable Ops). What’s your opinions on it?
(my Metal Gear experience goes as far as me beating the original MGS, MGS2, MGS4 and playing about half of MGS3)
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Something has been picking us off one by one… As everybody walks through the tunnel, we hear a soft whoosh, and the person at the end of the line has been snatched! Who was at the end? What is following us? We’ll never know until the next victim is claimed! >:D
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This sounds like the plot for the Aussie horror movie The Tunnel, am I correct? If so that was a pretty awesome movie since it was made for only 135 grand.
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I don’t know, I just made it up. xD It sounded like a nice cliche horror movie scene. lol
(Oh god, now I’m on TV Tropes looking up horror movie tropes…)
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Haha, yeah it’s pretty generic xD
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Hello Mr. Virus__,
Sorry – I’ve been busy making pizza dough and then pizzas
Earlier this week, Strange recommended a pizza topping combination that I have never tried before that sounded pretty awesome, so I’ve decided to make it, along with some others.
In other pizza-related news, the highscore in this fake “Remember-This” reply was not random. I had also intended to have the ninja turtles on the stools originally, but ran out of time/stealth. Doing silly “Remember-This” replies can get pretty difficult to do on-the-sly in a srs bsns office environment.
Faux Hero-In-A-Half-Shell fled,
Wise man say forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza-
Oh pizza is the best! Especially home made including bases! You are excused =P
What is this mysterious topping you speak of? I like just about anything on pizza aslong as it is not capsicum.
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Olives need to be on a pizza by default in my opinion. Never thought of pumpkin on one before. Lamb would be amazing!
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Doing ALL of the plane trips.
Beijing -> Shanghai -> Hong Kong -> Adelaide – > Melbourne in one day.
*curses travel agent for eternity*
(but on the plus side, I’m returning to lovely Australia and 38 degree days- AW CRAP)
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Pics, please! 😀 Though I don’t know how interesting a pattern is to look at (whatever it is xD).
Also, I want to get some coloured contacts. Just to wear them randomly one day and see what people say. I saw someone wearing white ones once… they weren’t pleasant. I would want a normal colour and wear them to Uni on alternating days to freak people out. xD
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Good stuff scree :D. How long does it usually take to get one costume done and what do you do with previous costumes? Just wondering I guess since I’ve never cosplayed or know anyone who has 😛
Looking forward to the pics :). Hopefully you’ve taken lots of photos cause I enjoy anything that’s sort of “before and after” no matter what it is (extreme makeover, tidying up a messy room, cleaning something dirty, making something etc.)
Can’t wait to see more!
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It depends on the complexity of the costume and how well I do when I sew it. The only reason there is no photos as yet is because I’m still trying to figure out colours and doing research. I’m still preparing.
As for previous costumes, I keep them on hand. I actually would like to go back and fix up the Madoka one eventually and the Taokaka one needs a little repair (just some hand stitching on the inside of the costumes).
Taokaka took 1 month to make. It was completely hand sewn when it came to details. I’m a bit of a perfectionist (as you may have guessed), so I usually will redo it until it’s satisfactory.
Madoka I think took 6 weeks but it was during exam period too! I had to forgo study in the last 2 weeks to get it finished!-
Wow that’s some serious dedication! Can’t say I know who Madoka is but your Taokaka looked excactly like… well Taokaka (from what I’ve seen of the game anyway). I know nothing about making clothes but it does look like a very complex process, especially with all the tiny details on each costume/outfit.
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Me with my characters lonely man pillow (They are not cheap, they are like $150)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/P8270046-1.jpg -
With weapons drawn!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/P8280063.jpg
I made both the gun and bow -
Closer top part
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/P8280057-1.jpg
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Nicely done looks just like her :D. I like the addition of her cat and weapon. Did you make them too?
and lol @ lonely man pillow. Every time I see one of those I think of this scene from 30 Rock
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And this one
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I did indeed make the weapons. I didn’t make the cat thing (kyuubey). There are a LOT of error in this cosplay, but I made my friends gun and it was fricking awesome (the silver one in the photo) =D
NOw would probably be the best time to mention I will be helping Mini scree with her Zelda cosplay too while doing my own. -
So miniscree is going as Zelda? Awesome! Zelda ftw \o/
I was going to ask what was she going as but forgot 😛
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Ah that explains why you accidentally linked me on Steam before, this looks amazing by the way =O
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I’m sorry! It was an accident. But yeah Miniscree is going as Zelda. You probably wont see it though. Sorry ^^;;
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Are we \o/ now?
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I am content with the amount of \o/ that has gone on today.
http://oi54.tinypic.com/69j05t.jpg
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Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, ba duba dop
Ba du
Yeah
Mmmbop, ba duba dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du bop, Ba du dop
Ba du
Yeah
Oh yeah
In an Mmmbop they’re gone
Yeah yeah
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With massive apologies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHozn0YXAeE
Somehow this made it to #1 in 27 countries.
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Thanks Freeze I managed to forget this song and Hanson until just then :P…
Virus do you mean by that? Are you saying imagine Hanson now? With all their millions of dollars I’m sure they’re fine :/
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I was thinking more so imagine how thy would feel they wrote such trash, or more so performed it lol. Since I assume their music tastes & influences have changed since then. I know if it was me i’d be ashamed.
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I’m sure anyone would be ashamed… but dat money. I’m fairly sure anyone else would do it too for dat money 😛
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I wouldn’t D=
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I totally would’ve >_>
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I definitely would have. Hell, I’ve done worse for free…
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TAY! What do you guys reckon, should I take my friends advice & apply for the job currently going at one our many local adult shops? xD
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Actually it’s the fancy re-modelled one next the dolphin in Tweed with the classy looking brothel out the back. Not the dodgy one in bay street next to the bike tattoo parlour or the other one up the other end of bay street across from video ezy XD
So maybe not required? I’ve been to all 3, this one is by far the nicest, also they were the only ones with working air con.
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She just said over twitter that she has to do stuff tomorrow! You’re letting the team down, Scree!
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I’m sorry! At least they decided to have 1 party for two of my friends otherwise I would be absent from TAY for TWO days.
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I wish my friends (apart from Sam) had birthday parties, lame friends are lame! xD
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My friends have birthday parties but I haven’t been going to them for the past year :/
(bad friend I am!)
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Man, I do that too. I am best friend.
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Indeed it is.
Magical electricity immune suits!
(knows pretty much nothing about electricity and giant tesla coils)
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Earlier tonight I was playing Layton, while in front of my computer, while watching someone else stream a game. I’m so good at task focus…
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Three things:
-It’s hot at the moment, meaning I’ll most likely be awake until 2am
– Mosquitoes piss me off to no end.
– The Twisted Metal Beta (1.6GB) is totally awesome! If you have a PS3, go and download it now! 😀
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Man, I remember last year. I don’t know what it was, but the mozzie bites were extra bad, and wherever I got bitten would just inflate. I felt like such an old person putting cream and stuff on them so they wouldn’t itch as much. /o\
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So you guys had them too. Apparently, they were a special breed of mozzies. Incredibly aggressive and persistent too.
I guess people remember those bloody Aedes Aegypti right? I usually end up catching some of these small bloodsuckers mid-air, Miyagi-sensei style.
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They’re the “Yellow fever mozzie,” right? We’re mostly too far south to get them, too temperate outside of, pretty much Queensland, to get them.
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Meh, social life… What’s that? I was invited to a meeting this week. We were going to study and practice japanese with a friend who just came back from GLORIOUS NIPPON but, sh*t happens: I was at the office and couldn’t go 🙁
Doesn’t help my reputation of work-a-holic. I’m really not one, just that it seems every time people want to meet up to drink a coffee or talk a bit or playing something, I’m precisely closing important stuff for work.
Argh, c’est la vie!
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Man, I’m unemployed, and have no social life, oh, and I don’t actually play many video games.
I am winning at life.
Watching Air Force One has made me realize that Modern Warfares Makarov is a direct rip of Gary Oldmans character.
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Wait, are you saying that a Call of Duty game is ripping off a movie? No. How dare you sir! How dare you!
After that article on here earlier in the week about Final Fantasy XIII – I went and looked up those Harry Plinkett reviews of the Star Wars prequels – man alive they are epic!
Err wow. That’s just disturbing.
Went and saw Man on a Ledge tonight.
Was alright. Good even.
The plot was fun, but plot elements were by-and-large either telegraphed or predictable.
Acting was decent. At least Worthington didn’t try to pull of a dreadful American accent.
Was somewhat funny, as well.
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine is 66% off on Steam at the moment:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/55150/
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Thanks for the heads up. I am a big fan of DoW: Dark Crusade but lost trace of the series after that… Might have to investigate and update on the current state of things, heh.
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Why were there harpoons there? Who put them there and never fired them? Weird. Not the first time this has felt like a game restricted by the usual mechanics and things, but this is particularly egregious…
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IT WAS ME! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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So TAY, what is happening? I just watched an awesome documentary on the haunted London underground train network, thanks to Scree! It was really awesome, it now makes me want to explore these tunnels after closure of a night, I reckon it would be so cool.
I have a thing for haunted/abandoned buildings, especially hospitals or buildings that have a lot of history.
I once shot a horror/zombie/survival movie in a local abandoned establishment, Freeze you might know it, the old Terranora Lakes Country Club up Bilambil.
I was merely a zombie in it, I wish I got to see a final edit of the damn thing and he put it up on YouTube. Cause what I saw it was really awesome. The place was even more awesome at night when we first went there xD
Look at the bright side: I’m always on when everyone else is asleep, time differences be damned.
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In November/December my sleep schedule was out of sync, so I was on while nobody else was. It was kind of depressing for me. Particularly since I’d refresh TAY at 3am, to find that still, nobody had posted…
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Remind me to post a “Hi, Blaghman!” at 3:00am (which is actually a good time over here) to clear out that horrid feeling of loneliness.
I don’t like myself when things go ultra-quiet.
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What’s with me and “ultra” today… Bloody DoW! Maybe I should really play the Ultrasmurfs. They are ultra and blue too! ;D
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I’ve been pretty good with my sleep schedule the last week, so I probably won’t see anything that early for a bit.
Until I stay up late one night playing LoL…
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I know it says “ghost” but I think that the way they used to treat the disease is worse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpkZd_2DYyM
It’s only pt1 but I’ll have to look for the other parts
P.S.: 8:40am, early? D;
I think now I’m alone. D’oh! Maybe it’s time to beat that Sonic CD Time Attack mode… 4 minutes away from a 25 minutes clear.
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I’m here as well, but not for too long! I have to take a 2.5 hour bus trip because they’re doing trackwork on the train lines today! D: At least I have a new book to read… 😛
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That’s nice! I’m reading “Geisha: A life” by Iwasaki Mineko. Pretty nice read.
Good luck out there!
As for me, trips, social meetings, celebrations and such? No idea. Maybe one day…
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I found Pixel’s work place!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/DSC_0037.jpg
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Man, the Paris catacombs are awesome. I want to go to them some day. So cool, so rich with destroyed history.
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Thanks to my parents, I have a bit of a creepy love affair with two things. Caving(particularly the adventure type, when you just walk through a cave it’s really boring), and cemeteries(I can’t explain this one, and I don’t know when it happened, but cemeteries are really interesting). So somewhere like the Parisian catacombs is just fascinating to me. I went to the tomb of the Capuchin Monks in Rome (It’s less interesting than the Sicilian one, but that’s okay), and it was fantastic. They’d arranged the bones in some amazing ways.
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Guys (and ladies) I need heavy spiritual support: The THQ sale has me divided.
I love the Tau so I know I should be picking DoW Dark Crusade that has them. But Retribution is the new one and it HAS the Tau Commander in there. Manly mecha awesome that certainly goes with me.
However, I heard it lacks base construction and that’s one of the parts I love the most. (To build cool bases and stuff)
Anyway, should I just get DoW2:Retribution, go back and get DoW Platinum, start downloading the free weekend of Retribution and decide then or ignore everything altogether and aim for Space Marine+Dreadnought DLC (because, you know, mechs :P)???
Thanks in advance.
Also, Ultramarines. They are ULTRA.
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I’ve heard very divided opinions on DoW2, so, it’s probably for the best if you try it out first. It does have some cool modes, but yeah, its building system is very… meh.
Then you might as well ignore everything to go and play as the Ultrasmurf’s! 😛
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Don’t ask me. If it was me, I’d just buy the whole lot. That’s generally how I decide conundrums like this.
I can say from experience that Dark Crusade is a really good RTS. And DOW2 is a fantastic game as well that moreso reminds me of Fallout Tactics (possibly inaccurate, but this is what I think!). I haven’t any experience with any of the DOW2 expansions though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCVCtgUQjz8&feature=fvwrel
is it just me or does this sound nothing like ‘good morning’
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Next time someone says “Good Morning” to me, I’ll respond with “OOOOOOOOOOOOWAAWAWAWAAAWAWAWWAWAAB”
haha XD
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Ghosties! And me rambling about Dawn of War II/Dawn of War/Space Marine.
oh, wait, I think there was also some cosplay talk from scree and furious hatred towards mosquitoes.
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Not really… There was a lot of discussions about… stuff.
Still Shaped, ‘Flu? Oh, and did someone get around to sending you the TS deets?
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Well, I wouldn’t say that I’m entirely awake…
grumble grumble, stupid socialising and birthday parties making me stay up late, grumble grumble 😛
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You get your kicks from page gets, Lambo, I can dig it. Personally, I prefer to get mine down on route 66.
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Depeche Mode Cover style? or are you a good old original sorta bloke
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Probably the Depeche Mode style, but just because I’ve heard that one so much more often.
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Wow, that was a terrible sentence.
Remove the “the” from there.
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Depeche Mode = awesome! 🙂
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I’m sorry about the huge amount of videos I posted. I tried to at least make it some what entertaining.
I didn’t post any Mishka video because the dog cannot talk human and we all know it
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How about English, rather than Human? 😛
And I doubt anyone minds, it’s just night time/early morning spammage, which, since nobody’s on, it easy to avoid.
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No I mean the dog can’t speak any language aside from it’s own. Dog. They’re trying to make it seem so but everyone knows it’s not.
There have at least been two comments on my spammage. Hence the apology.
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Aw, thank you =D
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I know, I was just teasing. And technically, Dog isn’t a language. Dog’s cannot communicate in a way that we, as human’s, would consider a language. They just bark at things.
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This explains everything: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/llog/FarsideDogTranslator.jpg
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Bahahaha. I love Farside.
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Actually, dogs do have their own language which also includes body language.
Barking can either mean “get off my property, it is mine.” or else “Pay attention to me/play with me” you can usually tell which is which by looking at a dogs tail. If it is wagging furiously or dead straight it is angry and don’t touch it. If it is wagging in a relaxed manner, they’re friendly.
There are different types of growls as well and again you need to use the tail to figure out which is which. If the hair is raised on their necks be very wary.
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Dogs have a way of communicating, it’s not considered a language. When you look at animals, some things, like Capuchin monkeys(second time I’ve mentioned the Capuchin’s today), have discrete “sounds” for different predators. They have actually “named” things. So we consider them to have a language. Given the disparate nature of dog kind, there’s not way they could develop anything more than a basic means of communication.
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Yes, dogs can be taught “words” and relate them to specific things, eg. knowing that a ball is, well, a ball, and when you say “ball” they can go and fetch it. But it would be like someone teaching me the words for a whole host of objects in another language, it’s even less useful than how dogs communicate to each other, because all I can do it pick up a frying pan, and say its name.
Also, I’m sorry if I’m coming off as rude or abrasive, it’s just that the semantics of language, not to mention how language’s develop, is something that fascinates me.
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Body language is still considered a language =D
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Woof!
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The Mishka videos are sort of creepy. My parents have a malamute and his howls are pretty interesting sometimes. But we’re not quite into animal teasing enough to agitate him and film it and put him on YouTube.
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But you could earn millions! Millions!
Have any pictures? I love dogs. My dog does adorable stuff and I have filmed a little of it but I don’t force him. All I really need is a squeaky ball. =D-
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I agree on Photo’s I love Malamutes they are gorgeous dogs 🙂
My housemate almost convinced me that I should by a siberian husky puppy my friend was selling. the problem being that we have 3 cats in the house and no back yard (we are in a townhouse)
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My parents’ malamute hates cats. They are his natural enemy. It’s not even normal dog hate, this is Superman and Lex Luthor hate.
Also, they need a lot of exercise otherwise they run to fat because they are snow dogs.
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The dog is adorable! Does he or she rub her nose between peoples legs to get the gentle leader off?
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I’ve never heard that term before. We call it a “halti” which I suspect is a brandname.
He doesn’t seem to care. He’s so lazy that generally he’s walking behind you when he’s on a walk. I have seen him try and take it off, in a rare moment of excitement, by rubbing his nose with his forepaws. I don’t think he’s ever managed it though.
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We use it for those moments when he sees a cat. He’s a big dog (55kg, from memory) so he’s likely to pull someone off their feet.
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Scree, if we ever have a problem with your posting, we’ll do one of two things.
1) Host an intervention. I LOVE interventions. A little too much, maybe.
2) Get Strange to be the bad-guy, and be all angry/motherly. She won’t like it, but it’s amusing from my perspective.
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Maybe we should have an intervention about Blaghman’s overlove of interventions. But maybe that would just become a feedback loop.
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Oh, please do, I won’t stop you. No, really, please?
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I’m very confused
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Masochist: Hurt me.
Sadist: No.
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PLEASE INTERVENE WITH MY PROBLEMS!
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Grrrr. Why can’t you be the bad-guy, Blaghs? I’m sure you could do a great approximation of me if need be. 😛
I’m sorry Strange, I’m too laid back to be a bad guy. I, quite simply, just don’t care.
Just got a copy of The Sunset Limited. Looks really interesting. It’s just Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson sitting in a room debating god for 90 minutes.
Going to watch it tonight.
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Considering that the entire cast is two people so he has 45mins to talk, I don’t think they have invented a number that high yet.
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Dear TAY, I am supposed to be finishing off some work. Please don’t do anything interesting. Ok? Thanks.
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I gave the dog a bath and got bitten by 4 mosquitoes.
I will enter this under “FASCINATING TALES OF TAY” for future reference, should you wish to catch up.-
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Well, I was giving the dog a bath. When I was scrubbin’ her, my only real option was to crush them while they were sucking blood from my leg. And boy, is that always gross to see. Crushed mosquitoes are a joy to see; crushed mosquito in a splotch of your blood is not.
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My dog needs a bath badly D=
I can’t get him to bath places easily
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Blaghman,
Your overlove of interventions is hurting the ones that love you the most. Us.
Remember the fun times we used to have? Like that time that you said that clever thing and we all laughed? Good times. Good times that are in shortage due to your obsession with interventions.
Please Blaghs, come back to us.
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I would but I seem to be the only one who turned up to this intervention. Which I guess means its not an intervention, just me nagging you.
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I would have joined in and I approve of your post, but it would take too much cleverness and I am currently employing all my cleverness in my work. This may be a misallocation of valuable resources. I am sorry TAY.
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Hey, thou shalt spam away!
Anyway, does anyone have a spare Dawn of War or Space Marine coupons to share on Steam? Any kind soul? hehehehe. Just wondering. I have some silly Valve, GTA and a couple more coupons.
@scree – I enjoyed your videos :). Only watched the dog ones though :/ (creepy stuff is creepy)
@McGarnical – I had no idea Malamute was a dog breed until just then :|. I always dogs of that appearance were just Huskies
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Protip: Malamute vs Husky. Malamutes are larger and appear dopier. They’re not dopier, but they have a sort of dazed unfocused look about them. Huskies are a little smaller and have a more direct piercing excited gaze.
TAYbies, should I get the PS1 version of Twisted Metal off of the Playstation Store? You know, considering it’s only $8.45…
Just scored an ex-rental copy of Deus Ex HR at the local video store for $5. \o/
Except the perfectionist in me is now regretting it as it is covered in rental stickers. Makes my collection look odd now.
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Eucalyptus oil. Highly recommended for perfectionists as nothing else is as effective as that at taking stubborn sticky bits off.
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ProBishOCDTip: Eucalyptus Oil.
Cleans nearly all the crap off of video games covers like a champ.
Peel it off as best you can, then dab the sticker residue with some oil, let it absorb for some seconds, and start wiping away. Not too much (it can warp the plastic), and do it gently, but it will eventually scrub off.-
Except this place pulls the slip out and puts the stickers on the paper. Sticker tears the paper when you take it off.
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This morning I bought Crash Bandicoot 2 off of the Playstation Store. Oh man, so nostalgic. I’m reliving my childhood here, and it’s awesome.
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FUN FACT: Whilst playing Crash Bandicoot 3 (my first Crash game) as a child I didn’t know what the word “DELETE” meant and I accidently deleted all my save files :'(
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I remember when I first found that there is a playable section within the opening movie. I thought I was so cool for my amazing discovery. xD
Ha! Take that Aldi, I can source better parts for a computer for 493 dollars than you’re selling for 499 dollars!
Given that was missing DVD drive & case, since I already have those sitting here >_>
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Actually it has twice as much ram & storage, a much more powerful graphics card & CPU, also it had a crossfire & SLi motherboard!
Plus individual parts warranties! I think I win!
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Woah D= I knew hard drive prices had skyrocketed but 350 bucks for a Sata II Seagate or WD 7,200RPM hard drive. Seriously?
I’m better off buying a Seagate or WD external hard drive, cracking it open and using the drive in there, all for about 150 bucks and I get an external drive case to go with it =/
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Ahahaha, saw this on a review of an OCZ SSD on Umart “Faster than a hedgehog on crystal meth” I found that hilarious.
Um. Well. Friday night sure was interesting.
It would appear that I’m now the Assistant Group Leader for the grade 7 boys at my local youth group.
Seriously, can you imagine me being semi in charge of a bunch of 12 year olds?
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It’ll be like having my own little army…
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OK, so my 2.5hr bus trip wasn’t half as bad as I expected. It was an express bus, (so no stops) and it was in one of those cool coaches that is all air conditioned and such (I was expecting like a school bus or something…). Cityrail did good (surprisingly :O). Also, there was no loud and/or smelly people.
The only bad thing was that you had to put your bags underneath the bus, so I was there unloading all of my books and valuables (which was basically the entire contents of my bag xD) to carry on with me. 😛
Hmm. Finally got around to watching Plinketts Star Wars deconstruction. I have the same gripe with this as I do with Extra Credits. Why the stupid voice? It’s kind of off putting. Surely he doesn’t speak like that normally.
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I think he’s just trying to play a character. Some nerdy guy deconstructing a film is all well and good, but, in theory, a guy who sounds like a bum, with someone locked in his basement, is far more… amusing.
So, apparently you can’t copy any PS1 games that you have downloaded from the PS Store onto your PSP via your PS3….
Dear Sony,
Bite me.
Signed,
Angry User
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Wait, you’re complaining about how Sony handles stuff from the PlayStation Network? How dare you sir, it’s the pinnacle of good design!
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Is anyone having trouble downloading anything from the PSN? Whenever I hit download it takes me to a blank screen that just says continue shopping. If I go up to the downloads list I just get an error.
Thirty-two pages.
THIRTY-TWO FREAKIN’ PAGES!
The one week I miss out on TAY, and everything goes mental!
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It was for a competition so I wanted to send off the actual entry first incase someone stole it D:
Not what you had in mind, but something quite unique
A different type of storytelling, that takes some technique
To single out just one game, as my favourite RPG
Would prove to be a task, quite tricky
Instead I’ll talk about my favourite, of last year
One that I thought would never get here
Created by those from the distant land of Japan
A game that would please any RPG fan
Once called Monado, but now Xenoblade
As soon as I gazed upon it, I knew it must be played
A beautiful looking game, despite it being on Wii
With sprawling landscapes as far as the eye could see
It had a story with characters whose struggles felt so real
That it kept me on my seat waiting for the next big reveal
Memorable music that I whistled and hummed all day
That really shows off the composers’ extensive array
I thought the voices were bad, based on a preview
But after hearing “What a bunch of Jokers!”, I knew this was untrue
With every side quest done, it took me 112 hours to beat
And single every hour was an absolute treat!Actually it’s not that epic but I like it 🙂
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They’re so cute when you bite their heads off and they run into stuff frantically trying to escape…..
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Well, it has taken six months, but I have done it.
TAYbies, I present to you all,
The alphabet in onomatopoeic form:
http://crazyguy1990.deviantart.com/art/Onomatopoeic-Alphabet-283344097
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I saw it and liked it 😀
I was going along with each letter for each line then got confused when it got up to “Aircraft involved in Pan-Am collision”. Then I figured out what I did wrong 😛
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Well TAYbies, the time has come for me to wish you all farewell.
Not really, but unfortunately I won’t be around as much for a while. I start TAFE tomorrow, and after dropping out of uni last year, I really want this to work out well. So I probably won’t be posting as much as I have in the last few months. You are all amazing people, I’m glad to have met those I have, and hopefully will meet more of you in the future. I’ll still be around, and there’s always a night of TF2 or L4D that I’ll happily jump in on. But for now, see you all around the interwebs.
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I saw it. It was great, better than anything I could come up with. Hmm, thats not really saying much… Better than anything Shane could come up with. Hmm, thats probably saying too much…
It was good 🙂
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PS Maybe by the time I come back, maybe I’ll have finished Xenoblade
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Thankyou 🙂
Shane > Me
When you get back I’m expecting some intense Xenoblade discussion with us and Powalen (and anyone else who manages to aquire and play the game during this time period)
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You all = crazy
But my kind of crazy! 😀
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Bah! Stay here and join TAYFE! It’s much cheaper and there’s only five exams!
(Seriously though, good luck! xD)
Aww! All the best man. What you st00dying? My mates went back for Diploma of IT this year.. I decided against TAFE for the 4th year in a row to find a job and get cashed up! But I was thinking of a graphics course if I did.
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I’m doing a Cert 3 in tourism/Travel Retail. Hopefully at the end of 6 months I’ll be able to get a job as a travel agent with Flight Centre or somewhere similar.
All TAYbies get cheap flights for the purposes of Meats*
*not an actual promise, no idea if I’ll be allowed to do that
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Nice man! All the best =D
I know someone who did that. He was a jerk though & thought I was his friend, I have no idea why I just shared that miscellaneous fact!
I hope it gets you somewhere!
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Sure? lol.
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I don’t know what it is about this whole ‘have a real life’ thing that’s so attractive to certain people… 😛
Good luck with tafe! \o/
Okay, you can all stop worrying. I am here now.
*awkward silence*
Ooookayy…
Just spent the last two hours skating! 😀
I only fell over once! \o/
I now have sore knees! 😐
And I kinda sorta enjoyed LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem (does that make me a bad person?) 😛
Also, who’s Mick Jagger and what’s so special about his swagger? It was mentioned in three of the songs they played…
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– Sup?
*awkward silence continues*
– It does not make you a bad person. I like the music video because of Quest Crew
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Oh Lambo, you’re trolling as to whom Sir Mick Jagger is, correct?
If not, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger
Also I am sure you know who The Rolling Stones are, right? Well then you know who Mick Jagger is!
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Nope I wasn’t trolling…
The name sounded familiar, and I have heard of the Rolling Stones before. Not sure if I’ve ever heard any of their songs though…-
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Well, actually, far as I know Lambo only listens to Christian stuff mostly. So there’s a really good chance he hasn’t heard the Stones.
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Oh okay, I did not know this.
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If you’ve played CoD: Black Ops single player through to the end, you’ve heard at least one Stones song – Sympathy for the Devil is played in the terrible sequence where you go down the river on a gunboat. I recall Gimme Shelter being used in ads for the game too, don’t know if it was actually in the game though.
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I kind of wish I didn’t know who Mick Jagger was.
He’s one weird-lookin’ dude. Terrifies me a little.
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Well, the effects of the cocaine have to be shown somewhere, right?
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Man, I like LMFAO, they’re fun and don’t take themselves too seriously. There isn’t enough of that.
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D= this is terrible news, what happened?
But it is good news you are alive, and well I presume too?
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I will explain better.
My friends birthday party was a picnic on the side of the Yarra river, where the BBQs were.
We were sitting at a picnic table under a tree. We were sitting there eating. Several other trees had dropped branches. There was a loud crack as the tree we were sitting under dropped a branch really far away from us. Someone said “okay, we should be safe now.”
I was eating when I heard something overhead creak. I said “We should move.” Others agreed and we moved our stuff. 2 minutes after moving our things the thick tree branch snapped and engulfed the picnic table we were sitting at.
I have picture of what happened afterwards.-
Geez, good thing you moved. Glad to hear you’re okay, too.
And those are the dangers of being outside, which is why being inside all the time is far safer.
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/DSC_0036.jpg This is the tree branch. You can see it’s still connected at the top.
Yes, that whole this is the branch.
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/DSC_0036.jpg
My friend was sitting there. I was sitting in the middle where the leaves all are.-
links are the same 😛
Wow that’s doesn’t look like a tree branch but the whole tree :/
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Sorry this one. This shows the branch http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/DSC_0035.jpg
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Jesus, you’re lucky =/
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Yes, it really is. I think some of us would definitely would be killed.
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Holy crap! That’s some final destination stuff 😐 good to hear you and your friends are alright though and no one was hurt 🙂
I’m no picnic connoisseur but today was definitely not picnic friendly weather :P. Not sure where you are but the wind was really extreme today and once the wind stopped the rain kicked in as well as some thunder :/
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Tell me about it. I was wearing a dress, but luckily it was below my knees. My friend had worn a much shorter dress and that was a bad decision.
Aside from nearly dying it was a pretty good day. A little girl dropped her sunglasses in the pond at the Royal botanical gardens and someone in our group retrieved it.
We also discussed that Team Ninja were the reason all the DOA character had large breasts and how the volleyball game couldn’t decide if it was aimed at women or men.-
I’m pretty sure they’re aimed solely at men. Any feminine activities are just there so that guys can ogle, the thing we’re best at!
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This! XD
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This and we find comedic value in their breasts. I love how they’re completely independent of each other and most movement.
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Not a fan of DOA (so haven’t seen it there) but in Ninja Gaiden they were just as lol
Oh Team Ninja… you bunch of pervs
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Well, had to use the Sixaxis for something, right? Why tack on something half-arsed (LAIR, lookin’ at you, buddy) when you can make things bounce!
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I refuse to believe that the science and study of Jiggle Physics have been all for naught.
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BOOB PHYSICS! 1 Core of the Xbox 360 dedicated entirely to BOOBS!(Not really, but it really seems like it)
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Imagine what they could do with a dedicated Phys X card!
No longer constrained to hair and butterflies!
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I’m just glad they didn’t add PhysX boobs to Alice. That would be… Disturbing.
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I always found that highly distracting, especially in the fighting games. I’d almost prefer it if they toned the boobage down, or at least added some characters to the roster such that you weren’t forced to choose between ‘ludicrous’, ‘comical’ or ‘man’.
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Oh man totally forgot about Soul Calibur…
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Really? Because I know a guy who stuck through those games. Actually, I think he was genuinely playing it for the collection/progression/gameplay.
Disregard this comment.
Really, so he didn’t play to stare at animated titties, like most of the male populous would?
He was genuinely a fan of the DoA games. Winners was weird.
I see.
Also, I wouldn’t buy the game for that.
There are far cheaper, easier ways to get titillation.
Agreed. I remember playing DOA on the Xbox’s at Kmart back in the day lmao.
Anyone with *any* of the achievements for the 360 game has to be this. I can’t see any way you could stick with the game for any real length of time unless you were really into the gameplay, and getting the achievements requires an insane time investment (primarily because all the other girls are horrible people who refuse / throw away your gifts)
I like games where I can dress up my characters! (Not booby volleyball though. I have been deprived of this, lacking an XBOX and all. Shame. Cough.)
I must sit somewhere in the gender-confused target audience, I suppose.
Well, Bish, you can buy the swim suit you like, then buy hair accessories to match, matching nail polish, sunglasses, tan (or lack of depending on what you choose), jewellery, wrist accessories, hair accessories, shoes, hats and of course, matching volleyballs.
=D
I once played DOA Paradise (on the PSP, apparently a watered down version of the consoles) and felt so seedy and unclean I sat in the shower for days.
Did you ever see the advertising campaign for that game? It was pretty funny.
Example:
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Glad to hear everyone was okay! 🙂
My parents are watching Young Talent Time right now. Being crushed by a tree is starting to sound less and less a bad thing… 😛
Scree!
I asked these guys to make it to 6000 by tonight and so far they are failing me miserably. It is time to stop depending on these … Amateurs… and hire someone who knows what their doing.
So my question is, can you be dependable?
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Excellent. I shall give you two cookies now and a further three cookies and a high five on completion of your assignment.
This post will self destruct in 10000000000000
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Depends whether I’m on or not 😛
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Fairly sure you’ll be dead in
just under 316 887.646 years
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C’mon Freeze. Do you think you need to tell people to spam? I assure you, that if everybody stopped commenting now, I could get us to 6000 without spamming. But nobody ever trusts me.
OMG GUYS! WHO WANTS A PORTAL GUN?!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=283228335077611&set=a.283226971744414.70332.151825208217925&type=3
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I will be asking GT for details including who makes them, how much, can I preorder them on behalf of TAYbies and are other GTs getting them
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Should I post more videos of dogs? I do like dogs or should they be Ellis quotes? I spent some of the time at the picnic talking about L4D and L4D2 =D And Ellis.
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My vote is for any funny video that’s roughly around 30 seconds or under
🙂
Good thing that most dog videos are funny and under 30 seconds : D
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TAY!
Out of curiosity, anyone here who is a Metallica fan able to comment if i’m dreaming or am correct. Has JB Hi-Fi doubled the price of their Metallica CD’s? I swear they were around 13 dollars before & around the time Metallica was touring Australia last year, now they’re almost 30 bucks?!
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Sunlight? You mean outside?
I went outside once. It’s overrated. The graphics aren’t that great and the gamma was set way too high. Plus there’s never any save points.
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The best kind of sport I had in high school was where I walked into the deputies office every Wednesday morning to get a leave pass at 12.25PM to go home for the day xD
But I had the power of a doctors certificate, reason? Ingrown toenail, it wasn’t stopping me from doing sport I just used it as an excuse for like a year, since they were totally an ongoing thing >_>
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Sailing?! Man we never got the choice of awesome stuff like that. When I changed schools best we got was ten pin bowling and I never got in =[
Fishing was alright as well tbh.
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When I lived in Auckland the school was about 15 minutes walk from a big lake. During the summer we’d all go out on the water. Canoeing and sailing single-person Optimist yachts, learning to swim and general water safety etc.
This may be one reason my favourite Legend of Zelda was Wind Waker. The boat in WW handles exactly the way I remember an optimist handling. Same sail configuration and everything.
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Man that’s awesome 🙂
I’ve never lived near the water so I fail at water stuff especially swimming (can’t swim without flippers :P). My triathalon time was destroyed in PE because of the swimming part 😀
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…Sailing? Wow :O
Best thing about 7 of my friends and I did was to drop out of our respective sports (tennis, cricket, swimming, rowing) and do Lawn Bowls.
Best thing ever!
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Are you me? :O My friends and I did the exact same thing! haha It was actually pretty cool.
The best sport was Swimming though (at the public pool). You just mucked about in the water for a few hours and there was a Macca’s on the way to the pool. We had ten-pin bowling as well, but it was really expensive. 😛
I wish we did athletics though. The Athletics Carnival was just about my favourite day of the year during school. xD Aced the High Jump ;D
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*checks* Nope I’m not you, I’m me!
One of my friend’s older brother and his friends did the same thing so we all did it too. The sport was nothing without us : D. Back then it was only 4 people so they were all in the 1sts team (the best team) but when we did it some random people decided to join as well so we had like 12 people. My friends and I were such dicks… lol I honestly think we scared one of them away and they dropped out because of us :/
FUN FACT: I’m lazy. Very lazy and I certainly do not like waking up early to go to whoop whoop to play sport every Saturday morning (sport was compulsory at my school). So I’d try to get out of matches as much as possible, giving away my spot in the team etc. I did this about 4-5 times and even gave up my spot in the final (sleep ins are better in my opinion ;)). At this special Lawn Bowls dinner award ceremony, the coach gave me the coaches award for being a ‘team player’ who was always giving up his spot for others.
TL;DR – I got an award for being lazy.
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we don’t get to muck about in the pools, we have to do laps ~_~
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We were supposed to do that as well. The teachers would be really enthusiastic about it at the start of the term, making us do the correct drills, etc… but then slowly give up as they get lazier over the weeks and realise that nobody cares. xD
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*hushed voice*
Don’t tell anyone, but I think the sun is stalking me. It’s there every time I go outside, always following me! I can never get away from it! Although, it leaves me alone during night time. I think it must be scared of the dark or something…
Man, I don’t play much sports…
I play touch footy every now and then, but that’s about it really. I used to do gymnastics when I was younger, and ballet, tap dancing and jazz dancing too (yes, they classify as sports :P).
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If it’s not the sun stalking me in the day time, it’s the moon following me home. Can’t we get around this world without being stalked?! -
According to Van Damme, ballet “is an art, but it’s also one of the most difficult sports. If you can survive a ballet workout, you can survive a workout in any other sport.”
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C’mon I’m stating the obvious but…
Xenoblade!
Also FFXIII-2 since you just picked it up (I’m assuming you’re yet to play it). Beats XIII in nearly every way and there’s a story recap of FFXIII on it so no need to beat FFXIII first :). There’s spoilers in XIII-2 I guess but meh… :/
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By ‘don’t know what to do’ I mean don’t know what to do in SWTOR. I still haven’t finished the Jedi Knight storyline even though I’ve hit 50, so I’ve got that. But then after that I’m stuck.
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Whoops! Fair enough then :P. I vaguely remember you saying something about beating one story line in SWTOR before doing anything else. Must of misinterpreted your post wrong (thinking level 50 was the end)
Carry on!
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My plan is still to finish FFXIII before XIII-2. But I probably won’t get to either of them any time soon, I may start onto Xenoblade first. But even if I don’t I’ve got other stuff coming as well, eg when Tales of Graces releases I’m dropping everything for it. Ni no Kuni as well.
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Oh I’m definitely dropping everything for Ni No Kuni. Graces can wait 😛
Where are you getting them from? I’ve got my sites for UK imports (Ozgameshop, Zavvi) but really only 1 site for Asian/US ones (Play-Asia). I’m sure you’re importing Graces before waiting for a PAL release but any idea where you’re planning to get Ni No Kuni from? Last time I checked it was like Graces in that a PAL date was still TBA.
I’m just looking for a place to buy my copy 🙂
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Play-Asia is where I get US releases. Failing that periodically Amazon US will send you stuff (eg I got Agarest Zero LE from the US) especially for PS3 games since they’re unregioned, and videogamesplus.ca ships internationally as well, though I haven’t used them in ages.
I’ve got Graces on order with Play-Asia and when the release date for Ni no Kuni is official I’ll track down the best spot (because Play-Asia charge a bit of a markup compared to eg Amazon)
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Alright keep me posted on Ni No Kuni prices/dates 😀
I’m not against buying locally/importing from a UK site it all just depends on the date, price and bonuses (I hope we get that book the Japanese got!). I thought Amazon US and UK didn’t ship games to Australia? Last time I checked was a few years ago so things have probably changed since then. Also don’t Amazon have pretty expensive shipping? (~$20 I think?).
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The spellbook was included with the Japanese DS version, not PS3.
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Oh 😛
Well I still want it 🙂
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFldBVWFgWo&feature=g-vrec&context=G2742052RVAAAAAAAAAQ
And one for Jenny and the wimp!
I will explain this one a bit
Usually when dogs don’t understand things, they bark at them. Sid did this the first time he saw a kite in the sky.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYa5aQb3YGE&feature=related
this one gets me every time 😀
Ok I’m done. Go forth scree! Time is of the essence!
NEEDS MOAR POSTS! This post is full of substance, not spam! I swear! See substance!
So how about that local sports team?
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I don’t need spam. Believe me.
Also, is there a reason all of these are in separate posts? All that does is increase the page count, which is no fun.
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What blaghs said. I don’t mind the vids (well, I don’t watch them due to previously mentioned broadband restrictions), but if you could put them all in replies, instead of filling up pages with them, that’d be great thanks 🙂
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Cheers McGarnical. I’ll still be dropping by every so often. You can’t get rid of me that easily. You’re all too nice to completely abandon
I’m really sorry. I didn’t realise it was really annoying people.
I know you said it was alright this morning and I guess there is no reason to not put them in replies. Actually I was hoping people would respond to them, but now I think about it, it’s a silly idea.
I think of everyone here as close friends so when I annoy you, it upsets me. Especially people who have been here a lot longer then I have.
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Don’t be silly, Scree. I’m pretty certain Blaghs was joking. Especially considering Blaghspam 😛
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I’m possibly going to be on TAY less during the next few weeks – got a deadline for a new feature to code up and I’m a bit behind, plus I’ve got to look after any performance issues that get sent in while my boss is away for the next three weeks. 🙁
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lol Virus__ posted that in TAY a few pages back 😀
And yeah it’s cool :). Something about electricity is very mesmerising
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Lambo-ninja is fail-ninja
I think someone posted this earlier. Either way its still cool. Not sure I’d like to be the guy in the suit though. I don’t care how safe they say it is 🙂
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there were at least 8 of us there before it fell. I think at least one of us may have been killed or seriously injured
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It was. Most of the branches were much smaller. Ours was huge though. It was pretty much the same size as a tree.
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I know I’ve already said it, but I’m really sorry. Seriously. I feel so much guilt for page 33. You told me off for page 31, but then I was told it was a joke.
I’m thinking that maybe it might be for the best that I don’t post in TAY for a while (today at least).
Everyone here has been so nice to me. You’ve really risen above and beyond the call when I needed aid and I’ve seen it happen far more then once. You put up with my issues and the fact that i don’t really like STGs. You also put up with the fact I kept getting ejected from team speak, even though it was a huge pain.
Again, you’re all so very nice. The most pleasant bunch of people on the internet, so much that you’ve become a huge part of my life.
The fact that I’ve done something to even slightly annoy someone on TAY seriously upsets me. I’m not trying to gather attention, I just want to apologise.
I’m really very sorry for spamming and it will not happen again. I’ll try not to post unless it has content.
My sincerest apologies,
Scree.
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Man, I’m surprised lambo doesn’t hate me yet (or does he o.O)
I’ve already kicked him off the internet AND the planet, and I’m blaming a lot of stuff on him.
sorry lambo D=-
He probably just accepts that everything is his fault, since, well, it usually is…
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You know me like nobody else I know knows me…kindly get out of my head please 😛
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Just ask Princess Celestia, I’m sure she’ll send oyu there in no time.
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I was going to say something along the lines of “but that cheese is so old, it’s probably all mouldy by now” but then I remembered that mouldy cheese is a delicacy, and then I started wondering how well food would be preserved in a vacuum…
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You are thinking waaaay too hard about this
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lol lambo…
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Yeah! You think you would’ve learnt that by now!
Anyway, I find the Kotaku community is very forgiving and will put up with quite a lot. I mean, just look at me! They haven’t kicked me out…yet…
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Yeah & they put up with me, I think that says a lot.
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But you haven’t done anything wrong. Yes you break TAY but it’s always amusing.
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And you haven’t either Scree, really.
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I didn’t know that. I didn’t realise that Blaghman was joking. I genuinely thought he and Lambomann were pissed off with what I did. I read the comments with an angry tone in my head. It’s probably because I tend to expect the worst.
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LAMBOMAN. DOESN’T. GET. ANGRY!!!!
RAHARHRARAHRHARHARHAHRA!!!!
*ahem*
I was try to go with more of a suggestive tone in my comment.
Yes, I am aware that that is not the correct term to use, but I was trying to suggest something, and suggestive sounds like the right term to use when you look at it that way. 😛 -
Yeah, I know it was just a suggestion. I just read it wrong. And then I panicked and felt incredibly terrible. I’m just glad no one is angry. Or upset.
From now on all blame is to be directed ay Virus’ neighbours =D! Since I think it is only fair.
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This. I’d pin the most heinous of crimes on them if I could!
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Yep. But lets not discuss those pack of bastards when this is all about Scree! =D
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I said I’m not doing it to draw attention to myself. It’s fine to talk about your neighbours.
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Virus described them last time and I’d rather he didn’t do it anymore since it’ll just make me angry and hate the world :/
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There is always people like that in the world though. I try to do my best to be a good person. For example at the park today a little girl dropped her sunglasses into the pond. I nudged one of the guys who was trying to catch the eels and asked him if he would mind trying to get the glasses as the girl’s brother couldn’t reach.
He managed to get her glasses and the father thanked us many times.
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😀 I try to be nice too but I admit I have been an absolute dick to some people in the past and it’s something that I have regretted 🙁
I wish I had some ‘gamer’ friends around and growing up :P. Haven’t really had much friends who are really into games as you guys are (which is probably why I’m so talkative on TAY). Most of my friends are just into well other stuff that isn’t gaming/nerdy/geeky :/
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Actually, growing up I was a loner. Everyone played playstation and I had an xbox and I was actually teased about this.
However at uni, because I did a games course we all liked games
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I’d much rather talk about someone who is friendly to me & doesn’t call me very harsh words =P
Chill your beans, Scree. It’s all groovy.
Too much spamming is probably not a good thing, but your posts are still welcome (I’m sure if you collate your vid post instead of posting them individually you won’t upset anyone)
No need to bail out of TAY.
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I even feel bad about putting them in separate posts.
I’m not making excuses but my reasoning was that people could discuss them. Usually people read the comments of the videos and that leads to discussion.-
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Thanks. I wasn’t aware people were joking. Hence the 3 sorrys in the paragraph
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Commented on it.
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So I see
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I don’t think anyone’s actually angry at you or anything. Though I can’t speak for them if they are.
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\o I am terrible at them. usually barely or not passing the tutorial.
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Oh wow. I’ve never seen STG used for strategy like that before – STG is a common acronym for Shmups usually, so I assumed you were meaning the sort of games your argentinian acquaintance is into.
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I think I’ve picked it up from him and got the meaning wrong, derp.
But yeah i meant Strategy games
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I usually think of RTS (real time strategy) or for those LoL type of games as DoTA type games 😛
Haven’t heard STGs before and I was quite stumped as to what it could stand for.
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There’s RTS (Real Time Strategy, like Starcraft), Turn Based Strategy (TBS, like Advance Wars), Strategy Role Playing Game (SRPG, like Fire Emblem) and Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas (MOBA, like LOL although we can all agree this name is rather silly).
Those are the major strategy genres. Never seen STG used for that either.
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I must’ve been confused when Alpha used STG because he likes Strategy games
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Ahh totally forgot about the SRPGs and TBS. Although I refer to Advance Wars and the like as SRPGs anyway 😛
So I guess MOBA is the correct term for DoTA/HoN/LoL (those types of games). I’ve never played them so I don’t know the correct terminology :). I heard Demigod on PC was like them and I enjoyed that singleplayer but would get absolutely destroyed online. I contemplated playing LoL but after seeing some random vid posted by f4ction about some new character with bombs (can’t remember his name) the whole thing looked WAY to complicated and not very ‘noob’ friendly 😛
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Greenuis is spot on. The problem is that “shmup” is simply impossible to pronounce for us in spanish… and I wonder how you guys speak it in english. So we switch to “fichín” (coin-op in eglish) or simply STG, which is the original term used by the japanese, and much easier to pronounce.
STG stands for, yes you guessed, ShooTing Games.
Guess poor Scree mixed it all because all I talk is about that kind of games. And RTS too. Recently I’ve been playing my fair share of Anomaly Warzone Earth, a reverse tower defense.
Without forgetting I went on to clear both eXceed internal version to provide replays for the official site…
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Bah! I also forgot Tower Defence as a sub-genre of strategy games!
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I only meant for the rest of tonight and maybe tomorrow (I doubt I could handle a day without tay though, even if I just lurk)
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Right
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Phoenix Wright
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OBJECTION!
..wait. No. I agree with this.
RIGHT!
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You have to say that though
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I can’t speak for them but when I read what they said it didn’t sound all that serious.
It didn’t seem like anyone was actually mad or annoyed at you and in the end spam is just spam. Who cares? Even if it did annoy them it seems like you’re going to cut down on the future spamming so there’s no reason to leave 🙂
Besides, who else is going to keep TAY company :D?
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Actually, it’s exactly the same.
Just without me =D
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OBJECTION!!
It’ll be worse! Each and every one of us makes TAY what it is 🙂
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What defines spam is the intention behind it.
“but my reasoning was that people could discuss them.” is not spam.
Chill, mang.
Be cool, everyone’s cool, cool all the things.
I’m sorry I didn’t say I was joking.
Initially, all I meant was that we could hit 6000 comments without resorting to spam, and that we’d have “real” conversations. On the bright side, at least this has caused a lot of discussion.
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It’s alright. I took it way too seriously.
I really should have put them all in replies so I didn’t spam up the page so much.
I also should have posted the video about feety. She has a birth defect and can’t use her front feet. People on youtube were saying she should’ve been put down because of her disability. At leas that would have been a decent discussion.
Ah. So it seems that my Lex Luther, Blaghman is trying to destroy my plans with his logic and reasonable attitude.
Well played. Well played.
But I fear the battle is far from over. I shall bide my time and put into a plan so complex and convoluted that in 25 years people will still be wondering what exactly the point is.
But they will still be wondering.
Muahahahahahaha ha ha ha ha hee hee haw hee hahahahahaaaaaa.
Oh look! A peanut!
Greenius, regarding Ni no Kuni, what’s currently worrying me is that it’s being handled by Bandai Namco – that means a long, long PAL delay. Maybe not at all.
Also they’ve said ‘first quarter’ of 2012 for it, but no release date yet and I’m worried that with their track record they’ll do something utterly stupid like release it same week as Tales of Graces. One of the big reasons that their Tales releases have bombed in the US (aside from unrealistic expectations and poor advertising) is that they always release too close to a much bigger RPG and get lost. Graces is out same week as Mass Effect 3, for example.
And then when the games don’t sell becuase of piss poor marketing and bad release dates, they always use it as an excuse not to release any more, or not to do a PAL release. Really hoping that they don’t do that again.
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Really? Same week as ME3? Seems like an incredibly poor decision for any title really, especially a more niche one.
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What Freeze said, really?! The same week as ME3? Bunch of idiots up there…
Sometimes I see things and people and think to myself “I could do this so much better than them”
One thing that’s somewhat reassuring is that GameFAQs had a poll for the title most people were excited for in Feb. Tales of the Abyss 3D was 2nd I think. Really didn’t think any one was looking forward to that :P. I really hope it does well as well as Graces so we can get more Tales of games in English and in PAL region. Not too concerned about not getting a PAL release as long as it’s region free.
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Dunno if it’s actually the same week, but ME3 US is March 6 and Graces is March 13. So they might be a week apart. Except ME3 is basically stretched out over a few days, last place to get it is Japan on March 12. So it’ll be all over the media in the leadup for Graces.
Also working against them is that Graces is their first PS3 Tales in the west, because the idiots never released Vesperia. So if you look over the recent english language Tales releases:
– Abyss (PS2)
– Vesperia (X360)
– Symphonia 2 (Wii)
– Abyss (3DS)
– Graces F (PS3)No one platform for anything. This is one reason why they’ve been struggling with it. In Japan they picked the PS3 for the core games and have released three there, so everyone knows what system to get and the most recent of them (Xillia, we’d better get that too, Namco >:( ) did extremely well as a result. It’s frustrating to watch them muck around with alternative consoles all the time rather than just picking one platform and running with it.
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I really hope they bring over Xillia as well. Mainly because I like the look of it (we’ve discussed this before :D) and it’s on PS3.
My guess is that if Graces f does well on the PS3 (which it has a good chance of doing since it is region free and most people can import it), we should get an English Xillia.
I’m also guessing that Graces might not do well in Europe and other parts of the world (minus Japan) since it’s TBA and most people would import the US one anyway. If this happens Xillia might just be a US only release. Which is totally fine by me since PS3 is region free \o/!
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Makes getting DLC a pain though. And believe me, as somone who owns some of Namco’s other niche games, they love their overpriced DLC.
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Which is why I don’t buy DLC 🙂
*insert DLC rant on page 14 of the last TAY here*
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What’s the rules and how would this work?
But then again they’ve made worse board games… A LOT WORSE
(see #4 and #5)
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Saw about 3 minutes of it and… what!?
Safe to say serrated tooth Pac-Man does not work well as a board game 😛
These guys seem funny though. Haven’t seen any of their other videos before but hopefully I’ll stumble across them another day 🙂
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Man, noobs in World of Warcraft amaze me. I’m on my mage & I had someone come upto me in Dalaran (a capital city for both factions) & ask me for a portal to Stormwind (one of the alliance capital cities) with a 50 gold tip, so I give them the portal, whilst I am thinking “Don’t they realise there is a portal to Stormwind, just over there behind them kind of?”
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Oh i’ll take all the free gold I can get from noobs! Afterall I had just spent 4.6k on the mage before to get faster flying & a rad magic carpet to fly on!
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They took the Dalaran portals out in 4.0, perhaps that person never found out they reintroduced them since taking them out was absolutely retarded?
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Stupidest decision ever! But at least they re-added Stormwind, though Shattrath would be a nice addition x.x
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I know right?! That would HAVE to be compressed bricks as well. It’s also something like a 40 foot shipping containers worth D=
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If your worried about my earlier comment, don’t be. You should know by now that you can’t take anything I say seriously. I make the class clown look dour usually.
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No need for such formalities. And thank you. You reassured me earlier that you weren’t angry at me. And I will keep in mind, everything Freeze S. Preston Icequire says is not really serious.
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Am I the only one who thinks these ‘challenges’ are reeeaalllyyy stupid?
And by challenges and I mean things like the cinnamon challenge.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about look up ‘cinnamon challenge’ on youtube.
I don’t see the point in this madness?
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No you’re not the only one who thinks they’re stupid. They are incredibly stupid but quite funny.
There’s really no point in it except for stupid people doing stupid things whilst recording it for the rest of the world to enjoy 🙂
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Which I watch >_>
But yes I watch it because they’re incredibly stupid and do stupid things for my entertainment. It’s quite funny.
(this part below is skippable)
In the latest ep that disgusting blob of a human called ‘Snooki’ PISSED HERSELF whilst on the dance floor in a club. She then realised she had some sort of UTI and had to keep going to the toilet. So she and her other ‘meatball’ friend Deena went to the toilet and said something along the lines of
“don’t wash your hands”
“oh I never do that”(this part above is skippable)
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Not going to lie, I totally watch it too.
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Woo! Thought I was the only TAYbie who did 😛
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It’s weird to think with your wordiness that you watch such things. Ever seen Geordie Shore? That’s a whole other thing.
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Yes lol…
A bit less as funny but some of these people are worse… Not watching season 2 though. One season and as special was as much as I could handle 🙂
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Which exactly why I don’t watch that show. Why would I want to watch some lowlifes just being terrible people and get paid millions of dollars for it.
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I was forced to watch one episode and I could feel my brain shutting down
Apologies in advance for what looks like me replying to nearly every comment. I’m not spamming, I’m just discussing things as per usual :). If anything you should be apologising to me for saying such interesting things…
Also Y U SO INTERESTING TAY!? Now that I go on TAY regulary, when I’m watching something on my computer its view time almost triples in length since it remains paused whilst I respond to all these comments :P. I’ll go back to watching it for a while then press refresh and BAM! Gotta reply to more things 😀
I’m also not a fan of Sherlock S2E2. It’s good and all but it’s all horrory (not a fan of horror) and full of all those cheap scares. Ya know where it’s all quiet then BOOOOOM!! *LOUD NOISE AND SOMETHING POPS UP* (I hope those tags work and I don’t accidently break TAY)
Keep being interesting (Y) (the MSN thumbs up icon no one uses MSN…)
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By which I expand by saying that it seems to be the general consensus.
It’s not that the writing or the case is bad, just that the thriller/horror elements don’t quite meld with very well.
Also by “general consensus” I mean, myself, Blaghman and a friend of mine. Us three sit on a Board to determine the ‘general opinion’ of… things. Just things.
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I agree, the second episode wasn’t as good as I would have liked.
Also, I’ve gotten very good at appreciating stuff through sound. I watched through all of Farscape while playing SC2. Luckily those skills translate to here. I’m playing LoL(badly) as we speak.
To all of TAY,
Thank you. Not just for your nice, kind, heartfelt words but for also helping me realise that i made something huge out of nothing. This is the reason i love this community. Everyone here is pretty much accepting of everyone. It’s amazing.
I can’t help but think the worst sometimes (A lot of the time unfortunately) and I want to apologise in advance in case it happens again. I also want to thank you, all of you, really.
I may have only known you all roughly 4-5 months but I consider you all to be good friends of mine. We have similar interests and you’re all a lot of fun. I end up wasting most of my days on TAY because it is so much fun! I’m sure many of you feel the same way.
Sorry for making a big fuss out of nothing. Sorry for completely over reacting. (Just ask Blaghman or Virus__, sorry for dumping it all on you guys) and thank you for being so forgiving and friendly.
Just think, if this was any other website, i would be told never to come back. They would not care. Not Kotaku. It is such an extraordinary place, even more so due to it being on the internet, the home of trolls and negative commentors.
Thank you for putting up with my typos, especially oyu which i seem to do all the time. Thank you for helping me with my problems (such as the dick head dog owner) and helping me with my cosplay decisions because it can be so hard sometimes.
Thank you for putting up with my posting artworks and cosplay and then putting up with my complaints about how it isn’t good enough, I hate it, etc.
Thank you for being so accepting and welcoming even though my cousin and I friend also joined. Thank you for extending that warmness to them also.
And now I’m coming to the conclusion.
Basically thank you.
Each and every one of you.
Thank you.
Kotaku Aus is one of the nicest places on the internet. I’m a little sad that tomorrow, no one will see this and know how much I appreciate them.
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Just remember Scree – You’re a part of this group as well, you do all these things too. So thank you to you as well. 😀
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You were going so well with the lack of apologising /o\
What happened to the \o/?
/o\!
My arms! They don’t know what to do!
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THE FOLLOWING IS SAID PURELY IN JEST. IT IS A JOKE.
Now isn’t that better than spamming?
END JOKE
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Is it though? It could be seen as attention whoring (which obviously is not the intention as I’m trying to thank people) but still
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Oh dear, Scree. Worry less. Everyone here thinks you’re just as great as you’ve said you think the TAYbies are. You’ve got nothing to worry about here.
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See, when people say I’m a nice person, I don’t believe them. I am trying to fix this but it will take a while.
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You are a nice person.
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So are you
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Then one day, you’ll meet him in the street, and think “Wait, that’s what a nice person looks like?” (Sorry BDKIAF, but you looked nothing like what I expected)
Then again, the same could be said of F4ction, and a lot of the other TAYbies. And I guess I don’t look like a jerk, so there are definitely some exceptions.
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People would mistake me for a 16 year old. So it’s hard to tell via the net. Especially since people have only seen me with pink hair or in a cat costume on here
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Everyone here knows what I look like, so I don’t get any of the fun of being mysterious.
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Breaking preconceptions like a boss.
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I may always see you as your avatar anyway
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Best way to save disappointment 😛
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+1 to what Nova and Bish said
You could always repost it tomorrow in the new TAY or Permalink it 🙂
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(I only +1’d Nova and Bish because that’s all there was when I was typing my comment)
I actually +1 everyone! [only what a ‘general consensus’ (being Blagh, Bish and his friend) would agree with though]
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No, I won’t post it tomorrow because then it will be out of context and people won’t understand.
Plus, attention whore-ish ._.
But thank you for the nice words (goes for everyone else too).
More than happy, Scree 🙂 I always have time for friends, no matter how busy my life is*
*My life isn’t very busy.
I saw the post! And even though I’ve been posting less and less because of no time to do basically anything, I still read and catch up on TAY. Except I comment less, so I’m the weirdo outside your window, listening to everything you guys say.
Hi!
I’m sorry to have stressed you out. I love this place, and that’s because it’s nice. And you shouldn’t need to thank us, surely it’s just common courtesy? It may not really be common elsewhere, but at least here it is. I… I don’t really know what I’m saying, nevermind.
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I’m sorry for making you feel bad and putting you through this. I didn’t mean to.
A silly misunderstanding just made everything worse.
Thanks for clarifying though.
Sit back, relax. You’ll live longer.
I for one don’t mind the incessant chatter. Reminds me of my wife who sometimes collapses because she forgets talking isn’t breathing. As does my oldest daughter.
My house. It is noisy.
Wait. What were we talking about again?
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Oh yeah. Peanuts.
Mmmmm
Peanuts.
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SNNNAAAAAAKKKEEE!
You took too much Diazepam! With 100 proof alcohol!
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I wish it did what they said but it’s just a muscle relaxant.
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I don’t know if you guy have been following my tweets. But I’ve been playing Trauma Center, and the game constantly reminds me that i’m just awful at it.
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So your saying that if we are out together and I suddenly need a life saving tracheotomy then I am completely boned.
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I like that you alternate between healing people (Trauma Centre) and watching people getting beaten up and mangled horribly (UFC).
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Well, my dog has a habit of eating the cat’s dinner… how do I get him to stop?
Just so you know, he is fed regularly enough without being over-fed.
And he’s 7 and a bit, and quite fat for a small dog.
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Actually, dogs love cat food. More so some dogs then others. I would say fed your cat behind a closed door if possible because even if you aren’t over feeding a dog, they may still feel hungry.
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Dogs aren’t the only ones who like cat food!
…What?
That premium stuff is… premium.STOP JUDGING ME
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Whereas I always judge him.
And deem him to be “awesome.”
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Well if that’s the case, let me expand:
Cat food with the real meat chunks. Of course it’s a bit goopey and salty, but you know, all things considered, not bad.
Now dog food, what is that, I don’t even know. In the middle of all the meat that has been processed to hell is just gelatinous… stuff which does not go down well at all. Way more goopey and salty, but at least the salt gives some sort of flavouring to it.
Which then begs the question; Why is the premium cat food better?
I like to think it’s because cats are snooty little bastards and cat owners are crazy people with too much money so that the companies can milk them out of it, whereas dogs, the far superior traditional pet are so loyal and happy about everything that they gladly eat up that terrible goop because what they really survive on are pats on the head from us.
This, of course, is my totally unbiased, scientific fact opinion research, so everyone should blindly trust me on this.
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Dog joke time!
What do you call a dog with no back legs and metal testicles?
Sparky!
*cue laughter*
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Not up to the dog bit but seeing that it’s Whose Line I know it’ll be funny
lol @ Colin falling over and Ryan ‘saving his life’
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Oh I just want to add that I miss this show 🙁
I watched Drew Carey’s Improv-a-Ganza last year but that was just absolute poo compared to Whose Line
Fast and Loose is a funny British improv show though 😀
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Well, I’m off for the night. Looking at my timetable, my first week of TAFE should be pretty cruisy, so I should see you over the next few days. Don’t be breaking anything while I’m gone, ok Lambo?
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From what I’ve seen, TAFE can be pretty cruisy the whole way through if you only care about passing.
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Unfortunately I chose to do a hard degree(Software Engineering(at ANU)). Thus why I’m now unemployed and a uni dropout.
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I’d love to do something like that. I always loved fooling around in Visual Basic and C++ in year 12 SDD class and actually made a sidescroling games based on the movie Riki-oh as my end of year project.
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I really enjoy coding, but I found the actual course work, well, not to my taste. Oh, and I despise maths, which was a bit of a problem.
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Hahahaha!
“Enjoy coding”.
You guys! You guys are hilarious!
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oh 😛 fair enough. Isn’t ANU like one of Australia’s best Universities? I’ve heard it was the best, although I guess that really depends on the course.
Not trying to brag or anything but I also go to a Group of 8 University which is also one of the best in Australia I guess. I looked up the requirement for your course and I could get in but the course I’m doing has a lower requirement. It’s still a somewhat hard degree but I’m still getting excellent grades for the amount of work I put in.
Yeah… sounds like I’m bragging but I’m not 😛 honest!
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Yeah, unfortunately my effort amount was “0” as that’s how I’d gotten through High School/College. If I’d put in any at all it would have been far easier(I tried in 2 classes…). And while technically ANU is one of Australia’s best, and often tops Australia in the rankings, it has the problem that that’s all for post-grad stuff. For an undergrad it’s not fantastic(unless you do physics, as they have the best lecturers/tutors at the uni)
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Ahh didn’t think of it that like. I’m always thinking of just the undergrad 😛 (since I am one)
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To be honest, when I did Cert IV Multimedia at TAFE, I played more hours of Quake 3 Arena & Battlefield Vietnam than I did outside of TAFE & got distinctions & credits.
But I guess since most of the assignments were creative & I consider myself decent at being creative & I knew most of the software already it was relatively easy for me =/
That sounds like i’m gloating, I really am not. I just thought TAFE could’ve been a bit harder than year 10 stuff >.<
One thing I learned with TAFE is not to stress on assignments. You think they want a high standard so you sit there stressing about it and end up spending all your free time churning out something that looks like a Tolstoy work.. Then you get 100/100 the same as the guy who hands his in on a napkin.
I love it when people create songs out of animations snip its.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG8V_rs6e7E&feature=g-vrec&context=G2044fe5RVAAAAAAAACA
The ending is just crap though. If they’d finished it properly it would’ve been awesome.
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Check out this channel http://www.youtube.com/user/fagottron?blend=1&ob=4
Don’t mind the stupid name, it’s awesome stuff.
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100 posts and so little time.
Quick think of something controversial to create discussion.
Ah
Ah
Sherlock is a terribl…dang it! I can’t force myself to say that.
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1 divded by 3 in decimals = ?
0.33333333333333333333333 recurring still doesn’t add up to 1
O_O
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Or you could relax, and trust that we’ll get there. There’s no race, and it isn’t a competition.
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I was really just trying to create a Sherlock discussion in my own unique hi-larious way.
Fail on all accounts.
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But at least now we can discuss your fail. Well, except that we’re on a new page now, so this won’t be seen.
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Speaking of Sherlock, I’ve had the same episode paused and unfinished since about 7pm.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m not a fan of long TV shows 😛 and TAY is distracting (but the good kind!)
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I’m the same with long episodes. I prefer the 20 or 40 minute TV shows, that way if there’s something I need to do or will get distracted by I can pause at the end of an episode and get it done.
But then, maybe I just have a terrible attention span. For example, I’m watching a TV show right now, and I stopped writing my comment halfway through because I was watching it. Even now I’m looking at the TV and typing! It’s a stream of consciousness type thing. See how my focus has shifted entirely? Bad attention span!
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Yeah that’s usually the right time for me. 45 minutes of Breaking Bad I can handle and I did 55 minutes of Dexter. Depends on the show I guess but I was really into those shows, wanting to know what would happen next. But at 55 minutes, I couldn’t keep attention during episodes of The Wire :/. Sherlock being 1 and a half hours isn’t helping :P. It just feels like a movie to me and unless I’m really in a movie mood I get distracted easily.
I guess I wasn’t a regular TAYbie back then though which is why I’m always being distracted by TAY :P. I’ll read almost all of the comments and reply to what I feel interests me. I’ll even sometimes hold back replying to something that interests me just to avoid looking like I’m spamming :P. I also tend to click on all the links and watch whatever is in the video 😛
#firstworldproblems
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Personally, I’ve given up on trying to read everything in TAY. Again, maybe it’s the attention span? :p Usually I just skim the comments for key words or interesting sentences or posts by people who usually post awesome stuff (which isn’t a slight against anyone else, mind!). I find that way I get the general gist of everything that’s going on without wanting to comment on everything..
I guess I’ll read most of the conversations when I’m bored, but if I leave for several hours and come back and find several new pages, well, that’s a different matter entirely. :p
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Ahh that’s what I mean. I won’t READ everything but I’ll skim almost everything and read what I find interesting/something that I plan to reply too.
But then again since I’m on holidays and don’t really do anything the most pages TAY ever goes without me reading is about 3 or so, so it’s not that bad 🙂
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Greenius to the rescue.
I tend to think of them as a series of movies. Somehow using that mentality actually makes it easier to settle down and watch the whole thing.
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I just replied but I think this is what makes it worse for me. Being a TV mini-series and all. It’s not bad, far from it but because of the length I just find myself getting distracted easily. Also there’s TAY 😛
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I think I would sooner let a doctor trained exclusively on a DS that was broken remove my eyeballs than play more levels of Trauma Center. It’s not bad, it’s just that losing this many times will cost me my sanity.
I’m up to that part in the first game where you have to go to Africa and i can’t cure this kid.
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You got further then I did. I requires precision, quick reflexes and is brutally hard. Completely unforgiving. I pretty much give up on it. I like it but I panic and end up making things worse
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That game taught me how to draw circles.
It doesn’t matter if it’s circle shaped, it only matters that you end where you start.
School geometry has lied to me!
Just out of curiosity, is it weird to be 21 and still have plush toys on top of your wardrobe?
Because I have five of them on there.
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I cannot count the number that I can see. Hell, I often still sleep with my favourite Teddy Bear. But that’s partially just because I often find it easier to sleep while holding something…
Anyway, the answer is no. They’re manly.
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I hope not, because I’ll be 21 next year and I don’t want to get rid of my Munchlax plushie any time soon.
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I’m 28 and still have 2 plush toys. I had more but the kids keep stealing them. They’ll take Stuff away from my cold dead hands though.
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FUUUUUUUUUUUU I have like over 10….
but to be fair they’ve been there for years since I moved in this house we had nowhere else to put them 😛
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Furniture terminology fail
I meant closet. My closet has this shelf thing with like 20 stuffed toy things that just sit there taking up space
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Hey Scree, stop stressing. We like you, we like your arts and cosplay. “One of us” and all that. *hug*
And you should know Blaghs well enough by now to know that he’s pretty much never serious. 🙂 I am sometimes serious though so I just want to gently suggest that if it weren’t a Sunday night and the last gasp of this TAY, that it might make it difficult for people coming in in the morning to try and catch up. And I am well aware it’s not your fault, people like Virus and Freezy McFreezerson have been asking you to spam so I completely blame them. 😉
In short, I love you, and I’m glad Blaghs has someone to keep him company at night, just everyone needs to realise what a difficult beast TAY is and maybe think about the other people who love TAY but don’t have as much time to spend here as they’d like.
You haven’t done anything wrong though, Scree, TAY is for everyone and that most certainly includes you. *more hugs*
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I haven’t read it yet, but I’ve seen my name at least twice, so I’m just assuming that Strange is chastising me!
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I thought it went without doubt I was an asshole because;
A) My name is Virus
B) I live in South Tweed =P
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Thanks Strange. You know I don’t normally do this. This morning no one was on TAY and I was really bored. Tonight it was because I was asked to help get us to 6000. I should’ve at least tried to make more discussion then just blindly posting videos
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Straaange! I’ve been trying to get your attention over the past few days but you never seen to spot my posts D=
If you were still interested in obtaining a Soundwave ticket there seems to be a few on Gumtree in the Gold Coast area going for 170-180, which is about what you have to pay online from Soundwave/Ticketek/Oz Tix
By my calculations, we won’t break 6000 until at least page 35… unless people start doing a lot of replies.
Wow, this place got depressing all of a sudden.
Seriously, can’t I play SWTOR for a couple of hours without everyone moping about stuff?!
(I’m joking, Scree)
Also, @Freeze
0.9999 recurring = 1 is provable.
but anyone who says that pi = 3 should be shot.
I just went to the effort of sourcing a karaoke version of a song, I found a youtube link, had to go through the process of converting it, then downloading it, so I can sing my heart out, and then I found that it had a download link in the description.
Derp.
Tonight has not been a good night. Stupid Black Eyed Peas lied to me.
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Not entirely!
Your lady lumps are still lovely.And that is a weird thing to say, even as a joke.
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TAY is a proper noun, so it’s not saying we’re not a word, just that we’re not allowed in the rules of Scrabble.
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The screenshot says that it’s not allowing proper nouns, so I’m going to assume that they’re on the old (good) rule set.
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Isn’t that Words with Friends?
Technically the same thing though… (or so I’ve heard – I’ve never played Scrabble >_>)
Add me if you want to play 🙂 I’m Greenius (anyone else feel free)
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Don’t do it!
He plays words like BI and gets 17 points for it, simultaneously removing any letters to play off!
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You love it 😀
You’re still beating me 2-1 though but I am winning this (I still have a feeling you’ll make a comeback out of nowhere like last time…)
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Yeah it is words with Friends, not sure how to play with people on Android or iOS though from Facebook D=
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Oh in the mobile one it’s just add the person’s username and you’re good to go
Haven’t played it on FaceBook so I have no idea how it works but I know games can be played between mobile and FB 😛
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I just had a squiz, and I think you need to be Facebook friends with someone to play via the Facebook version, but that the game will also be attached to your smartphone account, so you can play a game with your Facebook friends on your phone.
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Ah fair enough. I don’t like linking Facebook to gaming or any other stuff I do. No point posting about it and no one needs to see it. Also most of my friends aren’t gamers so it’ll probably just annoy them :/
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H-uh, I just mashed buttons wildly, and it looks like I challenged you to a game. This will end badly.
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Oh try adding Virus__ then, that’s 2 underscores. I created a username for it since it said I could!
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Started a game 🙂
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Lets see if this works =D!
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It worked \o/
I got yours as well Freeze!
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Just a heads up Freeze is better than me 🙂
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So… tomorrow morning is the Superbowl…
Go Patriots, beat those New York giants!
I think I’m the only TAYbie that is interested in this…
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My uncle would totally be interested with you, if it weren’t for the fact that he’s not a TAYbie.
Actually, FatShady probably cares, I know he likes BackBreaker and stuff, so I think he likes the game…
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Oh man golf is awesome. I want to play Golf with Alice Cooper, that would be so awesome. I could get epic golf tips!
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I like the arcadey golf games that let you modify your equipment or change clothes. True story.
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This reminds me of Vice City, putting Tommy in the golfing clothes going to the golf course & busting people up with a golf club or the golf cart xD
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Those clowns in congress did it again!
…Wrong sport?
But seriously though, that NFL, lord.
Look, I have the attention span of sorry just getting some dog fur off my shirt of something that does not have a very good attention span, but I watch cricket. Test cricket. And even to me, the constant starting and stopping of gridiron is really jarring. Yeah, you get some magnificent plays, but the whole “play for 10 seconds, stop for a minute” just saps the energy out of it, when compared to AFL, or even NRL. Personally, it just hampers my ability to keep watching it. The shots of the coach yelling angrily into his headset is only amusing the first few times too.
Did I miss something? Boy, whatever happened while I was trying to (and failed to) sleep?
Anyway, I heard Alan Wake is finally coming to the comp on Feb. 16th and yet another) indie bundle launches on Feb. 14th.
THESE PEOPLE HAVE NO MERCY WITH YOUR WALLET.
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Alan Wake is good but I’m sure you already know that 🙂
There’s another indie bundle? Is it one of those royal ones or something else? I know the Humble Indie guys just released one for Anroid and iOS so I doubt it’ll be them
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Yeah, there was… stuff…
I’ll let someone who’s better with this stuff explain that.
And yes, I’m beginning to understand that publishers have absolutely no respect for the sanctity of my wallet. Thankfully, I have no money to spend, so things like that make little difference to me.
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Those indie bundles are nothing but too much too often >.<
I can't wait for Alan Wake! All we need now is Red Dead Redemption to be ported to PC, but since it was Rockstar San Diego, it is unlikely we will ever see it 🙁
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ShopStyle/TwistedMetal ads on the dark grey background got replaced with Orange Telstra HTC phone ads on a white background >_> eyes haven’t adjusted yet…
Comment box is still wrecked though (Lambo!) with the name of the ‘Replyee’ and ‘Cancel Reply’ in black and the comment box still isn’t aligned properly :P. It also remains dark grey.
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That explains why I can’t see the difference then. I have to block the ads since every time a Telstra ad comes on Kotaku becomes unusably slow.
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Why is it orange and white?
This does not suit Kotaku.
Wait, it’s an ad?
Okay, then.
Never mind.
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Good thing you saw fit to applaud me then, because those two were the only ones I could think of.
I must be getting old.
Mind isn’t as sharp as it used to be.
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What’s worse is that as the page is loading it’s still dark grey then BAM everything (except the top and bottom) go white and orange
So I’ve gotten back into Tetris Friends, and all I can say is, free spin is a joke.
Once you set the piece down, it should stay there.
None of this floaty hogwash, just keep it like they did in the Gameboy verios, which IMHO, was the best version of Tetris ever released.
Yes, I’m ranting about Tetris.
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Is that the Facebook one? If you’re taking about how you can keep on moving pieces when you shouldn’t be able to by spamming the rotate button then I know what you mean :/
Except I figured that out all by myself and rose to the top of my FB friends rankings \o/ before something happened and it deleted my high score /o\. Not like I ever played it again though 😛
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I think so. I shows an option to connect via facebook, but I don’t use facebook, because it sucks like a $2 whore.
By the way sorry if anyone found that^ offensive.
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I always thought the 2 dollar imitation game boys from the cheap stores had the best tetris xD
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I never owned a Game Boy & I never got to play Tetris on the Game Boy 🙁 none of my friends like to share D=
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http://www.tetrisfriends.com/games/Mono/game.php
Closest you’ll get to it without purchasing a gameboy or downloading an emulator*.
* It’s not even close.
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Yeah this is the one that I used to play on FB
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I didn’t play it as much, as I was only about top 5%ish. Whereas the “Marathon” mode I was the top 1% of players… I had an unhealthy addiction to Tetris though…
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I like the Free Spin, but I think it needs to be way more limited. The speeds it gets to, you sometimes can’t even get the piece into the right place in time(and trust me, I’m good at Tetris).
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I’m pretty sure you just got the 6000th post, at least as it appears to me.
You are a golden god, Cracklelacklekins.
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And that, my friends, is why you don’t snort coke before performing. XD
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All I’m seeing are ads that say “Reclaim your brain”. Last time I checked, I think the thing was in my head!
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It busted into my house one day demanding shapes. It found the boxes in the pantry and disappeared into the roof space. Can’t get the damn thing down now.
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I’ve had Alter Bridges AB III on repeat all night. I really think it’s my album of 2010 along with Slash & No Guts. No Glory.
They were just exceptional.
It seems I didn’t catch up with the recent musical trends and, like old Grampa Simpson said, “it happened to me too”. I became a musical dinosaur.
I think I asked on the Twitters about dubstep but, man, I never thought I would hear something as concerning as reggeatón… So Assasin’s Creed has the fault for popularising that one? Needs a history lesson.
Also, it’s so rewarding to check the english dictionary and make sure it says “English (Australia)”! Just saying. 😛
Just letting ya’ll know that I’m about to go have a shower (I’m a shower at night kinda guy) then cruise TAY for a while before going to bed 🙂
If I don’t reply that’s why. I’ve never done a ‘goodnight’ post as I just tend of disappear like a ninja (I like doing that at shit parties 😀 – is a shit friend)
Damn you TAY for being so interesting! This is probably the latest I’ve been up in a while and I’ve been sleeping in later too… The whole holidays I’ve been sleeping early and waking up early since I didn’t have anything to do at night. Usually when I’m up at night I have people to talk to or games to play (which I’ve been lacking until now). My post counts skyrocket at night TAYme or weekend TAY :P. I barely post on previous pages but today I’ve gone nuts D:
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It’s not a good night post I’ll be back 🙂 but thanks
more of a “I’m going away for a while so don’t worry if I don’t reply” post. Mainly aimed at Blagh who’s been spamming me on Words with Friends
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I don’t think that would make up for the whole “me” part there. Just sayin’.
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I’m going to agree with this response. Anything else is just… worrying.
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He could have gone with :O
Too far?
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T_T why Freeze why!?
but then again we all know what Blaghman looks like based on dancing/singing vids but no one knows what I look like (thank god). All I am is just a green square : D
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It’s a bad thing that people know what I look like. It just makes it more horrible!
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Just possibly a little too far.
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Yeah he probably wasn’t that shocked at my proclivities.
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Freeze U SO CRAZEE!
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THINKUNSEXYTHOUGHTSTHINKUNSEXYTHOUGHTSTHINKUNSEXYTHOUGHTTHINKUNSEXYTHOUGHTS
Time to watch all those haunted places videos Scree posted, the Sanitarium (or Sanitorium which ever way you wish to spell it) sounded awesome. Did anyone check them out yet?
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I watched a couple of them. All they did was make me want to go caving somewhere dark and mysterious…
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The one Scree linked me to last night of the London Underground (The Tube) was really good.
Also the Sanitarium one reminded me of the abandoned psych asylum in Melbourne called Larundel
http://www.victorianphantomhunters.com/larundelmentalasylum.htm
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I remember when the wife and I went on a ghost tour of Fremantle prison. It was pretty creepy being at the gallows late at night.
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D= that would be creepy.
I wanted to visit the prison in Maitland, err Maitland Gaol, you can do sleep overs in the cells. It’s also down the road from my friends grandfathers place she informs me haha.
Shame they closed Boggo Road Gaol to the public for tours & such, though it might be open again by the looks. I need to convince my mates we need to go on a tour to one, one time xD
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Time to go to bed, and we’re already halfway through page 35.
Well, goodnight TAYbies.
See you all tomorrow morning. 🙂
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I’ve never figured out how such a brilliant cast managed to produce a relatively mediocre film. Don’t get me wrong. I love the movie.But it’s not a particularly good one.
Ooookay then, not sure if I should really be watching this “The Ghosts Of Waverly Hills Sanatorium” doco on YouTube before bed, knowing the type of stuff they did there was infact real, is really disturbing and creepy.
Ok so I ran out of things to download (obligatory YARGH!) since I just finished MLP. So I decided to pick some random UFC fights to download 😛
Never really watched UFC but I think I’ll enjoy it 🙂
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Nope but friends have told me to. According to him though the new season isn’t as good…
FUN FACT: the new guy went to my high school (or so the high school magazine says)
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Oh and I’m not talking about things to watch just things to download in general. My computer (that I’m on) is upstairs on my room while the modem is downstairs. I can’t be bothered turning it off when I sleep so I just leave my computer on and let it download something. Anything really I also limit it so it downloads realll slow (like 50 kb/s) just so I have something to download 😛
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Ooooooooooohhhhhhhoooo.
In that case just trawl through eztv.it
I usually just grab all the random docos and series premieres. Stumble on some good stuff that way. And some not so good stuff.
Like Grimm. It sounded awesome but actually is eye rollingly bad.
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http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2288270&page=14 The effects of Kotaku US in the people.
They are even blocking the IP from Windows!
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Wow, that’s a bit extreme blocking access on their computers to Kotaku US. Bunch of crazy people. I just ignore most of the US stuff these days unless it is interesting or I need a reminder that there are worse journalists than my local paper.
I should probably go to bed seeming as I have a 6:30 start tomorrow.
Yeah definitely should.
Toodles
2:30 AM, I might as well start here. You can read this if you want, Alpha, or whoever else sees this, but honestly, I wouldn’t bother. This is just what I do. Somewhere to categorise my thoughts. Somewhere permanent, but potentially hidden. It’s not the best system, but I guess it works.
I should be asleep, but of course I’m not. I can’t sleep when I’m thinking, and god I have a lot of thinking to do.
And here’s the problem, me. I usually go through a lot of introspective thought whenever something happens in my life. I’d like to think that it’s good, that it’s all for the better. I’d like to think that I’m always improving as a person, but that’s probably not true. But we’ll start somewhere else.
In year 8, I was a dick. I was mean to people for no reason, and I often treated badly. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t a bully, I was picked on by people, insulted, and I had to deal with a whole bunch of douchebags. So what does this mean? I was a dick to those close to me. Those few people who were willing to be nice to me. It was only rarely, but it still happened, and the same was true for a lot of year 7. I regret this now, but at the time? I was a little shit. I was also a little, well, for lack of a better term, depressed. I carried a knife with me, occasionally I would cut myself, just to see what happened. And more then once I contemplated suicide. Let’s be honest, there’s no logical reasoning behind any of that, it’s just what happened. A chemical imbalance, or something. But, all this changed.
When I was in year 8, I went to the bus early one morning, as my sister(who was at a different school at the time) needed to get to school early. While I was sitting around, waiting for the bus, the best thing that happened to me that year, well, happened. A guy came up, grabbed my iPod, and punched me in the face. The short version is that I missed that day of school(I had an orthodontic appointment that afternoon anyway), I got my iPod back, and, eventually, supposedly, the guy who did it ended up in jail for that, and a variety of other charges.
It also made me a better person. Suddenly I was more relaxed. I cared about things far less. I understood that everything had value, and that sometimes it couldn’t be quantified. You can’t really put a value on anything, and that was the first time I learned anything about life.
I hope nobody’s reading this, but just in case you are, have a break: http://thedoghousediaries.com/3266
It’s the only link break you’ll get, or else this will never be moderated. Though, that might be a good thing.
Now we’ll fast forward a bit. To some time, I’m not sure if it was year 9 or 10. I have a friend who likes to hug a lot. She’s very touchy feely. And she would hug me, and everyone else, a lot. This was fine initially, I just dealt with it, and responded awkwardly. However, suddenly, I found her touch unbearable. Well, not just her touch, anyone’s. If you’ve ever watched Lar’s and the real girl(a fantastic movie, by the way), then the way he reacts to contact is pretty similar to what I became like. Touching people, with any affection involved whatsoever, began to hurt. This is when my problems with people really started. I had dealt with bullying, with general dickery, with all of that just fine, even arsehole teachers who made me cry, but suddenly I had my first quantifiable problem with people. I couldn’t explain this pain to my friends though. So every time they’d hug me, I would just stiffen up(not in that way, get your mind out of the gutter), and wait for it to end. I couldn’t stand physical contact, so I became even more withdrawn at this point. Dealing with people became harder, but I struggled through. Any good experiences were drowned out by far less frequent, far more minor occurrences with people who just didn’t care. At some point around here I stopped being able to relate to people properly. At some point, I just stopped laughing.
Let’s go forward a bit. Year 12, a friend’s birthday party. I should clarify, she had a younger sister, who happened to be friends with one of my friends from primary school. Now, my friend and I had reffered to this younger sister as, well, I don’t feel like using the term, but very flirty. We didn’t mean it in an insulting way, she was just one of those people who was inadvertently very flirty. Anyway, at this party, I made a joke relating to the term we’d devised. Needless to say, without context, she took it in the worst possible way. She was probably the last person I would expect to cry, and there she went, running out of the room, crying at what I’d said. I consider this to be one of the lowest moments of my life. I had reached the point where standard social norms no longer applied to me, as my ostracised mind grasped abstract ideas that insulted those around me. I’m glad to say that I went and explained stuff to her(thankfully with the help of her sister/my friend), and that she was fine later, to the point where she was ok with me making jokes about it.
I’m glad that she was so cool with it, because my jokes are only there as some awkward way for me to deal with tension. They’re all my jokes ever are. I can’t deal with people, so I joke away. Mock this, pretend that. I always did love acting. Yes the one thing I can’t act is someone who understands people. I can psychoanalyse you, I can look at all your mannerisms and traits, but, in the end, what does that even tell me? Nothing practical. All I do is observe and document, I don’t learn. I never learn. So that’s what I’m going to try and change. I’ll never stop joking, I’ll never stop acting, but maybe, maybe the emotions I’ve had to deal with in the past few hours will help me to learn. I can hope, anyway.
That’s all I really have, hope. Still, that’s probably all I should say. Any more about the not-in-the-slightest tortuous existence of Sean, and you’ll probably just want to hit me.
So, thanks. I may not have liked my emotional rollercoaster(the real kind are far more fun), but at least some good may come out of it. Even if the realist in me says that it won’t. A bit after 3 now? Probably time I stopped. Not that I have anything I need to be up for tomorrow. Sorry for any spelling or grammatical errors. And the fact that this doesn’t make sense.
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You blew my cover! I was indeed here, lol.
but it’s ok. I agree about organising your thoughts somehow. Too many distractions, too much crap nowadays that breaks my concentration… At work I usually end up putting classical music or something to avoid being interrupted every time I’m doing important corrections on files.
My breaks involve googling “cute dog puppies”. 😛 However, I’m always fearing that one day something nasty will show and I can expect the troll face appearing on my shoulder to tell me “Problem?”.
Cogito, ergo sum!
It technically is 5:00am there at the time of this writing…
You should consider giving shape to all those thoughts into a book.
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Dunno what to say, though I know I should say something.
Me in a nutshell right there ^^
So I will just let you know I read it.Also stealing Lambo’s last post like a pirate.
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Sure, but you have to remember Batguy does his TABTOL analysis of TAY when he does (sometimes it’s the night before, I believe) so really, all you’re doing is hoping you get the last post in before he takes his snapshot of TAY.
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Ruiner of hopes and dream, you is.
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I do my best.
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new page? eff!
can anyone fill me in on/sell me Metal Gear Solid 4 with the cardboard slipcase? (it exists right?)
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