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Best part!
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Yes. Let’s just wait and see. I don’t think so but I’m willing to take a trip to Vatican City to get the process started.
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I don’t know what you heard about me,
That I’m the head of Christianity,
The epitome of all things holy,
I’m the mother-f*ckin’ P-O-P-E -
Pyrean would make a great pope. Though Steve-O would be even more entertaining.
Also, Fistbump.
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I live in a giant bucket
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DOOOOOOOO YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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Sitting at my desk, drinking coffee, listening to the Journey soundtrack.
It’s not exactly the same as sleep but it will have to do.
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I think streams are partly to blame. Was watching Dyrus’s stream last night, he was apparently too busy doing stupid kill lanes to have the sort of stream you can just leave on as white noise.
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Oh, so I wasn’t the only one watching that? Sweet. I’m loving this new meta of a bruiser/ranged support bot lane. Panth/Brand v Renekton/Ashe was amazing to watch.
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Sorry, I mean ranged hero (usually with a stun/good slow) acting as support*
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Substitute milk for cream in everything you consume (even cereal) and you’ll be well prepared for the ‘Murican experience.
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Sugar? What are you some sort of natural living hippie, High fructose corn syrup is what you want boy
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Diablo 3 Beta impressions
I’ve not played Diablo 1 or 2 – the closest thing I’ve played is Torchlight, so I can’t really provide any information about how mechanics have changed from D2.
But I can say this: Diablo 3 is a lot of fun.
My first character was Chayde, the Demon Hunter. I found him to be fairly overpowered in most instances, except where he became surrounded by multitudes of enemies, so movement and the use of traps is key to survival.
The customization of your character comes from attaching runes to your attacks, which modify their use. You don’t have talent points to allocate. Your character levels up automatically, without the need to distribute any arbitrary points into talent trees. You can switch between any attack at any time to customize your character on the fly. If you’re having a horde of enemies, you can use Hungering Arrow, which pierces and ricochets. If you’re facing a big guy that needs to be kited, you can use a Snare Shot and Caltrops which slow their speed, allowing you to whittle down their health from afar.
I really enjoy the way they’ve made the maps. Instead of just crawling through dungeons purely to kill enemies, you can look for interactable things like loose stones, book shelves, chandelier supports and crumbling walls. The art direction is very dark, very gothic, but it doesn’t really look like a next-gen game. Starcraft II is actually better in the graphics department from what I’ve seen so far.
The crafting system is not bad. You break down uncommon items for an uncommon level reagent, then you use so many of those reagents to craft another item with randomised stats. Out of ten items I destroyed last night, I only got one rare gold reagent, but my blacksmith couldn’t even use it yet.
Is there anything you guys wants to know about the game? I’ll answer what I can, and I’m planning on playing through some of the other classes this week. If there’s one you want me to report back on, let me know!
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I’ve played a bit (a couple of hours?) before they made most of the changes to how skills work. So really the only thing I can comment on is the graphics and the maps.
The maps are basically exactly how the other Diablo games work. Large, randomly generated environments with a clear path to follow (if you look for it) and lots of room to look around to extra loot.
Graphics, it’s nothing to write home about. Blizzard never seems to care that much about being graphically impressive and seem to just settle on what will do the job. It’s likely that the less than impressive graphics are so that people can handle the later areas where there are hordes of enemies on screen at once, all firing off craziness.
It happened in D2, if it didn’t happen in D3, I would be much disappoint.
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A necessary evil unfortunately. Diablo 2 (and most MMOs) are plagued with black market loot. eBay may have banned the selling of virtual items, but it’s all too easy to find dodgy services where people who have botted and/or scammed their way to high end items are selling them off for real profit.
By having their own real money auction house, they’re trying to take control of that market or at least make it so that people who are tempted to buy that stuff do it legitimately.
It’s an interesting experiment.
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Giving people a legal and official avenue to sell items will make this problem grow x10. The way I see it, a real world AH is a total colour on their part. I’ll be amazed if the market isn’t flooded with cheap farmed unique elites in a years time.
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That should be “cop out” damned autocorrect.
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It also puts the people doing it on Blizzard’s radar if they’re using the in game system to do it.
It’s not necessarily the right solution to this problem, but having seen this thing be a problem first-hand (as a moderator on Gaia Online, which has similar issues) I can appreciate what they’re trying to do.
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I guess it’s better to have them police it. I mean, it’s going to happen anyway, maybe this way they have some control over it.
That being said, i would rather they try to eliminate the problem than this.
Either way, D3 will be super awesome.
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Yeah I’m in the same boat as you Ruffleberg but I agree with Bunny above. In truth, this was going to happen anyway (Granted I never knew this whole thing existed until now) so Blizzard might as well try to control it themselves.
I’m keen for the TAYby lowdown. Most “impressions” I see are from commenters on articles going “hurr durr World of Diablo”. I have a lot of faith in Blizzard and am confident they won’t screw it up.
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Well, I may as well add: I’ve been playing the beta for a while, and I love it. A lot of the changes they’ve made make sense(they redesigned it to force you back to town every now and again, which, while slightly annoying is also useful in giving the game “down” moments), though some things make me sad(no corpse runs, inventory is less tetris like).
But the core gameplay? The clickety-click-click-clickety? That’s as sublime as ever.
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I’ve been quite impressed. Looks like it is really spicing up the action side with scripted events but keeping that same “go anywhere and approach from anyway” play-style from Farcry 2. Really looking forward to it.
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I’m very excited. The singleplayer footage looks pretty fantastic, and that voice acting!
The multiplayer seems uninspired and a disappointment after Far Cry 2 (I know some people don’t like FC2 multiplayer but I still play it on PC and it’s a huge amount of fun). But I’m sure it’ll be fun.
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Love FC2 multilayer. Just last weekend I held a LAN and had about 12 players (most that have ever rocked up). Capture the diamond was pretty epic fun. And who doesn’t like running around setting everything on fire?
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It managed to have a feel independent of the CoD/Battlefield paradigm, which I think is pretty amazing. FC3 looks like it’s trying to combine the two. Maybe it’ll work, but I prefer something a little different.
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I loved Far cry 2 and this looks like a great improvement over that. I really hope they’re more side missions and more ambient activities in the background. I was really disappointed that there was not a lot of wildlife and hunting activities in Far Cry 2. It’s Africa goddamit!! Where are the animals?
Also I hope that the map editor is improved and allows for some single player user generated content. I’d love to create my own horde mode missions and maybe some racing ones as well.
Finally SHARKS!!! There were SHARKS in the trailers.
The only disappointing thing at the moment seems to be the multiplayer and I hope they polish it before launch. That being said I primarily play Far Cry for the singleplayer.
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I think it’s really hard to judge an open world game from 10-15 minute snippets of footage, because I haven’t been terribly impressed with what I’ve seen. But as I said, can’t judge,
Morning TAY
weekends are not long enough.
I vote for at least 50% more weekend in every week.
In other news, I decided over the weekend that I’m going back to uni. dunno what I’m going to study or where, but I’ve gotta get qualified to do something other than what I’m currently doing.
That is all.
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Farmer wants a wife!
Please marry my boy!
Master Chef!
Beauty and the Geek!The possibilities are endless!
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Beauty and the Geek are holding auditions right now 😛
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thanks for the suggestions, but getting married doesnt appeal to me, & the ‘beauties’ on beauty & the geek are generally anything but (not enough tattoos & other interesting features for my liking).
I could wow the masterchef judges with a fritatta or two, and a kicking boscaiola, though alternating between those two dishes might grow old after week 7.
but if theres one thing I know i can do, its wear clothes & walk in a straight line. i’m pretty confident in that.
most of the time.
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Well shit, you’re on up on me then.
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Gladiator! haha remember that show?
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Ok, these painkillers you are taking sound FANTASTIC.
Can has?
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awesomely bad show 🙂
only bettered by Who Dares Wins. -
Don’t forget your toothbrush?
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It’s a knockout (Original) > Gladiator > Who dares win
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I played Battlefield 3 for the first time in (according to Battlelog) 135 days last night.
Wow.
The latest patch and the server renting have COMPLETELY made me fall in love with this game again.
Anyone who’s fallen off the wagon I suggest you get back on.
I’m on Xbox, by the way. I’ll probably get it on PC when I get a new one around the end of the year, but I’m very happy with the gameplay on Xbox.
They’ve smoothed the gameplay quite a bit and there are so many servers now.
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Sounds good!
I had a particularly good round last night, and an achievement popped. MVP! I was pleased to get it, but disapointed that I didn’t already have it. I was playing assault and had a particularly successful firefight where I got 4 kills and then resurrected my entire squad and then we massacred the counterattack. Smelt like victory.
One of the servers I was playing on was TDM with something like a 300 kill limit. 24 guys running around a relatively small area. It was epic chaos and great fun.
And you can quit between rounds now! Only took them like a year to include that feature.
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Woo! I have recently started playing it, we should shoot some dudes some time.
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On PC the community took a rather fast and sharp dive around the time Skyrim came out and has never really recovered.
I stopped playing when SWTOR came out and even though I’ve since stopped playing that as well, I haven’t really felt the pull back to BF3. Maybe I should check it out again though.
I did dive into Crysis 2 MP on the weekend as I read that it was double XP. It makes me sad that there are only 3 AU servers left and all of them were empty. I did join one though and within 10mins it was full. That game is still a lot of fun though. Basically Modern Warfare with a few more tactics thrown in.
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Community gaming night! We can snaffle an empty server and shoot each other in the face!
(or we could rent our own and lock out the strangers and experiment with game modes, eg locked weapon selection and “license to kill” mode.)
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I would love to but I don’t have it on Xbox, in fact I don’t have BF3 at all. I was more interested in the fact that the Xbox version is being supported so well. Might be tempted to make a purchase in the future.
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Well now I finished my level 60 infiltrator run on ME1. Now I’m ready for Tech Knight’s true ME2 play, on insanity difficulty :), though thanks to the changed gun mechanics of ME2 I can’t use the sniper rifle 100% anymore :'(
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A geth infiltrator would be who I would be in the ME universe. Twin omniblades, dual pistols and sniper rifle. 🙂
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also is it just me or is early game ME1 ridiculously hard, even on normal difficulty? My teammates just stand out there and die, and i get 1-shotted by bosses.
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it is really hard if you’re starting on a higher difficulty with a new character, did that on an Adept once and was getting owned in side quests… lolwut?! If you do a replay of a completed character and change the difficulty before the Eden Prime first mission (So after you talk to Joker and Kaidan but before you talk to Nihlus), that counts as a playthrough in a harder difficulty.
#forthosewhowantcheevesalittleeasier
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ooohh coool thanks man!
Also both Liara and Kaidan hit on me and i’m pretty sure i said nothing to indicate i was interested.
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Lol it’s hilarious when I did the paragon path and I had to talk my way out of bedding Ashley cuz I somehow get roped into that, it was awkward… especially when the first time you try to kiss you can’t actually back out of it with a “Wait wait I’m sorry I don’t like you in that way” 😛
The hilarious thing about ME is that the only friend zoning that exists in the universe is done by you, not the other way round when it comes to me IRL 😛
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Oh Techy ;P
i just think its funny that Shepard has people falling at his/her feet wherever they go. Then again, the character is quite the hero.
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He’s/She’s the equivalent of One Direction… except it’s with adults and aliens instead of teenage girls
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Other than the tutorial sequence, I cant think of why you couldnt do a run with only a sniper rifle. & incinerate. that power is the bomb.
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On a higher difficulty where enemies I assume have more health, I’m sure you’ll run out of sniper rifle rounds very fast… I don’t trust melee in ME2 in the slightest, just too clunky.
I really miss the overheating gun and no ammo mechanic from ME1. That was a great twist to the otherwise boring shoot/reload/find ammo that every other game has.
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I hate clips in ME2… I really do. Break the lore on so many things! It feels like you went back in time rather than forward with ME1 to ME2
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agreed. I always thought a compromise would be best – fire away until the gun overheats & then you could either wait til it cools down like in ME1, or eject the heat sink manually so you can continue firing asap.
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That’s also an interesting idea, but I mainly miss how the sniper worked in ME1. The wobbliness, and the fact I could fire after it cooled down a bit. If timed correctly, you’d be unstoppable. In ME2, so many times I’d line up a shot only to find I’d need to reload. Incredibly annoying.
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I loved that shaking when you first set up. The sniper rifle is not light, you need time to hoist it properly on your shoulder when you aim down the sights. That time-to-set-up cycle was much shorter if you had more levels in Sniper rifle too, which I thought was pretty neat
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I would’ve loved to see something like keep ME1gun mechanics but refine it like this, if your heat sink is nearing full, you could either:
1 – Wait the ME1 but you’ll still be able to fire in case of emergencies
2 – Force a heat sink venting, which cools down your gun faster, but you cannot fire it again until the venting cycle is complete. So kind of like an overheat but much faster for your gun to be usable again.The heavy weapons… yes they should be limited ammo still, mainly cuz they’re heavy weapons, not the standard clips used on all the standard weapons.
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Just found an Easter egg behind my speakers on my desk. Also the best part about the whole ‘egg hunt’ thing is unexpectedly finding chocolate months after.
I’m waiting for someone to take Jordaan Mylonas’s bait here:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/fez-devs-say-theyre-working-to-fix-game-crashing-bugs/
Does anyone here play WoW anymore? I recently got back into it after a 2 year break because as much as I hate to admit it, pandas look totally awesome. All my friends either quit, changed to smelly alliance or died. I’m so ronrey.
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I think Greenius knows that. At least I hope he does. He can be a little clueless at times. (either that or my disguises work quite well :3) 😛
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Kylie! has nothing to do with lambomann007 (minus the love of hobos)!!!
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Is there a “/me” command in iSketch? Cause I was thinking of winking at you, but didn’t know if it would work.
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/me winks at Kylie!
jeeeole winks at Kylie!
There’s a few other commands with sound effects like /hug /clap but /me lets you say whatever you want. You can also send private messages to people.
If a Kylie! winked at me I’ll be scared :P. People are horny as on iSketch and some random tried flirting with me once when me and Powalen were playing… He thought I was a female… hawkward…
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Ahahaha, well it’s probably a good thing I didn’t do that then 😛
Also, I’ve always wondered, do people make up those “slaps with some sort of random object” things, or does the game came up with those objects all on it’s own?
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Oh, it worked
*blushes*
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I know. I would personally like to see Harli wield it in her drugged up state. I think the results could be hilarious!
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*opens door and steps through*
Meow.
I am here for Bec !
Welcome to TAY. Prepare yourself for a lovely cup of tea with some lemon cakes. Do you prefer your tea with milk and sugar?
Oh look, lunch has arrived!
Behold, the boar of Cape Horn!!
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Man, I gotta go pinch a nerve.
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i swear i’m not in another state of mind.
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…I’m scaroused
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the best state to be in. Lemon cake?
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It’s crunch time. I have to alter the pattern today. Otherwise I won’t make the self set deadline.
So far, terrible, I am procrastinating like a boss.
according to this spam mail we received over the weekend, my work ordered three helicopters!!
Goodbye peak hour traffic!!
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no…
dammit when are they going to invent flying cars already. Or teleportation pads. or tubes that you step into and it goes FWOOMP and u’re carried off to another city.
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Gather round and let me tell you a story.
Last night, around 2:30am to a scratching noise. Something was under my bed and scratching at a cardboard box. Something big. I turned on the lights and peered underneath, expecting maybe some sort of feral cat or rodent of unusual size. Nothing. But I could hear it. I peered further in to the gloom, prodding a box here and there with my prodding stick. And then it appeared.
A cockroach. I’m not sure where he came from, but I theorize that he was some sort of mega fauna, frozen for millennial and recently freed due to the increase in earth temperature.
Roachzilla screeched and ran, knocking boxes out of his way as he escaped further under my bed. My katana was fetched from the cupboard and soon an epic hunt was on. For over an hour we played our deathly game of cat and mouse until at last it left the confined of my bed and ran for the door.
I gave chase, but once outside my bedroom, there was no trace of the beast. I blocked the gap under my door and grabbed a solid box that came in the mail to crush the mutant. I checked the bathroom, no sign. I left and checked the toilet. Again, all was clear. Then I saw it escape the bathroom. It must have been clinging to the roof like Toby McGuire in Spider-Man. I lunged and BAM! The beast was hit with the box. I punched down to make sure the deed was done, but when I raised it, the beast was off like a shot.
Again and again I assaulted it until, broken at last, it lay still.
I tried to scoop it up on to a piece of card and, even with it’s exoskeleton destroyed, limbs missing and insect organs protruding, it attempted to escape once more.
Three times it it jump from the card until I finally got it to the toilet. It made one last escape, or perhaps it knew it’s end was near and it intended to take it’s own life and rob me of the satisfaction.
It leapt to it’s own watery grave. I watched until it ceased moving at long last.
The nightmare was finally over.
I dropped a few sheets of toilet paper on top and flushed, allowing the water to carry the corpse away.
But who knows. It’s mastery of death knew no limits and even now, as it’s insecty body regenerates, it is biding it’s time and plotting its revenge…
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I was then unable to get back to sleep (either from being creeped out or just too damned awake after all that) so I’m pretty tired now. Two and a half hours sleep does not a happy Doc make.
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I seriously thought it was a mouse. Then I saw the cockroach which was bigger than a mouse.
Thankfully it seems to be a one off… Althought I’m getting a bug bomb… Just in case…
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We have rats in our walls. Really. They move around and squeak. Not quite sure what to do about it to be honest. Kill them, presumably, but how?
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We moved into a place in Ireland that had mice in the walls. They made a hole in the skirting and one joined me in bed. NOT A GOOD NIGHT!
We moved house VERY quickly.
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You gotta poison them… better to get a professional out to do it. My grandparents had to do it once, it was gross. There are always a few stragglers that end up crawling out and dying around the house, too. It’s sad. D:
We found out last night that we have a feral cat living in our roof. No idea how to deal with THAT… 😐
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KITTY!
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We have a golden retriever…. but she is old and useless.
I SHOULD send my birds to fly in and attack it. They mean business. I train them to go for the face!!!
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That’s my solution to everything… Rats in the walls? Set the house on fire. Dishes buidling up? Set the house on fire. Don’t wanna go to work? Set the house on fire.
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The house is on fire? Set the… oh… Damn…
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we too have rats/mice in the house. it’s annoying because they are active at night, scratching the walls etc.
one died in the shower. how that happened i’ll never know.
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Cockroaches are the worst. They’re crunchy. Urgh.
You do realise you can never use that toilet again, right? 😛
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A cockroach the size of a rodent? That’s it, I’m out.
On another note, it seems like you’ve got the plot for your new movie sorted. ;D
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Played a heap of Monster Hunter Tri on the weekend, pretty much hooked on that game.
At first I was struggling to even capture a Great Jaggi, now I’m taking down Barroths like a boss.
I tried to hop online but the connection dropped out and it looked like barely any people were online anyways. Man I wish this was on the Xbox and PS3, online play in MH would benefit so much from the features that Xbox Live and PSN offer.
And I’m not talking just Monster Hunter Frontier, I mean a proper console version of Monster Hunter, one that exploits the processing power of the consoles. When I play MH3 the environments look great despite the Wii’s limitations, but I can’t help thinking that if the MH devs were given a more powerful platform to work on that they could create some amazing and environments.
Okay that’s my two cents right there. Morning all, sinus infections suck balls.
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How does multiplayer on Monster Hunter Tri work? Do you run around the same world or just complete certain quests together and are limited to the quest zone?
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It a separate area, single player is set in a village while multiplayer is set in a hub city that has it’s own set of quests designed for multiplayer.
It’s a shame because without online I’m missing out on half of the game and (from what I hear) a big part of what makes Monster Hunter so much fun.
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The PSP games are good, some would say they are the best ones but the camera controls were a real problem for me, playing with a classic controller makes a HUGE difference for me.
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I guess I should pick one up, PSP games are pretty cheap nowadays. Which PSP game do you suggest?
I’d get MH Tri but I don’t have a wii yet.
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I played a monster hunter game a while ago and I really enjoyed it. I wish i gave it more time to be honest but I just lost interest (due to playing other games) and my friend wanted it back (because I borrowed it from him).
Totally Helping!
FRIENDS!
Just thought I should tell you guys that I didn’t die in a horrible fiery plane crash on the weekend and had a pretty cool time in NSW. I would also like to apologise to Bish, Lambo and Blaghs for not dieing thus making our deals null and void.
How was everyone’s weekend?
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Nobshot! Pretty quiet weekend, but last night I jungled Twitch. It was horrific early on, but I was melting faces late game!
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Nice, I’m so crap at playing twitch. We should do a game tonight don’t think i have played a game with you in a while.
Pretty tired right now so I think I’m gonna sit back and watch some Guardsman Bob mid against Ryze as Warwick (he’s winning so far)
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I’m waiting for Salce to start again – I just missed his last game but he has been jungling as Yi.
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I’m sad that I don’t get anything from you, but glad, I guess, that you’re alive.
Now you’ll go back to being better than me at games. :/
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oh uhhh, i think i left my cat on fire
*runs off*
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Reposting from yesterday, but still relevant
For those who didn’t get a chance to go to Video Games Unplugged this week, or for those who did and want more musics, or perhaps for those at work and can get away with such shenanigans then I have some news for you. Got an email from Video Games Live. They will be streaming their concert live from El Dorado Arkansas on http://www.twitch.tv/videogameslive from 10:45 am this morning our time. I’ve been waiting for them to announce dates for their Australian shows which are coming later in the year, but no such luck yet. This will have to do for now
The end is in sight for my Mother-in-Law’s quilt finally. I finished the quilting part and now I just have to trim it and do the binding. This is a very scary part of making a quilt and will be made easier by an epic playlist of Sabaton’s ‘Attero Dominatus’, Eluveitie’s ‘Helvetios’, Epica’s ‘Requiem for the Indifferent’, Orphaned Land’s ‘The Neverending Way ofOrWarriOr’ and Therion’s ‘Sitra Ahra’ on shuffle. 😀
Can’t wait to be done with it and get onto my next projects which I am very excited about: a cape, a kilt, and a swishy dress.
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I like to imagine that the cape, kilt, and swishy dress are all part of the same project.
The anatomy of it all is fascinating.
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Yes, this. I don’t want to spoil anything, but the outline for her next project involves the phrase ‘fabulous crusade for justice’
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So my brain is pretty much eating itself while I try to figure out how to alter the pattern.
If you have no idea what I am on about, you can find the answer on my blog.
I have a vague idea of what I want to do and how I want to do it but my mind keeps going over it, trying to make sure I’ll be able to do it without stuffing up.
My track record says I’ll stuff it up =/
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pretty much. It can’t figure this out, despite the fact that I’ve gone over it many many times and tried to figure out the best way possible!
Actually, it’s melting now-
Can you tell me the brand and number of your pattern so I can take a look and see if I have anything useful to tell you?
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New look 6480. I’m modifying A.
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Okay, so changing the over-all shape should be fairly easy, I’m guessing you’re talking about the correct number of panels , the piping effect and the front closure?
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I was going to use a side closure. I’m not sure how to do it via the front.
My main concern is gettign the correct number of panels and to use the panels to try and make my waist seem smaller (because hers is tiny!). I am most likely over thinking it because when I wore the practise one (to the pattern) it wasn’t too bad -
If you’re not worried about the right amount of panels you could just make it as is, but add the black hook and eye closure on the middle of the front panel as a decorative, not functional part.
Otherwise you’re going to have to move the front seams to halfway between the two on either side that are there now, (Elizabeth’s front panel seams are definitely over her mid-bust) and cut the front panel piece in half(with extra seam allowance added) to add the working hook and eye closures.I’d actually work from the B pattern to get the slightly rounded top easier. It’s easier to round points than it is to add rounds on top of a straight across cut.
You could always cut a whole piece of practice fabric for an overall shape, tracing over your completed practice corset, then cut it where you want the seams to go. Pin this to your other fabric as a new pattern(you could even use thread tracing so you know where to sew), and add seam and boning (snigger) allowances to this.
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Yeah I was going to make the front panel in half and then move the top to her mid bust but it appears that the seam ends on her hips which is where the seam ends on panel 2/3.
As for the rounded top, I was thinking of folding it in because at the moment the bust is too large in size anyway and I have to adjust it to move it in.
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I thought it was buttons to be honest with you. Especially when looking at this. -
It’s difficult on the flat pictures. It would be easier to tell if the game was out and we could play it.
To make it look like the picture you’d use a long black hook and eye strip, and then do fabric loops and buttons in the white on top of it. However what is most clear is that the character designer doesn’t sew, because so many things about that corset top including the closure do not make actual sense. 😛
So yeah, I’d just go for the black hook and eye. It’s the closest, most practical way.
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hm, I think I’d rather have an invisible zip on the side (for ease) and then use the front closure as decoration only. Black hook and eye, that’s what is used in Bras right?
I’m thinking about the front, do you really think I should used B and make it lower cut? I was considering buying padding because it’ll be hard to wear a bra with it.
Thank for taking the time to help me with this, I know you’re pretty busy with your own things including the quilt. -
If you’re gonna cosplay as Elizabeth, you’ll have to get your girls out, that’s just the way it is. 😛
A padded, strapless bra may help(one of those squishy ones filled with liquid to make them appear more natural) , because while most proper corsets are designed to be braless, this pattern is for an easier, modernised version that has no laces to help make your waist tiny and your ladies perky.
And yes, like in bras. Hook and eye tape, is I think the exact name of what you’ll need. When I was in Lincraft on the weekend they had a lingerie section on the wall next to their buttons and rivets and the like.
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Ah, mine doesn’t have that stuff >_< Or at least I don't know where it is. I'll look next time.
Is it easy enough to use? I guess I always default to the zip because I know how to use it =P
I know the girls will have to come out. I have a strapless bra that's padded, but it's not helpful at this point. I'll try looking for that as well.
I may be able to start adjusting the pattern soon \o/
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I haven’t thought of games for this weeks community game nights yet and my brain isn’t functioning right.
Your suggestions, throw them in my general direction. I’m tempted to add Brink again. So much fun!
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Brink should definitely be in there.
Maybe Blur as well?
Hot Pursuit, Trackmania stadium/Trackmania 2 canyons come to mind.
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Rather enjoyed mucking about in the DotA2 beta this weekend.
First couple of games went pretty badly. I should probably avoid the Agility heroes for now. The last game I managed to play was with Puck. Wanted to use Lina Inverse but too slightly too long trying to decide and the damned bots stole her from me, so I just randomly went with Puck.
Rather enjoyed using her (it?). She has a lot of neat little tricks and is incredibly mobile, while able to deal a fair amount of damage.
I’ve made it pretty clear that I’m just not a fan of LoL anymore. I might watch the streams but I have no interest in playing the game at all. DotA2 feels different.
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Puck is a boy I’m pretty sure 🙂
fairy penicl.
did you experience any lag? because i am getting consistent delay.
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Damned Bridgets.
It was a little laggy (~300 ping) but I’ve played under worse conditions. It was good enough to muck about with bots.
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Pro-escape:
1. Send out orb.
2. Run opposite way
3. Phase shift
4. Teleport to orb just as phase runs out
5. Die anyway as enemy team-mates surround you-
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Probably because you’re using Blink Dagger last, at a point where you’ve probably been hit at least once, making it ineffective.
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I just read this article http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/this-new-york-times-flash-game-allows-you-shoot-at-comments-and-advertising/
and Mark said he enjoyed shooting the comments section. IT’S OFFICIAL EVERYONE!!! MARK HATES COMMENTS ERGO HE HATES TAY!!!!!
I’m so sad, how could you do this to us Mark? *sniff* I need to lie down.
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Damn, it doesn’t even show up in a code box.
TestMore testing.
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Yup, just forgot. Having a brainless day.,
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No problem. There’s more where that came from.
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I approve of this comment and its humour… but i found the writing kind of juvenile and i don’t know if that’s normal for a tay comment (ha!)
★★☆☆☆
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Radiohead’s full set from Coachella.
I thoroughly regret not getting tickets to see them when they tour here. I’ve made a huge mistake.
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My favourite song is the one where he’s all ‘ooaaaaaa feeeeeyyaaaa heeeeerrr nnooooooeeeaaa awwaaaaaa’
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I hope when they tour here they play some more tracks from their older records. not a huge fan of King of Limbs.
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King of Limbs cops a lot of flak, but I honestly don’t mind it. I mean, it’s no OK Computer, but it’s not bad.
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I’m not saying that its a bad album, just that it’s not my cup o tea. Though Codex & Lotus Flower are quite cool.
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Watched Bon Iver. Saw him live last month, was awesome to see him again.
Bummed I missed Explosions in the Sky though.
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damn good ine up at that festival. Radiohead, Bon Iver, Explosions in The Sky…
Honestly though, I’d happily miss them all if I could see At the Drive-In…
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Continuing dota 2 talk from the last page…
Damn I love the game, haven’t played a game this much since Super MNC (which I played… A lot)
However, the most fun comes out of playing with my friends, every one or two nights, we will play until usually one in the morning, jut having a blast.
As for heroes, what heroes are you guys playing a lot? I’ve carried over dark seer from when I played the original (I’d play centaur, BUT THEY STILL HAVEN’T PUT HIM BACK IN YET!!!!) but I’ve picked up sven and razor through playing two.
Also, will there be enough people playing it for a k vs k? That would be fun.
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We seem to struggle to get 5 people together for a bot game. Teamspeak is still very much LoL central so people are hesitant to pull themselves away from it.
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I think that’s a pretty unfair statement. I’ve played the Dota2 Beta, and to say that people are unwilling to pull away from LoL merely because most of the people on TS are playing it is quite naive. Like it or not, LoL is a different game to Dota 2, and, also like it or not, LoL has definitely improved many things that were lacking in Dota (granted Dota didn’t really have a wildly popular predecessor to work from as LoL did to), and, due to IceFrog’s headstrongedness in recreating his original Dota 1:1, many people are finding themselves sticking with LoL. People are ‘hesitant’ to pull away from LoL because it is a different game, and is inarguably better in some respects (especially at the current point in time, as Dota2 is in beta and clearly has issues to iron out), not just because it features heavily in TS.
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It wasn’t a criticism of LOL or an endorsement of DOTA2.
DOTA2 is still clearly in beta and most of us who have invite keys haven’t played it that much. LOL has been out for a while and the people in TS have been playing it for months.
If given the choice to play any game, odds are the people on TS will play LOL. Mass Effect 3 has had a decent showing, but interest in that has waned somewhat since most people completed the single player (and I missed out on the multiplayer because I have the 360 version).
Trust me, I know. I’m the one guy regularly on the server that doesn’t play it. Most of the time, I don’t even bother trying to join in the multiplayer fun.
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I’m finally picking up my old skills, though most of my old champions have changed since I played them.
That said, I’m doing some decent play with the Banshee, and I do so love Pudge, even if I suck with him.
We still haven’t been game to play real people though, so uhh, I might be terrible.
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There are going to be people just as terrible, if not worse, than me in there. I’m sure you would be able to not completely suck in some games :p
I’m keen just to muck about with bots for a while, until I get a handle on things. There’s a lot to take in. Particularly relearning all of the items.
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its just the lag that is putting me off. I average 300-700 ping each game and its terribad.
can’t wait to get back into it though.
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It’s definitely something that needs to be fixed. Feels a bit like playing on SC2’s NA server. If you’re not paying that much attention, it’s okay but when you’re trying to focus and get shit done, you’re definitely going to see it.
Would be nice to get <100ms. I'm sure that we'll see that eventually, but maybe not until the beta is over.
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/laments
at least we’re all on equal footing.
shits me to no end though. i find it is very noticeable, can’t imagine have to put up with it on NA servers. i need my clicking down to the millisecond, dammit.
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I honestly can’t remember what we were playing on this weekend. Might have even been the NA servers because the SEA ones were pretty rubbish.
There’s no way Valve will screw us on this after the game comes up. They have a million and one hosting deals going on with various ISPs and whatnot as it is, what’s another one to ensure that we don’t get screwed over with DOTA2?
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We were playing on NA West. My ping to there is typically ~ 180ms, which is similar to LoL. NA East is closer to 250, as were most of the SEA servers. The Hong Kong one was pretty good, though often has a slightly longer wait before the game starts compared to NA, as I imagine it’s a more overloaded server.
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I’m interested to see if there’s much difference for me playing on the other servers. I was around the 300ms mark on NA West, if the HK server could half that, it might be worth a longer wait time.
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Community Gaming Nights
Just a quick post today as I’m a little busy at work. No time for recaps! There’s a meat on this weekend in Sydney and I have a wedding to attend so I won’t put anything down for Saturday.
Wed 18th April
Brink
Time: 8:30pm AEST
Host: TBC – Check Steam
Fri 20th April
Blur
Time: 8:30pm AEST
Host: PC – Cakesmith
If someone is willing to host console versions, let me know!
Cakesmith out!
TAY Servers:
Terraria – 10 person limit.
Team Fortress 2 – 16 player server.
All the server details including IP addresses and passwords are on the TAYNAMES document.
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! 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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For any early purchasers of Trials Evolution, Im happy to play multi with anyone on wednesday night or any other night this week? Not sure if you want to organise something formal or not… ???
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I’ll host an Xbox Blur session. If I don’t get at least three more people I’ll hop into the Steam session.
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And, FYI, it has a Twisted Metal type of mode – no racing, just combat. Has some interesting maps too!
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Since racing games are on the table. Is anyone willing to play some Burnout Paradise, Driver San Francisco or Split/Second?
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I have burnout paradise and would be willing to jump in to that as some stage. Keen for blur this week though.
I played my first multiplayer match last night which was interesting, surprisingly enough at the low levels it isn’t much different to offline. They do have a low level “training ground” for people < 10 so if people are new we could just grab a room in there -
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@Cakey, Pez RE: community gaeming nights.
Hot Pursuit, Trackmania stadium/Trackmania 2, I’d be up for any of those. Also, more brink too. I enjoy it more than hats.
Perhaps we should try playing Battlefront 2 one night?
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Fucking yes win. So much win. All of the win.
I’ve put in a good 28? hours or so. Lost in the mysteries and puzzles and subtle horror. The game is awesome and I would totes recommend it to everyone ever.
Well, guys, I hope you saw this:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chris-huelsbeck/turrican-soundtrack-anthology-by-chris-huelsbeck
IT’S TURRICAN. And he came back in pog form! Err, I mean, in gloriously epic super OST!
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Turrican is a metroid-esque side-scroller from the Commodore 64. It had an amazingly good soundtrack.
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TAY, I am sad.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/298261627
Review from someone who is not a sci-fi fan or a graphic novel reader has tanked the average rating for my book 🙁
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can’t you flag it? She doesn’t even seem to give a good reason why she rated it 1 star.
Why bother reviewing if you never read sci-fi or graphic novels? Amazing.
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There is an option to flag it, but I’d rather not go that way in case. This is what might happen:
1) I flag review as ‘inappropriate’ (only option)
2) It gets pulled
3) Reviewer gets mad, and flames me eight ways to Sunday all over the internet
4) I come off looking petty and amateurish, and no one ever buys one of my books again.I’d rather just be sad in a safe social environment like TAY.
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I commented on her review.
As a person who also enjoys creative ventures, that sort of crappy feedback just irritates me on a personal level. I’ve had it before and it just makes you want to ask the person why they even bothered saying anything in the first place.
“I don’t know or like this format, and I think it’s not good.”
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I’m bouncing between extreme appreciation and a fervent suspicion maybe it would have been better just to wear the criticism, annoying as it was. Thanks though! 🙂
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Comment removed. Now I feel bad that I might have censored you!
Just know that I really appreciated it, and I was going to offer you my babies, but the big one has gastro at the moment, so you might not actually consider it a prize.
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well at least its not an all out bashing…
Don’t worry Shane there are people out there who still thoroughly enjoy what you’ve created. You can’t please everybody, right? Remember when I told you about the time i was reading it on the train and the dude sitting next to me kept peering over my shoulder to see what i was reading? Genuine interest is there!!
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Thanks Harli, I know. It’s just… I was hoping my first one-star review would be illiterate and hilarious. This is just… weird and disappointing 😛
Also, I love train boy story! 😀
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well on the plus side she did say it was a good idea and that the story was easy to follow. So technically it should be 2 stars. At least other people who read the review can distinguish that she is NOT a regular graphic novel reader and scoff at the rest of her review which is hereby irrelevant. it is likely that the people who stumble across this are graphic novel fans themselves and her post will in no way dissuade them.
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You are the very voice of reason.
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-_- It’s a bit unfair to review something that isn’t really a genre that you don’t like. I suggest you ask for it to be taken down. It’s like me reviewing twilight when I *know* I don’t like it.
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All the advice I can find on reviews is utterly unanimous: do not react.
Easier said than done, I tell you! 😛
Or I could do a Kurt Sutter and just respond to all negative press with the word c*nt… he seems to have done all right for himself 🙂
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Fair enough, but I think anyone who reads the review will probably take it with a grain of salt. Especially because she does say she doesn’t like sci-fi.
And good because Stephanie Meyer makes some mistakes that I was told off for in high school =/-
This. I didn’t actually get far enough to criticise the story or characters because the style is so damn amateurish.
What I actually said in my (upcoming) article:
Most aspiring writers hold other jobs to keep the bills paid while we wait for someone in the publishing world to recognise our brilliance. We don’t have the time or patience for a million-word apprenticeship. We think that just because we can write better than Stephanie Meyer (and just about all of us can!), our writing careers should be in full swing, if not stratospheric, by now.
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I’ve said some pretty negative things about Twilight… in public. Actually, in published articles 😛
I’ll review your book when I get it Shane and I shall make you sound like a graphic novel god.
Unless it’s crap. Which it won’t be.
I’d flag it if I could. Nothing she said seems to validate her 1 star rating. Maybe 3 stars? Although why you would review something that isn’t a genre you like completely is beyond me. Hardly helpful to a Sci-Fi fan looking to buy a Sci-Fi book.
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Or if you do, do it like this Emma person did for book 1:
I won this book through Goodreads First Reads.
I have to admit this was somthing very different for me, not only was it my first graphic novel, I’m not the biggest Sci-Fi fan when it comes to books. But that being said, I actually quite enjoyed this. I found it a quick and easy read, fast paced and action packed.
The reason I only gave this 3 stars instead of 4 was mostly due to the fact that I found the pictures quite dark and to hard to distinguish at times, and sometimes the story moved between the 3 main characters so quick that I had to pause and figure out that we’d changed scene as it were.
Overall though the story pulled me in and I enjoyed it so I’ll be keeping an eye out for Part 2
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Yup, I quite liked this review. I used the “fast paced and action packed” in a bunch of promotion for the book 🙂
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PLEASE write this review 😀
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What a pointless review.
I doubt there’s anything you can do about it, but at least anyone who looks at more than just the star rating will just ignore her.
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Now that a couple of generous TAYbies have padded the overall star score back to something reasonable, I hope this is the case.
Damn. Well, I’m still finishing reading the books (I’m a slow reader when it comes to english, part of being multilingual I guess…)
The review is a massive bias but that’s how it is: reviews ARE subjective no matter how hard one tries to achieve objectivity . (And don’t get me started on this, I studied at Uni, we had long classes on discussions and papers about this :P)
In short: my best course of action is “if you don’t have anything good to say, then don’t.” If she didn’t likes sci-fi, why tearing a new one to a sci-fi graphic novel? It’s gratuitous violence! Especially for a sci-fi tard like me…
Which is the site I should submit a review to? Or I can do it from my dusty blog? Just wondering.
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Gratuitious violence! I like that description 😀
And yep, did my fair share of subjectivity and postmodernism ‘nothing is true, everything is permitted’ (wait, isn’t that Assassin’s Creed…!) at uni. Just a bit of a shame in this case, that’s all.
Reviewing the book anywhere and/or everywhere is great. Blog is great, Amazon is great, Goodreads is great. If you let me know where it ends up, I’ll link the hell out of it on Twitter, Facebook and my site.
Hope you’re enjoying the books so far! 🙂
Favourite books: Water for elephants, The help, Angela’s Ashes, little women
I have a solution, get the lesser evil made into a chick flick and she will change her review to 5 stars.
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The ShaneWSmith formula for sci-fi to rom-com: For every mention of a spaceship, include an unwanted pregnancy and a hunky yet misunderstood single man. For every laser blast, include a successful yet lonely career focused woman who will come to realise the true meaning of life. For every evil overlord, include a small child whose heart of gold transcends the horrific circumstances of their upbringing. For every explosion, substitute an oddball lifelong friend whose antics pad out an otherwise short tale.
And for every bit of naval-gazing angst, include some naval-gazing… oh, wait.
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Enjoying them indeed! Like I said, they give me some kind of crazy Eternauta vibes but set in a distant future. Plus there is also technical stuff that makes it pretty damn unique. (I’ll save that for the review, heh)
And you’re welcome, yes, for me when someone throw s a comment like “I’m not a fan of this or that, it’s c·%$·%!”, it’s not helping their case. I mean, if I hate something and it’s form the stuff I like, of course I’ll voice it aloud like a tard but if I attack something I know I don’t like, I’m opening the ground for a full scale conflict, heh. So that’s why I would rather live by the “if you don’t have anything nice to say about x or y, don’t say anything”.
Especially because those fights can sometimes turn even great people into orcs, that includes myself by the way. Although I would turn into a Mech-ork. Preferably from Warhammer. The moar dakka, the better.
I read this review through Shane’s comment.
I have to admit this was something very different for me, not only was it my first poorly written review, I’m not the biggest high horse fan when it comes to online reviews.
I found the critique quite vague and it was hard to distinguish what point the reviewer was trying to make at times. The review moved quickly between unrelated points and because the mention of the pictures being dark was made twice it often took a bit of time to figure out if the review had much to say or just wanted to fluff out her review to sound credible.
I found the review easy to follow and its a good idea to review it, but the wording was not the strongest, a little ignorant. This could be the way reviews are written about a medium and genre the review self-admittedly knows nothing about but not something I enjoyed.
★☆☆☆☆
Any Sydney TAYbies out there interested in art? I’ve been meaning to do some more life drawing somewhere and wondered if anyone was interested in joining in. Unlikely, but you never know.
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the Sandringham hotel in Newtown has a life drawing sketch club every monday night if you’re in that area.
the only thing stopping me going is my 100% total & complete lack of drawing ability.-
but I just noticed the wording on that description – still life sketching featuring male & female models…
how does that work? taxidermy? or am I just embarrasing myself by displaying my utter lack of art knowledgeability?
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so it was the embarrasing myself option. glad we got that sorted out 🙂
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I need to get back into art and my figure drawing has dropped in quality over the last few years.
We should look in to it.
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Apparently there’s an event going on in TOR involving the Rakghoul plague that’s reminiscent of the Corrupted Blood Incident and Zombie Invasion from WoW. I’ve yet to check it out but it sounds like it could be interesting. Do any taybies still play this game regularly or are you all waiting for the server transfers before jumping back in?
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I still have a subscription, but haven’t played in like, three weeks or so.
Might be interested after the server transfer, and now that patch 1.2 is up.
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Post #1: Ynefel on April 10, 2012 at 8:30 AM
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Wow, that was a relatively quiet week compared to what we’ve had recently. Explains why I’m at #20 for the week, my best ever!
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Broke into the top 20 this week. Just got into the top 20 for the first time. I’m not sure if I should be happy or sad.
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Yeah, I was kind of surprised to see such low numbers. Not such a terrible thing though. Just goes to show what a long weekend can do to destroy momentum.
Let’s have more of them!
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UPDATED: Community Gaming Nights
Just a quick post today as I’m a little busy at work. No time for recaps! There’s a meat on this weekend in Sydney and I have a wedding to attend so I won’t put anything down for Saturday. To make up for it we will do something on Thursday night.
Wed 18th April
Trials Evolution
Time: 8:30pm AEST
Host: Lots of people will be playing this so you should be able to find a game easy enough.
Thurs 19th April
Brink
Time: 8:30pm AEST
Host: TBC – Check Steam
Fri 20th April
Blur
Time: 8:30pm AEST
Host: PC – Cakesmith/360 – McGarnical
Blur will be followed by a trip to TAYbar.
If someone is willing to host console versions, let me know!
Cakesmith out!
TAY Servers:
Terraria – 10 person limit.
Team Fortress 2 – 16 player server.
All the server details including IP addresses and passwords are on the TAYNAMES document.
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! 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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The XBL Marketplace usually updates at about the same time the world over.
One of the things I like about it compared to the PSN.
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Yeah, generally works out to be around 8pm Tuesday night I think. Either way, FatShady seems to think it will be out by then and if anyone knows it would be him.
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by my calculation, 8pm Wednesday night. It will likely show up on xbox.com before the marketplace so suggest you queue up the DL on PC before turning on the console.
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It will be the bombsauce.
Everyone should join.
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Just a small one from what I understand. A few people are meeting in the city for drinks or something.
Saturdy night mini recap!
Brink: Was a little laggy for me, but somehow I managed to get most kills on one of the matches…
iSketch: I went in incognito, but did not act lambo-ish enough for anyone to suspect it was me 🙁 Also, more lag with this too.
Overall: A fun, laggy night!
Just got a call from EBGames saying my beta-code for pre-ordering Guild Wars 2 has arrived.
\o/
@Pez, I’m sorry. I feel bad – you went in to bat for me and I truly appreciate it, even if it didn’t sound it:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-170/comment-page-2/#comment-638518
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I think it was a bit unnecessary. she just gave her honest opinion and did so in a civil way, even if it was bit unwarranted. but we shouldn’t bash on her review just because she did.
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*Paragon interrupt*
You’ve taken this pretty well and have already chosen not to lash back at the reviewer. I’d say you’re already well on your way to being the bigger person. -
XP gained.
LEVEL UP!Phlegmatic writer upgraded:
30% lesser damage taken from bad reviews
50% bonus to squadmates’ rage
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Unnecessary perhaps, but just as much as her review was.
Beginning a review with ‘I don’t like or read these books’ should mean you shouldn’t be giving an opinion in the first place.
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And yeah, I do get worked up about this type of thing. I’ve had people do the exact same thing to me and it’s quite the slap in the face for all the effort and hard work you put into something.
It’s like someone who likes dubstep reviewing classical music:
“For one I don’t really listen to orchestral and I don’t like anything that wasn’t made before 2010 by an idiot with a macbook and an LFO on a bassline, but I listened to this orchestral track anyway. For one, where’s the drop? There’s no drop. This is ridiculous. Secondly, there’s no kicking drums. It’s hard to tell when I’m meant to start dancing like a ferret that’s been on a methamphetamine binge for three days. Secondly, why does it go for 10 minutes? It sounds like there are three different parts. Are these different songs? Very hard to distinguish.
It is for this reason that I give this song 1/5, and not just because I never listen to this style of music and have nothing similar to compare it to in order to give an accurate and objective review on its nature
Needs a drop. Wtf Bach u fail.
★☆☆☆☆”
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Yup me too. I found out about this review two days ago, and I have been stewing about it, alternately angry and sad and kind of anxious. It’s not easy to just blow it off, because it IS easy to picture someone reading the review and deciding not to take a chance (even just one person).
And when you’re small-time and desperate to get noticed, every sale counts. It feels kind of like being cheated when something like this happens, because it’s not that the book was bad, it’s just that they didn’t get it.
Still, that’s the name of the game.
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Now you’re just taking it personally. You know the other end of the spectrum could be like,
“I don’t usually read or enjoy sci-fi, but I found The Lesser Evil to be quite appealing and got through the book wanting to know more. I would be interested in more material in a similar vein, despite not frequenting the genre”
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So can we just agree to disagree? 🙂
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I don’t even understand how that works.
But ok. Only if we get ramen sometime.
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Neither do I! I have a bad habit of passionate ranting which is why I think I get myself into half of these situations to begin with :p
RAMEN! \o/
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ramen to that.
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It might be difficult, but perhaps you should add a comment to her review thanking her for her opinion and politely suggesting she try reading book 1 before unfairly dismissing book 2.
As bloody stupid as it is, her opinion is technically ‘valid’, and addressing it as such might just improve perception of you as an author. Perhaps even ask for more explanation on the points she disliked, or clarification of the low score.
Otherwise TAY can provide some less biased opinions and/or kill her review with fire.
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I thought about this (a courteous reply), but elected to follow the do not react doctrine that makes up the unanimous opinion of the professional writing community… at least for now. It seems unlikely that it’ll change her mind, and unless it’s very carefully worded, it could come off as defensive and/or whiny.
Thanks though!
Her first graphic novel AND she’s not a sci-fi fan? Hopefully anyone who’s not retarded will take that review with a grain of salt.
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I hope/think they will. I was more concerned that of the two scores for the book at the time of the review, one of them was a 1 star score.
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Incidentally, I’m still waiting for TLE 1 and 2 from book suppository. Hoping they might come today.
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Hope they arrive soon. I fear the longer you wait, the more disappointed you will be 🙂
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Well I much prefer my chick flick idea but it does seem like a lot of work. So I have a new PLN.
1. You find a pen (or purple pencil) and scribble in a copy of lesser evil book 2
2. I send you monies
3. You send scribbled in copy of book to me
4. I read and review said book
5, Star rating increases \o/-
Oh man, I’ve been meaning to write a review of The Lesser Evil since I first got book one.
That was a long time ago.
I’m a terrible person.
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Interview restores karmic balance. You may go about your life guilt-free.
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Oh, I have many other things to feel guilty about.
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Ah, in that case, one review will absolve all!
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Deal. Email me (shane at shanewsmith dot com)
I’m presently bookless but have an order in with my publisher that will be shipped when Book 3 is released.
Legend of Grimrock get. Disgaea 3 Absence of Detention on Vta hits this week. Day off work. New 3DS and MH3G coming today. \o/
Home work to do today and school tonight /o\
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I wish they’d put some more Disgaea avatars up on the PAL PSN. There’s just Axel, and Axel sucks.
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Axel makes me sad.
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My sister lives in Sydney. She uses my parent’s spare car. Apparently no one had bothered to re-register it, the registration expired this weekend and she got pulled over for a random breath test today. Huge fine, and had to leave the car at the side of the road and has no means of transport.
I’m back at work, having had last week off, so focusing was already a bit difficult, and now I can’t concentrate at all. 🙁
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I’d have thought so too, esp since the registration expired on a weekend and bpay takes 3 business days, so even if it was paid on Friday it wouldn’t necessarily be in the system by now. :\
Crappy thing is that my parents are not in a good financial situation right now so I’ll probably end up having to loan her the cash for this. Again. 🙁
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She should appeal the fine.
If it expired this weekend and they can prove that the registration was paid prior to that, I assume she should be able to dodge the fine.
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I only check the month, not the date. I always asumed there’d be some sort of gentle warning system for the balance of that month. Guess not
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Yeah I knew someone who had gotten pulled over, forgot to pay the rego and had to walk. It was on a super long highway too.
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Wow, that’s a big thanks. I hope I was helpful, it’s difficult to translate visual knowledge into words. 🙂
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Dear TAY, everything is horrible.. 🙁
I’m currently banging my head against a brick wall, figuratively, trying to get things done.
I fear that banging my head against a brick wall, literally, may actually get results faster.
Also, video games.
I finally got my 5 star rating on Super Mario 3D Land this morning.
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With the one Swedish dude who they pulled in off of the streets.
It’s the progamer haircut. Guaranteed to boost your APM by 50 and take you from Bronze to Masters in a single game!
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I like to imagine that there’s a constant war between those who sweep theirs right, and those who sweep theirs left.
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If you’re a non-Korean, you need to have a handle with random capitalisation. HuK and NaNiwa have both made that sacrifice, are you willing to become LambOmann?
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Dots and underscores help too, right?
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Hi TAY… so it looks like i’m forced to have an impromptu road trip to Melbourne tomorrow in order to inspect some houses…
so that’ll be fun… that’ll only throw out the rest of the week :P…
on the other hand i’ve really gotten into and enjoying the Witcher again, i never ended up completing it last time, so i really have to just do it… it’s amazing though, i think reading The Last Wish helped a lot in my understanding and appreciation of the universe
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Well this is awkward. Let me check…
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oh yes well *cough* about that…
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see i have this condition… this medical condition… called “Boring”… i’ve heard it’s contagious, and it’s sexually transmitted, and i don’t want to give it to the rest of you guys…-
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Cakesmith raises a good point.
So we’ll see you there?
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wait what? i thought it was this weekend?!?!?! this may or may not possibly definitely at some point probably impact my decision making process for the attendance to this here meat… maybe 😛
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i can’t help it… it just sorta…. happens… i “enter” and everyone goes lethargic
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And on that note Cakesmith’s sentient perm hasn’t devoured anyone yet.
Nor has his contagious cockhole condition, provided he takes his medication.
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why did i read that a Sentient Sperm?
well colour me intrigued!
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I don’t often click on images on TAY, nor do I like visiting other sites, but I thought I would review this anyway.
The picture made it very hard to distinguish what was going on, and I didn’t like the text.
★☆☆☆☆
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And the writing was kind of juvenile. I don’t know if that is normal for this form, but I didn’t enjoy it.
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*runs off crying*
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Impassioned response. The grief really shone through. My heart hurt a little after reading this.
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still NO WOLFS!!
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PS: unsure if you are aware but we are parodying this: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/298261627 not actually flaming you.
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Heh heh, I’m aware, but I figured making a dumb statement like this was better than just screaming ‘I MADE THAT POSTER NOT PEZ IT WAS MEEEEEEE’. I know it’s terrible, and that’s the point of it. 😛 It was literally made in about a minute.
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And we all found it hilarious because we were a tad intoxicated.
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The best kind of tad (it even beats out TadMod in that regard!)
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It might not beat out TadMod if he ever actually came on here, though.
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there’s an issue with that marketing campaign…
all i can see is http://imgur.com/561PP
so i don’t fully understand the message
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well if i can see right, if i have free boobs, the image happens yes?
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We’ll go to maccas if you come to the mono meat.
WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO TO ENTICE YOU?!
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i shall revise my decision, granted my wife agrees and hands back my testies for that weekend…
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Let me have a chat with your wife. I’m very persuasive.
I mostly win arguments because people ask me to put my pants back on and tell me I’m making a scene… but I win. So that’s the important bit.
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do you have any tutorial videos on this? i may need that
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I saw it the other way – if the image happens, free boobs.
hmmm… maybe “Free Boobs” is a campaign to outlaw Bras…
SOOOOOOOOOO.
Turns out we’re having a lot of meats over the next few months.
Not sure if anything is planned in June but my B’day is on the Queen’s birthday long weekend (9th-11th of June). Ol’ Pez is getting older (27) and I feel a suitable party is required as a result.
What else is going on in June? Any other meats? Not sure what people have in the pipeline but I want to organise something for the long weekend.
Seeing as I will have moved into my new place by that point, if it happens here in Sydney my place is open for other people to crash at to save on accommodation. Plenty of room, and I don’t grope too much at night.
Though I guess that really depends on what your definition of ‘too much’ is.
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Oh, June was just time for the next Canberra Meat, you know, nothing important or anything(I think I said the 23rd for that, so it doesn’t clash with your thing).
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I think two meats in June would be too many, so happy to celebrate me getting old in style* at the Can’d meat 😀
*getting atrociously drunk, regaling people with dirty stories then dancing on the table whilst playing a non-dancing kinect game.
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Star Wars Kinect? No, wait, that’s an atrocity, not a game…
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Although being drunk and smashing around as a rancor could provide hilarious results.
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“Although being drunk and smashing around could provide hilarious results”
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There’s a dancing section of Star Wars Kinect, remember? That’s pretty much the only thing people know about that game.
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yeah sorry, i’m not normally a Word Nazi like that, but dude, that was just weird!
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I was going to have a meat at my place the week before (June 2-June 4, if people wanted to stick around for the Monday).
I remember being 27. I had a number 2 and a number 7 cake from Donut King. Best birthday. 😀
Also, not sure if I’d be able to make it but I’ll try. I’m committed to Blaghman’s Meat and I probably wouldn’t be able to afford both though.
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OOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.
Sorry.
I should mention, the Canberra Meat is kind of a 21st party for me.
God I’m old.
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Because it’s a chance for a party!
Also, society often doesn’t consider an 18 year old to be an adult(for good reasons), 21 gives you an age where you’re slightly more adult, and people will expect you to carry yourself with just a smidgeon of class.
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That seems like a terrible reason to celebrate.
Especially for you.
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ANY EXCUSE TO DRINK BUNNY
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oooohh do we get red cordial? OR Raspberry creaming soda? cause that sh!ts tasty yo…
also woooooooooow… you’re young
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Still going to have a Birthday outing for drinks and dinner, just nothing crazy until the Can’d meat 😀
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What about your moving in party?
I was going to bring Pine O’Cleen, mops and scrubbers!
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Oh yeah! Pez’s housewarming meat in May!
So many meats!
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I will stock up on Jif and Easy Off Bam.
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YAAAY more MEATS!
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OK Guild wars 2 Beta Key activated, now to wait for a beta.
*sits there completely still staring at screen*
*looks at watch*
*goes back to staring at screen completely still*
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Followed by a post by me which simply appears to be the result of me punching my keyboard for two minutes.
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You were after a new set of cans right Jugsy?
http://www.logitechshop.com.au/logitech-g330-gaming-headset.html
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Yeah, it sounds like my logitech headset is dying (I wear it around my neck and have the mic pointing at my face).
It is just bad quality, or am I hard to hear? Or is my heavy breathing getting you all randy?
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there’s always going to be elitists out there that are not able to convey their opinions without demeaning other people… i can appreciate good sound, and i’m extremely happy with my headphones, but calling people out on having different opinions are just immature
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i just realised what i wrote and how stupid that sounded.
any articles* about hardware will tend to draw that crowd.if i was a company like AMD i would be so thrilled to have so many pawns passionately defending my products on my behalf.
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to be fair, I gather that Lebowzki is the type of guy who really needs to hear all the other 12 year olds shout abuse at him while he’s playing COD.
none of this low fidelity abuse. gotta have it surround sound.
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Wasn’t too bad, only really the one terribad post in there, the rest just people stating that they think their option is better than everybody elses.
so, i need some good games to play (as the Driver) for a 8 hour stint…
suggestions oh great mind of TAY?…
i’ve already added up all the numbers on my dash (1247) and counted the stitches in my door pane, so that’s out…
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though dont play with the $2 coin. thats just in poor taste.
…much like the rest of the idea I supposeignore it.
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And as the driver you have the advantage as you have control of the car and are the only one with a good view of the rear view mirror
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i’ve played something similar, except i had to match the imprints on my door to the coins… was sometimes REALLY hard to identify
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Punch buggy.
Count how many cars you can see in an hour and then try to break that record.
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well i do need to get better at that game, so i guess 8 hours is a perfectly reasonable time to practice…. All people in Melbourne: Ignore the News and Stay in doors
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Eye spy with my little ferret eye.
How many telephone books do you need to be perched on to reach the wheel with your ferretish self, anyway? Can a ferret get a drivers license?
I imagine you operate a vehicle with a series of pulleys and levers.
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WE ESTABLISHED ON TWITTER LAST NIGHT I’VE NEVER WATCHED IT.
WHY DO YOU TAUNT ME SO?!
YOU’RE JUST LIKE MY FRIEND’S FERRET THAT I WAS TERRIFIED OF AS A CHILD. HE BIT MY CHIN THIS ONE TIME.
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I live under a big comfy rock ok? GET OUTTA MY GRILL.
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WHERE DO YOU LIVE? I WILL SEND YOU THE EFFING DVD!!!!!!!11111!
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IN SYDNEY, HOW ABOUT YOU JUST BRING IT TO THE MONOMEAT?
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OKAY I THINK I MIGHT DO THAT!
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Guild Wars 2 doesn’t let me live out my secret fantasy where I’m a girl with animal ears and shapely thighs.*
*Disclaimer: this is a joke.
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Dobby?
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hahaha
I’m only going to play as a Charr most likely :P, maybe one of every other race but maining Charr 🙂
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*cough*mesmer*cough*
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Is indeed on the top of my list to try. Played Necro mostly in the original but GW2 Necro looks more like a Warlock.
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I played as Mesmer on one of my Characters in GW, and i hugely enjoy the “Screw with peoples minds” aspect…
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Mesmer was my assassin’s only weakness, throw anything else at him and you’ll never kill him, even if it’s 6v1 (I know cuz I done it in faction vs faction pvp)… unless you had the jump on him as a spellcaster.
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If I had to pick one, it’d be Engineer, since that’s one never seen before and looks very intriguing.
I think for Charr I’ll do every other class other than the token races (Except humans, had enough of them in GW1). So may do ones like Norn ranger, asuran necromancer and sylvari elementalist or something along those lines. -
If you dropped a Char off of a building would it land on it’s feet like a cat or land like a cow, a la like a soft brick?
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I think they’re more cats than cows tbh, like sabertoothed cats
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I figure them as the descendents of a Tauren and a sabertooth cat.
But it does let me live out my fantasy where I’m a plant with boobs. *
*Disclaimer: this might not be a joke.
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Going sylvari are ya?
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i was never good at taking care of my plants, BUT BY GOD WOULD I TAKE CARE, NURTURE AND LOVE THAT ONE!!!
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…wouldn’t you get worried about splinters?
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…. things i had not considered…
Yeah. I’m a sucker for MMOs. I downloaded it over the weekend.
Early access starts next weekend I think
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I’m trying to group up with a bunch of friends but the server they’re on is the one that everyone is flooding, and I haven’t been able to reserve a name there yet 🙁 They’re adding more capacity but doing it at around midday tomorrow, don’t like my chances.
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Yeah, problem is that everyone wants to be on Valley of the Titans. 🙁 Including me.
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Can’t do it. My desk is facing the hallway that people have to walk through to get to the toilets. There’s no hiding.
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http://corporatespeak.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/wide-awake-glasses_9045fd12.jpg
You’ll have to think ahead next time 🙂-
For tonight, I think speed is your only answer. Enjoy!
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To the pharmacy!
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I never really got into the Ratchet and Clank series on the PS2 but I love Tools of destruction and a crack in time on the PS3. They are really funny and look fantastic. I haven’t tried All for one yet, but fan and critic reaction was very poor.
I’m really hoping the upcoming Ratchet and Clank HD collection will get me excited for the PS2 versions.
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A crack in time was definitely my favourite of the games in the future trilogy. The 3D planet exploration was one of the better features of that game.
I think I’ll go and buy the 2for 1 collection that has both, so I can have them. My only issue with that collection is why they didn’t bundle in the quest for booty DLC.
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Well considering i can’t stop listening to Sovngarde from the Skyrim OST, i think this is perfectly acceptable…
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I just think the theme sounds so darn epic for doing a lone wolf-style escape (Except since this game is a party of 4 escaping but you know what I mean)
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i will have to listen to this later on, i am now intrigued… i’m a sucker for good OST’s…
speaking of which, MSO is doing a Lord of the Rings night at some point in november (i think) i wanna see if i can get some people together for that… i’m pissed i missed out on the Gaming night 😛-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d689QT0nEY4
So you don’t have to search 🙂
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Thank ye Sir Tech Knight, i will watch this a little later and report back
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I guess I’m just a huge sucker for violins. I just love listening to a violin in any sort of music. Hence why I got Apocalyptica on my phone’s playlist 🙂
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i can understand that… i’m more a sucker for Heavy Brass.. that probably came with me playing a Trombone for 8 years :P, but i do enjoy a good Violin as well
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It is pretty cool, the first 1/4 of it really reminds me of the LotR movie scene when they are chasing down Merry and Pippen who are being taken to Isengard.
Perfect backing for a montage chase scene
HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Poets of the Fall’s new album is out!!! GOGO!
it’s pretty amazing
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PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIXXXEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
*crash tackles Pixel for a Barbarian Bear Hug*
Have I told you lately just how much I love you.
Bought and downloading now.p.s. I love you 😉
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You had the blue note sapphire eyes, to back up all those gazes
To pierce my guard and to take my soul off to faraway places
Told me I’ll never be alone, cos you’re right there-
We took a gamble with this love, like sailing to the storm
With the waves rushing over to take us, we were battling against the tide
You were my beacon of salvation, I was your starlight
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This weekend, in commemoration of Pay Day, I obtained a $50 US PSN point card. And this time used it to buy some PSP games for my Vita which I didn’t already own \o/.
Purchased Ys Seven. Played an hour or so. Never played Ys before. Mute protagonist sucks. Gameplay seemed fun until I got to the first boss. I think I needed to grind a lot more first, but I killed every monster on the way. Boss utterly destroyed me. That’s IMO really bad tuning. Didn’t continue.
Also grabbed Corpse Party. Really sucked me in, it’s got fantastic atmosphere for such a simple thing (basically it’s an adventure game with a horror theme made to look like a 16-bit RPG). I was super into it. Then I got to the infirmary toward the end of chapter 1 and kept dying. Nothing kills a horror game’s atmosphere like being forced to re-play the same scene over and over because the controls aren’t responsive enough to allow you to avoid dying. Eventually I got past that, and was really starting to get back into the zone again, when in chapter 2 I ran into the same problem – had to avoid a ghost that was really annoying to avoid, and if you die you start over from the last save point and have to re-play a big chunk of unskippable scenes. Finished capter 2 and haven’t started 3 yet, but will definitely be aiming to finish it off this week, because despite the problems it’s very good.
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Nah the pergola out the back of the house, conveniently also made from the same sheet steel colourbond is made from! Next time I will wear hearing protection though, it’s a tad noisy >.<
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Napalm.
It’s the only way to be sure.
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Nobody asked your Perm what it thought.
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He’s right. It can remove the mucus lining which leaves the delicate membrane more prone to damage/infection, and th
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Jesus, man.
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Yes?
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JEEBUS!
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I love it how nobody will accuse me of being Batman because he has a gravatar.
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Because I am obviously Batman, durr!
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Please sir, you really must stop following people.
The third filing cabinet of court-issued restraining orders is getting full.
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Step 1: Go here.
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Step 3: Repost images from step 1 with a 9gag watermark.
Now you too can post as if you were Loops!
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Seeing as everyone is super confused,
I am moving into my apartment in hopefully mid-may.
Sooo, on the 26th of May (Saturday), I AM HAVING A HOUSEWARMING MEAT! \o/
Just giving everyone a pre-emptive heads up to clear your day planners.
Also, if you are coming from interstate (HEY DAN) y’all are welcome to crash at my place for the weekend. I’ll even be so nice as to pick you up and drop you off at the airport in the Pezmobile (complete with spider conservation pod, ie my right hand side mirror).
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People are going to be meated out before my meat on June 2 :p
But my meat shall have heaping piles of meat.
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Oh well.
Bugger it. I was thinking of making mine earlier but I think I’ll just commit to the June 2 date and see what we can make happen. If it’s a long weekend in Sydney, it almost seems like a good idea to have mine on June 9 so that people can come up for the long weekend.
Thoughts?
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I’m not interstate, but I look forward to crashing on your floor for the night. BECAUSE I WILL.
If I can make it. May/June is the end of semester so I might have a boatload of work to get through. We’ll see what happens.
/in b4 ‘you weren’t invited, pants!’
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I’ll be honest, I think I’d be mighty uncomfortable if no one wears pants there.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure you all have lovely legs, but for the most part, clothed people are a-ok in my book.-
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But it’s dangerous to go alone.
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Ruh-roh. That’s my Dad’s birthday. I think I’ll be expected here. Even though they’ll just be watching TV…all day.
I’m in one of those moods where I want to do everything, but I can’t decide what so I inevitably end up doing nothing. These are the things I want to do:
– Finish my FemShep runthrough of ME2 so I can move on to ME3 again.
– Play Phoenix Wright again, because OBJECTION and such.
– Restart Pokemon Black.
– Ride a whale to the moon.
– Read book 3 in A Song of Ice and Fire.
– Watch more Bored to Death.
– Read The Hunger Games.
– Read The Hugo Games because that’s what I originally typed and now I’m intrigued and wish such a thing existed.
– Write another dramatic episode of TAYs of our Lives.
TOO MANY OPTIONS. It also doesn’t help that I’m in charge of the house today (like a boss) so I’m running around picking people up from work and cleaning the house and have to cook a fancy dinner tonight.
Now back to your regularly scheduled TAY…did I read that the TAYbar will be open on Friday? Must stock up…
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you know Riding a Whale to the Moon and The Hugo Games are virtually the same thing right?
so i suggest going with that-
wow i just read how that can come off as insanely insulting… my mental picture was a Barbarian riding a flying whale…. AND NOTHING ELSE… no rudeness intended -.-
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What is this TAYbar everyone keeps speaking of? I was hardly on TAY last week (as evidenced by my paltry 15 posts in TABTOL).
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i think i’m doing major Plagiarism from last week but…. ROOOAAAAD TRIIIIIIIP
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Oh! Oh! Let me know if there is. I will find some vodka next time since no one brought me booze like I asked.
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I already told you to wait 6-8 weeks! :u
Anyway, thanks Cakeman. I look forward to it! Also, Brink, also, TRIALS. Have never played HD so mucking around in Evolution for the first time in multiplayer is going to be absolutely fantastic.
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And I told you that it wasn’t good enough!
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Well, that requires reading three books and playing three games whilst riding a whale in space, among other things. It’d be impressive, to say the least…but also impossible! :p
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yeah there’s no way you can read 3 books AT THE SAME TIME…. because that’s the least plausible thing on your list
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^ This guy gets it.
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Dude. Ride a whale to the moon. WHY WOULD YOU EVEN CONSIDER DOING ANYTHING ELSE IF THAT WAS ON THE TABLE?
You sicken me.
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Challenge accepted!
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It seems we need a meat planner.
Does google have a shared calendar app thing of some variety? Similar to TAYnames, but with, you know, dates and shit?
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I was looking for something like that for the gaming nights. I stopped looking after 10mins. If you find something let me know!
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The steam announcements work really well for the PC games, Just checking there as well as popup notifications
But some sort of meat listing could be useful
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http://talesoftay.tumblr.com/EventCalendar
I think the stories of tay account has to log in and add them though.
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Seems like something that we should really make use of.
If Pez is doing his housewarming thing, I should probably make my Meat Meat a bit earlier. Like May 12? I dunno. Thoughts people?
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Woah, don’t be stealin’ my thoughts, man.
You’re just lucky I already have my tin foil hat on. -
Damnit Bish! If I can’t steal your thoughts, there are any thoughts worth stealing!
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I like June. Because if I do go it gives me time to save up money for airfares and hookers and stuff.
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I approve of that.
Particularly the middle bit.
June 2 or June 9 seem to be the two dates that stick out. June 2 is better for me but apparently June 9 is the first day of a long weekend and I’m all accommodating and stuffs.
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Based on previous experience airfares will go up over the long weekend.
I’m yet to book flights etc but at the moment I should be able to make it.
If anyone is interested in sharing a hotel room to cut costs let me know.
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TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
I am so not doing what I should be and am procrastinating /o\ or \o/ depends which way you look at it
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Try using a bottle opener on the lip of the jar. Gently pulling the edge of the lid away on multiple sides will usually pop the seal and then it’s easy to open. No need to run it under hot water etc.
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THAT… is what she said…
thank you, thank you, i’m here all day -
She said to try and pry it off with a bottle opener? D:
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I got it open anyway. i kept trying XD
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Does anyone have the Monkey Island collection on 360 or PS3? This one
http://www.ozgameshop.com/ps3-games/monkey-island-special-edition-collection-game-ps3
I was a huge fan of Point and click in the 90s but just kind of stopped playing, and Monkey Island is one of the games i never got around to. So i may as well get the ultimate edition.
Everyone keeps asking the question so here is the answer:
What is TAYbar?
TAYbies + Alcohol* + TeamSpeak + Late night = TAYbar
*Alcohol optional
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TS that’s why. iiNet still has not fixed my problem…mainly because I haven’t spoken to anyone yet but shush!
And I will do it.
Later.
Harvest moon!-
I’m the iinet. What’s the problem? A few months ago we were calling everyday because our connection would bugger up and they’d have to reset and change things. Everyday for like 2 weeks.
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*with not the. BRAIN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
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My BoBlite needs upgrading. It causes me to disconnect on TS…a lot.
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Oh, bugger. At least iinet doesn’t keep you on hold forever. I’M LOOKING AT YOU, 3.
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3 took $200 out of my account and then claimed it was to pay my $39 bill. I had to go to the ombudsman just to get them to pay it back =/
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Were you forced at gunpoint to go with 3? It’s the only logical reason I can think of.
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Peer pressure?
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Not good enough. Did they have your entire family (including extended) hostage?
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Shoot. If they took my family hostage I’d let them keep them.
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Harvest Moon!
\o/
Also, Rune Factory!
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\o/ I have Rune Factory 2. I need 1 and 3.
How are you finding that version? The Good, the bad and the obnoxiously cute?
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Concept by: BatJugsRabies
Written by: DePezion
Sitting around insulting people: Blaghsicles
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SPANKS A LOT
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You’re Welcome.
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GAH! I missed Monday TAY 🙁
On the bright side, got a crap tonne of work done that means I should have a much more laid back day tomorrow.
Oh, also, yesterday I bought Red Dead Redemption GOTY for seXbox.
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What? Were you still passed out from TAYbar? 😉
Thought you might’ve died. There were people cheering in the streets.
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I’m still working under the assumption that I just got up and went to bed at some point… 😛
That part is still a bit hazy…though I had some epic clues on Sunday morn-…afternoon. Like a Steam window full of spam from Pez and a whole bunch of tweets 😀
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Well being that you missed some TAY, nothing important happened
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-170/comment-page-2/#comment-638716
nothing important…
at all…
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Dern right, ya jerk! *shakes fist*
Better check with Pez if his bed is still available.
…I mean, the last bed. Available. Something.-
between Hugo and Pez, i’ll have then enough beds to sleep in
0.o
Dips on being big spoon… to avoid awkward morning wood in the back
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I’m going to sleep in a cupboard!
I’ll be like Chip in Beauty and the Beast.
Speaking of Beauty and Beast. Remember when Belle’s father drinks from Chip (who’s really a little boy so y’know…weird) and Chip says ‘his moustache tickles, mama!’
…my childhood. Ruined.
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CANNOT UNSEE 0.o
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I saw a screencap from The Lion King where Simbas mum is cleaning Simbas back and it has a certain website logo on it.
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DISNEY…. WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL US?
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You people are monsters. I LIKE BEING OBLIVIOUS!
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Game of Thrones, Season 2 Episode 3: Now with slightly less talk of Arya, since it makes Strange feel weird.
Or at least makes her worry about me. One of the two.
Tbbq rcvfbqr. Cebonoyl n tbbq guvat V jnfa’g cynlvat gur Tnzr bs Guebarf qevaxvat tnzr, be ryfr V zvtug unir n srj ceboyrzf glcvat guvf hc evtug abj. V’q abgvprq orsber fbzr bs gur phgonpxf gurl’q znqr sebz gur obbxf, ohg qnza, gur fghss jvgu Neln jnf fb, fb, fb zhpu ybatre va gur obbx.
Naq zna, gurl’er ernyyl abg fhogyr jura vg pbzrf gb Erayl naq gur Gleryy’f. V zrna, jbj.
So very tired. I’m seriously worried I’ll be too tired to play any Fez / Grimrock / Battlefield 3 tonight.
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No need to play Harvest moon then. It’s good
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*you need to
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As far as that whole time management sort of game goes, I prefer the Atelier games. Tried harvest moon years back and it never clicked for me.
Farmville can die in a fire. Hopefully one that consumes all of Zynga.
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@Cakesmith you know how you said it took you 10 runs of heroic Magister’s Terrace to get the Swift White Hawkstrider.. Guess how many it took me =P
Xbox 360 for sale
My brother-in-law is selling his Xbox 360 and I told him I’d ask here if anyone is interested.
It’s a white 60GB model and has barely been used.
1x Console
1x 60GB Hard drive
1x Wireless white controller
1x Plug and play kit
1x Power cable
1x Component cable
Games:
Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Resident Evil 5
Human Head sez: “We are considering a sequel to the cult hit classic Rune!”
\o/
Rune was an awesome game. Always got overlooked.
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If we’re lucky, it’s been freed from the shackles of being a sequel to a dodgy game and has become its own franchise. Because honestly, it might as well have been its own separate game anyway.
And yeah, it looked badass. Reminded me strongly of Blade Runner.
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Okay, Queen’s Birthday long weekend. My place. Meat. Actual Meat.
I’m thinking this could be a decent idea.
I’ll start collecting emails now. Anyone interested in showing up, send an email to trjnrabbit [ squiggly a thingy] gmail {dot} com.
It’s a ways away, so I’m just going to get this stuffs started sooner rather than later. Simply because there are so many meats happening around this time.
Re: Super Mario 3D Land.
Discovered there’s a new level that’s unlocked from getting the 5 star rating. I’ve blown away 150 lives on it so far. I think I’m getting through less of it each time.
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Is that the level that’s unlocked once you gold flag and 3 coin everything with Mario and Luigi?
Spent about an hour trying (without power ups) then gave up :P. Watched a run-through on YouTube and never played it again 😀
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I hate that level. Still haven’t beaten it, months after unlocking it. Might have to give that another go soon. I mean, it can’t be harder than unlocking The Kid in SMB, which I’ve already done…
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Okay, Queen’s Birthday long weekend (June 9-11). My place. Meat. Actual Meat.
I’m thinking this could be a decent idea.
I’ll start collecting emails now. Anyone interested in showing up, send an email to trjnrabbit [ squiggly a thingy] gmail {dot} com.
It’s a ways away, so I’m just going to get this stuffs started sooner rather than later. Simply because there are so many meats happening around this time.
Queensland apparently doesn’t get the Queen’s birthday holiday in June but this year we do because she’s old!
So it should be a long weekend for all states involved.
If flights are too expensive because of the long weekend, I’m willing to do it the week before on June 2-4 (I have that Monday off).
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If there’s a noticeable difference, I’m fine having it the week before. It’s just that with Pez’s meat on the 26th and the public holiday, it seems like a good idea to move mine a week back.
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Important note: Mention who you are in your email. It makes my life easier and I have a rather tough life :p
Well, not so much tough but it’s a life and I like it being easy.
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Damn I shouldn’t have said who I was then, pretty sure I introduced myself by my actual name at Welbots, so i’d expect you to remember =D
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I would have forgotten. Actually, it’s because you two both did it that I thought “you know what, attaching names to emails would be nifty”.
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Haha, I wouldn’t expect you to remember cause not like anyone called me that all night, so all is good =P
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I would totally be down for that except for the fact I’m leaving for a holiday in New Zealand on the 9th. *sadface*
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Flying into Christchurch and heading down to Queenstown. We can leave you in Christchurch. Not that far a walk to Hamilton. Right? Right?
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Hmm, I have a mate down that way, maybe he could drop me off in Hamilton since he’s some sort of celebrity in New Zealand because he’s doing stuff to raise awareness for stuff and is on some sort of ‘tour’
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Alright! If I do this I’ll probably be coming up Friday night (getting in around midnight, only flight out of Avalon that day) and going back late Sunday due to the cost difference on Monday.
I’ll probably start booking it on payday this week. Accommodation will probably be a pain to book over the long weekend so I need to get in.
If any interstaters are going and want to go halves or thirds in a room let me know.
Cannot wait until tomorrow. I’m going to take the afternoon off from assignmenting, just because I can. I have two due in by midnight tonight. One is now down, one more to go. I will play all the gaems tomorrow afternoon. I haven’t played anything substantial since… last Monday? 😛
ps. Four pages of TAY is too much to read at the mo’. You’ll just have to imagine my witty responses to everything.
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+1 Good luck dude!
You weren’t on iSketch the past few times so I assume you must’ve been working really hard 😀
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“Working really hard” makes me sound like a good student, I like it. But actually it’s more like… “leaving everything until the week before it’s due” (again) xD
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hey me too 😀
I’m so bad at that…
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It won’t be too bad, but thanks. xD It’s for an ethics subject, so I basically just have to waffle on about common sense until I reach the word limit. I was more worried about the programming one I just finished though (if it doesn’t work, you get no marks D:).
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@AlexPants
I haven’t seen any pics of you riding a whale to the moon yet so it’s safe to assume it didn’t happen. You liar.
Can someone please tell me the secret to enjoying Red Dead Redemption? Cause the aiming is doing my frickin head in…
“Oh look, a jackalope!” *hit aim at jackalope in front of me, aims at innocent woman behind me, I get mown down by bystander for pointing a gun at a woman*
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Ride horses into the beautiful landscape!
(Red Dead Related)
I also borrowed a copy of RDR off my friend today :D. Was multi full for Xbox last time or am I going to miss out? 🙁
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First time was full, second time there was only like four of us, after Jugsy BAILED ON US.
At one point, we found a stagecoach. I drove, while Pants, Cakesmith and Hugo got in the back, ready for some drive-by action. I then proceeded to drive the coach over a cliff for giggles. WE ALL SURVIVED! So did the stagecoach! The horses… Well, let’s just say that we had to leave the stagecoach behind…-
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Aiming hint: Double tap the aim button and it should re-align your shot.
Console controls….LOL
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That doesn’t make any sense.
Is he drunk? AM I A DRUNK COWBOY?
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Auto aim. By double tap I mean release the left trigger and then press it again. So it’s not really double tapping.
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So I’m not a drunk cowboy? 🙁
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Not yet. This FriTAY at TAYbar however…
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Drunk cowgirl? 😀
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We established last night on Twitter that Jugsy is actually a dude.
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Drunk cowboy it is then 😀
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I’m the dudest dude that ever duded.
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But you went to an all girls school!? SPY!!!!!
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Although, it is worrying how dude-like you all find me.
I’m actually a really classy lady. Well, maybe not classy.
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It’s all lies Greenius. Don’t believe them!
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What a bully!
🙁
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She…He does have a fondness of boobs. Jugs McMelons, Tits McGee, Chesty LaRue…OMG DUDE YOU’RE TOTES A DUDE!
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I just have a dude brain!
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Dude brain is boobs best boobs brain!
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If anything I have a fondness for hilarious names.
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Whenever you start aiming, only pull the trigger halfway down, then pull if the whole way once you’ve had a brief flash of manual aiming, it makes the auto-aim far less… touchy.
Aim without zooming in first, then when you’re reasonably close to the target, zoom. It should make your crosshair snap onto the target. I agree it’s got horrible aiming, but it’s kind of cool going ‘zoom, shoot, zoom, shoot’ and not missing a shot. Feels very Western for some reason 😀
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Yeah, that’s how I’m doing it, and it works well 80% of the time.
Till it’s important, likely accidentally aiming a gun at a random innocent 😛
Turn the auto aim off completely. “Expert” mode I think it was called. I found the gunplay to be a lot easier that way strangely enough.
@scree
you know what, i’m soon to be 18 year old man (just over two weeks till my birthday :D), and i’ll admit it, i freaking love harvest moon games, especially rune factory.
i get suuuuuuuuuper weird looks from my friends when i tell them about it, but they just sorta think “classic b-funk, liking weird japanese shit”
but i’m like, no seriously, they are the best, my most played DS game is rune factory 3, i even played through the dreadful ps2 port of HM: a wonderful life, which had terrible framerate problems.
so yeah, anyway, harvest moon rules, my friends drools and such
i’ve had like, a big bag of skittles, i’m a little hyped…
i wanna play harvest moon now…
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Hey, I’m a 23yo man, and I love the Harvest Moon games too! Nothing wrong with Harvest Moon. I spent so much time playing it on a SNES emulator. SOOOO much time.
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Please stop talking about it, or I’m going to lose another three hundred and something hours to SNES Harvest Moon…
…again
…again again 😛
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Yay! I think the Harvest moon games were made for everyone. They’re not for girls, they’re an everyone game.
Sod your friends, they have no idea what they’re missing out on.Again again again? Maybe try the PSP or DS ones. Not so noticeable
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“What are you playing?”
“Harvest Moon.”
“Is… that the farming game?”
“Yes.”
“… ಠ_ಠ”
“I don’t even care because I’m playing Harvest Moon. Deal with it.”Also, big fan of Rune Factory. Farming and monster kills! Whilst I think the SNES Harvest Moon is still awesome, the monsters and RPG elements certainly add more variety to it.
Most of the DS ones have been not very good at all, sadly. Not bad, just… nothing new that’s worthy, to be honest. HM DS was buggy piece of crap. Isle of Happiness was reasonably safe. Grand Bazaar ultimately added nothing new enough to the game. Two Towns (Twin towns? whatever it was called) was also a safe no-real-addition game.
Meanwhile, between Rune Factory 1 and 2, 3 has been trimmed down to have the best of both games. I recommend it.
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Friends of Mineral Town is widely regarded as one of the best Harvest Moons.
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Only once did I actually reach the point where I could get the little impy things to do all my farmwork for me while I derped about…
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TAYBIE TOUGH’UN WORKOUT POST
running blah weights blah pain blah blah hrrrngh. Think I’ll take at least tomorrow off, today was a struggle. Don’t think I rested up enough after TAYbar on Saturday.
Cardio: 2.5km
WEIGHTS: shoulder, back width and bi day
Back width [lats]: Chinups
Warmup: 1×5
1×7
1×7
1×5
1×4 [bleeeeeeeergh]
Upright rows:
Warmup: 1×8 [5kg dumbbells]
1×5 [35kg barbell, because I’m an idiot and can’t calculate weight]
1×8 [20kg barbell]
1×8
1×7
Front Delts: Shoulder press
Warmup 1×10 [5 kg dumbbells]
1×8 [25 kg barbell]
1×8
1×8
1×7
Bis: Concentration curls
Warmup: 1×4 [5kg dumbbells]
1×8
1×8
1×7
1×5
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Maybe they’re working out as a massive plan to seduce us and then kill us all and take over the planet?
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YOU DON’T OWN ME. YOUR CHEQUE BOUNCED.
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Wait, Pez is after you two as well….
WHAT THE FUCK PEZ?!?!
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Spiderpez seduces while unseen.
It’s my M.O., baby.
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Hey, you wanna know what I did? I kicked a steel mannequin in the groin 300 times. I sure worked up a sweat doing that.
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Wouldn’t we need to be in Japan or something for that kind of stuff?
Wait! Did Shiggy go to Japan to marry bacon?
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It adds up
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So I open Kotaku, hit the link to TAY at the top of the page – and think, bloody hell, TAY is back with a vengeance this week – 20 pages already!
Then I notice there’s no comments newer than 7 this morning.
… In other news, I’m attempting to use a new keyboard and mouse. The G5/G15 combo is being retired after over 5 years of faithful service, since I started getting a condition I have dubbed ‘Skyrim Shoulder’.
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I did that this morning, the worst part is, I did it twice, with different versions of TAY, before finding the right one.
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Mass Effect Logic:
Complete the first mission with a handful of easy enemies – 1000XP
Complete near to last mission battling through tough enemies and a handful of bosses – 1000XP -
Pokemon logic:
Gen 1 – 4:
a is equal to 1 if the fainted Pokémon is wild, and 1.5 if the fainted Pokémon is owned by a Trainer.
t is equal to 1 if the winning Pokémon’s OT is its current owner, 1.5 if the Pokémon was gained in a domestic trade, and (from Generation IV onwards) 1.7 if the Pokémon was gained in an international trade.
b is the base experience yield of the fainted Pokémon’s species, listed here.
e is equal to 1.5 if the winning Pokémon is holding a Lucky Egg, and 1 otherwise.
L is the level of the fainted Pokémon.
s is the number of Pokémon that participated in the battle and have not fainted. If any Pokémon in the party is holding an Exp. Share, s is equal to 2, and for the rest of the Pokémon, s is equal to twice the number of Pokémon that participated instead.
Experience Gain = ( a x t x b x e x L) / ( 7 x s)Don’t get me started on Gen 5.
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Maths! D: Powalen fainted.
(Interesting tidbit though, I didn’t know international Pokermans gained experience that fast :O)
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THERES POKEMONS AND I CATCH THEM AND MAKE THEM FIGHT OTHER POKEMONS
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Noob
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A customer came into work today wearing one of those N7 hoodies. Mass Respect. Got to chatting with him about games then he starts bagging on the PS3 saying he has one and the graphics are the worst thing he has ever seen, barely better then a PS2. Respect dwindling. I start to try and figure out if he is just a raving fanboy or something else is up. Using a Full HDTV? Yup. Playinng PS3 games? Yup. HDMI cable or component? Nah, just using the ones that came in the box with the three plugs.
*facepalm* Respect vanished.
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No idea why they don’t just include a HDMI cable in the box… 😛 I had to go out and buy one the day I got my PS3 because I assumed it would…
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People honestly have no idea about how cables can make a difference.
Which is why Monster Cables exist, because they can convince people that only their cables make a difference.
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Man, when I used to work at EB:
Me: What kind of TV will you be hooking this up to?
Customer: Brand new giant flatscreen!
Me: Cool, I recommend getting one of these for the best picture quality *show them HDMI cable*
Customer: What does it come with?
Me: Just standard AV cables
Customer: Oh, they’ll do
Me: You’re sure?Customer leaves without buying HDMI cable. Returns the next day complaining about how the picture looks nothing like the trailers.
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Some people are idiots.
The amount of times I’ve heard someone ask for Mario games on a Playstation.
They seem to not understand the ratings system either-
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You cant. ._.
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Not with that attitude 😛
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Well, you probably could. If you had a video capture card in your PC, plugged your PS3 into it, streamed the video to your iPhone, and taped a PS3 controller to it too 😛
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Doing assignments, got bored, spent 20 minutes photoshopping various hats onto my avatar. Procrastination, I embrace you!
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I did, pretty cool. 😀
Now watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URcvdDtnM_0 (not related to your video in anyway, except it’s a song too, although it’s so-bad-it’s-good-ery at it’s finest) 😛 -
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Summary of today: no sleep make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad
@Blaghs:
Re: GoTE03: V unira’g svavfurq gur rc lrg, ohg:
V unq n srryvat gurl’q phg bhg n ybg bs gur ernyyl fhcresyhbhf cnqqvat gung tbrf vagb fb zhpu bs NPbX/NFbF (gurl ercynprq Pyrba, Wnvzr’f pbhfva, jvgu bar punenpgre jub ercerfragf yvxr fvk be frira qvssrerag Ynaavfgref nyy yhzcrq gbtrgure) naq gur puncgref jurer Neln naq Lbera zreevyl jnygm nebhaq Jrfgrebf jrer n ovg gbb ybat va gur obbxf.
Gur obbxf ner whfg *FB* ybat, rfcrpvnyyl jura gurl unir srjre guna gra ubhef bs fperra gvzr gb svg gurz va; V pna qrsvavgryl frr gur ceboyrzf gung’q perngr. Senax vs gurl rira znantr gb svg rirel znwbe rirag vagb gur frevrf va n jnl gung znxrf frafr naq ehaf fzbbguyl, V’yy or nznmrq.
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Also I see what you mean about Renly and the Tyrells. That scene didn’t really… make sense… at all.
Sebz N Srnfg sbe Pebjf (naq znlor Fgbez bs Fjbeqf) vg’f pyrne Wnvzr naq Prefrv xarj nyy nobhg Erayl/Ybenf naq gurl xarj nobhg vg sbe lrnef. Vg’f cerggl zhpu jryy xabja nyy bire gur xvatqbzf. Gur Gleryyf gerng vg nf n abg-rira-irel-frperg snzvyl frperg; Ybenf’ oebgure wbxrf nobhg vg gb Fnafn naq fur gbgnyyl zvfhaqrefgnaqf uvz.
Va gur obbxf vg’f vzcyvrq gur zneevntr vf n funz naljnl, nyy neenatrq ol gur Dhrra bs Gubeaf be creuncf Znpr gb trg Uvtutneqra naq Erayl gb jbex gbtrgure. (Vg’f xvaqn rira uvagrq Znetnerl qbrfa’g rira yvxr zra naq nyy ure zneevntrf ner sbe cbjre, ohg gung zvtug’ir pbzr hc va Qnapr jvgu Qentbaf) Fb lbh’q guvax gung orsber gurl jrer zneevrq Znetnerl jbhyq’ir xabja sbe lrnef, vs abg sebz ure oebgure gryyvat ure, gura fpurzvat jvgu bgure zrzoref bs Uvtutneqra.
Vg whfg ybbxf yvxr n pbairavrag jnl gb gryy gur nhqvrapr, naq V guvax gurl tbg gur vqrn va gur svefg svir frpbaqf bs gur fprar…
Is FUEL worth $10-$15? I was really intrigued by the open world racing concept, with the storms etc.
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I’d probably pay that much for it. Played the demo when it came out. Was pretty cool. Although I think you used the mouse to steer, can’t remember though.
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I didn’t really like it. Lots of random driving to get around and the special features of finding fuel and outfits, new cars are scattered all over the place with huge games between them, I guess the game is fun for a bit and the any path to the check point can be kinda cool but I played a bit and never went back. (Not a big racing game fan so take what you will from that)
As a compulsive collector of ingame collectables and those sort of things the game really didn’t work for me. Buy blur instead 😉
“Spike’s baby birthing and world saving RPG Conception has a wireless component. Connect to a friend’s PSP via ad-hoc, and you can engage in “love ceremonies” with each others’ maidens. The long and the short is, one of your girls may end up giving birth to your friend’s baby.”
http://andriasang.com/con0o4/conception_babies/
Only in Japan.
Greenius, Powalen, fellow Xenobladers. Lend me your ears.
Sooo, got a few more hours in today. Finished up Mt Valak, just about to head into Sword Valley. Decided to go back to some old areas, dust off some old quests. Check for new ones etc. But more importantly …
UBYL FUVG!!! Zhzxune jnf zrgny snpr? Ubyl onyyf ba n fgvpx. Naq abj gurer’f fbzr arj tbyqra zrpuba anzrq rtvy nf jryy? Gur fgebatrfg zrpuba rire ohvyg? Jub unf fbzr pbaarpgvba gb mnamn nccneragyl.
Jryy pbafvqre zr fynccrq va gur snpr.
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TAY keeps eating my rot13! Xenobladers, lend me your power! Click here for my response
UN-ROT13’d XENOBLADE SPOILERS IN THIS LINK-
That looks rot-13’d to me 😛
Good on you for calling it. I try not to guess ahead, I prefer the surprise
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Ah it is, too. haha Wrong link. 😛 I had the rot13 version originally but figured I’d save you the extra step translating. Oh well.
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Sword Valley… what a place! 😀 (awesome music too but you know that already :P)
There’s a certain enemy that will make you go :O! WOW
Just took the bin out. On the way back in through the backyard a drop the bin, bend down to pick it up and there are my 3 games from OGS shoved down beside the gate. Well done Auspost. Well done.
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Nothing unfortunately. If they don’t give a shit about note for 3 different versions of ID of mine & birth certificate to pick them up from the post office because it wasd ellivered TWICE to the assholes next door then they pretty much won’t give a shit here.
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such a criminal you. tsk tsk.
on a totally unrelated note, not that I’m a criminal or nothing, but can that be played via the PSN even though its RC’d in Oz?
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sorry about that. I’ve got a bit of a problem with Great Old Ones in my bedroom at the moment.
^That^ was from me.
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MEAT PLANNER HAS A WHOLE BUNCH OF MEATS IN THEM NAO.
I’ve gone through and checked all the meats listed:
[Syd] 28th April – MONOMEAT [I will be wearing a top hat, monocle and cane like a goddamn sir]
[Syd] 26th May – Pez’s housewarming.
[Syd] 9th June – Pez’s B’day dinner in the city.
[ACT] 23rd-24th June – Blaghmang’s Canned Meat / Combined B’day ParTAYs of Blaghs and Pez.
[QLD] 4th-5th August – Theme park Meat
[QLD] 30th Nov – 3rd Dec [Inclusive for pilgrimage from Syd > Bris] – Epic TAY meat
At the moment Dan has created the calendar but given me edit access so it looks like we can both add people – if you want to see it let Dan or I know and pass on your e-mail addy.
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You’ll get to relive being 21, and Blaghs will get a glimpse of what it’ll be like when he’s 27!
Also, I was going to join you with the top hat (monocle is ordered) but… is that something I want to be wearing all day and night? I don’t know. Seems a little inconvenient.
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I’ll lend you mine, but I think it might be a bit big for you… still the offer stands.
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But top hats are cool!
Plus I always figured I was more of a top hat guy than a bowler hat guy.
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fcking oath you do!
It’s the monomeat so a whole bunch of us will be there, most of the Sydney TAYbies and a couple of the Canberrians are probably coming around.
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And when we meat, we will all shout “MASHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”
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Man. That sounds awesome. I think I might just make it.
Also it just crossed my mind but is there an official TAY meat autograph book? If not I think there should. Or even better a game where all of us sign the notes section which nobody uses for the most part. I’ll look through my old games maybe there is a manual I don’t need.
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BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Wow, it looks like there are meats for everyone. If all goes well I might make it to one of them.
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And it’s still missing a heap, I know there are some melbourne ones and more qld ones to be added.
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I’ve sent a big invite to the calendar to most of the TAYbie e-mails I have.
If you need access let me or anyone with access to the calendar know – they all have sharing privs.
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Pfft you forgot the super rad awesomegasmo Adelaide meat.
Which is just me, eating bacon, right now.Bet you are all jealous.
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Howdy Tay
Had a looooong day, I was at an Electronic Warfare symposium all day
Here’s a monday question for you all: if you could destroy one disk between the game being finished and it going to the publisher, which would it be? Either because a game is terrible on it’s own or led to nasty tends in gaming.
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I wouldn’t destroy a game disc, but rather a company.
Zynga – you’re going down!You know what you did!!!
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I haven’t played Draw Something in ages. Sorry Draw Buddies! I should probably update my current games before people start thinking my fingers fell off.
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I’m just as bad. I mostly play in my breaks at work, but I only have time for a few games at a time, so I can go days between moves.
Sorry Draw Buddies!
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I’ve noticed that they go away when I’m not on Wi-Fi but it’s worked before when I never had Wi-Fi on… 😛
But good to hear that they’re back 😀
I have all the colours… ALL OF THEM
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Same here – they were gone when I was at work without WiFi, but they’re here for me now I’m home on the WiFi.
Also my coins disappeared, but they’re back now too.
BTW – does draw domething go beyond 99? I’ve been stuck on 99 with you for weeks now!
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Not at the moment but they sent an email a while back with a list of future improvements, one of them was a counter that goes to turn 999 😛
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OI PEZ…
something something *grumblegrumblegrumble* email me at jacob(dot)didriksen(weirda)gmail(dot)com
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What about actual fighting games? They all have SP campaigns, don’t they?
(Haven’t played a fighting game since the 90s)
well it was a battle but i finally got the approval i needed to go to the MONO-MEAT \o/
i may have cost me a testicle… which means i’m now down to
*counts*
4..WORTH IT…
so who’s actually going?
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bwahahahahahaha… wow, did not think of that… that’s okay… they grow back…. via mitosis… that’s how vikings work… trust me, it’s Science
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one thing that can still be achieved “mono”!
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Most of the Sydney TAYbies by the looks of the e-mail chain!
It is going to be a HUGE gathering, sounds like some of the new guys (powalen and masha) will be showing up as well.
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There were rumours of a Melburne chocolate-themed mini meat. Do you know anything about it?
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Jordi and SarcasmFairy were trying to organise something. I’ll see what’s going on.
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Cheers cakedude!
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From Jordi on Twitter:
@JoelGreenius @a_sharples @SarcasmFairy we were going to meet April but our schedules wouldn’t sync so its postponed to May but I’m lazy
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Stop rubbing it in!
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I WAN MONEY SO I CAN FLY ON PLANES AND ATTEND INTERSTATE MEATS
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We’ll start our own Meat…
…with blackjack…and hookers….and BATMANG!!!
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You can’t have Batman!
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Oh really?
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Batman, how could you?!
I feel…I feel so used.
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Melbourne has better coffee.
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What about the parma?
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It would appear even Batman supports Batmang meats! Take that!
I’m 81% confirmed! Just need to know specifics like time, place, type of funbag to bring, etc. Need to budget in my 2 hour train ride into Sydney. 😛
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Weird, I have a one and a half hour train ride to Sydney as well. I live in Wollongong.
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That’s where I go to Uni 😮 How serendipitous!
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Are you following me Powalen? This is getting creepy. Next you’ll tell me you play video games as well.
I’m going. I’m heading in after work so I suggest we all go grab a drink when I arrive. I’m going to need it.
I haven’t played journey yet, but I was fascinated by the views of a British guy who saw the main character as an Arab woman.To him the character’s mannerisms and clothing remind him of an Arabic woman. He enjoyed the game on another level. It was really interesting to see how a different religious/cultural background can change your perspective on a game.
Video from 10 min-11.30 min http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snYrwGow9jE
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JJJJJJJJJJOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUURRRRRRNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
MMMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAASSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Wow. It’s another Greenius, cakesmith performance. Like a beautifully choreographed goal. The teamwork and the finish, brilliant just brilliant.
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On the subject of Journey, apparently the soundtrack made it to #1 in the soundtracks section of iTunes and #26 overall. That’s a bloody good effort for a video game soundtrack. I actually bought it myself on the weekend (off PSN, not iTunes) and can’t stop listening to it. It is absolutely stunning. I’ve been playing video games for over 30 years and this is the first time I’ve ever been moved to actually buy a game soundtrack.
Ok – I’ve dipped my toe (it’s clean – I promise!) into the everflowing waters of TAY and I reckon I should probably add myself to the TAY contact list thingie that I hear mentioned all the time. I looked at it ages ago but I wasn’t sure if I’d stick around so I didn’t bother to add myself or even bookmark it.
(That, and I rekoned it might be easier to slip in slowly, rather than submit to an oaring from harli.)
So, yeah… where do I sign up?
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Careful what you sign. It’s an everlasting contract to TAY. I hear they make you type your details in blood now. One of us. One of us.
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Haha, must be nice to have a bit of space rather than being jammed in like sardines in a tin can, like the cities can be!
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I’ll be in that soon.
I could kind of hear some domestics when I was living with my mate but I’m back at home now because I’m cheap and saving to move to Sydney \o/
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o/ for living with the parents. Though I like living at home, but i’d like to move out and and have some more responsibility for my own life.
Maybe live with some of my mates, like we have thought of in the past. We said we’d call our place the “Forever Alone House” or something, I laugh at their pessimistic ways, but then I realise oh wait, yeah they’re right we are haha.
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I
havehad a friend who used to do that sort of shit for fun.Fucking idiot,
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Good thing he is no more then!
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He was fine when we went to school together and then yeah, he turned feral when we finished haha.
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Oh dear, has he visited one of the states fine correctional facilities yet for his addiction to fire?
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Accidental or deliberate? D=
My neighbours did that not long after mum & dad moved in here lmao. Mum put it out with the garden hose before it got out of control.
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Accidental. They were very sloshed.
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Ah, wouldn’t expect anything less on christmas, in this country =D
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Oh… that’s not as bad then 😛
You should hear some of the shenanigans Virus’ neighbours get up too…
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Hahahahaha, yes. “Shenanigans” that sometimes end with the men in blue hauling someones ass away for an overnighter in the local lock up.
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But when they fight it’s like grab the popcorn and listen. They’ve been at each others throats on and off past few days, the other son is there, given he’s also a deadshit, but at least he doesn’t tolerate the bullshit & pulls the kids into line heh. But given that he’s still pretty foul mouthed etc.
All my neighbours are either old people or have very young kids, so they don’t yell at each other
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How boring, I mean how nice, I certainly wouldn’t mind that.
I must say though living near a lot of housing commission places sure has its advantages, and well disadvantages *shudder* like the kids who burnt down their own house a few streets over heh, little hoodlims.
So it’s decided:
BATMANG MEAT!
Where: Melbourne
What: A Scottish doctor
When: Saturday July 21st – Sunday July 22nd
Actually what: Watch The Dark Knight Rises, visit the ACMI Game Exhibit, eat Parmas! (or some other form of delicious chicken-based meat)
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I don’t but I’ll pretend I do!
You’re Swedish?
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Imma thinking this. Lindt Cafe where everybody meets up, onto ACMI exhibit, onto Parmas for dinner (no alternatives, Parmas only. Especially you, Pez.) and then we head to IMAX to watch the Dark Knight Rises in all its glory.
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When does it come out? If it’s anywhere near the opening week then it’ll be madness trying to get tix 😛
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The 19th, so the Thursday before the meat haha!
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Like clockwork.
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holy carp, didn’t realise the time… gotta get to bed, i gotta leave home in 6 hours to drive to Melbourne \o/
Playing the story mode of Mortal Kombat and its….really well done. The way its like one seamless movie just with the fight stuff where it should be is rather cool and I don’t know why other fighters (that I know of) haven’t gone this way before.
The game is also a lot faster than what I’m used to MK being so it is throwing me off a little, ensuing I’m receiving many a beatdown.
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Yeah, I was really surprised at how well the story mode was done.
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Haha, yeah. The first one got me as I barely beat them after a while then the game announced Round 2 which felt like a kick in the nuts 😛
Are we able to tee up a match or does PSN not like you playing it on Aus servers?
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I turned on my Xbox 2 hours ago to play some games but instead I’ve sat at my computer the wold time talking here and on Twitter. Well done TAY
Damnit. Rushing through ME2 as I wanted to have a save file for 3 but I forgot to redownload the Cerberus network which left me without the comic at the start. Which means V’z fghpx jvgu Nfuyrl naq n qrnq jerk. Arvgure bs juvpu V jnagrq.
Too far in to restart now too. Damnit.
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On the PS3 version?
That situation is… not ideal :(. Not so much the first bit, but jerk is important and a lot of things change without it.
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Wow, those are the defaults? That’s very crappy, you really don’t want it that way for a Paragon ME3 playthrough either.
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V svaq gung ovmneer. Abg fb zhpu gur Nfuyrl fheivivat ovg, zber bs gur Jerk qlvat ovg nf qrsnhyg. V whfg purpxrq gur svany ubhef bs znff rssrpg, naq nccneragyl nobhg 75% yrg nfuyrl yvir naq jerk yvir. Bqq.
I headed off to bed around 9pm last night to catch up on the sleep I missed the night before. Watched Game of Thrones, where it appears that the rule is that if any relationship was so much as hinted at in the books, they show the characters doing the horizontal mambo, and then couldn’t get to sleep until midnight.
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There was talk of going to Movie World, I assume that’s it.
Either that or we have a massive LAN where we all play Theme Park for hours and hours.
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How about a LAN at Movie World where we all play Theme Park?
Best idea or best idea?
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Movie world, eh?
Interest…..
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I concur.
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:O!
Anyone getting Pandora’s Tower? :P. I have codes for Xenoblade/Last Story but since I’m not getting Pandora’s, I won’t have a complete set :(. So pretty!
Now to find someone who lives in the UK…
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OMFG CLUB NINTENDO AUSTRALIA LAUNCHED THE GOLD NUNCHUCK!
Sorry to be a begging Bettie but does anyone have any spare Club Nintendo (Australia) codes?
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Bah! It costs 3000 points and I have 2750. Registering a game (depending on the price and console) will give you either 200 or 250 points. So close, yet so far… You can also register consoles so if anyone has spare codes for them could I pwetty pwetty please have them? <3
Damn you UK games and your much cheaper prices and useless codes!
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Are these the codes you get when you buy Nintendo games? Because I think I’ve have several unused ones you can have.
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Yep! 😀
Cakemang <3
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Yeah, I think I registered my Mario Kart 7 one and that’s it so if you get them in all games I’ve probably got 10 Nintendo games not registered. Even more if they came in DS games as well as 3DS.
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It doesn’t matter where the codes come from so it can be all from consoles or all from games :D. They do have a stupid rule where you can only register something once so I might have already registered some games (if this is the case I’ll give the spares to you scree 🙂 ).
Thanks again Cakey!
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What’s this club nintendo thing? I’ve never registered any of my Nintendo stuff or gotten any codes or anything?
(OGS shipped Pandora’s Tower to me last night)
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Really? Sort of like a rewards system for buying Nintendo products. They introduced it a few years ago around the time when Mario Kart Wii came out. I’m sure you would’ve seen an extra little card (in Australian games) or a scratchy red code sheet (for UK versions) in brand new games where the manual is.
Could I please have the Pandora’s Tower code? This will let me complete my set and hopefully claim those Club Nintendo Operation Rainfall coins (linked above). Just gotta get in contact with my cousin who lives over there :P…
I also need spare codes for my Australian account so any of those you have to spare would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Whoops forgot to describe it more but basically you use these codes to get points towards your Club Nintendo account and then you can use those points to claim prizes. Most of them suck though compared to our UK, US and Japanese counterparts but sometimes they have some decent things.
The codes can also be used to register for specific items such as the OoT Soundtrack which was free for everyone who bought OoT3D and registered their game.
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I’d be more interested if it was something I could actually use/display. xD While the coins are pretty, they don’t make me want to rush out to buy the last two games.
Good Mucking Forning.
The M4 peak hour traffic in rainy weather can eat a bag of dicks. A WHOLE bag.
Been spoiled with these 4 day weeks. Not sure I can do a 5 day one.
Mornin’ TAY!
Had a much better experience with Red Dead Redemption later last night. Partially cause I stopped trying to get involved in random events. Seriously, I can never tell who is the bad guy in most of those situations…
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Pew pew pew!
MP is heaps of fun, barely played any SP though.
Then again, MP seems to devolve into us running around in circles throwing knives at each other, so take that as you will.
Penny Arcade Report is pretty amazing.
Here’s a little piece about the price of video games and Steam.
We need more sites doing pieces like this. Maybe that would satisfy a few people, no names mentioned (pun intended).
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I agree, it’s a pretty good site. Only updates about 3 times every 2 days, but quality over quantity, any day.
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Haven’t read a bad article there yet. I like to wait until something catches my eye and then go back and read everything that’s been posted there since.
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Surely it must be about time for Windows 7 SP2.
Currently re-installing it on a clients machine and there is approx. 300mb of updates after SP1.
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It took me two days to get Windows 7 fully up to date after doing a new installation of it. For some reason it would say that it was up to date and then a few hours later, updates are magically available!
Rather frustrating, but I don’t particularly mind.
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I can hear one of my co-workers guffawing away. I swear, it’s like she’s stuck in obnoxious drunken aunt mode. That’s her default state of being. How the hell do the others that have to actually sit near her deal with that?
Morning TAY.
So on the train this morning, it was a bit packed. & there was this dude who gets on & is absolutely soaked, which I kinda felt a bit sorry for him. But then he was crushed up against me, so now I’m all damp with second-hand fat man water. Good way to start the day.
In other news… nope that all I’ve got. How bout you guys?
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On my train ride this morning, got a few looks from this cute girl but she went to the other end of the carriage when we hopped on the train, so that went nowhere fast. Go Techy, master of failure when it comes to women 😛
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Oh Techy… why didnt you follow her (in a non-creepy staker sort of way) to the other end of the car & see if the flirty glances contnued? & if glances continued, then why didnt you talk to her?
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What you’re saying reminds me so much of my flatmate. & myself to an extent to be honest. So I do understand what your saying.
You could pretend to be confident & not shy? thats what I do.Anyway, its too early for this & you probably dont appreciate an random internet stranger volunteering his opinion that you seem like a decent robo-dude, so I’ll stop.
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*shrugs* It’s not like I got IRL friends to do the same for me anyway, so I appreciate it regardless.
Yeah I’m a decent robo-dude, which puts me in prime candidacy for friend zoning 😛
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MORNING ALL
PAIN IS BAD THIS MORNING, BUT DON’T WANT MROE DRUGS
anyways
re: Meats calendar
can somebody link me please? Would the creators like me to link it on tales of TAY too? it’d be much more useful then our current calendar.
re: Bunny’s Meat
I cant take any more days off during that month but if the holiday falls on a long weekend like you say then I’d be up for flying up. But only if Freyr does too. nerrr
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Apparently Freyr and Batgirl are coming up for it, so I think you should be in the clear there.
I haven’t really played about with Google Calendars much, otherwise I’d see if I could throw an invite your way (assuming I have privileges). So best leave that to Dan or Pez.
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Hey Z,
I added you to the access list last night so you should have been sent an e-mail last night with a link to it (to your gamie e-mail addy) – can you check?-
ohh yess there is an email there. silly me. thanks! now i just need to figure out a way to integrate this..
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Log into the usual host of Google services using that email? Get an invite sent to the email you use for that whole host of Google stuffs?
BTW Google+ has apparently updated. Now it’s a ghost town with a slightly different UI. Yay?
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That is, the one used for the Tales of TAY, not your personal one. I assume that’s how you can embed it over there.
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lol i was under the impression google+ was dead and buried.
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They did everything they could to screw it up. Hell, who launches a social networking site and doesn’t let people join it until months after the initial wave of hype?
Oh well, such a shame. I do prefer it over Facebook but that means nothing if everyone is on Facebook.
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there was hype? ;p
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When the initial beta invitations went out, there was a nice wave of “hey look, it’s a new, better Facebook!” Then nobody bothered to switch over from Facebook. Far too long later, the actual site opened up for anyone and everyone to join. By then, it was just too late.
They had flubbed it and flubbed it hard.
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oh yes i remember now. i like how they tried to make the invitations seem so exclusive and cool.
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For anyone still interested in Skyrim :
http://www.gamesradar.com/skyrim-dlc-teased-bethesda/
Not much to go in in the link, but something should be announced tomorrow apparently.
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SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM!
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SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM! SKYRIM!
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By Talos, all my SKYRIM! screaming replies have been eaten.
Fine TAY, you win this roundSKYRIM! yay!
*grumble grumble*
Massive wall of SKYRIM! screaming would have been better.
Bull-headed stubbornness prevails!
I have achieved a modicum of success by refusing to acknowledge any other options and persisted with banging my head against yesterday’s brick wall.
A friend of mine has posted on Facebook that they are “Devo” that a friend/loved-one has died.
I find that weird.
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Maybe they just misspelled and they are in fact ‘devon’ instead?
How they performed a metamorphosis into meat however is quite the achievement.
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Next music video will include dude in morph suit chowing down on stacks of devon.
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There’s my single.
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DAN! will suffer for his art.
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devastated would have been the propper word to use. Devo is more appicable for when you drop your ice cream.
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So is Flu but you don’t hear us complaining.
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Pardon, Pez?
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…touche
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Also, I meant that “devo” was a terrible abbreviation, especially when written (I just think of the band when I read it)
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It makes me think of Steve-O, personally.
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i just think of Steveo
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JINX
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no u !
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You guys do care!
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Correct.
I just think it’s an inappropriate expresion of grief.
If I died and someone posted on Facebook that they were “Devo” I’d haunt the crap out of them.
Last night I was imagining a TAY website, so I went to tay.com only to discover it’s an investment group
🙁 http://tay.com/
Tay.com.au seems to be available though.
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I agree Tales of tay is a better name.
Nice events image on the front page. I though the mono-meat was on the 28th of April. Has it been moved to May?
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Nope, the May Syd meat is my housewarming meat
Monomeat isn’t listed in there but it’s still happening on the 28th of April!
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we need to stop doing this.
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Thanks for the clarification.
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I guess everyone will just have to put in more drinking effort into the Monomeat.
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DEAL.
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So I got a package from Book Suppository! \o/
It contains The Lesser Evil Book 2, but not Book 1. /o\
Why the fuck would they send them seperately when they were purchased in the same tranasaction?
Sigh.
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Because combined the two books are too hard to put in your bottom.
It’s easier to do it on a volume by volume basis.
Why anyone would use a book suppository is beyond me though.
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*Adjusts stethoscope*
The information contained with a “book” is actually absorbed faster by the mucous membrane of the anal canal and is retained longer. This is why a great deal of learned folk sometimes walk and act like they have a stick in their arse. It’s not a stick, it’s a dickens.
Science! \o/
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It’s made all the more impressive if you read it aloud in a Scottish accent.
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They send all books as individual packages. They’re a bit weird like that, and it means that some things might show up a few days apart.
After starting ME2 last night… oh machine-gods the mouse sensitivity! So horrible! Can’t even change the sensitivity, what the hell… anybody know how to fix this?
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I’m pretty sure you can change it somehow, but it must be done out of game. I remember someone on twitter asking months ago.
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It’d be great if you can, it’s seriously awkward cuz I still keep pressing E to talk to people or use stuff. I didn’t miss how naked I feel without the grenades from ME1
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I think you mean XBOX… Considering you can’t play ME1 on PS3. ME2 is so much better when you carry an ME1 save through.
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I process data into information, ACTUALLY 😛
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I’m using a RAT7 at the moment (and was using it when I re-did my playthrough of ME1 & 2) and it works brilliantly.
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I have a use for my vouchers again! 😀
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My Razer DeathAdder is pretty good, and not very expensive either. It has 4(?) dpi settings that can drastically alter the sensitivity, and can be adjust using software, or a button on the underside of the mouse. And it is sooooo comfortable. Made for right hands (but can be bought in left hand variants).
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HELLO PEOPLE I HAVE RETURNED TO SIT AT MY DESK. Stupid paint of the floor left me without a place to do work for a day and a half so i just stood around and talked to people on the phone . How is everybody?
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You are most welcome , hope your arm gets better quickly.
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I still don’t know what happened to you. I’m going to assume it was something awesome like an injury sustained while fighting off hordes of demon samurai or cuckos or something.
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That.. sounds about right.
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What about Blaghs? you guys are like two peas in a Asian pod.
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Nah man, we’re brothers, not friends. Get it right.
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HI FIVE !
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Can’t i be like a fake friend who you pretend to like because some of your actual friends think i am pretty cool?
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You could be like Reese in Malcolm in the Middle, where you just sit near a group of people who don’t even know your name, pretending that you’re a part of their social circle.
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Exactly what i have been doing for the past 2 years. Oh no i have been found out.
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I think you’ve failed in that.
We know your name.
Now what are you going to do about it?
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Yeah this nerdy douche kid was i ignored him.
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Thanks, i can’t really complain about my day so far. But then again, i am expecting DA2 and LA Noire in the mail today. So by about 8 I’ll have something to rant about.
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If you give me your number and can take me talking about GPS when somebody comes close enough to here what i am talking about i would have. 😛
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“So what are you wea…anyhow, like I was saying you haven’t calibrated it right so the unit is saying that your… phew, they’re gone. So what are you wearing?”
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I already know he would be wearing no pants why would i need to ask 😛
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“And what about underneath the kilt? Oh my!“
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I’ve been thinking, if people are coming from all over the nation to visit my humble little meat over the course of the long weekend, why don’t we make Saturday a night out, meandering about, hitting up the Mana Bar and whatnot? Then on Sunday we do the thing at my place with heaping piles of meat and Monday, whoever is left can do the touristy thing?
This almost sounds like a more reasonable plan than “people come to Brisbane, we eat meat”. Almost.
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Hey Bunny, I was looking at places to stay last night, how reasonable would it be to stay in the city in regards to distance to your place?
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It’s about half an hour by bus or train, ten to fifteen minutes by car (if there’s no traffic). So not unreasonable at all.
You might want to consider looking at places in Kangaroo Point, it’s literally down the road from my place.
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Excellent! I was browsing wotif last night and a few of the CBD hotels have good pricing going.
And noted.
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Depending on the other people flying in we could do what we’re doing for the monomeat and just stay at the same hotel. GIANT TAY SLEEP OVER. It’s also the only way to guarantee that I won’t get lost finding my way back to my hotel.
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Sleep over at the Mana Bar!
It’ll be the most crammed sleepover ever, of all time.
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Sleeping over and passing out are two very different things.
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This is why you need to wear pyjamas everywhere!
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This is why I need to *buy* pyjamas.
Speaking of pyjamas. My co-worker turned up in hers last Saturday. Only just into leggings, keeping the same top and cardigan. THAT’S NOT ANY BETTER.
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How many people will be there? I’ll have to find a room big enough.
Finished Demon’s Souls! \o/
Got maybe 2 hours of sleep last night! /o\
Amon Amarth tonight! \m/
Work. щ（ﾟДﾟщ）
Also I won’t be attending any meats this time round, if anyone was wondering, which they were not.
Good day to you all.
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Huzzah!
Boo! I did the same thing yesterday. Was a zombie for most of the day. Even moreso than usual.
Hurrah!
Boo!
I was somewhat wondering. If only in a general sense.
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I’ve been stuck on the same part of Demon’s Souls for about 3 months. That part where you have to carefully fall down that giant mineshaft, i did it once by accident and was never able to figure it out again. Sucks, because i actually like that game.
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I haven’t done that bit but I’ve seen a Let’s Play and upping your Dex should make that easier. Higher Dex = lower fall damage, so there’s a bit more leeway.
Or you could just check a guide, if you’re willing to admit defeat.
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What Jo said.
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Umm, which world? 2-2 after the big spider?
If that’s the bit and you are having trouble navigating the platforms you can go left from the arch stone down the mine track and go the long, enemy filled way towards the boss room.
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Thanks, i went that way once, but i seem to remember it being a dead end? Maybe i just wasn’t looking hard enough. I really want to go back and finish that game. It’s so brutal but rewarding at the same time.
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I was thinking yesterday that our meats have developed more into regular social gatherings then special events. I think this fact is kind of cool You guys are awesome \o/
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On a completely different note i am thinking of heading to brisvegas at the start of July to watch the State of Origin and Flight of the Chonchords as well as a AFL game. I will probably be in bBisbane all week but wont be free on a weekend. So if i do go, I may or may not be able to see you guys :\
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So you’ll be here for the game against the Melbourne Demons? There are pretty good odds that I’ll be at that game. Potential half-time mini-meat?
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SPORTS \o/
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I’m gonna miss Lockyer’s throaty and hoarse comments after the match.
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And winning. You’re going to miss that too.
#MisplacedOptimism
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Its funny because it is definitely misplaced although this year the teams might be more even.
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So many lols right now.
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Oh man, the Lockyer commentary was great. He might have been a smart player, but he’ll never get a job as a commentator. Which is a shame, because I would watch that so much.
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I am suspicious of your unwarranted praise.
Hats I can take, but the praise makes it look suss.
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So Ozgameshop won’t sell banned games anymore. Does anyone know a website with decent shipping times and price what will sell me Mortal Kombat?
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I’m guessing they got legal advice not to. They don’t stock any banned games anymore, and they dodged my question to customer service about it.
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I’m not sure if they still deliver to Australia but you can purchase banned games from the UK site
365games(dot)co(dot)uk
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Zavvi have the ‘Komplete’ edition for ~$30. http://www.zavvi.com/elysium.search?search=mortal+kombat
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I didn’t see but loops said it was like $50-60 on both MightyApe and Play-Asia so it looks like this is your best bet.
…As long as you don’t mind waiting 😛
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I was asleep positively early…
At like, 1 am. And no super crazy dreams is a nice change? I miss having dreams, I very rarely get them any more, but it’s so much fun to look back at what your brain said, and think “holy crap, I am genuinely insane!”
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I always have the weirdest crazy dreams. Except when I go to tell someone about it I completely forget my dream. So irritating
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I can remember one dream that I had(well, bits of it), that I had a few years back, I wrote it down because it was seriously that weird.
It involved the cast of Firefly(except that I was Mal), Samuel L. Jackson, a tale of revenge, and the whole thing was solved with a game of Mario Kart.
It was odd.
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Man, I just got an awesome idea for a movie.
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I dream about zombies a lot. And that every is totally useless so I have to save everyone. Or I’m like “Stuff it. Just take me out now.”
I don’t even watch zombie films!
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I had a dream where I was link and I had to fight Ganondorf and he kept summoning those skeleton baddies from Ocarina of Time, I think that was after playing Zelda for like 16 hours straight.
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Man, nothing grinds my gears like people telling me about their dreams. I mean… it was all in your head. What does it matter? Unless it’s a sexy dream and I was in it. Then I care. I care a lot.
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oh Faction that reminds me …
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Meh whats happening in peoples sub-concious is pretty cool.I like trying to figure out where my brain got that crazy piece of information that it is projecting on me while i sleep.
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You’re having dreams, I’m just stealing them from your memory and selling them to rich Asian businessmen. It’s a new market analysis strategy I came up with.
That would explain a lot, and also explain that the most recent time I had a dream was when I didn’t sleep at home.
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I’m good. Just getting ready to head into uni to start researching my *other* essay. The one I don’t give a damn about 😛
How are you, noble Sir Tech Knight?
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Currently waiting for a Windows SBS server to set itself up, boooored. At least I slept better last night than sunday night. So many nightmares
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I hardly end up finishing games and if I do I hardly go back and play them…
I beat Uncharted 2 three and a half times within the first 2 weeks of getting it. Man that game is AWESOME! One of the best games to come out last decade.
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Yea, it was pretty awesome.
But…
It still has that awful adventure movie logic where the bad guy is just on your tail all the time despite not knowing any of the clues or having any of the resources to follow you. It’s been toned down heaps in U2 from U1 (remember that annoying guy with the golden gun that would just pop up whenever it was convenient to the plot?)
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Can’t say I remember it (it’s been ages since I’ve played the original) but what kills a fairy good plot for me in the Uncharted games is a certain something that happens in each games…
(rot13’d for story spoilers for all 3 games)
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It’s not really a thematic issue, after all, this is an adventure game and the bad guy is supposed to chase you. It’s a logical one, if spend the last 3 days finding this secret location by decoding a puzzle found on an ancient artefact, then having the bad guy magically show up to have a shootout with is a little hard to buy.
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Pretty sure i missed a word i that comment somewhere…
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Nathan Drake…dreamy sigh.
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Sorry. I was imagining our wedding. Finding artefacts, punching dudes in their stupid faces. It will be a magical day.
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If it doesn’t you’re doing it wrong
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Clearly.
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So Blaghs are you keen for another awesome game of LoL where we double jungle with Gragas and Taric. I think our next troll tactic should be annie & volibear double jungle. It will be like tibbers is there all the time 😛
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I think we should bots arent as fun because we can still manage to win easily. I think it is time to troll some normals
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I completely agree. Who cares if we lose non-ranked games anyway? As long as we’re not doing anything to warrant getting reported etc we should go nuts.
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I think if we’re going to double jungle, we should do it in a vaguely sensible manner.
So like, Shazbot and Taric. You’d have jungle speed, and hilariously damaging ganks.
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Sounds awesome, lets try tonight 🙂
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“HAVE YOU SEEN MY BEAR TIBBERS?”
“IMMA BEAR!”
“HAVE YOU SEEN MY BEAR TIBBERS?”
“IMMA BEAR!”
Best pair ever.
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i hear “HAVE YOU SEEN MY BEAR TIBBERS?” as said by Jamesmag in my head. where is that dude nowadays?
should go for a theme team
Annie – Dorothy
Fiddles – Scarecrow
Blitz – Tinman
Nidalee – Lion
Heimer – The Great Oz
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the teenage mutant ninja turtles
Rammus – Leonardo
Jax – Donatello
Katarina – Raphael (since noone in the league fights with sais)
(Birthday skin) Fiddles – Michaelangelo (a party dude)
Twitch – Splintervs
their enemies
Morde (shredder)
Ren (rocksteady)
Ali (bebop)
Shen (foot soldier)
Ziggs (michael bay)
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The tuna is made by taking giant cans of tuna, draining them of brine and then mixing it with a rather large amount of mayo (1/3kg per 3 cans I think). Then it’s all mashed together by hand in a giant bowl.
This is roughly how I prepare canned tuna at home now, except I buy fancy mayo and use a fork.
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Veggie Patty is surprisingly delicious. Normally a little dry because they microwave it too much but I did eat that one fairly regularly when I worked there. I’d made a point to try most of the menu and it turns out that most of the deli meats are pretty awesome as well.
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So they’re increasing capacity on the server I want to join for TERA in about five minutes. Haven’t created my character yet. Wanted to reserve one. When they increased capacity yesterday it was filled within an hour or so.
I’ve got my laptop at work, patched and up to date. Can tether my phone to it to get online. But we have an open plan office. Not sure if jumping onto a game for ten minutes would be frowned at. 😐
(Also my laptop is a Mac, so I’m a traitor if I pull it out…)
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Is it an evolution of the tech Sega uses to do the Miku Hatsune concerts? They have a similar sort of thing going on – CG singer projected onto a screen in a really convincing way so that unless you’re right on top of it, it looks like she’s on stage.
It sucks not having any gamers in my office. Seriously, i cant be the only person here who enjoys video games.
This is how bad it is, my boss told me his son plays a “Gamebox”
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My games are still PAL or NTSC.
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My games are CGA.
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I get NTSC even though my Gamebox only takes PAL games
*hipster hair flick*
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I play my games on a black and white TV with a dial. *hipster shrug*
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I play my games on a piece of cardboard with a dice.
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Cardboard? Luxury!
In my day, we played with small rocks which we would gather from stream beds. To get there you had to walk sixteen miles in the snow, barefoot over broken glass, uphill both ways. And when you got home at night our father would kill us and dance on our grave.
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I read that in a Yorkshire accent.
If you don’t know why, it’s time to exercise your Google skills.
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I liked Need for Speed back when it was Underground
Then it became Most Wanted.
Then it shifted and became good again.
Then it went Undercover and even the fans didn’t recognise it.
Then in got The Runs! and now it’s crap.
Reply fail!!!
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These must be some pretty Sivir errors(starts laughing to self).
I’ve always said that Riot has terrible programmers, and I stick by that, despite having little to no idea how this whole thing works.
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Wait, they’ve added Viktor to the free rotation.
Surely they’d only do that if they anticipate that he’ll be fixed, right?
Right?
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Went to the Mexican place for lunch again. Got me some soft shell chicken tacos and noticed that they have jalepenos in the little condiment area. So I loaded up on those and added them to my tacos.
Delicious.
Hotter than I’m used to with jalepenos, but delicious.
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MYSPELLING IS BETTAR.
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Also, That’s*
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Protip: don’t get soft shelled tacos.
Their inconvenience is not balanced out by their deliciousness 🙁
Still delicious, it’s just that I’ve had to resort to using a fork.
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Depends on how you prepare them…
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As long as we don’t let you toast them for us, we’re dandy.
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IT WAS ONE CROISSANT, OK?!
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That’s how it always starts.
IT WAS JUST THE ONE TIME!
Then, it’s a second, and a third, and the world seems a little less bright for it.
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JUST THE TIP?
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Terrible admission: I have never experienced proper mexican food. I was under the impression it was basically impossible to get in Australia.
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I have an American friend that stayed with us for 6 months last year, and he confirms what little Mexican food we have here is terrible, apparently.
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That’s probably true.
Proper variations of any ethnic food are impossible to get outside of that country or at the very least outside of the households of immigrants from those countries.
You can probably get something that’s close enough though.
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You can get pretty decent food from just about any ethnicity in Melbourne except good mexican.
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Err, Available. I’m not free. At least, not normally.
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But you… I … we….
*runs from the room in tears*
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Me, pretty much anytime expect for Monday nights
I also want to try Misty’s dineer for their American style burgers
The TAYbar is open for business
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/who-wants-to-get-drunk-league-of-legends-style/
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13 different cocktails on the site currently, that would be one interesting session to get through them all
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Starcraft has a nice little community thing going on called Barcraft. People go to bars and watch Starcraft tournaments.
There are themed drinks as well, can’t remember them exactly but there’s stuff like the Colossus (which had a lot of different shots in it, to make you unbalanced), Stim Pack (Red Bull and Vodka, also known as the Pylon which can be served without the Red Bull to become an Artosis Pylon) and all other sorts of concoctions.
Commenting on TAY while one of our directors is sitting at my desk beside me.
He’s completely oblivious.
\o/
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It’s even better when you listen to Tom Jones as background music. Specifically “It’s not unusual”.
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Sooooo…when’s the next Red Dead Redemption multiplayer happening? Specifically on seXbox, so we can exclude Pez.
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Screw you, you’d just mess up our game anyway.
We have a hipster, which automatically makes us cooler than you xbots.
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Yet again, I am struck down with fatigue after consuming this Mexican foods.
I honestly don’t know why.
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I do enjoy a good food coma.
It’s less of a good thing when I’m at work and apparently have things to do.
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Salsa whatnow?
I just shoved jalepenos on my food. It seemed like a good idea at the time and I’m sticking to it.
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B-but it’s a thing! Look! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose-6-phosphate_dehydrogenase_deficiency
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I don’t normally review book suppositories as I’ve never used a book suppository before, nor do I like anal delivery methods of poop enablement, but I thought I would review this anyway.
The delivery method seemed quite juvenile and it was hard to distinguish which end I needed to insert into my rectum.
★☆☆☆☆
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You’re battling with McG for title of worst person this site. A voting/scoring system should be formed so we can keep track of your progress.
Croissant failure, 3 votes.
Poop enabling critique, 2 votes.-
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It wasn’t a challenge, but that being said, I would relish the prospect of watching you outdo yourself.
*popcorn*
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I get very competitive against myself.
I blame the schizophrenia.
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Thanks! Although Book 2 is sitting on my desk mocking me, and I’ve done no more than have a quick flip through. All will be well!
My suburb’s being hit with some heavy rain today. It’s the perfect excuse to sit around at home playing video games all day.
Currently tearing up the galaxy with Kasumi and Garrus, because they are my Shep’s bros.
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I don’t actually think it was terrible, I was just making a joke, and I believe your like of the game is a completely valid opinion that I accept.
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Bish is crazy.
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Helps if you select the entire hat Cakesmith.
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Baseball cap worn sideways and a monocle – What is this abomination
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I think you’ll find that that’s his own top hat, thank you very much.
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Yeah, the first time it happened everyone was excited about free games, but when it’s Heavy Rain every single time, it just gets old fast.
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I like to imagine David Cage weeping, as he flies around in a blimp, screaming at people to ignore the plot inconsistencies, and to just play his game.
I’m off to Time Zone tonight \o/ haven’t been in like a year. I love that place so much fun, especially with my mates.
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BTW my seconded is purely for the fact that i have never been to a timezone that has animal kaiser ;P
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I think that there’s an Animal Kaiser at this Time Zone.
It’s still not as good as Galaxy World.
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I have never been to a time zone man 😛
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Galactic Circus is the Melbourne version of Galaxy World. But bigger. And better. It has a bowling alley!
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Now I’m confused.
Sod it.
Arcades suck.
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Unless they are made of cardboard
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Timezone Surfer Paradise has bowling AND laser tag YEAH!
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Galactic Circus is pretty bad. A million and one broken light gun games and Daytona USAs, a Street Fighter machine in one corner, and pretty much nothing else. I just wanted to play some Metal Slug or hell, anything that’s not using 3D from the Playstation era. But there’s nothing there like that. They also don’t have a Virtual On cabinet any more. 🙁
Also if we go there during Batmangs, make sure to avoid challenging anyone to air hockey. The puck spent more time airborne than on the table.
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Galactic Circus has no bumper cars.
Galaxy World has bumper cars.
On what planet is no bumper cars better!?
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A plenet where peoples spines are made of cake mix?
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You’ve evidently never eaten my sister’s rock cakes.
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Moist cake is good cake.
Hehe, moist.
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Man I love that word. It should be a dirty word, but it’s not.
MOIST.
moist.
moiiiiiiiiiiist.
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I also like:
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Now I want to take up athletics again just so I have an excuse to use this all the time
My desk is slowly disappearing under various documents being placed on my desk. All of them irrelevant because they all get sent to me in an email anyway!
Y U WASTE PAPER ADMIN STAFF?
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So you can practice throwing scrunched up piece of paper in the bin. I prefer to practice my kicking. You would be shocked at how good my accuracy is from 5 metres off the left foot around a corner. Well thats unless you guessed i would miss, in that case you wouldn’t be shocked.
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What about the old over thinking, judgemental self obsessing guy? I hear he was a hit at parties and got all the tail (i am using tail to reference women not animals, you sick sonofabitch)
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Damn those brackets! Now I can’t make yiff jokes.
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I was considering saying the same thing.
Should we create a page, dedicated to “Rocketmanisms” or would that ruin the charm, the pure, unbridled joy, of what has been created?
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My friends at school considered doing this for all of the stupid shit i used to say. But there idea was a book. The expression i could fill a book with all the stupid random crap you say was a little more literal after that.
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Where can I buy said book?
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haha i dont think you can it is scrunched up in a old notebook of mine somewhere.
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I’ll give you $5 for it.
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Funny that. I had a book for exactly the same purpose for Asian John (if you remember him from the LAN?). One of the best was him standing up and protesting profusely just before our QCS test (HSC in NSW I think) as a volunteer was explaining that we had 90 minutes for the section.
“Excuse me! It says right here that we have an hour and a half!
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Hahaha That is freaking great yeah i remember him, Wait is he the one who didn’t look asian at all?
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Yep. That’s why we call him Asian John.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Capricornian humour.
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Paperless office = email everything then print it out.
People haven’t quite worked out that computers are rather nifty.
@Tigerion: http://www.thedrunkenmoogle.com/
@Rize: I may be up for a session on Saturday night assuming this wedding I have to go to doesn’t go too late. Followed by a visit to TAYbar.
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Cool Site. We should all play the E3 drinking game in June. http://www.thedrunkenmoogle.com/tagged/drinking+games
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Uncharted 2 finished.
That was so awesome.
I just wanted it to keep going on and on.
Hopefully Uncharted 3 is also good.
Drake is a boss.
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Oh, I’m not hoping for better than #2, as that would be almost impossible. I’m just hoping that it stays fun and charming.
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I might be crazy but I enjoyed Uncharted 1 more than 2. Something about it I don’t know what.
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It’s still good but Uncharted 2 set a very high standard.
Probably best to just wait a while so that the memory of how awesome Uncharted 2 is has faded a little.
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It’s not just the narrative. Too many kill rooms full of respawning enemies that pop out of thin air. Too much reliance on you doing each combat segment exactly the way they intend you to.
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Ugh. I got a little frustrated with the first two games at times when the combat seemed ridiculously difficult until I discovered some particular way of completing the battle that resulted in me not dying.
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Don’t worry. That’s back in spades. Just wait until you get on the boat.
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The key to success in UC3 (more so than the others) isn’t honing skills. In UC3, it seems to be finding a safe hiding spot away from where enmies suddenly spawn without warning.
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Or just go with ridiculously powerful and unescapable melee QTEs all the way.
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You can still get shot and die while doing those melee QTEs.
Derp.
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Prepare for that x10 in 3.
I especially like the bits where you clear out all the enemies and then suddenly a new set spawns in the same locations, sometimes right on top of you. Also their uncanny ability to throw grenades at your cover with amazing accuracy and distance and constantly flush you out into the bullet sponge guys with the shotguns.
Every area like that, there’s a hidden gun somewhere to make it easier, but if you don’t see it then you’re basically fucked. It’s like they used failing and restarting areas over and over and listening to the assfuckers laugh at you and taunt your corpse in order to pad the length of the game out. If the combat wasn’t so annoying you could probably breeze through the whole thing in about 5-6 hours. 🙁
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This, but I still give it 8/10. Somehow.
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Oh also, they ‘rebalanced’ all the guns for multiplayer, so a lot of them do less damage and as a result, the enemies soak up a lot more and you feel like you’re shooting blanks at them.
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Damn. I hate bullet sponges. If they want to make enemies difficult, make them smarter or make me use strategy, don’t make them absorb 20/30/millions of bullets.
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People asking if The Witcher 2 has broken street date.
Pretty sure it broke street date 11 months ago.
#PCMasterRace
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#Ineveractuallyunderstoodtheneedforhashtagsitseemslikeawayforpeopletobesarcasticortoexplainthejokeorcontextthattheywerewritinginalsorocketmanisthebest
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It’s a way of contextualising with theme or jokesplanation in as few characters as possible. Aslos, it’s a way to link Tweets with other Tweets that has leaked weirdly into other parts of the internet.
#TwitterExplanation #Redundant #YouKnewAllThis
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I think the coffee machine at work is broken, it just served me a cup of burnt water.
Yes I know what I said.
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Can’t do this Friday without also dragging my sister along and that would be awkward for everyone involved.
Seems like it’s a pretty busy place too, Friday night might involve a very long wait to get in if we’re in a big group.
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Wednesday next week is Anzac day.
The city will be full of fit, strapping young soldier boys in uniform looking for an enjoyable time out. Doesn’t that just sound terrible
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Oh. wait. I forgot. (Holiday!!! yesssssss)
Maybe we should do Thursday?
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Works for me
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I will be in Melbourne next Thursday \o/
But I’m already busy Thursday night /o\
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Screw Kevin Smith. What has he ever done for TAY?
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So I assume you know where he is staying but have you worked out which of the bushes you need to hide behind?
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But why would you need something that powerful? Even video rendering wouldn’t need that much would it?
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It was a design place. I told him that’s technically the older model now but I can probably still get it.
Quadro 6000 has replaced it and retails for $4,000USD
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Oh no, video rendering needs far more if you want to do it quickly. That kind of thing is useful if you’re going to be simulating something, as you can run it all via the CUDA CORES!!!1!!
Is it cost efficient? Probably not. But it is time efficient, in some ways, depending on the project.
Completely worthless if you want to play games though.
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Yes!
Or did you want actual idea of which of those.
This Friday I have blur / taybar but meat > online gaming so I can do that and maybe join in blur later in the night.
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You should have gulped loudly and then then stammered for him to repeat the question, like in the sci-fi films where the pilot demands to make the ship do something it wasn’t supposed to do.
“But Sir! The Quadro FX 5800 pricing is astronomical, I don’t know if our systems can process that amount of pricing!”
And then he will reply
“The hell with your systems! We have no other choice, now GIVE ME THE PRICING OF A QUADRO FX 5800!”
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I was having a pretty good day until I got an email inviting me to a graduate studies information evining at ANU. Then I remembered how I dropped out of my PhD study lat year, and got sad.
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I dropped out of my Masters last year.
Drop-out buddies!
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What were you studying?
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Applied maths. Found that research and I don’t work so nicely together.
Now, I’m studying teaching.
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Sick of work so just asked for two weeks off. When my boss gets back from his leave he’d better approve it or SO HELP ME I WILL SULK ABOUT IT FOR A GOOD HOUR OR SO!
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So i randomly found this while i was bored at home it kind of struck a chord. Then i was thinking oh god i am the creepy guy in the diner i am going going to die alone. The i had a bacon sanwhich true story.
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total mindfuck. but then again, anything written / directed by Michele Gondry tends to be that.
except the Green Hornet. that was just rubbish.
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Some good news to offset what might be a pattern of moping (sorry Harli and everyone):
Got word from the hospital and the public system has come through for us again! They are willing to give my wife the medical caesarean that she needs. My son will be born on June 19 !
\o/
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YAY!
That means you’ve got a whole 4 days to prepare for the Canberra Meat! 😛
I kid, I kid. Well, you’re the one with a kid, but you know what I mean.
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Is that because they get eye injuries from the shrapnel and have to wear an eye-patch for the rest of their life?
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hey man, Snake wore one and he’s totes cool.
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Thats awesome news!
Great to hear that all came good eventually, best of luck with your future babby 😀
Got my Witcher 2 Dark Edition \o/ (Shut your face, Cakesmith. I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE GOING TO SAY)
There’s a couple scuffs on the box /o\
My poor baby. WHO HURT YOU? WHO DID THIS TO YOU?
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Can I take over?:
I’ve had Witcher 2 for ages but have only played it for 17 minutes
something like that…
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I’m not sure what’s worse, having the Witchers and barely playing them (Cakesmith) or not owning them at all (me). I was interested in the first but my laptop (all I had back then) couldn’t run it 🙁
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I had a friend gift it to me on Steam for my birthday months ago. After failing repeatedly to get into the original Witcher, I’m trying to find the motivation to give it a whirl.
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Oh and I guess I better contribute 😛
But… it’s just a box! :O *flees*
I’m usually alright if a big box like that for a collector’s edition is just a little bit damaged, for me it’s the inside goodies that matter! Speaking of which, let me know how they are :D. I, like a few other TAYbies had it on pre-order but when my order was cancelled by JB I never bothered to place it again. Hopefully I’m not missing out on much 🙂
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dunno about the Dark ed., but not playing the Witcher 2 (or only playing for 17 minutes) is missing out if youre a fan of RPGs.
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See that Cakemang? You’re missing out!
In case anyone was confused, that 17 minute comment is what Cakesmith says every time someone mentions The Witcher 2 😛
(I personally haven’t played either game)
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Oh, I see how this is. I disappear for a bit to do the work I’m actually being paid to do and you attack me.
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But #35 says you’re missing out!
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Your face is missing out!
On what, I do not know.
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The original Witcher completely overhauled what I expected from games. Have you read any of the books?
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I think only two of them have been translated in English. It’s best to start wit The Last Wish. It’s a collection of short stories. The other one is the first part of a series.
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The manual, inside the game case had a bit of wear and tear raggedyness on the edge of the cover :\
The art book and making of dvds were probably the biggest incentives to buy it.
A bit bummed that you can see, not sure what it’s called by those pieces of string the binds the book, in between most pages.
And the cardboard slip the game came in was a tiny bit dog eared as well – I guess someone was in a rush while they were packing it.
Overall, I’m not overwhelmed like I was with the Bioshock 2 CE – I thought more time was spent there incorporating elements of the games world throughout the contents. I’m still glad I bought it though. My criticisms are probably just me being pedantic and fussy.
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Oh, so the inside goodies were damaged too!? D:
/o\ complain complain complain!
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Only the tiniest bit. Just something that happened when it was being packed.
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The original Witcher collector’s edition remains one of the best CEs I’ve ever purchased, just for the artbook. The amount of care those guys put into their work is astounding.
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The art is just breathtaking. Really looking forward to watching the making of DVD too 😀
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That one was really cool. I currently have one that I borrowed from a friend but I don’t want to look at it to much cause I’m afraid I might damage it
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I think with the enhanced edition it came as a pdf.
My criticisms are probably just me being pedantic and fussy.
And generally being a woman. *flees*
DON’T HURT ME!
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I’m trying to imagine you turning into the Hulk but all I can see is you turning into a normal sized person
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That’s probably pretty accurate.
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Or maybe she wants you to think you got away but the next time you meat…
Stabby stab stab
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They mostly come out at night…
….mostly.
In seriousness, Bioshock 2 and the Blizzard Collectors Editions are the best ones I own.
Star Wars The Old Republic is good but the sheer effort Bioshock and the Blizzard ones have amazes me.
Dem art books.
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I love all versions of Blizzard games. They act like we’re still in the 90’s in regards to normal versions, and that’s definitely a good thing. A good, meaty manual, with story stuff, and all that. Usually some pointless but cool extras (SC2 had a notepad, and one or two other things). So nice. And then their special ones are so good. So much Lesser than three for Blizzard.
I have had it all this time but never finished the first chapter. I blame the fact that I played through all of the first game with Polish voices right beforehand and having it in English felt weird after that. Also I was kind of tired of witching. And the combat was too hard for me, I’m bad at games and don’t have piles of time to screw around repeating bits over and over.
I started playing the Medal of Honor: Frontline HD remaster last night.
I seem to remember that Normandy landing being more visceral…
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I played through that so many times back on the PS2…
…just the Normandy landing, not the entire game.
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This reminds me of how cool I thought the first of the Russian levels in the first CoD was.
Until I saw Enemy at the Gates, and realised that it was a straight copy…
Oh man, our CEO just randomly walked up to my desk and asked to see some reports and wanted updates on about 40 dealerships. This is a guy that i have never spoken to in my 1.5 months working here. And suddenly he’s at my computer. Talk about pressure.
It’s made even worse by the fact that when we first locked eyes i was mid-yawn.
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I hadn’t spoken to the CEO of the company in 8 months he comes in while i was browsing kotaku with a dude from AMerica who does our audits. He says this is Robert,
I say “Thats not my name”
He says” You have always been a joker Rob” and walks away
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And I think it’s gonna be a long long time
‘Til I stop singing this song in my mind.
He is the man who makes us all go ‘Oh,
Rocketman!’ (Rocketman!)
You punch guys and your jokes make us all groan.
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With the incredibly busy afternoon I’ve just had doing server quotes and talking to suppliers and what not I’ve missed out on my afternoon coffees and have started to go a little loopy.
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When I was in Brisbane last week for a server install, was so hungover. Had to trek for 10 minutes with a 25kg server. Then when I finally got it installed, the install supervisor commented that it was perfect – except for the fact that it was upside down.
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Also I wasn’t accustomed to being in a server room for a prolonged length of time. You could be excused for going loopy in one.
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I’ve done almost nothing today but I’m still super tired. I actually mistyped that as ‘supre’ and almost had to kill myself.
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Wow, clothes-shopping tired is a whole other level of tired.
And I mistyped that at ‘clothse’ and almost had to kill myself. -
I wanted to have the afternoon/night off and play all the gaems, but last night the website I’m building (for my work experience company) got hacked. 😛 Just changed all the passwords and now trying to weed out all the little scripts the guy put in. He replaced the titles of everything in the database with an alert box, so you get about a million of them when you load the page.
Not a total disaster, but sure annoying. D:
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What a douche. Some people just want to watch the world burn.
That second sentence was mainly because I love Michael Caine’s voice.
home again. & damp again. I need a damn car for scenarios such as this.
Well, I dont have a car. but… what I do have is chicken.
& sourdough.
chicken rolls and cups of tea will make up for my lack of car for tonight.
& then play some game for a while. or maybe guitar. dunno. not important.
aaanyway… hows stuff TAY?
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Stuff is good. I like stuff.
Waiting until after karate to try out Witcher 2. And play it for more than 17 minutes.-
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Cakesmith TAY meme gogogo!
Take your pic (pun intended)!
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Haha love em! But isn’t that your real face? 😛
Aren’t we supposed to use look-a-like?
Also where’s this Pez meme you have hidden away? 😀
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This one:
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Caught up! Somehow.
@Shane: I dropped out of an undergraduate degree. \o/? Also happy days on the news.
@Crackamackablackaface: Is clothse Raggedy Andy doing Goatse?
@rebrahjugbatmelons: A miniature Hulk? How adorable! Also you should go to wherever sold you the CE and BURN IT TO THE GROUND! SALT THE EARTH AND LEAVE NOTHING!
@scree and possibly Strange?: I learnt box and spiral stitching today and I feel no less manly.
Everyone one else can go to hell I have no particular comments. Until I do. Then you’ll know about it. Oh you’d better believe you’ll know about it. Yessiree.
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“Everyone one else.” I meant that. *nodding gravely* I’d like to see you do something about it *stroking goatee*
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icy what you did there.
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Good news for Holden fans:
http://www.news.com.au/business/breaking-news/torana-may-be-on-its-way-back/story-e6frfkur-1226330591469
Hey TAY.
Has anyone had to send their 3DS to Nintendo to be repaired?
If so, how long did it take?
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My 3DS is still going good! So, no idea how long it would take.
Try asking @VOOK64 on twitter – he’s the resident expert on all things Nintendo.-
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that would help, thank you
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Awwwww. 🙁
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Wow Legend of Korra is awesome :D. So this is what it feels like to view anime in 720p!
Sometimes when no one’s looking I pretend I’m bending. Pew pew water, earth, fire, air!
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OFF TOPIC TIME:
During my half hour drive into Uni today, I was cranking the Xenoblade soundtrack. As I was trying to merge onto the (fairly busy) highway one of the boss battle songs came on and it was epic!No-one survived.
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Only thing better would be trying to sneak into a lecture undetected with Mechonis Field playing. That song is so sneaky sounding. The start is anyway, once is builds up its just plain awesome 😀
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OFF TOPIC TIME:
2 weeks ago a guy in a Spiderman costume went into my lecture. But he picked the worst time because it was the 6-7:30 lecture with like 15 people in it in one of the bigger lecture theatres. No fucks were given that day.
ON TOPIC TIME:
Xenoblade \o/
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I always used to get them in the lowest possible quality so I had more downloads free to get more. Quantity over quality when you only have 1GB of downloads to work with. xD
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Fair enough.
I’m on a 1tb plan (lol) so effectively I just grab ALL THE ANIMUS and don’t really care much. Though the new trend to do everything in 10-bit H.264? Fucking anime encoders. Minimal gain, screws over anyone without a full-sized HTPC. I used to be able to watch stuff on my awesome little E-350 machine, even 1080p didn’t use more than ~30% CPU. But 10-bit 720p chokes it. CPU’s just not strong enough. 🙁
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1tb!? :O It’s funny though, as soon as I upgraded to a 100gb plan, I basically stopped watching anime. 😛 All that scrimping for nothing!
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Basically I was on a… uh… 200gb plan I think? And I checked iiNet’s plan options and for $20 or so LESS per month I could move to a 500/500 peak/off-peak plan. So it was a no-brainer. I barely scratch the sides.
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Until late 2010/early 2011 my internet was capped at about 30GB a month with top speeds of… 60kb/s. Yep. My iPhone is over 5x as fast as that…
I don’t watch much anime so haven’t had a chance to get any high quality downloads so I was surprised to see how pretty it all looked 🙂
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You should see how good some of the higher-budget stuff looks on Bluray.
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Should mention I’ve only seen bits and pieces of an ep here and there but the one on at the moment seems kind of cool.
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If you’re interested, I don’t see why not. Even the worst episodes are still worth the watch, I think. ;D
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Why did you have to remind me of something else I need to start watching. Got a season sitting in my desk right now.
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Someone else was after Nintendo Club codes? Who was it? Greenius has what he needs and I still have codes for:
Skyward Sword Limited Edition
Zelda 3DS
Super Mario Land 3D
Super Street Fighter IV 3DS Edition
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I totally have enough points for a gold nunchuck. Part of me wants to continue saving points in case something even better comes along… but knowing Nintendo, that’s never going to happen.
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Someone should’ve saved! 😛
Powalen what’s your total amount of points? Mine’s like 5500 and scree’s is in the 7000’s 🙂
You can check in your Club Nintendo thingy if you weren’t aware.
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You’re making me feel greedy /o\
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Sorry didn’t mean too! /o\
You should have enough for a hat case though! *psssst* get the Luigi one because it’s green
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Nunchuck is priority
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Well I’ve never bought anything before, so my max was probably 3850. Down to 850 now D:
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Ahh fair enough, I stupidily bought a pencil case (which I’ve never used) back when it first launched because that was the best thing they had back then lol. Also got Zelda posters because Zelda but they just sit in a tube 😛
At least I’ll actually use this one 😀
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Sent you one of mine (Sin & Punishment) but looking at the card it’s basically got the game cover art on one side, back side is white with blurbs in euro languages and a scratchy bit. So that might be a UK card. I believe the game was a pretty limited release (pretty hard to find it originally), might not have had an AU insert.
I have no use for any of my codes but the bulk of my US games are not Nintendo-published or predate them doing the whole points thing, and the bulk of my PAL games are from the UK.
I have codes for:
– Skyward Sword
– The Last Story (LE)
– Metroid Prime Trilogy
– XenobladeMetroid Prime Trilogy has the same sort of card as Sin & Punishment, the other three have red cards. Don’t know what that means.
Upside: this gave me a chance to take a few of these out of shrink wrap. Have had Fragile Dreams for three or four years and it was still in the plastic.
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Thanks but it didn’t work (also sorry about making you take your games out of the shrink wrap!). Tales of the Abyss is one of the cases where the UK code works because it’s of those smaller titles that just had an Australian classification sticker stuck on. I’m not sure if the Australian version received the small white card but mine had the standard red scratchie one (bought the UK one from eBay).
Btw is your Skyward Sword one for the Limited Edition or standard? A standard Australian one might work.
Only thing I really need now is Pandora’s Tower code if you don’t mind. Club Nintendo UK have that promotion for the three Operation Rainfall games and since I already have Xenoblade and The Last Story this will be the last one I’ll need since I’m not buying it.
Thanks again mate 😀
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Skyward Sword is standard, but UK release. And my Pandora’s Tower code will have to wait until I get the game.
Why not buying? It might not be as good as the other two but by all accounts it’s still a pretty solid, interesting game.
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It just didn’t look that way for me and my pile is big enough :P. To be honest I didn’t even want The Last Story but got it anyway and I’m finding it hard to get the motivation to finish it :/
EVERYONE EVERYON EEVERYONE!
i just got tickets to flight of the conchords! \o/ \o/
SO HAPPPPPY I DONT CARE ABOUT ANY SPELELING MISTAKES I MAKE
Is it easy to cancel an XBL Gold Subscription? If I recall you used to have to call them to cancel (I don’t like calling people! gahhhh) but I heard that a while back they changed it so you can cancel online.
There’s that $2 for 2 months of Gold deal on the Xbox dashboard and I’ll probably have to buy it sometime soon (for Trials Evo/RDR/BLands 2).
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Super easy. You can do it right after you buy it so you don’t forget when the two months are up.
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Really? 😀
If I recall you were a Silver member until recently (I’m guessing) since you played some RDR. Did you do this? Could you tell me how? Might buy it later when Trials is out… TRIALS VROOOM VROOOOM! KA BOOM!!
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Yes. I grabbed the 2 months for $2 as well. I think I just unsubscribed on the xbox live website. If I managed to do it you’ll have no trouble.
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I use pre-paid cards purely because of the horror stories I’ve heard about cancelling subs.
I get them from here:
http://gamecard.com.au/my/shopdisplayproducts.asp?search=yes&bc=no&catalogid=3Works out to be $4 a month.
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I used to use pre-paid cards but the problem is, I hardly ever play multiplayer. I used to just use 1 month ones to get the deal of the week discounts on certain games (Stacking and most recently, Bastion). In the 2 months that I last used my vouchers, I didn’t play online once :P.
So $2 works out to be better based on how much I’ll be using it. No point paying more for something I’m not going to use 🙂
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The most I’ve used my gold sub since I got it has been since I started this community night thing.
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Oh Cakey…
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Actually, I lie a little. I played through Army of Two and Gears of War 2 with a friend over XBL.
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Used to be annoyingly hard and involved calling up billing support. Now I think it’s just in the dashboard.
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I started my sewing training today. Told you last page but you didn’t care enough about me to respond. I’m so desparetely alone.
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It’s okay. This time. I’ll forgive you this once but don’t let me catch you doing it again. (I’m joking)
This is the machine I’m using. Not the actual one but same thing.
http://blog.artifactbags.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/adler1.jpg
Not really for clothes, more leather patching and shoes.-
When you know how to make shoes, I’m coming to you for cosplay ones \o/
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I’m in
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I didn’t actually expect you to accept XD
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✖ [ Melbourne Delish Mexicana Meat!!! ] ✖
✪ April 26th, 2012 {Thursday}
✪ Mamasita, 1/11 Collins St, CBD
✪ Eating and drinking tequila
♚ Attending: (please reconfirm)
✤Tigerion
✤NegativeZero
✤f4ction
✤Puppylicks (maybe ?)
✤Cakesmith (after he rifles through Kevin Smith’s underwear)
Feel free to add suggestions on what to do etc. Bookings need over 8 people and require everyone to do a set course of $44 (which is OK for me but I don’t want to force people)
Also TEQUILA.
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Also, I’ve never had ‘real’ Mexican food before (never had a taco, burrito etc., nachos don’t count!)
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WHY WOULD I RAPE YOU. YOU’RE NOT CHRIS HEMSWORTH
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I thought you were in the Evans camp when it came to the Chriseseseses?
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Yeah but that doesn’t mean I’m not stupid and not looking at my odds!
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OK PHEW, BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHER TAYBIES!? (I assume everyone is a rapist, it’s the safest way)
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Let’s just say we’re all like the people who post on craigslist. An adventure every time you meet one 😀
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I probably will not attempt to rape you as you are green, and it might be contagious.
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urbanspoon is just for bored white people and yuppie asians.
Anyway there is a waitlist so we can do pre-drinks and then eating
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I’ll be coming after work and I drive in so I probably won’t be drinking much, if at all.
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Drink more tequila – it burns off the alcohol. Right?
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I have Nova’s number!
Send it to all the internet people!
What could go wrong?
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Kevin Smith shows are notorious for going for extended lengths of time (like 6-8hrs, last one he did in Sydney went until 3am) so I doubt I’ll actually get to make it 🙁
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I’m so jealous!
I got dragged along to see Clerks when it came out. I’d never heard of it. It’s a good thing I’m easily led!Re: meat – I can’t make it. I have a class on Thursday nights.
hmmmmm, so it has appeared that Uber has released Super MNC, which in my opinion, isn’t ready for the public to play…. apparently they were having troubles with invites and decided to open it up, i think they may announce that it is in open beta or something now…
BUT WHO CARES, THE GAME IS FREAKING AWESOME, GO PLAY IT EVERYONE
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Why do you keep giving me things? You make me feel like a terrible person! (round about and rather crappy way of saying thank you)
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Also I mentioned you at the bottom of last page. Did you see huh did you see? Huh huh?
No?
You must hate me as much a scree does. You big meanie.
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Word of the day night is: Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
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No, can’t you read? It’s Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
😛
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Have any TAYbies listened to the album “Murmur” by R.E.M. ?
If not here’s your chance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z8x7oOn_oY&feature=related
And if you enjoyed it, go and purchase it! 🙂
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Was it in the cut scenes? I skipped them, got to the tutorial, killed the first lot of mobs then quit the game.
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I’m just guessing. In the first one they gave you an option for fun sexy time after the tutorial.
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You mean you haven’t been playing it? What kind of fangirl are you?
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The kind that has stuff to do! I want to savour my time with Geralt. I think I might play through (and finish) the first game before I start 2.
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Time is the main reason I haven’t bothered with it yet haha.
I know it’s a game that I’m going to need to set aside a good amount of hours for and I haven’t had that at all over the past 12 months.
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A whole 5 more minutes? Dude, don’t push yourself too hard. Kind of like having you around. Wouldn’t want you to burn out or anything …
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Any of you have game franchises where everyone seems to love them except you? For me, it’s Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil. I just don’t get it.
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Halo for me as well.
I thought it was just because I couldn’t get on board with a sci-fi game with aliens and shooting and then I dug Mass Effect. So now I just think a) The story didn’t grab me and b) I had someone yelling in my ear the whole time what I was going wrong i.e. everything ever.
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I couldn’t get in to Mass Effect 1, I found it a real struggle to finish. Mass Effect 2 on the other hand I sunk 50hrs into in a week.
I still need to play Mass Effect 3 but I’m holding off until I finish Final Fantasy XIII-2.
NEED MORE GAMING TIME!
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Halo was at its absolute best when you were playing it multiplayer with a bunch of friends on multiple systems & TVs. The actual single player is one good level and a bunch of mediocrity and backtracking, but that multiplayer experience was amazing. Basically, Halo brought LAN multiplayer gaming to the masses.
Xbox Live has been chasing that sitting-on-the-couch-with-friends feel the whole time, but it never can come close.
But yeah, honestly I’m a huge fan of Bungie since way back and was a massive Halo fan, but the games since the first one have left me cold, ever since Halo 2 was such an overhyped, underwhelming piece of crap.
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Yeah, the only Halo I’ve ever enjoyed was LANing with mates and playing custom settings (what we liked to call Hammer Game). I never had an original Xbox so my first Halo experience was Halo 3 when I got my Xbox 360. I just couldn’t get in to it. I still have it, ODST and Reach though :S
I bought the Anniversary edition thinking I might’ve missed something but even that I couldn’t get in to.
Xbox Live has been chasing that sitting-on-the-couch-with-friends feel the whole time, but it never can come close.
Closest I’ve had that was playing Red Dead Redemption with TAYbies.
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I love the first Halo /o/ It appeals to the lazy gamer in me who just wants to shoots and blow up things.
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I DON’T CARE. IT WAS BORING AFTER THE FIRST GAME.
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Kingdom Hearts 2 was amazing, if purely because it had TRON in it.
And Birth by Sleep wasn’t too bad either.
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It was fun at the time but it wasn’t as memorable to me. I want to like it but I really don’t care about the storyline half the time and Nomura’s characters all look the same except with different belt positioning.
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I played through 2 again back in Feb when I was on holidays and enjoyed it much more than my first play through. The story is still confusing as fuck though.
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I only played 1 and 2 and a bit of Chain of Memories but shit mang… that story… what the hell is going on!?
Also belts and zips everywhere.
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I wouldn’t call XII, XIII and XIII-2 bad games. Flawed? Absolutely. But not bad.
XI and XIV on the other hand…
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XI was a fine game. XIV though is a steamy turd.
XIII wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t even close to the par set by previous games. And XII was too much like an MMO really. I liked X, why can’t we go back to the battle system and everything from VII-X ?
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XV please be the new IX (going back to the classics)
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Valve games in general. Portal was okay but never made me want to do a second playthrough. I loved the first Half Life but thought 2 lost a lot. All the others just can’t care about much. Tried them a few times and had a meh reaction to them all.
I’ll leave now.
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I think it’s a reasonable reaction. But I don’t think people should always like certain games.
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But Left 4 dead! D=
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We can be e-friends. I also don’t really like Half Life 2 and hated episode 1 and 2. Visually they were great, but the actual game felt underdone, the guns feel weak and the sounds are anemic and the enemies don’t feel like they react to them properly either.
I just like to pretend Half Life 2 was a tech demo for Portal. 😛
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Metal gear solid, Halo, Call of duty, Final fantasy there’s probably more.
I get that they’re just not to my taste, I don’t think they’re bad or anything.
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Yeah, I’m the same. I don’t think MGS or RE are bad series or anything (though some of the RE games are). I’ve tried multiple times but they just don’t click at all for me. Feel like I’m missing something the way people hype them though.
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Re4 was good. I like the RE games but I love survival horror. I didn’t enjoy RE5 as much as the others I’d played. I think they’re good fun but not brilliant. Maybe so bad it’s good XD
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Yes. Terrible gameplay. He’s a man that you drive like a tank. Dead Space forever broke the move & shoot RE controls for me, showed that you can actually make a survival horror that has atmosphere, a remotely sensible plot and controls that aren’t arse.
I played a fair bit of RE4 and I didn’t mind it that much. Really good game. The aiming controls utterly baked my brain though. Stop to aim, and the movement is now the aim stick. I just couldn’t do it, it felt so utterly broken to me (also I think the aim was inverted left and right or something?) I wasn’t really much of an action game player on consoles until the Xbox/PS2/DC era (I had console games but I preferred platformers & RPGs, FPS etc was on PC for me) and I was coming off proper dual stick controls eg Halo. RE is so clunky.
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Well to be fair you only played a bit of the original FF3 which isn’t that good to begin with 😛
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The only popular thing that I somewhat dislike are military FPS’.
(At first I wrote “any game set in a warzone”, but then I remembered Valkyria Chronicles. *sigh* Valkyria. Good times).
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I keep meaning to finish Valkyria but everytime I start playing it my PS3 fries itself soon after. 3 times now. Kind of scared to try again.
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Thank you for reminding me, I haven’t stared whistfully at my VC3 artbook and pondered ‘what if?’ this week.
It’s hard to really say because most of the series that I would answer this with would be games that I’ve never really played so I can’t exactly judge them properly. I’ve never had much interest in Final Fantasy, or Metal Gear, or Resident Evil, but I’ve also never played any of them.
I guess I could make a smug remark about not liking Call of Duty very much…
I know its obvious but Call of Duty. I just never got into them. I’m not a big multiplayer gamer.
There’s big franchises that I’d probably like but just never played any of them ie Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Dragon Age, Uncharted… There’s a lot I haven’t played
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Oh and Kingdom Hearts. God I wish I had a playstation back when they came out. They looked like games I would really love
Halo. Dunno, just can’t stand it. Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy, Call of Duty (though I liked the first Modern Warfare), Tekken, Street Fighter then there are the games my friends just forced me to play and it made me not enjoy them.
I guess the biggest one would probably be Assassin’s Creed. Those games missed the mark in so many ways, but everyone loves them.
So just finished Call Of Duty MW3 singleplayer. What a load of rubbish took me 4 hours to finish it on hardened. You ever came up with that story should be fired it was all over the place. Switching between 5 different characters was so annoying and talk about an anticlimax at the end.
I reckon it must be such a tyrannical work place if nobody challenged the decisions that were made for that story. I would say that Black Ops had a better script than this pile and i hated the Black Ops storyline.
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You know what was more entertaining than the Black ops single player?
Having someone hit you in the face with a wet fish for a few hours.
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I mean, not only is it crap, it doesn’t even make any sense. How the hell did the main character reveal the details of a secret mission he wasn’t even on?
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All Sam Worthington is good for is almost murdering people named John Connor.
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I… I actually didn’t mind the Black Ops single player plot. Aside from Sam Worthington who sometimes was grizzled ‘nam vet, and the rest of the time surfie bum from bondi. It was a hell of a lot more interesting than I expected, at least. Even if the twist was a bit hamfisted, at least it put in the effort. That’s more than you can say for all the other Tom Clancy’s Angry Modern Armyman Terrist Shooter 4s.
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yes but Tom Clancy’s Angry Modern Armyman Terrist Shooter 4s don’t have the same budget as COD does you dont expect them to be able to spare the cash for a good script. With COD they should have spent a bit extra actually reading it before they implemented it.
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TAYbies, do you guys know any good PS3 games that are coming out with good limited edition pre-order goodies (JB Hi-Fi preferably )?
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Darksiders 2 from EB nets you a pre-order DLC that apparently adds 2 hours of additional content.
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That’s the Collector’s Edition but the standard (which gets upgraded to the Limited) also has the pre-order DLC 🙂
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A cuddly bear, or one that will slice your face off with its claws?
Because I prefer one that could be both.-
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Ogres are like onions.
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They stink?
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Hai guys, i’m back (if anyone noticed I was absent) Timezone was fun, we managed to break a shooter \o/
I owned my mate at Point Blanc, man I miss having a PS1 with a light gun. I didn’t win the iPad 2, PS3 or the 3DS I was sads =(
But fun was had otherwise \o/
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Same, shame light guns don’t work on the LCD & Plasmas =(
One of the light guns was super accurate the other one sucked worse than a vacuum thrown out for council clean up D=
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I remember the hardest challenge was shooting the falling leaf. That game was so awesome. Whatever happened to that series?
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Oh god I got that challenge when playing it, naturally I didn’t concentrate and failed x.x
I haven’t played the game since it was on PS1 so not really sure what happened to it.
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The trick was to shoot the leaf just as he lets go of it
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Yeah, point =P
Ah man I want a copy now & a light gun for my PS2 x.x
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Hmm, well, after three hours of work I’ve come to a horrible conclusion.
I cannot draw for crap.
C’est la vie. In for a penny, as they say.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAGHMAN!
I should be sleeping. But can’t sleep. Interview tomorrow with Telstra for graduate program :S
Drawing? Yes, drawing. I suck at that too.
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I blame you for this drawing, it’s thanks to our discussions that I decided to try this. It’s uhhh, it’s been a while since I’ve done anything even vaguely artistic.
Everything looks so much better in my mind.
Oh, and good luck with your interview.
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Did you try drawing something with Bokeh? I bet you did. I bet it looks awesome.
Also, thanks!
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Nah, it’s not something to do with Bokeh, just something I’d like to see in a game.
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A level in Portal! I wish valve would release their new portal 2 level designer already. It looks pretty cool!
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Fank oou!
That’s how I imagine I sound when thanking someone whilst eating. Not that i’m eating anything at the moment. *googly eyes*
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*bounces* I’m too excited to sleep. I keep telling my brain that I have to go to work tomorrow (today) and that this is a bad thing but I’m still all jazzed.
Woke up this morning ten minutes before my alarm went off. Next thing I know, it’s about ten minutes after I normally need to leave the house and I’m still in bed.
Somehow, I didn’t end up being catastrophically late for work. Yay for one minute showers?
So, Amon Amarth was freaking awesome!
Played heaps of great songs and Johan Hegg really knows how to play a crowd. Was a small place but all the better for it, more personal and everyone was getting into it.
Sure I can barely speak now and I’m slightly concerned about the continued ringing in my ears but it was definitely one of the best gigs I have ever seen.
Mornin’ TAY!
Played some more GTA Horse last night. I’ve decided to stop going near Hanging Rock, because every time there’s a hanging event it doesn’t load in till I’m way too close, and I get shot to shit trying to hit the rope…
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Oh, you’re still here….
Look, I’ve never done this before, do you want breakfast or shall I just call you a cab?
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Or Harli’s elbow.
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Or the Reply Button’s corners…
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What?
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I was referring to the elbow comment ;p
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Word on the street is you have smooth elbows.
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So I bought some super hot chilli sauce.
It tells you to add a dash to meals.
I made up a small pot of curry for dinner last night. (Yeah, you can all see where THIS is going, right?)
I added a dash of sauce, then another. Then a swirl. Then a good, big dollop for luck. Then an extra little bit for that much needed kick.
The curry was… Hot?… Yes, I think I’ll go with hot.
I ate half.
I have the other half for lunch!
WHY IS IT NOT LUNCH TIME!?
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Nah, that happened after eating a good amount of chilli sauce straight. Won’t do that again in a rush.
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my mouth burns for you.
wait, that sounded less wrong in my mind.
my mouth burns on your behalf.
“At 2600 ELO, my [solo] queue times are about 36 minutes. I was talking to Crumbzz [and someone else I forgot] and they take about 45 minutes to get a game”
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-,- IKR, I decided that I might watch his stream one more time (I watched his stream once before and he was bitching about his team so I closed it). He spent like 30mins of doing nothing while he waited for a game so I closed it.
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It was great over the last few days. He was duo queuing and that meant his wait times were generally under 5 minutes.
I have no idea how Riot works this stuff out. I also don’t know why they don’t just make a new smurf or jump servers every time their wait time gets over ten minutes.
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i can never watch people just streaming regular matches, i find it pretty boring without any good commentary.
thats why i like to try and find competition matches, like absolute legends or other ones.
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Scarra.
Pretty awesome streamer. Discusses everything that’s going on, what he should have changed when he dies horribly, general tactics like denying Kog blue so that he can’t poke with his Ulti. Preeeeeeeetty good.
But christ almighty, stream chat people, I will punch you. Scarra makes one bad play and they say he’s the worst. He gets caught out and they mock him. Saying he gets carried by the rest of Dignitas. Then he gets a Pentakill and the proclaim him as a god.Also, Scott Pilgrim game music.
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The main reason I end up watching LoL streams more than SC2 streams (despite my preference for SC2 over LoL) is because the LoL players actually talk. Luckily, my favourite SC2 player (Grubby) is reasonably talkative but catching him streaming is completely up to chance.
Most importantly, stream chat doesn’t exist. It serves no positive function. Use that nifty little pop out function and then just maximise.
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how can people commentate at the same time as playing?
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It’s a bit of a learned skill. Had to teach myself to do it when trying to do that horrendous Homefront Let’s Play.
It does take your concentration away a bit, particularly at first, but you can learn to just verbalise your thoughts and hope that you aren’t saying anything that outlandish.
On the plus side, I can now hold completely normal (by my standards) conversations while in the middle of most games. Multitasking!
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i think it’d work ok for games like homefront but not so much for sc2/moba’s
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It can be done.
Artosis, Apollo and Grubby have all done it in SC2, offering up live analysis as they do Masters level play (Artosis on the KR server, Apollo and Grubby on EU). Artosis switched to doing a quick analysis of the replay after each game, not sure about Apollo (who is primarily a coach) and Grubby has said that it’s like listening to music, where it does diminish your concentration but you can still play at a decent level.
MOBAs require less multi-tasking, so it is more common to see the high level players talking (although maybe not doing high level analysis) during their streams.
I think the most important thing is that the games you see on a player’s stream are not the highest level. A lot of it is just mucking about, so they aren’t going to need to concentrate as much, allowing for things like commentary.
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If you are explaining what went wrong after you died there isn’t much else that you should be concentrating on anyway so you can give it a bit of thought.
Generally you are thinking what you are doing so it would just be a case of verbalising your thought process. At store what do I buy, They are high AD so considering armour but I’m still doing a chunk of burst damage for I will focus that and just keep loading up on AP.Would be different in the middle of a team fight but a lot of the time you are just on your own running to do something
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What times do Scarra stream on? Would really want to see them in action.
Also I agree, stream chat = waste of traffic
while me, mr.level 8 gets 20 second waits 😀
ergh, that level 8 annoys me, i think i might start playing LoL again just to get to level 30
SWTOR transfer requests are available now. Only problem is that the request form is broken… :/
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At this point I’m starting to think BioWare’s just trolling us.
I wonder if I should delete my name saving characters on the aussie realms before I make the transfer request or wait until after the 24th.
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I’m wondering if BIoware even has a QA department. Need to stop pushing stuff out that’s broken.
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Oh, good. So it’s not just me.
I have access to the transfers, but I can’t see any of my character names. -
Also, for anyone wanting character transfers, they’re only available until the 24th of this month. That’s 6 days from now.
How retarded is that.
For all those hundreds of screaming hysterical girls, I give you One Direction;
http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2012/04/18/1226330/721367-one-direction.jpg
Sorry girls, I don’t think you’re their type.
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XD That is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while.
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Agreed, also your Squishy shirt I purchased from Red Bubble arrived last night, it is AWESOME!!!
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Does it look alright? They’ve recently said colour to nothing gradients don’t look good on shirts
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After months of saying “I’ll do it tomorrow”, I finally joined the gym. Forgot about those joining fees. They hurt. They really hurt.
Got a free PT session too. Haven’t booked it yet. Figure I might try a week or so of mucking about and working out exactly what I want to do before trying to get them to come up with some magical routine for me.
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I used to be.
A few years ago, my friends and I bought a decent amount of weights and used to do various exercises in the back yard. It worked alright, I actually started to get rather buff and it felt good. People moved, we ended up ditching the home setup and joining the gym instead. I went for a while and then stopped because I had lost my job and couldn’t afford the fees.
Haven’t really exercised since.
It might take effort but I can’t deny that the payoff is rather fantastic (mainly the stress relief/post workout high). The hardest part is always getting started. Even though I know this, I’m still procrastinating.
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On last page’s subject of not understanding hype about things: the enjoyment of exercise is something I do not understand.
I have done weight routines, regular cardio in various forms, been to the gym, done organised and casual sports but at no point did I get why people love it.
After doing it regularly for a while I felt generally a bit healthier I guess but never this “post workout high” you speak of.
For me it’s hard to get motivated to start, boring and tiring in the doing, just feel worn out afterwards and sore the next day.
More power to you if you do but I just don’t get it.-
I’m much the same. Have you tried taking some classes? Tae kwon do is great exercise and pretty fun. I did it when I was younger through school and out of it at some gym. Ah, I miss being a ninja.
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Yeah I have considered something like that but I dunno, seems like something I should have started when I was younger.
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24? So old! You’re one foot in the grave.
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You’re a relic! Tai chi might be more your pace then. Don’t want to break a hip or anything.
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If I ever did Tai Chi, I’d just imagine that I was water bending the whole time.
BRB signing up for Tai Chi classes.
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I had a black belt in Tae Kwon Do at age 10.
And the training and assessing was done by one of Australia’s top Olympic Tae Kwon Do athletes and her husband, who’s coached the Olympic team for many years.
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I don’t know how it works for most people but for me there is just something very satisfying in being able to completely shut down. It’s also a very goal orientated exercise (I did X reps of Y weight last time, now for X reps of Y + 5 weight!), so being able to compete against myself there works rather well for me.
It could just be that I’ve always been rather unsatisfied with most of my life (/wrists) so it’s simply a nice distraction. I dunno.
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I’ve been wary about doing intense exercise since the high school bullying incident that left me with a screwed up leg. Anytime I do too much, my thigh’s nerves go on overdrive and it feels like it’s literally been lit on fire. Same goes for my weakened kneecap muscles, anytime that gets hit, I’m stuck in a sever limp for hours. I really want to exercise again but I’m stuck in the mindset that it’s going to hurt like hell the rest of the day and maybe the next if I try.
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severe* Argh stupid coffee, kick in already!
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Maybe it’d be best to consult with a personal trainer or a physio then? Don’t want to do any damage.
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Yeah I need to put time in to do that.
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Oh boy, let me tell you about Zumba!
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Joining fees are the biggest load of crap.
So… I’m supposed to pay the gym money in order to pay them more money, and then pay them more money again when I want to stop paying them money?
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Most fees are like that.
Ticketmaster’s convenience fee is the best of them. How is any aspect of that service convenient? Giving them more money is definitely not a convenience.
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My old gym had no joining fee, no exit fee, and was generally good value. When I left I gave them two weeks notice and it was done.
That’s how gyms should be and that’s the major reason why I have joined any since.-
My old gym was like that.
My new gym is part of the same chain, so I figured that it was going to be the same deal. It wasn’t. Although the first time it might have been an opening special thing, I’m not sure. I just remember paying for pretty much just the access card and I think a month’s fees in advance.
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@Jordi or anybody who knows – Re: ✖ [ Melbourne Delish Mexicana Meat!!! ] ✖
What time is this on? Cuz I’ll be working that day so… if it’s at a good time I’ll be certainly able to make it
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Just a guess but since we do live in Melbourne it might be quicker. Don’t think it’s all that relevant though because even though I can walk to the HQ it still takes weeks to ship out a Club Nintendo item 😛
Also, apparently Neil Buchanan (ART ATTACK!) is following me on Twitter. I am so happy and confused.
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WHAT! :O
Those giant picture things at the end were soooo awesome 😀
He had another show once that talked about weird creepy ghost horrory stuff… wasn’t a fan :/
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Fair enough XD But yeah I also loved Art attack
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It was called “It’s a Mystery”
I vaguely remember one story about some museum guards who got sick or ‘cursed’ when they were guarding this Pharaoh, a story of a picture of a grandma who cried ‘tears’ and when it was wiped away more ‘tears’ would appear and a story of weird faces appearing on the tiles of someone’s house, they would wipe it away but they would keep reappearing, turns out they had dead bodies in there…
Not sure if that’s all true but it scared me as a child 😛
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It scared my too. There was another show, it was a cartoon. All the stories were set up with “It happened to a friend of a friend of a friend of mine”. I remember that giving me the creeps too.
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I remember that intro…
Freaky Stories!
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THANK YOU! That was going to bug me all day.
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Ah, childhood. So awesome.
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YES!
I forgot what it’s called, but it was awesome
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I know the faces story. It was the faces of Belmez.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9lmez_Faces
Freaking scared the hell out of me!
But you’ll be glad to know, the whole thing was a hoax. The family members were “painting” the faces on the floor. For some reason people seem to want to believe it was true. I, however, was relieved. XD
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Waiting for Disgaea 3 Absence of Detention to pop up on US PS Store. Also, left my Vita at home. *fidget*
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Disgaea \o/
I love those games. Number 3 is pretty cool, I have yet to start number 4 though (it’s on my pile-o-shame)
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This is Disgaea 3 rejigged for the Vita, should be awesome. Disgaea 4 is sitting on my shelf unplayed as well. I am a terrible person. NEED MOAR TIME@!^@%^!
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Loved 1 and 2 but played like an hour of 3 before giving up :P. Never got around to 4 either…
Seems like this will be the ‘superior’ version of it so I’ll pick it up if and when I get a Vita 😀
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Yeah, I never finished number 3 (due to the amount of other games I had) I might pick it up on the Vita though, I can play it on the way to and from work. Since I beat most of my vita games I’ve been looking for a new game (for my Vita).
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Also the reason (IMO) why 1 & 2 were so great was because of the characters. Man I loved the characters in 1 & 2 so much.
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Disgaea 4 is a return to form. Plot etc is better than 3 by a mile, and about on par if not slightly ahead of 2.
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It sounds like you’re identifying something as beings more homosexual than another thing.
“Disgae, but disgaea”
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I tried Disgaea on PSP, dislike.
it’s been a while since i liked a jrpg. i feel like they keep disappointing.
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Badum tish
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Righto, so I spent about 3 hours yesterday reading the continuity timeline of the DC multiverse and now I kind of understand it. It’s really not that difficult once you get past the point where your brain will have an aneurysm from information overload.
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Also, Reply fail!!!
But, i too think JRPG games are pretty bad these days. Besides Dragon Quest, i’m not looking forward to anything.
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@Harli, Ruffleberg, everyone
pssst Xenoblade.
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Did someone say Xenoblade!? \o/
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I just don’t like grid based strategy games at all, the only one I have liked is shin megami tensei: devil survivor, and that was because it had a good story, and had a mix of usual turn based combat in it
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Or Front Mission 3?
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Anyone who hasn’t played Disgaea should get on it. You might be surprised. Although if you don’t dig turn/grid based strategy, skip it immediately. If you’re OK with it, you’ll find great stories, well written, well voiced and extremely funny characters. The game content is massive, particularly in Disgaea 3 and 4. Also the depth of the strategy in this game can be as simple or as mind-bendingly complex as you want it to be.
There’s a reason this game has a cult following.
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its not the combat i didn’t like, it was the characters. way too over the top and childish for me, though others may like it.
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I liked the characters. It was very self-aware and it all kind of worked.
The problem for me was that the games are the grindiest grind that was ever ground. I’m done with grinding (except in Skate 3), so I’m done with any game that has a huge emphasis on it.
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I don’t know why I go to most of my lectures. I never learn anything. I’d rather just have one extra long tutorial or something. 😛
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I just read that back to myself in teh style of a 3am infomercial.
Are your kids bored during the school holidays?
Need something to keep them busy on a rainy day while you get on with the housework?
More healthy than sitting in front of the TV, cheaper than video games & more fun than a barrel of monkeys – you need FIRE!
watch as your children find new and exciting uses for this classic past time – cooking roadkill, boiling mysterious chemicals found in the garage or shed, running away from the blazing inferno that was once your home – FIRE has it all.
& this can all be your for 4 easy payments of $56.72! WOW, look at that value!
But wait! theres more! if you order in the next 15 minutes, you’ll also recieve a zippo lighter for those times when you need a flame in a tight spot! and for the first 50 callers, we’ll send you a FREE jar of potassium benzoate & propane for when you need something to burn quickly!
CALL NOW!!!!-
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This is also what I first thought of. It’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood.
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Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys!(I had to retype half those commas because I misplaced them)
It’s Trials Day, Trials Day,
Gotta get down on Trials Day,
Everybody’s waiting for Shady to roll them, roll them.
etc. etc. I’ll be over there.
Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys!(I had to retype half those commas because I misplaced them)
It’s Trials Day, Trials Day,
Gotta get down on Trials Day,
Everybody’s waiting for Shady to roll them, roll them.
etc. etc. I’ll be over there.
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Really, double post? Really?
*Sigh*
Why do all of my stupidest comments do this to me? I swear it’s a conspiracy.
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psssst just click Submit once 😛
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I did. Believe me, I did.
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This guy gets it…
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Btw who’s getting Trials? We should get a list of TAYbies getting it so we can all add each other and whatnot 🙂
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Plan for it NOW!
GET HYPE!
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FatShady should get the honours, methinks.
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I DON’T KNOW.
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I read that article on Trials so I don’t know why everything didn’t click together. I think I’ve had too many names, dates and events to remember and the knowledge got pushed out of my brain.
I will bravely accept my punishment.
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Buy it and you’ll get your punishment.
Game be hard, yo!
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I should specify. I knew of it’s existence and stuff not it’s specific game play/art style that I had missed or blanked on. Ah, I feel like shite.
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BUY IT AND ALL WILL BE GOOD 😀
So troll games in LoL work sometimes. We actually have way more fun when we do troll things and they take the enemy by suprise. I think i want to play more stupid strategy games:)
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Easily the worst thing about LoL is the metagame. Particularly that Riot buys into it and designs champions with specific roles within that metagame.
You should finally get around to playing SC2. We can do Funday Monday games all the time!
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can you believe i still have it at my mums house i completely forgot i bought it until the other day when she was vacuuming the room i sleep in when i am there and it was on the shelf. She is like do you want this its got dust on it, how long has it been here. I am going up this weekend so i will install it on sunday and you can show me how and what not. But yeah metagame is shit. I just want to derp.
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We double jungled annie and volibear last night we lost, but it took them way longer than it should have to win.. Then we went Ad carry and support in mid with 3 other tanks. We won that game. Then the other team raged.
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I made the decision last night that I will no longer do bot games and just jump into the deep end. If I am to get better at LoL, I must go against players and only players, even if it’s a champion for the first time, as long as I know the role they play, I’ll attempt it
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I subscribe to the same thinking. As well as not learning as much, there is also the enjoyment factor – you just can’t troll bots!
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Well I mainly wanted to use it as a champion trial without being a downer to normal games’ players just because I don’t know how to build them the first time or something. But I just don’t think I should be doing that anymore either
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If you really want to improve do duo/solo queue ranked games.
Ranked because then you can learn to counter and call mob re-spawns and all that.
Problem with team games is getting matched up against other teams with co-ordination and stuff. In a duo you are really just up against other individual players which will give you a better chance to learn your own stuff.-
Yes but if I just jump into ranked without proper experience you get yelled at and reported 😛
I’m still sticking to my mission of 300 normal wins minimum requirement for myself to go on ranked (It also gives me plenty of time to get my runes in order too) -
It’s solo Q: everyone is a n00b asshat who should uninstall the game and go die in a fire. Apparently.
Any flack you cop will probably just be par for the course.
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Yeah that’s true. I’ve already been blocking out the banter when it comes to ragging on a player, respectfully asking them to “just play”. If I played a bad move, I apologise to the team.
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Just a friendly reminder that new socks are fantastic and everyone should throw out all of their shitty old pairs and replace them with fluffy new foot sheaths!
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Hmm, foot sheaths you say?
I may need to invest in some (new ones that is). Do I just go down to my local corner store and ask for foot sheaths?
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Yes.
Remember, you want the inner sheaths not the rigid outer ones. Those are pretty nifty too but slightly more expensive and I’m more a fan of nice old, worn in outer sheaths with fresh new inner sheaths.
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Planet of the cakes! \o/
Don’t forget that utensils (even plastic ones) are forbidden under threat of whipp(edcream)ing.
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Is he a electronic musician, cause if he is i have heard a few things from him i think. It was a while ago but i thought it was pretty good. If not then disregard.
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Actually it’s noise humans can’t hear but it gives off physical symptoms.
The guy who discovered it used his apprentices as unknowing lab rats XD-
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound
More info if interested
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Let me guess, you discovered it through it’s possible links to ghost sightings and haunted places?
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I was going to point this out as well. Low frequency noise apparently can make people experience a lot of the things that are associated with ‘haunted’ places.
Also, there’s that whole thing about the hum.
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There are theories that certain “religious experiences” (like feeling the presence of God or something) are caused by church pipe organs generating infrasound.
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I think I saw something like that on some science show. They played ‘brown-noise’ which you don’t hear but apparently is meant to be the same frequency and the standard human colon, and would make help move things along. This show also had lots of bewbs and explosions (can’t remember the name) so I don’t know how much stock to put it what they said.
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Dear TAY,
I have just read page 9 and it made me lol, multiple times. I needed some lols, so for this I am grateful.
Sincerely,
Phoenix
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID!
Prometheus Viral marketing FTW.
Yes I am a consumer whore, but it’s Prometheus so sue me.
I’ve been playing Theme Hospital ever since it came out on GOG. Totally worth the US$6.
It is somewhat buggy though. There are times where my mouse will not be able to leave the left side of the screen, regardless of what I do. This is particularly troublesome when I have no idea about any keyboard controls that might exist. Sometimes it happens near the end of a level, so I just wait it out but last night it happened near the end of a level, I thought I had finished it (the leaderboard thing popped up) and could safely exit.
Nope.
Got to do it all over again.
Also socks.
Bought half a dozen business socks and half a dozen “sports” (ankle) socks. When I get home, I’m throwing out many old pairs that have given me a lacklustre start to the day by having their elastic start to go out.
Huzzah!
So i just went and purchased Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP off Steam for $6. So far its a real gem great 8 bit art, awesome music and a quirky store/gameplay. So far i would say well worth picking it up. Anyone else been enjoying it?
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I was a day one purchaser on the iPad way back, also grabbed the PC release when it was available. I have the soundtrack on Vinyl.
So yeah, I guess I like it 😛
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(In fact when it was initially announced as an iPad exclusive, it was one of the main reasons I got my iPad)
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I’m loving it and its at the expense of my assignment on why Australia and Canada got through the GFC etc =( such a massive assignment SO MUCH TO READ!
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“If there’s ever anything you can’t explain, wizards did it.”
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I was up all night playing a new game on XBLA. I was up until 3am.. Actually about 3.15. I have had about 3-4 hours sleep.. whats worse, I want to go home and do it all over again!
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I was up all night screaming at this big Swedish guy while trying to avoid being crash-tackled by random strangers.
Would definitely do that again too.
Went to JB hifi today and they had headphones on special for $500. I thought I went crazy when I spent $80 for a set.
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There are high end headphones that are probably worth that much.
If I was in the market for them, I wouldn’t be going to JB.
I’d also be even more of an elitist prick.
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Personally, if I buy headphones I’m usually looking for specific things. Most I’ve ever paid is about $150, but I came very close at one point to buying some AKG K701s, which are around $400-500. If you’re serious about audio quality and have the equipment to justify it (i.e. you’re not listening to streamed audio on your iPod or something) then they’re not that crazy.
What frustrates me is that it’s getting really hard to find good quality, open headphones with a 1/4 inch jack. They’re all 3.5mm and need an adapter, and sure, the adapters can be had for about $5 but they break all the time. I’ve gone through five at home in the last year (I have two separate headphones, one is a wired set that I use when I’m gaming, and one is a wireless set that I swap in if I’m exercising near my sound system, but it’s not comfortable for long sessions and it gets interference so I don’t use it normally)
It’s also pretty much impossible to find good open headsets with a decent mic. There’s a few out there but they’re crappy quality or hook into a USB or have stupid gimmicks like “surround sound”.
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My last two headphones have been Sennheisers, and have not exceeded $150 each. I’m curious how many people walking around with ‘Beats’ headphones are actually concerned with audio quality or the fact that everyone knows they have ‘Beats’ headphones.
Incidentally, my Sennheisers have been amazing, every time.
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The sound was always good in my Sennheisers but the cord would start to break at the jack after about 3 months.
Went through 3 pairs last year, can’t justify getting another.
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I’ve spent over $400 on headphones and I tend to pay at least over $300 for pairs.
To me I can hear a marked difference in quality on a lower pair so I love having a higher quality sound.
I currently use a pair of Sure SE420’s and Audio Technica ATH-A900’s. I think both pairs were close to, or over $400 when purchased. 0 regrets in buying them. The sound is just amazing on both.
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You have a legit reason to be buying awesome headphones, though. For just playing games or listening to mp3s or watching a DVD or something, I doubt there’s a need to spend that much money.
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Not necessarily… some people just like higher audio quality. You don’t have to write, mix or master music to want to listen to better quality audio.
Not everyone is discerning, but if you enjoy quality you can hear a marked difference between a $20 headset plugged into an onboard soundcard and $400 headphones plugged into a proper amp.
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There’s definitely a difference but quite a few people will only claim to notice it because they’re committed to the tech after spending so much money on it.
I’m willing to make the minimum investment to get an increase in quality but it seems to me that the increase in quality isn’t enough to justify the cost.
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if you get an expensive set you also have to be listening to decent source.
If you listen to a 128kbps mp3 song that u ripped off youtube of course there isnt going to be much difference. But if your listen to 700kbps and larger .flac file you will instantly be able to tell the difference. Problem is so many people think that 128/256 is a good bit rate and have never heard high bit rate flac/wav. Good thing that sites like bandcamp are growing giving better access to high end formats.
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Currently search for a pair of Sennheiser HD598 for a decent price. JB wants $399 for them but can probs get them for $230 not including shipping. used the HD 558s and they were good and 598s are meant to be even better.
SWTOR people who are going to server transfer to an AU shard when the system is actually working and not utterly broken like it is now: which one are you going to move to? Pretty sure my guild such as it is is going to be aiming at Master Dar’Nala (PvP).
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Probably that one.
I mentioned it last page, but will again.
ASIA-PACIFIC SERVER TRANSFERS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE UNTIL THE 24TH OF APRIL (6 DAYS FROM NOW). -
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I have two chars (Empire) on Master Dar’Nala. Haven’t played the game for about a month though….
Alright, here’s an odd question/ thingy thing whatever.
I like to pretend in my head that I’m a game designer, I sit down, I think about what games I’d like to make, how I’d do them, what would and what wouldn’t work, so on and so forth. All of this is, in essence idle thought, due to the fact that I’m not really a game designer(obviously).
But, there are games that I’d like to see made, but not made by me. For instance, after a discussion with NotoriousR I started thinking about a gothic fantasy game, so I’ve drawn this: http://i.imgur.com/6LwSC.jpg for it(heads up, I’m not very good at drawing, this is an early work in progress, and I’m drawing it with a mouse, which is so much effort), as kind of a concept image for the game I’d want.
With that in mind, does anyone here have a game they’d like to see someone else make, or an element they’d like to see in a game? Am I crazy for wishing this kind of thing on other people?
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Gothic fantasy (and I’m talking Gothic, not goth) would be an awesome game setting. All that brooding yet sweepingly grand architecture…
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They weren’t gothic fantasy. They were a little “dark,” a little “low.” But I never found them to be gothic. Though, I did only play a bit of number 2, and see some stuff from the others.
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I do this as well. You are not alone.
Not the concept art bit though, when it comes to art I’m so out of practice that everything ends up being stupidly hamfisted.
Periodically I also have awesome ideas come to me while I’m sleeping and then I forget the details when I wake up. The solution to this problem is clearly more sleeping.
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Oh yeah, I’ve had some great ideas for games/songs/whatever late at night, just before I go to sleep(when I’m in that really fuzzy stage), then I get up in the morning and it’s just… gone.
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Blaghman best drawer! Why do I never see this quality stuff in iSketch? (insert Blaghmang is dissapoint meme)
I find myself thinking this game could be better if they had this or that (but that’s not really relevant is it?)
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Nah, need to wait for the comics to come out. Then we can complain how much the game is nothing like the comics 😛
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I have 6 game ides swirling about in my head right now. 3 of them are simple enough that I could probably make them myself. The other three aren’t…
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But would you want to make the three that are beyond your ability, if you could?
Off the top of my head, I have 3 projects I could probably make, another 4 that would be really difficult, but I still want to do, then another 3 that are completely infeasible, but I still want to make.
On top of that, there’s about half a dozen that other people should make.
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Kickstart mang,
Then you can charge $10,000 for a copy and all you get if you buy it is a lunch with you.
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Sadly, I feel like I’d need to be a respected developer to have kickstarter success.
Or even an average programmer.
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Yes, I would want to make them if I could. I don’t usually think of game ideas that I’d like other people to make, or if I do, I usually quickly forget them… The only one I can recall at the moment is wanting EA to make another game like NFS The Run, but longer and with a worthwhile story, and set in Europe.
Also, I would love someone to make a kart racing mod for Minecraft. There would be track pieces that you put down to make the track, which the karts will need to be on, no off roading. Also, there would be power-up and speed boost road tiles too. Also, ramp pieces for smooth inclines and descents. There would also be different coloured karts you can craft.
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I usually do the same, but with champions for LoL. Had an idea for a supportish champion that summoned minion’s every so often (max of 3ish) and he used his minons for certain abilities. Something like make you minion taunt an enemy or trade health % with one of your minion (can be cast on allies).
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To expand on this, I wouldn’t mind trying to sketch the champion. Maybe even do a little back-story on him.
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I usually don’t draw, but I figured that I had enough time on my hands that I may as well try it.
This is the first thing I’ve drawn besides little doodles in about five years…
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I have all sorts of game ideas, I’ve been writing my own design docs for one game idea for a while now. I’m gonna make this shit a reality 🙂
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I thought you’d pipe up eventually. Yeah, I’m interested in your work. When you become a super successful developer, send me an email, so I can leech off your success! 😛
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I’m actually wondering if I should make my bro’s and my progress a public thing or not, y’know, blog about it or something, but it’s still early on and I am quite protective of my idea so I might wait a while 😛
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Yeah, that’s one of my fears with some of my ideas. I don’t really think anyone would steal them, that would be silly, but I reached the point with my favourite pet project, that when Homefront was announced, I was a little hopeful that it would be a little bit crap, to make my game look better.
Luckily I needed not fear that it would be good, but it’s a very petty thing.
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Haha yeah I get that a lot too, I hear of a game idea that seems similar to mine and a little voice in my head goes ‘Welp thats’s that then, can the whole thing’ and I need to reassure myself that my game idea is my own. Although new ideas are being made all the time, so I gotta make my game before it eventually pops into somebody elses head 🙂
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I used to “design” games when I was younger. I had an awesome thing drawn up with several levels, once. It was basically a complete rip-off of Crash Bandicoot, but I thought it was cool. 😛
These days though… I don’t think I’m creative enough to come up with a new game. The best I do is think about how I would adapt a movie into a good game. That’s about as far as that goes. xD
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Now that I think about it, I did some character art for a game I designed when I was like, 9. God, that was bad.
Though, I did have a decent concept…
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Today I bought a bunch of chucks (on sale), a bow tie and a vest.
I am horrible at finances.
However, I will look like a sir at the monomeat. And that’s what is really important, isn’t it?
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Also, I put on a vest that made me look top heavy. Like, boob top heavy. I wanted a B-cup but the lady said no 🙁
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Wait you bought chucks, where from i have been looking for a decent pair of them for ages but they all seem expensive.
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Go to the authentics website – they are having a huge clearance sale.
50% off pairs, and even moreso in a lot of cases.
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i was looking at that exact pair with a wanting for them to be 50 dollars oh well. I might buy a nice black pair when i get home. because i am definitely not boring and uninteresting. 😛
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Black chucks are good staple footwear. They go with everything.
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You can even have multiple pairs.
Your worn in scuffed pair, for comfort and your clean, shiny new pair for when you need to be a bit fancy.
I just have to worn in, scuffed pairs of black chucks. One normal, one slim leather. The slim ones are amazingly comfortable.
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Well, now I’m not sure if I should turn up in my vest, bow tie and volleys that are covered in pole dancers…
Yeahhhhh so I got my Monocle in the mail today.
I honestly don’t know how to… wear (?) this.
Also, bow-tie! o/
Bow-ties are cool.
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Well, I am a doctor, so you should probably just go for it.
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That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about doctoring to dispute it.
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I’ve too have ordered a monocle.
I wear glasses.
I’m not quite sure I thought this purchase through properly.
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you should see what i have to buy to conform to the female taybies’ theme (it was Freyr’s idea).
this could go either really awesomely or really badly.
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Spontaneous tea party in the middle of Sydney!
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YAY actually are you excited ?that emote looks weird it looks like you are motorboating someone.
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JEALOUS.
i went a couple of years ago, toured around Taipei and Taichung up north. oh god, the shopping was EXCELLENT.
So today is my last day of work for the week. I will spend the remainder shacked up in a place, with a girl, and a PS3.
U JELLY?
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I will spend the weekend shacked up in a place, with my palm, and an xbox.
…YOU WIN THIS ROUND, DOCTOR.
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You won’t have to watch crappy movies with your palm, and your palm will play xbox/ps3 with you.. I’d argue you win PEZ!
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Its a generalisation but it’s generally correct! 😉
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Not in this case 😛 Beer and Nachos in Gold Class and Ghibli films!
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So, my above post may have been a little too vague. I played Trials Evo all last night. SO TIRED. But so hyped for you all to get your hands on it in a few hours.
ALSO AMAZING NEWS>>>
I didn’t notice, but someone just posted a picture of their name in the credits of Trials Evo and as I was congratulating him, I saw MY NAME… I still don’t believe it, but I think my name is in the credits of EVO!! must go home and watch this tonight. So damn happy with that.
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Gosh man that is super mega awesome. look at you been on tv , won a PS3 and now in the credits for trials evo. I think Red lynx is probably the coolest gaming company ever for doing that. 🙂
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Amazing news is amazing! \o/
Anyway, I was about to ask on here if anyone knew roughly how big it’s going to be. Seeing as though you’ve already got it, I’ll just ask you. Please provide an answer in gigabytes, not kilobytes 😛 I assume it’ll be under 4Gb? -
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twitter pic and im at work and its low res and stuff.. I’ll get a good pic and frame it or something at home! haha
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So, I grabbed Dragon Age when it first came out and LOVED it! Not just the game, but the story and setting too. I wasn’t a huge fantasy fan before that, but since then it’s definitely been a growing interest. I read LotR back when I was younger and Song of Ice and Fire recently as well as the Gaider’s DA novels.
I recently decided I need more
Does anyone have and further reading/viewing suggestions? Or games.
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Neverwinter Nights?
It’s pretty much 2002 Dragon Age. Or Dragon Age is 2009 NWN.
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I’ll accept that for now, but I still want a playable FatShady to be in trials.
Or at least a Mark Serrels/Trials Guy with a cardboard box on his head 🙂
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Maybe I’m missing something but aren’t Japanese normally stereotyped as being super polite? Which means the shirt translates to “I’m not being rude, I’m being polite”, which makes no sense.
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No i think it is more meant to be like i am not being rude i just cant understand what you are trying to tell me. If he could speak english then obviously this point is moot and he the shirt is just a reflection on the fact that the guy wearing the shirt was a douche nossle.
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I hadn’t even thought of that. A better shirt would be “I’m not being rude, I’m being foreign”, though I guess that would still be seen as really politically incorrect, unless it was a foreign person wearing the shirt. Were they foreign or Japanese, Freeze?
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Just make a shirt that says “No, I’m just a dick” and be done with it.
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At some point, I imagine that exact phrase will be forcibly tattooed on my forehead.
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It may or may not have been a plan of mine at the meat to do such a thing 😛
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Or branded.
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He was Japanese.
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You know that feeling you get when you spend the last on your cash on your car rego/insurance and you’re totally broke because you won’t get paid for another week. I feel like that right now.
Reposted due to reply fail.
So, I grabbed Dragon Age when it first came out and LOVED it! Not just the game, but the story and setting too. I wasn’t a huge fantasy fan before that, but since then it’s definitely been a growing interest. I read LotR back when I was younger and Song of Ice and Fire recently as well as the Gaider’s DA novels.
I recently decided I need more
Does anyone have and further reading/viewing suggestions? Or games.
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that’s pretty cool. I’ve actually read a few of theose books before. Especially the Gaiman/Pratchett ones.
So many books!
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Yeah, to narrow it down: Wheel of Time is long but almost required reading and Robin Hobb and Brandon Sanderson’s books are excellent.
I would consider Raymond E. Feist’s stuff as a quite good entry to the genre. Solid and well written, not too complicated and comes in trilogies.
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You a fan of D&D games? The Baldur’s Gate series is flapping amazing. Although it is being remade so you may want to hold off on that. As Bish said, NWN is a cool game, I enjoyed it.
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Not a table top of P&P fan at all really. Wanted to try Baldur’s Gate as Dragon Age was a spiritual successor (or so I heard).
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If you want some fun reads, try Robin Hobb.
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BLASPHEMER!
HERETIC!!
BAD WORD SPEAKING PERSON!!!
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I hadn’t heard that she had died 🙁
I enjoyed the Axis Trilogy and some of the second series ?Wayfarer Redemption?
Also the Darkglass mountains had its moments, but I did not like the other series’.
Threshold was also a good read.-
Yeah, the Axis trilogy was the best.
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Preferably book/film/tv as the best time to work my through them is on the train. Video games will most likely go on the ever growing pile.
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I think I have posted this over a dozen times in TAY but Anne Bishops – black jewels series is amazeballs.
Would highly recommend that.
As stated above Sara Douglas can be good, would recommend the Axis trilogy as a starting point
Raymond E Fiest sounds like it should be required reading for where you are at
David Gemmel is also fairly standard high fantasy with an emphasis on combat.
I would probably avoid CJ Cherryh for now, some of that is really hit and miss or a bit out there.
Margaret Weis – deathgate cycle is goodAnother good option might be David Eddings, easy reading fantasy cliches but if you are just getting into the genre then could be another nice introduction. Follow that up with Memory, sorrow and thorn trilogy by Tad Williams
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I guess you could always try the Wheel of Time books, if you don’t mind that they got incredibly waffly and ponderous in the middle and then the guy died and someone else is finishing them…
As far as Dragon Age goes, I think the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson was one of Bioware’s main influences aside from A Song of Ice & Fire. Hesitant whether to recommend them or not though. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two but got stuck on the third one and completely lost interest, haven’t read more.
There’s been a few other solid recommendations already. If you don’t mind hunting them down (they can be hard to locate due to being quite old) Glen Cook’s Black Company books are a pretty good read, fairly digestible and engaging, as well as a bit different to the classic stuff. If you want to look for a classic and The Witcher interests you at all, you might also want to look up Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné books, they were a big influence on The Witcher (and on ‘anti-hero’ dark fantasy stuff in general).
If you’re up for some Manga, I’d recommend Claymore (don’t let the awful anime adaption put you off) and Berserk. And if you already read & like those, then seriously check out the Elric and Black Company stuff. You’ll like them.
Also a bit of a more personal recommendation, I really like the fantasy stuff by Ian Irvine, though I couldn’t quite put my finger on why exactly.
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Having read the entire Book of the Fallen I would really recommend not reading them until you have read a bunch of other more normal stuff and then want something different.
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Got Witcher 2 today, Yay!
Can this game actually manage to tear me away from SKYRIM!?
We shall have to wait and see.
Well you don’t “have” to, but you can if you want to.
I don’t see why, but you could.
But if you don’t want to, that’s cool.
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Bastard.
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I’M SITTING HERE IN ANTICIPATION!
Maybe all the new people playing it will entice me to start playing it again…
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Witcher 2 is awesome. The combat is also brutally punishing, but not too hard once you get used to it (I like to Monster Hunter it, i.e. diveroll out of the way every couple of seconds). King Foltest is hilariously awesome.
It is dark during the day.
I have this sudden urge to build a fire, then dance around it while sacrificing white, fluffy, toy goats.
I assume everybody feels this way?
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Definitely.
Though I also have to go buy dinner, so I’ll be doing that as well…
Can I buy a goat in Coles?
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I’ve had goat a few times, mostly when I have Ethiopian, but a coupla other times as well. It’s not a bad meat, though it’s usually very muttony.
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Quick look at a few components for a new PC suggest I’ll probably be spending $1500+ for what I want. Picking (with no research at all) suggests I’ll end up with something like:
Core i7 3820K @ $298
2GB GTX680 @ $600
128GB SSD or HDD (still very much up in the air) @ $150
I fail at mobos, but aiming for about $300 based on processor
16GB DDR3 (it’s so freakin’ cheap now) @ $120
Suggestions/advice for brands? I have my personal preferences, but I want to hear what others think.
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3820K is going to give you next to nothing. Drop it down to a socket 1155 i7, the 2700K is fine. Save yourself some cash and some wattage too. Also that should reduce the need for insane $300 motherboards.
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I don’t really consider $300 insane for a mobo, but that was just an estimate 😛
After looking a the differences between sandy and ivy processors, I’m going to do a f4ction and go jungling. Considering the processor cost is no different at that level between the two, I think that helps make up for the mobo.
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The 3820K is 130W TDP. You’re getting 2mb extra cache and 200mhz extra base clock speed (both CPUs turbo boost to 3.8ghz). That’s it. Also the retail box doesn’t include a cooler, so you need to factor that in. Games are almost never CPU bound, you’re going to end up without any real gain. Hell, you’d probably see no difference between it and an i5 2500K. This wouldn’t be the case if you were talking about the higher-end Socket 2011 i7s, which have six cores, but those cost a lot more.
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Always intel, always nVidia.
Apart from that? Ehhh.
I like having a SSD, boot-up times are fantastic. In terms of mobo’s, Gigabyte are typically pretty solid(I think, at least, mine is not on fire), and I have no idea about other companies…
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I’d have argued the “always Intel” point in the past, but not any more 😛
I usually lean towards nVidia purely cause I’ve never had a negative experience with their stuff.With the SSD stuff, I love the idea of a rapid boot time, but on a desktop I don’t see that as a big advantage. If games were getting slower than hell at loading (or had world streaming issues…Saints Row 2, I’m looking at you) I’d mostly likely go for it.
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I want to buy an SSD for my next build, but at the moment am running 2 regular hd’s in a RAID-0. Boots up in about 13 seconds and loads things pretty fast. Probably going to get flamed for suggesting it as there is no redundancy and you lose everything if one drive goes though. Still, if you are like me and only really use the pc for non-essential tasks like gaming and have everything else backed up on external hd’s it’s a pretty cheap performance boost.
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If you’re wanting to optimize for boot and load times, then a RAID-1 is just as good as a RAID-0 and you’ll get redundancy as well. Half the space, though.
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If you get a SSD, make sure it’s an intel one. Better warranty, better reliability. The sandforce based SSDs are fairly terrible.
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Yeah, the two I was looking at were the Intel and the Kingston. Intel cause I’ve heard good things, Kingston cause it was a similar price…oh, and I guess cause it’s a known brand, too 😛
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Kingston is Sandforce. Avoid.
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With a suggestion like that, I guess I will 😛
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Actually what you’d be best to do is go hunting for the new Intel 330 SSDs.
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Oh actually, I think the 2281 controller is fixed. The earlier 2000 series Sandforce-based drives caused all sorts of weird problems.
Intel’s still the best bet.
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$180 for an Intel 520 120GB is the best I’ve seen so far out of the Intel stuff, in terms of value for money.
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I’m currently wearing a bib.
Also, loving the fact that I actually have the option to go and get what I want (to an extent) for this machine.
Dragon, where were you 3 hours ago telling me to not go out in the pouring rain before I drove out across flooded roads?
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I know, right? I came back from walking to lunch and I was soaked, and they’re like “Dooooon’t go out in the-” but I stomped off before they could finish.
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Totally sang that in the fruit and vegie store yesterday as a mother and her 3 kids walked by.
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HERETIC!
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A guy at work has just offered me his Xbox 360 for free! \o/
It’s rrod’ing! /o\
Has anyone here attempted to fix one themselves?
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I have indeed fixed mine. Its not really to hard if you have a bit of know how and a soldering iron
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Cool. Up for a road-trip to help me with it? Would be a good excuse for another LAN too. Otherwise I should be right, but when I’m using the iron on the Xbox, how much steam should I use?
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You want the full steam setting . Make sure you get as much steam in the unit as possible. Also you should fill it with water from the hose to help with cooling. . Actually Mackay roadtrip LAN does sound fun, next time your having one if you give us a bit of notice i would definitely be keen.
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Queens Birthday long weekend maybe? I can’t remember if there was a meat on down south that you might be going to though.
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Sounds pretty good i will check it out see if i am able to.
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New from the Lambo Sound Lab! What happens when you mix Daft Punk’s ‘RobotRock’ with ‘Outlands’ from the Tron Legacy OST? http://soundcloud.com/user7814047/outlands-robot-rock-mashup
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I saw the link to this song through a TAY comment.
I have to admit this was something very different for me, not only was it my first soundcloud listen, I’m not the biggest mashup fan when it comes to music.
I found the music quite mashed up and it was hard to distinguish which song was playing at times. The song moved quickly between start and finish and because the song was mashed up it often took a bit of time to figure out which song was playing.
I found the music easy to hear and its a good idea (to turn up your volume) but the lyrics were not the strongest, a little juvenile (I didn’t hear any). This could be the way music is mashed up but not something I enjoyed. – ★★☆☆☆
But seriously, it’s pretty cool. I liked the change of focus around the 1 minute mark as well as the build up to the 2 minute mark. Good stuff.
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It took me up till the lyrics are juvenile bit to realise what this was…
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so i played my first proper game of LoL since… i dunno, a very long time…
and i actually didn’t suck, i won, and like, was pretty good for my team… maybe i should play some more LoL now as well…
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YAY!
I wish I didn’t suck at LoL.
Or maybe it’s just that the game keeps giving me opponents with twice my wins…
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Well done to you good sir. Just remember even if you win, keep tabs on how you can improve your style 🙂
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well, i think it more came down to i’ve been playing a lot of dota2, so i’m still used to mobas
but, could someone explain to me these gosh darn red/blue buffs i hear about?
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Okay, Blue buff gives you bonus mana/energy regeneration as well as cooldown reduction, Red buff gives you bonus true damage DoT (True damage ignores armour) as well as attaches a slow to your auto attacks.
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and how does one obtain these? killing neutrals?
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I’ll use the blue side as an example, purple side it’ll be flipped upside down. Near the top lane river is the blue golem neutral creep, it has a blue ring you’ll see around him. Last hit the golem to obtain the blue buff. Same goes for the red buff lizard which is above the golem neutral creeps near bottom lane and inland from Dragon
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ah, i thought so, although i was playing ashe, who appeared to not be very good at jungling, unless i was just playing her badly 😛
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lol she’s no jungler, she’s meant to be AD carry for bottom lane.
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Its funny i always usually had no idea what the shit red buff was doing. I just assumed it was a DoT but not really any idea what sort of damage. I just looked it up. It is quite a bit at lower levels.
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You never noticed the creeps being lit on fire after you auto attack them? that’s the true damage DoT. It’s great for lower levels because it’s a key ganking tool for junglers that aren’t fiddlesticks 😛
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I never really cared enough to bother. I knew it was doing extra damage. I didn’t really care how much.
if you pew pew a lot, red buff is good
is you cast spells a lot, blue buff is good
that is how i understand it anyway
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If you hue hue a lot, you take both
HI EVERYONE. I’ve returned from work.
*brain asplodes*
Good going, brain. Look at the mess you made! Who’s going to clean that up?!
Wait…if my brain is lying, albeit in pieces on the floor, does that mean that you guys can READ MY MIND? Go on. Guess what I’m thinking about.
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Also, when you hop on your xbox to buy Trials Evo (this is a case of ‘when’ not ‘if’ :P) and you see a friend request from someone with a rather androgynous looking avatar and a name very similar to mine, well, that’s me. 😀
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Sexy zombie dreams?
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I think that’s just you, Blaghs.
Creep.
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Since you’re all terrible guessers *glares* I might as well just tell you. I was thinking of a question, one which you will all answer now.
What would happen if a cannibal was turned into a Zombie? Would their friends and family just think they were drunk or had maybe bumped their head a little too hard?
“Whatcha got there Bill? ARGH! Bill. We said – no bodies at the table. Jesus, man”
*mumbles*
Bill?
*Grunts* *mumbles*
“You’re drunk again aren’t you? THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE PEOPLE OVER. I’m done, Bill. I’m leaving you. Don’t try to call me”
*mumbles* resumes eating person.
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I don’t imagine that Hannibal Lecter smelled like a corpse. Wine and fava beans maybe.
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I don’t know, at least I feel like I would notice if a man’s face was falling off, regardless of his meat consumption.
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Hang on a second. Zombies don’t hunger for *dead* human flesh like a cannibal might. If they did they’d just all eat each other. They hunger for the flesh of the living. I imagine it’d be a bit of a giveaway.
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At least it was wasn’t another:
“Guess what I’m thi… what would happen if a cannibal was turned into a Zombie?. Too slow! That’s what I was thinking of.”
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Tera Online Open Beta starts on Saturday at 7pm AEST (Friday for people who’ve preordered). Anyone else playing?
Herro TAY
If you don’t have me yet and you’re going to play Trials Evo then my XBL name is Greenius.
I’ll go through and add TAYbies from the “Today is Trials Evolution Day!” article. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Or just, you know, use the TAYnames spreadsheet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgFxIpTLAp-LdDNZbWVTNjhYNGE2bXpFTkxqV3BzM2c&hl=en_US#gid=0-
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I’m -0 not +1. 🙁
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Curse you, and your logic too!
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Eka, one of the developers just sent a tweet about SMNC’s unexpected release
https://twitter.com/#!/ekanaut/status/192369061722734593
made me laugh (PS, EVERYONE PLAY IT, FOR REAL, I LOVE THAT GAEM SO MUCH IT’S CRIMINAL)
Evening TAY!
I am not well. Really dizzy. Mum still wants me to hang out the washing, and I don’t want to fall over.
Also, my mouse and keyboard stop working randomly on my computer. Like I’ll be using it and it’ll suddenly stop with neither the mouse nor keyboard working.
Force restart and everything is fine =/
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My computer sort of does that sometimes when it’s starting up. If I leave it for a few minutes though, it just fixes itself. Usually I can’t wait that long so I just restart.
Also, there was one time where the computer just started doing random things all by itself. Couldn’t figure out why. Turns out I had a second keyboard connected to my computer that I had forgotten about and had piled stuff on top of xD-
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Controller? Can you explain a bit?
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I think it means you have to chuck your PC out a window and buy a new one. Make sure you chuck it out a really high window, otherwise the new one won’t work either. 😛
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No way! This one cost me too much XD
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The chip on the motherboard that takes all the USB signals and sends them to the operating system is the USB Host Controller. Try moving keyboard & mouse to different ports, if you can. It could also be software related, something interfering or otherwise causing you operating system to lose sync with the devices. Does unplugging and plugging the device back in make a difference? Are you sure the machine hasn’t completely locked up?
Which operating system are you running?
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Windows 7.
It’s not completely locked up, I’m using it.
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Are you running an Antivirus? They usually have a fairly low-level driver and I have seen instances where they can go berserk and steal cycles from USB etc and cause a machine to stutter. Sometimes restarting the real-time protection (or whatever your product calls it) if it’s been on for a while can make a difference.
I’d also look in the windows event logs to see if there’s anything odd going on:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Open-Event-ViewerThere’s often a lot of information there which you don’t know about. I’d try running chkdsk as well, since a bad drive can sometimes cause oddness.
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Also it’d be worth checking your memory is working correctly.
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I may have to worry about it tomorrow. I’m beginning to feel worse.
I’ll need to know how to do all this. ^^;;
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After I’ve bought Trials Evo, I’ll have 800 MS points leftover to spend. Should I use them to change my name, or buy Fez?
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He’s starting to get an inflated sense of his own worth recently. He so isn’t worth the $17 asking price.
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What countries dollar are we talking?
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Zimbabwe.
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I’d pay ZWD$17 for Pez.
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That comes to AUD$0.043. Hmm. Thats pushing it Wonder if I could haggle it down.
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I hear Pez is worth W AY more than that.
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Really, hmm? I heard he was worth way less…
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Some of you may not understand the relevance, but to the rest of you:
I just found dental floss in my shoe.
Dear Melbourne TAYbies:
Dapper Pez is unimpressed by your upcoming meat: http://twitpic.com/9b6a2q
SYDNEY MONOMEAT RULEZ \o/
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Dapper Pez is uncertain but knows that a precocious TAYbie will step in at any point for a three paragraph long explanation.
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Blaghman or Greenius?
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Definitely not me 😛
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It’s.
Spelt.
Upon.😛
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Spelled is the more accurate word.
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If you wear that to the meat, you are going to make me look SO poor. To try and fit in I’ll have to drive past in a limo while waving out the window with a white glove on.
@Blaghmang
I jot down ideas but that’s about it. But you know, they get made. That’s why I’m really excited about Dishonored (Dishonoured? Will they rename it for Australia?). One of my ideas was a steampunk parkour game, and hey presto, dishonored rolls along. I should sue. It’ll be completely legit, they stole my idea.
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Sticky Buddy
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I doubt they’ll change the spelling. They didn’t do it for ‘medal of honor’ IT’S HONOUR AMERICA!! HONOUR.
Have you ever wondered what the letter U did to America? Why do they hate it?
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What could possibly go wrong?
I do want to make a game though. I think I’ll start after uni is over though. I can’t justify spending any time working on one when I have homework to do. Just another reason why I’m sick of uni and want to work!
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My wife just mentioned to me that our ISP called her today, telling her that they finally upgraded our exchange to make ADSL2 available and that they are just switching us to that without charging any extra. PLUS they are keeping it uncapped. Best news. \o/
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Spin. Been really happy with them. We pay about $100 a month for unlimited landline calls and internet. Only thing that costs extra is the mobile calls which we use ours for anyway. Not massively cheap but happy to pay for the great problem free service they give us. Used to be with Telstra and it was nothing but a shit fight. Still get the occasional bill from them 5 years after we left them.
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How do I buy it? I don’t know what I’m doing! Halp! /o\
Wait, I’m supposed to buy it from my xbox, not on the website, right?-
I bought it from my Xbox had to press Y to do a BING! search and found it through there. Should be up and advertised under New Releases or something now 🙂
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I went into the marketplace on the Xbox, pulled up arcade game new releases, and it was staring me in the face. Nice and easy!
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Really? I’ve been downloading it for like the past half hour, so have a bunch of other TAYbies.
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Hmmm, well it still didn’t have a price for it when I checked. Maybe it appeared on the xbox first? Either way, I’ve got it downloading now! I’m making a note here, huge success. It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction! \o/
Also, I haven’t been this exited about a new game release since Portal 2 last year. -
Hurrah! By the way I sent you a friend request, but my gamertag is HaganeGir so you probably didn’t know it was me.
Or you ignored me, in which case, I’m wounded lambo, hurt, even. 😛
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Oh wow, I gotta wait till next pay day before buying more points so I’ll have to make do with the Trial (sic) in the meantime (oh and Fez, and the Ghost Recon beta!)
I couldn’t find it and had to do some crazy search thingy and only managed to find the Trial version /o\
VEVO popped up on my Xbox last night – so far all night tonight we’ve been watching music videos – best xbox video service yet (and we frequently use iView on the xbox)
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Nothing much. Just waiting for Trials Evo to download. I’m playing Spore while I’m waiting. My city of monkey-bird-goat, vegetarian pacifists are going to take over the world! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Oh wow, I haven’t played Spore in ages. I never really liked the Space phase of that game though. It was more fun on the tribal level, and the one where you can collect parts to evolve with. I had some great species! And they all liked getting wiped out by those massive monsters.
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I’m playing it for the first time. It seems as though it’s going to be very short. Up to the age before space (I think) and I’ve only spent maybe 2 hours on it. It’s pretty fun though. I got the Spore Creature Creator in the newspaper back when the game originally came out and spent a fair amount of time on that. I need to go find all my old creatures and put them in the game.
My most favourite thing from the game is when UFO’s appear. I made an X-Wing lookalike with the vehicle creator, and then one day during the tribal stage, it showed up, flew around, abducted some animals, then flew off again 😀-
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You can get it for $14 from ozgameshop http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/spore-game-classics-pc-and-mac
You’d have to wait for it to arrive though…
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I got bored of the game once I hit the space phase. Both the creature and tribal phases were a lot of fun though. I’d really like to see another Spore game that focuses on those two phases.
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Can’t make it to the meat next week 🙁 Turns out I’ve got a whole lot of stuff on and I’d forgotten about it.
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Wat.
Well this is awkward.
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That excited aye?
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Pardon?
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Motorstorm RC
Kinda like Super Sprint, but a lot weirder.
The handling feels a lot like super sprint, but the idea of adding RC cars to Motorstorm-based tracks feels kind of weird.
However, the gameplay is quite fun, there’s a section where you can just drive your RC car around a skate park and a dirt track for practice, and it supports up to four people.
Oh, and if you download the PS3 version, you get the PSVITA version for free.
That’s pretty good for $9.95 in my opinion.
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This bad?
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This bad?
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This bad?
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This bad?
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This bad?
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This bad?
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This bad?
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Possibly worse…. (sorry everyone)
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Or not! Kinda glad that didn’t post 10 billion times.
They should really fix that 😛
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Indeed. We should stop now, I think.
Give ol’ Bessie the Kotaku Server a rest.
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Do you also incessantly press traffic light buttons?
26th in the world (of Trials) on a track 😀 \o/!
I’m also totes beating FatShady on it! (but I’m guessing this doesn’t really count because I doubt he’s actually gone back to it). It was the first track in Evo that I went back on and tried to get a really good score on :). Knew it would pay off!
Think I’ve had my Trials Evo fill for now 😛
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If you provide me with lodging during my stay in Sydney, sure. Otherwise, I’m afraid that I’m not willing to take a loss on this.
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I thought we were sleeping in cupboards?
WHAT DO YOU THINK I’M MADE OF? MONEY.
I wish that was true. I could walk into a store, tear my arm off, plop it on a counter and be like ‘I’LL TAKE THAT DIAMOND, GOOD SIR’.
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Well, so long as you can provide the keyboard, it’ll be all good.
And anyway, I can get something similar for you… You don’t need two kidneys, right?
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Keyboard? Wut.
Cupboard. Herp derpity derp.
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LoLtalk
Hecarim is the new Yi:
Movespeed Quints.
Dunkmaster build (gofast boots, bloodthirster, doubleswords, more doubleswords)
That’s it, you win now.
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That w ability. Such an absolute BS amount of healing. For those that don’t know it heals for ALL damage dealt to all enemies around Hecarim, you basically can’t die with it on.
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W actually only grants a percentage. I believe it is 10/15/20/25/30% of damage dealt in the area. The area only lasts 4-6 seconds (citation needed) and life leeched from dmg to minions is capped at 60. I actually think it’s fairly balanced. You can use it to gain some sustain in team fights – where you will probably be targeted as Hec is a large model – or as a bit of a safeguard against people diving your turret during lane phase (healing from the dmg that the turret deals).
What is broken is his passive. Ignore unit collision completely. AND gain bonus AD from a scaling % of your bonus move speed (iirc caps at 30% at lvl 18). Any bonus movespeed. Ghost might seem a bit redundant since you already have no unit collision, but the extra damage it provides (for 10 seconds) means it’s still worth it. Back to the Dunkmaster build, the 15% movespeed on Phantom Dancers also means a huge bonus to AD.
You’ll be at 2.5 attacks/second, close to 700 movespeed and about 500 AD. You could probably change one of the (4) PDs for a TriForce without much change to your attack speed. So now you’re basically out Yi’ing Yi (since you’ll have greater life steal, and if he pops meditate you can ult him to break it with fear.
He is hurt pretty bad by crowd control though. He doesn’t have anyway to break CC naturally, so you’d have to either deal with it or take a Veil. If you’re CC’d in a team fight you could get focused pretty easily, if you get cc’d while chasing it may not matter, since you’ll probably be fast enough to regain ground.
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hrmmm, no Trinity Force? It seems like that item was made for him (or he was made for the item).
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Welp, since I doubt anyone cares, gross colour is practically done, some detail is added, I still need to add an arseload of shading, do some colour correction, and so forth. But, ehh. http://i.imgur.com/AAG1Q.jpg
Time I got to bed, me thinks.
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It’s only half done so far, as a fellow graphic artist I advise to hold judgement and just wait until the shading kicks in 🙂
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That’s totally fair, my main problem with the black and white version was that it was really hard to tell what was what, but, certainly compared to the current version, it looked so much cleaner.
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As I’m not a graphic artist, I must warn you that it may still look terrible, even after I finish it…
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It’s easier to see what things are now that it’s coloured in. I thought that was a cliff not a chasm. xD I still don’t know what the white things next to the door are though. Statues? …S..s-skeletons!?
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I’ll ruin the mystery by saying statues.
Probably the statues of saints, what with them having their own little alcoves.
Now they’re cursed, and will rise up to fight you.
Poor cursed saints.
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Got a call a couple of days ago from Telstra to say they are going to swap our ISP from Internode to Telstra on Saturday afternoon. Then got a call yesterday from Internode saying they are shutting off our internet connection on Friday COB.
Gahhh, no internet on a Friday makes me sad.
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I should really pre-order that.
I should also really get a decent computer to play it.
Or I could play Trials…..
Last night I ended up watching the OGN LOL stream.
As far as I can tell, it’s the LOL equivalent of GSL (Naniwa hwaiting!) and I caught the second and third games of a rather intense best of three.
The weird part was that the tiebreaker game was blind pick. So I watched a pro game of: Olaf (Top), Maokai (Jungler), Ryze (Mid), Urgot & Taric (Bot) against Olaf (Top), Shen (Jungler), Ryze (Mid), Urgot & Malphite (Bot, although Malphite roamed early because this team got a lvl 1 gank and stole blue, which was given to Urgot).
Not entirely sure I got the supports right in that team comp, but I think you get the idea.
I fell asleep before the laning phase was over but I’m fairly sure the team with Urgot/Olaf/Ryze won.
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Some of us actually like to know what happens in teamfights rather then STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN.
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you need to access that state of mind when your brain is working so fast that everything seems to slow down.
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You don’t need to because as soon as you see more than one enemy at a time you are already dead. Or at least stunned and slowed into oblivion.
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thats it, i am going to stream dota2 tonight and attempt to teach u guys how to play. bring all your questions.
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SNARE – STUN – STUN – SNARE – STUN – STUN.
I’m going to play League of Leona instead! Monopoly on stuns huzzaaaaah. -
How do I make the screen bigger? Changing resolution seems to have really only effected the HUD. The actual game space still looks like someone cut a hole in the side of a tissue box.
I am kinda getting the hang of it, but playing with bots is fail, since the friendly bots have no sense of teamwork – most of them find a tree to stand next to and do that for most of the game. However as soon as “something happens” and I try to centre camera on my hero I basically can’t (back to my problem that hitting the hero key, which i mapped to spacebar, requires me to at least doubletap it) and I haven’t yet been in a teamfight yet where I haven’t got stuck trying to run somewhere and move the camera at the same time.
Also, I know DOTA2’s gearing up the “casting”/spectating/esports element, but there’s less information available than LoL, eg: viewing health/mana/ult status of teammates at a glance. And DOTA2 will have to casualise pretty quickly if they want people to follow it as an eSport.
Also it’s in BETA, i should stop being so judgemental of it. 🙁
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The friendly bots were repeatedly dropped on their heads as children.
My main problem with the game is that the minimap is in the wrong corner.
While I’m sure it’s something you would get used to, it’s just poor design to have it there.
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but my brain is already slow if it were slower than it would go backwards oh man my brain can time travel!!!
Well, I played Witcher 2 last night.
I don’t think this will be keeping me away from SKYRIM! for long as it seems I totally suck at being a Witcher.
I got my arse handed to me in the tutorial.
THE FRACKING TUTORIAL!!1!
*sigh*
The rest of the game has been easy so far, but to have been killed in the tutorial.
I am disappoint.
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The tutorial is designed as a gauntlet, so that you always die at the end. I think.
It told me I should play it on the easiest difficulty, so, for once in my life, I heeded its advice, and dropped it down to normal. 🙁
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The combat is brutal. Three tricks that help – 1) Quen sign blocks an attack completely, use it. 2) Use Aard sign to stun an enemy as often as you can. 3) Dodge roll away after every couple of strikes, or if there are two or more enemies in striking distance.
So, that Arrival DLC. Purchased, played, completed. My thoughts?
Ab fve V qba’g yvxr vg. Ab vagrerfgvat punenpgref be qvnybt, n fgbelyvar gung sryg hygvzngryl cbvagyrff naq gur jubyr guvat jnf whfg n pbagvahbf tevaq fubbgvat rarzvrf nybat bar pbeevqbe gung sryg yvxr n tevaq fubbgvat rarzvrf nybat bar pbeevqbe. Ng yrnfg Bireybeq unq na vagrerfgvat vqrn naq n xvaq bs zrffrq hc raqvat. Nyy Neeviny yrsg zr jvgu jnf bar rkgen yriry naq ryrira ohpxf cbbere.
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Lrnu, V guvax gur bayl qenj sbe vg jnf gur snpg gung vg gvrf vagb gur ortvaavat bs ZR3 naq n pbhcyr bs bgure riragf yngre va 3.
Nccnenagyl vg nyfb nssrpgf lbhe Tnynpgvp Ernqvarff, lbh trg zber cbvagf vs lbh pbzcyrgrq Neeviny.-
Jr’er ab fgenatref gb ybir, lbh xabj gur ehyrf naq fb qb V. N shyy pbzzvgzrag’f jung V’z guvaxvat bs, lbh jbhyqa’g trg guvf sebz nal bgure thl. V whfg jnaan gryy lbh ubj V’z srryvat, tbggn znxr lbh haqrefgnaq
Arire tbaan tvir lbh hc, arire tbaan yrg lbh qbja, arire tbaan eha nebhaq naq qrfreg lbh.
Arire tbaan znxr lbh pel, arire tbaan fnl tbbqolr, arire tbaan gryy n yvr naq uheg lbh
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V gubhtug Bireybeq jnf ernyyl pbby, vg npghnyyl tnir zber vqrnf vagb zl urnq ertneqvat zvkvat n uhzna zvaq vagb n trgu’f obql. Gung’yy or Grpu Xavtug sbe fher. N obl gheavat uvf onpx ba uvf uhznavgl nsgre snyyvat grezvanyyl vyy, orpbzvat n trgu vasvygengbe jvgu n ghevna orfg sevraq/fvqrxvpx inathneq. 🙂 Fbhaqf ernyyl pbby gb zr unun
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I had a feeling that you may say something like that.
Also, Overlord was my favourite DLC for ME2. -
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Was going to test out my gym membership last night but was rather tired and didn’t end up going (I blame Rocketpony for pointing out that I sounded tired). So instead I figured I’d try doing what was essentially part of my “one last thing before I’m done here” routine from when I used to workout.
Basically it’s six ab exercises done in two blocks of three. So I do situps, immediately followed by ankle taps, immediately followed by straight leg lifts. Take a short break (30 seconds or so) and then do crunches and two other things that I honestly can’t remember the name of. At the end of all six, plank until I can’t.
Short break and then go again.
Thought I’d throw in a set of 20 push-ups at the start of the routine as well.
Got through one set.
I liked it better when I was in shape and this only started to suck as I got into the third set.
My friends and I started this little routine when we worked out together because we used to do situp competitions and ended up getting such obscene numbers that it just felt pointless. Instead of just trying to do as many as possible, we started to force ourselves to do them in time to music (I liked to use Closer by NIN because the snare “tick” seemed to provide a decent pace).
And then I found ten bucks.
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Hey don’t blame me for you lack of motivation you sounded shit way before i got onto TS. Glad you are trying to get fit again 🙂
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You go there to battle the leader of the gym for a badge. Once you have enough badges you can battle the elite 4
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Cakesmith! I have made you my Trials rival!
Prepare to be beaten on some tracks until you go back and put more effort in!
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I wasn’t too fussed with times last night, mainly getting gold on the levels.
FUCK that sewer level!
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Figured as much, you seem pretty good at it though.
Not sure if I am up to that one yet, still trying to get gold on that one with the water pipes that blast you up. Unless that’s the one you mean.-
That is indeed the sewer level. Best I’ve managed is 1 fault. It’s the damn pipe that’s on a 45 degree angle that casues you to sping I always mess it up.
Some of my times are rubbish compared to the likes of Pez, FatShady, Greenius and Blood Apathy.
I did dominate the Roller Coaster track though 😀
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Yes, I’m considered good!
I too was also focussing on getting Golds (and later Silvers) just so I could unlock the next set of tracks 😀
I only just realised that medals in Skill Games (and I assume Tournaments) also count, d’oh!
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Oh not you didn’t! 🙂
And yeah, the very last pipe is the one that messes me up. Managed to fluke some huge jumps that skipped big chunks of the level and shave several seconds off the time. But then that last pipe flips me just before the finish line. -
The sewer level made me say some ugly ugly things. I nearly hit myself with the xbox controller on that final pipe.
Not sure if this helps anyone (and heavens forbid I help you bastards get a better time than me), but when you hit a pipe, make sure your bike is perpendicular to it (underside facing the pipe). You won’t flip as a result and it’s much easier to control.
On the two pipe jump up to that horrid pipe/plank section towards the end, do a slower higher jump instead of attempting to clear it all at once. You’ll find the jump, while it clears less distance will ultimately place you on one of the planks instead of smack bang into a pipe (RAAAAAAAAEG).
Lastly, once you make it past that section, take a little breather before you hit that final pipe at the end and line it up perfectly. Gold is only 46 seconds on gold so you can afford to go slow.
I hit about 40-something seconds on it and I could have gone faster but was overly cautious to not fuck it up. Have fun with that.
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Something something BUNNY HOP BUNNY HOP WHY WON’T YOU GET OVER THAT FUCKING JUMP WHAT IS THIS something something something GOLD WHOOOOOOOOOO.
*passes out on keyboard*
Morning all, I trust all is well? Hmmm?
I had a big sinus infection over last week and after finally getting on the antibiotics this week I am starting to clear up a bit, not 10% yet but I’m feeling a little less sick every day, so that is good.
On an unrelated note, I’ve been thinking about game movies and what they get so wrong.
Basically we all grew up with games thinking ‘wouldn’t it be amazing to see this as a movie!’, and then the movie happens and it is terrible because the try to retell the story of the game.
We don’t want movies based off games so they can tell a 10-20 hour story in 1 1/2 hours, we was movies based off games because we love the worlds these games create and we want to see those worlds expanded upon.
This is why the first Resident Evil movie is infinitely better than any of the RE movies that followed, because it fit snugly in the RE world without forcing characters from the game into situations that just don’t work.
If a Mass Effect movie ever happens (and I REALLY hope it does), I hope to high heaven that it has nothing to do with the games and everything to do with the ME universe.
Yeah thats all I got right now, just some morning pre-coffee musing for ya 🙂
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Jr’er ab fgenatref gb ybir, lbh xabj gur ehyrf naq fb qb V. N shyy pbzzvgzrag’f jung V’z guvaxvat bs, lbh jbhyqa’g trg guvf sebz nal bgure thl. V whfg jnaan gryy lbh ubj V’z srryvat, tbggn znxr lbh haqrefgnaq
Arire tbaan tvir lbh hc, arire tbaan yrg lbh qbja, arire tbaan eha nebhaq naq qrfreg lbh.
Arire tbaan znxr lbh pel, arire tbaan fnl tbbqolr, arire tbaan gryy n yvr naq uheg lbh🙂
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Most books are longer than the standard movie length, but they seem to get converted okay.
The reason that most movies based on video games suck is simply because most video games suck when it comes to the aspects that are important for a good movie. You can condense a good plot but there’s only so much you can do with a terrible one without completely detracting from whatever elements of it people enjoyed.
The Resident Evil movies are a terrible example. They’re self-insert Mary Sue fanfics. Then again, the games aren’t exactly much to write home about either. Just like Metal Gear, they’re just not that good by most standards.
A Mass Effect movie based around Shepard could work. All of the elements exist to make it possible, just cull the sidequests and focus on the actions of the core squad. That being said, one of the best aspects of Mass Effect is that it is your Shepard. That’s something movies simply cannot do.
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I think a Mass Effect movie around Shepard would not go down well, everybody’s Shepard is different so there would be no way to please everybody. I would much prefer a new story set in the Mass Effect universe with maybe a sly nod to a few of the in-game characters.
I’d prefer it to be able to co-exist next to the games perfectly rather than try to cram the game’s narrative into a film format. Like the first RE movie did it wasn’t perfect but it fit with the games because it had so little to do with them.
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hmm.. that is a great point! Except Silent Hill would have to be my favourite exception to the rule. they stuck pretty closely to the original story and even mimicked camera angles from the game!
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I haven’t played the Silent Hill games but the movie was pretty okay. A bit muddled but decent for what it was trying to do.
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its one of my favourite series, but i missed out on what was apparently the best one – SH2. you should check it out sometime!
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There’s apparently a rather decent HD remake that was recently released. It is something I will make an effort to buy soonish.
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dont forget the extra pants!
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I just got that recently, despite the remake’s flaws I can’t wait to revisit Silent Hill 2.
Plus I never got a chance to play SH3 so I am very happy that I have a chance to now 🙂
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Yeah I admit the SH movie was done pretty well, although once you know the deal with Pyramid Head in SH2 his appearance in the movie kind of defeats the entire purpose of his existence.
Mornin’ TAY!
Starting to get back into Skyrim, though I’m still having issues sticking with a character.
I like the idea and the look of a heavy armour fighter, but melee combat feels lacking. I love the magic system but hate that if you’re rushed, you’re screwed. I have nothing against stealth/thief/assassin, but just isn’t feeling as rewarding as it used to…
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I spent two hours just pickpocketing and robbing the first two towns blind. Through these two skills I leveled up to level 20. Then I attempted a quest and was set upon by monsters who I couldn’t even scratch.
#NotHelping
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Actually, I did something similar when it first came out, though it was with smithing. I could still fight, but should have been better than what I was.
I think I’m going to stick it out with my shield warrior and focus purely on combat abilities for him, and focus on the main story (and probably the Stormcloaks). Once that’s done I’ll pick a different type and do the big run of the game. It always felt weird being a big plate wearing jerk, running around forests picking flowers, hunting deer and so on…
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I found the mage to be way OP. For instance i tried a warrior my first time and couldn’t kill bunny rabbits because i was to slow. I killed the bunnies first try with my fire spell. Yes that is my judge of what is OP and what isn’t
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Yeah, mage can be op. Can end up practically invincible late game apparently.
But then, with the right enchanted armour so was my Orc heavy. 2 hit a dragon on the hardest difficulty? OK.jpg
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Morning Guys!
Thought I might try and make a bit more of an effort to make an appearance here (while I’m at work… and no-one is looking). How is everyone? I just got a veneer from the dentist and now i’m too paranoid to have a smoke or a coffee because I think it’ll turn yellow straight away haha.
Can’t wait to hit up some Trials, maybe it will be the game to finally pull me away from BF3.
Anyway, have a good weekend guys, take care.
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(that was in directed at Cephalxn but Cakemang was talking about Trials so I responded to his comment)
Got your name from the “Today is Trials… Day” article.
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Out of curiosity, how much did the veneer cost?
No matter how much I brush my previous smoking and current coffee drinking habits result in… not white teeth. I dislike it.
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My teeth are speckled white due to massive amounts of fluoride as a child…I think I’d have to paint my teeth to make them look white.
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Well mine was a composite veneer instead of a porcelain one, and all up it cost me $270. I’ll get about $100 back from my private health insurance.
You see, when I was younger I had 6 adult teeth that didn’t form, so I’ve had these horrible baby teeth, that no matter how well I’ve looked after them, they are starting to look pretty bad. I’d love to be able to rip all my teeth out and just get fake ones drilled into my head, but that would cost more that i make in 2 years I reckon.
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Not even going to bother reading the comments of this article. We all know exactly what’s going to be there.
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Agreed.
I mean, I’d love to be surprised by finding out the comments are suddenly filled with intelligent and insightful comments, but it seems pretty unlikely.
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humans? Intelligence? it’s funny that those two can actually join in one sentence… oh wait they do “So many humans lack intelligence” – exception 😛
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That is too much skill for a mere mortal.
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Shepish?
Like a Shepard?
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Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
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Nailed it.
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oh god i’m on a roll of terribleness today.
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Just… give me the keyboard.
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@ Pez & anyone else involved with Brink on PC –
Did you guys have any problems connecting to the host player (Server not responding error)? I’m pretty sure I’ve got the port forwarding right, but it just wont play nice. Tis frustrating.
@ Everyone else – Hello.
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Oh hell yeah! It took a whole bunch of messing around it get it to work, and even then we usually got dumped on a random dedicated server from US/EU.
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I should add: amazingly (despite the screwing around to get it to work) it’s still a really fun game.
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This.
The combat is amazingly good. Nothing quite like the feeling of completing a hard difficulty mission when you’re the attacking team.
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Hell yes. Its awesome fun playing against people.
Brink got a bum rap I tells ya!
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I’ve had the exact same issue but never ended up dicking around more with it because as Rize noted we just ended up playing on other dedicated servers. The only thing I can think of is maybe windows firewall being a dick. Either that or it’s just because some aspects of Brink are horrendously broken.
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You guys are clearly doing something wrong. It worked fine for me with the right ports forwarded 😉
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…you jerk 😛
If all players were in DMZ and it worked then it’s most likely a port forwarding issue. That’s not a guarantee, but that’s usually the way it goes.
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I honestly have no idea why it’s not working. I have never had any issues with other MP games with port forwarding but Brink seems to operate under a separate set of logic.
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Yeah, it’s like a diseased-logic. A sick-logic.
You might even say: an ill logic…al.
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That was… terrible.
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Terrible that you didn’t think of it first?
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Sure… let’s go with that. >.>
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I’m surprised how much I enjoy Medal of Honor (the 2010 one). The game has a nice groove to it.
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Eek! Hooray for getting better though! My close friend has chronic fatigue and when she went in Japan she spent most times in bed.
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Scree cast’s spell: Dizzy Spell
Scree rolls d10 die
Scree rolls 1 (critical failure)
Scree’s spell backfires and hits herself with her spell
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It was a huge pain in the arse. I pretty much spent most of yesterday lying down because if I stood up I would feel like I was going to fall
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Hey Jordi
Regarding that ‘mamasita?’ melb meat you’re planning, what time are you setting for meeting up?
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Ah sweet! Cuz I work in the CBD full time so I should be able to make it 🙂
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Yay!!! There will be banners and streamers and TEQUILA
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I do not consume alcohol, never have and never will, just OJ will be enough for me 🙂
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Morning
\o/ for feeling better!
Well I think I was snoring in my sleep last night because I have a really sore throat, but can’t really complain (because it hurts my throat when I complain about it)
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yerp, gonna grab some on my lunch break. Right now I’m drinking all the water because it helps (for like 5 mins)
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Yeah, I think I gotta log in (for the first time in ages) and get my stupid pet first.
First world problems…
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Apparentally i am posh because i call my mum’s dad “grandpa” People have been talking to me in a posh accent all morning and asking for tea and scones. lol
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because you are meant to reference them as grandad, i call my other grandpa nonno because i am italian on that side and that is also the done thing around here. This whole town is made up of italian migrates pretty much.
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It’s weird how different families have different rules, my mum’s side we call grandpa and my dad’s side we call grand dad. I find both terms awkward and weird. Nothing posh about it, though. 😛
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My grandparents sat down before my elder sister was born, and decided upon what we would call them, as such, my Father’s parents were Granny and Grandpa, and my Mother’s are Grandma and Grandad.
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That’s pretty much how it worked for my family too.
Mum’s side: Nana and Pa
Dad’s side: Grandad (her mum never got a name as she passed away when dad was 14)
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I already got a cup of tea this morning. They think it bugs me and it is a way of insulting m without being rude. I think its funny.
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After all the stuff I’ve heard Rocket say about them, I’m pretty sure they are.
Except the receptionist. I’m pretty sure Rocket and her are an item.
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Hahaha :s
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Sort of, they have there moments of intelligence its just because its the country lifestyle to make fun and tease and jest. Sometimes they are strangely hillarious, for instance we had a ceremony for a water bottle yesterday where we said prayers and nice things about another guys water bottle because it got touched by the disgusting smoko dude. But most of the time they are dicks.
Going to dentist to get wisdom teeth out tomorrow. It’s gonna be horrible. Sprawled out on a table, doped up while some random dude sticks fingers in my mouth. :S Any one got some reassuring words so I don’t, uh, forget to go… 😛
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Just think, is it really that different from a normal Friday night?
You’re still going to be feeling sore and wretched on Saturday morning, the only difference is that you’re going to be paying a lot more than usual for it.
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Okay, then. Now we’re talkin’… 😀
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Wisdom teeth weren’t bad for me, they ached a lot, but didn’t really hurt after the first 2 days, and I didn’t chipmunk up.
As my only experience is of a relatively painless one, I believe that you’ll have the same.
Also, you’ll presumably be knocked out, so you can imagine that it’s a ridiculously hot female reaching into your mouth, or something!
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Wait, I helped?
Dammit. Uhhhh… hmmmm… WATCH OUT, THE PLACE IT WILL HAPPEN IN IS ON FIRE! AND NOW THE FIRE IS DIAMONDS, SO EVERYONE’S RUNNING BACK IN AND OH GOD IT’S BACK TO BEING FIRE AND NOW THEY’RE ALL BURNING!
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Damn you. I’m so close to changing that damn gravatar now. I’m all self-concious. Are you happy?! 😛
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And that, my friend, is why you earn the big bucks!
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My brother got major dental stuff done earlier this year, about ten times worse than what I’m getting so I can’t really complain. (Though I will. You better believe I will. :P)
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Don’t worry about your clumsy commenting Harli, you’re doing such an amazing job.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/if-youre-female-online-gaming-is-a-festival-of-compliments-and-flattery/comment-page-1/#comment-642888
It’s been too long since Trials has been mentioned on this page.
How about that Trials Evolution?
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Tonight’s goal is to get the 75 medals for the A-Grade license.
Then the medal competition BEGINS.
Also, holding off on customization until I get more ash-cay, but I’m loving the amount of options available for customizing the rider. Haven’t seen a great deal in range of accessories for the bikes though.
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Yeah… I ain’t gonna be playing brink tonight.
I am also considering skipping blur tomorrow.
More important to be yelling at me TV instead and threatening it with bodily harm.
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TAYbar while playing Trials…
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Drunken rage.
Can’t wait.
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I jsut bought a dictionary, by which I mean a proper dictionary.
One that is big enough to also function as an offensive weapon.
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That’s completely irrelevant. Just blame your fat fingers. Nobody need know the truth.
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I laugh at the idea of you laughing.
I’ve never even see you smile man. WERE YOU BORN WITHOUT A SENSE OF HUMOUR? HUH? HUH?!
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Well someone has to be surly. I have to pick up the slack for both yourself and ‘Flu.
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Heavy is the red jumper…
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hehehe I never saw the red jumper once while in sydney, i am disappoint.
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THE RED HOODIE OF SURLINESS!!!
Only the surliest of surly people can bear it.
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Yeah, I get the feeling the rest of the week’s gaming plans are going to be scrapped while we all try and outdo each other at Trials.
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Though I’m curious about the changes to her spells. Can she now just cast 25 spells? That’s a bit odd.
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Soraka?
Plus – epic new idea -> Orianna + Galio in team comp, how much will that hurt? Galio taunts then just after explosion, Orianna throws ult and spell combo while drone is on Galio. Brutal?
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Anivia’s ult isn’t very good against champs though, it’s more a farm tool and a slow.
Galio ult into Ziggs ult into Pantheon ult into Gangplank ult into. Nunu ult?
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Morgana’s does more damage than Ziggs.
Galio ult into Nunu/Morgana/Mummy/Sparta I’d say
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But Morgana’s doesn’t look as cool. I was going for Bay(splosion)Life
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Add in Twitch AD carry bot with Tiamats and ult – Lots of AOE.
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PENTAKILL! PENTAKILL! PENTAKILL!
Interesting to compare that to what we watch, where it would be more.
“Well, my fellow caster, it appears that they’ve scored an ace.”
“Indeed, and what impeccable timing, this is a clear victory for this team.”
“I must say, the other team really were outplayed.”
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BAY LIFE!
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Also apparently Dan Dinh owns the SoloMid website, not Reginald, like I thought.
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Oh man, I was totally going to order some BAY LIFE stuff for you today. But I don’t have your address to send things 🙁
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Oh man, Mark asked for my address yesterday.
I THOUGHT YOU WERE UP TO SOMETHING but I guess you were not.
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I know its probably bad but i am secretly hoping that the auditors who are checking out our service centre ask me questions i have no idea about which maybe will actually prompt my company into giving some training to anyone besides my supervisor. Seriously that dude is a fountain of knowledge and we all only get a tiny bit of splash back from it. Then he looks at us like we are idiots for asking questions or not knowing something.
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Asking is better than not asking. Regardless of what facial movements he points in your direction.
You could always ask him while the auditors are there. He’ll either answer you, or blow you off which will look terrible.
GO
Trials Talk!
Is anyone finding the game easier overall from the likes of Trials on PC and Trials HD? I don’t know if I’m just better at judging tracks now than when I was first playing through Trials and Trials HD or if they are just better designed (which, I must say the track design is amazing!).
Thoughts?
Oh, and another level that can fuck right off, the one after Sewage Plant. The one in the sky.
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I haven’t played Trials HD in absolutely ages (like, nearly a year?), so I found Evolution to be a bit awkward at first. I got back in the groove, though. And yeah, I had like 3 attempts at that sky level after Sewage Plant, XBL disconnected, then I went to bed.
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The one in the sky was piss easy compared to sewage plant.
And I think it has a more gradual learning curve than in HD. HD went from piss easy to HOLY FUCK WHAT THE HELL in a matter of tracks. Evo seems to take a more gradual increase in difficulty, and I think a lot of us have some experience in HD so we’re better prepared.
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Yeah. The licence tests got a tad annoying, as they kept pausing me, but I soon realised their worth.
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I can’t say I found it easier because I’ve never played them before, but the first two sets of tracks weren’t as controller-throwing-frustrating as I expected them to be. There are a few levels that completely kicked my ass for about twenty minutes, though. I have a problem with perfection and just want to do everything as a perfect run…
Has anyone gone into any of the Skills Games yet? Some of those are brilliant. Ones where you’re constantly accelerating, or can’t tilt the rider at all, or have limited fuel. And the downloadable levels! I found an angry birds style level, it was awesome.
Are we actually going to hit up the multiplayer tonight? If I read above right Brink is probably off the cards because TRIALS, so why not give multi a try?
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Oh man I am bad on the perfectionism. If I did not get gold and in the top 3 of my friend’s leader-boards a track was not done.
At least until I get to the hard tracks.
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Yeah i have only foudn a couple of tracks so far frustrating. The Sewer plant drove me mental to be honest.
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yep. Has anyone on here even got to the extremes yet… 135 medals? Im really looking forward to those discussions 🙂 They are damn tough. I got one platinum on an extreme last night and unless its competing with you lot, thats what i want to focus on! Extreme PLATS BABY!
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Let me get there! Give it a few days :p
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Oh other ones higher up dont give me greif as much as that one does.
Its just how inconsistent the water pipes effects on you are. Throws me every time.
LOVEING the challenges though, i think i spent an hour just playing the skiing one.
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As long as your bike is perpendicular (underside facing the pipe) to the water blast it’s much easier to manage.
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We can’t all have giant heads like you, Mr Probably-Got-C-Sectioned-Out-Also-I-Guess-Talking-About-Pez’s-Birth-Is-Weird-So-I-will-Stop-But-I-Was-Implying-He-Has-A-Massive-Ego-In-Case-No-One-Picked-Up-On-That.
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Say what you want, I can still wear a top hat with no problems.
Or indeed, any other hat for that matter. Maybe I shall wear several hats at once at the monomeat just to raise your ire.
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Create an elaborate contraption of wires, with levers and pulleys, to make it sit on your head.
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I got a stapler then went “MWHAHAHAHAHA”, and apart from my dog not liking the sudden noise, this has not helped in any way.
Did I do something wrong?
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Hi TAY. How is everyone?
I have nothing else to add. So I’m just going to do my awkward robot dance.
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I’m alright.
Need to drop by the hospital later today, which is always annoying(sentence deliberately phrased to make it seem like I’m dying), see a relly who’s cooped up there. And I have to cook dinner, which is annoying, as it means I have to work out what I’m cooking for dinner. But apart from that, absolutely nothing’s happening in my world…
BAM! Serious answer. God that’s boring.
So, uhh, dragons and fairies and stuff.
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No. That stuff requires effort.
So, no. Also, they have lots of fish things, and things with olives, and things with mushrooms. And erggghh.
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Best way to cook dinner: Order takeaway. Serve it on fancy plates. Dispose of ALL the evidence.
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Creamy mushroom and bacon pasta?
Fry bacon, add shrooms, add stock and cream to liking, add to cooked pasta.
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I still don’t like mushrooms.
Though I could probably make a Carbonara… Not very healthy, but ehh, it’ll do.
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like* Derp. Look like.
I guess I’m just too used to people refusing to look at me. :'(
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No. It’s just a habit I’ve formed. In awkward situations I kind of…break into a bit of the robot.
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It’s pretty half arsed arm wailing really. I also do the Kermit arm flail if something frustrates me/someone is walking really slow in front of me. It started as a joke but then I accidentally did it behind some lady at uni. ALL THE SHAME.
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Ergh. That should’ve been flailing not wailing. Herpity derp.
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haha I love the Kermit arm flailing
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Did i read something about a Melbourne meat at some point? I have only glanced over TAY as i been too busy all week and still only really busy to keep up with whats happening NOW.
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Tasty mexican food and tequila
Thursday next week, around 6 or 7pm at mamasitas in the city as far as I am aware
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now I’ve gotta justify to myself why spending probably close to $500 to see just one band (At the Drive-In) is a good idea.
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Jack White is goddamn amazing.
First you admit you like nickelback, now you question Jack White’s legendary status. I am beginning to question our friendship.
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Oh they moved it back to Byron from Woodford, hot damn! Now to see if other friends are going =D!
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Yeah I didn’t see the opening of the article, i’m such a derp!
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JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK WHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITE!!!
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aren’t you supposed to be of neutral alignment, RP?
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SHHHH, STOP DRAWING ATTENTION TO IT, ONE-ARMED HARLI.
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GET AWAY! GET AWAY!
-awkwardly dances-
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Note to self: create technology which lets you scan your face seamlessly into a movie. Make millions.
Be right back.
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Note to self: put Blaghmans face into every Van Damme movie made. Make millions.
Be right back.
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$25 for the first minute. And $3 for every minute you can last thereafter …
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I like the way you think.
We should go into business. Not in that way though.
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Note to self: put Pez’s face on all the porn stars, male and female. Get all of Pez’s money.
Be right back.
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And you just tapped into the narcissist market.
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I approve of this.
Can’t wait to watch myself fap while I’m fapping. Where’s xzibit at?
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I go for the Essendon Bombers. Because that’s the only team i know.
Being from Sydney, i’m required by law to love NRL over AFL.
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I’m Victorian – what’s this NRL thing the rest of the country goes nutty for? Isn’t it something to do with Bundaberg Rum?
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Just saw there’s an article on the front page about board games.
Board games are awesome.
I wonder if I should try and have some board games at my meat? Shame they’re such a hassle.
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Shame they cut so much content. Day[9] winning was a huge surprise simply because we never got to see his turns.
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Remember when AfroMags was still around?
He was all like “I love board games!”
And I was all “That’s because WA is still stuck in the 1950’s so you don’t have any real entertainment.”
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It’s not our fault that we couldn’t secede in the 30’s and rule the continent due to our mineral wealth.
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Game of Thrones is an awesome board game. Takes at least one game to understand the rules (which took ~3 hours), but after that it’s pure fun.
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The last time I played a board game was… a long time ago. I can’t even remember. 😛
I had an idea back in high school to play a class-wide game of ‘Guess Who?’, except replacing the game characters with images of everyone in the class. Nobody seemed to like that idea though. I thought it was cool. D:
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I play the Zombies! board game with my friends every so often. Just three of us though. It’d be heaps of fun with a full 6 or so people. MADNESS! Games last forever and you form alliances that you then betray etc.
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I buy new board games every few months and then when I have friends over they just want to play the same old ones 🙁
Success, I have gotten a gold medal, no faults on Sewage Plant! Took me about half an hour. Now, to try and beat fatshady’s time… fat chance of me accomplishing that (pardon the pun)
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Continuing the pun, Fatshady has lost some weight.
Your chances of beating him are still slim.
\o/
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Though if I did beat him, it would be massive achievement.
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You would be laden with abundant praise to be sure. But it may turn out to be a heavy crown to bear.
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Ok, it was all peer pressure.
I didn’t get it. I just wanted to be cool.
DON’T JUDGE ME.
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It’s because your comment was (by your own admission) too late, and he was doing the thing where boys are really nice to girls who make mistakes like in th article.
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ohhh, hahaha i get it now! thanks Shane 🙂
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HELLO CAKESMITH!
still the same! friend suggested acupuncture, so i went and turned into a human pincushion this morning. was an interesting experience.
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But then it all turns out to be a ruse, so I say GO FOR IT!
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ok! 3 arms here i go!!!
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…if you know what she means 😉
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HEY I WASN’T THE ONE WHO SAID IT OK IT WAS YOU I SWEAR YOU HAVE SUCH A PERVERSE MIND SOMETIMES.
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I am kinda curious i know all of us like games but what else do you guys do in your spare time f you are not gaming. I have been known to make up electronic devices and whatnot. Does anybody else have any a bit random hobbies? BTW those cartoons where kids make radio antennas out of toasters aren’t real toasters are shit and don’t do anything really well except draw ridiculous amounts of power.
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I play the drums. I’m also a huge movie buff. I’ve had people tell me that watching movies isn’t a hobby but to me it is.
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I asked this question and when i finished it i was like shit, this is dumb i know most peoples other hobbies, also you rule on the drums i watch some videos of yours on youtube. Movies are also a hobby, the take up time and you enjoy it so therefore it is a hobby.
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What do you guys do in these groups are they just like people inetrested in the genre or is it like cosplay and such. Either way sounds awesome. Speaking of diesel engines, i learnt the eother day that they don’t actually use spark plugs but use compression to ignite the fuel. The more you know.
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A bit of both- we’ve done cosplay events and have a firum on facebook- there’ll be a dieselpunk event at this years AVCon in Adelaide.
I’d left before these photos were taken, but :
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.388333497859088&type=1
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That is pretty awesome 🙂
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Mostly design stuff, if I’m not working on my game design idea I’m working on artworks for this that or whatever.
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AH talent for art why have you forsaken me. I always wanted to do design stuff when i was little. I thought designing posters and logos was great fun. Then i grew to realize i was terrible at it and i should stop. On the other hand this was also coming from a kid who up until grade 8 said his best subject was English and we all know how that worked out.
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Talent is not as important as just being passionate about it, you keep doing something long enough and pushing yourself to improve and one day you will realize ‘holy shit, I’m not bad at this’.
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For me i can’t really be passionate about it unless i am seeing some sort of result from my work with a few exceptions. If i am working towards something even if it is unimportant i still want to be happy with the result not just the fact that i tried. I am the worst kind of perfectionist. The lazy kind. I would rather do nothing at all instead of fail trying.
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Well you can change that if you want to y’know?
I push myself to keep working on things even if I don’t see a direct result on the knowledge that as long as I even make a small amount of progress, I am still making progress. Just keeping on working towards that goal, no matter how slowly I may be going.Like the proverb goes: Do not be afraid of moving slowly, be afraid of standing still.
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Watch TV shows, I do a lot of that before going to bed rather than game.
I should really get back into playing bass, but that means I need to fork over about 40 bucks for new strings =(
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Gigs are cool, i think i have only seen a few bands but the ones i have seen have been awesome.
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Gotta do something while you are on the can.
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Its close enough
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I suppose. In saying that though, I’ve got a mate who is absolutely set on me singing on something for him. So I guess singer will be perfectly accurate soon.
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I like ice hockey. Not playing. Mostly complaining about the players.
I also like reading bad penicl fic.
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What is bad pencl fiction?
Really you enjoy ice hockey that is great, i enjoy watching people getting beat up on ice to-
My first ever favourite player was this black French Canadian guy who beat up people. He had a hotmail account and I e-mailed him letting him know I loved him and he said thanks!
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I read anything really but I used to read a lot of bodice ripping smut and then there was gay bodice ripping smut and then everything that become the cesspool of internet fanfiction.
I like to read.
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Are you responsible for my little sisters new passion, she writes fanfiction for sailor moon and old anime shows nobody watches anymore. I remember before the last book of harry potter came out i was trying to find a early release version. The one i found was basically the author trying to get Harry and Ginny to have sex as quickly as possible. Grr Ruined childhood memories.
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My good friend does rping of Brock from pokemon. She says she relates to his loserness.
I like reading badfic though. Sometimes it makes me laugh. I read one that described the man as so masculine he could pose for outdoor magazines.
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Brock isn’t a loser he just has a love of women and pokemon AT THE SAME TIME
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Don’t forget that he took care all bazillion of his younger siblings.
… And then he went off gallavanting across the world with a 10 year old kid, but still.
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I like how passionate you are about pokemon 🙂
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I try and study my Japanese when I’m not gaming, sleeping or working – that’s not often enough. =(
Also I read – books/comics/manga, and watch movies/anime/the occasional TV show.
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I’ve been twice – the idea is to go back asap, and even possibly live and work there for a time, if possible.
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I play LoL. Nothing else matters.
Although I guess the whole motorbike thing. I don’t get much free time anymore. I used to have hobbies.
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Faction’s always nice.
You don’t need to make a comment saying he is at a certain point in time.
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I write things.
http://shanewsmith.com/about/
(you would have been disappointed if i left out the link)
Not a huge amount outside of gaming
I follow road race cycling and enjoy trying new and different varieties of beer and wine
music. practicing bass & guitar. going to see dodgy shows in dodgy pubs with cheap beer.
& occasionally, competitive punning with my flatmate.
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I think he means competitive pruning.
Like, you eat as many prunes as you can and the first one to poop loses.
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as awesome & as wrong as that sounds, it is indeed competitive puns.
basically just seeing who can come up with the most puns / lamest puns during a conversation.-
So the one who uses the most Heratio puns wins?
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I was confused there for a sec coz the only Heratio i could think of was Hornblower. & he was terrible at puns.
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Haha, Heratio from CSI: Miami, just so we’re clear =P
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ATTENTION MELBOURNE ARTY PEOPLE
Artboy Gallery is hosting another Fanboy Vs Artboy exhibition, this one’s theme is ‘Goodies and Baddies’.
I don’t think I’ll have the time to apply myself this time but if you feel like making some nerdy art and want to see your work up for sale in a Prahran gallery then I definitely recommend it. Entries close June 1.
http://www.artboygallery.com/ArtBoy_Gallery/FanBoy_vs._ArtBoy_Goodies_%26_Baddies.html
I’m pretty much committed to going to the gym tonight.
Really don’t want to though. Damned exercise, why did I agree to this?
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I was implying you could make chesticles for yourself.
So really, you’re the one with the perverted mind for coming to such a conclusion!
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Why pay for jiggle physics when I can just download porn?
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Because real life porn is so much better then internet porn.
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While that is true in most cases, I find it less so in public places.
Case in point, strip bars. I just don’t understand the appeal.
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You don’t understand the appeal of boobs or the bars themselves. I have never been nor do i intend to much to the disgust of my work collegues who thing i must go for my 21st birthday. I don’t want to go out of sheer enbarresment. If i am going to look at womens boobs i dont want other people knowing i am looking. Just like you don’t view porn with other people in the room. Its just weird.
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I will pay for a stripper for you one day Rocketman. Just you wait. And everyone will take photos and we all win.
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You will pay me to be a stripper one day. I don’t think i would make much money from that.
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Will you wear your utility belt?
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Um i guess, but i have no idea what you are talking about?lol
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I don’t know. I’m just asking about future stripper scenarios
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The bars themselves. I get boobs. Boobs are awesome.
But a room full of men staring at a handful of naked women? Rather awkward and the whole thing feels amazingly artificial.
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This. I got kidnapped (actually pushed into a car) on my bucks night and dragged to one. I asked to be driven home five minutes after arriving. The place smelled really bad, the clientele ws weird (and i ran into a high school mate too, which was a little embarrassing)
I was so uncomfortable, i didn’t even look around, and didn’t see a single boob while i was there.
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I too have never seen the appeal. I’ve never been to one before and don’t intend to going to one in the near future. My brother in law wanted to go to one for his bucks night but thankfully we just got drunk at Crown instead and lost money there.
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On my trip to Thailand, one friend dragged us to the same go go bar every night. His girlfriend knew we went there every night, she doesn’t know it was at his insistence.
Really did not enjoy myself there.
Tried to make my own fun by teaching one of the girls coin tricks because over there, a girl will latch on to you and try to get you to buy her drinks. Had to make the best of it, especially on the night I ended up literally trapped there due to torrential rain.
After the first minute or so, it’s literally “oh look, they’re both naked and dancing”. Maybe the trick is to just not think about any aspect of them at all.
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Jesus Christ what is this? First World Problems “I like boobs but I don’t like them shaking in front of me waaaah”
Man up and go grab those boobies!
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More “I like boobs and like them shaking in front of me but I also have standards.”
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Women!?
Or in this case, men.
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Also alot of those places have a no touch rule jordi FYI.
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It’s amusing how half the chicks here are more enthused about boobs than some of the guys.
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I’ve been to one for a friend’s Bucks. It was ok, but I was very aware of the establishment trying to take my money in whatever way possible.
Some of my mates were really into it. I just had a pleasant chat with one of the strippers, then told her she’d make more money talking to someone else. -
Jo, dude, you need to get Twitter and see the conversations that go on there between Jordi, Batgirl, Sarcasm Fairy and Freyr.
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@Jordi: Boob viewing time is only a group activity if you’re in the swingers scene :p
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@Jo: The last one they had was so in-depth about sex that Blaghs, Rocket and I took notes.
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Wouldn’t you just feel bad for the women working there? I don’t think their dream job is being eye effed by skeevy dudes with beer guts.
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Then why are they working their in the first place? Nobody is forcing them to.
They have the option to quit whenever they want.
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Well, yeah. I know that.
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Hey man, everyone’s got bills to pay.
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sometimes its the only job they can get.
Hey i eye f most attractive women who i walk past. Its not creepy honest 😛
Oh Rocketman
Not when you put it like that.
The stripper I spoke to didn’t seem to mind.
She asked me if I thought it was demeaning to women or something. I said it was more demeaning for the men.
This guy gets it.
Win. This what i would have tried to explain to my buck’s night kidnappers had I not been so drunk.
I understand where you’re coming from but in a general sense, women lose this round. If they don’t have any skills or enough education they can’t get many jobs because they’re reserved for men due to requirements and work culture.
A lot of women who do it because they need the money for more education or to live on. Men may see the culture of going to a girly bar as awful and “can’t believe I got dragged to it” but there’s no united outcry against men going there for “a good night out”.
I just can’t agree with the it’s more demeaning for men. Why would you say so? I mean I have my reasons due to the ongoing exploitation of women that has been documented forever but I want to know why guys actually think that there’s a real loss of dignity or rights for them?
I love how this conversation started with Bunny saying he was going to the gym tonight and condeming exercise.
The places people’s minds go when I start talking … :p
And yes, women definitely lose out in the titty bar transaction. Some women in general may not mind but less reputable places may not have such willing employees.
It’s a little demeaning to men in the same way that Sex and the City is demeaning to women. It’s entertainment that we’re told to enjoy because of gender roles.
This is a fair point. While we would all like to believe that strippers and prostitutes are sexually confident students who want to earn very nice money while studying for their management degrees, sadly, this is often not the case.
conclusion; demeans everyone.
The girl I spoke to was a trained dancer, she was from Canada and in Oz studying dance. She was working as a stripper to pay rent and college fees etc. Apparently that’s quite common.
She was trying to convince me to pay for a private show and when I refused she questioned me as to why I would refuse and whether it was because I thought it was immoral, demeaning, etc. She said that she didn’t find it demeaning. It was her choice. She wasn’t necessarily proud of her job, but she wouldn’t be proud to work in McDonald’s either, and there was more money in stripping. She said she was fine with doing what she did.
My explanation as to why it was more demeaning for me than her was that the assumption that I’m driven so powerfully by my wiener, that I would part with wads of cash to see a strangers boobs, was somewhat insulting. I like to think I have more self control. Add to that the feeling of desperation, the thought that I’m so unappealing and unsuccessful with women that the only way I’ll get to see boobs is by paying for it. Also the fact that these establishments are doing everything they can to whittle away at men’s wallets (I told the girl I couldn’t accept her behaviour or what she said as genuine, because, after all, she was trying to get my money. She found that funny and agreed that no matter what she said, I would never know if she was being nice to me because she was nice or because she was business savvy). If I fell for all the tricks and caved to the pressure I’d feel like I had less intelligence and less resolve.
I guess going to strip clubs and paying for their goods and services would make me feel like a foolish, desperate, boy with his brain buried securely in his junk. That’s just my opinion.
Sure, if a girl is being exploited and it’s not their choice to be doing what they are doing, then that’s terrible. If it’s their choice and they are making money off men who are willing to part with their cash, then the girls have the upper hand.
I definitely agree with the bits about the attention not feeling genuine. If I’m hanging out with someone, I don’t want it to be because I’m just giving them money to do it and the expectation that I would want to simply because she’s got her tits out seems rather immature as well.
Strip clubs just straight up suck.
Note: The stripper I was talking to was not stripping during our conversation. She was dreseed to a certain extent.
I’m beating Fatshady on one of the tracks right now. I’m not going to tell him which one it is, that way I’ll stay first until he stumbles upon it :3
I think he may have done this race only once or twice though…
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Oh I understand that. But I still like how Shady’s unofficially been declared the guy to beat.
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Yeah I beat him on a track or two but i have no doubt that was just his first casual run through to get the medal and when he comes back to do it properly my time shall be left behind like a sad puppy when the family goes on holiday.
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I picked it up straight away. But then I would easily say Arrested Development is my favourite show of all time.
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I repeat:
HOW?!
She even looks like Jessica Walter!
Next you’re gonna tell me you didn’t realise Len Trexler is Jeffrey Tambor.
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She’s practically the same character!
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Hi TAY.
The L2 button on my ps3 was loose. So I opened my controller in an attempt to fix it only to find out that the trigger spring is broken 🙁
Does anyone know where I can buy replacements locally? Or is there something else I can use as an alternative?
There are some listings on ebay but all of them are from the US and I don’t think I can wait 2 weeks for the delivery.
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MASHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Buy a new one, mang-bot.
Alternatively, I’ll see if I’ve still got my spare six-axis.
Pretty sure I already gave it away, but if not, y’all can have it.
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DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!
If it wasn’t clear I was looking for replacement trigger springs. I can’t buy a whole new controller just because of one button. That would be crazy.
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I’m in need of motivation. 2.5 weeks to go with these essays and I’ve only 60% researched one. Gah. I shouldn’t have taken time off.
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Yeah, it’s like he had it all along and was just waiting for the right time to start following everyone.
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Get Jo onto Pinterest…?
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Ah…
*Googles Pinterest*
Meh
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Yeah, but this adds to the challenge, no?
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It’s a site with a wait list to join, that’s got to add some intrigue, right?
It also has more male members than female in every country but the US (where I think the majority of the members are).
I know both of these facts about the site. I have no idea what the site is. This seems rather odd, now that I consider it.
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Haha, was just about to post saying I gave in too.
I have just added peeps on the taynames thing.
So, uh, hi everybody?
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BATMAN!
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Nah he’s just messin.
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You know it 🙂
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It never worked on safari half the time for me. My android is better but the text overruns a lot
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I thought you were scratching your head.
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That… would have been better. Thanks.
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looks like someone with big nipples and a single hair hanging between them.
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No, big nipples would be
( o Y o )
Yes, I just did that. I’ll show myself out.
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no thatd be big boobs with nipples. The first one could have been a guy.
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Oh wait. I see it now *shudder*
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although truth be told, im a guy and i could probably be the second one. hahaha.
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Cannot unsee.
Thanks.
You know, you guys really need to watch out for that McGarnical:
– he does not hate wearing pants
– he does not like bacon
– he has no strong feelings about shapes
– his emoticon vocabulary is poor
– he is not skilled at encoding href links into his comments
These are all the signs you’ll be telling the media you should have noticed and acted upon when you’re all being asked about him later, about how could he be here talking to you that whole time before he did that thing and you did nothing to stop him.
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I was using Technet before as I was reading up on SQL Server 2012 as we are about to roll out our first server running it. Then I finished reading it and had nothing else to do.
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I wish I had nothing else to do, I’m probably going to be working on this stupid feature until 7-8pm 🙁
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Get home tonight wait for wifey to go to bed then keep pushing through ME2. 3 is on the shelf, taunting me but I can’t until I have a completed 2 save. Why oh why can’t I burn through the story and have it done? Why am I doing every side quest? At this rate it’s going to be another week before I start 3.
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Something something sans Fatbox something something didn’t want to anyway something some BASH YOU GOOD!*
*really wish I could. Like, desparetely.
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@flu flu
I One day wish i could be as eloquent as you, You speak so well and its funny when someone else verbalises your opinion in a much more clear and concise way. Fistbump.
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It’s like I just rolled my face on the keyboard.
My sister writes text messages like that and I yell at her every single time.
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I understand where you’re coming from but I don’t really believe in the kind of sexual power struggle that you’d described considering most women who work in those kind of areas barely see a dime of the money that’s paid “to them”.
Sure it beats working at Mcdonalds but aren’t most jobs? Is it really a significant step up to be working in an industry that inspires sexual exploitation and illegal sex trafficking? The fact that aspiring dancers and actresses have to hide the fact that they do this job for fear of being ostracised and being often interpreted as a loose woman? That when a woman who works in this area gets raped, she’s told to suck it up or that it’s her fault?
I know I sound like an angry feminist and maybe I am but I’ve seen people who look at each other and say “but you know that girl was just doing it to…” and it makes me see red some days.
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Batman.
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Thats it who the hell is batman it is driving me crazy. I have no idea who it is and its driving me crazy and batman if you say you can’t reveal who your secret identity is or that you are a well known gotham socialite so help me god. 😛
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I reckon it’s awesome. Never take the mask off, Batman.
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Yeah, I prefer when joke accounts don’t get revealed.
They are what they are, and it feels a little bit ruined when everyone knows it’s whatstheirface just posting under a different name. -
Like that CommunistBish. Such a mystery!
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You hear that Pez? Bish thinks you’re ruined, or something. 😛
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Yep, I’ve told ze Pez what I think of him.
To his face!
And then he made a “I’m constipated” face.
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Spoilers: Bruce Wayne.
I agree with both points though its demeaning to dudes but at the same time its demeaning as hell to women.The whole industry is dirty (not in a good way) it feeds of male insecurities. Its a hard cycle to break unfortunately. As long as there are dudes who want that stuff there will always be females to provide it unforetunately.
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The worlds oldest trade. I do have one friend that strips because she enjoys it. Says she likes the feel of power over the guys. But that just her case and not everyone’s.
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I know a stripper too, wish I could make 2 & a half grand on a Saturday night showing my breasts to people…
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Nothing to say that you can’t.
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While this is true, I don’t think i’d net 2.5k doing so…
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Surely that can’t be right,i mean who built the strip clubs or brothels, who cut the wood so they could use it, who made the tools. Who made the goods they were trading to get it going with the cavewhore.
Chimp dude finds a banana. Chimpette want Chimpdude’s banana. Chimpette shakes her groove-thang. Chimpdude gives banana to Chimpette.
Then he’s a forager. Just as much a profession as prostitution.
But it wasn’t necessarily his trade. Just a self-serving skill.
Then how is that any different? She’s just serving herself by sleeping with him.
Chimpette cuts an 1/8 off it and gives the rest to her pimp.
Give this monkey, I mean man a banana!
I’m only speaking from my experience and my conversation with someone who wasn’t being raped, wasn’t being exploited (or didn’t feel as if they were), wasn’t fearful of being ostracised, and was making more money than she would in a standard low level job.
Like I said, if a person is having those sorts of difficulties, that’s terrible. In that case I would not feel more demeaned than the person suffering from those issues.
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How about we let it live and fulfill it’s dream to become a wedding singer?
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No Pez. In fact I will be sending you pamphlets in the mail every day now.
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Great.
Can’t wait.
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I don’t want to make people feel like they should be thinking how I think. I do like to know hear more on people’s thoughts on these issues – and I can only explain how I feel on it.
I do enjoy talking about it though and hope you don’t feel like I’m trying to condemn almost everyone who says a peep.
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Not at all.
I’m listening to the soundtrack to Mega Man X reproduced through a Sega Genesis chipset.
So strange, yet so good 🙂
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I thought you said you were listening to mega man x as done by genesis and i was like woah phil collins got the band back together i didn’t even know he like mega man x
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I actually had the Megaman Meverick Hunter X OST on my playlist for a while, but I got rid of it eventually because it just didn’t have the charm of the original SNES soundtrack 🙂
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I’ve been hunting for many OSTs including all the megaman/X ones, they’re all really awesome
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Well in that case I assume you enjoy other VG music too, then I am also assuming you may like this program 🙂
http://yoyofr.blogspot.com.au/p/modizer.html
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Ok Peeps, I seem to be the only one posting the workout threads so I think I’ll can them.
Was hoping more people would join it but it seems a bit of faf if I’m the only person putting them up.
And on that note I’m off to go for a jog 🙂
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They always roll off to the previous page before I can add my pathetic numbers as a response and I don’t feel like creating my own thread.
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Sorry man! All I do is go jogging and I don’t keep track of how far that is so I don’t really bother replying every day.
And as it is I’m getting a cold now so I can’t even do that. D:
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My workout:
Thumb exercises – 3 hours with PS3 controller
Masturbation – 3 sets of 3 mins
Bicep curls- 5 sets of 45 reps lifting chips and can to my mouth.
Happy?
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Uuum… Some day last week:
Tried to fix my bench, but it’s still dodgy.
Did some bench presses, lat pulldowns, ab excercises, chin ups and pushups.
Pretty random, but I’m just trying to get used to excercise.
Also spent a day doing physical labour and some heavy lifting (which, when you load a truck with 14 hotel rooms worth of furniture at 6am, counts as a workout).Monday:
5 x 5 pull ups (needs work)
4 x 25 push ups
4 x 25 leg raises
Possibly more. Can’t remember. Rest periods were a bit long but whatever.Last night:
3 hours at the climbing gym.
Did some new walls and a few oldies that had been altered. Did my first “Hard” wall (my local has different difficulty ratings to the standard system)Feeling pretty sore. Tonight will probably be similar to Monday. Just trying to recondition.
Keep the posts up, buddy. It’s good motivation
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I had meetings this morning so couldn’t go to the gym at my normal time. Going tomorrow.
Last session I did:
– Squat Press, smith machine, 40kg I think, 12 reps, 2 sets
– Lunges, 15kg dumbells, 10 reps each leg, 2 sets
– Bench Press, 25kg dumbells, 10 reps, 2 sets
– One-arm rows, 27.5kg dumbell, 12 reps each arm, 2 sets
– Rowing, ladder set, 5mins, 1.35km
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Brosephine! HA! I like that.
Bish, I’m pretty sure you have less than 1% body fat. Did you make a deal with the devil?
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There’s a reason I only wear loose-fitting jeans.
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If Homer Simpson has taught me anything it’s that if you just tie a jumper around your butt it magically hides your rump…
It totally doesn’t draw more attention to it o_O
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Don’t forget the girdle.
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and the spanx!
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Natch
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Ok so, am i the ONLY person who can never find the current tay on the top of the home page? It has 2 listed there, and neither of them are the current one.
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I just use the Most Commented menu in the sidebar now. Though even that sometimes lists two TAYs. xD
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Yeah, you know they were done by Tracey because of the mioaw mioaw mioaw.
I go back to look for it.
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She’s a cruel and unforgiving mistress.
How’s sewing stuff? How are you feeling? No more dizzy spells, I hope.
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I had a headache for most of the morning, had a nap, and feel much much better.
Mum bought me a giant arse book on sewing \o/ It’ll tell me everything I need to know so I don’t have to harass Strange. -
Sewing is such an enviable skill to me. I’ve always been terrified of sewing machines. In a DT class in Year 10 a girl had her finger in the way of the needle and…ergh *shudders* I just can’t go near them without thinking about it.
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I don’t know. She probably had crazy skinny fingers. It was smack dab in the middle of her finger but still. I’m getting nauseous just thinking about it.
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I have skinny fingers. I wouldn’t worry about it. My guess is that she removed the foot (no idea why) and then stuck her finger under there. Which would mean it was her own fault.
It’s like that year 8 student who put a resistor into a power point and then flicked the on switch
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Doing some odd maintenance work for the local Guzman Y Gomez restaurant = free Mexican for a good long time = very happy Freeze.
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I suppose a house o Nachos would probably be more structurally sound than a city built on rock and roll.
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Broadbeach under The Oracle. It’s not the amazing OMG best but it’s cheap and is rather good for what it is.
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I managed to snag a 24 inch BenQ monitor for $45! That’s less than $2 per inch! \o/
And I found a copy of You Don’t Know Jack on PS1 for $5! \o/ \o/
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It was at my local Cash Converters.
It’s surprising what you can pick up there if you go in on a whim.
That’s how I managed to get al those seasons of South park on DVD for $12 each.-
Wow, that is a bargain for a place like cash converters, swear my local one likes charging RRP for most things.
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All this talk of delicious Mexican food has made me wonder, have any of my fellow Sydney TAYbies been to Montezuma’s in Crows Nest? I think there’s another one out west.
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I’ve only been there once a few years ago. It was quite nice then. I was wondering what the quality was like now, how disappointing 🙁
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That’s the one in Coolangatta on Griffith street that serves the cold & tasteless Mexican food right? Not the one in Showcase that serves decent stuff, that being The Aztec.
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Okay. This ones for Pez.
My real workout that I usually do. No weights and no gym needed yet strips weight and tones surprisingly quickly when coupled with a decent diet (providing I stick with it which doesn’t always work.)
I take two points 20m apart on some flat ground. This is all you need.
Sprint up back, up back, up between points
20 push ups
Repeat 2 more times
Sprint up back up back up
20 sit ups
Repeat 2 more times
Sprint up back up back up
20 squats
Repeat 2 more times
Sprint up back up back up
20 leg raises
Repeat 2 more times.
Walk around slowly, drink, get breath back for 5-10 mins.
Repeat whole thing again.
I won’t lie, you will want to die. The eternal blackness gets more and more enticing as you progress. But it works. I lost so much weight doing it from my biggest (almost 110kg down to 89) then I slacked off and stopped and put half of it back on. Gotta get back into it. To be honest your posts are making me feel bad and making me want to do it again do keep doing it.
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We do stuff like this at karate. Amongst other things, such as 10-to-1s (10 star jumps, 10 pushups, 10 situps, 9 star jumps, etc down to 1 of each), or rabbit hops (squat-jump things up and down the room), or various crawl-walks, or combat rolls (forward and/or backward), or body drags, or piggybacking each other for several lengths, or firemans carries for several lengths, etc. Lots of cardio.
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I had a training group i used to go to tht was all that stuff. The 10-1’s my trainer used to make us do were partner off, face each other in push up pose. You do 10 push ups, static hold while partner does 1, you do 9, static hold while partner does 2 and so forth. It hurt. Badly.
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Oh hai guys, just spent the last 2 hours putting up another 17 posters in my room. I think have no maxed out the amount of posters I can have in there =( all walls + ceiling is covered.
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These things
http://au.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0oGkmSV2o9PWREAJuoL5gt.?p=folding+screens&fr=yfp-t-501&fr2=piv-web-
Oh right, not enough room in my room for one of them =(
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Attach new posters to binding ring, then attach to wall – you can then flip to a new poster when you feel like it!
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I’m thinking the Crusty Demon posters are to go when I get replacements, they’re coming on 12 years old I think.
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Ooh, what kind of posters? I thought I was overdoing it with my 9 or so movie posters in my bedroom. Beats painting the walls though. xD
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Yep!
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Monomeat now has a mascot:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/funny-pictures-monorail-cat1.jpg?w=400&h=300
Just reposting since Tech Knight mentioned it today!!!
✖ [ Melbourne Delish Mexicana Meat!!! ] ✖
✪ April 26th, 2012 {Thursday}
✪ Mamasita, 1/11 Collins St, CBD
✪ Eating and drinking tequila
♚ Attending:
✤Tigerion
✤NegativeZero
✤f4ction
✤Tech Knight
Unconfirmed
✤Puppylicks (maybe ?)
✤Cakesmith (after he rifles through Kevin Smith’s underwear – and we beat him unconscious and drag him there)
Feel free to add suggestions on what to do etc. Bookings will need over 8 people and require everyone to do a set course of $44 (which is OK for me but I don’t want to force people). But apparently there can be a waitlist so we can turn up, go somewhere nearby for drinks and come back.
Also TEQUILA.
Question: Would there be more availability of TAYbies if it were Friday night???
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I’m not drunk but it’s definitely gone straight to my head. Also I’m on my iPad so autocorrect is half helping
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You still are. I’ve had 5 scotches in half an hour. I imagine you’d be passed out after that.
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…only because of my tiny stature.
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No arguements about your small size there.
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*glares*
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*Hunches over and glares back*
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In Rizetown we call that an entrée.
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Is dessert going to bed without saying anything while on TeamSpeak?
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…crap.
How many drinks until you start missing your mouth entirely and pour rum on your self?
I believe that’s the main course
Clearly you’ve been to Rizetown before.
I mean, in a non-sexual way…
Suuuuure you do
@Batgirl/Scree’s conversation about sewing up there ^:
I was banned from the sewing machine when we did textiles for a term in high school. I broke 5 needles in a row. I didn’t even know what I was doing wrong. I got sent to ironing duty 😛 Bonus though: The teacher sewed my bag thing for me. \o/
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Were you sewing with the pins in? They can break sewing machine needles, otherwise if you have a thick fabric with a thin sewing machine needle, it’ll break.
It’s not hard to do. I’ve broken a sewing machine needle.-
I have no idea. This was about 8 years ago now. I’m pretty sure we didn’t use pins or anything though. We were just sewing two squares of some sort of fabric together to make a bag. xD
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If he was anything like the guys in my class, the needles were broken from pure abuse. We used to floor the pedal and have races to see who could break it first.
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That must have been it! A bunch of hoodlums must have weakened the needles beforehand! I was the well behaved kid who excelled at ironing!
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I have registered for the world record attempt \o/
As Taokaka! I’m hoping they says it’s alright for someone to help me. Because I will need the help.
I have a problem.
It’s a consistent problem that I’ve struggled with for years.
I never eat enough. Normally I’m just not hungry so I don’t eat that much. My life is rather sedentary, so I rarely need to up my food intake either. Went I went on holidays, I had to get a friend to force me to eat a few times simply because I was getting completely knocked out with a lack of energy.
Today was my first trip to the gym in years. Started with a rather steady 1km jog on the treadmill before moving on for some supported back rows, this weird hamstring curl thing, shoulder presses, lat pulldown and then suddenly feeling like shit. Made my way to the elliptical trainer to have a quick 5 minute cooldown.
Lasted 30 seconds (story of my life).
Somehow made it out the door and into the parking lot. Sat there listening to the Journey soundtrack for 5 minutes.
Made a valiant effort to get home (I live literally around the corner). Got to the end of the parking lot. Took another five minute break.
When I got home, I tried to do some stretches in the shower so that I’m not going to be completely buggered tomorrow, but I think it’s too late.
So, this is a message to all people. Don’t have a coffee, 2 red bulls, a six inch ham sub and 2 saladas as your entire day’s sustenance before attempting to exercise. Or really do anything at all.
This is a bit of a wake up call. From tomorrow on, I’m going to start eating a shitload more. Even if I’m not hungry, just force food down my gullet. That should give me the energy to actually function.
If not, then I’m just putting on bulk, brah.
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Just eat more meat.
Or something other then water.
I don’t eat much myself and constantly am deficient in iron. This is why I usually have to sleep through the day just to get through it.-
You’d think that’s a solution but I really don’t feel hungry a lot of the time. Haven’t had breakfast in months. Normally don’t even feel hungry until lunch time.
More meat will be on the table, as with more of everything.
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Have you tried cutting out coffee/energy drinks? (Assuming you have those instead of breakfast)
Disclaimer: I have no evidence whatsoever that cutting coffee would do any good. Just a thought. 😛
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Coffee is my breakfast. Energy drinks are just generally for when I’m feeling rather fatigued.
Not sacrificing coffee, but I think I will start having food with my morning coffee :p
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I never eat until I feel sick, but I generally stop eating long before I feel full. More often than not, I just decide that I’m done.
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The best idea is to eat until you’re 75% full. otherwise eat small meals more often
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What’s your blood type man? I had the same problems with footy training. If we did a particularly hard session, I’d feel weak,dizzy and get fatigued easily. The week after I donated blood, and they told me to eat more meat as my type (B) was subject to being deficient in iron and this led to low haemoglobin levels.
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This is something that I really should know. Might go get that checked at some point.
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Just force yourself to eat breakfast.
I know someone who had a similar issue.
You don’t need to eat until you feel full or anything, just a piece of toast or something in the morning. Consistent small meals, essentially.-
That’s the plan. Cereal in the morning, decent sized lunch and maybe some fruit mid afternoon.
More food is more good.
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I love how in Mass Effect that even while everyone is in a zero atmosphere environment (or similar) with fully sealed environment suits, Miranda still has her chesticles exposed and proudly displayed.
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You’re damn right he is!
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/298/4/2/mass_effect_2_thane_krios_by_layerx3-d31hmvi.jpg
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oh my god, that is amazing
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I said this on twitter already but is it just me that looks at Thane and sees an amphibian Nicolas Cage? 🙂
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haha omg!!!
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Also the whole ‘he doesn’t really care if he dies at this point’ thing. So it’s probably intentional!
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I’m sure it’ll be a matter of days before there’s a crack that ditches GFWL and someone finds a way to uncap the frame rate. I don’t really know why developers bother doing such things, it’s only a matter of time before someone out there fixes it for them.
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Because it will be the cheapest possible port.
No matter how big the petition was, it is still a niche title and they can’t risk investing too much in the PC release.
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Still, the choice of GFWL over Steamworks was a bit odd. Unless money changed hands. Which it probably did.
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Not really, they had a version that ran on Xbox Live, in terms of net code, it’s fairly straightforward to go from one version to another, so far as I’m aware.
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I… did not know that. The more you know!
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*jealous*
I can’t afford to get it right now. I’m just glad it’s nothing like homecoming, which I abhorred.-
Side note: PSN+ was giving away the original Silent Hill, so now I have it on my PSP. Need to grab the collection but the terrible things I’ve been hearing….
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Aw dammit. Wish I was a member. I have the original game, but unfortunately I have no memory card. =(
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Can’t you still play it on PS3? 😛
(assuming you were talking about a PS1 memory card)
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Yeah, and can I?
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Pop it in and try. PS1 games are a bit odd, with some working and some not. Example: FFVII runs no problem but VIII does not work at all.
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I will have to do this…once I can use it. Maybe this weekend
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There should be a list of working titles online somewhere but Silent Hill sounds like one that should work 🙂
With FFVIII, the original black label copy does not work but platinum versions do (I discovered this after purchasing FFVII-IX on eBay and not being able to play it!)
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that’s silly =/
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I downloaded ISOs and played VII and IX on an emulator on my computer. I was always a fan of FF so I wanted to purchase real copies. VIII was the only one I never really played (about 6 hours or so) so I wanted to beat it on mai TV. Nope! Didn’t work 🙁
Had the awesome idea to play them on my PS1 but nope! Something was wrong with the video quality and it just didn’t display any images…
I guess me and VIII aren’t meant to be!
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So my pathological aversion to platinum editions is actually hurting me?
Oh well, I grabbed them all of the PSN anyway as I wanted them on the PSP 😛
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@Jordi: I can’t come to the meat on Thursday, I realised yesterday that I’m double booked due to having to move stuff around because of ANZAC Day. But I could come if it was on Friday.
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What about your horse! And cows! And chicken!
Use that brush like a madman! Brush all the animals for all the hearts!
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I just want to say
Nintendog = Fluffball
Real dog = Sid
Now we know no one will be confused until I get a kitten XD-
Oh! Oh! Get a kitten!
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Are we talking a virtual kitten, or a real kitten?
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I assume virtual 😛
Are you going to call it Shithead? 😀
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Is there any other name? Surely not one so appropriate.
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scree seems to be fond of calling her pets ‘Shithead’ so I assume her virtual kitty will fall into this pattern
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He’s only called shithead when he doesn’t come. That’s how he knows he’s in trouble.
He also gets bastard occasionally. And king shit.
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Shithead?
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STOP STOPSTOPSTOPSTOPIT!!!!! LALALALALALA I’M NOT LISTENING TO YOU LALALALALALALA
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*sigh* How did Pliny even get to such high positions? He was constantly writing letters to the Emperor asking what should he do about this, that and everything in between. Dude, get a back bone. Make your own decisions and stick to it.
Also, I want to play dem vijya gaems that you all talk about so much. Stupid essays. GO AWAY, NO ONE LIKES YOU.
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YEAH, GO AWAY STUPID ESSAYS!!
I stupidly thought that after high school I would never have to write one again… TROLOLOL LIFE TROLLED ME GOOD!
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I miss high school essays. You didn’t even have to back up your bullshit. Just spew out some words on the page and you were set. Now it’s all sources and references. Gah.
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OH MAN! REFERENCES ARE ONE OF THE WORST THINGS EVER!
I think I have to use the APA method which SUCKS! Can’t I just say random crap then put a “bibliography” at the end? Jeez!
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So, Auslan class is getting harder. (Australian sign language)
Looks like I’m actually going to have to study this semester.
Every week!
I haven’t done that in 15 years.
I liked it better last year when it was enough just taking a deaf friend out for lunch the day before an exam.
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Wow you take Auslan classes!? My mum knows most basic Auslan because of her job. It seems pretty cool. I am unfortunately forever lazy.
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That’s why I can’t make it to a Thursday night meat. I really can’t afford to miss any classes this year.
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I was actually considering learning Auslan just for shits and giggles. No deaf friends to help me get through exams though. Seems like a nifty skill to have.
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It is fun. And rather useful when dealing with deaf customers at work. Than, and private conversations with deaf colleagues in the staff room 😀 (we employ 2 deaf people)
I’m pretty much just doing it for my own interest. If I stick with it, who knows… Maybe a career that is a little more satisfying than retail?
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The biggest problem for me, aside from the time investment, is that it’s not a skill I will get to use much.
My sister knows a little (she used to volunteer with deaf kids as a teen) but other than that, I’ve maybe spoken directly with half a dozen deaf people in the last decade. All of whom could lip read well enough for things to work.
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I woke up this morning and it feels like I’ve ben roundhouse kicked in the ankle. I hope this doesn’t interfere with going bowling tonight.
Also; Friday. I’ve decided it’s going to be a good day. Golded the first two sets of tracks on Trials Evo this morning and got my A license. Still terrible at it, though.
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Not enough. Took a few breaks before I started waving my controller around in a dangerous fashion.
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My random browsing of the interwebs this morning let me discover that this exists.
Anyone game enough to buy one?
And yes, that is a Korean SC2 team’s online fashion store where the players are models for the products. Is that so wrong?
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Random browsing of twitter let me discover their is a bra that increases you cup size by 2
Anybody game enough to buy one?
Last night, this video was linked on TeamSpeak.
Serious question, if the teacher had not intervened at the end, who would have been the stabber and who would have been the stabbee?
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I thought this would be some sort of breaking news story about some of school fight with a brave teacher intervening…
Nope! But I watched it anyway 😛
Don’t really understand the question but the brunette would’ve definitely stabbed the Asian.
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Oh man now that I think about it both have an equal chance of stabbing each other…
I change my prediction to the teacher stabbing both.
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Mornin’ TAY!
I finished the medium courses on Trials last night, with only (I think) 1 or 2 silvers. Played around with the extra game modes and had a blast.
Looking at the stats page has reassured me that a lot of people restart as much as I do. This is a good thing, cause I thought I’d be left behind in multiplayer…
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I stopped last night while trying to get gold on the sewer level.
That god damn sewer level.I also wondered why so many people are so far ahead of me on Trials, and then I remembered that I actually went to bed ;P
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I’m told some sort of ‘giga’ track is even worse.
But holy shit, I nearly broke a controller on that sewer level. Especially due to the nastiest parts being right at the end of the track.
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Yeah for a game that is so intensely focused on skill it is frustrating to have victory rely on physics based obstacles that have a high degree of chance :/
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Yeah, it was frustrating as hell having it out of your control, but man it was fun!
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OMFG! I got so far without any faults (or so I thought) in the Giga track. I spent ages just getting to that point again because I thought I was right near the end.Turns out that was probably like 1/6 of the entire track…
I wouldn’t say the track is hard but it’s definitely easy to mess up if you’re careless.
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Yes, I got quite good at the first 3/4 of that track.
Same with the “Suspended(?)” track. Took me a few attempts to figure out how to position my bike correctly to be launched with enough force.
Also, there’s a track after that that I just can’t get gold on. I can finish it with no faults, but argh! My time! Just can’t get it fast enough.
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I watched the Giant Bomb Quick Look of it last night. Those extra modes look amazing. So do the new tracks.
The only reason I haven’t bought the game yet is because I want to finish at least one of the games I’m currently playing before starting a new one. Hopefully I can beat Lego Batman and Theme Hospital this weekend.
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There is this level in the second lot of mediums that looks like Limbo, that’s where I am stuck at.
So technical, so annoying.
And the gravity shifting level: so good!
I haven’t been around here since I think it was Monday. I was hoping it would make me more productive, but Monday was the most productive day of my week. 😛
So instead of checking TAY, I’ve been playing Mass Effect 2 all day. Trying to finish it with my awesome FemShep so I can take her into Mass Effect 3. I started 3 with my ManShep but was too busy wishing for my badass Femshep to enjoy it.
I’ve finished everything up until the mission before the final one and I’m now just wondering how much of the DLC I should do. Does anyone know if the DLC affects anything in ME3? I’ve done the Shadow Broker but should I do Overlord and Arrival again?
Also, does anyone know if you can gift Xbox Live games? Or if you can’t, if I buy something on my profile, will it work on my husband’s if we play on the same 360?
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Besides Arrival, you’re pretty good to go.
I’d play Shadow Broker and Overlord again just because they are great DLC.
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Does not change anything except referencing you being there or not I think. And I hear it is pretty meh.
I just read up of the gist of it and did not feel like I missed out.-
Cool. I did it with my ManShep and don’t really feel like doing it all over again. I think I’m just worried because I read somewhere that it adds to your Galactic Readiness.
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But, but…people! D:
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TBH, none of the DLC are critical to ME3.
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Well lets face it, very little of anything you did made a difference to ME3.
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I’m pretty sure if it’s DLC it should work on the same Xbox. Not sure if Arcade games work but I vaguely remember reading that DLC thing somewhere. Could always try it out first with existing DLC 🙂
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Ah yes, now I remember!
A few years ago I was at a friends house and I logged in and downloaded Geometry Wars (which I have purchased) on his Xbox. I was able to play but as soon as he logged in his account it became the Trial version again.
I also just read that you wanted to know about ‘games’ so as far as I know, it doesn’t work :(.
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This is what I feared. I remembered that once I tried to play Carcassonne (which Mr. Strange owns) on my profile but it was still just the trial version.
Okay so anyone know the best place to buy AU MS points where they’ll email you the code? This way I can just enter the codes on his profile and buy him the games that way.
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There are a few references to both Shadow Broker and Overlord in ME3, but they are certainly not required.
Cannot gift Live games, but as long as they are saved to the hard drive, I am sure I have read that multiple accounts can still access it, but not 100% sorry.
I’m a bit of a noob about how the Xbox 360 works, but I just tried playing Trials Evo with my brother’s profile, and it was the full version, not the trial.
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Were you connected to Live, or playing offline? I think from memory this makes a difference. But Microsoft change things all the time. I had some games I bought off XBLA when it first came out that my daughter would play but when we moved up here and she started using the offline 360 they didn’t work. I also think playing on a different console than they were downloaded to makes a difference. And none of my consoles are the ones a lot of my games were downloaded on, due to RRODs.
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XBLA games played offline have to be played on the original console they were downloaded on using the original account that purchased them.
Played online, you should be able to use any profile on any console. Although I would recommend redownloading the games so that you can play them offline, if you need to.
This is how I downloaded Aegis Wing for free with my US account and then played it with my AU account.
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My brother’s profile was connected to Live. I’ve just tried playing it with an offline account, and it was the full version on it too. I have no idea whether it would be the same for all XBLA games these days, or whether it’s a game specific thing though…
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Hi Cakesmyth! o/
I should probably clarify that I own all the DLC and have played it before with my ManShep. I want to get through ME2 quickly with my FemShep but I don’t want to skip things that may directly affect anything in ME3.
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Strange! Welcome back. \o/
I attempted to post a question querying your whereabouts a couple of days ago, but the Kotaku site ate my comment, and I didn’t try again, figuring there were some things man wasn’t meant to know.
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Oh, Shane I forgot to tell you that the Jak game arrived safely and when mini-Strange came back from her road-trip she was over the moon. Thanks!
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Join me for champagne.
It will be quite the boxcar social.
Also, I will be yelling at Trials an awful lot.
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You should buy a new mic on the way home.
Your current one makes your voice sound distant and a bit quiet.
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GOOD PEZ! I LOOK FORWARD TO ALCOHOL/TRIALS ENDUCED RAGING TONIGHT.
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Just got Teamspeak on my phone, so though I wouldn’t be able to talk, I could listen in on all you drunken hooligans 😛
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Nah, tried once before and the cries of horror that the feedback and echoing produced convinced me that I shall remain the silent type.
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Ah ok. Yeah, we had the sound of Batgirl furiously fisting her keyboard (hehe, still makes me laugh) last time. Still, wasn’t too bad.
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That’s Okay Hugo, i shall sing Poets of the Fall in my sultry tones then, and i will just believe that your silence is because you’re swooning
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At last, it is FriTAY. I know I complain about Uni assignments a lot, but I just have to finish this last dreadful essay and I’ll be done for the week! Birthday party tomorrow night, bumming around the house on Sunday. It will be good.
Then, repeat everything again next week, except replace “birthday party” with “monomeat” 😮
You know, constantly seeing Anders Breivik stories on Kotaku isn’t exactly doing wonders for the idea that video games aren’t to blame.
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If we want to disassociate ourselves from this madman, then we should’t make it news. And really, he’s a murderer who happened to play games. It’s hardly worth the front page.
The sooner this man is in prison and we never hear about him again the better.
Oh yes, that’s right Ruffles has become one of the “Why is this on Kotaku” zombies!!!!
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I’m ignoring everything to do with him.
His actions were done to draw attention to his “cause”. I’m not going to buy into that and give anything he’s done any thought. Fuck him, fuck his cause. I’m out.
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LoL talk
Well Solo queueing on LoL, wow does it get so much worse at level 30, and matchmaking still horrible, went up against a wukong with 1.1k wins… both games we had a heavy feeder but at least I didn’t do badly, until I got stomped on by the fed enemies.
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Solo Queue is hit and miss – sometimes you can wind up with a bunch of people who communicate well and work together efficiently. Other times you get feeders, griefers and trolls. At least you are probably learning more than in a normal, I need to play more ranked as well.
Also, Evelynn is op (Shameless reddit repost)
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Well I got to do some AD carry practise with Caitlyn and Sivir last night due to me being able to be a jack of all trades and fill the hole in roles (Though support is missed ALWAYS so my partner is stealing CS). So yeah my mindset of being able to do any role is really paying off, I’m never confused as to what to play which is awesome
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Hi TAY,
This week seems to have flown by for me. I can’t wait for the weekend. Hope your morning is going well.
REPOST FROM LAST NIGHT:
The L2 button on my ps3 was loose. So I opened my controller in an attempt to fix it only to find out that the trigger spring is broken 🙁
Does anyone know where I can buy trigger spring replacements locally? Or is there something else I can use as an alternative?
There are some listings on ebay but all of them are from the US and I don’t think I can wait 2 weeks for the delivery.
Also now that I’ve opened my controller it feels really weird.
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There are certain places, usually advertising special upgrades to consoles are advertised, can usually fix that. Or sell the parts/
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I know nothing about controller innards but I guess if you’ve opened it you could take the offending spring to a hardware shop to see if you can find anything similar?
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Hey a friend of mine posted on TAY last night, but his post was awaiting moderation.
I still can’t see it D=
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Was it Amyler? If so the comment is near the top of this page, right above your
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Cakesmith, I have a few times on Trials Evo that are faster than yours. Also Pez. Refer to the earlier tracks (beginner and easy, from memory).
I see this as an inexcusable failing on your parts because I am not very good at Trials.
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As I’ve said before, I’m not going for times yet, just gold medals. Give it time and you’ll be off the case McGarnical.
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I’m taking pictures whenever I top the friends leaderboard. Apparently Serrels spent quite a bit of time last night trying to destroy our scores.
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Morning guys!
I am so tired after playing Trials all last night. What an awesome game. I managed to crack the top 100 on that annoying sewage plant level, but when i got up i’ve been pushed out to 130 or something.
Anyway, just thought I’d drop in and wish you all an awesome weekend.
I’m off to Echuca for my end of season cricket trip. If my liver doesn’t explode i’ll see you online at some point next week 😀
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Salutations friend!
I meant to add you to my XBL friends last night but didn’t get a chance. /o\
Looks like I may have to start up Skyrim again:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/how-to-get-skyrim-looking-as-awesome-as-computationally-possible/
I’ve played it for 5hrs. 4 of which were experimenting with mods.
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it does look incredible with enough mods… i already had most of what he stated in the article, except i don’t like the colour changing mods, because they made the colours deliberately like this
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although for cloaks i prefer
Winter is Coming – Cloaks (http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=13486)
rather then the one recommended in the article
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I’ve got a fairly underpowered laptop so I’m wary of installing mods. But the map one looks pretty easy on the PC, and seems useful.
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Steam key slightly cheaper here: http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/rpgs/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim/
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Even cheaper:
http://www.cdkeysdirect.com/products/The-Elder-Scrolls-V%3A-Skyrim-CD-KEY-%28STEAM%29-EU.htmlThe sight looks a little dodgey but I’ve bought a few games off them with no issue:
Fear 3
Space Marine
War in the North
Kingdoms of Bananrama
Saints Row 3
Mass Effect 3They just email you a scan of the CD key and you redeem it in Steam.
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I didn’t enjoy that one as much as the others, but thankfully I felt he was back in form for the next book (mostly – a small lull a short way in).
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Yeah it’s a bit of a slog but oh well.
Also my boss brought in a modified nerf gun and is shooting everybody.
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Thanks for all your ME DLC and XBL help on the previous page, guys.
I’ve decided not to do Arrival and Overlord again so I can get stuck into ME3 faster.
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I remember really enjoying Overlord. I think it was my favourite of all the DLC. It was so pretty, too.
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Oh, and also I bought a code for MS Points online and when I went to buy Trials Evolution it had a ‘Usage Restrictions’ button, so I checked it and it said all users on the first console I download it to can use it, but if I move it to a different console then I have to be logged into Live to play. So I bought it on my account even though it’s for Mr. Strange so that I can get the leftover MS Points. 😛
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I think I misread this on Twitter. Does it work this way:
1. When you buy a game on one console, everyone can play it on that console, offline or not.
2. On a different console, only the purchaser can play it and they must be online.
The bit I misread from The Cracks is that I thought he said that if you take it to another console then it is forever locked to that profile and you lose the ability referred to at 1. But that’s not right is it? By doing 2, you doing lose the ability to do 1?
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I think you misread, indeed. Taking it to another console only means that while you use it on that particular console you have to be online and only the purchaser can use it but as soon as you move it back to the original console then all users can play it again, online or not. 🙂
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Like Luke Plunkett? 😛
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OMG! Lamb is “name”! 😛
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Arrival I thought was such an adrenaline rush, just that sense of urgency was an incredible prelude to ME3. Lair of the Shadowbroker was my favourite by far, though.
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Yeah, I’d rate Shadow Broker the best by a long way, followed by Arrival. Overlord I wish I hadn’t wasted my time with, especially because the Hammerhead has tissue paper for armor.
Do yourself a favour and check out one of the best albums of last year.
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Oh, I know. I picked it up last year and listened to it relentlessly. It just showed up in the related videos on something I was watching. So good.
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Dear TAY,
Is anyone a phone guru? My Samsung Galaxy S2 has a boo-boo. I think there may have been some moisture in the USB slot after Wednesday’s downpour in Sydney. Now the phone thinks that it’s connected to a USB port at all times and regularly warns that charging has stopped due to excessive load on the battery. This started while I was in the process of trying to flash to Lite’ning ROM, I was able to recover and then perform a FW update to stock 4.0.3 ICS but now I can’t put the phone into USB debugging (since it thinks that it’s always connected).
Am I royally screwed? Do I need to pull everything apart and check that it’s dried out? Is that the sort of thing I should be paying someone else to do? Is it actually a problem with the battery?
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You can force that connection to stop in the settings, it might start working correctly after that, but it sounds like you may have some water damage, one of my mates had a similar problem, took the cover off and used a blow dryer for about 10 mins and it started working just fine.
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I had a similar problem with my SGS2 and a friend had the same issue – USB connection not working all the time, phone showing it was connected and charging, even when it wasn’t, etc. It depends on how lenient your supplier is, if it;s still under warranty – technically flashing voids your warranty. I was lucky enough to have mine fixed, it was running Lite’ning ROM as well – but it was under warranty and I pay for insurance as well.
They repaired it, and put it back to stock Gingerbread 2.3.3, which was what I wanted. Not flashing/rooting my phone anymore – it’s too risky.
It was a physical issue with the USB port on the phone though, they’re pretty flaky.
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Trying to decide if I should join in on Trials shenanigans tonight or push for some RDR multi…
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SKYRIM! 🙂
Though having said that, i will be playing Witcher 2. Still not sure how I feel about this game.
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Have you got it on Xbox?
Might be willing to put aside the hack and slash for a night and join you in some bang bang shoot em up 😛-
sexbox indeed good mr. Barbarian… and ignore that Pez guy, Play RDR
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I’m going to enjoy TS tonight. It’ll be filled with random acts of violence in the old west, and Pez raging at physics and gravity.
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Having said that, I’ll probably be involved with both…that’s my style.
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So what you’re saying is that you swing both ways?
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… the mono-meat is going to be fun isn’t it? DIPS ON BIG SPOON… no backpacking here
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The epic TAY slumber party is just going to be you guys cuddling all night, isn’t it?
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yep, girls are allowed to watch
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From a safe distance. No one wants to get cooties.
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I don’t even know but I’m buying a raincoat next week just in case.
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I get the distinct impression that Batgirl will wait for us to all fall asleep, then put us in awkward positions and take photos…
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i don’t think batgirl is needed for that….
*wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
also raincoat is mandatory for any spectator
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Shh….shhh. Go back to sleep.
*click*
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And I won’t be there
foreveralone.jpg
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I have a feeling that the mono-meat night shall be both awesome and disturbing.
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i am both Horrified and Aroused…. I’M HOROUSED
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I want to take bets on who’ll first belt out:
Hold me now, warm my heart
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I bags singing “Cradled in Love” duet style with Pixel.
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Hugo, have a mentioned how much i love you? WE’RE SO DOING THAT…. MANLY STYLE!
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CHEST BUMP!!!
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You know I can’t smile without you
I can’t smile without you
I can’t laugh and I can’t sing
I’m finding it hard to do anything
You see I feel sad when you’re sad
I feel glad when you’re glad
If you only knew what I’m going through
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Whenever I hear this song, all I can think about is a drunken Hellboy and Abe singing it.
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Hugo, this is why we are friends.
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HUGO, you can be Hell-boy, i’ll be Abe
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I refuse to click on that link because I live in Queensland and don’t wish to be traumatised. 😛
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Also, that’s one daring spider. If it was a human, it might be the Bear Grylls of spiders. Or a Jackass star.
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Young Justice threw in a credits gag during episode 24.
The one where the team goes undercover as a group of circus performers.
This amuses me far more than it should.
It appears that Day[9]’s AHGL (the little tournament for employees of tech companies) has a LoL competition as well as SC2. The finals are on either today or tomorrow.
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The Starcraft tournament is about Diamond/Low Masters level play (only really watched last year, but the few games I saw recently seem to hold true to this). If LoL is any indication, you would probably be expecting <2000 ELO premade teams, or something about that level of play.
There's fun to be had and everyone's aware that it's not that super serious.
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So Clinique is going to get mother’s day stuff on Sunday but they’ve just said on TV that if you spend over $60 you get a 9 piece gift set.
Do I wait until Sunday to see what they get, or look at getting something today?
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Second Sunday of May, isn’t it?
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Speaking of Mother’s Day, if anyone has any cash to spare, consider donating some to breast cancer research. I’ll be participating in the Mother’s Day Classic walk, and you can sponsor me here:
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@Pez
My publisher managed to get their hands on the draft trailer for The Lesser Evil that I’d already put together, and has started to promote it on their website/Facebook, etc. I’m about to do the same on Twitter, to keep up.
Thought you should know that even though the opportunity to alter this one appears to have gone bye-bye, I’m still keen to do another trailer if you still want to be involved with music – totally fine if you decide not to, though!
Dota 2 Update – April 19, 2012
Product Update – Valve
GAMEPLAY
– Enabled Brewmaster!
– [Insignificant things here]
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HE’S NOT A PANDA!!!!!???????????#$w^#&*$^!@!@!@#!@!!!
fFFFFFFWAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR112423#$^$%&@!@#! /FLIPS EVERYTHING
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Also:
– Mid bots are now less likely to roam at early levels.
– Fixed bug that was causing Zeus to killsteal (too much) with his Ult.
1: Yay!
2: Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha
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Only losers would reply to you, Bish.
In other news, I think I’m just going to start playing a few different Intelligence heroes. I like their style, just need to get the hang of them. And you know, get the hang of playing.
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Dear work colleague, I hear what you’re saying. It was something like this: “trials trials trials trials”.
I think there’s something wrong with my hearing/concentration today.
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Trade sexual favours with Newton to get a free anti-gravity passes and you’ll be fine.
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I don’t understand the ‘trade’ part.
Are these those ‘CARD FREE FOR ONE GOOD *insert sexual act here*’ things?
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More like you…*ahem*…”shine his shoes” and he gives you an IOU.
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I try to lean forward when crossing the finish line. That way my head sticks out in front of my bike, meaning I touch the finish line sooner. At least, I think it helps.
Something along the lines of rear-wheel contact is the key to victory. I’m still trying to work this one out.
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Rear wheel contact with your face!
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He clearly means propping the accelerator and then shaving with the rear wheel. Like a man.
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So, basically what lambo said.
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imagine being customer service at Riot and dealing with stuff like this everyday. i’d start a photo album.
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So, I have a slight dilemma.
From everything I have heard and seen, Fez looks amazing, and as a huge fan of pixel art the game is right up my alley. In all fairness the game should be sitting on my xbox hard drive right now.
But it isn’t, because I think Phil Fish is an asshole.
I know that it is silly to reject a great game because if it’s creator, but I really dislike Phil Fish. I had followed him on twitter for a while and unfollowed him because I was sick of hearing his rude and arrogant ranting, then his comments at GDC pretty much tipped the scale for me.
Now I understand the argument that we already pay for and enjoy many things created by people who are assholes, but most of these products are not the work of a single asshole but of a team of hard working people, many of whom are not assholes.
When I consider buying Fez, I see Phil Fish, the lone creator of Fez and the only man who will benefit from my purchase. He poured his heart and soul into this game, so the game is infused with the heart and soul of an arrogant prick.
On one hand to buy Fez means I am giving a solo indie dev the credit he deserves and helping to strengthen the validity of indie games in the mainstream marketplace, but on the other hand I am helping to justify and encourage the absolute douchenozzle behaviour that Fish has exhibited during the course of Fez’s development.
In short, I don’t want to be an asshole-enabler.
Again, I know it’s silly to hold back on a great game just because I have a problem with the guy who made it, but that’s how I feel about the situation. If you are keen on the game then by all means go out and get it, I hear it’s amazing, but as for me, I am going to sit back and ponder whether it is worth giving an asshole money for an amazing game
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I love you! This is the reason I don’t have Fez. I really think the guy is just an asshole and I don’t want to buy his game because of it.
Every time I hear someone talk about how awesome Fez is I wonder if I should just grab the demo and check it out. But I don’t want to be tempted. I just tell myself the game’s soul will be twisted and smirky like its creator’s and I don’t want to be thinking about him while I’m playing a game.If I won a code for it somewhere, I’d happily check it out though, because then I wouldn’t have to think about how I was paying such an arrogant little boy for it.
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And on the flip side I was very happy to pay money for Trial Evolution today, even though I know I won’t ever play it myself, because everything I’ve seen about the people who make that game makes me think they’re awesome people and I don’t mind in the slightest bit giving them money.
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Sure, and after that we can have another new campaign: Get Everyone To Pay For Strange’s New TV! 😛
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I’ve been thinking I’ll buy the Humble Botanicula Debut bundle instead. Then I’ll be too busy playing that to care about Fez.
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It’s funny, I have 7 people giving me money at the monomeat next week.
Sure, it’s for the room, but I like to think it’s because I’m awesome.
Consider my asshole enabled, sir.
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Sounds like you think the money is for… other things too
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Pretty sure you owe me $45 worth of enabled asshole.
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Your assholes always been enabled when I’m around.
#GayJoke
#HashTagsForHarli
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you sure know how to make a girl feel special DAN!
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Subtle.
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Can’t you buy it and send a message to him to try and be a more humble human?
Cuz I agree that a good game is worth buying. I only don’t buy a game if it’s a) badly made/optimised (Port to PCgone wrong ) or b) bad business practices/monetisation of game (Day one DLC being a prime example)
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Have you seen the way Phil Fish responds to his critics?
If I bought the game and asked him to be humble about it I doubt his response (if any) would be that of a good listener ;P-
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Yeah he’s a prick, and from what I can tell prone to outbursts as well.
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Fez is the product of two people, mainly, Phil Fish and Renaud Bédard, and also the composer, Rich Vreeland.
If you have strong feelings about Fish, then obviously don’t buy it. But I am happy to divorce my views of Fish’s ideas and self expression from the game. I think it’s well worth buying. But as a game something like Limbo is a more satisfying experience for me. I find Fez opaque and a little in love with its own cleverness.
I’m totally with you on this. I’m not buying it for the same reason – I think Phil Fish is arrogant turd that thinks a little highly of himself. Now this has zero effect on the game itself, but it will change my general feeling toward it.
The guy acts like an indie dev god, and that was even before his game was released. (Which took how long?) Regardless of whether he created the greatest indie title since Minecraft or it was an absolute turd is irrelevant.
I’ve discussed this with people before who have accused me of simply raging at someone who shitcanned Japanese game developers. Not so. His statements, attitude and tone speak volumes about how he conducts himself and he’s told us his in no uncertain terms his opinions on things – whether true or not, weren’t exactly presented in the most likeable fashion.
Phil Fish is a dickhead, and it’s a shame I won’t be buying or playing Fez because of that.
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His comments on Japanese games really annoyed me, not because of whether he was right or not, that’s irrelevant, it was the way he said it that set me off.
I mean, it was a GDC talk, a japanese developer stood up to ask his opinion on Japanese games and in front of everybody Fish tells him his entire country’s games are shit.
There are a hundred different ways Fish could have communicated that he thinks Japanese games have lost their way without being an absolute cock about it and humiliating the poor guy in front of everyone.
I admire you for this. There are so many people out there who will complain about a publisher or a developer and say they’re never buying a game from them again and then they’re the first in line at the store to purchase what ever game it is they’ve just released. It’s good to see someone actually sticking to their guns on this sort of thing.
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My week has all been like “I’m going to do everything in my power to fuck you in the ass this week”.
TAYbar is very much being looked forward to.
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Friday’s actually being alright so far. The rest of this week has been quite dickish though.
Maybe it’s got something to do with that part where I decided not to do all that work…
Looking at the various heroes in DOTA2, I’m thinking that I might try out Lion (in lane) and Enchanter (to try out jungling) for a while. Just stick with those two for many, many games and see how I go.
@Crazyguy – I totally just listened to the Chili Peppers. It was a great interlude between me reading TAY and me reading TAY. I also read TAY whilst listening 🙂
Yo TAY, has anyone ordered books/comics from Fishpond before? What are their shipping times like? Also, what is the state of the stuff you received? If i get something with even one bent page i’ll be angry about it all day. They must be perfect.
Also, if fishpond is no good, what other sites should i be using to get stuff? I want some more DC but the prices at Aussie retail are a bit tgoo high.
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Their packages are pretty sturdy, right? I’ve ordered books from ebay before and they almost always have damaged corners and/or curved pages 🙁
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I’ve ordered stuffs but not comics. To be honest if you want perfect condition comics you’ll have to either continue to buy retail or buy from a specialist comics online place who knows how to pack comics to reduce damage during transit.
Fishpond’s delivery times vary as they get stock from everywhere. It’s been anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of weeks for me.
Maybe buy one comic from them to use as a test, to see if it will arrive in a condition that’s acceptable to you?
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Yea, I’ll probably do that. I was intending to by the complete version of Hush, but i might go for something a little more cheap as a test run.
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Hey TAY, what did you guys do today? I just got subpoenaed by a lawyer.
Someone invent a time machine so i can go home.
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I have a time machine, it’s called nap time.
I bought some new runners, because my old ones hurt like buggery when I was on the treadmill last night. Hopefully this means no more foot pain, although the pain in the back pocket may last for a while.
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It’s actually got nothing to do with me personally, just someone who does business with my company is looking for the invoices of his money.
I’m now officially required by law is only drop TRUTH BOMBS!
…Resonance of Fate and FF13 were meh. It’s the truth,
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So I guess that means it isn’t the type of subpoena that requires you to make a statement to the court or anything like that. That’s not too terrible.
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Does it say anything about the invoices being in Esperanto?
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Are you required to use a base 10 numbering system?
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You are a bad man bunny, I now have the urge to send invoices and reports in Hexadecimal
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Proof
http://youtu.be/W0nqZii2RjI?t=24s
P.S.
Does anyone else have posts disappear if you only have a link in the body?
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2 links = automatically goes into moderation. Didn’t have any issues with those single link posts of mine earlier today.
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Somehow I ended up reading the conservapedia page on Cthluhu.
Cthulhu (pronounced “K’Thoo Loo”) (Other spellings: Kutulu, Ktulu, Cthulu, Kthulhut, Thu Thu, Tulu)
Why do I find this so damned hilarious?
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It’s Cutehulhu!
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To merely gaze upon the cuteness is to go mad…
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The amount of money I’ve been spending at this Japanese restaurant behind work is getting kind of ridiculous.
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Is there anything below wood league?
It be helpful to know the proper term when introducing myself to SC players 🙂-
Wood league = how do i press buttan?
You really can’t get below that and be capable of logging into Battle.net.
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How about the Styrofoam league: watch a video of someone else playing while mashing the keyboard pretending it’s you.
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I believe that’s Girls Generation/Boxer league.
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Or maybe it’s Alcatraz league?
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Went to JBHIFI on my lunch break. You’ll never guessed what i encountered, to my complete and utter shock.
Bubble pop. Staring at me.
Apparently jb now has a small section dedicated to kpop.
IT HAS BEGUN.
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boom shakalaka
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I am not ashamed to admit that I enjoy watching pop-asia on sunday mornings.
It’s… mesmerising.
Pub lunch.
Returned from pub lunch, late for meeting.
Find meeting had been rescheduled to next week before I left.
Friday afternoon will now involve getting SFA work done.
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I thought I had mostly finished my SFA work earlier today, but it turns out I have much more to do.
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For a second I though you said “get a perm”, and I didn’t find it odd that you’d be suggesting that. I think my brain has been poisoned by Pez…
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I had a chicken schnitzel panini toasted with lettuce, cheese, bacon and mayonaise. It was delicious.
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My sister is a hipster. 🙁 Got dragged out to Degraves street for lunch. I hate that place so much 🙁
Unrelatedly, @PuppyLicks: I also don’t have Fez and don’t intend to get it, because I also think Phil Fish is a dick. I also strongly object to the game having been awarded multiple indie games prizes over the years (and thus granted extra money) when it was vaporware for so long, while other nominated games in the same categories were actually released. But mainly I don’t want to get it because I don’t like the thought of giving money to Phil.
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Degraves Street is an olfactory cesspit of trash cans and smokers (refer to my tweet yesterday) that also happens to have some fantastic food like burgers and fish n chips and crepes. I go there quite a bit and just get all snippy about smokers and trash.
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I’m no hipster, but I like Degraves St. That little soup place does a great cassoulet. Best winter lunch under $10.
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Join the club. Actually, don’t join the club. Save yourself while you still can!
If anybody would like to write my essay on ANZ cutting 1000 jobs, I wouldn’t object. I’ll pay you in smiles. Just have it on my desk before 7.
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>”Use Pixel to break down door and escape from work.”
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>”You Use GUN to shoot open lock in an Hard Boiled Fashion”
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Assuming you get a decent oral surgeon and have it under general, I can tell you right now that this is actually the better option compared to having them yanked while you’re awake.
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Bad luck mate.
I had this done, though. It weren’t so bad. Plus it’s kind of cool having these massive gaping holes in your gums before they heal over… your tongue won’t be bored for AGES!
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Much more expensive, though. Eeeep. Plus I was all psyched that the pain was going to go away today. No dice. But thanks for the reassuring guys, you’re class acts. 😀
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I had all four of mine removed, and they were all impacted. It was surprisingly painless. You just have to be prepared to be on painkillers for the first 2-3 days (probably would be if they were removed via pulling them out anyway) and use antiseptic mouthwash (something Chlorhexadine based like Savacol) 3-4 times a day that can sting a bit at first and makes things taste a bit minty.
Also I got a piece of carrot stuck in one socket for several days, so be vigilant about that. 😛
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Still, the idea of being knocked out cold, mouth pried open and fingers going crazy in there makes me lose sleep at night. I don’t care about drills, needles and the like. It’s the loss of control… and the money…
I’ll be sure to avoid carrots, though. 😀
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Today is the day that the whole ‘KONY 2012 cover everything with posters’ event is supposed to go down (or so the event that numerous people on Facebook have invited me to is saying). I wonder how this will go down.
I wonder, while I swirl a wine glass in my hand and pet a cat who is seated evilly in my lap where I sit on a red velvet spinny chair of luxury and evilness.
You may think it’s too early in the afternoon to be evilly swirling a wine glass, but I say it’s never too early for that!
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…Jacking it in San Diego!
Good campaign, wrong group and wrong cause.
If you got something like the Bill Gates Foundation to do something like that to try and wipe out polio completely, I can guarantee it would be a resounding success.
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I feel sorry for that Russell guy, best intentions completely eclipsed in one moment of stupidity. (That he possibly wasn’t even capable of controlling.) Must suck for them that all this momentum vanished in a second.
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Everything went haywire for them as soon as people started to check out who they were. They got a lot of exposure in a crazy short amount of time and simply were not prepared for the scrutiny.
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Brandy balloon or you are doing it wrong
The biggest issue I had with the whole Kony thing was that it was basically trying to whip up a lynch mob.
So i saw a lady my age who was really attractive come into my work today, I didn’t know why anyway i had to help her out with some stuff by making some cables and fixing something quickly. The strangest part of it all, she guessed my age straight away and said i was cute. WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE WORLD 😛 How are you guys, besides that i have been cleaning this god forsaken workshop all day because monday auditors are coming.
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Is this a butt secks joke?
I hope so.
They’re my second favourite kind of joke.
Next to doodle jokes.
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/hi5
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Unless she’s in to that kind of stuff
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It’s a versatile word, like “bishing”
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I said she was attractive, i didn’t say i wanted to have her babies. Silly guys. I thought it was a nice ego boost. Nothing more 😛
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Why thank you Harli. I just love it when Flu stimulates my cochlear…
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@People in relation to Fez:
I bought Fez, even though I think that Phil Fish is a twat. I considered not buying, but I’ve never been the type to boycott(or really, just not buy, as boycott is a silly word) something for, well, any reason. I’d admire your conviction to do so, and thus far at least for me, Fez really hasn’t amazed me.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s very, very clever(with its enormous head stuck so firmly up its own arse). But, ehhh. I think I’m the wrong age to get that feeling that others seem to have for it.
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I want to love it. But I’m not quite feeling it. I appreciate it, but it’s not drawing me in like Limbo did.
But I also didn’t feel Braid. I could see it was kinda brilliant but the creator also came off as kind of a dick as well.
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I liked the demo, but didn’t feel that hit of nostalgia either. I’m not really attached to 8 bit in general, progress has been made for good reason. Gameplay mechanics were clever, though. I liked the sounds too.. The door opening noise reminds me of Die Hard on the NES.
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Boycotts are awesome. I boycott all games that have DLC on the disk and release.
Didn’t Batman: AC do that with the Catwoman bits?
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Disc at release** bloody hell, it’s too late in the day for me to type correctly. You get the idea. DLC on the disc is douchey
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Actually, you had to download the Catwoman content. If I remember right it was about 230MB or so.
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Oh cool, that means I’ll get it. Day 1 DLC is fine, but DLC on disc that i have to unlock isn’t.
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I genuinely can’t tell if you’re being serious or mocking me…
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I’m not. Day 1 DLC is ok in my book. DLC that is held ransom on the disc for cash is horrible.
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Whoo! \o/
I could see your comment going either way so I got worried. I agree with you, by the way.
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Pretty sure it was an anti-pre-owned thing.
If you buy the game new the code’s in the case.
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I’m almost certain the PC version comes on the disc, but there’s no activations or anything required… so basically not DLC there. (Although GfWL requires activation, so there’s DRM issues instead.)
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(GfWL needs activation for the entire game, I mean. Not the Catwoman stuff.)
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My steam boycotts are any publisher that does region based pricing. Doesn’t matter if the price is great value or within acceptable bounds I won’t get it.
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This. I’ll actively work around it though, eg buy physical copies from OzGameShop or the like that activate on Steam. Or get a friend at work who spent some time living in Redmond so has a US credit card to buy and gift it to me. Screw regional pricing.
Hi guys,
is hydrophobia prophecy worth the $5 asking price on steam? I was curious about the water physics and any puzzles that involve water when the game was initially released. The game got mixed reviews so I wanted to get your opinions.
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I played the demo on xbox and thought, “uhhhh, no thanks”. So it gets a no from me. I just found it quite boring. I think you’d be better off playing something else, even re-playing an old favourite.
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It really sucks that there is no demo on steam and PSN. Good news though it is $3 on the US PSN. I’m still unsure so any input is still encouraged.
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Worth mentioning that the devs changed the game a lot after poor reviews, so the metacritic score will be inaccurate. Maybe check out the SPUF.
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I remember that game caused a big kerfuffle when released because while most people generally understood that the game was terrible, some publications gave it inexplicably high review scores.
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I have it and I think it was worth that price for me. But you need to keep in mind that the game is really a tech demo for water physics rather than anything else.
The water physics are nice but there are no real puzzles or anything like that. Also it is a standard shooter, don’t buy it if you are after using the water powers as that isn’t really part of the game. Much of the game is waiting and using the environment to your advantage. Bad guy walks past control panel, shoot panel and electrocute then shoot him in the head for a multi style kill bonus.
So basically you move from one tech demo to the next (under water combat >> climbing >> shooter >> stealth). Certainly not worth full price but for a few bucks and if it takes your fancy, may be worth it
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Hmm, Tech demo. That is a curious choice of words. I guess I should just take the plunge and buy it and maybe avoid buying Tim tams next week.
I’m mainly apprehensive because I took the cheap game route when I bought Locoroco cocoreccho for the same price and I was severely disappointed. I thought it was a locoroco style game for the PS3 but that wasn’t the case 🙁
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Howdy folks. I don’t think I’ve posted much this week. Not sure why. I’d ask what I missed but I know some wise guy or girl will just say “things… and stuff”
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I posted a list of things I wanted to do while I was on tafe holidays. In short, it was a failure of epic proportions. What little I accomplished is as follows
Games
Finish Xenoblade – Got another 8-10 hours
Finish Mass Effect 3 – No progress
Finish To The Moon – No progress
Start 999 – Started and completed \o/
Possibly start Arkham City – No progress
Possibly start Witcher 2 – No progress
TV Shows
Primeval – Season 4/5 – Nothing
Doctor Who – Season 2 – Nothing
Big Bang Theory – Season 5 – Nothing
How I Met Your Mother – Season 6 – Nothing
Books
Reduce addiction to Harry Potter fanfiction – Definitely not, in fact its probably gotten worse as I’ve started writing my own story.
Start Game of Thrones – No
Maybe start Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – No
Miscellaneous
Mini-meat – tonight – Attended \o/
Possibly Sarcastic meat – 21st – Called off /o\
Mono-meat – 28th – Future
Go and see Hunger Games – No
2 Assignments for tafe – Still working on them
Whatever shifts I happen to get at Coles. – Too much of this to do much of all the rest
Argh, I feel like I’ve wasted 2 weeks and done nothing. Which is basically true
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I’m pretty sure you were there. You bought the Batmans, right?
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It’s an unofficial Stoners day. Basically, everyone gets high as a kite. I heard that from a friend.
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This.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_%28cannabis_culture%29
For the record, I’ve never done drugs, nor intend to. In no way do I condone celebration of cannabis.-
Thanks guys! So basically like every other day for everyone. (Because I’m assuming stoners basically get stoned every day anyway.)
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It’s weird, I have no interest in any of The Avengers characters but a deep, almost unnatural love of Joss Whedon. I’m conflicted. And speaking of Whedon, where’s my Cabin in the Woods?!
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Australia has to wait until June.
Unless you can manage to get to the Gold Coast next Friday or Sunday for the two showings they’re having in the Gold Coast Film Festival.-
Oh, cool! (On both fronts, the film festival and the promise of a release date!) Thanks for the heads up!
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Then again… a lot of them are rubbish.
But I’ll still watch them, because superheroes are awesome.
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Batman Begins is the only good superhero movie I have ever seen. Otherwise, I agree completely with you.
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I thought Raimi did a mostly good job on the first two Spider-Mans. They could be hokey at times, but still solid. Let’s not bring up the third. 😛 (Which I blame entirely on studio interference…)
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Good point, that was Mad Men with superpowers. What’s not to like?
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I also thought X-Men 2 was excellent. The Nightcrawler attack against the Whitehouse at the start is still amazing.
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Loved that movie.
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I’ve only seen the Iron Man movies. Still need to watch Thor, Captain America, and maybe The Hulk movies before I see Avengers. Was Hulk part of their big connecting story, or did that really only start with Iron Man?
Either way, good to hear its good.
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It’s connected, but Norton’s apparently a bit of a dick to work with so he’s been replaced. Iron Man and Thor were both solid films. Captain America was great at first then it just went into this weird mode where everything felt abbreviated and summarized, like you were watching a high points reel. There’s huge time gaps where character development happens off-screen and suddenly things are happening out of nowhere and stuff. It’s not terrible but you could skip it.
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I liked Captain America. It reminded me a lot of Raiders of the Lost Ark. And Alan Silvestri’s score! Loved it!
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I liked it too. But it was very comic book. I felt like Thor and at least the first Iron Man were more watchable as action blockbusters if you weren’t invested in the comics at all, wheras Captain America felt like you’d need to be a nerd to really get it.
It was a lot better than it could have been though. When they announced it I was half expecting an \m/ AMERICA FUCK YEAH \m/ film.
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My mum got into it and she’s not a nerd 😛
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Well Captain America’s origin story is like that.
This
I haven’t seen the hulk ones but Captain American is one of the best super hero movies I have seen, and Thor was much better than I expected. So much eye candy. And there are women in it too.
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My motto’s always been; when it’s right, it’s right.
Why wait until the middle of a cold dark night.
When everything’s a little clearer in the light of day.
And you know the night is always gonna be there any way
Quick check: Was there anyone else interested in RDR on seXbox tonight? So far it’s myself, possibly Pixel, possibly Hugo. I’m keen to give free roam a go, and co-op (based on numbers).
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Aww…man. I almost wish didn’t have a bunch of Heineken at home 😛
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Wait a minute, weren’t you supposed to be hosting blur? have I been dumped for some mule shooting
foreveralone.jpg
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You know that feeling you get when you know something bad is coming?
Like you know that the sh!t is really going to hit the fan?
I have been feeling this way for the last couple of hours, but I cannot explain why.
It has left me a damn near nervous wreck, jumping at the slightest sound, but I cannot for the life of me understand why I am feeling this way.
*waits in nervous anticipation for something terribad to happen*
I feel as jumpy as animals do right before a hurricane.
*starts running around in circles barking*
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Ha! Nah, won’t be buying that until I’m back from the US, otherwise I would be agreeing with you.
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Anxiety. 🙁 I get this periodically if I’m really tired or stressed (or both since usually if I’m stressed I don’t sleep)
Solution for me is usually to play games or watch TV until it passes.
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Done and done
By which I mean purchased for myself and somebody else.
Also picked up the indie royale mostly for Unstoppable Gorg-
My games just finished downloading. I think I’ll install them tomorrow morning and see how they play.
Thanks for the Hydrophobia advice. I’ll buy it. I might regret the purchase but I’ll find a way to placate myself.
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Ergh. Tension headaches are the worst. They stop you from working and then because you’re not working you get more stressed. You just can’t win. So now I’m eating chocolate, which gives me headaches, to see if it might counter it. Like in soaps when someone hits their head and gets amnesia and hits their head again and remembers everything.
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A friend of mine cured another friend’s stomach ache by hitting her in the stomach.
Best system.
Also, I’d recommend water, and maybe some paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin.
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Is it bad that I can pronounce paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin without any issues? I knew I should have stopped paying attention in Chemistry classes
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It sounds like he found that out a little too… choco-late.
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No idea what you’re doing, but I find it best to take half an hour off and go watch TV or something when I get super stressed. Just gotta tell yourself to calm down. 😛
Don’t take a nap though! I’ve done that before and managed to skip my alarm and sleep for 2 hours. xD Was not happy.
I often see ads for watches in that Shopstyle ad on the side of TAY. I swear I can see the hands on the watch faces tick sometimes. Then I spend the next minute staring at the ad to double check that it’s not an animation… 😛
Thinking about it now though… that would be an excellent troll marketing strategy.
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hang on… I think that dude withe cardigan just winked at me.
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Today I amused myself by engraving into an A4 brass plate the names of every TAYbie I could think of.
I wonder if the order I did them is significant in some way?
GREENIUS! When you see this I need to speak to you~ It’s in relation to the Pandora’s tower code~!
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Why bother? He’ll only disappoint you. You should come with me. I promise you I NEVER disappoint.
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You’re putting me off playing the game -_-
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See. This lady knows what’s what.
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Pandora’s tower? something like Pandora’s Box I assume? The box that contained all the worst things ever… monsters, hate, fear, Rebecca Black, & all that really nasty shit?
Its in Yellowius’ pants?
…makes sense I suppose.
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When you put it like that…
It’s the destruction of all humanity
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Sorry to keep posting, but does anyone know where I can get an external DVD drive for cheap?
I need one for Mum’s net book so she can play games
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Absolutely. We don’t use it. At least someone would be using it and less crap cluttering up our house (lord knows there is enough crap in our house.)
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Tell me about it. Mum and i have been trying to clear out our crap and it’s not really working XD
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Email me binoter on hot mail.
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Sent, but I don’t know if I got your email right =P
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You drive a hard bargain.
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Crysis 3 teaser trailer. Full gameplay trailer on April 24th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ntOb0rEa1o
I’m intrigued.
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What intrigues me is the bow and arrow. I hope the bow and arrow are used well in enemy encounters that encourage a mix of stealth and action gameplay.
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They’ve got action down pat, they should really focus on stealth. Crysis 2 always let me down a bit when it comes to that.
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I spoke of the virtues of pumpkin soup not long ago, but it is by far NOT the best! Having said that… I can’t decide on a favourite soup. Winter is coming though, so I will be on the prowl…
The worst soup is easily Tomato, though.
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I hate anything pumpkin…except the Smashing Pumpkins.
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Tomato is the only kind of soup I enjoy. Any other from of soup and I just wonder why someone put water in my food.
Excluding pumpkin soup. Pumpkin is one of the worst flavours on this planet and making it into soup is even worse. The only things more disgusting are Coca cola and Liquorice.-
You. Do not insult my lovely liquorice!
…Now I want chocolate bullets. -insert drooling emoticon-
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Those things a so cruel. I remember being excited when I fist discovered them as a kid thinking i had all this wonderful chocolate. If only Admiral Ackbar had been around to warn me….
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I just had the $3 Aldi Hawaiian Pizza for dinner and It’s actually OK. I thought it would be terrible, like many store bought pizzas, but I was surprised to find out I enjoyed it.
It’s a decent sized pizza and I still have some left over for tomorrow.
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Going into Aldi pains me.
Seeing people buy meat from Aldi, I grab their shirts and yell in their face “WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY” and start sobbing on their behalf.-
Aldi meat is so poor. My brother reckons the beef is OK but maybe Sydney meat is so awful he thinks it’s OK
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Err wut? Their regular beef mince for 6 bucks a kilo is better than what most butchers around here call premium mince and tastes better.
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Aldi goods actually taste better than their coles or woolies homebrand equivalents in my opinion.
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Bescause mostly it’s Australian, not chinese or whatever. Though woolworths 500G tasty cheese is made by Mainland I do believe.
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Mainland isn’t Australian.
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now, i have found out that mentioning Super Monday Night Combat usually results in no replies, but who cares i love the game to much, and i wanna talk about it.
After its impromptu release, they’ve actually done a really good job with it… they’ve changed the UI a little bit to make it easier, and the servers have been playing up a bit, but thats because they haven’t handled so many people on at once.
so once again, i implore anyone with interest in MOBA’s and Third Person Shooters seriously try this game, i haven’t spent this much time in a game since team fortress 2….
*grumble*butnoonewillreplytothisbecausenooneli…*continues grumbling under breath*
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Which soup? I like mine pumpkin. With garlic bread. Yeahhhh
Also once I made french onion soup and it was glorious.
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Dammit, beaten to the punch.
Last time I was beaten to the punch was delicious though, as they spiked it, so I don’t know what to make of this.
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Maybe you like being beaten and punched?
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Well, I’ve been mugged once, and I got free stuff out of it, so maybe I do associate beatings with rewards.
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Care to elaborate?
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The man was mugged! Show some compassion!
Did you get a free xbox?
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No, but I got my first mobile phone(one of two that I’ve ever had. That brick lasted).
It was barely a mugging(other people called it that, I didn’t really). In year 8, while waiting for the bus, while there very early one morning, I got punched in the face, and the guy ran off with my iPod.
Out of this situation I:
1) Missed a day of school(I had to go speak to the cops, and I had an orthodontic appointment that afternoon, so I just skipped everything)
b) My iPod was returned, as this buff guy went and found the guy, hit him a few times, and got my iPod back.
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Who was this ‘guy’? Another student? 🙁 what a dick.
Yay buff guy! (also another student?)
Not sure what Year 8 Blaghman was like but I like this Blaghman, he’s pretty cool.
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Nah, this was before school(as in, in the am hours). The worst anyone did to me at my school was throw food at me.
The guy was mid 20’s maybe older, at a guess, the other one was probably a similar age.
Year 8 me was a little… depressed. I cut myself, occasionally, stupid stuff like that. It helped me get over myself, and realise the big picture.
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This buff guy sounds so dreamy!
I think everyone has the awkward and insecure stage. I used to hate my life too and get bullied. 🙁
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If it helps, he was very ripped, and at a guess, of Italian heritage.
I got bullied a bit, but it never really bothered me. I was at a school where if I’d reported what happened to me, a lot would have happened to the offenders, but I didn’t. Any problems of mine were mostly my own fault, really. But for a lot of year 8, I took it out on other people, and physically on myself.
As I said, I was an idiot. I’ve gotten far better at controlling myself since then.
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As I’ve just mentioned in the previous soup thread, I generally dislike the stuff. I always figured it was something invented by poor people who couldn’t afford to put much in the way of actual food in their meal.
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Haha, I only meant that as given the choice between a meal or a portion of a meal padded out with water I’d take the meal every time provided I have the means to afford it. There have been times when I haven’t been so lucky and have had to live off modern poor people food (2 min noodles) .
I don’t think this is making it any better… perhaps another approach.
If you can fill your stomach you will, if you can’t you’ll make do. I firmly believe soup has it’s origins in the make do part of food history.
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It’s an emulator for a far older OS environment, gets those old games running on new systems.
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See further down
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I remember hearing about this and thinking it’s a crazy good idea.
The only old game that I’d be willing to try and get working now though is Dune which I had the CD version for and am pretty sure it’s for windows 95. Does dosbox work for early windows games as well?
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It’s actually possible to install and run a working copy of Windows 95 using dosbox.
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Cool, this may be me weekend project on monday! (shift work causes weekends to be at weird times)
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New episode of South Park is hilarious and the live action dramatic reenactment had me in stitches and amazegasms.
Getitgetitgetitwatchnow
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I had that I liked from the Internet but Harli threw a dramatic tantrum and started calling me all sorts of nasty things* so I took a photo of my own and decided to go with that.
*She really didn’t. Harli is a lovely person.
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I wonder how long it’s been like that and I’d never looked close enough to realise what it actually was. Makes me feel nostalgic.
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I still don’t really see it… stupid Kotaku and their tiny gravatars!
It looks like one of those broken ice trays to me but I dunno 😛
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It’s basically a big ice bock(wrapped in plastic) you stick in the freezer and the keep in the esky when you go out to keep things cool longer. Not sure if it’s just water in there or something that’s less thermoconductive (not sure if this is the right word or even if it is a word, but sounded good in my head).
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Speaking of old games, did anyone ever play Legend of Kyrandia trilogy by Westwood Studios? I really loved Hand of Fate. It had such an awesome sassy heroine.
When I grow up I want to be like her.
And it was a CD installer. Way better than Simon the sorcerer which was 3482938493274903 floppy disks to install.
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I will explain. Back in 2000, Mum loved playing a puzzle game called Pandora’s box. I’ve torrented the game but I can’t get it to work. I can’t get the torrent to work for me. It’s pretty hard to get anyway.
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You could by the game for $3 at http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/6311/vampire-saga-pandoras-box/index.html
The description implies the game works on modern PCs.
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My mistake. I apologise. I assumed the game on Big fish was the older one.
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That’s alright. This game was made by Microsoft, and the creator of Tetris.
I didn’t expect anyone to know it anyway =P
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I just looked it up, makers of tetris wow.
It looks helluva cool though. Let me know if you find a working copy I’d love to give it a whirl
I loved Hand of Fate.
Malcolm’s Revenge was kinda weird but I spent a lot of time playing that too. I remember our 486 didn’t have enough memory to play it properly though and I couldn’t progress past a certain point.
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I blame Edgeworth!
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I blame New South Wales!
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeworth,_New_South_Wales is relevant)
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I blame McDonalds!
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I blame cows.
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Meh
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I blame this black and white gravatar chain!
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I blame discussions.
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I blame the Olympics.
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Should I play?
Actually I don’t really feel like it and I’d have to enter one of those 48 trial codes (which I’m too lazy to do) 😛
Well I probably have no need to post this since I’ve already made up my mind but eh… it’s all typed out so WHY NOT 😀
Wow. I really like Good Old Games.
All this talk of old games got me thinking of the witcher2 again which I’ve been intending to buy for a while.
I will get it on PC but with the enhanced edition coming out on the Xbox I was worried as to if it was available or not for PC as I’d hate to feel as though I was missing out on something. Turns out if you already own any version of the Witcher 2 you just enter your CD key on GOG.com and they give you a copy of the enhanced edition.
In this day and age of paid DLC and restrictive DRM these GOG people really know how to win my goodwill.
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Main downside of the Enhanced edition?
It’s a 10 gig download, and I’m not even on the Steam version(which had some major dl problems).
So, oh gawd.
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14 gig. Probably only something like 15 to just download the Enhanced edition, just to update is, well, massive.
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I’m hoping that means it comes with massive changes! but probably just means there is a new set of armor or something.
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Adds a fairly meaty quest line to the third act, I think, on top of that, they’ve redone a moderate amount of art, and revamped a lot of the effects to make it look less “CG” ish. DoF is better, lighting is better, etc. etc.
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Agreed. GOG is awesome. No DRM makes things so much better. I can run Evil Genius (Windows-only game) on my Mac with no problems. Everybody go buy Evil Genius, by the way. 😛 It’s also awesome.
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I find that career choice for you far too amusing. I can’t imagine you ordering for someone to be killed, or laughing maniacally, or any other prerequisite.
But maybe that’s the brilliance of it.
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Oh my, they have kings quest 4,5 and 6.
I’m going to have to link that page to my sister. Kings quest are pretty much the only games she ever played other then Mario cart and she asks me now and then if I can get them for her.
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Oh, they have Raptor as well!
http://www.gog.com/gamecard/raptor_call_of_the_shadows_2010_edition
I spent sooooooooooooooo many hours on that as a kid (not the 2010 edition)
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Raptor was cool, I didn’t spend that much time with it because I suck at those style games but I did enjoy that one
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I suck at them to, but what I was good at is finding glitches.
Early on in the third level you can pick up and unlock a weapon upgrade for a double missile laucher (homing ones if remember correctly). If you then quit the level, you still had them in your inventory. Repeate until you have enough to buy late game overpowered weapons!
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So I went to purchase the new parts for my PC today & get to MSY after being out back of Nerang to find out they were closed for 45 minutes for lunch/banking duties, which makes me believe only one person works there. Now for a chain which has 27 stores nationwide, that’s a bit sloppy. Oh well i’ll venture back Monday and see if they will sell me some components!
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Idk, maybe make stuff run fluently or something along those lines. But you know, that might be a silly concept.
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I do not, the one here on the Gold Coast is relatively new, last few years so I had never even been close to one before. As I said down a bit, much rather deal with Umart, but if they’re not the cheapest on the identical hardware then they don’t get my sale tbh.
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Haha, MSY. I very much doubt you’re going there because of great word of mouth about their customer service.
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Rofl, never even dealt with them. I would rather go to Umart but Umart are not the cheapest on the hardware I want or as close as MSY D=
My mate says their service is better than Umart, I beg to differ already XD
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Oh I also got a Dota 2 key off a mate, so when I get the install off my mate tomorrow I can play =D!
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(not related to Dota 2 all but it’s relevant to you, didn’t want to start another Comment chain 🙂 )
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/community-kudos-78/comment-page-1/#comment-645588
Mark must’ve got your email for kudos because he mentioned it 😀
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Elly won an award for Best Reviewer, Kotaku won Best Gaming Site, and…
Tracey won overall Best Journalist! The first gaming journalist to win, ever!
\o/
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Apparently Tracey also won Best Gaming Journalist?
Not sure, I can’t find a list anywhere. But awesome to see the work Tracey, Mark, Elly and Logan (and others :s) put into the site get rewarded.
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Congrats to the team. They do a great job.
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Извинения приняты.
I have no problems with people talking about The Dig.What I do have a problem with is people who say “Le Sigh.” Why on earth would you be talking about the sigh? Why would you combine English and French like that? I don’t even.
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Google tərcümə əvvəl biz nə idi
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Translate what we had before?
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Should have checked the reverse translation. Should have been “What did we do before google translate”
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I considered that it might have been that, but I was derping a bit(I blame the alcohol(Or possibly diabeetus)).
And the answer was that we struggled. French and German I’m pretty good at guessing, but any other language? Nope.
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Thanks for another fun night of RDR you crazy bunch of handsome bastards!
Now, I’m heading off for a decent nights sleep.
Another Good Old Games question. Does anyone know if GOG has region pricing for anything other then the witcher 2? I’m considering making an account and want to know If I need them to think I’m in America.
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Don’t they let you switch your region whenever you want, regardless of where you live, as a little one fingered salute to ratings and regional pricing?
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Yes, they do. So you can get it uncensored too. Not that anyone would be dishonest enough to pretend to be from another country to get the game cheaper, of course.
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Sweet. I think i’m going to buy kings quest 4,5 and 6 and try installing one on the work computers.
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I posted it previously in TAY before but I went so far without any faults on one of my first few attempts at the track. Spent ages trying to do it again because I thought I was near the end. TROLOLOL NO! Was about 1/6 of the way through 😛
My first finish of that track was like 15 minutes with 45 faults… grrr!
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I think mine was something like 11 faults, 10 minutesish? Need to retry it. Could get a gold fairly easily, in my opinion.
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I ended up with 93 faults, 28:41. I seriously lost the plot and was just raging my through at the end.
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Seriously? Ouch. I’m good at keeping a cool head, at least in terms of Trials.
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Yeah I try to keep my cool as well 🙂
McGarnical wait til you get to the EXTREME levels. So much rage will be had!
I think I got like 200 faults in one section on the 2nd EXTREME track… Decided to give up on EXTREME tracks for now 😛
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I’m not near them yet. Hilariously, I had 100% on the first group of medium tracks, and only 20% on the easy tracks before them. I am the greetest.
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I love that track! Because I’m the kind of person who strives for no-fault runs and restart each course at the first sign of an error, I found this track to be refreshingly different, in that I determined from the get-go that there was no way I was getting a no-fault run on it any time soon and that I should just enjoy it for what it is. I think my stats are around what Blaghman has, which I was relatively pleased with.
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Yeah, I do the same, the moment I make an error, I restart, but if I think I’m most of the way through a level I’ll usually continue, just to see when it ends, and I hit the realisation there that hey, maybe it kept going , and so should I.
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I’m perpetuating the TAY marketing machine (although I secretly love it) but this caught my eye a while ago. I’ve been waiting for a spiritual successor to Starlancer/Freelancer for a while, both games were fantastic and it was disappointing that the death of the space sim genre meant they really didn’t sell well enough to merit more sequels.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/732317316/starlight-inceptiontm
(It’s a tiny team with a tiny budget, but I’m really interested in how they’ll approach a space-sim with no restrictions from huge publishers )
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Looks like it could be interesting, I have been funding a few kickstarter projects recently and figured well it is basically just like pre-ordering or something like that.
Then I realised that the game I funded isn’t due for completion for another 2 years. hmmmmmmmm
I’ve got Diablo 3 beta sitting on my computer, just waiting for 5am or whenever it is that it releases. My body is betraying me though and I must sleep.
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Well, give me a shout once you’re bored of single player, so we can co-op. I’m yet to do so, and I feel like I’m missing a lot.
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Why do I have to be working this weekend? I might actually change my mind and decide to buy it if I get to play it. Stupid always online bs…..
I just got the latest Humble Indie Bundle. It’s devoted to one studio, Amanita Design, the folk behind Machinarium, to promote the launch of their new game Botanicula.
If you don’t have their games yet and like adventure games with beautiful artwork this one is worth checking out.
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Yeah, it’s a pretty cool looking bundle. Shame I have no money. And am a cheapskate. And that Machinarium is in my pile of shame…
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Don’t talk about the pile of shame!
You make me suspect that all I’ve done here is add to my own pile. And it’s probably true. 🙁
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Wow – just read my comment and it totally reads like spam. Wasn’t intended that way – just enthusiastic at the chance to buy some great titles and a price decided by me.
Sorry 🙁Also – included in the bundle are the soundtracks for Machinarium, Botanicula and Samorost2.
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I didn’t read it like that… I dn’t think you really need to apologise :P… I totally agree that Amanita Design is worth checking out 🙂
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I didn’t read it like that… I don’t think you really need to apologise 😛 I totally agree that Amanita Design is worth checking out 🙂
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Yeah, I didn’t read it like spam either and I doubt anyone else did 🙂
We always talk about games and bundles, nothing spammy about it… TAY MARKETING MACHINEEEEEEEEE
And you just reminded me to go buy it :), so thanks!
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Saturday morning! \o/ WOOOOoooo….. What? I’m working today? Oh. Well then.
Addendum: I have not worked a weekend for almost 8 years.
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Hey! You! You should hang out here more often. Of course, you’ll see a 5927% decrease in productivity, but it’s worth it! (at least, that’s what I keep telling myself…) 😛
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I don’t have to work \o/
But I can’t play games today /o\
But I have a wedding to go to \o/
More out of obligation than want though /o\
Oh well, free lunch \o/-
Wow, re-reading that it sounds really insensitive. I’m looking forward to the wedding but it’s not someone who I know overly well (it’s my brother-in-laws sister).
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And CAEK! \o/
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Hey gang, there is a slight stutter to my Diablo 3 game. I lowered all settings to low, and it seemed to help the framerate but the game still has some pausing. Is that latency from being connected to a US server?
Specs are i3 1.3ghz, 4gb RAM, GT335M
I know those are a little underpowered, but it’s what I got (for now) and Skyrim and Deus Ex HR run fine (just two recent examples). Also I heard Blizzard was mad keen on optimising for low-end hardware.
So, performance or lag?
I have to run off for the day, but I’ll drop back in to TAY later this evening.
It’s still playable and having played for 20 minutes this morning I am very very happy with the game. Hearing Deckard Cain’s voice from a dropped journal brought back so many memories. 😀
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Even if poor Mr. Cain is really sounding worse for the wear. And old, so old.
When I played it a while back, I was getting occasional bits of lag, but they were very rare, so it’s probably stuttering on your machine’s part, but I could well be wrong.
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It’ll be the CPU. Clock’s too low, it’s simply not fast enough to keep up. Minimum & Recommended specs from Blizzard are ~2ghz CPUs.
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I’ve seen a “can you run this” website say my CPU is rated to 2.3 ghz or something. The “1.3” doesn’t reflect real-world performance. As I mentioned, it is fine with other modern games.
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So you know how in TV interviews or on the News, there’s a little name banner thing that shows up when they’re talking to someone? Like “Stephen Smith, Minister for Defence” when there’s a clip of him saying stuff and things.
What are they called? Not “name banner”, apparently.
afternoon TAY.
It’s saturday & I’m currently working through an online course for work. I must be doing weekending wrong.
Id much rather be doing the gaming thing. or anything else for that matter. I suppose thats why I’ve already cleaned the lounge room & done 2 loads of washing. procrastination is awesome.
…8 hour course gotta be done by monday… then a 4 hour practical assessment. & then I’m a certified first aid officer. they seriously couldnt have picked a worse person for the job coz I’m the most likely to get myself hurt….
aaanyway. hope your weekends are more recreational than mine is.
that is all.
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I haven’t seen the Spanish one. Maybe I can also get Pans Labyrinth
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By all means do so with both! More so the latter than the former, Pan’s Labyrinth is fantastic although a bit too violent and I would need to lecture you on military regimes so you can get the right mindset to understand how things were back then…
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So, guys, what do you think of this? http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/04/20/2153251/
If you resell your used games, you are just like pirates or worse! (That’s kind of what I got out of this article)
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I hate this argument. It’s been beaten to deAthens and I can’t stand the privileged dicks who look down on the plebs who can’t afford *everything* full price. Boohoo I’ve bought a lot of items directly but I hate the argument that if you miss your chance and that item runs out of buying it second hand is being a shitty terrorist loving fan
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^ I am also disappoint.
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I never got my cert iv in elitist cursing. I failed my derisive remark exams
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I say screw the haters. I like going to EB and grabbing 3 or 4 old games second hand for $50. Don’t like it? Hahaha I got more games for cheaper then you. Spazwad.
I personally don’t buy second hand games (unless they’re on some kind of special) but I have no problem with people that buy/sell second hand games. It’s just stupid to think that you shouldn’t be able to buy pre-owned games. Little bit hypocritical too seeing as you can buy “second hand” anything except toothbrushes.
Hmm, think I have an idea for a new store, I will have a monopoly on the product \o/
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Oh man, I was finishing my lunch almost choked to death from laughter after reading that.
I was all \o/ /o\ \o/
It was an emotional roller-coaster.
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The Japanese business men will love it!
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GUYS! whats up?
I’m working when D3 beta is up =/ Although when I get home Telstra should have my internet all ready to go. I’m upgrading to a Telstra cable connection, apparently it’s heaps fast \o/!
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Aww man you’ll get porn upto 5x faster than the rest of up, HATE YOU! * =D
*Not really, but I wish I could get cable here xD
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I wish I had more so I could stache them away for later…
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Hey guys,
Eventful day so far. Got up at 8. Went to a wedding at 11. Now back home. Attempted to check out the TERA beta weekend, but the latest patch gets to 89% install then fails. All solutions point to redownloading the game and honestly, fuck that. Not a good start for this game at all.
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Tried running Repair?
I was actually about to jump in myself. But my chosen server’s got quite a queue at the moment. I imagine it’ll largely go away once the game is actually released and the 4chan hordes realise they have to pay for it though.
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@ Greenius
I bought myself a present for working this weekend!
It was Xenoblade \o/ can’t wait to finish work now!
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The box looks pretty, that’s about all I can say ATM.
OH actually, the red controller is also pretty \o/
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+1 on the first impressions review, please.
Also me Powalen and Nova expect a discussion 😀
+20000 awesome points for you!
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AWWW MAN,
there’s gonna be a test /o\
I’ll probably finish work at 6:00pm at the latest and take an hour to get home so I wont get to much in /o\
but ill get as much as possible \o/
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Don’t worry you can save WHENEVER YOU WANT! 😀
Also pretty much no loading times and quick travel, wooooo!!
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But I though you could save all games whenever you want? Oh wait, that’s right. PC master race and all that. 😛
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If you finish the game before me I will do something very bad. I may even be forced to microwave the disc. Don’t push me, I’m a donkey on the edge.
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The only solution is to play the game more!
(feel free to post more discussion thingies on it :D)
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Most of my time recently has been going back to old areas (colony 9/6, makna, Alcamoth) and finishing old side quests and picking up more new ones. Decided to get as much of that out of the way before I go into sword valley and Galahad fortress
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@Freeze
Long story short, the new South Park was actually pretty funny. Probably the funniest ep in a long time…
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llllllllllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmbbbbbbbbbooooooooooooolllllllllaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmbbbbbbboooooooooooooooojjjjjjjjooooooooohhhhhhhhhnnnnnnnnnwwwwwwoooooooooooommmmmmmmaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn1111111111777777770000000000077777777777nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnmannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
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Shepard.
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Wrex
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Jerk.
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Hot air balloon.
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HEY SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
ALSO CAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPS AND LOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUD NOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
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LAMBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooMANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Probably not relevant but the bubonic plague is still very common, just extremely easy to treat nowadays.
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Now, we don’t need to make Scree more paranoid =P
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Fetch the leeches!
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Brb, breaking into the local hospital! Or should I just go fish them up from the bushland/mangroves near my place?
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Hospital? WHAT IS THIS LITTLE GIRLY FLOWER AND PONY PANSIE LAND!!!
Go to the bushland/mangroves and fish them up, WITH YOUR BARE HANDS!
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Tbh rather use my feet, much easier.
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THANK YOU! The website made it pretty much sound like we’re all going to die. I knew there were a few cases in America every year
The leeches worked!?!?!?!?
I mean of course they did, hahaha … ha … haha …. ha
*eyes dart left to right nervously*
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the guy who sits next to me was saying today
“we should really play a prank, like swap EVERYONE’s seats, or switch there monitor 2 & 1 around”.
I’m REALLY tempted to do it now.
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I’ve been listening to some podcasts and an interesting discussion came up in one of them, graphics.
The main argument was that developers this generation focused too much on ‘realistic’ , brown and gritty graphical styles when what HD TVs and HD game systems excel at is bright and beautiful colours.
I agree wholeheartedly with this statement. Just think about most HD TV adverts, the manufacturers emphasise how the colours pop, how beautiful worlds will be brought to life in your living room. And in my experience this is true. Watching nature documentaries on Blu Ray is fantastic, the same is true of sports events with the green pitches and the different coloured jerseys.
Think of games like Rayman Origins and Viva Pinata and how their graphics shone. Cel Shaded games like Prince of Persia(08) and Borderlands will keep looking great in the future because of their art style. Many downloadable games as well shine because of their colourful art styles and graphics.
Even black and white games like Limbo excel in HD because the strong contrast between colours is accentuated.
I think Nintendo is the best performer this generation colour wise. Games like Kirby Epic Yarn and Mario galaxy impress with their colourful worlds and gorgeous art styles. This is really disappointing that some of the best looking games are on the least powerful hardware. Imagine how Mario Galaxy would have looked in HD.
That is why I’m excited about the Wii U. I can’t wait to see what Nintendo has up its sleeve. The promise of a HD mario, a HD Kirby is very tantalising. What if we get a HD Okami-a man can only dream.
I really hope developers change in the next generation and if they don’t I hope Nintendo embraces its colourful franchises on the Wii U and shows the rest of the industry how it is done.
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Imagine Zelda: Wind Waker with HD graphics.
*stares off into distance*
I think I would weep (from joy) if they re-realesed Wind Waker in a full HD remake on Wii-U
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To post something with some actual input: I agree with the fact that too many games are going for realism (they love dem some brown shades mang). I much prefer the colourful style of Nintendo games when It comes to graphics, which is why I really like Wind Waker (favorite Zelda game) the cell shading was the most beautiful thing I had seen in a while when I first bought it. Hell I pick it up every year and play through it and never once think “man these graphics are crap”.
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I wouldn’t say that our current systems excel at showing bright colours and stuff any more than previous generations. Look at Okami, perennial winner of the “too beautiful to live” award. I do agree with you otherwise.
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I guess bright colours are not exclusive to this generation but I feel this and future generations is where they would shine the most.
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That’s pretty much exactly why I’m looking forward to the WiiU as well. 😀 That, and the eShop.
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I hope they improve the eShop considerably and allow for cross platform purchases from the Wii U tablet.
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Oh do you have a 3DS, Masha? You should add your friend code to the TAYNAMES doc 😉
Originally I wasn’t excited for the WiiU eShop, but the 3DS one has really surprised me. Lots of good stuff on there.
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PULLBLOX/PUSHMO!
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Don’t be down on the brown!
But yea, the problems you wrote about were really obvious at the start of this generation’s lifetime. A lot of games started to look the same with that colour palette and slight fuzziness. These days I think developers understand that they have reached the limit of what is possible graphically on this generation and have decided to move onto other things.
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I agree the brown problems were most prevalent at the start of this generation and some developers have moved to a more varied colour palette .
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Muramasa the demon blade was on Wii and it is one of the prettiest games. I bet if I looked at my games collection, Nintendo would be the most colourful, with even metroid being lovely.
I loved Skyworld with it’s zip cords and it’s yellow sky.-
Yeah, the wii has a surprising number of colourful games. I remember the PS2 having some beautiful games as well. Games like Klonoa 2, Okami, we love katamari and Viewtiful joe still look great today.
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Brb coming to leech your net for torrenting purposes =D
You know speaking of super fast internet with awesome bandwidth, I never realised until I was put on 3G mobile broadband and trying to last a month with as little as possible usage (in this case 3GB usage) that how I took my ADSL2+ for granted xD
Finally finished flower. It’s a really good game.
The game started off really well and it was so much fun just cruising through the long blades of grass. The middle portion sagged a bit though and I feel like they could have done more with the night time levels. The dip in quality in the middle was redeemed by the final portion of the game however, as you’re given an expansive level to bloom more flowers considerably changing the environment around you. The early parts of the final stage of the game actually reminded me of Okami a lot.
The motion controls worked surprisingly well and the soundtrack was really great and fit the levels for the most part. Parts of the soundtrack actually reminded me of the Echochrome music.
The game was short, took me about 2.5-3hrs to complete. The short length initially put me off but I think I’ll be re-playing the game a lot so that’s fine.
Finally, the credit sequence was interesting. I like that they allowed you to play through all of it as you bloomed flowers to reveal the creators and support staff. I like Interactive credits and playing through flower’s reminded me of games like The Warriors(PS2) and Vanquish which allowed you to play through their credits.
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I can’t hear him too, oh god am I deaf? Is this part of the bubonic plague? Did I get the bubonic plague too?
OH GOD, VIRUS__, GET THE LEECHES AGAIN!
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Oh, stop making fun of me =( It freaked me out because I wasn’t aware most people go from infection to death in under a week
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haha sorry Scree =P, I’ve got a friend that always thinks there sick / getting sick and I always tease them about sickness. You know, cough in their general direction, things like that. Yes I know I am pure evil
*queue evil laugh*
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I’m not gonna lie, I felt my neck for “neck boobies” after reading that comment.
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Dunno how the leeches are gonna help with your hearing, but does this mean I can put them in your ear? =D
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I can’t hear you, go ahead with whatever you said.
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Well honestly I typed it, so I think you’re actually blind! Onto the eyeballs it is then!
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SCREW IT, GIVE ME THE WHOLE BOX!
*snatches box of leeches off Virus__ and pours box of leeches over self*
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I take it you won’t be needing the salt then? Okay i’ll just put it away!
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Get it when you can it’s pretty good. Now I’m considering buying Journey but the issue of length has me reconsidering again. $15 might be too much maybe $10. I know it’s only $5 but my brain can’t decide.
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US store? >:(
It’s $20 here… but definitely worth it! You could always go splitsies with a friend and let them pay for half and leech it off your PSN account 🙂
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SSHhhhhh! Don’t mention leeches around Noob!
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http://www.vooks.net/nintendo-direct-new-and-updated-pokemon-3ds-titles-announced/
I wish…
Looks like you just shoot them and stuff…
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…so… AR POKEMON COD!? D:
I’ll get it just for the interactivity with Black2/White2 because I’m a sucker like that. 🙂
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So I got a kitten in Nintendogs and friends. (it’s called Cream).
I can’t take her for walks.
I can’t teach her tricks.
I can’t enter her in competitions.
I can’t really play with her and Fluffball at the same time.
All she really does is eat, sleep and cost money.
Fluffball with most likely have to earn her keep as the only way to get money is via Competitions.
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Yeah, she also drinks.
Not in Nintendogs though =( I think they could’ve done so much more with the cats
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cream shithead. mmmmmm
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Screw you TAY don’t eat my comments. Anyway, LOL time!
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=23438255#23438255
Soooo freaking amazing.
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How’s your weekend thus far, Lady Blaghs.
See what I did there?
I insinuated that you are a woman.
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You are definitely not the first person to do so. At least it’s a change from the gay comments.
And my weekend has been fairly unexciting.
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I’d also like to point out that seeing as I have hair now that very much resembles Zooey Deschanel’s you must use words like adorkable to describe me.. YOU MUST FIND MY SOCIAL FAILINGS ENDEARING. SO HELP YOU IF YOU DON’T.
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I feel like this is a trap. For all we know you’ve had your head shaved and now regret doing so and thus you are now pretending to look like Zooey Deschanel. Pics or it didn’t happen
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Don’t worthy, its the internets. Posts that aren’t insulting / creepy / hateful / miss-informed don’t belong on it.
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That was weeks ago! You easily could’ve shaved your head in that time!
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IF I DON’T HAVE MY LUSCIOUS MANE I HAVE NOTHING. WHY WOULD I SHAVE MY HEAD?
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…okay. That’s one reason.
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I have hair that resembles Oscar Wilde’s, so, does that mean that people have to call me things like a magnificent bastard? I mean, I know the only thing I have to declare is my genius, but I guess that just shows the importance of being Ernest….
Something something An Ideal Husband…
Zooey Deschanel irritates me sometimes. That cute deadpan thing she does in everything doesn’t do it for me when it’s a grown woman doing it.
I don’t know maybe I’m just grumpy.
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…it isn’t fun when you just take it!
*teehee*
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Ok.
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Resist, dammit!
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If you say so.
Where do you go from here? Am I resisting? Or am I just taking it?
trollface.jpg
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Rapiest conversation on TAY ever?
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Not even close.
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Seriously? Damn.
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*projectile vomits*
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Really?
Really?
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Yes, really!
…really!
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Ahaha call kid, that sounds sooooo wrong.
*cool kid
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Me too!
chump high five!
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Now reward thyselves with Xenoblade!
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But Wii! So many jaggies!
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I read that as ‘jiggles’ and I was wondering what you were complaining about.
3 guesses where my brain is tonight.
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1. TAYbar
2. Batman
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I only have one drink left. I need to make it last.
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What’s this!? Time to guess things?
Who is this imposter!
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Har Har Har.
Just for that you only get two guesses.
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1. Batman?
2. Batman?
3. Shutup I do what I want – Batman?
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A WILD BORING ASSIGNMENT APPEARED!
Greenius used Xenoblade music!
BORING ASSIGNMENT IS STILL BORING BUT NOW WITH AWESOME MUSIC!
I have used my superior skills of manipulation to work myself out of doing the bulk of the work in both of my assignments. I am winrar.
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*unzips files for scree*
THIS IS A TRIAL VERSION AND CAN ONLY BE USED FOR 40 DAYS. PLEASE PURCHASE THE FULL COPY
*continues to unzip files*
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DOG EATS 6000 WORD GROUP ASSIGNMENT ON COMMERCIAL BANKING AND FINANCE
DOG DIES
GREENIUS’ OTHER, MORE GANGSTER TEAM MEMBERS BEAT HIM UP AND KILL HIM
EVERYONE CELEBRATES
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GREENIUS RETURNS AS GHOST, HAUNTS HIS TEAM MEMBERS.
TEAM MEMBERS CANNOT LIVE WITH GHOSTS AND DIE OF FRIGHT
DOG’S SISTER DIGS UP THEIR GRAVES AND EATS THE REMAINS
THE CIRCLE OF LIFE.
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TEAM MEMBERS’ GHOSTS BEAT UP GREENIUS’ GHOST
DOG’S SISTER DIES OF EATING REMAINS
MMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Xenoblade = Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
I can’t have music playing when I’m doing work though. I just end up focusing on the music, which does not help get work done. 😛
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^ this 😛
I don’t have have music playing unless I’m doing something that doesn’t involve words/writing (math equations etc.) but I haven’t done that in ages…
I’m pretty much just procrastinating 🙂
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Yes! First line! That’s good right? Or is this the order you’re going to hunt down and steal our stuff/kill us?
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First line people are the best, it means he’ll remember you more easily as he murders you, and may even remember you afterwards!
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Go easy on the stuff ups. I’m still learning and engraving is harder then I realized. And taking a legible photo of a shiny brass plate is a true pain in the butt.
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YOU LEFT ME OUT, BUT REMEMBERED ME LONG ENOUGH TO TELL ME YOU LEFT ME OUT!!!
WHAT THE HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PERSON !!! THE WORST!!!!!
I WANT COMPENSATION! YOUR HEAD ON A PLATTER!!
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On a serious note that looks pretty cool. It’s really nice of you to engrave peoples’ names. Will you be adding Mark and Tracy on the plaque?
Also how long did that take and is it hard?
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Took about 2hrs 30 but I’m rather slow still.
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Wow, that’s dedication. I can barely concentrate on a project for an hour let alone two.
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GUY MAKES CLAIM AND BACKS IT UP WITH PICS! 😀
Pretty!
I’m going to assume the 2nd name is Greenius :), who’s the first name?
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Literally just went back and saw “Scree” immediately 😛 then refreshed to see if anyone else did
I thought it said Sean (Blaghman and possibly others) but that was unlikely 😛
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There are others. Well, off the top of my head I can think of other.
I’ll let his secret identity remain hidden.
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WHERE IS MY COMPENSATION? Wow that looks so pro you really have a talent for that stuff kudos good sir.
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I tried writing Rocketman a few times but the plates kept exploding 😛
(kicking myself. It’s not finished yet though.)
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Tis cool mang i forget people on tay alot until they are around, there are over 100 so it is to be expected.
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Does that say “lambomam” or are you a terrible photographer? 😛
It looks ‘cool’. cwhatididtherealthoughyouprobablydidwithouthavingtoreadthismessageandnowi’mjustwastingyourtimemakingthismessagegoonandonandonandonandgoodnight
Man I wish my handwriting was that pretty.
Can you believe I couldn’t find my name and thought I’d been forgotten?
Was Virus there, because I didn’t see it.
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He’s there. As I said before it is insanely hard to get even that quality with a mirrored surface and artificial light.
I am actually forming an idea in my head of something I want to do but still in infancy stages.
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We should have a TAY movie night.
Pop on TeamSpeak, try to synchronise when the movie starts playing.
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I like this idea…
Except I’ll be typing all the lines which would suck 🙁
…unless I use my guitar hero microphone 😛
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All of my RL friends are at a gathering tonight that I’m not going to, so you all get to put with with me tonight.
FRIENDS!
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ARGH!!!!
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LOUD NOISES!
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If you jump on MP I mean. Herp derp.
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Move to Sydney already! We’ll totally hang out*
*play MP games and not really interact socially
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Sydney was never on the cards for a place to live for me (…again) but now that I have people I can not hang out with, it’s rather tempting.
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Nerdiest. House. Ever.
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I’m half serious. How awesome would it be?!
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OK, that would seriously be freakin’ epic
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I’d be so in!
Shotgun not having to cook though. It’s better for everyone that way.
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We’ll get Pixel to cook. He’s Sweedish so I imagine him to be the Sweedish chef.
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Best.
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Bork
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I’ll move in and make you all cooler by default.
And the ladies hotter if you get my drift.
*fans self*
Hello there.
MY HEART CAN’T TAKE THIS.
*swoons*
So I have managed to read 3 pages of my sewing book. I should finish sewing but instead I’m procrastinating by watching crappy horror movies =P
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Bad 80s and 90s horror movies are the best. The worse they are, the more i want to watch them.
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Not bad one’s but Jacob’s Ladder and Hellraiser are amongst my top 50 movies of all time.
If you want a bad one, Lawnmower Man is so terrible it goes straight past bad, flies by good, bypasses bad again and ends up in hilarious.
Thirteen Ghosts was one I loved as a teenager too. Also a terrible movie.
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Did you ever see the sequel? *shudders*
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Sitting here looking through TAY on my PC, I appreciate that the Kotaku/Allure marketing staff have kept TAY ad free. Of course there are ads on the top and the side of the site but these are generic ads which appear on the whole site.
I’m sure it would be easy and tempting to have an ad disguised as a comment showing up after every 10/15 comments or even replying to you when you mention key words.
Thanks for that guys.
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Hi masha2932!
Have you heard of this brilliant new game for the iPhone called Reapers Edge coming out by this exciting young dev studio named Intensity Creations?
The universe is your oyster as you experience thrilling combat and immersive environments whilst exploring massive procedurally generated worlds.
For only $5.99 you too could enjoy this amazing adventure on June 5th. I think you would really enjoy it!
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Rocketman, what’s amazing is that you can buy Elton John’s seminal music track Rocketman right now on itunes for only $1.29.
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Wow, the advertisements get really personal. That’s so intuitive!
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Pants, AMERICAN for trousers.
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already have it friend 😛
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Already have friends? Need more? visit…. I CAN’T DO THIS ANY MORE.
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NO DON’T GO. TAKE ME WITH YOU MAGICAL ADVERTISEMENT MONSTER.
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Come on now you’re just baiting me. You have the words monster and magical in your reply. Must resist advertising…Nooooooooooo AD MAN is born!!!! *jingle*
Advertisements getting you down. Need to brighten your dull, sad life? Monster Energy is the drink for you. One sip and you’re off on a wonderful magical adventure.
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Yay for AD MAN!
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AD MAN!. Protecting your right to irritating advertisements since 2012.
Now if we could only have a suitable jingle.
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Hi friend, did you say beasts?
Have you tried playing Jabba the Hutt in the sure-fire game of the year -Kinect Star Wars!
Disclaimer: These are not the droids you’re looking for.
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They say that when you kill a man you not only take away what he was, but all he will ever be.
Roast pork with generous amounts of crackle and hassleback potatoes are ready!
I’ll be back after I recover from the inevitable food coma.
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If you notice that suddenly all your food is missing, it probably wasn’t me sneaking in the window and stealing it.
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Just doing arenas on WoW then I’ll be up for some of dem vidja gaemz if people want to do something MP
Bugger! My afternoon nap turned into a 5 hour sleep. This means I’ m going to be up all night.
And I have work tomorrow!
(/rant)
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Can’t be bothered cooking, but the pizza shop is only a short walk.
Might go and get a lasagne later. Lasagne + a couple of glasses of shiraz should do the trick.
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The “servers are full” error on Diablo 3 illustrates how mindbendingly stupid it is to have a predominantly singleplayer game have an always-connected requirement.
I’d love to play Diablo 3 right now but I can’t.
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Yeah, and I’m playing on my own but I have a 1300 latency and there are often delays in actions. This is actually really irritating. I love everything else about the game but this is really stupid. Maybe it’ll be better when we have local servers (only US working in the beta, and surely getting slammed).
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Hmm, some googling reveals Blizzard was claiming lagless combat. I’m calling bullshit right now.
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Chrome users and knowledgeable TAYbies, I require assistance!
So CTRL+D adds bookmarks or something and it’s sort of annoying… I always find myself accidentally hitting it when trying to do a search (CTRL+F). Is there anyway to change, or disable this shortcut?
Thanks in advance :).
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I’ve done some googling and it seems many people have similar problems. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a way to disable shortcuts. Sorry.
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Thanks 🙂
I tried Googling it before but I couldn’t find any solutions either. I wasn’t aware people had similar problems 🙁
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I SHALL!
Mum bought me the best present ever, a giant sewing book for $25 at the post office.
It’s answering all my sewing questions \o/
There’s also a knitting one. They’re designed for Mothers day =P-
I need someone to teach me knitting. I can only make scarves and don’t even know how to make the end.
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Dear Uncle Freeze,
My partner and myself feel we are struggling with our relationship. She says I am pushy and needy and I feel she is cold and distant. What should I do?
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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!?
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I’m not sure what happened there. Typed it all out, hit submit and it went all wonky. Mobile Tay is great and all but it has a weird sense of humour.
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Dear Uncle Freeze,
My partner and myself feel we are struggling with our relationship. She says I am pushy and needy and I feel she is cold and distant. What should I do?
Mortimer J. TinglestromMorty
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This needs it’s own name.
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Dear Uncle Freeze,
My partner and myself feel we are struggling with our relationship. She says I am pushy and needy and I feel she is cold and distant. What should I do?
Mortimer J. TinglestromMorty,
You should march right into that kitchen (is she there? If not you have bigger problems) and throw her to the floor and cover her with with pickles, cream and frozen chips. Then make love to your cat on the laundry sink.Do it. It’s the only way things will get better.
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Do a follow up in which the cat writes in feeling like a third wheel.
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Meow Meow Meow,
Meow moew rawr prrrr meow meow hiss meow rwwwwaaaaarrrrr prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr hiss hiss purr meow.
Meow meow rawr.Dear Livingstone Catworth Messana Brinklestein the Forty Second,
A fifth of whiskey and a needle and thread should take care of that. As for the other problem you should probably wait it out until they turn brownish yellow, then is the only chance to make a move. Good luck in your endeavors and I hope Mrs Thorosteen refrains from continuing that course of action for all our sakes.
Uncle Freeze.
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🙁 you’re too good for TS (I got it right this time!!!)
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You know you’re fabulous 🙂
Ah, momentary TS spazz when everyone goes robot and DC’s.
It happens!
Should be fine now.
i am totes jelly of your relaxed day. I did lots of running around for the family, and cut down a big tree……without injuring myself or damaging anything. so tired.
Finally got my Apple password reset. Goddamn that was an ordeal. Apparently Apple didn’t think they had enough personal details about me so made me answer a bajillion questions. Surprised they didn’t tell me to place my penis on my phone so it could measure length, girth and weight for their records.
Anyway, to make a long story short I have Draw Something back up and running if anyone still plays.
FreezeSPreston if you want to challenge yourselves with my terrible drawings.
Bananas! Saturday night. Too tired to go out, to tired to stay in and game, but not tired enough to go to bed. WHAT DO!?
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Well yeah, that is what i am doing to seek assistance. I think really, medicinal lead pellet is my only option, if i cant game, what else is there.
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Dear Blood Apathy,
If the wife won’t allow you gaming time, point out that her butt is getting larger by the day and toe touches shouldn’t be done with boobs. She will be so appreciative of you helping her to correct her faults she will allow your gaming time with the only interruption being her trying to get your pants off.
Uncle Freeze.-
This feels like the kind of response one would expect from Yellowius.
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as wrong as all that is. She does allow gaming time. just not gaming in bed….unless i am gaming on my phone, and then, only things that dont involve violent swiping motions that rock the bed.
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only things that dont involve violent swiping motions that rock the bed.
Am I allowed to say you’re doing it wrong?
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violence has no place in the bedroom Jordi…..at least, not in my bedroom.
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Swiping motions rocking your bed? Well, stress no more because the Hitchmate bed stabiliser is the answer to all your problems. A heavy duty ratcheting system that extends from 50-70 inches designed for most beds. This product is available today and it’s great for keeping large objects from rolling around or tipping over.
AD MAN *jingle*
Protecing your right to irritating advertisements since 2012.
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Haha, I thought you had given up due to lack of response xD
Reminds me I need to visit Team Speak sometime soon, but not sure if it will consume much of my bandwidth or not D=
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It really is. So quirky and charming.
(Although some of those bugs were kinda terrifying as well.)
@scree – I actually got stuck at a bubonic plague quarentine checkpoint roadblock thing when I was in Mongolia. Apparently they have an outbreak every year when its marmot skinning season. What I want to know is how you can skin something so adorable? This is an actual photo I took while I was there. Aren’t they cute?
@Freeze – Awesome metal plate of TAY names is awesome. Terrible relationship advice is terrible
Also, giant TAY share house would be amazing. As long as Bish is there to cook
So I just watched the DVD that comes with the 10th anniversary edition of Slipknot’s Iowa, I expected the really weird editing that Shawn usually does but this time it was more normal. Either way was pretty awesome, I don’t care what people say about Slipknot I still think they’re awesome after the last 8 or so years i’ve been a fan.
Morning TAY
Anyone in the Brisbane area willing to come around where I work and beat me to death? Having the worst morning for what looks like a shit day.
Question for those who mow lawns: what do you do with the grass clippings? Our current solution of putting them in garbage bags and taking them to the tip later is a pain in the butt.
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Unrelated but:
Freeze Y U NO START DRAW SOMETHING GAME WITH ME?!
I checked it last night when you posted it in TAY but I forgot that I deleted you :/. Just started up a game then with your favourite colour… gross…
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I tip them over empty patches in the garden beds near the shed. It decomposes over time, which I tell myself is good for the soil should we ever plant there.
This is probably not too helpful, but because I don’t think I made it onto your brass plate, I DON’T CARE.
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Freeze is just too shy to turn the plate around and show you the painstakingly detailed portrait of you Shane.
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Don’t you have green waste wheelie bins? I thought that’s what they were for. xD I don’t use ours though because I have one of those ye olde push mowers. 😛
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Gold Coast have green waste? Don’t be silly! Though they had dedicated recycling bins light years before Tweed ever did stupid council x.x
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Since I use a Whipper Snipper to mow my lawn, I just leave the grass where it is.
So long as I don’t leave it too long between mowing, it’s not a problem, but if it’s too long then it does tend to form large dried glass clumps.
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That I did, I’m really enjoying it so far, combat is kinda complex but simple at the same time. Can’t really say much about the story because I’m still in the starting town >.< (District 6 or whatever its called).
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BTW this doesn’t count as my “first impression write up” going to do one on Monday when I get some more time to play it tonight
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Awesome :D! Good to hear that you’re enjoying it.
Me and the others will look forward to your write up and future discussions.
Xenoblade! \o/
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Can’t wait to hear more, even if you don’t like it! (Like that is going to happen! One of us. One of us).
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So far I’m enjoying it. It reminds me of a classic JRPG but it’s different in many ways.
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Yep! It like takes the best from both worlds (JRPGs and WRPGs) and just makes an all round amazing game. This is why I think it’s the best JRPG of this generation.
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@ Shane
Is part 3 of The Lesser Evil in the works? I just finished reading the two books the almighty awesome scree sent me (signed and all <3 ) and, well, that's one hell of a cliff-hanger!!! I kind of don't want to give an incomplete review but if this might take a while I'll probably do a "so-far" review. But, overall, I liked it quite a lot! (Will go in detail later)
Also, good morning people, it's freezing cold atm so hope the weather is at least better there. Finally autumn kicked in…
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PS: Really keen to see what you think of the whole trilogy, but would be just as happy for reviews for each volume to appear 🙂
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This makes the cereal I ate this morning look like… well… cereal next to this magnificent breakfast.
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Wake up and get dressed \o/
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CURSE YOU, I would usually be waking up at about 11:00am on a Sunday. Ohwell atleast I get payed double time for working today.
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Which is awesome, especially cause Easter Sunday is considered not a public holiday and only gets normal pay
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Mornin’ TAY!
Great fun last night at the TAYbar! \o/
Going shopping now to get myself organised for next weekend. I hear the dress code is steadily rising…
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Right?
All those rude people who didn’t even say Hi and made a beeline for TAYbar.
I guess they have their own clique now.
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IKR, TS is like my home. So they walked right through our home to get to the TAYBar. They tracked mud / dirt / dust on my imaginary rug!
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Or you have me that just comes in and sits creepily quiet in the corner staring at everyone.
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That’s fine. At least you’re there
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Hey hey, we should sit quietly in the corner together and silently judge everyone together.
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Batgirlpenguin?
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or Batpenguingirl or Girlpenguinbat?. These are the questions that people spend their lives looking for answers too.
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I think it’s a matter of personal preference.
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I know, I was so confused.
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I still don’t understand how to use teamspeak half the time. Talking is tiring. I like my clickity clack better.
Oh, poop.
The mouse wheel broke on my work mouse, I use the wheel more then I use the keyboard / click at work.
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The mouse wheel on my mouse is completely FUBAR. If you even breathe on it it goes crazy and scrolls(TM) the page all over the damn place. Makes open in a new tab a crapshoot.
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haha, mine did that too!
but now the wheel just completely free spins and nothing happens on screen.
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Morning guys,
Sorry for all those in TAYbar last night for my sudden disappearance. Some stuff came up and I had to bail. And then I fell asleep.
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FARMING IS THE BEST
Dear people who don’t play Harvest Moon,
The joke “Is that the game where you harvest moons” wears thin preeeeeeeeeetty quickly.
Just saying.
Kind Regards,
BishNot directed at any of you. Just, I used to hear that a lot from my uni friends.
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In my defense, I have never played a “harvest” game before. In all honesty I thought I was set in the future or something where they had farm’s on moons?
Yes I am serious, Yes I am not smrt
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Would be or was? Because there was a game called Moon on the DS
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Which was pretty decent, actually.
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Migraines = bad. Can not concentrate on anything. took me 4 hours to get through watching the fifth element, which is silly coz its one of my favorite movies of all time. Might try a little cod or trials evo after lunch if i can shake the brain ache.
@scree111111111111111111111111111111111, I would have said hi on TS but by the time I fixed my mic you’d left 😛
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What!? Scree1111111111111111111111111111111111111 is evolving!
Scree1111111111111111111111111111111111111 evolved into Scree2
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And your tongue starts burning. But still worth it.
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I felt sick after the average size bags, to much sugar x.x
So how the hell did you last a kilo D=
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My brother once put ever sour skittle from a normal sized pack into his mouth. He got felt pretty sick after that. Also just looking at sour skittles makes him sick now 😛
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GET OUT
I mean, Crazy Cores are pretty awesome.
Also I have a pack of Skittles Riddles.
Flavour on the outside, but what lies within?????
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Eugh, so Diablo 3 just lags me, stupid mobile graphics =(
Dota 2 runs well & is awesome, downside, it rapes my usage so I can’t play with friends online =(
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It’s required by law now.
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Secret cow level aka Thunderbluff, wait we’re talking Diablo, carry on.
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so looks like i missed out on TAYBAR… again… stupid sleep, making me pass out in front of the TV….
also, should build a bar in Minecraft or something for these gatherings
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Awesome idea! And then when people have disagreements, they can LITERALLY go make their own TAYbar (with blackjack.. and hookers!)
Just mixing it up with my TAY name. I don’t want the uni to be able to track my secret identity o_O
I don’t know. I’m pretty out of it.
Also, I’m at the library and I’m this close to hitting my head against a wall because it’d be more productive than this research.
This is a really clickety keyboard.
Clickety clickety click.
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On a scale of 1 to 10, exactly how disgusting are the keyboards at your Uni? I don’t think I’ve ever found one that made me think “this is an acceptable level of filth”. Just… hair and flakes of stuff on them. All the time.
I should start bringing my own. 😛
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I have my glasses on and a wheely computer chair. Screw research. I’m going to pretend I’m Oracle for a few hours.
SENDING THE INFO TO YOU NOW, BATMAN.
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You wear glasses?
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD!
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Dear Batgirl
Research does not have to be hard. Simply write what you know to be true. When asked what your sources are, simply muster every piece of frustration and stress you can and slug them right in the face. Remember the power comes from the hip not the shoulder. When they come to ask if they still wish to question your sources.You will not have any more problems.
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ok im bored, and need entertainment. So i ask my ios brethren and sistren. What is a good iphone game. I been hooked on SFIV VOLT. and playing dare i say it, dragonvale of late. With a lot of redlynx stuff in there as well. But i want a nice game to kill a few dozen hours.
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Get “Where’s my water”. It’s like crack. It’s a $1 for the game and a $1 for the DLC, but I’ve probably spent a half dozen hours getting every single duck. So good. So, so, so good.
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Everytime someone on TAY has asked for iOS suggestions I’m the only one to say “GET WHERE’S MY WATER”. Didn’t know there were others out there 😀
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As opposed to “Y U no get it?” 😀
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No, I don’t get it.
That’s why I’m asking.
How and what the phrase is supposed to mean.
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You and me Jordi, back to back fending off the undead hordes, blasting brains and spouting one liners from the worst fan fics around.
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Last post I can see was 2:57PM by yourself and then when Greenius posted it was 4:45pm, So that is almost 2 hours…
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*hisses at math*
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*hisses at your Americanisms*
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…maths?
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Maths is correct =P
Math though *shudder* I’ll stop now =D
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I had teachers yell at me for saying maths 😛
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Opposite for me, heh how about that =P
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The correct word is Maths.
As it is short for Mathematics. Note the “s” at the end. At least, that’s the excuse I heard, from a maths lecturer at uni.
Not that he was a linguist though…
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I’d imagine if that was the bra you needed you wouldn’t need to buy much on your own
#sexistbuttrue
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Yeah true that.
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I had that happen a while ago.
I waited for the little bugger to descend onto my computer desk so I could squish it 😀
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Why does that main character look so familiar? I don’t think I’ve ever seen this show… :S How odd.
(UL-TI-MATE! MUSCLE!)
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It’s only 7:30 and I feel ready for bed already.
Maybe it’s because Dancing with the stars is on and I have no interest in it
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There’s a magic word missing in there!
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In case it helps further, the Oj one (fifth down as of this moment) works fine, and is good quality.
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Sorry Scree, I left the computer for a while. It seems like Sir Greenius has helped you out though.
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Except she wants to stream it online instead 😛
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700 down – 3852 to go!
They say the first 699 are the hardest. It’s all downhill from here buddy!
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Wow. Congratulations. Now delete all the games on your hard drive, cancel your steam account and start again. It’s only fair.
Okay guys making sure that you don’t forgettttt – so far in total there is 4 (possible 5) who will come so it will be an intimate candlelit dinner.
I’ve added 6pm as the start time, let me know if you will be coming later – however the sooner we arrive, the sooner we can be seated so we will be meeting at the restaurant. I will be arriving there as soon as I can but text me when you arrive and I will let you know whether a name has already been put down yet. If not, congratulations, you will be helping us put the name down.
✖ [ Melbourne Delish Mexicana Meat!!! ] ✖
✪ April 26th, 2012 {Thursday} 6PM
✪ Mamasita, 1/11 Collins St, CBD
✪ Eating delicious food and drinking tequila
♚ Attending:
✤Tigerion
✤f4ction
✤Tech Knight
✤Jordi
Unconfirmed
✤Puppylicks
✤SyvRaen
Apparently there can be a waitlist so we can turn up, go somewhere nearby/shopping/kicking dust around and come back
I will be sending a DM around twitter – if you don’t have twitter (Tech I don’t have yours?) gimme your e-mail address and I can forward that on. It will have my phone number as I am appointing myself as the Point of Contact. I know it’s hard since I haven’t met any of you guys and you will probably be expecting a 6 feet 8 brazillian guy mugging you. (who I am not, trust me).
Also TEQUILA.
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I might be able to come. But I don’t know my way around Melbourne… I’ve only worked here for seven years, damn it!
Ah Jackass is on 7mate at the moment, and they just had the part where Bam, Matt Hoffman & Tony Hawk were in fat suits on a half pipe and when Bam stacked and that skateboard came and met his jaw damn I can only cringe in pain XD
Has anyone worked at JB before?
There is a sales position in the games department of the Bondi store and I’m thinking of applying.
I guess I’ll repost this tomorrow in new TAY as well.
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Frozen Pizza review;
The Product:
McCain Ultra Thin Tandoori Chicken pizza.The Unboxong:
It’s a pizza. Frozen. In a box.
Open the box and remove pizza from plastic wrap.The Review:
Thin, crispy, and slightly less shitty than you might expect.Should I Buy It?
When it’s on special for $4 you get what you paid for.
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On Friday night I was walking through Coles. Friday is my pizza games and scotch night.
So I’m walking through, getting some stuff I needed for general usage when I walked past a 3 for $10 on Coles brand pizzas. What the hell I thought. A large pizza on the way home is going to cost me more than that for 1.
So I grabbed 3 and chucked them in the basket (a ham and cheese, a meatlovers and a pepperoni). Previous experience with frozen pizzas, technically they weren’t frozen but one of those “just heat it up” style ones, was that there is never enough cheese. So I went and grabbed some pizza cheese. Than I thought “there’s no pineapple on this ham and cheese one, that will not do at all”, so I went and grabbed a small can of pineapple pieces.
I got home and decided on the ham and cheese pizza. I threw on the pineapple and some extra cheese and whacked it in the oven. 12mins later it was ready and I must say, it was damn tasty!
I had the meatlovers one for dinner on Saturday. It was alright, but not awesome. It didn’t have BBQ sauce on it so I had to add it.
Anyway, yeah, Coles brand budget pizzas, not bad.
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I’ve reached the hardest level tracks in Trials Evo! I AM THE GREETEST!
But not really the greetest. Haven’t tried any yet, I’m ready to start crying tomorrow when I play them though.
(I think I’ve become addicted to hard games, currently I’m playing Trials Evo, Dark Souls, and I just re-picked up The Witcher 2, which is difficult because I’m lazy)
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Everyone keeps talking about The Witcher 2 being difficult. I haven’t tried it yet, but hopefully it’s as rewarding as TW1 when you play it on hard 😀
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It requires thought and stuff, while playing it on hard. I failed the Tutorial so badly that it suggested I play the game on Easy, but I’ve ramped it up to normal to make up for the fact that I’m an idiot.
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Yeah, TW1 demanded perfect combat timing and massive emphasis on alchemy, which is why it was so rewarding when you got it all right. Sounds like it’ll be a similar experience, so I’m keen to tidy up my loose ends in 1 and get on to 2.
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But what if I want to read the posts before new TAY begins? Then this is the TAY I’m looking for 😀
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Mark’s probably being a slacker, like his father.
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I had a message prepared and everything 😛
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*waves* Herro Bish!
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DOUBLE WAVE
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BISH!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GABE NEWELL!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GREENIUS!
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It’s the same old formula.
Win awards.
Get complacent.
Get deposed.
*waves* Herro Shane!
*waves* Salutations Freeze!
*waves* Herro Cakesmith!
Some rude people aren’t waving back 🙁
Herro Freeze *waves*
Bacon fans unite and worship.
Everyone else prepare to throw up.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/04/if-you-order-1050-slices-of-bacon-burger-king-will-comply/
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We shall have to bombard Elly, who appears to be holding the fort today, with emails demanding new TAY. Also HI RIZE! \o
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Remember that time you didn’t TK me?
Me neither.
Jerk.
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Hence the reason why I always grabbed the explosive rifle.
You kill my horse, I BLOW UP YOUR FACE.
Though I think this did lead to me receiving a tomahawk to the crotch a couple of times. -
“I shot at Hugo in the, hot sun!
I fought the law and the, law wo-BOOOM!” -
best kind of diplomacy my dear Barbarian… taught me VERY quickly not to mess with your horse…. everyone else’s horse on the other hand!
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They run better with a tomahawk in the face right?
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this is my theory, also makes Dismounting them A LOT faster
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Yeah, I may have finally figured out how to use dynamite.
Funniest thing all night was when you were all in the stagecoach and you saw me throw it and bailed. Along with the “Fuck this!” you yelled.
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Bahahaha! That was epic! The best part is that I actually survived that explosion. Not sure about the fight afterwards though 😛
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You guys did get me back quite a lot though.
And Batgirl shot me in the face while she was shooting hookers.
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I was zombie John Martsen.
That still has me laughing 😀
“In my defence, you look like a hooker”
Cut me real deep.
You kind of do though.
I’d pay for that.
I’m just saying.
Cut you as deep as that tomahawk cut my face…
You gotta take what you can get Bish,
It got you in the back Rize, not your face 😛
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I propose we move to this one: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/will-we-have-any-baseball-video-games-on-the-xbox-360-next-year/
No one in australia cares about baseball, right? 😛-
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We should do that one week; just keep using old tay instead of the new one.
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This needs to happen.
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With straw, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
With straw, dear Henry, dear Henry, with straw.
The straw is too long, dear Liza, dear Liza,
The straw is too long, dear Liza, too long,
Then cut it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
Then cut it, dear Henry, dear Henry, cut it.
With what shall I cut it, dear Liza, dear Liza?
With what shall I cut it, dear Liza, with what?
With an axe, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
With an axe, dear Henry, dear Henry, with an axe.
The axe is too dull, dear Liza, dear Liza,
The axe is too dull, dear Liza, too dull.
Then sharpen it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
Then sharpen it, dear Henry, dear Henry, hone it.
On what shall I sharpen it, dear Liza, dear Liza?
On what shall I sharpen it, dear Liza, on what?
On a stone, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
With a stone, dear Henry, dear Henry, a stone.
The stone is too dry, dear Liza, dear Liza,
The stone is too dry, dear Liza, too dry.
Well wet it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
Well wet it, dear Henry, dear Henry, wet it.
With what shall I wet it, dear Liza, dear Liza?
With what shall I wet it, dear Liza, with what?
try water, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
try water, dear Henry, dear Henry, water.
In what shall I fetch it, dear Liza, dear Liza?
In what shall I fetch it, dear Liza, in what?
In a bucket, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry,
In a bucket, dear Henry, dear Henry, bucket.
There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza,
There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, a hole.-
Ah damn it, I only meant to post the next line 😛
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Oh, Shane.
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… That’s just excessive.
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This just made Mum’s day.
Andrew o’Keefe sung it on weekend sunrise. Tried to find it for mum and failed -
Wikipedia wins again! \o/
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You’re supposed to make up your own words and solutions, that’s the fun part.
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Idea for the next round of RDR:
“Hi I’m John Marston, welcome to Jackass!” *stage coach flies off cliff*
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Been there. Done that.
Sadly I don’t have a T-Shirt to prove it but Hugo, Pants and Cracks were there. I think someone else was as well, but can’t remember who.
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BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The next stunt would have to involve the two person buggy with the wheels stuck in the ground.-
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Oh man…that exploding rifle on the bear, when I was trying to headshot it…There was just a huge red patch afterwards…
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hey remember that time we went bear hunting? IN BEARCLAW CAMP?
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“I found 2 bears here. Wait, 3. Wait, 9. Uh oh.”
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KNIFE FIIIIIGHT!
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Yeah, they don’t so much explode, as they do disintegrate.
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i just enjoyed that my awesome dismounting skillz NEVER got old…
“HAI GAIZ” *Shoots horse in head*
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I like my greeting.
“Hey guys!”
*legs it in the other direction*
*dynamite I threw at Pants and Batgirl explodes*-
looool…. we really need to play a lot more of this game… while drunk… very drunk… more drunker then on friday
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I’ll be playing it this weekend.
foreveralone.jpg
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daaaw /o\ 😛
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You’re all abandoning me!
It’s because I blew you all up isn’t it?
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Still think you should change your name to “Mexican Army”…
WE ALL KNOW IT WAS YOU, ADMIT IT!
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I am just glad I have such a fast horse, it gave me time to race ahead of everybody, quickly run to the fridge to grab a beer, then by the time I got back everybody had caught up 😛
*grumblegrumblegrumble*stupid nag*grumblegrumblegrumble*
That would explain why you kept suddenly stopping…
I got TKed that many times that when it happened I’d use the time to either grab a drink or have a drink 😀
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I will. And Blaghman, once the new TAY is posted, we shall be the few who broke away and had a rogue TAY session. Even if it was fleeting.
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*cough* sorry i need to get the tone juuuust right for this
*cough**Hark**snort*
*GAAAAAAAAAASP*
CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE \o/
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cake-gasm FTW…. *wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
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I figure we spend today stalking Mark and Elly’s articles and eventually they’ll cave and give us one 😀
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Yeah, here and there 😛
Here you go: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-162/
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Ah okay, thanks
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Screw the new Tay, I’m sticking with this one.
Kicking it Old School.
Who’s with me?
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Guys?
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Anyone?
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Oh.
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How is your Monday?
I’m still in weekend mode due to only having to work 2 days this week. Seeing Kevin Smith on Thursday. Can’t wait \o/
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Working 2 days this week? I hate you Cakesmith.
Just joking.
Not really.
Really I am.
But I’m not.
Also seeing Kevin Smith?
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Yep. Work today and tomorrow. Public holiday Wednesday. Venture to Melbourne on Thursday. Venture home on Friday.
2 days work.
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Lucky bastard.
Haven’t had a chance to watch any Kevin Smith stage show.
I just imagine it as several hours of him ranting.
Which would be AWESOME!
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Hi Lambo!
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Stuff is good, except for stuffed stuff.
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I choo-choo-choose you!
And it has a picture of a train!
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I bent my wookie.
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That’s where i saw the leprechaun. He told me to burn things.
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Mr. Luther King had a dream. Dreams are where Elmo and Toy Story had a party, and I went there. Yay, my turn is over.
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Hi, Principal Skinner! Hi, Super Nintendo Chalmers!
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Hahaha nice.
The doctor said I wouldnt have so many nosebleeds if I kept my finger outta there.
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Then, the doctor told me that BOTH my eyes were lazy! And that’s why it was the best summer ever.
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And when the doctor said I didn’t have worms anymore, that was the happiest day of my life!
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Go banana!
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Principal Skinner, I got car sick in your office.
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Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me.
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Let’s be friends…. it says bee and there’s a picture of a bee on it!… hehe
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Whee! I’m a pop sensation.
Side note: Best. Comment thread. Ever.
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All hail the Glorious Ralph Wiggum.
Me fail english? That’s unpossible
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When I grow up, I want to be a principal or a caterpillar.
I’m running out of quotes /o\
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Miss Hoover, I glued my head to my shoulders.
yeah, I don’t think I have anymore /o\
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I ated the purple berries. It tastes like … burning
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Your toys are fun to touch. Mine are all sticky.
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I found a moon rock in my nose!
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Eww, daddy it tastes like grandma.
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Bye, witches! Thanks for not eating me!
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My neck hurts and my ear hurts. I have two owies!
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Slow down, Bart! My legs don’t know how to be as long as yours.
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Daddy, I’m scared. Too scared to even wet my pants.
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Daddy, these rubber pants are hot.
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When I grow up, I’m going to bovine university!
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I dress myself!
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Oh boy, sleep! That’s where I’m a viking!
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I heard your dad went into a restaurant and ate everything in the restaurant and they had to close the restaurant.
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My knob tastes funny!
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Mmmm bed!
*starts falling asleep at desk*
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