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Wow, I always forget how bad it is having to wait until 8:30 instead of 7:30 for TAY. I read TAY while I’m having breakfast so when Daylight Savings ends I have to have breakfast a whole hour later. 😛
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I know its torture isn’t it, i got to work at 8 and no TAY i was all like well this is shitty. I got a days work done in that half an hour.
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Yeah.
We should just make the rest of the country abandon Daylight Savings and make TAY start at 8am to split the difference :p
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Also how to pronounce it.
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It’s not that hard :p
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Trin?
Trijin?
Trojan?
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Bunny.
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Yup.
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You people are crazy. Daylight savings time means that I can walk home from work without getting sunburnt.
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Heck no. Men using umbrellas, especially in the sun, in Geelong is an open invitation to be bashed to death. It’s pretty much in the council laws.
Also, I would have to hold it directly infront of my face.
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Living in Geelong, I confirm this man speaks the truth.
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Right so according to my browser this Dick Smith sale has a total of 19 items.
So yeah…. awesome work.
Sup TAY (i am a total bro because I say things like sup). It feels like an oven in this shopping centre while I wait for DS to open. And I was so cold this morning, too.
It is very boring here. There’s a sign out front saying ‘no consoles’ and that makes me sad.
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Man luck to you, but i think the staff has already probably taken all the good stuff for their families and friends.
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Well according to Dick Smith, they’re not allowed to do that. But when did any retailer seem to enforce rules on its employees?
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Pfft, I’ve worked at both EB and GAME, and we did exactly that. Went through the sale list and pulled out all the good bits, and kept them in the back room until payday.
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Morn*achoo*ing everyone. My hayfever has gotten the better of my this morning =( pile of tissues piling up to my right as I type this D=
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*gasps*
Me too.
I am predicting an End of the World virus spreading right about now.
Wait, is that what you are??!?
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Man, /hi5 I went through that on Saturday night and it was hell.
Still have yet to find something that can combat it well when it flares up 🙁
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But I wanted to see the wrastlin’. 🙁
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The good sheriff need not wrastle.
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At least 50 people lined up at the DSE in the city, I’m guessing some of them have been there for a while. Not even going to bother. Sorry everyone!
Sir Greenius! I saw your post. Xenoblade! The Last Story hasn’t arrived yet and I’m in the process of getting a refund from Zavvi. ;_;
Think I’ll just use the refund to get both The Last Story ordinary version and Xenoblade Chronicles for Ozgameshop.
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Note: Not a reply fail. Just funny co-incidence that Sir Greenius popped up as I was typing a message to him.
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To be fair we’ve bought loads of things from them in the past few years and never had a problem until now. It seems more a Royal Mail or Aus Post problem, too. The customer service I’ve had with this issue has been great.
Basically, if it’s cheaper than anywhere else and you’re not in a hurry, go for it.
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Hrrrngh, death to daylight savings ending.
My account is in Queensland, so everything that needs to be done is now back an hour.
Morning TAY!
I had a pretty cool weekend, the guys on Teamspeak were talking about Dark Souls so I came up with the completely original idea of starting a new game on Dark Souls. Also I went to the movies last night and saw 21 Jump Street. I was expecting it to be pretty crap but I was laughing throughout the movie (although they did drop the f bomb WAY too much).
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Also I went to my local DSE before I caught the train to work. Lots and lots of kids wanting to buy dem vidya gaems!
Not a fan of most of the April Fools days shenanigans, but xkcd’s efforts are impressive.
Different comics by region and browser that change based on your browser zoom. Pretty amazing.
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The last panel extended when I made my browser wider, to show a new detail. Pretty cool, but would probably be cooler if we lived in the US.
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Zooming in also changes things and the link I gave has most of the variations posted. Some are pretty awesome.
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So the knox sore has like 200 people out the front… I just realised it’s school holidays today which sucks
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Oh frak. It’s school holidays now?
I guess that explains the lack of school kids at the schools I drove past. *dumb*
Morning everybody.
4 day working week due to Easter… I’m pretty excited about it. Can use the time to finish a few games.
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/hi5
I can’t wait for these 4 days, It’s going to be just amazing. Might try and finish off a game myself!
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I’ll be doing the same I think. I grabbed AssCreedRev from HN last week, so I now need to go through and finish AssCreedBro…
Hey team
A few notes about the dick smith sale.
1. The link TO the sale was busted – it didn’t show all of the items – if you wanted to find the items you had to physically type it into the search bar.
2. The sale went live early. I checked at 7.20 and it was already live and most stock was sold out.
I managaged to get 2 1500 ms point cards, dead island and resistance retribution in my kart… but when i went to pay, they were removed and it said “these items are now sold out”
Seriously?? You guys don’t have a kart hold function?? Most other sites do?
What the fuck?
Seriously, i am so pissed off.
So yeah – long story short is none of us ever had a chance – especially if you thought it would start at 8am or you used the link they provided
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Yup. I didn’t even try. Admittedly, being stuck on a bus when things were both meant to start and when it actually did start didn’t help matters much.
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I’d imagine it would actually be quite difficult, yes…
Seriously, it’s almost as bad as the catchoftheday shenanigans. lol
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I really didn’t think i had a chance, I am a little disapponted that nobody got anything though especially the people who waited at the stores. But Dick Smith knew that would happen.
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I looked at what I was after the day before the sale, and anything I was insterested in wasn’t available, or it was sold out in a flash.
I did hear from a few friends that managed to get stuff that the online portion started earlier than 8am.
While I’m not impressed, and a little dissapointed, I can’t say I didn’t see it happening.
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Yeh – i’m in the same boat. I wasn’t expecting anything to come of it – but i’m still a little annoyed
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It’s almost an elaborate fools joke: Huge Sale! But you can’t have any of it.
My mate who works there could not even get me anything.
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Hey Peeps,
This D2 thang… is it worthwhile picking up a legit copy for bnet play or are we being pirates (arrrrr)?
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Funny story (well probably not funny more sad) I bought a legit copy of the game and it downloaded from bnet slower then a pirated version. =/
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oh and the bnet downloader is the worst piece of garbage i have ever had the displeasure to use. it uses ALL THE INTERNET. Torrenting slows down my internet less.
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That is true. Although I generally don’t condone piracy, if blizzard are going to charge money for the shittiest downloader I have ever used, I would think twice about buying it.
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I aquired a copy and it downloaded in little under a hour and a half. Installed and everything seems to work. The sad part is i won’t be around to play.
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Yeah, I was going to buy it but at $20 for what will surely be me playing it for one weekend I passed and just downloaded it. Downloaded it under an hour and played it for a while. The Hi-res fix doesn’t work on the latest update but meh, still playable.
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BUT SO MANY PIXELS
Actually its pretty okay looking for a old game.
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Just back from the Dick Smith sale. The store in Nth Sydney is tiny and didn’t have any of the DSi, PSP or Xbox 360s that were on sale at all. Went in with a large list, came out with Borderlands GOTY, GTA Complete and Dragon Quest IX.
Anyone have better luck?
Holy shit just got an email from redbubble – sold my first hoodie!!??!!??
$8.40 commisssion?? I’ll take that over a $3.20 commission any day of the week!
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disingenuous assertions…
Now all i have to do is wait 6 months for my commissions to be paid outr!!!
/redbubbleissoshit
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So a few things
My grandad is out of hospital but he is in a wheelchair for the time being. He can walk but only very little. He is still not that great but he was joking and in decent spirits on Sunday so i can only hope for the best. Secondly i got a call from my sister and apparently i am travelling 1200kms to see her for Easter with my mother and her boyfriend. This is going to be torture they fight like cats and dogs and i am going to be stuck in the middle. I have various forms of entertainment. Including my music and my 3ds and my normal ds which i might take instead since battery life isn’t great on the 3ds. Plus i can use my R4 card. How was everyone elses weekend.
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Bought stuff, comforted distraught best friend, watched said best friend pick up the following night, had a grand total of 10 hours sleep and back at work again
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Community Gaming Nights
Aw yeah! Monday morning! Let’s get excited! *crickets* Fair enough.
So, 2nd week of this Community Gaming thing and wow. I’m impressed guys. I’m glad to see you’re all jumping on board with this! As I said to Pez after the RDR session on Friday, I don’t think I’ve seen my Xbox Live friends list that active in a long time!
First, a quick recap:
Team Fortress 2 on Wednesday night was well, Team Fortress 2 on Wednesday. A few less players this week but fun none the less. Hats will be put on the shelf for a couple of weeks while we play some other games too.
Red Dead Redemption on Friday night was a lot of fun. On the 360 side we had a few connection issues at the start but that just meant that we had plenty of time to shoot each others horses (and donkeys) and then proceeding to run each other down as we tried to get our new mounts. After everyone was in the game we went to sort out some gang hideouts. Hugo was leading the pack. Galloping along I could hear the soundtrack from “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” playing in my head. Until Hugo led us all off a cliff to our deaths.
After some clearing out of gangs we decided to play some of the other game modes. A bit of stuffing around again as we tried to figure out how to get everyone in the same game (apparently if you select a game mode with the DLC it won’t let people without the DLC join. Who would’ve guessed it?). Finally we all got in the same game. It was then that FatShady decided that we should try and balance the teams and told us all the disband the posse. Apparently. As only FatShady left. So when the next round started we were met with howls of laughter coming over party chat as it became apparent that it was now FatShady vs the rest. Our good friend The Cracks wrote this short piece:
It was a lost cause. He knew it, deep down inside, and so did they. The wind whistled incessantly as he stared them down. Standing alone on that roof, seven men of the law watching him with hungry eyes, it occured to him that he wasn’t making it out alive. But maybe, just maybe, he might be able to take one of them to hell with him.
It all happened so fast.
FatShady twitched towards his holstered six-shooter. His hand never made it. In only seconds, he had more bulletholes than teeth. As his corpse slumped to the floor, the seven were laughing. Cold, merciless laughter, the kind decent folk hope to never hear. It was done.
FatShady had left the posse, and paid the ultimate price.
Thanks to AlexPants, The Last Question, Batgirl, Hugo, FatShay, The Cracks, McGarnical for playing. I had a lot of fun. Thanks again the Pez for hosting the PS3 session. He tells me it went well.
Our resident colour Greenius ran an iSketch night on Saturday and while I wasn’t able to join I hear it went amazingly.
And that brings us back to Monday. A new week. A new round of games and a little something special.
Wed 4th April
Brink (PC)
Time: 8:30pm AEST
Host: Cakesmith
Note: If there is someone interested in hosting console variants of this let me know
Sat 7th April
Uncharted 3
Time: 8:30pm AEST
Host: TBC
Sat 7th April
Halo: Reach
Time: 8:30pm AEST
Host: TBC
and the big one:
Easter Weekend Community Gaming Event Spectacular Super Alpha Perfect Ultimate Turbo Championship Edition!
Fri 6th April [Good Friday] (Date TBC)
Diablo 2
Time: Midday AEST
Host: Cakesmith
I’m still working out a few of the technical details about this one regarding hosting but I’ll keep you informed. Either way, aiming to start at midday on Good Friday.
The plan is to all start new characters while arguing with each other on TeamSpeak over who gets to play what.
Lord of Destruction may not be required as we may not get that far into the game, but obviously if you want to play the Druid or Assassin class you will need it. So stock up on the Shapes and Pepsi Max because this is going to be epic! there was a lot of interest in this when I mentioned it last week so we may have 2 games going. So, if you’re keen to play let me know so I can organise the game(s).
Cakesmith out!
To join in the mad shenanigans just add whoever the host is to your friends list on the relevant system so you can find the games.
I also want your votes on what to play next week! People wanted to play Brink, so we’re playing Brink. I heard a cry for Terraria, so next week we will be playing that. I’m doing this for you guys as well, not just myself so your input on what we play is VERY important.
I’m also looking for more game suggestions. It can be as old school or as obscure as possible, but if you think we would have some awesome fun with it then let me know, either here or on the Tweets (@a_sharples for those who don’t already know).
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Please excuse spelling mistakes and grammar errors. It’s Monday morning and I haven’t had my coffee yet #StillBetterGrammarThanRocketman
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Brink night wooo
no diablo 2 for me i will be travelling and unless i can get my computer running for 12 hours on battery and no internet connection i won’t be able to play.
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So yeah, referring back to the D2 night.
I’m happy to buy (again) it off bnet, but it looks like we won’t be needing super realz copies?
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What, just because I led you all to a sheer cliff with a hard to find path that will only allow one person at a time down and there were about 7 or 8 of us, apparently I “led us all off a cliff to our deaths”.
Yep, sounds like something I would do 😛As I said last week, i am a total computer noob, so once things are a bit more stable on how the Diablo 2 connection thingy works out, can someone explain it to me in short simple sentences.
Also, can someone tell me how to get onto this “teamspeak” thingy.
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If a certain someone wanted to join in with Diablo 2, but doesn’t own it, where can he get it? Cab you get it online, or only in store somewhere?
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You can definately get digital versions on battle.net just register an account and buy the game through the account interface.
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iSketch was amazing fun the other night.
I will endeavour to join in on more of these TAY game nights.
So, just got back from DSE. All the headsets, Xbox sub cards etc; were picked up in less than a minute! Managed to walk out with Dante’s Inferno, Fable 3 and Dragon Quest IX.
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Dante’s Inferno – biggest waste of time. lol
I finished the game – and while the story is OKAYISH, the gameplay is just horrible.
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I say Dante’s Inferno was excellent, and massively underrated. I played it through twice and enjoyed it thoroughly. I’m a fan of Dante Alighieri’s original work and was really impressed with the atmosphere and the sound as well – it looked and sounded incredible. I thought the gameplay was fine, but I have heard complaints of difficulty. Some of it was pretty savage.
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I swear to god, I came this close to punching a bunch of schoolkids in the face after I told them off for grabbing a bunch of XBOX Gold cards and claiming they could resell them on eBay for $50.
And then I would have stolen their ice cream.
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Unless you wanted crap Wii or DS games, probably not. The only things that appeared to be close to worthwhile was what Batgirl bought, ands they’ll be long gone.
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So decided to go check out local DSE at about 5 to 9. 40+ people lined up, doors opened, everyone ran in like mad things to a table labelled ‘sale’, pushing jostling, frantically scrounging – it was all ~$15 wii and ds games, the crap ones that no one can sell anyway. Everyone else ran to the games and consoles shelf area looking really expectantly and somewhat confused, because, like nothing was on sale.
Saw people with stuff like Fable III, but that was like $40, which is hardly groundbreaking.
Basically, it was a normal sale, with no a lot worthwhile. I think someone got their facts wrong or it was an elaborate troll. Or maybe they found it got leaked and decided not to do it. I just stood back and looked at what people were grabbing, left within 5 minutes. Didn’t buy anything.
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It’s actually not so bad, I had a pretty solid feeling the whole thing was going to be total bunk. I mean you can get Dante’s Inferno off PSN for like $15 these days, and Fable 3/DQIX are hardly new full priced titles. I was more interested in picking up a cheap DSi for my housemate, and that was about it.
Owells!
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I didn’t like my chances in the Dick Smith sale so we grabbed it for $23 in the Harvey Norman half-price sale last week. No regrets here. 🙂
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My bus decided to take a bit of a detour this morning.
Normally it goes straight along Ipswich Rd (major arterial road) and turns onto the Busway (roads for just buses) at the Gabba (home of the mighty Brisbane Lions).
Not today!
Instead it turned on to the Busway after the PA hospital. Which seems like a good idea and all but then there’s just this minor issue that it’s a different Busway that goes to University of Queensland. So a twenty minute detour where we finally ended up on the right Busway, skipping several stops I luckily don’t give a damn about.
Buses!
Also, the new Twisted Metal game is terrible.
Hey Sydney Taybies – mini-meats this Thursday evening to celebrate the incoming four-day weekend!
Where: Sydney CBD
When: Afterwork hours onwards
What?: A ‘Scotish’ doctor
What: Food and drink and merriness \o/
So far it’s Pez and I. Who else is free!? COME ONE COME ALL
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Is this a fetish?
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I am in a disgusting mood.
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Really?
Can you handle this? I don’t think you can handle this :p
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Also, if anyone is on my route home (think m4 way) I can drop you off at the end of the night because I’ll be driving in straight after work.
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THERE IS NO VARIETY ANYMORE
I HAVE EATEN ALL THE THINGS ON THEIR MENU
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YOU’VE EATEN ALL THE THINGS ON ALL THE MENUS IN ALL THE PLACES, I DON’T QUITE UNDERSTAND THE POINT YOU ARE TRYING TO MAKE.
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OKAY THEN SOMEBODY SHOULD DECIDE WHERE WE EAT
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SHOUT NOT IT
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I LIKE THAT IDEA A LOT.
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I vote for KFC and Hungry Jacks
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I know a place that does a great chicken and corn soup…
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PIZZA HUT!?
Actually. there’s a great Japanese place that has a BUTTON that makes the slaves.. uh… wait…people? come to your table!
THEY DO IT EVERY TIME YOU PUSH THE BUTTON!
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OMG that looks soooo good, i’m so hungry now is it lunch time yet!!?>
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That’s because half the time we talk all you ever do is insult me.
I will just sit there and you’ll find offense in it.
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omg sounds fun. WILL BE THERE WITH BELLS ON
Can we get awesome dessert from Dawdle’s work again?
Thinking i might still drop by DSE and see if they have some stupid-cheap useless games… you know the Wii ones people don’t want, and just buy one or two and use my “$10 bonus trade in value” voucher from eb and put it on my pre-order for the witcher 2…
Sooooo ghey!
Dammit Cakesmith! Stop posting at the bottom of pages when you want people to see things!
Community Gaming Nights
Aw yeah! Monday morning! Let’s get excited! *crickets* Fair enough.
So, 2nd week of this Community Gaming thing and wow. I’m impressed guys. I’m glad to see you’re all jumping on board with this! As I said to Pez after the RDR session on Friday, I don’t think I’ve seen my Xbox Live friends list that active in a long time!
First, a quick recap:
Team Fortress 2 on Wednesday night was well, Team Fortress 2 on Wednesday. A few less players this week but fun none the less. Hats will be put on the shelf for a couple of weeks while we play some other games too.
Red Dead Redemption on Friday night was a lot of fun. On the 360 side we had a few connection issues at the start but that just meant that we had plenty of time to shoot each others horses (and donkeys) and then proceeding to run each other down as we tried to get our new mounts. After everyone was in the game we went to sort out some gang hideouts. Hugo was leading the pack. Galloping along I could hear the soundtrack from “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” playing in my head. Until Hugo led us all off a cliff to our deaths.
After some clearing out of gangs we decided to play some of the other game modes. A bit of stuffing around again as we tried to figure out how to get everyone in the same game (apparently if you select a game mode with the DLC it won’t let people without the DLC join. Who would’ve guessed it?). Finally we all got in the same game. It was then that FatShady decided that we should try and balance the teams and told us all the disband the posse. Apparently. As only FatShady left. So when the next round started we were met with howls of laughter coming over party chat as it became apparent that it was now FatShady vs the rest. Our good friend The Cracks wrote this short piece:
It was a lost cause. He knew it, deep down inside, and so did they. The wind whistled incessantly as he stared them down. Standing alone on that roof, seven men of the law watching him with hungry eyes, it occured to him that he wasn’t making it out alive. But maybe, just maybe, he might be able to take one of them to hell with him.
It all happened so fast.
FatShady twitched towards his holstered six-shooter. His hand never made it. In only seconds, he had more bulletholes than teeth. As his corpse slumped to the floor, the seven were laughing. Cold, merciless laughter, the kind decent folk hope to never hear. It was done.
FatShady had left the posse, and paid the ultimate price.
Thanks to AlexPants, The Last Question, Batgirl, Hugo, FatShay, The Cracks, McGarnical for playing. I had a lot of fun. Thanks again the Pez for hosting the PS3 session. He tells me it went well.
Our resident colour Greenius ran an iSketch night on Saturday and while I wasn’t able to join I hear it went amazingly.
And that brings us back to Monday. A new week. A new round of games and a little something special.
Wed 4th April
Brink (PC)
Time: 8:30pm AEST
Host: Cakesmith
Note: If there is someone interested in hosting console variants of this let me know
Sat 7th April
Uncharted 3
Time: 8:30pm AEST
Host: TBC
Sat 7th April
Halo: Reach
Time: 8:30pm AEST
Host: TBC
and the big one:
Easter Weekend Community Gaming Event Spectacular Super Alpha Perfect Ultimate Turbo Championship Edition!
Fri 6th April [Good Friday] (Date TBC)
Diablo 2
Time: Midday AEST
Host: Cakesmith
I’m still working out a few of the technical details about this one regarding hosting but I’ll keep you informed. Either way, aiming to start at midday on Good Friday.
The plan is to all start new characters while arguing with each other on TeamSpeak over who gets to play what.
Lord of Destruction may not be required as we may not get that far into the game, but obviously if you want to play the Druid or Assassin class you will need it. So stock up on the Shapes and Pepsi Max because this is going to be epic! there was a lot of interest in this when I mentioned it last week so we may have 2 games going. So, if you’re keen to play let me know so I can organise the game(s).
Cakesmith out!
To join in the mad shenanigans just add whoever the host is to your friends list on the relevant system so you can find the games.
I also want your votes on what to play next week! People wanted to play Brink, so we’re playing Brink. I heard a cry for Terraria, so next week we will be playing that. I’m doing this for you guys as well, not just myself so your input on what we play is VERY important.
I’m also looking for more game suggestions. It can be as old school or as obscure as possible, but if you think we would have some awesome fun with it then let me know, either here or on the Tweets (@a_sharples for those who don’t already know).
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Don’t you need LoD to play with other people with LoD in Diablo 2?
It’s been a long while but then again, it’s near impossible to find non-bundled copies of Diablo 2 these days :p
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-157/comment-page-1/#comment-620610
WHY WONT YOU REPLY TO ME WHAT HAVE I DONE TO AGGRIEVE YOU IS IT BECAUSE I DIDNT HAVE CHOWDER PIZZA -
Doubt I’ll be able to make Friday for Diablo 2, though I imagine people will be playing on Battle.net so that rules me out anyways 😀
If the date does shift around at all, I will be free Sunday and Monday so far…I think.
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It’s probably better that we play through TCP/IP connection. Which should mean that less legitimate copies of the game are just as playable as my perfectly legitimate one :p
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As I said last week, i am a total computer noob, so once things are a bit more stable on how the Diablo 2 connection thingy works out, can someone explain it to me in short simple sentences.
Also, can someone tell me how to get onto this “teamspeak” thingy.
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There’s a multiplayer option where you just connect directly to the host’s IP address under “other multiplayer” called TCP/IP.
It was how I played the majority of my games with my friend, because fuck Open Battle.net when we’re mucking about with single player characters.
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I don’t get to play anything this week 🙁 Unless Uncharted 3 gets here by the end of the week.
Would Diablo 2 be any fun for someone who has never played that sort of game before/would I be holding everyone back? I have no idea what the game even is. xD
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I’ll fire up Brink on PC and make sure it’s updated and runs ok, since my computer is pretty old and Brink is particularly resource-hungry. If it goes alright I might just be up for some.
I think I’ll definitely be down for some Halo on Saturday, I haven’t played for months.
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Gasp! Uncharted and Reach on the same night? I feel conflicted!
I will have to play…both at the same time. I can do this!
Man this is awesome. Good work Cakedude!
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WOOO!!! GOOD THING!!!
My copy of Dawn of War 2: Complete collection, just arrived from ozgameshop!!!
SO PURDY! and kinda heavy!
Finished my assignment last night, so i know what i’m doing tonight! 😀
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I do that minus the lady friend.It is strangely addictive. I think i have run out of episodes now.
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hahaha sooo weird!!
It’s one of those ones where English is the LAST language listed on the back, and in the manuals – and the manuals are massive because they have other languages!
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Yeah, it’s pretty good fun, too. Basically, you can have 4 main squads deployed in a mission and co op just gives half to one person and half to another. It sorta makes it play like a squad based shooter, but it’s still a lot of fun. We’ll also have to give Last Stand a go 😀
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So all I was able to get at the ‘sales’ was Red Faction: Guerrilla. Duke Nukem they wanted 50 bucks, not the 15 I was hoping for, and the Turtle Beach headsets were full RRP.
Just got back from the DSE sale. I already said this on Twitter, but I managed to grab Metroid Other M and Steel Diver for $20, which isn’t too bad. There’s some feral people in my area though. I saw one bogan couple with the sales list printed out going “Ooh, $5, grab all of them!” and piling their arms full. Clearly going to sell them off later 😛 Some people are so vicious whenever they spot an ‘On-Sale’ table.
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Yeah there were a few people I felt like punching in the face. Had my sister just saying settle petal..
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Lesson learned today.
Games are the cheapest they have ever been. Even at full price they are $100, which is the same cash price they were twenty years ago. With online, and frequent discounting, you can get a brand-new game for $60 to $80. Wait a few months and you can get them for half that.
Dick Smith did a very clever bait this morning, and got more people in their stores than ever before or since. Some people got some good deals, and good luck to them, but this has underscored for me that the “everyday” prices are pretty damned good and a faux sale like this is really not worth the effort.
I did expect something like this, but I didn’t expect Dick Smith to leave most of their stock on the shelf at full price. That was an especially terrible move on their part.
This morning, I walked to my local store near work and had a good gawk at the huge line. I then went and had a leisurely browse at JB (contemplated Total Recall but the cover didn’t make it clear that the commentary was included), and then walked back to Dick Smith. It was 9.10am and the line had cleared. There was a substantial queue of the lucky few waiting to pay for their purchases, and the rest of the not-so-big crowd was mostly standing around a few employees who I could hear plaintively explaining that this was a “clearance sale” and only some stock was discounted.
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This outlines my exact feelings as I was getting ready for work this morning. I really wanted to go in to the sale, but knew for a fact that if they had the stuff I wanted in stock then I was probably not going to get it (i.e. PSP for some emulation goodness). After hearing how the general experience has been so far, I’m pretty happy about not going.
I might swing past the store in Woden during lunch and see if there are any scraps left over.Having said all that, I hope that at least some TAYbies got their hands on some stuff they were after.
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It was called a “clearance sale” from the beginning though. It’s not a faux sale, it’s a clearance sale. meaning they’re getting rid of old models or excess stock. So everything else is bound to still be full price.
So yeah, I’m glad some people managed to get some bargains, the people that bought multiples upon multiples are pretty low though.-
The rumour was that Dick Smith was exiting the gaming market. This would mean that the “clearance” would be fairly unprecedented and real. Dick Smith did very little to correct that rumour.
I have no trouble believing this was a staged beat up. Lots of stores have managed to have a true clearance sale of old stock without queues out on the street. The message that got out was clear, and Dick Smith had an obligation to correct it.
So, I’ll make a correction and call it a faux clearance sale.
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The main official communication that they kept directing all questions to made it very clear they they were not exiting the gaming business.
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Yeah, I know. But it was a vague response which could have been interpreted any number of ways.
What they didn’t do was say, Look we’re not getting out of gaming and we’re not clearing out all our stock. We’re just getting rid of old gaming stock which will be on a table in the middle of the store.
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It totally worked if it was deliberate, I think maybe %10 of people got they wanted, and the rest either bought nothing or just grabbed shit that was kind of cheap, because they had the ‘sale’ disease and had to buy something.
Morning TAY 😀 Well what a waste this morning was. Walked out with nothing, no psp, no DS 🙁 Not even able to get any MS points or 12 months subs etc or even games that other TAYbies were after. /cry
Anyway besides that the start to a new week of TAY, yay!
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Cakesmith!! yes a lot better, thank you kindly for asking. Arm/hand still out of action though the pain is kinda bearable now. Still no gamez ;(
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Doesn’t seem like a lot of people are having luck with the sales. I’m going to try check out my local DSE and with a bit of luck the local bogan population won’t have heard that there is a sale.
So while searching for something on google images for work, this popped up
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FqqaZ6panYo/TZz0lp6OUSI/AAAAAAABm28/4gp2UBnqlys/s1600/b.jpg
Now.. more than wondering why (it’s google images, duh) – i wondered if guys actually wear stuff like htis anymore.. i find it actually rather creepy and possibly worse than wearing satin boxers… i mean… if you want to look like a 10 year old boy.. yeah.. sure…
I also don’t know of ANY girls who find this sort of thing attractive.. it’s just kinda… silly looking…
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My housemate wears underwear like that.
He often does not wear pants around the house.
These two facts are the reason I keep eye bleach near my computer at home.
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Erm Lads wear stuff like that. That and those polo shirts with collars up. Both look retarded imo. But each to their own.
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I wear briefs similar to that but they have longer legs. They are good for playing sports in (keep the family jewels nice and contained as well as prevent chafe) but as far as fashion is concerned I don’t think they are going to impress anybody.
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You mean Trunks? http://shop.target.com.au/bonds-reg-guy-front-trunks
Trunks is where the sexy’s at. Boxers of any kind are silly and don’t look good on anyone. Especially not satin Homer Simpson ones. *looks pointedly at Mr. Strange* 😛
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That was fun! Crowds are the absolute worst. What’s the point of a line if everyone’s just gonna barge on in anyway? I felt sorry for the employees, really. People just weren’t listening to anything they said.
Of course there was a mad rush when the doors opened and I decided to just stand back and let everyone else rush in. There wasn’t anything that I wanted, anyway, so I spent some time talking with a friend who works in the store. He said he was not prepared for the amount of people that showed up.
Kinda bugged me that a lot of the stuff on the lists we saw wasn’t discounted at all, but one of the employees said this was a leaked list for a sale on the 12th or so, so not everything was discounted yet. I think, anyway. The whole thing confuses me!
Saw somebody grab perhaps fifty of the 3000 MS points cards but since they weren’t the older versions they weren’t on sale. In a cruel way that satisfied me. And then as punishment for thinking cruel thoughts, the universe had me sit on my sunglasses in the car and break them in half. So I got nothing but broken sunglasses :p
Not really annoyed though! In a strange way the whole morning was amusing. Maybe I’m just sleep deprived!
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I think the best way to view this is as an onlooker to a slightly sick social-media experiment.
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You should have stood back drumming your thumbs together whilst saying “yesss… dance my puppets, dance!”
Then laughing maniacally
Howdy Tayberinos
How was your weekends? I’ve sent my housemate on a secret mission to dick smith, his comment was that it was like watching pirahnas at a cow carcass.
A monday morning question for you:
With the increasing trends towards realism in video games, what’s one aspect of real life that should NEVER be included?
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Wasn’t there that game where you had to manage a stations sewage systems, and if you failed, the place you explode because of too much poop?
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First thought was a pee metre. Every few hours your character has to stop and take a whiz. Or poop. They slowly die if you don’t let them go to the bathroom.
Sure, we see that in the Sims, but imagine that in something like Uncharted?
“Chloe, I will rescue you from that elevator in a minute or two. Bathroom, brb!”
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There’s probably lots of things, but having your character need to eat/go to the toilet would be pretty annoying in anything other than a life-sim. xD Question answered!
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Well the water thing in hardcore options for fallout was pretty we received by some people so it can work.
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Hangover.
Not the funny movie kind, but the splitting headache and throwing up kind.
Bad enough I have to experience it in real life, there is no way I want to experience it via vidya games.
Mornin’ All!
First fixture game of the footy season Saturday! One split chin, black eye and a split ear later we won! Celebrated with several pints of Guinness! Got drunk and pretended to be Irish! Fooled no-one! \o/
On the flip side I got to do zero gaming. /o\
So how was everyone’s weekend?
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Played a fair bit of Dark Souls. Died far too often. Just got careless and would take on enemies in a rather less than cautious way because I had already killed them X amount of times before.
Was rather silly.
The longer you play over the same section, the more likely you are to screw up. Probably had more deaths in the Undead Parish than I did the entire time doing the Buttercup stuff in Demon’s Souls.
Didn’t get injured in any way. Oh and had dinner with friends, which culminated in us sitting around a table playing Draw Something together.
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Oh, I know, but this was earlier in the game.
It’s moreso the fact that I just walked off it. Wasn’t paying attention, and went right off. No pressure from any nearby enemies, not even running and had a control fail.
Just slowly went over the edge.
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Oh I get you. Yeah, I was having a fairly epic fight against a black knight. Hadn’t killed one yet. It was in the Undead Parish. We had fought all the way from the lower levels up the stairs through the platforms, to near the bonfire. I was doing reasonably well and thought I would get him if I was patient enough. Then I rolled off the edge. I was too amused to be angry.
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I died to that Black Knight so many times.
Then I got the Drake Sword. Stabbed him in the back, and killed him before he’s stood up. I felt so bad, that my glorious enemy from all this time, had died so easily.
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Man, I really need to just grab a bow and get me that Drake Sword.
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I don’t even know how to perform a backstab. I’m too scared to even try parrying, let alone backstabbing.
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Strong attack from behind. Have to be in a rather specific spot so you’re probably not going to land it :p
I get them from time to time by accident if I’m rolling around an enemy instead of hopping back and then doing a leaping attack.
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You walk behind your opponent.
You attack.
Sometimes, you might even do it in combat, but that would be crazy. Instead, you only use it on enemies who are facing away from you, and haven’t noticed you yet. Or, I guess, it does occasionally happen in combat, because my enemy swings, misses, and now I’m behind them. Then you kill them, and get the overkill soul bonus.
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I’ve played it heaps but I can’t seem to get backstabs to work unless the enemy is literally oblivious to me standing behind them. The old circle and stab does not work for me. Ever. My chosen method is to wait for an opening and two-hand my sword and just spam the attack button.
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I had that issue on and off. I think it’s part over confidence, part frustration, when you’re going through the same area repeatedly to get to the section you’re having trouble with/up to.
I was tempted to try pick up a PS3 purely to play demons/dark souls. Don’t think we’ll be seeing a port coming to PC anytime soon.
One of my favorite things about Demon’s/Dark Souls. You have to recognise when you’re getting too comfortable, or just plain cranky and rectify by chilling out or stopping play for a bit. If you continue, you end up making silly mistakes that cost you a LOT.
And whenever you die in that game, it’s your own fault, every time. You weren’t ready for something, you got cocky or you did something stupid. I used to rage a bit at first with Demon’s Souls until I had the revelation it was my fault.
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Yeah was a tough game. So sore today, my muscles are on fire. Hoping it’s just them rebuilding into stronger muscles and not just injuries :/
I watched a couple of movies, which combined with the one I watched earlier in the week maens I have watched mover movies last week that then entire year before that. For some reason I just don’t watch film anymore.
John carter: Silly and irrelevant but enjoyable from a don’t think about it point of view which was really what we wanted. Hints at a deeper plot line, probably from the books but doesn’t really deliver in the film.
Boondock saints: First time I have seen it and wasn’t at all what I was expecting. Had a few drinks before hand and found it to be a most amusing film.
Worlds fastest indian: Such a good simple fun film. Well worth watching if you have never seen it.
Other than that not a lot of gaming, working through civ 5 campaign, still haven’t worked out the difficulty level I need. Still too easy but working my way up. Arabian cultural victory here I come
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It’s really not.
It’s a so-so “crime” film that has a few neat moments. Not sure how it managed to get such a cult following.
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Oh, you’re one of those people Trjn.
Seriously though, it’s a bit crap but is a lot fun if you’re in the right mood.
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I wasn’t drunk and/or high when watching it :p
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There’s your problem! See, I was in high school, which now I’m nearly 30 and work in an office I can smugly compare to being high / drunk 24 hours a day.
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Chuloopa, I didn’t want to say anything, but sometimes… your toilet humour is a bit much.
Oh, by the way, The Raid. It’s a really fantastic martial-arts movie with some impressive gunplay as well without any fancy cuisinart editing. It’s a seriously impressive movie and I strongly recommend it if you don’t mind heavy violence.
I don’t know how it got an MA15 rating.
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Have heard it is damn awesome. Will have to wait for a dvd, blur ray release as it is not playing near me.
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Could always start here. Has the same lead and director: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Merantau-Warrior-DVD-Iko-Uwais/dp/B00365KI12/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333327435&sr=8-1
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Because the Australian rating system is hilarious?
And yet, still less broken than the American, when it comes to movies.
So according to this guy
K-mart can price match the games. Any confirmation on this?
I blame school holidays in Melbourne :/. Kiddies EVERYWHERE!
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No, unfortunately:
We will not match online retailers, clearance or warehouse outlets.
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usually they only price match if you have proof via advertisements or can show it on the web. the DS website has crapped itself, so that’s prolly not gonna work. Also they usually check to see if it’s in stock first too :\ Either that or I always get assholes when I try to get things matched
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Even if they were price matching, it’ll either be one or more isolated stores, or the rumour will fly, and as we speak Kmart will be fielding thousands of calls about price matching. Their usual response to such things is to just shut down the offer, if it ever existed.
I call bunk, as I called the DSE sale.
Morning TAY.
In a cranky, as my reservation for Accommodation at SDCC got stuffed up, and the company handling have been unhelpful at best. To top it off, the day they send out the confirmations is a sunday in America, so i can not do anything about the fact they have given me a hotel 6 miles away, instead of my requested on 2 blocks away.
simply put, im pissed off, and will be doing plenty of online slandering of the company involved in this bungle.
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My experience with American customer service is that they are really helpful and pleasant to try and get a tip, but as soon as something stuffs up and they know they’re not going to get a tip any more they can get downright nasty.
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Yeah i asked them as nicely as possible for assistance when the problem first showed itself, and they just gave me the “bad luck” treatment, and now that the reservations have all been made, i either accept the hotel they have given me, or miss out. Fair amount of douchebaggery going on. will get up early tomorrow and call them, see if there is anything at all they can do for me, but looks like i missed the boat the moment they wouldnt help me before the reservations were made.
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My parents were holidaying in NY and went into some designer stores to buy gifts and the staff were rude and unhelpful
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So you have the Hilton Airport booked?
Thats better than nothing man, at least there is a free shuttle to the con and back.-
Nah tis the marriot airport. But yeah, have you seen the map, we’d be better walking than taking the shuttle. it’ll take 40 minutes lol.
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Courtyard SD Airport/Liberty Station
I looked it up, it is by the marriot, but yeah. its out by a long way
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Yeah by car, but shuttle when it has to stop at every other hotel, will be a 40 min trip lol.
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My 2 cents:
Dick Smith sale was poorly run, the staff thought the sale was starting on the 11th and only let us in after we told them the official facebook page said the start date was the 2nd. Once we got in half the prices hadn’t kicked in yet (they kick in on the 11th we’re told) and the only way we could find out what was on special was to simply scan everything and cross our fingers.
That said I did manage to pick up Monster Hunter Tri with the controller for $15 and Transformers War for Cybertron for $5. So I’m definitely not complaining.
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Nice, on MHTri! I heard War for Cybertron wasn’t bad either.
Nice to hear there were some bargains had by people that weren’t just stocking up to resell and rip people off. I’d so have MHTri is I had a Wii. It’s a bargain, even for just the controller!-
Yeah I’ve had my eye on both those games for a while so I’m happy with that.
While the whole operation could have run a lot smoother and there were more things I wanted to get I know it could be a lot worse so I’ll just be happy with what I can get 🙂
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I think it was never supposed to be advertised or an actual sale – just that stuff was to be marked down as of today. People I know who work there knew nothing about it till I asked them on the weekend.
But then it got leaked and all went to buggery.
(Possible Dark Soul’s Spoilers)
Last night I was playing Dark souls and I managed to get upto and beat the Pinwheel boss (man he is easy). After I beat him a message came up on my screen which said something along the lines of “You have earned the right to kindle a campfire more”. So my question is What does kindling a campfire do?
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When you Kindle a bonfire, it allows you to refill more Estus flasks when you sit at it. Kindle it once, and you get 10, what you did, should allow you to kindle it twice, maybe, so you can carry 15.
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ohhhhh, so THAT’S why I’m getting 10 Estus flask’s at the starting area. It must just start of with an upgraded camp fire. I guess thats pretty cool, although I need to un-hollow to kindle a fire and I don’t want to un-hollow because I just know some dick is going to come into my game and kill me.
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Average bonfires give you 5 estus flasks on use. If you “kindle” them you get 5 more, so 10 flasks. The main bonfire you get to after the tutorial is already kindled as is the one at Anor Londo. With the rite of kindling, you can now kindle even more, up to (I think) 20 flasks at a cost of 1 humanity point per 5 flasks. You also need to be human to kindle which itself costs 1 humanity point.
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Also, your kindled bonfires carry over to new game plus, if you are so inclined. Before you fight the final boss, I suggest running around and kindling all the bonfires as much as you can afford.
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It’s worth kindling any bonfire you find yourself spending time around. It costs humanity, but a good way to get humanity is to farm rats. This can be done in the sewers fairly easily.
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God, kindling fires can make things soooo much easier. Also the knowledge they carry over to NG+ makes kindling one all the more satisfying. You’ll be needing it in NG+!
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My NG+ was like a different game to my first playthrough. With some exceptions, most enemies are an absolute joke now and drop a huuuge amount of souls. It actually felt too easy. I got as far as killing the Anor Londo boss in about 4 hours.
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I still have to finish it. Slacked off majorly, after about 20 hours and I’d just mastered the fine art of parry/riposte with a dual dagger thief. I know it’s gonna kill me mastering that timing again.
I finished Demon’s Souls, so finishing Dark Souls is a requirement.
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On a slight tangent but still pertaining to the DSE sale…
Schoolkids. Y U NO IN SCHOOL?
I mean, they’re all dressed in their school uniforms so they most certainly aren’t on holiday, and back in my day (only three years ago but shhh) classes started around 8:30. You lousy kids be bunking off! This would be a more annoying issue had there been anything good at the store worth snatching up that they may have stolen from me, but schoolkids in general annoy me, so seeing them in line was just annoying.
I feel like an old man. Get off my lawn, damnit!
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Yeah! I spotted several kids from my old high school waiting to get in on it all. Even if they were seniors, roll call is at 8.40 kiddies!
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School holidays in Melbourne. Kiddies everywhere! Arggggghhhh!
And yeah what ever happened about you know… going to school? I hated school (the learning aspect) but loved the social stuff. Kids these days!
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You guys sound so old 😛
Maybe you just went to fancy schools or something but kids have always skipped school and always will.-
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Started at a public high school and hell yes we always did that, then got shafted/moved to a catholic high school which wasn’t derelict, and no one wagged class to go smoke weed or get drunk or whatever. They just did that after school hours.
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I never bunked off class because I was very fearful of the repercussions. My life seems to work under the rule of ‘everyone else can break the rules and not be punished, but if you break the rule once you are completely doomed’.
So when I see kids running around in uniforms at ten in the morning, I get grumpy. :p
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Yeah, it’s week… 10? In the ACT.
Wait, no, maybe it’s only week 9.
Not sure, think it’s the latter.
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I have no idea. I think it’s next week, but at the least I can guarantee they’re out the week after, cause I have a bunch of stuff to do while they’re out 😛
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Re: DSE Sales.
One of the guys at Dick Smith who I asked ever so kindly to price check for me, informed me a lot of the other stuff goes on sale on the 11th. Sooo 5 dorrah headset then me hopes?
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Well he said Duke Nukem will be insanely cheap on the 11th and since it wasn’t the 10 dollars today, I can only assume it will be that price next week \o/
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I see nothing wrong with paying 10 bucks for a game that I have no great expectations from XD
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Regarding this weeks Community Gaming nights, I’m looking for 2 volunteers to host the Uncharted and Halo events!
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I’d be happy to do Reach if I could escape family Easter stuff by then, but so far that’s looking unlikely.
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(somewhat related)
How would Terraria work? At the moment I use Hamachi but the free version lags a lot with about 5 people or so. Terraria \o/!
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wow, so many people seem really butt-hurt over the Dick Smith clearance.
I love that people are outraged that the DSE staff snapped up the best deals. Because THEY totally wouldn’t have done that if they worked there…
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I know I would have done that, for sure.
I’m sort of disappointed that I couldn’t get a replacement Xbox, but then I don’t exactly blame the staff for snapping them up. It’s sad, but I was expecting this from the get-go, and I imagine a lot of other people were, too.
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If anyone got an Xbox 360 and wants a free massage and… other services (like laundry and cleaning).
Let me know and we can work something out.
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I wasn’t expecting much different, despite the message all staff were given stating that they’re not allowed to buy stuff 😛
Still sucks though.
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I would not have =/ mostly because I didn’t want 99% of what was even listed. The 2 things I were after, were not on sale today and the fact I need to replace my headset & keyboard doesn’t even make it a want, but more so a need!
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Depending on the model, usually extra features like macro keys, headphone/mic jacks, USB ports, LCD displays, backlit keys, etc.
I had a Logitech G15 (the original big blue one), that had all kinds of usefull whizzbang features. (Yes, I just said whizzbang, I’m old.)
Recently purchased a Razer Black Widow Ultimate mechanical keyboard, which is a little different again. SUCH A NICE KEYBOARD. Expensive, but toally worth it.
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soo what are this year’s good April fools jokes from game devs??
I think Blizzard’s are always my favourite! http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/supplydepot/
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Valve’s is actually just the community doing it, they purchased a typo of the steam URL and posted it there
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Yeah, I just did that, it was great.
Also, the pictures to the side, if you click on them, are slightly different when expanded.
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And the Fledging Heroes novels which doesn’t have a direct link but can be found on this page:
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/news/?d=2012-4#312334
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Well, not so much a warning of Gabe because he looks like Santa is is generally a cool dude.
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That is a blatant copy from 27B/6 and that david thorn fellow. Stupid internet be more creative.
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hahahah brilliant. i especially love the picture of the crying Chronos. i think there was a similar one for blizzard employees that went around sometime, if anybody knows where to find it?
Mornign TAY,
Like many I was really disappointed by the DSE sale. My local store had limited stock and I was only able to get FIFA 11 for $5. Luckily my store is small so the crowds were minimal and the people there were well behaved-no pushing or shoving. So now that the excitement for the sale has simmered what are peoples’ plans for the rest of the week?
We’ve had the DSE and Harvey Norman sales now I’m secretly hoping for a JB HIFI SALE.
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I kind of hope there’s no more sales for a while. I have way too much to play and way too little money to buy anything else! xD
So I just came back from my DSE.
I am disgusted. Seriously. People who were in first literally grabbed whatever they could, ending up with about 10 games. They weren’t content with that, oh no, they then hung around and took as much as they could before finally tottering off.
One lady had 7 boxes of Wii remotes. I hope she has two wiis, and even then, it’s one box too many. =/
Several people had stacks of about 10 games, usually all PS3 or All xbox. I was not pleased.
I pretty much got there as everything was taken.
I did however manage to get Dead rising 2 and an after glow nunchuck. All I wanted to get was Epic Mickey, but it was gone.
My cousins did even worse. Pretty much the first guy in grabbed two ps3s. Another swept his arm along the shelf and bought all the games that fell into his trolley. This was not an isolated incident. By the time the crowd got there, everything was gone.
Bright note is that I went into the EBGames, slightly sulking because I wasn’t able to get anything I actually wanted, I saw someone stock piling games there. I spoke to the manager and asked if he was price matching Dick smith’s Sale. To which he responded ‘I sure am, what were you after?’ There was no Kirby’s epic yarn or Epic Mickey, but I did get Metroid:Other M for $5.
Side note: I went into JBhi fi also. They were not price matching.
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Yeah he knew it but he did it anyway. Is even sold DSi’s for $20, and PSPStreets for $40. You just had to ask.
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Ah Sorry >_< I didn't want to ask for the DSi as he was already giving me a game for $5. EBGames uppers will not be happy I assume.
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Metroid! \o/
You will have to let me know what you think of it – I was considering getting it myself, but was holding back because of some negative reviews I saw.
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Hi scree could you upload a receipt? I’m heading down to K-mart in a while. Gonna see if they can price match!
(someone uploaded their K-mart receipt earlier but the more ‘proof’ I have of price-matching the better my chances will be!)
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I’ve seen it go cheaper to around $10-20 I think on either Oz or Zavvi. Just hold out for a bit 🙂
I heard it wasn’t that great though :/
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And Kirby’s Epic Yarn?
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Re Diablo 2 – if I wanted to join in on Friday but don’t have the game where do I get it? And can the Diablo veterans tolerate my knowing nothing about what I’m doing?
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Legitimate copy – Blizzard store $10 digital download
Otherwise there are many places on the internet you can acquire it at a “cheaper” price.
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I am so subtle. I once didn’t stare at a lady with big boobs for like 2 minutes until she turned around and smiled and made me feel awkward because she probably thought i was only a kid.
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Could you imagine rocketman as a drug dealer?
*Setting: Local Shopping Centre
*Rocketman walks up to random in the shopping center*
Rocketman: “Hey friend”
Random in the shopping center: “uhh … Hey”
Rocketman “WANT SOME DRUGS?”
Random in the shopping center: “…what?”
Rocketman: “DRUGS! you know, the illegal kind”
Random in the shopping center: “…”
Rocketman: “Oh come-on I have all the drugs on my persons right now!”
Random in the shopping center: “ummm look man I have to go”
Rocketman (Shouting): “OK FRIEND JUST REMEMBER IF YOU WANT SOME ILLEGAL DRUGS JUST COME AND SEE ME BECAUSE I’M ALWAYS CARRYING THEM ON MY PERSON”-
Or on the flip side imagine me as a undercover police officer.
Me: Hey man i want to buy some drugs
Shifty Guy: Are you with the cops
Me: Yes,shit i mean no friend
Shifty Guy: Sorry Bro i am clean as a whistle
Me: Sorry Outstanding young citizen, it was wrong of me to assume you had drugs
Shifty guy: No problems bro
Me: If you see any dealers around here make sure you tell me so i can arrest them, I am a cop
Shifty Guy: No worries Officer.
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It’s a pretty simple game to learn.
I still want to do Hardcore only but with this many newbies, it might be a bad idea (Hardcore = you die once, that’s it, start a new character).
Maybe we can do a Hardcore run and a newbie run.
Don’t know if we’re going to hit up the normal grinding areas (Tristram, the caves at the end of Act 2) or do the other tricks like skipping Act 3 because it sucks.
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I might be playing as well and I’ve never played the game before. (Just because I don’t own any of the games that are being played this week and don’t want to miss out :P)
I’d be in support of a ‘newbie run’. Though I should probably have a look at what the game actually is before saying whether I’ll play or not…
HOLY CARP YOU GUYS!
SOME KIDS ARE AMAZEBALLS.
walked into the school I was supporting today, and as I walked into the front office this is all I saw:
http://imgur.com/FgABo
a year 4 kid made this… YEAR 4!!!! that kid is completely amazing!
granted he got help from his grandfather with the electronics, but the rest he did all by himself, with some PVC, Styrofoam, Popsicle sticks and patience…
that kid wins, my day is made!
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it has just completely made my day…
oh and if you see a crying kid standing outside of a school in canberra, missing a portal gun……
I didn’t do it!
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You foreigners stealing our youths portal guns. YOU MONSTERS ;P
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pffft, not just portal guns :P…
erhm…
I mean…I DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT!
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Wow. This is a really good deal: http://www.mightyape.com.au/mc/?m=8343&l=6652212
Assassin’s Creed III Join or Die edition preorder. $79.99 and bonus T-Shirt.
So i need to get some games for my ds to play on a 12 hour car ride. I am thinking about doing a run through of heart gold pokemon. But i kinda want something new. Whats a game that i can enjoy for a long car ride.
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Well probably a RPG of some sort I guess or something that will take a little while to beat. That can keep me going the entire trip down.
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-164/comment-page-30/#comment-620207
Might and Magic Clash of Heroes is pretty great too.
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I really don’t think Rocketman is a EO type of guy.
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No i don’t why would you say that, shut up god you are a dick, GRR Also yeah strange i have no patience.
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TWEWY is amazing. I however, approve of the Pokingman idea. FINALLY got around to finishing White on the weekend, so now my Black version has Zekrom and Reshiram. =)
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My longest run at tetris was about 1 hour on my gameboy pocket. My mum got worried i would beat her score. Man she was good at that . Also she was insanely good at doctor mario.
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it is magnificent what are you doing not playing it you stop what you are doing right now i do not care if you have exams you play that or else next time i see you i will tsk at you disapprovingly you dont want to see me disappointed i am all tsk tsk that is nothing something you want man i am just saying so you better play it
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Now I really want to play Golden Sun again. Nintendo should put it up on the store so I can throw my wallet at my DS.
Other than Pokemon (always my first suggestion)… The latest Dragon Quest is pretty good. Also the Phoenix Wright games if you haven’t played them. Mario Kart DS, New Super Mario Bros and the Mario/Luigi RPGs are also pretty good.
So with Diablo 2, should some of the more experienced players level up a character ahead of time to make life easier or are we going to all start from scratch?
I prefer the latter option but it might not be terrible to have a character near the end of the game to help if we’re doing any levelling.
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I can see this going rather well.
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Hey Gang.
We made a new music video for Brisbane band His Merry Men.
Go watch it, plx.
It’s sexy.
Reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal sexy.
NOTE: Could be considered NSFW.
So I played some Mass Effect 3 multiplayer over the weekend. I have to say it’s really good fun.
I spent a lot of time playing as an Engineer, throwing out drones and dropping enemy shields left and right, but then I unlocked the Krogan Sentinel class.
Hoo boy it’s fun to play as a Krogan. As a sentinel I bring up my tech armor, equip my shotgun, and start headbutting and charging everything in sight. Then after three melee kills Krogan Rage kicks in which boosts defence and melee damage and then it’s party time. Let’s just say that my Krogan has managed to punch out an Atlas before 🙂
Also I played a few matches that consisted of a four Krogan team, dayum did those waves end quick. We just smashed everything in sight and in-between waves we spent the whole time headbutting eachother. Great fun 🙂
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And as a Krogan I indeed kick much butt.
As an Engineer I did okay in scores, but as a Krogan Sentinel I find myself getting the highest score in most matches 😀I suspect I may keep playing the multiplayer well after I finish the story (which I may do tonight)
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Is that when you consume enough chewing gum to explode?
Also, don’t kill yourself, kill the customers, and take their goods, and their money. It’s a win-win.
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I dunno, I’m tempted to report them for allowing the staff first pick when they weren’t even meant to know about it. I wasn’t after any consoles, but lots of people were. Most stores had no DSi’s or PSP’s as Staff had bought them all.
And all that bullcrap about how they work away all day, um, they get PAID for that. It’s not like they’re doing it for free! I don’t mind the staff taking one item, but at the same time I think there should have been an item limit on the general public as well. That way there was more to go around, rather then the first 10 people getting majority of the stock. I know it was a clearance sale, but things should have changed as soon as the items were leaked.-
Yeah not happy about the way it was handled tbh. The have just hurt themselves by handling it the way they have. Will be happy to give my money to JB if I shop local. At least the staff in there are nice, helpful and usually quite chatty. Have not had that experience at any of my local DSE.
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I think EBGames have found themselves a new costumer! I hate JB usually. I find most of their games are just as expensive as EB.
Gametraders is the go to place though-
Ozgameshop 🙂
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Who was it that does the post count thingo in TAY each week?
Also when is the commie noms posted? I put some noms in for people 😀
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I want to do something completely different and be a…
wait for it…
BARBARIAN!
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The only serious Necro i had was when D2 first came out. I basically tried to go on Golems. But as far as i know, they’re not too usefull these days.
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Have not played in years but I got up to act 3 of hell difficulty solo with a mostly MM Necro.
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Damned Hammerdins. I can’t believe that build is just so damned good. Odds are we’ll have a few of them running around because if there is any class that can overlap, it’s the Hammerdins :p
That or I’ll play a Javazon. Haven’t done one of those in a long while.
Or played in a long while, come to think of it.
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Just realised, Hammerdins suck in the early levels. Hell, by the time we kill Diablo, without grinding, they’re still terrible :p
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Hammerdin is USELESS until about level 18. From my experiance, the Hammerdim is also pretty bad at PVP. Any ranged character can wipe them pretty easy. An Amazon on poison javelin will do it easily.
But who cares about pvp, right?
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Hammerdin is a PvE build. The difference between PvE builds and PvP builds are quite different :p
I hated PvP in that game.
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Hi Tay!
When I got up this morning and the DSE website was already overloaded, I knew that the actual stores would be a feeding frenzy and didn’t bother. Nothing I super wanted, I was mainly looking to pick up a few games I had missed over the years (eg Layton games, DQ IX, Metroid Other M) but I guess I’ll find those elsewhere for cheap instead. Meh.
Played a ton of Tales of Graces f over the weekend. I’m just over the 40 hour mark and still really enjoying it. Basically I’m at the point where I can go into the final dungeon & boss sequence now, but there’s heaps of sidequests to complete so I’ll be doing those beforehand. After that, there’s the ‘f’ chapter which is an epilogue added for the PS3 version, which I think adds an extra 15 hours or so. Might be less if I’ve already done all the available sidequests.
Depending on how things turn out this week timing-wise for me, I may be done by the long weekend and available for Diablo 2, though I don’t own a copy (have never even played D2). I think Blizzard sells it digitally for pretty cheap though, may do that. On the other hand, playing ToG has reminded me how much I love JRPGs and that if I really set my mind to it, I can find the time to play them, so maybe I’ll dig out another one. Or go back to SWTOR.
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Fountain Gate had some Professor Layton games but they’d be gone by now.
” I love JRPGs and that if I really set my mind to it, I can find the time to play them, so maybe I’ll dig out another one”
Xenoblade? 😛
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I’m actually not sure I’ll enjoy Xenoblade, honestly. I really like structured linear games with strong characters and a focus on their interactions and development, which is something Tales does really well. Xenoblade from what I’ve read doesn’t seem like that sort of game.
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For everybody with a 3DS who hasn’t already: Let it download the latest Mii Plaza “update”. I met a special Mii ;D (and then used it in the Quest… and they didn’t even manage to get a hit on the Ghost :P)
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Post #4000: Harli on March 29, 2012 at 9:56 AM
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Post #5000: Batgirl on March 29, 2012 at 9:33 PM
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Post #6000: AlexPants on March 30, 2012 at 6:34 PM
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*shakes fist at kotaku’s “zomg, u r totes posting too quickly” detector*
Post #7000: scree on April 1, 2012 at 8:48 PM
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I didn’t think it was me. I thought I missed it
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I posted so much last week like more than i ever had before and i came nowhere near you guys. I am not trying to get that many posts i just talk because of boredom at work but man you guys
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Sad thing is I had a couple of quiet days in there haha. Damn! If I only I’d been on Saturday night! I would’ve been first for sure!
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I had an entire quiet week. Don’t think that’ll be happening again, but was nice to get back to my old days of spammin’ up the TAY.
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lol, you were being all coy with what your aliases were! Do you want them to be consolidated into one entry? You’ll need to give me a list – maybe DM on le twitternet? I am not a wizard. D:
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no, it makes me look like I led a productive week last week because I’m not at the top of the board.
DO NOT WANT. Just want to brag about it when anyone is all ‘hey I came first!’
Ninja Pez, all up in ur high scores.
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Nah keep them seperate. That way he can never win 😀
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He isn’t being coy, they just flow from him like honeyed wine
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/03/backhanded-box-quotes-keep-this-piece-of-crap-to-yourself/
Dear Mark/Tracey: Can Kotaku AU maybe not publish these backhanded box quotes articles? There’s enough mouth-breathing negativity and assholery in the comments already, without having articles devoted to posting random people’s douchey comments from Metacritic.
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+1 Do we really need tohear from the absolute bottom of the barrel when it comes to this type of stuff?
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I always find it funny. Probably because I take it as a joke. I find if you like a game, even with it’s faults, then that’s all that matters.
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I think everyone would much reather hear my constructive critisism of games than the collective voices of the tard masses.
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gonna be honest with you guys, i actually find these a bit funny…
but then again, i’m a guy who looks at every street fighter x tekken article posted on shoryuken, just to see people losing their shit…
#imgonnagotohellwhenidie-
actually, replace “street fighter x tekken” with “every damn post”. you think kotaku US has bad commenters? go look at one popular post on shoryuken, that place is full of hate.
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If the main articles on the site are celebrating this sort of crap, then it’s essentially saying that it’s okay for the site’s comments as well. Do you really want the site to be awash in idiocy?
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Though I could just be being overly critical. Stupid DSE, grumble grumble…
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Hey man who are you calling not a idiot, Why i oughta
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I actually saw that article, and didn’t even click on it.
Knew it couldn’t go anywhere constructive.
Hey guys! Guys!
GUYS!
In Diablo 2, we should all play as druids and get shapeshift so we can run around saying “IMMA BEAR!”
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For some reason, I imagine that song from Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’ – Bare Necessities would be playing in the background.
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He forgot the rinse and repeat. The game is all about clicking.
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As I’ve only played Diablo once (for about an hour or something) I will just be choosing a class at random \o/
is TAY broken, or is it just for me?
page two is saying theres 470 comments, page three is saying theres 317…
gah! its bad enough that it’s monday. now TAY is confusing me.
aaanyway, less whiney comments – games were played this weekend & not much else 🙂
Trine is awesome fun. & I’m getting back into Torchlight. Damn, TL2 needs to be released…
& I discovered that I suck at tactical RPGs! Dragon Age : Origins man, great game, but my squad is really not suited to surviving anything.
In other news, Michael “The Paitron Saint of Destroying Childhood Memories” Bay, has renamed the TMNT reboot hes doing. Now its just called Ninja Turtles. Supposedly this is so he can change em from being mutants to aliens. damn you michael bay. damn you.
DSE – man that sale sucked. not the prices (well, yeah. the prices at my local werent matching the list leaked last week, so they actually sucked) but damn, that was really dismally managed.
on a more positive note, for those of us lucky enough to not work weekends – four day week, followed by a four day weekend. this is very much a good thing.
OK. time for caffiene.
that is all.
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TeenageMutantNinja Turtles.
Elderly Alien Ninja Turtles. Ge-ri-a-tric half shell. Turtle Power! -
Dragon Age: Origins wasn’t really a tactical RPG though. At least, it’s not a particularly good one. Very unbalanced. It’s not just you.
“The Paitron Saint of Destroying Childhood Memories” – I think I will start using this.
I am struggling even to understand why you would consider this, the entire origin story is based on the mutation. Although I see the problem I tried to use story in the same sentence as The Paitron Saint of Destroying Childhood Memories
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Dear Reply Button
I know I used the report button last week but it was just a one time thing. Please believe me.
You will always be the one I go to, I was just upset at some posters and turned to the report button in frustration.
Please don’t forsake me over a misunderstandingYours truly
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It he keeps changing things, eventually it’ll just be “a new thing”, rather than slashing and burning our childhood nostalgia. Win?
Maybe make them cowboys instead of ninjas, and otters instead of turtles. Transformation complete!
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Upon quiet reflection next to a serene waterfall up in the hills, I think maybe something likening them to a ‘navy seals’-like would work better than ‘cowboys’ – otters being all about the water AND the land.
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Reading comprehension fail. Far worse than Reply fail.
Note to self: more than 3 hours sleep tonight plzkthx.
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Well, I was gonna go with ‘The Patron Saint of F*cking Sh*t Up’, but I’ve got that one reserved for myself :p
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dear internet explorer cookies,
if I change my handle, please dont change it back. It make things annoying.
sincerely,
#35
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Man, we need more Diablo 2 happening. Also, I should have probably bought that game at some point, but figure I might as well just wait for D3 now 😛
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I tried to get a D2 LAN going with some friends ~ 1.5 years ago and had a horrible experience with it. (It worked iirc, the game was not so magical on modern systems.)
There was a highres patch/hack that seemed to half work, but the game ended up crashing randomly every 15min or so while using it. It ended up being abandoned for Supreme Commander.
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I tried getting D2 running on my machine to no avail.
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I’ve actually been playing it through recently and haven’t had an issue past getting it working initially. All has actually gone quite well. This is using legit copies, either from the bnet store or old hard copies.
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Hrm, I was trying from an old legit boxed copy. Maybe rebuying digital is the way to go?
What sort of res were you playing in?
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yeah, I was trying to use a legit boxed copy as well. perhaps its a conspiracy by Bliz trying to get people to buy it again? /conspirator nonsense.
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Not entirely sure. Basically, you have to set d2 to run as admin, and in compatibility mode (XP SP3 from memory). Then run d2vidtest (name could be wrong) as an admin. After that everything worked totally fine.
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I could be wrong but I believe the latest patch will fix W7 issues.
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It might. I had to get it workable before patching was even an option though.
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I just ate the greasiest chicken burger for lunch. I am convinced I’m going to die.
Never mind that I said I was going to be crushed in the crowds at DSE this morning. This is for realz.
Bury me…at Makeout Creek.
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oh shit, total chemistry fail.
mix milk with vinigar & drink that. that’ll make a basic soap. soap will solve your grease problem.-
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then just drink straight liquid soap like a boss 😉
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In that case it is the perfect way to get stuff out of your system
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The treatment for methanol poisoning in ethanol.
On the off chance that you may have imbibed methanol, I recommend that everyone consumes some ethanol.
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@Virus__ @NegativeZero and maybe others:
Filed under #WoW_related:
This might be old news, but did you see the new looting rules for ‘Raid finder’-based raids? As someone who was only ever part of a guild focused on PvP, but got frustrated about not really being able to run raid content, this seems pretty cool – making loot-ninja’ing something not to be wary of.
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Nope, I haven’t paid attention to anything WoW has done since the first major Cataclysm patch when I stopped playing.
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My subscription lapsed a fair while ago, but I’m thinking about resub’ing for a month or two to poke the new exp content when it comes out.
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Oh they have fixed LFR?
What did they do to the looting system? I’m so out of touch with the WoW news.
Also you play? Server, class, faction? =D
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I was actually on over the weekend for the first time in ages. I suddenly had an urge to get my Warlock to 85, as he was my old main during Vanilla and BC with like 150 days played. So I felt horrible for leaving him to rot at 82.
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I’ve been tempted too. My Undead lock has over 100 days played and was created back in Vanilla – he’s sitting at 79, I think. Poor little guy. He even has my old ‘Stone Guard’ PVP title. Ah those were the days.
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Haha, I think my Warlock is Stone Guard too!
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http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/blackrock/Deathjr/advanced
Can’t see his info, he’s been off for so long….
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/azshara/Fumes/advanced
My rogue shows up though. He was my PvP beast back in the day.
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I just remembered my Warlock has the ZG raptor, totally forgot about that. Was back in Vanilla too. Funniest thing was I loaned the account to my mate for a couple of weeks to raid with while I was away. Logged on one day, jumped on my raptor and went, ‘Hang on, the color’s not right.’ Realised what it was and danced a jig.
He was soooooooo filthy, he’d been running ZG regularly on his char trying to get it, and the one time he didn’t go with his own char, he got it for me. =)
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I hate all the new mounts, and the fact you can just buy most of them these days, makes me sad from all the grinding I did to get the old ones back in the day.
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Haha, my housemate rolled success on both the raptor and the panther mount in the same run.
His group (not guild, just randoms) was a little annoyed.
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Conversely, he spent about a month (maybe two?) trying to camp out the TLPD while he was unemployed, never actually got one. I spotted one just while I was passing through the storm peaks (doing some world event quest, I think) and nabbed it 😀
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In answer to the other question.
85 Warlock, 85 Paladin, 80 DK, 80 Druid on Dath’Remar (all Horde)
85 Rogue and 85 Priest, Frostmourne (Alliance)
85 Hunter and 85 Shaman Frostmourne (Horde)
The article: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/4736886/Dev_Watercooler_-_Mists_of_Pandaria_Looting_Explained-3_27_2012
Basically – when boss dies, rather than it deciding loot, then people rolling on it, they do this:
Each person gets an independent roll for loot.
If that’s successful, they randomly get a bit of loot from the subset of the things on the boss’s loot table that are applicable to their main spec. (sucks for getting offspec gear, but whatever… normal raids apparently work just as they did before)
I have a hunter(85) and deathknight (70-ish) on Frostmourne, both Horde.
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Frostmourne eh, ever come across a Gnome Warlock called Caw or a Human Paladin called Palacaw? If so that’s my mate XD
Sounds alright I guess, be interesting to see how it plays out. Really it’s the same as the loot rolling system, just takes out the greedy assholes needing everything.
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Yeah, but that’s what you get if you play with random groups… no social constraints on being an asshole 😛
No idea if I met people by either of those names… *cough* alliance scum *cough* …can’t even understand what they say most of the time!
Hell, besides the people I knew in rl who I played with (2 people), I’d have a hard time remembering any Horde players, either! D:
And you? (Server, class, faction?)
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Khaz’Goroth, Rogue, Alliance =P
Here he is! Been doing 2v2’s lately with my mate on his Pally. Surprisingly we’re not bed =O
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I just glanced at it, raised an eyebrow, and moved on. All aboard Bashcraft’s Japanese Boner Time!
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He clearly just saw the picture and wrote a couple of words.
Most of the time when someone gets caught using pictures as reference, there is normally a bit of effort done to see if they had the rights to those pictures. It’s the lack of effort that gets me, Bashcraft is just so damned lazy.
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So I went to that Dick Smith sale this morning…
Turned up at 8:45, there were only about ten other people there. I started chatting with the guy beside he; he looked like a younger version of Sughly.
At 9:00, before they opened the doors, one of the staff members told everyone that there where no consoles or game cards, just the games in the bargain bins at the front of the store. No DSi make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad.
Everyone was rather polite, there wasn’t any pushing or shoving, no people grabbing everything they could to make a quick buck off ebay. I managed to get Halo 3 ODST, Fifa 11 and Shift 2 Unleashed for $5 each, then when I went to pay for them, the guy found a copy of Vanquish (the disc and manual. The box was out the back, on top of the microwave apparently, and it had the lenticular case) and asked if I wanted to purchase that too. So I did.
So yeah, 4 games for $20? Pretty good seeing as all those games sell for $50 each usually 😀
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How is the Abyss 3DS? Does it feature the fantastically long loading times of the ps2 version?
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A winner is you. Warning on Tales of the Abyss if you haven’t played it: the protagonist starts out an absolute prick. He gets over it but it takes a while.
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I missed it on PS2. The only RPG in Imported was Suikoden 3 as it was during my non-gaming period.
because I’ll play Abyss on the train, I’d be able to force it a bit more than gaming at home on console so it should all be good.
He can’t be any worse than Emil from Symphonia 2. Hated him so much, I stopped playing the game.
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Oh no, I wanted to strangle Emil and his shitty girlfriend. Luke is just a bit of a naive moron. And he gets over it. His companions are pretty dickish to him though. Not that likeable a cast (in fact one of the most popular characters from the show is popular entirely because he’s an asshole).
On the upside, Abyss has a great plot (IMO better than Vesperia, which has a superior cast) and is a very solid game.
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I’m looking forward to it! I really hope they’re selling well (Despite Bamco’s normal “zero advertising” approach) and we get more Tales games localised.
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Well that Harvey Norman sale was a bloody fiasco.
I just went in there AGAIN at lunchtime to check up on my order from last Wednesday, since I still hadn’t heard anything. It turns out that the order I placed online NEVER EVEN GOT SENT THROUGH to the store. Apparently there was a limit of 2 games under the sale, and I ordered 3. I didn’t see that notice anywhere on the site, and if there was such a condition then the site should have enforced it and stopped me from placing the order in the first place. Or, failing that, they should have actually notified me right away rather than just sitting on it for 5 days (god knows how long they’d have sat on it if I hadn’t gone in there in person 3 times). It didn’t stop me placing the order and it sure as hell didn’t stop them from charging my credit card.
So yeah, now the sale is over, one or two of the games I ordered are out of stock, and they have my money. Just sent them a cranky email demanding a refund, we’ll see how long it takes for that to come through. They certainly didn’t waste any time charging it, we’ll see if they’re just as quick to refund it.
F*** you, Harvey Norman.
History has been made – Adam Sandler’s film, Jack & Jill has won ALL the Razzies.
thats a pretty big achievement.
Conficker.B on a domain controller.
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
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Make sure to create a GPO in your OU for all computers to stop it from spreading across the network.
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Yeah we had that virus on all our work machines for so long. We ended up having to use about 3 different virus programs before we got one that worked. Casper Sky as i call it ended up being the only one that would work.
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Failing any of these, try the glorious wonder that is Combofix. Search for it in Google, and get it from the bleepingcomputer link. Was my number one go to tool for about 80% of those infections you just could NOT get rid of back when I was doing full time virus removal.
It’s not pretty, but my god, I’ve had it bring so many machines out of seemingly irrepairable virus riddled states, that no other AV/antimalware/antispyware tool could get.
It’s fantastic for picking up rootkits as well.
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I honestly don’t know.
The AV was the last line of defence, so it had gotten past a hell of a lot before being picked up there. I’m pretty sure magic was involved.
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L2Patch more like it, Conficker attacks a bunch of vulnerabilities which have been fixed for a long time now. MSRT is good for removing it but if you haven’t fixed the reason it got infected, it’ll just happen again.
Also IIRC it can brute-force crappy passwords and it can spread via USB and network shares.
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Yeah, you have to create a GPO to stop it writing to the svhost registry file and then remove permissions from the admin and system,
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Just did a quick tally of Pez’s pseudonyms. Impressive list. I’m sure there are more, less-obvious, ones.
Le Péz
Pesimis Tanpa Nama
Anonymous Pessimist, President of Penicl
Anonymous Pessimist
DER ANONYMER PESSIMISTIN
Pez, captain of the fun squad!
Glorious Brother Communist Pez
The Pez’d Piper
Hairy Pessimisticles
AnonymousVelociraptor
♣AnonymousPessimist♣, Our Leader and Ruler!
The Pezorcist
Pezident Evil
Pez with a Fez
Mr. Pezitation
Джеймс Бонд в прохладном автомобиле
Pez Misérables
Preacher Peztifying the New Peztament
Pezterday, all my troubles seemed so far away…
Princess Pez
Pezurrection
The Angry Pezbian
Pressimist Anónimo
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By his own claims, he’s not the Anonymous Velociraptor.
That’s… Well, let’s just keep it a mystery, and call it someone else.
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He’s also Bish.
Have you ever seen the two in the same room?
Probably. But that’s because he’s also a wizard.
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This is solid logic, I often fear that all you guys are one really big troll who lives at home and does nothing all day except try and gain my trust until eventually i give him my details and he steals my identity. Then i realized that that person was just blaghs.
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Didn’t you know that there are only ever two people on the internet?
Me and that guy faking all of those other personalities.
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Indeed. It actually scared me the first time i went to a meat that you would all be fat wheezing guys who were all socially retarded. Then i realised i had to describe myself.
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Oh, you’re not fat Rocketman, and you’re not that bad with people.
Now me? Well, you’ve described me to a T.
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oh rocketman
always such a charmer
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Well…seeing as though “Джеймс Бонд в прохладном автомобиле” translates to “James Bond in a cool car”…
😛
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I thought that looked like an A and I wasn’t going to go put it through translate… Sounds like I’ve nabbed one of yours then!
So I can’t stop listening to this new Epica album. Didn’t particularly like it at first but now I think it might be their best.
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It is very good. And Simone is by far one of the hottest girls in music which certainly does not hurt.
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Nope.
I don’t know what most of the people from bands I listen to look like. I listen, not look :p
It’s only really the ones that I’ve seen in concert or look up the video clips of that I have some idea but even then I’m pretty terrible with faces.
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Well go take a look at Simone Simons. Hmm redhead 🙂
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I like the mystery.
That and I genuinely don’t care what she looks like. She might be pretty but all that matters to me is her voice (not particularly the lyrics though, I’m one of those weird people who don’t pay attention to those).
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Ah fair enough. I am more the kind of person that likes putting faces to names/voices.
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I don’t know what most bands I listen to look like, either. I’m paranoid I actually spoke to some of them on 70000 Tons and didn’t know it. 😛
As for the Epica album. I would still be listening to it but I’m also addicted to Eluveitie’s new one. They are both so, so good.
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Inis Mona, such an awesome song!!
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Had not heard of 70000 tons so went and looked it up. God damn that would have been insane.
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After not getting either a PSP or a DS this morning (major grumble) I have decided to buy a pre owned of one of them from EB (grumble again). So TAY I need some help deciding please. Whichever console will just be used for RPGs and nothing more, also wont be going online with either.
Bish did bring my attention to some great DS rpgs but it seems the PSP also has some decent ones.
The PSP 3000 is $92 and the DSi is $126 and the XL if they have them is $138. Thoughts?
Help me TAYbie one TAYbiebies, you are my only hope 😛
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Both are really good RPG machines.
#HelpingI personally like the DS’ library a lot more, but should you dabble in PSN, the PSP has some great PS1 ports.
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You could ahem get a ds and ahem get a certain device to ahem play all the games for ahem free. Because ahem ds games are ahem still ridiculously expensive ahem.
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can do something similar with psp though right? Minus the needs for an actual physical card?
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I’m still running an M3 with Sakura. There are better options, but I’m lazy 😛
I have half my card running legit games (totally legit if any law enforcement is watching). Huge benefit running around with one cartridge over the (roughly) 30 games I currently have on it.
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Just had a look and the R4i-SDHC seems to be a cheap option. Only $16. No idea how good/bad it is though. Would have to do some more research.
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I’m actually still on a DSLite, so it’s been a while since I’ve needed to look into them, but the M3 and R4’s were both pretty reliable back then. I think I got mine for something like $35 which came with the cartridge, 4GB micro card and microSD to USB connection. The cartridge is essentially a MicroSD to NDS connector.
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The DSTwo card is the way to go these days. R4’s are still good, but the DSTwo has a lot more functionality.
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Handy to know. Cheers.
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And to clarify, I actually use the DSTwo for SNES and GBA emulation. All my DS gaems are store-bought. I do not condone piracy either. Apart from the fact as far as the DS goes, you’ll end up with a card that has 15665424 games on it, and you’ll hardly get any of them actually properly played.
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AS a PSP-3000 and DSi XL owner, I would recommend the PSP by far. But, it all depends on your, and what kind of games you want. For me it was the PSP courtesy of Action/RPG titles like Monster Hunter, Phantasy Star Portable, Valkyria Chronicles, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, Dissidia and the like. The console has aged really well, and games are super cheap. But if you want ‘A-list’ titles, there’s not that many of late, except for stuff like God of War,etc. It shines through most in it’s Japanese produced titles, I find.
That being said, the DSi is pretty cool too – it’s showing it’s age a little, I think, but that’s more related to the DSi’s operating system, it’s a little tired. But games wise, there’s a lot to like too – Pokemon, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest games, other cool games like Ghost Trick, The World Ends With You, and classics like Mario, Metroid and Zelda.
Apart from games, long and the short is the PSP is a slightly more mature console, with easy and reliable features like music and video playback, PS3 connectivity, etc. But the DSi is a much simpler experience, which isn’t always a bad thing.
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Incidentally, the PS Store’s PSP selection isn’t too bad, and most are reasonably priced – some PSP classics such as Crisis Core aren’t availkable on PSN though. I find JB HiFi still has a reasonable selection of PSP games.
DS games seem to be a whole lot more prolific though.
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If you want a rundown on reasons to own a PSP for RPG’s, I’m pretty sure @NegZer is your go-to.
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No idea about the PSP, though it does have a lot of fantastic PS1 RPGs, but Nintendo have always had a huge RPG selection (JRPG and otherwise).
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Yeah more games like the Tales series etc. Like the old school PS1 and even Snes rpgs. Not these modern day pos.
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There’s also the infinite value of having a PSP with a decent sized memory card, and having Final Fantasy 5-9 in your pocket. All available as PSX classics on the PS Store. Chuck in FF1,2 and 4 Complete on PSP, and it’s every FF fan’s dream.
Phantasy Star Portable 2 is amazing. Monster Hunter Freedom Unite has eaten several hundred hours of my life in total as well.
Then again, there’s some top (J)RPG’s for DS too. The value of having Chrono Trigger and FF3 in your hands cannot be underestimated!
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Tough decision but having the FF games on hand is certainly worth thinking about. Be nice to wake up on a Sunday morning and do some gaming before I even get out of bed for a change.
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Well, as far as the traditional-type JRPGs go, DS gives you Dragon Quest IX and also remakes of V and VI, plus a few more niche-styled games and the remakes of FF3 and FF4 if that floats your boat. If you get yourself an R4 or similar, it can also be home to Tales of Hearts and Tales of Innocence via illegal translation patches, but those games are not to the par of other series and there’s strong evidence that Bamco are going to redo Hearts for Vita the way they already did with Innocence, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they brought them over.
PSP you get:
– Full remakes of both original Star Ocean games
– Final Fantasy IV Complete (remake of FF4 with extra epilogue)
– FF7 Crisis Core if that floats your boat
– Persona 3 Portable (main advantage over P3 FES on PS2 is the female protagonist option)
– Legend of Heroes games esp. Trails in the Sky
– Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (amazingly good remake of the classic)
– Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions
– A bunch of Ys games
– Some NIS SRPGs – Disgaea 1&2, Phantom Brave. Also Mana Khemia. All ports from PS2 though so if you already played…
– Tales of Eternia (super hard to find though, only in PAL!)
– Valkyria Chronicles 2 (but not 3 unless you can read the moonrunes)
– A whole load of niche stuff eg Yggdra Union.I feel like I’m missing a few too.
Really you need both systems, but if you just get one, a PSP is more versatile, especially hacked.
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Sold!! It has Disgaea!!
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PSP-1000 was the ‘fat’ – it’s a bigger form factor, basically, and the first model. The PSP-2000 is the ‘slim ‘n lite’, it’s…. slimmer and lighter! I think the screen was slightly improved. The PSP-3000 is the ‘lite ‘n brite’ – similar to PSP-2000, but has a brighter display, with richer colors.
It’s also worth noting if you decide to go the path of firmware modding (for homebrew, emulation, etc), the PSP-1000 and PSP-2000 are the way to go. You can do it with the PSP-3000, but only as a temporary measure, ie it’s undone when you power cycle the system.
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Hmm so that knocks the 3000 out of the equation then. Having to redo it every time you turn it on and off would be a pita. Well will just have to have a look at my kinda local EB when I go in on Wed.
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If you’re modding, I’d honestly suggest the PSP-2000. I got all that out of my system a long time ago, and use a legit PSP-3000 now. The PSP has a fantastic ‘hold/standby’ function too so if you did mod a PSP-3000, you rarely turn the thing off anyway. They’ll sit on standbyt for days, even weeks and barely use any battery at all.
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I guess will just come down to whats available at EB. The 1000 re only around $50 so may be worth getting one anyway. Eh who knows.
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PSP 3000 has “an improved LCD screen featuring an increased color range, five times the contrast ratio, half the pixel response time to reduce ghosting and blurring effects, new sub-pixel structure, and anti-reflective technology to improve outdoor playability. The disc tray, logos, and buttons have all been redesigned and the system now has a microphone. In addition, all games may now be output by component or composite using the video out cable” while the PSP 1000 can be haxored for teh homebrewz
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I’d still prefer a 1000.
The screen on the 3000, while better, is none too flattering to the PSP games. Makes it look… not good.
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I’m more than happy with my 2000
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Correction: I’d prefer anything that’s not a 3000.
Plus a 3000 is so goddamn slim. I feel like I have zoidberg hands when I finish a gaming session.
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I agree with slim/man-hand sentiments though. I used to suffer from a condition I coined ‘monster hunter hand’, which occurred after hours long benders of MH. Man that system is not built for extended gaming on the analog nub.
I’ve had all three, at various points. I used my friend’s PSP-2000 a few months back and wondered what the hell was wrong. Everything looked washed out, like the display was failing. If it was a TV I would have bolted for the brightness/contrast settings.
Then again, when I had the PSP-2000, I thought it was amazing. *shrug* Guess if you don’t have it, you won’t miss it.
Just looked at my watch and thought “wow! it’s 5 past 4!”.
Then I realised I hadn’t adjusted it for daylight savings. Damn.
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I was thinking on the weekend that the clock should go back an hour every Friday night. Now, obviously that would be unsustainable, so I thought of an excellent solution. Put the clock forward again at noon on the Monday!
This is a brilliant idea.
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every year I look forward to daylight savings ending. but again, every year, I remember why i shouldnt.
today I woke up automatically an hour before my alarm. couldnt get back to sleep & had nothing else to do, so I went to work an hour early. and at 4.30, when my body says its time I should be going home, I’ll still have an hour to go. damn you daylight savings time. damn you. -
I have been having this massive urge to get a DS and was disappointed when that Dick Smith sale turned out to be crap.
However this got me thinking, I only really wanted a DS because I have a craving for some Zelda and Pokemon funtimes.
This started the rusty gears in my head to turn slightly. I have both of these on my old gameboy!
Problem solved, I gets me Zelda and Pokemon fun and I don’t have to spend any money (well except for some betteries… do they still sell those? 😛 )
Yay for Pokemon Blue!
Yay for Zelda Link’s Awakening!
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There are DS emulators for PC as well. Just in case you were that desperate to play the games.
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Looked at that for a whole minute. Just got it. Nice. Though technically that would be a spoiler for season 1, no?
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That bit about Razer making a left handed version of the Naga has me wondering. What hand do people use?
I’m a little ambi-sinister. My mother, brother and sister are all lefties but I’m predominantly right-handed. Can do more than a few things with my left though, including those coin tricks and pen twirling (better at pen stuff with my left for some reason). Can play pool better than most with my left hand as well and can kind of write backwards left-handed (mirroring the motions is easier than writing normally which is a completely different motion).
So, excluding the currently crippled Harli, what hand do you use peoples?
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I’m left-handed, but I use the mouse with my right hand. Frankly, I would find it weird being in my left.
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Maybe, I just remember I think Artosis saying he does most things right-handed, but uses a mouse with his left. Guess he could have been wrong (or I was highly drunk)
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I trust the anonymous editor of Liquipedia over Artosis. I mean, what does he know? He only regularly interacts with the guy :p
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I am so very right handed.
Well, I was. Now I can’t use either hand for much at all, but that’s because I’m a slacker.
I am uncoordinated. My left hand is makes the rest of me look like a Ballerina-figure-skater-Opthamologist.
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I’m strictly right handed, but when I was a teenager I was playing so much squash that a friend of mine and I decided to start playing left handed. We were a bit rubbish but not as incompetent as we would have thought. I wish I’d kept that up now as that’d be a pretty awesome skill.
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I was ambidextrous as a child (I’m still told stories of how one hand would get tired drawing/writing so I’d switch to the other), then my bastard teacher made me write only with my right hand.
So I write with my right, prepare food ambidextrously, and when I do anything physical (sports etc) I’m left handed.
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My friend is a natural leftie that had right-handedness beat into him at an early age. So he favours his left hand for anything that he’s picking up but still does a few things right-handed because that’s how he learned to do them.
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Apparently I also was ambidextrous as a child but was forced by my teacher to be right handed. I wouldn’t have guessed it though, I’m pretty weak with my left hand.
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I think dominant hands are hugely factored by how often you use them. So you can train yourself to be ambi-dextrous and on the other hand (pun intended), you can grow weak with your naturally dominant hand if you don’t use it enough.
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I’m left handed but I tend to favour my right hand in everything but writing. Fun story: I got yelled at for writing left handed when I was in Year 2. Had no idea what I was doing ‘wrong’.
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BURN HERRRRRRRRRSeriously though, I don’t get that.
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It was some volunteer. She kept taking my pencil away and yelling “WROOOOONG” “BAD” “STOP DOING THAT!” I was so confused.
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It takes a while for new thoughts to enter into the school system
The reason that you are forced to write right handed is that as a left hander you move your hand over the words you have just written and smudge the ink
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Whoooahhhh http://www.news.com.au/technology/gaming/dicked-off-customers-furious-at-dick-smiths-7m-game-sale-scam/story-e6frfrt9-1226316539362
Even PLunkett lets rip a bit.
Today was a good day. Scored some bargains, caught up with a friend and said some smart shit in my tutorial.
Oh, one thing though. An irl society from my uni is following me on Twitter. I feel like I should reign in the boob jokes – I mean, I have to see these people. Oh TAY, you are my last haven.
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Never reign in boob jokes. Or any jokes. Be inappropriate everywhere! It’s who I am, Mum!
Wait, that’s, uhhh… Hmmm, pretend I didn’t say that last bit.
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Well, just so long as you’ve come to terms with your royal office in respect to these sorts of jokes, and have no intention of reining them in.
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LOOK AT WHAT I’VE DONE!
I probably will end up blocking them. Or just spam so many Batman pics they unfollow me and never talk to me again. Either is acceptable.
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I don’t think “more Batman” has ever stopped anyone.
Not even the criminals, because they just end up in Arkham for a little while before coming back. Maybe some minor thugs get stopped but nobody interesting.
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Batman stops crime!
Not criminals…
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So if Batguy and Batgirl have a little Batbaby would it grow up to become batman?
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I’m not sure.
Batman’s son with Talia became Robin.
The son of two other people where Batman’s DNA was thrown into the mix did become Batman.
Batman’s adopted son became Batman for a little while.
So I guess the answer is: maybe.
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If I recall correctly, one of the Robins had a stint at Batman for a while as well. I’m not sure if itwas Talia and Batmans son though.
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It was Dick Grayson, the adopted son. I don’t think Damian has ever worn the cowl.
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The answer is no. I will have babies with Batman. We will name them Batman Jr. All of them.
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I will call them all Steve.
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It would be Batbrat. DUH.
He’s also handy to have around when you’re in the shower
http://i.imgur.com/DLEUL.gif
That’s not creepy. That’s just Batman being Batman. HE’S SUPER HELPFUL AND NOT AT ALL PERVERTED.
Indeed it is not.
Only because he was giving that towel to Amanda Waller.
That woman is built like a brick house.
She needs to be. How else is she meant to be the one to take down Lex Luthor and Braniac?
Braniac’s the one who forces people to eat high in fibre foods, right?
That jerk.
Wait, that was a woman?
He also eats my little ponies…
@Doc_What: did you see the (non-april fools) announcement out of Compile Heart today? No more Neptunia games. 🙁
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They may rethink once we’re on a new generation of consoles and can have new goddesses.
Maybe.
It’s…..Beautiful! Damn monies being needed and stuff.
@ Trjn
I was legitimately gonna play a Werebear tank, lol. There goes that idea, just be running around the whole time thinking “IMMA BEAR”.
As for hardcore: I think you’re underestimating the lag on D2 for the non-host. Even with LAN, the lag is definitely noticable and frustrating. D2 is running netcode from the year 2000, and even then it wasn’t remarkably efficient code, so Hardcore would just create unnecessary tension and anger. I’d rather not be rushing acts as we’ll have some people playing for the first time, and would rather they didn’t miss out on the scope and detail of the game. Also, Act 3 is my second favourite act, so bite me 😛
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I was rarely host on the TCP/IP games and it was playable on Hardcore. Admittedly, I only got halfway through Nightmare on HC but it didn’t seem that bad.
You can still be a bear :p
And yeah, I don’t think rushing is a good idea, but it might be useful for people who miss out and need to catch up.
Finally, Act 3 sucks. So glad that was the one that people worked out how to skip.
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The desert one was terrible – was it Act 2? Man some of those vultures and scarab beetles hurt like f*k.
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Act 2 at least had the tombs and that Escheresque place I forget the name of.
Act 3 had a maze of swamps..
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And the shamans that revived the little blighters!
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and he also has a tendancy to eat all the things.
or maybe, and I know this is stretching it a bit, Bish is Alduin, the World Eater?
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Would imagine not. I got someone to agree to doing mentos+coke in their mouth at the next meat. With bonus points the more mentos that are used. Should be interesting, and messy.
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Ah yeah Pez is the one. Going to make a big enough mess to get you all thrown out. But it would be oh so worthwhile 🙂 Who knows could even have it come out of his nose. Funny!!!
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Would that work? I thought a key element was the pressure inside the bottle from the CO2
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Well as long as he has his mouth shut I cannot see why not. Personally never tried it. But if it is even like vinegar and bi-carb it will still fiz up heaps.
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My brain is not working today. I’ve been sitting at my desk staring blankly of and on for the better part of an hour. I have school tonight and I have not done my homework. Ye gods, learning a language is not something to be done when brain not working.
Halpmeh.
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I regret not sticking with language classes at school. I would love to speak French. Bitches love French.
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Yeah I learned Japanese from Yr3-10. Should have kept it up .
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Yeah Japanese is the only language I have ever wanted to learn. To live in Japan would be amazing.
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German was where it was at.
Watching Inspector Rex and knowing the lyrics to 99 Luftballoons?
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I think it was year nine, where I bailed on doing Italian (which I had pretty much done since year 1) to take Food & Nutrition (omnomnom cook stuff). The Italian teacher had the biggest sad at me about that, but omnomnom cook stuff.
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Been doing Japanese twice a week after work for about 2 months now. Not doing too badly, but it’s a pretty full on. It’s not as hard as people make out, but it definitely requires attention. I’m just hitting that point where it’s not new anymore, and it’s settling in just how much work will be involved.
I think I’m doing OK, just have to find the mojo to study in between and make sure I get rest here and there. Learning tired just doesn’t work.
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Just make sure to watch lots of anime without subtitles 🙂 You could watch a conversation or scene without subtitles and write what you think is said. Then when you think you have it all re watch it with subs. At least if you are watching an anime you like it could be fun.
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By finding their centre of gravity and not moving the rolling pin?
I can see broken noses from people attempting this, I just hope there are videos
So i was too busy getting my cranky pants on earlier to mention i gave the trial version of Nexiuz a go on xbl.
Its quite fun, and really captures that charm of the whole quake 3 era perfectly. A bit of lag owing to american hosts made it a little difficult but still, think i’ll have to buy the full thing when i get some coin.
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I tried it too and was surprisingly pleased with it. I mean, I haven’t bought it, but I did like it!
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haha, i remember playing it when it was a very…..well not good game on the PC, but as it got developed further it did mature into quite a good game.
I quite enjoy this version, will maybe give it another crack before i decide to buy it , but think its gunna happen. But so much other stuff i want too. Really want SFxT, and *hides in shame* the new nartuo game.
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Oh i also found my old Diablo II case (with missing disks) but used the cd key to add it to my blizzard account and just download the installer. Talk about Win! I really gotta re-learn the whole diablo thing, i think i suck at it. hahaha.
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It really was a rare gem of positivity in what has been a stressful couple of weeks. we’ll see how long i stick to it. I actually got a fair bit of gaming in on the weekend for the first time in about a month.
And long weekend coming I hope to cram a bit more in.
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Aside from the RDR session I had with that TAYbies on Friday night I’ve done hardly any gaming over the past week. Damn RL interuppting my gaming time.
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Yeah this is the first weekend in a long time that i was actually home half the time.
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It would be fun to have a Q3A or Unreal Tournament (original, if it still runs) meat some time.
Holy carp, I’ve got games coming out the wazoo! Other M and Steel Diver from the DSE sales, and now I’ve come home to Street Fighter x Tekken, Uncharted 3 and Metal Gear Solid HD Collection sitting on my doorstep! Not to mention Trine, Minecraft, Pokemon Yellow, Phoenix Wright 3 and Journey which I’ve been playing on and off. I also went and bought a cheap PS3 headset…
First World Problems! I’m not buying any more games until I at least make a dent in this pile (no Diablo 2 for me, then. Though I might be able to play Uncharted 3 with TAYbies this week, now).
@Ynefel: are you studying formally, or just in your spare time? I’ve been trying to self-learn to at least be able to read it but I keep getting to the same point in my study and losing focus, starting to question if I’m doing it right and getting stuck in self-doubt because I can’t see results. Thinking I might need something more structured because I know I’m super uneven in what I know.
Hi page 5, sorry I didn’t see the first 4 of you? Hope you are well n stuff. Hey that game of RDR was awesome… I read over the write up.. I didnt see the mention of where I took on 7 dudes and actually won??? haha. Not the stand off however, I failed in a very large way in that!
Hey, Remember that Trials HD Riddle article from WAY back (July 2011 actually), well im finally in talks to get it posted on a site outside of Australia (XBLAFans.com). I’ve only ever had it published on Aussie sites and TV so Im really happy that this is happening. Hopefully this week.
No this is not my secret project, just something else that I decided to do with my spare time. 🙂
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whatever… realised .. like it was a mistake…!
Dude that was such a cool game. My tryig to do a rool out of the way before i got shot at the start was awesome. I totally thought I could do it and died before i’d started to lean a little 🙂
Im really not gaming that much but I really want to try and make omre of these events. Oh and you gotta put Trials Evolution on the rotation once its released ok!
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awesome, back up to speed… I should have added that I too went to the george street DSE this morning, for about 5 minutes. There was already 70 odd people in front of me so I left.. best decision i’d made all day, apart from eating a muffin that my wife cooked last night in addition to my breakfast.
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My morning also involved eating a muffin. But my muffin was purchased after discovering thirty or so people waiting outside my local (tiny, and not well stocked) DSE. The sale looked like no fun, and the muffin was delicious, so I think I came out on top.
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So.
Dat Game of Thrones.
Vg qvqa’g sbyybj gur obbx nf pybfryl nf gur svefg frnfba, ohg V ernq gung gurl jrer onfvpnyyl sbeprq gb qb gur fgbel guvf jnl naq fbzrjung fubegra/pbzovar fbzr bs gur cybgyvarf orpnhfr gurer jnf whfg gbb zhpu gb pbire.
V arire vzntvarq Fgnaavf nf Fpbggvfu, ohg V guvax gurl pnfg uvz jryy.
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V guvax vg jvyy cebonoyl trg fyvtugyl yrff, uzzz, ehfurq? Nf gur Frnfba tbrf ba. Guvf rcvfbqr jnf onfvpnyyl “Bu penc, yrg’f gel naq trg gur punenpgref va, gel naq znxr vg boivbhf jub gurl ner, naq gel gb chfu gur fgbel nybat.”
Fgvyy, rira vs vg xrrcf hc ng gur pheerag cnpr, V’z pbby jvgu vg. Fgvyy tbbq.
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Tell them you’re getting them ready for life and the possibility of moving to another state some day and that tonight you’re practising a three-hour shift. In bed by 6pm sound good?
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I’m sure it’s educational… kinda…
(it’s never too early to start training your kids to become Machiavellian backstabbing monsters obsessed with power and expanding their fiefdo- I MEAN)
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Hey Hugo,
Sorry I let the team down this weekend on Mass Effect 3. Admittedly there was only two of us and two engineers can only do so much against the geth 😛
I am constantly paranoid that people hate me. I have been hated before and it doesn’t bother me but the thought of a random stranger thinking “wow that tall 12 year old is a jackass” gets to me. Is anyone else like this?
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It’s not like anyone could misinterpret anything you try to say, eh, eh?
Ha. Ha. Ha.#NotHelping
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Think of it this way, you’ve said things that could have really gotten us off on the wrong foot. Like, some sort of mutated 7th foot, that’s how wrong.
I could hate you.
But I don’t! Because you’re an okay guy.
😀
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I live my life, believing that everybody is judging me, watching me. Looking for any single mistake I make. They are constantly disappointed by, they can’t believe what I’m doing, and they think I’m insane.
When I am walking past someone, I will often stop breathing, just so that I don’t breath too loudly around them.
So no, I don’t worry about people hating me, I just worry about them judging me, even though there is literally no reason for them to even glance my way.
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I used to be a bit like that, Rockets.
I’ve learned to not let it get to me now, to not care what some random stranger thinks of me because they have no idea about who I really am.Also, I’m pretty vain so I get really paranoid people are judging me when I have to go out and my hair’s dirty and my clothes are ill-fitting and old. I had to get over that really fast after my second kid but it still lingers.
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*I used to be a bit like that, Rockets. But then I took an arrow to the knee.
There. Fixed it for you 😛
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I don’t like being hated but at the same time I don’t care. Like there’s a lot of people out there and as long as I’m with the people that matters I’m happy.
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Hey Rockets,
This used to be a huge huge issue for me. I used to like to stay indoors just because I felt so self conscious of what others would do/say about me. Over the years I’ve found as I’ve gotten more comfortable with myself and who I am, the less I seem to care of what others think of me.Which is a good thing, because I’m a MASSIVE dickhead.
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Let me tell you something about strangers on the street with bullshit preconceived notions of you:
They’re dickbags. Worse than dick bags. They suck sweaty, geriatric donkey balls that have been dipped in horse poo.
Seriously.
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I think we all have feelings like that at some stage. For some reason i got super self conscious crossing the road the other day. All those driver sitting in their cars, watch, judging me. Normally I wouldn’t have given it a second thought but something got to me that day
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Any idea how well it runs on a modern PC? I’m kind of worried about resolution. Stretching it to 2560×1440 will be… unpleasant.
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The blizzard downloader is actually bittorrent based, except an awful implementation that floods your upstream. I always go into the preferences and disable P2P so I’m only getting data from blizzard, it’s usually way faster.
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I have three specific tasks to get done this week then I can go on holiday for a week.
I am planning on going on leave after tomorrow.
My aim is to finish all three tasks today, before I go home. Could be a late one.
Wish me luck!
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By way of progress report I have spent today knocking off one of the tasks, and it was the hardest of the three. On task two now.
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Oh, today was a shocker. My timesheet has four hours on it so far. I’m relying on the old “finish this then you can go home” pressure.
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I am trying to understand and summarise the report of a forensic accountant. My mind is buckling under the presser and I’m going cross eyed. I don’t do numbers.
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I have enough trouble with stuff from a standard accountant. Just got the company statements I need to confirm and sign off on. I feel for you
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Oh about the tests I had today. One was very interesting, and quite a bit of fun too. The teacher had the classroom set up like a miniature travel agency. Each of us at a computer, with a seat for a “client” in front of us. We each had 2 quotes we had to type up, using a template, as if we were in a business, all professional looking. I think I drew the short straw, because while the other 2 girls had trips to the gold coast and melbourne to organise I was sending people to Croatia and Brazil. We had to look up flights, accommodation, tours, the works. While we were working on the quote our teacher was calling us on the phones they had set up, pretending to be customers, asking for information etc. She even roped one of the other teachers into acting like an off-the-street customer, so we each had a 3rd quote we needed to complete by the end of the 2 hours.
On the whole it went pretty well. It was a good way of seeing how things would work in the industry. Lots of things going on, time pressures, customers ringing up and getting on your case about things you definitely havent had time to do. And something different than your basic question and answer type test
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Just let me pull up your file Mr Bish… Ah here we are.
For return flights to Dubrovnik, plus a weeks accommodation, a couple of tours and insurance – that would come to $4,015
Return flights to Rio de Janeiro, 18 nights accommodation (I was sending them for the Olympics in 2016), and a 3 days tour to Iguazu falls was 5,248
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and to those 10 marks I add a gold star.
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I feel special 😀
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To properly simulate real-world conditions they should have required you to post at least 6 times on each page of TAY throughout the day.
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I was trying my best. Once I do get a job I get the feeling I will become an exclusively nighttime poster 🙁
I know Uncharted 3 is scheduled for this week’s PS3 community game night but is there any chance of some Burnout Paradise? Maybe next week or as a back up game?
Or maybe I’m just selfish? I don’t know. I just thought I’d throw this out there.
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Sure why not :P. Haven’t played it in years but hit the Cakeman up on Steam/Twitter/Email or hopefully he’ll see this in TAY.
Try not to do anything with the paid DLC though because I don’t have any of it :/
TAYBIE TOUGH’UNS EXERCISE POST!
I’m drinking an iced tea slushie. Needless to say, no exercise for Pez tonight. Resting up to kick my ass later on this week.
Share your workout stories below! What did y’all get up to for exercisin’ today?
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Nothing… nothing at all…
I should really start doing push ups again, just for the hell of it. I miss my rock solid abs and pecs! Has nothing to do with anything but I used to be able to do a bunch of push ups on just 2 fingers and 2 thumbs 😀
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I bought some chorizo this morning but I left it in the car and the car was in the sun all day so when I finally got around to retrieving my chorizo it had been sitting in there for 7 hours 🙁
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I woke up after 3 hours sleep, grabbed my phone and exercised my thumbs sending a text to my trainer saying I wouldn’t be in today.
Tomorrow I shall be punching things to make up for this.
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I walked to the fridge and back.
It was a perilous journey.
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Nice haul, mang!
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Yep. I probably won’t need to buy any more games for a while now.
…except for Trials Evolution.
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Round is a shape.
Okay, no it’s not, but neither is angular, so I guess that’s a moot point.
A circle is a shape. That’s a better idea, Blaghs.
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went for a 4km walk last night and then did a short kinect session. Lost 1.2kg last week and am hopefully back on track. total loss to date 22.2kg in 22 weeks.
So far have eaten a bit ov everything tonight including chocolates, not good so far this week!
A while back I offered some 48-hour access passes to Crunchyroll (legit streamed anime/japanese drama site). I recall sending to a few people but apparently the codes never got redeemed, wondering if they ever arrived? Also I have like 15 of them now, so I have more to give away if anyone wants.
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How the hell do you have 15? I only seem to get 1 a month. And they only last 3 months before they expire. I been a ripped off!!!
I hate my body. Sniffling dude sat next to me in my lecture today and now I feel rather…run down. *glares* 3 viruses in 2 months? Do I even have an immune system anymore?!?!
Also, HI AGAIN TAY.
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Hello person!
My solution to avoiding colds is to never go near people ever. Thus, I rarely ever get sick.
Good system.
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I was in hermit mode for 3/4 of my last semester at uni.
Thus why I dropped out.
And I’ve been a hermit ever since.
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Evening TAY!
What’s up? Aside from DSE.
What the hell!
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/werribee/consoles/silver-psp-portable-brand-new-condition-still-in-the-box/1000880254
Small win in analysing this forensic-accounting report. They’ve listed a mortgage as a liability, but have not listed the house it secured as an asset. The report is flawed.
By the way, I want to undermine this report, so this is a win.
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I reckon if you slip the word ‘forensic’ into the description of anything that would otherwise be pretty dry, makes it sound at least ~10x more interesting.
Also, nice work on your winning. Charlie Sheen would be most proud of you.
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Did everybody see Tracey getting slap happy in the mana bar article – http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/a-brisbane-brew-the-mana-bar-story/comment-page-1/#comment-621414
Awesome response
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I thought that was a great article. I think that Peter pretty much missed the point entirely.
but still, that’s no excuse to act like a jerk. & Tracey was 100% justified to call him on his BS.damn, the comments sections in the other articles have been pretty dismal recently…. hopefully if we get user accounts it’ll help… until then, the report buttons gonna be getting a bit of use.
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And that’s when stuff happens. D=
But I agree, I think that guy was just angry he got nothing at the DSE sale.
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so after uni checked the DS if anything was left, which there wasn’t, so instead was looking around jb hi-fi and found that one of the stores was selling the Devil may cry HD collection early, and got that instead! \o/
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Yeah, they’ve also got the SH collection and downpour.
They’re European games =/ You can get them for at least $10 cheaper with you’re willing to wait 2 weeks from OzGameShop-
eh, was more of a spur of the moment thing, and it was already only 60 dollars…
on another note, forgot how awesome the devil may cry games are, although i’m sad because i really wanna go straight into three, but i’m saving best for last 🙂
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Fair enough, you shouldn’t have to lower yourself to their level.
I was lucky enough to only have my 2 lower wisdom teeth form. Had them removed before they caused any pain. Was a bit freaked out when the surgeon says that the tooth is resting basically on the main nerve that runs down my jaw and if anything goes wrong during the operation I might never taste ever again….. Damn wasted oppurtunity, where was Pez and his death sauce when I had the chance.
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My top left one grew without any problems (it’s slightly on an angle though) but now my bottom left one is being a poo head… Apparently I’m only going to get 3/4 wisdom teeth D:
Hopefully they all grow fine and don’t ruin my already straight teeth :'(
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Mine are slightly wonky but my top teeth and my bottom teeth are determined to make me eat my gum
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I have smaller than usual lungs, but my blood has higher than average haemoglobin, so I can carry oxygen more efficiently. I’m more evolved 😛
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Hi TAY!
I’m not dead*! Winner! \o/
*No reason I would be but it’s always a win when you’re not.
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If you were dead, would you know that its a loss?
As opposed to a win when you’re not. Read it again and thought it kinda sounds like I’m saying your death wouldn’t be a loss, not saying that at all. Can someone get me a ladder? I feel like I’m digging myself deeper all the time
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No no. I understand. I get that you are telling me to go jump already.
And here I was thinking that we were friends :'(
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God, you refuse to drive someone halfway across the country once, and they never let it go….
What do you mean he didn’t say anything about that? He must have, he always does…. Oh dammit
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I had almost let that go, even started to think that I was making an unreasonable request. Then you tell me to do the world a favour and kill myself and I start thinking that you just don’t like me.
*flees in sobbing uncontrollably*
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No Freeeeze, come baaack. I didn’t meeeean it!!!!
Narrator: But it was too late. The die had been cast. The chips had fallen. The other shoe had dropped. *rustle*
*off to one side* Will someone please get me some more cliches.
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Thanks
*ahem* Will Freeze and Nova make amends? Where did Freeze run off to? Who is pregnant with Chuloopa’s baby? Are Bish and Blaghman really related? Tune in next week to find out -
Is this another season of TAYs of our lives?
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Narrator: Will AlexPants find the answer to his question? And will he like what he hears? Find out next ti…
Screw this, I can’t work in these conditions. You tell the Director I’ll be in my trailer.
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If Nova has taken off I’m eating his danish!
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*storms back in*
Forgot my danish
*storms out*
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Yes, Bish and I are definitely related.
We’re like twins.
The Queen of Hearts orders a croquet game \o/\o/\o/
The croquet game is played with flamingos instead of mallets \o/\o/\o/
The game descends into chaos and the Queen gets upset \ /\ /\ /
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I’m okay with this. 😀
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Cheers for the heads up Strange. The new Eluveitie album is awesome. Did not even know it was out till you mentioned it. Rocking out to it atm \m/
In case people missed it on Twitter Shiggy is planning another 360 Red Dead Redemption night at 8:30 (AEST) tonight.
I am debating whether I will play that, or Minecraft with some of my other friends. Choices, choices.
To those that are interested in the Ghost Recon Online (PC, Wii U), it’s an upcoming F2P shooter.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/342290/tom-clancys-ghost-recon-online-free-beta-key-giveaway/
Click the thingy and it should generate a beta key for you. Gonna test out the game now.
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Grr, ignore that. Keys only work for NA residents. Screw you, Ubisoft, YOU’RE not even North American, wtf?
STORY TIME
When i was at school i was a pretty much a goody two shoes kid, I didn’t do much except listen to and be compliant to what people told me and watch tv. When i got to high school i was pretty much the same. I being in a town of morons got called smart however my marks never represented the feeling everyone had that i was smart. I was crowned a moronic nerd. In their defence it was a pretty accurate call. I still didn’t do much.
Fast forward to now, nothing has really changed, i have a new way to watch tv and a new bunch of people to order me around. My life has changed, I haven’t I think i am cursed to be forever looked down upon because of one thing or another. The worse part is that i kind of enjoy it, which is sick because of how bad it makes me feel. I need to change and that starts with not trying to get sympathy from you guys. I feel like its the only kind of attention i get any more and so make myself out as the victim constantly. I hate to say it but sometimes i actually bring stuff on myself and deserve the mean things people say. I thought this story was going somewhere then it didn’t true story.
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Wait wait batman is on TAY now. Shouldn’t you be saving Gotham instead of reading the inane ramplings of a wannabe emo.
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The worse part is that i kind of enjoy it, which is sick because of how bad it makes me feel
Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.
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Fuck batman that is deep.
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Turns out my running joke about having a good half dozen game boyfriends has actually come to some use. It’s totally inspired me to write about companionship in games and the relationships we form with characters.
SEE. I can be creepy and productive.
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I swear it’s not me!
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Suuuuuuuuuure.
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BATLADY
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Is Batman any better?
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I think we should use descriptive terms for them.
BatPenis, and BatNoPenis.
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Batboobies? Or perhaps Batjugs is more fitting.
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I think you mean…
BATNIPPLES!
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no penis make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad
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*pokes head in*
Scree? Screeeeeeee?
You in here?
Got a question for ya, I think I remember you mentioned some website a while back (I could be very wrong btw) that is awesome for dressmakers/cosplayers. I got the idea that it was like etsy or ebay but for fabrics and the like. You remember what that site was?
Okaythanksyewbuhbye
*pokes head out again*
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http://www.simplicity.com/p-2206-costumes.aspx
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I’m still at work and having just ate three jellybeans, I threw caution to the wind and at a fourth. I’m such a risk taker.
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My lord and ruler has confused the masses. And me as well. I don’t get it, I’m assuming its something to do with the format change, but I don’t really know anything about video formats.
Well, that was weird.
At about 6:40, TAY decided to revert itself back to what it was like at 6:10, spam me with errors, and being an annoying little guy.
Now, as we can see by me posting, it’s fine, except that when I reloaded it, my name and email had disappeared.
That was… odd.
Also, I don’t like going that long without TAY.
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Wait, long field? What.
Long List. Packed field? Can’t remember what the appropriate metaphory thing is.
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No, if you actually physically got all the people who didn’t like you, we’d fill up a field.
An arbitrarily sized field.
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That’s pretty close to me. I’m going to the Dick Smith’s around here on the weekend, i’m gonna ask to speak to Nick, then punch him right in the face, say ‘you know why’, and run.
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Just look at that mark up o_O
It’s stuff like this that reminds me that people are generally buttbrains.
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Hah though a modified image. Found the seller on ebay and while he likely got it today he has no other consoles.
On a side note DSE’s facebook page is a good laugh. So many furious people. I even let loose a little on there. Not that it does nay good but still. They have lost me and the family as customers.-
Yeah I voiced my opinion on their facebook, stating how I was actually using the sale to replace 2 pieces of hardware that were ageing/dying and that the fact the staff snapped them up between closing yesterday & opening today which I thought was wrong not to at least leave one or 2 of each, for the public, and there was 5 or 6 keyboards & about the same of the headphones I was looking at, OH WELL.
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I remember when working at EB if you would see something coming up on sale that was a good price, sure you would leave it in the store room and buy it yourself. But if you got caught trying to sell it off on eBay you would be fired so quick!
Plus if someone came in and really wanted it we would give it to them anyway. I gave up my AvP collectors (the one with the facehugger) when it went on sale because someone came in and really wanted it.
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Ah but that is because you are a nice person. I bet some of these people would not give it up for any reason what so ever. Humanity is fucked up sometimes. Just reminds me why I generally dislike people.
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Just goes to show that you are a nicer person that the dick smith employees.
Not all of them did that. Only some D=
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What a smug asshole. 🙁
Seriously though, I reckon those would have flown off the shelves for DSE even if they’d been $200 instead of $100 and dickheads like this wouldn’t be quite as interested in flipping them for a quick buck. Because I know if I had been working at DSE today I’d have done exactly this myself.
Man, I’d forgotten how complex fighting games are! Some moves I just cannot pull off, even in the tutorial mode with infinite time, health and the enemy standing still. xD I’ve been getting by by playing on the easiest difficulty (which is pretty damn easy, even for me). This is going to take some time, methinks.
Hang it. I’m going home. I said I’d stay until this work was done, but that was before I realised how complicated and rubbish this forensic-accounting report was.
I decided to roll with the return of TAYs of our Lives from page 5, and, well, this happened. Please enjoy my terrible story!
Tales of TAY
TAYS OF OUR LIVES – Season 17, episode 5 – Breaking Le Fourth Wall (Saying Le Instead of The Makes Us Fancy)
The door slams shut just a little too violently, causing the set walls to shake a bit and break the illusion that this is actually real. Freeze is gone before Nova can continue.
Nova slumps to the floor, feeling the burden of a thousand tired emotional clichés on his back, crushing him. Can clichés do that? “I only wanted…” he croaks out, before he is cut off by someone else in the room.
“Why am I here for this?” a voice calls out from the other end of the room. “Oh god, is this hell?”
It is AlexPants, wearing several different pairs of pants at once, and something that looks like a tutu. “Is this a soap opera? Is that a CAMERA? Hey, I’m on TV!” He tries to flash the camera by lifting the tutu, but fortunately for you, dear viewer, he is wearing the aforementioned pants, so nothing bad comes of it.
Nova looks up at AlexPants, suddenly forgetting his own problems, as you do in television land. “Does that really matter, AlexPants? I have to stop Freeze before he hurts himself!”
“So this is like the A plot this season, huh?” AlexPants asks, completely ignoring the exasperation on Nova’s face. “Where are the B and C plots then?”
As if on cue, Nova and Alex hear a voice cry out from the adjacent stage. Our camera pans to the left, revealing…
Chuloopa! Boy he’s looking fat today. Wait a minute…oh god no.
“Nova, Alex! I’m glad you’re here. I was just about to tell everyone the big news.” Suddenly the camera recognises that the room, which appears to be some kind of Mexican restaurant/strip club, is filled with TAYbies. We’d mention all of your names but eh, just look for them in the credits. Everyone looks slightly confused. You look handsome/beautiful, don’t worry.
“Anyway, as I was about to say…guys…I’m…”
Pause for effect.
“PREGNANT.”
There are a few gasps, but honestly it seems like everybody saw it coming. What really takes them by surprise, though, is the dramatic music, which blares from some off-screen sound system.
When the music fades out, the camera pans even further to the left. This is a big studio. Bish and Blaghman, the only TAYbies not on the previous set, are sitting at a table in an otherwise empty room. It looks like they are arguing over the best flavour of Shapes. I don’t know which flavours they like the best so they can fill in the gaps here.
“You see, this is why we can’t possibly be related.” Bish yells, although I didn’t put an exclamation mark there so it doesn’t look like he was yelling.
“No, we are related. We’re like twins.” Blaghman says it so manner-of-factly. The dramatic music plays again. There’s another awkward silence.
“…well okay.” Bish says.
The camera swings back to the set on the far right as Nova and Alex walk back and sit in uncomfortable looking chairs. Who paid for this furniture, anyway?
“That C plot was resolved really quickly.” Nova says, apparently forgetting his earlier troubles.
“Yeah, well nobody was really interested in it anyway. And Blaghman was really phoning in his performance. He’s probably cost us an emmy, or a daytime soap award, or whatever it is we try to win at award shows.”
“Looks like you’ve figured it out.” comes a voice from nowhere. Except it isn’t really from nowhere. It’s from that charming red velvet chair in the corner. The chair swivels around, revealing none other than Greenius, legs crossed in the most pompous of manners, holding an iPhone in his hands.
“And…send!” Greenius taps the screen one last time and looks up from his phone.
AlexPants feels his phone vibrate with a Draw Something notification. But he is too shocked by the reveal to get it out and start spraying colours all over the screen…wait, we’re still talking about his phone, right?
“Hey, wait, this isn’t in the script at all!” another voice calls out, from the previously slammed door. It’s Freeze! Back from the…not quite so dead but probably going off to die…place! He is holding a script in one hand, and a danish in the other.
“My danish!” Nova cries out. “I mean…Freeze! You’re alive!”
“Shut up.” Freeze noms on the danish.
Just what is going on here? Why is Freeze still alive? What is Greenius up to? Who is the father of Chuloopa’s baby? Will Nova get a new danish? Tune in next time…on TAYS OF OUR LIVES.
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Love it. And I’m pretty sure this is my first mention in one of these stories.
One of them, One of them
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The first time I was used as a character in a story, it was about Mark making really weird inappropriate remarks towards me. Wow, I’ve actually forgotten most of it…success?! Anyway, I hope this is less scary that that story was. :p
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There were some older ones from a month or two ago, but I couldn’t find them on Tales of TAY. D:
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How dare you accuse me of phoning in acting!
Have you seen my acting? It’s amazing! Always! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9NU62JC7N8&feature=plcp&context=C4b76910VDvjVQa1PpcFPTmRpSk3EZeJohx7A6SA4BiUHGZGa64No= LOOK AT IT, LOVE ME!
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Next week, on TAYS of our Lives:
Blaghman puts forward his best performance to date as he struggles with the truth behind Coles’ frequent Shapes sales.
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I’ve had a shitty day and want to do something to cheer myself up. So:
WHO WANTS A FREE COPY OF TRINE 2 ON STEAM?
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And watching you give back to the community makes me (and others) happy!
Happy Cakeman :D! (or Cakesmizzle?)
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It’s what Pez calls me. I have a Cakeman alias waiting for mod haha.
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Cakeman! 😀 (can also be extended to Cakemang if need be)
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I was going to raise my hand, but then I remembered that unlike most people, I did well today with the DS sale.
So, I’ll put my hand down now.
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That’s my problem as well. 😛 I made a post saying I have way too many games to play right now, but I also loved Trine 1. Sigh. Give it to someone who actually needs it.
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Yes, well if you stopped smacking me into the walls all the time, I would probably be more cooperative, now wouldn’t I?
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Oh you… 😛
“everyone loves free things”
…and everyone loves Cakesmith! Thank you once again buddy 😀
I feel bads for taking so much thingies but do not fret TAY! I’ll get a job one day and since I hardly spend much on myself I’ll BUY TAY ALL THE THINGS!
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Knowing you it would probably just be a picture of Batman or boobs. Or Batman with boobs.
I wonder….
….oh god. Rule 34! Rule 34! Cannot unsee!
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You’re joking right? You don’t even need to go non-canonical for that…
http://www.toplessrobot.com/batman-nipples.jpg (surprisingly SFW)
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@Andy: I have a ton of CR passes because they suddenly started flooding me with one a day in April. I don’t know why. “Member Since: Apr 6, 2008” <– this might have something to do with it though 🙂
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Everyone else, posting again: If you would like a 48 hour guest pass to Crunchyroll (anime/j-drama streaming site) then ask away, I have many. Long weekend coming up for easter, and also it’s April so it’s right at the start of a new season.
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And it is such a damn good site. Even for non paying people. Can even watch the first 20 odd episodes of the remake of Hunter X Hunter. Such a good anime
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What sucks is when dickhead companies like Funimation license stuff and suddenly CR’s streams go behind a region lock when they weren’t before. Hate that so much. But I don’t actually use the site. My terrible secret is that I pay for the subscription but my connection’s way too slow and flaky to be able to watch stuff streamed, and I prefer to watch on my old media center anyway, so I download rips. I figure it’s basically time-shifting. I’d rip the streams myself but they have DRM on them and I cbf reversing it or finding out how to work around it.
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Luckily have not encountered a region locked stream yet. I was only ever paying for Bleach but now that that is gone I may have to start watching Naruto again. Lost track of Fairy Tale unfortunately and CR do not store all the episodes. Still there are some decent anime on there. And paying is doing my little to support I guess.
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I was sure they had all of Fairy Tail. But I’m up to date with that anyway. Fell behind in Naruto and Bleach both years ago and have no idea where I was up to so no way to catch up.
There’s heaps of good stuff and the membership is super cheap.
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Oh yeah, I did get it! I have just not got around to it.
Also I wanted to watch One Piece lately and they did not seem to have it.
So, rumour has it that Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery EP will be released on Steam in about a week
http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/2/2918839/superbrothers-sword-sworcery-ep-steam-release-rumor
😀
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Not sure how that’ll be on computer :P. It was fun on iPhone to just chill and relax to (I haven’t touched it in months though).
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I battled a triangle and lost numerous times (didn’t realise you could heal mid-battle). I think I ended up killing it and never touched it again :/
Music was awesome though!
I would play it on the bus (where I get most of my iPhone gaming done) but dayum people can be really loud…
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following on from the diablo II talk on the last page, does anyone know how to get it to run in wide scren? kinda hard to see stuff on that tiny 4:3 screen .
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It’s a bug in patch 1.13
There is a mod that can get around it but I can’t remember what it’s called /o\
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I think they were talking about playing via Hamachi as a lot of the people did not have legit copies or somesuch. So the widescreen mod/patch thingo should be fine. Will need to confirm the Hamachi though.
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what is this Hamachi? i am a noob lol.
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Not 100% sure. Think it is a program that lets you play multiplayer in a lot of games without actually connecting to official servers or something like that. So having cracked copies does not matter.
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It’s a program that lets you create a virtual LAN over the internet.
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Exactly this. I used to use it way back to play COD1 and 2 with some tight arse friends before I managed to convert them to Steam.
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Japanese amberjack. Used in Sushi. Smaller-sized fish are Hamachi, larger ones are Buri.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjyzkLtRHkc
(Warning: earworm, you will not be able to use the software without thinking of this)
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I may just have to hook the laptop up to my decent sized screen so i can actually see what i am doing. Cant see crap on the laptop screen.
Disclaimer: This post is not directed at TAYbies, just the internet in general.
OK, so having missed all the DSE kerfuffle (no internet at work) I’ve just caught up with it all.
Wow. Crazy.
I get that prople are disappointed, but the overall response seems a little over the top.
DSE never advertised what would be available at what prices. Some people’s sense of entitlement and outrage is a little out of proportion with what happened.
If I worked there, I would have nabbed myself some shiny new hardware too.
If it all starts turning up on ebay that’s a different matter I suppose, but hello people – sense of perspective?
People. *shakes head and mutters
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The sale was a real letdown, I’m not/was not riled up or anything just disappointed. I like how many of the comments on YouTube are referring to the sale as ‘Dick’s Myth.’
Also if I was a competitor, say EB or JB I would be planning a sale in the next few weeks promising savings for all, with the tag line ‘No one misses out’ as they clear out their PS2/XBOX and DS stock. The PS2 and DS already have successors so I don’t see EB/JB losing much on such a sale. They could even profit and clear up more space in their stores to sell more pre-owned PS3/XBOX360 games.
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I don’t see that happening, as it would be costly to ensure enough stock on hand so that “Nobody misses out”.
Besides, this DSE sale is likely part of Woolies strategy to ready the retail part of the DSE business for sale (they have already stated they intend to get out of physical retail and concentrate on online).We’ll possibly see similar sales over the coming weeks/months in other departments. The online offering in the sale was probably only there because DSE felt they were forced into it after the leaked pricelist.
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Fable III has a decent game manual. Totally worth $5. Now to charge through Fable and get my hands on Fable II.
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Fable = fun
Fable 2 = fun but really easy
Fable 3 = not that fun, pretty boring…Fable is such a flawed series :P. It could’ve been good and there’s so much little things that are just annoying… I’m so glad I didn’t waste money on Fable 3 (I borrowed it from a friend). Don’t regret buying 1 or 2 though 😀
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Haha I swear you’re a bad influence. I’m developing an addiction to buying more games than I need. I want to by a ton of vinnies and see if I can score some PS1/PS2 games.
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Lies!
But yeah, you can have my copy of Fable 2 if you want. It’s been sitting on my shelf for probably 2 years now. Finished it twice. Won’t play it again. Worth $3 to trade in so not worth that either. May as well go to a good home haha.
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What platform?
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FYI, I can hook you up with a copy of Spice World in return 😛
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If you’re done with it then YESH PLEASE.
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DM your address on Twitter and I’ll send it off tomorrow.
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Just bring it along to the meat. Save on postage.
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You sure? I’ll send it off with the work stuff so no postage cost 😛
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NSFW btw
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I was incredibly disappointed by the first 20 seconds of that video. But then after that…wow.
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HAHA…
“Wait, why is this NSF—-oh…oh dear.”
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Not even going to click it.
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Not even a little bit tempted? Actually probably best you don’t. I like to believe you still have SOME respect for me.
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Cakesmith is such a decent guy! *clicks link* FRIENDSHIP OVER
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What the hell did I just watch and who the hell is the pink haired girl o.O?
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Nope had no luck getting anything at all. My sister got some games for her kids though so was not a wasted trip. Am just going to get a pre owned handheld from EB games. Got so psyched after looking at all the rpgs on both systems I cannot not get one now lol.
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PSP or DS?
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Most likely PSP. Though if they have none then a DS. Either would be win.
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3DS’ aren’t that pricey now.
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Yeah though it only has 2 rpgs. And am not a huge fan of 3d >.>
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But it plays all the DS RPGs too.
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Yeah though bit of a waste paying that kind of money for a major feature I would not use. For me it would be like buying a 3d tv, and not using the 3d. Also there are basically no games at all on the 3ds that I am enthused about.
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I have a 3DS and I can’t even see 3D. Just turn the slider off. You’re future proofing yourself. Plus there are already some excellent games on 3DS (Zelda, Resident Evil: Revelations, Mario)
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Region. Lock.
2 shouldn’t be too hard to find. I remember seeing it in those 2 for $40 deals at JB a while ago, probably hasn’t moved from there.
So my University is making me sign up to Marketing Research things as part of my assessment. You get 1 credit point per an hour session and you need 3 credit points PER A UNIT. I currently do 2 Marketing Units and that’s 6 hours of stupid Marketing Research I have to do…
It’s worth 4% per a unit though so I probably won’t do it :/. Ceebs… (Uni is like 1 hour+ away for me so it’s really not convenient)
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4% of the grade? If you’re confident you can comfortably get a P and not doing it doesn’t mean you fail the unit (eg I remember Monash CompSci, you had to be marked on the roll in like 80% of your tutorials or you’d fail) then I’d be skipping that shit.
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Ah, I see. Pesky honours.
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Yeah no, I’m in the same boat, doing honours this year. So much joy! And by joy, I mean homework. Lots and lots of homework.
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Criminals, by nature, are a cowardly and superstitious lot. To instill fear into their hearts, I became a bat. A monster in the night. And in doing so, have I become the very thing that all monsters become – alone?
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Dont worry – I hear some people do the weird stuff.
*chorus* We do the weird stuff! *chorus*
This is perfect for me
So they say
I guess it’s pretty okay
After years of stormy
Sailing have I finally found the bay-
There’s no happy ending
So they say, not for me anyway
Should I stop pretending
Take the chance to build a brand new day
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This is interesting, Durango / Xbox720 specs apparently detailed (via someone on Twitter, probably Notoriousaur?)
I don’t know the first thing about the technology, it’s just exciting to have new consoles!
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The only problem I see is ‘always on net connection’. While I’m only rarely not connected to the net, it’s still frustrating that any possible line problems can effect the gaming. And then there are people who can’t connect consoles to the net for whatever reason. Sigh.
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The always-on internet seems very odd to me. I doubt that’s the case. Otherwise it looks very plausible to me. Especially the fact that it’s got a bluray drive. We’re not remotely ready for a no-media console this generation. Maybe next one, but the thing is that people still like to be able to touch a physical object.
The cries of OMG NO NOT INTEGRATED KINECT are stupid. What they say is that they’re dedicating a core on the main hardware to kinect processing. Right now, the kinect sensor itself has a chip in it to do that, moving it to an actual CPU core will give it a massive power boost and hopefully fidelity as well (plus tied into the GPU for all sorts of interesting things). The sensor itself will still be separate, but probably a lot less bulky.
Dunno about the two GPUs thing. Seems a bit odd. Maybe they’re going to have a low power one for movies / TV and a high-power one for Games? Or some kind of processing for a Wii U-style tablet? Or something to do with that crazy gaming helmet patent? Who knows. That bit seems like it might be something lost in the chinese whispers to me, it seems like overkill. Two mid-range GPUs instead of one bigger one seems like wasted heat and wattage, but maybe it means they can die shrink a few times in the future and the heat & power savings would be more significant.
*note: I have zero inside knowledge on this. I don’t work on anything related to Xbox. Just speculating.
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Only if both GPUs are used at once. If it’s smart enough to know to engage one or the other when beginning a specific task then you wouldn’t see a problem. The article says the GPUs are *not* in Crossfire. So obviously they’re being used for separate tasks. A low-power and a high-power one is the only configuration that would make sense to me in that case.
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So you’re implying a GPU specific to the Kinect? Eww.
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‘Twas I indeed. And I am also excited to hear news about the next gen of consoles, but the worrying trend in all the runours is that they’re going to be using some kind of barbaric anti-piracy/anti-used game mechanism, which is only going to affect the paying customer even more than it should.
Although, if one console does implement such a thing, and the other doesn’t, it’ll make a killing in sales I reckon.
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Everything looks OK to me except the always on connection thing.
The similarities in the rumoured specs of both the XBOX 720 and the PS4 makes me hopeful that the two companies are working together in some capacity tech wise. The 720 being rumoured to have Blu ray means Microsoft approached Sony at some point-although I assume that the console and blu-ray departments might be different at Sony. Any way that’s not important. The important thing is, if the consoles are similar it is easier for developers to work with both platforms ensuring platform parity for all games.
The competitive advantages for Sony and Microsoft would be in their online stores(XBLA $ PSN),Motion based peripherals or possible changes in their controllers (screens perhaps?)
Hi all! Am home now, but will not be reading through 6 pages of TAY before bed time.
GOT TROLLED AT DICK SMITH ADELAIDE TODAY. NOTHING WAS DISCOUNTED. Staff had no idea what was going on 🙁
Did anyone else have more luck? E.g. any MS points to distribute? 🙂
For the Sunday TAYbies who might have missed it, this is how my weekend went: http://shanewsmith.com/blog/2012/04/my-oz-comic-con-experience/
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Holy cow! 110 sales from working solo in a booth. That’s crazy good. Also, I wish Jewel Staite didn’t disappear into oblivion, Kaylee was one of my favourites in Firefly 🙁
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Next time you do one of these I’ll come in cosplay and do kung fu and make EVERYONE buy ALL THE COPIES.
…maybe.
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I’m going to throw my Fez in with this offer. We could do awesome flying jump kicks and whatnot to impress the crowd.
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The nickname suggests a fez with no owner. The fact that you are currently with said fez does not, in fact, suggest ownership.
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*grabs fez and runs*
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Wait, why is my reply box all the way down here again. I was going to comment that your blog redesign is all screwy with the margins but now I’m not sure
Congrats on an successful con
Remember how last week (or the week before – it’s all a blur) some of you guys were lamenting about being friend zoned?
I’m joining the club.
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Ha ha ha.
You guys, surely you know that the secret is to never grow any attachment to anything.
Easy.
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Is that how you refer to your partner?
Harsh man, harsh.
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Ye-…no!
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This cake is confused. Do you not have a boyfriend?
However, I, Cakesmith, mayor of the friend zone, humbly welcome you.
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I do. But it doesn’t mean the universe won’t be like “HERE’S AN AWESOME GUY WITH EVERY DESIRABLE QUALITY. WATCH AS HE SHOWS NO INTEREST IN YOU”.
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Possibly. But I’m more plain and he looks like that dude who plays Jim in The Office (US) and Clark Kent had a baby. So I went with ‘friend zone’.
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WOMEN.
WHAT’S WITH THAAAAAT?
*seinfeld theme plays*
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MY OVARIES MADE ME DO IT.
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Sorry about that,. Don’t worry, Batgirl always comes out on top.
Personally I don’t have any zones, friend or otherwise, at the moment
#sadandlonely 🙁
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It’s more just a frustrating school girl crush where you no nothing is going to come of it but you dwell anyway.
Also, I remember hearing about people paying people to attend their events. This might be something to look into. Or go to your next nearest TAY meat 😛 Awesome people there.
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Sad to hear that.
My advice last week was RSVP.com.
Still stands. Not now obviously. But when you feel a little better.
*hugses
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I claim to know nothing about people, but surely he was just being respectful. Also isn’t it a little hurtful to wish someone wanted to be with you when you aren’t available. It’s kind of cruel to both parties. Just my opinion though.
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Yeah, I get what you’re saying. Like I said, silly little crush really. I would probably feel guilty if he actually did end up interested in me like that but seeing as that won’t happen I can day dream a little 😛
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Also, I’ve clearly seen too many movies.
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Fair enough , I was just saying what I thought, like mr prince charming may feel the same. He just doesn’t want to insult you by making a move. People and in particular people with low self esteem tend to think they are being friend zoned, I personally think this is rubbish,. If you like these people clearly they are probably not dicks and wouldn’t want to lead you on. Just because these people become the object of our desire, we tend to focus on their actions and make more of what they say and what they do then what was really happening. All I am saying is friend zoning is usually a result of mis communication. So if you really do like this fella it might be nice to inform all parties that are involved 🙂
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I think I like it better as it being a day dream. Without saying too much things seem to be quite stale and tense with my guy lately so it just helps thinking there’s an option if it doesn’t work out. I’ve been with the same dude for 3 years, first and only bf so it’s like “Shit. What if this ends?”.
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Far be it from me to play relationship councillor. But maybe just talking about what you are going through with your bf might be the best option. He is probably of a similar opinion and maybe you guys can work through the staleness.
#intrusivedoctorphilwhohasneverexperiencedthisshit
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You’re being far too sensible Rocket, this is worrying.
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It’s different things that we fight about now but at it’s very core it stems from the same issue we’ve been dealing with for a year now. So yeaaaaah. Anyway, enough of this. TAY is a happy place!
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I just know I’m going to wake up in the morning and be like “GAH! Why did I write all that?!”
…it never happened, okay? 😛
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*hugs*
staleness does happen. I am not sure how people work through it. I know I don’t handle it well, but there are lots of married people on TAY, some of whom seem to have all that stuff figured out.
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PS batgirl, I think it’s okay to have crushes even if you are in a relationship. You still remain who you are essentially, even whilst in a relationship. The true measure of your faithfulness is whether you act on your impulses.
another thing i forgot about devil may cry, it’s ball breakingly hard, especially after a long break since i’ve played the games…
first boss in the game killed me in about 5 seconds
WHICH ALSO MADE ME THINK
the devil may cry series is much harder than dark souls, because yes dark souls is hard, and involves some strategy, you can still grind and level up to help beat enemies, in devil may cry, if you suck , you suck, sure there are extra skills to purchase, but they only complicate things more….
reminds me of hearing somewhere in a video about how there is a difference between the player getting better at the game, than the avatar they are playing getting better, in one it is just the game pretending you are getting better, but in reality you stay the same skill level, instead of teaching the player HOW to play the game better, and making the player learn how to get better.
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I wouldn’t say it’s much harder. All I’ve played of DMC are the demo of 4, and a few bits and pieces of others that I’ve played here and there.
I didn’t find them hard. This could just be me, but what I play of that type of “Hard” game, always clicks with me. Ninja Gaiden is the same.
Dark Souls though? Nope. I have spent god knows how long grinding in that game. I found a spot that was optimal for it, and I ran it repeatedly.
Do you know what difference it made? It meant I killed things in two less attacks, and I died in one more. Most of what the grinding did, was taught me more of the rhythm of the game.
Also, grinding really falls off as a strategy once you reach certain points.
First impressions are that Trine 2 is really good. So far I like Zoya the best. Does the wizard have an actual attack, or am I just doing it wrong?
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The Wizard didn’t have an attack in the first one, so maybe not (though you could conjure blocks above enemies to squash them).
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This may even inspire me to go to a real cinema and mix with real people in order to see it.
I’ve only been once in the last 5 years or so (could be longer – when was Howl’s Moving Castle?) and that was last year. Only went as part of the “Please get your father out of the house so we can get everything ready for his surprise Birthday party” plan.-
I enjoy going to the cinema. I generally go once a week. There’s just something about it.
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You know, after I typed ‘this would be a nice movie night with friends movie’ I asked myself what if we watch this movie together as TAY. It’s releasing in July so that gives as time to plan and TAYbies in each major city can watch it together. What do you guys think?
Also it is fate that this should happen because the movie is called TED, which is spelled with the letters T, E, and D. These letters form the acronym T.E.D which stands for:
TAY’s Entertainment Day
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I think something was being planned in Melbourne at least for TAYbies to go watch The Dark Knight Rises together.
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But my acronym? Why would you make me cry Cakesmith? why?
I guess T.E.D can become . T.D.K.R which could stand for TAY’s Day of Kool and Radical.
We need a new acronym, Batman heeeelp!!
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Haha, sorry, I just re-read my comment and yeah, it came across as a bit rude. I didn’t mean it to /o\
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It’s OK mate. Whatever happens I’m sure we’ll all have fun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfEfM-MnTGc
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ACMI exhibit thing, Parma dinner, TDKR in IMAX.
That’s the plan.
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Sign me up already
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Oh man I could totes go see that in my local theatre with taybies. Except the movie won’t be in the local cinema for 16 years and nobody lives near me.
We should be obnoxious and ad-lib the entire film.
RUIN THE EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYONE ELSE
You remind me why we are friends every timeyoupost stuff
Because you tricked me into signing a friendhsip contract valid for 3 years??
Looks OK. Doesn’t seem like a ‘go out to the cinema’ type movie to me. It seems perfect for a movie night with friends though.
Also it seems Mila Kunis and Mark Walhberg are back together in the same movie after Max Payne. I could never find Mila Kunis believable as a badass in Max Payne. She seems suited for romantic roles like in friends with benefits and Ted.
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Posted this on the previous page but it seems more useful here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfEfM-MnTGc
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx1PXKoYlI0&feature=fvwrel
I need to watch Spongebob now.
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Disregard. Found Party of Five on youtube.
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Have you not ever seen Party of Five? It was the best drama of the 90s.
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I have not. I was too busy watching cartoons which I’ve started downloading over the past few weeks.
Pinky and the Brain
Rugrats
Aaah! Real Monsters
Hey Arnold!
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Catdog, Angry Beavers? 🙁
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Ah Catdog! I’ll add it to the list!
I’ve had Angry Beavers on my computer for years so I forgot to mention it haha.
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You win Cake smith. Spongebob is super awesome.
I’ll counter with this though http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr2iQ96em2w&list=FL8eSk12mS8yLftoyqb_GyfQ&index=3&feature=plpp_video
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Too many links on the bottom of last page and this page but I’m glad I randomly clicked that one 🙂
I think I’ve seen it before but it gets better and better when you start recognising more things!
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That was awesome.
Made me think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHisd9P2M-Y Which is odd, as they’re rather different.
Just got my copy of 3D Classics: Kid Icarus – this is a bit exciting.
On the DS Sale – I got The Force Unleashed – the rest of the games were the same crap that seems to turn up in every bargain bin (ie: old sports games and new Kinect ones!)
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Yeah it is the 3D Classics Remake I got (you get it free if you registered two games before end of march yada yada) It’s one of the best remakes of an 8 bit game I’ve ever seen because they spruced it up with 32 bit back grounds and with the 3D effect it just pops off the screen. It’s pretty much standard fare for the time (run, jump and shoot) so it makes sense that they turned the new one into a 3rd Person Shooter which is the most prevalent format these days!
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Indeed. guess I have to sleep now. Late night TAY has worn me out. Goodnight cakesmith and all TAYbies awake at this hour.
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@AlexPants – bestest thang evar! I first got mentioned on Bish’s cookie fiasco and I randomly stumbled upon that tumblr (tales of TAY?) but my one wasn’t good enough to be featured there okay.jpg
@Blaghman – bestest zombie movie evar!!
@People responding to my annoying Marketing Research crap. I’m amazing and have a 75% average : D. I’d like to maintain it but it’s highly unlikely and I don’t know how it got that high in the first place considering I do barely any work…
@Jugsy (I had Batgirl written out but meh. doesn’t have the same ring to it!) – friendzoned? but you have a boyfriend? 😛
something something women! something seinfeld bass riff something
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It was my audition piece for Jamie Watt’s zombie film!*
*Not really, that would be silly. My favourite part is at the end, when I quote Pyramus’s death monologue from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I fear that it may have been lost on people, though not really, as so few people have watched it. I also got quite sick of saying “Brains.”
Oh, and if something you’ve done hasn’t appeared on Tales of TAY, dredge up a copy, and tell Harli. She’ll probably put it up.
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Oh, I didn’t write/do anything, I was just briefly mentioned in one 😛
Brains brains brains brains, brains brains. Brains etc. etc.
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Yeah, right, that makes sense. Shut up, I’m tired.
It was really hard to pretend to read the script at that point, because back then I knew the part off by heart, anyway. Silly Drama, teaching me useless skills(I can also do the extended 5th of November poem at a stretch).
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Cannot wait for friday, then I can get a normal amount of sleep. Also I can finally have time to play Journey. It makes me sad that I bought it on launch and haven’t had the time to play it 🙁
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Yea, even if the game could be done in one sitting, That’s the type of game you don’t want to rush. Also, Long weekend!!! w00t w00t
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Yep, i definitely want to sit there and play it all in one go. And not think about anything, especially homework.
Also, i’m just looking forward to having a weekend, last weekend was swallowed up by homework. It’s all I do know, the only games I’ve played this week are world of goo and cut the rope (i restarted it, again) on my iPad.
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Do what i did, let your future self worry about homework. Your current self can enjoy video games.
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I hate past self. He’s such a jerk, leaving all this work for current self. And future self is kind of a cool guy, i don’t want to give him too much work!
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My ozgameshop order has been sitting there with a status of “being picked” for almost a week now.
Frustrating.
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I like to think the guy has two copies in his hand and umming and ahhing which is the better to send.
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Nah he has to chose the perfect box to suit the game.
Worker: “How about this box sir?”
Boss: “…that box … THAT …. BOX. WHY DON’T WE JUST WRAP IT UP IN GARBAGE AND SEND IT LIKE THAT, HUH, IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?”
Worker: “uh sir, with all due respect, it’s just a box”
Boss: “JUST … A … BOX? THIS IS A BEACON OF HOLY LIGHT WE ARE BRINGING INTO SOMEONE’S LIFE. SO EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE ME FOR WANTING TO FIND THE RIGHT MOTHER %^&*ING BOX. NOW GET THE HELL OUT OF MY SIGHT AND DON’T RETURN UNTIL YOU FIND THE RIGHT GODDAMN BOX”
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Did it say that the product has additional waiting time? I had that happen on Dragon Age and it was “Being picked” for about 5 days.
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I’d send ’em an e-mail.
I know from the time I order to the time they ship does take at least a couple of days though.
Already posted this on twitter, but would also like everyones opinion. A dell u2412m is on sale for $280, yay or nay? Was thinking i might get 2 and dual screen it up.
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They look quite sweet if i hadn’t spent a absurd amount on my current monitor with terrible specs i definitely would of pick one of these up. You suck local harvey norman.
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TBH apart from being IPS LCD, seems a bit expensive for a 24″
I’m not a fan of Dell either so that probably doesn’t help but for that price you can get 23″ Samsung 3D monitors (if you like that sort of thing) or 24″ Samsung 2ms monitor for $205.
Seems like $200 is the current price point for a good fast 24″
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Right so the Dell is 1920×1200 as opposed to full HD 1920×1080
But I dunno if those extra 120 pixles are worth $80…. Up to you I guess.
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I really need to clear off the dining table so I can work on the quilt I’m making but it has 3 months of accumulated crap from all four of us and I’m so scared of what I’ll find that I just can’t motivate myself.
Hmm…school holidays. Maybe I’ll just bribe my daughter to do it. That’s what kids are for, isn’t it? 😛
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Step one: Extend hand until arm is completely straight.
Step two: Place extended arm at one end of table.
Step three: In one, deft motion, push arm along length of table. Making a special noise is optional but recommended (I am particularly fond of ‘SWOOOSH’)
Step four: Enjoy clean table!
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You french people and your cleaning methods in Australia we bribe our spawn to do our dirty work mate, struth, tuckerbox.
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I like you! You have the best plans.
Oh, wait. I know for a fact there’s a ton of pins and other sharp things buried in there somewhere, could get ouchy.
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Best solution!
Although I may have to say “SWOOOSH”, as well. That was the best part of Pez’s plan.
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Does anyone know if any shop is selling the DMC HD collection with a bonus T-shirt or some other kind of bonus thing? I’m pretty bummed I missed out on the MGS HD collection with the shirt.
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I bought the Ltd Ed MGS set and haven’t opened it yet. Funds are tight, so would be looking to sell it, brand new. Email me if interested. shane at shanewsmith dot com – I will give a good price. Or can just sell you the T-shirt…?
Mornin TAY!
Managed to clear another area of collectables on my stupid over the top quest to 100% Just Cause 2.
Also, who here has/is interested in playing some Terrarrarrarrarrarraria at some point? I’m thinking we need to get a multi server running and build some epic stuff…oh, and spelunking. Lots of spelunking
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I am going to wear my rocketboots and my molten armour and run around not helping anyone with anything.
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It’s like a creepy nature version of Spiderman 😀
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I wonder if my stone age computer could handle that game, it looks like it should have low requirements. I shall have to look into this further, or maybe one day buy a new computer.
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so theres a kid a work who has taken to tagging the desks in the library. this is annoying. but at the same time, a little bit funny, coz his tag, written in that near-indecipherable, look-how-awesomely-ghetto-I-am way, is nothing but the word ‘MOIST’
hardcore man. totally hardcore.
but the moron has just returned a book with his stupid tags all through it. did he not realise that tagging a book on loan to him means we know who he is? oh well, next time he’s in just means I get to inform him in front of his mates that if he’s got a moisture problem, he’s gonna have to sit where staff can see him at all times.
tl;dr some people are idiots & calling em on this is entertaining.
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embarrasing a teenager in front of his friends is the only thing that will always be more effective than fire.
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Embarrass him with fire!
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Take him into a dark room and beat him with a book. Old style. Little shit he is needs a good smack up the head. I would recommend the Oxford Dictionary. May also improve his vocabulary.
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I order parts for work from about 50 different suppliers and when stuff is not there it is somehow my fault for not mindreading. That is not my problem. The dispatch guy is on a mission to make sure that all the systems we had before are now null and void and his system will rule the day. I would be fine with this except for the fact that he comes to my dwsk every 10 minutes plonks stuff there and says “fix it”. I previously have had no grievances with him he seems like a nice dude. But the fact remains i have been here 4 years to his 8 months. I hate confrontation and i really don’t want to tell him to bugger off and fix it himself but at the same time he is annoying the hell out of me.
First world problems.
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We have the same problem at my work new manager decides he wants to be all efficient and change all the procedures for a system he doesnt even understand. Plus nobody likes him since he completely ruined the really friendly and matey atmosphere that was there and we seem to get less work done now since everyone sits there being silent and zombie like.
Why is it that when ever someone new who is put in charge comes along that they always stuff up the perfect procedures yet never fix them ones that need fixing.
http://shanewsmith.com/blog/
Does this look weird to anyone else? Can someone tell me what’s gone wrong??
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Adelaide was pretty much this: (Copied from manky blog entry: http://shanewsmith.com/blog/2012/04/my-oz-comic-con-experience/ )
I am sitting at a very smelly LAN cafe typing this on a computer that runs Windows XP and has a mouse with a tracking ball. Plus side, it’s right next door to my hotel and the sticky keyboard keys encourage me to check all my spelling.
I have just finished a two-day stint in the Artist Alley at Oz Comic-Con. I am exhausted, and I’ve had almost nothing to eat for two days, and not a single moment off, but I have come pretty much straight in here to write down my experiences, for fear that time will dull them.
This weekend was a string of firsts for me:
* First time in Adelaide
* First time participating in a comic convention.
* First time at a convention, period.
* First time I’ve seen a complete stranger pick up one of my books and look at itBecause I was by myself at the table, I didn’t get to leave to wander around the convention, but you could see at a glance how overwhelmingly successful the event was. I think the end tally was somewhere in the vicinity of 19,000 visitors over the weekend, more than twice the anticipated number!
I had never seen anything like it before. The costumes were insane and prolific and the rest of the Goyder pavilion was just wall-to-wall geekery. The kind of thing that made me simultaneously sad and somewhat relieved to be confined to my Artist Alley table.
I got to meet a few of my contemporaries over the weekend. I was seated next to a con veteran on one side who was trying to offload some old stock. He was friendly and good-natured, but seemed a little jaded by the whole con experience… at least when compared to my doe-eyed naivete. On the other side was apparently another con virgin, but I’m not exactly sure what he was selling (I am guilty of poor listening). He was away from his table for almost the entire weekend and had only a handful of business cards and a banner to let people know he was there.
The convention staff and volunteers were all extra-friendly folks who were more than happy to help out where needed. For example, I couldn’t leave the table to pursue the autographs I wanted (Ben Browder and Bill Farmer), but all I had to do was notify the relevant volunteers, and they got the autographs on my behalf! I didn’t need any help setting up my stall in Artist’s Alley, but I could see them helping out others at very short notice. And all weekend, I could see them rushing around like mad, working extra hard to deal with the unanticipated flow of customers.
In terms of my own stall, I read the excellent Artist Alley Survival Guide about thirty million times in the last couple of months, and the most excellent advice contained in it was this:
* Don’t sit at your table; stand. You’re more approachable.
* Don’t be mute. Talk to people, ask them how their day’s going.
* As soon as you have their attention, give them something they can hold/flick through while you talk with them.This advice made me a marketing machine (though once or twice, the “have a look” ploy was misheard as “have a book” and I had to move fast to avoid stock walking away!)
At least half of my sales came from talking to people who obviously had no intention of stopping. My rule of thumb was thus. One second eye contact, or two seconds looking at the table, and I’d say “Hi.” If they looked at me, I’d continue “How is your weekend?” If they smiled/spoke, I’d hold out a copy of my book: “Want to take a look?”
Unbelievably powerful. I feel almost guilty! But no one looked upset or ripped-off; I think they were genuinely pleased to have picked up a decent quality graphic novel for $8… something I guess doesn’t happen too often around these parts.
It was quite an exhilarating day. I found myself watching people intensely as they picked up The Lesser Evil curiously, turned it over, flicked through it, raised their eyebrows, murmured wonderful things like “Wow, that looks good” and then decided to take a chance. When I noticed myself staring, I tried to cut it down a little, but I have to admit, it was pretty cool watching complete strangers come over to check out my work.
One fellow took a brochure early in the day, read through it at some point while standing in line elsewhere, came back to my stall and told me that he was thoroughly intrigued by what I’d written in the brochure. He walked away with two books under his arm!
Another man bought a book from me, read part of it while in line elsewhere and came back specifically to tell me that he had greatly enjoyed what he had read so far. Brushing praise aside and shooting for the moon, I shamelessly sold him a copy of The Lesser Evil Volume 2.
One interesting thing is that people tended to assume that my book must be self-published (a natural assumption given that I was there by myself in the booth, pimping a single book). One lady apologised as soon as she’d asked the question; she was so embarrassed, but of course, I laughed it off. It was kind of fun telling people that I’d gotten published the traditional way, and in a sense, the repetition made the truth and the accomplishment that much more real to me.
After the first day, I’d sold nearly half of all my books, but almost none of my prints. I spent most of the night tossing and turning over different possibilities and decided in the end that it would be a good idea to start offering the prints as free incentives to purchase (i.e. buy a book, get a print).
The pub I was staying in had a loud band on until about 11 (of course, it was Saturday night, so I don’t really blame them), so I took a walk around the general vicinity. Jesus, Adelaide is beautiful. I want to live here now. For serious.
Day Two: I had a splitting headache from a very poor night’s sleep, but still felt happy, optimistic.
The free print idea went over like Gangbusters (which I have been led to believe is a good thing). In the end I managed to pass off more advertising masquerading as prints, and every single book I had left in stock. It would be near impossible to describe the sheer scope of the triumph I felt when I realised that I was going home with an empty suitcase (I had feared the opposite). It was an incredible feeling, and indescribable.
I was pulled away from my table for ten minutes for a whirlwind reunion/meet with a number of Adelaide Browncoats, and a photo with Jewel Staite. Can’t wait to see the photo, and it was great to catch up with everyone, if only for a moment! Yet another example of the intoxicating positive atmosphere I found myself in.
A girl at the next table was doing ‘draw you as a zombie’ sketches for passersby, and was so busy that she frequently had to turn people away. At the end of the con, she asked if I’d be at the next Oz Comic-Con in Melbourne in June/July. Of course, I can’t make it as Katie is due to give birth to little Liam around that time…
… but at some point during that conversation, it dawned on me just how charmed a life I am leading. I’m twenty-six, but I already have a wife and one-point-five children, a house, a mortgage, and a solid foothold into my lifelong dream via a published book that I can promote, sell and bask in. I have financial security sufficient to make a trip like this one to Adelaide feasible, but not so much as to eliminate the thrill of risk from the venture. Everything about my life just felt so right at that moment, and I hope that I will remember it forever.
I really am very lucky.
On the way to Adelaide, I had a panic attack (a real panic attack – I’ve never had one before. It was damn scary). All I could foresee was doom and gloom for this trip, for my writing career in general, and with the appropriate consequences for my overall happiness in general. I wanted Katie to help me, I wanted to be home, I wished I’d never even written the book to begin with…
But now I’m glad I went. Even though my theshold for success was low (don’t fail miserably), I think this was an important rite of passage for me. A professional challenge that put me well outside my comfort zone, stripped me of all familiar buffers (Canberra and Katie, mainly) and threw me out into the lion’s den, to sink or swim (mixed metaphor). It was a big risk, financially and professionally, and placed additional burdens on my family that I regret, but overall I am very proud of myself for going to Oz Comic-Con and I am even prouder that I managed to succeed at selling 110 copies of my book to a large number of complete strangers.
I even took pre-orders for the unreleased Volume 3!
Incredibly touched and inspired by the events of this weekend, I’m feeling a new confidence in myself, and in my writing.
People are reading my work.
People actually want to read it.
People want to spend money on it (and even at a convention where they have already spent their year’s worth of fun money!).[Sorry to everyone I know who’s already bought a copy, but if I’m being honest, I have never been able to shake the feeling that you bought my book out of obligation (I truly love you for your devotion, by the way).]
Even though financially, I don’t think I even reached the break-even stage (though it was a close call), I consider Oz Comic-Con Adelaide to be a resounding success for me (possibly even as much for me as it was for itself!)
So: Oz Comic-Con 2013, watch out! And bring your wallets: I’ll be back.
TL;DR: I am happy, and feel like as far as my writing career is concerned, the sky is the limit! I’m not stopping. Ever.
PS: There might be photos. I didn’t have a camera, but several folks photographed me and promised to send me copies via email!
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Even though I know you’re not asking for sympathy or clarification I’m gonna tell you something anyway.
Just to make it clear I don’t read and buy your things out of obligation because I like you, you should probably know that I get very little money that’s just for me, to spend how I wish. So little that I would never waste it on obligatory purchases. I only buy things I think will be worthwhile with it. And your books are definitely worthwhile. So there. 😛 -
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Great to hear it went well, and glad to hear you didn’t have to employ the capsicum spray.
It’s amazing how liberating getting out of your comfort zone can be, especially when the results are satisfying, and didn’t in fact signal the end of the world! I know that feeling, and should endeavour to get out of my comfort zone more often.
It’s just so damn…. comfy.
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Dude, I am quite jelly of you making it all happen with your creative pursuits. You’re an inspiration to us all 😀
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Dear Shane
I will Be the first to admit that I did in fact buy your book because you were a friend i wanted to help and the thought of having a book being written by a friend was cool. If that was the case i would probably just bought the first book and leave it on my shelf. But I read and enjoyed the story you were telling which is why i bought the second book from book depository a week ago. It wasn’t through some obligation, it was because you are a terrific writter and weave a good tale. -
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Your text is aligned to the left border of the layout doodad even though the whitespace that it should be appearing starts further across the page.
You should change the leather bound journal thingy to a background element.
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Or edit it so that it lines up. Or just fix the alignment on the text column.
I don’t know. I’m not good at solving these problems :p
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the .entry class & your paragraph elements have left borders & padding set to 0px
bear in mind my knowlege of CSS is a bit amateur at the best of times
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Hi Shane!
I told all the people who I know in Adelaide to hunt you down and buy stuff so I hope they did!
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Wouldn’t that have been awkward if they heard the “hunt you down” bit and not the “and buy stuff” bit 😛
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I’ll find out if they bought stuff. If they didn’t I will send them a strongly worded letter like I did for Batgirl re: her Uni being derp.
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Also Shane, if one was to buy your book from somewhere which one would you recommend? (ie: which one gives YOU the most money?)
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Or buy from Shane for a signed copy!
I think you missed out on the special typo edition though 😉
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hehe calcium intake is usually most effecting when you get it in your mouth.. wearing the milk will do nothing for your bone density!
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I did.
Then I rubbed it into my skin so I wouldn’t get the hose again.
WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO LET ME OUT OF THIS HOLE.
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Yesterday I get a massive pile of new games, today my morning lecture gets called off (so now I go in at 12:30). If I can find 10 dollars today, my day will be complete.
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I have the blue page numbers, but not the old reply buttons.
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Huh… my Firefox is doing the whole “Refreshes page and ‘Reply to X’ at the bottom of the page” again. Restarted browser and it’s still doing it.
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I’ve got the same on Chrome
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Yeah, replying has definitely been changed back to how it was.
Dang.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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They do look out of place. I still think that should be pink. I mean, all our links are pink and the numbers are also a link so why not?
Yup.
The font sucks again 🙁
He should really test the layout on a Windows computer before pushing it out.
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My font was never fixed :'(
Oh and now I’m getting the ‘Kotaku logo’ picture for all of the Gizmodo and Lifehacker pages at the bottom.
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Maybe you had the font installed but it isn’t a default font on my computer, so I get this weird thing that looks like it’s zoomed out with terrible kerning.
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I think it looks terrible too. It looks like it’s out of focus to me.
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Hrrrngh,
Bought a HP laptop cheap through our employee purchase program (and by cheap I mean I paid 2/3 of the price), only to be told 9 days later OH HEY IT’S OUT OF STOCK HERE’S ANOTHER THAT IS PRETTY MUCH EXACTLY THE SAME DO YOU WANT IT?
Shouldn’t be bitching, but the delivery time on these is 10-14 days. Seeing as they have to now do it all over again it’s going to take another 10-14 days.
How does it take someone 9 days to find out a laptop is out of stock?
/rant
So Hotmail appears to advertising nothing but dating sites to me these days. This has progressively gotten worse. They used to occasionally advertise domain dot com dot au and the like.
Today, I find an ad for an over 50’s dating site.
I am 31, and I am now officially sad.
Comments are like moments, fleeting and disappearing in a instant. Code for where the feth are my comments going.
@Shane: Loops was looking for that MGS collection. Not sure if he found it yet though. And if you can’t find a buyer I’ll happily pay for that shirt.
gahh, Just got a paper cut. Man it’s bleeding so much.
If “The pen is mightier then the sword” then “The Paper is mightier then the pen”
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Paper cuts are deceptive. Just a tiny little nick between your fingers? OH MY GOD THE PAIN! THERE’S BLOOD EVERYWHERE!
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IKR, I was getting some documents ready to send away and now there covered in blood =/
Need to recollect them all together again now.
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Just send them covered in blood with a note on the front: “I PUT A LOT OF BLOOD AND SWEAT INTO COLLECTING THESE DOCUMENTS”
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Oh man, this girl at work was yanking a bit of paper out from under a file a few months ago and whipped the paper into her eye, giving herself an EFFIN EYE PAPERCUT. I would have killed myself had it happened to me.
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Being a programmer by trade, work has decided to send me down to Brisbane next week (10th) to assist with a server install. Doesn’t make much sense but free travel! I’m only down for one night (staying at Toowong) and don’t know if it would be possible to try organise a mini-meat of some kind but thought I’d throw it out there to see if anyone wanted to drink meat somewhere.
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I’m staying at Toowong but unfortunately I think the data center our servers are located is based out at Kenmore. I am willing to travel though (if trains/buses are running).
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Brisbane is a major city. The buses tend to run during peak hours on Tuesdays :p
I think you’d probably only be about ten minutes away from somewhere reasonably central.
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Staying at the Jephson Hotel in Toowong. Looks like it’s pretty close to central Brisbane.
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You’re pretty close to most of the action then.
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Depending on what time, I’d prolly be down with that. I have a doc appointment on the northside at 4pm, so I could swing by Toowong on my way home
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I will have more info closer to next week as to how late I will be working etc. I’m staying with a work-mate who will probably be keeping an eye on me so can’t do anything to wild. A few beers at a pub sounds good to me?
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@NotoriousR: Dell U2412M is not a good monitor. It’s a budget 24″, the U2410 was a far better 24″ and the price of those reflects it.
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What are the key differences? The premier color thing, but is that it? Or build quality and stuff like that?
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Shitty backlight, lower quality, way less inputs (the 2410 is loaded with them) and poorer color reproduction (around 80% sRGB gamut vs 100%). Slower response time I think as well. But about $500 cheaper.
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Used to be the only thing to get me out of bed in the morning.
*tears up*
I miss you Cheeze-Tv….
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Amen, brother.
We should have a Cheez TV farewell at some point.
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No.
Aggro’s cartoon connection.
I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
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Aggro’s did have The Bot’s Master and Samurai Pizza Cats I suppose. I used to watch both until Aggro’s became the Big Breakfast or whatever it was.
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You’d better not be talking shit about the snorks, son. >:(
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Any one that dares to venture into the BioWare forums know if Chris Priestly has given any updates about the Mass Effect 3 patch eta? There’s no freakin’ way I’d risk going into spoiler/rant central myself. Just coming up to a month since ME3 was released and still no character import patch has me anxious to play the damn thing. Is that too much to ask, BioWare? *sobs* 😛
Man, that Rayman Origins. Soooo good.
I’ve been at it fairly solidly for a month and it’s still showing me new things. Haven’t even finished it yet. And when you go back to earlier levels it encourages you to replay them to try and get a high score or to finish it quickly. When you focus on one of those objectives, you see how well designed this game is. Some of the high-score challenges are incredibly well thought out puzzles and are really challenging. And doing a speed run of a level changes it completely and you start to see them as well laid out Sonic-like levels.
I can’t believe how much content they’ve put into this. I think I’ll be playing it for a very long time indeed.
So excited for the “Ubi Art” tech they used in this game.
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I’ve been awfully tempted by this on Vita. I know it lacks the multiplayer aspect, but that doesnt bother me. Watched a trailer for it and looks insanely well made, and a lot of fun.
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The multiplayer is a massive part of the reason I love it. My wife sits down and plays with me, which for us is incredibly amazing. She never plays games but has gotten into this one. For that reason alone I will always be grateful to Ubisoft Montpellier for making it.
Not having friends with you makes the high-score challenges harder, because you risk your life a lot of the time to get a hard to reach coin and if a friend is there they can respawn you without having to start the section again. There is also a huge amount of fun in running through the levels together.
But there is a lot to offer the singleplayer as well. The speed runs, for example, are actually easier with one person because quite frankly the other person can hold you back!
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Yeah man, I got Rayman for the Vita and it is so amazing. It’s so underrated that it actually annoys me that more people don’t know about it.
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Holy carp, Wikipedia cites a Kotaku Brazil article from April 2 stating that there is going to be a Rayman Origins 2 late this year and we’ll hear more at E3!
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Man, I just finished it about a week ago.
Sooooooo satisfying.
I’m not 100% yet, but I just need time away from it so I don’t end up getting sick of it.
Probably my favourite game I’ve played with year.
I’m sorry to bring this up again. ^^;;
But facebook really is a horrendous site.
Dick Smith employees are posting the goods they bought online and trolling the customers.
Um, this is terrible customer service. In fact, it’s beyond terrible.
Their employees are terrible people. =/
If I was in their situation I only would have taken 1 of what I wanted and that’s it. I would not brag about it on the internet or sell it on eBay. I felt bad because I managed to get stuff and my cousins didn’t. I offered to lend them any of my games, but they declined.
It’s…it’s just poor. It’s like eating in front of a starving person.
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A workable solution is to stay away from cesspits like Facebook comments and YouTube comments. Just talk to us, Scree. We’re nice people. 🙂
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God, you are the- Just kidding ^^
Yeah, but I just can’t believe how they’ve handled it. It’s appalling. I mean there were lots of disappointed customers, so what do they do? Shove it in their faces. It just goes to show humans are lowest of the low
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Whatever McGarnical you don’t speak for everyone i happen to know that there are some truly terrible people in TAY.
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People are horrible and braggy dicks. Who cares if its terrible customer service. Stuff those guys just don’t buy shit from them.
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I think you’re missing the very obvious positive:
If you have their Facebook details (i.e. name), you can report them, because the official stance of DSE (apparently) was that no staff members were to purchase sale items.Vengence, anyone? 😀
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I thought there was an insane over reaction yesterday, though I understood where the anger came from — but this is just something else entirely. Why would they feel the need to do that? I regret buying my iPad from those guys now. :S
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I hate to say it but this is how life works.
Would be nice if everyone was courteous and considerate and selfless but this has never been so and never will be. Life, to a degree, is everyone for themselves.
Sure they are dicks for trolling and flogging stuff on ebay, but not for using their position as staff to pick up stuff for themselves or friends – thats just the opportunity and perks they have as staff.
I have more of an issue with people who feel entitled to the stuff that was sold and are getting angry because they did not get a slice of the pie.
Not directed at you personally Scree but /endrant-
I agree with you jo. People never have and never will be more interested in helping others as they are helping themselves. It is a survival instict that we will never grow out of.
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I agree man, I would be a hypocrite to say that holding games for a sale is wrong (my brother is a manager at Big W and he always hold stuff for me) but bragging about it on Facebook / public forums is just the pinnacle of dick-head-ery (shaddup its a real word).
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This.
People SHOULD look out for themselves, but bragging about getting stuff that other people didn’t is stupid and cruel.
My biggest problem is people that grabbed stuff specifically to resell. I could be presented a logical and fair argument about why they can, and I’ll still hate them.FYI, this is coming from someone who didn’t really want anything from the sale.
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Not surprising, I have a friend who used to work their and she said most of their entry-level staff were bottom of the barrel, one was even selling weed out the back of the store on the sly.
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If you really were sorry, you wouldn’t have brought it up. 😛
And yes, the Dick Smith employees didn’t exactly handle the situation with tact.
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I’m probably going to come off as a bit of a dick here, but I’m kind of sick of this sale nonsense. Being upset that you didn’t get some cheap stuff in the sale is incredibly entitled. This isn’t directed at you, but the general response I’ve seen to the sale is that people are pissed because they didn’t get any of the sweet deals they were never promised.
Also, people are dickbags. Straight up dickbags. Expecting anything else is setting yourself up for disappointment. They used the position they had to get what they wanted, I wouldn’t expect anything else.
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IE 😛
…hey, reply is working again!
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Yep, IE. Don’t have any other options at work, they won’t even let me use VLC portable on my USB stick 🙁
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YOU’RE WELCOME.
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I want my stories on a 45 degree angle.
IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK?
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Try Netscape. It could be crazy enough to do it.
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They still make that?
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Mine has them horizontally rather than vertically :/
Oh and it seems the new reply system is back :D!
Yeah, I noticed the “related stories” tab too. Also, replying is back to the old way, I actually liked the new way better. =(
Me no likey.
I find the tags are enough to find “related” stories. And it really slows the page down.
@Shane
Had a quick look and there is likely an easier way but what you can do is
Change the margin of your .post class to margin: 0 0 0 50px;
You will also need to change the left margin on the class navigation as well as the div respond to 50 px as well
Should get you out of trouble for the moment.
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Thanks, I really appreciate it. I did those things (I think), but it seemed to make no difference. So I reset the CSS file and put it up here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28754200/style.css
If you (or anyone else) gets a free moment, I’d really love some more help, please…
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Is that the the updated version because the change wasn’t made in that one.
I’ll see if I can have a look later today for you.
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I was a little bored last night so i was looking up some famous quotes one that just made me want to vomit was from this from Marilyn Monroe
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
I mean what the actual fuck, Is she saying that she is better than everyone else and that people have to put up with her shit because she is awesome and they should just deal with it. Seriously talk about being self entitled.
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No, she is saying she is human like everybody else and if someone can’t accept her for all her flaws they don’t deserve her for all her redeeming and good qualities.
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I agree, though it does sound VERY similar to those irritating Twitter comments that seem to trend every second day. 😛
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But the thing that gets me is everyone at one point is those things but we don’t constantly display it to people. You are probably right though, damn pez when did you get so smart 🙂
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I should get glasses if they make you smarticle. Me need it bad.
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That’s actually a fez, not glasses.
Silly Pez, misunderstanding his accessories.
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JUST YOU WAIT UNTIL THE MONOMEAT.
JUST YOU WAIT.
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But I don’t wanna wait, I want it nowwwwww!
Wait, what are we talking about?
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I tend to read that a little different. Of course MM was a diva, but this quote is basically a recipe for a healthy relationship and pretty much amounts to ‘for better or worse’
(How I read it anyway)
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The quote gets used from time to time as justification for the diva-like behaviour.
We’re all terrible people but you don’t try to celebrate that bit :p
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It doesn’t sound like something she’d say every day to every one she met, though. More likely a response to her every move being put under a microscope by the press and the public.
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I don’t necessarily thing that MM was celebrating her less than desirable qualities, but people quote her outside of whatever the original context, which means that the meaning gets deformed.
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Good point, man.
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A good point hiding behind a rather mangled sentence :p
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I am only repeating it because my older sister posted it on her facebook page which is why i was looking up famous quotes to start with :/
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Think I’ve seen it about 6 times in the last 3 months, and I don’t check Facebook more than once a fortnight…or less.
I read “I was a little bored last night so i was looking up some famous quotes one that just made me want to vomit was from this from Marilyn Monroe” and initially thought that you you were impressed by her.
Cus’ you know – you vomit on girls to let them know how you feel and all.
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I know i told you about that incident for a reason, i can’t quite remember what i hoped to gain from telling you guys. 🙂
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You gained +2 drunken bogan points with me. Not sure if they are redeemable with anyone else though.
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People think it’s an obsession. A compulsion. As if there were an irresistible impulse to act. It’s never been like that. I chose this life. I know what I’m doing. And on any given day, I could stop doing it. Today, however, isn’t that day. And tomorrow won’t be either.
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He said flapping. We don’t want to hear about your other compulsion…
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Boldfail.
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Is this going to be common batman? I mean are you just going to quote line from you appearances on film or tv ? Cause i am cool with that?
So I’ve been playing Shadows of the Damned over the past few days after getting it in the 2 for $40 bargain bin at JB. The game has some great parts, others…not so much. I haven’t actually finished the game yet (I’m a little over half way) so keep in mind that it’s entirely possible that the game may suddenly become the reincarnation of Secret of Evermore and forever be crowned my favourite game of all time. Anyway, my thoughts so far.
Apparently this game was made by some hotshots from the video game industry. I have no idea who they were or what they’ve done. So no Tim Schafer-esque free passes will be given a la every professional game review ever. That’s right, you heard me. Brutal Legend sucked and you know it.
The Good
– Characters
This game is batshit insane to put it lightly, and I really like that. They are embracing the fact that their world and characters are so over the top and running with it. No attempt is made to give anything that happens in this game a grounding in reality or even any logic whatsoever. And Kudos to them, this game would have been so boring had the characters been straight-edged demon hunters. At least now we can have funny banter with a guy who has a gun named “The Boner” This is the video game equivalent of a cheesy low budget horror-comedy B-movie from the 90s.
The Not Good
-Bosses
The bosses in this game are an exercise in tedium. Every single one so far has been killed in exactly the same way, wait for them to do their hit, dodge it, shoot the glowing red spot, over and over again. The awfulness is only compounded because every single boss is multilayered. So you’ll have to do exactly the same thing 3 times before you kill each boss.
I get that the giant red weak spots and boss stages are an intentional throwback to the days of those terrible 90s video game bosses. But you can emulate that so well that you also include the inherent terribleness. A little variety in the ways that boss fights play out wouldn’t have killed them.
Overall, the game has potential. But the gameplay is letting it down.
FYI, the other game I got was Dungeon Siege 3. The only way that game could make a worse first impression was if upon opening the case, a black mamba snake jumped out and bit continuously bit me in the beanbag as a giant Ruffleberg ass kicking robot materialized right infront of me and kicked my ass. Yes, it’s that bad.
Anyway, what have you been playing lately?
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Really you like wii games? Well i also master race it up on my PC what do you say to that sir?
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I don’t just hate consoles. Some games on the Wii have been awesome.
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I was just dicking around ruffles, i have been playing nothing recently, i am in a rut so i just browse the interwebs and waste time on Teamspeak that is what i have been playing lately. I actually do appreciate the stuff you write. It is hard not to make a joke about it though considering your track record of hating nearly everything.
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Yea, well, for the record. I play a lot of games that i enjoy. But it’s just no fun to write about those 🙂
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Appreciate your views Ruffles. I have some idea who was behind SotD and was intrigued to play it. Still not sure whether to buy it or not. I’m tempted to buy that and Just Cause 2 in the 2 for $40 box.
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Last week I was due to get up at 5am to go to the airport. I watched a SotD trailer before I went to bed and had weird nightmares for the few hours I was in bed. True story.
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No nightmares with this game, it’s pretty much a comedy
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“Apparently this game was made by some hotshots from the video game industry. I have no idea who they were or what they’ve done”
Video Game Cred: You have none.
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The only ones i’ve played are Resi 4 and Vanquish. That was one of his games, right? Both of those games are far better than this.
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I like it when you do game reviews, Ruffles. You’re like my anti-reviewer. If you’re not having fun, then I know I will. 🙂
As some of you know i have been playing this quite a while.
I really, really like it.
Although the bosses are much of the same thing, some later bosses add that you can only hit them while darkness prevails, meaning you’ve got to be quick, then get back to light.
Even though the bosses are all fairly same-y, i really enjoy them. They all fit everything so well, and, as you said, the chars are awesomely cheesy-brilliant.
The monsters are also varied well enough and the puzzle aspects later on add more depth to the game.
I’m climbing the main boss’ tower now and hope to have the game finished this week so i can start on uncharted before finally delving into ME2, along with the much anticipated Trials Evo.
If anyone has the spare $20, i don’t think this game should be passed up. The story books in the game alone make it more than worth it.
Terraria Stuff!
I’d like to find out (out of the people interested) who is willing and able to run a dedicated server for Terraria. I think the player limit can be pushed to 12, but we’d need someone with a good net connection who can have it running in the evening (with no negative impact to them) to get that far. Failing that, a listen server works, but needs the host logged in all the time.
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I ran a hamachi server before it was quite easy. There wasn’t any noticable lag with me and 3 others. But i would only run it while i was in the game.
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This will be done outside of Hamachi due to it limiting free networks to 5 people. It’s easy enough to get it working, now. In fact, clients should need to do anything, It’s just the host that needs to make sure port 7777 (default, can be changed) is open.
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Once I move into my new place I may have a fast enough connection to run both an MC and Terraria server 24/7.
That’s about a month away though, at the very least.
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Once you move into your place you’ll have the network connection to run about 40 of each of those…
Jerk.
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I was talking to Beavwa last night and he mentioned he might be bale to run one. I have no idea how any of this works though so maybe talk to him on Steam or something 🙂 (unless he sees this on TAY)
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What is good about it?
I say that to my grandma when she says good afternoon when i get home from work. She laughs and calls me melodramatic. I think i would have been a great actor. I would of made a brilliant Neville Longbottom i think -
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Oh crap i didn’t even see that, I STAND BY MY STATEMENT THAT I WOULD OF BEEN THE BEST LITTLE FAT KID ACTOR THERE EVER WAS.
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We’re veering precariously close to page 18 here.
It arrived a little early?
I hear there’s a nasal delivery system for that.
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Well, if page 18 is filthy page, page 8 is innuendo page?
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Seriously? You think I can be bothered to post as two separate entities on TAY. IT’S LIKE YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW ME.
@ LoL people!
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/mafia-graves-available-now
Riot … just take all my money please
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While a LoL thread has been opened (to prevent spamming multiple comments with LoL stuff) how close was that game last night? I think we started off with a slight advantage (I picked up oracles and our team got that double kill up top) but then started losing mid-game as we got picked off one-by-one. I learnt the hard way that Udyr isn’t naturally tanky and got caught out losing oracles like 4 times. Expensive. Was ready to surrender but Techy and Blaghman started to shine in their AD carry roles dishing out some heavy damage, and we actually started grouping up for team-fights.
Also, gangster twitch is superior gangster 😉
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Yeah, unfortunately I think we got a bit cocky late game (after winning a few team fights) and started to split up. Very nice game. Definitely the most intense game I have ever played, might practice in PvP as Shaco some more seeing as that was my first time in a non-bot match as Shaco.
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Aw man, I remember one escape where I killed someone at your blue, then your whole team ganked me. I ultied then used my “Q” and made my clone run the opposite way and all of you guys folloed my clone. I remember saying on teamspeak “oh god I can’t believe that worked”.
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THERE’S SOMETHING THERE! KILL IT, KILL IT!
Yeah, it’s a really good psychological tool.
Also, we’re kind of like sheep.
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Yeah, that game was good(and I’m not just saying that because we won). I had so many almost kills, and close escapes at the start(as well as my fair share of stupid deaths. Okay, more than my fair share).
Being an AD Carry is hard.
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But how good was your support, he was always there making sure you didn’t die and talk about a good stun.
Note: I haven’t ever played taric against real people so i expect to do way worse. I just need to sync up with someone and be on the same wave length.
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Well, he was probably better than I’d be, I guess.
Maybe.
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i had the most assists and i was better than numbers anyway.
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Yeah, but maybe you only got so many assists because you had an amazing carry? Who can say?
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That jungler was a pretty cool guy. With his most deaths on the team.
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Wait, you died more than me?
Geez. That’s impressive.
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Yeah that time I almost had you, one more shot, one more and i had to run out of fricken mana! :'(
Yeah that was a good game. I agree with Nobshot – we started to split up too much just as you got into your groove.
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That was the only was we could kill you guys though. You had a great team comp. Pyrean was just absorbing everything.
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Yeah having a dedicated tank was definitely in their favor.
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Dear TAY LoL players
I need additional pylons, also additional Aus based players.
Add me, on NA server: Feraxxus.
I play a lot of tank/support, so you’ll be free to autolock your favourite AD carry!
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dw Bish I think you’re a heaps good LoL player and feel a sense of relief when teamed with you.
Oh yeah my 9001 assists got me to shine indeed :P. My kill count was horrid, but I was doing well at zoning Jo out with his Swain early game. Then he figured out my attack patterns and I couldn’t acid grenade him as much anymore. Still I’m happy with trapping nobshot when he tried to gank me several times. Autoattacking is your strongpoint? Got allies nearby? Call them over and suppress you with ulti ;D
I really thought we lost that one. I was focussing on wearing you guys down with acid grenade/lock on combo, with Bish, Blaghman and Steve-O to finish you all off since they had more sustain-on-the-fly than me. We really lacked a proper initiator though, I think that’s where we went wrong. We only had Rocketman’s stun shot, not the best kind of initiate, not like Pyrean and Singed with his HUGE amount of tankiness and fling to separate one of us from our group.
Left work last night with my work unfinished. Played lots of Rayman.
I have just cracked the task I was doing, thought of a great way to present the information I need to present. Feeling good about that Rayman decision.
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Stop it. I want to buy it. I shouldn’t buy it. I have other games that need playing and work and study to do.
#godyoureliketheworstpersononthissite
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I blame the whiskey & the allergy tablets I took last night to combat my hayfever. It worked though \o/ just i’m out of booze now x.x
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I’m amazed at how many people on my Facebook are bragging about using their centerlink benefits to go get drunk and do drugs in the city.Isnt that the type of thing you shouldnt be letting everyone know?
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I make it a policy never to add HS people. They are boring.
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I did this and found they’re all married with kids. Makes me feel like I’m doing life wrong so I kind of avoid Facebook now.
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While it certainly isn’t something I would brag about, it would make me think less of them, i don’t think there is actually anything they can lose.
As long as they meet their obligations in terms of interviews and job applications I don’t think you can lose your benefits (Wether you should be able to is another matter)Although post about the drugs, assuming of the illegal variety, well that is just stupid.
But I guess if that i s what is going to advance their standing with the sort of people they choose to hang about with who am I to judge.-
Although I tend to find with most people that tell everyone about getting drunk or doing drugs, it’s usually to impress people. I come from a ‘questionable’ background myself, and trust me, your average pothead or pill popper can rarely partake in their substance of choice without telling someone about it.
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They’re bogans, right? Let them have their time, it’ll come back and bite them in the arse soon enough.
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My grandpa had an interesting idea the other day – Legalise drugs, but make drug tests mandatory when you are receiving benefits. Benefits are forfeit if you fail the drug test. Would probably result in more crime though as people would be forced to steal once their centerlink privileges are revoked.
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I’m not complaining about the ethical issue of getting benefits. I just think it’s obnouxious to broadcast your drug habit on your facebook.
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Also having it on your profile would be a serious issue if they ever decide they don’t want to continue their life as a deadbeat stoner.
I know I wouldn’t hire somebody if I saw that on their profile
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Also wouldn’t really work if you legalise them. Removing benefits due to a legal substance would be an issue, there would be no difference between this and grog
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hmm… TAYs doing the same thing that it was yesterday & not updating correctly.
currently on page 8 it says there’s 1438 posts (last one at 11.00 & I doubt you lot have gone an hour without posting), but page 6 says 1547… confusing.
or is it just me again? probably just me.
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Wait, actually, I think the same thing happened to me last night. Yes, yes. That was irritating.
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hoorah! I’m not doing something wrong!
I don’t think its a browser problem, coz I’ve had it happen using ie9 yesterday, & Chrome today.
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I wish this happened more often…these jokes make it a fun experience 😛
Well, the good news is that all the mess is at the other end of the system, and apparently is basically all water.
The bad news is that it’s affecting my entire complex, and that’s (roughly) 40 apartments.
But then there’s more good news: I’ll probably have to leave work early.
Net win!
So.. there are many things that i wish were done is Statue form.
Most of them 40k stuff..
Some 24″ space marine statuettes would be amazing – or busts,..
Imagine a statue featuring the most prominent of Gaunts ghosts…
It make me sad to know this will never happen…
But what would you like to see made into statues for your mantle?!
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Hundreds of figures of the idealised version of me.
I also want a five metre tall one to sit above my house.
It’s not arrogant if it’s a reference to famous people.
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you mean its not supposed to look like that?
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The smile disappeared on me…now I just have box-face.
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oh ok, i can see an evil smiley
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24″ 40K statues. Here’s my wallet. Make sure you buy it dinner and at the very least, intend to call it back tomorrow before you defile it.
I would sell my bits for a collection of Chaos Space Marine heroes – Abaddon the Despoiler, Kharn the Betrayer, Fabius Bile, Typhus the Traveller, Lucius the Eternal…..
If you gave me a 24″ statue of Horus in Tactical Dreadnought armor and lighting claws (properly done) I’d shit my pants, arrive (not too early though), sneeze, burp, cough and hiccup all at the same time. It’d make a subtle *phut/sploodge* noise and would require professional cleaning services afterwards.
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I’m King Loops, and this is my favorite comment on this week’s TAY.
Also, a statue of Lucious would be AMAZING. Just the detail in his armour alone…. woah…
And yeah, one of each of the primarchs would be amazing.
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I was a 40K painter for a while, never really a player though. The 40K universe is one of my favorite fantasy settings, and has such a rich, vivid backgorund story that I can’t get enough of. I’ve nommed the sh*t out of the onoging Horus Heresy books, and own them all, except for the last 3 I think.
Just. AWESOME!
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HOLY SHIT!!!
http://cae2k.com/photos-in-the-photos-0/lucius-the-eternal.htmlI WANT TO COMMISSION THIS MAN TO TAKE ALL OF MY MONIES!!!
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*phut*
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I remember many years ago they released quite large versions of some Warhammer 40k Characters. Maybe about 5 or 6 inchs tall. Which for a single standing character was quite large. Cannot find them on the 40k site anymore though.
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http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1110218&_requestid=1431796
WANT
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Well damn. I had a look and could not find them. Typical boys eyes. Anyway thats the one I have. Though in many a move he got busted and is missing a piece here or there.
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I may or may not still have that model in pieces in an old toolbox.
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Ah yeah thats them. Not even sue if you can buy them anymore.
3D printing is perfect for this and can’t be that for away.
With the games that have been produced you already have the 3d models, import them into the system and print away.
But what would be really cool is if they managed to build a screenshot feature into something like space marine so that in the middle of combat, F12 and same the model and then get it in that stance.
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Oh man, I’d be shrinking down into my chair, trying desperately to be invisible. So awkward.
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Interrupt them and say “Round 1… FIGHT!!” And then at some point say “Finish Him” or “Fatality”
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That was pretty intense. They moved it into an office, so I didn’t hear everything, but it was pretty brutal.
Over now, but the tension is still high. I have a feeling I might cop some residual flak.
@Mawt
Everyone’s welcome to join in our LoL shenanigans. Just out of curiosity what level are you?
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Dear Mawt,
Is there a more immediate way to contact you should more details of Sydney Meats come up?
I guess Thursday is dinnar/drinking tiems, but there are also ones on the 21st and 28th, should you be interested.Kind regards,
Shane
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Dear Mawt,
Re-reading that, the last line sounds like I am taking back all the things I said (RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD, RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD). That is not the intention of the post. The main body of the comment still stands, and you are very welcome to come to Meats. I meant I am not Shane.
I do send kind regards, as well.Kind Regards,
Shane
(not really)
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http://www.leagueofstats.com/summoners/us/21916594/summary
That’s me. Those totals make me feel bad about my performance 🙁 but stats dont lie, right? I wish they didn’t include the games I lost because of leavers.Anyway, I stopped playing in Jan and only just returned approx 3 weeks ago. Im currently learning Shen, whom I never quite got the hang of before, but the buffs/changes he got while I was away have 1) made him a little OP & 2) made him fit my playstyle a bit more.
Also, Season 1 ranked solo ELO was 1281 iirc, but it looks like it’s not listed there.
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Nice man. I don’t really play ranked games (i refuse to solo-queue) although I have done a couple og ranked games with steve-o. We usually just do normal games. Although we may have enough people to do a full 5 person ranked game. Also jump on the TAY teamspeak server sometime man, I’m sure someone has the details.
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It means I have done some ranked games, and gone poorly. Your ELO isn’t shown unless it’s over 1200.
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Hey I have an elo! Sure it’s the base one you get for playing a couple games of ranked but still.
http://www.leagueofstats.com/summoners/us/23439197/summaryWD3200BPVT
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So. Assassin’s Creed:Revelations. I’m liking some parts, and hating others.
But what I love is the music. I’ve never really noticed the music much in previous AC games, but I can’t help but notice it in this one. It seems to fit really well and it’s just so very beautiful.
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I played it for a few hours /o/
The music is… ok. I don’t know if I love it yet. I don’t like Dessy’s animus data fragment memories though.
I do like it when Ezio was all injured and the like a la start of Brotherhood and he was going “umph”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBUiu_m70KQ — I’ve been hooked on Assassin’s Creed music ever since hearing Ezio’s Family in Assassin’s Creed 2. Awe inspiring start to the game.
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I’m playing Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood at the moment, and I have been noticing the music. Whether I like it depends quite a lot on my mood, in a similar way to how I react to the digital “Animus” effects that highlight things in the world.
Now, I’ll be curious to see how the music evolves moving on to Revelations.
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I agree with NotoriousR, I enjoyed AC2 and ACB’s music more, but Revelations is still good. Revelations is probably the first time I haven’t really enjoyed the Desmond-related music pieces (which were fantastic in Brotherhood) but the music in Constantinople itself is quite…I dunno…atmospheric? It was very exciting when I first played through the game, for sure.
…I REALLY like the Desmond music in Brotherhood. To iTunes!
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Doc What!? i haven’t heard about the zombie film from you for a while. how is it coming along?
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except for when Trjn is taken, amiright? :p
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The only time that has ever happened, it got taken after I had been on that site for over a year as TrjnRabbit :p
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So apparently I only just found the YouTube addon McG posted in the pink jumper piece by Tim. I kid you not, this is getting installed the moment I get home, and may encourage me to use YouTube. The comments are the driving force behind me not using the site.
For those who missed it, it changes all the comments on YouTube to ‘herp derp derp’.
I only just stopped laughing.
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And here I was thinking the extension that shows the ratings for YouTube videos before you click on them was rather good (great for spotting reply girl type spam “relevant videos”).
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I only learned of the term ‘reply girl’ today. Didn’t even know such a thing existed. Sometimes I’m grateful I’m something of an internet hermit. People seem to be complaining about reply girls, but the solution would seem simple – don’t click on it? Seriously I don’t get it – it’s cleavage. Money grubbing cleavage. You can’t find porn on the internet? Are you simple?
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It’s not just Reply Girls, YouTube is littered with spam “related videos” that you don’t know is complete shit until you load up the video, giving them more views. Being able to know that the like/dislike bar is pretty much entirely red before clicking on it is a nice little way to avoid given them more views (which is how they get revenue).
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It was someone on here who linked the “herp derp” plugin. It’s seriously fantastic. I think it may have been Cakesmith? But not sure.
ART INTERLUDE!
http://instagr.am/p/I8PQ9AlsEI/
A wizard with a ninja owl. shooting a gun and riding a triceratops ballerina!
You’re welcome!
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THAT’S THE BEST WIZARD WITH A NINJA OWL SHOOTING AND RIDING A BALLERINA TRICERATOPS I EVER SAW.
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@Harli
Zombie Movie Update
Downloaded Final Draft again and started writing the script, but so far I’m struggling to take my notes and turn them into something that’s not an incoherant mess.
Trying to ignore useless things like deep plot and story flow and just write heaps of gory/scary stuff.
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that’s great to hear! i wouldnt worry too much about story flow etc. yet and just work on getting from the beginning to the end, adding the meaty bits later. that bring said, im still super pumped to see it!
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Yeah. I really just need to get it on the page, then better writers (SHANE!) can bring the magic.
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My first response was “lolwut”, but the more I think about it, the more it doesn’t worry me.
Cause I live in Canberra.
Seriously though, think of the sheer number of games that should have been R18+ in Australia and in stead were given M/MA ratings. It seems as though it won’t change much, at least in the beginning.
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@Ynefel, I asked you this re: studying Japanese back half of TAY ago on page 5:
Are you studying formally, or just in your spare time? I’ve been trying to self-learn to at least be able to read it but I keep getting to the same point in my study and losing focus, starting to question if I’m doing it right and getting stuck in self-doubt because I can’t see results. Thinking I might need something more structured because I know I’m super uneven in what I know.
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Spare time, after work – I work Monday to Friday. I am doing a structured course though, place called Japanese Melbourne – japanesemelbourne dot com dot au. Been there for around 2 months, and started in a class of 4, which has since gone down to three as one of the other guys gave up.
I’m doing the beginner’s course, which runs in 8-week terms, and costs around $400 a term. I was able to choose from one 90 minute lesson a week, or two 60 minute lessons a week, and I opted for 2 x 60 mins, as I learn better breaking it up a little, not to mention the fact it’s 2 hours instead of 1.5.
The staff are particularly friendly and helpful, and it feels like a solid environment. I’m learning pretty well, some things still escape me a little (particles are just awful), but I think I’m doing OK. I have days where I second guess myself and wonder if I should be doing better, etc, but I’m trying not to be too critical. I’m 31 and haven’t studied since I was 18, and it’s my first serious attempt at a second language. And what a language to start with.
My biggest downfall at present is not having anyone to practise with verbally, so I can get the theory and everything, my Hiragana is decent, and I’m told my pronunciation is solid. I have neglected my Katakana pretty badly and need to work on it.
I’ve been to Japan twice, last was to Tokyo in April last year, stayed in Shinjuku for a week, and I’d love to go back to live and work, even temporarily, and I feel I owe it to myself and the Japanese to at least be able to hold a simple conversation and understand the responses.
I’ve talked to a number of people about studying the language and I’ve talked to people that have done astoundingly well via self-teaching, but I want to learn properly. Some people learn via anime, etc, but both my teachers and my Japanese friend say this isn’t the best idea. The dialog, tone and inflections picked up from such things are often unrealistic and may teach you to speak like a child. I was also explained very carefully (and politely!) by my Japanese friend to be wary of the differences in spoken Japanese between males and females.
So that turned into a bit of a long slog, but I hope it helps. I say do it. I decided on a whim last year and haven’t regretted it. I solemnly wish there was a quick way to learn it or be awesome at it, but sadly there’s not.
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I’m probably a bit better off than you. I studied Japanese in High School in New Zealand for a couple of years (was top of my class) so I already had a bit of a grounding, though I’ve forgotten a lot, that was nearly fifteen years ago. 🙁 But it meant that when I was watching anime, I already had that grounding. Ears were primed and so on.
What I’ve been doing recently (second attempt at this) is working my way through James Heisig’s ‘Remembering the Kanji’. I’ve been stalled at around the 1400 mark for months now though. This is my second pass at it, I actually finished everything but then was stuck in a bit of a ‘what now?’ moment and then changed jobs and got so far behind in my flashcards that I decided to start over. The main problem with RtK is that while it primes your brain to recognize and assign keywords to kanji, the actual Japanese meanings can be different and it gets you no closer to learning readings. I know the readings of a few, but I imagine any teacher looking at what I know would be beyond puzzled because I know crazily obscure and complex characters but not simple highly-used ones.
Formal classes seem like the only real path for me, and I suspect I’d have to start over with at the bottom level, as frustrating as that would be. Will look into that site.
And yeah, learning from anime is a mistake. More than just the fact it can be exaggerated, there’s dumb speech patterns and a lot of dialogue is pretty rude. That’s actually probably more important than avoiding feminine speech patterns. The first is going to offend people where the second is going to just amuse them. Though in both cases they’ll likely be too polite to tell you 😛
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Well you’re further than me, I haven’t even looked at Kanji proper. Not sure if the beginner’s class is where you’d start or not. I’m still wrapping my head around sentence structure and particles.
I was advised that Japanese drama is a good way to listen to/watch Japanese, as it’s usually grammatically correct and as close to real dialog as you’ll find. I seem to remember you handing out passes to Crunchyroll some time back? I had a quick look at noticed they host Japanese drama as well as anime. Wondering if the site is any good, or if it’s worth it?
I’m generally aiming to reach conversational Japanese level. Meaning my Hiragana and Katakane would be solid, with some basic Kanji knowledge. Not expecting to be able to sit down and discuss philospohy, but just to be able to handle a simple conversation or ask for things, etc.
My friend Masa said to avoid emulating female speech patterns unless I wanted to ‘sound like a gay’. He delivered such a sentiment very amusingly.
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Crunchyroll does have j-drama. I find that stuff intensely boring though, so I don’t know if what they have is good. Let me know if you want a 48-hour pass. I’ve got too many.
I think the advice regarding feminine speech patterns is good, but you do need to eventually learn what the difference is otherwise you won’t be able to hold a conversation. Also there’s overly masculine speech patterns which have the same problem, except instead of sounding ‘like a gay’ you’ll sound like a criminal.
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Also I’m probably not that much further ahead, I just have different goals. I want to be able to read & write the language so I can play games, read manga etc in the original language.
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Yeah, I’m looking at it more for practical usage I think. I’m more interested in speech than anything, although the written aspect of Japanese goes hand in hand, of course.
Is Crunchyroll worth subcribing to though? And is it legit? I signed up for a trial account, and decided not to when they wanted a CC for a trial. I since get an email every week reminding me to take up my trial.
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CR is 100% legit. They weren’t initially but they went legit about 4 years ago and now they’re the biggest streaming site out there. Built off the back of piracy, but the pirate content’s gone.
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Might give it a whirl, it seemed like pretty fair value when I looked at the pricing.
You can email me a guest pass if you’re feeling generous! ynefel at hotmail dot com.Thanks for the input.
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Regarding particles, have a read of this:
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar
Much more succint explanations of particles, tense etc than I ever got from textbooks I tried.
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Oh thanks, I’ll bookmark that! A definitive explanation of particles are difficult to find. I’m sure the rest will come in handy too.
I need your advice TAY:
As I’ve mentioned many times before on TAY I’m currently unhappy with my current employment position. Basically, I work as an IT Tech and get treated like shit, not by customers but from my boss. There is no way for me to advance my role within the business. The current position I’m in is as far as I can possibly go.
Because the town I live is also a bit of a cesspool I’m looking at moving to Sydney before the end of the year. I’ve started applying for jobs etc, but honestly, at the moment I’m not that hopeful as I’m currently not IN Sydney.
Over the past couple of months I’ve been slowly pushed into pretty much doing 2 peoples jobs at my workplace due to our computer sales guy leaving at the end of last year. As a result I’m now doing tech work and sales. Today there was a meeting between myself, the service manager, the sales manager and the owner of the business about the situation. Now I’ve informed them that sales is not what I want to do but said I was happy to help out walk-in customers etc. while they look for a new computer salesman.
But in todays meeting I couldn’t help but feel that they were trying to push me into doing both jobs instead of actively searching for a new salesman.
And here is my dilemma. I’m not going to be here much longer. I haven’t told them this yet though. And I’m wondering if I should. My current tech project (rolling out a new system infrastructure for a client) will be finished at the end of April. After this I was planning on handing in my notice. I’m conflicted because I will feel like a jerk if they organise all of this stuff regarding me doing sales (which they know I don’t want to do anyway) and then me quitting but at the same time my boss is the kind of person where if I told him that I’m intending to leave after my current tech project he will go out of his way to make my life a living hell until I do finally finish up.
I hope this makes sense.
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You technically owe them nothing apart from adequate notice. Does not sound like they have been great to you really. And unfortunately in every single job I have had where i have given notice someone has always gone out of their way to make it a nightmare. Part of the package unless you work for awesome people. Just go with your gut.
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You don’t owe anyone anything and need to look out for your own interests, not the interests of the company you work for, unless those two interests are aligned. It seems here that they are not.
Tender your resignation once you’ve got something to move into or you’re finished with everything. That’s the exact opposite of a jerk move, you’re being overly considerate of them and if they do think you’re a jerk for leaving, then it’ll just reinforce the fact you’ve made the right decision by walking away.
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I should’ve mentioned I won’t feel like a jerk to the boss but rather the rest of the staff. I get along with all of them REALLY well. It’s them I feel like I’ll be letting down.
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If you really get on with them well then they’ll be sad to see you go, but happy that you’re making a career move. I had a similar situation when I moved to my current job (though my boss at the time was pretty awesome and ironically he now works here too…). Bow out gracefully. Moving to the big smoke to make a name for yourself, really loved working with them all, doing what’s right for your future career etc etc.
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I can highly recommend NOT telling them your intentions until you are ready to leave. I’ve made that mistake before – my ex boss gave intentionally bad references to prospective employers out of spite.
If you need to give em 4 weeks notice, give em four weeks notice. not a second more.
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Just give them your 2 weeks. It doesn’t sound like you want to stay at the company, so just hand in your notice and count the days till your out of there.
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As far as employers are concerned, all you need to do is give them notice and not be a dick when you leave. That’s it. You don’t owe them anything, and it’s about you, not your employer, and not your colleagues.
Look after numero uno.
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If you think it will adversely affect your time there, tell them nothing. If your boss(es) are going to be jerks to you, you owe them less than nothing.
BUT if you start looking for other work and want a reference, you need to gi ve them notice. Nothing worse than finding out from a prospective employer (competitor even) that one of your employees is actively looking for work.
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Tell them to suck it and crotch chop and everyone on your way out.
I think you should just give in your notice at the most minimum time available. When you quit you’ll always feel bad for others but if you really did make the decision you’ll have to stick with it.
Also don’t move to Canberra.
Or Sydney
MELBOURNE YEAHHHHHHHHHH
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Hey, hey.
There’s plenty of great things in Canberra.
Like. Ummmm.
There was that thing. Once?
We have Can’d Meats?
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@ Harli (someone’s popular =P)
While I can’t really speak for the other guys (because I’m terrible at impersonations), Unless everyone completely switches from LoL over to DOTA 2 i think I’ll stick with LoL. DOTA 2 seems like a more, for a lack of a better word, “hardcore” version of LoL (It’s probably more appropriate to say LoL is a streamlined version of DOTA but meh).
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nobshot! i am pretty happy to describe DOTA 2 as a ‘hardcore’ version of LoL and do not see why anybody would have a problem with that!
i would love to teach you guys when my hand has regained full function again if anybody is still interested. i’ve managed to tweak the settings on my stream channel and get it non-laggy, full screen (TAKE THAT PEZ).
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The problem for me lies in the fact that i don’t think there is any balance or science to it (i know there is) It seems like you just pick the character with the best CC and you win seriously. There was this purple ghost thing which had me stunned and stole my health for like 10 seconds. To me a 10 seconds stun seems a little OP.
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But that is the other problem the amount of farm you need is ridiculous that item cost nearly 6000 gold. I think the last game i got 150 creep kills and got about 8000 gold. You take boots into the equation plus that item there is no money left for anything else.
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I easily got lost with figuring out what shop to go to in order to have X too
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ah yeah, that takes some time..
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I can’t remember that one’s name, but their ulti is channeled, so it’s a lot like Malzahar’s.
It just doesn’t make it very clear, because Dota was never very artistically clear, and that has stuck through to Dota 2.
No, it’s the faceless void who’s a twat from CC perspective. Area of effect ulti, that stuns everything inside it that isn’t him(or his controlled creeps) for 5 seconds(Or 6 with Aghanim’s Scepter).
He’s a complete dick.
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Bane Elemental. He also steals your mana. One of my favorites because of the troll potential – He has an ability called nightmare, which puts a target to sleep and deals damage over time to them. You could cast this on allies in vanilla Dota.
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I don’t think he’s saying he has a problem with it, it’s just a harder transition going from one game to another if the latter has more mechanics behind it than the former. And if the former game has a bunch of people who you enjoy playing with, then it’s even less of an incentive to swap over.
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Like i said there is a science to it, but it isn’t as much rock paper scissors that LoL is. Which makes it difficult to know who to pick to counter what and so on. I will keep playing because its quite pretty to look at and me and blaghs have been enjoying it. Just i don’t think i will step into PvP
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What Bish said.
\o/
I have no problem with DOTA 2. It’s just more complex then LoL (in a good way)
Yeah I spose your right, I’m just being a cranky old man that’s afraid of change. Also it doesn’t help that valve hate me and gave EVERYONE a beta key but me 🙁
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To be fair that only works if you offer to do “things” to Gabe if he gives you one
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hahahahahah!!
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ummmmm, i can play DotA2 alright as well, although as some people remember from the infamous me trying to teach people to play SMNC, i’m not a good teacher on my own, but i’d be up to helping some kotaku peeps a little bit as well
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Speaking of SMNC does it always take you forever to find a game?
Or is there a quick and easy way of just jumping into one
you are completely right
as a person who went from DOTA to LoL, my first thought was “this is a slightly easier DotA” not taking anything away from lol, it still is hard to get into playing… but i guess “streamlined” is a nicer word for it.
i think i’ll be sticking with DotA 2, i’ll still play LoL every now and again, but i think dota 2 just appeals to me more because i started with the original. also dota has dark seer, whom i love so much, and last night i had a game where i went 10/8/31, which made me happy 🙂
LoL was also much easier to pick up and not get smashed by elites calling you a “noob” like in HoN/DoTA. At least before you reached level 30 you got put with people more to your skill level on LoL. On something like DoTA, it was luck of the draw or you’re screwed if you’re still a rookie.
I feel the same. I’ve played only one Dota2 game but found it hard getting used to the pace of the game (I had the same problem going from Dota to LoL). Probably just need to play it more, but I don’t have much incentive when the majority of peeps are playing LoL.
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Probably should add that I do enjoy trolling more in Dota though. Nothing quite like trapping an Ally next to an enemy turret with Earth-shaker’s fissure.
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Earth shakers is a stun and the wall lasts alot longer.
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I like earth-shaker he is quite fun to use. So far i have used him, axe and drow ranger. I liked how alot of those peoples abilities worked. Quite fun stuff just the endless cc gave me no incentive to do anything other than to run away from fights.
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haha, the cc isnt that bad!
<3 drow and earth shaker
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I don’t even remember what I drew for you. This is the problem with having many games going on at once :p
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it looks like a man w/ brown hair then u started rubbing it out and then it stopped there. a half drawn man?
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That does not help me in the slightest. Screencap and tweet :p
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can’t, android phone
HTC Legendi will resort to using a bomb.
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You can’t screencap on a HTC legend?
Damn.
Get an iPhone :p
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I think I sent that prematurely and didn’t realise :p
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hehehe…
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A lot of my work involves working from the previous day’s bank statements. I’ve written 2/4/12 far too many times today.
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ohhhh… understandable, hu-… I mean bunny
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I got a haircut today, i was walking down the street( something i rarely do) and i hear someone say nice haircut lad. I was all like right on someone complimenting me out of nowhere. Then i walked down the rest of the street like John Travolta, i really wanted to play staying alive but i thought that was over the top.
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Makes me think of that episode of the Simpsons where Bart decides he feels the need to strut, after scoring a kiss from Lovejoy’s daughter.
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I suddenly envision the robot policeman from Futurama saying ‘Awwwww yeah.’
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Awwwww yeah.
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@Bishane
mattdotmawtatthegooglemails
It’s a code
I’m sure you can work it out
I believe in you!
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You’re like that successful author-type. Glasses sitting on the end of your nose, high backed leather chair, library in your house that has many leather bound books and smells of rich mahogany. There would also be a fireplace and a cat. You would likely have a smoking pipe and wear tweed.
I have not thought about this at length, I promise.
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Damn, I wish I needed glasses 🙁
Also, I don’t much care for cats. All I can think of is Blofeld.The rest of that scene is pretty much my idea of heaven though 🙂
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Yeah sometimes I wish I needed glasses. Then I remember, as cool as I think glasses are, it usually means your vision is lacking in some department. My eyes work fine. Maybe I could just wear empty frames?
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hate not hat god. I think the edit button needs to be renamed the Rocketman button.
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There is no edit button…
Does that mean there is no Rocketman?…
…Plainview??
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“Unwarranted hat”
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1 minute too slow.
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2 minutes too slow.
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Man, all you guys do these days is talk about Harlis.
I didn’t come here for that kind of talk. If I wanted to talk about Harli, I’d go to a forum dedicated for it, not here.
You’ve changed guys, I miss the pre-Harli days of TAY, when it wasn’t all this.
You heard me.
*Walks off into the sunset*
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I like to think that Canberra is so dull that the sun can’t illuminate it.
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Everything is illuminated in a neutral beige glow.
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Good good, workin’ on the new album and needin’ some extra inspiration if you know what I mean. Started writing a new song, titled it ‘social media saves the world’, really progressive arty pop-ballad with extra wankiness to draw the grammy noms, you know. If that doesn’t work out at least I have ‘I got kicked out of the hotel room for being too loud and ended up at a LAN café’ and ‘DOTA 2 >>>> all’ on the backburner. I stole some if skrillex’s beats and played them backwards to pass off as my own crap but holy crap, it actually is some killer riffs from nickelbacks latest album shifted to ¾ and sped up!
So all’s good.
Also can you rec any good ballad songs w/ powerful vocals? thnx
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If you play Nickelback backwards, you can here the words of Satan.
Even worse, if you play it forwards, you hear Nickelback.
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Notoriousaur! It’s because 80’S INTERLUDE
DOOOO DOOOO DOOOO DOOOOOOO!
How can you see looking through those tears?
Don’t you know you’re worth your weight in gold?
I can’t believe that you’re alone in here,
Let me warm your hands against the cold!-
Yay, jumping reply boxes!
Yay, 80’s music! *opens up youtubes and starts listening to the most amazing of musics*
Hey yeah, you with the sad face
Come up to my place and live it up
You beside the dance floor
What do you cry for? Let’s live it up
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dont take it too hard TRB – its your quirks that make us like you.
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Show this to your boss. He/She is bound to let you go home early.
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*best Roy from IT crowd voice*
I’m disabled!
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Possibly my favourite moment from that entire series!
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I’ve recently watched every episode of Archer recently.
I want to watch it all again now. Damn you Arrested Development-like call-forwards and call-backs!
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Oh, well I’m glad that you recently clarified that you did it recently. Until recently, I was unsure as to the status of your recent endeavours.
… Recently.
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something something OH MY GOD HE’S GOT AN ERECTION!
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Sploosh
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Whatever the male equivalent of sploosh is. Whic I guess is sploosh, but with Semen.
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@Greenius
ART INTERLUDE REDUX
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii161/sweetrescue/ninjaowl3.gif
Via SarcasmFairy
I’m thinking I might skip the monomeat. It’s going to cost approx. $700 after flights, accommodation and transport are taken into account. I’m thinking I might hold onto the money as it would mean that I will be able to actually move to Sydney sooner rather than later. Every cent is going to help get me out of here.
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Sucks but understandable man.
You’ll be in Sydney soon enough for endless hijinks.
…You permy asshole.
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I object! Luckily you’re totally not Pez or Pez would be in trouble. 😛
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*adjusts fake moustache and glasses*
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I think you mean can’d meats. Your typo is forgiven… this once.
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It’s cool, Cakeman, to make up for it, we will play so much D2 this weekend that by the end of it, whenever you interact with a Sydney TAYbie, you will feel physically repulsed by the idea of it because of how much time spent together. You will be completely over us.
#Helping
Game of Thrones Series 2 & Book 3 SPOILERS
V ybir gung jr ner tbvat gb frr zber bs Eboo va frnfba 2- V guvax vg’yy znxr gur Erq Jrqqvat rira zber cnvashy
So i may or may not have just played math shoot out with my supervisor at work and just got a can of coke for my efforts. I really don’t want customers walking in on my yelling out 64 while spinning and making a brilliant no scope headshot.
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Oh this was prompted because i am the nerdiest person, way to prove it is obviously math shoot outs.
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It is like a regular cowboy shoot out using you your finger as a gun you are back to back. The teacher yells out a math problem. The first one to shoot and awnser the problem correctly was the winner.
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Because while you guys were learning about technology we were learning how to saddle horses and shear sheep.
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Son, technology wasn’t even a word when I went to school.
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@NegZer
Just started my 2 week premium trial of Crunchyroll, dw about the guest pass, I’ll give it a whirl and see how I go! More interested to see how it streams to my tablet. Will make life much more interesting.
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This crunchy roll place sounds pretty awesome is it just a streaming site for animes and whatnot?
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Yeah legit streaming for anime and j-drama. Monthly subscription fee, but I’m looking for a reliable, no BS solution that just works. I’ll pay a subscription for the privilege.
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YOOOO how’s everyone??!
Popping by while I take a quick break from working on the few uni assignments that are due right before Easter : | And got around an hour to go before work…
By the way: CrabJiffy got his shiny new desktop PC assembled!! \o/
Can’t wait for meat deets with Sydney TAYbies soon-ish… yay!
This post was utterly disorganised, I apologise.
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Anytime! Sometime.
When we all get in, I guess?
Pez and What said they might be in the city by 4PMish and would just hang around until we trickled in I guess.
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You and crabman should definetly jump on Teamspeak with us, I had a blast in Sydney sitting beside him while we were playing games. He had the funniest rages. 😛
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Yup, same! But my research proposal + assignment + code review is all due on thursday. I so sad.
But! The MSO Videogames unplugged is on next week, so that’s something to look forward to!
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You’re doing CompSci honors? What are you doing your thesis on?
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TeamSpeak is always dead when there’s a meat going on in Sydney.
Good thing I’ll be at the footy on Thursday night :p
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Stuff you bunny, that means i will have to occupy myself. Well its probably a good thing i have to get up at 4 for a long drive.
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Getting up at 4? Pfft. Just don’t go to bed.
Also, TeamSpeak. You guys keep mentioning and and I can guess what it is because y’know I have working braincells. I’m assuming this is something I should download, yes?
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I think I did the downloading step, but could not find any further details on how to connect and was too self-conscious to ask anyone directly. Also, my housemates came back from holiday and I would have felt a bit odd (PCs are in main ‘living room’ area). /o\
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Well, if you ever feel like dropping on, send an email to someone. Anyone.
Or maybe Bish.
Or maybe even a PM over twitter, that would work too(Bish, Bunny, Me, FatShady, Rocketman are all moderately reliable. Okay, two of those are lies, but whatever).
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HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS!!!
I JUST SOLVED RACISM!!!!
IT JUST CAME TO ME!
AN EPIPHANY!!!
Who was the wisest mother fecker ever?
CONFUCIUS!
Where was he from?
PROBABLY CHINA I THINK!
What is china a part of?
ASIA!
What else is in Asia?
JAPAN!
What’s in Japan?
KICK ARSE SAMURAIS!!
What would they be if they had no armor or swords and used their god-given-bad-arse-feet??
KARATE MOTHER FECKERS!
Who is the best at Karate?
BLACK DYNAMITE!
What belt does BLACK DYNAMITE HAVE?!
BLACK! YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT!
What’s the lowest belt?
HONKEY-ASS WHITE!!
What’s the complete grading system!?
WHITE, YELLOW, ORANGE, GREEN, BLUE, BROWN, BLACK!
What does that mean?
NOT ONLY ARE BLACK PEOPLE THE BEST, BUT EVEN AVATARS ARE BETTER THAN WHITE PEOPLE, AND THOSE MOTHER LOVERS ARE MADE THE FETH UP!!!!
There we have it – your welcome.
Now everyone knows their place you can stop all the fighting and wars and stuff.
/newghandi!
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Technically the colored belts system varies depending on the school. Also the traditional Kyu/Dan ranking system from judo that all the others generally are based off has 10 Kyu ranks, where the ‘white’ belt is ungraded and the ‘black’ is actually 1st-Dan. In Aikido you wear white until you reach a Dan rank. Also in Judo if you’re using the US system, there’s more Kyu ranks for kids than for adults.
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That’s like my solution to religious problems in America.
Americans distrust the government, but like religion.
Therefore Americans need to establish a Theocracy, so religion is government
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One could argue that Japan isn’t Asian in that they aren’t part of the Asian continent.
Plus I don’t think sword ability translates to martial arts.
Also what you’re saying there is that the racism currently in the western world today is actually the wrong way around; you’re still saying one race is better than another, rather than equal, which is still racism.-
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Bish is right on racial superiority- You can’t say one race is better than another, cause it’s not true. You’re also conflating “race” with “culture”
I’d consider Japan part of Asia the same way that Madagascar is part of Africa.
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Pretty racist, oppressing minorities
Pretty racist, acting derogatory
Pretty racist
You don’t believe it – it’s not the truth
Different color cant be as good as you
Mercy
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkfW2UjhKAw
this is all i got from your post =(
Real solution though is if people stop thinking in terms of race/colour and just think as others a fellow humans.
I play Rugby Union for my local club and we have a lot of Fijians at the club the only time i think of them as Fijians is when someone such as a spectator asks me about them. Rest of the time i see them as just footy mates/fellow players.
@tigerion
sadly they haven’t been inviting many people into the beta recently, so the amount of players are going down, so finding games (especially australian ones) are hard.
however, they are going to be doing some big things at pax east (including revealing the newest pro, who from leaked files appears to be a clone of leonardo da vinci), so expect after that for there to be lots more people playing.
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Thanks, just wanted to make sure that it wasn’t something with my install because it seems to patch a lot as well.
Slightly annoying because sometimes I just want to jump in and have a quick game before dinner or something but it takes forever to get a match that most of the time I just quit
New mobile site – no authors, tags or number of comments visible on article titles, but I can open TAY now…
Mannnnn you guys are no fun sometimes…
When did everyone start using “Facts”… and “knowledge”
What happened, mang – you used to be cool
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Pffff, with the amount I eat?
I’ve got enough for maybe the end of April.
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New Shapes Miseries!
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Am so bored I am watching Wrestlemania 28 >.> And oh it is so very bad… Cannot understand how the Americans love it so damn much.
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From what I heard, Rock vs Cena, Taker vs HHH and Punk vs Y2J were brilliant…. but I’ll let you decide that for yourself.
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Yeah its Rock vs Cena atm. As for brilliant? Yeah no. But I kinda grew out of wrestling in my early teens. I actually did not know of over half the people in this event.
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I saw that and the crowd was huge Wrestlemania! But America’s obesity problem is nothing to joke about.
Evening TAY!
Sorry again for earlier. =( i just couldn’t believe the behaviour.
I saw the most awesome thing in Gametraders today. I have photos \o/
And then I bought skittles.
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And make sure to eat the excess so that each container contains the exact same number of skittles. Then once that’s finished, eat the container skittles one by one in rank order of least favourite to most favourite flavour.
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Then east them in order of longest to shortest wavelength – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, ultraviolet
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Why do you Taunt us Scree? why?
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Those things are pretty cool. I’ve seen ones from other consoles too.
When I build a new PC, I’m thinking of setting my current one up with the TV, putting a bunch of emulators on it, then buying the appropriate controllers for said emus. It’ll be like I own all the consoles! \o/
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Can you ever have too much when it comes to old game consoles though?
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Maybe? I would like to get the Sega ones
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I have been thinking of doing this as well.
My ultimate goal though would be a custom MAME cabinet.
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Ok, minor heart attack over. Left Diablo downloading over night, it had taken something like 7 hours to get through 40% when I went to bed. Woke up this morning and went to tafe without checking my computer (blasphemy I know), came home and the download has finished, but there’s nothing on my screen. Spent the next 30 mins trying to search for where I sent the files. But I found them, its all good now. All set for Friday
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Yeah, but because the Blizzard downloader is only designed for popular titles, if you’re trying to download one of their older ones, you’ll run into the slight problem that it’s a piece of crap, and works like a bittorrent, except that there’s nobody uploading.
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I was worrying that I was going to have to download my copies from Blizzard, and that it would take forever, but then I found my discs(they weren’t in the cases, clearly), so it was all good!
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It’s $10 from battle.net. Though they may refuse your card because they don’t want your money >:(
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@shane
Just read your full con write-up- glad it went well for you!
Zombie-drawing lady- I’ve met her! She was doing drawings at Barrio, which was this cool open-air nightclub that ran during the Adelaide fest. She drew a pretty cool pic f my housemates there and sold me this badge:
https://twitter.com/#!/redartifice/status/175910507411275776/photo/1
She did a comic that was part of the Fist Full of Comics Anthology as well.
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I meant to write something about this earlier in the day, so I’ll just take this opportunity.
I read through that whole blog entry with the biggest grin on my face. I’m so happy for you Shane, you seriously deserve this. Congrats man.
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Yes, I got the impression she was a veteran of the con circuit.
Thanks heaps for coming to see me! Sorry that I didn’t give you a whole lot of time.
Okay… I was on Youtube ,listening to South Park audio commentaries…. and then this was in the recommended videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne8fEvy0mDI&feature=related (Possibly NSFW)
I honestly have no idea what to say….
So pretty sure I was rather close to having a mental breakdown at work today. All this shit going on at the moment at work and in my personal life is starting to catch up with me and now one of the 2 things I was looking forward to in the next couple of months I won’t be going to (monomeat) and it’s all just argh!
Sorry, it’s too early in the evening for this shit.
Batgirl, I’m still happy to mail Fable 2 to you if you want seeing as I won’t be going to the meat anymore.
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DIABLO 2 IN A FEW DAYS, FRIEND!
SO MUCH DIABLO 2
SURVIVE, JUST FOR US
YOU AND ME, FRIEND, WE WILL MOCK PEZ SO MUCH -
Damn, was looking forwarding to meating you, and meating your hair…
I’ve heard things about it.
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If I were you I’d chuck a sickie tomorrow and de-stress. You’ve got a lot on your plate and I think you’re due to take some time for yourself.
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🙁 Internet hugs!
I’ll DM you my address to send it over – might as well use that sweet, sweet free postage while you can! Oh, and if you could put a little baggy of the narcotics you promised at the last meat that’d be great.
TAYBIE TOUGH’UN WORKOUT POST!
Cardio:
2.5k Jog.
Workout: Quads and Lower back (core) day. Blech. Only a short one today.
Core: Deficit Deadlifts (from a platform)
Warmup: 1×10 5kg dumbells
1×12 (40kg barbell)
1×11
1×11
1×10
Quads: Front Squats
1×7(20kg barbell)
1×7
1×7
1×6
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You’re actually making me feel that bad about this that I’m probably going to start exercising.
Cheers!
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I was considering posting the same thing today
Not sure I am going to get anything done tonight based on the fact i am still at the office. But I did switch my 3 km walk to a 11 km last night with some stretching afterwards
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You totally should. It’ll seem really hard at first, but stick with it. You’ll feel so good. I’ve lost about 10kg since I started and put on a heap of muscle, and I’ve never felt better. Best decision I ever made was starting to exercise regularly.
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Finally!
Cardio:
3k jogWorkout: Chest
Incline Press
3×10 (22kg dumbells)Incline Fly
3×10 (14kg dumbells)Cable Pulldowns
3×10 (I honestly can’t remember the weight. 68kg? That seems high)Pectoral Fly
3×10 (48kg machine)Chest Press
3×10 (54kg machine)-
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Exactly!
And it seems to be working \o/
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I’m kind of broken with chest press, I can do more with dumbells than with a bar. Should be the other way around.
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Cutting hair: 1 hour.
Delousing kids: 1 and a half hours.Weights: (lifting a drink to my mouth and down again) the whole rest of the night. 😛
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I shovelled & moved via wheel barrow about 1.2 metric tonne of horse manure. That was my work out.
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Possibly dumb question / just google it: What counts as a ‘front’ squat? Usually if I’m doing squats with a weight, I’ve got it across the shoulders.
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Rather than having the bar across the back of your shoulders, it’s over the front. I guess sitting on top of your chest? That’s if I’m thinking of the right thing.
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Yep. Front squats are unique in that you can’t ‘cheat’ with repetitions by using other muscle groups to help get the bar out. It’s a little hard to do the hand position to get it comfortably in front of you (I can’t do it without gloves) and they are pretty humbling.
That being said, I go quite light on my squats. It’s hard enough to find jeans that fit my 5’6″ frame given my quads are already wider than my tiny size 28 waist. First world problems…-
Ah right, whenever I’ve done squats with the bar infront it’s been with a shoulder press at the top as well. Always tend to do squats with bar over the shoulders at much heavier weight (~90kg), but I’m not trying to isolate quads and my legs are already pretty strong as it is.
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Repost from Steam:
Terraria!
For anyone interested in playing some Terraria multiplayer, I’ve currently got a server up and running. My net connection should hopefully let at least 4 people play without any issues (limit of 8 on the server).
This isn’t a permanent set up, as I’d like to have someone run it who can support a full server. I’m mostly putting it online to let newbies play around a bit together.
Quick rule list:
PvE server
Don’t screw people over
Zero tolerance on stealing
…that’s pretty much it.
Send me a Steam message if you’d like the server details!
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OH! I’m very interested in this. I’ve never tried mp for Terraria do I need a headset or anything?
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No. ITS A SHOW!!
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Tell me how and I will. I will laugh like a ‘tard and you’ll all mock me and I’ll cry.
It’ll be great fun.
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um i will send you a twitter message.
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And I’ll just sit there, listening in, but not participating in any way…
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WHY WOULD U SAY THAT WE ARE AWESOME
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I’ll spam you all with dirty latin phrases. EFF YEAH! I need to pick up a headset before work tomorrow. Retail therapy!
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Its cool we type alot of our stuff anyway
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Sweet. I’ll get to save my dollars then.
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Get a set of Logitech G35s
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Are they super cheap? 😀
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….no.
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They are however, fucking awesome!
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I have a G35 and yes they are insanely awesome. Though I need to replace mine as the ear pad bits has all the cover coming off. Unless I could somehow replace them.. Hmm.
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Me and some of the other TAYbies (shaddup, I know that’s not how you’re supposed say it :P) have Plantronics Gamecom 367 headsets. They only cost $40 http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=8836
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Those plantronics, worst headset i’ve ever used =/
They hurt my head & I wasn’t keen on the sound that came from them >=[
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BUT I WON’T BE SAYING, THAT’S WHAT I’M TRYING TO SAY HERE!
Wait…what where we talking about?
Where we talking, on the internet, silly Lambo!
Do you have a big head? The plantronics are good but they are a bit snug so if you have a big head they are really uncomfortable.
Hobos lambo. We were talking about hobos.
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How long till it’s finished or needs to be finished? As in what event are you creating it for?
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Manifest which is held in August. I’m used to doing costumes in a month or so. =P Like the Taokaka one. 1 month.
The Madoka one took 2 months. So I’m not sure how long it will take.-
Well at least you have plenty of time to get it exactly how you want it. Do you have pics of the others you have done that you are willing to share?
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I will for you.
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Cheers Scree 🙂 Wow very awesome indeed. Nice to see the detail on the Madoka as well. Is that a fleur de lis on the petal type bits of the skirt. And that Taokaka is great. Actually a little scary lol.
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Well hand embroidered is a hell of a lot better than printed etc. Great work for someone without a lot of experience at it.
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That’s why I did it. I’ve done long stitch and cross stitch before, so I just used long stitch methods. I knew the embroidery would look better, which is why I did it.
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Wow. Cosplay seems hard. Good luck with the changes you need to make. Also all of your progress should now be in illustration form.
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But, photos? I only did that so people will understand what I need to do for when I take photos. I find that even with the images, stuff still needs to be explained.
I will add illustrations as well.
Also, thanks for reading my blog everyone =D
Dammit. I wish I didn’t post before so I could be all like:
HAI GUYS. http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltjsqa0ElL1qksjbgo1_500.gif
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I knew I would never play that. Not a horror fan. Nice to have these things confirmed for me though. Now I definitely know for absolutely certain that I will never play it
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I watched game play but that was enough for me. I’m a massive wuss.
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It’s creepy, but I wouldn’t say it’s much worse than playing BioShock in the dark early hours of the morning and having a splicer come from no where and freak the shit out of you XD
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It seems to build tension better, from what I’ve seen anyway.
I still need to play Bioshock…but splicers *sobs*
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I didn’t find Bioshock that creepy at all. Amnesia gets me with the sound
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I had Bioshock on my old laptop but trying to play it at about 3 FPS didn’t work too well. Still need to install it on my new one
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I need to play more of that game. It’s pretty fun.
@Ynefel, re Nihongo!
I’d definitely agree with NegativeZero & your teachers that watching anime as a main method of learning Japanese isn’t very helpful. Even aside from the weird inflections and sentence endings you’d pick up, it’s just not as useful for ‘everyday Japanese’ as any textbook or your classes. When you get to a certain point in the language it does become interesting to look at, but not to the point where it should become the basis of how you study.
(As an aside, so many people in my university classes over the past few years have done Japanese *solely* because they like anime, and anime is basically all they have as an investment in the language. I think that’s fine in itself, but it’s probably good to have something else keeping you around – I have no interest in anime, but covering a lot of modern Japan is interesting.)
The thing about gendered language is very true, you know to avoid the feminine -wa sentence endings but the male ones are just as bad in terms of impressions, at best you’ll seem a bit uncouth and ‘rough’, but at worst it can sound like a gangster or drunken bozo yelling abuse at people. It’s definitely a lot easier being a foreigner because most people would never say anything to you about it, but sticking with the neutral polite language is the best way to go.
I’ve usually disregarded a lot of the more obscure casual speech, if only because I’ll never use it and the only situations in which you *would* use it is in stuff like “a man yells at the waitress rudely to get him more beer”.
Good luck 😀
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Personally this is why I’d rather learn to read the language than speak it casually. Being able to read & write it offers the ability to communicate, and the ability to read novels, magazines, games… all sorts of stuff. Plus when it’s written down, the different sentence endings etc are a lot more explicit and obvious. I honestly hadn’t paid a huge amount of attention to it when hearing those speech patterns in anime, but looking at actual text (at the time it was a visual novel, via text hook program automatially feeding into EDICT and JParser to break up and translate the sentences, add furigana etc.) actually made me notice how much variation there is, and how different some of those patterns are. And now I can pick them out and avoid embarassing myself.
Wow, having a job where you actually have to work makes TAY slightly unmanageable. BUUUT
@Shane, I didn’t buy your books out of obligation. In fact, I didn’t buy your books at all. You gave them to me free of charge except for that super secret thing we dare not speak of. After reading them, I find they are something I would have grabbed out of interest had I come across them anyway.
@everyone, about those things you all said, you are all totally right except when you weren’t. So there.
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@scree, I may not comment much on your cosplay blog but I do follow it. I am just to embarrassed to admit that I have enough knowledge on patterns to follow what you’re saying without trouble. Because I’m a man. Beer and steak all the way.
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Are you kidding me? Sewing is manly! How do you think people repaired their clothes in the war? They darned their socks and sewed their clothes up when they got the time to.
Also, I’m not using technical terms unless I know what they mean.On that note if anyone doesn’t understand anything leave it in a comment so you can understand D=
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Then you will have free food for the rest of the week!
It’s food!
Delicious free.
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I must be the only person on the planet that doesn’t like curry
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Hi Blaghman!
I totally read that and it caught my attention. Have all the attention.
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I LOVE ATTENTION! LOVE ME! LOOOOOOOOVVVVEEEEEE MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
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The subject material of those games is awesome but I am way too bad at them to be able to actually enjoy playing 🙁
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Mr. The Pessimist! When my son goes to school I’m gonna hire you to be my personal trainer, okay? Okay.
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Is your husband really going to be happy with you being trained by a man with 37 different aliases? Sounds kinda suspicious to me 😛
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Ignore this guy.
I’ll totes be your personal trainer. It’ll be totes funsies.
For me, of course. You? You’re going to HATE ME.
EVEN MORE.
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Also a preacher man.
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Just play a little of devil may cry 3 i said
just check out what it looks like in hd i said
then go back and play the first i said
i’ve already got the third weapon in the game now, and i don’t wanna go back to the others 🙁
WHY ARE YOU SO GOOD DMC3?
Playing Terraria with Rize, just had to take on Skeletron and The Eye of Cthulu simultaneously. Because we’re awesome like that. Of course we won, how could you doubt us?
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Still can’t believe how relaxed the dungeon is now. It used to be pretty full on, even with full molten gear. Now it’s a casual stroll through a field of locked chests 😛
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Yeah, I never would have been able to stand around typing messages before. Better gear makes it quite a bit easier. Maybe I need to kick it up to hard-mode on my main world. Assuming I can kill the Wall Of Flesh of course
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Yay for Greenius’ left over gear that he got as someone else’s left over gear. It can’t be a smart move wearing 3rd or 4th hand armour.
Oh brilliant idea for trolling in an MMO. Introduce a mechanic whereby if you trade items it degrades and eventually becomes useless. The more its traded, the faster it degrades 😀
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I made a Jungle set as social armour just cause it’s green :P. Now I get cool little green particles that follow me!
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hoorah! 3rd place in trivia get!
a whole $25 prize
…split between seven people.
haha…
aaanyway… hows things TAY?
http://www.dorkly.com/comic/36321/dueling-analogs-getting-a-new-game
lol I think that about sums it up perfectly…
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But what about mixed genres! Noooooooooooo!
Alphabetical is the way to go! (or by series’ chronological order eg. GoW collection before GoW 3, Demon Souls before Dark Souls)
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the only sensible answer is Dewey Decimal Classification. arrange games by subject matter.-
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I just do alphabetical by platform haven’t had the sequel different name problem before (unless Demon/Dark Souls counts but they’re close enough in letters so it doesn’t really matter)
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man, you’ve still got your N64 boxes? thats awesome 🙂
total respect to Sir Greenius
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but honestly, I subscribe to the last-used-on-top-of-the-pile method of storage. I organise enough stuff at work, so if I’m not getting paid to put stuff in some sort of manageable order, then I sort of feel ripped off.
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But then the weight of all the games on top will slightly alter the shape of the game cases on the bottom!(depending on how big this pile is)
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I just put similar games together, like all my fighters are together, my shooters and my hack n slashers, if a game is a mixed genre, I just stick it next to the game it’s most like
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hmmm, i’m going to uni now, but when i come back i’ll take a picture of my games, and then clearly outline the genres they are organised in
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Alrighty 😀
game collections ftw!
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Only problem with digital libraries is that you can’t display them on a shelf looking all pretty 🙁
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What if you created a program to give you a digital representation of your pile?
That wouldn’t be too hard, create a database of all the games on Steam, read your library, set up a system to arrange them how you want, I guess you’d need to download all the box art or whatever from the net.
Wouldn’t be as good as a real pile, but could be pretty cool.
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Whoa comments are going crazy! They’re starting to show a different number of comments per a page (like what has been discussed before) and now comments are disappearing!
Weird…
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yer soemthing weird going on for sure.. I refreshed and got the longest page 1 ever.. but no links to other pages.. ctrl F5 fixed it though
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Hi all,
It is with no small amount of happiness that I announce the Shane’s Display of Generosity Life is Good Giveaway Invitation. That’s right: the long-overdue S-DOG-LIGGI has finally arrived.
I have too many games. I will never play them all. Most of these are unplayed by me, but seem to be in great nick.
The following games are available to whoever gets in first:
Canis Canem Edit (Bully) – PS2 (PAL)
Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex – PS2 (PAL)
Dragon Age: Origins – 360
Dragon Age: Awakening – PS3 (sealed)
Fahrenheit – PS2 – claimed by Strange
Final Fantasy Origins – PSX (NTSC)
Final Fantasy Tactics – PSX (NTSC)
God of War Collection – PS3
HALO – Xbox
Jak and Dexter: Precursor Legacy – PS2 (PAL)
Jak 3 – PS2 (PAL)
LEGO Star Wars: Complete Saga – PS3
Metal Gear Solid 2 – PS2 (NTSC)
Metal Gear Solid 3 – PS2 (NTSC)
Metal Gear Solid 3 – PS2 (PAL)
NBA 2K11 – PS2 (PAL)
Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee – Xbox
Sacred 2 – 360
Super Mario 64 – DS
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash-Up – PS2 (PAL)
Tekken 5 – PS2 (PAL)
Some decent stuff there, I’m sure you’ll agree.
To register your interest, reply to this post with the phrase: “S-DOG-LIGGIwantgamez” and then say what game you want. I don’t mind if that ridiculous phrase is absent from your reply.
More games will be announced soon!
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About eight people got in ahead of you, can’t you see?
Just kidding, it’s yours. Email me at shane at shanewsmith dotcom.
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S-DOG-LIGGIwantgamez!
What a great phrase.
Dear S-DOG-LIGGIwantgamez,
I have a question. Is it generic MGS3 or Subsistence version? My subsistence version is scratched and more or less unplayable. If it’s vanilla MGS3, then that’s okay. Also, this is a pretty great giveaway. Nice job!
– Notoriousaur
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I think the NTSC one might be the version with the new movable camera. The PAL one is definitely vanilla.
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If no one else grabs it I would love Dragon Age Origins: 360 please or Sacred 2.
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And either way it is damn nice of you to offer 🙂
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Yep! Pick one!
If the other is still left at the end of the S-DOG-LIGGI period, you can have both
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Why is my gravatar not showing up?
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shane at shanewsmith dotcom
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I would absolutely love either the Lego Star Wars saga OR super mario 64…
I am ashamed to say i am still yet to play mario 64…
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Almost as bad as you never playing Zelda!
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Was that at me? I’ve played the shit out of Zelda! 🙂
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Haha I knew that would be confusing (stupid Greenius!)
Nah it was directed at Chuloopa :P. Prior to playing OoT3D I’m pretty sure he never played a single Zelda game *gasp!*
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Ok!!! LOL
Super mario 64 then… to stop the ashamadness!You’re such a sweetheart! 😀
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Consider it yours – just double-checking, you noticed it’s the DS version of the game?
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yep. all good 🙂
…why… is it bad? lol
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No, just that it’s called Mario 64, checking that you didn’t think it was the n64 version.
I don’t have a DS, just that game, so can’t vouch for its quality.
S-DOG-LIGGIwantgamez Dragon age awakening on PS3 if it is still available.
Wow this is really generous of you, are you moving or just cleaning up?
I would be interested in Final Fantasy Origins and Tactics if no one else has shotgunned them?
I’d be willing to give you something for your trouble too if you’d like!
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E-mail sent! \o/
Scholar and a gentleman.
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A damn generous offer you have there, may much good Karma come your way 🙂
I would ask for Munch’s Oddysey but I’ve looked up that the backward compatibility for that game on the 360 is poop. Hopefully someone else can give it a good home.
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Thanks, I feel like Karma already took a big rainbow dump on my doorstep, so trying to balance things out the other way now 🙂
I’m slightly disappointed that ‘S-DOG’ is just an abbreviation of ‘Shane’s Display of Generosity’ rather than a new hip and gangsta handle 😛
I’m not claiming anything but good job on the awesomes 😀
Um, could I please have bully if no one else is interested?
I never played it but heard good things about it.
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Certainly not that lambo person. Oh no.
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Breaking news
After his huge success published author Shane turns into a TAY dictator forcing comments to page 12. Only the brave lambogirl99 was brave enough to stop him. We’ll keep you updated on all details.
Looks like once this car is paid off i am going to have to settle for a desktop PC for my gaming…
Got Dawn of War 2 installed and openened it up to see it running slower than a slug on a bad day. It’s pretty much unplayable.
SOoo gayyy!!!!
SO yeah.. i’m biting the bullet and going to get a desktop pc for my gaming….
ANyone know how much i would need to spend on something that can run most games, but isn’t too expensive and is upgradable???
-le sigh-
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http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/rmp_sg_whirlpoolpcs_gaming_configs_1
I would shoot for the second one at least m’self, but the first one which is ‘only’ $370 ain’t too shabby.
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Yeah the second one should do the trick nicely, I also know that alot of TAYbies have spare computer parts around that you may be able to get. Spare ram extra hardrives. Actually i am pretty sure faction has a PC that he was trying to give away? Maybe ask him, You guys live close by.
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Wow… that cheap??
So i would have to spend around $600?
But then add on mouse, keyboard and monitor… mang….. dem computers…
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on the plus side, my step dad is a manager at a computer store.. so it should be cheaper again, with any luck..
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Well, the peripherals are the addon price.
Do you need a Sidewinder X4 or Logitech MX518 or 23″ monitor?
I’m assuming you already have a mouse and keyboard and monitor for your old computer. Just keep those.-
I have a laptop – so all i have is a mouse.
But keyboards are cheap enough anyway – i don’t need a gaming one.
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I use it as slang for terrible, It is a bad habit i have gotten into from working in north QLD. Sorry strange, don’t hit my beautiful face.
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Your response is way more stylish and amusing. Let’s pretend I didn’t say anything. 😉
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@Strange and my friend puppylicker
Sorry – bad habbit.
I don’t call people gay, mind you, i just use it for situations.
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I had 3 red bulls and a coffee yesterday, and now i’ve had 3 hours of sleep. Most of my homework is done, but i still have some work to do. If i die from too much red bull, just know that i think you’re all pretty cool. Except you.
Especially you.
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Um i don’t drink coffee or energy drinks and people call me crazy. I don’t mind being a little tired in the morning if it means I don’t have anything else influencing my sleep. I already have trouble most nights i don’t want it to be any wore.
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I do drink Pepsi Max though. I need some form of stimulant, especially since I don’t smoke anymore, or even drink much for that matter!-
I don’t drink energy drinks or coffee habitually, just only if i’m tired. Although sometimes i get iced coffee because it is delicious. I’m not addicted though, i can go the next month without any red bull/iced coffee pretty easily.
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There a joke in there somewhere about rockets and fuel. But I am truly unfunny so I’ll refrain from attempting. 😛
I’ve never drunk coffee. I blame this for me failing to be a grown-up. 😛 I do however drink Coke. A lot of it. Breakfast Coke, especially.
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🙂 We can leave the jokes to the funny people. On a side note this is why i am so hyper
Also how i got my nickname.
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I think I might host a meat at my place towards the end of May.
No solid plans just yet, just want to see who is interested. I just remember the talk of the Meat meat from before Strange had her little voyage and what with Ribbits being close to home, that sounds like a good opportunity for much meat at the meat.
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I need to tell my other Brisbane friends about that place when they’re coming down this way for an epic BBQ, since they always bring more meat than any one can handle XD
Oh merciful FSM, the fonts are changing again!
Actually, I quite like this one. At least, the one I’m typing in right now. Not necessarily the one that you’ll see when this comment is posted :p
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I hate that I can’t see the font changing. It always looks the same to me. I’m all curious and stuff.
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You obviously have no idea how often I refresh TAY in the mornings when I’m having my breakfast. 😛
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I had a glorious imagination run on the way in to work.
Going on Australia’s got tallent as a rock band called “The Gimmick” for shits and giggles (and maybe $$$)
The idea is that every stage you get to, you come on with a new gimick.
The first weeks would be thus:
Play on words
Drummer dressed in leotard and overacting: Itroduce him as “The Drama”
Bassist dressed as a fish: He’s our Bass player
Lead guitar: Dressed in Qatar military uniform: Lead Qatar
Rhythem Guitar: Qatar national “outfit” covered in ribbons. He’s out ribbon Qatar
Vocalist- dressed as sewing machine – introduces self as “singer”
Second week
Everyone dressed as reshirts from Star Trek – playing this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NkwBvVKQ2KY#t=89s
third week:
Everyone dressed as star wars characters.
Drop quotes while playing.
Stormtrooper: These aren’t the droids we’re looking for
Han: I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
Etc…
Man i could really go to town on something like this 😀
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Go to an audition.
Walk up to the microphone stand.
Pick up microphone stand.
Beat up Kyle Sandilands with microphone stand.
Receive praise and accolades for the rest of time.-
Then while you are at the channel 7 studios find the host of deal or no deal and kochie and get them all out of the way at once.
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Morning TAY! Pass some coffee over here please. Ergh. I have to get ready to go touch people for 5 hours. I obviously mean shampoos. You’re all disgusting if you thought otherwise.
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what the hell did i just watch.
Kinda funky, though
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You loved it.
All over you.
Like all that milk.
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I got a haircut yesterday, Is it a rule all hairdresses are either young and beautiful or old and fat. Because i have seen no evidence that mid 30 year old hairdresses exist. I am aware you will make some sort of joke how ugly young ones exist to and you are the proof to which i give you a sympathy laugh for a bad joke. I am actually really curious to what happens to all the middle aged hairdresses are the all getting abducted by aliens?
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I knew it, while we are on hair treatment why do so many of the shampoos have such gimmicky names. Seriously i do not believe Rejuvin8 does anything. I have used baby shampoo for 20 years and i will continue to. Mostly because it doesn’t hurt my eyes. 😛
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That explains so much.
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People now know my secret i will have to kill you all ./o\
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Correction – the chemicals they use age them horribly.
Half of them have no idea what’s even in the stuff.
The stuff i’ve leart since bee has been doing beauty therapy is some freeky stuff…-
My sister was using that Proactiv skin stuff. Some got on her bathroom counter – she mustn’t have noticed but by the time she did it had actually stripped some of the paint o_O
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I knew it.
Pro-Activ is Xenomorph blood.
#PrometheusComingSoon
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Oh god really, The most expensive both of cream of turpintine ever.
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Weird thing was that she kept using it. “Hm, it wears away paint IT MUST BE GREAT FOR MY FACE”
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I don’t think people realise that when the say rejuvinating they mean PEELS OF YOUR OLD SKIN SO THAT YOUR FACE DOESN’T HAVE ACNE ANYMORE. I
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Clinique has a product that’s supposed to tone down freckles. If this didn’t sound like putting acid on your face I’d be all over it,
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She learnt all about that stuff too
Long story short – it fucks your skin up well and good.
It’s basically like washing your face with acid. It strips away the good and the bad
My sister could tell you all about why that shit is nasty and what it does to your skin (she’s a beauty therapist)
Yeah but it’s science!
You can tell because the ads for it have a nice looking man in a labcoat standing in what must be a lab!
i go to a korean hairdresser and all the girls there have perfect skin and are pretty. damn genetic superiority.
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I read that as “You are pretty short”
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Basmarti would like a word with you.
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@Loops about your DoWII problems, I’m guessing you’ve tried toning down graphics?
That game can seriously hammer even a good computer. I know when I’m running it I have to drop physics and scarring or my graphics card chucks a wobbly
Morning TAY. Hope your day started well.
Anyway, Shane’s generosity above and the generosity of TAY in general really floored me. In the last 2-3 weeks a number of you guys have given away games, hardware etc and this made me feel like TAY should have a weekly giveaway of some kind.
I’m sure we all have old stuff that we don’t use that somebody in TAY might need and I think having a regular swap session would be nice. One man’s discarded games are another man’s treasure and all that.
Personally I know I have a bunch of old games in my untidy room and as soon as I do some cleaning up I’d be happy to give them out on TAY.
I’m thinking we could have such a giveaway every Wednesday, giving people enough time to do some cleaning up over the weekend. So what do you think? Do any of you have old stuff which you don’t mind giving up and does this endeavor sound like a good idea?
Also I’m sure if this works out we could also figure out a way to create some sort of TAY driven charity drive as well.
Any ideas or suggestions?
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That sounds like a pretty awesome idea, i do have loads of stuff that i no longer currently use that might be better if it goes to a new home.
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Mouth 2 mouth.
Hot.
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Not that hot unfortunately. I did send you some oxygen via air mail. Just take a deep breath at exactly 11am to experience it.
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NO WAI! My stuff is mine, I tell you. ALL MINE! 😛
Seriously though, great idea, but I’m not sure how it would work exactly. People would run out of things they wanted to give away pretty fast and then feel obligated to give more stuff away.
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or it’d turn into a competition with everybody trying to fiercely 1 up each other! I RAISE YOU A COLLECTOR’S EDITION!
seriously though, i wouldn’t have much to give away as my friends (irl) are my first port of call for giveaways.
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That’s why I suggested a charity spin off once the TAY giveaway franchise is exhausted. I’m not 100% sure how it would work as well but I’m sure we can figure it out.
I was actually thinking about what I could give away in light of Shane’s and other’s generosity, but the only issue I have is most of my stuff is digital. For PC and Vita anyway. All the ‘older’ games I have are collectibles such as my Final Fantasy Collection, MGS, Pokemon, etc. The only thing I have ‘real’ games for is DS, 3DS and PS3. I’d give away a couple of 3DS games, but I have a Yank 3DS and it wouldn’t work for anyone else.
In summary, if anyone has any use for US 3DS copies of:
-Super Mario 3D Land
-Mario Kart 7
-Pilotwings Resort
-Super Street Fighter IV 3D
I’d be happy to oblige. I just have to remind you, they will only work on an American 3DS due to Nintendo implementing idiotic 3DS region locking. Also they’re cartridges only, no box or instructions. I don’t keep those for my DS/3DS games, except for special games like MGS3D and RE:Revelaitons, which aren’t on offer. (Yes, I have the misprint US version of RE:R!)
My PS3 collection consists of about 8 games, all either special to me or unplayed.
Actually, if anyone wants a copy of Star Wars : Force Unleashed II on PS3, I’d give that a new home. Finished it last night and was a little underwhelmed, but all in all, a fun game.
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I wouldn’t mind taking the star wars game off you if you don’t mind. Also that gives me another idea, what if we have a sort of TAY game sharing system. For example every year we will have one game which all taybies should play together i.e I buy Just Cause 2 for example after I playing it I mail it to you Ynefel with a note with my name signed on it, after you’re done playing with it you send it to another TAYbie after signing your name. At the end of the day we will have a huge note with the signatures of all TAYbies and the game can be sent to Mark and tracy.
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Sold.
Shoot me some deets – ynefel at hotmail dot com
I actually wish someone had a US 3DS to give the other games a home. I won’t be playing them again any time soon.I’d probably pass on a game sharing system, I’m funny with my stuff – I hate borrowing off people or knowing it’s not ‘mine’. As a result, I never rent games either. Probably strange, but I’m funny with my vidja gaems and other toys.
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why Ynefel? But I want your signature. I guess I have to keep stalking you then. 🙂
I just sent you the email.
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This is truly awesome.
There’s a similar movement with books, i forget what it’s called though
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I like this idea *looks at Steam inventory*
TAY is rather hard to give away free things too though haha.
Stop trying to organise our chaos, we will give things away whenever we feel like it 🙂
That said maybe something like this could be worked into the meat the Pez is arranging, since it is likely to be the largest gathering of taybies EVA!!!! The other problem with doing this is it can make people feel like outsiders or even worse guilt them into spending money they don’t have in order to fit in with the group.
So I think I now support the retake mass effect movement. A few weeks ago I said that I didn’t actually mind the ending, though it wasn’t the ideal ending I had in mind, and that’s still true in part, but after spending the past couple weeks reading the ME3 forums and various blogs about the ending issue, because I’ve nothing better to do with my time then read people complaining over the internet, I’ve come around to their way of thinking. The ending was disappointing on a lot of levels and really could have been a lot better.
Okay either TAY is really slow today or my firefox is not refreshing TAY properly. The last comment I see is from 8:20AM
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I’ve had a similar problem for the last few days. then it fixes itself whe I post something.
weird & confusing.
So shitty day turned into shitty night.
Internet dropped out at about 9:30pm last night (again) and didn’t come back up before I went to bed (11:00pm). I had intended to do some Diablo 2 testing to figure out what the best way to play this weekend would be but that kind of went out the window. In the mean time my washing machine decided that it wanted to stop working.
So this morning I got up early and rang a guy to come look at my broken washing machine. Said he would be there at 8:30 so I sent work an email saying I’d be in about 10mins late. 8:30 came and went so I called work just to let them know what was going on. The guy shows up at 8:45 (I’m told 15mins late for a tradesman is actually pretty good), told him what the washing machine was doing, he looked at it for about 5mins then said he needed to order a part and that he would be back next week. So yay! No washing machine this weekend.
On the positive side, after I got into work (just after 9) I sat down with my manager (not the boss who is a dick) and told him about my concerns. Felt good to get it off my chest. Hopefully things will be a bit better around here now.
Still quitting at the end of the month though.
I did make glorious hamburgers for dinner last night though, which was instantly met with food regret. And after I came to terms with my internet not coming back on I got into bed and watched Let Me In which is an awesome movie and everyone needs to watch it!
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Chin up Cakesmith!
You could just go to a laundromat! wait, do they exist anymore? i kinda wish they did, it’d be so fun to go out and just converse with strangers as you go about washing your clothes.
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As someone who has laundromat, that shit doesnt happen people get all frightened in laundromats because they think people are judging them and ther prescious clothes.
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so i missed some words there. You guys will figure out what i meant, i would tell you but i honestly have no idea what i was trying to write.
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I knew you would have linked doctor horrible, honestly it really isn’t fun unless you go with a friend.
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I feel bad for constantly complaining. I mean, look at welbot. Poor guy is going through things much worse than me 🙁
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CAKE CAKE CAKE
Sorry i wanted to get your attention,Think of it this way you only have a month left at work before you can leave terrible town and move on to greener pastures. You will be okay buddy just have to wait out the bad times with us here. -
I feel your pain on the washing machine front. It’s been about a month now since we had a properly working washing machine. Still gonna have to wait at least another week-and-a-half before we can get a new one, too.
Morning TAY!
Slight issue when I was trying to create a DC Online account last night: I log in and it informs me that all users have to change their passwords. I just created the account, but OK, sure. I change it and it tells me my old password or username is wrong.
Fast forward 40 minutes later and I’m locked out of my account for trying to change the passwords too many times.
Wut.
Has anyone else had problems with it/tried it at all?
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“Slight issue when I was trying to create a DC Online account last night, the game is lame and I went outside and stood in the rain, nudie, as that’s a better use of my time”
FTFY
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I accidentally a paragraph:
The bad username/password error comes up when I try to submit the password change request. This basically means I’m stuck in a loop of changing the password only to have it fail, not change, mark it AS changed, then tell me I need to change it.
If you could erase your memory of playing games and then select one game and replay it what would it be?
Me: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
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There is a shocker.
Um probably pokemon all the strategy was lost on me as a kid. If i was to go back to the original games i could have totally pwned and not by accident this time.-
haha the strategy is still lost on me i just equip my pokemon with the best attacks and have at it.
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Hyper beam ah the nostalgia.
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I’d go with Pokemon as well. But that depends on whether or not I would even like them if I had no childhood nostalgia attached… First gen would be next to unplayable these days if you don’t have any attachment to it. xD
Also Xenoblade.
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Mario 64. That thing blew my socks off when I picked up my N64. Such a big game, so amazing to look at, so much stuff to do.
That or Link’s Awakening back on my green and grey brick Game Boy.
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I know a lot of people that would agree with you. I didn’t really do Banjo Kazooie, as it was later down the N64’s life. I just remember getting my launch N64 and getting home, putting in Mario 64 and almost falling out of my seat.
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I think the question should be , if you could erase your memory of playing a game, and NEVER play it again what would it be?
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Two Worlds.
I was so insulted by that game I took it back the same day and got a refund, and contemplated writing the developers demanding an apology for insulting my intelligence and expecting people to actually pay money for the game.Also, as a huge Fallout fan since the original, Fallout New Vegas almost gave me a coronary. Collector’s edition purchased, took a few days off to hammer it, and was met with around 5 game lockups in the first hour. Like resetting my PS3 and losing save progress lockups. Internet research showed this was a prolific issue. So I gave up for the day, and it got an update the next day – which made it so bad I couldn’t even load my save game 60% of the time.
In utter disgust, I sold it a week later, after waiting for a further patch. It’s left a brown stain on one of my all time favorite IP’s, and I severly dislike Obsidian as a result.
Sorry, that was quite a rant, but FO:NV was a bitter, bitter disappointment for me.
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Last night, when I got home, my PC was just constantly restarting itself. So I turned it off.
It wouldn’t turn on for the rest of the night.
Not sure what’s gone wrong, but I see tinkering in my future (and probably no Diablo 2 /o\)
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open it up and you will spot a little battery can the battery out for about 2 minutes and put it back it. Also disconnect it from the power point. this is if its a desktop. should rest your Bios as this often occurs after a while if you have an unstable clock. If a laptop ill have to think about it.
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Most of the parts are new, if the battery is playing up or the power supply is dying, I’m going to be a sad panda.
Thanks though, I’ll give that a shot when I get home.
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Have you over clocked it or used a software overclock?
I noticed that when i had a bad clock my computer gradually would take longer to start up and then went into stages where it would sound like it was starting then stop and then start up. It then moved into the stage of starting up and then turning off and doing this constantly until i just took the battery on the mother board out to allow a reset of the mother board settings. hopefully its that.
Also check your connections which should probably be your first step but i assume you would do this anyway.
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Sounds exactly like my problem. Did a software overclock of the CPU and GPU using the software that came with the drivers and I’ve had issues with it not turning on before that seemed to be solved by having it disconnected from the power source for a little while (or jiggling with the cables connecting the power button to the mobo :p).
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yeah software overclocks are rubbish once you do the battery thing make sure you open the software up and undo it then get rid of the program. Hopefully thats the only problem =)
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Unplug it, then give it a stern lecture. Focus on how disappointed you are on its complete lack of effort and how it makes you feel really upset. Then plug it back it and press the power button.
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Oh no wonder it wont turn on you haven’t apologised for threatening it.
remember to add “i love you” afterwards.
If that doesnt work start making deals with god about how you will become a better person if he will turn it on.
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We should make it the next page. Page 11 is about to end. or do we not like sughly all of a sudden?
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Meh.
I rate Sughly’s Birthday 2/10
The premise had promise, but it failed to deliver.
Also, not enough Latvian neat poetry.-
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Happy Birthday Sughly. I know not of you but wish you well.
@ Effluvium boy
I agree. The Sughly birthday franchise has become stale and overused. Personally I liked the original best.
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I never know if these birthday wishes are real or not these days… but Happy Birthday anyway! xD
Morning TAY. So having at least confirmed some form of accommodation for Comic con in July, Puppylicks and co are pushing me to make a costume for the occasion.
My question is, at an event like Comic Con, Is it poor form to dress up as something you may be less than obsessed with.
I ask this because, im not massively into any particular game or comic or tv character thats really…. costume worthy. so i’d be looking at something a little more on the fringe of my interests.
Alternatively, i did wonder if Terry Pratchett characters would be considered in the right theme for comic con. Could do an awesome Rincewind costume easy enough.
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I don’t consider it bad form. Maybe don’t spread it around that you don’t really care though ;p
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Well I wouldn’t dress as say dead pool then have a sign around my neck say “not really a deadpool fan” 😛
But yeah, not being an obsessee of many comics and most of the tv shows that are considered comic con worthy, that i actually follow don’t really make for good costumes. hehe. So just getting some public opinion on what is an isnt kosher.
I know ultimately i should just do what I want to do, but you know, wanna be in the spirit of things.
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The hat is the crowning Jewel of a Rincewind costume. It doesnt matter where he is, or how down on his luck is, he always has Wizzard on his hat, even if its spelt out in shells, or SOMETHING.
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And sometimes, poor old Rincewind just needs a reminder that he is, in fact a wizzard, because let’s face it, he’s not a particularly gifted wizzard.
He is excellent at getting into trouble and running away from said trouble though.
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Hey I think the ability to survive, and turn cowardice into an art is a under rated.
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MORNING TAY!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUGHLY!
I’m really sorry I never give away games =( Maybe I will make stuff for TAY instead?
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Said it on twitter, but I’ll say it again here just cos he’s awesome! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUGHLY!!!!
Blood’s post about accommodation made me realise I need to organise it for myself for the mono-meat…is anyone interested in getting a shared room for it? Should be a bit cheaper that way.
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I vaguely recall from the emails going round that Pez was looking into accomodation.
or its just a scam to get peoples money.either way, you should talk to that guy.
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New question inspired by Blood Apathy
If you could erase your memory of playing one game and never replay it what would it be?
Me: Call Of Duty Black Ops Singleplayer
My god that was a terrible story.
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Oh man, BLOPS story was amazing.
Sooooooooooooooooooo ridiculous.
But it was “seriously ridiculous” in that it knew how dumb it’s story was and never took itself too seriously.
Any MW story though is “ridiculously serious” in that it’s so incredibly serious about everything that it’s just so stupid and annoying.
Also “Oscar Mike”… damn that phrase to hell.
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To me it was as if they all sat down in a conference room and were like okay guys how can we make a really awesome story and then a clown entered the room and so they gave up once he started making balloon animals.
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I would LOVE to erase the END of space marine *ducks from random object thrown by loop*. But seriously, that game was so Boss right up to well…..the boss. Major let down for me. The rest of the game was epic.
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Yeah that boss fight was poop.
They should have had a more direct battle with Nemeroth that forced you to employ all the skills you had learned through the campaign, then have reinforcements bombard him with supporting fire, and THEN you can end it with that quicktime event battle. That would have been a satisfying last fight.Hell the fight with the Warboss Ork was decent, why not do that with Nemeroth?
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Um…none. I guess I’ve been fairly lucky with the games I’ve played. Even the terrible ones I’ve managed to get a laugh or two from.
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really? I thought BlOps was the best CoD single player campaign that I’ve played. there was a bit more to it than go there, shoot all the things, POV character dies, new character, shoot more things et al.
it was convoluted & borderline sci-fi, but I’m ok with that.aaanyway, game I’d happily forget… Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom. holy hell, that game was abosolute bollocks.
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RDR, because it’s all downhill from there. No game will ever be that good again.
Unless it’s RDR 2
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I would erase Damnation from my memory.
That being said, this ‘erase from memory’ business might not be the best idea. Once the experience is removed, you will no longer possess the knowledge of how terrible it was. This could lead you to replay the same terrible game over and over again.
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should i add that you would be aware that it had been erased and that it was impossible for you to be able to play it due to the microchip they placed in your brain while they were erasing your memory?
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Sure!
In the case of Damnation, microchips preventing you from playing the game should be mandatory immunisations administered to children.-
Its ok SyvRaen where here for you. Damnation can never hurt you again *opens arms to offer a comforting hug to a sobbing SyvRaen*
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*sob* But, every time I play a game… *sob* It’s there in my Steam library… *sob* A constant reminder of that time… *sob*
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One, two, three, four
Happy, happy birthday
from all of us to you
We wish it was our birthday
so we could party tooHappy, happy birthday
May all your dreams come true
We wish it was our birthday
so we could party too(and so on and so forth)
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Good morning TAY, though not so good for me, with three bosses hovering around me toaday, I feel like a wounded gazelle with the vultures circling.
On ME3 related news, I must learn to use the damn cobra missile launcher thingy, I have about 60 of the bloody things because I keep forgetting to use them.
Oh well, one session I might just go nuts and use them all, FUN.
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I rarely use them, basically it’s if you’re up against an Atlas, Banshee or Geth Prime and can’t be bothered wasting your time with a bullet sponge, one hit kill FTW.
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How does one do such magnificent things oh great one?
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i must play with you guys. Now that im finally giving it another crack. I dont think i ever got far in diablo 2. not like diablo 1, the number of hours i lost to that game was….well more than i have lost on all the cods. So A LOT.
Hi all,
As first announced here, http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-157/comment-page-11/#comment-624484 in the dusty recesses of page 11, I proudly present the Shane Wants Absconded Games Giveaway Extravanganza… Really, known in the unfashionable past as S-DOG-LIGGI. (If the event lasts until page 13, it will get yet another name for itself)
To participate in SWAGGER, all you have to do is post your interest. Pick a game.
These games are up for grabs.
HALO – Xbox
Jak and Dexter: Precursor Legacy – PS2 (PAL)
Jak 3 – PS2 (PAL)
LEGO Star Wars: Complete Saga – PS3
Metal Gear Solid 2 – PS2 (NTSC)
Metal Gear Solid 3 – PS2 (NTSC)
Metal Gear Solid 3 – PS2 (PAL)
NBA 2K11 – PS2 (PAL)
Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee – Xbox
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash-Up – PS2 (PAL)
Tekken 5 – PS2 (PAL)
Dragon Age: Origins – 360 – maybe for Andy register your interest still!
Sacred 2 – 360 – maybe for Andy register your interest still!
Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by Virus__
Super Mario 64 – DS – claimed by Chuloopa
Dragon Age: Awakening – PS3 (sealed) – claimed by Masha2932
Fahrenheit – PS2 – claimed by Strange
Final Fantasy Origins – PSX (NTSC) – claimed by Ynefel
Final Fantasy Tactics – PSX (NTSC) – claimed by Steve-O the Devo
God of War Collection – PS3 – claimed by Ruffleberg
Canis Canem Edit (Bully) – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by scree
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I’ll send you an email right now. But i should probably give you some money for postage at least.
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A term for Halo, coined by filthy Playstation whores.
Wait, I just realised that I am also now a filthy Playstation whore…
EXISTENTIAL CRISIS!-
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I had no interest in Halo then & I still don’t.
I was a GTA kid back in high school, still am.
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You can be both!
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Haha, yeah. Well who would want to play an over rated FPS.. Oh wait people do play Call of Duty.
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The over rated FPS remark just reminded me of The Leet World and it’s Christmas special from 2008. Oh how I miss that show & Pure Pwnage =(
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‘ubermicro’ rofl
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It’s just so stereotypical & hilarious. Their other show Web Zeroes was boss as well.
It’s a shame internet shows of quality (well the ones I am aware of) have really diminished over the years =(
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You know what you should do, Shane?
Link like so:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-157/comment-page-11/#comment-624484.
I am a marketing genius!
So apparently the office rumor is i am shacking up with the receptionist. Who comes up with this bullshit, who honestly thinks i would be the best option to be the other man. Idiots! I mean i wouldn’t be sad if it happened, but honestly just because i am nice to a person and actually care what they say doesn’t mean anything.
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Yeah, I knew that comment would go that way the moment I posted it.
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YOUR LOVE KNOWS NO LIMITS.
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I would totally be in a relationship with cakesmith, we have steak for dinner watch awesome tv play some games.
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The next meat you two are both at is going to be so bromantic.
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You should see Shiggy and Pez. The bromance there is at levels that cannot be calculated.
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OH man, it’s amazing just how bromanced those two are.
I’d like to blame the fact that they slept in the same bed at the first Can’d Meat, but I think that just helped their bromance to bloom, as opposed to igniting the spark…
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DON’T JUDGE US OUR LOVE IS AS PURE AS THE MORNING SNOW.
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haha, office rumours. If i ever start office rumours they are better than “omg this person and that person are shacking up” and its normally for the purpose of it being a wildly obvious fake rumour because then its funnier.
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It bothered me because she was quite mad about it. I don’t hate everyone i work with just most.
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It bothered you that she was mad with it in that you feel like she was insulted at the idea of you two together?
Isn’t she already in a relationship?
Doesn’t have to be personal, y’know.
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You know I actually wish this happens to me so I at least have the illusion that girls actually like me.
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Start spreading rumours about yourself then!
“Did you hear about Tech Knight? I heard he hooked up with a Swedish model last night!”
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Hahaha Techy do you know what it is to be publicly embarrassed in front of the CEO of your company because apparently i have no “game”
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I have had similar experiences at Executive Director level, not CEO. No “game”? What?
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I’ve got no game and I’ve seen ladies nekkid before.
Like, in real life and everything!
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I have lots of game!
*looks at Steam account*
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Seriously, send a fake email to yourself talking about what a stud you are. Walk away for a few minutes and wait for someone to come looking for you/snoop around. BAM. Gossip.
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You could always go the Billy Madison route:
No I will not make out with you. Did ya hear that? This girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class. You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I’m here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you. Go on with the chlorophyll.
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Where’s the subtlety in that?!
Amateur.
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I’m as subtle as a brick in the face.
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I already send mail to myself… well body parts sending to each other.. hang on I’ll grab a few logs for you:
11:31 – April 3 2012
From: Stomach
To: Brain_System
Subject: Hunger level ALARMBrain,
My hunger levels are steadily reaching 85%
Please could you arrange for me to be fed human food within the next hour?
Sincerely,
Stomach————————————————————————————–
17:51 – March 12 2012
From: Brain_System
To: Heart
Subject: Re: Friend Zoned AGAIN! :'(Heart,
I did warn you didn’t I? I know you’re just doing your job but please be more cautious? Seriously you’re killing me here.
Sincerely,
Brain system of Tech Knight————————————————————————————–
10:12 – February 09 2012
From: Coolant_Monitor
To: Brain_System
Subject: Capacity ALARMBrain,
Coolant storage is nearing 95% capacity. Please can you take this model to the appropriate facilities, empty the excess coolant from storage and apply searing hot resin before closing the alarm?
Thank you,
Coolant Monitor -
I lol’d at this.
Well played Techy.
Rocketman! the same happened to me with the reception girl where I work. For some reason she got pissed at me even though I had nothing to do with rumours =/
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Now the real party can begin.
Everyone remembered to wear their tear away clothing today yeah?
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YES!
*rip*
…no. SHIT.
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It would appear TAY ate my first comment because I can type me email correctly:
I had a rumor when I was working at the cinema that I was with one of my managers.
It is entirely possible for a male and female to be friends without sex being the ultimate goal.
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If only more people knew this =/
Went to lunch with my receptionist once and rumours started to fly around. Gotta love when rumours destroy a friendship.
PUNY DOOR
I WRRESTLE BEAR OUT OF HOUSE TODAY BUT FORRGET KEY
SO ME AND BEARR JUMP OVER FENCE TO BACKYARD
VE ATTACK WINDOW AND TACKLE DOORR AND BRREAK INTO HOUSE
<a href=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PWR3w2VkSZs/TFnZVYgMC4I/AAAAAAAACUk/gD2k4c0ccDY/s1600/Zangief_colors_by_Manchas.jpgVE TAKE COMMERATE PICTURR OF VERY GOOD SUCCESS
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I suppose in Russia, people don’t know how to close tags.
He probably got the keys and wrestled the bear out of the house again.
That all said, I’m disturbed how easily I managed to break in.
Maybe I am just MacGyver.
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Dear Brother Communist Bish,
Do they have functioning HTML tags in your country?Just curious, because yours are kinda broken.
Regards,
Brother Pez.-
Hey PutinPez, do they have “How not to post late” classes in your country?
Just curious, because your face.
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The glorious leader needs not your HTML tags.
Report to the Kingswood Garden Bar for a little… chat.
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TAY marketing machine!
Is Blur any good? It’s on sale on Steam today. I loved Project Gotham Racing and am a fan of arcade racers.
I’m thinking of getting it, but then I think I should get it on Xbox. I love playing racers on a large screen with the bass and surround sound pumping but I could get that experience on my PC by plugging my laptop into the amplifier (HDMI makes this easy).
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It’s Need for Speed meets Mario Kart.
The only problem is the community is dead and online was the most fun.
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Blur was pretty good, but the single player difficulty curve became really steep after the first 2-3 hours. Trying to finish in the top three became really tough. The good thing though is you get XP for doing everything on the track from drifting, shooting down enemies etc. not just finishing in the top spots.
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only 10 min before you receive the oxygen I sent you. I hope you’re ready to take a deep breath.
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I’m the same, I prefer most games on PC except for racers / fighting games. I was actually thinking of picking up blur a little while ago.
I didn’t though.
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Tay! I just realised! There is a game that I have that I will probably never play \o/
It’s a Wii game.
It’s…Lego batman.
Anyone want it?
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At least it wasn’t “up the bottom”
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So I’m on call for the long weekend. Not cool. Also, there’s three of us in the support department, and one of the other guys is taking next week off as well – the useful one. Means I’m left with the other that couldn’t find his elbow if you showed him where it was. Next week is not going to be fun.
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Man, I am SO GLAD I no longer have to do oncall work.
I got stuck with it last year over the long weekend and it was utter hell. For some reason EVERYTHING breaks on a long weekend. Stupid Murphie and his stupid law.
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I’m hoping it’s like Christmas – I do remote support for nursecall and paging systems, predominantly at nursing homes and dementia type setups. Usually over Christmas it’s quiet, because people take their relatives home for long weekends and such. Usually means a quiet weekend.
PLEASE be a quiet weekend.
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In regards to what bish posted before on gaming PC’s – Asuming i was to go the $600 option – would it be worth my money to change the processor to an i7??
Aren’t they meant to be better?
I really have no idea anymore.. when i knew a lot about PC’s was back in the P4 days…
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also – what are the main difference between the $370 model and the $600 ones?
Ram is pretty cheap and can be beefed up, same with the HDD.. is there much else hugely different?
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Better? Yes.
For the cost though, not really(I’m assuming the option given is an i5).
Decent i5 is appropriate for all but the most intense games, and even then, we’re talking about a coupla fps difference, nothing massive. For a budget, i5 is definitely the way to go.
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A lot of people go with the i7 option, because it’s ‘better’, but honestly the sandybridge (2nd gen) i5-2500k’s are beast – you can overclock the proverbials out of them if so inclined and are a fantastic gaming processor.
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sorry guys – i forgot the link
http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/rmp_sg_whirlpoolpcs_gaming_configs_1-
Diff between the $370 and the $600
One’s a celeron, one’s a pentium – both worthless for gaming. They’re budget desktop processors.
One has 4GB RAM, the other has 8GB – I would suggest 8GB, though 4GB would probably be sufficient, though given RAM pricing, I’d highly recommend 8GB.
Also, one has a better graphics card and motherboard.This is all as short, sweet, and non technical as i can make it.
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^ This. Current model i5, and not an entry level, 8GB RAM, decent graphics card and motherboard – and as always suggested, don’t shirk out on the power supply. It’s one of the most important parts. And don’t think more watts = better. You need sufficient wattage to power all the devices in your system, and it needs to be good quality. Corsair, Seasonic, Thermaltake, all make good PSU’s.
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Never get a cheap power supply in favour of saving money. EVER.
And if you don’t know how many watts you need (not the doctor variety, the powering the computer kind), there are a whole bunch of calculators online.
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Turn the PC on, like you’ve turned PC’s on thousands and thousands of times before, without consequence. Then, with no warning *BAAAAAAAANG*. Last time it happened I swear I almost died. Then it took ~3 hours for that lovely burnt/ozone smell to leave the shop.
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Funny story,
Back when I was a hardware tech I was in a branch swapping out a PSU on one of their dell desktops while they were having a small birthday cake before the branch opened.This was when the PSU’s had the switchable volts – between 120/240.
Guess who didn’t set the voltage before he plugged it in?
So it sorta went something like this:
“Happy birthday to y-*BOOM*-oooouuuu”
The waft of purple smoke next to me didn’t help with my attempts to feign innocence.
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You should always get an i7 over and i5 IF you have the extra money, because it’ll be relevant for longer. Having said that, you’re not missing out on much between the two, as processors are becoming less and less important in gaming with the way that graphics cards are progressing.
TL;DR only get an i7 if you have money to burn.
I could do you a system with i5 2600k, 8gb ddr3, 1tb hdd, case, psu, mobo for around $650.. close to $800 if you wanna throw in a gtx 560 OC..
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As much as i’d really like to get it from you, i know my step dad will be offended if i don’t get it from him 🙁
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I see you received my package.
How was it? are you relaxed now? Good. Now no more shouting okay?
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The time you’ve all been waiting for has arrived!
I updated my blog.
http://blaghman.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/news-from-2001-diablo-2-contains-expansion-content-on-disc/
I did it in the KotakUS style, so it will only take 10 seconds to read.
Unless you’re too cool to waste 10 seconds on me. That’s cool, I guess. I’ll just go over there and cry.
No, no, it’s okay. I don’t mind, I can’t tell you how to live your life.
I just, I wish it hadn’t come to this. Don’t you remember how we used to be? The days of Summer, long gone. I… I loved you.
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“I did it in the KotakUS style, so it will only take 10 seconds to read.”
All you need is someone called “name” to say “I hate you Blagh” and your all set
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I read it!
Definitely done in Kotaku US style but with more words, better grammar and less spelling errors.
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^^^ THESE GUYS GET IT! 😀
*wipes away proud tear*
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Tried all that HR weren’t too happy.
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question for the more technically minded here :
I’m using Windows7 32bit & internet explorer9. I’ve just found that a program I’ve gotta use wont run with ie9, so I’m looking to roll back to ie8.
only problem is, when I get the ie8 installer from the MS site, it says that ie8 is not supported by this OS. which is BS coz up until last week I was running ie8 fine.
can anyone suggest a way to get ie8 running again?
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Psst Psst 1999 called they want their web browser back. Sorry it was teed up alittle. Maybe use chrome or firefox instead?
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Windows 7 has IE8 built in, it’s the standard browser and can’t be removed. (not easily, anyway)
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Scientists have indicated that this will work.
No idea about the compatibility with the program you’re trying to use, though. They’re still looking into that.
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chrome & firefox have the same problem.
a link to run a program downloads a tiny file that in turn runs the mais program.
when I click the link to open it, the browser has a hissy fit & wont do anything about runnig this trigger.-
One of those shitty business applications that is programmed to only work with a specific, outdated version of IE? Oh boy, who doesn’t love those?
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@S-DOG – S-DOG! \o/
@Ynefel – you said you don’t have any boxes or instructions for DS/3DS games. Does that mean you just chuck them out?! :O *gasp*
@Sughly – I said it on tweeters but Happy Birthday!
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Greendude: Yep, I throw them out. The cases and the like take up too much space, and I have no plans to trade them in. I inevitably store all my DS/3DS games in a storage case as well. I keep the cases for important games like RE:R and MGS3D. The rest just arent that important to me. This only applies to DS/3DS/PSP/Vita titles though, obviously.
I know, I know, people gasp whenever I tell them, but it’s one of my many little quirks. =D
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I’m horrible with my DS game boxes. The games are too small to bother putting back into the case… but I never throw the cases out either! I have a drawer full of empty DS/3DS game cases and a small box full of the cartridges. xP
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So this long easter weekend I’m going to record at least one song! A friend of mine has written some lyrics, so it/they will be fully fledged song/s!
What I’ve got for one of them is in the vein of Muse (or so I think), so there’s something to look forward to/be terrified of.
Also, cannot wait for this long weekend. I need it. So. Much.
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I’ve been meaning to record a song for the past few days.
Well, I need to finish writing it. And then send it to Gabe Newell.
True Story, I thought I’d share.
Good luck with your song.
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Man, I have been so busy on DD music, my own album and buying an apartment I literally have no time for anything else :\
It’s hard enough to even fit in a couple of gaming sessions each week! have mercy!-
NO!
I’M PRIORITY NUMBER 1!
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@Pez, I haven’t been getting any emails about the mono-meat. Are any actually being sent, or is everyone veeery quiet?
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Hawkies!
Just included you on the e-mail trail ^^;;
FYI, submit cash ASAP if you want the place to my bank account and I’ll get the room booked on Fri.
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Killed me some Bell Gargoyles in Dark Souls last night.
Why did they make the first real boss battle in that game against a replica of one of the most irritating bosses in Demon’s Souls? Managed to beat them by summoning an NPC ally (had to reverse hollowing for the first time to do it) who just tanked everything and killed the first one pretty much all by himself. He died when the second one was on rather low health and I really struggled to finish the bastard off.
Flame breath is a dick move.
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\o/
I played a bit of Dark Souls last night to.
Without giving anything away I just want to say …
“screw you toxin”, it’s the most over powered bloody DoT ever!
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IKR,
I got hit by one of them and I think to myself “MWAHAHAHA WHAT PUSSIES THEY DO NO DAMAGE TO ME!”.
*10 seconds later*
“Wait wheres all my health going, no wait it’s damage me almost as fast as i drink flasks”
/cry
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I murdered so many of the tree people to get the toxin healing thingies.
So many tree people. All their blood forever on my hands.
Well, sap.
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Aborcide.
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I killed those things first time, but it was so close I was shaking by the time I was done. It didn’t help I didn’t notice the second one immediately. I remember rolling. A LOT.
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I still haven’t got the hang of combat and when I’m a little panicked will mash circle or square instead of R1/R2.
I’m rather terrible at this game, that’s part of the fun :p
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Dude, panicking is such a normal reaction, trust me. Especially with bosses – the significance of the boss fight is most certainly not lost with this game. It’s usually because of how much work was involved getting there it’s made all the more tense.
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The panicking bit is really just a case of me going to muscle memory. Still haven’t quite gotten used to the controls again, so I think I try and use Arkham Asylum/City controls.
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I’d seen Mr. Strange struggle with the Bell Gargoyles so I just summoned Solaire to help me and he kept them distracted while I threw Pyromancy spells at them. Worked really well.
Lol, using a VNC to access my computer at home. My brother-in-law, who said he was going to drop by home today to get the new Game of Thrones as he doesn’t have internet at his house, sits down at my computer and I see him start to copy the file to a USB.
So I decide to have a little fun with him. I cancel the file transfer and watch him start it again. So I cancel it once more. On the third time I cancel it again, open notepad and type:
I can’t let you do that Dave. (Replace Dave with his real name).
I then run a batch file I have which makes spews random numbers in a command prompt.
I get a phone call 30secs later
“Your computers fucked! It’s doing things on it’s own”
Cut to me laughing histerically.
I was thinking about the other day when Pez says there are clicks within TAY. I was first of all thinking how i didn’t think there were then i tought about it a bit more and found that there was so i started to group people up for fun because i was bored.
The cool kids
Pez
Shiggy
Doc WHat
Sarcasm Fairy
Ruffleberg
Harli
Flu Flu
The TeamSpeakers
Blaghs
Bish
Tech Knight
Jo
Trjn
Myself
Freyjr
Gorryean (a combination of gorzy and pyrean because i liek them together)
Numbers and jr Numbers)
NoobHeadShot
TNKOTB Or (The New Kids On The Block)
Cakesmith
Batgirl
Jordi
Andy
Ynefel
Scree
Greenius
Sorry if you aren’t included those were just the people i could think off the top of my head anyway. I think subconciously i am more friendly with people in my group because i have constant contact with them. Not that i don’t like you all equally just a thought like i say.
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Wow, excluded from “The Cool Kids”, huh?
That’s awesome.
Haven’t been on TeamSpeak today, it’s not even noon and I’m already being insulted.
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Actually, Loops was crowned king of Kotaku by Serrels himself. Pretty sure you just committed treason. :p
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Um that wasn’t my intention, i was just typing, Oh god i take it back. THEY WERE JUST SILLY NAMES
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Let us retreat to North Kotaku, where such rivalries do not exist. We are all comrades in Nth Kotaku! We are equals! Except I am more equal than others.
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First of all, it’s cliques :p
And it tends to be grouped as “Sydney people who meat frequently”, “TeamSpeakers who talk frequently”, “Night TAYbies who have lengthy conversations frequently” and other less obvious groupings like those that play together on Steam and whatnot.
There’s a lot of overlap but there are different levels of familiarity that leads to cliques forming. That’s pretty much how socialising in large groups work. Those you spend more time dealing with are the ones that you’re more likely to respond to.
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Even within those cliques there are subgroups.
Gorzy/Pyrean on TeamSpeak is the most obvious one but there’s also the CoH players (not strictly because we play CoH but that is a subgroup on TS) and a few others.
I’d mention the LoL players, but that’s everyone but me on TS and I still force my way into that group.
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Aw, I’ve been here 6 months and I’m still considered new?
Plus we all know why I don’t go on teamspeak
scree
scree1
scree11
scree111I’m sure you get my drift
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DAN!, Strange, Pixel, Rize, Shane, Loops, Shady, Freeze, Jimu, Sughly, Q…
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We’re just those random people that attach themseleves to the cliques now and then. but nobody really likes, but are nice to their faces. 😛
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GUYS GUYS LISTEN I AM A MORON DISREGARD WHO CARES WHAT A PREBUBESCENT MANCHILD BOY THING THINKS ABOUT WHERE YOU STAND IN SOCIAL CONTEXT ON THIS WEBSITE PLEASE DONT GET MAD.
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No, this is totally important*!
*Completely unimportant.
On the upside, it reminded me to ring iinet \o/-
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yeah I’ve done so, just waiting for them to ring me back
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you know it’s true. Rocketman is just the only one who has enough ballz to point it out. i also think we should add
THE COUPLES
Shiggy and Pez
Bish and Flu
Doc What and SarcasmFairyetc. etc.
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I wasn’t being unkind
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no but I do agree with what you and Bunny put so aptly
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Wow, so I decided to buy Blur for $5 and Steam put it on my computer in around 30 minutes. It’s 7.6gb!
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Man I periodically remind myself how amazing technolog is when stuff like that happens. Downloaded something off PSN the other week – forget what it was, but 10GB came down in like an hour. I actually stopped when it was done, and thought about just how cool that is.
I remember downloading the ISO for Fallout on PC back in dial-up days off a warez FTP. I went halves with a mate – it was broken up into X amount of 1.38MB rar files. He started at the beginning, I strarted at the end, and we went till we overlapped, combined our resources and burnt the ISO. Downloading that thing took 3 days.
We deal with technology every day, and I take it for granted every day, but sometimes, it’s awesome to stop and realise just how fucking cool it all is.
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I don’t know if I should be annoyed because I’m stuck at work or happy because it’s coming out half a week earlier or annoyed because it means more than a week’s wait between episodes 2 and 3 (because we’ve had enough “longer than usual waits” for episode 3s).
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I SAW IT!!!
IT WAS AMAZING!!!
In no way did it look like you just labeled randomly placed circles!
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It does sound rather awkward.
Using the term ‘corn holed’ and following suit makes things even more awkward. Er.
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I Kid, I kid
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WHY IS IT NOT THURSDAY YET
friday is a public holidayI agree entirely with your wednesday sentiment.
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You forgot to behead the MadTod though, he was trying to usurp your Serrels-given right to be King. D:
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Nah – he just claims to run North Kotaku.
He’s like that random dude in the middle of no-where Australia that claims to be a prince. Just batshit crazy and people tend to forget he existsI am forever the King until i am poisoned or Serrels crowns another.
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Whoa whoa whoa.
*I’m* Spartacus.
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-157/comment-page-12/#comment-625192
And I quote: I’m the king of Kotaku!” Pretty sure that’s him claiming your throne, not just North Kotaku….
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Dear People
I made a new clique
My Friends
all of Tay
Wow now that i have done the most corny shit ever you have to forgive and forget that i just said anything dumb. I really meant no disrespect and i really do love you all including you Faction Dan, Strange Loops, Powalen, rize, Pixel, Loops and whoever else i forgot.
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Oh Rocketman, we still love you.
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Thank god you weren’t mad out of everyone i crave your approval the most, if you were mad i might of cried 🙁 I really did mean no harm.
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i dont think it came off as you trying to be a douche, was just pointing stuff out. its only natural that some of us developed close friendships and have hung out outside of meats and stuff so yeah.
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Well i come of as a deuce no matter what so there is that. Any body who has spoken to me knows that i have pretty much no malice in my words that it is always ussually a case of foot in mouth disease.
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Oh god i forgot notty, Precious notty who hates Catherine Tate as doctor who side kick, Today is the worst.
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Can i start a new Clique? With Sir Greenius. The L Town Rangers. Just coz with both live an a suburb starting with L and i cant think of any other Clique i could possibly belong to.
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Don’t worry man, I certainly wasnt offended, I’m not really in a clique, nor am I that well known as others here 🙂
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Just to be clear, I wasn’t angry/annoyed that I was left off the lists earlier. I don’t think I’d be able to name everyone on TAY off the top of my head. xD
So i’m considering making a spread sheet on what CD’s I need to purchase from various retailers including their price & what store.. All I know is it will be massive. Should I even dare tempt this?
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I tried doing this , the list got out of control before i even bought a cd. My easier method was to write don a list of songs i like and listen to them to see if they are worth the purchase.
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Well I “own” most of the music already, i’ve got something like 90GB of music or whatever. Plus some have DVD’s =D
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Hey, does anyone have F1 2011. Im not a fan of F1 but i have a bunch of mates that do. I want to organise a large race so am looking to see if anyone wants to join in. Its also $30 at gamertraders atm.
Let me know if you have it.?
Also HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUGHLY
Finally, @Harli, is it too late to @Harli?
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Sory dude, should clarify if its gaming and me its 360… shame, would be good to get some TAYbies involved
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You know you are the only person that still uses MBA haha. I really wanted to get in on that bandwagon but it was long gone. You really gotta be up to date to be funny these days man!
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I am going to piggyback off your comment as this is the first I have seen of this;
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUGHLY!!1!
http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/hugo-sughly.jpg
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REally that cheap? i SHOULD get it. i am a huge F1 fan, and been meaning to get it for a while, but i dont have a wheel or pedal setup which is important iMO.
Hi all,
As first announced here, http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-157/comment-page-11/#comment-624484 in the dusty recesses of page 11, this giveaway has had the unfortunate acronyms S-DOG-LIGGI and SWAGGER.
Now… I proudly present the Gaming Is Good Giveaway (Limited Edition)
In order to GIGGLE, all you have to do is post your interest. Pick a game.
These games are still up for grabs.
HALO – Xbox
Jak and Dexter: Precursor Legacy – PS2 (PAL)
Jak 3 – PS2 (PAL)
Metal Gear Solid 2 – PS2 (NTSC)
Metal Gear Solid 3 – PS2 (NTSC)
Metal Gear Solid 3 – PS2 (PAL)
NBA 2K11 – PS2 (PAL)
Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee – Xbox
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash-Up – PS2 (PAL)
Tekken 5 – PS2 (PAL)
Sacred 2 – 360
Dragon Age: Origins – 360 – claimed by Andy
Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by Virus__
Super Mario 64 – DS – claimed by Chuloopa
Dragon Age: Awakening – PS3 (sealed) – claimed by Masha2932
Fahrenheit – PS2 – claimed by Strange
Final Fantasy Origins – PSX (NTSC) – claimed by Ynefel
Final Fantasy Tactics – PSX (NTSC) – claimed by Steve-O the Devo
God of War Collection – PS3 – claimed by Ruffleberg
Canis Canem Edit (Bully) – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by scree
LEGO Star Wars: Complete Saga – PS3>/strike> – claimed by Cakesmith
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S-DOG! \o/
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Fabio! \o/
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Derp, replied on wrong page:
You know what you should do, Shane?
Link like so:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-157/comment-page-11/#comment-624484.
I am a marketing genius!
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hahahaha, I totally fell for that.
Also, while we’re on it, CommunistBish cracked me up. The avatar and Venn diagram were also brilliant! Thanks for the laughs.
So it looks like I won’t be joining in on the Diablo 2 shenanigans 🙁
Turned on my computer last night and the thing nearly exploded.
Though, it has been stored in a dusty cupboard for several years, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
Oh well, any Xboxers up for some ME3, GoW3 or RDR multi action on Friday?
I’m about to take a break from my work (working at home today) and give Blur a spin. If I love it, I was thinking of buying a couple of extra copies for some multiplayer shenanigans.
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Not going so well so far. Every time I try and connect to the game servers it just keeps saying “connecting” and nothing happens. Oh well I’m playing offline for now anyway.
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I feel so tired D= I think a one hour nap, then coffee and then sewing! \o/
Or mowing if Mum has her way >_<
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I actually really like mowing the lawn. Despite the noise, it’s peaceful and you have time to collect your thoughts.
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And the smell of fresh mown grass =D
I also like the fact my neighbours whinge about me doing it too.
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^This. Freshly cut grass on a sunny day, plus that faint smell of 2 stroke (or 4) brings back childhood memories for some reason. Running out on the grass just after it was mowed in bare feet and coming back indoors with green feet. =)
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Ignore these imbeciles. Mowing sucks. 😛
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@Cakesmith, I should have my new PC up & running next week along with my ADSL back, i’ll let you know when such is so.
When this is so i’m happy to host any of the following MP games on Steam;
TF2
CSS
CS1.6
L4D
L4D2
GTAIV
AVP (2010)
Borderlands
Far Cry
Far Cry 2
Driver San Francisco
Half Life 2: Deathmatch (Ah I have had so much fun at LANs in that game)
Dead Island
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Magicka
Killing Floor
Day of Defeat: Source
I think that’s all the MP games I own on Steam
I also have Red Faction: Guerrilla on GFWL, it says it has MP xD
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HL2DM is amazing. Gravity guns are just excellent. Two people circling each other picking up random shit and flinging it at one another, trying to flip cars over at each other, pure chaos, it’s so much fun!
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So good. Especially when you’re dominating a hacker with a gravity gun in some PUG, they get all mad when their hacks won’t give them the upper leg xD
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I played it back in the demo it wasn’t bad. Also on AVP MP, BAJO STILL OWES ME A GAME OF IT HE PROMISED ME!
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When we we’re doing the TAY RPG. When I read Steve-O’s death I burst out laughing so loudly. Got so many weird looks from my co-workers. We NEED to do another one of these
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My mother always said my death would bring joy to many.
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I still don’t think kangas are OP.
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They so are
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Yeah what the hell was that web made out of, iron?! 😛
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Happy birthday Sughly.
Although I had my birthday on this day before* it was cool
*lensless glasses*
*im assuming you’re younger than me as you look so youthful and vital.
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Okay I’ve sort of ignored the happy b’day sughly sentiments until now, because lately I can never tell when it’s actually someone’s birthday.
HAPPY BIRTH-TAY SUGHLY!
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I wasn’t sure if it was your birthday today or not, but I should’ve assumed so due to the invite to your celebration xD
So happy birthday man! I was hoping to pick up a DSi for ya, for your birthday but Tweed City only had 1 and someone beat me to it D=
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TO KILL!
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THE MOOD!
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Or the joke…
Idiot.
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*sob*
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It’s no different from the standard apart from a lenticular card and codes for a useless visual upgrade to the bolter.
Either buy the vanilla or the CE.. .the CE is OUTSTANDING.. but mainly if you’re a fan
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@Chuloopa: I don’t think anyone actually answered your question re: difference between i5 and i7 processors. The diff is:
– i5 is slightly lower clock speed (100 mHz to 200 mHz depending which i7). Makes almost no difference
– i5 has a smaller cache, 6mb vs 8mb in the i7. This can make a minor speed difference in some cases.
– i7 has Hyperthreading, which is awesome for running CPU stuff like Virtual Machines and the like but pretty much useless for games
Also, in case it matters to you, the ‘K’ CPUs (eg i5 2500K vs i5 2500) have an unlocked multiplier i.e. they can be overclocked. I believe that they also leave out some of the extra virtualization instructions but you don’t need those. They also have a HD3000 GPU on the die instead of HD2000, but that’s not useful since you’ll use a discrete card anyway.
Basically, the advantages of an i7 for games are so minor that the extra $100 isn’t worth it, stick to i5. However if for example you’re a programmer or you do graphics work or something on your PC as well, the i7 is very much worth the extra money.
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So what’s the difference between P67, H67 and Z68 chipsets…. and now there’s that new Socket 2011…. Which ones are 2011? It get so damn confusing if you don’t follow it every month. Leave it for a bit and bam you have to re-learn everything =(
If you haven’t been watching twitter then:
ZOMG EXCHANGE HAPPENED YESTERDAY ON MY APARTMENT IN HOMEBUSH CASA DELA PEZ IS NOW ABOUT A MONTH AWAY YAY YAY YAY W00T YAY W00T
\o/
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Like a boss. All over the place.
BTW, people should probably not sit on my couch.
JUST KIDDING.
…or am I?
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Thankee! 😀
I can’t wait to try this world famous Ramen you’ve been talking up.
Best ramen, or BEST ramen?!
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Congrats! I hope in your new place you’ll have appropriately sexy sheets instead of floral ones. 😛
Hey TAY,
Sad story incoming, so for those who don’t like sad stories, i suggest not reading this one.
Yesterday morning, my wife got a call from her father, telling her that Zaeke (out dog who lived with her parents because we weren’t allowed to have pets) was rushed to the vet.
apparently the night before she had been very lethargic, and when she normally goes to bed, she came into the living room, laid down, and didn’t get back up.
when they got her to the vet, they found she had been bleeding into her abdomen, they were struggling all night to get her stable, and when we got the call, my wife’s parents had no idea if she was still alive.
My parents-in-law lives in Wagga Wagga, which is about a 3 hour drive from Canberra, so i told my wife to jump in the car, we were leaving, by then she was already in tears.
half-way to Wagga, we got a call from her parents that Zaeke was stable, and apparently had been walking this morning, this was good news, we were very happy.
they then told us that she was going into surgery at 11:30 to find out what had caused the bleeding (they were expecting a tumour) and depending on what they found, they may decide not to wake her up again.
devastated the my wife may not get to see her as it was 10:55 and we were still about 40min out of town, i may have been doing some irrational driving but it doesn’t matter, the matter of fact is we made it, to what we were expecting to be a possible goodbye.
after she had gone into surgery we decided to go for lunch, and while we were at lunch we got a call from the vet clinic informing us that they had found a 1.5kg tumour on her liver which has ruptured, they had removed that and half the liver and she was now in recovery. they were expecting us to be able to see her at 5pm.
we were of course ellated and we could not wait for 5pm to arrive. we were even there a bit early because my wife was so excited to see her again.
when we were in the waiting room, the vet came out and told us that we had picked a bad time to arrive, while in recovery Zaeke had taken a turn for the worse, and just as we walked in through the door she passed away.
my Wife requested to see her one last time, against my advise, but i admire her strength.
they couldn’t explain what had happened, but her heart just stopped working. my Wife got to pat her one last time, Zaeke still drawing breath due to the variety of machinery she was hooked up to, she apparently still had a faint heart beat.
when my wife’s hand touched her, her heart beat for one last time, it was the hardest moment i’ve experienced since the passing of my grand parents, and not one i want to experience any time soon again.
the worst part of it was, there was no indication she had been sick. Zaeke was always happy, jumping around and playing ball. plus she only just turned 8, she should have had a long life ahead of her.
tl;dr lost my dog, not happy.
sorry to drag TAY down, and for the bad grammar but i think it’s helped me typing this out
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Next time someone says “Sad Story Incoming”, I’ll believe them.I’m really sorry about that, mate. It sounds horrid.
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We had the same thing happen with our chihuahua dog late last year and I can totally sympathize…. she just suddenly got very sick and by the time we got her to the vet things just got worse and she passed away in the middle of surgery.
Your wife has some amazing strength, we couldn’t bring ourselves to see our dog.It’s really like losing a family member 🙁
Hope things get better for you guys soon man, it’s a tough time.
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Geez, sorry man, that’s awful. Let us know if you need anything; else, you have my sincere sympathies.
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Sucks to hear how it all ended. Here’s hoping you’re both feeling better soon!
Also, shame I didn’t get to meet this dog. My only memory is a vague one of you telling me about something with a rake…
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That really sucks man. Dogs are such great friends, i’m so afraid of losing them. Take care dude.
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Man, I’m so sorry.
Just recently I had a close call with one of my dog’s. The vet was 90% sure he had cancer in his liver. Luckily a week later we found out that the knucklehead had just eaten some mushrooms and got sick. When the vet said that they are 90% sure it was cancer and he would most likely live as long as a month I was heart broken, I got really depressed (and a bit teary eyed).
Anyway I can only begin to imagine how it feels to actually lose your pet. My thoughts are with you man.
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thanks for all the sympathies, it does help to talk about it…
she was indeed a beautiful dog, and the comfort is that at least she’s not suffering now.This is her, we know that nothing can ever replace her. we probably will have another dog at some point, but it will never be a replacement, it never could be.
we preserved her collar, and are going to frame it as a memento of her, plus her ashes will be buried in the backyard, her stomping grounds so to speak so she can go to rest in familiar surroundings -
There are few things worse than losing a dog… 🙁
My condolences to you both – if it helps in anyway, i will volunteer my services to come and nuzzle into either one of your crotch.
Sorry man.. *hugs*
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That sucks. Always hard to lose a pet, especially if it’s sudden. I’m dreading the day it happens with our animals – our cat is 20 and our dog is 14, so it’s pretty much looming, but at least we’ve been emotionally prepared for a while, it’s not going to be a surprise like this. 🙁
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Really sorry to hear that. I lost a cat to liver cancer late last year so I know how it feels. I hope you and your wife will be okay.
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Dude, sucks. I had a similar thing happen just before christmas. Combined with some other personal shit going on at the same time, it was the final straw, so the end of last year officially didn’t happen.
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Don’t say sorry for posting, losing family (animal and people ones) is never easy – talking about it in any capacity, on your own terms is often the best thing.
Dude hugs your way, and positive energy to all those affected.
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Sorry to hear that mate. Hope you guys are ok.But it is nice that you were there one last time.
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With Virus and my wife that makes a whole 2 people who have wished me happy birthday today. Not even my family.
#ihaveallthefriends
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Well shit son, Happy birthday!
Although im actually happy when my b’days slip past unnoticed, i know it’d suck for most. *slaps you on the back and hands you a beer*
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WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY ANYTHING ON TWITTER?!
HAPPY B’DAY FREEZE!
I’ll let you in on a little secret, my B’day last year was like yours, not even my dick co-workers said anything!
SO LET’S MAKE YOURS AWESOME STARTING NOW!
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Shut up, dick.
JKS.
You’re not a dick.
But still shut up.
Love,
DanAlso
Happy Birthday (if it’s really your birthday)
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Happy Birthday! I haven’t said anything till now because I’m a terrible person! \o/
By the way, how’s the new job going?
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Dear Freeze,
Happy birthday.
May your day consist of nothing but good times, fairy bread, cake, alcohol & demanding gifts / favors from people.
Wishing you well,
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It’s your birthday today as well? Is anyone here not born on April 4th?
Happy birthday to you. And ynefel, and Sughly. And everyone else.
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What about the kids? Or were they all “Nah he didn’t get me a pony, for MY birthday!”*
*I do believe your children are not like that because you’re a good parent!
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Happy Birthday!
Wow, good day forbirthdays.
Is it true about Ynefel’s birthday too? I can never tell anymore. 🙁
Just in case: Happy Birthday Ynefel!-
Pez is evil. It’s not my irthday for another 10 months!
I am still warmed by the gesture though, and I’m envisioning Pez chortling in his seat. Yes, chortling.
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So I can stop feeling guilty:
@Ynefel, Freeze + Sughly: HIPPY BATHDAY!
@everyone who will have abirthday in the next (or previous) 12 months: HIPPO BATH TAY
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PS: Ynefel, got your email, thanks mate. I can’t reply to Hotmail from shanewsmith (really), so here’s the gist:
Don’t feel obliged to buy my books based on this – that would make me feel bad. If you’re actually keen, check out reviews that have been written, see if it sounds like your thing:
http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/the-lesser-evil/ That site also contains links to the cheapest place to buy the book. Anywhere is fine by me: my royalties are fixed.-
It’s not an obligation so much as an inspiration. Continued talk of the books on TAY has piqued my interest, and I want to find out more. So don’t feel like if I do, there’s a pity purchase or anything involved.
Thanks for the info, I shall investigate!
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LoL Talk!
So, they’ve put up the sneak peek for Hecarim, the Shadow of War (http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/champion-sneak-peek-hecarim-shadow-war).
It includes the line “enjoy leveling your lance and charging headlong into the brunt of the enemy ranks leaving only the trampled corpses of lesser foes in your wake.” I have been sold on this champion.
What’s the bet that they have a really slow movement speed, even though they’re a horse…
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“charging headlong into the brunt of the enemy ranks”
This champion wasn’t designed by Pyrean by any chance was it?
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WELL. Blur certainly has a fan in me. I bloody well love it.
I’m going to buy three more copies.
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Just had a quick look on Steam…for $5 I think I’m going to buy it to.
McGarnical! Your mission, should you choose it have it forced upon you regardless of your opinion, is to power the TAY marketing machine and get plenty of TAYbies into this game so multiplayer is an option!
Deityofnonspecificreligionorculture-speed!
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Is DC Universe online worth the hassle on PS3? I downloaded the game from PSN this morning and when I launched it it cut to a loading screen and it has been loading for 3 hours. It is currently at 8% and my internet is fairly speedy so I don’t know why it’s taking so long.
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What? 15 hours. I hope my download doesn’t take that long. I wish I could do a background download.
@ effluvium boy I’m using a CRT as well. I hope I can read the text.
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Another question, once the download is done will I be able to start the game normally without downloading stuff again?
I have never played a MMO, so I’m curious.
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You do the initial download and install.
Then load up the game.
Then wait…
And wait…
And wait (For around 15-20 hours. You can stop and start, but there will be no progress while the game is not running.)
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I’m going through account issues trying to give it a go on PC, so I’ll let you know about the game itself once I get there 😛
Had a lunch at work for someone’s birthday.
Time for post-lunch coma.
Now it looks like no more work is being done this week, with everyone in the office in a food coma and tomorrow being a half day.
Yay.
New line.
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Other people always seem to have great ones and I just wanted to be loved.
-runs to the hills crying-
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Thanks for the clarification Masha is now re-born. Wooooo.
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Woot, almost finished my stuff for our next magazine!
At least this issue I got to write about the Square Kilometre Array, which is freaking awesome.
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Have they decided on a location for it yet?
Because I agree, it’s pretty awesome(I have very little knowledge about it, just the basic look in space thing).
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Meeting today/tomorrow in Europe, expecting some interim announcement. final decision still a little way off.
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How many people are having birthdays today? Just Freeze and Sughly? (I say ‘just’ like two is normal for TAY, but shutup)
Well I already said it to Sughly so HAPPY BIRTHDAY FREEZE MAN.
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It’s also my birthday*
*Not really, that was a lie, my birthday’s June the Eighth, put it in all of your calendars.
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I should just pack up my keyboard and go home.
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So then you’d have two half days in a row? There could be worse fates.
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Followed by a public holiday, a weekend, another public holiday and an RDO.
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Everyone being so generous and giving away things makes me want to do so as well, but I’m a compulsive hoarder 🙁
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I was going to mention that, but then I thought everyone else would expect stuff from you too. 😛
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Apparently I’ve forgotten we don’t have bbcode here though. Someone needs to donate that.
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I’d give you a high five, but it’s currently being stacked away in my spare room with my collection of high fives I’ve obtained in the past.
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I’m offering four good 3DS games to a good home, but they’re all US versions, which require a US 3DS.
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Bish has a US 3DS!
You should help him ,by forcing the games on him!
It’s the only logical step!
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I await his response.
I have Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, Pilotwings Resort and Super Street Fighter IV 3D.
No cases or manuals, cards/carts only, all have been fair thrashed (by thrashed I mean played a lot, the games are in perfect condition, lol) and won’t be played again in the foreseeable future.
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Went and got my psp this morning. Bit late to the party but better late than never. Also picked up Lunar Silver Star. Game is fricking awesome. A must play for any psp owning rpg fan.
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Treat yourself FF Tactics: War of the Lions and Final Fantasy Dissidia 012.
And KH: Birth by Sleep.
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Trails in the Sky.
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you sir know your PSP games
birth by sleep is the best KH game to date
dissidia 012 is a FF fans wet dream (oh, and it’s really fun)
and you as well neg:
Persona 3 is one of the best RPG’s ever
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If you enjoy the Jak and Daxter series get Daxter for the PSP.
Pursuit force extreme justice and loco roco(1 and 2) are good bets as well.
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Never realised but there is also a couple of “Tales Of” games and even 2 Star Ocean games on the psp. So many good rpgs on it. Looking forward to both FF Tactics and Tactics Ogre.
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There’s only the one Tales game (Eternia) in English. Tales of Destiny 2 (the actual ToD2, not what was released in the US as Tales of Destiny II which was actually Tales of Eternia) is there in Japanese. There’s also an expanded Tales of Phantasia port (again, JP-only), Tales of Rebirth and there’s the Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology games and Tales of VS as well. But yeah, Eternia’s the only one in English 🙁
Tales is the most mis-managed awesome Japanese game series this side of Sakura Taisen.
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I thought there was a Suikoden game on the psp as well? At least I can play Suikoden 1 and 2 on it at least.
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The most recent Suikoden game released this year is on PSP. But because it’s post-Vita, will probs never get localised. Sony has thrown PSP under the bus everywhere but Japan. And the gaming press has thrown the Vita under the bus too.
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I’d like to encourage you all to buy Blur in the Steam sale so you can play multiplayer with me. I think it’s a fantastic game and apparently it’s even better in multiplayer. It’s only $5 and the guys who made it were shut down by Activision because it didn’t make enough money. It’s one of those commercial failures which is in any event a very well done game.
I’d like to say more about it, but I really should get back to my work because I’ve already spent far too long playing Blur instead of working. But it’s basically a stylish well-made game that fuses Need for Speed with Mario Kart.
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Sughly would beat you. 😛
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Depending on how drunk he is though.
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My one claim to fame, and I’m defeated by someone who has a dozen others. :'(
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I will consider getting it next time it’s on sale. =D
I can’t afford it today because i don’t get paid until next week /o\
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I can assure you from experience that the brake is entirely optional. This is exactly the sort of racer I like.
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It’s simple really. As you’re going into a corner, take off the accelerator, tap the handbrake, then put the accelerator back on.
And don’t blame me if it doesn’t work, I’m the bestest at Need for Speed. I know what I’m talking about 😛
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You better not be.
You were just afraid of me. Admit it.
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You may have taken some of my most highly prized crowns, and the ownership of my crazy crown may still be up in the air, but you will never be able to completely beat me in NFSHP >:C
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MAYBE.
OR MAYBE I WILL.
WE SHALL SEE.
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Ehhh, it will be hard for me to see, seeing as though I’m going to be sooooo far in front of you. Grandma.
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Oi! PSP people!
Does the PSP (any variant) have the capability to run PS2 emulation? I could look this up, but I’m pretty lazy.
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I assumed that would be the case, even with the Vita. If it ran PS2 emulation it would be an easy buy for me. I really don’t care about the majority of games that have come out on it, but if I suddenly had an epic handheld emulator…
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Well with modding, you can get an emulator for almost anything up to PSX, which is still pretty darned awesome! I reckon the Vita could handle PS2 games, but it depends if Sony ever makes their PSN PS2 releases compatible, or if someone cracks the Vita and successfully drops a PS2 emulator.
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Sony locks down their hardware these days tighter than a pretty maiden’s chastity belt during the crusades, so good luck with that PS2 emulator.
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I can’t see why not, just might have trouble with only one analog stick & only 2 shoulder buttons though.
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Glorious Brother Co-…Capitalist Pez does not know what you speak of.
He operate in fashion for glorious capitalist motherland, to build economy and business for future prosperous!
Just remembered, I saw one of those boards that schools advertise events on out front of a local primary school and it read “Billambil School Easter Hat Parade” all I could think of tacking on to that was “Sponsored by Valve Gaming”
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Haha, they should! Also it was in the local “paper” some other school was having one. Valve myst be raking in more hat cash from all these hat parades!
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Valve have ruined(or improved) hats for ever! I think i may need to throw a Hat party for my 30th. 😛
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This Meat I’m proposing, I’m thinking having it on the 26th of May. It shall be a glorious meat meat where we consume meat while we meat.
Harli was apparently keen, so anyone else considering actually coming up to Brisbane for it? I can’t really offer much in the way of accommodation, there are two spots on the couch that I guess are tentatively available (it’s one of those giant corner couches but it can be split up with one person on each section, my new housemate has spent a few nights sleeping on it this week because he hasn’t actually moved in yet :p).
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I did consider that, but no, I think there will have to be some sort of vegetarian option. Just not the main option.
Cheese pizza seems to go over well with everyone. Can’t see the harm of throwing some of those into the mix. Got plenty of time to work it out.
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Of course. 8:30 is the prime time game selection.
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From what I hear, it’s heading in that direction
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Well, for Brink we all definitely have a predilection.
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Stand back, the opponents need to use protection
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Stand back? Imagine my perplexion!
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We’ve broken the comment nesting for this section
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Won’t be the first, won’t be the last.
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No.
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Oh, snap.
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Boo.
I’ll start playing at 7:30 if there’s anyone else to play with then. Otherwise I’ll just wait till 8:30.
I’d forgotten about that. Guess I’ll have to prepare for trouble, and would appreciate if someone could help me in making it double.
Also, Pez, Fat Wall of Fury again?
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We could just start these gaming nights at 8:00. Time difference of 30 mins for all the taybies, instead of 1hr for just some.
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YOU MEAN TIME DIFFERENCE OF 30 MINUTES FOR TAYBIES WITH A CURFEW RIGHT?
*looks at you and rocketmang*
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I don’t have a curfew i just don’t like making noise after about 9.30 the old people get no sleep then i have to deal with a guilt trip.
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Also, whoever hosts, for the love of Hari Krishna turn the goddamn ranking off so I don’t have to roll another lowbie.
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I checked with Faction (who was hosting) last time and he had it set to “my rank or higher” and it still wasn’t letting me get in. Think it’s just chalked up to another Brink thing…
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HAHAHAHAHAHA
I KNOW YOU POSTED IT ON TWITTER BUT IT’S STILL HILARIOUS HERE!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *punches floor*
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No, we’re playing it on Wii.
That shit is a workout with the motion controls.
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@Cakesmith
Don’t know if you saw it a few pages ago, but bar something coming up I’m happy to host Uncharted 3 on Sat.
hey would anyone be interested in a Melbourne meat soon?
We can go to Yoyogi’s.
3DS should be brought for street pass hits.
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If I mail one of you my 3DS, can you streetpass all the Melbournites?
What? I don’t have an obsession.-
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No, you’re wrong. They *do* have a problem.
The problem is a lack of street pass hits from people from the other city.
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My pants they would of fell down. Thats my excuse and i am sticking with it. plus my pockets were not big enough.
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WOULD HAVE
WOULD HAVE
THEY WOULD HAVE FALLEN DOWN
*SMACK* BAD ROCKETMANS
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Yoyogi’s is the japanese place you mentioned last meat right? As long as they have Katsudon on the menu.
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Little Japanese cafe up the road from my place Malvern does the BEST Katsudon. Haven’tr tried Yoyogi apart from to grab some sushi on the way home from school.
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I actually make a pretty decent Katsudon myself. I got sick of variable quality from different places I went to and found out how to do it myself (it’s not that hard).
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And now I am hungry for Japanese food. 🙁 Might go grab the bits & pieces to make gyoza this weekend.
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I do my own Okonimyaki, from time to time, but I don’t know how good it is. I certainly nom the proverbials out of it when I make it. It’s also deceptively filling.
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*Okonomiyaki
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There’s no such thing as a bad okonomiyaki – it is basically whatever you want it to be.
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Curse you all! i am so hungry. I ate a a good dumpling place with Puppylicks and Danmazkin lastnight in malvern.
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How did the proprietor feel about you eating his establishment?
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i think i got called a few names. but what can i say. i was hungry.
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Well, can you get a StreetPass interface fitted between now and then? Hax it to give me like 10000 SP hits in one go and all the puzzle pieces I need?
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No, for that would be dishonest and against my programming
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I refuse to buy a 3DS until:
– it has some games in English I actually care about enough to buy a system for (most Nintendo games are not in this category)
– Someone hacks around the region lock because I really want to be able to play a few Japan-only titles. -
But…. StreetPass! What about me and my needs? I only got mine because I was in Japan at launch, had the money and was all giddy. Not many games interest me either – I don’t want Zelda or Starfox remakes.
But RE:Revelations is the best game I;ve played on the system, and MGS3D in my pocket for me is almost reason to own the system alone.I admit there’s not much else right now though. I actually can’t wait until the Vita gets the Japanese stuff I want like Monster Hunter, Final Fantasy, Valkyria Chronicles, Phantasy Star…. oh oh oh and a God Eater 2 on Vita would justify me shitting my pants.
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It would… justify you shitting your pants? As in you already shit them and you need an excuse?
There’s a few 3DS games I would buy if I owned the system (Not RE, I hate that series so much) but nothing that has called to me and told me to buy the system. Then again, the Vita is the same and I got it for the potential it has. Currently crossing my fingers for Tales of Innocence R.
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Might have to try this Tales of Innocence thing one day. My most anticipated announcement is a Monster Hunter for Vita at the moment. Closely followed by Final Fantasy Type-0.
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I don’t know why the big companies haven’t taken the lack of a Monster Hunter game as a signal to get their own clones onto the system first. All the people who purchased a Vita for Monster Hunter are starved for a game like that right now. God Eater etc would make a killing. So far the only remotely similar game even announced is Phantasy Star Online 2, but that’s at least a year away.
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I have God Eater Burst on PSP and it’s amazing. Monster Hunter is superior, but it’s a fantastic game. I’d buy God Eater 2/Burst 2 straight up, even if Monster Hunter was a available. Maybe someone has noticed and is working on it as we speak. I’ve heard mixed stories about Type-0, but I’m intrigued regardless.
PSO2 would be AWESOME.
I just won’t get it. DS Lite is what I have and I refuse to upgrade further since I still got GBA games I enjoy
I R interested. Especially if food is involved. Alas i shall also be shunned as an outsider due to my lack of 3ds ownership. Damn me and my DSl
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Yeah human, haven’t seen you in a long time! 😀
Speaking of which, what in the blazes has Mr Explody been up to?
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He’s still on steam though in the KotakuAU group, might prod him when he’s next online and check up on him
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nor do i!
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Not sure as I’m only occupied on Saturday the 16th from 6 pm onwards.
I don’t have a schedule other then that which is why I’d rather find out when everyone else can go.
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Saturday the 14th right? 16th is Monday.
I’m not working next week so basically can do anything. Weekend-wise I don’t usually have any commitments. Evenings during the week I’m at work until about 6:45-7:00 and work in Southbank, just near Crown so getting to most of the CBD isn’t too far.
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Yep, I’m in
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I’d be down, depending when it is. I work till about 5 monday to friday, and have school monday and wednesday nights. Weekends are pretty much guaranteed free in most cases.
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The weekend of the 14th is free for me at the moment. Other weekends in April are less good.
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I didn’t actually realize we had so many Melbourne Taybies. I feel bad about this.
I feel even worse that apart from Puppylicks and Danmazkin who i knew before tay, i have met none of you
I am a bad man.
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I have a sneaking suspicion Danmazkin is someone I’ve met already. If he is who I think he is of course.
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If it’s who I think it is, he has a girlfriend named Emily who I’ve known for some time.
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interesting….*strokes facial hair*
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Count me in.
I work till around 7 most night but can get away earlier if required. Saturday I will be at work until around 2pm but can do anytime after that.
Japanese can work for Mrs Tigs as well so likely be the two of us.
FatShady secret project update… While none of this is official, I just had to say that there will be some part of my secret project revealed in the next couple of days. By the end of this week, you should get a good idea about what i’ve been working on. Im super excited about this and can’t wait to hear what you think. By now I’ve put that much time into it i’m not even sure how to feel. Just relieved i guess.. but looking forward to finally sharing it with you all.
I really want to hype this but not sure i can.. maybe I will hype it once the first part is revealed? Please feel free to add your own hype, Im running a little low of hype juice.
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Are we all getting flown to Australia, cause i hate to break it to you man but we all ready all live in Australia except for Alphaprospector, ARE YOU FLYING ALPHA HERE. Thats insanely generous man 😛
Also i suspect that getting low on hype juice happens after a 12 km walk. Are you okay buddy?
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YOU ARE ALL GETTING… nah, I can’t do that. Hey i didn’t know about Alpha, thats cool. We really should get more overseas people here huh?
yeah walk last night was awesome, actually really good, feet hurt during it but that was because i was wearing skate shoes that are really not designed for that. I did it under 2 hours which was also good. Yeah all good man, just needed a long walk.
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OMG!!!
I WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS!!!
I HATE BEING SO OBLIVIOUS!!!IS IT YOUR VERY OWN BRAND OF NUTRIENT WATER????
HAVE YOU MADE YOUR OWN ‘GET FIT WITH GAMES’ TAPES?!?!
LIKE VHS TAPES?!?!IS THAT WHAT WE’RE HYPING!?!? THE SECOND COMING OF VHS?!?!
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Technically you have to tell us what it is tomorrow because that is when the week ends and the party begins. Wooooooooo!
Anyway can’t wait. Is it OK to ask if your project is both fat and shady?
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There must still be some life left in me, because the vultures have left… for now.
Played some pokemon blue at lunch today, I had forgotten just how damn addictive that game can be.
However, I do have to say one thing;
FRAK OFF ZUBAT!
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And even when they got rid of Zubat, they just replaced it with something just as irritating >_< -
They always use Supersonic too, so even though it misses 90% of the time, 100 out off 1000 supersonic hits from Zubat is still annoying!
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Unless your only usable pokemon is at less than 10% health, at which point zubat’s supersonic is 100% accurate.
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I once had a battle where my Charizard, which was like 6 levels above the Zubat, managed to go from full health, to dead, thanks solely to Supersonic.
I was gobsmacked.
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and the ones that stop you listening to your own music to instead listen to their game sounds… AARRGGHHH!
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It’s almost tolerable if you have headphones with a remote, so you can just unpause your music but it still shouldn’t happen.
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Oh man, that annoys me so much. Even if they just temporarily turn off your music when loading up.
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It got popular because of the ipod… a freaking music device… now apps come along and its all about them.. screw that mr iOS developer, it’s still primarily a MUSIC device!
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*clears throat*
…
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The first season of adventure time should be finished by the time i get home. I am going through a list of animes and cartoons ATM i get a little nostalgic from time to time and watch truly terrible anime like zoids. I know its bad but i can’t look away.
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There were two series a really shitty one were the have like robot battles with a referee and stuff and a not to bad one called chaotic century. They had giant zoids and tiny zoids and the plot wasn’t shit. I liked that one a fair bit actually. But the new one after that was terrible.
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There was one Zoids series that I remember being weirdly popular in Japan. I know nothing about it other than that it apparently involved a girl who liked to hang out in rivers and hug enormous trout.
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Does me not liking it take some sort of value away from you liking it. Just because i don’t like something you do doesn’t mean i am saying i don’t like you.
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I know, just saying I loved it. Giant animal-like robots battling. Nothing screams more epic than that… well maybe Warhammer 40k battles beats it.
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I just finished watching an anime sires called ‘Another’. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it as much as I did as I’m not normally into horror but this was a good horror movie where it makes you think rather then just a series of people dying in a horrific manor.
Damn do people die in a horrific manor in it though! to make this a spoiler free environment I will continue the res in gibberish. By the first death I was thinking it would be that way but then do that other thing and I’m like “DAMN” so then I figure it out because i’m just so smart but no that’s just what they want you to think and it’s really something else and oh gawd I’m never looking at an umbreller the same way again. Then there’s the bit in the class room with the noooo they didn’t just do that. OH and the tape, I’m like you can’t give a tape like that to school kids, the thing will happen and then it does and it’s even more gloriously horrifying then I thought and did I mention the umbrella?
Oh, though there was one bit that dissapionted me in that they don’t avoide that old horror clecie of “Let’s all split up! That sounds like a really smart idea! anyone know of a reason not to? no? ok, splitting up it is. COME AND KILL US!!!”
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I keep posting stuff but Kotaku keeps eating it because I ROT13’d it, so sod it.
SPOILERS!
Apparently, only 8 people (10 if you include the hotel owners) died by the calamity/curse. The rest died as a means of their own desperation and paranoia.
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I’m so glad I watched it, I don’t know what expectations I had going in but whatever they were the show exceeded them.
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Unfortunately it received a bad rap for being boring. I loved that it made you think and that it kept you guessing.
I want to discuss something but I don’t want to ruin it for the others, I guess I should ROT13 it?-
I guess that the 13 year olds might have found it boring, it didn’t have tits or explosions.
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My younger cousin also loved it. People complained that it wasn’t like Elfen lied. I hated Elfen lied.
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I think you should ignore the opinion of anyone who even made that comparison. What the hell? They’re not even remotely similar.
Early on it reminded me a lot of Boogiepop Phantom. Has a similar atmosphere and tone.
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Yes, but Alpha nearly passed it up because he heard terrible reviews of it everywhere. I was really kind and waited until episode 10 to tell him about the series. He became addicted as I did.
I just want to ask, did you see who killed the teacher a year and a half ago?
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Also, they didn’t really split up by choice, it just kind of happened.
They were looking for someone and it was pretty much before the shit hit the fan. Excuse the language.
But I really loved the atmosphere. And the music.
i watched the first episode, was really interested, then saw a shiny object and never continued
so, it appears that it is worth watching the rest of it, would that be correct?
Another was a brilliant show. The twist at the end completely blindsided me. It had been obvious from the start and early on I had even suspected something was up with that character, but they did such a great job misdirecting your attention that when everything finally fell into place at the end, I was genuinely surprised.
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If oyu watch it again from the start you see things that you missed before hand.
I knew something was up with her, but I was still shocked by the twist.
Thanks for showing it to me. Alpha also really enjoyed it
Woah… here’s a blast from my musical past!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CYwNWHZuT0&feature=related
So awesome
Yo Sydney people, do the nightride buses work with regular return train tickets? My original plan was to go to the mini-meat tomorrow and not drink anything and take the last train home. But this week has been so shitty that i need a few beers. So i anticipate I’ll be leaving at 3 am.
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Last time I used one, yes.
That was about 15 years ago though.
So um… not really helpful.Hi Ruffleberg!
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So there’s been a bit of lack of interest in Halo on Saturday night. If people are keen to play let me know, otherwise I’ll scrap it for something else.
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I thought of doing a Trials HD night but soon scrapped the idea as I want us to still be friends afterwards
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I know it is dickface. It does have leader boards that you can try and beat each other at though. Add party chat = hilarity.
EVO will definitely be on the menu though.
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Shut your permhole, dickface.
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YAY!
Yeah Trials HD would be hard to do but Evo will be amazing. Like my dream come true man. Multiplayer is 4 players on the one track side by side OR you can play all single player tracks with up to 3 ghosts on the same track!
CAN NOT WAIT
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I haven’t touched trials HD in so long, but Evo is making me want to get back into it…even if i totally am useless at it.
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Do you already have halo?
If not if you giggleswaggergivedog then you might be able to score yourself a free copy
@Loopsy
“Woah… here’s a blast from my musical past!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CYwNWHZuT0&feature=related
So awesome”
What was that I don’t even
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Nobody can appreciate Michael Bay’s Transformers.
I have no connection to the classic Transformers, I just know a bad film when I see one.
And they really are terrible.
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Oh. So now I’m a nobody, huh? 😛
Anyway, Transformers was the first action movie I ever saw.
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G.I. Joe was a better film than Transformers.
It was campy as hell, and it knew it. It was also shot far better than Transformers. Just saying.
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Be that as it may, I’ve watched Transformers quite a few times*, yet I’ve never wanted to watch G.I. Joe again since I first watched it.
*not against my own will.
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Previously alluded to here: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-157/comment-page-13/#comment-625311
Now called: Game Is Very Excitement Take Away Yours!
Want one? Just say!
These games are still up for grabs.
HALO – Xbox
Jak and Dexter: Precursor Legacy – PS2 (PAL)
Jak 3 – PS2 (PAL)
Metal Gear Solid 2 – PS2 (NTSC)
Metal Gear Solid 3 – PS2 (NTSC)
Metal Gear Solid 3 – PS2 (PAL)
NBA 2K11 – PS2 (PAL)
Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee – Xbox
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash-Up – PS2 (PAL)
Tekken 5 – PS2 (PAL)
Dragon Age: Origins – 360 – claimed by Andy
Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by Virus__
Super Mario 64 – DS – claimed by Chuloopa
Dragon Age: Awakening – PS3 (sealed) – claimed by Masha2932
Fahrenheit – PS2 – claimed by Strange
Final Fantasy Origins – PSX (NTSC) – claimed by Ynefel
Final Fantasy Tactics – PSX (NTSC) – claimed by Steve-O the Devo
God of War Collection – PS3 – claimed by Ruffleberg
Canis Canem Edit (Bully) – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by scree
Sacred 2 – 360 – claimed by Blaghman
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If no one is interested I may take some of the PS2 games. I’ve never played a Jak and Daxter game myself, but I also will ask my cousin if he wants anything.
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Yeah, I thought of asking for Jak 3 for my daughter, but considering I already snagged Fahrenheit, I didn’t want to be greedy.
If it’s still begging for a home at the end of all this though, I’ll put in my offer again. 🙂
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Anyone interested in a free online education from MIT?
They have quite a lot of online course material that seems rather nifty.
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But he’s the worst Asian.
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It’s true, I am a far better Asian than him, but worst or not, he’s still Asian.
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Melb meat? When?
Despite never going to the city I’m pretty sure I’ve been yoyogi’s before 😀 me and some mates used to go there, takoyaki there is awesomes! I have no idea about the city but is this near a club x? I think I remember seeing it across the road.
@Freeze – happy birthday!
@Pixel – *hug*
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If i end up going, i’ll hunt you down, knock on every door in your street and ask if Sir Greenius is home, and then get some chloroform and drag you there.
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I think it could be an interesting choice.
And I’d like to blame Neil Gaiman for these rumours.
So far as I know, he was the first person to suggest that a Time Lord could be both male and female, between regenerations. Certainly, he was happy about a line relating to it making it through the final cut into the episode he wrote.
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Interesting. While we wait for the truth to be revealed I suggest we all partake in the Dalek relaxation ritual.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/04/start-your-day-right-with-dalek-relaxation-therapy/
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I hate to say it, but i haven’t watched Doctor who in probably 15 years, doubt i could possibly get back into it now.
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DOOOO EEEETTTTT!!!!!
The new Who is very different to the old stuff, but I consider that a good thing. It’s still mostly campy sci-fi, with bad special effects.
Also, David Tennant is a dream boat.
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I like the new ones better than the old stuff (though that is a VERY bias opinion, the Eccleston series was the first one I watched). No better place to start than there, I think!
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Ergh. How and why would The Doctor regenerate into a woman? Answer and then I can come up with a list of female doctors 😀
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If the Doctor regenerated into a woman would she still have a sidekick chick who crushes on him?
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In my best Professor Farnsworth, GOOOOOOOOD NEWS EVERYONE! I have a job interview with JB Hi-Fi this coming Tuesday =D
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Almost as good as the racoon toaster!
I don’t, I only have experience in help desk kinda stuff & wed design, since that was my previous job.
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oohh nice, what sorta role you looking at? I have often wandered what it’d be like at JB hifi. Probably pays better than my current job lol.
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Nice man.
Remember, don’t be afraid of getting your career chip inserted. It’s just like getting your hand pierced.
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Thanks man, yeah it didn’t hear when I had a bar* shoved through my ear.
*Industrial piercing.
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I always wanted an industrial.
Man i made a full map of all the parts of my ear i was going to get pierced… industrial, tragus, anti tragus….Basically everywhere except my lobes… lol
Then i just only ended up getting 2…
\o/
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I almost got my labret pierced as well. But then realised that would’ve been harder to conceal as a catholic high school that didn’t like piercing’s on guys.
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Good luck with that. 🙂
My mum wants me to start looking at getting a job. I would prefer to get one at JB or EB…or maybe Dick Smith 😛-
EB isn’t bad. But you have to be a real sales shark to last. You have to be willing to really push sales and add-ons.
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@scree: I want to reply to your question re: Another, but this site is fucking retarded and rejects ROT13 half the time. 🙁
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Also re: meat, I think you should nominate a date & time and people will either be able to come or not, if enough can come then that’s good.
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And backpack beverage dispensing equipment too.
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To tell you the truth I thought that rocketman.com would not exist but I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be a human vendour company,
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Yeah probably a bit negative. The bit of the site that rejects ROT13 is dumb though. It started happening back when all the swears started getting moderated.
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It would be awesome if we had some auto-rot13 stuff on site (I think you suggested this a while ago). I tried briefly to do a user script extension (as suggested by the illustrious Batguy), but the reply box would not take notice of my onBlur handler and I got distracted by other work that gives me beer money.
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This song always makes me feel so good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6ROYNbKxhg&feature=related
soo amazing 😀 *swoons*
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/warhammer-40k-dawn-of-war-ultimate-collection-game-pc
Dayyummmmm!!!
If you don’t have any of the dawn of war games – GET THIS NOW!!!!!
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I’m such a huge fan of turn based myself – but damn you’d do yourself a disservice to miss out on this 😛
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Talking of turn based, some friends of mine have been playing regular Necromunda games for the past two months or so. So far, I have not participated.
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You haven’t seen how bad I am at RTS. Playing it would be a disservice to myself and the game.
Needs to be turn based. Like Space Hulk.
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People who sit on twitter and facebook and quote other people are like bottom feeders – forever wishing to achieve greatness from others, but always continuing to be insignificant.
Those who are remembered are done so via their own words and actions, not by following others…
“Those who are remembered are done so via their own words and actions, not by following others…” – Chuloopa
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PC only D: Though maybe I could get a naughty copy to work? 😮
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I would be interested in terraria, I have played a little single player but have no idea what I am doing
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I’d be interested in the Terraria server. Mentioned to Sir Greenius that if we had some sort of event coming up I’d be willing to have a serious attempt at hosting one myself.
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Nice to see some of the love in areas of the site outside of TAY
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/i-am-an-imagined-journalist/comment-page-1/#comment-626163
He is still waiting for a response scree 😉
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I can see it already, it will be beautiful. She can reuse the Bioshock infinite cosplay she is doing for the wedding dress.
Aaaawwwwww they will make such a cute couple
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Please don’t ._. I hate kids
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The maternal instict will kick in once you’ve got a gut full of foetus.
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Haha love that description “gut full of foetus”
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One of my friends does the greatest facebook posts when she is knocked up. Helps that she is a nurse and not at all squeamish about that sort of things
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Way to break a poor man’s heart!
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He’ll live.
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WILL HE SCREE WILL HE. YEAH PROBABLY WILL.
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He’s probably quietly weeping to himself.
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He seems to like Modern Wardare, he’ll get over it next time he his kill streak is 20-0 or something.
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Wardare, the extreme version of truth or dare
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Yeah, it’s the extreme version you can find most nurses in your local hospital playing to relax after a long day on their feet in the wards.
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They didn’t mean it, I am sure. Just remember to go easy guys, we don’t want to scare Scree away D=
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Don’t worry, Scree. I’ve cancelled all the wedding plans. You will not be firing any tiny humans from your baby cannon 😀
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I have two kids and I can totally confirm that this is how kids are born. At high velocity out of the cervix.
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Can we just lay this to rest here please guys, it’s starting to trigger Scree’s anxiety, which she doesn’t need, and I am sure no one wants to do that to her, after what we know has happened in the past 🙂
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Scree just wanted me to say to you all, she is sorry, there’s a fair few things that trigger her anxiety and this just being one. It’s no ones fault also, Scree knows you all didn’t mean it and you’re all lovely & caring.
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Tell her I hope she’s feeling like herself soon. Anxiety can be pretty crippling sometimes. Also that I’m super sorry 🙂
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It is, I have a few friends with it, one who has it about as bad as Scree, she worries me at times..
Makes me think, I probably have minor anxiety because I usually freak out over heights unless it’s a theme park ride.
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I didn’t even know she had it. Poor thing 🙁
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Only a handful of the TAYbies know I think.
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although i wasn’t a part of this, hope she’s alright
i think i’ve mentioned it before but i’ve got a mate who has anxiety attacks, pretty scary sometimes, going through exams in year twelve was tough on him.
And I am to inform you all again, Scree is sorry! (she wanted me to, I guess she wouldn’t be Scree without multiple apologies)
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Thanks Jugsy 😛 it’s apparently whatever I used last time on my laptop so the name just stayed there
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Rocketman’s post on the previous page has made me realise something. I never really had a lot of geeky friends and once I hit uni most of my friends weren’t overly geeky.
This has meant that some of the things that I really wish that I had kept I let go and they were donated/thrown out.
The particular thing that made me remember this was thinking about the Zoids toys I used to have, if I could grab them again I would so have them on display somewhere.
Has anybody else got toys/models/figures etc from there childhood that they wish they still had?
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I’ve never been big on models and stuff, so I never really owned anything to begin with. xD I do still have a whole load of tiny Pokemon figures though (they’re about 2cm tall). They used to sell them in those stalls you see in shopping centres with all the anime stuff. My brother and I used to get one if we behaved during the shopping (they were like $2 or something each, which was a lot of money for a kid! xD)
Man, I need to find them again now!
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I have a bunch of Transformers and other robots and some lego. A lot of other stuff, but not as easily accessible.
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Oh man, that lego set on the bottom right of the pic, I can remember looking through the lego catalogue booklet things and wanting one of those as a kid.
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I miss my smurfs. The ones Dad collected for me from BP.
I did pick up a few when I was in Germany, but you know – it’s not the same.
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Usually you can see your own comments in moderation, don’t you think about replying to one and breaking TAY though =P
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okay, there is some sort of perth conspiracy here
IF YOU DON’T WANT US KOTAKU YOU CAN JUST SAY IT!
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TAYBIE TOUGH’UNS WORKOUT POST!
Cardio:
Jog: 2.5k
Back width, Shoulders and Bis day
Chinups:
1×6
1×7
1×6
1×5
Lateral Delts: Upright rows
Warmup: 1×8 [5kg dumbells]
1×8 [20kg barbell]
1×10
1×8
1×8
Front Delts: Shoulder press
Warmup: 1×10 [5kg dumbbells]
1×8 [20kg barbell]
1×9
1×9
1×8
Bis: Concentration curls
Warmup: 1×5 [5kg dumbells]
1×8 [7.5kg dumbells]
1×8
1×8
1×5
Feel like I’m gonna die… been kicking my ass all week! Luckily tomorrow is off for the MINIMEAT!
TAYbies! There’s a lot of pages here I haven’t read and I am far too lazy to reads them myself. So I have an exercise for you: in exactly 17.5 words (no more, no less, penalties will apply), summarise what’s happened today on TAY.
Your reward is…well, nothing. Sorry!
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Stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stuff stu.
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So does that mean I am actually Batman, Instead of just thinking I was all these years?! =D
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Possibly. Only one way to find out. QUICK, TO THE STREETS. Protect ALL the citizens.
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I’ll get my outfit!
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I’ll get my Maid Costu-
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Well, you see, Alex, I suppose you could say, in short, that nothing really happened on TAY tod-
cats, and uh, pizza, and uh, SAMURAI PIZZA CATS! wait no, none of that happened, please disregard th-
oh man, i hate having work at night, it ruins the entire day, because i keep on thinking
“can i do this? oh but i’ve got work tonight, if i do that for too long i might be late”
oh well, at least it’s wednesday, and cinemas aint to popular wednesday nights…
I’m kind of back. I still don’t feel 100%
I’ve only really come back to say sorry. I know you all meant it in good fun and you didn’t realise it would trigger it off. I was able to handle it for a while, but it kind of caught up with me.
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It’s alright. A lot of the newer people don’t know I suffer from Anxiety. I can usually control it, but I was already feeling unwell when it started and I couldn’t cope. I’m sorry.
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I’m hoping the more I apologise, the better I will feel D=
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Hope you feel better.
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thank you. I’ll feel bad if I keep apologising. >_< I am weird, I know
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I don’t like ginger beer remember? And I also don’t like pizza ^^;;
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Never have ^^;; no idea why
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back in canberra now… sad day it has been indeed, but we shall prevail…
i want to thank everyone for their sympathies, it may seem like a small gesture but it goes a long way…
TAY really is great like that, i’m really glad i have you guys…
so, back to work tomorrow before a long weekend… guess you can’t complain about that
also, i was obviously not involved in anything that has just happened, but
@scree, sorry to hear your anxiety is playing tricks with you again, if there’s anything i/we can do to help, feel free to ask…
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It’s all cool, Mr. Ferret. TAY is like a cool place where people actually empathise with you rather than telling you to ‘grow the [redacted] up [redacted]’. And in between that we talk about games and being lazy at work and eating delicious junk foods. It really is great how nice everyone is here. Just look at the stuff above: there was a mistake, and rather than people causing a ruckus everyone apologised and is still cool with each other.
In summary: TAYbies are awesome. But you probably already knew that!
(clearly I am just posting to up my position in TABTOL)-
oh i am fully aware of peoples awesomeness, but i am always astounded by it at the same time…
while i may not be the most active member of this community, but i still believe this has to be one of the greatest communities i’ve ever had the privilege of calling me part of….
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Everybody in my house loves watching those horrible celebrity gossip ‘news’ shows. I cannot stand them. There’s just something about them that both bores me to death and actively makes me annoyed. xD
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BUT HOW ELSE WILL YOU KNOW ABOUT WHO’S DIDDLING WHO OR WHO HAS GAINED WEIGHT?!?!?!?
It’s weirder when people talk about celebrities as if they are people they actually know.
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Feels like i’m wearin’ nothin’ at all!
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Nothin’ at all!
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Game Is Very Excitement Take Away Yours! (GIVETAY) continues.
Same as before, only Jak and Dexter goes to Crazyguy1990 and Jak 3 to Strange.
Must say I am surprised the MGS games are still out there.
HALO – Xbox
Metal Gear Solid 2 – PS2 (NTSC)
Metal Gear Solid 3 – PS2 (NTSC)
Metal Gear Solid 3 – PS2 (PAL)
NBA 2K11 – PS2 (PAL)
Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee – Xbox
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash-Up – PS2 (PAL)
Tekken 5 – PS2 (PAL)
Jak and Dexter: Precursor Legacy – PS2 (PAL) –claimed by Crazyguy1990
Jak 3 – PS2 (PAL) –claimed by Strange’s daughter
Dragon Age: Origins – 360 – claimed by Andy Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by Virus__ Super Mario 64 – DS – claimed by Chuloopa Dragon Age: Awakening – PS3 (sealed) – claimed by Masha2932 Fahrenheit – PS2 – claimed by Strange Final Fantasy Origins – PSX (NTSC) – claimed by Ynefel Final Fantasy Tactics – PSX (NTSC) – claimed by Steve-O the Devo God of War Collection – PS3 – claimed by Ruffleberg Canis Canem Edit (Bully) – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by scree Sacred 2 – 360 – claimed by Blaghman
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Awesome =D
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Confirmed. I haven’t. Address located. Target sighted. Triangulating…
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Just kidding: email received, package labelled, will be sent at lunch
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In Pulp Fiction there’s the line “Know what they call a Quarter Pounder in Paris? Royale with Cheese. ‘Cos of the metric system”
Combine that with The Hunger Games being a similar idea to the film Battle Royale and you get…
What do they call the Hunger Games in Paris?
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Here’s my problem with this issue! Battle Royale is one of my favourite books/movies. I read the Hunger Games book because I heard it was similar and didn’t like it as much (haven’t seen the movie yet). But now when I tell people this (hoping that they might then want to watch BR), I get told off for riding the hate bandwagon because HG is suddenly popular! xD
IS THIS HOW HIPSTERS ARE CREATED!?
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Man this whole Hunger Games thing has just completely blindsided me. I had no idea what it was when the movies came out and couldn’t work out this sudden kerfuffle about it all.
And on point, BR is just far far superior. Simple fact.
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Same here. I read the books a few years ago, loved them. Then there was a movie being made about the first book. Gee that looks like its going be a huge disappointment and then all of a sudden OH MY GOD BIGGEST MOVIE EVER. WHERE DID ALL THESE FANS COME FROM? I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO READ THESE BOOKS. THIS MAKES NO SENSE.
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Ergh. My major essays are exactly a month away so I’m starting to research them now. I’m also now discovering that all the relevant ones have been borrowed. I’d be so dead without google books.
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I have two 2500 word essays. Both need upward of 25 sources each o_O. I’m stressing I’ve left it too late actually.
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@scee – could you give me details of the meat closer to the date? I may be in attendance…
@Blood Apathy – I’ll talk to you closer to the meat date and see if I can scab a lift or something off ya 😛 (if I go to the meat)
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I’m not sure, because I need to know when people are available. It seems like Saturday is a good day for most people though
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I’m tempted to consider the meat. I’ve never been to Yoyogi. I hear it’s pretty good and not too pricey.
And they do okonomiyaki!If I still have use of a car and if I’m going, I don’t mind giving you a lift. You’re pretty much on my way anyway.
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I’m trying to make it so everyone can go. As I said, i can go anytime so I’m trying to find out what’s easiest for everyone
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Maybe we’ll all have to come to you
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I vote +1 to this =D
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In that case, what’s easiest for me is next thursday, or friday night.
“I’m trying to make it so everyone can go”
True democracy only leads to endless committees and meetings and nothing ever happens. However, in an elective democracy, the elected leader calls the shots and with a few compromises, usually something happens. Be our elected leader Scree!But seriously – if you’re going to organise a meat, pick a date, put it out there and see who bites.
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I’ll be in charge then! I’m always left in charge of the quarterly BBQ & piss up at an old tafe teachers place amongst my friends, probably because I am not lazy/have contact with every one and I guess my organisation skills are not too shabby =P
But i’m not sure how this is being helpful since I have about 2,000km away =P
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Well he had to have written it before he recorded it =P
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He was co-writer with his wife and a friend.
So you’re both right.
Or none of us are.
What do I know about country music?
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I have. Ended up on the floor, unresponsive and staring at the ceiling, according to my flatmates at the time.
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I would absolutely love to play some TF2 again. Seems like forever since I played a game on my PC/PS3/360.
I’m going to drink a pint of Guinness and play some Blur. That’s the rest of my evening sorted 😀
Found the video of the wrong Kazakhstan anthem being played in a medal ceremony at a shooting competition in Kuwait.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=804_1332542129
Holy sheeet!
Epic Brink game with Pez, Rocket, Lambo and myself. Now that most of the serious kinks are smoothed over, I think we can get to the end of the co op campaign \o/
Special award goes to FatShady for jumping in for the first time and being dumped on a hard match and still managing to do pretty well!
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D: I see I’m not welcome here!
I had no idea what I was doing for about twenty minutes, but once things started making sense I had a blast. (and I blew up a door in a blast, too)
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Next step is for you to go get those challenges so you can unlock all the weapons + attachments!
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Epic EPIC brink game tonight.
We put the bots on the hardest difficult.
And oh boy was it hard.
Also the game was tough.
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I’m never gonna dance again
Cause guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it’s easy to pretend
I know you’re not a fool-
I should have known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I’d been given
So I’m never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you
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Yea, but he’s not as cool as you or I. After all, we are officially part of the Cool gang of Kotaku.
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I thought Freeze was the coolest one here to be honest
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Singlet and tracksuit pants then?
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I’ll be fashionably late to the meat BTW. And by that i mean about 7-ish. Because i need to go home and change after work.
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I am extremely fortunate that I am working with friends on my group project this semester. Otherwise, this sums up my feelings to them:
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I was lucky enough to have the same people in different units. We formed the same groups every time and always got HDs
Nothing sucks harder than someone doing zero work in a group and still expecting a mark. I had that in my first semester at Uni. He did nothing, when the marks came in i told him to get fucked and put down a zero on his evaluation.
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I hate those guys. But if you complain loud enough they get marked down. Is what happened in 1st year. I did my work and a bit more, another pretty cool guy did tons, and the other two did nothing at all. Outright in front of their faces when the tutor was interviewing us, cool guy is like, me and this guy did everything, the other two did nothing.
One of them looked offended, the other was like “Yeah, that’s fair”. His reaction was pretty great.
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That was like me, but I liked my group cause I got to pick them so I didn’t care, I was helping my mates pass an easy subject (well for me it was, not so much them xD)
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I’m a few years late here, but have just been playing Shogun 2 Total War after about a week or so of re-playing Empire, and the contrast is astonishing. Shogun is just so much more polished, more coherent, prettier, the UI is much cleaner and easier to use, it’s just a really impressive game. They even added fully-voiced Japanese speeches, rather than making do with a dreadful cliche-ridden American voiceover.
I was a bit disappointed when Empire first came out three years ago, given the obvious AI bugs and the sense that the game didn’t get a chance to be developed fully, but The Creative Assembly have just done such a great job with the subsequent games.
(Also when Sega announced they were shutting down practically all of their US/European projects, I was really relieved that the Total War series was specifically saved.)
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Sorry to hijack, but speaking of Empire: Total War, I still have a free copy from the Steam christmas sale thats looking for a home. Any takers?
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Is there a way to switch between English/Japanese generals’ speeches?
The campaign map advisor has an annoyingly stereotypically-fake Japanese accent (it doesn’t even sound Japanese!)
Also have any TAYbies bought any of the DLC? Is it worth getting the Rise of the Samurai campajgn pack?
(I bought the new Fall of the Samurai expansion-standalone thingy, BECAUSE MEIJI RESTORATION)
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Gorzy, Pyrean, Blaghsy and I have Fall of the Samurai.
It’s more Shogun 2, it’s good.
Personally, I prefer vanilla Shogun 2; I just like the time setting better. Plus I infinitely prefer archers over guns. But yeah, a minor thing, I guess. It’s still pretty rad.
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SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
*throws wallet at screen*
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns
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Meanwhile, on last week’s TAY:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-164/comment-page-1/#comment-608559
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Good for them 🙂
I’m kinda wondering if there’s a saturation point for Kickstarter, once the shock of Shafer’s bazillion-dollar fundraiser wears off. Surely there are only so many nostalgic gaming fans out there willing to toss in money?
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Yeah, but Shadowrun isn’t some random property, it’s got a bit of cachet to it. I would hav e liked to see some concept art/mechanics stuff, but still… Shadowrun!
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Ok, so apparently I drink sherry now.
Background:
A few weeks ago I was talking to an older customer about – stuff – and the topic of her home town comes up. She grew up in Spain in the place where sherry comes from.
Not Australian sherry, but real sherry according to her.
I told her that I don’t mind fortified wines – I love tokay and rather enjoy port and muscat, but I had never tried a sherry that I could stomach. The old dear seemed a little offended.
The problem, as she explained it, was that I had never tried Spanish sherry.
Ok. Whatever.
Yesterday she comes in to see me with a bottle of sherry. She says that this will change my mind about sherry. I must try it. Please accept this gift… blah blah blah.
Opened it tonight.
It’s bloody good stuff!
So, there you go, I like sherry, and I’m proud!
and perhaps a little tipsy 😉
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Man, speaking of port the old man & I cracked open this one we discovered in the booze cupboard the other day to pour over some strawberries, and wow it was so nice. Nothing fancy or expensive, mid range stuff, but ever so nice.
Even though you focused on sherry, and only mentioned port, i’ve never tried sherry. Though I remember my grandmother being fond of it, but then again she drank whiskey with soda water D=
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I rather like port, but I was really surprised to learn that I really like sherry. At least the more expensive stuff.
I suspect that I may actually be a sweet old lady at heart.
Not sure how to feel about this latest bit of self-discovery. O_o
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i smell like a mixture of popcorn and coffee, i think i should go out smelling like this, then maybe the ladies will be like “OMG HE SMELLS LIKE COFFEE/POPCORN I WANNA LICK HIS FACE” and such….
Since the last time I checked six hours ago that Shadowrun Kickstarter has raised $150,000
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns
I didn’t even know this existed.. but DAMN, that is some good value if you don’t have any of these games
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/saints-row-the-third-space-marine-red-faction-armageddon-triple-pack-game-pc
Good morning ladies and gentlemen! So, I bought the Indie Royale Bundle and turns I already have Defense Grid and all that fancy stuff.
Anyone wants to do some sort of quid pro quo for this thingo? (It comes will all the Resurgence Packs DLC) Else I’ll give it away in the next days.
I also have the Desura key for the games in case you want to try Explodemon…
Thoughts?
Oh, right, it’s 8:22 am right? Bloody time changes I will never get used to those. For a second I thought I killed TAY.
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Every time you write that I think of Raving rabbits.
Also, Alpha hasn’t played Mass effect, I think
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No, it’s about to refresh again. That and some people haven’t arrived at work yet.
How awesome is Another?
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Very awesome I must say. Needed more Misaki Mei though. So HHNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG!
Just a simple Twitter image search delivers. I’m eager to see how the live action version will turn out. (I hope it’s going to be decent, jeez.)
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Will need a competent actress though… And we’ll have to lurk for torrents, no chance in hell that gets out of Japan. 🙁
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Aka, do you know?
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MECH WARRIOR? WHERE?!?
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Found another awesome collection for a great price that i didn’t even know existed!!!
http://www.ozgameshop.com/xbox-360-games/capcom-digital-collection-game-xbox-360
AWESOME! 😀
Sold another 4 shirts over night – 3 to one guy – he bough all 3 of the Zelda pearl shirts!
So rad!!
I need to step up my designs and get some new ones done – maybe i’ll be able to finance a new computer by the end of the year…. maybe not… lol
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Aw thanks Hugo, but you really didn’t have to.
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As first announced here, http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-157/comment-page-11/#comment-624484 in the dusty recesses of page 11, this giveaway has had the unfortunate acronyms S-DOG-LIGGI and SWAGGER and GIGGLE. GIVETAY is the current incarnation, and this is where things stand.
These games still available.
HALO – Xbox
Metal Gear Solid 2 – PS2 (NTSC)
Metal Gear Solid 3 – PS2 (NTSC)
Metal Gear Solid 3 – PS2 (PAL)
NBA 2K11 – PS2 (PAL)
Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee – Xbox
Tekken 5 – PS2 (PAL)
Dragon Age: Origins – 360 – claimed by Andy POSTED
Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by Virus__ POSTED
Dragon Age: Awakening – PS3 (sealed) – claimed by Masha2932 POSTED
Fahrenheit – PS2 – claimed by Strange POSTED
Final Fantasy Origins – PSX (NTSC) – claimed by Ynefel POSTED
Final Fantasy Tactics – PSX (NTSC) – claimed by Steve-O the Devo POSTED
God of War Collection – PS3 – claimed by Ruffleberg POSTED
Canis Canem Edit (Bully) – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by scree POSTED
Sacred 2 – 360 – claimed by Blaghman POSTED
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash-Up – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by scree POSTED
Jak and Dexter: Precursor Legacy – PS2 (PAL) claimed by Crazyguy1990 POSTED
Jak 3 – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by Strange POSTED
Super Mario 64 – DS – claimed by Chuloopa POSTED
LEGO Star Wars: Complete Saga – PS3 – claimed by Cakesmith
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If by the end of all the games being given away, if the two NTSC games are still available, can Alpha have them? You can just send them to me and I’ll take care of the overseas postage if you want.
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I am actually pondering whether to give them away at all. If I decide yes, then yes, he can definitely have them.
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@ Aidan
thanks for posting this (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns) on the previous page!
This is the first i have seen of this, and not only is that video HILARIOUS, it sounds like the most amazing game prospect i have heard for AGES!!!!
DO want!
I might have to contribute to my first kickstarter…
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Best part was the guys who did the 2007 shadowrun holding the sign saying “sorry” while people threw fruit at him! 😀
I watched the Hunger Games last night. Not a terrible movie but for most of the movie I felt like there was a lot of details being glossed over with the assumption that people already knew them. Haven’t even read the books and just knew that there was plenty being unexplained, or pivotal characters having barely noticeable roles, that would make more sense to those who already knew the story.
It’s something that really bugs me with adaptations these days. There are a lot of films based on popular franchises that don’t bother trying to stand on their own. They succeed because the fan base will go anyway and those that don’t know the story will be able to look up what they missed out on.
Bollocks to that. What happened to adaptations so awesome that you didn’t even know they were adaptations? Shawshank Redemption is one of the best executed films I’ve ever seen and most people only know it’s an adaptation because they get told. There’s no assumption that people will just read the book to find out what they missed.
If you’re retelling something in a different medium, assume that it is entirely independent of what has already been told. Game of Thrones is doing a good job of things.
Oh and my PC is still dead /o\
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THIS. This so much.
The very best adaptations are, as you said, completely self-contained and are often the ones where you have no idea it’s an adaptation. Shawshank and Green Mile are very good examples (Frank Darabont of course is a genius). Children of Men is another example.
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Children of Men was rather brilliant.
Frank Darabont has definitely done some good work, but The Walking Dead might end up being a bit of a black mark on his record. Although according to imdb, he’s got a few of those :p
Still, I think when it comes to an adaptation, you need to work out what parts of the story work and then completely remake them in the new medium. A novel, particularly one told in first person or close third person, gives an entirely different perspective than a film can possibly offer without clunky narration. That’s a huge hurdle to overcome, as well as the various problems that come with length (phrasing!).
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Yes.
Lord of the Rings was a particularly interesting example here. The books are very arms-length historical-type novels, but the movies are deeply personal, and give very different weight to different events (for example, Helm’s Deep took more than an hour in the films, but less than five pages of the novel).
Not perfect for a number of reasons, but a very courageous reimagining of the tale!
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TBH I think that’s the difference between a good director/writer/publisher and a bad one.
The good ones, know what will look good on film and what parts of the story transfer to film. Where as the bad ones will follow the books and cut out bits when the movie becomes too long.
I think there are very few “trilogy” adaptations that are done well, simply because it’s that much harder to put in 3 (or more) books worth into a movie. Trilogies tend to start of a bit slower as all the characters etc are introduced which makes for a very boring first half of movie 1. I’m sure I can be proven wrong but that’s just a my 2c.Also why the hell does chrome keep underlining “movie” as being spelt wrong??? Looks like it just doesn’t exist in the dictionary.
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Oh man, trilogies.
Do you know how many planned trilogies completely forget to make the first part stand on it’s own and instead use it to just set up the second and third parts? Far too many. Then there are the trilogies that start out as one independent tale, then they cobble together some overarching theme to go across three movies/books.
The recent trend of two part movies is so much worse though.
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You know what else does a decent job, Game of thrones. It is quite a difficult tale to tell and the people who are making it are doing a good job of
1) Making sure everyone knows who the characters are and what they stand for
2) Making the story which is very convuluted easy to follow.
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Actually I thought the first few episodes were a little vague on some points. I’d read the books myself but when my mum watched the first three episodes she had quite a few questions about things. After that, though, she was fine and felt really engaged in the story. Just those first few episodes were a bit hard to really get into without reading the books.
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All of the information you need is there, sometimes they just give you too much information all at once and not enough context. It’s not perfect but most people seem to understand enough to the general idea of what’s going on, even if a lot of specifics are lost on them.
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Mornin’ TAY!
Still recovering from how awesome that Brink game was last night. Cheers to all involved!
I’m going to miss out on all the Diablo 2 funtimes tomorrow, which kinda sucks, but I get the feeling another chance may come up some time.
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Rize!
Thanks for the help / answering all my noobish questions on Terraria last night. You helped out a hell of a lot!
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morning TAY
increased availability of caffiene would be appreciated right now.
Long weekend is the best weekend.
no wait.
Long weekend with stupid amounts of chocolate* is the best weekend.
*and playing games & seeing music played in dodgy pubs.
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allow me to one-up you* sir – today, i finish at three and dont come back to work til next thursday. starting next week is school holidays & that means no school kids at work. & that means, turning up to work is far less irritating.
:p
* tee-hee
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So for those playing D2 tomorrow, what classes are y’all going at? I’m tossing up either a sin or a necro and I just want to get a handle so I can pick something that complements the other classes and doesn’t overlap 😀
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I still dont know how you are all connecting. Some one mentioned some 3rd party software for those with non legit copies, is everyone using that? coz i have a legit copy and dont want to break it 😛
and i’ll probably go either sorceress or pally if i play.
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So i decided that i am going to play soul SIlver on my car ride, So much cool improved stuff, I think i am going to not do the thing i did with white and maybe grind a little at the start for a decent advantage.
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Pokemon are such great games – but the early grind is really essential, as much of a pain as it is… 🙁
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In the first game they did it really well with the cave between the first two gyms. It didn’t feel like a grind because you were just trying to survive. You don’t get that luxury in later games which is a shame because it was a really well done section of the game.
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I’ll always have a soft spot for the originals – i like the original 151 sooo much better than anything new – but maybe that’s because i’m so familiar with them… but they always just seemed so much more awesome…
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I like pretty much all of the first 2 generation ones. the extra balance in the game was good with the new types and the second gen stuff was just brilliant. I always have a soft spot for the original games, i have played and replayed them to death maybe 15+ playthroughs. It really is one of the only games i have had the patience and willingness to play through to the end and keep going. Nothing really holds my attention like pokemon does. Which is sad ;(
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I still need to do HG and SS, they’re sitting there half played. =(
Finaly finished off White last weekend, so that’s Black and White finished.
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I have already done a run through o SS before can’t remember if i went to kanto though. As for black i am gonna grind some more with my favourite team , i have got to the elite 4 just gotta tune my team to were i want them. I will do it one day.
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Unfortunately after recent events I might be quitting bowling, since I’ve now got serious family trust issues and part of my family is in my team. Really depends on how the confrontation goes down next Wednesday… hopefully my brutal point will get across
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Not really, basically I can’t really trust anyone in my own family anymore, all cuz of money. I feel pretty much more depressed than usual where I sadly got proven right when I really didn’t want to be…
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Money issues in families are quite hard to fix. All i can say is that they are still your family. Robohug bud
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Yeah now I wish they weren’t. Once I move out I’ll keep as little contact with them as possible just as a taste for them to know how much I hated what they’ve all done.
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To err is human; to forgive is divine Just keep that in mind. If you want to shout abusive things at a person i am always available to be that person on TS. Chin up bud.
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Nah Rocketman, you unfairly get enough of that already, I’d rather not add to it. If anything, I’ll let it out on myself through the mirror, as I always do
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I cop my fair share but its nothing i can’t handle or don’t deserve. Also blaming yourself won’t make you feel better. Listen to some calming music, have a read of a book. Do these activities while just quitely reflecting. It usually helps me see the other persons perspective.
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Rocketman you are on holy fire this week.
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Thanks, again I’ll have to wait and see how bad the fallout will be from this. But most likely I won’t look at my family the same again.
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No promises. No really my brutal point will be the hard truth that I don’t bail people out for getting into messes that are 100% avoidable if you use half of your human brain.
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It’ll be the right thing for me since I stick to my principles. Yes I live with honour as I am programmed, but that doesn’t mean you can walk all over me like my family have been taking advantage of. I’m standing my ground after this latest debacle. Besides… they need to learn
Trying to think of a joke about Boweling…
Ummmmm.
That stinks? (Because a bowel is where all your poo is!)
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Shit.
Bowling.
Well this is embarrassing.
At least it would be if The Simpsons hadn’t done that joke 15 years ago.
Still though, all you poo is in there.
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Dont Quit Bowling! Just find another team. I really regret not continuing with bowling. I used to do a lot of tournaments when i was younger, and wasnt half bad (for a human). Even though i know my frail body would be a lot worse if had continued bowling i really miss it.
Well I am Quite angry and upset with the world today.
Got in my car and started driving, Noticed a couple of things werent right, a couple of things were where they shouldnt have been. then noticed the one thing I never move in my car was gone. then checked for a few other things, yep gone too. including a $100 bottle of perfume I had bought and had ready to mail to my mother.
Then the real point struck home SOMEONE HAD BEEN INSIDE MY PERSONAL SPACE! This has made me so angry this morning. Luckily I have now found my spare key so I know they dont have constant access to my car. But still doesnt stop the shock and anger.
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What a bitch. Sorry to hear that dude. If you find out who it is we’ll get Doc and Serrels to pay them a visit (Scottish people are scary).
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It’s true. In Scotland, everyone is terrified ALL the time!
Sometimes they just play football.
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Finished Mass Effect 3 last night, I didn’t mind the ending.
Honestly with they way the fans were carrying on I expected it to be much worse, although I can understand why people would not be happy with the ending,, gurl onfvpnyyl chyyrq n snyybhg guerr jvgu gur raqvat.
While I wouldn’t mind a bit more closure and am looking curious to see what Bioware will do with the ending, I still think the way the fans reacted was disgusting.
Controversy aside, orvat va Ybaqba, gnxvat gur gvzr gb fcrnx gb rnpu punenpgre gb fnl tbbqolr, urnevat Gnyv ynzrag gur fubeg nzbhag bs gvzr fur unq yrsg jvgu Furcneq, V jnf guvf pybfr gb furqqvat n znayl grne.
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James Vega! 😀
orvat va Ybaqba, gnxvat gur gvzr gb fcrnx gb rnpu punenpgre gb fnl tbbqolr, urnevat Gnyv ynzrag gur fubeg nzbhag bs gvzr fur unq yrsg jvgu Furcneq, V jnf guvf pybfr gb furqqvat n znayl grne.
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right after I finished it, I too had no real problem with the ending.
then the fridge logic set in…
& now… I dunno. BioWare told the story they wanted, in the way they wanted, & I’m not gonna ask em to change it.but yeah, I found this article from a few days ago [TOTAL SPOILERS FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVENT FINISHED IT] a good read & pretty much sums up how I feel about the ending now.
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Yeah I read that article right away after beating the game, and to be honest it seems pretty accurate to me. I wasn’t furious at the ending, and I didn’t mind it, but I definitely feel it could have been better.
And yes, the fridge logic. Dear god the fridge logic.
Gnyv jnf jvgu zr ba gur tebhaq va Ybaqba jura Uneovatre uvg, fb ubj qvq fur raq hc ba gur Abeznaql ng gur raq?
Uryy, V’z tynq fur’f nyvir naq nyy ohg ubj qvq fur trg gurer fb snfg?-
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Ernyyl? Vagrerfgvat.
Va zl tnzr jura vg’f gvzr gb znxr n oernx sbe gur ornz, Uneovatre qebcf va naq fgnegf svevat ng rirelobql naq jr nyy unir gb znxr n znq qnfu sbe vg.Ubj qvq lbhef ghea bhg gura?
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Gurl’er nyy gur fnzr…
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oh haha i’m just silly then..
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Oh god.
Just came back from my normal coffee place.
Women wearing bunny ears and bow ties? Best. Ever.
We can be buddies, Easter. I like you.
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Like this?
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Dang?
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The new guy Ben was talking about keeps breaking stuff. 😛
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What did they hire lambo or something? 😛
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How did you find out? They said they wouldn’t tell! /o\
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I don’t have an avatar. I’m too cool for one.
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Hey folks! Incase you missed it last night I’ve set up a Terraria server and I’m in the process of setting up a TF2 server.
Terraria server details can be found on TAYNAMES. I have only one rule and that’s don’t be a dick.
At the moment it has a 10 slot capacity. If there is enough interest I’ll increase it but I don’t want to stress the server too much.
TF2 I’m looking at 16 slots. More details on that to come.
Regarding D2 this weekend, with the unstableness of my Internet at the moment I’m looking for someone willing to host. At the moment I’m leaning towards a direct TCP/IP connection which will require some router config, but it should be better than Hamachi.
I’m happy to guide you through the set up.
Here’s one for all you nostalgia nuts.
Does anyone remediable a game (PC) called Silver.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uMQiJrW7gqw/SZRlhJfyXaI/AAAAAAAADqI/ZhIb_KdI9ww/s400/silver.jpg
It was MEGA SUPER EPIC AWESOME but for some reason I never finished it. I would love to give it another crack but I think I’ve never been able to find a working copy.
Does anyone remember this? OR does anyone know where I can get my hands on it?
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I played it on the Dreamcast. I finished it within a week and used EB’s 7-day returns policy to trade it in for something else, possibly Omikron:The Nomad Soul. I enjoyed it but had no regrets about trading it in.
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You old people and your dreamcasts.I will nod like i understand what gaming systems you are talking about. Oh you had a commodore 64 computer is that like a nintendo device strapped to a holden sedan?
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So after our epic game of Brink last night on hard difficulty I’m thinking we definitely need another.
HOWEVER, I think we should run a few matches on normal difficulty to let the guys who are unfamiliar with the game get accustomed to the playstyle/classes/weapon mods etc.
Thoughts? If people are keen I’ll set up a game for the long weekend.
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Eat me!
That’s right. I’m bringing the 90’s back.
Thumb rings & off the shoulder cardigans for all.
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Slap bands too?
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What about mullets for the guys and giant frizzy hair for the girls?
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hypercolour clothing?
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And fluro shoelaces
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Backwards caps and really baggy clothes?
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That would be very nice. Although I honestly didn’t have much issue playing on hard. Sure I died a lot, but I wasn’t angry about it at all, which was pretty cool. I sorta concluded that in that game death isn’t THAT big of an issue.
One of the greatest games i ever played on my 386:
http://homeoftheunderdogs.net/game.php?id=4403
Anyone else here played Sins of a Solar Empire?
I’ve never finished a game myself, but thats just coz theyre so damn epic.
aaanyway… just saw a trailer & some screens for SoaSE : Rebellion. damn that looks pretty & awesome.
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I tried to get into it, but such a learning curve it really intimidated me the first time. I recently got a 3-pack for SoaSE two weeks ago though and I’m willing to give it a whirl once again.
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i still need to actually get this game… was always a blast at LAN parties, and i really enjoy it… the scale is awesome… especially the really big maps that takes months to resolve, if you even ever reach a resolution
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Hey folks! Incase you missed it last night I’ve set up a Terraria server and I’m in the process of setting up a TF2 server.
Terraria server details can be found on TAYNAMES. I have only one rule and that’s don’t be a dick.
At the moment it has a 10 slot capacity. If there is enough interest I’ll increase it but I don’t want to stress the server too much.
TF2 I’m looking at 16 slots. More details on that to come.
Regarding D2 this weekend, with the unstableness of my Internet at the moment I’m looking for someone willing to host. At the moment I’m leaning towards a direct TCP/IP connection which will require some router config, but it should be better than Hamachi.
I’m happy to guide you through the set up.
I am trying to remember an old game a mate used to have, you played as knights of different colours, and all i can remember is you could play against another player and decapitate them in a fight, usually in a forest type scene. I honestly cant begin to remember the name of the game. Any one maybe remember it?
My daughter is playing Little Big Planet 2. Nothing out of the ordinary during the holidays. Except she’s playing with real live people over PSN and even chatting to them. Scary.
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Oh I’m not silly enough to let her do voice chat. I’m reading all the chat she’s involved in so I can step in if necessary. It’s so inane though that I think they really are just kids like they say they are. 😛
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decided to bite the bullet and go to work today… baaad mistake…
getting heaps of crap thrown at me, and i’m having issue focusing on one thing…
for each new issue getting thrown at me, i just feel more lethargic…
Who knew being a pet owner could be this hard?
okay i’m done whinging, but crap i miss that dog!
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*brosplosion* (that sounded less gay in my head)
sad thing is, that despite all of this, i’d do it all again because i believe it’s worth it…
nothing could ever replace her, but that doesn’t stop me from wanting to have more dogs-
Yeah, a number of months after our chihuahua doggie died we ended up getting a pug/chihuahua rescue dog to round out the trio of dogs we have.
It’s horrible when they pass away but they all bring so much joy it’s silly not to have them in your life.
We still have her urn on the table. You never forget them 🙂
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Its natural people who say that they are just animals are wrong. They are part of the family. My grandmas cat died last year and i am not ashamed to say that i was quite upset. I missed my cat.
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That worked. Hmm.
Summary!
Terraria server – TAYNAMES for details
TF2 server – soon.jpg
Diablo 2 – Need someone to host. My net is unstable. Going for a TCP/IP connection. Requires some router config, happy to guide people through it.Hope this makes it.
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I am pretty sure that with me moving next year its not a proper time to get a dog, but i don’t care. I always loved having a pet as a kid and i think people who grow up with animals become more polite and kind to others because of the joy that they give you.
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Be warned.
Getting a dog from a puppy is hard work, man.
If you’re gonna do it, make sure you’ve got like 2-3 weeks off when you get it so you can help the poochola settle in and get used to it’s surroundings etc.
Also, don’t get one before you make a big move. Especially if you don’t have somewhere to live lined up. Chances are you’ll be living on your own which will mean share houses or cheap apartments, both of which can be super hard to find with pet allowances.
Last thing, get a sausage dog. Because they’re best dog.
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I am aware of all these things. Also of course i am getting a sausage dog. They are the dog for hipsters. Made by hipsters for hipsters.
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If you move to Brisbane we can walk our sausage dogs together.
And just sigh away the afternoons.
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Haha That sounds awesome.
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Ignore Dan.
Get a half breed chihuahua or a full breed one.We’ve had one short-haired chihuahua and a pug/chihuahua cross and they are seriously the most wonderful dogs ever, they have the nicest personality.
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chihuahuas always seem like angry dogs to me but i havent had any experience with them. My family dogs were a border collie then we had 2 german shepard dogs which were the kindest animals i have ever seen. I was thinking of getting a beagle or a small type dog.
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Just get a cat. 😛
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They’re not so much angry as territorial/protective and they don’t understand how small they are.
I had to pick up our little chihuahua on more than a few occasions when people were walking big border collies/dobermans/german shepherds past our house and the chihuahua decided she wanted to punch on.
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we used to have a border collie. he was such a cute, gentle and intelligent dog. requires a lot of exercise though.
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Thursday revelation:
Finishing a can of Pepsi Max, and following it up with a swig of Coke less than ten seconds later makes me realise that Coke really does taste like toilet cleaner.
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I have grown to hate the taste of coke, to me it tastes like someone poured 20 tablesoons of sugar into soda water and it has become brown that way.
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Yup i can not drink real coke anymore. I can drink coke zero, or pepsi max, but REALLY not a fan of full sugar cola beverages any longer.
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Yeah since I kicked energy drinks, real Coke just makes my teeth feel like they’re disintegrating. I can hear the enamel screaming. I’ll finish this can, but that’ll be it until I need a reminder next time as to why I don’t drink Coke.
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I switched to Coke Zero because my husband preferred it and it was easier. Then a few weeks after I switched he bought me a regular Coke for a “treat” and it just tasted like sugar.
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My other comment is still being moderated. Grrrr.
Yeah I kicked energy drinks a few months back and have been on Pepsi Max since. So much better. I mean I’m sure there’s still all kinds of chemicals in there, but the sugar! So much better without. Also, Coles have had 15 packs of PMax on special for like $10 for a few weeks now.-
Yeah. Pepsi’s always cheaper than Coke. I can’t drink Pepsi Max though, it just makes me thirstier. And it tastes really sweet, too.
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I’ve essentially stopped drinking soft drink, and I’ve only been drinking water for a while.
I had some Coke the other day, and I was like “Why the hell did I ever like this?”
Coke Vanilla is still awesome.
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Vanilla Coke in a can is where it’s at. Ice cold can. So much better than the plastic bottles.
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Yeah, that’s what they had when I was in year 11/12. And for a dollar. Was so good.
I was such an addict.
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I had a very successful night in Dark Souls last night.
I could tell you about it, but I would rather …
*pulls lute from behind back*
…SING ABOUT IT
There once was an exceptional knight
and this knight was known as Noob
He walked through a white light.
And oh look a lady spider with boobs
The spider gave our hero an awful stare
Then out of its mouth came the fire
Our hero moved fast, faster then a hare
The thought of death sure can inspire!
It was Noobs turn and his aim was true
behind his axe was met with his might
the axe flew and split the spider in two
and just like that it was the end of the fight.
So ends the fight between two who are strong
That Noob guy sure is a righteous dude
It’s sad to sing the end of this song
but before i finish and go … BOOBS!
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i knocked off half a point because you got a little bit off tune during the bridge, but otherwise a solid effort! Congratulations, you’ve made it through to the next round!
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Out of hand conversations are best conversations. I feel bad for Bubble-T. Hopefully she got some “lols” out of it.
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Hahaha, i dont even know how it started, but it keeps going, and it is quite amusing, and so long as she knows its just for the lols! We Love you Bubble-T!
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It’s started because I insulted Pez and then he said that people with curly hair are the worst and Tracey then said that she had a perm and it went from there.
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yeah i got the bit about where perm started. but turning it into movie titles? Genius!
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SO i am endearing and cute according to you and freyjr, i am going to die sad and alone aren’t I. People only say that stuff to people who have nothing else going for them oh god oh god oh god. 😛
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Nah, you’re fine Rocket, at least you have endearing.
The best I have is “well, at least the people he murders are the dregs of society!” 😛
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I feel like when ever we talk about this stuff it always ends in a who is the worst contest. We are way to self depricating
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No, you’re self deprecating, and I’m honest.
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okay cool i am glad we sorted that.
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Hey endearing is good. I recall Freyr saying to me last night: “Maybe I was just afraid you were going to stab me”
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Haha Sorry i should laugh jo. It is just your voice and appearance don’t match up, You look like a murder but you talk like a gentlemen. 😛
TAY is broken,
Also, Can someone point me in the direction of this mystical TAY list so I can bookmark it?
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Thanks! 😀
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My posts got lost on the last page!
Hey folks! Incase you missed it last night I’ve set up a Terraria server and I’m in the process of setting up a TF2 server.
Terraria server details can be found on TAYNAMES. I have only one rule and that’s don’t be a dick.
At the moment it has a 10 slot capacity. If there is enough interest I’ll increase it but I don’t want to stress the server too much.
TF2 I’m looking at 16 slots. More details on that to come.
Regarding D2 this weekend, with the unstableness of my Internet at the moment I’m looking for someone willing to host. At the moment I’m leaning towards a direct TCP/IP connection which will require some router config, but it should be better than Hamachi.
I’m happy to guide you through the set up.
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I actually managed to get D2 installed on my computer last night.
However I think the stress of trying to connect to the internet may actually cause it to have a meltdown.
Should be fun* finding out.*stressful and the cause of many bad words
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I *MIGHT* be able to host depending on what my wife is doing on our net a the time. not sure how to set it up, i know i tend to be given host on COD in most matches, so im guessing my network is up to it.
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Just joined the server and cool house! 😀
I’m pretty sure I joined the right one but there was no password required 😛
Disorganised chests /o\!
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LOL joined port 7777 (which seems to have worked!) STEAL ALL THE THINGS
Ok tried it with the actual port and it works fine :D. Gonna wander around for a bit 🙂
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Uh oh… >_>
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(I really hope it’s not Rize or another person we know)
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It’s not. If you go to 7777 you will get another world that isn’t the TAY world. TAY world requires 8277 and a password. You should see the MOTD saying you’re on the right world.
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I know it’s not TAY’s world but you said it might be Rize’s 😛
Anyways a friend took stuff and blew up their house :'(. Mega apologies for whose ever world that was!
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Haha, it’s not. Rize said he was going to build one on the TAY world.
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Phew…
Party in port 7777 then!
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Even if it was that TAY world I have backups and access to banage 😛
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I hope they did back it up :/
Don’t worry it wasn’t the TAY world. I went there afterwards and read some tombstones and it was all TAYbies 🙂
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wtf.. my comment is awaiting moderation???
here it is again then:
TERRARIA?!?!?!?
WANT IN!!!!!
SOMEONE LINK ME TO TAYNAMES!
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TAY totally ate my comment with the link to TAYNAMES….
plz work?
I’ve had 2 cups of coffee.
Just ate a curried egg S/W…
Just realised i have chicken korma for lunch….
My colon is going to punish me, isn’t it?
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I found that much more amusing than I should have
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Mannnnnnn some students are dumb…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6hYJ-rA-M4&feature=g-logo&context=G224469aFOAAAAAAAEAA
I serioulsy can’t handle protestors sometimes – the sheer level of idiocy in insane
Just read a comment on youtube that made me lol for reals
“Hey joey, thats a weird lookin drum set you’ve got there, its got strings on it”
i don’t know why, but i found that intensely amusing!
Im working from home today and suffering from a ZERO motivation disease. Seriously just can’t even think about it. Im also looknig forward to the weekend because this afternoon im taking my son on his first big train ride frmo my house to the city and we are staying the night. Wife and I go out for a nice dinner and then stay in a hotel for the night. We have other relo’s staying in there and they have offered to babysit! \o/
Then im going to record some footage of me with a Kangaroo for my NEXT project! #random but will all make sense next week.
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Working from home? Sounds like me. I get those damn zero motivation moments quite frequently. My best medicine is to cue some awesome music and enjoy it a bit. Sometimes the inspiration comes right away.
It also helps to turn off all the phones if you are doing something extremely important!
Heh, the weekend looks like a great incentive to try achieve a great week! Good luck!
So there we go. I found this magical googledoc called TAYNAMES. Added myself. And then proceeded to add people to my twitter.
Seems that a lot of the conversations take place there as well as on TAY.
I don’t use twitter much but maybe this will change things….
good-bye productivity. I did’t really like you anyway.
well that was embarrassing…. handed in my 4 weeks at work, because my wife and i decided to take the plunge and just move… while i was handing it in, my boss asked me about this weeks events and i just completely lost it… it’s so manly to break into tears at your work place….
maybe coffee will make me feel better…
also just reading my above comment, woooow i’m emo…
so…. BEWBS HEY? THEY’RE GREAT
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Oh man i have done that, people usually don’t judge you for stuff like that, or at least decent people wouldn’t You will be okay pixel, Just have to hang in there.
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Emotions aren’t bad. Sometimes they just decide to unleash at less than opportune moments.
Also BEWBS!
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Aw, there, there Pixel.
*hugs Pixel… with optional grope thrown in*
After what you have been through and the stress of uprooting your entire life, I think we can all agree that getting a little emotional is damn near mandatory.
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I wish i could let my emotions come out in tears rather than anger. People are more accepting of tears than misdirected rage.
*hugs* we are all here for you.
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Jeez, what a girl.
Just kidding man. Emotions have this really weird way of sneaking up on you, even when you think you’re totally on top of them. And you’re going through plenty of upheaval now.
so my brother suggested i listen to Stupid by Dead to Fall last night.
its straight up metal, so it’s probably not to everyones tastes, but damn… read the lyrics in the description. I found it stupidly funny.
Just got a message from my friend reminding me that we are going to the US in 5 weeks time.
Should probably think about maybe doing something to get ready for that.
*slouches in chair*
Eh… later.
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I had that issue when I went on holidays.
Packed the night before for a two week trip. Good thing I planned on buying clothes to wear over there.
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Yeah, I have the feeling that on the way over there my luggage is going to be damn near empty.
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Still trying to put plans in place for this Meat meat of mine. Checked out my rostered days off and it looks like either 19/5 or 2/6 are the best days for this to happen. That way anyone who wants to fly up can stick around on Monday to have a tour of our little town (or sit on my couch playing Xbox).
I’m guessing most of the Briswegian folk can be easily persuaded to rock up, so I guess I just need to finalise plans over this weekend. That way any Sydney/Melbourne/Not Brisbane folks who want to come can get things sorted out well ahead of time.
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Sure thing! I think Jimu, Strange and The Last Question have all said they’re keen.
Harli said that she’s interested, but I don’t know if she’ll come up and Freyr seems keen. If there are people flying up (or down, silly North Queenslanders :p), I can offer rides from the airport and whatnot. It would be rather interesting if people co-ordinate flights and then have to try and work out how to fit into my 2 door lancer.
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*grumble*
I have to go out and get something for my nephews for easter.
They don’t eat chocolate so I usually get them a couple of small toys each.
This year… I have no idea (motivation) for what to get them.
stuff?
or maybe things?
I remember as a kid I was easy to buy stuff for, admittedly I came from a poorer household and never had many toys, while these little angels/brats seem to already have every toy available.
Damn spoilt kids these days!
*adjust zimmer frame and yells at imaginary kids to get off his imaginary lawn*
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Nope, their grandmother is already getting them one 🙂
Besides, I am supposed to be the “cool” uncle who buys them the best toys.
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Unfortunately have already bought him a butt load of lego recently, so the only ones he is interested in now cost about $100-200.
No way kiddo.
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I’m about to set up the TF2 server. Are there any other games we want on it? L4D2? Brink? Battlefield 3 maybe? You have until 1pm.
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L4D 1 or 2 would be brilliant! Sometimes it’s impossible to get a server, even if all the groups i’m in have free ones =/
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LF2D would be awesome.
and I would LOVE some more people to play BF3 with…. gets so lonely sometimes.-
Hey, I started playing Fattlebield 3 just last week (PC). My origin/battlelog handle is on TAYNAMES if you’re interested.
Warning: I bring the sugar, honey, ice and tea to the party, skill-wise.
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I have never gone on the TS servers for TAY. Am i a snob? or just scared of people having people hear my actual voice? I like the idea of people making up a random voice to read my posts in 😛
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Okay, I have asked this of TAY a few times already, and it may be a real simple procedure so I am sorry for the multiple asks, but can somebody please give me a brief idea of how to join TS.
Complete computer noob here people, so have mercy on the slow barbarian.-
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download teamspeak3 client and sak someone for the details. There is also a password to keep out… well… people like you..
I’ve said too much 😉
If you want to send me an e-mail and I can reply with all of it mate.
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Thanks SlimShady, will look into tonight.
May not actually get heavily involved untill I get a new computer, I wants to get in on the whole PC master race stuff, but I wanted to get an idea of what was involved.
Cheers dude
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haha TS is currently just me singing songs as i constantly forget i’m online!.. I actually took Alpha’s advice about music and it’s kinda working.
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Yeah, just read up about it. He isn’t necessarily out, but it’s incredibly likely.
I look forward to seeing Frank Mir get the shot he deserves.
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Yep, Mir seems like the guy to get it. But apparently the failed test isn’t 100% confirmed yet. So we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.
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Finished ME1 last night! \o/
Remembered to tell Steam to download ME2 while at asleep/at work! \o/
Work decided everyone has a half day today! \o/
#winning
I just added a Draw Something column to the Tay list. Not sure if people still play.
First time I edited anything since it first went up! True story.
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I got really scared I’d mess something up when I put my 3DS code in there. I almost asked you to do it for me. 😛
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I’m fine with entering data into an empty space but anything that required editing or adding new columns or rows I avoided because I was too scared I’d mess it up :/
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I hope somone has a backup incase it breaks. I have the original document, but it’s changed A LOT since then.
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im on DS ‘fatshadylive’ but have not actually opened the app or done anything??? someone want to teach me while drawing stuff, send an invite or whatever and ill check it out?
Step 1) DOwnload whichever client is for your computer
http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads
Step 1a) Or you can ue you Ios app or android App
Step 2) once installed send Me a email and i will give you the server details
Step 3) talk
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I need a new mic, then I’ll do that and play the games with all the TS people. And by that, i mean play the 5% of games that will work on my computer.
You know, all the hate on EA is really starting to get on my nerves. There’s a thread over on the ME3 forums, “Whatever your qualms with EA, they have a good stance towards homosexuality” (warning: contains ME3 spoilers), and almost every second post in it is saying that the only reason EA is saying they support homosexual relationships is because they want more money, that BioWare’s the company that should be thanked (even though they aren’t the only EA games to include same gender relationships) and there’s even one guy who compared EA to Hitler.
While I get that people might be annoyed at EA for things like day one DLC the hate that they recieve, even when they’ve done something good, is just mind-boggling, though not surprising. Sometimes it seems like the internet is just a festering pool of hatred ready to lash out at everything and anything if given the chance.
Sorry if this post seems a bit out of place for TAY but I just felt the need to rant.
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There are far more people who would boycott a game over “promoting” homosexuality than those that would buy a game for including it.
Not to mention that female homosexual options have been there from the first game. Apparently appealing to lesbians is fine, they apparently don’t have any money to spend on trying to convert people to their evil, immoral lifestyle. It’s just the gay men we need to protect the childrens from, because girl on girl is hot.
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Oh, THIS! So much this!
The double standard with regards to gay females as opposed to gay males is ridiculous. Nobody except extreme religious groups make a fuss over the former, but as soon as there’s a hint of the latter suddenly it doesn’t belong and should never be seen or even hinted at. Boys are silly.-
Some of it might be down to the Bible being a lot more outspoken against male homosexuality, apparently in those times they didn’t even consider women being attracted to other women as an option.
Then there’s the whole “girls being a little bit bi for attention” nonsense, which has at least helped normalise lesbianism even if it’s rather dumb (and unfortunately helps perpetuate the “it’s just a phase” nonsense).
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It’s like women are feminine (or maybe just not masculine, not sure which it is), so chicks doing chicks is OK. Men doing men is not OK, because that’s a challenge to masculinity.
Work that one out.
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You see, including homosexuality is only offensive and morally bankrupt when it’s two dudes doing it. Two girls is totally hot and awesome!
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lovely pageget there loops. Would you also like a miley cirus pencil case while you are at it?
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A pencilcase… Isn’t that what he said?
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Win one in a competition!
#nothelping
Around Christmas last year David Jones and Myer were clearing game stock and they had those PSP bundles for $50. DSE did the same thing recently but other than that I can’t think of any other cheap deals 🙁
Try OzBargain every now and then and something might pop up 🙂
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I get so jealous of my daughter’s pretty turquoise PSP from the LBP pack sometimes. Black and shiny technology is sexy and all, but sometimes I like things to be colourful.
And that purple PSP is always coming up in sales, but there’s not actually all that many of them around anymore.
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OH yeah the turquoise one would be good too – sooo pretty! I forgot that existed
I’m struggling to find any that aren’t being charged stupid amounts for on ebay! lo
I’m determined to get one for bee.
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I have a shiny Gran Turismo PSP-3000. Glossy black and gunmetal grey instead of silver.
Purty.
I’d still give my left nut for a Limited Ed. Crisis Core PSP-2000 pack, new and unopened.
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I’m pretty sure you can find the Hanna Montana one in the complete opposite direction of the shop with your man card in it.
Why that one specifically?
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If you can’t find one, just get the regular PSP and buy a new body shell. They sell them at Big W
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yeah i might have to end up doing that
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I thought the same but then I vaguely remembered him trying to get his girlfriend into gaming with a PSP. So I’m going to take a wild guess and say it’s for his girlfriend? 😛 (do I win?)
Couldn’t you give her your old one and you use the Vita? But then again you’d have to rebuy all your games on PSN but that might end up being cheaper than buying a brand new console :/
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lol… she actually asked if she gets my old one since i have the vita.. but the main idea is i want to play some games multiplayer with her, as she tends to preffer doing things together the few times i’ve had her playing games.
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…that is… WHEN i get the Vita (foever waiting).
Plus my PSP has like 40 games!!! I LOVE THOSE GAMES!!!
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I gave my PSP to a friend to borrow who gave in to his girlfriend who then broke up. That was 3 years ago. I still have no PSP now 🙁
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🙁 ouch!
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And to make matters worse, the previous editor of Kotaku David Wildgoose have just given me about 10 promo only PSP games that i let them borrow 🙁
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If it’s a surprise gift for Bee, you’d better be careful though. Boys often make the mistake of just buying girls something they want them to want, instead of something the girl actually does want.
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I’m buying her something that she wants as well… which is much MUCH more expensive… i’m no fool – i’ve happily never gotten bee a bad gift
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Wow, all these comments weren’t there when I refreshed the page but after I posted 20 minutes of comments just appeared. TAY is all kinds of weird this week. I blame the new guy. 😛
And yeah, disregard this, Loops. I’ve now caught up on those magically disappearing reappearing comments.
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I’m getting her something else big – it’s sort of an in joke – it’s just a small thing to go with it
long story, really.
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Yeah, I gave my ex a PSP once. She was pretty happy to get it, but I don’t think she used it much after the ‘new toy effect’ wore off. Mainly just played the occasional Worms pvp.
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Yeah.. as i said it would just be a novely – and if i manage to get a few games she likes playing with me, then i win out, even if it is only a few times.
Being with a non-gamer makes you REALLY appreciate the times they actually do play games with you.
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Such Blaghsy responses as well… “today is opposite day”
*Notes Blagh’s absence from this thread*
My work just gave me a hot cross bun and a chocolate easter bunny. I think they’re trying to win me over… me and everyone else.
Anyone else get any free chocolate?
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A sales rep dropped some eggs off earlier in the week, but the company hasn’t given us anything.
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Maybe they don’t feel they need to entice you with chocolatey goodness. My work certainly does. It’s been a crappy few weeks.
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On a somewhat related note I just downloaded Instagram for Android. Every time I take a picture it just crashes, forcing me to reopen the app and then choose the picture I just took from my gallery. Sucks.
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yeah, did that to me. I tend to take the pics in Camera Zoom FX, there’s more effects to play with there.
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Would you recommend Camera Zoom FX? I’ve been meaning to replace my stock camera app for a while now.
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It’s pretty cool, some nice little colour and fun effects. plus, at least whn I got it it was like 25c.
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My work hired 2 promo models to stand around in the foyer and hand out hot cross buns/easter eggs when we came in for work. Weird.
QUICK!!!
BEFORE THEY SELL OUT!!!
http://www.ozgameshop.com/wii-games/udraw-tablet-including-disney-princess-and-udraw-studio-game-wii
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I’d just like to point out that i had a very witty comeback to this, but the comment is being moderated for whatever reason 🙁
And now I’ve probably hyped up the wit way too much.
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I agree. Unless the larger screen is for future proofing our generations eyes, so we don’t need glasses so early on in later life =P
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Didn’t we decide yesterday that the term for this was Tablone? I’m fairly certain there was a whole twitter thread about this…
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Man…. can’t wait for user accounts.
*laments comment caught in moderation on old page that will probably never be seen*
Also, maybe old news buuuuuuuuuuut:
Step 1) Go to any page on the Gizmodo.AU site.
Step 2) View source.
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Oh, I didn’t mean to suggest that I thought it was inappropriate or something (is that what you meant?), I just thought it was interesting. Filtering applicants to some extent before they even apply for places that get many applications seems like a good idea™.
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A totally agree – I originally noticed this on the NBN article (was curious about the unicode messup in the extract of the headline that appears at the bottom of this page – in b4 nerd), and then tried the main page as well. An article about both the GIANT GUMMI BEAR and SODAMITE? Eyes, they cannot be averted.
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I too, got distracted by all the giant gummy bear articles.
I bet Elly’s not going to miss having to taste their awful sodastream monstrosities anymore. 😛
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“Step 2) View source.”
I don’t get it?
Recently a lot of my comments have been going into moderation AND just completely disappearing :'(
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I haven’t been moderated yet but I did have a whole bunch of comments disappear. And those blue page number buttons are really annoying me with their non-matchyness,
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haha I hadn’t noticed, now I can’t avoid it! Why do you point things out? Now i want pink page numbers!
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If you’re using Chrome, or have the ‘Greasemonkey’ extension installed under Firefox, this user script will make them the normal colour.
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I JUST FOUND THE SONG EPIC SAX GUY CAME FROM!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkmncrAPILw&feature=related
SONG – Y U SO CATCHY!?
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I’ve never actually watched Epic Sax Guy, mostly because he isn’t Sexy Sax Man Sergio Flores. But this is indeed a catchy song. Damn EuroVision and their filthy catchy European wiles.
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Both! The server can only run 1 game at a time but all the required files will be on there. Default will be TF2 but I can change it when required.
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I was going to give you a high five.. but then i was distracted because my DVD’s needed to be alphabetised. I’ll get back to you.
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Shh.
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wow, you guys have avatars and everything now! Shout out to the furniture, I see a lot of attractive handles still in the lineup.
Also, Cakesmith: loved the name of the Brink event last night.
Happy Easter, y’all!
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It’s only one of many, sadly.
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He’s right.
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I can’t quite get the “y’all” part in his voice though… I’ll substitute that with a *breathes in his cigarette then lights up another* emote
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There is no discussion. It is a fact.
There should be parma facts in the style of Chuck Norris facts
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Parma is safest pub meal, hard to get a bad parma
Steak if done right is better than parma, but risk of bad steak that is worse than parma is possible. Also some burgers are good but can be dry or small and lacking. Generally all pubs have a meal better than parma, but what that is differs for each pub
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I concur with the above statement. Where there is a good steak and chips I will get steak and chips. Parma is always good.
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Depends on the pub. Also, not sure if they do this any more but it always used to be you could have salad and chips OR veges to accompany your meal of choice. I’d always ask for chips and veges and it would confuse them.
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Oh, also…I prefer my schnitzel with gravy, not canned tomato sauce. I only ever have parma if I make it myself so I know for sure it’s not smothered in an objectionable sauce.
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So I read “Killer is Dead” and I’m all sad because I thought they were saying that the franchise was done with and they weren’t going to make a new Killer7 game. But it’s actually the opposite?
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I didn’t get one. I’ve never scored a WoW beta yet I’ve applied for all of them.
Did you guys get it through the 12 month subscription deal? Or just randomly?
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I’ve played it a bit. More of the same really. New stuff but it’s still WoW… which is not necessary a bad thing. I’ll probably play a bit more over the weekend
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Who needs Mists of Pandaria when you can play the badger-panda-racoon creatures (Popori) in TERA Online?!
reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVQW1HAKNI0
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Oh man, I totally have a beta invite for that game. Oh crap! I think it’s this weekend…but…Diablo….
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@Greenius, YOU BLEW UP MY HOUSE?!?!
Eh, even it it was mine, it won’t be hard to fix. From the sounds of it, it probably wasn’t, cause my server wasn’t up and Cakesmith’s is on a different port.
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Dynamite in ALL the houses! >:D
I really feel like I should join in on this and show you how a robot survives in Terraria… oh I won’t do the above, I promise 🙂
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yeah that’d be great. You can send it to
sdcdragonman @ hotmail . comI’m not very powered up, I think I’m at gold gear still with a phaseblade and demonite axe 😛
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Sent!
And all good man, I had to start a new guy because I had to reinstall the game a couple of months back 🙁
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I have a new guy too. My proper guy is on my other computer. So i guess i will have to do some exploring to get some cool stuff.
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It’s on TAYNAMEs doc 🙂
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Since I finished first four seasons of Mad Men (so good) i’ve been watching Boardwalk Empire, it’s proving to be quite a good show, not as capturing in some aspects as Mad Men, but others it’s simply awesome. Need more period era shows like those two where men wear fancy suits & fedoras!
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I watced 2 episodes and i didn’t like the characters that much. I really just didn’t give a shit about them.
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Yes and his character wasn’t a total dick. I like smart dramas occasionally but meh couldn’t get into it.
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Tera online has insanely hot elf chicks..;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_j4yLXINHE&feature=related
i feel so “forever alone” saying that…. this is just new news to me…
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In the same way that people who are in relationships can’t say friendzoned i think the same should apply for saying forever alo……..
Wow they are hot elf chicks carry on good sire 😛
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Korean MMO… need I say more? You’re lucky you’re not looking at the race entirely 10 year old girls in provocative skirts. I saw Jesse Cox playing as one of those, he couldn’t stop saying “I so feel like I’m going to go to jail for this” lol
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Those little girls with the animal features freak me out. I feel like I just landed on a dozen Government watch lists just for looking at them.
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Their proportions are a bit off. They’ve got the hips of a supermodel and the upper body of a ten year old. :\
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Dem boobs look fake, or elf chicks are unnaturally perky.
Not that I am complaining in any way 🙂
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Farewell, S-DOG-LIGGI, farewell SWAGGER, GIGGLE and GIVETAY. I present in lieu of those your Last Opportunity to Score Treasure, but I’m LOST for a witty acronym.
These games still available.
HALO – Xbox
Metal Gear Solid 2 – PS2 (NTSC)
Metal Gear Solid 3 – PS2 (NTSC)
Metal Gear Solid 3 – PS2 (PAL)
NBA 2K11 – PS2 (PAL)
Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee – Xbox
Tekken 5 – PS2 (PAL)
Dragon Age: Origins – 360 – claimed by Andy POSTED
Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by Virus__ POSTED
Dragon Age: Awakening – PS3 (sealed) – claimed by Masha2932 POSTED
Fahrenheit – PS2 – claimed by Strange POSTED
Final Fantasy Origins – PSX (NTSC) – claimed by Ynefel POSTED
Final Fantasy Tactics – PSX (NTSC) – claimed by Steve-O the Devo POSTED
God of War Collection – PS3 – claimed by Ruffleberg POSTED
Canis Canem Edit (Bully) – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by scree POSTED
Sacred 2 – 360 – claimed by Blaghman POSTED
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash-Up – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by scree POSTED
Jak and Dexter: Precursor Legacy – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by Crazyguy1990 POSTED
Jak 3 – PS2 (PAL) – claimed by Strange POSTED
Super Mario 64 – DS – claimed by Chuloopa POSTED
LEGO Star Wars: Complete Saga – PS3 – claimed by Cakesmith
(PS: Haven’t heard from you yet Cakesmith)
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i likened to you testicles?
When the hell did i do that, because i honestly don’t remember.Was it during one of my “black outs”??
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I did nothing.
You’re the one calling him testicles!
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Shane! What’s your email? I asked a couple of pages back but TAY either ate my comment or it was stuck in moderation and will now never bee seen again.
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Message received, game addressed, will be posted on my way home
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Excellent!
You are a gentlemen and a scholar.
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<3 thanks Shane, I will buy all my friends* a copy of your book if I get this job come Tuesday as a thank you =D
*The 6 or so that actually read books & that I would buy things for =P
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Dude, if you’re determined, i won’t fight you, but I want you to know that that’s not why I did this giveaway. I feel a little guilty, and will not hold you to your word in any way, shape or form.
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Hey Pessimist, suggest some music for me to download tonight so i don’t have to listen to every ACDC song 50 times tomorrow. I chose you because i think we have similar music tastes.
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BT – Emotional Technology and Movement in still life
Infected Mushroom – The entire goddamn discography
Hybrid – I Choose Noise and Disappear Here
Flying Lotus – Los Angeles-
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Holy crap i stated listening to infected mushroom, SOO GOOD, this is why i love drum and bass music
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Music has to many genres i hear drums and bass, therefore thats what i call it
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Anything with a 4/4 kick pattern you can immediately disqualify as DnB 😉
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Fine I am staying here stranded on my little musical island where i can classify music the way i want. There will be two categories Good stuff and shit so there.
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I was going to say something but I knew you’d be onto that straight away.
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Since everyone (ie Pez and Shane) has been doing the list thing, I thought I’d do one of all the things I intend to do over my tafe holidays.
Games
Finish Xenoblade – currently at approx 50 hours
Finish Mass Effect 3 – currently at 10 hours
Finish To The Moon – currently at 4 hours
Start 999
Possibly start Arkham City
Possibly start Witcher 2
TV Shows
Primeval – Season 4/5
Doctor Who – Season 2
Big Bang Theory – Season 5
How I Met Your Mother – Season 6 (I think that’s where I’m up to)
Books
Reduce addiction to Harry Potter fanfiction
Start Game of Thrones
Maybe start Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Miscellaneous
Mini-meat – tonight
Possibly Sarcastic meat – 21st
Mono-meat – 28th (Not in holidays, but still counts)
Go and see Hunger Games
2 Assignments for tafe
Whatever shifts I happen to get at Coles.
Doable?
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Your medication.
Have you taken it this afternoon?
If not, please do so before the minimeat tonight.
kthx.
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No chance. I’d see you coming a mile away in that red jumper.
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Wait… the mono-meat is on the 28th? I thought it got changed. Hm… this changes things. Possibly for the better!
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Just had to cut my work day short to go to a workmate’s farewell lunch, which was fine. Then I got dragged into a church service for an hour, and lost the chance to get some major work done.
Religion (in general) really destroys my ability to function as someone who isn’t fatally depressed.Also, it was really tough not to heckle.
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Define ‘dragged into a church service’
As in kicking and screaming? You know these things are VOLUNTARY yes?
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Ours are voluntary as in “if you can’t make it, just send a quick email to the CEO to let them know why”. Basically their way of saying “if you miss this, we’ll give you grief”.
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Hey guys.
Just wanted you all to know that, as of now, you have ALL been officially FRIEND ZONED by me.
Officially.
Except Flu and Dan. You cats are special and SarcasmFairy said she’ll try to understand. We may have to let her watch. Still working on the logistics.
But everyone else? You’re all in the Zone of Friends.
We cool? Cool.
Sorry.
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F You I thought we had something special you stupid sexy scots. Its always the foriegn one who break your heart.
*runs away crying-
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Hah That was pretty good. It was nearly as awkward as my attempt of a handshake with dawdle. lol
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All the awkward in the universe was contained briefly within that moment.
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Hmmm, now that you mention it, I am intrigued. What else is usually considered closer than a friend, other than people you’re romantically attached to? Family? Pets?
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Wait. You haven’t been thinking of me as your pet all this time, have you? /o\
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Hahahahaha! It’s true about Eff and DAN! , too.
Although people in relationships have it so bad, if they can’t use “Friend Zone” and “Forever Alone” then what do they have left? Oh yeah, a relationship. 😉
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I’m fond of “Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.” – Terry Pratchett
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Starting to get pumped for the track worlds tonight. Live blog on the website giving the qualifying results. Not sure why they scheduled it over easter, i guess people have time off so they get more people there and has a better chance of people flying in for holidays.
Should be great WR already set and the women’s sprint qualifying is interesting, Pendleton only just through. off form or saving herself?
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No it is my sad excuse for a social life. Track cycling worlds at hisense tonight.
I get to go and watch people ride around in circles and this excites me
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Don’t be silly of course they don’t. That is what we need to do, kind like this http://videogamecritic.net/images/intel/carnival.JPG
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Serious question? Not sure but I’ll answer seriously anyway.The default Kotaku ‘K’ logo that appears on accounts that haven’t linked their email address to a Gravatar account.
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It’s the thing you avoid so you can have multiple personas and still retain plausible deniability when you do that thing you do.
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Thaaat’s the one.
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I hate my office right now. So many people talking, the aircon’s not working right so it’s stupidly hot and I’m trying to concentrate on debugging a critical problem. Trying to drown out the noise with music but it’s not working.
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My headphones broke recently so now they don’t even work well to drown out the noise. No tight seal means I need to have the music too loud and give me a headache after a while. Need to get another paid me thinks.
But stupid noise, the company down stairs does morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, 5pm drinks where they get together and yell over the top of each other. That gets damn hard to work to.Good luck with the debugging
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I’ve got a crappy pair of headphones that has lasted me seven years now, but the headband snapped a week or so ago so now it doesn’t sit on my ears right 🙁 I don’t want to crank my music too loud (because among other things everyone would know what I’m listening to :P)
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Absolutely. The trouble is that I’m not listening to that, I’m listening to mid-80s Judas Priest. 🙁
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If I had to make an educated guess about SWTOR 1.2’s release date (which I don’t), I would say it’s being released between 24-26th of April. Just in case anyone else here cares…
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I’ll be playing the shit out of SWTOR again once 1.2 hits (also when we finally get server transfers to the Oceanic server)
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I’m going to get back into it once 1.2 hits and I can server transfer. Being the 5th undergeared guy in a guild of 5 on an empty server means I have no one to play with.
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Gods, I need to pick that back up again. Levelled my first char, a Sith Assassin to level 32, but was seduced by my Sith Sorcerer alt. Levelled her to 20, and am finidng it more entertaining, but at the same time am bummed I levelled my Assassin up to 32 before I realised.
Incidentally, I played a lock and a rogue in WoW, so it seems I’ve done the same again here! The lock was my PvE toon and rogue was PvP.
Just enjoying the sorc more, and I like the character better too – name, appearance, etc.
4 day weekend on call, so I can’t go anywhere or do anything, so might just buck up and hammer my sorc.
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I thought it was eating rabbit for the entire long weekend?
That’s what you normally do at easter right?
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Hmm, where did Bunny get to?
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And for dessert you eat it’s eggs?
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I must have subconsciously run all those replies together, coz I came away with covering Trjn in chocolate, stealing his eggs & eating them for three days.
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So just the same old fantasy then?
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every night… the same dream.
I never tire of it.
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Happy Chocolate Weekend, all!
I might have to have Easter tonight. As in the Easter Bunny visits the kids tonight. Because one of them is going away on a road trip with her grandma for a week so it’s either early or very late.
WOO!
Managed to finish work a couple of hours early. Time for some long weekend vidya gaems and no pants for 4 days!
\o/
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WOO! No pants!
I’m finishing up an hour or two early, but that’s only because I have to go to the doctors and get
infectedinjectedvaccinated (going overseas in two months!).Hooray to 2 days of birthdays, 1 probably of family stuff and hopefully 1 of games!
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Or to reiterate that you were actually sitting down, and aren’t really as short as you looked when they entered.
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I stand for a lot of things, although I probably do sit down / lie down more then I stand. For example I am standing in a train right now. I WOULD SIT IF I COULD JORDI PLEASE FORGIVE ME!
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I tried that once, used a newspaper as a blanket. For some reason I was confused for a hobo.
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I may be a tad… Odd… Or odder now.
I ate a whole large chocolate bunny.
And a mars bar
And a bottle of Vanilla Coke.
And a Monster energy drink.
Who’s up for a 300km run?
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I haven’t eaten my chocolate bunny yet, so I think I might just watch.
You should do the 300km run around a 10m track. And film it. Then put it on YouTube.
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Wait no, those aren’t the words again!
MY BANA-NAAAAAAAAAAAS
MY BANA-NAAAAAAAAAAAS!!
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Well, all of that was very funny.
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Thanks. My writing team works diligently to provide these, I hope you realise.
That one took them an all nighter and several chinese takeaway meals.
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Note: “Writing Team” means his wing-wang.
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The Mongolian lamb still burns :'(
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I AM WEARING MY FOXHOUND T SHIRT. AT WORK. I AM FAR TOO COOL FOR THIS OFFICE.
FUCK YOU GUYS.
I’M GOING HOME.
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SORRY JORDI. MY TSHIRT ONLY HAS ROOM FOR ONE AWESOME. THAT IS ME.
Actually I lied, I don’t go home for 36 minutes yet.
Was more a case of me attempting that whole ‘you make your own reality’ jibber-jabber.
It didn’t work.
Except I’m still far too awesome, as is my t-shirt.
But that’s a given.
[cough]
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My office has 2 entrances. One leads to our showroom floor and the other to our workshop. Normally I have the door to the workshop shut as it can get rather noisy out there but when it’s warm/hot my office gets rather stuffy so I open the door to the workshop so I get a bit of air flow.
Today though people seem to be using my office as a shortcut to get from the showroom to the breakroom (which requires you to go through the workshop) rather than walk the extra 10m to go down the passage. WTF?!?
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At work today there was discussion of someone’s place where some neighbours climbed their fences because they don’t want to walk around the block.
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WHY ARE YOU SO MEAN TO ME I JUST WANT TO BE FRIENDS AND YOU’RE ALWAYS SO MEAN AND I TRY TO SHARE AND YOU JUST BE A BIG MEANIE ALL THE TIME.
Man that shift button is getting a work out.
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When I was a kid I sprained my ankle because we kicked a ball over the fence and the neighbour wouldn’t let us in their backyard or give the ball to us and specifically told us to just climb the fence.
For some reason I decided to do it and sprained my ankle in tears. I didn’t even want to stupid ball.
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I used to do that. Jump our back fence, cross the back corner of the neighbour’s yard, jump their fence, and 10+ minutes of walking saved. Totally worth it. Made it more fun when we were spotted and yelled at.
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How could you man? That is disgusting! I don’t even! All he was talking about were the two entra- oh wait. He. Hehe. Hehehe. I get it.
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I just ate a doughnut and drank a chocolate milk.
I now feel that throwing up is the best idea ever 🙁
Quick clarification on the mini meat required coz I cant find the email.
Tonight. 6pm. Kinokuniya. Food. Beverages. Shenanigans.
Correct?
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Freyr wanted to have ice cream.
Maybe we’ll see you anyway!
And awkwardly enjoy our food while you work.
:I
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Executive meeting time or as it is less formally known, drinks down the pub with one of my partners
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Hah! Werribee. I totally used to live there.
Also it’s a bad thing. Last time I was there (a few years ago admittedly) it was a cesspool. Infact, most shopping centers are.
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It’s fairly average now. I think they’ve renovated some parts… the people are still scary – but hey, they have a Game!
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😉 noice
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Happy long weekend TAY! It’s time for me to head to the doctors, which also means it’s time to leave work. YAY! \o/
Hope you all have a good one!
Everyone and their “meats” and being “cool”. Bah. I’ll just sit here and make necklaces and awesome t-shirt designs all alone then.
(unless anyone is free for gaming shenanigans)
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woah woah woah…
they have candles that smell like cake now!??!
Excuse me while i puke a rainbow
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I’m going to walk past a school one day to see you holding a kid up by the collar in one hand, the other hand balled into a fist, and shouting “WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON’T HAVE A 3DS?!!? HOW AM I MEANT TO STREET PASS YOU IF YOUR DON’T HAVE A 3DS!!!”
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At the rate I’m being given AVOs, you’ll probably see me at Geelong South Primary by the end of May.
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I’ll send out the flyer to all the parents then, so they know to make sure their kids have 3DS’s
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shhh not in front of everyone…
*ahem*
Nothing to see here folks.. These aren’t the cliques you’re looking for… move along, move along.
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design one around “you must have a 3DS” or something to do with street pass
Like – “touch this shirt if you would like to streetpass”
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Oh man, what am I going to have for dinner tonight? Normally Friday night is Pizza night, but Pizza night is to celebrate the end of the week. But to have pizza on a Thursday…what will I eat tomorrow night?
#dilemma
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Burger edge is so much better than grilld
Grilld is way too messy, too much sauce on the burgers
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I just spent most of the last 30 minutes laughing at various people in my organisation and their failures in IT.
It’s not a horrible thing to do if it’s really funny!Right, I’m going home.
Sweet holy crap…
http://www.redbubble.com/people/strangelydrawn/works/8683743-the-last-no-text
amazing!
Just when I thought today couldn’t get any worse for me… :'(
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/today-is-my-last-day-at-kotaku
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That’s unfortunate. Hopefully we learn what she’s doing soon. Also it seems like there is no community kudos this week 🙁
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That’s unfortunate. Hopefully we learn what she’s doing soon. Also it seems like there is no community kudos this week 🙁
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But it’s a long weekend, breaking the internet is a good idea.
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Oh no, that’s nothing, really. No, seriously. We’ve had waaaaaay worse TAY breaks. I didn’t cause some of them. 😛
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If you could choose only one chocolate to eat on Easter what would it be and why?
Me: Cadbury Creme Egg because they are like a kinder surprise but the inside is actually worth it.
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I used to love them as a kid, but have gone off them in recent years. Too sweet! (I can’t believe it has come to that! D:)
Any good chocolate is fine by me. Especially if there is a lot of it. And a glass of milk. (Also, I don’t care what everyone on Twitter thinks, white chocolate as well!)
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white chocolate is good though you cant have enough of it since its so rich. Milky bar and white fredos go alright though.
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White chocolate or malteasers. Or Crunchie. =P
Lindt white rabbit>everything though.
Unless it’s a metre of toblerone-
Cant stand Lindt Chocolate. It is way too rich and therefore can’t eat enough which is a must at Easter.
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Evening TAY!
How was everyone’s day?
Because there is no Kudos tomorrow I shall do it right here, right now.
Hi Everyone!
I would like to Nominated Shane, Jo and Rocketman.
Rocketman for giving me Mario kart 7. It’s really helped.
To Jo for gifting me Blur on Steam. I wanted to play it on Wednesday, but it took ages to download. -_-
Shane for doing a huge give away, and allowing me to have Bully and also turtles smash up.
I also wanted to Nom Batgirl for being so understanding yesterday. Not everyone is.
And also Virus, because we are the same person \o/
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I’ll nominated Shane and Ynefel for their kindness this week. Shane had a huge giveaway and Ynefel had a mini giveaway with his 3DS and PS3 games.
I’d also like to nominate TRACY. It is unfortunate that she has to leave us but I;m sure she is going to do better things. I don;t know how we will survive without the cute dog pics for the while you were sleeping articles. I guess TAYbies will have to send pictures of themselves. I’m sure we all look OK while sleeping, right? Guys?
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She’s leaving OK!! Misspelling her name is my way of grieving. -runs away crying-
I also seem to have confused apostrophes with semi colons.
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I nominate Blaghman, for being a rad dude.
What do you mean that’s a terrible thing to say?
Shush now.
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I nom Blaghs for giving the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department the slip and framing poor Leonard for his deviant behaviour.
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I just read that. *phew* I’m glad they didn’t work out my real name, good thing I had a fake ID on me.
Wink.
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IIIIIInnnntttteeerrreeeessstttiiinnngggg.
I wonder if it was the mention of my akefay eye-dee… aye.
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Don’t you mean eye-aye ee-day?
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Probably. Kind of. I consider it one word, even though it’s just an acronym.
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Yes, but we all know that I have far better hair than Tadmod.
Even if he is a better singer. 🙁
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I’ve never heard Tadmod sing before.
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Really?
He sang a TAYed version of… uhhh… crud, I can’t remember the name of the song. But it was quite good. Certainly better than my attempts at singing at the time(I blame society).
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OH SOD OFF. Got moderated again. I think it was because I used the word ud-cray.
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My noms go to Pez-of-many-aliases for getting us all to play Brink, and to Rize for getting Brink to work. That was probably the most fun I’ve had in a game for a while 😀
And Shane for the big game giveaway he’s got going, even though he has nothing I’m interested in. 😛
Shoosh, we’re not meant to make them think they’re correct, that we’re the same person! XD
Err I nominated everyone from the Brisbane meat, was great meeting you all \o/ especially Welbot who let Freeze & I crash at his place since home wasn’t as close for us as it was everyone else!
Also Shane, cause he’s a rad dude, being santa for TAY this week giving out goodies! =D
I dunno I think that’s all, I always forget to nominate people, oh well if you think you’re deserving tag it on here =D
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Yep. Just like I’m totally not lambomann!
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And also Virus, because we are the same person \o/
I KNEW IT! (it’s blockquote right?)
I’m still saving my noms for next week 😀
Appreciated scree, and everyone. I timed my giveaway so I couldn’t win actual Kudos (god knows I don’t need more games lying around here!)
Sooooooo, I had an interesting day.
Net died at 11:something, that was annoying. So I did some housework. And I hurt my wrist.
Then I went to the hospital.
To see my Dad’s Cousin, who has Guillain–Barré Syndrome, and is quite bored, what with the whole “paralysis of large swathes of body” thing(Not exactly paralysis, he just has very weak control over them).
So I guess, at least I walked 8 klicks today?
That was not very exciting.
Who did something exciting?
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I washed the shower recess and mowed. That’s at least slightly exciting, right?
Also, I’m surprised you were awake to know that the net died at 11 😛-
Oh wait. I chatted to myself over the internet. That was slightly more than slightly exciting.
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I like to imagine that it went as such:
“Hey Lambo.”
“Hey Lambo.”
“Watcha wearing?”
“You know what I’m wearing.”
“I know, but I still want to know.”
“Uhh, well, pants. A shirt. I have socks on too, not sure why.”
“Hot.”
“Well, yes, it is a little warm today, kind of surprising for this time of year.”
“You’re kind of surprising for this time of year.”
“OK? Thanks?”
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Hmmm, well, I haven’t gotten to the hitting on myself stage…yet. But that was close enough.
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I bought three games, (GTA 4, Tekken 6, AC: Brotherhood) Seasons 5 & 6 of Futurama on Blu-ray, and a South Park Kenny bobblehead.
And I went to uni.
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Well at least you could say you achieved something.
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Getting grey lead on my face? Messing up the pattern? ^^;;
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Better than nothing though, right? No?
okay.jpeg
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Sleep on the cosplay materials and then dream of flying through the beautiful clouds of Bioshock infinite (before the nasty monster eats you of course)
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I’m up to adjusting the pattern, which is a bit of a pain and I’ve been trying to do it for 4 days.
Hasn’t happened yet-
With that in mind I think sleep is still the best option. 🙂
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Hi! I’m lambomann007 and I have the maturity level of a three year old. 😀
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So I started to learn engraving today. First time I’ve ever picked up an engraver. Turns out I’m a bit of an engraving god. First time is nigh on perfect.As an added bonus the state manager was in store at the time and got extremely interested all of a sudden.
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Nice.
I had a similar experience when I did my bar course. They were getting us to pour beer, and all of mine were perfect.
Not as useful a skill though, I’ll admit.
How’s the job going?
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It’s actually far more interesting and varied than I first thought. Plus so much less stressful than previous jobs. It’s a nice change to enjoy myself whilst working.
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Nice going!
Sooo. Are you going to engrave a message on your phone, or something? Like “Batman’s phone”? 😛-
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http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/bat_phone.jpg
Do you carry one of these around with you?
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So this might be a really silly question, but will Notch’s 0x10c thing be a blocky retro-nostalgia-fest like Minecraft? Is that what he’s known for, in terms of game design?
It’s just that (apparently) the name of the name has some connection to hexidecimal things, and it does feature a 16-bit computer.
TAY, I have a monitor question, is it still possible to purchase 1920×1200 resolution 24″ monitors? Umart have one up here but 400 bucks, no thanks >_>
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Just did a quick google search and found this http://accessories.ap.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=au&l=en&cs=audhs1&sku=230-12093&baynote_bnrank=1&baynote_irrank=0&~ck=baynoteSearch ~$300
I’m helping?-
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True that Blaghs. I actually only thought of that after I posted it.
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I really do want it but that price >.< Why doesn't anyone make an affordable 16:10 monitor anymore?!
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Really, i’ve noticed most 1920×1080 displays are usually around 170-200 and some do rotate.
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Okay scratch that. I think that it turns out the pattern for the corset may not work after all and I will have to get a separate pattern for the corset now. At least I’ve got the skirt I guess.
Time to look for that now D=
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Children go. Boobs are a no-no.
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When I am King of the Universe (soon), my first order of business will be to make boobs acceptable at ALL the places.
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Well, it’s not so much boobs, but nipples. They do allow a lot of flesh, but they do need to keep it safe. There is multiple 18+ events at the convention.
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Tassels to the rescue! Kiddie proof those areolas so they are no longer dangerous!
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Oh so it’s a strip club/burlesque show, now? HELLS YEAH!
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I haven’t seen it yet, but you never know considering a porn star attends every year
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I feel sorry for the breast fed babies that are taken by their parents then D=
Sooo. Now it doesn’t matter if you sleep on it? Other than getting grey lead on your face, of course. 😛
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People complain every now and then about this, but it never seems to affect me. 😛 I’m like the teacher’s pet of TAY. Reply Button’s pet.
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Dear companies offering a graduate position,
Nobody likes your online tests. Nobody likes filling out information that’s already in the resume that you were forced to upload.
But you, IBM, are the worst. You make upload a resume, then copy information out of my resume into your fields, then you make me fill out some stupid generic leadership and teamwork question, BUT THEN YOU CALL ME SO I CAN REPEAT MY ANSWERS.
And then you make me do your online reasoning tests.
IBM seem stupid.
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Could you accept a job to redesign their application process?
Hell, I could apply for a job to do that, it can’t be that hard.
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One of the questions they asked (both online and on the phone) was, What can you bring to IBM?
A good graduate recruitment process was what I wanted to say.
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I had to go through that process at numerous jobs whilst I was hunting so it’s not just graduate positions. The worst is when they ask you to upload your resume, then a few steps later want you to copy paste the whole thing in a text field, which then screws with the formatting completely forcing you to spend half an hour going through it fixing it all up.
Stupid Australia Post, BOC and Warner Village Theme Parks.
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Yes!
The thing I noticed was the places I would love to work are smaller companies, and so their application process was just Gimme your Resume and Cover Letter and we’ll get in touch. How simple and efficient is that!
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Those logic tests are the worst. The one I had to do had a time limit for each question, which I did not appreciate. xD
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Even Batman hits submit too early.
But I made a promise on the grave of my parents that I would rid this city of the evil that took their lives. By day, I am Bruce Wayne, billionaire philanthropist. At night, criminals, a cowardly and superstitious lot, call me… Batman
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Oh IBM, how I hate you. I start up their logic test, given computer requirements. This is theirs:
Component Requirement / Recommendation
Browser Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0 or 8.0 or 9.0Mozilla Firefox 3.6 or 4.0 or 5.0
Safari 3.0 or 4.0 or 5.0
I’m on chrome and it’s throwing a warning. FFS.
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Scratch that, it’s not a warning, it’s a blocker. And firefox won’t work either, it’s too high a version. I HAVE to use Internet Explorer.
IBM, you are my least favourite graduate opportunity.
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Incorrect. You access it via Lotus Notes.
And then you shoot yourself in the head to end the pain.
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Lotus notes.
HHHNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Microsoft’s recruitment system is the same, you have to copy/paste your stuff into forms. But it allows you to copy/paste stuff that’s bigger than the form allows you to have. And it times out after about 5 minutes so if you’re writing you lose your session and it flushes it. Had to enter my stuff about four times. 😐
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Howdy Taybies
For those not Diablo 2 ing tomorrow, I’ll prob be on Red Dead PS3, so if you want to MP hit me up at red_artifice.
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*looks at tumbleweed*
*looks at Cakesmith*
*looks at tumbleweed*RACE YA!
*runs after tumbleweed*
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*looks at tumbleweed*
*looks at Cakesmith*
*looks at tumbleweed*
*looks at Pixel looking at tumbleweed, Cakesmith and tumbleweed again*
*watches Pixel running after tumbleweed*
*also runs after tumbleweed*
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Well that’s sad, Jim Marshall founder of Marshall Amps has passed away at age 88. Marshall Amps really set the sound for Rock music.
I am so tempted by the Macross: Do You Remember Love BD hybrid box thing they’re releasing in Japan. Even though it’d be without subs. Comes with a whole pile of stuff packed in including a PS3 game.
is this week over yet?
oh wait? IT IS? great \o/
i got 4 days to be mellow now… except i have to spend 3 of them in Wagga again, pretending to be happy for my nephews christening… /o\ not been a good week, but i promise i will smile for the cameras…
on the bright side i bought Outcast from Good old Games… man the nostalgia trip… graphics did not age well, but actual gameplay is amazing… that game was so ahead of it’s time…
anyone else play Outcast? or is it just me?
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oh great and Tracey is leaving?
that’s it… you and me Mr. Week, we have a reeeaaaal problem you and I…
hmmmmmmmmm…….. so i re-install LoL and i see that leona is free this week….
i would be inclined to play a few rounds, if anyone is interested
Woops, changed my name (which hasn’t shown up yet due to filtering), then posted, still with that name… woopsies, anyway, the post was…
hmmmmmmmmm…….. so i re-install LoL and i see that leona is free this week….
i would be inclined to play a few rounds, if anyone is interested
I was pleasantly surprised by 21 Jump Street today. Its nice to just occasionally revel in stupidity for a few hours.
I need your help TAY!
I remember watching a trailer for a game(?) a few years back. It had a young female (early 20s) getting home to her apartment she goes into her kitchen, gets a drink(?), turns around and theres a demon/monster thing looking at her. She stares back at it, sips her drink and then uses psychic(?) powers to throw the monster across the room.
I can’t think of the title and it’s been bugging me all night! I’m not sure if it’s a game or a CG movie but just argh! I must know what it is!
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You are a handy man to know Blagh and not as useless as everyone says 😛
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If you want something related to western gaming from the last 5 years, then there’s a quite good chance that I know it.
It’s… not the most useful skill.
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I’m still waiting on that to come out. It looked awesome a fair while ago, but haven’t check on it recently.
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Comes out in June. Looks very dated. There’s a 30min GDC preview of gameplay on youtube. Watching it I went from “OMG WILL BUY!” to “Pass, Guild Wars 2 please”
Dear Sydney mini-meat TAYbies,
Thank you for meating me tonight.
It was a pleasure and you were all gentle with me.
There, sums things up nicely and there’s no way anyone could read anything into that other than it’s intended meaning.
so i played DC universe online
and immediantly made my character to look and play as much like deadpool as possible
SCREW YOU DC, I’M GETTING MARVEL ALL IN YOUR GAME
Alright, going back to Hamachi for Diablo 2.
Can’t seem to get this router config working properly.
So, Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut DLC. http://news.ea.com/portal/site/ea/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20120405005304&newsLang=en
Unfortunately this’ll mean a dozen more articles on why it was an awesome/terrible/insufficient/stupid idea in the next few days.
(If the extra content does what it claims and provides some ‘clarification’ on those last few minutes, it’ll transform the ending from baffling to merely badly written and disappointing. I think even if the confusion is lessened, the problems that some people argue exist with the thematic elements and ‘lore’ of the universe will persist. I’m interested to see the ‘personal conclusion’ they offer, and I certainly respect the creative vision of Bioware, but at the same time I think they could’ve, and should’ve, done so much better.)
(Also, it’s kinda amusing watching the conspiracy theorists realise this wasn’t a trick and that was actually the planned, intended ending.)
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Things I’m hoping for:
2 minutes of the Troll face, spinning around, laughing at everyone.
The entire cast sings a song.
A really bad flash animation with terrible voice-overs explaining what happened to people(I was considering doing the same thing myself, but then I remembered that I’m slack, and can’t “art”)
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I am free Friday night! I can play Diablo 2! My favourite game next to Diablo 1! I can be a glamazon!
But for a game made so long ago why is the download so large!? And I’m too lazy to get my card details to pay for it anyway…
Ugh I should really just go out and meet some friends instead. #givingup
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My first ever page gets! *bows*
Thank you ladies and gents, it’s been a pleasure. There is nothing more inspiring than the moaning of a lazy lonely kid with the heart of a 50 year old.
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Why is [it] so large!? CHEATING TO MAKE A THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID CALL! I LOVE YOU ENGLISH LANGUAGE!
And the answer is because the game is absolutely huge. It spanned across three discs. THREE! Those high def* cinematics. Many different acts, all wildly different! The realism of SPRITE BASED GRAPHICS!
*Very low definition, with terrible compression.
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I can’t play without a legit copy can I? 😛
I’ve never really played Diablo (1 or 2) but I don’t want to be foreveraloning while everyone on TAY is playing it :'(. I downloaded naughty copies of both a couple of years ago to see what the fuss was about but I only played them for like 5 minutes. I guess 5 minutes isn’t long enough, and the dungeon crawler has changed a lot since then but I wasn’t really impressed 😛
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But I barely played it so my opinion doesn’t count 😛
I think I walked around town and killed a couple of skeletons and that was it :/
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You know what your problem is right? Blizzard punish you for paying for their product. You’re supposed to sail the open seas pillaging from other boats. Also having a parrot on your shoulder helps.
BF3 night with my mates! Yeah good times right?
6 hours later we have played maybe 4 games due to xbox malfunctions and patch problems.
But those 4 games were good fun right?
No, EA have introduced PC style personal severs and every game is run by doucenozzles who ensure him and his mates always own.
/rage
I know it’s a bit too early but it’s 6:20pm here and I’m way too hyper so I’ll go ahead and say it:
Did anyone watch Crime Story? It’s an old 80s series with kickass dudes in hats, guns, huge cars and a great opening. TCM was re-running the show recently (english subbed and all, woohoo! Can’t stand dubs) so I was able to watch it in full. Pretty damn good overall. Won’t spoil the ending either, go watch it if you can! 😛
Also, good times, good times: Orcs Must Die 2 has been announced, yay! I loved the original and just conquered it in Nightmare mode.
I’m also probably setting the record of this week for me. Two posts in a row.
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Yeah. Something’s telling me the Steam sales probably contributed a lot to that decision… Or maybe what I’m calling the “Alan Wake(s) PC” effect. (Because I’m silly and I love to coin terms :P)
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At noon, someone’s hosting a game.
Sounds like like it’s going to be either Pez, f4ction or myself. I guess we’ll message out the IP in private on TS or Twitter or something.
Even if you don’t have a microphone, I suggest getting TeamSpeak 3 to hear shenanigans.-
Righto, DM me the TS server details.
I have no mic, but i will hide in the corner…listening….watching.
Also, i’ll just use the D2 in-game chat to talk
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Yay, just downloaded Team Speak.
Can someone send me the super secret spy details on how to join to;
hugo.barbarian(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)auPretty please with a Clubby on top.
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What’s the normal limit for a D2 game?
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Eight players and probably.
I don’t think I’ll be able to play unless I get my PC back in commission.
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Moarnin’ TAY!
Still bummed I’m missing out on D2 goodness. Stupid loving family!
Also, I gave DC online a go last night. Early experience says it could be good (considering it’s free) but the fact that it has action style combat and a US server is the best option, doubt I’ll end up hanging around for long.
Re: Diablo 2 shenanigans. I remember someone mentioning a high-res patch or the like? I have the digital versions I got off b.net some years ago after registering my physical copies. Played the hell out of D2 back in the day, but these days, it just looks awful. Especially on my 1920×1080 monitor.
Are there newer versions available on b.net or something? Any tips for patches/hacks etc if not?
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The two things I remember are Blizzard stating that they weren’t going to (officially) make the res any bigger than it was, and a fairly bodgy unofficial patch that some people have gotten into trouble for using in the past. Apparently it was considered cheating, as it was an unofficial adjustment to the game that gave players a big advantage (more screen res meant much better utilisation of abilities at long range). Not sure if that every changed, cause that was years and years ago.
Diablo 2 Game-a-thon!
Alrighty! We are starting around midday using a TCP/IP connection. Things you need to do before hand:
Diablo 2 and Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction installed and patched to version 1.13d
Teamspeak! We will be using this for communications. Even if you don’t have a mic I suggest you get this.
When we’ve figured out who is hosting the game details will be sent out over TeamSpeak or DM on Twitter.
That’s about it. So get your Shapes, Pepsi Max and adult diapers ready, this will be awesome!
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Easy way to download the patch quickly is try to log into Battlenet from within the game. It will check for updates and install the latest one.
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Morning!
I had lots of plans for today.
Fix the door.
Finish cushions.
Watch a movie.
Then Mum goes and ruins it all by saying I have to finish mowing the lawn /o\
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I had plans to do things today, but my parents have removed all motivation for me to do so.
Because they vacuumed the stairs, and cleaned the upstairs floor, which were both things that I did yesterday.
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Aw, that’s so mean. =(
So I mowed the lawn, now I’m trying to kill my information on my old apple craptop-
At least it didn’t take you long to finish the lawn. Now you’ve still got loads of time to do your planned activities for the day. \o/
And Blaghs, that’s awful. Not having the work you’ve done be appreciated is supremely demotivating.
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Yeah, but I’ve decided I will do some more stuff around the house before I continue on my planned activities. I’ll start cleaning out some of our crap =P
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My favourite part now is that I’m being dragged out to do yard work.
At not long past midday.
When I wanted to play Diablo 2.
🙁
I swear my parents are just being mean to me today.
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You want to rest and relax? Too bad!
Do yard work!At least I’m willingly cleaning it
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Shoot, obviously someone did a bad job of vacuuming the stairs and cleaning the upstairs floor yesterday then 😛
My plans involve writing, and researching 1930s New york for a Writing piece I’m working on.
And then I came across this:
http://www.allposters.com.au/gallery.asp?startat=/getPoster.asp&CID=D3CB14A418284093B62F642A6FF995F4&frameSku=8088958-20139280
… and now I can’t stop drooling.
Today is my Easter.
The kids all have their chocolate and stuff (we limit the chocolate and buy them something that lasts longer, like a toy, as well) and now I’m partway through making an awesome cake for when my parents come over later, and I’m also about to start making Hot Cross Buns.
I have to do all the things I’d usually do over the weekend in one day because my Mum’s taking my daughter on a roadtrip to see my Nan in Newcastle and my sister and her kids in Canberra, so my daughter will be gone for the rest of the weekend and week.
It’s exhausting but at least it means I get more rest days. 😀
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Sweet. As much as you love your kids getting rid of them for a bit can be great. We’re ditching them on to grandma tonight to go see a movie and have a night to ourselves. May do something really kinky and go to sleep for a full night.
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I don’t even know what a full night’s sleep feels like, anymore!
My Mum’s been a bit unwell recently and she told me if she’d been normal she’d have taken my 3-year-old son, too. I was that close to having a real holiday, with sleeping in and no responsibilities. She shouldn’t have told me. 😛
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Okay, i am never, ever buying an Apple product for as long as I live.
I have an old apple laptop. The battery is stuffed, you can’t even use the internet on it properly.
I want to throw it out on the junk heap, but I wanted to restore it to factory settings first so that if someone picks it up to recycle the parts they can’t gain my information.
The laptop is struggling to read it’s own discs. I can’t reset the settings and I’m very, very tempted to take a hammer to it
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I never throw anything with data out without first taking a hammer to said storage device. If it’s a hard drive, even if it’s been formatted, a few solid whacks with a hammer will ensure no one gets anything off it.
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Yeah do it, I mean I’m not paranoid, but why take the chance. And you don’t have to destroy the drive, a few good hits will make it practically useless. Hard drives are pretty fragile.
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It’s in itty bitty pieces.
Most of the laptop is broken with it ^^;;
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Welcome to the “wonderful” world of planned obsolescence. Apple is one of the worst offenders. Microsoft might be closely following, Sadly, most stuff is just not built to last, except that nowadays they are taking this to the extreme with gadgets and computer devices… It’s a miracle my mp3 player (a Creative MuVo that is like 7 years old) still works well but it’s already showing signs that it might fail one last time sooner or later.
Just finished watching a very interesting documentary on the matter (including a light bulb that has been working without pauses since 1901 and the Phoebus Cartel that in the early 1920s dictated no lightbulb should last more than 1000 hours…) and, well, future generations will spit upon the tombs of todays “experts”. (Or that’s what the people in the documentary said, heh)
If anyone is interested I will link it because, despite being done in Spain, the majority of the interviewed people is english speaking.
Oh, and don’t get me started on printers, argh!
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I don’t think Microsoft can be accused of ‘planned obsolecence’ – we still support Windows XP. 🙁
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I don’t mind microsoft on the computer side of things, but I’m sick of the penny pinching on the xbox live side.
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Oh, what scree said 😛 I think this quote is what drilled my mind and made me pair them up with Apple. It’s lifted from Kotaku itself “I’m on my fifth Xbox”.
Mobiles and printers, yes. Closely followed by many house appliances I think?
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depends on the make sometimes, sometimes not
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Laptops are the definition of planned obsolescence though, along with the iMac.
I must add my MacBook, is 5 years old now and it works as well as it did when I purchased it back in 2007, I had one warranty claim that year for the power adapter because I was a little rough with it, but that was it. Never had a fault with it etc, and it’s still speedy if I keep it maintained.
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RDR with Undead Nightmare is $40 on PSN at the moment. To buy, or not to buy. I had it back on fatbox and thoroughly enjoyed it, but would I play it again? Do TAYbies play RDR on PS3?
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Yes they do! There was a simultaneous PS3 RDR event last time when the Xbox one was on. I’m not sure who played but I’m pretty sure that enough TAYbies have it 😀
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I haves it. Haven’t played in an age but would happily load it back up for a few multi sessions. Missed out on the last one due to NSW wacky time making things difficult.
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You can get the GOTY version from Gametraders at the moment for $48, which has both and a bunch of MP stuff.
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Ozgameshop has it for $34 http://www.ozgameshop.com/ps3-games/red-dead-redemption-game-of-the-year-edition-goty-ps3 😉
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Lots of bludging.
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I’m just sitting here in a shit mood not really wanting to talk to anyone, my day has been ruined. OH WELL.
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I’ve spent most of the day working on an assignment while watching a Total Drama World Tour marathon on ABC3. I like the feeling that comes from being both productive and lazy at the same time.
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I just had a bowl of popcorn. Freshly popped corn is so much better than the store bought variety.
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I’m working on two essays at the same time ’cause I’ve been lazy and didn’t do them before. Plus two writing pieces 🙁
Woo holiday…
One of the layers in the cake I’m making is salted peanut caramel. I’ve never made this before but it seems to have worked. As a bonus the whole house now smells all caramelly.
I’m multi-tasking like a boss and working on my quilt at the same time as I’ve got things on the stove. Living dangerously but productively. 😛
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Oh I have a beer in the fridge \o/
If I am working on good Friday I might as well polish that off. So Yes
For anybody who missed it in the articles, the original fallout is currently free on GOG
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fallout
48 hrs only so if you don’t have it or have never played it get over there
Lawn mowed. Check.
Laptop smashed. Check.
Door fixed. Check.
Washing, lot one. Check.
Chair moved.
TV moved.
Desk moved.
Cupboard painted.
Nap.
Lunch. Check.
Finally got a comment that’s awaiting moderation. I’m not sure whether I should be upset, or glad that I’m no longer missing out.
HAI TAY! Just dropping in to see how everyone’s day is going. I’m trying and failing to get through some Tacitus. I wish essays didn’t make me an anxious mess :/ it’d help if Tacitus didn’t back track so much.
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…I think you’ve been interacting with Pez a bit too much.
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Your mum has.
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Get on up
When you’re down
Baby,
take a good look around
I know it’s not much
But it’s ok
We’ll keep on moving on anyway
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Enough with the Five songs!
Haven’t they tortured us enough with the cover of We Will Rock You?!
🙁
Afternoon TAY!
I can now cross nap off my list.
I think next is to sort out my old clothes \o/ and /o\
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I have managed to cross “tree” off my list, even if it’s an inaccurate term, to describe the mountainous hedge that I just had to trim.
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Now there’s a mental image. Mind in the gutter, AWAY!
But no, hedge is probably the most appropriate term.
Or evil. Evil is accurate.
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We have ivy. It’s a huge pain in the arse
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I felt like playing GT3, but I don’t have any free power points.
I guess listening to this over and over will do:
Made a joke about how Cragieburn’s Royal Children’s hospital good Friday appeal was most likely stolen.
A man was beaten within an inch of his life at Roxborough Park Pub. =/
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I tried to find the story but you think 9msn or yahoo7 has it?
nope
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Seriously strugling to stay awake today. thinking i should play games. dont know what to play. Brains hurt
Going in to see Wrath of Titans. Expectations set to zero. Rage already up due to being forced to see in 3D. Stupid 3D.
Also, Battleship looks stupid. Sorry. I meant stupid awesome. Someone better scream “you sunk my battleship” in it or else the movie will be a complete waste.
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That movie it the embodiment of everything that is wrong with the film industry. And i have only seen the trailer .:P
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Nope. I think The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 is the embodiment of everything that is wrong with the film industry. 😛
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Finally getting around to sorting out my clothes. Wardrobe first and then drawers…I have a long way to go
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It’s not actually blaghman, just someone who got arrested recently who looks somewhat like blaghsy.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-157/comment-page-19/#comment-627408 -
Yeah, what a hilarious co-winky-dink.
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Holy crap (O_O) Was not expecting
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It’s only public indecency, it’s hardly a crime.
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Tried to play Diablo 2 with everyone today – didn’t work. Couldn’t get it to recognise the expansion, so I couldn’t join their game
Went to the TV to play some Xenoblade – Also didn’t work. Something wrong with the remote. Won’t turn on at all. Tried changing the batteries, and re-syncing them, still no dice /o\
So I’ve been playing Terraria some more. Just managed to solo the Wall of Flesh and open up hardmode.
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I’m playing the going to bed game. It’s a bit boring though. I usually fall asleep when playing…
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I usually go to bed at 8:30. Though I’ve mostly been staying up till 9:30 this week. Which would probably explain why I’ve been so tired…
Also, I’m an early waker, usually getting up at six.
There, is that enough information for you to start stalking me? 😛
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Well I had just managed to finish off Jak 3 and put the HD collection rest when none other than SIR GREENIUS starts a Steam chat with me (I wrote that out as steamy chat initially and it was too funny to not mention) and I was like ‘AH GREENIUS’ and then he asked me the origin of my name and got sad when I couldn’t remember it but then he had a simple origin story anyway so it didn’t really matter! :p
So I am having a fun night. :p
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Aw, TAY is moderating my last comment. It was about finishing off Jak 3 and talking to Sir Greenius about the origins of our handles. So yeah, fun. :p
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The origin story of Blaghman, hero of the Blahs is a fascinating tale.
A sweeping story, filled with action, romance, and murder most foul.
A man of humble origins, left with people who weren’t his kind.
The story of someone who isn’t me.
The story of a hero.
The story, of Blaghman.
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Moar pls
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Maybe another day. It is not a short story, and I must be off to bed!
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Blaghman sleeping before the AMs?! :O
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Wrath of the Titans. Even with zero expectations it still managed to disappoint somehow.
Bonus spontaneity: got out of movie, wife says, let’s go see American Pie in Gold Class. Why the hell not. So we are doing that.
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I’ve never been! D: They were planning on building one around here, but didn’t in the end. Probably too many bogans.
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So I’m reading Batman: Knightfall. This is pretty much my intro to comics. I asked one of my mates what i should be buying but he was no help. So i decided to pick up Knightfall at the Sydney meat on Thursday. I’m told this one wasn’t the best one to start with if your new to the comics, but so far I’m loving it.
the art is just brilliant.
What other ones should i be getting? People have said Hush is awesome.
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Hush is brilliant and uses pretty much Batman’s entire cast really well. The Long Halloween is also quite good, as is the No Man’s Land arc.
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Knightfall was the first Batman comic I ever bought, but I’d done a little background research online so I had a bit of preparation going into it. It’s still a fantastic story arc, though. My favourite, at least.
redartifice mentions some pretty good ones as well. The Long Halloween revolves around the early years in Batman’s run, so it’s a good place to work from, and Hush is simply amazing.
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The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller.
Batman, Year One, Frank Miller.All else is subservient.
Also, I hear The Lesser Evil is decent …for a non-Batman comic 😛
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I’d argue that Frank Miller’s Year One is good, but it’s better read after you’ve been reading batman for a while.
It’s a damn shame Frank Miller jumped off the sanity train.
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hey how was your day? was it good?
NO, NO IT WASN”T , NOT COMPARED TO MY DAY
I GOT TO DRESS UP AS A PIRATE AT WORK TODAY
A PIRATE
IT WAS AWESOME
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I dunno.
I put a sausage dog’s snout in my mouth and pretended he was a recorder.
I also got Lady Rainicorn on my effing hawt face.
yfrog.com/h4leakuj
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Naaww. haha
Maybe I should upload a picture of a vein on my foot that looks like a stick figure. xD
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Taking a call that involves waiting for a database restore that took 3 hours -then playing Operation Raccoon City for the 3 hours.
Getting paid after hours rates to play Resident Evil with mates? Winning!
Quick question: did any of the Melbourne meats ever make it to the Mana Bar here? Or have any TAYbies been?
What’s it like, in terms of the crowd and stuff? (I haven’t been, not sure if it’s mostly gaming or mostly drunk people).
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I believe one of the first meats involved them going to the Mana Bar just after it opened, only to realise it was packed with yuppies so they went elsewhere.
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The mana bar is ok…but really, its tiny cramped and cold . If it was more a lounge type arrangement it would pwn.
But worth going, i will go many times no doubt. Its just nice to have a public place for nerds, and i do commend the owners for doing it. I can only imagine how hard it is to run a place like that as small as it is.
Super late night status update: finished main story arc in Tales of Graces, very satisfying ending and the fact there’s a 15-20 hour epilogue just adds to the awesome, I’d honestly have felt pretty happy with where it ended even without that.
Had a few fist pump moments along the way. The battle system is amazingly good. I’m disappointed to hear that the team that worked on this was folded back into the main Tales group (which has been absorbed back into Namco now) and the system thrown away in Xillia in favor of something more like the previous ones. I also have been hearing rumors that Xillia was pushed out half-baked to get it released during 2011 for the 15th Anniversary and there might be an expanded ‘Director’s Cut’ release in the works that fleshes it out properly. Assuming that’s the case, I hope that if the game’s released in English, that’s the one we got.
It’s been way too long since I last played a Tales game, I nearly forgot how much I love the way they’re done. The pacing, the overall structure, the use of optional skits to flesh out the characters… it all works so well.
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Playing Dragon Quest IX has got me remembering what great JRPGs are like to play.
Can’t wait for my Tales games to arrive now!
Did you ever play Radiant Mythology on the PSP? I was enjoying my playthrough, then I downgraded my PSP firmware to install a custom one and I think my save file is incompatable. I also have Eternia to finish on PSP. Symphonia is probably still my favourite.
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YOU FREED MY MII FROM MY CAGE BUT THEN THE BIG DEMON THING NABBED ME AND YOU RAN AWAY
I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIIIIEEEENNNNDDDDSSSSSS-
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HEY MAN! I JUST WENT TO GET BACKUP!
WHAT DID YOU DO? YOU GOT SCARED OFF BY A GHOST!
Okay, you DID rescue the prince, but still…
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MY CULTURE IS VERY SUPERSTITIOUS ABOUT GHOSTS* THANK YOU VERY MUCH
(* I don’t actually know if this is true)-
WORST ASIAN!
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I AM MAKING CONGEE
Well, duck and chicken stock for Congee.
MY POINT IS THIS SURELY GETS ME SOME ASIAN POINTS
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The entire house smells like cabanossi and I have no idea why…
In other news, good morning everyone! I hope lots of people will be playing Uncharted 3 multiplayer tonight?
Looking up crap on the IMDB and found out that the guy who voiced teh lead character in a show I worked on also did voice work for Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Just wanted to share that with you all.
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In the first real trailer, Jensen, the main character of DX HR says “I never asked for this” in a manly, gravelly voice. It became a thing.
People would be all “[Story where this terrible thing happened to me]” then put up a picture of Jensen with the captions “I never asked for this”.…
THE MORE YOU KNOW
… *cough*
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BWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Doing an assignment! D:
It’s due on Tuesday so I have to work on it at some point over the Easter long weekend, and I figure Saturday is the ‘not really part of the holiday because nobody ever says Easter Saturday’ day. Plus this way when I get it done and start eating chocolate, it will taste like sweet, delicious freedom.
I hope your day will be more fun than that!
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Caught something nasty from Pez?
All dat time you guys spent together.
Also I am implying it is an STI.
I didn’t know how to weave that in without stating it outright.-
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Like a car to the face.
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Well this certainly caught my eye this morning:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/04/f-18-crashes-into-us-apartment-building-and-explodes/
Movie summary from last night.
Wrath of the Titans- there was some interesting trailers and I have never felt so happy to see credits roll in my life. AND OMG YOU GUYS 3D LET’S THROW ROCKS TOWARDS THE AUDIENCE AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN. In the end I amused myself every time there was a sweeping landscape shot by telling my wife that they’re taking the hobbits to Isengard.
American Pie: Reunion- Okay I’ll admit it. I really enjoyed this one. Had me genuinely laughing loudly. I’d actually recommend this one.
Trailers Impressions- Dark Shadows – thought this looked interesting. Tim Burton being odd as usual but looks to have a goofy charm to it.
The Avengers- HNNNNNGHHHH
Ted- I had no idea what was going on until the bear ran in. Looks like it could either BR a great laugh or painful.
Battleship- shut up. It looks like it would be beyond stupid but I still want to see it.
Prometheus- hdkh hahah yak sllajehe. Shhskao hshshss hshs GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHWHYISNTTHISOUTYET!!!!!!
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Wrath of the Titans – I posted my review last week. I thought it was god awful.
American Pie – Seeing it on Monday \o/
Dark Shadows – I will see this because of Chloe Moretz. I say that in the most non-pedophile way I can. Girl can act. Let Me In is one of my favourite movies.
The Avengers – HNNNNGHHH
Ted – FUCK YOU THUNDER!
Battleship – If it doesn’t have the line “you sunk my battleship!” I will be very disappointed. It looks like a shitty second rate Michael Bay film though.
Prometheus – Excuse me while I put on a clean pair of pants.
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I look forward to seeing Helena Bonham Carter play the exact same character in 90% of the films she’s in.
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You’re a bad person, that’s what you make of it.
HOW COULD YOU STOP PLAYING DIABLO 2 AFTER AN HOUR?
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The only logical explanation that I can think of is your stomach isn’t actually a stomach, but rather a portal to another dimension and the food just goes there. Or maybe a cave in the Arctic.
Thinking with portals. Doing it right!
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Apparently Tracey has joined Vox Games which is now called Polygon. That sounds really cool, hopefully she does well. http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/4/6/2930103/vox-games-is-dead-welcome-polygon
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Yeah, looks like a decent mix of folk too. Apart from Kotaku AU, the other game site I go to regularly is Game Informer and Phil is part of the Polygon team now too. Definitely will check it out. (Relax, Kotaku. You’re still part of my daily browsing. :P)
Morning TAY. So work up did some dishses then killed it with an an hour of Realm of the Mad God. Thinking i might get hooked into some cod or skyrim now. Then after lunch, its time to me “MANLY” and bust out a real life chainsaw. I like to pretend i am playing doom and the trees are demons. i know. i am a sad organic being.
Aarrgh. I for one hate it when someone else joins my game in journey. I feel like I’m being judged constantly. Mostly on the size of my scarf.
Hahaha this article is a load of shit, since I applied for the 5 ones in my area and only last week did I get my rejection email that they were not hiring at anyone of them.
Three days left of my long weekend. Smashed Operation Raccoon City on professional yesterday with two mates, and I’m dedicating the next 3 days to ME2, RDR and Borderlands. I am not leaving this living room.
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Hows Raccoon City, anyway? I played it a little at a Capcom event and it seemed ok. But the reviews tore it to shreds.
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It’s an odd one. There’s a laundry list of things wrong with it, and I can understand why it got destroyed in so many reviews. On the other hand, if you’re a fan of Resident Evil, and you have one or more friends to play it with, it can be a lot of fun. It ties directly with RE2, and shows another side of things that’s quite interesting.
It’s one of those odd games I find once in a blue moon, that there’s all kinds of things wrong with, but I just can’t seem to explain why i’m still enjoying it.
You’ll either hate it, or have a lot of fun with it. Take it for what it is, and overlook the obvious and glaring flaws.
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I want to grab it (being a huge RE fan) but the cost to play value plus Capcom being dicks AND the DLC missions are making me want to leave it till it’s either a) cheap, or b) in a collected edition of some sort.
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Well the first major DLC comes this week and is apparently free. But I know what you mean about Capcom, it’ll be a precursor to paid DLC of some sort.
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@Doc_What: Haven’t played any of the Radiant Mythology games. First one disappeared from sale before I got my PSP I think, and 2 and 3 never got translated. I really should get around to tracking them all down at some stage.
Speaking of games with tons of Tales characters, did you know about this fan-created one?
http://acs.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Just discovered it yesterday.
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I did not!
Did you ever play Tales of VS? I “acquired” a digital copy to test before the english version came out (Bamco registered the trademark in the US but never released the game) but never actually got round to playing it.
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Nope, I really haven’t given the spinoff games much of a look. I like Tales as an RPG series. I suppose I should try them at some point.
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Oh yeah its Uncharted night tonight, huh?! I will try to make sure I’m there! Most of these gaming sessions seem to kick off around 8 or 8:30.
Just in case anyone missed it on Twitter this morning, Tracey (aka Bubble-T) has revealed where she is headed to from Kotaku.
http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/4/6/2930103/vox-games-is-dead-welcome-polygon
Finding the Guinness Draught ads with those guys that say “Brilliant!”?
Brilliant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zRbIlcnsAU&feature=relmfu
Hey dudes, so I guess my secret is starting to come out!!! Exciting times for me. Lots of hard work starting to come to an end. I’ll share more next week once its all done, but for now, you get this:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/trials-hd-riddle-answer-to-be-revealed-april-10/#comment-629511
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So it turns out that the link above was to a specific comment:(
Try this one
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/trials-hd-riddle-answer-to-be-revealed-april-10/
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REVEALED exclusively to TAY… That’s right, Im the weekend dude, and i have a oddly small head, so small in fact that a scale image of me fits into an avatar style pic. 😉
Trust me, a picture of him is better than a picture of me! Also, I never thought about that actually 🙂
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Does this mean you know the answer and have done for a while now and couldn’t tell us that you knew?!
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TAYBIE TOUGH’UNS WORKOUT POST!
Sorry for not posting this the past few days guys, I’ve been kicking my feet up and having a bit of a break from exercising!
I was going to get back into it today, but I’m currently knee deep in writing a track that I’m super excited about, and my music always comes first 🙂
That being said, chime in with your easter related exercise regimes, or lack thereof. I’m sure the act of eating chocolate still technically burns carbs, right? right??
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I kind of stopped exercising much once uni started again. I swear it’s like the curse of being an arts student – permanent laziness when semester is in. But yesterday and today I started up again. There’s a series of lengthy bush tracks essentially right behind my house that I usually run. So today and yesterday I’ve started walking some of those again, sort of building up stamina again before I start jogging on Monday or Tuesday. I have no idea how long those are in km, but I’m out for about 50-60 minutes. Feels good man.
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Winning! I’ve found half the trick is to get into the routine and keep doing it (I’ve actually found this whole taybie tough’un post helps too by keeping me honest). The second part of the trick is to have that stamina there so you can keep a solid pace while running 🙂
Sounds like you’re not far off getting back into regular jogging again! Keep it up!
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This is pretty much how I operate when it comes to exercise – there has to be a pretty strict routine. So it’s always set that I go out at a particular time in the afternoon (although that has to change with daylight savings and the seasons!) for a set period of time. I don’t exactly punish myself if I miss a day or anything but I am very mindful of keeping a streak going. I was doing pretty well this summer, but then uni started again and it all went downhill!
Also on stamina, I find that when I get into my routine I alternate running/jogging and walking so there’s a heavier day and a lighter day. And I always have music on, so when I’m walking I listen to podcasts and when I’m jogging I put a playlist on. :p
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FINE I’LL START DOING PUSH UPS AGAIN!
or not… 😛 just did like 20 before giving up…
I miss the days where I could do 60 in a row like a boss :'( (this probably isn’t much but it’s better than doing nothing, right?)
Yay for Bish’s 3DS pictures 😀
Also is there going to be another Borderlands night any time soon? I’m on uni ‘holidays’ for a week and I’m already starting to get bored 😛
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We totally played for like 10 minutes last time and you forgot…
*sheds a tear*
you were all like “YO GREENIUZ I DUN NO WERE U R BUT WE ALLZ HERE IF U CAN FIND US” and I was like 2 metres behind you the whole time 😛
But yes I do have it on PC.
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…QUIET YOU.
What level is your char? I’m up for a game tonight, Klutar and I are up to about level 32 but I think I have some lowbies to help you level.
In the middle of some music work atm but I’m keen for later tonight. Will put the word out on twitter.
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I think my Mordecai was only like 19-21 :/. I have a level 50 one on Xbox but I can just sit back and leech some levels until I catch up :D.
I told you last time (but you probably forgot) but I’ve only played Zombie Island DLC. Haven’t touched the other ones at all so that’s all my Borderlands experience.
My internet has been disconnecting a lot lately so I might have to use my iPhone for internet… Hopefully Borderlands doesn’t use up too much data 😀
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Haven’t see his 3DS pictures (didn’t he get rid of his?) but I’ve seen his awesome Draw Something ones 😀
I think drawing on the 3DS is slightly easier because of the stylus but iPhone has a pretty screen and colours!
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You can draw pictures on the 3DS? I’ve only managed to take 3D pictures. Like ones of my boobs to see how 3D it is. 😛
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Letterbox or something :P. You can draw letters to people on your friends list or randoms through streetpass. You can also add pictures (of boobs, or other things), sound effects etc. pretty groovy but a bit confusing (for me anyways).
tis FREE!
And for those of you who don’t know there’s some new drawing app called Colours 3D or something. I haven’t seen much on it but according to scree it’s like a very basic version of Photoshop for 3DS and you can draw pictures with friends :D. It’s not free though :'(
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I just got Bish’s message as well! I didn’t reply though because I couldn’t think of anything witty and/or relevant.
One of these days! Just you all wait until Christmas!
Evening TAY!
I went to Lincraft to look at patterns. And Mum, like a boss, found the perfect pattern again. (Bodice and Bolero o/). Went to the counter to buy the pattern as it was cheap and I had money…
Sold out. I asked when they would get it back in. Answer was I don’t know.
I ended up also going to spotlight, something that is usually hard to do. Not only did they have both the patterns I wanted but I got them both half price. \o/
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Yes, but Mum is still a boss. I looked for ages for the patterns and couldn’t find any. She’d look at the book for several minutes and go “like this?”
Me: It’s exactly that. o_o wtf
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Ohhh, I know what this is. It’s the ‘default message’ in the comment box. Must have accidentally submitted it earlier when mobile TAYing…
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I hate watching Avatar: The Last Airbender because it makes me wish I could water, earth, air and/or fire bend 🙁
That would be sooo cool!
sooooooooooooo elijah wood is gonna be a voice in the latest season of red vs blue
thats pretty big for a show that started off as a few guys playing on their xboxes, and recording audio in closets…
I’ve just realised that I haven’t had any Chocolate during Easter…..
What the hell is wrong with me?!
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Ya know, neither have I. And probably won’t because I have none and am too lazy to go to the shops.
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What? It was completely innocent. I actually thought of it as “I wasn’t swallowed by a bear, I let him eat me so i could wrestle him from the inside.” Just for the extra challenge.
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This!
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\o/ Thank you!
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No worries =D
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I saw you playing Mario Kart 7 so I started to play as well, but you weren’t playing online! Oh well!
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That’s ok, I didn’t really have time to play anyway. xD Just thought it would be funny to randomly drop into your race unannounced.
How many TAYbies have Mario Kart 7, by the way? It’d be cool to have a race sometime! (I actually made a TAY Community on it when I was fiddling around with all the features, but never got around to actually doing anything with it :P)
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I could join! \o/
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Me too!
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OK, well the code to join is 64-4416-9435-5733 for anybody who is interested. There’s not much to do in it unless you plan a race ahead of time, though! It’s 150cc with All Items.
(I also added it to the Servers page in TAYNAMES because it seemed like the closest fit. Hope that was OK :P)
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Urgh, I hate being sick. Perfect opportunity to play games all day but all I’ve done is sleep.
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I like sleep to, but not when I do it most of the day. I tried to play a couple of games but only lasted about 20mins each.
I did manage to finally watch the first episode of season 2 of Game of Thrones as well as the new Community (possibly the best episode ever) and 30 Rock. Game of Thrones was made super awkward by my mum dropping around during a sex scene haha.
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Haha Game of Thrones 😛 soo much potential awkward moments
Community was good but probably not the best ever imo, haven’t seen 30 Rock yet but it’s been getting really stale lately. Get on Breaking Bad!
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I agree, the latest two episodes of Community have been awesome. 30 Rock is also similarly awesome. Probably my two favourite comedies at the moment.
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At least we know who to blame.
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Neo?
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Team Fortress 2 server is up. Details on TAYNAMES.
Current TF2 map rotation: cp_dustbowl, cp_gravelpit, ctf_2fort, ctf_doublecross, koth_sawmill, cp_gorge, cp_foundry, pl_goldrush, koth_nucleus
If you want a map added let me know.
Note: The server is capable of running Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (lol) and Counter-Strike: Source. The server can only run 1 game at a time, by default it is set to Team Fortress 2. If you wish to play another game on it please contact Cakesmith on twitter (@a_sharples) or email (a_sharples [at] hotmail [dot] com) so I can switch the game type.
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Cool! When’s the next TF2 event?
Also, how easy is it to add new maps? pl_badwater would be a good one to add. Don’t worry if it’s more trouble than it’s worth though. xD
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Link is broken because derp
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgFxIpTLAp-LdDNZbWVTNjhYNGE2bXpFTkxqV3BzM2c&hl=en_US#gid=7 -
Is it cool if a few of my mates ever play with us on there? It’d the ones that joined us in Sunwell that time =P
so… that trials riddle. The new video that’s out about it. Anyone else think that could be a hitchers guide to the galaxy reference? (That little picture in the video that flashes up)
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This pic? http://www.logicincarnate.com.au/images/trialshd.png
Yeah – it’s definitely a HGTTG reference. Is it significant? Not so sure.
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So I sort of have a new song draft.
http://soundcloud.com/jamesflamestar/hiroshima-lotus/s-F1yii
Listen plz? I’m in the jiminy jillickers zone so I can’t judge how it sounds. I know the mix/master is a little rough but what do y’all think?
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I can’t really offer any feedback as it’s not the sort of music I know anything about. Having said that it sounds a little muddy, heavy in the mid-range. But that all depends on what the music is for.
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thankee sir, noted. I’m assuming you mean the 500-1khz range?
This is one area I have the most problem with in my end mixes.
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Love the track, but yeah, sounds almost like the range has been a little compressed with the mids sorta washing out the higher frequency.
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muchos gracias, think I might drop them out a bit more. I always have so many problems with the mids. They dislike me.
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I will be lazy and have nothing for TAY ever, except my charming and lovable wit!
… So yeah, nothing.
So you’re doing better than me!
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I don’t like banging your mum son. The words frigid starfish come to mind. But I have to. It’s my Call of Duty.
All those supermodels that keep begging to be with me if only for one night , once I get 6 or 7 of them together then I guess it’s a start.
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Except you’re totally my mum and Blue Sc33n of death is my dad. But whatevs mum you giant slut.
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Your Mums a slag
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Son, you are nothing but a giant disappointment. Whenever I call you son, I get a bitter taste in my mouth. I blame Blue Sc33n’s constant womanly coddling of you. I’d bring you along to one of my many many lingerie model parties but you’d only be an embarrassment and a mark against the colours name.
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You can’t even spell my name properly. Son, I am disappoint. 😐
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Deal with it.
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Hmm, moderation on two posts and only the first one had a half no no word in it. Curious as to what the rules are now.
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TAYNAMEs (last time I typed a comment with taynames in it, it got moderated and it seems like other people had the same)
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You can’t type (abbreviation of ‘talk amongst yourselves’)names or it gets moderated!
Srsly try it out.
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Ok I just typed out 3 comments talking about the same thing in different ways and all 3 got moderated…
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Anything with (enn aye em ee) in it will get moderated, for realsies! That’s why the last time I tried to type out TAY____ (in reference to the doc) it didn’t work 😀
MYSTERY SOLVED PEOPLE
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Ha ha! You serious?!?
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It totally is! Couldn’t they have just restricted the filter to that one field or doesn’t it work like that? (I know nothing of coding)
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There’s like a whole bunch of “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” comments above this 😛
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They should be able to, given what we’re able to do with TABTOL, but I assume they just swung the banhammer haphazardly, without realising the consequences.
Send a bug report, it’s in beta. >.>
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I guess that explains why a certain person’s posts on Plunkett’s articles aren’t showing up much anymore.
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its a bit extreme to block all instances of that word, but damn I’m happy I dont have to read that guys crap anymore. now they just have to do the same thing for ******** [redacted in case they already have]
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Oh wow, everything makes sense
they wanted to moderate… that persons… posts, so the banned using his…. handle… and so it now counts even if you write his…. handle… in the comment!
it all makes sense!
thanks a lot troll for not letting us use…. that word….
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To support your theory, two of my most recent moderated posts used that one (one referring to a file…title…and the other to BUBBLE-T).
Strange filter.
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Vodka, coke and milk! I can’t see where that could go wrong at all! Thanks man. I shall try immediately.
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Oh, bugger me.
It turns out you are supposed to have Kahlua in it as well.
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Man up, i’ve had Jager, Vodka, Coke & Cider in the one “drink” made my mate spew, but I didn’t find it repulsive haha.
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Sorry about taking so long to get in! I was just sitting at the main title for a while going ‘so what do I do now…’ then I had to enter the online pass, then it chucked me into your lobby but nothing happened for twenty minutes. (This is the first time I’ve done multi on my PS3, which is pretty cool)
But once that was over it was a lot of fun. I had completely forgotten how to crouch at first so for several rounds I was screaming ‘HOW DO I CROUCH. CAN I CROUCH?! I CAN’T REMEMBER IF I CAN CROUCH IN THIS GAME?!’ Those last rounds get really freaking tough. We should try it again later with more people!
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I kept my night free because someone suggested Borderlands but totally didn’t do it 😛
I’ll try to join next time, sounded like a lot of fun :D. I played a bit of the U2 beta which I won in a comp (thanks Kotaku!) and hopped in some games of U3 with some friends but wasn’t really impressed. But I wasn’t playing with TAYbies!
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I sat there staring at your name saying you were playing it, tossing up whether I should play or not. I decided sure why not, tossed the game in immediately followed by update required. I got impatient and stopped. Auto update will handle it all tonight so I’ll be up for it next time.
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Arrrgh. I said the no no word.
I sat there staring at your *HANDLE* saying you were playing it, tossing up whether I should play or not. I decided sure why not, tossed the game in immediately followed by update required. I got impatient and stopped. Auto update will handle it all tonight so I’ll be up for it next time.
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please do!
i couldn’t make it last night because of work, and i reaaaaaaaalllly wanted to play it!although, i sure hope a fighting game night comes up soon…
OK, so it doesn’t look like my post is going to get moderated any time soon, so I’ll repost minus a certain word: (From last page, RE: Mario Kart 7 Community)
“Well the code to join the community is 64-4416-9435-5733 for anybody who is interested. There’s not much to do in it unless you plan a race ahead of time, though! It’s 150cc with All Items.
(I also added it to the Servers page in [that document with all the TAY handles, you know the one] because it seemed like the closest fit. Hope that was OK :P)”
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Message Cakeman and see if we can get it as a Community Gaming game, or you can just set one up yourself :D. I’m keen so let me know whenever it’s on. I love how easy it is to play online in MK7 😀
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Yeah I’ll get a game going one of these days, it doesn’t take much to organise it. Easy for people to drop in/out. It’s like the iSketch of the 3DS (except completely different)!
If everybody who has MK7 could join that TAY community so I can see how many people we have to work with, that would be good!
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Look up Colours 3D for 3DS. Apparently you can draw and send colour pics to other people :D. scree said she watched some sort of ‘preview’ video on her 3DS so have a look for it. IGN just did a review for it and Kotaku featured a picture of Journey drawn with it 🙂
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So apparently Dark Souls for PC will have “new bosses”. Hopefully us console goers will get it as free DLC 😀
So some silly goose replied to a moderated comment, thus breaking TAY 😛
I nearly replied to said comment but I’m sure others will :/
AAARRRGGGGHHH!
I dozed off on the couch.
Now I’m all sore and way too awake to get any proper sleep.
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So awake + caffeine = motivation which means we get our super secret ultra happy family fun time secret surprise dx turbo championship alpha edition?
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I don’t have them handy
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jeans and a shirt?
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Blergh, being presentable?
I don’t like it, no sirree.
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Greetings, I am Blerghman. The Incredibly Apathetic Side of Blaghman.
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… But I’m all apathetic side.
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Eugh, most of it is terrible “milk chocolate” which makes me feel rather ill due to it having so much sugar D=
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I was woken to the sound of lindt bunny bells, which I must say is a wonderful way to start the day
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Loungeroom occupation continues. I may have underestimated just how large ME2 is with all DLC.
I AM COMMANDER SHEPARD, NOT AN ERRAND GIRL. OHMAIGAT. FIXYOUROWNGALAXY!
morning TAY, so I’ve got two from two posts in moderation today due to cleverly misspelling my own handle.
I blame chocolate. yeah. thats probably a safe bet for today.
aaanyway, hows things?
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I’d like to say yes, but unfortunately, I’ve not yet started on the box of creme eggs I found…
#doingeasterwrong
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get out, now
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=( I’m sorry
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lindt is amazing. i dont think theres anything else left to say on that subject.
but yeah, creme eggs are 75% sugar, 24% remorse & 1% cancer. yet still, I like em 🙂
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Supermarkets are open today, right?
I didn’t have chocolate today and was quite alright with it.
Until the chocolate talk started. Now I want chocolate.
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Some are, some aren’t. Best to check before hand
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I’ve never tried them. Doesn’t sound like i’m missing much then.
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I woke up and my parents were out. Couldn’t be bothered making my own breakfast so I just ate chocolate for breakfast/lunch 😀
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You lazy excuse for a son.
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We have no son. Just a sniveling cretin that claims to be one.
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I told you we shouldn’t have adopted him. We should have chosen the girl with the purple hair. But would you listen to me? Noooooo. :<
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Nah, She turned 18 a few months back and I’ve already shown her why I am so amazing. Several times. In one night.
Would’ve been a bit weird if we had adopted her. Not a deal breaker but still awkward.
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So, you showed her how slack and lazy you are, and how you avoid your responsibilities. Cause that’s the only thing you do that could be described as ‘amazing’.
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At least you have parents.
I’d rather dead parents than shitty ones 😛
Have mine please!
I’ll happily swap. It would be nice not to be constantly disappointed and embarrassed for a change.
Swapping doesn’t really fix those problems for me though. :C
@ Pez
Re: Hiroshima Lotus
I digs it. Mid range could use a bit more clarity though, and I found the kick drum to be a little bit too distracting & uniform.
One caveat though, I don’t listen to electronica / house / & related genres at all, so I dont know if thats how it should be, therefore my opinion is probably invalid.
Still, I liked it. so keep making more of it.
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you’re in luck, I’m currently fighting my way through a much more polished mix/master.
Should be up for DL in the next hour or two.
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Do what I do when I get bored and try to figure out how to bring world peace. Usually the only answer that I come up with that has even a remote chance of working is to destroy the world…
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Bored? Not in this house! Let’s Mambo!
Doo Doo do Doo Doo Doo Doo do do Doo Doo do do Doo do Doo Doo!
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“Northern Rivers NSW:
serious question and please dont respond with stupid answers as i am quite serious about tjis issue
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Has anyone seen the ufos in the skys around here in the last month?”
This is one of my TAFE teachers from last year on Facebook, I really wonder what the hell is in the air & water in Murwillumbah.
Here TAY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJ9Fdjq9hU&feature=youtube_gdata
I have a longer one, but my camera is cheap so the audio is crap
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Exactly XD
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Yes, but you can’t blame me, blame Koji kondo
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Exactly, we can’t blame you so no need to apologise 😀
Could be worse though. Nothing worse than a crap song that’s catchy…
Oh who am I kidding… it’s not that bad. PROBLEM?
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Playing through Shank 2 and Wow that game is far more demanding then I thought it would be. Was expecting just a button masher but all that got me was constant death even on normal. Really have to pay attention.
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HULK IS STRONGEST THERE IS!
Side note: It’s kind of cool in a way that Lou Ferringo is doing Hulks voice but in my books there’s only one voice for Hulk. Fred Tatasciore.
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I only have a vague idea. Also there are no Tenor ocarinas, a 12 hole in C is usually Alto
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Though you’d listen to me talking about something I have no idea about, right? Right??
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TAYBIE TOUGH’UNS EXERCISE POST:
Back for more punishment! Not sure if it’s the Trib supplements I’ve been taking or the 3 day break from exercising, but I noted a big increase in strength this session.
Cardio: 2.5kg jog. Powered through without any difficulty today. Feelsgoodman.jpg
Pecs: Flat/Incline/Decline bench
Warmup: 1×8 [5g dumbells]
1×8 flat [15kg dumbbells]
1×8 incline
1×8 decline
1×8 flat
1×7 incline
Triceps: Standing french press
1×8 [5kg dumbell]
1×9 [15kg ez-curl bar]
1×8
1×8
1×7
Back thickness: Bent-over rows
Warmup: 1×8 [5kg dumbbells]
1×15 [5kg dumbbells]
1×12
1×12
1×12
Posterior lats: reverse flies
1×8 [5kg dumbbells]
1×8
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You know, you don’t really have to worry about this becoming a thing. I’ll wear it out way before then 😛
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… Forgive me if I’m not entirely relieved.
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No problem. I mean, WWJD?
Admittedly, Jesus wouldn’t go posting that pic every five minutes though…
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Man I do love having a car.
The other week walked maybe 2 K’s for this reason and was all “Why would anyone willingly do this?” It takes so long and is so boring!-
Well, I went to the Botanical Gardens with some friends, and we decided to walk part way up Black Mountain, so a fair bit of the walking would not have been altered by my car status.
But yeah, then I had to walk to Civic, and walk home from Woden, so that did add up.
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Friends? What are these ‘friend’ things you speak of?
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Walking around is ok, but the walking to somewhere? Don’t understand how people want to do it.
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Oh yeah?? Well Happy zombie Jesus day to you too! >:C
Wait. You weren’t angry at me, were you…
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65 hours in and I still haven’t finished with Tales of Graces. 🙁 Been screwing around though. I guess if you skipped all the sidequests completely it’d be over in maybe 25-30 hours.
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I thought you already finished it :O
I still haven’t played it yet but it seems like a massive game :). I don’t usually bother with too much side quests so I’m expecting at least 40 or so hours out of it (which I’m fine with).
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I finished the main arc, I’m at the last dungeon in the Future arc. And then there’s some optional bosses, title grinding for trophies and the Zhonecage which is a fairly elaborate extra dungeon that you need to fight your way through to unlock a cameo battle where you fight a trio of characters from Tales of Hearts, Tales of Destiny 2 and Tales of Rebirth. And then there’s New Game+ and stuff.
Seriously if you wanted to platinum the game you could spend 150+ hours on it.
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ATT: ALL YOU CHOCOLATE LOVING MELBOURNE TAYBIES!!!
RE: MINI MINI MINI TAY CHOCOLATE MEAT {Melbourne Edition}
Are you free next weekend? Do you have a love for chocolate?
Sarcasm and I have a proposal that will rock your socks off. Taking place at the wonderfully delicious fabulosity that is the Lindt chocolate cafe (or equivalent aka Ganache, Koko Black, etc.) you will be joining us in a great discussion of chocolate, eating chocolate, analysing chocolate, and occasionally, video gaming.
[ WHEN ] Saturday – April 14th, 2012
[ WHERE ] Melbourne CBD at an appropriate chocolate serving venue
[ WHO ]</b< Sarasm Fairy and I – who will host this wonderful afternoon. And even if there are no guests we will still go and have our chocolate god damnit!
[ BUDGET ] If you are worried about price then you do not understand good things in the world
[ WHAT ] Ideally consuming Lindt creations and other things such as coffee
[ DRESS CODE ] Preferably with clothing and shoes. People who do not own appropriate attire should see their local Kmart and Best & Less.
[ But I don’t like chocolate! ] is NOT an option and you will be shunned and ignored for an indefinite amount of time.
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What about “I live in Melbourne and am in fact around 60kms away and will probably have to do a 6000 word essay on banking and finance” as an option?
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I don’t get disappointed. I just couldn’t care less.
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I’m sorry but I was talking to ‘Blerghmen’ not you.
No one likes you.
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Meh.
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I… I don’t think I need to even comment here any more.
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Banking? What who needs that.
Eating Meat this is my thing why are you holding it in another state why would you do this to me do you not like me oh god I even streetpassed SarcasmFairy I thought we were friends but friends wouldn’t do this to me :'(
As it happens I am free that day and enjoy chocolate (anyone who says they don’t is a liar). I even have clothes!
So got a couple of hours in on Xenoblade today, didn’t really accomplish all that much, just wandering around on Mt Valac, grinded a few levels. However, since my sister has claimed the TV for the night I will keep Bish happy and start on 999.
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Wooooooooooooooooo! 😀
Was it the batteries?
999 is alright but I haven’t played it in months :P. I’m pretty sure I’m near the end too :/
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hehe gotta buy it now! Did you see the happiness in both of their eyes? DID YOU?
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After a 2 day bender, ME2 plus all DLC complete. Color me impressed. ME3 awaits….. but maybe next weekend.
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\o/
I find it funny that while the fate of the galaxy is in the balance, you can still go and collect some useless item for some no-name person.
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What class are you playing as? Which team member do you usually take? Opinion on the Mako? Answer all the questions \o/
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Soldier.
Kaidan and Garrus or Wrex and Garrus – I find their back and forth to be really insightful.
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Did no one see a problem with advertising a show with an old guy and a young boy and naming it Touch? No? Just me?
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Seems fairly generic. I wonder if it’ll get a second season. Although I suppose it’ll be awesome if he actually does act like Jack Bauer. CHLOE I NEED SOME INTEL DAMMIT! WHY ISN’T THIS KID TALKING?!?!
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Oh man, now I want to watch it! Kevin Spacey was awesome. And the soundtrack. That soundtrack.
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Fighting evil by moonlight,
Winning love by daylight,
Never running from a real fight,
She is the one named Sailor Moon! -
OH GOD I BROKE THE RULE ONE OF TAY!!!!
RULE 1: NEVER MENTION *WHISPERS* ENN-AY-EM-EE
RULE 2: ALWAYS TYPE IN CAPS WHEN TALKING ABOUT TAY TO SIMULATE SHOUTING
Pac-Man : Championship Edition DX
A.K.A, “The Proper way to make a 30 year old arcade game into a bloody masterpiece.”
I had a whole comment written about how good Pac-Man: Championship Edition is, but I’m too lazy to re-write it… so, I’ll just say this:
If you have any amount of love for video games, go and buy it, right now.
It is awesome.
@Cakesmith
Have you got any plans for the community gaming nights this week? I know there’s a Terraria night tomorrow but there doesn’t seem to be anything else going on later down the track. If enough people were to get involved I’d love to see a Halo night, or even another Red Dead Redemption night (this is assuming you are looking for suggestions and do not already have things planned out, of course!) Or Brink…or Uncharted…and there was talk of Borderlands on 360…and I should really download TF2 some day soon…okay wow so many options.
*overloads*
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We should have a Borderlands night pretty soon I reckon. Simultaneously on the PC, PS3 and 360. It seems like a game most of us have and we can all form little groups with people who have characters with a close enough level 😀
Just make sure we know who has which DLC (or doesn’t) otherwise it could get messy trying to play in the DLC areas with those who don’t have it 😛
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None as of yet. I normally decide what they’ll be on the Monday morning instead of doing actual work.
Halo is very much on the cards I had hoped to play it last night but there was a bit of lack of interest. Which, given it’s a holiday weekend is understandable.
I’m very keen for Red Dead again. That was some of the most fun I’ve had in a long time.
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Looks like I’ll have to borrow it from a friend and use one of those 48 hour Gold Trial cards heh 😛
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Note to self: next time, be aware that listening to the Unreal Tournament soundtrack will convince you to reinstall it and play it a crapload.
Done with Tales of Graces finally. There’s a few things I haven’t done, the extra dungeon and some optional bosses and grinding out titles / new game plus to get the 60 second trophies, but I’m done with the story and really like how it all ended, and it’s already sucked up 71 hours so I think I’m done with it for now. Really like how it ended.
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I am glaring so hard right now.
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I didn’t cause it!
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GLARING!
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Glaring??
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=( You make me sad
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Well Lambo is making me sad!
Not really, I don’t have emotions, but whatever.
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Meh
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no smile make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad
I don’t get why people complain of being screwed whilst presenting themselves to the publishers. No one is forcing them at gun point to buy DLC. It’s not essential. They just want it.
STOP COMPLAINING IF YOU’RE BUYING IT OF YOUR OWN VOLITION!
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You see, my problem is that DLC has transformed over the years it was once just extra content added on, but has become stuff that was in the original design document and has been cut out of the game in order to sell later. It was designed to be part of the original experience. So it’s understandable that some gamers are pissed when they pay for something that was intended to be part of the game from the get-go. It’s even more insulting when you see the idiots running Capcom who proudly put their DLC on the disk and sell you a code while telling you that they are doing you a service by not breaking up the community.
Just about every triple A game these days will announce day 1 DLC or pre-order content or exclusive retailer bonuses. All this stuff was made and then cut our to be sold later.
Personally, i don’t buy a lot of DLC because from my experience, 90% of DLC is shit.
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I agree. People get pissed when they have to pay. They wouldn’t have to if they didn’t already prove they are willing to. It wouldn’t happen if it wasn’t a viable business strategy. Which is my point. Why complain whilst shelling out the coin? Obviously not that upset about it if still paying.
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The problem is having DLC that should have originally been available on the disc.
Essentially, it’s like saying, “You can pay full price to listen to Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, but we’ll chop bits out of it, so you won’t be able to hear all of it unless you pay the extra money.”
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Or you need to catch all the Pokemon! But in order to do it you’ll need to buy 2 copies of essentially the same game…
…wait a second…
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Freeze, can you please do me a favor and take Yellowius into the Borderlands 2 DLC article. I need some lols.
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Wouldn’t it be more appropriate for him to be commenting on the Lollipop Chainsaw cosplayer article? 😛
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But she’s not that great with those fugly fake rock bewbies. Yellowius only likes super models and milfs 😛
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According to shop bot, lowest price around, but still not much lower than the average by the looks.
TAYBIE TOUGH’UNS EXERCISE POST
Just a short one today, lack of sleep + hayfever = not good energy levels.
Cardio: None!
Weights: Quads and Lower back (core) day.
Lower Back: Deficit Deadlifts
Warmup: 1×8 [5kg dumbell] 1×10 [20kg barbell]
1×9 [55kg barbell, not far off deadlifting my own weight again]
1×8
1×7
1×7
Quads: Front Squats
1×10 [5kg dumbell]
1×8 [20kg barbell]
1×8
1×8
1×8
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– jog
– chocolate
– umm some squats
– i danced a bit, hard to do with one arm D:yeahhhhhh exercise is funz
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is this I don’t even?
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Today I went jogging. I nearly died. I think I need to build up my stamina a bit more.
But boy was it fun. :p
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Yeah, it’s a bitch until you hit the point where you can keep a steady pace. I had to slog away for a couple of weeks to get into it, and it sucked in epic fashion.
On the plus side, once you get into that ‘runners stride’ it’s much more forgiving and hard to lose as long as you keep it up once or twice a week (at minimum)
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TAY I really, really, REALLY need your help.
In the image below it appears that the corset is made up of 4 panels.
http://cdn3.spong.com/news/d/d360418l/_-Bioshock-Infinite-Trailer-Elizabeth-My-Dear-_.jpg
However in the image I will link separately, it appears to be made up of 6 panels.
I have no idea which one would be considered cannon. The 6 panel one will be easier to do, but everyone seems to have followed the 4 panel one.
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as what bish said whatevers easier, but maybe find the latest screenshots or videos of the game, to see which is the most recent…
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Actually it looks like there’s six panels in both, but it breaks out in an upside-down Y, so it starts as four and expands into an extra panel at the bottom. You can’t see it in this one because her arms are in the way and in the ‘6 panel’ pic she’s got her torso turned more away from the camera so you can see the side of her hip.
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Yep. Was just about to say this. This would be why people are doing four panels though, the inverted triangle panels would be difficult.
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I’d seriously go with what is the easier one to make. No need to over complicate it for yourself and then be disappointed if you accidentally stuff it up D=
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Checked another screen shot. I seriously can’t tell
http://au.wrs.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0S0uD_Bc4JPl2sASywW5gt.;_ylu=X3oDMTBpcGszamw0BHNlYwNmcC1pbWcEc2xrA2ltZw–/SIG=12u3j6m85/EXP=1333978177/**http%3a//pockettacoradio.com/2011/08/16/elizabeth-bioshock-infinite-cosplay/-
Artist impression but it’s clearest. It appears that it’s only four panels but her tiny tiny waist makes it confusing.
http://au.wrs.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0S0uPBxdIJPuzsAK8YW5gt.;_ylu=X3oDMTBpcGszamw0BHNlYwNmcC1pbWcEc2xrA2ltZw–/SIG=11rcdpu6m/EXP=1333978353/**http%3a//news.mensadad.com/archives/58104
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The more I look, the more clear it is. What at first looked like an inverted triangle in the second picture is actually where the side panel starts. It just appeared to be like a triangle because it disappeared under her arm.
So there’s four panels at the front, and one each at the sides, making 10 panels altogether. 4 each for the front and back (that’s if we’re assuming there’s the same amount of front and back panels) and one up each side. That’s how I’d make it. 🙂-
And because it obviously does up at the front, I’d actually go with three panels at the back, melding the two corresponding front ones that fasten together. So 9 panels all up.
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Bah! This is doing my head in. I don’t envy you. 😛 The more I think about it, the more the idea of a side panel seems wrong. It just wouldn’t work, from a clothing perspective.
I think it’s *supposed* to be four front panels, then the back panels. But the angles and poor qualities of pics coupled with the fact that artists don’t understand clothing construction makes it often look like there’s side panels. I said before I’d make it with them but I was wrong. Stick with the four front panels, it’s the only thing that will work from a construction and wearing point of view. 🙂
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Looking at the pictures I still have, it’s 3 at the back, 4 at the front, and they all appear to be part of the same… thing.
I can’t be bothered re-uploading what I found, so I can’t really clarify what I mean.
Hell, I know nothing of clothes anyway.
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Cool. So that lines up with my (eventual) findings. We must be right. \o/
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All four pics look to me like 4 front panels.
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So I got to thinking “What do Skrillex’s Bangarang and Daft Punk’s Derezzed sound like when mixed together?”
http://snd.sc/HlLoQT
My first real job interview tomorrow /scared D=
But i’m also excited, so does that make me neutral with feelings?
TAY UPDATE:
1. I bought myself a transformers toy for $10 this weekend and it’s pretty sweet. It’s sunspot http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sunspot. The robot form looks great but the figurine shines in its vehicle form because it’s so clean and there are minimal protrusions once you transform it. The toys were on sale so I got Backfire as the autobot counterpart. I think I’m hooked now because I’m definitely going back to get some more once the stores open tomorrow.
Transformers toys are usually so expensive, which is really sad. That’s why I was really surprised when I got these for $10, they usually retail for $20-$25.
2. I plugged my PS3 controller into my PC and realised it charges faster when I use my computer’s USB ports compared to the PS3s. Interesting.
Also why does Kotaku Au’s comment system use US spelling? I’m tired of my words with ‘S’ instead of z being underlined.
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The auto-correct should be set by your browser, I’m using Chrome, and with a right click I can switch it between Australia, UK, and United States.
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WOW!!! I didn’t know that. I always thought it was the websites that underlined my words. My browsing will forever be changed. I use chrome as well. Thanks for that, now I can type colour, realise, centre, theatre, organise without any red underlines.
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Kotaku Aus, doesn’t have a spellchecker man, that’ll be your browser =P
I have an Australian Dictionary installed for Firefox, so esky is correct! Among other words.
wow, so because of the TAY marketing machine, i finished watching [Another], and man,it was fantastic, i’ll post an in depth post about it tomorrow when the new TAY arrives (oh, and it’ll be in al bhed for your pleasure)
unless someone lurking around here wants to talk about it now
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ummmmm, so i have a wall of text prepared, but i think kotaku is eating it
SO BE PREPARED IF IT WORKS!
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yes it appears it is, i may have to break it up into smaller, bite sized chunks
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Are you using the word n_a_m_e? That’s a sure fire way to get your post moderated for some reason.
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You mean the word “name”?
Yeah, there’s definitely problems with posting “name.”
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It ate all my ROT13 stuff. I don’t know if that is what you’re using
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There is a problem with the site silently eating ROT13 text. I think it must have some kind of junk post filtering that ignores posts where the content has the wrong letter proportions to english or something. I ran into the exact same problem trying to post about Another as well 🙁
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Haha, no I don’t think so, Lambo. Some people who stole 2 beemers last night & were apparently involved in a shooting yesterday. but props to the Qld Police seems they just arrested the people.
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Alright, guys, quick question, all I’m after is suggestions for songs.
Silly, serious, whatever.
For… a reason.
I’ll probably ignore you anyway, but I need a bit more inspiration.
Now, GGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or don’t. Whatever.
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You want him to sing that??
(I haven’t watched the video yet, I just needed an excuse to post that pic. Again. :P)
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No.
No, it is not.
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It so is a thing. 😛
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Ignore him.
He’s just jealous of my meme making skills 😛
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Hate you two.
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“Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering.”
So, you’re halfway there already, huh?
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I can’t help but laugh and I don’t know why.
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Well fuck.
Thought my reply had been eaten. Suppose not.
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I actually can’t remember that much that they sang in Glee, and I used to download the episodes before they aired in Aus…
Guess they just weren’t very memorable…
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Tempting, but too difficult.
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Surely this isn’t too far a stretch for you! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZFO8pXuRTk
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And yet some of us can reply, so clearly it’s just favouritism.
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Just finished AFfC, no spoilers but I loved the development of Jamie’s character and how it changes from the first book. That thing he does right at the end is so epic.
(Also, I’m in two minds about how much this series is increasingly relying on fantasy tropes like magic and prophecies, it seems like cheap foreshadowing or a plot device but I think he writes it well enough that I don’t really care.)
I am so tired. Simply because I refuse to cut out patterns. I trace everything ^^;;
I am so weird, I know that, but I don’t care, I just have trouble bringing myself to cut it
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Why does everyone call me weird then? /o\ Even the person who was helping me learn thought it was weird.
Also is it weird that I tend to sew with the pins in? Well, I pull them out as they’re about to go under the foot-
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Yeah I’ve broken heaps of needles. But that’s why I’ve started pulling them out.
My machine did break once, but that was because the sewing machine’s needle went in too far and dented the bobbin casing. Apparently it was a machine fault that should never have happened -
If it’s a habit you’re having trouble breaking, make sure you only pin really close to (and parallel to) the edge, within the seam allowance. That way if you forget to remove one before it gets too near the foot it should minimise the chances of it hitting the foot and causing damage to your machine. Pinning this way minimises damage to your fabric, anyway. And if it’s a delicate fabric, you could always try using alligator-type clips. There’s definitely no way you could miss one of those! 😛
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Mum pins it parallel to the seam, but she then tacks it. I haven’t missed many pins though. I mean it’s only 1 or 2. But I’ll try it.
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Taught myself. From books and videos. And my Nan is a dressmaker by trade so I got a few pointers from her to make sure I was on the right track. I only started less than a year ago so I still have heaps to learn, but I’m continually surprised how much is just common sense. 🙂
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I’m using videos when I’m confused. But a lot of it is common sense.
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Firefox seems to be getting more and more picky on what it will and won’t play. Wondering if I should make the move to Chrome. But then I’m so used to Firefox. Decisions decisions.
@scree: I have to learn sewing as part of my new job so I’ll be able to chat away with sewing stuff with you.
Wait, did I say sewing. I meant *Cough, deep voice* welding. Yeah welding. Welding those fabrics together, scull a beer or ten then punch a boar out. Manly RAAAAGH!
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I keep having to do sewing, because I take terrible care of my clothes, and I don’t like buying those iron on patches, so I just sew everything back together.
It’s manly.
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Sewing is definitely manly. I routinely punch boars out and scull beers whilst sewing. 😉
Oh, Scree, I answered your question at the bottom of the previous page.
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I know, I’ve responded. You’re lucky that you have someone you can ask
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Yeah, I’m a bit sad my Nan lives in a different state now. I’ve only seen her once since she bought me my machine last May. I can only imagine the things she could teach me if we got to spend more time together. It’s pretty cool that I’ve discovered I love to sew though, it’s really awesome to follow in her footsteps. 🙂
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Sewing is manly. Rambo did it
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Without even being able to remember watching any Rambo movies, i knew that was going to be him sewing up his own wounds. He’s the manasaur. 😀
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Talking about a Nickelback song (I don’t know which one, they all sound the same to me):
Me: “I hate that song.”
Now ex-friend, because he likes Nickelback: “You have to admit it’s catchy.”
Me: “The plague is catchy. It doesn’t mean it’s a good thing.”
Hooray for using a joke you heard on the internet and claiming it as your own.
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I like Nickelback, they’re alright for generic rockband. Especially for a Roadrunner Records band, most of the stuff RR put out now is beyond shit. Minus a few bands heh.
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I don’t hate on everyone for like Dubstep or other music that is similar that I cannot tolerate. So no!
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And I thought you were just beginning to like me after I proved how much of a nice person I am at the meat D=
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It’s ok Virus, I got your back. Sure they aren’t my favourite band but certainly like them well enough
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\o/ we shall stand together lolol. Though I really only like their radio played stuff, but Chad Kroeger on the latest Steel Panther album, he really suited the song he sung on too!
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Q and A.
Do we really need to discuss this?
I mean, why can’t someone just believe in what they want if it’s not hurting or being forced on anyone else?
I don’t understand why they have to argue, why can’t they just agree to disagree? =/
A man will cut your arm off and throw it in a river, but he’ll leave you as a human being intact. He won’t fuck with who you are. Women are non-violent, but they will shit inside of your heart.
My new favourite quote. Got to love Louis C.K.
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He’s hilarious 😀
I love how nothing is too ‘taboo’ for him. Masturbating grandmas, bestiality and rape? Sure why not!
o_o
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How does one shit inside of a heart?
Because that sounds like a fairly complex and technical endeavour.
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I don’t think women are non-violent 😛
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Charming. Very charming.
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That messed up moment you realize NONE of your real life (physical formed) friends like anime, manga, videogames, comics or ANYTHING you like and none will want to go to Supanova with you on the weekend.
Time for new friends. BFF?
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I know exactly what you mean, except for the Supernova part.
Not that you or anyone else will read this.
Hey guys, I don’t come on here much as my laptop is busted and I hate typing on an iPhone, but I thought I’d let you all know I’ve rented a BF3 server on Xbox, so if youd like to play without boosters and spawn trappers come and join us! We’re nice I promise. Just keep an eye out for “enVENOM!”.
Spread the word =)
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but whatever.
Does anyone here know if ‘The Raid’ is a movie worth buying?
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