What Did You Get Up To Over The Holidays?

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April 10, 2012 at 11:00 am

Tuesday, 11pm. It’s the time where we ask you guys a question about stuff that isn’t video games. I know, crazy. Today I want to know what you guys got up to over the Easter Break?

You may or may not know that I just got back from a pretty hefty 10 day break in Western Australia. Guess what — and hold onto your hats folks, because you will not believe this — I got sunburnt. Real bad. Yeah, surprise surprise.

If you’re from Perth, or WA in general, here is my verdict: the area where you live is very nice indeed. I went Rottsnest and cycled, then my wife and I drove all the way up to Monkey Mia and did the whole looking at Dolphins thing. Had an absolute blast.

Anyway — how about you guys? Long weekend and all of that — what did you get up to?

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NovaCascade

April 10, 2012 at 11:04 am

Work for the most part. Dodn’t even eat that much chocolate /o\. Still, those public holiday pay rates make up for it.

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1. James Mac
  
  April 10, 2012 at 11:13 am
  
  This… all of this.
  
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Hugo the Hungarian Barbarian

April 10, 2012 at 11:05 am

SKYRIM! and beer.

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D.C.

April 10, 2012 at 11:07 am

I ate chocolate. I played SSX. I saw Titanic 3D. That about sums it up. 😛

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AlexPants

April 10, 2012 at 11:07 am

My what beautiful feet you have there…

I did uni work, played some Uncharted 3 multiplayer with a few TAYbies, started exercising again, bunged up my leg, and ate greasy fatty foods.

So, a good weekend, really. :p

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Neo-Kaiser

April 10, 2012 at 11:15 am

Couldn’t go to the GYM, so instead took my dog for a jog around the lake. Overdid it I think since my legs were killing me the next day (hasn’t happened since I first joined the GYM). Went to a LAN with a friend. Pumped through some achievements for Homefront that I should have done a year ago. Wanted to get the 200 kills with a vehicle and level 50 achievement, but then I remembered why I hated Homefront so much and now I’m just going to leave it as is.

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Lone Wolf

April 10, 2012 at 11:15 am

Former WA resident here, glad you enjoyed it.
Gotta keep your sunscreen levels up, though, as you learnt.
How many quokkas did you see?
My holidays became a regular weekend except I was walking on Friday instead of working.
I was back at work yesterday and away from my systems on Saturday and Sunday, so no gaming.

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Crispus

April 10, 2012 at 11:17 am

Watched “The Lorax”…was pretty weird at times but enjoyable overall. Actually it impressed me with some fantastic animation and CG

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Batguy

April 10, 2012 at 11:19 am

I got sunburnt yesterday too!

Over the rest of the weekend, I (deep breath): Went out to dinner, got back into a whole bunch of Burnout Paradise, strained my chest playing soccer (feels like I’m having a heart attack every time I breathe in!), had a birthday, spent a couple of enjoyable days with family, ate surprisingly little chocolate, gave up on waiting for for the ME3 face patch and recreated my guy semi-successfully, sold a car, watched my football team win for the first time in a month, and didn’t do any work over the whole 4 days.

All-in-all, a pretty damn good long weekend!

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1. NovaCascade
  
  April 10, 2012 at 11:36 am
  
  Sunburnout Paradise perhaps?
  
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2. D.C.
  
  April 10, 2012 at 11:37 am
  
  Batguy, I don’t want to rile you up but Game Informer have confirmed that the face patch is being released this week. April 11 in fact. I feel your pain, though. I’ve held of playing too.
  
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  1. Batguy
    
    April 10, 2012 at 11:39 am
    
    Really? I’ve only just made it to the citadel, so I can put it back on the shelf for a few days and start from scratch, no problems.
    
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    1. D.C.
      
      April 10, 2012 at 11:40 am
      
      http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/04/08/mass-effect-3-patch-coming-next-week.aspx
      
      Sorry if this is against the rules, Kotaku. If so feel free to banish me and speak of my name no more. 😛
      
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      1. Batguy
        
        April 10, 2012 at 11:49 am
        
        Haha – if you had posted that a couple of hours ago, your comment would have been spam filtered for using the n word!
      2. D.C.
        
        April 10, 2012 at 11:51 am
        
        That would’ve been a blow to the ‘ol self esteem.
      3. D.C.
        
        April 10, 2012 at 12:03 pm
        
        Just checked, PC patch if online right now. My Shep is back, baby. (I’m sorry, folks. This’ll be my last post in here. I swear. :P)
      4. Strange: The First Lady
        
        April 10, 2012 at 12:24 pm
        
        \o/
        I love you D.C.! I was just complaining about this issue this morning. You’ve made my week. 😀
Brendan

April 10, 2012 at 11:19 am

Mark did you go to the south west of WA? Margaret River and such?

My weekend was completing The Witcher 2 – fantastic game.

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Trjn

April 10, 2012 at 11:21 am

Nothing at all, nothing at all, nothing at all.

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D.C.

April 10, 2012 at 11:22 am

That’s an unseemly sun burn. Once I fell asleep in the yard while reading a book. Half my face was bright red, the other half remained pasty and white. I felt like Harvey Dent. Couldn’t go out in public for a while, but it was pretty awesome. 😛

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masha2932

April 10, 2012 at 11:29 am

I stayed home for the most part. I bought some toys for myself, started watching Bob’s burgers (it’s pretty good) and played some FIFA 11. Pretty simple but I enjoyed myself.

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Blood Apathy

April 10, 2012 at 11:30 am

I ate…..and ate. … and ate… oh and watched some movies an wielded a chainsaw in a questionable manner. God i love being married to a greek, she spend the weekend baking getting ready for greek easter which is this weekend 🙂 FOOOD

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oldtimer

April 10, 2012 at 11:34 am

“Tuesday, 11pm. It’s the time where…”

11 AM

😀

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zwonker

April 10, 2012 at 11:35 am

Spent most of the weekend hiding easter eggs in the garden for my 2yr old, and too much SWTOR.

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Skarburn

April 10, 2012 at 11:47 am

Almost finished Quake 1.

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Matthew K

April 10, 2012 at 11:48 am

I immediately reverted to a 30 hour day cycle (that is, 22 hours awake, 8 asleep). Thankfully went to bed around midnight last night to wake up ready to face the day at 7am. This is actually a sleep in by my usual standards, but thankfully I still made it to work on time and didn’t fall asleep on the train, so it’s been a pretty good return to work.

Also, Silent Hill HD Collection arrived this morning, so… yay. Wish it had arrived BEFORE the 4 day weekend, but whatever.

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Glenn

April 10, 2012 at 11:57 am

Wedding plans for the most part, Family for the other part, and for whatever reason getting hooked on the Pokemon Black game my Fiance bought.

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Crazyguy1990

April 10, 2012 at 11:58 am

Watched footy; Watched South Park; Played Pac-Man: Championship Edition DX; Drank beer and Lemon Lime Vodka, not at the same time though. Didn’t have any chocolate.
A pretty good easter by my standards.

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Brizeycon

April 10, 2012 at 12:06 pm

I killed a man…I also Crocheted a new throw rug…did I mention, I killed a man!

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1. Bish
  
  April 10, 2012 at 12:09 pm
  
  I’m curious about the rug.
  
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Charles

April 10, 2012 at 12:06 pm

Feet, ew…

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1. nicky6
  
  April 10, 2012 at 12:40 pm
  
  bacon feet, double ew
  
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RastascaN

April 10, 2012 at 12:20 pm

No one noticed the webbed toes!?

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1. Mark Serrels
  
  April 10, 2012 at 2:43 pm
  
  WOW. AMAZING SPOT! I do have webbed toes!
  
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Unicron

April 10, 2012 at 12:27 pm

Yeah…great weekend.
On Thursday i was all looking foward to playing the games i got at the Harvey Norman sale and instead had to help my mum and little brother leave a violent relationship she was in. Safe to say, videogames were the last thing on my mind.
So now i’m back at work nursing a split lip and acheing teeth but my family are out of harms reach.

Sorry for the sob story fellow Kotaku reader’s but it did say, what did you get up to?

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1. Bish
  
  April 10, 2012 at 12:31 pm
  
  Unicron, you are awesome.
  
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Stevorooni

April 10, 2012 at 12:32 pm

Skyrim, bbq, bought a new mailbox, turned a year older, installed new mailbox, skyrim

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1. Batguy
  
  April 10, 2012 at 12:44 pm
  
  I turned a year older too. Easter birthday high five!
  
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  1. welbot
    
    April 10, 2012 at 1:29 pm
    
    Oh for reals?! Why wasn’t I informed?! Hippo belated biffday sire!!!
    
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Marathon

April 10, 2012 at 12:48 pm

Glad you enjoyed it over here in WA. Best kept secret. 😉

Down in the Sout h west of the state moving furniture across a 14 acre property. And alcohol.

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z

April 10, 2012 at 12:53 pm

lots and lots of TOR…

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Tracey Lien

April 10, 2012 at 1:14 pm

Bro I just got sympathy skin cancer looking at that.

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Jiff

April 10, 2012 at 1:49 pm

Jesus man! It looks like you tried to roundhouse kick a flaming log – twice!

Game wise, played Infamous 2 and Super Mario Land 3D. Non-game wise, went to Hanging Rock and climbed to the pinnacle very drunkenly, watched Ultimate Fighter season 14 yesterday, Sunday had a bbq.

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Cakesmith

April 10, 2012 at 1:51 pm

Friday – Diablo 2
Saturday – Sick in bed
Sunday – Sick in bed
Monday – Mostly laze around the house with the added venture to the local cinema complex (to see American Reuinion)

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Bec

April 10, 2012 at 2:01 pm

Built two bedrooms worth of IKEA furniture with the help of my mum + her friend. Gorged on Easter eggs. Played games. Got a haircut. Mmhmm.

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Andrew

April 10, 2012 at 2:02 pm

I live in Perth, Rottnest is fantastic and I spent my weekend camping down south with friends in dwellingup

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Sesshomaru

April 10, 2012 at 2:44 pm

I finished my first run through of Hakuoki! Yay for Toshi..

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Luke

April 10, 2012 at 2:59 pm

Ouch, i have been sunburnt on my feet before, it sucks major arse when you have to put socks on.

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os42

April 10, 2012 at 3:31 pm

Sadly, no games this Easter – I went up to the Byron Blues Fest. Man, that’s grown since I was there last (some 6 years ago). Had a great time, but missed the group I most wanted to see due to plane delays… G3 would’ve been awesome…

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Makoforte

April 10, 2012 at 4:12 pm

Personally, spent most of my time playing Chrono Cross, sleeping in, and a day at the National Folk Festival which was well worth it. If you ever get the chance to see Mic Conway, the Ballpoint Penguins or Martin Pearson, do so. Also, special mention of Frencham Smith, they were quite impressive.

So many double basses, SO MANY.

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Wonko

April 10, 2012 at 4:31 pm

Greece, my first holiday in a year. Love the feta, love the weather but the strikes make it a bit difficult to get around sometimes. My Vita is keeping me happy with Uncharted and the golf game ^^ Sun here is so much “softer”, no sunburn to report -(O.o)-

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MrGaz

April 10, 2012 at 7:00 pm

Tales of Graces f, watched The Terminator movies & lazed around. Pretty much sums up a lazy weekend.

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N0NEoftheAB0VE

April 10, 2012 at 9:43 pm

Got myself Splinter Cell 3D which is awesome fun (controls are a bit fiddly on a 3DS but for a methodical game like Splinter Cell that’s alright)

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