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Do you need a nap? Tell them your Dr. Suggested a nap (I’m not actually a Dr.)
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i barely slept on the weekend, and now i am mentally exhausted. I started at 6.30 this morning and most of last night was me just lying in bed not being able to go to sleep. I will ask freyr for a sick note 😛
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Good job \o/
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Next time you can’t sleep, just get up and do something. Read or play a game or watch something. Anything is better than laying there thinking about going to sleep but not being able to, it just makes it impossible.
Also, *hugasaurus*. You can’t be bouncy and cheerful all the time, that would just be be really creepy. 😛
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the thing is on friday i didn’t sleep much and saturday i didn’t sleep at all basically. Last night i went to bed at 10 cause i needed sleep. Didn’t happen.
Thanks strange.
I’m envisioning you as the personification of your namesake, man.
Come back to us, don’t lose yourself in the ether.
*hugs*
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I envision me as Elton John but more cool. I am fine man. Don’t worry to much, i am probably still better than a few months ago its just that i have been flying to close to the sun lately. Thanks though.
Funny that. While you were being happy and awesome, I was feeling mopey and depressed. Now I’m not. Coincidence?? Do me a favour, be mopey more often 😛
Kidding. Hope you feel better soon 🙂
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Will do lambo, i will stay like this as ong as you need.
Your comment made me smile mang, you are crazy awesome 🙂-
I’m not awesome. I haven’t even thanked you for the Diablo 3 starter key /o\
Rocketman, thanks for the Diablo 3 starter key!
Okay, now I’m awesome 😛
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Mornin’ TAY!
So, I mentioned on TS on Saturday night that I wsa tempted to buy Saints Row 3 while it was $20 on Steam. Five seconds later Cakesmith had gifted it to me. You’re the freakin’ best, man!
Played what was supposed to be 1 hour of it. Ended up going to bed at about 1:30am. Today’s gunna be a good day!
Good morning, everyone! I had a great weekend!
It was my birthday yesterday (:D) and I had some people over on Saturday night to celebrate. It was loads of fun even though all we basically did was play games. Especially hilarious playing 4-player Crash Team Racing. One of my friends fell off the edge of the track (Hot Air Skyway D:) and was stuck in an infinite loop of respawning/falling. Hilarious.
I also played Metroid Other M yesterday which was interesting. I woke up feeling like I wanted to keep playing it, so that’s a good sign!
Hope everybody has a good week!
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Happy birthday for yesterday pow glad you have a awesome time.
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Happy birthday for yesterday blam, glad you have a awesome time.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CATERPIE
I will given you some Pokefood or something.-
HE WILL BE THE PRETTIEST CATEPIE IN THE POKEMON CONTEST.
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Dude, he has a tophat and a monocle.
Whoever doesn’t plant ribbons all over his face is some sort of monster.
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Delicious, delicious Cater Pie…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY! \o/
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Happy birthday, dude!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY POW!!
How many more levels (birthdays) until you evolve into Metapod?
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I’m like one of those Bug Catchers you see with a level 21 Caterpie for no reason other than to make the game a bit easier.
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What, an actual birthday? What is proper eTAYquette in these circumstances?
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Happy birthday for yesterday, man. You should’ve said so mething. (If you did, you should’ve said something LOUDER. :P)
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Thanks everyone! 🙂
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Happy Birthday man. It sounds like you enjoyed yourself.
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Wait, a real birthday or a TAY birthday?
I guess it doesn’t matter either way, because I still say HAPPY BIRTHDAY! -
Belated Bappy Hirthday!
And crash team racing is awesome! I have fond memories of my brother and my cousin and I unplugging the multitap if we lost. Remember the multitap?!
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happy belated birthday Powalen!!!
Does that mean you have now evolved to your next form, METAPOD??
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Happy birthday man!
Can I just say…meh?
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…meh
Greatings one and all and WELCOME to…
THE FIRST KOTAKU AU COMMUNITY PODCAST or POTAKU!
In this weeks episode we discuss things and stuff and junk.
Starring:
Shiggy Ninty
Doc What?
With special guest starts
DAN!
The Last Question
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I listened to it Saturday afternoon. I really enjoyed it guys it was well structured and informative and pretty funny alot of the times. 🙂 good job
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Rocketman pretty much summed it up for me! Also I enjoy hearing Doc What speaketh, it is pleasing to the ear.
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We’re trying to get Flu on for an even greater auditory experience
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You, Flu & Mark would make for one hell of a podcast!
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oh my
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Who is the lions, who is and tiger and who is the bear
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We’re also looking for peeps who wanna hop on and record some awesome with is in the coming weeks.
Any takers?
You know you want to!
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sure. sometime. ‘awesome’ might be pushing it though.
Nicely done!
I listened to that whilst waking up Saturday morning/afternoon. Awesome first run guys, hope to hear more of them!
Really fantastic work, guys! Listened through it all on Saturday arvo, and kept me pretty damned entertained!
WIll have a listen at work today, mad keen to see how it turned out.
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Hope you enjoy! Thanks for the help!
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My pleasure, I’m about 10 minutes in and this is really tight. You’ve all done an awesome job here 🙂
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Listening to it now. =D
I said this before on Tweeters, but I enjoyed it (I normally don’t listen to podcasts). Maybe because I’d actually met some of the people talking it made it more interesting? 😛
Anyway, good job.
I don’t like podcasts, but I like you guys. I can’t decide whether to listen to this or not.
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I would. It has music and everything.
It’s like a aradio show!
\o/ Listening now, it’s a pretty strong showing so far.
Best E3 GIF ever.
http://i.minus.com/igCXm26eeExlA.gif
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Ahahahaha!
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That is brilliant
FIRST!
…*cough* Morning all! 3 days left of work, and then I’m outta here for a week and a half! \o/
How are we all today?
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No. Just no. It’s even worse when you’re not actually first. 😛
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It was deliberate, though perhaps I should have waited for a few more pages to come up :p
How’s Miss Strange this fine morn?-
I was hoping it was deliberate. For your sake. 😛
I’m pretty good so far. My daughter’s pretending to be sick so she can stay home from school and I let her so I didn’t have to get out of my PJs. \o/
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Y U TRY TO TAKE MY FIRST 🙁
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😀 hai Shane!
I no take first, only limelight. Or something.
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The Diablo 3 Starter Pack. I’ve been playing it and as I suspected, I’m kind of addicted.
I’m hesitant to to buy the full game though, for two reasons.
I’m not sure if all the lag is from the always-online factor of if it’s my laptop that’s doing half the chugging. It sure is a weird feeling when sometimes I fire off a shot at a barrel with my bow and it breaks a full six seconds later though.
Also, is there a way to save that I haven’t figured out? Or is it really just a checkpoint only thing? Because if so that really sucks for me. I don’t always have the time or opportunity to just sit there and play until the next checkpoint, and with so little time it’s extremely frustrating to have to trek through the same parts over again.
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Make the time to trek to those checkpoints! You could even listen to some Potaku while you do.
😛
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Demon’s/Dark Souls are the best games I’ve ever played for quit-and-resume. Every other game is a disappointment in comparison.
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No, just checkpoints I’m afraid.
There is a way to see your framerate, ctrl+r I think. Maybe check that and your ping (colored bar next to potions) to see what is the cause of the lag.-
Thanks, Jo. 🙂
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All character and item progress is saved instantly, but the quests are stuck to the checkpoint one. Kinda means you may be stuck playing longer than you plan, or (like me) replay some areas more than twice cause things come up…
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Yeah, I trekked along the Old Tristram Road bit with the Wretched Mothers a total of three times before I had the time to get to the next checkpoint.
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I had to do that part about 10 times due to it dc-ing me every few mins 🙁
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Found the best news this morning; Fall of Cybertron is getting a PC release!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/06/theres-a-pc-version-of-transformers-fall-of-cybertron-after-all/
I hope it doesn’t turn out to be a sub-par rush job (given the timeframe before release is quite short)
Any one else confused at all this Diamond Jubilee stuff? I don’t understand why people are so damn excited that someone born into power has ruled over them for sixty years. The UK is one thing, but why are Australians jumping on the bandwagon too? (If you can’t tell, I’m all for a republic. :P)
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reasons.
Also, you guys are way into the royals! There’s no Queen’s birthday holiday in the UK.
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Nah, we just like days off 😛
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For better or worse, we’re still part of the Commonwealth. Don’t see us getting a 4 day weekend for it though :p
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Bah! We need a revolutionary war… or a referendum. I’m good either way. Could be worse, I guess. It could be Joffrey on the throne. 😛
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4 day weekend here in Rocky. We have Show holiday on the Friday :p
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We get more days off than if we were a republic. I suppose we could make some stuff up if we were to shift over, but…eh.
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They’re just buying your love with days off. 😛
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What up TAYBIES, Hugo has returned.
Yes, I have returned from the oh so glorious US of A!
If I could sum up the trip to the US in just two words, they would be;
Cheap Beer.
By Talos that stuff was cheap and you could buy it everywhere, corner stores, service stations, you name it, if the place had a refrigerator it had some beer for sale.
It was awesome.
So what is new around here, I saw that Minecraft has come out on the 360, we so have to do some co-op mincraft on Live, unless it has been out for ages and everybody is sick of it already.
How about Dragons Dogma, has anybody got that yet? is it any good? Will I regret the inevitable purchase I make at lunch?
Any other news or tales of shenanigans I just have to know?
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Hugs!!!!
Welcome back!
I’ll be over there next month, so I shall be sure to chase up ALL the cheap beer 🙂
Good time had outside of the beer drinking too? 😀
WELCOME BACK!
Can’t wait to see what you brung me back! 😛
There is a review of Dragons Dogma on the Kotaku Community Podcast, POTAKU! Give it a listen before you decide!!!
Welcome back! I hope you have some write ups of your trip coming up.
Dragon’s Dogma is a mixed bag. There are differing opinions all over the place. I’d advice you to wait for a price drop or the eventual Capcom super edition.
Morning friends!
I woke up this morning got all ready for work was headed out the door then remembered I had an RDO today. Kinda cool, still would have loved to sleep in
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Hate it when that happens.
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CEASELESS DISCHARGE
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D=
Did I tell you that I defeated him last night. (Was gonna say “Beat but I think that would have been awkward)
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Whelp I made it awkward.
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So many jokes.
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I’m being tied to the hype train for the Sony conference. There’s a lot of interesting scuttlebutt around, including streaming cloud game services ready to roll this year, Vita exclusives (like that AC3 one), etc.
Hard not to be excited.
Also really deflated by the WiiU Pro Controller announcement. If that’s an option, I can see a lot of developers just building a game, porting it to the WiiU with no extra tweaks, and making that touchpad on the tablet controller blank. Much, much cheaper to do it that way.
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Overall I’m kinda happy about the Pro controller for two main reasons: it’s going to be out on launch, and it means the console hopefully won’t miss out on games due to the touchpad controller. It does kinda make me wonder how often I’d actually be using the touchpad for any of the more difficult games, though.
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I’ll join that train!
As for the Wii U controller, I do like the option (for a lot of Wii games I default to the Classic or Gamecube controller) but I agree that it may encourage devs to be lazy.
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Yeah, I’ve got to be honest, if a game CAN be played “at 100%” with the non-tablet, then the tablet additions by default have to be non-essential stuff, like an “always on mini-map” that’ll get old quickly.
I kind of wish they didn’t announce the Pro controller, so that devs needed to make use of their tablet…then again, that might have cost them a lot of games.
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For me options are always a good thing. Also, I’m sure Miyamoto has some crazy ideas for that screen. I’m not a huge Nintendo fan but I’m surprisingly excited.
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Likewise.
I definitely won’t be a day one purchaser, but I’m very interested to see exactly what they do with it
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Ok, good morning, fellas (or good night for me), I nominated Bish for the kudos because he was awesome and gave me Bastion so now I can see what everyone was raving about, yayifications!
Moreover, I want to offer something back: I have Defense Grid + the 4 DLC packs for it available if someone wants them. It’s Tower Defense with a neat quirk, very slick and polished!
So, yeah, anyone hyped about anything from the E3? I don’t even know what’s coming, I saw that Strike Suit Zero announcement and stopped there. That’s all I’m looking forward to . AWESOME MECHS PEW PEW.
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I am terrible at tower defense
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B-b-b-but FREE STEAM KEYZ! D:
That usually garners attention and drags people’s eyes for the mandatory 10-seconds activation after posting them!
Agreed though, tower defense can be tricky. Or it can be tiring than a lot of so-called strategy games end up being tower defense…
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Doesn’t stop me from being terrible at it.
Also that doesn’t happen here.
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NEED FOR SPEED! *flails*
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I have so many new freakin’ games that I’m struggling to keep up, so I think I’ll pass on another one 😀
Starting to get pretty pumped about the WiiU. It’s been a long while since this has happened, so I hope it all goes really well.
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Nice gift Alpha, Defense grid is still the best tower defense game I have played. The right pacing, no massive difficulty spikes and lots of replay value.
I was actually playing on the weekend, trying for all gold medals in story mode currently, have 3 left to get (I managed to get all silver yesterday)Somebody grab this, it is a great game
So, how many people have said they wish they could write like me?
Well, the answer is none actually… but I figured that’s because you were too shy or something…
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Anyway.
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Baha, awesome man!
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Is that one of those make your handwriting into a font thingys?
Morning all.
I’m being completely unproductive today. Today is off to a bad start.
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Feeling better miss Scree?
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Much, at the moment. But every time I feel better, I start to feel crap again =P
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Well hopefully its gone away for good this time. Try and be a little productive this morning. Have some fun to though.
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I just realised last night that there’s only 3 months to manifest. Must work on Cosplay.
Must get new vacuum cleaner.
Alternatively I could shave the dog, but I don’t think either Mum nor Sid would be impressed with that.
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Don’t say that! You’re simply progressing with undocumented achievements!
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No, I’m being very lazy =P
Maybe after breakfast.-
Being lazy is doing something right!
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RIGHT!?
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Maybe?
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You’re… extending your approach and understanding of lethargy as a viable means of counter-productivity and time-management?
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I’m sure I’ll perk up after food.
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Borderlands 2 loot chest is back for those who missed it (like i did)! It’s only available from EB’s site:
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Cheers man!
I thought I bought it a while ago but it ended up It was just in my cart. It’s all ordered! Can’t wait!
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I think Mighty Ape has it too…http://www.mightyape.com.au/Brands/Borderlands/All/
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Or is that a different version.
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That’s a different version, but still cheaper than EB for the matching version:
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ah right, sorry – ignore me.
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Motherboard update:
Still not working. Yelled at incompetent people. Bought new motherboard and demanded refund of old one. Got home. Still not working. Got brother to take a look. We played Diablo instead. Buying new power supply today from different company entirely.
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Trjn, you seem to have all the luck in the world with this /o\
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DIS IS Y CONSOULS R MUCH BETTAR! PCS R ONLY GOOD FOR TYPING AND THINGS – IF U DISGREE WIT ME FIGHT ME ON XBOX IN BATTLEFEELD U NOOB!
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Mac power!
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OMFG NOOB Y U DUN PLY GAYBXO
PS3 I WIN NOOB-
PS3 HAS NO GAEMS! FATBOX IS STUPID! MASTER RACE HAS 1080p AND BOKEH DEPTH OF FIELD!
Hmmm, bokeh.
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YEA BOKEH IS YUM IS GOOD
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The saga continues. I’d better refresh my popcorn.
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Your saga has me quite hesitant to buy a PC.
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I’m clearly cursed.
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Just a question – Can anyone else see my posts? The seem to be getting gobbled up…
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I SAW NOTHING!!!
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I see one in capitals about consoles and noobs and I see this question.
I also see dead people, but that might not be of any use to you.
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I’ve posted a reply to your Limbo discussion, which has disappeared twice now. In short I liked the fact that you need to die to learn things, but I originally played it with a bunch of mates around an xbox, passing the controller around at each death.
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Nope, I don’t see this post at all.
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eVERY COMMENT i POST REQUIRES A HARD-REFRESH OF THE PAGE, BUT THAT’S ABOUT IT. i’M ASSUMING THIS IS WHAT YOU’RE EXPERIENCING?
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Oh god capslock!
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This hasn’t been an issue for me before, but I believe I am experiencing the ‘comment-lag’ that people were having last week. Hard-refresh seems to be working for now.
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yo my homies, who else be staying up tonight to watch the Microsoft presentation tonight? will we have to have mass reaction posts in TA while it is happening?
as for microsoft, all i’m really interested in is halo 4, but i want to be pleasently surprised by them. and as for sony i just want to hear about more vita games!
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I’m not staying up for Microsoft’s presentation, but I’ll be up for EA’s which I think starts at 6am real Australian time tomorrow 😛
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I’m not interested in any first party Microsoft stuff (unless they have some surprises) but I’ll be watching all the conferences. I’m actually really curious about Black Ops 2 and other third part stuff during Microsoft’s conference
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*someone link the gif of joffrey vs tyrion about microsofts E3 presentation*
I have basically no interest in what Microsoft has in store, with the exception of the new Gears game. I fear Microsoft will just keep going on about Kinect and making the 360 a media box.
With Sony: The Last of Us! God of War! New AC Vita gaem?
Maybe there’ll be something about the Last Guardian?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA *sobs uncontrollably*
Things I’m looking forward to the most from E3,
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Simcity
Overstrike
The Showdown Effect
Tomb Raider
Borderlands 2
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Halo 4
Crysis 3
Star Wars 1313
The Last of Us
ShootMania Storm
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I forgot about Overstrike! I hope more info about it is out this E3.
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You have no idea how pumped I am for Need for speed Most wanted. Sure it’s dumb that they are using the same name of a game that isn’t even 10years old, but it’s Criterion. I wish the open world returns and the epic cop chases as well. A good soundtrack will be appreciated as well.
Other things I’m excited about:
Far Cry 3- Far cry 2 was a flawed gem but I loved it. It’s sad to see that the fire tech might be gone but I hope the emergent gameplay is still there. Also, I’m curious about their villain, he seems well fleshed out but are other characters in the world similarly developed?Wii U stuff- I’m not a huge Nintendo guy but I’m really curious about Nintendo’s first steps into the HD era.
Assassins Creed 3- I have never actually finished an AC game but AC3 has me giddy.
Last Guardian- Sony where is this game? Please Please don’t be cancelled. Please.
Any unknown games- I like surprises so hopefully we get some.
Other entries:
Black ops 2
Resident evil 6
Metro last light- I never played the first one but I’m intrigued.
BIG MEAT EMAIL HAS BEEN SENT!
Hey Gang,
Did you wanna come a long to the Gold Coast later this year for theme parks, drinking and vidja games?
I sent out details last night to people whose email I had. If you didn’t get one but wanna come along, leave your email below and I’ll send it out to you.
Don’t post your email anywhere else, as I don’t religiously read every page.
Alternatively DM me on Twitter (at)dkzeitgeist.
Love,
Dan
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Yes.
Unfortunately, can’t.
Ever meat announcement makes me cry a little on the inside.
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systematic[underscore]imagination at hotmail dot com
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Huh. I thought I had sent you my email address :/
DMing you now!
Monday! Ugh. I had such a nice weekend. Didn’t do any work, which I’m sure I’ll regret down the line here, but it did give me time to finish off Max Payne 3. It’s a great game, but those ‘boss fights’ near the end were just terrible. Especially the last one. I’d say those were the only moments where I was really genuinely frustrated with the game. It felt like I had to rely on cover too much in those sections and absolutely could not use bullet time without being torn to shreds.
Also E3 whoo! I want to stay up to watch the conferences, but that also means that I’m going to be sleep deprived over the next few days. :p
should i get game of thrones on 360 or pc
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Based on reviews, the answer is no.
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im still getting get im a huge fan
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Paperback, maybe ebook if that is your thing.
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Wait for a steam sale.
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its only $50 not gonna get much cheaper its not the price its what platform eb delayed it on 360 so i might just get it on pc
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Did you try the crusader kings mod of it? I’m considering buying if for that but interested in how a fan finds that game
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its very well done but id wait for a sale
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Ladies, gentlemen and others, I present to you the Hitler Plays art collection: http://s1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb449/lamboman007/Hitler%20Plays/
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My goodness, i love you.
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This entertained me so much over the weekend, man. I think my favourite is Hitler plays Super Meat Boy. But they’re all good!
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I NEED Hitler plays Space Marine
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THEN a Hitler reacts to Hitler Plays video!
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I’ve got a few others I need to draw. Might as well add this to the list 😀
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Also, loops, this may upset you, but I saw Space Marine for Xbox for $36 dollars at EB the other day, but I didn’t buy it. 😛
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That’s ok, buddy. It’s easily the most expensive at EB anyway, so i preffer you not to waste your money.
However.. if you EVER pass is up for $20, i will murder you – for the emperor. Nothing personal.
JUST PLAY IT, ALREADY!
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Note to self, don’t tell chuloopa I’ve already done that a few times.
Shopping list: Kevlar vest 😛
I think I even saw it for $15 for pc at that dicksmith sale…
ONE DAY I’LL PLAY IT! ONE DAY!!
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So looks like E3 news is starting to pour out… but i have no time to read over it 🙁
I’m at work for the moment – but in 2 hours i leave for my very last exam for first year uni!!!
Today’s Exam: Fundamentals of Finance!
One hell of an interesting subject, but soooo much little shit to remember, which is just made all the more difficult by a unit coordinator that will actually mark us down if we don’t include all the buzzwords, even if we show a clear understanding of the concept… mein gott… Lets rock this shiz!
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Good luck loops
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Good luck Loops!
Played a little more Tribes Ascend on the weekend, I’m finally getting the hang of it and having a lot of fun.
Despite the fun of skiing everywhere I am really enjoying playing as a Juggernaut, taking out turrets from long range, protecting the flag with mortar rounds and repairing and upgrading everything that needs it on our side.
I liked the Juggernaut class so much that I spend my first class upgrades on the Juggs, now I do even more damage and am just a total defensive badass. I even nailed a few Blue Plate Specials which was very awesome. Although I admit one was by total accident, went to shoot someone else and some poor bastard flew right in front of my crosshairs and BAM! I love the ‘DING’ you get when you nail someone who is airborne as well.
Also I finally got Xenogears working on my PSP, took half of my weekend to get it working but I finally did it and it is working a treat. Awesome game that.
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I love the speed and momentum of Tribes Ascend. Skiing and jetpacking is just so damn fun. I’m looking forward to sinking a fair few hours into Tribes once exams/assignments are over.
Also, did you find a PSP charger?
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Not yet but I found out I can charge it with my USB powerpoint charger, I heard it takes longer to charge up that way but hey it works 🙂
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I reallllly need a computer capable of playing this game – looks like great fun 🙂
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I thought you could get Tribes Ascend on Xbox 360 too?
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Pretty sure it’s PC only
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I started a Tumblr! http://notobviousdogs.tumblr.com/
The concept is, there is a dog in every picture. But it’s not obvious. This is an MMS game I’ve been playing with a friend for a while, inspired by those “Once you see it, you will shit bricks” images. My idea was “Once you see it you will go daawww”. So I’ve done this for personal amusement, but if anyone else gets a chuckle out of it I’ll be pleased.
Only four images so far, but I’ll go to my backup pics and add a few more over time.
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that is an awesome idea because of dogs.
also, I love the name the blog.MOAR PUPPIEZ!!!!!!
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I can’t find the dog in the bottom two pictures. *panicking* This is difficult.
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WHAT ARE YOU?! BLINE OR SOMETHING?!?!
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YEAH!!
THAT’S RIGHT!
BLINE, YOU HEARD ME!!! BLOODY BLINE!-
I can’t help being bline, Loops. I was born this way!
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DON’T THINK IT’S TOO CLICHE, IF I GO NUDE TODAY, I’M REALLY NOT INSANE, I JUST PERFORM THIS WAY!
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Hey, you’re not Lady Gaga!
HE’S A PHONY. A BIG FAT PHONY.
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CAN’T READ MY, CAN’T READ MY, NO YOU CAN’T READ MY PHONY FACE!
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I can’t find the one in the third image. Bunningspuppeh is definitely there though!
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Yeah the third image doesn’t work so well in a compressed image.
this is like where’s wally but better!
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OMG!!!
DRESS ALL THE DOGS LIKE WALLY!!!
I approve of this tumblr 100%
I just watched some Metro Last light footage. It looks really atmospheric and tense. I wish I had played Metro 2033 🙁
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It’s not too late!
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My PC is not that good. One day, I will get it, I guess I’m waiting for a steam sale so I can just have it in my pile.
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That’s exactly where my copy is.
I loved it but there’s a big difficulty spike where the game requires stealth and I never went back to it.
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Was that the bit where you come out of the tunnel to the open world and the enemy patrol is coming down the ramp?
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So! New Assassin’s creed on Vita to feature a female protagonist! My interest is piqued.
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My interest in pikelets.
Yummo.
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pancakes better.
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Indeed!
Also, Vita exclusive. It needs one of those.
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Speaking of which – apparently this is a non-Desmond ancestor.
I’m not sure how successful a spinoff might be without the whole “Chosen One” family tree, and there’s only so many times you can rebuild the assassin’s order before you wonder if they’re genetically pre-disposed to destroying themselves, but an exclusive series of non-Chosen One games might be cool.
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I wonder if they’ll actually bother with a framing device/new present day character, or just have the game focus entirely on the ancestor. Personally I wouldn’t mind either way.
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She’d have to be a non-Desmond ancestor…otherwise, the first 4 hour of game time would be Desmond checking out his new rack.
Just me?
OK then.I’m not sure how I feel about it being a Vita game. One of the nice things about the main Assassin’s Creed games is that they’re multi-platform. I’m probably going to ignore this one like I did the DS game.
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That would be one hilarious idle animation.
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There was at least one PSP exclusive and on DS exclusive. I don’t see a problem with a Vita exclusive.
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the PSP exclusive was actually well done and unlocked items in Ass2 if you connected the PSP.
Hoping the Vita game does something similar.
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I did not know that.
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Maybe there is more then one Chosen One, kinda like how there are heaps of super saiyans?
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/Puts on nerd hat
Actually, there is an actual Chosen One Super Saiyan. He’s called Broly and he’s Super Saiyan form is like, 3 times stronger than normal Saiyan’s super form.
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I actually thought about Broly debunking the Chosen One Super Saiyan thing but was hoping that nobody else would remember him ;P
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/puts on otaku hat
Actually, as Broly was a film character who didn’t appear in the series regular or, more importantly, the Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball manga, he doesn’t count 😛
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ohh yeah he’s non-canon!!
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Consider me interested!
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*gets out paintbrush and paints ‘interested’ on Cakey’s forehead*
Ohohohoho.
A main Assassin’s Creed game with a female protagonist would be better but this is good too. Now I just have to get myself a Vita. Sounds like there’s going to be some awesome games coming out on it.
YAY!
More VITA!
So, how many people are getting Borderlands 2 on PC?
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Me! See previous TAY-page! (TAYge?)
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*raises hand*
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MEEEE!
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Goodo, there’s plenty of multi options then 😀
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I’ll get it eventually. It’s not really a day 1 buy for me.
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Hopefully I!
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Maybe eventually. Getting it on 360 first so I can splitscreen with my brother.
TAY I MISS UUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
*crickets*
Oh… well…
just wanna say I am alive, and I haven’t left you, I know a lot of you were worried for a moment amirite?
*more crickets*
Aaaahh well… stoopid work has kotaku blocked so I am unable to be less productive /o\ ITS DISGUSTING……
What`veimissed?what`veimissed?what`veimissed?
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I don’t think I can help you on What you’ve missed…
But Yay! for not being dead!-
\o/ it is cause for celebration… also we need to organise a TAY dogmeat soon… Laika was at her first puppy school on saturday and loved it…. unfortunately I am away this weekend but after that we need to log something in… for funsies
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I agree. I’m pretty much free constantly.
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I should mention, Sid really needs to lose weight, so any puppies to wear him out is helpful
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Righto, well I shall pool all my resources together and come up with a plan… trust me she will give Sid an epic workout 😛
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Awesome. I don’t know if I mentioned this but there is an off lead dog park across the road from me. It would probably be a good meeting place (mainly because I can’t get to anywhere as I can’t drive a car)
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PIIIIIIIIIIIXEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLL!!!!!!
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HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
*Slow motion run to sexy saxophone*
*huuuuuuuuuuugz*
PIXEL!
So, Can’d Meat….you going?
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Answer the man, jerkface!
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Cakesmith and jerkface? Now I want cake and jerky… also in regards to can`d meat I am unable to give a definitive answer as I now work weekends and have not yet seen my roster :/
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Just chuck a sicky. It’s the Australian way.
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Pixellllllllllll
MORNING!
It feels weird not being at work and knowing I don’t have to go back.
@NotoriousR – Thanks for linking Borderlands 2 CE. Just ordered one!
@Rize – You’re welcome.
@Shane – I got your email. You are the worst best
@Harli – HI HARLI!
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Same to you! 🙂
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HI CAKESMITH!!!
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How is your injury?
I watched the Crosshairs episode with you in it. Your new hair looks awesome!
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haha aww thanks man! Unfortunately most of the red seems to have washed out now, it’s such a high maintenance colour.
Injury is still present but for the most part I’d say i’ve regained 80% muscle function in the hand. I CAN USE CHOPSTICKS AGAIN! and play gamez. so many gaemz.
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Yay! Video games are pretty good I must say!
Did everyone leave you for E3? Is that why you’re hanging out with us cool kids?
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Yes everyone left me for de3d (shush now, it works) but I always try and make time for TAY when possible!
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Never eat a Woolworths-brand mushroom and bacon risotto. It is pure filth.
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Noted
SO MANY PEOPLE BUYING THE BORDERLANDS LOOT CHEST!
I wasn’t going to, then I did.
the blame lies entirely with the Notoriousaur.
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Parapet?
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I want it, but I don’t want it.
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Dammit, I want one so bad and they are all sold out
So, does anyone have plans for dinner this evening? I LOVE having tasty noms all planned out. Slow cookers are best cookers.
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Big manly steak for me.
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Delicious microwave meal. The life of a bachelor. 😛
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I do alright without reverting to microwave bowls of nuclear waste. DON’T DO IT MAN!!!
I’ve got a hunk of pork simmering away while I work, which will be wrapped in marinated bacon (soy, honey and garlic) and baked for about an hour once I get home. Just enough time to get the vegies done ^.^-
Might be incredibly lazy, but I HATE doing the dishes and cooking an elaborate meal makes dishes. Any joy in eating the meal is destroyed having to clean up after. 😛
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Alfoil, gladwrap and lots of lubricant. Also, paper/plastic plates and cutlery solve most, if not all, of those issues.
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…we’re still talking about cooking, right?
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If you say so. 😛
I’m thinking of a Flintstones dish washer. Maybe a dog that lives under the sink and licks the dishes clean. 😀
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Buy a dishwasher, they are the best invention since the microwave.
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That’s just crazy enough to work!
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I disagree!
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I agree. Also, if it takes over a certain amount of time to prepar a meal (like say, an hour at most) I just won’t bother because any joy gained from eating the meal is not equal to the amount of effort and time put in to create the meal.
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*prepare
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It might be different if I was cooking for someone, but what’s the point if it’s just me too.
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I do see where you’re coming from, but I always feel better if I know I’m doing something special, and can pull it off well. It’s good training for the advent of future laydeefranz too!
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Don’t get me wrong, though. I know that food is relaxing to some folks, they get something out of the process. But that ain’t me as Johnny Cash once said. (Possibly on the same subject. :P)
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It’s the end result that makes it worth it, for me. I can’t stand doing the dishes, but it all ends up worth it, personally.
There is plenty of way better food than microwave meals that requires minimal dishes.
Chicken Tenders + potato nuggets/ steamed veggies or a sausage roll or a good old ham and cheese sandwich requite only cleaning of plates/ cutlery.
Ravioli needs only 10 mins and a pot.
Truly though, even dry weetbix it better than microwave sludge.
I’m fairly partial to those deli soups. Even if they do contain 70% of my daily sodium in one spoonful.
Slow cookers are the best thing! Just chuck everything in and it’s ready by dinner time!
It makes my lazy side happy.
I really didn’t want to come into work today :'(
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Why were you so weak willed then, call in a sicky. Not wanting to work is a serious condition that affects thousands of Australians everyday.
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It’s not so easy where I am Rocket, I’m required to have a doctors cert from day 1.
Oh well
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Who cares, just go to a doctor, the won’t give a shit if you are sick or not. just fake a cough and say you have a headache.
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Cool.
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I know right? This was merely a get-TAY-to-update post and the other methods of hard refreshing break it for me 😛
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Same.
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Does anyone have any info on whether or not the Aliens: Colonial Marines special edition is up for pre-order in Australia? Particularly in Adelaide, so I’m guessing like, EB or Game Traders maybe even JB? Also, any info on a Dishonored pre-order or spesh edish? CHEERS MANES
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Not seeing it on any of their sites, so I guess not at the moment for Aliens: Colonial Marines =(
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Yes it will be available for Aus.
I saw Borderlands 2 talk up there *points in some random direction hoping for the right one*
and I saw EB posted on Facebook this morning that they have some more loot chests up for grabs online, so if anyone missed out and wanted one here you go!
I’m really late to this party. But Skyrim is pretty fun. I hope it doesn’t fall into that same oblivion trap where I’ll play for 10 hours then never pick it up again.
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That being said, the voice acting is just terrible on some of the characters.
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Well they recycle the same 4-5 voice actors on all the characters too so you’ll have to get used to it
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So many characters sound like a bad Arnold impersonation.
Also, I wouldn’t be too surprised if you find yourself in the same situation as you did with Oblivion.
Also also, I finally got around to watching 146. Junior Dos Santos made Mir look like an amateur.
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It should be interesting to see how Cain handles him. He has better stand up than Mir, and that’s the only way i think JDS can be beat right now. Someone has to beat him at his own game.
Matches to make after 146 are:
Cain vs JDS
Mir v Mark Hunt
Silva v Roy Nelson-
Cain vs JDS has to happen, and you’re right in saying that the only way JDS can be beat is by someone with excellent stand up. The only problem is, I don’t know that Cain can beat him.
Mir v Hunt would be an interesting matchup, I think Mir might still be a class above Hunt, but a win over Mir would be exactly what he needs.
I just want to see anyone vs Roy Nelson, his chin and his strikes are insane.
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Realistically, the only person i think that can beat JDS right now is Overeem, because the reach on his kicks won’t allow JDS to get inside and use that boxing.
One thing is for certain, the UFC brass wan’t JDS to lose the title as quickly as possible for some reason. I wouldn’t be surprised if we get JDS v Cain in 3 months.
Nelson is such a day/night type fighter. Whenever he wins, he wins with an insane knock-out usually in the first round and when he loses, it’s a 3 round snoozefest. I think he needs another win before getting a top-tier opponent.
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Nope, not late at all.
SKYRIM!
You’re late? But, but…You said you were on the pill! You said it would be fine!
I’M TOO YOUNG TO BE A FATHER!
*jumps through window*
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Take some responsibility for this baby!!!
Ha! I’ve started playing Skyrim again. Should probably get around to finishing the civil war questline.
So I watched Harry Potter 7 & 8 over the weekend and am I the only one who thinks those movies got a massive free pass?
I mean, they look pretty but they’re all over the place story wise.
I watched them back to back and even though I’ve read all the books, I found myself completely lost at points.
!SPOILERS!
Example: The scene in Godricks Hollow with Nagini disguised as Bathilda Bagshot. The hell was that whole scene? It was so hard to follow and it just ended. It’s been a while since I read that book but I can’t help but feel like Bagshot & Abberforth vs Rita Skeeter was a much bigger part of the whole story.
Also, the gang rocking up in Abberfoth’s house. They get there, he loses his shit, they bail. If I hadn’t read the book I don’t think I would’ve understood why he was so grumpy. ALSO THE MIRROR! Not even a refresher scene as to where it came from.
To get all film student for a second, there were scenes with one 5 – 10 second hand held shot just thrown in. THE HELL WAS THAT? There’d be all these lovely controlled camera moves and all of a sudden it get’s all Bourne Identity for a single shot and then it’s never used again for the whole scene. Did they just run out of time and needed to get coverage?
Harry Potter 7 & 8.
5 Shiggy’s out of 5
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I didn’t mind the storytelling lapses, but that’s probably just because I know the books well enough that it all made sense to me.
The switching to handheld stuff though? That was annoying.
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I haven’t seen the last 3 Harry Potter Movies, i have the boxset on bluray but i would rather watch earlier ones to be honest. The characters just piss me off to much when they get older. Happened in the books too. Like i can excuse 11 year old Harry or Ron for being jerks and making hermonine cry. I can’t forgive 17 year old ron for walking out on Harry and Hermonine during the middle of a quest to fucking save the world.
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Horcrux made him do it.
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Hand held camera is the flavor of the month.
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The Hogwarts Witch Project
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I just don’t understand why people throw it in, most of the time.
The Avengers had a few hand-held camera scenes, but for every shot, there was clear narrative reason behind it.
Hairy Porter just threw them in there.
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I’ve been following the Marble Hornets story for a couple years now, and it’s very much “blair witch” cinematography, although admittedly, it works in their favour.
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I loooooooove good hand held camera work like Children Of Men & The Bourne movies.
But when it doesn’t really fit and is really obvious, then you’ve got a problem.
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Children of Men had some glorious cinematography.
I know everyone says it but that car scene is a masterpiece.
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The handheld camera stuff in the Bourne Movies is brilliant. You really feel the hits during fight scenes and chase sequences.
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For a big nerdy cinema thing: The Bourne movies got it right with their fight scenes. They were very well choreographed, and used the quick cuts and camera angles to add confusion to the whole thing. A whole lot of movies now have badly choreographed fight scenes, and so they use the same quick cuts to try and disguise just how murky they are, which means for someone not paying attention, the fight will look pretty cool, but for those who are wanky enough to say they have a discerning eye, they look absolutely terrible.
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I saw HP 7 and haven’t read the last book. I liked it and followed it okay. Haven’t seen HP8 or read the last book yet.
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Haven’t they always been like that, though?
I remember doing Philospher’s Stone in high school and seeing it at the movies shortly after (for school! \o/) and we came back and basically discussed how light it was on details.-
True, but the way everyone carried on about these two being so great I thought they’d finally reached a comfortable middle ground.
I guess I’m saying that the praise these particular movies received was unwarranted when they still had the many flaws seen throughout the series.
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I think the movies did quite a good job, all things considered. You can drop me in the fan-boy category, and thus ignore my opinion though, I’m cool with that. But I enjoyed the movies, and as adaptations go, I thought they did a very good job. Not “Lord of the Rings” good. But still good.
Also, The Lord of the Rings didn’t have Emma Watson, so I guess that’s some points against them.
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Oh, speaking of Emma Watson.
You know the scene where they jump off the dragon into the lake and then Ron & Harry get all shirtless? What a wasted opportunity for an awkward Hermione getting undressed scene. She tells Ron & Harry to turn around right in the middle of their serious discussion about whatever. She keeps talking all serious while Ron & Harry don’t know how to respond.
That would’ve been amazing.
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Oh man, that would be fantastic.
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Bought a new case and a new power supply. The case because the old one just annoys me with it’s weird clamps, the PSU because I hope that solves my current issues. If this doesn’t work, I’m upgrading my RAM and CPU. If that doesn’t work, I’m taking all of the parts, throwing them on the railway tracks and buying a new MBP to dual boot into Windows for gaming.
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I reckon it was probably the button on your case.
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Best of luck Trjn! You could always seal the unit and use it as an aquarium, provided the case has windows?
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Water cooling?
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All the best dude, what case you pick up? 😛
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Corsair Carbide 400R.
Not sure it was the best choice but it doesn’t seem terrible.
Why do cases never have simple ways to mount hard drives anymore? I have no idea how to get my HDDs into this thing. Seriously no idea.
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Looks nice and spacious!
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It’s definitely a lot easier to put stuff into than my old Coolermaster. None of that shitty clamp stuff on the PCI slots either so I can actually securely mount my graphics card.
Kind of forgot to secure the power supply after I was done plugging it all in. Oops.
Other than that, and the confusion with the hard drives where I ended up mounting them backwards, a pretty painless install. Much better than my old one. I like Corsair now.
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Secure components are always a good thing. So hows the computer now, working as intended?
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Just secured my preorder of Borderlands 2 and AC3. Went with the chest edition of BL2 cause I knew I’d kick myself if I didn’t get it, and AC3 Freedom edition for the free DLC and other nice stuff, considering it was only $108 for PC.
Howdy Tayberinos!
I spent all weekend sick, so blarghleargleargle. Gave me a good opportunity to catch up on the Legend of Korra (which is really, really good) and play Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and co-op Borderlands with my also sick housemate.
So my monday morning (also afternoon) question:
When you’re sick, you go for comfort foods and media (the number of times I’ve watched Star Wars when sick…). What is your comfort game?
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Anything RPG, cause I can jump into an immersive game and forget about my own aches and pains for a while. Hell, if it’s a particularly good game, I can lose an hour where I thought a minute went by and forget that I was sick in the first place.
For better or worse, WoW was good at that. Kind of in the same way that consuming a kilo of cocaine would also make me feel better… -
A sandbox game. Just driving around in San Andreas listening to WCTR was enough to brighten my day.
Hello!
Feeling a little out of place to be honest, so bear with my scatter-braindedness.
First of all, I want to say a HUGE heartfelt thanks to Strange for the Kudo Nom on Friday! And all the nice comments and words from everyone else! Instead of emailing you all separately I thought it would be better to post here! It really did brighten up my day knowing all of the support for me out there 🙂 It’s making me think I’m wandering the wrong path.
I’m not sure what I’m doing is right for me or not, but I know I don’t want to bring this place my doom and gloom. I hold this place and all of you dear to my heart with such great vibe and energy and laughs and generosity. I guess its hard to explain without me going into details, so I shall do a big dump right here.
So yeah. My gaming went to zero for quite some time (until Trials Evo came out) but for the most part I’ve tried to restrict my time with it. The best way I can describe it is… Hollow. Not in the sense of those of you I was playing with, but on a personal level its just been stuck in my head that faffing about for hours on end in a game was destroying any chance I had of getting out of the doldrums. Is it me getting older? Because I keep feeling like I want to leave a legacy behind of some sort. something of ‘worth’. I keep fearing death, which I try to tell myself is stupid, but the fear is there all the same as is the risk of sudden loss of control of my lungs etc. from my spinal tumour. I’m mad at my body. I feel like I’m cursed and I’m sick and tired of being in constant pain for 10 years and trying to keep a poker face about it. I wan’t to be able to get stuck in a game carefree, but every time I try it just nags at me that I should be doing better with the time I have. I’ve really got stuck in Evo for a few weeks, got to the Mega track, and set myself a target to top Sughly and Fatshady. That track is a right bastard, its full of unfair catches, but I kept at it for 2 weeks, enjoying and hating it and myself at the same time. I don’t know how to describe it really. But I liked the frustration of it all, the punishing restarts over and over. But still I have this feeling of dread that I’m wasting time. (I’m about 600th-ish, I think I give in and bow to my masters!)
I’ve been trying to keep painting, but most days it sits untouched and doesn’t progress. I am just sitting around most days in the silence for hours on end, not knowing what to do about anything. I keep trying for work, but constantly get knocked back after interview stages. I do understand their position, I wouldn’t hire me either, but its frustrating as hell.
And then the kids come home from school, and that’s when I try and focus and snap out of it. I play the goofy happy dad they have always known and hang about with them as much as possible. Without them about to restart my day, I don’t know where I’d be.
But, my once happy joyful kids are having problems of their own and that’s making me worry a lot. My eldest has fallen out of friends with her best friend, and fallen into a crowd of kids which are leading her astray. She’s getting bullied a lot and is having a hard time dealing with it. I have to get her on a 7am bus instead of an 8.30am bus just so she can go to school unharmed. To avoid a bashing, so wagged school with her new ‘friends’ and got caught and has having to be making the time up after school in detentions. Her grades are going down the gurgler, and I can’t seem to get to her focus anymore on learning. I’m so afraid for her, but she’s treading down a path stubbornly blind to where its taking her.
Then there’s my youngest who has gotten her first serious boyfriend. I’m not sure what to make of the whole situation really. I kind of like her boyfriend. She keeps arranging to meet him behind the car park after school so they can have their first kiss, but each time she see’s him running away home as fast as he can when the bell goes. I like that he’s afraid of girls… But how long will that last? I’ve had him over a few times, and he’s quite the young gentleman, but all the same, he is a boy. Boy’s are shifty…
They spend hours on the phone now, so my super fun Daddy-Daughter time with her doing stupid stuff is mostly gone now too. Its amusing in some ways because she still likes playing with dolls (in secret of course, but I hear her when her bedroom door is closed, its one of the coolest things to hear when your a parent) and on the other hand she is getting all grownd up.
I’m not sure where they are going next, but She went to his house last weekend and they watched all the Jaw’s movies all day. She told me it wasn’t until the last movie that he played the oldest move in the book, the old putting an arm around her thing. I love that she tells me all the details, but I hate that I told her “Thats when you should have snuggled a little closer and looked in his eye’s, and puckered up your lips and gone for it”. At the same time I want to knock his head off, but its inevitable I guess.
So yeah… I still can’t find employment, I’m hoping that Workcover might be able to pay for me to do a Diploma in Arts and Design. Mind you getting workcover to do anything is an affair where their diaries are carbon-dated. I’m STILL waiting for them to get a cushion for my new wheelchair. Its been 8 months waiting for one fricken pillow. So I’m not holding out much hope.
BUT. In the end, I really am hoping I can flip some switch. I want things to change, I desperately need them to change, and I want to be back here laughing along with you all again. But I need to make my life have more worth and meaning first as corny as that might sound. I need to see my girls be successful in life and well balanced, I need to be a role model for them better instead of letting them see me just sit about playing games. I want to be able to enjoy that time again guilt free without this hollow feeling inside raging at me to have a better purpose, to make a better life for my kids, earn more so they do and be more. *sigh*
I hope you all understand what I’m trying to say. I love you all dearly and am so sorry for this big dump of all my woes in here. I want to be something again first before I allow myself free fun time again. I want to feel I deserve this place again, and you all deserve a better version of me, and I’m sorry I’ve let you down being so distant. I have to accomplish something first, but I don’t know what it is exactly. Whether its finding work, creating something, making a better family. I don’t honestly know.
Anyways. The good news is I haven’t melted any keyboards lately. But I miss you all dearly and hope to be back when I have my life problems sorted better.
*group hugs*
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Hey Q.
Minecraft just isn’t the same without you. I actually have to do all the hard work myself. It’s no fun.
In all seriousness, we’re here for you, and I’m just glad to know that you’re ok. Even if you’re not, well, “ok.”
Stay safe man, and the best of luck.
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Hi Qumulys!
Pretty sure I turned up in TAY after you went on sabbatical, but I’ve heard your name a whole bunch of times here. You’re Internet famous!
Hope everything rights itself for you and you feel comfortable coming back to TAY soon. I know a lot of people miss you here! -
It’s hard to lay it all out there for others to read, especially when it’s life issues that make it pretty hard for any of us to get directly involved with assistance.
But it can often help just to put it down into words and send it out there, and if that does help you at all, I sincerely hope that you feel that you can do that here. Even if we can’t help, you’ve got our support.
Good luck getting Workcover sorted, and everything else too. Even though you and I haven’t really interacted too much, it was great to hear from you, and I hope you stay in touch.
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QBo
You don’t have to face all these problems by yourself, we miss you alot. I miss you alot.
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Take it easy man and best of luck.
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WE MISS YOU Q-BO!
Sorry you’re going through some stuff, and I hope it gets better. We’re always here for you!
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Hope you feel better, man. I don’t know you personally, but your legend here is pretty damn strong!
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I’ll vouch for that one. Keep strong Q, you’ve got a lot of heart.
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QBO!
*tackle*
DON’T LEAVE US EVAR AGAIN!
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Q-BO!
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Now, after reading… *hugs*
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I understand a bit of what you’re going through. I think we’re all striving to DO something with our lives, for some it becomes clearer earlier than for others. I’m still working towards that clarity but knowing I’m not alone on the world helps.
The hollow feeling you mention, I’ve had that feeling. I almost let it swallow me. But you and other people here in TAY helped me to fill out that hollowness. So thank-you for that, you have no idea how grateful I am to especially you for that, Qumulys.
So just know you’re not alone. If there’s ever anything you need, just ask and I’ll do my best to help. *hugs*-
One more thing: sometimes our legacy is only reflected or measured in how we’ve touched other people’s lives. If you measure your life on that, you’ve already got a head start on most people, Q-Bo. 🙂
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WOW, thats a super nice way to put how we are all feeling… thanks Strange.
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Oh man! I was just gonna leave my post up there. It was really hard for me to do, but I do feel a little bit lighter. And all the love and positive comments, your all making my heart melt!
I’m keeping all your advice and hope some of it helps me get going again. I don’t think I’m up to full on posting here and keeping up with everything and everyone, but I’ll try and post a little bit each day now to tell you my plans for each day. Maybe if I start out by making a daily mission statement, I can get some momentum up.Thanks again everyone! 😀 \o/ (is holt still cool?)
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QBO, you know how I feel mate and hope you can soon find what you are looking for. Perhaps If I look at from a different perspective, My father left me when i was born and to this day I can confidently say that I’ve spoken to you about 1000 times more than I have spoken to him.. He was never there for me man.. Even if you can’t see it, just the fact that you are a caring father who si present, even more so for someone in your position being so selfless and brave for your family.. shows that you truly are a caring father and a bloody good bloke. Seriously, that is enough. Don’t get stuck thinking you should be ‘more’… being a loving caring father who is there for his kids is much more than plenty of blokes do and you should be really proud of that. It may sound like im just trying to cheer you up but from someone who is now a father and has seen what it is like without one, having a loving parent bringing you up is one of the best things you can give to another human.
Also if I was trying to cheer you up, I wouldn’t dedicate this last part of the post to talking about how happy I am that I caused you so much frustration in Trials. It is extra nice knowing how you got the game in the first place. Really happy that during such a tough time, I could provide such a painful yet fun distraction. 🙂
All the best buddy.
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Damn ninja’s chopping onions!
Thanks for making me a sobbing mess! But seriously thanks man 😀 I would be your foster dad if you like, but its probably a bit weird since we are almost the same age, but its fine by me. But, your the one being fatherly to me now :-). I know what having no dad is like, not quite as young as you though so his face still haunts me a bit, and I got a bonkers step dad in return. But I guess he is the reason I am trying hard to succeed, I don’t want to fail like his lousy ass.
Also, I will beat you on that mega track… I’m hunting you and Sughly down! 😉
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Holy Macaroni! Qumulys!!!! eeeeeeee! I guess you got my email!!! 🙂
So good to see your name as I was browsing through today!! Awesome stuff! Always plenty of love for you here buddy! 🙂 You can always email/call me anytime you want too!
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Don’t be so hard on yourself.
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Q-bo what matters is that you are trying!! Don’t let the fight in you go out!
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Hey Qumulys!
You and I never really communicate d (I’ve mostly been a lurker when you’ve been posting), but I wanted to say good luck with it all.
It sounds like you’re genuinely trying hard and that’s the best you or anyone around you can do! Good luck and I hope things get better!
I was getting ready to bitch about the lack of YouTube on the Vita:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/06/youtube-is-headed-to-the-ps-vita/
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It seems you have magic powers. You get ready to complain and it happens.
For my sake please get ready to complain about the Vita’s price. Maybe then we can get a price drop 🙂
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I’ll try my best.
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Just finished Potaku Episode 1 and it is awesome. Shiggy, Doc, Dan and LastQ you have done an awesome job that is even more impressive that it is your first episode. Bloody excellent.
Do you reckon you guys will have listener questions as well? Maybe have Mark put up a post on recording day saying what you plan to talk about and canvassing for questions that you can answer on the air. I guess if you do is up to you, it’s your show after all 😉
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That would be great. I think this week’s question will most likely be E3 related.
BTW, I can’t wait to be on episode 2 with you puppylicks. How does your voice sound? Should I prepare to be amazed?
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I don’t wanna build up any expectations so I’ll just say that I probably sound dumb 😛
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so Epic has picked up the devs that worked on Kingdoms of Alamur. Source
hopefully they pick up the IP as well, coz I’d really like to see a sequel.
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I imagine the IP would stay with 38 studios, and go with them, rather than Big Huge Games.
It’s a shame this happened to BHG. I really liked their RTS stuff.
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Well hopefully if they have the same staff they can develop another on. I had big hopes for them and hope they keep producing.
I still think if rise of nations wasn’t so buggy it could have been a break out hit for them. Or maybe because I was playing a lot of civ and RTS at the time it appealed to me more that others.-
I never had problems with Rise of Nations and bugs, and I really liked it, way way way back in the day.
But Rise of Legends was where it was at. That game was excellent.
Dumb. But Excellent.
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It’s depressing that EA were so willing to just let those guys die like that.
If you ain’t Bioware, you’re on your own.
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EA didn’t own them, they had no reason to try and keep them from going bust.
Saving them would be akin to if Grasshopper Manufacture went bust after Shadows of the Damned, and EA spent money to try and save them.
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They had no legal obligation, but what about an ethical one? These guys spent years making, what I’ve read to be a critically and commercially successful game. EA would be absolutely willing to ride that train to the bank had the game sold millions more, so why not help a developer in need?
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I’m learning how to radio, fun times and smooth jazz!
JAZZ HOLT! \o/
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How the hell do you radio numbers. Its a dial you turn, its not rocket science. I know look at my name. Also you have the same auto correct problem as me 🙂
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Presenting radio, you twit…
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All I hear is…
iTunes can be so damn annoying on Windows, atleast. I’ll type Forever Young Bob Dylan and it takes em to Flo Rider. Why? Who knows! Constantly crashing too on every machine I’ve ever used it on.
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Maybe iTunes gets a bigger cut of Flo, and will redirect you there every time it doesn’t like what you’re searching for.
I don’t like iTunes and so don’t use it.
Happy Monday, TAY!
Sooo busy today. Have work to do, new employees to help/faze, people now reporting to me. Not much time for TAY or Kotaku unfortunately.
Anways, weekend was awesome. Finally got to Inferno on Clicky 3. It can be hard; mostly it’s the elites/rares with their Molten Jailer Fire Chains Invulnerable Minions, bosses actually seem like a nice break in comparison. Skeleton King only took two attempts.
Also, how about that Nintendo?! Oh man! I hope they make a bacon coloured/flavoured/scented Wii U for Shiggy just to see if he could get any more excited.
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I’ve posted your game! \o/
It’s in a sturdy box, so should arrive in good nick
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As a side note, and looking at comment posting patterns over the last few weeks…
Is anyone else preparing for the Terrakalypse following each major conference at E3?
Oh god, I was so bored that I decided to click on the MTV Movie Awards dress thingy at the bottom of the page. Honestly, it was worth it. Clicking through all these serious images of people showing off their clothes, on whatever coloured carpet they have, and then it gets to Jennifer Aniston.
Best image.
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Thank You.
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Unfortunate pose. 😛
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Blagh, regarding the Bourne movies stuff from page 2
Now that you’ve said that I think I’ll be getting the Bourne movies and watching them again.
BTW, what did you think of the game? I thought it was okay, it had some good moments and the fights were brutal. Too many QTEs and the short length kinda soured me on the game though. That being said, trying to make a 8-10hr game with the pace of a Bourne movie is understandably hard.
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I never played the Bourne game, I tend to avoid anything licensed like the plague they usually are.
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You should try the warriors on PS2. A fantastic brawler by Rockstar.
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Yeah, I’ve heard about that one, sadly my lack of PS2 would make playing it… rather troublesome.
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so what current releases are you hyped for? I’m counting down the days till Gravity Rush and Lollipop Chainsaw!
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GTA V may be the only full-price game I buy this year.
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This. GTA V will probably be the only full-price game I buy unless I actually buy Borderlands 2.
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For me it’ll have to be DOTA2!!! DOTA 2 FOREVARR
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You guys seem really comfortable with one another. It’s nice. More conversationally than most podcasts tend to be.
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Thanks D.C. 🙂 the team is great so its hard not to get along with them. Especially when we all play GAMEZ!!
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Hi Harli.
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MASHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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You forgot an A. 🙂
(Kidding)
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MASHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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If I could only play one game for the rest of the year it’d be The Last of Us. If I could play two, Dishonored…
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And Pikmin. Musn’t forget Pikmin.
*ahem*
MECHWARRIOR ONLINE AWWW YEAAA SON
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HELLS YEAH!
I’m definitely going to get one of those Founder packs. Probably the cheaper one, though.-
Yeah I wasn’t going to at first but I might chip in depending on how things go financially. Any idea how long the window is to get into the Founder initiative?
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Absolutely no idea, other than sales for Founder packs start on the 19th.
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Good enough for me
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Still waiting on HL: Ep 3…
The big E3 reveal of psychonauts 2
While I am looking forward to it, I think Borderlands 2 will take up way too much of my time.
Also, Torchlight 2, Grim Dawn & Primal Carnage.
In the immediate future though, I’m just waiting for Max Payne 3 to finish its damn download.
I’m looking forward to Far Cry 3 and maybe NFS: Most Wanted. On the latter though I want to see some E3 footage first.
When Dan! started yelling ‘You’re a maniac!’ did anyone else think he was about to lead into this?
Oh! I have a valid answer, too!
I’m kinda hyped for Mists of Pandaria, if that counts for anything.
How current we talking?
ACIII
Gravity Rush
Dishonored
Borderlands 2
Darksiders 2
Soul Sacrifice
Um…
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You mispelled SPINAL SWORD!
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I’m a klutz.
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I get the feeling if BioShock, Tomb Raider and Alien: Colonial Marines weren’t pushed back into next year, it would’ve been slower than average time game wise. Imminent arrival of new consoles and all that. Q1 2013 is all about Kickstarter games for me. Moebius from Jane Jensen. Project Fedora by Big Finish. Republique and Double Fine’s Adventure!
I’m looking forward to the cynacism and general grump of post E3.
I find it fascinating.
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Also, obligatory
POKEMON:
– Conquest
– Black & White 2-
I completely misinterpreted that comment the first 3 times I read it…
Here I was thinking that you were addressing your fellow pokemon, suggesting that you can’t wait for Conquest, and Black And White 2 to come out.
“But Black and White 2 came out YEARS ago! Silly Bish…”-
I thought the same thing
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Who says I wasn’t talking to my Pokemon, huh????
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Even if you were, I think you need to double-check your time and date settings. However, if we’re stuck in 2005, I can’t wait for NFS: Most Wanted!
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I bet that Nintendo Dual Screen thing is going to bomb. What would you even need a touch screen for, I don’t even!
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\o/ Me too!
…though I think the grump has already kind of started, with people making special note of all the things that won’t be at E3!
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I like the morning’s back and forth on Nintendo’s pre-E3 stuff. Wave of Shiggy trolling followed by the Wii-U’s ‘Pro’ controller design and its effects on innovation and development for the system.
Some of you guys have… interesting opinions.-
I hate games.
And fun.It’s why I only play things I get mad at.
Hope that clears things up for you.
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Borderlands 2 looks pretty awesome.
FIRE EMBLEM 3DS!
Also Pokemon!
Last of Us, AC3, Dishonored and Borderlands 2. Also, hi-5 for getting the loot chest!
Not sure if it counts but DARK SOULS DLC!!!!!
Also Borderlands 2!
Fall of Cybertron! Borderlands 2!
Hi everyone, also, happy birthday, Powalen!
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Thank you, you Crazy Guy!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
So now you’ve levelled up I guess you need to change your Gravatar to a Metapod yes? ;P-
Pressed B by accident /o\
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AW SNAP SON
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I still managed to blue screen after reinstalling everything. Hohum.
Just going to hope it was a one off thing and keep going to see what happens. At the very least, going to download Diablo and back it up so that I don’t have to download it for the fifty millionth time this week.
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shit man. you’ve replaced the main board, so that’s not the problem.
case & psu as well yeah?
hmm… can you get into your OS at all? or does it just BSoD during startup?
can you test your RAM in another rig?
have you been able to try a different hard drive?I dunno. you’re probably an accomplished troubleshooter, so you dont need my suggestions, but still… I know how frustrating it is to try & diagnose & fix a buggered PC. especially when umart is involved.
stick at it Bunny.
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I’ve tried two different hard drives, haven’t tried since the new motherboard though. My brother is giving me his PC later today that has reasonably similar specs. So I can just switch parts out until I find something that appears to work.
It seems to be running okay right now. Had a bit of a hiccup. Maybe I’ll just assume that blue screen was nothing more than that. I can only hope that things are stable from now on. Just can’t be bothered dealing with any more hassle.
But yes, I will probably end up just swapping out everything if this keeps going on. Already did two of the big three parts. Hard drive, RAM and CPU aren’t huge issues to replace after all of this. GPU is the only thing that I’d be sad to see go. I like my little 560 Ti.
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Have you reinstalled GPU drivers, because I had my GPU drivers blue screen me the other week re-installed them all was good!
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So, I just swung (…why isn’t swang a word? It should be!) past the Game store in Hyperdome and it’s still open. Could have sworn that it was on the list of places closing down. To make matters more confusing, Queanbeyan’s store DID close and WASN’T on the list…
SWANG.
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The GAME staff in the Hyperdome were always good for a chat. Not that I ever bought games from them, but hey. A chat is a chat, and that says more for the company than what they peddle.
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Yeah, GAME Belco was great, and depending on which staff you got, the Civic one could be pretty damn excellent.
Particularly “Irish.” He was the best. I had friends who actually knew his name, I just knew him by his accent.
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I think every Irishman I’ve ever met was simply known as “Irish”. Damn, we’re original with nicknames.
I never spent much time in Civic, if only because I can’t stand paying for parking. I never went to Belco because I don’t like being stabbed. Went to a gig at The Basement with the manager from the Hyperdome GAME, awesome night was had!-
I can’t drive, so parking isn’t a problem, and I’m so used to the events at Woden that Belco seems comparatively safe!
Best system.
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How the hell can you compare the Woden and Belcompton interchanges?!
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Because I saw someone being chased through Woden by a guy holding a knife.
Because I had my face punched and my iPod stolen when I was in year 8 there.
Because I almost stood on someone’s bloody needle there.
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Might have to swang past my local one this afternoon.
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‘Atta boy!
Was looking through the last page of comments just before. I usually scroll down to the bottom and work my way up. I was reading a comment when I glanced up and saw the letter “Q”. “Heh, Q,” I thought to myself, then went back to reading the comment. Slight pause. “Wait, Q??” Frantically scroll up. “Q-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
I’m am so happy to hear you’re still alive Q! True, your life sounds like it sucks, but at least you’re still alive! 😀
Wait, how old is your youngest, I thought she was only…
…I’m 17 and I’ve never been in a relationship. I’m missing out on so much aren’t I? /o\
*hugs* I hope your life dramatically improves for you. We miss you.
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Ha, you got nothing to worry about. I’m 23 and I’ve never been in a relationship.
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24, never been in a relationship.
I kind of have a phobia of it. Like everything else >_<-
Find someone you’re interested, then whip out your ocarina. I’m pretty sure you could use some sort of custom version of Epona’s Song to seal the deal.
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You are so adorkable.
Oh screeYES THIS THIS THE THING NOW
MWAHAHAHAHAHA
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Are you trying to change the “oh Rocketman” to “Oh scree” so you no longer get it?
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He’s been trying to shift “Oh Rocketman” off to almost everyone since basically when it started.
Poor Rocketpony.
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I’m not sure it’ll work then =P
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It won’t work. Just watch the Swarley ep of HIMYM.
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All you need to do then is play “Song of Healing”
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Have you tried playing the ocarina when hyperventilating? It’s quite difficult.
AH! But then, before anything goes wrong, I’ll get Pixel to hide in the bushes and play Zelda’s Lullaby to help keep you steady.
He likes hiding in bushes and watching people.
I am slightly scared now XD
Oh HO! But then we could play…er…Saria’s Song! It’ll get stuck in your head and you’ll forget to feel scared!
I’d rather song of storms.
It’s alright, I’m trying to fix it with my psychologist.
I’m 29 and have only had two relationships, luckily I’m still in my second 🙂
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23 and just came out of my 2nd relationship. Feels bittersweet, man!
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I’m still in my first, feel totally blessed.
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Good on you man! It’s a rarity these days, to be sure.
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Dude it scares me… you and me man, waaay to similar….. I am still in my first relationship, met her at 17, and now 5 years married…. feels good man
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Same here.
Oh lambo, I imagine you’re still beating the average for gamers 😛
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Bordering on overshare, but here goes, it might make you feel better:
Until I was 20 and 8 months, I’d never even held hands with a girl.-
Shane, I’ve told you like 8 times. I’m a man.
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You’re totally lying. Everyone knows it.
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*Sigh*
My boobs give me away, don’t they? DON’T THEY?!?
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I’ll be at least 21 before I hit that milestone(unless you count my girlfriend from pre-school, but I’m assuming that we’re not).
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They totes count, My pre school girlfriend said i could only play puzzles with her the days her bestfriend was sick. BEST GIRLFRIEND.
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Man, I was a PIMP in preschool. I had this one girlfriend, Sewwah (I couldn’t pronounce Sarah) and we used to play in the sandpit together. I was such a stud, even Sewwah’s SISTER wanted in on that action.
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Count it if you want to brag!
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If I point out that I don’t even know her name(my parents have told me about this, I remember nothing of it), is that points for, or against me?
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He was drunk on apple juice and high on non toxic play dough aswell.
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Honestly, I was probably too busy doing a jigsaw puzzle to pay attention to some girl’s name(even if we held hands all throughout the end of year/christmas/whatever it was they had play).
And then I moved preschools, and never got to see her again.
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A true Romeo and juliet story except nobody died and nobody really cared about it.
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I’m sure I was probably heartbroken.
Or something.
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KEEP YOUR INNOCENCE!
You are only missing out if that is what you want out of your life LAmbo buddy. Some people need relationships other people like to be alone . Its not a one glove fits all situation. If you do end up wanting to be in a relationship with someone, i am sure they will be very lucky to have such a cool dude in yourself.
No i am not trying to pick up lambo.
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What he said.
I have had relationships and decided it is not for me.
Each to their own and all that.
Eh, nothing wrong with following the beat of your own drum. (There’s an obvious joke there, but I ain’t gonna touch it. :P) If you’re not ready for something and only do it because society expects it of you, then you’re only cheating yourself in the long run.
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You ain’t gonna touch or beat your own drum. You are awesome 😛
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That was almost inevitable. 😀
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20, never been in a relationship, never been kissed, never even held hands with a girl.
Forever alone.
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OR OR flour water and some other ingredients mixed in a bowl and cooked in a oven. Served with Jam and cream
FOREVER A SCONE
Cheer up buddy, while i don’t apply to the theory that there is someone for everybody, i do think that most people can find there own happiness. If all else fails i have a awesome wig and i will hold your hand 🙂
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What type of wig…
Honestly though I’m not really bothered about not being in a relationship. Used to be I felt like I was a huge loser who was missing out on a major part of life. Now I’m more like, meh. If I meet someone I meet someone and if I don’t I don’t. I’m not really fussed either way.
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I look pretty much like the chick from scott pilgrim movie. IT IS HAWT
Fair enough man, as long as you don’t let life get you down 🙂
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So uhh… how bout that get-together in Townsville next week? You could wear your purrdy wig, and I could uhh, buy you a drink or somethin’.
And take out your 7 evil exes, like the complete badass I am. -
Hahahaha
7 Evil exes i am way more of a whore than that chick was, i have 234 evil exes each more evil than the last. The first 100 or so are kind of pushovers though because there wouldn’t really be much room to move with the whole more evil than the last other wise.
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PEOPLE ARE GROSS AND THEY HAVE COOTIES
I’m 23, only ever had one girl and she cheated on me within the month, still haven’t ever kissed a girl on the lips yet
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Don’t make me get the depression stick. It is a stick i hit people with when they are depressed. I hit myself with it this morning. Don’t make me use it on you aswell. The stick itself doesn’t hurt that much but the humilation from a tiny child hitting you with it should be more than enough.
Cheer up buddy, the Wig offer is open for all TAYbies.
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I wouldn’t really call you a “tiny child” Rockets
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well no but shh you will spoil the suprise for everybody to see i am actually batman when i get to Melbourne. That’s right your beloved Rocketman is actually
CHRISTIAN BALE
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You’re Christian Bale? OMIGAWD! I loved you in Howl’s Moving Castle, oh, and Pocahontas. So dreamy.
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ya learn somethin’ new erryday
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He is pretty amazing in Howl’s i am gonna have to watch Pocahontas again
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She’s 11..
/o\
She used to be geeky and play Minecraft.. Now she’s “complicated”.
Mind you, I didn’t start dating until I was 18. But I was so enthusiastic about her, I secretly bought a plane ticket to the USA (to meet her….) and didn’t tell my folks until the day before I left.
Wow.
Talk about them freaking out! Pffft what did they know??
Anyways, after living in New Orleans and Louisianna shacks on the bayou’s for half a year, broke, but blind by love, we married in the middle of the night by a drunk justice of the peace (true story). Shortly after that, I got her pregnant with my super jizzers. And to think my folks were worried…..!!!
But we did have a lot of fun, but by the time number 2 came along we knew it was not worth the pain to be together anymore. Cause she turned into a real numpty head.. Thats a long story in itself, but she left a few weeks after Jada was born, committed (allegedly) fraud of lots of monies, which she solved by leaving the country before they caught up to her. So I’ve raised them both myself as best I can I guess since she heartlessly ran away.
anyways… Even though she turned out to be a huge mistake, without our brief couple of years of love I would have never had my two kids. And they are pretty much my everything.
So, the moral of the story is…. ummm. Something good, like cupcakes. And giving it a whirl and a dip here n there. Its scary at first, then you learn they don’t have teeth down there like mama sez and its pretty fun overall. Messy… But fun. Mind you, I’ve turned pretty bleak lately, so taking my dating advice is probably rather silly. But, be happy, cause I made you some mini donuts.
o o o o o o
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MMMmmm, mini donuts.
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They’re my donuts. But if you ask nicely, I may give you a crumb 😛
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I like that even though i havent spoken to you for like a year i still remember that story and how your voice sounds. Hearing from you has kind of made my day Qbo.
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Holy crap man, you sound like a freakin’ hero!
Side note: is it weird that your life sounds like it’d make a TV show I’d want to watch? Wait, never mind…
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Q does have some absolutely incredible stories.
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I would pay to see that movie, or read that book.
Seriously, sounds like you’ve experienced some real romanticism in your life. Turn your advice on yourself, dammit! Be happy, ‘cos we made you some mini donuts.o o o o o o o o o
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Jeepers!
I’m 29, in a relationship and a guy but if that doesn’t stop you, I’d be keen to make out and stuff.
I was only being half serious with the “/o\” bit, guys 😛
I have held hands with a girl once before. That was for a ballet exam back when I was…ten, maybe? Her hands were freezing.
It probably doesn’t also help that there are maybe only 7 attractive girls my age in Ipswich 😛
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i would bet only 2 of those had a brain as well. its cool little lamb you are a cool dude.
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One of them I know for certain doesn’t have a brain 😛
The other’s I wouldn’t really know. I’ve never talked to them.
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7? That’s 6 more than you need!
And screw age differences, I saw some super old(like, 25 years old. So old.) girl today who was bangin’. She totally said “Hello” or something, and then we walked past each other. And she had this great pair of puppies. They were all roaming on the ground, sniffing at things, and they were super fluffy!
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Her puppies were on the ground????
#SlangForBoobs-
You heard me.
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And you thought she was bangin…
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I stand by what I said.
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Then you walked away and didnt say anything. We are totally getting you some tail in Canberra meet.
By that i mean we are gonna stay at your place and watch game of thrones and drink cider and beer till we cry ourselves to sleep from lonliness. LIKE MEN.
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Just order some hookers in, they can’t be that expensive, right?
And they’re bound to be cleaner than the ones you have in your town…
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What are you talking about Mystic and Yasmin are perfectly clean if you never ever ever touch them. Also they except crack for payment so there is a plus.
And stroke each others hair.
Cue: “Business Time”, FOTC.
I’m 21 and been in two, not missing out on much. Though I don’t think I am a good example since both are shit relationships 😛
Happy Birthday Powalen
Hugo – that sounds like a great trip. The Vegas Strip is a lot longer than I thought it would be. I walked from Mandalay Bay to Stratosphere a couple of times. Got a lot of exercise that day.
Qumulys – Today was the second time I got to meet a TAY legend (figuratively speaking of course). First the mythical Anonymous Pessimist returns to the fold (bringing all his friends with him) and now I see Qumulys as well. You had both left well before I joined the TAY community, but I grew hearing legends of your exploits. OK maybe thats a little over the top, but it was good to finally see you on here again. I hope everything works out for you. It sounds like you’ve been having a tough time, but I know this place is an amazing one for supporting each other.
On a completely seperate topic, I get the feeling that E3 is going to be a big disappointment for me this year. Nothing that’s been revealed, or teased to appear has really grabbed me. Microsoft seems to only have Halo 4 as a big title to show, I’m not sold on the Wii U, even though I’ve been a Nintendo fanboy since the N64 days, and Sony, although they seem to have the biggest line up so far, none of it grabs me. Sigh, maybe I’m just getting old and cynical. What happens to all that excitement and love we had for things as kids? Where does it all go?
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GTAV or GTFO E3 \o/
That one’s for you Bish-
😀
In all seriousness though, aren’t Rockstar usually very controlled with their media? I don’t know if they’ve announced a date yet but I’d peg GTA5 for a 2013 release. So maybe over ‘Holiday’ season we’ll start seeing bits of it.
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Well apparently Amazon leaked the release date for GTA V that being December 2012..
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I’m really hoping that Microsoft or Sony will announce their console earlier and blow everyone’s mind, stealing the show. Probably won’t happen this year, alas. There’s a rumour that Quantic Dream is announcing their next game at Sony’s press conference. That enough has me excited.
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That would be awesome. Quantic Dream \o/
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More like Quantic horribly-buggy-plothole-laden-story Dream, amirite?
That one’s for you, Shane!
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Atleast David Cage tries. 😛
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You know what’s better than trying?
Actually writing a cohesive story!
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Thanks Bish. I liked Heavy Rain, though I think it’s a it weird that David Cage said the ‘plot hole’ was left in deliberately to create ambiguity.
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I’m actually finding the same. I was so excited about the Wii U last year, but this year, not so much.
I really want to get excited about it too.
I am looking forward to Tomb raider, but I really hope she doesn’t make all those “Ooh!” and “Aah!” noises will playing. I wouldn’t mind it if it didn’t seem to be happening all the time in the trailer.
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I think the only thing holding me back from jumping on the Wii U is Pikmin 3 gameplay footage. I expect they’ll seal the deal by the end of the week. 😛
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Yeah I’m sure I’ll get hyped eventually. I think I’m having trouble keeping up with the consoles.
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CJ’s Log. Week 1
Tomorrow will mark a week since I first ventured into the seemingly impenetrable forests of TAY. To my surprise it was not long before I found civilisation, the local people are most friendly and were quick to extend their hospitality toward me. They’re a very talkative bunch and fortunately for myself popular topics appear to be Video Games and Coffee.
While everyone is equal its clear to me that a few exceptional individuals take the reins to provide for the group as a whole. The group appears to be headed by a man known as Mark Serrels, and whilst seldom seen among the masses he does make his presence known and when he does speak his words are broadcasted for all. It would also appear he is powered entirely on a cola like substance and suffers from emotional attachments to robots.
Even at night there is still much activity, on my second evening here I encountered the dreaded monster known as Cthulhu, however despite all I’ve been told the creature is rather friendly and simply misunderstood.
I’ve overheard many a conversation about events known as ‘Meats’ the name itself I find a little unnerving as it conjures images of a unrestricted feasting of horrors most foul. Recently a new topic has shot into the limelight an annual event referred to as ‘E3’. I have encountered this before on my adventures and it does not surprise me to find it here but the people here acknowledge it more then any prior community I’ve encountered. Opinions fly fast as individuals announce and discus their expectations and what holds most importance to them from this years showcase, personally I am again infatuated with Assassins Creed and shall be rising early to watch the Ubisoft event unfold. Any news on the new Company of Heroes will also be most welcome.
It has truly been an eventful week here in the depths of TAY but I suspect the coming week will only more so as new information erupts from all corners. I know not how long I shall be here but I wouldn’t be surprised if by the time it comes for me to go the hairs on my chin have faded in their hue.
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Keep doing these logs and stay forever.
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Thats a long time
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But not long enough.
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TAY is a commitment, not a privilege.
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do what Shane said, but start every subsequent log with the words ‘star date’
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You just don’t want to be the only crazy author dude who post ridiculously long things. I am on to your little game shane. In saying that
Yes Stay forever.
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I miss Plainview 🙁
And Jeeves too, actually-
I think they have Twitter accounts!
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But he rarely talks!
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TAKE OFF YOUR PANTS
I guess there *are* a few civilized ones amongst the seething masses, though I dare say they’re few and far between. Mark does indeed appear as some kind of benevolent, omnipresent spectator.
You’ve managed to sum up TAY pretty well here, from what I’ve experienced too.
I read that in Picard’s voice too, you bastard!
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I beg to differ, sir. I believe that there are many civilised people here. Like myself, truly you will never find a more mature, eloquent, and downright attractive man than I.
Wait, what were we talking about again?
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I dunno but we should get some more feed: those civilised people we herded in here at knife point to spruce the place up are getting restless.
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wot? O_O
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Pfft, why would we feed them? Electroshock therapy is all they need. We can breed the weakness out of them, and ride our newly-realised civil horsemen into the sunset!
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Oh a select few to be sure but the others; gotta keep em healthy and fatten them up, you know, for after….
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And then suddenly:
Sky Whales
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*BBREEEAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWPSSQUEEEEEeee…!*
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LAWL I just choked on my sandwich, THANKS FLU
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You are most welcome.
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I think you’ve summed up the last meat quite perfectly.
But yes, stay. You won’t find a nicer community.
CJ’s Log, Week 2.
All I had to do was catch the damn train. But I couldn’t. :'(
I’m sorry, but everytime I see the letters CJ, I think of three things:
– CJ not catching the train in San Andreas
– Making CJ puke in San Andreas by eating too much
– Samuel L Jackson was excellent as Officer Tenpenny in San Andreas.
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BEST GTA game.
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Agreed.
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BEST GTA game!
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I’m torn between Vice City and San Andreas. Both were great in their own right. I’m interested in GTAV though, but not hyped, as GTAIV was a bit of a let down for me.
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Vice City is my favourite.
I loved GTAIV, even though it had its problems. I liked that they shifted it into something more serious, I liked that everyone you talked to was annoying, hell, I even liked the car physics, once I’d played it for fifteen hours and finally understood how to brake.
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Enjoyed GTAiv a lot, but couldn’t get motivated to go off-story at all. Lost and Damned was FANTASTIC, I thought, and Ballad was pretty good too.
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I don’t think so.
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In the sense that I, personally don’t think it was the best, but that’s okay. I really enjoyed VC.
Not in the “Nuh-uh! you’re wrong! *sassy African American lady finger wave*” way.
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I only console, and recently tried to do the whole series from GTA III on, but the console controls for III and VC are so difficult (when compared to SA and IV) that I couldn’t get more than a few minutes, and got decimated in my first gun fight in both games 😛
VC was pretty damn amazing in its day, but the controls didn’t hold up well (for console anyway)
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In terms of story, though, VC is definitely on par with SA.
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Well for me (played both on PC), it was more about the design and atmosphere.
I didn’t like SA’s countryside. GTA 3 and VC were these tightly designed cities that I knew like the back of my hand, but once I hit SA, it just felt… a lot like empty space. I think that sort of thing works well for RDR, but I didn’t dig it in GTA.
The vibrant 80’s atmosphere was a winner in VC, personally. It was just fun and enjoyable, over the semi-gloomy 90’s ghetto setting of SA.Both personal tastes though. SA is still a good game.
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I played VC on PC when I was a kid, and loved it. 80s feel was brilliant, and much better than the 90s feel of SA.
I agree with everything you said. SA is the only one I can play nowadays though, due to aforementioned control issues, so it kind of wins by default!
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Welcome CJ. You’re in for the wildest ride of your life (not really)
San Andreas is my favourite so far as well. I can’t wait to go back in GTA 5. I hope Rockstar return to some of the crazy missions in San Andreas.
CURSE YOU GTA SA!!!!! (never played it) forever shall you follow me T_T
One of us, One of us
HI CJ,
Welcome,
BRING OUT THE OAR!!
Regards,
Harli
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Who has The Oar at the moment? Last I heard, Rockets had custody.
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I think it was passed on to Rockets from f4ction. Unless Rockets has dropped it somewhere else hmmmmm?
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I’ve been informed that Rockets *was* in possession of it ’til he lost it. I also have NO idea what the Oar is, aside from a pronoun.
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perhaps its time for a new oar?
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NEVER!
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but… the Oar of Thorns has been misplaced. we need something to induct new TAYbies with…
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Yeah, you’re letting in all sorts of riff-raff lately.
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I get the feeling this is gonna be like the chair all over again.
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Like the chair in Casino Royale?
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That chair was sadistic. Hilarious, but sadistic.
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I caught an episode of Suburgatory at work today. I thought it was a desperate Housewives type thing, but it wasn’t actually that bad. Quite funny at times even. Anyone have any experience with the show?
Also, Alan Tudyk! \o/
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Yeah, I watch it every now and then. It’s good, there’s just some of the satire I wished they pushed a bit further. Still, that’s a minor quibble. Also, Tudyk = God and Sisto is pretty awesome.
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I enjoy him in the show but man was he irritating in Transformers 3.
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I’ve seen about the first 5 or 6 episodes. It’s not bad for a distraction. I’m not big on comedies but Suburgatory and New Girl are definitely both watchable, even enjoyable.
YES! LOOT CHEST BORDERLANDS WILL BE MINE!
Thanks NotoriousR for linking it earlier in TAY
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Actually, I should mention that too. Main reason I jumped in and got a chest edition was his link.
Cheers mang!
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I was feeling shitty this morning, I am feeling amazing now. You guys are awesome, anybody who says different well they are wrong, unless you do something dickish. In which case i forgive you for being dickish, everyone does something selfish or stupid every once in a while.
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Except for Shane!
He is pretty much perfect.-
/dreamy sigh
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and you can buy his book and read his blog at
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I need to meet this Shane. From all accounts he sounds great.
Hi Shane.
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RedArtifice met me at Oz Comic-Con and seemed suitably underwhelmed. I like that guy 🙂
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Come to the Canberra Meat, Shane will probably not be there, what with having a… 3 day old child? Damn, can’t remember the exact date.
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Pffft, he will be four days old. He can take it.
If wife is still in hospital, so will too be the baby (wow, bad sentence, but I refuse to edit it). I’m still hoping to pop around for a few minutes on my way to visit them one of those weekend days.
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And you can sign a bunch of copies of The Lesser Evil part 3! IT WILL BE AMAZING!
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You guys think way too highly of me. It’s a hard image to maintain. SO MUCH PRESSURE TO PERFORM.
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Nah man, just be yourself. Your awesome, awesome, self.
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I am going to be sooooo embarrassed at the Can’d Meat that I will retreat into a corner and stay there silently… until I realise that I’ve just accidentally sat on Bish doing the same thing.
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Until we hand you a controller, and make you play Little Big Planet. Then all will be well!
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TAY comes through again!
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Speaking of GTA – some friends and I spent about an hour on Saturday night playing GTA4 – spawning helicopters and bailing out to create the most hilarious deaths we could.
Best was a cop chopper spawning just above the player chopper and lopping off the rotors…
Anyone heard from freeze recently?
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Last week i did?
Its only Monday, i am sure he is fine. If he isn’t shotgun being new TAYBatman.
I have been practicing look
“i’m Batman”-
I’m Batman.
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Your not batman, you don’t even look like him your are Probably Clayface.
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I made a promise on the grave of my parents that I would rid this city of the evil that took their lives. By day, I am Bruce Wayne, billionaire philanthropist. At night, criminals, a cowardly and superstitious lot, call me… Batman.
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1. You told us your secret identity retard, now all the criminals know who you love and will use that against you
2. Worst batman voice ever you sound like a korean popstar saying that she was batman2/10 on the believability scale at best my friend. Why don’t you go down the street and find some cat that has climbed a tree and save it for some old woman who will give you a dollar to buy a ice cream champ and leave the real bad guys for us actual super heroes.
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To be fair, that fat Korean kid could belt out a tune like no other.
…Batman, you don’t sound like a fat Korean kid that sounds like Whitney Houston perchance, do you?
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I am the Batman. This is my city. At night it belongs to me.
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Bruce Wayne is a mask I wear, that I’ve been wearing since I was a child… but it’s become a liability, so it’s over. Bruce Wayne and his troubles aren’t my concern anymore. The only thing that matters now is my mission. Nothing will stand in the way anymore.
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2 bucks says that your mission is to get some tail
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What would I say…?… That I wanted her? That I didn’t care if she was married? That here we are trapped in Darkseid’s hell in space–death and torture all around us–and yet I would be nowhere else. Because of her. Because of Bekka. My beautiful, beautiful Bekka. God help me.
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Your such a downer stop making this all about you douche face.
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You called, I came.
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Yeah you did wink wink nudge nudge batlube batlube.
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Everyone needs a friend.
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Pansy
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There’s no reward in being right all the time.
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No but there is in being right some of the time. Sometimes helping others is its own reward. DID YOU EVER THINK ABOUT THAT BATMAN.
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Yes there is. The reward is that you’re never wrong.
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I’m not going to present you with a fairy-tale image of Gotham. It’s a hard luck town. It always has been. It’s a place of dark tragedies and bitter ironies. A city of deep shadows and sharp contrasts. A city that touches everyone who lives there. For good and bad. I see Gotham as an anvil. One is broken or tempered on it. So many trials. So much misfortune. So little hope. But some thrive there. Gothamites are a tough breed. They’re proud of their town and their talent for living in it. My family has lived there for two centuries. It was there that they built the financial giant that is a leading player in a half dozen industries. And it was Gothamites who helped build it. By their sweat and their labor and sometimes their lives they made Gotham a world competitor. Against all the odds. Maybe Gotham is inspiring in its own way. Inspiration spurred by fear. Or something even darker. But despite their troubles and their setbacks, Gothamites keep going. And there’s something noble about that. It’s an admirable trait, I think. Every city has its own personality. I like to think that dogged determination is Gotham’s. It’s a town that’s never had its hand out. That’s never played the victim. It’s a town that’s used to standing alone. It bears being maligned and forgotten. It helps itself. Even when the burdens become too great. Even when it should be screaming for rescue. But the people of Gotham know that justice can be an illusion. And rescue has its price. I guess what I’m trying to say is that Gotham can only help itself from this latest catastrophe — with your help — the country’s help. I know the people of my hometown will work hard to rebuild. I know they’ll repay this nation for any sacrifice it has to make. There’s simply more to be gained by helping us than abandoning us. And I’m betting my entire fortune on it. Without a single doubt or regret.
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That was delivered by Bruce Wayne in the most recent batman movie. You are all over the shop today.
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This is holy work for me. There’s little room for mistakes, and less for forgiveness.
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touche
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And as the sun, that had been too afraid to show its face in this city, started to turn the black into grey, I smiled. Not out of happiness. But because I knew… that one day, I wouldn’t have to do this anymore. One day, I could stop fighting. Because one day… I would win. One day, there will be no pain, no loss, no crime. Because of me, because I fight. For you. One day, I will win.
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I call you Bats. Does that mean I’m not a criminal? :'(
Your even worse than batman, the joker doesn’t cry seriously guys step up your acting abilities or at least read some source material about your characters first.
It’s not real crying. It’s pretend crying. You know, the kind where you pretend your sad than burst out laughing? Ahahahahaha!? No?
I’m sure I’ve seen/heard the joker do it somewhere before.
I got his email so I sent him nudie pix.
Of my wang.
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BTW mine didn’t come through properly, the wang is so small i assumed it was like a kids and i was like NOPE NOPE and deleted it. If you are going to send me these photos Dan! just be yourself.
Wow that went straight into way to far territory.
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Amazing.
Don’t ever change.
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What about if i change for the better, like get botox or develop muscles or get a oenis extender. WILL YOU HATE ME FOR BETTERING MYSELF, YOU ARE SUCH A JERK.
I mean love you babes.
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Oenis is a word i don’t care what you all say.
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are you on twitter? if you like that, its more of the same, but with MORE CAPS
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HOW DO I TWITTER
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@#35: I CAN HAS TWITTER NAO
@mythamphetamine
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hoorah! I’ve reciprocated your following!
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also, update TAYnames if you havent already.
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Oh I did, YOU KNOW I DID.
I can’t believe I joined twitter… I said the same thing about facebook. And Bebo, come to think of it.
*sobs*
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The O is for OH YEAH!
I want an email! But not of your wang…
He’s been on Twitter a bit over the weekend. He’s down with gastro and the flu, I think (it was a combination of two illnesses, that much I remember) so he’s got time off of work. Last I saw he was watching DBZ and relaxing, so I’d hope he’s doing about as well as you can be when you’re double-sick.
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Thanks for the update, glad to hear he’s alive
… for now anyway. gastro can be nasty.
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I wish I got the chance to get down with the Flu…
Clothes line: 2, Lambo: 0
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dont worry mate, you’ll get even in the second half.
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also, i’ve gotta ask – how do you keep doing these things to yourself? health insurance is gonna be a nightmare for you.
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Oh, I hope to be filthy rich by then. I’ll have a medical clinic built into my mansion 😛
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It got you twice?!
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hahahahahaha
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Injured again? How are you still alive?
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One day you’re going to lose a hand or something and not notice until somebody points it out to you some four hours later. :p
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Nah, I think I’d notice something like that. At least, I hope I would. D:
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@Blaghman RE: shady transport hubs
…you win. I think the most sobering experience I’ve had was being held at knifepoint in Belco. Seriously, if you want to take my money, my cigarettes, my car, just hold a knife to my throat.
(Don’t hold a knife to my throat)
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This is why you don’t go outside, folks.
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You live on political hill? Does that mean you’re coming to the Canmeat? Are you weird? Should I expect weird things from you?
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I lived in Calwell/Conder/Theodore area, I’d love to come to the Can’dmeat, I am weird, you should expect weird things from me.
But I’m in the other territory currently. When is this can’d meat on?-
Erm…June-ly?
I think it’s the 23rd of June, though someone who knows me than me about it might need to jump in with more accurate details…
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The man is right!
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Someone who knows you than you about it may indeed need to jump in with more details.
Additionally, I won’t be able to make it, much as I’d love to be in the ‘berra. I’d really like to get down to *one* of the meats, though December is likely the only time I’ll have free this year.
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*puts knife away*
Shane: I have something I would like to give you if you trust this Random Internet Person enough to give me a postal destination.
If you want it and have room for it. It currently hangs in my entrance hall but a few too many visitors are being disturbed by entering my home and seeing the message “Prepare to die”.
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Random Internet Person: I am intrigued and moved by your generosity. Thank you! Can you shoot me an email please: shane @ shanewsmith .com and we’ll work out an equitable trade, goods for goods.
If it’s what I think it is, I might be storing it in the garage alongside my Alan Wake poster in the hope that one day I will have a room of my own that I’m allowed to decorate the way I want – I swear, being married feels just like never leaving home sometimes 😛
Happy MonTAY everybody,
I am pretty late to the party and it is difficult to catch up on three pages because I have been doing SCIENCE today. Also, I just want it to be known (as I have voiced on twitter) that I absolutely do not want Shadow of the Colossus to be made into a movie. I just, for the life of me, cannot see it working. Plus it will have some dubstep electro soundtrack and Wanda/Wander will be cast as Ed Norton or something. Like, I even LIKE Ed Norton but I don’t want this movie. Okay, I am done.
Hope you all had a splendid weekend and a smooooooth MonTAY.
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in
SHADOW OF THE COLOSSUS
He Came. He Saw. He stabbed their glowing blue point
Coming 2013
“A colossal waste of time” – Roger Ebert
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I think it could work.
5 hours long, all done in a single take. Only whatsisface the bad dude ever speaks. Three of the hours are just Wanda and his horse, riding around, drinking some water, chilling, all that. Action scenes get progressively shorter, less epic, more sad.
Everyone is in tears by the end.
Well, anyone who sat through all five hours.
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I agree with you. I cannot think of a single thing, whether loyal to the source material or not, that would make this a good movie.
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I do sometimes do some creative writing re: my third playthrough of the game. I think myself an O.K writer but there is just no way to do justice to the source material, whether written or on film.
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This guy gets it.
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Friends! Thanks to a generous offer from Gorzy and Pyrean, I have been able to afford a a trip to see one of my favorite bands: Billy Talent! I was struggling with cash, and the requirement to book accommodation when they kindly offered to let me sleep on their couch! (Not sure if its cash,grass or ass yet).
This means I will be in Sydney from the 8th of August through to the 13th. I know you are all probably well and truly ‘meated’ out from the pezwarming, however, I would love to meat you all and catch up again with those I met last year.
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Billy Talent is going to Sydney, hmm did not know this. HAVE FUN STEVO
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You should come too Rocketman. Together we can raise the average level of boganity in Sydney to a record high.
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I am going to Melbourne in July, i think i will be all Asian’ed out after that, you have fun though.
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I and II were excellent, nay faultless, but III let me down a little. The newest single is awesome. If I could afford going again I would because when they were here for Soundwave their sideshow in Melbourne was one of the best shows I have ever seen. (Pre-III)
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Yeah I felt the same. III didn’t have the same ‘kick’, probably due to the average slower pacing of the songs (Turn Your Back is one of my favorites however). I haven’t heard their latest, will have to look it up now.
I missed when they were here for Soundwave. I was not impressed – I bought a ticket for Big Day Out purely to see them, then they changed festivals 🙁
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Viking Death March is the latest single. Much more fiery. I hear that the drummer has multiple sclerosis and has had major surgery and they are touring again which is nice. I think that perhaps that played a role in why III was a little “slower” as some would say. Still a good album, just lacking something. Anyway, hope you enjoy the new single. My gift to you.
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Aw, you leave the day before my 30th!
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Damn! Will have to make sure to have some pre-birthday drinks while I’m down.
Also, 30? From seeing you in person last year I thought you were in your mid-20’s maybe?
THE ANTI-AGING EFFECTS OF CURRY AND IRN-BRU
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All I read from that is “Hey Rize, Billy Talent is in Sydney in August, and you should come with me!”.
Hmm…
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That was pretty much the message. There was also a hidden plea for help in case Gorzy and Pyrean demand ‘ass’ as rent.
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Its cool i am pretty sure yours will be enough. See you don’t even need to recruit a friend for help. Just DON’T PUSH BACK, even if you are enjoying it. People in Mackay will smell the gay on you when you get back. You will be burned.
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Can you recommend a personal lubricant that is suitable for the job? Batlube?
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Batlube would work. Its pretty expensive though. Make sure its water based not oil based though.
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The tears of spent virgins…
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Well you gotta do something with the buckets of tears.
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Yeah, I always find there’s too much to fill the bath with. There’s only so many uses you can come up with, honestly.
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I know what you mean, its to salty to drink and not great for cooking.
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So Nintendo are easily the company with the most AND the best console selling IPs.
Microsoft have Halo.
What does Sony have? I love LBP and Uncharted but Console sellers? I’m not so sure. I’m sure they’d influence a purchase, but I know people who buy Nintendo hardware because of that *shudder* “Killer App”.
Anyone have any opinions on the subject? Anyone disagree?
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Oh man, Sony have Killzone!
*struggles to hold face straight*
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I disagree
I don’t know with what? (you see what i did there)
Actually without being a dick, i have never really thought sony ever had a game that made me want to buy there console. I always just thought it was the better console. I don’t have a PS3 because i have my computer for games now but yeah. I agree with you good sir.
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Metal Gear and GT have been pretty good at moving consoles.
Gears of War as well, but not as much because it doesn’t have any titles on older systems to make them want to get an Xbox for (same logic as Uncharted).
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Gran Turismo was great, and the Oddworld games too. And Crash. And Spyro. And Ratchet and Clank.
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I agree with the Gears thing. It’s ability to shift consoles is limited due to the fact that fans already have the console.
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MGS is a good call. I know so many people who bought the PS3 for MGS4.
Not sure that’ll help much in the future now that they’ve gone more multiplatform.
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I’ve always thought Sony was the best when it came to exclusives. Uncharted, Infamous, God of War, Killzone, Resistance, Heavy Rain, Little Big Planet.
As well as Halo Microsoft also has Fable and Gears of War.
I’ve mentioned it before but I don’t really have much of an interest in Nintendo’s exclusives in recent years. I still like the handheld Pokemon and Zelda games but beyond that there’s nothing that really appeals to me.
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I duuno about the Wii selling obscene numbers of consoles because of one or two ‘killer apps’
I think Nintendo market the experience of gaming more than the games themselves. and its worked bloody well for them.
When I think about it, every wii ad I can recall, mainly shows a group of people playing the console & having fun. the software is only a peripheral concern & doesnt get much screen time at all. maybe a box shot at the end of the ad…-
True, but I have my Wii* for a select few games. The PS3 was bought because we needed to replace our DVD player(and my mother likes Singstar), and the 360 was because at the time I didn’t have a PC that could run two year old games at all, let alone current ones.
*While I run stuff through a Wii emulator, we do have a Wii upstairs. But it’s there for Zelda, for Mario, and for a select few others.
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oh, I’m not saying the IPs were the reason the Wii sold so well, just that there are people who bought the hardware because of them.
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played mario kart for a bit with some mates, then stopped entirely until Skyward Sword came out 😛
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I don’t think I’ve ever bought a console due to specific game. Except, perhaps, the original Xbox/Halo. Although I bought that quite late and was just stepping up a generation.
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the 3DS had Ocarina of Time 3D, Mario Kart and Super Mario 3D Land which I definitely think helped pick things up (coupled with the price drop).
The Wii had Twilight Princess and launch which didn’t harm it’s day one sales.
I know I bought a Wii for Twilight Princess and a 3DS for Ocarina of Time 3D
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I bought a 3DS for Kid Icarus (which is what initially wow’d me) and the Marios. Also… *cough* Pilotwings…
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If anything the Wii console-seller was Wii Fit (or similar). Loads of people bought Wiis for those “games”
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Yes but the 360 and PS3 have other high selling games on them, even if they are not M$ or Sony IP’s.
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Gran Turismo!! I always loved Gran Turismo.
There’s Final Fantasy & Metal Gear as as well. Even if Final Fantasy in recent times has become available on the Xbox & PC…
Computer update.
Still buggered. Trying with another hard drive again. Had to play with the BIOS settings and the BIOS on this motherboard is just straight up weird. You can use a mouse!
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*munches popcorn*
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Using a mouse in the BIOS?
BURN THE WITCH!
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Man, you have the worst luck with computers.
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Quite a few new BIOSeses have mouse support now. I still haven’t figured out why. Who would want a user-friendly BIOS?
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Hell, the latest BIOS I was playing in even LOOKED pretty. What the hell is wrong with the world?!
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Isn’t it because of the move to UEFI?
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It’s raining. And it has been raining here since midday.
🙁
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It’s raining men?
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Nope, raindrops.
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Rocketman just wants to get ab-so-lute-ly soak-ing wet!
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Are falling on my head that doesn’t mean my eyes will soon be turning red, cryings not for me. oh raindrops keep falling on my head because i m free. Nothings worrying me.
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Don’t you go out in the raaaaain
Don’t go out (in the)
POURING RAIIN
If you go out in the raaaaain
You never get that … time again! -
Oh my love, it’s you and that I dream of,
Oh my love, since that day,
Somewhere in my heart I’m always,
Dancing with you in the summer rain. -
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it!
‘Cause it took so long to bake it!
And I’ll never have that recipe again…
OH NOOOOOO… -
Give that man the prize
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I know, right?
What a champ.
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Singing in the rain,
Just singing in the rain!
What a glorious feeling,
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Stormy weather…
Since my man and I ain’t together…
Keeps raining all the time.
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DRAGON ARE AMAZING
that is all.
Another Adelaidean?
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It’s raining here? I need to get out of the lab.
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Hermes and Thoth.
DOING SCIENCE.
Pantheon?
Hi TAY!
I’m in the middle of a metaphorical (just in case you thought otherwise) shit storm right now so if I’m quiet for the next few days you’ll know why.
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A literal shit storm is the best and worst thought I will have today.
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YES! Oh man, thank you both, so much for that terrible, terrible image.
Take care Batgirl, make sure to take an umbrella-
Umbrella AND a rain coat.
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And GUMBOOTS!
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If I close my eyes I can hear the sound of chunks hitting the office windows.
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Turdnado.
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poonami
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Poocipitation
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typoone
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Scat-tered showers
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Wait!
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You guys win. You win it all. Here, have the internet.
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Oh nose! The wind is breaking!
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HI BATGIRL!
Take a (metaphorical) umbrella with you.
also, hope the tempest passes quickly.
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or take a literal umbrella with you. might come in handy over the next few days.
Hey little one (not offensively)
If you do need someone to talk to i wouldn’t mind at least letting you vent or you know you could yell at me for calling you little one. But seriously i have massive ears. Oh also hope your okay.
We are here for you etc, etc.
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And by that I mean you have like several ways of contacting me if you need to vent.
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
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oh Cakesmith…
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Hahaha!
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Cakesmith is Bruce Wayne?!
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No he’s just Batmans stand in. You know when Batman has more important things to do =P
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I hope you found time for Potaku!
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Lawl.
🙁
I liked it when Jugsy joined TAY and posted lots and was funny and made me laugh and stuff.
Those were good times.
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Aw, I’m sorry Greenius.
We’re all here for ya! Hope all is well and you get through it all unscathed!
Ok, what I’ve managed to take from today.
Twitter sucks with the character limit and lack of formatting.
No matter how many times I say it to myself, I keep getting amazed by this community.
My company’s accounting/bookkeeping/inventory/logistics software and all involved developers and salespeople need to die in a fire, while I punch them repeatedly.
The office is REALLY EMPTY this week. Swivel chairs have never been such fun.
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Swivel chairs are always fun. ALWAYS.
Also, I think TAY has spoiled me – nowhere else I know is as awesome as TAY, either virtual or real, and will never live up to the gloriousness exhibited on a daily basis in here.-
Office chairs + nerf guns = John Woo shenanigans 🙂
And I like Twitter’s limit, it really forces you to get creative and be economical with your language. Of course sometimes you write the perfect tweet and it is one character too long, and then you have to decide what grammar crime you must commit…-
Which grammar crime* :p
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Ha!
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If you punched people who were dying in a fire, wouldn’t you burn your hands?
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It’d be worth it, one thousand times over.
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Eh, the character limit is half of the fun. Expressing yourself in 140 characters encourages brevity, which is a virtue not to be sneered at
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In fact I find myself naturally composing sentences and phrases in one hundred and forty characters, it’s a good length for writing articles
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Beauty can be found in brevity, certainly. I think it’s the formatting (or lack thereof) that annoys me thus far.
With that said though, it’s not like I try for the “dirty pretty” crap that’s becoming seemingly evermore popular o.0-
The formatting thing allows it to be read easily by multiple readers. It was originally imposed so that tweets would be confined to one sms.
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Yeah, I figured that was the reason behind the 140 character limit, wasn’t aware of the reasons behind the formatting limitations. Oh well, restrictions are a blessing for the creative soul!
I’ve been pining to start writing again lately, though I’ve just been too damned lazy. Perhaps with a 140 character limit, it’ll get the juices flowing once more. -
Trust me, you do get quite used to it. in fact, all of my posts in this conversation have been exactly one hundred and forty characters long
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I had noticed! I guess it’s taking a little longer to get used to, as my screen is 23″, and not ~3″.
Give me a phone, and I’ll bang out 140 characters without missing a beat.
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Thanks for the great talk today folks. Made the day go nice and fast. See y’all later.
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Ciao bella 😉
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well aint you a smooth operator :p
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though Bella is the feminine form, so yeah…
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Diamond life, lover boy!
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Great talk? damn I missed something. This is my firs time on TAY today, and I don’t have time to read through the past pages.
Quick someone summarise the last 4 pages for me-
HAPPYBORTHDAYTAKEOFFYOURPANTSUMBRELLASANDSHITSTORMSWE’RESTUCKIN2005
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This is a seriously good summary!
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Shameless repost from reddit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le23bsVURds
Having fun in Metal Gear Solid 3.
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Luke?
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What did I just watch?!
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I saw this before… is this with any hacks or just the vanilla game played in a really odd way?
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Didn’t know what was going on
Watched it all anyway hah, man I really need to beat MGS3 😛
I need assistance D=
Does anyone know some good websites to find good restaurants in your area?
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eatability.com.au
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I’m checking there now but I can’t seem to find anything Mum would like =(
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just do a general keyword search & then use the limiters on the laft hand side to narrow the results by type of food / price / atmosphere.
or you can browse by restaurant type / location etc.
but yeah, its a fugly site & tricky to navigate, but really useful.
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Thanks
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Trip Advisor does restaurant reviews. Just type in your town name and you should get some ratings pop up.
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Maybe I should explain a bit more. It’s for Mum’s 60th Birthday. My Uncle is “vegetarian” but will eat Chicken and Fish. It makes it very awkward. We’re trying not to find anywhere too expensive as well. >_<
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Eatability, head for Asian style places mostly. Cheap, cheerful, good selection and good standard vego food. That’s my default.
Also: UrbanSpoon.
Compare reviews between the two sites and you should be good.
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Thanks, Mum doesn’t like Asian though. Awkward =P
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Indian?
You’ve got a hard task!
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Urbanspoon is a pretty good one
YES! Just caught up on TAY (took well over an hour…) but it seems like my replies will be seen on the new page (shutup I’m Needius). So here’s stuff:
Downloaded and will listen to the rest of Potaku soon, I promise!
At first I didn’t care about E3 but it looks like it’s going to be pretty interesting this year!
@Powalen – Happy Birthday!
@Rocketman – I’m going to hug the shit out of you, cheer ya brah.
@Chuloopa – Nowai! I also had Finance exam today. 3 hours! Gahhhh! Except it’s my first exam of my 2nd Year (Tri-semesters are weird!). How’d you go? What was it about? I sort of hated finance in my first year but it grew on me :P. Guess I’ll major in it then…
@Qumulys – !!!!!!!!!!! Sounds like you’ve got a lot on your plate but you are famous around these parts. I’ve been cruising Kotaku for years (since like 2008-9) and your name is one of the few names I remember from my time as a lurker (posted under a different name). We may have talked before, we may have not but hopefully things get sorted out and you can rejoin TAY .
@NovaCascade – Just read the email, no problem :). Looked like no one had claimed it on last TAY so I assumed it was still free. I’ll gift you Aquaria later today or something 😀
@Pixel The Ferret Viking – Canberra GOOGOGOGOGO! (and take me along too, ROADDDDTRIPPP)
@Doc What? – IMO Nintendo definitely has the best IPs and first party games but Sony is close behind (you forgot about Ratchet, Jak (perhaps not so relevant now), Sly, inFamous, Journey etc.). Either way Microsoft is definitely last for me.
@Steve-O and others – HOLY FLIPPING PANCAKES!!! BILLY TALENT FANS!!! WOOOOO!
Man this is crazy! They’re my favourite band and pretty much NO ONE knows about them. I’ve introduced most of my friends to them so it’s safe to say I got a shitton of people into them but to find others who already know about them is awesome! I originally heard their demo for Red Flag on Burnout and loved it. Went and “obtained” copies of their first album (as Billy Talent) and what was out of II. Picked up a guitar and decided to each myself mainly playing their songs. I used to jam on the guitar for hours just playing Billy Talent. Sadly I’ve forgotten most of their songs but will shamelessly post vids below for no specific reason. Ian D’sa has magic fingers.
I think the first time they came to Australia (or Melbourne) was back in 09 or so. I was too young to see them and was incredibly disappointed. Even made an account on their forum and expressed my disinterest and Jon (the bassist) replied. Woo! Me and some mates got tickets to see them in August so this should be awesome! I’m not the type to go to concerts (or mosh pits) and to be honest I’ve kinda stopped listening to music (and them) and wasn’t really excited about their new song or tour but now I’m definitely pumped.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BILLY TALENT
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That was bigger than I thought (that’s what she said) but more Billy Talent stuff:
For me it’s II > I > III > Pezz > EP stuff
I played the shit out of II on guitar.
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I always get Billy Talent & Biffy Clyro confused. & then I’m slightly disappointed when I end up putting on a Billy Talent album :p
(thats a joke by the way. II is a great album)
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Though to be honest, I do prefer Biffy Clyro’s Puzzle.
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I think for nearly everyone it would be that equation but I probably change it to I = II > III > ….. etc. because I and II are definitely two of the most well-written straight up rock albums of their time (like, not arena rock stuff/rolling stone stuff, but that sort of scene associated with BT) Viking Death March, the new single, makes me hold high hopes for the next album. I heard it may be called Billy Talent X, as opposed to IV. I am scared and confused.
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I think I read that it’s not going to be a part of their “trilogy” (self titled, II, III) and will be called X, perhaps the start of a new trilogy.
And yeah I’d also like to say I = II but I memorised all of II on guitar and barely played I so I guess I just prefer it for that reason 🙂
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Hell yeah man. They are awesome. To be honest, I didn’t like them at all when my mate showed them to me ages ago (I hated scream-o and any screaming in music) but these guys make it work. They don’t have a single song that I dislike.
Ian D’sa has magic fingers and magic hair.
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“The higher your hair, the closer you are to God”
Ian D’sa – some point in his life
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Oh man that Johnny Bravo hair of his is AMAZING
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Shameless self promotion:
Picked up some old classical guitar and taught myself sometime in late 2006. I mainly played Billy Talent songs and after a while I got my first electric guitar. It was a really cheap crappy “starter pack” type that came with an amp but it served its purpose. I recorded some songs and popped them on YouTube mainly for myself but somehow people have stumbled across them. I recorded them using the built in webcam and mic on my old Laptop so the quality is the absolute worst. Combine that with a bad guitar and amp and you’ve got a terrible noise.
Some of my ‘latest’ (from like 2009) guitar videos were recorded using the same webcam/mic combo but somehow have a better audio quality. It also decided to only work on the right speaker. My later songs are from III and while also a crappy quality, I did upgrade my guitar and amp so they sound slightly better. The limited edition of III also came with tracks that omit the guitar so you can jam along and thus there’s less background noise (so check them out!)
For someone who taught themselves I think I’m alright :P, back then I used to play nearly every day but a few years ago I kind of gave up. I’d pick up the guitar every now and then but I’ve forgotten most songs. Some of the videos are pretty bad but I was slightly better in real life 😛
My name on YouTube is Greenius (who would’ve thought) see my stuff, or don’t, doesn’t bother me :D. I’m just happy I’m not the only one who likes Billy Talent!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc-2l_hbiVQ&feature=channel&list=UL
Here’s me playing Turn Your Back. If you want to see more I’d recommend just watching the later stuff (Tears Into Wine, The Dead Can’t Testify, Cut The Curtains).
BILLLY TALENTTTTTTTTTTTTT
After prior comments I finally went and watched the train video from GTA SA. All the youtube commenters hate me =( No wonder though Im terrible when it comes to using a motercycle.
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It’s youtube. Seriously, that “community” is worse than all the *chans, combined.
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Youtube commenters… you’re that surprised? Just ignore them
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The one reason I don’t want to start a Youtube show is my already fragile ego and the trollssssss in the dungeon (YT)
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Human, one thing you want to remember. You’re not doing it for them, you’re doing it for those who want to see your content, or want to help you make content, like myself. 🙂
I got huge self esteem problems as many here know, but I’d gladly join in on this hence why I mentioned before, a kotakuAU community channel would be awesome!
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Yeah, perfect time to do it too with the Potaku stuff going on.
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Wait a moment…. I dont ever remember being a black guy or a gangster.
Its Game of Thrones night! Season finale! =D
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*shaking*
It’s also Mad Men night and that season finale is next week. Then I have to wait for a whole month before Breaking Bad is back. Any suggestions for TV shows to fill that gap?
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Futurama starts in two weeks…
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TRUE BLOOD!
Seriously, season 5 is about to drop.-
…….PAHAHAHA.
Not in a million years.
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It’s not *quite* as bad as Twilight.
…it’s my dirty little secret. I’ll show myself out. -
I thought the first and second season had great atmosphere, interesting stories. Then I saw the start of the third season. Seemed they structured every scene on how they can get guys to take their shirts off. I suppose there’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s not for me. 😛
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True Blood used to be pretty good, but the last season was not very great. The Vampire Diaries is where the TV Vampire action is at.
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I disagree.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer will always have my heart. (As long as Joss is attached, I’m lookin’ at you reboot.)
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True Blood season 4 was awful, even compared to the author-insert vampire slashfic that the source book was. I really hope season 5 is an improvement, though considering the depths of awful it’s pulling itself up from I can’t see how it could be anything but.
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No idea! I rarely watch much TV these days. I’ll miss Monday night GoT madness.
Mad Men is freakin’ amazing. That is all.
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Treme is a fairly underrated HBO show. Two seasons in, but only ten eps a season so not too intimidating. One of those slow burn kind of shows. About musicians in post-Katrina New Orleans.
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Couldn’t really get into it- Whilst I’m no stranger to slow burn shows, there was nothing really pulling the plot forward for me.
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I warmed to a couple of the characters early on and that was enough to get me through the slow start, I agree, it is a little unfocused though. Definitely an acquired taste, though.
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(Note to self, stop saying though. :P)
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The Clone Wars? 😛
Tron Uprising looks cool. It starts this Friday.
The Wire, The Wire, and The Wire.
Oh! As a redeemer, check out Dollhouse if you haven’t already.
Is it only five weeks until more Breaking Bad??? HELLS YEAH
Game of Thrones long weekend coming up – been waiting to be able to watch the whole season in one hit.
Any one watch The Killing? I hear it was supposed to be the next big thing, the season finale aired and everyone turned on it. Worth watching?
Just browsed around Gizmodo Whitenoise, just to see what was happening… and I ended up finding this:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/06/whitenoise-gizmodo-community-talkback-50/comment-page-1/#comment-294801
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The man speaks Truth!
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I’d ask him how he feels that string theory invalidates evolution, but I’m afraid of the level of stupid I’d get in the answer.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8478170/fake-zombie-attacks-miami-residents
Lol awesome prank, probably the wrong country to do it in…
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Luckily someone didn’t feel the need to stand their ground. :S
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Approving editor: Henri Paget
I can just imagine that on the editing room floor. “My name’s Henri Paget, and I approve of this message”.
Sick 🙁
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That sucks, man. Feel better.
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Fully
Some Indian girl from “Microsoft” just called and told me I had a virus. I was told to run “eventvwr” but instead I just googled it. Turns out it was a fat scam and I gave her a piece of what was on my mind. Hope she cries in her sleep!
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People who go out of their way to scam others are dispicable. :S
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This is always a scam. Always.
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You should have played along, but pretended it wasn’t working 😛
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“Oh, wait. You mean I’m supposed to turn my computer on first?”
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I know right? I can’t believe I hung up so quickly. I hope they call again so i can pretend to whip out my credit card =p
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I got them yesterday. Played the old I have a mac card. I’ve never been hung up on before by them
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I got one of those last Thursday or something. I pretended to play along but acted really dumb so he had to tell me over and over what to do. Then I decided I was bored and gave him a telling off.
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Unfortunately they do succeed on the odd occasion. Particularly with the older generation, which is horrible.
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I usually just hang up as soon as they say they’re from Microsoft.
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The minute you say that, they hang up.
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1) I dont own a computer
2) I own a Mac
3) Play along, as though I don’t know what a computer is. Slowly get to event viewer. Start pretending the line’s bugging out. When the operator says there are errors in event viewer I quickly change tack and pretend they’ve called me for customer support, start trouble shooting the event viewer logs (that guy swore at me before hanging up. I guess I did take about an hour of his time).
4) The key for my windows? Yes, I know where it is. You want me to open my windows? No, I can’t see anything wrong, I just washed them two days ago!-
heh I like to tell them I work for Microsoft too! “Oh really?! You work for Microsoft? What’s your employee number? We should totally get together and do lunch sometime!”
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They tried the scam on my mother once, which was pretty funny since I actually do work for MS on Antivirus stuff.
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a call i had
“sir there is something wrong with your firewall, do you know what a firewall is?”
me: “yes”
*long pause*
telemarketer: “no there is nothing wrong with your firewall”
me: “but you just said it’s my firewall”
him: “no, it’s not about your firewall, its about your firewall” (i kid you not, that’s what he said)
*i hang up*i think he just shat his pants when he realised that i actually knew things about computers xD
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That is probably exactly what happened.
I tell everyone I know who uses computers that it is a scam
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Apparently someone named Kate was trying to sell her Laser (the car) to Australian Fleet Sales, and she gave them my mobile number. I’ve been getting calls from them all afternoon. I think they got the message that they had the wrong number after the 5th time they called
So I decided to raise the clothes line so it’s higher than my head this time.
Clothes line: 2, Lambo: 1
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It’s probably already scheming against you, revenge will be sweet. 😛
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You’re like some kind of freaky genius!
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I know, right? I knew my mother was right when she said I was gifted 😛
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I can’t lower mine. I’m 183cm and my line is about 170cm =(
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You are a very tall cake then.
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I can relate to that. But now there is a deck out back so I stand above the line. Dont even have to touch the grass. So you should build a deck.
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Ya! Everything I did today is for naught!
Makes me feel so special.
I wish I was special.
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And today we honour the rhyming title upon Mawt, Achiever of Naught.
Riiiiiiiiiiiissssseeeeeeee, Lord Vader.
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But I’m a freeeeeeak!
I’m a weirdo…
What the hell am I doing heeeeeeeere?
I don’t belong heeeeeere…-
Now all I can think about is the homeless guy who sang the awesome cover of it.
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http://au.pc.gamespy.com/pc/remedy-project-next-gen-title/1224952p1.html
Seems to be viral marketing for something Alan Wake related. I wonder if it’ll be part of Microsoft’s show?
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Alan Wake was pretty good. I should probably get American Nightmare at some point.
I just realized that I have my laptop/ writing station turned 90 degrees to my drawing workstation.
I’d take photos, but my camera isn’t working… 🙁
GUYS GUYS GUYYYYYSSS.
Remember months ago I bought this awful smelling face cream? I FINISHED IT YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
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It took you that long to eat it?
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You stole my joke!
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I’m sorry bro, forgive me?
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Yeah, .
I forgive you, brah!
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Not as bad as cream made from faeces, I’d wager.
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Or placenta
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I like the way you think!
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Batgirl said there’s placenta in certain hair products
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Yeah I think I remember hearing something along those lines.
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There is, but weren’t we talking about face-cream?
Confus :s
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OMG I DO! AND I REMEMBER WHAT BRAND IT WHAT TOO
PHILOSOPHY’S
JAR OF HOPE OR SOMETHING?? YES? NO?
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YES YES! IT STILL SMELLS BAD. BUT LESS SO. I KIND OF WANT TO BUY IT AGAIN.
wtf moderation! WHAT IS THIS
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HI HARLI!
I have determined I can’t play Skyrim for extended periods of time. After all the prettiness wears off going from quest to quest is so dull.
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Where’s my pitchfork? WWWAAAAAAARRRGGHHH!
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Have you tried random mods for some sandbox fun? I’ve been watching some mod videos and they look hilarious. I don’t own the game but I’m sure some exploding chicken mods or farting dragon shouts mods should help alleviate some of the dullness.
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I like the laugh track one.
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Forgive me father, for I have sinned.
In possibly the most glorious fashion possible. To all baconnoiseurs of TAY; I urge you to break free from the conventions and convections of yesteryear! I once was blind, but now I see.
MARINADE THINE BACON!
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Also, if you drop some margarine in a pan while the bacon is cooking, it makes it taste awesome.
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Today’s cooking talk has come full circle. Now you’ve got to do the dishes, man. 😛
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Alfoil and spray-oil, NO DISHES!
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That’s madness!
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-165/comment-page-7/#modal-permalink
CJ
Kia ora, are you Batguy’s sidekick or some such?
Batgirl
HA! He’s *my* sidekick
I know this is days old, but… Say what??
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The fact that it took days for you to comment is why 😛
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Ah! But Batgirl is Barbara Gordon, who’s also Oracle. Oracle was supposed to give Batguy the heads up, but didn’t. Pretty shameful if you ask me.
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Im sorry Batguy, you took too long. Now you will always be the sidekick
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Nope. He will always be Batguy. Batgirl is just RahRahReiby in disguise. 😛
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Oh she is? Damn I was hoping it was the real batgirl and to get an autograph one day =(
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See this is what I figured. She bounced around between aliased before deciding who to follow round. I’ve had this handle since the 90s!
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Aww guys Trololol man died D=
http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/trololo-dead-stroke-stpetersburg-898/
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That is sad news indeed. T_T
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To mourn the passing of Eduard Khil, I shall dedicate this song to him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsveiPJcxlE
RIP
Mmmmmm, What’s better than five Vita-Weats?
Spreading Nutella on the top of four of them and stacking them together.
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How do you propose to eat such a monstrosity? Surely you can’t fit it in your mouth?
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Easily.
In fact, I’m eating it right now-
*Tips hat*
Good effort!I sometimes split them in half and eat them with a little butter and honey or jam, but your creation sounds truely inspired!
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I’m more partial to French Onion dip and Jatz biscuits for late night snacking. The whole box and nothing less.
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Man I want french onion dip & a box of jatz now…
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You’re welcome. 😛
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I’m waiting.. =P
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Good luck with that. 😀
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Damn it!
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Mmm, French Open dip…
5 PS Vitas?
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Touchè.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/350876/heavy-rain-devs-next-game-is-called-beyond/
Quantic Dream’s reveal seems pretty imminent…
(Thanks nomadsoul at Adventure Gamers for the heads up!)
Early opinions on Arkham City (currently chasing Penguin around the Museum)
1) I prefered Arkham Island. The whole industrial setting just doesn’t sit well with me for some reason. Sure the inside of some of the buildings is more interesting, the Museum and the ice floor in particular. Although the raft is making me beg for a jump button. But the overworld seems too dirty, I know its a prison but I personally don’t like that sort of aesthetic (big words 🙂 )
2) I feel bad for Mr Freeze. I don’t have any sort of exposure to the Batman comics, but I know his general backstory from Asylum and now City. Univat whfg chyyrq uvz sebz crathva’f pbyyrpgvba gnax and having Batman guilt him into helping by suggesting what might happen to his wife, I feel bad for the guy. He’s just trying to save his wife, who wouldn’t try to do that?
3) Now that the combat has clicked again, and I’ve got the critical strikes flowing, it doesn’t feel like I need any of the special moves or takedown anymore. I can just bounce from one grunt to the next barely getting touched. The body armour and knives that have just started to be introduced will probably up the ante though
4)There’s some top quality voice acting going on here. The Joker is obviously great, but I really like what they did with Zsasz, Freeze and Harley too. I think Harley has a different voice actor than Asylum, is that right? I can’t remember what she sounded like in Asylum, but she sounds great in this one.
5) Don’t explain if I find out later, but what’s the deal with TYGER? Did they get introduced in Asylum and I’m forgetting or have they just popped out of the snow. Like daisies! (Brownie points for the reference)
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The game slowly peels back the layers through the Arkham City stories. You’ll get the full picture soon enough. The Gotham skyline, blimps and flood lights completely hooked me on the setting, I’ve got to say…
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They did indeed change Harli’s voice actress.
And the combat does get a lot harder towards the end, so you do need to mix it up, but not a huge amount really.
And the important thing about Freeze is that he was a pretty terrible character, until he appeared in Batman The Animated Series, which fleshed him out as a relatable character. They’ve since built up his character, so he’s a pretty cool dude, he does the wrong things for the right reason.
And Tyger have basically just appeared from nowhere, just roll with it.
Also, while the voice acting is top notch, some of the dialogue is… well… Let’s say it’s very comic booky in terms of writing.
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Cool dude – I see what you did there
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I keep doing that by accident. :/
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Hi 😀 i like having my voice changed every day!
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I really need to play Arkham Asylum, well more so finish it!
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Where did you get up to?
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Um I was in a court yard and the bat mobile was in the middle of it and uh yeah.. I really can’t remember, I was really enjoying it too, would’ve been oh god, just after it came out since my PC crapped itself about 14 months ago and only just replaced it 6 weeks back…
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I did enjoy playing the game, but by the end it left me feeling like really “Tales of the Riddler: The 400 Riddler Challenges + Batman (and a bit of Catwoman)”
And you will definitely need those takedowns by the end for the very reason you state.
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Yeah, so many trophies. Do you get to a point where you can freely swap between Batman and Catwoman? Or do I have to remember to go back and get the Catwoman trophies whenever I happen to be controlling her?
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You can switch around later to clean up at will, so I’d just recommend worrying about playing the main plot to begin with.
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Cheers. I’ll try but I keep getting distracted by other stuff – Zsasz’s phone calls in particular
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Oh, those things are still cool when they emerge. I was mainly referring to the Riddler trophies. It’s just not worth going out of your way for them till after you finish, because half the time you don’t even have all the stuff you need to do them.
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Hahaha! Arnie!
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I only watched that movie once when I was about 8. I have no opinions about Arnie as Freeze
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He is amazing.
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Finally got around to trying my copy of Uncharted Golden Abyss. It plays like crap. 🙁
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Gave up after Drake fell off a shitty tilt beam thing to his death for the fifth time. The shooting is bad enough, but they’ve managed to break the parts of the proper trilogy that were actually fun at the same time.
OH MY GOD
I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED ALLERGIES BEFORE
BUT THEY SUCK
I think I may have to take the day off work (unrelated, I’m also sick on top of this allergic reactionything)
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WATCHING E3 WILL MAKE YOU BETTER
IDK about the rest of yas but I’ve wrapped myself up in my dooner and am ready to start E3. Bring on the terrible actors trying to play games!
Man.
Those were… some conferences.
13 games (kind of) from Microsoft. Though I hope you like Kinect…
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Urk.
I was thinking that if the game-makers brought out less games, and concentrated on making their good ones great instead of showering us with a bazillion games and features hardly anybody wants I’d happily pay more for games. There’s just so many games already out that I’m looking forward to playing that I don’t really care about anything new coming out or being announced.
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The games that interested me were Tomb Raider and Splinter Cell, which are both multiplatform, and Halo 4, which has really piqued my interest.
The other games include Forza Horizon, which could be interesting, the South Park RPG, which could be interesting, then a bunch of Kinect/Not very good looking XBLA games(or, 2 which got no showing, so I have no opinion on)/and sports games.
The tablet stuff they showed could be really cool, but may well be terrible/pointless.
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EA on the other hand basically just mixed the “core” titles with other titles. 10 games total, Crysis 3 looked no different from 3, Medal of Honor Stupid Subtitle looked like a prettier version of Call of Duty Modern Warfare. Dead Space looked like Gears of Lost Planet Space.
Sim City could well be cool, and I’m hoping for a good game, NFS repeated subtitle looked like Burnout Paradise with cops, which I’m all cool for.
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I don’t think I’ll be very interested until I see something new. It’s all sequels and reboots and licenses. It just doesn’t excite me. And I hate Kinect. I never hated it until I got it. It’s just too unreliable.
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LANA FROM ARCHER HOSTS UBI CONFERENCE
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Aisha Tyler is so fabulous.
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But spazzing around in the lounge room has never been more fun.
Apparently Quantic Dream’s game is called Beyond Two Souls and stars Ellen Page. There were leaked screenshots a few hours ago, but they’ve been taken down. Looks like we’ll have to wait until the Sony show. (Sorry for posting so much last night as well, was trying to off-set a bad day. Will slow my posting down considerably.)
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Don’t be sorry, just come to Bunny’s Meat and all will be forgiven! 😛
Seriously though, no need for an apology, it’s not like you were documenting your every waking second here and using TAY as a diary. You’re fine. 🙂
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Oh, and about that Quantic Dream game…that’s the first bit of gaming news I’ve been interested in all week!
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Thanks, Strange. I think every one here secretly craves your approval. 😛 I wonder if this project is linked to Omikron: The Nomad Soul from the ’90s, the only Quantic Dream game I haven’t played.
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Everyone here automatically has my approval. Maybe I should get a big “APPROVED!” rubber stamp to stamp everywhere. That’d be all kinds of fun. 😀
Omikron: TNS is one of my favourite games. So memorable. It was way ahead of its time and so very cool. Plus David Bowie. I had no idea it was a Quantic Dream game though. Now I understand.
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Here’s leaked screenshots if you’re intesreted. (Though personally I think you should wait to see it in action at e3. I know it’ll be more mind blowing that way.) http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=476788
Now it seems obvious why Naughty Dog changed Ellie in The Last of Us to look less like Ellen Page.
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Seriously impressive looking.
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Secretly? We openly weep and lament when it isn’t forthcoming.
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If you want post, then post. No need to apologise. It’s not like you’re Chuloopa trying to convince us to buy Space Marine 😛
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Or that Shane guy who won’t shut up about writing. That’s not even games related! Sheesh
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Quantic Dream is my Space Marine. It rhymes, so it’s got to be true.
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I hear you there!
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It has Ellen Page. I need it in my pants.
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I have such a star crush on Ellen Page.
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Guys, it’s Juno! I keep thinking of her as 16, and cannot maintain any kind of crush.
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I loved her in Juno, but have been incredibly impressed with her since Inception. She might have that hipster type cast thing going for her, but she’s still a damn fine actress. (I secretly hope her love interest in Beyond Two Souls is Michael Cera, though. :P)
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I don’t think she was 16 then, but her character was.
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Wasn’t her character 14?
She was something like 18 when filming Hard Candy, which would put her older still at Juno.
Pretty sure she’s 24-25 ish.
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So, enough about E3, here’s some real news.
I’ve started writing by hand again, working on a new project (yeah, because what I really needed was another project!). The working title before I started writing it was “Kiss of the Dragon”, but now I’m leaning more toward something like “Illumination and Misdirection.” I like both titles, but I don’t love either. In the last two weeks, I’ve written about eleven thousand words of the story, just while commuting to and from work. I haven’t decided whether or not I’ll leave it in prose form, or adapt it into a graphic novel like I did with The Lesser Evil. I think it might be fun to do the latter, and see if I can’t develop a different art style that would suit it.
/ramble. Back to E3 now.
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Kiss of the Dragon was an okay movie with Jet Li. Does Jet Li star in your new project? That’d be prety cool.
Also, why is the word “movie” always red squiggly lined for me now? Am I spelling it wrong?
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Hahaha, I was so bust ignoring the “movie”squiggly line I missed the “prety” line. 😛
*pretty-
*busy
Dammit…where’s my caffeine? 😛-
I thought you were using hip new Queensland lingo that I was too south to comprehend. “Too south” is hip Canberra lingo I just invented. I think this is what “too bust” means:
“Too bust” (slang, adv/adj):
1) Too busted up/devastated
2) Overconfident due to being awesome…Uh yeah, I know what you’re going to ask, and yes, I’m kinda bored right now. Might be a long day! 😛
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3) Having a bust of large enough size to make Bish uncomfortable.
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It already exists? Damn, I have to remember to always google prospective titles. 😛
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And no, I haven’t envisaged a role for Jet Li… but you never know. It’s in my head now, I might end up writing something for him by accident 😛
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I call my stuff Untitled Project for the first few months of existence… The right title will click eventually and I find it’s usually more memorable because it’s tied strongly to the work.
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Me, I go through titles like underwear. With the exception of Academaesthetics (which is the awesomest title in the world and came to me in a dream, so I knew I’d never top it and didn’t bother trying), I don’t think I have ever finished a project with the same title I began it with.
But I use the draft titles as a focal point, a channel through which I funnel the overarching themes and feelings.
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The worst thing in the world is getting attached to a name and finding out that someone used it years ago.
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Computer update: It’s probably still broken in some way but it managed to work long enough for Jo and I to finish Act 3 on Nightmare in Diablo 3 last night. Redownloading my Steam library while I’m at work, going to back up everything.
Hard drive is making a god-awful racket. Will probably upgrade that (using my old media drive as I’m 99% sure that my other hard drive was the source or some, if not most, of my issues after getting the new motherboard). Might be time for an SSD. And I don’t think I’ll mind seeing the Windows installation screen again. I’ve seen it so much it’s almost a standard part of the boot process now.
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Hmm, your cautious optimism is inspiring. But I have to ask the important question:
Will I need more popcorn?
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Forever and always.
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Hello, my name is Hugo and I am addicted to Minecraft.
It all began a couple of days ago, I just happened to be looking at what other people on Live were playing and I noticed someone playing Minecraft.
“I gots to get me some of that” I says to myself I says.
Thus did the unending torment begin.
I think the main problem is that whenever I reach a certain stage of;
“No monsters be getting in my hizzouse!”
I suddenly feel the need to start a new world and try that frantic beginning all over again.
So currently I have about 8 worlds going and I just can’t bring myself to stick to any particular one long enough to really design anything more then some stone tower from which I can stand on top of, screaming obcenities to the monsters below.
My name is Hugo and I am addicted to Minecraft.
Anyone want a group game on Live sometime?
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Someone said this to me the other day when we were playing minecraft. You actively need to make a goal for yourself because otherwise you will end up derping for ages and start to hate the game. Wether the project to get diamond gear explore the map and make huts and paths or make a massive building. The game is hard because you can do anything.
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Well said Rockefeller. When I first got the game on PC my goal was just to get some awesome material (so lots of diamonds). I dug for hours and explored caves and got a bunch of diamond… and well… that was it. I didn’t feel like building anything as I wasn’t fond of having to hoard all the materials so the game quickly became boring.
Creative mode was added in one of the updates and made the game a whole lot more fun for me. I was able to fly around exploring the landscape and dig to my heart’s content. But alas, this mode also quickly became boring :/. BUT!
I joined the TAY server a while ago and it’s just become a whole lot more fun. It’s great playing with other people, seeing what they made and showing off what you made. Once again it may get boring if you don’t have a goal in mind but after creating a couple of things I just fly around watching and helping/annoying others. Good fun!
TL;DR – Play multi! Try out creative! (if the Live version has it)
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Yeah that’s pretty true, the same thing happened to me
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Get ye the Technic pack. Launcher takes care of it all so there’s no fiddling around with mods. You can stick with a world longer when you can work towards nuclear reactors and automated processing lines.
Looks like one of the unannounced changes in today’s Portal 2 update was converting the game to the new ACF format. I, for one, am quite pleased.
It’ll take a few minutes, and you need to be connected to the net to finish the process though.
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It also looks like they added in AlienFX support and changed the Valve intro movie to the one used in DOTA2.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/06/asus-taichi-ultrabook-in-front-tablet-in-the-back/
Soooo pretty. Anyone want to buy my firstborn?
Potaku update:
So the podcast has kinda expoloded. It’s no “Avengers”, but when you only expected one or two people to listen and even less to actually like it, what we got we pretty amazing.
Thanks so much to everyone that listened!
Weird stuff happened yesterday and we may have an opportunity to expand Potaku and, maybe, if we’re good, send out some TAYbies to cover press events and game launches and report back.
Not that you guys like the vidya Gaems or anything.
This picture is the last Potaku thing I’ll post till next week 😛
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Awesome news and awesome pic! 😀
Does this mean that Potaku is becoming a sort of official reporting arm of Kotaku or is this something different?
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No, it would be soley for the podcast and independent of Allure and Kotaku.
So when are you coming on the show 😀
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For all the contribution I’d make, I think you can pretend that I was in the first episode 😛
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Just realised that sounded a bit dismissive. If you really want me, I will consider it! Thanks 🙂
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Your undying marketing is really quite admirable, Doc! Love the idea of Potaku, and I want that belt buckle.
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It’ll die down soon. Everything is still so new, and i’m trying to keep everyone abreast (heehee) of all the goings on.
I have the belt buckle! But no belt to put it on. 🙁 It’s been sitting in my drawer for months.
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We could collaborate on getting a functioning belt+buckle prototype going! Thoughts?
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Beltaku?
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I also have that belt buckle and do have a belt that I put it on regularly.
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I fucking love that picture. Mostly because of your beard, and shiggys beltbuckle. 🙂
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Also grats guys you deserve everything you get because of how awesome you guys and how good the show was. Like it was semi profesional which is pretty amazing considering Dan! was in it . 🙂
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Epic design!
I can’t speak for others, but I’m happy to hear plenty about Potaku!
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Floating beards and floating watches! Awesome!
So I woke from this amazing dream in which I was conversing with a 9 month old baby. The child was reading, and relaying that information back to me, with perfect enunciation. I think the information being relayed was to hold some sort of spiritual importance, but by god the medium was so much more intriguing.
Damned babies, gettin’ in the way of my enlightenment.
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If I had that dream, it would be my all time favourite dream ever.
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I sometimes i think my dreams are deep and meaningful then some really attractive women come out of nowhere and dance for. I have stop caring about philosophy and brain chemistry since then.
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My dreams are often very troubling. Last night I dreamt I was incapacitated and had to drag myself through the woods with my hands. I honestly can’t remember the last time my dreams weren’t nightmarish. :S
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I’d like to think it’s all in the details, D.C.
To some, I’m sure the idea of a talking baby is pretty horrifying, whereas I was simply overcome by curiosity. Not that dragging yourself through the woods with your hands could be misinterpreted for anything else though… :s
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The b aby thing did freak me out when I read it, I’ve got to say. 😀
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Mornin’ TAY!
Spent about 8 hours in SR3 last night, and played for about two of that. I’ve always been really bad at leaving games running when something comes up…
Also, has anyone here played N3 or N3: 2? I’m currently failing hard at like the 5th mission in the first game, but it’s such a fun game that I’m wondering if buying the second one is a good idea.
Still catching up on last night’s news.
Somebody please tell me Splinter Cell isn’t another goddamn xbox exclusive.
Otherwise I’ll have to buy a box or move into my brother’s apartment (which I don’t think he’d approve of)
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Nah, it was just timed DLC or something, I think.
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Oh thank Christ.
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Wait, no Ironside!?
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Yeah… New guy is lending both his voice and his body. Though I wonder what that second one involves…
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I hope conviction comes to PS3 eventually. It’s unlikely but I still hope.
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Ditto
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New take on Sam or a different guy entirely?
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Still Sam. Now head of the Fourth Echelon, or some stupid plot thing whatever.
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So, Ubi press conference, consider me more impressed than I was for any others this morning.
Did not like the look of Far Cry 3, I mean, looked good graphically, but otherwise, gameplay was alright, but I didn’t like either the start or end.
Initial impression of the touchpad stuff for Rayman Legends was fairly negative, but the rhythm/music level looked really good, so I’m sold on that.
Assassins Creed 3: Please stop killing Red Coats. Like, just give the Brits a break. (Also, everyone still seems to be waiting in line to be killed)
Watch Dogs, the new IP looks really interesting, I hope it doesn’t turn out terrible.
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Ooh, Rayman legends sounds good. Can you link it?
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http://www.gametrailers.com/netstorage/e3/live.html
Here’s the stream I was watching. 6:58:30 should more or less get you to Rayman Legends. Will probably be a youtube video up soon though.
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Thanks Blaghman. I appreciate it. The Watch dogs sounds decent too.
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What’s Watch Dogs about? I hope it’s literal. I’d love to play a game from the perspective of a dog or cat. (For real.)
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It’s set in the future, everyone’s connected, blah blah blah, you hack people. I got a slightly less connected than Ghost in the Shell vibe. Your guy can hack phones, I think drain power from areas, do all kinds of things to mess with people(read information about them), and you… do things.
It had shooting. Looked pretty slick, quite good animations. Not entirely sold on the gameplay, looks as though it may become a bit repetitive, hard to tell.
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Oh, man. Sounds decent. Can’t go past dystopian sci-fi.
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Wait, here we go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcMRkyoHKeA&feature=youtu.be Has a bit of a long opening.
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Thanks, man.
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There was nothing on Rainbow Six Patriots or whatever it was?
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Nope.
But Watch Dogs had Bokeh DoF(in the intro, can’t remember if I saw it in the actual gameplay)!
This E3 is like a paradise for us!
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BOKEH BOKEH BOKEH!
I will go home and watch this Ubi Press Conference sounded like it was the most….interesting of the conferences so far.
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Havent caught up on the Ubi stuff yet. No new Prince of Persia game? I am disappoint.
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Sadly not. I did forget to mention that they teased an Avengers game. Looks like they have licences to both mutants and, uhh, whatever the Avengers that appeared in the movie of the same name are classified as.
Will probably be terrible.
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This was one of my big disappointments as well. We need a sequel to POP(08) . Maybe a next gen launch title?
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Forget Prince of Persia, where’s my Beyond Good & Evil 2? 😛
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Next year, when they actually announce the next gen hardware. Maybe then.
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Beyond Good & Evil was a fine game, but the Sands of Time trilogy is my favourite game series. & PoP’08 was a great game as well, so yeah… I’d be more keen on a new Prince of Persia than I am for Good&Evil2
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Beyond good and evil 2 has been confirmed for next gen consoles so it’s probably at next year’s E3
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Makes sense, I was just hoping the leaked stuff a few weeks ago was their attempt at viral marketing for a big e3 reveal.
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Some needs to punch Ubi in the spleen and tell them to stab some freakin’ yanks for a change.
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*Someone
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My favourite part, they had a “question from the audience” asking about if what you’d be killing would just be Red Cloaks. They followed up with “You kill many people, particularly templars.” Followed that up with a video where all he killed were Brits.
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That’s crap.
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Did I mention that one of the British people he killed was drinking Tea?
FOR ENGLAND!
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Oh yeah, another one was in a kilt.
FOR SCOTLAND!
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Cloaks? What.
Clearly I am still in too much of a Game of Thrones mindset. Herpity derp.
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I enjoyed the Ubisoft conference. The best one so far.
My favourite line from the host- “Come down to the floor and do that shit!”
I enjoyed the Far Cry 3 demo. The game looks great and it seems like a great direction for the series. The idea of an archipelago of Islands to explore is intriguing. Also, I hope you can hunt stuff. My only disappointment is the lack of fire propagation-I guess it doesn’t really work in the tropical setting but I enjoyed it in Far Cry 2. A final note about Far Cry 3 is I hope the devs make a compelling boss fight with Vaas. They have created what seems to be an interesting character and the idea of chasing him around the islands is sound. All I wish for is a satisfying conclusion.
Ac3 still looks great. I don’t see the issue with killing the Brits, but I guess that is because of my cultural background. The gameplay does look good though, the platforming through tree branches looked smooth and hunt the deer and wolves was awesome. I can see what you mean by the enemies just waiting to be killed, hopefully they can make the A.I more aggressive.
Rayman is as charming as ever. I still have to play origins though,I missed out on the game sale 🙁 . The game looks like Rayman Origins 1.5. Hopefully the gameplay is as good as the first one was and the music remains fantastic. The music section of the demo was interesting.
Watch Dogs looks great. I just hope it comes out on current gen consoles. Waiting for a PS4/720 release might be too long.
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My problems isn’t with killing the Brits, my problem is that it has thus far only shown them being killed, while they’ve repeatedly said that what you’re killing is Templars. Seems a bit incongruous.
And from what I’ve seen, consider Watch Dogs confirmed for next gen. While what he was playing it on kind of looked a bit like a 360 controller in terms of colours, but shape was PS3. That was running off a very well specced PC, and the most telling point is that they haven’t announced platforms. So you might get it this gen, but I’d consider that unlikely.
@Shane
ME 3 arrived!
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That was FAST. Cheers for letting me know – was it in one piece?
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I assume so. I just got an email saying it had arrived.
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There’s no reason it shouldn’t be fine, so don’t be worried. I just don’t trust Australia Post. Seems sometimes that the sturdier the packaging, the harder they seem to try to smash it up 😛
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True. I’ve never received an envelope marked “do not bend” that hasn’t been origami’d beyond recognition.
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Y’see, that’s how they get you! It wasn’t bent, it had been folded.
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Just watched the SmartGlass presentation. Looks like everyone will be going down the same path, as usual. I’d be interested to know if Microsoft was “inspired” by Nintendo, in terms of including a tablet as part of the controls, or if this concept came about on its own. I’m also pretty keen to see the Sony response.
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I assume Sony will just push communication between the Vita and the PS3, seems like the easiest way.
Honestly, I’d rather control a traditional game with a Vita than I would attempt it with the Wii U pad.
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This. Hopefully the connectivity allows devs to utilise it the same way they would the Wii U pad and impliment the same features across all the platforms. And it’ll get people whinging about copying Nintendo, which is always fun.
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I think this is right. This whole ‘brand new’ controlling console with external small handheld device with its own screen is old news for Sony.
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This article makes some good points on why Smartglass tech is good for all three platform holders
http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox-smartglass-might-help-nintendo-more-it-will-microsoft/
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I think it’s interesting that Nintendo took the lead by revealing smartphone interaction with the Wii U on their Pre-Conference reel.
If Sony weren’t planning on announcing anything like that, they are now. Given that both MS and Nintendo are pushing interaction with the devices you already own, Sony has to announce the same or get left behind.
What’s more curious is that MS and Nintendo arrived at more or less the same concept at the same time. Is it a sign of MS “innovating” or Nintendo “stagnating” (following trends)? It definitely starts to make a lot of these devices start to blend together.
WTF?
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I mean seriously, I’m a big fan of animals of all shapes & sizes & that just strikes me as in bad taste. even though it is in the pursuit of art.
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What an interesting coincidence! I was planning to do that to my parents after they died! It seemed the most appropriate way to honour their memory.
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I dunno man… that article just seems exploitative.
but yeah, if you’re ‘rents are keen on the idea, go with it 🙂…but that poor kitty.
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hang on a sec… Trolololol guy just died…hmm…
(I’ll just leave that there so you can for your own image of a helicopter-trollolol hybrid flying through the air with the trolololol song booming through speakers like Ride of the Valeries in Apocalypse Now)
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My cat always went dunking into the fish tank… so after an appropriate period of mourning, I turned him into a toilet plunger. It’s just the most fitting tribute I could think of.
Uh, yeah. Anyway, you’re right, this is pretty sick… as in disturbingly weird.
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Exams allll over for me, baybeh!! woo!!!
First year now done and dusted – provided i actually pass these units, that is. LOL
So to celebrate i spent almost allll of last night playing pro evo 2011 and made lots of bad decisions that have put me in deficit! YAY! 😀
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Nothing like the sweet, sweet satisfaction of finishing all of your assessment. \o/
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ohhh helll yeahs
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Congrats on the exams, dude!
Your deficit is in-game, right? Or were your bad decision IRL? (just trying to plan an appropriate amount of sympathy, you understand)-
Well i don’t manage a soccer team IRL…. which is probably a good thing judging on how i’m playing the game.. so yeah.. in game. I bought A LOT of staff i couldn’t afford – but the money i get if i win the champions league should cover it…
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Congratulations on finishing your exams. I’m sure you’ll pass.
Speaking of Pro Evo, Master League is so addicting and I remember having pages of notes on what transfers to make and who to buy. After PES 6,Nowadays I play FIFA but I’m hearing good things about PES 2013
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That;s what i’m playing, and why i’m so addicted.
Pro evo 2011 is actually pretty damn good, aside from some issues with player switching
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@Lollers – We played some good games last night. Seems we are all getting confident – is it time to re-attempt the ranked team?
@Jo – Idea time. You should get Chogath and play him as an AP mid. I’ll jungle Alistar, so when I gank we will have all the knock-ups1
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Still no for me, sorry bro, I’m sticking to my target of 300 wins first 🙂
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What are you up to now?
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i am up to like 175 you should be around that shouldn’t you techy?
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169 right now
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WII and Mario Kart for $99. VERY LIMITED
http://dicksmith.com.au/list/WiiBundleSale
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Thanks buddy, i managed to snag one. A friend of mine always borrows mine so i got one for his birthday for $100 why not
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Awesome.
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I own a Wii AND Mario Kart, but I’m still tempted to buy one…I’m not sure why.
I don’t have a MotionPlus controller though.
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That’s the only thing I’m missing too, and I am way tempted. Weird.
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No Wii is complete without Xenoblade.
Good morning chaps and chappettes and those not wearing chaps at all. How are we this fair morning? I am feeling a little bit chilly this morning, the mecury has dropped to like 11c which for here is like snow. People walk around town snugged up in tartan t-shirts and really old jumpers because the last cold weather we had was like 3 years ago. I had a weird dream last night that i am sure none of you would be interested in. i ate a banana for breakfast this morning cause i woke up a bit to late to have something more. I am also wearing my non steal cap shoes because they get a bit heavy and my legs were tired from exercise. My morning has been fairly uninteresting , i should probably find something to do, but my boss is away and there is no jobs on the shelf to start on. Someday’s are more boring than others i guess.
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WHY AREN’T YOU HYPE YET GET HYPE
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Because i find myself not giving any shits about E3 or any releases. I am a monster i know, plus blaghs keeps on running over my freaking food with his hype train.
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In all honesty Rocketbuddy I am also completely uninterested in E3 this year. I might read the eventual “sum up” article that Kotaku will eventually post but besides that I am sort of ignoring it.
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WHY AREN’T YOU ON THE HYPE TRAIN, FRIEND? DON’T YOU LOVE ME?
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Well … I don’t HATE you.
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Its not just E3, i kind of find myself not playing games that much, i will play a game of LoL or click for a hour or so in the week. But besides that i have no desire to play games. I would call it a rut but i have been like this for like 8 months. I like owning games, i like buying games. Not so much the playing. I think i dont have the attention span to like things anymore.
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Try shifting from multi to solo or vice versa? Quite often I find I’m a little over saturated with one or the other, and shift across, and suddenly I’m just loving it all over again. That’s one of the reasons Bethesda RPGs are great.; you can run off into your own universe and vomit on brand new people, WITH NO REPERCUSSIONS!
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haha, i do have skyrim installed. Nah its not even that man. Its just even as a kid nothing can really keep my attention for long periods of time. I am the kind of person who needs to finish something in one sitting or finish a level and get some sort of positive feedback from my gaming experiences. Thats why things like portal, limbo, Diablo 3 and pokemon hold my attention. They give like instant feed back from 10-40minutes work.
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I know the feeling. That’s one of the reasons I enjoy sandbox games a fair bit. You can choose to be responsible for your own fun, rather than wait for the game to say “You did good, boy! Have a biscuit!”.
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Just cause 2 is my game of choice for derping. I have never fnished any of the missions. I just go to the airport. Find a plane, go low to the water or road and try and pick up a car or boat. to use as a wrecking ball.
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TOOT TOOT!
BLAME RAYGUN BROWN, HE UNLOCKED THE HYPE WITHIN ME!
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ME TOO! THE HYPE TRAIN SHOULD BE CALLED THE PARTY TRAIN BECAUSE IT’S SO FUN!
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We could create the Bokeh train, that would be an excellent train.
Were your weird dreams related to those not wearing chaps at all?
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Something like that probably best we don’t discuss them here 😛
What is it you do for a living?
Additionally, dream details, please!
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Whats my actual title? or what do i do?
Because job title wise i am a electronics technician who focuses on agricultural GPS and Laser repairs. With a mix of electronics and hydraulic control systems that we work on.What i actual do
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Oh my dream was something to do with a really hot lady riding around on a tiger trying to eat old classmates of mine from primary school. I was trying to stop it doing so.
Hey TAY,
Here’s your daily message brought to your by Pixel!…
Internet at home fixed, D3 is now glorious to play….
sorry to@ greenius that I left abruptly from the game the other day, my dog decided to throw up everywhere so I had to go clean up and take care of her :/
will try to be more active here but I need a new phone first as TAY is blocked at work and I am becoming more productive *shudder*
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i was blocked until cakeman showed me how to fix it. now i am not. TRUE STORY
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Hope your dog is alright – nothing serious I hope?
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Nah, puppy stomach… took her to the vet, cut down on the types of treats and changed her kibble to a different type, apparently she might be allergic to soy… she’s all good now… she’s a lab so she eats anything and everything 😛
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You suuuuuuuuuuuck.
Also, hurry up and get a roster so you can organise to get to the Canmeat!
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Roadtrip? 😀
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Heya Pixel!
S’all good about the other day :), hope the dog is all good now!
Btw I found out that the Demon Hunter has a skill that lets YOU SUMMON FERRETS!!
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Woooow imma go summon myself now…. 0.o that sounds a bit…. sketchy
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Late TABTOL this week.
Why? It was a public holiday in WA yesterday. Or at least that’s my story.
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Post #1000: Cakesmith on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM
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Post #2000: fled on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 1:27 PM
Hey, I think that’s the first time I’ve got one of these thingies. Yay?
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Post #3000: Sir Greenius on Friday, June 1, 2012 at 7:16 AM
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This was a disappointing week. I did not help enough people, and I did not get anywhere near enough hype.
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Whaaaaaat? Second again? For the third week running. I could have SWORN up and down that last week was a quiet week for my posting.
I now join the proud ranks of the “Fuck EB Games club”
I went over there to collect the Max Payne 3 special edition i have been patiently waiting for only for them to tell me that they haven’t come in yet, the guy said they are expected to come in tomorrow sometime.
In my opinion that is not good enough, they didnt even have the courtesy to call me and tell me that they aren’t in yet, i would buy it from steam considering its been available since Saturday morning.
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Its still better to wait its like 30gbs on steam. Honestly bro while its not really that fun to wait for it and you have a right to be annoyed, you do have to remember that they aren’t uncaring dicks, it was most probably a oversight and getting mad at the staff probably makes them not want to help you even more.
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I do understand that but when pre ordering a game there is a certain level of expectation that the goods would actually arrive on time or if they dont they could have had the decency to tell me that there is a slight delay.
I hope that the payoff is worth the waiting and annoyance.
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Halo 4 looks amazeballs.
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Seconded. I really didn’t get into 3, or Wars, or ODST. This is the first one I’ll be keen to drop money on since 2 and C:E.
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Disclosure: I’m a huge fan of the Halo games, particularly the story. I own the most expensive editions of all the games, I own the books, and some of the comics.
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Agreed. Best part of the Microdollar conference by far.
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I like the new enemies, very slick
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With the grenade catchy ones, I’m wondering if you can just shoot the suspended grenade for explody shenanigans.
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Well the vid shows you can shoot the flying enemy while they’re holding the grenade and it drops to blow up your enemies under it. I dunno about shooting the grenade itself though
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Are they still using Covenant/flood?
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Covenant yes, flood wasn’t shown yet, so this AI threat is most likely the new “Common enemy” since the flood’s surely gotten old by now.
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Yeah, they kept the flood in it waaay too long for me. They can’t really get rid of the Covenant with changing the game, I guess. I’m mostly keen on seeing something fresh come out of Halo.
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A new AI enemy? And with Cortana nearing the end of her 7-year lifespan before she goes mad, does that mean she will assimilate/take control like an artificial gravemind and Master Chief will have to hunt her down?
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Covenant were there. Not sure about Flood.
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So apparently CS:GO is going to be $15USD on release. Guess that means I’m buying it…
I do wonder how it’s going to go on consoles, though. Considering the price, and the fact that it’ll be a downloadable game, I think it’ll sell well. Not sure about longevity, though.
You know what I don’t like about e3? The media commentary, the collective cynicism too. I just want to watch the trailers, make up my own opinion and start playing the waiting game for a far away release date. Is that too much to ask?
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OF COURSE IT IS! YOUR PROBLEM IS THAT YOU DON’T HAVE ENOUGH HYPE! (I’m sure this is annoying for people, but dammit, I’m really tired, and hyper)
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I actually prefer the hype to the over analysis. I like that sense of child like excitement. It might just be me, but it seems like people adjust their expecations and fall in line depending on what all the press outlets are saying about a game…
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SCREW MAINSTREAM PRESS! HYPE TRAIN!
Unless something looks bad, in which case, ehhh, I’m sure someone will like it.
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I’m with you on this. And right now it seems to be the fashion to just hate on everything. Twitter is falling over itself this E3 to see who can be the most negative, snarky asshat about absolutely every announcement.
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THAT’S WHY IT’S ALL ABOUT HYPE! HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE!
WOULD YOU LIKE REASONS FOR ANY ANNOUNCEMENT I DISLIKE? I HAVE RAISINS, POSSIBLY THE OTHER THING AS WELL!
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BOARD THE HYPE TRAIN? TICKETS ARE FREE, AND WE STOP IN EVERY STATION!
WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO THINK OF A THIRD THING TO GO HERE? WELL I CAN’T, AS I’M A BIT TIRED, BUT THE NARRATIVE RULE OF THREE DEMANDED THAT I PUT SOMETHING HERE!
WOOOOO POSITIVITY!
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Wow, my apologies for just how long, and hideous that looks thanks to all the caps. Maybe I should have a nap…
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Are there sleeping carriages on the hype train? 😛
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No, some idiot started playing Midnight Oil, and we had to abandon the latter half of the train as it was a fire hazard. :/
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Twitter is full of HATERS!
That Shiggy guy is the worst.
CUM ON STEP IT UP.
I’ve not really followed much of the coverage, to be honest. The inherent cynicism is permeating EVERYTHING currently though, which makes for some good giggle-material for an outsider.
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I should say I don’t mean you guys either. The TAY stuff is awesome. It’s just that feeling of seeing the most awesome game ever, going online and seeing one hundred articles about why it actually sucks and you shouldn’t be happy. 😛
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I know, even Mark’s live coverage seems kind of jaded and cynical… is the whole world actually tired of expos like this?
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I suspect it might be a defense mechanism, being accused of being a publishers lap dog in the past. Now they’ve countered it too far and the defeault reaction is cynical. 🙁
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Maybe even the game companies are. Maybe they want all the excitement to be focused on them and their stuff instead of on the actual “E3” expectations. And they don’t want to share the spotlight with their competition so they just stay pretty lacklustre?
Another thing, I don’t get why the companies still see each other as competition. The games industry has become a bit like a food court. You know, where there’s a sandwich place next to a salad place next to a burger place and they all do great at their own thing, but they want all the business instead of just the sandwich, burger or salad business so they all start offering everything instead of just sticking to what they do best and making it the best they can make it.There should be no “winners” of E3. Except gamers.
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Best E3 comment.
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Yay! You know how you have a comment and you like it but you think nobody else has even read it because there are no responses? You just saved me from that stress. 😀
Actually, that stress is even worse these days because you can never be sure if it’s because nobody has answered or because the refresh to update isn’t working. 😛
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Often I don’t respond, so I don’t tarnish a good post with a crappy reply.
Totally want a burger, a sandwich and a salad to go with your spot on commentary about the expo.
Yeah man, what’s with everyone complaining about Wonderbook?! They went for something different and they get shouted down for it.
So according to the mobile version of the steam community website, my profile has 5364 hours on record with Skyrim.
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Wow that’s ~224 days! And the game has only been out for ~207 days.
Conclusion: you’re a witch.
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I’ll gather the wood for the fire.
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Fail-reply >.<
7.45 months in-game. That’s quite the effort!
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Been a while since you did a reply fail 😀
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I never fail. It was an intentional slipup.
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So the Bigdaddy for Battle Royale- Am I the only one who remembers the first Bioshock trailer with the drilling, and think that might be a little incompatible with a parappa the rapper?
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Parappa’s seen some things man…
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He’s pretty gangsta, yo.
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There’s nothing quite like baking a bunch of expensive beer battered chips to perfection, then slapping them onto a cheese sandwich and toasting the lot. Mmmm.
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I’ll take two please!
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I think two is the right number. I just ate three.
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Should have sent the third one to me! 😛
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Parcel post okay, you think?
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While you’re at it, mind throwing one my way? I’ll cover the cost of postage.
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If you’re going to offer postage costs, it would be cheaper for you just to make the sandwich yourself 😛
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I’d need to pay postage on the beer-battered chips anyway. May as well order the end-product and be done with it ^.^
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Are you telling me NT has no beer-battered chips? Your territory seriously sucks.
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My area has none. I’d have to get them flown in from Darwin, most likely!
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But the NT has beer right? And flour? Make your own! It’s easy.
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Beyond: Two Souls first look, this’ll be my last Quantic Dream post today. 😛 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k63MWNuscuc
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havent been able to keep up with the streams today. is there a release window for that?
coz, even though there are haters, I was impressed by Farenheit & amazed by Heavy Rain. so yeah, I’m keen on this.-
No release date announced, but it’s for PS3 so I assume it’ll be out before next gen…
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Is it PS3 exclusive? I’m really hoping it’s available on other platforms.
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It’ll be exclusive. Quantic Dream has, I think, a three game contract with Sony.
Fahrenheit, Heavy Rain, and this.
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Thanks for the info mate. My heart just sunk a little.
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If the three game thing is true, then I don’t think Fahrenheit counts. It was on 360 and PC too. I know they’ve got another game in production too. Maybe that’s the last exclusive?
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Was Fahrenheit on xbox? Colour me surprised!
Well, then they might have another exclusive game after this one 😛
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BUY A PS3. They’re cheap if you compromise. I bought mine from US of A with about twenty games for $250. By the time I gave away and sold all the games and got a partial refund for a cracked PS3 case, I ended up paying about $75 for the thing 😛
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Thanks! That looks epic. Can’t wait to see it in action!
And hey, if you have more cool Quantic Dream posts, bring it on.
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Don’t tempt fate, man. 😛
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D.C., I’ve always liked you but after today I like you even more. I’m so sad I won’t be able to meet you on the weekend, you seem like a good egg.
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Now I’m intimidated again. :S You’ve made my day, though.
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Do eggs intimidate you? I promise I won’t throw a rotten one at you! 😛
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To be fair, it doesn’t take much to intimidate me. I don’t like the looks of that shifty shadow behind me. 😛
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Oh sorry…I’ll try not to look so shifty when I’m following you then. 😛
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First look at Carmageddon: Reincarnation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nqwfGqwJlGo
A quote from Stainless Games.
“A Work In Progress peek at the Bleak City (City B) track “Blood on the Rooftops”, starting with footage of the original game and blending into WIP (Work In Progress) footage from our latest prototype. This level teaser is intended only as a first impression of progress on the level construction for Carmageddon: Reincarnation. The vehicle, pedestrians and their animations, and special effects are ALL placeholder, (the pedestrians were set up to be EXTRA easy to dismember for this video!) and the level has NO optimisation of any kind yet, so EVERYTHING is being processed at ALL times – all the geometry, and around 1000 peds (hence the choppy framerate!). The level is in mid construction, and so textures and detailing is missing, even from the more “finished” looking sections. In other words, IT’S EARLY DAYS! “
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From the quote, it sounds like it’s a little early to be putting out a teaser 😛
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At first I thought it was a joke, but then the proper footage kicked in, ooooh yes.
To me it looks like more of a HD remake so far, but I am VERY okay with that, and the new game better damn well have Fear Factory in it 😀
So iLost my iPhone somewhere in my house… on silent… with 10% battery.
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:'(
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Toddlers are magnetically attracted to expensive electronics. It is a science fact. Get a toddler and let them loose. They will find it.
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Excellent! Now to “acquire” a toddler…
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you can hire MiniShady.. But seriously ive tracked down my iphone in my house twice using find my iphone on icloud. It will pinpoint into the correct room!
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Oh and if you know someone else with an iPhone you can get the Apple app “Find iPhone”. All you have to do is like log in with your Apple ID associated with your iPhone and it should give you the location :). From this you can also send it a message and make it beep really loudly.
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But will the 10% battery last until I get home from work? WILL IT!?
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It should 😀
The battery can last ages as long as you’re not doing anything on it. Have faith!
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I always lose my phone especially when it’s low on batteries. After searching for like 2 hours I usually think “Wait, I can just call my phone” but the battery is always flat by then.
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Normally my phone is permanently attached to my hand! The one time I neglect it, of course I lose it somewhere. I have a feeling it’s wedged somewhere inside the lounge… no mans land.
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it’s in the last place you’ll look. guaranteed.
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coz you know… continuing to look for you phone after you’ve found it is a bit redundant.
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Maybe if I keep looking, I’ll find another one!
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I like this logic.
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BUY A NEW ONE
He’s done it again. http://www.27bslash6.com/halogen.html
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David Thorne. So good.
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I read that the other week. It was classic xD
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Oh Shane, thank you for reminding me of Dave Thorne. That man is brilliant. There goes my productivity for the rest of today.
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Win!
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So The Last of Us looks freaking awesome.
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I’ve been avoiding the trailers, don’t want to get spoiled. Do you play as Joel or Ellie, though?
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The video at the Sony Conference only showed you playing as Joel.
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For some reason I thought Ellie would be the main character. I guess cause she was so prominant in the reveal trailer. Doesn’t matter, though. I’m sure it’ll be excellent.
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damn, that gameplay…
so excited, in fact, sony did a good job with it’s conference, the only downside was that stupid book thing… I DON’T WANNA READ BOOKS, I WANNA PLAY GAMES
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Man, it’s pretty violent and brutal.
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Wonder if there’s another way through… talking or stealth, or something… or if you actually have to kill them.
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Because if this is just another shooter, I think they might have missed an opportunity.
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I don’t know how to say this without sounding creepy, but I really like that it’s brutal with it.
And it’s not pretend brutal, like God of War, it’s just straight up nasty.
I might even go as far as to say “confronting” which is, I think, something a few more games could do with being. Though not for shock purposes, that’s dumb. I think it helps it hold narrative weight.
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Yes, I agree, but if it’s the only mechanic in the game, it will get samey and lose impact quicky. I think having to fight your way out of a situation that you otherwise failed to tackle properly makes it feel more like punishment and therefore even more brutal.
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I agree with Blaghsy. Violence is in actuality a horrible thing to experience and the fact that this game doesn’t glorify it (much) has me intrigued.
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Don’t get me wrong, I hope this too. I fear, though, that by endgame, the player’s bodycount will be in the hundreds, which will cause the impact of the violence to fail. I hope to be proved wrong.
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i felt like each time he punched a dude or got into a scuffle it was really highlighted. Here’s to hoping you get that feeling each time!
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I remember playing Fallout 3 and being sickened by the violance, by the end of the game it didn’t bother me any more. I haven’t been bothered by game violance since. This worries me.
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Gotta agree. I like what they’ve done with the violence. As Shane’s being saying though, I hope it doesn’t just turn into a typical shooter.
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I doubt it, if you watched his ammo supply, he was never above 5-6 bullets the whole time, my guess is there are guns, but ammo is extremely scarce, which feels more like a splinter cell, where you’re more sneak and stealth like splinter cell spliced with resident evil. Barely any of those guys had firearms on them either.
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Apparently I am influential on Klout in the topic “Virus” http://i.imgur.com/jPbwK.jpg
Things I’ve been impressed by so far:
The Last of Us
Beyond: Two Souls
Halo 4 (not even a Halo fan)
Assassin’s Creed 3 (PS3 exclusive content…booo!)
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But you have a PS3 don’t you Cakey?
Sucks for us who don’t have one though =(
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Yeah, but I play AC on PC.
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Ah right, sounds like a good choice. I really should check out the AC series, my mate raved on about it.
But give it time, it should filter down to Xbox & PC I reckon. What’s the point of exclusives if the rest of the franchise is across the board? :S
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Don’t worry these exclusives will turn up as DLC later on other platforms. Most of them do.
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Beyond: Two Souls, The Last of Us, Watch Dogs! All these new, promising IPs! 😀
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Meanwhile, at Microsoft…
“Guys, guys. I have an idea. SEQUELS!”
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Hey man, South Park, Wrecketear, That ball game, Lococycle, that Nike game thing.
Yes, I have a list of games mentioned thus far in front of me…
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Oh man! South Park! How could I forget that!
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wreckatere, you mean angry birds 3D?
nike+, which is just another fitness game?they aren’t exactly being innovative…
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I didn’t say innovative, I said that they weren’t sequels.
Technically the Gears game isn’t a sequel, it’s a prequel. Just sayin’.
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eh true, but when i hear “new IP” i think of something thats gonna be different… not copies of other games… i also forgot about the game that i immediantly (and i think the rest of the world) thought “god of war”.
i will say lococycle sounds interesting, twisted pixel make some good games, sadly no gameplay means no opinion just yet.
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Watchdogs was Micro$oft , wasn’t it?
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Ubisoft.
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ahh, of course. Ignore me
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Nope, Ubisoft. I have my list here.
Did you know that Microsoft showed the most games this year? Three of them barely count, but still.
And I just realised. Microsoft is at 15 now, because they showed Ascend New Gods, the bad looking God of War clone.
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16 because I forgot RE6. My lord, how am I that bad at this?
Yes
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Hey man, farts can be art too.
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Uhhh, youtube link in a discussion about farts… no thanks 😛
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The best thing so far from the E3 conferences:
http://i.imgur.com/8fwXu.png
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Now in video form!
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RANDY MARSH!
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when they said that, i was like “OH LORD, SOMEONE WHO IS SEEING THROUGH ALL THIS BULLSHIT”
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That’s awesome!
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I loved that moment. They were not on teleprompters or anything. This was one of the few ‘real’ moments in a press conference.
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Heh
Okay, I’m reading news.com.au (first mistake, I know) and it’s talking about the shock finale in the second season of Game of Thrones. I have a question: how closely does the show follow the books? Is it really legitimate to call it a shock event if it’s been in paperback form for nearly ten years? 😛
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It follows it close enough that it should not really be considered a shock.
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Was a lot funnier than in the books though.
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I hadn’t read the books until last year, and I’m into that sort of thing. If it’s a shock to a (much, much) bigger audience I think it counts.
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I understand spoiler warnings for this reason, but I think trying to write about it like it’s a shock that no one saw coming is kind of silly.
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The show deviates from the books by giving more insight into major characters that aren’t perspective characters. Spoilers ahead don’t cover anything ahead of the end of season 2. There’s some overlap in the books between the end of the second book and the start of the third though.
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Just read the article in question.
That particular event is definitely not a shock.
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What I thought too.
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Not everyone has read the books. I haven’t, so it could be a shock for me.
Only started S01 on the weekend. About halfway through the season now.
Dear TAY,
Blerg…
Kind retards
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HI PIXEL!
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OHAIBLAGHSHOWAREYOUGOING?
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FIRST DAY OF E3
For me the games I’m most excited for so far are:
1. Far cry 3- The game looks great and the melee kills are really fast. The idea of multiple Islands to explore is great as well. Also, a map editor that I think the presenter talked about it like it may be a single player mission editor as well.Sweet!
2. Rayman Legends- I’m excited for the WiiU even before Nintendo’s conference. wow. It seems like the game might be WiiU exclusive but I hope it isn’t.
3. Watch Dogs- Nothing much to go on but the game looks really good conceptually. Hopefully we can see more.
4. Amazing Spiderman- It wasn’t part of the conferences but IGN had an exclusive trailer and interview with the devs. This game looks like it’s a better Spiderman 2 and that can only be a good thing.
5. Assassins creed 3-I have yet to finish an Assassins creed game but I think the naval combat might have sold me on it. The game looks great and the platforming on trees and rock faces works.
6. Finally, The Last of Us- The press were hyping it up a few weeks ago but I didn’t feel it at the time. Now that I’ve seen the game, it looks awesome and the fights are more brutal than Uncharted.
Honourable Mentions:
LocoCycle-For me it’s just irrational excitement with this one. We have seen no gameplay but I know the twisted pixel guys do funny stuff and this might be good.
South Park:Stick of Truth- I’m not a huge South Park fan but I enjoy the show. Matt and Trey Stone understand games (WOW episode, countless references) and I feel like their input will make the game at least decent if not great. Also, could this be Obsidian’s most polished game?
SimCity-The trailer looked great and I might even play the Facebook game to tide me over before next year.
Tomb Raider- Looks kind of cool. I really hope the game is open and allows for plenty of exploration because the island she’s landed on seems interesting.
KIND OF MEH:
Need for Speed: Most wanted- If you look back a few pages on TAY, you’ll see that I was excited for Most Wanted. After the EA conference I’m a bit down on the game. Granted we haven’t seen much but the Most wanted bit seems to apply to multiplayer and Autolog activities which is concerning. The original Most Wanted had a fantastic singleplayer-with the blacklist etc and I just hope that Criterion make a fulfilling singleplayer. Hot Pursuit was fun in solo play but asychronous multi with Autolog seemed to be the best way to play. I just want a substantial NFS campaign after the criminally short NFS:The Run.
God of War- This was a real bummer for me. I was excited to see what Santa Monica would be doing with a prequel story. I’m a big God of War fan and I was excited by the prospect of a game that explored his exploits before GOW1. The footage shown however, just looks like GOw 3 with less scale. I wasn’t expecting a complete overhaul but maybe a Kratos without the blades and some different mechanics. I don’t know, the game went from a might buy to I’ll probably just rent it.
Sony and basically no Vita stuff. I really hope they are planning a Gamescom or TGS Vita special because the lack of a lot of VITA stuff during the conference was disappointing.
That’s all I can remember at the moment. Nothing really made me angry ( not that I would get angry anyway) so it was a pretty OK first day.
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I hope South Park’s the game that will turn things around for Obisidian. So much talent there. they just need a break out hit so they can do things on their own terms, determine their own destiny.
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Their games usually have good story and clever mechanics but the implementation often falls short and the bugs mar the experience. I’m thinking of Alpha Protocol here.
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It’s an Obsidian game? Hopefully it’s not a bug filled mess. I know people are always saying it’s Bethesda that puts out the buggy RPGs but I’ve had far worse experiences with Obsidian games in regards to bugs.
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Yeah the Bethesda thing is a bit hard to believe. Obsidian’s games:
– Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II (Lucasarts, buggy mess pushed out 6 months early to make Thanksgiving sales period)
– Neverwinter Nights 2 (Atari, very buggy at release)
– Alpha Protocol (Sega, buggy)
– Fallout: New Vegas (Bethesda, buggy)
– Dungeon Siege III (Squenix, not buggy)So either Obsidian have poor QA, or every publisher except Squenix has poor QA
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I suspect part of the problem was how fast they put out their first game after establishing the studio, hitting the ground running. Most new studios have a period where they can set up shop and establish a culture. Seems the rushed way it all came together impacts their work to this day. Fallout: New Vegas and KotOR 2 came so close to perfection, though.
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Yeah but they’re hardly a ‘new’ studio. They’re effectively Interplay’s Black Isle studios. When Interplay folded they were all let go at once and most of them went off to form Obsidian. I’d expect they already have somewhat of a culture etc.
To me it seems like a systematic problem. Releasing bug-free code takes a lot of organizational work. I work on a product that ships a new release monthly and sits at a level where a bug could potentially render an entire machine unusable, and we have an enormous amount of organization involved to be able to pull that off repeatedly. Bug triage three days a week, every change has a bug, every bug has a developer and a test owner, fixed deadlines for each stage of a release and stuff sits in certification for several weeks before it goes out, just in case we encounter issues. Games are a lot bigger and a lot harder but writing solid software requires everyone be invested in it from the ground up, from the beginning, and that there be a full support organization around it to help it along.
Though that said, I think the level of organization we’ve got for our releases is rare even inside the company.
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Nice insight. Where do you work?
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Oh wow, I just watched the Sim City trailer. I love that tilt shift art style they’re using! Couldn’t have been applied to a better game! Looks absolutely amazing. I’m still worried about the always-online thing though, after what happened with Diablo…
Also, I said this on Twitter already, but I agree that Sony really let down the Vita this E3. It’s apparently not doing too well so I expected them to go all out with exclusive announcements. Announcing a couple of PS3/Vita cross-play games does not make me want to buy a Vita. 😛
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since alll of the E3 articles were sponsored by Vita, i was expectin massive vita announcements at E3, but all that was confirmed was all-stars, black ops and assasins creed, 2 of which i’m not very interested in (it’s black ops and ass-creed, not a fan of cod, and never played an ass creed game, all-stars looks liek it’d be a fun time passer). i mean, i wanted some justification for the vita i bought, but they really didn’t do it well..
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I love the tilt shift style. I also like the detailed simulation under the hood. It’s not all figures and graphs, you can see the effects of something just by the consequences e.g smog in polluted areas, sims walking on crowded streets due to poor planning etc.
The always online thing has me worried as well.
Yeah, I’m not entirely sure about Most Wanted too. I really think they should have gone with a different name, using Most Wanted is really going to hurt them. Most people will think it’ll be like the original Most Wanted, cool single player, tricked out rides, that sort of stuff, when it doesn’t really look like that’s what it’ll be like.
I’ll still probably pre-order the limited edition, and I’ll still enjoy it heaps, but yeah, it doesn’t really look like Most Wanted.
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Hey, did you get my message about re-playing the first Most Wanted?
Also, I’ll be waiting for more concrete info before I consider buying the game. Hoping for the best.
I wonder if anybody would notice if i went to sleep with glasses on?
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as long as those glasses have fake eyes drawn on them… it works every time
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Dark sunnys maybe but it would be a bit suss wearing them inside.
Does not work with regular glasses.
Perfectly good point ruined by reply fail. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/06/thoughts-on-sonys-e3-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-703513
I don’t want to stuff up Kotaku articles any more. I think I’d better just destroy myself professionally and get back to work 😛
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I hadn’t realised it was a reply fail until you said it was. In the context of Neg’s post it made perfect sense.
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Should have just said nothing 😛
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*KABOOM* *Splatter splatter splatter*
Sorry, that was the sound of my mind being blown by Star Wars 1313.
That’s realtime in engine?? It looks AMAZING! And the lighting/shadows! Wow, just WOW. Looks like it’ll be a next gen game though, but I don’t want to have to wait that long for it /o\
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According to Gametrailers it was running on a high end PC. I’m thinking it’s next gen as well. If it releases on current gen I’m guessing the PS3/XBOX360 will be slightly downgraded.
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Slightly downgraded? More like immensely downgraded 😛
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This human gets it
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LucasArts likes to shoot ’em self in the foot, routinely firing their established teams and starting again from scratch. I hope this is a new start for them, because it DOES look all kinds of awesome.
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Star Wars 1313: A New Hope.
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@JFlamestar (Because I haven’t yet married your face/alternate names/egos to other handles), have you had any luck with recovery of gold/items since last night?
I really hope they manage to sort it out for you, man.
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Pez had his Diablo 3 stuff nicked?
Victim five!We’re now both members of the cool club known as “Oh GOD! They took EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING!!!“
What is Namco thinking releasing inversion this week? The game looked average but it seems like they are just dumping it. Not a lot of ads anywhere.
You know what word is disappointing?
demonstrable
It’s got demon. It’s got a good chunk of monster. It sounds like it should be describing a monstrous act. But it just means ‘provable’ (as in able to be demonstrated).
Today, not sure why, but it’s starting to get to me.
I think we should reclaim demonstrable and change its meaning. Who’s with me?
*crickets*
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I love demonstrable. Great word for SCIENCE.
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Only if you’re Dr Mengola.
Yep, I’m taking it back.
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Demonsrabble.
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For some reason I always thought the word was demonstrateable.
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Just spell it “daemonstrable” and you’re free to define it at will.
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I’m standing firm on the original spelling … for now 🙂
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I like “ghoti”. Another one to get your head around!
Today’s word; soliloquy.
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NOW….
That’s all I can remember.Oh yeah, and what’s that from, then?
That’s from Richard III you moron.
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Just wondering what made “Watch Dogs” so awesome for people? What was it about that game that made you go: YES
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Pretty much how it made me go “holy hell” when he did the thing with the do-dad at the traffic lights
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Just a new idea man. World looked great and like it was a living breathing place. rubbish on ground, steam coming out of vents, just gave it depth. The graphics were good (expected these days) but the key was the different way you can interact with the world. I guess we are all hoping for multiple ways in which missions can be completed, from finding a target to creating a diversion and things like that.. seems like with those tools, there would be multiple ways to complete an objective.
I’ve not seen a mechanic like it and new gameplay and people taking risks on new IP rather than the 4th version of everything is a good thing.. so yeah, im keen!
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Very happy they are taking a risk with a new IP, definitely. Yet to me, the gameplay wasn’t that different from other sandboxy games. Yes, you can take out a set of traffic lights, yes you can hack things. I just didn’t see that much of a difference. I don’t want to be negative about it, Ubisoft should be applauded because the demo was grade A. The idea is grade A.
I just think that overall it was very samey on the gameplay front for a sandbox game, except you can hack things. The exciting elements of the game that were touched on weren’t expanded on at all. I guess it is just meant to be a WOW, COOL, LOOK thing at first.tl;dr looks great but seeing a lot of BEST OF E3 so far articles which I think gives the game far too much credit for such an early stage of a) the conference, b) the game itself
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Granted it’s a bit early for sites to be having best of E3 articles before Nintendo’s conference but what’s the best of E3 so far in your opinion? (curious really, not trying to be combative)
Most of the game’s shown so far were known quantities and some even under whelmed, I guess that’s why the new IP (Watch Dogs) shone.
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To be honest, right now I am feeling very underwhelmed with most of what is on offer. I certainly liked a number of things from a number of different demos. I think you know what you’re getting with God of War, Smash Bros. clone, Halo, Tomb Raider. The Last of Us was definitely impressive and has a lot of character even from the demo. I did like Watch Dogs as I said, but I just think people are jumping on it quickly (not you, or others in here… I came here to get opinions). If I had to pick, right now I would give honours to The Last of Us, but I am bitterly disappointed about the lack of surprises/lack of games so far and having a best of E3 after a few conferences is insane. I don’t want to use the word “best” yet.
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For me it was the thought of being able to control everything in the game and what looked like passive online multiplayer at the end.
Having digested the trailer since the conference though… I’m starting to get a little cynical. Namely that the trailer didn’t look as ‘open world’ as I originally thought (with specific cutscenes coming out of ‘random’ events like that car crash). I dunno… I’ll reserve judgement until we see more.
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The car crash looked a little weird to me as well. The cars just came of out of nowhere. The game still looks interesting and I’d love to see more. C’mon Ubisoft.
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I loved that not-to-distant future, big brother is well and truly watching you vibe. The tech in particular. There was unsettling tone too and I’m a sucker for dystopian sci-fi. I think the new, polished IP thing had a lot to do with it too. 😛 Plus, the ambient details. The way the crowd acted, scripted sequences that mkes the world feel alive.
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For me itwas the fact that it was a surprise. I wasn’t expecting it so my reaction to it is more pronounced than if I had beard of it before.
Secondly, it’s a cool concept. Being able to control an Open world Chicago seems brilliant. Hacking into traffic lights, phones, doors etc could be cool. Splinter Cell meets Deus Ex.
The fact that you’re being watched could signify some sort of multiplayer mode or maybe the player controlling different protagonists. If it’s multiplayer does the action of player X affect you?
The game looks good as well. I’m really hoping it’s current gen.It’s still early and the game could be cool in concept and not in practice but what I saw makes me positive.
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To me, this demo speaks volumes then about the games industry as it stands. We are so desperate for something new and seemingly innovative, that something that hints at innovation and an innovative multiplayer mechanic is immediately lauded. It shouldn’t be like that. Every single game that comes out should receive that sort of treatment but we are so stuck in this rut of sequels and prequels and rehashes and whatnot.
At first I was also like “oh wow, this is really awesome” but further analysis and a rewatching of the clip, I don’t really see much I haven’t seen before in a sandbox game, except the core mechanic is that you can hack everything. The dialogue was pretty bland, the scenery was good and the gunplay was standard.-
You might have a point, man, but I think innovation also comes in small doses. I notice there’s currently a lot of criticism about action-adventures copying Uncharted, when they’re just taking what that game did well and building on top of it — I’d be worried if games shunned cinematography. This might not be an entirely new game in every way, but it’s moving the genre in an interesting direction which is something. *shrugs*
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Man, that wasn’t articulate at all. I think we agree, though. More innovation, NOW! 😛
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I liked it dude.
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I think the game just didn’t resonate with you.
It’s true we need to see more before we judge the game any further but I don’t think the fact that the game impressed people spells an industry problem. Most innovation comes from iteration and slight tweaks and such stuff should be lauded. Very few games are actually ground breaking and genre defying.
I guess the main thing is that it’s still early. I shouldn’t get too defensive over an early showing but I guess the game just resonated with me. The concept of computer control etc. is relevant today and the measured pace of the demo seems to indicate a different type of sandbox game.-
If that is the case, then so be it. Yet, I don’t think a game should necessarily have to resonate with me for me to be able to suggest it’s not doing anything new. I said I liked the demo dude, I think that a lot of what was in it was well done by Ubisoft. I still don’t think the gameplay is revolutionary or anything, not suggesting you do, nor do I think it offers much difference to say a GTA x Deus Ex. That’s what it feels like to me.
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Fair enough. I think my main issue is with you implying that the game isn’t doing anything new. Now that might be a case of personal taste or maybe I haven’t experienced as many games, but to me the newness comes from the game combining stuff from different genres into one. The action RPG genre to the sandbox genre. It’s Deus ex:HR meets GTA, with some Mindjack thrown in .
The same reasons I’m excited for Dishonoured are somehow the same reasons I’m excited for this.
Other than the setting Dishonoured is basically an amalgam of different games-Bioshock, Assassins Creed, Thief etc. It’s the combinations that make the two games seem special.It’s still early again and I don’t have any attachment to the devs or anything so I don’t want to defend it too much, I think it just felt new to me.
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Dat jacket.
Hey, Has anyone thought of getting a real time chat application working in here… Might take some of the pressure off TAY?
Just an idea, Redlynx has one and it works really well..
Also, I have barely seen E3 stuff… but a few new games are awesome already.
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As bizarre as it seems, I kinda like the segregation provided in all the different TAY-affiliated bits and pieces. Makes me feel like I’m part of this super-elite crew of underground gamers, hell-bent on birthdays and pantslessness. I like that.
Also, due to the ability to have multiple trains of thought going on simultaneously. If it’s all combined, there’s essentially less TAY to go around.
Also also, why am I now likening this to an Android OS compared to say, iOS?!-
I’d like some sort of user accounts though. (I think they are coming) That way when someone replies to you on a previous page you don’t have to go sifting through a bunch of posts. Giant Bomb has forums and all that but I like how they handle user accounts. If someone replies to you, you get a little letter icon besides your username.
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I just watch the South Park: The Stick of Truth E3 Trailer….
Right now I want to freeze myself until 2013.
That is how stoked I am for this game right now…
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I’m sure you saw that episode of South Park, it’ll only cause more pain
Warrior, Wizard, Rogue….and Jew…
Looks pretty good to me!
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My first reply-fail….
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Happens to the best of us, mate.
I’m here if you need a shoulder to lean on!
“lean on me
when you’re not strong…”-
*Enters stage left*
“And I’ll be your friend.
I’ll help you carry on…”-
/whoops loudly
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Some…times we reply
Others there’s shame:
reply button sorrowBut if we are wise
We know that there’s
Always tomorrow
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Assassins Creed 3 was awewsome!!!!!. (Ubisoft had a terrible presenter)
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I’m worried the whole thing’s going to be a little too “America, Fuch Yeah!”, for my liking. We’ll have to wait and see I guess.
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The presenter for Ubisoft during the Sony Conference was much better. I think he’s the creative director. That naval combat looked really good.
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I misread “naval” as “navel”…
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A game where you fight belly button fluff.
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Danger Zone
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Unless you were talking about Tobasco guy, or whatever his name is.
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Yeah I was disappointed because he’s usually so funny in his youtube videos!
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ok. hows this for a plan – I’m gonna go brave this shitty weather, get home, rug up, make a cup of tea & watch all the e3 trailers i’ve missed.
yeah. i thought it was a good plan too 🙂
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It would be even better if you didn’t have to slog through this AND SUDDENLY, SKY WATER episode. It was all sunny this morning!
wat happen
I’ve been busy.
Can anyone tell me what I missed?
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Far Cry 3 looking awesome and other E3 stuff. Watch Dogs also looked cool as well.
I enjoyed the Ubisoft conference(other than the groan-inducing banter) but most of the conferences have been a bit boring.
Most people seem to be waiting to see what Nintendo reveals tomorrow morning.
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Yeah, I’m also waiting for Nintendo. But I’m checking out Ubisoft right now.
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video games
all of them-
I have no idea which ones to check out though /o\
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Check em all brother. Particularly important: Last of Us, Watch Dogs, ACIII, Halo 4 and not so much conference related but Star Wars 1313!
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Links? =D Please?
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Beyond: Two Souls — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k63MWNuscuc
Watch Dogs — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyWJnckBcBQ&list=UUPazCPULN3GHg5RCJlBjoLw(I’ll stop there in case someone else is constructing an elaborate list for you. Don’t wanna steal their thunder.)
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yeah, Last of Us is a must watch in my opinion.
Beyond is pretty great as well…
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Yeah, Beyond was quite amazing really. Quantic have found a way to push the capabilities of the consoles I think. However, more gameplay plz.
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Yeah, that’s more than reasonable. Any gameplay would do. Still the highlight for me so far. 😀 I post on an adventure gaming website and half the folks there like to think of Quantic’s stuff as adventure, half the folks don’t. It’s hard to defend this when there’s literally nohting gameplay related. Still looks damn good.
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@Hermes and Thoth
Thanks for the cool discussion on Watch Dogs on the previous page. This is why TAY is one of the few places online where people just come and talk games in peace. We both discussed our points and agreed and disagreed on stuff.
If we were somewhere else I’m sure the conversation would have degenerated into statements like:
YOU SUCK, YOU ‘ R NOOB, YOU NOT KNOW WHAT YOU SAYING
I R RIGHT U WRONG, FOOLISH.
You know, stuff like that. Thanks TAY for the maturity.
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Agreed. My comment was more me thinking out loud too, didn’t really mesh with your criticisms.
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STFU NOOB.
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…I think the premise was lost with the presence of appropriate punctuation.
As you were :3
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Hey man, not here to be a dick. I understand that people have different opinions and see things differently. That’s the wonder of human beings brother. To be honest, I confront this every day in SCIENCE because my ideas sometimes dont mesh with others. If I just ignore them, I don’t further my pursuit of knowledge, I hinder it. That’s why I post in here, because people aren’t dicks and we can just talk about games like I would with my IRL friends.
Cheers masha.
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Dicknity
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Also, never replied to your last comment but you have shed light on the situation from your end a little more. I am not that excited for Dishonoured but I admit I haven’t followed it much. Re: Watch Dogs doing nothing new. I stand by it purely from a literal standpoint – by definition I would say its not doing anything new, but I can almost guarantee that will be wrong when we learn more about it, especially the multiplayer aspect – to me, that seems the most promising going by the demo.
Just saw the footage of Watch Dogs. Holy crap. I’ve been wanting a game like this for years.
I feel like I have missed everything D=
I haven’t seen any E3 footage yet. =(
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I posted some links above, but it’s all in moderation. I suggest you scour GameTrailers.com for the game’s suggested above. They have a YouTube channel too.
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That post sounded so cold and clinical. Let’s pretend I put a ‘:P’ on the end.
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I’ll check afterwards. i still have birds to draw. Bloody birds.
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It’s not like you missed anything at all really, all the videos are up online so you can watch them when you’re not busy.
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Yep, that’s what I’m going to do.
(As soon as this blackout passes)
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Help me TAY collective!
After a hard drive for the older style Xbox 360. One of the ones you plug in up top. Turns out they are insanely hard to find. The nearest EB one is in Port Macquarie which last I checked is a bit of a drive. Not stressed about size, any will do, just need to download a couple of games.
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My friend has my old one. I don’t know if she’s using it. I can ask if she’s using it
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That would be cool if she’s not using it but why wouldn’t she be?
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It’s her Brother’s xbox, and he’s been incredibly mean to her.
I think it’s 30gb
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Hey Freeze! How are you feeling today? From what I could gather on Twitter you spent the weekend relaxing, which is good! I hope you are feeling a bit better now.
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Heyo Mr. Pants.I’m better now. Been off TAY a bit since I realised all I was saying recently was negative whinging and didn’t feel I had much important to say otherwise.
Almost finished Kai. You were right, the voice acting is markedly better but a bit odd hearing the wrong voices coming out of them. Gonna get into Avatar after I finish that.
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Avatar is awesome :D. As much as I’d love to be a Super Saiyan (as any kid watching DBZ would), bending the elements is just as awesome.
And good to have you back Freeze. Lots of new TAYbies have joined :O
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Something I noticed whilst watching Kai was someone (Krillin? Roshi?) referred to the Kamehameha as “the ultimate air bending technique”.
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http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/broadbeach-waters/accessories/20-gb-xbox-hard-drive/1002749406
25 bucks for a 20gb 260 hdd!
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There’s something about that site that makes me shudder just looking at it.
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Australia’s very own craig’s list.
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Which originated in the UK
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It’s owned by Ebay, so don’t blame you =P
But i’ve had nothing but positive feed back from my mates who use it =P
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I swear that my furniture is out to get me.
Last week I stubbed my ingrown toe on my footstool whilst trying to turn my alarm off, and I just scraped my left thigh on the side of my coffee table where my laptop is sitting.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)
I miss the feeling of last year when I could sit at home at watch the E3 conferences, check up on all the trailers and generally be in the know from day 1. This year I’m completely lost. Not just because there was nothing I was really looking forward to seeing, but I spent all day today in Sydney for a Tafe excursion. Went to a tour wholesaler, got shown the Four Seasons Hotel (holy crap is that place impressive) and did a Captain Cook harbour cruise. Finally home and thought I had all day to catch up on conferences tomorrow, forgetting I had a full day of work experience and then my weekly trivia night. At this rate it’ll be at least Friday or the weekend before I get caught up. Ah well, could be worse.
In other news, I had a mini game give away over the weekend. If you claimed a game, I’ll be sending them off tomorrow. If anyone’s interested all I have left is Mario Kart DS. I imagine most people who have a DS already have it but the offers there if anyone wants to take it
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I’m just as lost so it’s not only you
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The game news is always going to be here. That harbour cruise was a one-time opportunity (or, a very limited opportunity, I dunno!) and so’s that work experience!
We will still be hyped enough to yell more about these games come Friday, I’m sure. :p
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Yeah I know, and Nintendo is the conference I’m most interested in anyway
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Also, did you want one of the Professor Layton games, cause MASHAAAAAAA was interested in them as well
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Nah, let MASHAAAAAAAA have them. I’m curious but I’d rather they go to someone who’s more definitely interested.
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There were two games, pants, You take one I take the other. Solved 🙂
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It’s fine. I’ve only ever played the first one and it was alright but not amazing, so I’m willing to pass on both of them. Please take them both, I insist!
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Thanks, that’s very kind
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Dear Novahkiin!,
At least you missed E3 for good reasons, sounds awesome man :). I don’t give into E3 hype unless it’s Zelda related (lost my shit with the TP and SS announcements) but this year looks pretty good.
And I will gift you Aquaria sometime this week :D. I keep going on Steam only to see you’re offline. I’d rather gift it when you’re online for some reason 😛
From,
Joelvahkiin!
On an unrelated note it’s weird hearing someone say “Joel” in a game (The Last of Us). I don’t think I’ve ever played or seen a game where Joel is a main character 😛
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Thats weird, I used to leave my Steam logged in almost permanently, but for some reason I haven’t logged in for days now
Damn and Blast!
You just reminded me that I’m supposed to be at Trivia tonight! Should have been there nearly two hours ago. I’ve got two phone messages and a text asking where I am, but I forgot to switch the ringer on after work.
Oops!
Hey Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire) fans, I just finished watching the S2 finale and there are still some things I’m unsure about and was wondering if you could please help shed some light on them. Googling answers can be a bit risky… I haven’t read any of the books yet (but I plan too) and my experience with the series goes as far as only watching both seasons of the TV show. I saw each episode as it came out for both seasons so I might not remember everything that happens, I know I still struggle to work out who is who and what exactly is happening. So please don’t ruin anything that hasn’t already happened in the TV series. If a question I ask gets answered in later books (or in the book but not in the series) then just say something vague like “you’ll find out soon”. Also excuse any horrible spelling of names or bad descriptions of characters purely based on their appearance.
http://rot13.com/
(TV show spoilers obviously)
Question 1: Jung rknpgyl unccrarq jvgu Oena naq Evpxba? V haqrefgnaq gung gurl ena njnl naq tbg gb gur snezre’f ubhfr (jurer gurl frag gur becunaf) ohg V’z abg fher jung unccrarq nsgre gung. Fheryl Gurba jbhyq xabj gung gur snezre’f fbaf jrera’g Oena naq Evpxba, fb jul jrer gurl xvyyrq naljnl?
Question 2: Jung’f gur qrny jvgu Wba naq gur bgure Avtug’f Jngpu thl (gur bar ur jnf pncgherq jvgu)? Gur bgure thl fnvq fbzrguvat gb uvz orsber pnyyvat uvz n genvgbe naq svtugvat jvgu uvz ynfg rcvfbqr (be n srj rcvfbqrf ntb). Ur nyfb fnvq fbzrguvat gb Wba evtug nsgre orvat fgnoorq naq Wba ybbxrq fhecevfrq, jung qvq ur fnl naq jung qvq ur zrna ol vg? V gubhtug gurl jrer whfg cergraqvat fb Wba pbhyq wbva jvgu gur Jvyqyvatf, fb jul jbhyq Wba xvyy uvz?
Question 3: Jung’f gur qrny jvgu gur oynpx thl (gur Xvat bs Dnegu – fbeel sbetbg uvf anzr)? V qba’g rknpgyl haqrefgnaq jung unccrarq va gur raq. Jnf gur oynpx thl fyrrcvat jvgu gung juber gung jnf cneg bs gur Qbguenxv? V gubhtug fur jnf qrnq?
Thanks in advance! Sorry for not knowing anything and just a final reminder to please not spoil anything for me 😛
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Okay let me take a stab at this!
Question 1: Gurba xvyyrq gur gjb snezre oblf fcrpvsvpnyyl orpnhfr ur pbhyqa’g svaq Oena naq Evpxba. Vg jnf gb fraq n zrffntr gb gur erfvqragf bs Jvagresryy, naq gb qvfpbhentr gurz sebz gnxvat nal npgvba ntnvafg uvz ol znxvat gurz guvax ur unq xvyyrq gur ynfg erznvavat Fgnexf gurer.Question 2: Dubeva’f tbny urer jnf njxjneqyl rkcynvarq naq n erny ceboyrz va gur GI fubj, V gubhtug. Ur vf vaqrrq cergraqvat gb or znq ng Wba va beqre gb cebibxr uvz vagb xvyyvat uvz fb gung ur pna vasvygengr gur Jvyqyvat pnzc. Vg’f rkcynvarq orggre va gur obbxf, ernyyl. Va gur obbxf, Wba xabjf rknpgyl jung Dubeva vf qbvat, naq vf rkcyvpvgyl gbyq gb qb rirelguvat gur Jvyqyvatf gryy uvz gb qb. Urer, Wba jnf fvzcyl cebibxrq rabhtu gb xvyy uvz, juvpu cebonoyl tbrf ntnvafg uvf bnguf ohg qbrfa’g frrz gb yrnir uvz erterggvat uvf npgvba…
Question 3: V’yy or ubarfg, guvf jnf fghzcrq zr gbb, vg’f orra n juvyr fvapr V ernq gur obbx. V pnyy uvz Qhpxfnhpr, ogj. Naljnl, gung Qbernu puvpx (V pna’g rira erzrzore jung fur’f qbar orsber ohg V xabj ure anzr jnf Qbernu!) jnf fyrrcvat jvgu uvz orpnhfr nccneragyl Qhpxfnhpr pbaivaprq ure Qnal jnf tbvat gb qvr naq ur jnf orggre bss fgnlvat jvgu ure. Fbzrbar ryfr jvyy cebonoyl rkcynva gung orggre…
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Thanks Panties 🙂
Ducksauce 😛
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Well, hope this helps:
Bxnl, Oena naq Evpxba ena onpx gb Jvagresryy, nyy cneg bs n phaavat ehfr. Va gur obbx gurl’er jnl zber fhogyr nobhg vg, naq vg ybbxf nf gubhtu Gurba npghnyyl xvyyrq gurz(xvaq bs). Ohg Gurba qbrfa’g ernyyl jnag gb xvyy gurz, ohg ur arrqf gb znxr vg ybbx nf gubhtu ur’f fubja rirelbar jub’f obff. Fb ur xvyyf gur puvyqera, jub ner zber be yrff gur evtug ntr, oheaf gurz gb qvfthvfr gurve vqragvgvrf, naq npgf nf gubhtu gurl’er gur Fgnex’f.Gurer jnf ab jnl gurl pbhyq obgu wbva gur jvyqyvatf, gung zhpu jnf boivbhf. Gung jubyr guvat cynlrq bhg IREL qvssreragyl va gur obbxf. Fb Dubeva gevrq gb uvag gb Wba jung gb qb, naq gura onfvpnyyl sbeprq uvz gb xvyy uvz, fvapr gurer jnf ab jnl ur’q yvir guebhtu zrrgvat Znapr naljnl. Gur guvat ur juvfcrerq orsber ur qvrq jnf fbzrguvat gb qb jvgu jngpuvat gur jnyy, juvpu jnf obgu gb erzvaq Wba bs jung gb qb, naq gb ernffher uvz gung jung ur qvq jnf gur evtug guvat.
Ur jnf fyrrcvat jvgu ure, fur jnf gur bar jub jrag zvffvat jura gur bgure unaqznvqraf jrer xvyyrq. Gurl gnyx nobhg ubj fur vfa’g gurer, naq fghss. V’z abg ernyyl fher nobhg gung fghss, vg’f irel qvssrerag va gur obbxf.
watching ubisoft conference
gets to booby scene in farcry 3
mum walks in…
TOTES NOT AWKWARD
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Just because of the Grand in your name, I’m always picturing you as older
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Grandfather B-Funk!
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last time i remember, i was the second youngest on the site after lambo i believe!
i am but a lowly 18 year old.-
We were all there at one point. But we’re better now 😛
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Wait a sec, when’s your birthday?
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may 3rd
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I solved the mystery of e steam mobile community!
So it looks like someone forgot to divide by 60 on the mobile code, so minutes show as hours… thus my 5000 hours in Skyrim…
For a laugh I thought I’d look at my girlfriend’s profile (she loves Terraria)… so according to the mobile site, she’s played it for just over 5 years now.
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E3?
… Don’t mind me, I’ll show myself out.
I really dislike writing resumes and cover letters. I feel like I’m the most arrogant person on the planet, writing about how awesome I am and if you don’t hire me you’re missing out.
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I also despise that but it needs to be done.
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My resume:
A whole bunch of fluff and crap for 2 pages with 1 line about my prior “employment” experience :/ (it just has work experience there)
The job paradox… I need a job for experience but I need experience for a job. Herp derp
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The job I’m about to apply for wants 5 years industry experience. I’ve only just finished my certificate, but almost 8 years at Coles balances it out in my opinion 🙂
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I am so bad at resume writing. I really hate ringing my own bell, and when I do it just reads as fake to me.
Luckily I have a friend who works in recruitment, so he’s helped me a fair bit. But it still reads as fake to me. :/@Greenius, how was your exam yesterday?
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Yeah went alright. Definitely passed but I might not get a HD 😛
Got 3 more to go!
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I have so much trouble doing it. I am awful at it.
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Same, I’m just not the sort of person who wants to go “Look at me, look at me, I’m amazing, hire me!!!!”
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Same. I’m more of a person that is like. ‘Please hire me, i promise I’ll work hard D=’
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There. Done. Sent off to Tafe teacher to have a look at. Not sure if applying for a job 10 days before I leave the country for a month is a good idea, but hey… all they can do is say no
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Good luck and have fun exploring volcanos in Iceland :O
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I just had a thought…
If EA Sports wants to use the Wii U for potential, why not use it in their games to set plays by drawing on the touchscreen during the game….
Maybe I’m looking too far into it….
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They showed that with Madden on Kinect.
Allow me to contiune harping on about AC3 (expect it alot)
As shown we have only seen the slaughter of poor Red Coats in all videos and images shown thus far, while this is likely just marketing to the large american audience I have a theory that a major plot point or twist might involve the killing of high profile Patriots and thus avoiding spoilers (unlikely but who knows)
Secoundly it’d be nice if they had kept the red as the main secondary colour of Conner instead of the new blue as it would help to keep him seperate from the blue coats. Although he has been recently appearing with a red sash/belt meaning he is now in both red and blue and I guess that could be them trying to emphasise he is killing on both sides of the war.
Cheers for the rad time on Team Speak tonight guys, always fun times!
Time for Mad Men for this Virus & maybe Outlaw Garage..
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You up to 5×12 of Mad Men? (If so how freakin’ amazing was that ending. Christina Hendricks stole every scene like always.)
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Yeah, season 5 has been so amazing, I really don’t want it to end next week.
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Oh god I’m so tired. The bags under my eyes have bags under their eyes.
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Yeah I ended up staying awake until 3am.. Bad choice, but oh well!
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Well, bother.
Nintendo killed the hype train, not with a bang, but a whimper. Like a THQ studio killed off in the shadow of a bigger event, the Ninty presser is lying face down in a shallow pond.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2012-pikmin-3/731187
Pikmin. It’s… it’s… some kind of beautiful.
Taking a sick day. Turns out that vomiting in the shower is not a good way to start the day. Now I know.
Well, I knew this before but I have confirmed it through thorough testing.
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Been there, buddy. When I had my wisdom teeth out a few weeks back I was known for my early morning kitchen sink vomits. 😛 Hope you feel better, man.
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Cheers. I think I’ll be fine. The pain is pretty bearable, even though I haven’t taken anything this morning. It was probably just my body raising an objection :p
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That sucks man. At least you can clicky?
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Maybe this afternoon.
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HI ERRBODY.
For those attending my B’day celebrations on the 9th, please assemble at kino-kunningkongokirstendunst, or whatever it’s called, at 6pm.
From there, it’s off to the Bavarian beer cafe. Bring your good liver, I’ve had a shitty few weeks and plan on drinking away the bad times.
Casa de la Pez is open to anyone who wants to crash, as always – 2 double airbeds and a couch are available.
SEE YOU THERE,
-Senor Pezeroni
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I think I will wear a hoodie for this special occassion.
Anyone else check out the Revengeance gameplay trailer? Thoughts? I might be giving it a miss.
Man i do some random stuff in this place.
What i have done this morning in a hour
1. Fix a Grinder
2. Help change a tire
3. plant a tree
4.Eat some mango chutney on toast that my bosses wife gave me.
5. hold onto a dog, going to a vet.
6. Drive to maccas for my workmates.
Weird day.
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Are you sure that’s your to-do list?
I think someone has misplaced their bucket list on your desk 😛
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That would make a terrible bucket list.
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Worst Bucket list ever. It doesn’t even have catching them all so disappointing.
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Oh, I don’t know. I think it’s the simple pleasures you’d miss most: planting trees, holding dogs, helping people by changing a tire, etc
Granted the grinder is a bit of a weird addition, unless it’s a euphemism… and the maccas doesn’t belong at all.
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*eat bosses wife’s mango chutney*
😉
TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK.
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Sorry man, was’t a euphimism. The chutney was pretty good though.
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The puppy was really cute and he started licking my face. He did get hair all over my jumper though. I know more about planting a tree and various plants than i really should, due to living with my grandparents. The helping with changing a tire thing was a work thing, so it wasn’t like helping my fellow man. I was getting paid for it.
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Was E3 terrible this year or was it just me? aside from the couple of interesting games presented (the last of us and watch dogs and beyond) it was average at best.
which was a shame becasue i really wanted to get onboard the wii u train, but it looks like i will only be buying it when they release a mario kart wii u
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Was it REALLY that bad, though? I think the media built it up to unreachable heights, only to delight in ripping it to shreds. I hope games journalism isn’t becoming like cable news where the only way to fill a 24 cycle is an unpleasant defeaning commentary.
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On a happier note, I was impressed on the games front. We’ve got Dishonored, The Last of Us, Pikmin 3, Beyond: Two Souls, Tomb Raider and Watch Dogs — not to mention BioShock Infinite and Aliens: Colonial Marines. When you don’t look at the show from a publisher standpoint it’s not too shabby at all. A full years worth of awesome games to tied us over until next gen which isn’t too far away at all.
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Without speculating too much on when next gen stuff will arrive, is it just the calm before teh storm? assuming that next year will have new console releases?
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I sure hope so, man, the crowds are gettin’ restless. 😀
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and agree on the games front, although i was expecting more games from the wii u.
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Eh, sorry. I’m just slightly riled up. I’m gonna make a point not to ramble about anything negative for the rest of te show. :Everyone’s entitled to an opinion too, I didn’t mean to state my perspective as gospel. 😛
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I am a bit disappointed, yes. Mainly with Nintendo, because they were the ones I was most excited for. I was in disbelief during their conference that the best games shown were third-party… (Pikmin 3 was good, but not at all surprising and it’s hard for me to get excited for 2D Mario these days)
Here’s hoping the 3DS conference at 11am lifts my spirits!
Gooooood morning TAY…
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that’s it that’s all I’ve got..
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so erhm…. whatcha doing?
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*goes and gets coffee*
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GET BACK TO WORK.
Have you bypassed your new work’s filter yet, or are you not doing that to try and be nice? Also, COMIN’ TO THE CANMEAT?
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I wont attempt that yet, small crappy phone ftw \o/
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Mornin’ TAY!
I played some SR3 last night, including Send in the Clones. After messing around with those super powers, I dunno if the rest of the game could do anything better.
Yo FREEZE, just tried twittering you but the damn thing froze on me, I have a 120GB hard drive which you are welcome to, just send some postal adress details to
hugo(dot)barbarian(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au
If anyone is in contact with Freeze, can they pass this along, just in case this ends up being on the bottom of the page and gets overlooked, cheers.
So I’ve seen a minute of ZombiU and damn I am impressed. Not by the graphics but once your character dies, it’s dead. You have to start with a new one.
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Pema death is a pretty cool mechanic, If you like that you will love day z
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Not sure about the motion controls, but other than that it looks pretty damned awesome!
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This sounds cool…
although I`ve had my head stuck in the sand and therefore have no idea what it is, but I always like the sound of perma death…. I can only guess its a wiiU title?
I’ve developed a callus on my right wrist from it rubbing against the desk when I’m using my computer mouse. I think maybe getting a mouse pad may help fix this.
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I have the same freaking callus but on both wrists.
Ideas i have had this morning (REALLY BORED)
1. Gay Romance Novel called “Cellmates to Soul mates” A Gay romance novel about two guys who start a relationship in the big house, they are subsequently badly injured because prison. The doctor who fixes then up turns them into cyborgs and the start murdering people in the prison for revenge. The pope hears of these gay cyborg prisoners and decides to intervene. He jumps in his giant robot mecha and flies to japan to confront them. It will be a musical novel only sold as a audiobook.
2. I was contemplating making a rap album where i just pick a different word and put it into some good rap songs. Ala Elmo’s world songs
3. I started putting tape onto my desk and working out the angles that was present. I then checked with a protractor.
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Oh Rocketman!!!! you’re sooo funnay
Sorry humans I’m going to have to vent here (Also to update TAY so meh). I’m on the verge of just walking out of work today, since the main software I’ve been having to use to do configuration changes and new deployments has been breaking every day in a different way, slowing me down by threefold or stopping me from working entirely. Because of this, I keep getting yelled at by the higher ups and the service desks cuz I’m not being efficient enough. This has been going on for the past 3-4 weeks now and I’m on the verge of flipping tables at the office. I’m mainly the guy taking the fall for it cuz I’m meant to be the one managing these change requests, pretty hard to do that when the software breaks all the time 🙁
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What software are you stuck using? On the off chance it’s something someone here is familiar with, you might get help here 😛
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Unfortunately I can’t talk about that, all I can say is it’s the most jittery piece of garbage I’ve used for the past 3-4 weeks. It feels like I’m trying to help a human with a brittle bone disease play football without any treatments.
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Fair enough.
Similar issue on a lower scale at my work. There’s several crapplications that don’t run properly here…the difference being that everyone seems to only vaguely care.-
The main issue with the application I’m using, is that since I’m the guy managing the change requests, I’m using this thing the most, everybody else only dabbles on it for new deployments, so they don’t care. I’m sure the support guys are sick of me raising faults now lol
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If you’re talking about the type of application I’m thinking of, we’re operating without someone in your position. This basically means anything larger than a small job never gets fixed…
All this secrecy is making this conversation a lot more fun 😀Anyhoo, your best bet would probably be to approach your bosses with a list of the support desk requests and basically tell them you can’t do your job without working software, and give them proof of how often issues arise.
If all else fails, grab the software, then roll it up in a carpet and throw it off a bridge.
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bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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You suck so much right now.
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Step 1.
Don’t get too mad man, getting annoyed with it breaking is fair enough but if its out of your control, there is really nothing you can do apart from try to resolve the issue.
Step 2.
If you get yelled at just tell the people the truth, that the software isn’t working and it needs to be looked at ASAP or more shit like that is gonna go down
Step 3. (only if really angry)
Yell back at them, seriously like who are they to yell at you for trying to do your job right. I am aware you need your job but, it sounds like its bullying as well. People constantly isn’t good for your morale just tell them to back of and you are doing the best you can with the shitty resources available.
Keep on trucking man. You will be fine.
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Yeah I’ve been thinking about going to my manager to ask for alternatives on what I can work on in my role. This product is just one of a few things I could do. Granted I’ll need to teach myself a few things again to learn how those products work in a deeper scale but I think it’ll be easier on my stress levels regardless
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That a boy, particularly for you getting all stressed is probably not gonna end well. Hope it works out, do feel free to chat with me about it i have had similar situations.
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I have no advice for you, it’s not a situation where I feel I could help so I’ll just give you a virtual hug instead.
*hugasaurus*
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Hugs are always welcome regardless, thank you Miss Strange
*robohugs*
How much is PS+ in Australia?
I just saw what they’ve added and it’s absolutely insane!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/06/sign-up-for-playstation-plus-get-a-whole-game-collection-for-free/
For under US $5 (in America) you can get games such as inFamous 2, LBP 2, Lara Croft: Guardian of Light, Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One, Just Cause 2, Saints Row 2 and… SPACE MARINE all for ‘free’ as long as you’re a PS+ member. Some of these titles will swap out and be replaced with new ones but as long as you downloaded them and keep your subscription active you can still play them! That’s an insane amount of value.
Granted that is the US list but there’s a UK (which I assume Australia will have as well) list of games that isn’t as good but still has the likes of inFamous 2, LBP and Space Marine.
I guess the only downside to so much cheap awesome games is that I’ll rarely play them and I’ll just become a Cakesmith…
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I think it’s about $60 a year? Not sure entirely but I think that’s at least close.
I actually like the AU/EU list better. It has Darksiders and Stranger’s Wrath. I’m very tempted.-
I thought that saids “strange’s wrath” i was all like oh shit that would be a scary game. I never want to incur your wrath. EVER. Well maybe once just to see what it is, but only once.
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My wrath is not scary. Sure, I get a bit yelly sometimes but it blows over really quickly.
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You get yelly, i cant really imagine that. Its like imagining a little puppy biting someones hand off. Not all that likely. 🙂
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Strange’s Wrath?
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Hey I’m playing that game at the moment,
I’m up to elboze freely for anybody who knows the game
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For me there’s just more games on the US list that I haven’t played before and I’m more interested in. Luckily there’s Space Marine on both which is good since someone keeps telling everyone to go play it 😛
Strange’s Wrath does seem interesting though 🙂
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Hey greenman 🙂
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Hey hotross
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i will end you,
more seriously i was completely expecting you to say that. Also hugs and shit in canberra, i am really that awkward enough to do it-
I was going to say Rockefeller but I thought you’d expect the hotross 🙂
Canberra? Last time I checked I’m not going :P. Defs chill out in Melb though since I’ll be on holidays anyway.
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Well this is a little awkward, cause last time I checked YOU WERE AND ARE GOING.
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Pixellllllllllllllllllll
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Whats a “canberra”?
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“I guess the only downside to so much cheap awesome games is that I’ll rarely play them and I’ll just become a Cakesmith…”
That’s a downside? HAVE YOU SEEN HIS HAIR!?
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Sadly not in real life 🙁
Those of you follow me on Twitter may have seen that I had a very funny but violent fall yesterday. Today I have a mega-bruise on my side under my right shoulder and when I woke up this morning I was sore in some very weird places. 😛
In better news, my son watched The Neverending Story for the first time on Monday and its his new favourite movie. He’s taken to wandering about the house holding our copy of the book close to his chest. He also goes around singing the theme song. 😀
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That’s awesome. Now ruin it by making him watch the sequels.
Number 3 has Jack Black as a bully IIRC.
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the way you described your fall sounded more painful than funny… hope the damage isnt too bad
Neverending Story is great, though it freaked me out as a kid. Especially that scene where Atraeu has to get past the two Sphinx… & that wolf! oh god… was too much for the four year old #35…
& I was amazed when I found out the theme song was sung by a guy. Didnt see that one coming. But yeah… it was the 80’s makes sence.
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Omg Strange are you alright and what did you do to yourself?!
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Ouch. Hope you’re alright!
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I’m okay, I had a fall that was like something out of a Home Alone movie.
I stepped on a round toy in my son’s room that made me lose my balance, and when I put my foot down to try and correct my balance I stepped on a slippery blanket and went sliding across the room. It’s a shame nobody but my son was there to see it because they could have a great laugh.Just a few more aches and pains to add my catalogue of old lady pains. 😛
How’s the new job treating you Harli? Getting up to much mischief with everyone off at E3?
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Neverending Story is the greatest. I still need to play Shadows of the Colossus as Atreyu =P
Hey puppylicks, I got MWO Beta access =)
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Actually I just read that due to the NDA I shouldn’t have posted that. Everyone please unseen my last post =P
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I don’t understand it anyway \o/
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Congrats man! I’m still holding out. You should come on teamspeak sometime to talk about things….that definitely aren’t MWO and wouldn’t violate the NDA.
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I might do that – I think Max Payne 3 is going to trump MWO for a few days anyway. I’m stupidly busy this week. C’mon weekend!
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That’s bloody awesome man, I haven’t gotten in yet so… well you can’t tell me all about it huh?
Perhaps you could just describe the game through a complicated series of emoticons or interpretive dance?-
So far my interpretative dance would look something like me sitting at my work computer pretending to do work and waiting for the weekend so I get time to play MWO.
How’s that for a dance?-
….subtle
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You bastard. You glorious bastard. Congratulations.
I’m just gonna sit here being super jealous and sullen.
Okay, I have decided that I am a wuss.
I really love the idea of Watch dogs and was really excited until I saw the dead girl that was involved in the car crash. If there is a way to complete the game without hurting people then I will most likely get it.
Same with the last of us. Especially when the people are pleading with you not to kill them.
I am too soft D= Even on not real humans
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I really hope both those games have a lot of choice. I want missions that can be completed in different ways. I’m starting to get sick of linear game play, no matter how pretty it looks.
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You know what , i am the same. Solidarity sister
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I’m so glad I’m not the only one. The dead girl in the car crash really upset me.
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I like doing no-gun-runs of games wherever possible. I’m currently playing Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, and have only killed two people (plot required)
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I loved Chaos Theory for that. I only killed 2 people the whole game. And that was in some tunnel with lots of proximity mines. I was trying to do it undetected and I just couldn’t find a way to take these 2 guys out so I shot the mines….
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You’re not the only one Scree, EVERY time I play a game with moral choices I always pick the good one because I don’t want to hurt the programed NPC’s feelings. Possibly on the second run I do I will choose one bad choice then instantly regret it. “I’M SORRY NPC PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!!”.
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That girl could have been on her way to burn down an orphanage full of puppies. I like to think it’s better this way
omg man pikmin is so cute. I’ve never played a pikmin game before but now I want to, which is weird because it’s not really my type of game!! /squeaaaa
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Pikmin is good fun 😀
Assuming you have a Wii, you can pick up 1 and 2 with updated WiiMote controls for pretty cheap. And if you’re into the Pikmin gameplay check out Little King’s Story (also on Wii but coming out on Vita), that game is soooo awesome!
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Beat me to it. Damn you. 😛
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I have both of them on Wii, haven’t played either for longer than 10 mintues :/ oops! (did play a decent amount of Pikmin on the cube though)
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Wasn’t a fan of the randomly generated stuff in the second game, though. You can ALWAYS tell when something isn’t designed with human aesthetics in mind. Still fun.
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I don’t have a Wii. No comment.
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I think it’s like $99 + $10 shipping at Dick Smith online with Mario Kart and a WiiMote + controller 🙂
That’s insanely cheap. Also Xenoblade!!!!!!!!!!!
that reminds me… Potato Masha said he’d buy a Wii if it was under $150! MASHAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Damn you Greenius! Why don’t you forget stuff. I’ll go to my local dick smith and check it out. My local store is really small though. I’ll keep you updated.
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Incredibly fun games, if you have a Wii both are available in the new play control range!
I am feeling weak willed, so I believe I will get a copy of Dragon’s Dogma today.
Very mixed reviews, but as I have replayed the demo 4 times, and loved it everytime, I believe I will be able to look past its faults, and see the true beauty of being able to climb on top of a griffin and stab it to death in mid flight.
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I really think it’s one of those games that you either really love or really hate. Tell me what you think of it Hugo!
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I should give the demo a go, cause it sounds very much like something I’d like.
Hurray, i finally got Max Payne 3, but the only thing that is worrying me is there isnt a product code on the back of the manual.
Hopefully it will auto activate and not ask for a product key.
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Mine had a cd-key on the back of the manual…
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I have the special edition, maybe i have to redeem the special edition pack first.
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A topic I’m sure everyone will love: Ethics in video games time!
More specifically (and seriously), I’m starting to seriously wonder if I’m going to continue getting enjoyment out of Assassin’s Creed.
When playing Revelations, more and more I’m starting to feel a bit shit when I assassinate a guard (especially without detection). They’re just not set up to be evil enough for me to justify killing them. This is excluding any high-ranking guards (i.e. Janissary, cause they’re freakin’ jerks!) or any open combat.
I think a lot of it stems from lack of game difficulty, because the guards are barely a threat. It makes it even more awkward when the game tries to tell you they ARE a huge threat. It’s like you’re kicking a puppy and the game is telling you you fended of a giant attack dog.
Most of this is being brought about by all the AC3 hype, and partially the fact that they’re trying to set up British (piss off Ubi, every single soldier isn’t a Templar) soldiers as “evil”, and they’re just…not. Well, not portrayed as such.
I know the usual arguments of:
– But they’re working for the bad guys!
I work for a religious company (and I’m not religious), but does that mean I can be blamed for all the sexual harassment in the church system?
– Yeah, but those soldiers did a bunch of bad things too!
Show those things in the game itself. Give me the justification of knowing I’m killing a rapist, a sadist, etc. and I’m happy.
I dunno…I guess I’m starting to really need a driving force behind any realistic game setting to justify killing people. Oh, and PvP in general is it’s own justification for me. That’s about a fun competition, not about killing people.
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I haven’t really played past the first AC game so my point might not be valid but couldn’t this be intentional? To help you with the immersion of the game? While I’m not an assassin (OR AM I!?!?!?!?) this is probably feelings that an assassin would deal with daily.
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I don’t think it’s intentional in that way. I also think, being an assassin, you shouldn’t have to take out guards permanently. They’re not your target, they’re just in the way so some form of knocking them out rather than killing them would be more in keeping with what would happen with a “real” Assassin of the order.
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As I said I haven’t really played passed No. 1 but I recall that you didn’t actually NEED to kill guards (except for personal bodyguards) when trying to take out a target or have they changed that since the first one?
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Is there a stealthy unarmed takedown like Uncharted or Deus Ex:HR in the AC series? I only played up to brotherhood and I don’t think it had that, only fistfighting knockouts.
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Oh, yeah, Deus Ex was excellent on the unarmed takedown front… until I accidently pressed the wrong button resulting in a horrific death. 😛
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Holding Q for too long? 😛
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That’s the one.
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No, there’s only the fist fighting stuff. Even then, despite most of them being non-lethal, it still technically “kills” your opponent.
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See above… I love how Splinter Cell gave you the choice of knock-out or kill. And even in that game all the bad guys are actually bad.
I think it comes down to why are we killing at all. Some game just seem to assume that if it’s a guard or a guy in a balaclava that he has to die.
Daemons and aliens I understand but a lot of the time we seem to trivialise the killing.
Take Hitman. The game is about killing sure, but usually you get a reason for it eg. job from the government or whatever, and you can always complete the missions without any collateral damage. That’s the sort of choice and morality we should be able to partake in. The new Hitman is going to have to dispel some bad press from their latest trailer.
Normally I get Club happy on just about anyone or thing in games, but I have noticed I have become somewhat reluctant to consume civies in Prototype 2. Didn’t bother me the slightest in the first game, but I find I am really uncomfortable killing or consuming the innocent bystanders in this game.
Any other game, everything is open to a good Clubbing.
I cannot count the number of times I got told off for killing innocent people in the Assasin Creed games.
If I don’t get to kill someone, it wasn’t worth getting up in the morning.
I wonder what this says about me.
Good things I hope.
I’d definitely like to see more non-deadly take downs, cloroform, tranquilizers and the like. That was always the fun part about Hitman, getting through a mission with only the target taken out. I know Heavy Rain’s the go to example, but that seen with Ethan was probably the most tense and powerful depiction of violence in a game.
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Scene, I’m not illiterate, I swear. 😛
I completely agree with you about Revelations. Especially as you’re told the orange-dot guards are kind of on your side and the red-dot ones are controlled by Templars. This is probably part of the reason why I just see Ezio as a thug. He’s not an assassin, he’s just a killer using the Assassin Order as an excuse to further his own personal murder spree.
I don’t think ACIII ‘s gameplay will be anything like Revelations’ though. ACIII has been in development since ACII, the second and thrid Ezio games weren’t made by the people doing the “proper” series so I’m crossing my fingers that a lot of the things that irked me about Revelations won’t be present in ACIII.
I do have misgivings about all these games with no real reason for killing the “enemy” though, I think it’s why I prefer games where you’re killing “monsters” all the time, like RPGs. I also remember balking at having to kill animals for no particular reason other than they were there in the Tomb Raider games.
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That’s another awkward things about Revelations: the assassins you hire have roles, and one of them is basically a brute. I just don’t get that…
The dudes with the rifles had it coming though
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And the dudes trying to chop down my fun ziplines.
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Those guys are bastards!
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Yeah! Total buzzkills!
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I liked the fact that in the Batman games you could beat up folks, but just into unconciousness. That scene with all the henchmen in the party hats made for an epic battle. 😛
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Hey yeah: why don’t henchmen in Gotham wear helmets? Batman: countered.
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That’s against the natural order of things. They know what they’re getting into when they sign on. 😀
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Totally agreed. I had to dissociate entirely from the game just to progress, which probably accounted for the lesser enjoyment I got from it. When the guards became game mechanics and obstacles to achievements, the whole thing just became a bit of a grind. I am fully prepared to not enjoy AC3, but still hope I do.
The morality of the good guy killing guards who are just doing their jobs has bugged me for a while in games but I generally just ignore it.
Ezio being an OP killing machine with a body count rivaling Nico Belic’s on the other hand is disappointing. The later Creeds especialy seem more like brawler/platformers than assassin games.
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I always had this problem in games like Mass Effect 2, when you would blow your way through dozens/hundreds of goons whose worst mistake was collecting a paycheck from the wrong guy, and then making it all the way to the head honcho, the worst of the most vile scum of the entire universe, and you’d give them a stern talking to before letting them go free. Massive paragon points, but GIANT WTF? 😛
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Agreed. The Mass Effect series is one of the few where it was difficult to play as a paragon (for me) in some situations. Normally I can easily jump on my good guy choice, but frequently I was really drawn towards the vengeance options.
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I think the Paragon/Renegade style mechanic actually hurts morality in games. You can’t have moral quandaries when you only have the option of Good or Bad and choosing one consistently rewards you or is even needed later in the game.
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It doesn’t take much to make me not feel guilty about killing mooks- it’s pretty easy when they’re gangsters, or aliens, or whatever. I thought AC:Revelations didn’t give you enough reason to think they were enemies.
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Yeah there is always some reason they are the Bad Guys and you need someone to kill in droves to further the action after all.
Even so, adding a bit of depth to human (or otherwise sentient) enemies would be good. Even say Covenant in Halo – sure that Elite you killed is part of a fanatic military trying to exterminate humanity but maybe he has a family back home? Maybe he drops a holo pic of his child or something? What if that gangster thug you are sneaking up on with knife in hand is on the phone to his wife telling her how he is making enough money to soon get them out of the slums?
I guess I mean that removing the black and white, good guy/ bad guy lines that most games draw might be a good thing – life is not like that and more subtle grey would give games more depth and credibility.
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Anyone else get the feeling that the original idea for Watch Dogs was to be the Assassin’s Creed game set in the current day with Desmond? I mean, think about it, you play as a guy who is hunting down people that have committed crimes and have gotten off wit no punishment. Hell, switch the colour of the new protagonists trench coat to white and he looks exactly like he should.
They’ve been hinting that the game featuring Des would happen eventually, but i guess that someone at Ubisoft had the whole hacking idea and the game was pretty much transformed into a new IP.
This does mean that any hope of a future Assassin’s Creed game has vanished. No way will Ubisoft have two triple A open world stealth/action focused games set in the current day. It would be like creating your own competitor.
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Yes, thank you. I could not quite place the vibe I was getting from that preview but near-future Assassins Creed fit’s the bill.
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I thought the same thing, definitely had that Animus feel with the interface too.
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There was certainly something very Assassin’s Creed about it. I wouldn’t say that any hope of a future Assassin’s Creed game has vanished though. I’d assume that such a game would be a fair way off anyway, so any concerns with creating their own competitor wouldn’t really apply. Plus the Assassin’s Creed franchise has sales guaranteed buy just being Assassin’s Creed.
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I partly don’t mind if this is the case, though, I get the feeling they’d get criticized for not having a ‘flash backs’ in a Desmond modern day game. This seems to be a decent compromise, giving the folks who enjoy the sci-fi aspects of Assassin’s Creed something to fully get behind…
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Yeah, and this gives the opportunity for a new and more interesting plot too.
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Wouldn’t surprise me if it started as a concept for Assassins Creed.
I don’t think it negates an Assassins Creed in the modern day, but I think it would mean that the core mechanics would be quite different. Ubisoft do also have splinter cell, which is a stealth/action game set in the modern day
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Luke posted an article a couple of months back on the origins of Assassin’s Creed too which seemed to be a Prince of Persia spin-off. Seems it’s all pretty fluid at Ubisoft.
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The core mechanic of Assassins Creed is the climbing/parkour, “Social Stealth” and the stabby. I would not be surprised if they developed the hacking concept, then went “That’s really cool, but doesn’t fit into those categories. come back with a game concept”
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I hadn’t thought of that, but you’re quite right. Open world, the interface icons etc felt very AssCreed. I think if it wasn’t developed as one of those games, it’s had input from those teams at least.
I didn’t actually get an AC vibe from the gameplay though. To me, it felt more like GTA and Deus Ex had had a baby.
Sega are such bastards sometimes. Apparently they’ve got the PS Vita Miku Hatsune game in their booth at E3 but have no plans to release it outside Japan. Then they said that if there’s ‘enough fan demand’ they’d consider it.
Just like they considered Valkyria Chronicles 3? 🙁
http://www.cnet.com.au/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-comments-section-339339032.htm
Mark posted this on twitter, definitely an interesting read but the Kotaku examples don’t sit right. I know with certainty that some of the folks quoted would not react any different if Tracey had posted the piece. I think part of it comes with the culture of a site. As Dr. Green once said, you set the tone Carter. 😛
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(I should clarify too, I don’t think it’s HER job to set the tone. It’s something a community has to do.)
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Interesting read.
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Disappoint she did not screenshot your comment.
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I’m pretty sure Michelle CNET author is partially correct, but really, using Kotaku as an example doesn’t work. Commenters here (in general…Richard Smack, anyone?) are nicer and more intelligent people. And yeah, I agree that had Tracey posted it it would be received in a similar manner here.
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If Tracey had posted it, it would have been received in a similar manner by TAYbies and some of the regulars like Zap and Braaains, but not necessarily by all the other commenters.
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I admit I got strangely defensive on an article Leigh wrote once. Bothers me to this day.
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I think it’s a consequence of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory actually, you can fire and forget stupid comments on mainstream sites.
I’d argue that kotaku is a little more niche, and has a stronger emphasis on community building, which takes that sort of edge off.
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I agree, someone said it, but we are just a nicer community here.
Blaming it because she is a women is a terrible argument, and really soured the article, and picking out comments (some of which had well structered and valid arguments) of her own community, and basically mocking them and accusing Them of being sexist? Not a smart way to win over the Internet. I was hoping she would say at th end of the comments “x person did have a good argument” or “maybe I was a little overboard”. But really it just turned into “I’m a women, that’s why everyone is being mean, my article was right”.
So overall, I understand her original argument, but her reaction to the comments was quite juvenile, and not expected of someone who I assume wants to be seen as professional.
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I’d just like to clarify, I’m not saying that she shouldn’t be trying to get gender equality in online journalism, it’s just that how she handled this was not done in a good manner.
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That was pretty much what I got from it too. On the plus side I’m glad we’re being recognised as a more nice and rational/intelligent community by both commenters and articles (Even if they get the wrong impression like she did)
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I didn’t see her mocking anything. She was just pointing out the difference in reactions. She wasn’t actually being accusatory either. She did mention in the article that there were good comments, but that wasn’t the point of the article. The point was to show the reactions of commenters based on gender.
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What I’d be interested in knowing is the gender of those commenters. Would an article on this subject by a female author be better recieved by female readers then by male readers? Would an article on this subject by a male author be better recieved by male readers then by female readers?
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It wasn’t obvious, but by comparing her article and the other female articles to our article and the male ones, she called her community sexist, in fact, technically she was calling us sexist as well, because we didnt react the same to mark’s article as people did to her’s because she is a women.
And selecting specific comments to prove a point of her own? To me that’s mocking them.
And all she did was clarify her argument to some of the reactions, she never said (as far as I could see) that any comments were correct, all she did was correct herself to try and diffuse some common arguments that appeared in the comments.
Once again, I have no disagreement with the original article, I’m only disappointed by this reaction.
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I just think you’re getting defensive and reading more into what she was saying than what is there.
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men.
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“If they could get a pair of boobs on the cover of a bible, I would hazard to guest more men would become christians.”
That made me lol. 🙂
I dont want to stir up too much, and I haven’t seen the Hitman trailer so I’m a bit out of the loop here, but wasn’t it supposed to be a schlocky grindhouse style trailer? I mean, nuns with guns, isn’t that a bit, you know, tired? I know the Hitman games have always placed stealth above action, and I would have thought most of the nerd outrage would have been focused on that.
I also think it’s like the end result of the slippery slope: that is, other, possibly less provocative, things have been allowed, but now suddenly an invisible line has been crossed and people are getting upset. I mean, I don’t really remember there being a big brouhaha over killing hookers in GTA 3 – except for the people complaining that it had been removed from AUS version. That to me is basically the opposite of this.
So, anyway, clearly I’m missing something here. Or I’m right and this is all a huge beat up over nothing.
Just watched the Watch Dogs video.
I’ll be pre-ordering that.
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I liked what I saw but I’m a bit worried that it will just be a GTA V or be so linear and scripted that you won’t be able to fully enjoy the gadgets. Fingers crossed they do it right.
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I’m also worried that the game might hold the players hand a little too much. For example, in that gameplay, the protagonist chooses to switch the traffic lights at the last moment and causes a huge pile-up to catch the bad guy. This is cool, and I absolutely understand why Ubisoft would choose one of the more dramatic ways that the mission could play out for the E3 audience. After all, the purpose of the trailer was to get people hyped about the game.
But i just hope that the most dramatic way isn’t the ONLY way for mission to play out. For example, what would have happened if you just let that can pass on by, would the target have made it into his club unharmed? Infact, what would have happened if you didn’t knock the guard unconscious and escape the club in the first place, you the bad guy have started a firefight in front of his audience?
The cutscene with the protagonist killing the guy seems like it was designed from the start to occur after that crach in that particular intersection, and that has me worried. Will the player get a mission failed screen if you decide you want to do things a different way? Who knows.
One thing is for certain, Watch Dogs is getting a huge amount of buzz. Ubisoft knew it would be talked about, because they gave it the final spot on their press conference, but the reaction it got i think was even bigger than they were expecting. Hopefully they don’t screw this one up, because new IPs with new gameplay mechanics are hard to come by.
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That should read “Let that CAR pass on by”
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What interested me more was the graphics. Doesn’t look like something you could pull off on the current console crop. Launch title for Orbis/Durango?
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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/351732/features/6-secret-next-gen-announcements-being-shown-at-e3/?page=1 — this article seems to suggest that it IS a next gen game, I probably would prefer to wait than get a compromised version any way.
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Ubisoft has already confirmed it will be on the 360 and PS3
Can you imagine what the next-gen will look like if the games now are looking like this. Amazing.
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My sister started playing Perfect Dark Zero straight after I finished Max Payne 3, amazing to think it was the same machine…
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Sadly, I don’t think console games will get much better than they are now. We are near the end of this cycle, and i think Watch Dogs is Ubisoft’s Swan Song to current gen consoles.
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There’s no way in hell it will look like that on 360/PS3. Simply too many detailed objects in the scene. That was definitely running on a PC with DirectX 11 stuff.
I’m betting it’ll be next-gen launch title and also backported for current gen systems. I mean, why not? Between them the 360 and PS3 have close to 130 million install base, a new console is starting from scratch.
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Apparently the demo we saw at E3 was running off a high-end PC. So who knows
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That’s an interesting viewpoint. It would be really neat if you could let him pass by then go to his destination and take him out there by throwing a tracking device onto the car, or simply tracking the car via GPS hacking or something like that. That could cause another cutscene. Deus Ex:HR has done this, it actually showed 1 CGI cutscene for one scenario, and another scene for another scenario, both were the same end goal of the objective.
How open the game will be is one of my concerns as well. I really hope the game has as many choices as possible. The game has been in development for over 2 years so I hope they’ve had enough time to come up with great ideas. Also, how detailed will the open world be as well. Will there be a bunch of side missions etc.
Ubisoft CEO did confirm that the E3 conference demo ran on a high end PC but that the game will release on PS3/XBOX360 and ‘more'(other consoles perhaps?)
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I’m guessing the ‘more’ refers to the Wii U. It wouldn’t surprise me if the games hacking made heavy use of the Wii U’s touch screen controller.
Still adapting to this whole working at night thing. Although staying up for the E3 conferences hasn’t helped.
Anyway, adding to my list yesterday of games that impressed me:
Pikmin 3
ZombiU (apparently shown at the Ubi conference but I missed it)
And that was it from Nintendo. Where was Smash Bros? Where was a WiiU price point? After the demo video last year I was really hoping to finally see a HD Zelda.
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Apparently the Roundtable conference was all about Nintendoland, too.
But! 3DS conference tomorrow (I think?).
They don’t need to try be all “WIZZ POW HOW AMAZING IS THIS THING”, they can just show off games!
GAEMS!
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9am tomorrow apparently.
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11am Sydney time!
My inner fanboy is telling me that they split up the 3DS and WiiU because they didn’t want all the mega awesome 3DS games coming up to overshadow what they knew wasn’t a spectacular (first-party) WiiU lineup.
…Though I admit that that idea is probably grasping at quite a few straws. xD We’ll see tomorrow.
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So… how about dem vidya gaems? They’re pretty good…
<– bored at work
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I heard they cause violent tendencies. You’d best be staying away from them.
One thing that I am impressed with from this years E3 is there seemed to be a lot more new IPs than I remember from last year. Just a shame most of them look awful.
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getting announcements of new IPs is always good. its the sequels that were talked about that arent donig anything for me.
Last of Us, Watch Dogs & Beyond all look amazing.
Whereas, I’ve never been much of a Gears / God of War or Halo fan, so I dont really care much about them.Even if the new IPs suck, I like that studios are starting to try new things again.
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I’m with you. The sequels are either something I’m already interested in (AssCreed III for example) or stuff I’m completely uninterested in and won’t bother with (God of War). At this point if you’re a gamer you should know which franchises you like and don’t like, so trailers are not going to sway you one way or the other. The only time it makes a difference is if they’re doing a radical reinvention (eg Tomb Raider) or they’re bringing back an old IP that’s been dead for a long time. New stuff is exciting, they’re unknown quantities.
You know what’s disapponted me? I’m a big RPG fan, but I’ve seen absolutely nothing in the way of new RPGs so far. I’m also wondering where all the non-Nintendo Japanese developers have disappeared to.
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yeah, I’m an RPG fan too. & you’re right. there wasnt much of an RPG showing this year. Not even the Elder Scrolls Online got shown (but whatever, it looks pretty dismal in my opinion).
Still, CD Projekt have their Steam Punk RPG thing coming up & their other ‘epic RPG’ (which I’ll just assume is the Witcher 3 getting underway).I think though that at QuakeCon we’ll get some RPG goodness from Bethesda. & maybe (big maybe) at the VGAs there could be a Fallout 4 announcement (the timings about right for their 4 year dev cycle)
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I can’t stand Fallout so I’ll pass on that. The CD Projekt Cyberpunk game sounds awesome but it’s hard to say how far away it is 🙁 Slim pickings for RPGs at the moment (especially JRPGs). I think the next major one is Ni no Kuni but that’s in 2013 🙁
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They showed an Elder Scrolls Online trailer. It was pretty generic. I’m still hoping BioWare will announce DA3 soon.
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@Greenius
Hey Greenius,
I saw that announcement as well and I’m seriously considering subscribing to PS PLUS. I don’t like that you don’t own the games but I’m sure having the threat of them disappear will encourage me to play and finish them. Also, maybe the ps plus discounts on other games will justify the pricing.
Like you, I’m torn between the US and AU subscriptions. At the moment I’m more to the US side but I’ll see how it goes.
To answer your question the pricing is as follows:
US
3 month subscription- $17.99
One year subscription-$49.99
AU
3 month subscription-$20.95
One year subscription-$69.95
Considering how much Aussies get gouged on the local PSN store, the price difference between the 3 month subscriptions isn’t too bad. The $20 increase for the one year subscription is a bit much though.
Looking at it I might go for a 3 month subscription as a test run, then maybe I’ll consider a full year subscription. Or maybe I just do a full one year sub? Decisions, why are they so tough?
Let me know what you decide, maybe your decision will help me as well.
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Bear in mind, if you get the US PS+ then DLC deals won’t be compatable with Aus games and if you have a Vita linked to your Aus account, you won’t get any Plus content for that at all.
There is more than just the price to factor in to your decision.
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I was thinking AU just because it’ll be easier to subscribe to (borrow the rents’ credit card :P). I remember reading somewhere that you can’t use Australian credit cards in the US store, if that’s the case how are you going to pay for the US subscription? I figured the US one would be cheaper but didn’t want to go through all the hassle in getting it. But a $20 increase is big enough to warrant the extra effort IMO. I just remembered reading somewhere that you could use PSN cards to redeem PS+ (is this true?) and I think I remember reading something like they offered PS+ subscriptions on cards (also not so sure about this). If it’s as easy as buying cards then I’ll probably go with US.
Only problem I see is if I used it for my US account and downloaded the games, I wouldn’t be able to play them with my main (Australian) account (since it’s not PS+). I’m a bit of a cheevo/trophy whore and there is less hassle so I might just go Australian, or just none at all. I’ve got plenty of games to play and I’m right in the middle of my exams so If I do subscribe it’ll be later this month. That’s the main problem with so many cheap games, we buy them and don’t mind giving up on them because we didn’t lose that much. If I’d bought a crappy game for a standard price I’d want to finish it and get my money’s worth.
Anyways, for those who know, what is considered a “month” for PS+? I assume it’ll be the same as Xbox’s “month” in that if I bought it today (June 6th) it would expire in a month (July 6th). Seems unlikely but would they count a “month” as a month? So if I bought it today it would expire June 30th/July 1st?
I guess other than the price/playability it also depends on which games each region offers. Atm US has a slightly better list as I haven’t played most of the games but both offer a good selection.
Unrelated:
Dick Smith has a Wii for under $150. I tweeted you on the twitters but I can’t exactly remember your quote but it was something like “I’ll buy whichever comes first, a Wii for under $150 or Journey for $10”. Dick Smith has it for $99 + $10 shipping with Mario Kart and a WiiMote+ controller. Definitely good value 😀 (also XENOBLADEEEEEEEE)
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To answer some of your questions
1. A PS+ month starts when you purchase the subscription. So if you buy it today your month starts on June 6th.
2. You can use PSN cards to redeem PS+. Just top up your account and purchase the PS+ subscription like any other game.
3. I’ve bought a bunch of games from the US and you can play them fine on your Au account.UNRELATED:
I’ll check out the Wii sale. I’ll let you know.
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Being sick at work sucks.
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He seems like a genuinely happy guy. Good for him. 😛
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Arrrgh. Reply fail.That was for BDKIA’s post. 😛
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Not sure if anyone has posted this yet, but this could possibly be my favourite thing to come from E3.
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I like to think you sat there watching Ubisoft and just sang “Danger Zone” everytime Lana came on stage.
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BDKIAF, THERES A CANBERRA MEET HAPPENING IN JUNE AND I AM COMING DOWN AGAIN. LEANING ON STUFF 2 ELECTRIC BOOGALOO?
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ROCKETMAN, I WILL PICK YOU UP FROM THE AIRPORT AND WE WILL LEAN SO GOD DAMN HARD!
LEAN 2: LEAN HARDER
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LEAN FIRST BLOOD PART 2
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Also i am coming in on a friday morning so i assume you will be at work i am gonna bus it with blagh friend.
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I will definitely be working. Leaning will have to occur later.
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Its cool mang, am looking forward to seeing you though. We have a fair bit in common so i had fun talking to you. 🙂
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I’ve only been out of bed today to shower, vomit and make toast. Tried playing Diablo 3 from my bed with my trackpad. I’ve done it before with Portal (serious, Apple trackpads are awesome) but I can safely say that I cannot play Diablo with a trackpad. Tap to click cannot be relied upon for click and hold melee destruction 🙁
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Diablo II is manageable with a trackpad.
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I’ll take your word on it. Can’t install it on this computer and can’t be bothered setting up my magic trackpad on my Windows computer.
I assume having a trackpad with buttons makes a difference but I’ve never used a trackpad that was half as responsive as an Apple one and that would make a huge difference.
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I think there’s some kind of hidden option where you can enable WASD-style direct movement. Maybe that would help?
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WHAT??? really? that would be awesome
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I wouldn’t be shocked if you could play with the keybindings like that. Don’t think it’s worth it though. Was really just trying to see how it deal with tap to click and whatnot.
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Did you vomit on your toast?
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I did not. Haven’t thrown up since this morning, so that’s a plus. Just don’t feel that grand.
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external mouse? I’ve played diablo 3 in bed many times. It’s glorious (though the sitting position hurts my back after a while)
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You do know that you can actually click the trackpad right?
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HOLY CRAP THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING AGAIN
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You know what I mean – the whole bottom of it can be physically clicked down as a button. Tap to click has substantial lag making it terrible for, well everything imo.
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I did know that i was more mocking the apple catchphrase thing for the ipad.
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There’s an app for that.
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Is there an app to make you not talk so much?
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I’ve been doing that all day. Now I’m just bored.
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Ah gotcha. I tune out Apple’s marketing crap, it brings bile to my throat.
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The whole thing can be physically clicked. Tap to click is just a habit I’m not planning to break, especially when have my laptop resting on my chest.
Yes. Yes, I know that :p
Try enabling “elective mode” which allows you to map skills how you like.
Map your two least used abilities to L/R mouse buttons (how does that even with buttonless trackpad?)
Now you can just use trackpad for walkies and spam 1-4 (or what have you) for attacks, etc.
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One finger click = left click.
Two finger click = right click.
Three finger click = middle click.I’ve got other gestures set up but you get the point. It’s not remapping everything just for the sake of derping about when I could just move a few metres to the desk where everything is all nicely set up.
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Laziness is a virtue.
Somewhere, probably.-
During the second World War, the German military looked at their candidates and decided if they were smart or dumb, lazy or proactive.
Smart and efficient candidates were given command roles and something resembling free reign. Dumb and efficient candidates were told to fuck off as they caused more issues than they solved. Smart and lazy people were given the tricky jobs because a lazy man will find the most efficient option to avoid work. Dumb and lazy people became the grunts.
This might not be accurate but I do like the idea of giving something difficult to someone lazy.
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also, remap everything for AWESOMO POWAH!
I moved 1-4 down to QWER, moved Potion from Q to A/Mouse Button 4, Hold Movement from Shift to Space. This is, IMO, infinitely better for any of the ranged classes, who like to be able to stand still and just spam AOE/Cone attacks.
My spells (on WD) are
Q = Spirit Walk (Honored Guest)
W = Soul Harvest (Siphon)
E = Fetish Army (Legion of Daggers/Head Hunters)
R = Big Bad Voodoo (Rain Dance)
LMB = Poison Dart (Splinters)
RMB = Zombie Charger (BEARS)Spirit Walk is both “oh shit button” and mana regen, Soul Harvest pumps dmg and heals a little; those are important. Voodoo and Fetishes, not so much.
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QWER for skills, shift for hold attack (too used to it). 1 for pots.
My WD is kind of terrible, so I swap the skills around a fair bit. Soul Harvest is always my Q and Gargantuan is always my R because Kevin is a bro.
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I don’t know how I feel about this:
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/cinetology/2012/06/06/prometheus-classification-controversy-rating-drops-from-ma-to-m-doors-open-for-the-kids/
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EXCITE FOR ALL THE KIDS WHO GET TO SEE IT. ITS COOL CAUSE NOW I WILL BE ALLOWED IN THE CINEMA TO SEE IT
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NOT EXCITE FOR ALL THE PARENTS WHO MAKE A SHIT STORM WHEN THEY TAKE THEIR KIDS TO SEE IT THINKING IT WILL BE JUST ANOTHER STAR WARS/STAR TREK EVEN WHEN THEY ARE WARNED WHEN THEY BUY THE TICKETS.
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Stuff them, its not your fault, just tell them that you didn’t classify the movie. Caring is overated just tell it straight to them. if they are gonna see it you can tell them it might not be suitable for kids. Other than that. Not much else you can say buddy.
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It’s bloody Watchmen all over again.
Parents: Superhero movie? Let’s take our kids!
Me: Ah, this movie isn’t suitable for your children
Parents: Lies! It’s a superhero movie!
Me: Well, legally you are allowed to take them, but don’t say we didn’t warn you
2.5 hours later…
Parents: What kind of messed up person made that? Why didn’t you warn us that this movie wasn’t for kids?
Me: We did. You didn’t listen.
Parents: Fuck you guys! I’m going to send an angry letter to the newspaper(Fun fact: they did. Everyone said they were an idiot. Good times)
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Hahah watchmen is so fucked up. Good times indeed.
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When you work at a cinema, in the parents eyes you are the people who, green lit, financed, produced, directed, marketed, classified and distributed the film. EVERYTHING is your fault.
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To be honest, I would’ve LOVED to see this as a kid. Luckily my mum took me to see movies like Speed and Die Hard with a Vengeance. Going to see Prometheus with her on the weekend. Tradition continues. 😛
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(Although I get that kids are different. Parents should know what their kids can handle and decide responsibly.)
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Our classification system is broken. That’s all there is to it.
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How do you go from:
STRONG SCIENCE FICTION VIOLENCE
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MODERATE SCIENCE FICTION VIOLENCE AND A MEDICAL PROCEDURE-
The problem is that medical procedures are the one thing that gets me in movies.
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classification site has 4 entries for Prometheus :
1 – Film – MA – Original version – Strong sci-fi violence
2 – Film – MA – Modified version – Strong sci-fi violence
3 – Review – M – Original version – Moderate Science Fiction Violence and a Medical Procedure
4 – Review – M – Modified version – Moderate Science Fiction Violence and a Medical Procedureall entries have a 124 minute run time.
classification system is weird.-
The modified version just means it’s the 2D version of the film as 3D is it’s native format.
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thanks for that. makes more sense now 🙂
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So broken:
UK:15 / South Korea:18 / Ireland:15A / Norway:15 / Singapore:NC-16 / Canada:14A (Ontario) / Australia:MA15+ (Appealed)/ Australia:M15+ (Reclassified on appeal)/ Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) / Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) / Sweden:15 / Brazil:16 / USA:R
Every single classification there, except Australia’s M has an age restriction.
Ctrl+F5
i work at a cinema
parents are retarded about ratings
a parent goes to me saying that an M rated movie (i forget which one, maybe hunger games?) was totally inapropiate for his child. to which he then says “there should be some kind of warning about this”
i wanted to facepalm so hard that my brain would explode out the back of my head.
Hi all. I am not dead. But in the interest of preserving my good name, I have NOT been working. I spent the morning trying to add a comments section to a single page of my website, and I spent the last hour and a half at an extended work lunch. Productivity today is very nearly in negative numbers.
So don’t think I threw you lot over for work. I would never do that.
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HI SHANE!
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Oh god this guy again 😛
Its cool man its been kinda dead today anyway.-
Man, you are not kidding. What’s going on here?
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Oh and @Bish, I was disappointed to not get a mention as well, but I decided not to complain because it sounds self-aggrandising. Thanks for being my advocate! 🙂
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Hi Shane!
@Mashaaaaaaa and Greenius
Regarding what you said about PS+, I poted this on the last page, but am reposting because reasons.
“Bear in mind, if you get the US PS+ then DLC deals won’t be compatable with Aus games and if you have a Vita linked to your Aus account, you won’t get any Plus content for that at all.
There is more than just the price to factor in to your decision.”
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Thus spake Doc What.
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I totally poted that good.
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I totally just replied as well before realising we’ve gone to the next page 😛
Most people (here) have their Vitas linked to the US store right?
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Mine’s AU.
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Mine is linked to my US account simply because I had purchased PSP games on that one AND all my PSone games were from there (Because of the price difference and the higher speed and lack of letter box on the NTSC PSone games).
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I think I’ve decided to get an AU 3 month PS+ subscription. It’s $21 so it’s only about $3 higher than the US price. Also the site I buy US PSN cards from (Pcgamesupply.com) charges about $4.99 for every $20 card you get so it’s basically the same price wherever I buy from.
I don’t want to get a full year’s subscription yet, I’ll consider these 3 months a test run. I want to see if I’ll get the time to play the games and whether I’ll find value in the service.
The US has more games and some decent ones but I think the ones I’m interested in are similar in both regions i.e Infamous 2, Space Marine and LBP2@ Doc What
1. I don’t have a Vita-yet- so I don’t have to worry about that.
2. I won’t be buying any DLC for PS+ games. Also any games I’ve bought on PSN I’ve sorted them into Au and US games, that way I know where to get any DLC I purchase.@ Greenius to answer some of your questions from the previous page:
1. A PS+ month starts when you purchase the subscription. So if you buy it today your month starts on June 6th.
2. You can use PSN cards to redeem PS+. Just top up your account and purchase the PS+ subscription like any other game.
3. I’ve bought a bunch of games from the US and you can play them fine on your AU account, PS+ plus or otherwise. I remember playing the PS+ games from the US after the Sony hack on my Au account.UNRELATED:
I’ll check out the Wii sale. I’ll let you know.-
Haha I just wrote a reply :/
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Neg0 and others mentioned Best Buy being the best place for digital US $50 cards, saying they got an email with the code within a reasonable amount of time.
Those 3 games were probably stand outs for me but I already have 2 of them so Space Marine was the only one I’m interested in. As for the “side titles” the AUS/EU only has Strange’s Wrath (cannot unsee) and the US has Lara Croft, Just Cause 2 and Ratchet and Clank. So US has a slight game advantage for me.
Let me know how it goes 🙂
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I don’t have a credit card so I can’t use Best buy.
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@Masha’s reply on the last page
I know getting games from the US store will work (I’ve got some of the PSN outage games) but the thing is that these games will be the ‘free’ PS+ ones. I assume you’ll have to be on your PS+ activated account in order to access and use them, thus I assume they wouldn’t work on my main Australian account. And there’s also the whole Vita/DLC issue Doc mentioned 🙁
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Xenoblade is legitimately IMHOTHE best JRPG this generation and one of the best Wii games. If you ever get a Wii you must get Xenoblade!
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Oh, you.
@Strange –
The recount of your fall is Funniest Home Videos worthy! Also, that is a show that made me genuinely laugh. Loudly. A lot. Hope the bruising heals quickly and you’re not in too much pain. But hey as long as you can laugh it off, right?! 😀
Work’s actually been a lot busier then I thought it would be. There’s a lot of stuff that needs to be done and I can’t believe it’s Wednesday already because I HAVE SO MUCH LEFT TO DO BEFORE THE END OF THE WEEK GRAAGHHH!
But I retain a facade of calmness. I still love it here.
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POOR ME I HAVE MY DREAM JOB WORKING FOR A GAME WEBSITE. 😛
HArlz are you coming to Canberra? I will be there also other people but mostly me. Also happy for you 🙂-
Word is she’s fleeing the country.
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There will be a distinct lack of sass.
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You decided if you’re tagging along yet?
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I’m trying to maintain a sense of mystery.
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sass (sæs)
— n
1. insolent or impudent talk or behaviour— vb
2. to talk or answer back in such a wayHEY! What are you trying to say!
And yes Bish has it correct – I will unfortunately not be making it to the Canberra Meat as I’m heading overseas! Sad to miss out on what sounds like its going to be an epic meats but you guys have fun drinking and cooking to your hearts content!
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I’m trying to say you’re sassy. What of it?
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You think I’m insolent/impudent? Or that I speak that way?
Not a trick question ;P
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wait, I just the other definition.
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Funniest Home Videos is like the story of my life 😛
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Aren’t you a show regular?
Always makes me happy when someone says they love their job. Reminds me that it’s not impossible to work and be happy at the same time. Something to aspire to!
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It can happen to anyone and everyone Shane 🙂 I learned (eventually) to never stop reaching for that goal, and I sincerely hope that you’ll get it.
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Just to clarify, i meant your goal, not the learning to reach for it bit.
I’m just going to stop digging now.
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Thanks! I’m happy with other things in my life, and I’m happy writing. There are things about my job which are good (flexibility and pay, for example). Overall, things are good, so I shouldn’t complain. Mainly just wanted to say that I’m glad you’re happy, and that improves my mood 🙂
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Oh god… Not that song!
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Wait, did I miss the transit of Venus? /o\
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It’s fine, you can catch the next one in 2117.
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I hate repeats.
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You know, if medical science keeps on advancing at a steady rate, it’s quite possible that we will still be alive to see it again.
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That’s my plan.
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Only if medicine lets us breathe poison and live in a radioactive ocean
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D’oh.
Saw the partial lunar eclipse the other night, so that kinda counts.-
I … saw a photo of it? Actually it was more of an artist’s concept drawing:
Step 1: oO
Step 2: @
Step 3: Oo
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Really wish there was a +1 button on TAY.
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Well played good sir
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That… is brilliant.
That’s worthy of kudos noms.-
Much appreciated, but… really? 😛
Oh, The Lesser Evil #3 is HERE.
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So, thanks to the Ninty conference, I only woke up at 3pm.
Man, I am terrible at this.
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He’s up before dinner!!
… oh wait, that’s an old joke.
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Only an hour later than usual then?
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BISH WITH THE ZINGER
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Mmm, zinger.
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I ate it.
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Yes, Bish, only an hour later than usual.
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haha nice
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I don’t get these jokes :/
Also
“strip.gif”
😉
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Bam!
What’s better than a chocolate croissant?
A microwaved chocolate croissant.
Yummy.
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Wrapped in bacon
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And smothered in cheese and chilli con carne
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Two chocolate croissants.
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each wrapped in bacon.
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Bacon and chocolate? Bleh. There is a time and a place for bacon, and that time and place has no intersection with chocolate.
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LIES!!!!!
…unless you’ve actually tried it. then ok, that’s a totally valid opinion.personally, I think candied bacon is awesome. Also bacon & maple syrup. so yeah… the salty-sweet combo can work, but I’m yet to try it with chocolate.
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Does anyone else cringe/get upset when people pronounce Italian words like they’re english?
For example, Cal-Zone, when it would clearly be Cal-Zoh-Nay. Like Minestrone.
Does it?
Anyone?
Just me?
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As a Italian yes
As a person who can’t pronounce English words properly no.
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Mine-strone?
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Also, I don’t know any Italian words, so this isn’t really a problem for me… -
It annoys me almost as much as people using incorrect idioms or bad grammar/spelling online.
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I learnded all my Italian from the swearing in Assassin’s Creed 2.
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That’s where I learnt those authentic Italian folk songs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmmcffCpYeM
😛
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But I love lazargnya!
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I say Min-A-Stroh-Nee
But I don’t like minestrone, so couldn’t care less how it is pronounced.
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Minestrone? Is that a new game by Notch?
HEY, LOSERS.
I’ve now officially seen The Avengers twice now. CAN I MAKE IT A TRIFECTA/HATTRICK/THREESOME? WHO KNOWS.
And by ‘seen The Avengers’ I mean I stared at Captain Americas behind for two and a half hours apiece. WUTEVA. IT WAS GLORIOUS.
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I’ve seen it twice too. Didn’t pay much attention to Cap’s butt though.
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But that’s the whole point of the movie!
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Oops.
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Well I would have check that out but every time it came up on the screen I got glare from beside me.
This is what happened in the seat next to me
http://randomc.net/image/Lucky%20Star/Lucky%20Star%20-%2024%20-%20Large%2003.jpg
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HEY, WINNER.
I’ve now officially seen The Avengers no times now. CAN I MAKE IT A ONE TIME BROFEST SIMULTANEOUS FOREVERALONE VIEWING WITH MY TAYBIES? WHO KNOWS. (spoiler: probably not)
And by ‘not seen The Avengers’ I mean I sort of looked interesting but I haven’t had an interest in a Super Hero movie in ages. WUTEVA. I ONLY WANNA SEE IT CAUSE PEOPLE SAID IT WAS GOOD AND I LIKE GOOD MOVIES.
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I haven’t seen it either and I’m a Joss Whedon fanboy. (I suppose I’ve got to hand in my card?) Looks good, but not really a fan of those characters. Besides, Cabin in the Woods, Batman, Prometheus and Brave are all on the horizon!
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I assumed everyone had already seen it but in a previous TAY a few people have said they hadn’t seen it either, which I found surprising 🙂
I’m also in super hermit mode and haven’t spoken to, or seen many of my friends in ages :/
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You and me both, man. Seems we’re all a bunch of socially inept mofos. 😛
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Just go see it.
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We should all rent it on the same night and then everyone can watch it at the same time while on Teamspeak.
Is it even still in the cinema anymore? I’ve got a gift voucher but no one to go with! Might have to go solo!
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I saw it solo the first time. -
Hilarious idea.
And the Hoyts website seems to indicate it’s still showing. -
#35 suggested we all go see it solo in the cinema at the same time 😛
I kinda don’t want to foreveralone it in the cinema, which is why I haven’t seen it yet :/
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I was going to say something, but I just forgot what I was going to say.
🙁
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HI, CRAZYGUY! Done anything crazy lately?
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Not yet, but I’m getting the Sniper Elite V2 demo so I can shoot some Nazis in the balls.
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YOU ARE A HERO, GOOD MAN. A HERO.
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Speaking of shooting in the balls, I found this Sniper Elite video.
It basically shows Nazis in the game getting shot in the balls. (NSFW)
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Ten News just had the E3 2012 story and the Caravan Convention story back-to-back. Made me laugh. I doubt they covered either adequately. 😛
Just listened to some Potaku. I liked what I heard. I eagerly anticipate listening to some more.
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Pretty awesome, isn’t it?
I especially loved the audible gasp when DAN! confessed that he hadn’t played Wind Waker. -
I’m listening to it now. Hilarious.
Lolwut some pressure washer company is following me on Twitter, well was until I just blocked them!
here’s a llama
there’s a llama
and another little llama
fuzzy llama
funny llama
llama llama
duck
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It’s even funnier if you inhale helium beforehand.
Scree, Strange, Greenius, MASHAAAAA – your games are on the way.
In other news, had my second day of work experience. At the end of the day the owner said that if they had room for a junior thy would have offered me a job \o/ Had a look at my evaluation form, all “good” rankings. My tafe teacher said she’s only had one “all goods” since she’s been sending people to this store \o/ Makes me feel good that I’ve picked the right job, that I’ll be good at it
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Wow, congratulations on your great performance. Sounds like you’re really good at your craft.
Secondly, thanks for the games. I’ll let you know when they arrive.
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\o/ for both the job and game (more so for the job)
Good luck man and hook us up with cheap (free) plane tickets so we can all attend meats. Might not be as good as getting driven by the Driverborn though 😛
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Ha Ha Ha. I like the term Driverborn.
There is one they fear,
In their tongue he is DovahKiin
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Ha Ha Ha. I like the term Driverborn.
There is one they fear,
In their tongue he is DovahKiin
DRIVERBORN!!-
Aargh, the dreaded double post.
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Novahkiin*
I take no credit for those names. If I recall Rize came up with Novahkiin and Nova himself with Driverborn 🙂
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Huge congratulations, man.
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Grats man, sounds like you’re gonna be great at your future job =D
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Thanks guys (and Batgirl). Really appreciate it. I just hope I can find a job quickly enough when I get back.
🙁 I’m gonna miss TAY while I’m away. Everyone here is too amazing for their own good
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Can’t browse with a smartphone/laptop and Wi-Fi?
I used that when I went overseas :D.
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I’ll have my iphone but wireless Internet might be a bit hard to come by in some of the places. I might try and check in every so often but who knows. Don’t start saying terrible things about me. You never know when I’ll be watching 😛
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Awesome man, great work!
Feeling so sick today 🙁
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That sucks hairy balls. Get well soon 🙂
I have a bottle of Kewpie Mayo in my fridge. This makes me rather full of excitement
And mayo.
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I have never heard of this mayo, please elaborate good sir!
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The mayo that the sushi joints use basically. Turns out Coles sells it for about $4 a bottle.
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Ah right that stuff!
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I only like Kewpie on okonomiyaki. On anything else I much prefer normal mayo. Probably just because that’s what I’m used to.
So I guess you have to whip up some okonomiyaki now \o/
Posession of a bottle of Kewpie is as good an excuse as any. -
I love kewpie mayo. SQUEEZE IT ON EVERYTHING. EAT IT ON RICE.
Oh wow.. I think i’m going to have to ‘unlike’ the Australian Sons of Anarchy fan page, the “fans” are just irrational deadshits.
The page posted an article how S3 of SOA won’t be on One HD after this week, and all I see is hatred full of swearing and such. This is all coming from people who are middle age adults.. It’s a show, they’re acting like their life depends on it.
I’ve noticed the TEN network does stuff like this from time to time, they have done it with Dexter, Burn Notice & I think even Californication.
Some serious first world problems going on there between these people *sigh*
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I went on a massive unliking spree a while ago. Got sick of fan pages posting irrelevant stuff… Couldn’t believe how much crap I’d joined over the years! 😛
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What was posted was relevant, just the way the “fans” went about it, totally uncalled for.
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okay, i read that as killing spree, and got a bit scared…
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Ah don’t worry, you’re in WA away from him right?
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Don’t be silly!
I don’t tell anyone about my killing sprees.
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Here we go, spur-of-the-moment-because-I’m-bored Wednesday Night Mini Reviews! I’ve been playing TWO whole games this week :O
Metroid Other M:
You know what… As much flak as this game got, I’m actually enjoying it quite a bit! The level design and gameplay is pretty solid (though a tiny bit more linear than I would have liked) and the story isn’t too bad so far. The only thing I don’t like about the game is what everybody complained about: the upgrade system. Other games make you lose your powers at the start of the game, but this one you start with all of them and get authorised to use them once you “need” them (which is usually after a period of getting your ass handed to you because you can’t damage something or can’t progress anywhere :P).
Kid Icarus Uprising:
This game was basically the reason why I bought a 3DS. Unfortunately… I’m finding it difficult to say that I enjoy it… I love the overall style to the game. Levels are fun, there’s so much to do and collect, and even the voice acting grew on me (it can be genuinely funny in places) but man… those controls are brutal on my hands. Even with the stand that comes with it, I can only play one level before having to put it away. The combination of fast paced gameplay and uncomfortable controls saps my excitement for an otherwise excellent game :/ It would have been so much better on console!
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Kid Icarus controls are so god damn brutal that it almost kills the brilliance of the game. Which is sad.
Something weird is going on. I just got the whole of TAY on one page without any Page breaks. From the first comment on Monday morning to the last one above me.
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That’s happened ever so occasionally to me in the past as well. But a refresh fixes things nice and quick!
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Yep!
I was like “holy shit I’ve got a lot of catching up to do… oh…”
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I’ve just realized that I have three bobble-head toys (one Kenny, and a Mayor and Blossom from PPG) ; a Geelong Cats plush from 1997, a plush Ren and Stimpy, a plush Tails sitting above my computer,and in front of me, I have a plush Blossom next to my Rubik’s Cube…
Is this too many plushies?
The internet works again!
Doesn’t matter, as I’m going off the grid for 10 days so work can’t find me.
Hope everyone has a great weekend, and I look forward to chatting with you all whence I return 😀
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Use Morse code .That way you’ll still be able to communicate with us! 🙂
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Decoding fail. Even using the same site as I used to encode… Its supposed to say “Why use morse code. Its hard to understand” I rest my case 🙂
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What’s a “dunderan”?
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TAY!
I got home from work to find a big box of books in my hallway. I am now haz got The Lesser Evil Book 3.
\o/
If you’re coming to Can’d Meat, you can grab a copy then. If you’re not, well, maybe you should rethink your plans now… kidding. Non Can’d folks can email me: shane @ shanewsmith .com.
I also have several copies of the earlier books in stock. TIGERION, I think you were after Book 2, is that right? I have it now. Actually, I’ll shoot you an email. Ignore this.
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Oh! With all the extra hours this week I know what I’ll be picking up after pay day 🙂
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Awesome \o/
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“Sold direct to your living room!”
“Personally delivered!”
“Have the knowledge that Shane’s dead skin cells cover his graphic novels! Now that’s dedication!”-
If you’re lucky, I might drop some dandruff on it too.
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Oh, I could buy all three directly from you? That’d be sweet!
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I like this plan too! 🙂
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I found a new Rage-maker.
Mario Tennis Open.
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I wanted to pick this up.
Tell me more, friend.-
For the most part it’s actually just a fairly uninspired game. I built my expectations around the last portable sports-spinoff Mario game I played, which was Mario Golf on GBA. In hindsight, that’s proved to have been a poor choice. Mario Golf had this amazing RPG element to the game, where winning tournaments would award you a small number of points with which to improve various “stats” that improved your character’s golfing prowess.
Mario Tennis is just tennis with sometimes crazy physics. “Boost spots” appear on the court, and using the right spin with the right boost will let you hit a special shot. Returning a special shot slows you momentarily, so chaining together two or three special shots is your path to victory. Although, for most of the Cups you can get by without relying on them. In the last Cup (called Last Cup), hitting the right boosts is vital to even keep a rally going. It came down to waiting for a Purple or Red boost as they are the two more powerful shots (the others are more like trick shots). If my opponent ever got a purple boost I was unable to even return the shot. The game tells you that there’s a mechanic by which you can nullify the effects of a shot by returning it with the opposite type of spin (so a Slice counters Top Spin, etc) but this doesn’t appear to work. There also seems to be some other mechanics in regard to how you interact with the boost spots, but nothing in the single tutorial or the games single page instruction sheet goes into detail on these.
If you’re using Gyro-mode (and let’s face it, who doesn’t want to use a mode with a name like that?) then the game will move you automatically and you have better control on where you place your shots. It’s outright easier than playing it like a regular game, I guess the compromise it you have to be holding the DS upright, spinning side to side like a dingus. But it feels like the limit of the game’s learning curve is memorising which colour corresponds to which type of shot. There’s even a “basic shot” which smart picks the right type of shot to use when you’re on a Boost circle. So the whole game feels like it boils down to the luck of which side gets a boost spot first and the type of boost.
I bought it from EB so, even though it’ll have been two weeks tomorrow, I’ll try and exchange it. I’ll be happy to not take a refund and just spend the money on something else.
I rate it a 2/128 (the highest placing Lleyton Hewitt has achieved in an Australian Open).
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Had the best dinner tonight home made Italian flavoured meatballs with bocconcini in the centre sooo good!
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BEST PAGE GET!
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I approve of this food based page get
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I am not a bitter or jealous guy usually, but I am so jealous of the guy that beat me in the Insider Comp and I am equally bitter because of just how… boring the output has been so far. I don’t know if this is because of my bitterness/frustration or its because I haven’t found a TON to like about Microsoft at E3 anyway or if it is just legitimately bad, but I am going with the latter of the three.
Anyway, that’s the end of my rant and I am kind of sad there is no liveblog Serrels tonight.
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If it’s any consolation, I expect that Microsoft are kicking themselves.
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I haven’t even been bothered to check his E3 stuff.
If it had been you, I’d have watched it all.
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I’d say sadface, but the guy was like, 91, so he had a good run.
Man, I hate missing out on TAY while at work. Twitter is easy to keep up with because I can check it from wherever I am in the building, but phone TAY is a bit rubbish.
Anyway:
@B-funk: I too work at a cinema (again). And yes, parents are idiots.
@Nova: Woot! Hooray for good feedback
@Batgirl: Last night and tonight I got paid to watch The Avengers.
@Shane: I shall throw money in your general direction for Vol. 3
@Freeze: HI FREEZE! I hope you’re feeling better. Unless you died and are actually a zombie. In which stay away!
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Think you might have earned a free copy, G13!
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Hi Cakesmith! o/
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THATS RIGHT
i knew someone else on here was a fellow cinema worker, however i found this out during taybar, and well… i don’t remember totally everything from that night…
Hi there night friends!
Yesterday McGarnical , Cakesmith and I had a brief discussion about the physical size of a film, so I did a bit of theorycrafting on my blog, and probably got some of the maths wrong, as it is late at night.
But in case anyone is interested, or if anyone is interested in working out where I made a calculation error: http://blaghman.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/the-maths-of-pixels/
It’s rather nerdy. Probably a good thing that I posted this at this hour.
Hurr it was only like 4 pages when I last check you TAY… log might be missing some details then
Oh crap! I hate spiders!
I think I may have to burn my house down!
There’s a great big spider on my bedroom ceiling. I can’t reach it to kill it because I have really, really high ceilings.
I probably could just reach it if I sticky-taped two brooms together, but then it would only drop onto the top of the wardrobe, so I still wouldn’t be able to kill it! And I’d rather have it where I can see it.
I’ve only had 2 hours sleep. Thank the gods I don’t have work today.
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Update – nearly an hour and a half later and that evil f***er hasn’t moved an inch.
I really need some sleep! I guess I’ll have to nap on the couch. /o\-
Fill the room with fly spray and close the door. Spray so the room is choking.
That’s what I do.
Also, i commend you on your bravery. I wouldn’t have been able to sleep at all.-
Thank you for your commendation, however I should point out that the 2 hours I slept were before I awoke and saw the spider on my ceiling.
Also, I don’t have fly spray.
I refuse to buy any aerosol cans because they can’t be recycled.
Right now I’m seriously reconsidering this stanse. But if I did fill the room with fly spray, I don’t think I could sleep in there again. That stuff can’t be good for you!
The couch is looking pretty good right now, but I don’t want to take my eyes off spidey for too long.
If I do sleep and then he’s gone, I’d probably have to burn the house down.-
All you need is a ladder and a pig sticker.
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Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Hi all,
This might have gotten lost in the distant past of Page 9, so here it is again for new players:
I got home from work to find a big box of books in my hallway. I now have The Lesser Evil Book 3 \o/
If you’re coming to Can’d Meat, you can grab a copy then. If you’re not, well, maybe you should rethink your plans now… kidding. Non Can’d folks can email me: shane @ shanewsmith .com.
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I may need to also buy a copy of numeros unos, and have you make it out extremely apologetically to Doc What as I think I have misplaced the copy he let me borrow many moons ago 🙁
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Tsk tsk tsk
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The trilogy shall be mine.
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In all the confusion of me being stupid, I never organised to get book 1 off you. Can I place an order to get books 1 and 3 at the meat?
I just realised that I don’t think I ever paid you for book 2. CRAAAAAAAAAAAP.
I’ll pay you including interest at the Canmeat! I promise!-
Your interest is interest enough!
I’ll bring books of all three denominations to the Meat.
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Upgrading gems is now somewhat viable (as in the cost is a mere fraction of the overwhelming burden it used to be), co-op damage from monsters is nerged (so Freyr can stop getting one-shot) and you can now find gear that you need to complete Act 2 Inferno in Act 1 Inferno (instead of Act 3).
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Had a quick squiz at the list and good lord the cost of gem upgrading is so different. I might actually use it now :P. Didn’t understand a word of that ilvl61-63 stuff though but I think I got the gist of it from your post above.
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haha it seems that with every patch, they nerf something I use. in this case, attack speed. shit… my Demon Hunter cant survive much damage, cant usefully stealth anymore, & now will deal less damage.
and yeah, ok. thy’re lowering the damage dealt by enemies on inferno. great. i’ve only gotta slog through Nightmare & Hell as a glass
cannonpea shooter before it gets balanced.-
Attack speed nerfs suck for Monks too. We’ve been hit every patch and we weren’t that great to begin with.
Without attack speed, our spirit generation goes down and stacking life on hit becomes a lot less effective. It also doesn’t help that the best attack skill while building defensively (gives 50% armour for 4s after hit) is slow as hell and needs good attack speed to be viable.
You can just learn to kite better :p
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yeah. I’ve got a monk as my 2nd build & it’s gonna suck for that as well.
should’ve gone with a barbarian :s
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I hate the nerf to Co-op play. I liked how hard it was. Nerfing damage in co-op is going to make it stupidly easy now =(
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Quite possibly, it is already notably easier than solo. Especially with the AH since you can gear up so high.
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Peeps, the Bavarian Beer cafe wants a $10 reservation per person for the 9th. Who is in so I can make the booking?
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FOOD
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I will have to wish you a merry happy birthday from afar. Sorry chap have fun though.
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Ok
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Beer you say? of the Bavarian kind? I’m in.
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Sorry I can’t make it (exams D:). Happy Birthday, though!
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I’m in!
(that’s what he said)Is that $10 redeemable on food or is that just the cost of reserving?
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It’ll be deducted from the final bill 🙂
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Good Ok great. :]
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Thanks all,
So far I have:
Me
Shiggy
PatienceMaddox
Flu
Bish
#35
Harli
DocY’all have till the end of the day to get your deets in and then I’ll be completing the reservation!
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IT’S GONNA BE HEAPS GUD SO YOU SHOULD ALL MAKE IT
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Hahahahaha….poor hamsters. 😛
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He tweeted it after I wrote it too, what’s going on there hmmmmmmmm? Coincidence, or something more sinister? you decide.
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waaaaat… really?
I thought you wrote it AFTER I did. To spite me (not that people have ever done things to get a rise out of me).
*x-files music plays*
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look at the timestamps.
woo woo woooooooo
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Oh man, that is freaky.
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I’d like to be there, but don’t think I can make it 🙁
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You’re such a party animal.
Wreck-It Ralph trailer is out. Is awesome.
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This movie looks kind of amazing. Really like the look of it. I mean kids movies psssh 😛
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Oh my god. That looks awesome. I really hope they pull it off.
Ha Ha, the idea of a video game villain support group is hilarious.
You should all go welcome the new editor of gizmodo au 🙂 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/06/the-new-guard/
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He’s no Serrels.
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Tempted to type “I HATE YOU LUKE”, but I imagine the joke would be lost in site translation.
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I would laugh.
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As would I
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I thought exactly the samy thing!
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Ha. We had a farewell party at CBS last week.
So after a long hiatus called, I’m not putting my material on the carpet, it’ll get dogs hairs all over it and I refuse to do anything until we get a new vacuum cleaner, I’m starting on the jacket of the cosplay. So expect updates sometime soon.
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YAY! SHOW US MORE!
Mornin’ TAY!
Erm…
…HI! *waves*.
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*waves*
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MORNING!!!!!!!!!!!
IT’S A GOOD MORNInG
Anyone else think it was funny that Kotaku’s E3 news was brought to us by the PS Vita when it was conspicuously absent from the show? I mean, besides being told about a couple games (That connect with PS3 titles) we got nothing about the Vita. a 3 month old console that really should have been getting hyped like mad.
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E3 2012
BROUGHT TO YOU BY:(grey rectangle)
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OMG I love Grey Rectangle!
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I found it confusing because every post screamed “PSVita” so I thought for a second that all the E3 posts were about PSV. 😛
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I kept getting excited everytime I saw it and was all “VITA NEWS!?” then was all o(╥﹏╥)o
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I know. Even announcing new colours would have been welcome.
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You just wanted a PINK one, you girl!
P.S. Girl gamers suck.
P.P.S Totes not sexist
P.P.P.S PWNED!
P.P.P.P.S I’m not sure where this is going now.
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REAL men wear pink.
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P.P.P.P.P.S P.S-ception
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All this advertising convinced me that the whole show would be about the Vita with a couple of PS3 trailers thrown in. Seriously thought they would just list every quality game that is in development like Nintendo did when the 3DS was struggling.
But E3 was all about playing not-games on your consoles.
So that’s why E3 articles were sponsored by Vita.
‘Cos Vita has no gaems.
geddit?
It’s like PS3 all over again.
This probably would have gone over better if I had tried to convince you I was being serious.
I have tea.
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9.5/10, really solid ending. Big fan.
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Could have used more computer failure.
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Man I love you 😀
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Sometimes you need to have some variation in the plot or things will get mighty stagnant.
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I almost completely agree although I personally think it could have used more emotion, more “feeling”
8/10
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I have coffee.
HEAVEN OR HELL. LET’S ROCK!-
Caramel latte.
Morning is now manageable.
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I have Earl Grey.
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I have French Early Grey.
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pfft. French. So mainstream. #hipster
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French? English breakfast here, ahar.
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No wolf make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad.
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I thought that died out 😛
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Never.
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I didn’t memorize it for nothing! *shakes fist*
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Just so no one panics, I’m heading to NZ for a couple of weeks skiing tomorrow so I’ll be off the grid for a while. So while everyone is working and stressing out I shall be living it up skiing, bungie jumping, white water rafting, and drinking in foreign bars my time away. God it will be difficult.
Oh and in case Shanes missus pops in that time (can’t remember when it was but soon? I’m a terrible person) a hearty congratulations and the warning that two isn’t twice the work but five times somehow.
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Have an awesome trip, Freeze!
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Aw man that sounds awesome. Have fun!
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Thanks! Tuesday week is the day.
Enjoy your trip! 😀
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SOUNDS COOL
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Have an awesome time. You deserve it!
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Have fun 🙂
Btw, did you see what Hugo said a few pages back? He found an Xbox HD thingy for you. I thought you didn’t have an Xbox? 😛
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I did see. He has many thanks.
I got one a few days ago for free off a friend. FreezeSPreston is the…id thingy. I must say as a first time user the things it can’t do without spending a heap of extra cash that my PS3 does gratis is rather frustrating. Just have to figure out what games I missed. Trials, Bastion and Alan Wake are first ups.
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Doesn’t it make you want to murder someone? I really hate that Xbox wants you to pay for everything that other consoles do for free
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Even my $50 printer has wireless in it yet somehow Microsoft need to charge me ~$70 for a wireless adapter for it. Heck, the Wii has it and it really doesn’t need it. So to get the thing online I need to run a cable across half the house and across my wife temper. Annoying when the entire house and everything in it is wireless.
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Yeah, they finally fixed that with the latest iteration, but you still have to bloody pay for everything. For example if you’re not a gold member you have to wait an extra week to try demos. You can’t play with anyone else in game. You can’t talk to them. You can’t use youtube or facebook.
It’s pretty ridiculous.
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Oh awesome 😀 now you can finally see what the fuss is with Trials!
You probably already knew (but if you didn’t) there’s the humble indie bundle going on with Bastion and Limbo (and other games) in it. I figured those 2 were worth mentioning since they’re considered some of XBLA’s best and both can be yours for ~$7.50 which is much cheaper than buying them on XBLA.
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Have a blast man, I’m mad jelly 😉
I WANNA GO *stomps feet*
Have fun dude!
Morning TAY!
For all the Community fans out there.. and I hope there are lots!
http://www.tv.com/news/someone-made-the-community-8-bit-video-game-for-real-28834/
Like it says, the game is still massively beta at the moment, but I for one hope they keep adding to it and make it a proper game!
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It’s 16bit…
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haha yeah but they couldn’t change the name from the episode!
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I have my mocha. Work, I give you this message – Come at me bro!
So after looking at games like The Last of Us and ZombiU I’ve come up with my own idea for a post apocalyptic game which may or may not include zombies.
My idea is that the game would have two main characters, a human survivor and a dog. The twist? You play the game as the dog. Using your enhanced doggy senses it would be your job to help guide the human survivor through the world, with the main goal being to reach a survivor settlement that’s being set up. You’d be able to run ahead of the human to scout out areas and warn them of nearby enemies and traps, help find alternative paths around obstacles and even help find supplies such as food, water, medical stuff and guns and ammunition. If the human does get attacked by an enemy you would also be able to help out in combat.
Your human companion would be a fully fleshed out character who would often talk to you about their life and even give you pats and share food with you and stuff. Not eveyr confrontation your human companion has with other survivors while on the way to that survivor settlement would be violent either, or at least not immediately. You’d be able to have some imput on how your humans relationship with other survivors unfolds through the actions you take. If you go and greet another survivor friendly then your human would be more likely to also greet that survivor in a more friendly and trusting manner. If on the other hand you start to growl at them then your human would be very wary of them. Part of your enhanced senses would be the ability to get a bit of a sense about how human characters are feeling. Scared, angry, happy etc and you can use that to help dictate how you react to other survivors. The indicators would be a bit murky though and just because someone might be angry doesn’t mean they’re looking for violence with your human. You’d also have to watch out for other indicators of the survivors intention.
For example, you come accross a man in the street. Your human goes up and starts talking to them. As the dog you are sensing feelings of joy from this man. You then notice that the man has a gun tucked behind him and his hand is slowly moving back towards it. You can also smell other humans nearby. You start to growl and your human looks at you and asked you what’s the matter. Suddenly you race fowards towards the man your human is talking to. You jump at him just as he pulls out his gun and you start mauling his arm, keeping the gun pointing away from you or your human. Suddenly a shot rings out and strikes the ground near you. The shot came from further up the street. Your human swears and runs to take cover behind a car. The man you’re mauling has since dropped his gun and you then let go of his arm and start ripping at his neck. Once the man’s dead you run and take cover behind the car with your human. Your human has pulled out a gun and is taking shots in the direction of where the other shots are coming from. While he’s doing this he is talking to you. How many do you thing there are, boy (or girl, you’d be able to choose your dogs gender)? As the dog you’d have two ways to approach this. Either you can circle around and flank the enemies firing at your human or you can find a path of escape and signal for your human to follow you (via a bark or something).
It would also be possible for additional humans to join your group. There would be survivors out there who, if your human meets and makes a good impression on (remember, how they react to these survivors would be somewhat up to you), they’d agree to travel with you. There’d be a limit on how big your group can get. Like say two other humans along with your original human. These additional characters would have full stories of their own which you can learn by listening to them talking to your human survivor. Once traveling with you how their relationship unholds with your human would once again be in part up to you. Through your interactions with them you could cause your human and another human to start a relationship, or maybe a rivalry. The interactions you’d be taking would be things like stealing one humans clothes so they chase after you and then running to your human and dropping the clothes at their feet or if they’re sitting next to each other around a campfire at night you can go up and sort of nudge into them until they get the message that they should start talking to each other. It would be that sort of smart dog stuff you always see in movies. You know the stuff I’m talking about. Stuff like where the guy’s laying depressed on the couch after somethings happened with his love interest and then the dog walks up with the phone in his mouth and a look that says “call her”. Of course since the game’s set in a post apocalyptic world you wouldn’t have that exact situation but you get what I’m talking about.
The world you travel through would be relativly open ended. There’d be randomly spawning events like enemies and traps as well as randomly spawning supplies. There’d also be set events and characters out in the world though and these would be the characters who can team up with your human, trade for supplies or maybe give a bit of insight into the games story and setting (how the apocalypse came to be for example). The interface would be almost non existent. You’d be able to tap a button to turn on your different animal senses like smell and hearing. Smell would cause different objects in the world to start giving off this sort of smokey glow (like life detect in ES:Oblivion) as well as faint trails on the ground (like the paths people or animals had taken). This would of course work through walls. Hearing would just mean you’d hear a lot of sounds a lot better. The game would only have you hear relative sounds though, like the far off talking of people. I know it makes more sense for both of those senses to be on 100% of the time but I think a toggle would make the game more enjoyable because sometimes you’re going to want to see the world just as it is rather then glowing faintly and enhanced in sound. If you’re damaged you’d get that normal FPS style redding around the sides of the screen. The game would be in third person (though there could be a zoom in first person mode that lets you see far off things or help better examine the world). Injuries your human takes would be reflected in their condition. If they get shot up too many times they’d start bleeding and looking really worn out for example. You would have rechargable health but your human wouldn’t. In order to heal your human (or other human followers) you’d have to help them track down medical supplies. These medical supplies can also be carried around by the humans when not needed so it’s a good idea keeping an eye out for them even if your human is healthy. The game would be won when you reach the human settlement. The game would be lost if your human dies. If another human in your group that’s not the main human dies the game would continue on. Their deaths would effect your human though. They could either harden them up and make them more vicious or they could cause them to become depressed. It would be possible for your human to commit suicide. If their love interest dies for example and you’re not there to comfort them then your human may consider sticking a gun in their mouth and pulling the trigger. If that happens you’d of course lose. Also, if there’s another survivor in the group they may try and talk your human out of it and that may or may not work depending on your humans relationship with them. There could also be a hardcore mode where you have to find food and water for your human and others in the group and they could starve to death if you don’t. You’d also no longer have regenerating health and would have to be tended to by your human with medical supplies if you’re injured. This hardcore modes would also add new interactions between survivors. Fights could break out among the group over things like food. You could be injured and your human decides to use the few medical supplies they have to heal you rather then another injured person in the group which could cause a fight to break out. When you finish the game you’d get a prologue telling you what happens. This would change depending on what survivors also make it to the settlement other then your human, what your humans relationship is with other survivors and what sort of person your human has become.
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Wow, sorry for the massive wall of text. I sort of got carried away a bit there.
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Doggy!
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Doggy! \o/
How about for ultra difficult mode, you’re a guide dog and your human companion is blind =D
But you’d need really need AI for something like this. Have you ever seen haunting ground? A girl has to escape a castle from monsters and she can’t fight, but the dog can.-
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Sounds like ICO meets Lemmings.
… I’ll stop now.
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Haha, it’s alright. We were told if you ever want to pitch a game idea, the best way to do it is to compare it to other games, as you are. I’m just picking out certain things =P
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Nice. I would play this.
It’s like Lemmings meets Uncharted.-
Meets Fable, meets The Last Of Us trailer.
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Meets The Sims.
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Mans Last best friend: Drakes Tribes 2 – University Expansion?
I couldn’t get fable in there haha
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The Fable of… etc
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Where can I pre-order this game, I keep throwing my wallet at the screen but nothing is happening.
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You win when the monitor cracks
Deciding whether or not to obey human orders would be an interesting game mechanic.
Disobey too often, and you might get abandoned. But obey at the wrong time, you might all get killed.
Sorry, just running with the idea now.
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Feel free to run with it as much as you’d want.
Press X to mark your territory.
Press Square to lick yourself.
QTE to sniff other dog’s butt.
UUDDLRLRBA to drop guts in company and look at humans innocently.
I would love to play like this, pretty awesome idea
This sounds like a fantastic idea. I would play it. Get this idea a kickstarter, isn’t that what all the cool kids are doing?
Interesting concept 🙂
What if the game had zombies though, how would you help defend your human? I guess you can find a safe path and lead them away but what if they’re in a tight situation and need your help? You can’t necessarily bite infected zombies without somehow infecting your doggy self 🙁
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Maybe the dog could be immune to infection. The human wouldn’t be immune though so as the dog you’d have to protect them from being infected. If there were zombies there wouldn’t be many. It wouldn’t be like Dawn of the Dead or anything. They’d still be out there and would still pose a danger to any survivor but they’d be sparsely populated. I’m sort of thinking a zombie apocalypse happened, most everyone died and then the zombies started dying out because there was no one left to eat (like in 28 Days Later). With most of the zombies dead the humans who survived through it all have started to rebuild.
As long as there is a dedicated ‘demand belly rub’ button!
But seriously, it’d be cool to have a sanity meter as well for the human. Like he/she might get really stressed out at night or something and do stupid stuff and you can keep the human sane by being pet or getting them to talk to you. It’d be cool to get a randomly generated human as well. Different traits, etc that make the game play differently each time you play (and would be good for the difficulty levels like you suggested. Like in hard mode the person has a chance of being a coward or won’t shoot guns or something :P)
Anyway, cool idea! Now get working because unfortunately I don’t think any of the big companies would ever make a game like this!
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Customisable dog as well would be awesome, as in choosing breeds that have different traits. Picking a german shepard would make you better at attacking while another breed could be better at finding hidden items/secret compartments or something like that*
*This is coming from a robot who doesn’t know differences in dog breeds other than looks so entirely speculation 😛
you totally have to call the tutorial campaign “Obedience Training”!
SECRET OF EVERMORE!!!
Sounds like an awesome idea, and I especially like the focus on story and social interactions within the group.
I would play the hell outta that game. you’ve gotta pitch this to a studio. or get a kickstarter going. something. anything!
I WANT TO PLAY A POST APOCALYPTIC PUPPY GAME!!!!!!!!!!
Patent that shit right now!!
STALKER INBOUND!
This thing looks bad-ass. It just gives off a vibe that it could step on another mech easily.
Choosing a mech to start playing with when the game releases is proving to be a more and more difficult task 🙂
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Call me when they bring in the Kodiak.
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I got my hopes up for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2…
then I was somewhat disappointed.also, Timberwolf is best mech.
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So yeah played a game very similar but definitely not the MWO BETA last night…
It’s very limited atm. only a had full of mechs, 2 maps (one of which is really crappy) .
The combat seems good although quite limited due to very small selection of weapons. Most weapons seem to do practically nothing, while the lasers are very powerful. Jump jets aren’t overly useful since when on higher ground you can’t always look down very far (don’t know if that’s mech dependant)Got any questions about this new game that is definitely NOT MWO?
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Yes, how’s the connection on this NOTMWO game considering the cross continent online play?
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I haven’t noticed anything. Occasional freezes and sometimes jittery but I don’t think that’s connection related. The combat isn’t really quick enough for ping to matter too much IMO. It’s not counterstrike.
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Wall of text coming soon from me. Probably in the next 15-20 min.
Pre-order now for an exclusive reveal.
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*wallet embedded in cd drive*
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Your purchase is being processed. Your pre-order incentive will be sent out shortly.
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SWEET. Amazon didn’t accept this payment method. Bastards.
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Is it about the 3DS Software Showcase? 😀 I hope it’s about the 3DS Software Showcase.
…I’m excited for the 3DS Software Showcase.
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Sorry it’s PS3 specific.
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I’m in.
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do I get early access to the beta (wall of text with no line breaks or punctuation)?
coz that would be sweet.-
Ha Ha, I think two walls of text on the same page by one person might break TAY.
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Will there be launch DLC?
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The DLC is my special guest appearance on Potaku thiis week.
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Will we get it cheaper if we order from overseas retailers?
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Nope, this content is made in Australia by an African man typing on a laptop made by an American corporation in China. The story is about a Japanese machine.
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27 mins later…
Has it been delayed till 2013?
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When it’s done.
Masha Text Forever.
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Just doing some final editing.
Any delays are for quality purposes, please be patient with us.
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Not bad at all. 🙂
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Another 2 hours of Tarantino spoodging over old film reels while crying out the names of tropes?
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One, please! 😀
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Don’t care. I’m still going to see it.
I’m old by TAY standards. Old enough that I saw Reservious Dogs when it came out. For me, at that time, Tarantino was a breath of fresh air – a return to the 70’s era of the auteur in cinema.
I know Tarrantino borrows (steals if you prefer) from a lot of those who have gone before, and he doesn’t try to hide it. But I still think the man can make a damn fine film.-
Yep. It’s like the Uncharted games. Who gives a shit if they’re unoriginal when they’re executed that well?
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Looks good. Nice cast
What’s for lunch TAY?
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Parents’ leftover aussie pizza slices
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Leftover braised steak and onions, and potato bake. My life is good today.
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Last night’s pizza! I can’t wait
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I… have no idea.
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Banana?
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FREE sausage sandwiches at tafe today \o/
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MAN I loved those days at TAFE! I miss TAFE some days, it was so god damn fun =(
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As do I. The LANs we did, I miss it 🙁
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YES! I miss those shenanigans, Quake 3 Arena every Thursday, it made that class bearable.
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chicken and brown rice, mmmmhmmmm
15 minutes until I can eat.
Only had toast yesterday and I skipped breakfast. Food is rather appealing right now.
I have Twitterspammed and Facebookspammed… now it’s time for (drumroll) TAYSPAM.
Books 1, 2 and 3 of The Lesser Evil cost about $25 total, and you could win $100… even if you don’t enjoy it! http://shanewsmith.com/competition/
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When uni is done and dusted for the semester (and when I get around to buying these books, damnit!) I will be making a serious attempt for this competition. It sounds like a lot of fun.
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Thanks, dude. Shoot me an email and I can hook you up with the books at least. shane @shanewsmith. com
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Bargain!
Work killed my wrists yesterday. Y SO MANY SCALP MASSAGES?
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My day off work killed my wrist!
Just kidding, I don’t have a day off work 🙁
Thank you all for pre-ordering. As a bonus you receive early access to the title of the piece.
MY JOURNEY THROUGH PLAYSTATION PLUS
Also, to Shane, for pre-ordering first you receive exclusive access to an excerpt from the piece and free advertising for your book.
(The text below is for Shane’s eyes only, don’t look)
“I decided to go with the Australian… ”
“IS THIS SONY’S PLAN? SMOTHER ME WITH CHOICE? ”
Thank you all. Wall of text is coming soon. 10 min tops, I promise.
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\o/ Awesome. I get exclusive content!
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I’m sure it’ll be paid DLC eventually.
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It’s already on the disc anyway
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Ha Ha, very funny guys. My wall of text does not engage in such practices.
Also the text is currently in moderation so please be patient.
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So that Diablo III patch loop thingy? I has it. If I was playing a full, paid-for version I’d be pretty pissed off right now, like with steam coming out of my ears and everything. Luckily I’m just playing the starter edition, I don’t think my brain would survive being cooked with rage very well. 😛
I read that there’s a fix, but I can’t be bothered doing it. And honestly, I shouldn’t have to. If they’re going to lump us in with the US servers they should have made sure it all worked.
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I found I fixed it by deleting the Battle.net folder under ProgramData.
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So just delete it? Nothing important in there then I guess.
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What problem are you getting?
If it has to do with “this file is corrupt” while updating then just go into the folder specified and find the file that’s apparently corrupt and delete it. The updater will redownload it without any problems :). I’ve had that problem twice and deleting the ~5mb or so corrupted file fixed it both times.
If you have a different problem then I can’t help :/
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It’s the one where you’re caught in a loop between the launcher telling you its up to date and the game saying you need a patch so it boots you back to the launcher which tells you its up to date, etc.
Apparently its due to us being on the American servers but needing the EU patch or something. So between the US version of the patch launching and the EU version which is later there’s a patch loop error.
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The long awaited wall of text by Masha is finally here. I hope you enjoy it.
Before we start, a message from our sponsor-Shane.W.Smith, author of the graphic novel series, The Lesser Evil.
Books 1, 2 and 3 of The Lesser Evil are out now and cost about $25 total.Check your favourite online retailers for more. If you’re lucky you could win $100, visit http://shanewsmith.com/competition/ for details.
Thank you Shane, now back to the regularly scheduled programming.
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MY JOURNEY THROUGH PLAYSTATION PLUS
One of the stranger things about this year’s relatively underwhelming E3 conferences was my excitement at Sony’s announcement of an enhanced PlayStation Plus service. Sony announced that they would be releasing at least 4 full retail games every month and that PS+ would deliver an ‘instant game collection’ for subscribers every month, giving users a huge library of games in addition to the service’s other features.
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They were not lying.
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This month alone they were going to be offering 10 free games (12 in the US) to PS+ subscribers. And these were not small titles either. They were a mixture of relatively recent AAA games like Infamous 2 and LBP2 and some downloadable favourites like Renegade ops and Chime.
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For the first time since the service’s launch in 2010 I was seriously considering getting a subscription. You see, I always liked the idea of PlayStation plus (PS+), it was like an added value on top of the regular free online play on the PS3 and the free games, discounts, online saves and automatic updates were all great. My only issue was the fact that you didn’t keep the games. This concept didn’t gel with me. “What am I paying for then?” I would ask myself as I looked at the PlayStation blog updates every week.
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Another issue was that some games had Ps+ discounts but most of the time I wasn’t interested.
Sony’s E3 announcement and subsequent blog post on the PS Blog (blog.eu.playsation.com) meant that PS+ now looked appealing to me. It clicked. This was basically a rental service or a subscription like Quickflix where you have access to the games (or movies in Quickflix’s case) as long as you were subscribed. For example it would cost me about $8 to rent a game for a week from my local Video Ezy. With PS plus I was enjoying a similar service but with more games at a lower price over time.
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Now PS+ didn’t look so scary.
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WEDNESDAY 6th JUNE 2012
I was now confident that I was going to get a PS+ subscription; however, I still had some decisions to make. Was I going to get a 3 month subscription or a full year? Was I going to get in on my US account or the Australian one?
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I took to TAY to get some help and found that TAY’s resident green avatar-Greenius- was having similar concerns. We discussed it and Doc What offered some suggestions and after the discussion one problem was solved-the subscription period. I was going to get a 3 month subscription as a trial. Despite the one year sub being cheaper in the long run, I had never used PS+ before so I thought that the 3 month subscription would be a good trial period. This way I could determine:
1. How my internet would cope-would it be fast enough to get me the games in a reasonable time
2. Whether I would have enough time to play all this games and
3. Whether I would find value in the service.
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Also the differences in pricing between the US and AU for the 3 month subscription was not too bad. The US price is $17.99 while the AU price is $20.95. The gap in the full year subscription was more pronounced with a $20 difference between the two regions
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That was one problem down, one more to go.
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I still had to decide between which of the two regions to get my subscription from. The US had more games -12 of them -a mixture of full retail titles and some interesting downloadable games. Highlights included Sideways NY and Infamous 2. The AU store only had 10 games but the games I was interested were in both regions.
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To try and help with my decision making, I put all the games in both regions in a table and ticked the ones I was interested in and crossed out the ones I owned or those I wasn’t interested in. At the end of this process it was an equal split, there were 5 games in both regions I was equally interested in.
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Something else had to come into play.
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Luckily, for the past few weeks JB had been having a sale on PSN cards. 20% off any card you bought. I could get a $30 card for $24. This seemed to be the deciding factor. With this offer, the price between both regions was basically the same.
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I decided to go with the Australian subscription. (Suck it, America!!)
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My journey into PS+ was starting well. I had bought a discounted card and I was buying my PS+ subscription on the cusp of the Thursday store update. This meant I could sneakily still get all the PS+ offers for the month of May. I signed in to the PlayStation Store and quickly went to the PlayStation Plus tab and bought my3 month subscription. Once I bought my subscription I signed out to confirm my purchase and there it was-THE GOLDEN PLUS SIGN. It was nestled nicely beside my username and avatar. I was now part of an exclusive group, special, distinct from the measly folks without a plus sign on their account. (Just Kidding guys)
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Now it was time to sign back in and get my ‘freebies’.
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This could have been my excitement or the fatigue from staying up late to watch the E3 conferences but there is a weird feeling the first time you sign back in to the store as a PS+ member. Something about the Plus sign on all the different games and the yellow Exclusive tag when you download stuff made me feel happy. They were all mine, I could choose from the different games on offer at any time.
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Anything written in yellow was free for the taking.
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May’s content seemed OK. The games did not compare to the upcoming releases on Thursday and most of them were games I hadn’t even heard of. The only interesting looking titles of the bunch were Velocity (a mini that had some good reviews) and the PS2 classics version of Max Payne-I never really finished it so I guess this was my chance. Despite the poor selection, I downloaded these two games and the rest of the ‘free’ stuff.
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After that I encountered one of the first problems about getting so many games-The downloading.
The wait was going to be gruesome. Max Payne alone was over 4GB. I had received a bunch of ‘free’ games but waiting to play them was a bit of a disappointment. One thing I quickly learnt though was that you should download the PS3 minis first. Minis are smaller games on the PSN store and they are usually between 20-100mb so downloading them isn’t a hassle. This way you can play something as stuff downloads. Alternatively you could watch a movie or just leave the PS3 on the whole night to download everything.
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As the games were downloading I looked at the other features of PS+ I would be enjoying. Dynamic themes and exclusive avatars seemed like fun distractions but what caught my eye was the ‘Full game trials.’ These were basically demos of retail titles. The difference was you were downloading the full game and you only got 60 min to play them. Even if you paused the game, the counter still continues. The download sizes were huge as well-these were Blu-Ray releases 6-7GBs large.
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I put off downloading the full game trials, the games were too big and the full game trials do not changed every week so I could download them later.
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It was getting late and I needed to sleep. As I sign out of the PlayStation store, I smile as I look at the golden plus symbol by my avatar. “I will be getting a lot of stuff thanks to you,” I say to myself, I just hope I get the time to make proper use of my 3 month subscription.
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I switch off my console (my internet connection was too spotty to properly download anything that night) and reflected on my First day with PlayStation Plus. My first day with the service was a double edged sword. I was excited by the games I would be getting, but at the same time waiting for games to download is a bummer. I guess my playing of the PS+ games would start over the weekend.
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THURSDAY 7th JUNE 2012
This is the big day, my first PSN update since I joined and the first week of PlayStation Plus’ new crazy revival. I’m excited. Today is when the big games drop- Space Marine, Little Big Planet 2, Renegade Ops, Infamous 2 and more. I quickly download them. As I do this the doubled edged sword rears its beautiful and ugly head. This will be happening all the time every week for the next three months, that’s great, but at the same time will my hard drive handle it. I have a 250GB drive and it’s already filling up. Infamous 2 is 15GB for example, what the hell? I guess it’s true that you can sometimes have too much of a good thing. I’m actually thankful that I own some of the games on offer this week because I don’t know how I would cope otherwise.
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After I finish downloading the games from the PSN store, the waiting game begins. I still have the games from Wednesday downloading as well. These games will take days to download and it might be next week before I even start playing them and by then there will be another update.
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IS THIS SONY’S PLAN? SMOTHER ME WITH CHOICE? THAT COULD BE A CONSPIRATORY THOUGHT BUT THE EVIDENCE IS THERE.
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Also, I’m sure having my PS3 on all day downloading stuff is good news to my electricity provider. Oh dear, I don’t want to imagine that bill.
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Is Sony conspiring with the electricity companies?
Is the truth out there?
Wooooooooo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDZBgHBHQT8
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THANK YOU ALL FOR READING THIS. HOPEFULLY YOU WERE ENTERTAINED AND MAYBE I EVEN CONVINCED SOME OF YOU TO TRY PS+. TO SONY’S CHAGRIN, I MIGHT HAVE EVEN DISCOURAGED SOME OF YOU AS WELL.
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Thanks again for reading my wall of text. As a prologue I thought I’d offer some tips and some general thoughts I had through this experience.
1. You need a big hard drive. Preferably 100GB and more if you are thinking of joining PS+. Many of the games are really big.
2. If you have a smaller hard drive I’d encourage you to download the games one by one and play them then delete them. The good thing about PSN is you can re-download any game you’ve bought and in the case of PS+ as long as you’re still subscribed you can re-download as well.
3. You’ll be waiting for a while for games to download. This is of course dependent on your internet connection, but you’ll still be waiting.
4. As a PS+ subscriber your console might be on longer than usual. This of course has implications on your power bill.
5. If you’re budget conscious and considering PS+, I’d advise you to make PS+ your solitary choice of games for the length of your subscription. This might save you some money since you’re not tempted to get more games and you’re not adding to your pile of shame.
6. If you’re getting a 3 month subscription the difference between the US and Au pricing is not that bad so you can choose either. The $20 difference for the one year subscription is a bit much.
7. Time. You will need time to play all these games. Do you have enough?
8. PS+ is basically a subscription service. If you think of it that way or like a rental service you will not have to worry about the fact that the ‘free’ games you get will disappear after your subscription lapses.
9. Another positive note, any discounted game you buy, you keep. So for example if Limbo is $20 for regular people and $15 for PSN subscribers, if you buy the game you keep it. (NB: Limbo is not on special this week, just an example)
10. Any themes and avatars you download from PS+ you can keep even if your subscription lapses.
A MASHAAAA Production. Copyright 2012.
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Great write-up. Now I’m thinking about it, despite already owning inFamous 2 and LBP 2 and having a 10GB month d/l limit 😛
Point 8 is one I was wondering about. Thanks!
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An advertiser praising the content. Should we trust him?
Just kidding, thanks for reading it. Yeah, I thought an analysis would be helpful for people on the fence.
You’re welcome.
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I like your way of thinking about it as a subscription service for your games. SOLD! 😀
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I still really don’t see the appeal of Plus. Like, you list off all the big games that are available for free, but of the ones you list, Infamous 2 is the only one I’d be interested in that I don’t own already, and I’d rather buy a physical copy for $30 or so (it’s a year old and was a sales flop, should be in the bargain bin by now). I have zero interest in streaming movie services and so on, so effectively I’d be paying for discounts and early access to demos.
Actually, the big plus for Plus (heh) is being able to save your game onto their cloud service. My PS3’s getting pretty long in the tooth now, I’m always worried it’ll YLOD and take all my saves with it.
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Yeah, my PS3 is making crunching noises when discs get put in. So PS+ is tempting for me in two ways right now. One for backing up my Dark Souls save so I don’t lose it in the inevitable death like I did two Demon’s Souls saves. And two, for downloading (free) games to play to take some of the pressure of the disc drive in hopes it will survive longer.
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Which is a damn shame, because Infamous 2 is awesome. As is Infamous 1.
For those who’ve never played Infamous, grab the “Festival of Blood” standalone and try it out.
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Festival of blood is awesome. I bought it early this year and I really enjoyed it. I really loved flying as a flock of bats. I can’t wait to try Infamous 2.
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I didn’t see the appeal as well, that is why I decided to sacrifice $21 and try it out for three months. There will always be one or two games you own but you get 7-8 others as well. Also, I think PS+ is really good for encouraging you to finish games. For example, I know I will at least finish Infamous 2 and Space Marine before my 3 months are finished.
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Didn’t read it all yet (but I will) but after reading the first line…
is AD MAN BACK!?
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Ha Ha. AD MAN is not back unfortunately. One day he might return.
The ad was just part of Shane’s pre-order.
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The only thing that’s keeping me from signing up to PS+ is not having enough time to play all of the games. Especially since my motivation to game comes in waves and jumps platforms pretty often (I haven’t played my PS3 for a few weeks now). Plus the more money I can save, the better.
Maybe one day, though.
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Yeah, time is one of the things to consider as well. I hope I find enough to play the games.
With regards to price, the $21 I spent on this subscription will be the last gaming related purchase I make for the next three months. That way I have enough time and I don’t spend money on other games.
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Nice one MASHAAAAAAAAAA!
Couple of things though: The Aus PS+ has 10 games but a quicker rotation period so less free games per update, but more updates, so ultimately more free games that US subscribers get.
Secondly, JB stopped doing the discounted PSN cards a few weeks back. Not sure if you knew.
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Oh? What’s the rotation period for AUS? If I recall, US is once a month?
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From the Playstation Blog
“Most titles in SCEA Plus will stick around for 16 weeks before being refreshed – in SCEE we keep games for a maximum of 12 weeks, which means we rotate through more games in a full year – in fact we are committed to delivering over 45 games to you as part of your subscription before June 2013”
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My local one must have forgotten to take off the signs. I managed to snag one.
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Nice! GO BUY MORE!
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(wall’o text incoming)
New reply to Masha and other points raised in the comments above:Seems like you’re enjoying it, I’m interested in hearing more of your thoughts 🙂
Now that you’ve got PS+, if you were to sign in using an American account (I assume you have one) or one of a different region, are you still able to play the PS+ games? I’m assuming know since it is a service and if you try to play with an account that isn’t subscribed to it then you shouldn’t be able to play it.
What got me interested in it was the games. To be honest there’s like 2 games I’d like to play (Space Marine and Strange’s Wrath) yet it’s still going to be worth it in the long run if it’s only ~$7 a month. Usually games like Space Marine, inFamous 2 etc. kind if interest me but I’d rather pick them up when they’re cheap. This cheap price is generally $20 or under, the “bargain” price if you will. Of the big releases on the list I’ve never played inFamous 2 but I borrowed a copy from a friend and it’s been sitting on my shelf untouched for months, because what’s better than cheap? Being free. And Space Marine falls into that “wait until it’s cheap” category and I was willing to pick it up for around the $15 mark based on the DSE sales. But for $7 a month I can get it AND other games that I might not have otherwise picked up. That’s insane value IMO.
Haven’t really looked into the other services of PS+ but the extra games (PSN, PS1 classics etc.) won’t hurt :). Dynamic themes and gamerpics are still “meh” at the moment but they did offer this nice Journey one a few months back so I guess that’s a bonus. But cloud saves and auto updating are also nice touches. I too feared that my PS3 would die causing me to lose my saves. Guess what? I did. It also died in the middle of Dark Souls, causing my save file to become corrupt and lose about 4 hours of gameplay. I managed to fix the PS3 temporarily so I could transfer my saves to my new PS3 but it was a bit of a hassle, cloud saves would’ve easily fixed this.
I think it works both ways in encouraging you to finish games and also not. Usually I’d buy a game and get my money’s worth but since using my PC more often this year and noticing Steam sales I keep buying really cheap games and doing absolutely nothing with them. If I’m now getting 10+ games a month for pretty much nothing, I’ll have very little motivation to finish them since I paid next to nothing for them. There’s no incentive to “get my money’s worth”. I agree it could give you motivation to finish them before your 3 months subscription ends, but what happens when you’ve got a year or more? It’s just going to go straight at the bottom of the pile of shame.
Unrelated to discussion:
In case you didn’t know, 2 or more links = moderation and ENTER line breaks are fixed 🙂-
I just tried and the games from my AU PS+ account work perfectly on my US account. I’m sure the reverse is true. The thing is you get the games on your PS3, they are just time-locked-i.e they will stop working once my Subscription runs out. That is why they can work on any account on your console.
You’re only interested in Space Marine and Stranger’s wrath this time but there will be more games each month as well.
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Oh cool!
This means I could convince my friend to get it and possibly leech it off him 😛
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Hopefully your helping out with the purchase or he’s a kind guy.
Because leeching off someone when he/she is unaware is kind of distasteful.
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I think my big problem with the service is the hard drive size. Games these days are huge, and consoles just aren’t built for that.
Hell I was surprise when my PC version of Max Payne 3 was 4 DVD’s worth. Can you imagine downloading that from the PSN store?
In any case the idea is there, But I would argue 100Gb isn’t enough. Neither is a low monthly DL limit like10 – 25Gb
Thank’s for the write up. I don’t think I’ll be buying it simply because I don’t play enough PS3. All my stuff happens on the PC (which is currently in my living room connected to the TV, which is awesome!)
I just remembered to post this, @Shane for your post on page one. My Dark Souls weekend was spent dying repeatedly to the same boss for an hour and a half and then giving up and playing something else. Damn that giant boob spider. I saw you listed her as one of the bosses you defeated. How did you do it? I tried multiple strategies but nothing seemed to work. Her AoE attack would almost always hit me and when it did I’d lose 90% of my health.
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I was lucky enough to get a Black Knight Shield, which blocks 95% of fire damage. I also killed the invading NPC who is right near the swamp bonfire if you’re human… if you kill her, you can then summon her for the boss fight (again, only if you’re human). Then you try as best you can to stay to one side of the spider, circling constantly, and only hit when the spider isn’t moving, then back up a little and go again. Don’t hang directly behind, because the AoE is pretty damn bad there.
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Having the summon helped me, because if I was hanging back (while waiting for lava to cool, for example), the spider was aggroing my summon.
Make sure you get the last hit though, because apparently if not, you might not get the 20,000 souls upon spiderdeath.
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Try equipping all the highest fire defense gear you have. Also did you take the master key as your starting item because you can get a 80% fire resist shield if you did.
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Nah, I was an idiot and took that pendant that has sentimental value or what ever it is. I thought for sure it’d serve a purpose later on in the game and give me a really powerful item or something. Apparently it doesn’t.
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I did that too, but I picked the Thief class so I got the key as well.
SentimentalPendantHiFive
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I have extrememly high hopes that the DLC will feature the pendant and reward us mushy people.
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An interesting side note: I don’t know if I play Dark Souls the way normal people do… but I approach it almost like an assignment. Research is 90% of the work, and I do that during the way by reading wikis and occasionally even youtube vids, gearing up to do it for myself. Learning which equipment will help me most, and where I can get that from, etc.
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I’m not sure what the normal approach is, but I tend to hold my controller, curl up into a ball, and weep for hours on end.
I’m going to assume that that’s the traditional way to play.
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Go with what works.
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I do that too! Although I am completely obsessed with that game (I’m on my 4th run!). Starting to plan out my next character, maybe a miracle user next time.
hmmm…
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Her vulnerable point is when she does the heavy melee attack – if you are right up in front of her it will miss you.
So back-pedal around avoiding the lava until she goes for sword attacks then get in under the swings for a hit or two then escape before she AoE’s.
Inquisitorsz: That game you are playing sounds cool, shame it’s so restricted but thats what a Beta is all about eh?
How’s the connection when playing from across the pond?
I just wrote about five more questions but thought it’d be best to leave them be due to that pesky NDA thing 😛
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DM me on twitter if you want. Otherwise I might get round to jumping on TS later on tonight. Maybe bout 10pm
I am so amazingly excited about Fall of Cybertron, even though I know it’ll probably be a completely average game like the previous one. Every screenshot and announcement makes me more excited. Damned developers know exactly how to push my buttons 🙁
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I’m the same with Far Cry 3. The devs just confirmed split screen today, making me more excited. I love split screen modes.
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FarCry 3 isn’t even on my radar, I [i]hated[/i] FC2. Would have been awesome if you actually felt like you could affect the world, but the fact that you could clear out a group of guards around an area, walk away then turn around and walk back and they’d have completely repoped was so aggravating I completely lost interest after a couple of hours.
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I enjoyed Far Cry 2. It had its issues but I loved the open world and emergent gameplay. The guards thing was irritating but I understand the developers needed something for the player to do. Hopefully they have a better system this time.
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My main issue with Far Cry 2 was the malaria. That was no fun.
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I liked that, made things tense sometimes.
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I was sort of interested in Far Cry 3, but then boobs, and yeah.
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They showed the boobs without any context during the conference and I think it was designed to get people talking. However, they explained further during previews that the nudity was part of a tribal ceremony. In that case it made sense to me.
That being said, if it offends you it’s OK.
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It’s not that it’s offensive, it’s that it felt out of place, and therefore felt gratuitous.
I understand that they’re trying to push for this more story-driven approach, trying to chase after Captain Swears-a-lot, but the tribal ceremony opening wasn’t explained, so all you really can take out of it is “HELLO, LOOK, BREASTS!”.
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Yep. 100% agree.
You said all the things.
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I only beat WfC last week, so looking at the FoC videos now with the previous one fresh in my mind the amount of polish in this one is really standing out.
I am very interested in the fact that each chapter is unique to each transformer, so not only will each Transformer play differently but the levels will be designed specifically to highlight that.
I have received a cryptic message from my husband: “Package to Batgirl from Strange away!”.
There is a rather distinct lack of purple in TAY.
I have fixed that now.
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Hey, don’t act so surprised. It’s not as if you didn’t know I was going to do this. 😛
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But, but…you weren’t actually supposed to go ahead with it! It was just an idea!
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😀
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>:|
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…oh, fine. Just…don’t cause too much trouble.
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PURPLE WOULD BE GREAT
Hi guys! I feel dead.
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So… you don’t feel?
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No, he means it’s a fetish.
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Hot.
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Necrophile?
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D= never! Shane how could you..
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I’m just kidding, man. I can’t help it – I’m the kind of guy who’ll kick someone when they’re dead.
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With bare feet?
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You might want to stay away from the cemetary from now on
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Best line from someone I’ve ever heard after a big night:
“I feel like I’m recovering from an autopsy”
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AHAHA, oh man.. I feel like I drank more than a bottle of spirits last night, I didn’t even drink bah!
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Well you know what to do next *takes out shot glasses*
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I like where this is going!
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OMG, YOU MUST BE A ZOMBIE! /o\
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Beats being human! Don’t have to worry about a lot of things when a zombie! For example CLOTHES!
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Massive facepalm at this
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I kind of get it. Steam is in an enviable position of being able to command a market that responds to high prices in decent volume, and low (sale) prices in extremely high volume. Most businesses have to pick one and stick with it. My guess is that Origin doesn’t yet have a user base big enough to keep selling games at retailish prices through non-clearance times if they decided to jump on board the cheap games bandwagon.
Still, it’s a derpy thing to say, and he would have been much better off not drawing attention to their prices at all, and just not talking about it.
I know i am having a off day when i am completely lost for words. I haven’t done anything stupid moronic or memorable today. Monotonous days like these make me feel blegh, I even had bacon for lunch and i still feel a bit to meh. I can’t really distract myself from the feeling long enough to feel better. So TAY how is your day? Or ask old Rocket something to make his afternoon go quicker. I realize it is kind of selfish to ask you all to entertain me, but whatever you guys are pretty cool.
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Heh, when I skimmed that I read it as “Monotonous days like this make me feel like Blaghs.”
What a self centred prick I am.
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Yeah but we all are , its human nature.
You up for so LoL games when i get home at 4.00, i think if bish is around we can trio queue. THEME LANES
wizard of OZ lane
Blitzcrank,Nidalee,Fiddlesticks-
That’s, uhh, Rocket, I hate to break it to you, but the Tri-Lane isn’t part of LoL meta.
It’s a DotA thing.
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doesnt that just mean they won’t see it coming???
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CHRISTOPHER I HAVENT TALK TO YOU IN LIKE A WEEK
How is it going buddy?
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ROCKETMAN!
You see the trailer for Muse’s next album? It’s.. Different..
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I have not but i am gonna watch it now. I was listening to muse for like half of last night. excite now.
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No, it means that we’ll be underleveled, won’t get kills, will have them out earn us in gold, and it will overall be just a bit shit.
The different pace of Dota allows for the Tri-Lane to be effective, as you have a better chance getting kills 3 on 2 by focus firing than you do 2 on 1, but in LoL it’s just not all that viable.
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Joy killer 😛
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I prefer the term “analyst.”
And yes, I fully expect a comment along the lines of “well the anal part is totally correct.”
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did somebody say DOTA?!
I wouldn’t know i stopped playing after the game became CC EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME WITH NO WAY TO GET OUT OF IT.
I shall also be down with that if you want more peeps.
Been watching a LoL tournament re-run which has got me enthused.
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Oh man, i can play green taric. to be like the emerald wizard 😛
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I’m leaving work early at 4 too!
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HAY I WANA PLAY TOO will u guys be on later?
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I sure will be, hopefully I can play tonight. I wanna try heimerdinger again, dose rockets in last night’s game! xD
Tells us a story Rockefeller!
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i don’t have any greenman. Sorry
Random smiley face to update the page
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Ctrl+F5
Works everytime 😀
My new favourite word: Triumviratus.
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Latin word for a threesome in which one participant has an STI that they’re unaware of.
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You, sir, win the internet today.
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I’m going with your definition.
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So now that I’m aware of my diseases it’s not a Triumviratus?
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I think thats called a Trinfectus
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It’s actually not a terrible synopsis of the story I’m writing
http://shanewsmith.com/works-in-progress/triumviratus/-
Does it involve a scene with the aforementioned definition?
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Sounds like a Warhammer 40k term.
Reposting because I crave attention, also because of closure. Mario Tennis Open review for Bish (or anyone who can read words) follows.
For the most part it’s actually just a fairly uninspired game. I built my expectations around the last portable sports-spinoff Mario game I played, which was Mario Golf on GBA. In hindsight, that’s proved to have been a poor choice. Mario Golf had this amazing RPG element to the game, where winning tournaments would award you a small number of points with which to improve various “stats” that improved your character’s golfing prowess.
Mario Tennis is just tennis with sometimes crazy physics. “Boost spots” appear on the court, and using the right spin with the right boost will let you hit a special shot. Returning a special shot slows you momentarily, so chaining together two or three special shots is your path to victory. Although, for most of the Cups you can get by without relying on them. In the last Cup (called Last Cup), hitting the right boosts is vital to even keep a rally going. It came down to waiting for a Purple or Red boost as they are the two more powerful shots (the others are more like trick shots). If my opponent ever got a purple boost I was unable to even return the shot. The game tells you that there’s a mechanic by which you can nullify the effects of a shot by returning it with the opposite type of spin (so a Slice counters Top Spin, etc) but this doesn’t appear to work. There also seems to be some other mechanics in regard to how you interact with the boost spots, but nothing in the single tutorial or the games single page instruction sheet goes into detail on these.
If you’re using Gyro-mode (and let’s face it, who doesn’t want to use a mode with a name like that?) then the game will move you automatically and you have better control on where you place your shots. It’s outright easier than playing it like a regular game, I guess the compromise it you have to be holding the DS upright, spinning side to side like a dingus. But it feels like the limit of the game’s learning curve is memorising which colour corresponds to which type of shot. There’s even a “basic shot” which smart picks the right type of shot to use when you’re on a Boost circle. So the whole game feels like it boils down to the luck of which side gets a boost spot first and the type of boost.
I bought it from EB so, even though it’ll have been two weeks tomorrow, I’ll try and exchange it. I’ll be happy to not take a refund and just spend the money on something else.
I rate it a 2/128 (the highest placing Lleyton Hewitt has achieved in an Australian Open).
So I had completely forgotten that EB + Nintendo = Nintendo 1st party games have a 90 day satisfaction guarantee. Swapped it for Witcher 2.
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Awesome ending.
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Thanks, Mawt!
I appreciate the time you took to type that up.
I really was hoping it was more Mario Tennis, but by the sounds of a lot of reviews (yours included) towards stale rather than enjoyable rehash. Shame, really.
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Well, my Tennis rating system was a bit flawed in delivery. There are generally 128 entrants in a Grand Slam – 8 sets of 16. The best “our” Lleyton has ever achieved at home is 2nd place (aka, the first loser). At first awarding Mario 2/128 it would seem to have done quite well. I suppose in many ways that is true, but it missed the mark, not quite achieving greatness – much like Lleyton Hewitt’s Australian Open career record.
1/5 : Highly unlikely to use this rating system again.
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Do you know what sucks?
Having a sore neck.
Do you know what doesn’t suck?
Listening to “By the Way” by RHCP whilst lying on the bed, trying to alleviate said sore neck.
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WE WANT CHILLI WILLY!
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Having a sore back is worse… trust me
So me and my friends have a fantastic plan
In DOTA 2, we are gonna run a full 5 man team of summoners, we plan to roshan in about 2 minutes, and need to win quickly, otherwise we will get dominated late game
This is gonna be fun
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Hahaha. What lineup have you got planned? We’ve tried this before and it worked ok, but if you don’t do it in time its not worth the effort.
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Well, we are not sure at the moment, some of us don’t really know how to usesomminers, I mean I’ve. Played beast master once because of a random, and my friend can play lycan as well, we may practice a bit before we put this into PvP, but when we get it right, it’ll be glorious
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Sorry for some spelling mistakes, mobile site kept crashing, so I had to do this on the normal site, and the most viewed thing covers the end of the text box
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Got to do some grocery shopping before the meat this weekend. Haven’t really done any real shopping since before heading down to Sydney. My larder is barren.
Shapes and 100s and 1000s will definitely be purchased when I do get myself down to Coles.
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Fairy Shapes.
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I wasn’t going to do that but now I am going to do that.
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Who was it that didn’t like fairy bread? Freyr?
EVERYONE loves fairy bread!
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I should wait until she’s here and then go grocery shopping. Then I can make a big fuss about getting the 100s and 1000s just to annoy her :p
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I hear some people don’t like Fairy Floss, either. Fairy-ists.
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I’m not coming to the meat, but if you’re going to Coles, you really should get a box of the Coles brand choc chip cookies. They really are amazing!
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I can’t make it to your meat Bunny, I am sorry =(
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Yeah, short for cash, would’ve come otherwise! Stupid QR charging 20 something dollars to get to Brisbane.. But that doesn’t mean you all can’t have fun without me!
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Fairy bread’s gonna be there?
Oh shit.
Tell Strange to cancel my food, a plate of fairy bread will do just fine.
Hey guys!
Would this be good for games?
http://dicksmith.com.au/product/XC8159WEB/
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Good for games depends on your standards. I’d hazard that it will run most things but you’re not going to be able to max out anything.
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I’m with Bunny, anything below a GT X40M GPU really struggles to run stuff. A friend his laptop has a GT220m struggled to run WoW & Counter-Strike Source at minimum..
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I don’t know but I presume you saw the 1 hour quicky at the bottom?
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One hour is hardly a quickie.
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Yeah it’s not bad. I would prefer more ram personally but you can add that later.
It’s a good price. Also be aware that particular laptop is quite bulky IRL, the bezel around the screen is huge. I was looking at a similar model and was instantly put off when I saw it “in the flesh”
My new latop plays diablo 3 just fine. it’s and Acer Aspire V3-571G. its an i5 with 8GB RAM and a GT 630M GFX card.
TAYbies, I just found the original Dead Space on the Playstation Store for $15.
Is this a good price for it?
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yes.
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unless you can find it cheaper…
still, if you like ‘survival horror’ with a heavy dose of RE4, then $15 is a good price.
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Not sure if you can find it cheaper than that on PS3 though so I guess that’s a decent price for a PS3 copy. If I recall it was on sale on PC a while ago.
I really like both Dead Spaces so check out 2 if you like one. If you find a “limited edition” first print run of Dead Space 2 on PS3 you get Extraction for free on the disc (you asked about a light gun game ages ago and I replied with this but I’m not sure if you saw it)
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I just realized that I have $3.75 in my PS Store wallet, meaning I’ll only get $11.20 debited from my card!
\o/
I bought Saints Row III on the weekend.
It’s amazing.
Also: Hi!
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It’s amazing?
That’s not a pun, YOU’RE AN IMPOSTER!-
Sorry. How’s this:
I bought Saint Row III on the weekend. Awesome game!
I recruited Saint Bernard, George and James to my team. We’re rowing for the Harvard Rowing Club!-
That’s better.
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BRAVO!
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TadMod!
Haven’t seen you around for a while.
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Life, the Universe, Everything.
Long story short:
Full Time work + Full Time Uni = No Time for Fun.🙁
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I did the same. played an hour last night & holy hell, from what i played, that game is brilliantly weird.
also, HI TADMOD!
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I KNOW, RIGHT?!
Saint #2: “They’re having a party in the penthouse”
Saint #1: “So…?”
Saint #2: “I say we crash the party, kill the gang, and steal the penthouse for ourselves”#Logic.
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Boss’ plan with the plane heading toward em in the 2nd mission is what sold me 🙂
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Or “Zombie” being an option for the character’s voice! 😛
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oh & ‘sex appeal’ being part of character creation 😀
dammit. now I wanna leave work, make an excuse to get out of tonights work function, get home & play silly buggers. & Saints Row 3 I suppose.
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A few people on my steam friends list have been playing it. Makes me want to start it again over on the Xbox! Co-op is great fun.
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It’s pretty much amazing!
I haven’t played co-op yet; I want to wait until I’ve gotten a decent way through Single-Player.
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You need to. I played it with Shaun over the summer, we did so many stupid things without getting bored.
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Saints row is great, I also got it over the weekend, I just bought a super hero costume for my character… Just because I could…
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So much awesome.
So… a sequel to Dead Island was announced at e3?
On the condition that they try & make the acting & story more bearable & less clichéd respectively, I approve.
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Same. It was pretty and had the right ideas, but the storyline was weak.
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I love hearing when an okay-but-not-AAA game gets greenlit for a sequel for a couple of reasons.
1) it means that the game got enough appreciation to warrant a sequel.
2) Since the game world and mechanics are established, the devs can really focus on polishing the game and improving what didn’t go so well in the previous one.So many sequels to new IP’s come out as balls-out awesome, so I’m keeping a close eye on Dead Island 2, Darksiders 2, Fall of Cybertron and a few others too 🙂
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I agree. I love it when “slightly flawed” games get sequels. It gives them a chance to improve on the little mistakes and hopefully make an overall better game.
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I agree as well. Assassins creed 1 was AAA but it had its flaws. With AC2 onwards the series truly came into its own.
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Hi Nova,
I hope your day is going well. Good News, the games arrived this afternoon. That was really fast. Thanks again. I can’t wait to get into them.
NB: The packaging was really cool as well. Very secure and no damages.
If I have to say one thing about the packages I’ve received from TAYbies is that they are always well packed in secure boxes/envelopes.
“Hotels don’t like you screwing after 3 o’clock. So if you get your heavy drilling over with by noon that’s fine.”
– Boss, on the phone
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uhhh… xD
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Oh man, so many awesome things said in that sentence.
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Dear Flu,
I’ve been meaning to say this for a while, but we are all none too keen on you’re screwing after 3 o’clock. We understand your needs and respect them, but I would like to point out that you are not the only one with concerns in this matter.
Actually, if the whole screwing and drilling thing could be kept out of hours, we’d all be grateful.
Your’s respectfully,
SmurfyDog.
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*Overhead on the phone. He didn’t say this to me.
@Masha
Welcome to the fold. The PS+ thing seems like its great now but wait a few months until you get used to it.
Then you’ll wonder how you went without it.
The free games keep surprising me. I got Resident Evil 2&3 and Silent hill for free. Which all work on my PSP. Winner
Worth the price alone is the automatic update which you didn’t mention (I think). Your PS3 will turn itself on through the night and download any firmware updates and game patches that are out and apply them all. I haven’t seen an update screen in months.
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That sounds like a feature that should be free -_- however I think I may get ps+ as well
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I don’t mind them branching off non-essential features like that, to be honest. Gives people who want it the opportunity to pay for it while not really damaging the free players. Much better than being forced to pay for something.
I actually hope that Nintendo does something like that for the Wii U. Wouldn’t mind getting ‘free’ retro Nintendo games on a subscription (but then I’d have to find time to play them…)
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Previously they just had ‘free’ PS1 and PSN games but with the added bonus of quality recent releases (LBP2, inFamous 2, Space Marine etc. yadda yadda yadda) has really piqued my interest 😀
Update thing used to bother me but since I hardly play anything online anymore it’s not an issue, still a good feature to have though.
@Masha (from your post above)
Yeah he’s completely aware of it :P. Wouldn’t be very nice if I leeched games off him without he knowing :P. Him and I share our games all the time and he rarely uses his PS3 so he shouldn’t care if I logged into his account and downloaded games onto my PS3 (with his permission of course), it’s not like he’s losing anything by letting me get them. He was interested in PS+ months ago but if I tell him about the announcement he’ll be more likely to buy it. I doubt I’d do it though, service is good and cheap enough to warrant me buying it anyway but it was just an option 😛
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That’s OK. I hope your friend decides to get it.
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I’m kind of dreading getting used to PS+ and at the same time excited about it. I’ll see how it goes.
You’re right, I didn’t mention the automatic update thing. It’s because I haven’t tried it out yet so I’ll test it out for a while and let you know how it goes.
My computer won’t start up. It just kept restarting, so I opened it up and the CPU fan wasn’t spinning. So I fixed that by cleaning it out. Now it doesn’t restart every few seconds, but it doesn’t show anything on the screen or make any noises. I did not want to have to deal with this right now >:(
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Wait, if the problem is the graphics card, that means I’ll have to get a new one! 😛
The graphics card probably isn’t the problem though…And now it’s gone back to restarting every few seconds :/
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Oh phew, its working now. I just reseated the RAM and it’s all fine. 🙂
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😀
play all the iSketch!
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Are you playing it right now?
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I am not :P. Haven’t played it since last time when you secretly joined
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At work. Just answered the phone. Before I could say the usual greeting the lady on the other end said, quite sternly:
“Come eat yer dinners!”
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Did you say “So, what are we eating?”
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Did you take her up on her offer?
Spent the day reinstalling windows, copying my stuff back onto PC. Stupid virus. Stupid AVG for not catching virus. Stupid computer for not developing an immunity. Stupid society for producing scum who make viruses in the first place. Bah! Lost an activation too on something pretty important to me. 🙁 On the happier, unrelated topic: atleast Tex Murphy’s Project Fedora is basically funded on Kickstarter now. 😀
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I hate having to reinstall operating systems. Yet, strangely, I enjoy installing new operating systems. Weird.
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Reinstalling Windows… I know that feel, bro.
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I think HP needs a savage beating for the bloat ware they install unasked. Spent just as long uninstalling that crap. 😛 I do like the feel of a freshly installed OS, though…
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I despise bloatware.
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Good man! 😀 I read that HP are putting Photoshop Elements and the like on their new computers. Finally something useful!
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Why are you running AVG? If you want a free AV, Microsoft Security Essentials is as good if not better on protection and a hell of a lot less annoying, and if you’re paying, there’s far better paid suites out there too.
(Disclaimer: I work on MSE)
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Thanks, man! Noted.
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What up nerds?
So someone asked a while back what happens to your PSN+ content if you run out of PSN+ and then resub at a later date. Well, my sub ran out over a month ago and I just got around to resubbing and I now have access to all my old PSN+ content.
Anyway, how is everyone doing this evening? It’s bloody cold where I am, but on the plus side I’m seeing Prometheus tonight! \o/
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Good to hear that about the PS+ stuff.
If you’ve seen my massive wall of text on the previous page, I just joined this week so I’m excited to see how much I enjoy the service.
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Oh, man. I can’t wait to see Prometheus. Even skipped The Daily Show’s interview with Michael Fassbender so he wouldn’t spoil the damn thing… and then there’s the TV spots. Saturday can’t come soon enough. 😛
So life was laughing at me today.
Went to the toilet (as you do), and someone had removed the hook. I didn’t want to put my bag on the floor so I tried to find a way to hang it on the advertising. Just as I’d placed it, someone slammed a toilet seat lid, scaring the absolute crap out of me.
I stood there for a moment, trying to fight off the rising panic, but I couldn’t so I fled. (Yes, fled).
Oh and the advertising I hung my bag on? It was for anxiety.
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$10 says the sign on the door that got slammed was for laxatives.
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They have hooks in toilets?
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This is why we should never venture forth from our homes. It’s just too dangerous out there. Especially those pesky pavements, always jumping up at you… 😛
Posting here because stuff posting in that 10d6+4 Wall of Fire of a comments section.
If you don’t like booth babes, don’t go.
That’s not being flippant.
If booth babes are something that are wrong with industry shows, as a reporter, refuse to go. Don’t go and complain; complain about WHY you are unable to go. Convince your outlet to also skip the show, and post publicly about how they’re boycotting the show to remove booth babes.
It’s the same advice they give to gamers who hate DLC or always-on DRM – “don’t buy the game then”. If you buy the game, you’re supporting the thing you decry, and it’s a wasted voice.
If enough reporters boycotted E3 – or refused to report on games at booths that utilise booth babes – then eventually the message would sink in and the booth babes would disappear.
On the other hand, if no major publication cared about them, and no-one boycotted, then it’ll continue.
To me, going and writing a piece complaining about it is rank hypocrisy – you’re still there, and you’re still reviewing their games. They get what they want, and you get to eat it.
Make a stand for your principles if it’s that important. Otherwise, don’t complain about it – you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.
/end rant
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tl;dr: If you’re supporting the cycle you’re complaining about, you shouldn’t be complaining. You should be breaking free from the cycle and not getting paid to perpetuate it.
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I for one enjoy the chesty, shapely advertisements and will do my part by continuing to admire said advertisements without complaint.
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As it should be
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POTAKU IS RECORDING SOON!
Any community news you guys want mentioned!?!?!?
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YES, BUT YOU HAVE TO GUESS WHAT I WANT MENTIONED!
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HAVE YOU LOST WEIGHT!?
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BREAKING NEWS!!!!
This just in, Freeze S Preston is amazing.
I’m willing to give you an exclusive to that if you are amenable to a few reasonable requests.
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Wait that’s breaking news? I heard this months ago!
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Nothing!
Though you could give a shout out to the TAY Xenoblade Club! 😀
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Yes!!
TAY Xenoblade club ftw.
I’m not sure whether Steve-O counts cause he pirated it or whether scree does either because she has it on lay-by 😛
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Hey, I’m trying my best to get it paid off quickly
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Hello.
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Awesome, all I want to know is when do we get to hear it.
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Friday night or Saturday morning (if the editing takes a while).
Should have the RSS and iTunes up and running by Monday too!
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heeeeeey 🙂
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I hear Shane has a new book out.
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We discussed that! 😀
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HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY 🙂
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Ahoy Peeps,
Bavarian Beer Cafe confirmed for a 7pm reservation. As we only have 9 people we snuck under the $10-per-head prebooking requirement!
The list:
Me
Shiggy
PatienceMaddox
Flu
Bish
#35
Harli
Doc
Alex (and his pants)
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Do Alex and his pants count as one person or two? 😛
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Depends on my mood that evening.
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I just had a brilliant idea. If I have my fingers always wrapped in band aids, it’ll help protect my fingers from cuts, sorta like finger armor!
Anyway, a note to self. Whenever the winged ratbag is around, make sure to keep your fingers safely hidden. When I was hanging up the clothes today, the aforementioned brat decided to come sit on the clothes line and watch me. Then, after a short while, it hopped up to me and bit one of my fingers… I think the bird and the clothesline may be in cahoots with each other, working together to plot my downfall :s
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Someone already invented that – they call them “Gloves”
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Too mainstream.
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Just be thankful the lawnmower isn’t in on it too.
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Wanna bet? It’s just come back from lawnmower hospital from when I accidentally snapped its handlebars off…
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The purple
AHHHHHHHHHH
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It’s much nicer than GREEN. Such a nasty colour, that. 😛
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Oi green is an awesome colour. (Its also complimantary to purple)
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Hell yeah brother
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Dear Friends,
So I finished watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood tonight and it was such an awesome series :). I haven’t watched that much anime but I’d say it’s in my top 5 and it’s definitely better than the original FMA anime.
BUT why do Japanese things have to go batshit crazy (more so than usual) during the ending sequences? It’s like every anime I watch or Japanese game I play has to do some crazy over the top insane thing in the end which almost makes no sense and almost has no place in the story. Ah well, still enjoyable and it could’ve been weirder 😛 (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann I’m looking at you).
That’s the thing about good TV shows, anime, games, movies etc. they grab your attention and hook you in, making you care about what’s going on and you’re left wanting more. Sure I want more but everything reaches a point where it just goes downhill. They left the ending pretty open and I found myself just wanting to know what would happen next. Greedius is greedy but alas sometimes it’s just better to leave things up to your imagination, otherwise you end up with a poopload of episodes and half of them are just utter crap.
From
Needius
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If you’re talking about the big event in episode 60/61 as being the batshit crazy part, I disagree about that. It’s something that was pretty heavily hinted at all throughout the series. I don’t like the way it was resolved because of that fact. Build up to something momentous all series and then practically dismiss it 20 minutes later, and it ruins any sense of threat you’d been building up for so long. Regardless, I immensely enjoy the last 10 or so episodes in that series. I’m a big fan of the Briggs arc, though.
I’m going to leave my opinion of the ending out of this, because I will just end up comparing it to the rubbish ending that was the first FMA series, and I like to forget about that as much as possible. :p
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ergh, that first ending, yuck
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I think it’s a good sign that I don’t remember anything from the original series 😛
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The original series was excellent, it had some fantastic character development that you don’t see in Brotherhood.
It’s just that it had a hilariously bad ending(that I kind of liked. I also liked the movie, even if it was dumb.).
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It basically went to crap because they got about 2/3 the way through and were like ‘holy hell, how can we end this thing’ because at the time the actual manga was still running and had gone down a completely different path. And so you get an unsatisfactory conclusion. And don’t get me started on the movie. Brotherhood is overall a far tighter story.
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Oh, Brotherhood is way tighter, and I accept that the movie was bad(and the whole 2 worlds thing, and all that stuff), but I still enjoyed them.
It’s just that there’s way more impact to the first few arcs in the original, so I recommend that people watch it until it deviates, then immediately switch to Brotherhood.
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I enjoyed the original heaps at the time as well. But in retrospect, Brotherhood is the better story by a long way.
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Are you suggesting you didn’t enjoy Gurren Lagann?
Also, endings are a big problem for anime. They don’t like really conclusive stuff because anything that’s successful they want to produce more of. Also often they’re working with unfinished material to begin with so they end up putting together a rushed ending right at the very end which feels pretty weird because it comes out of nowhere. Or the budget runs out. Or they decide to make the final episode DVD/BD-only (has been happening a bit recently). Or they plan a movie / sequel from the outside. Or sometimes the ending’s just crap.
You may be interested to know that FMA Brotherhood has a movie sequel. ‘The Sacred Star of Milos’. Don’t know how good it is, it’s getting a US theatrical release later this year though.
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Gurren Lagann was batshit awesome
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They crank the dial all the way to 11 and you think they’ve peaked, but then it turns out they can get it as far as 14.
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Ah is that Brotherhood related? I was looking into seeing it but didn’t find anything on Wikipedia relating it to being after the events of Brotherhood, but more of a standalone film. Its rating on imdb wasn’t all that good and the original movie had a higher rating and I thought that was crap. If you ever watch it, let me know what you think.
As for Gurren Lagann I enjoyed it until about episode 17-19 or so when it went absolutely crazy and I had no idea what was going on. Not to say I hated it then but I just didn’t like it as much and it made the whole thing just a little bit crapper as a whole. As for anime endings Bebop also comes to mind. I liked it and its style and whatnot but it did seem very rushed towards the end. Those last few episodes were a mess…
I don’t listen to music in other languages but damnit I have FMA:B opening/ending music stuck in my head 😛
so, not sure if the news made it to eastern staters, but a mini tornado went through WA today.
it only went through a small area, and guess who lives in that area? this guy!
luckily we weren’t in one of the really badly affected areas, but an old church down the road had its roof torn off!
so in your face mother nature! you can’t kill me!
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:O holy crap. Did you manage to see it?
Craziest weather related thing I’ve seen was hail the size of tennis balls in about March 2009. My area was one of the one hit the hardest and there were broken everything everywhere and… dinted cars! That was a crazy day…
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Hah, I remember when I was in high school and we had a MASSIVE hail storm. Nobody did any work and just looked out the window. Riding the bus home that day after it had subsided looked like it had snowed!
Actually… that’s probably not the craziest weather related thing. We got sent home one day because it had been raining extra hard. The whole school was flooded with knee-high water. It was fun and gross at the same time. xD
Anyway, I’m getting off topic! I hope everything/everyone is alright where you are, Grandmaster! I’ve never seen a proper tornado before 😛 At least now you can say “I survived the 2012 WA Tornado!”. I’m sure someone will make a shirt for it! (People around here seem to do that for basically any event :P)
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You know, if WA had already discovered the internet before this, they would have known we don’t get tornadoes in aus, and this never would have happened.
Btw, I was going to make this joke earlier, but then I thought you may have been affected by the tornado. So, now that I know you’re fine, its okay to make the joke, right? 😛
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Mother nature hasn’t topped itself since the dust storms a few years back. That was truly a thing of beauty.
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(And by that, I mean I’m glad you’re okay. :P)
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Ah I’ve got pictures of that! I woke up at sunrise and everything was bright orange from the dust! Of course, I then woke everybody else in the house up to see it. Thank god I didn’t have a car then. I would not have liked to clean it.
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I was playing BioShock, alone by myself in the house. (*possible spoilers*) Was at the part where Ryan vented gas into Arcadia. Looked out the window and it was the exact same colour outside. Freaked me out more than I was willing to admit. 😛 Wasn’t as bad/cool in Brisbane as it was in Sydney, though.
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Oh man that was badass.. I was at TAFE that day and it was thick as!
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I was out at Hill End for a uni field trip that morning. Woke up about 6:30, saw the orange and though, eh, sun must be coming up. Went back to bed, woke up again about 7:30 saw that it was still orange and started panicking thinking it was a bushfire. It was the morning we were going home so a lot of the others on the trip had had a very big night, lots of sore heads. One girl decided she wanted to go for a run to try and get over the hangover. Luckily we convinced her it was a bad idea, and that she’d come back with half the Sahara in her lungs.
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@Masha, Thats good to hear. That was really fast, I guess your’s had the least distance to travel. I think everyone sends their stuff carefully because we all know how much it sucks for things you’re looking forward to arriving broken. And because we’re all considerate people
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Exactly.
Today has been a good day, I managed to fix up the Max Payne 3 issue, i took that game back to EB Games and they exchanged it for a manual that does have a code.
My Portal bookends finally came for what seemed like an eternity, they are absolutely awesome.
Earlier today i was cleaning out my some boxes in my houses roof cavity and found a box full of old cd’s, managed to find a game i haven’t played in about 15 years a Magic Carpet/ PGA Tour 96 disc that came with an old Compaq Presario PC, its not much but it means a lot to me because i spent many hours mastering PGA Tour 96, Magic Carpet never worked so i didnt have the chance to play it. Even though it was sitting in a box the disc although dusty still worked, although not on Windows 7, i had to use DOSbox to install and play it.
We all have these games that we hold near and dear to ourselves, mine just happens to be a golf game that brings back a lot of nostalgia and memories of wasted time.
This may be one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever seen and that’s saying a lot.
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Mario related. Safe for Work. Not safe for sanity.
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I’m sorry, I had to stop watching it…
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What the flip did I just watch????? ?????
I was going to smoosh my face against the keyboard and have my face talk to you all but I just had a shower and my hair is wet. TO BE CONTINUED…
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Type it into google, see if you get porn…
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YOU TAKE THAT BACK OR I’LL KILL YOU.
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I CAN’T BELIEVE HE SAID THAT ABOUT YOUR MOTHER!
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NEVER! I SAID IT AND I MEANT IT!!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4nlcmmt8X0&feature=g-u-rec
No, you aren’t seeing things… a man is rampaging in a bulldozer.
Kill-dozer!
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It really was the perfect set up. If not for the engine dying
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGJe2K7gbIQ&feature=context-gfa
You know what is awesome?
Seeing a video of a toy review, and remembering you still have said toy in a shed in a box somewhere.
I’ve had that toy since 1998.
I’ll look for it in the morning.
Happy Birthday Monstrosity!
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Thank you Greenius.
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Happy birthday ,Blaghs!
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Thanks Crazyguy!
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PROMETHEUS
Visually stunning. I saw it in 2D. I don’t want to go into the story and talk about that until more people have seen it.
I will list my problems with it:
It helps if you are a fan of the Alien universe. I picked up on things that other people I know who saw it.
There is a moment near the end that is very “Well, that was convenient”
A solid 8/10
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLAGHMAN!
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Thank you Virus Underscore Underscore!
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No worries! 21 eh, nothing that special about it hey? 😛
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Happy Birthday Blaghman.
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God damn it, TAY hadn’t updated for like 2 hours I thought I was first xD
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3 people said early ones but I still stand by my statement that early ones don’t count 😛
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Just finished Breaking Bad season 4.
Wow. Just, wow.
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One of the few TV shows that just gets better 🙂
At the same time I’m both glad and sad that they’re ending it with S5.
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While I’m also super excited for season 5, V jbhyq’ir orra bxnl jvgu gurz svavfuvat vg ng frnfba 4. Vg unq n irel fngvfslvat raq gb vg. Fgvyy, Nyy unvy gur xvat!
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That’s a pretty cool poster, right?
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I thought it was pretty good, but V xvaq bs cerqvpgrq gur gjvfg ng gur raq, fb jnf zvyqyl qvfnccbvagrq gung vg jnf gur irel ynfg fprar. Nyfb, V gubhtug Thf’ jnyx-bhg-nqwhfg-gvr-naq-qvr fprar jnf fvyyl
Still, overall, it was a fantastic season. Only a month until new episodes.
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That surprised me because I forgot certain scenes
I also thought that was silly but atleast it had an epic episode title
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I just realized that this weekend is a long weekend…
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Unless you have an exam on the Monday 🙁 *shakes fist*
I think I’ve missed out on at least one long weekend every year since 2009 because of exams. But I guess to be fair I am technically on ‘holidays’ before and after then so I get my own massive long weekend 😛
Good morning TAY its apparently already Friday. I feel awesome cause I have a new pillow to sleep on so my head no longer tilts down \o/
And that’s my little story
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Dang it’s cold outside
One of my most anticipated games this year, after E3, turned out to be LEGO City undercover- an open world LEGO game. Ever since I played LEGO star wars, I’ve dreamed of such a game. Traveller’s tales have proved that they can handle humour well and I can’t wait to see how they parody the GTA series and various cop shows. You can see the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI9DaepJ_fk
Anyway my excitement aside, I just realised something. Somebody crazy will build a replica of the whole city using LEGO blocks and upload the video online. I for one cannot wait to see that. Please internet don’t disappoint. If I had enough blocks I would do it myself.
Actually, why hasn’t anybody made replicas of any of the LEGO games released so far? A level or something.
NB:
If this game is successful imagine if the sequel was Red Faction Guerrilla meets LEGO. Oh my, just imagine all the brick based destruction. Not feeling it? Think about it again:
RED FACTION GUERRILLA’S DESTRUCTION PHYSICS IN A LEGO OPEN WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pleeeeaaaaase somebody develop and publish such a game.
I’m not going to say happy birthday to Blaghman. I will say it in two weeks time in person when it’s no longer his birthday. Best plan.
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I actually prefer to say “Happy Birthday” in person. Just going on Facebook and you’ll see plenty of meaningless generic and unpersonalised “Happy birthday. Have a good day” from people who they don’t even know. I’m not talking about myself specifically but when I used Facebook I was seeing this all the time just because it happened to list someone’s birthday. Hell, even some friends changed their birthday date on FB to a random date that isn’t actually their birthday AND still got birthday messages, even from actual friends. I think it just loses its meaning ya know? So I don’t even say happy birthday on FB or text anyone even if they say it to me (I am bestest friend). I guess I could personalize each one but its easier not too 😛
Not sure where I was going with this but I support your decision S-DOG :D.
Hippo Biffday Blaghman! you’re 21 today right?! If so, awesome! Got anything special planned?
ok TAYbies, I’m sitting here sniffling in a scarf my gramma just knitted me, feeling sorry for myself with a horrible head cold and I need your suggestions!
so I’m opening my own online store for fun, I’m going to be selling hand made bird/parrot toys since there’s a serious lack of them in australia and birds are awesome. I was planning to call it “Busy Beaks” but there’s already a bird toy store in the US called that, I wasn’t too worried about it but it’s all over google and quite popular (even tho their toys and website are HIDEOUS! hideous I say)… so I need a new name… and I can’t think of ANYTHING!!!
the toys and birdie beds I’m gonna be making and selling are gonna be cute and unique and awesome. mostly cute. for example I’m making a big chunky toy in the shape of an adorable bumblebee, and some others in the shapes of flowers, dragon flies, ladybugs, cupcakes, fruit etc.
ummm… something punny and cute and catchy would be awesome. I couldn’t think of anything. I really wanted busy beaks damn it. 🙁
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Pageget so now everyone will see it 😀
Cool stuff like “birdorable” is already taken and my suggestions suck:
Bed bird and beyond
Birdie Bonanza😛
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will bed, bath & beyond sue me? hahaha
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Bird in the Hand
Tweet Yourself
Straight Plush
Second NestI’ll post again later when I think of more.
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I tweeted myself once. It wasn’t as satisfying as I had imagined.
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Maybe you didn’t do it right.
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hahaha, tweet yourself! I love that.
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And you’re already two thirds of the way to a succesful Twitter marketing campaign.
Tweet yourself. Tweet your friends. Tweet me.
Or something.-
you’re really good at this, hahahaha.
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You could always call yourself (Oz/Australian) Busy Beaks if you really want the name. Then you can piggyback off their Google popularity and eventually surpass them with superior products.
Kind of like what the Yes Men did for the WTO 😛
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will that work? I was worried I wouldn’t even come up in google at all ’cause they are still active n’ stuff… iunno, I don’t really know how google searches work with your own website haha.
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Just googled and this was second:
http://www.busybeaks.com.au/Too late. There’s an Aussie one opening soon. Sorry.
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THAT’S MINE!!!
how did it come up in google!? hahaha.
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Through the magic of the internet!
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I need it to come up when people search “bird toys australia” “parrot toys australia” etc…
maybe I should just change my domain to busybeaksbirdtoys.com?
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Well there you go 😀
Already second result
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Becaroonies birdacious boutique
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BIRDACIOUS!!
THIS!!!-
I too like birdacious.
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hahahaha oh man, this is so good too. you guys are way better at this then me!
Becaroonie’s Big Busy Beak Bird Barn
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Ha!
Are there any common words or colloquialisms used by bird owners? Maybe you can use a clever riff on one of those.
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Ummm… not really… some of the really obsessive owners call their birds “fids”, which stands for “feathered kids”… personally that term kinda weirds me out lol.
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Bids for Fids.
FidSkids
Fid Quids
Quids for Fids
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Bird Brain?
Beak Breakers?
Pickled Pecks?
I don’t know, I’m terrible at this. I can’t even think of any name better than “Strange Sews” for my sewing shop when I make one. 😛
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Reverse the words, and it’s funnier! 🙂
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The Stranger Stitch.
Fun for Feathers?
Fowl Play? 😛
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fowl makes me think of chickens… heh heh heh, chickens.
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So tasty!
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So, the Blaghman is 21? I’d imagine he has a night full of clubbing, drugs, bitches, hos and ridiculous amounts of alcohol planned. Do a keg stand for me good buddy.
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Happy birthday, Blaghman. I went to Movie World on mine, was the most tame 21st known to man. 😛
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Mine was tamer. Several friends around to my girlfriend’s house for dinner. I didn’t drink. Was perfect.
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I sat at home doing a Uni assignement. Aw yeahhhhhhhhhhhh.
Happy Birthday Glahman, even though you won’t see this for another 5 hours because you won’t be awake!
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Happy Birthday Blaghman! \o/
Happy Mehday Blaghman… /o\-
Damn, I thought I cancelled it in time! xD Now you get 2 birthday and 1 mehday messages…
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Happy Birthday Blaghman! \o/
Happy Mehday Blerghman… /o\-
Isn’t everyday Mehday for Blerghman?
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Happy Birthday Blaghman!
Hey Blaghs,
Congrats on the 21 year streak, your ability to survive in a in a dangerous world is commendable, even more so due to the fact that you are living in a country that is notoriously full of poisonous and deadly creatures and poorly microwaved salmonella hot dogs. Keep up the fantastic work with the living and surviving and breathing and car dodging and miscellaneous.
Tell ya what, as an incentive, for every consecutive year you keep this streak up, you can throw a party. Deal?
Happy birthday 🙂
Out of all the E3 GIFs made this year, THIS one is the best one to wrap up with 😀
http://i.imgur.com/bdH28.gif
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hahahahaha oh man, I swear there’s a simpsons quote and scene for everything in life.
So I read the news (on Kotaku and other sites) about Dark Souls is going to be a “not-so-good” PC Port. I have also noticed people bitching about it comparing it to other terrible PC ports. This absolutely flipping game was designed to be played on the console. The game was NOT supposed to come out on PC but they listened to the community and basically said “We like our fans so we are going to do a PC version”. Very few companies would be willing to do that yet people still complain.
Maybe you incredibly moronic internet people (not you guys I mean people complaining) should just be happy with the favour that “whatchyamacallthem” (Dark Souls company) is doing for you and play the god damn game.
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“absolutely flipping awesome game” … I need more coffee.
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That article seemed to leap at that fact, though. It just seemed to be about the guys talking about their struggle with the PC. Suddenly the next paragraph seemed pretty speculative how it’ll be crap. :S
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I said ‘seemed’ in every sentence. I need to have breakfast. 😛
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Yeah, the sad thing is other sites are also saying that. Just makes me angry when a company does something for their fans and the fans just spit in their face.
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Let’s not forget that FROM Software seem like very guilt-ridden developers. They apologised profusely for the difficulty of Dark Souls, don’t forget. They just seem to be nice guys who can’t promote themselves with ego, so they do it with humility. Shame it’s being interpreted by that article and its commenters as an actual shortcoming.
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Yeah, as you said if you read the quote in context they are really apologetic. I will play Dark Souls EVEN MORE (if that’s possible) to show my support for them!
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I’m not even convinced this will be worse than other PC ports, or is suffering any difficulties that other games don’t also suffer during porting. It just seems that these guys are happy to talk about issues that come up during work rather than hiding them from the public.
And also, like I said, humility.
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Unfortunately “humility” is a word a lot of people on the internet don’t know. =/
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For me it matters when the devs are honest as to why their game is the way it is in terms of difficulties in PC ports. Most devs basically just stay silent while you see a large analog stick showing up on your screen telling you to press down on it to do something and the game itself stuttering while you have $1.5k worth of hardware running this thing. Looking at you COD Black Ops!
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I’ll still get it too, not many devs actually do something like this, as long as it plays and doesn’t consistently crash, I’m all for it. Besides, I want to see what all the fuss is about with this franchise having never played either game.
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Not happy unless they’re unhappy. It’s why PCs need to be continually upgraded and why they can’t understand while us console trogs are happy with 7 year old tech.
😛
Dear Nob,
How is IMMA BIRD?
Kids Regards,
Fellow Bird Enthusiast
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“Kids Regards”, huh.
Those are words.-
Bird enthusiasts have kids?
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Enthusiasts are people too.
What are you, some sort of anti-enthusiast?
An… Enthusiastist?-
I thought Bec said they had fids. That’s all.
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I didn’t notice any huge differences when playing him. Although the increased range on laser bird is very nice!
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Also the tyrant skin has some very nice animations on it.
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I like that skin a lot too. I got Amumu with his sad robot skin last night.
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Yeah, figured as much.
Cool beans.ALSO YOU HAVE A SKIN PROBLEM
COMMUNIST SKIN IS BEST-
WHAT!? A skin problem? That is just silly! Next thing you know you’ll be saying I have an obsession with Dark Souls.
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To quote this week’s Good Game episode: “WHY AM I A BIRD?!”
Mornin’ TAY!
One day my Internet connection is going to start working properly again, and on that day, we should probably get those weekly multiplayer sessions going again! They were pretty much awesome.
Happy Birthday “Old Man Blaghs”!
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Happy birthday Blaghs!
Just out of interest, who’s the oldest TAYbie? I’ll be 25 in 2 weeks and 1 day
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I can’t take a guess with out offending someone, so I’m going to say it’s probably Lambo….
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It’s weird not being the youngest person in the ‘group’, though I guess it doesn’t really count on the internet. I was the youngest person in my high school year and I’m the youngest of all my friends.
Now I can say: Get of my lawn, Blaghs! You young’n!*
* is apparently 5 days older than Blaghman xD
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HAPPY BORTHDAY POWALEN
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I can say authoritatively that it’s definitely not me by a fair margin and I’m 28.
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It’d be great if you could not be offended by this, but I thought you were older than that… 😛
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two months and I’m 30!
GET HYPE!
there are older than me here though.
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you look younger than that. would’ve guessed about 26-27…
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He really, REALLY does.
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Yeah, I’ve had people think I was younger when all clean shaven and what not.
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None taken.
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What?! Me too
I swear he was in his 30’s 😛
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It’s me. I’m the oldest. I’m almost 36 and I have no problems with people knowing that. 🙂
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How old’s Q, given he came back briefly this week?
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Younger than me. 😛
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yep.. qbo’s between you and me.. 35 this year I think. I’m 34 in oct. :0
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I standby my statement that you do not look 36.
Oh wow, I thought you were in your late 20’s Strange..
Yep, not me. I’m 26. Who’s surprised.
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Team 1985!
HAPPY B’DAY !?!
I hope there’s cake.
How much does PS+ cost for a yearly sub anyway?
And for the people in the last few pages – worth it?
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I’ve had my US one for almost a year and so far, yes. VERY worth it.
US sub is $50. Aus sub is $70
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Definitely worth it. There’s no question that I’ll be renewing when the sub expires. Got far more then my $70 worth in the 3 or 4 months I’ve had it. At least I feel like I have.
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Cheers guys
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I just joined PS+ this week and I’m enjoying it so far. Some games are still downloading though.
I detailed some of my experiences with the service on page 11. If you haven’t seen it here’s a link:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-166/comment-page-11/#comment-706246
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Be a cool guy and get it, brah.
Morning all.
Don’t know if this has been posted already but I think it describes Kotaku US pretty well,
http://pvponline.com/comic/2012/06/07/dont-gawk
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Is there a back story to that? Other than the obvious, of course.
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Kurtz is searching for relevance.
He’s simply “that guy” that PA like, that makes a derivative comic.
Step 1: Google for current trend.
Step 2: Make a comic stating the most popular opinion at the moment.
Step 3: Say “Am I cool yet?”-
I actually went through a couple of news posts on his site looking for relevance, and discovered that he’s apparently 41. Bit old to be acting like a child and calling a website names, regardless of the site in question…
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The interesting part was when he closed down his forums because he was getting a lot of hate posters ripping on his stuff.
People like to hate on CtrlAltDel, but at least he still has forums running.
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I don’t get it…?
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It’s currently cool to hate on Kotaku US and call them little kids, or bloggers, rather than journalists.
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Yeah even TotalBiscuit went on that train, he mentioned it in the TGS podcast that KotakuUS is a terrible site. To be fair the US guys kinda are more like bloggers with the kind of posts they put up
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It’s kinda sad, cause that would have to reflect back on all of Kotaku, and I’m happy to stand up for KotakAU being a hell of a lot better (I imagine most of us would) than KotakUS
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Yeah, I wish I had to power to go up and ask them “Yeah Kotaku’s US side is horrible, but have you at least looked at KotakuAU and hear what you think of it?” but yeah coming from a robot on the internet, high profile gentlemen like them won’t listen. I have great respect for people like TB, but they are seeming a bit short sighted about this whole thing.
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Giant Bomb did it last night as well, I think.
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I asked a certain employee at Kotaku about that and they confirmed the most of the Kotaku US guys are bloggers with no background or aspirations in journalism.
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To be fair, the US site does pitch itself as “games journalism and editorial blogs”, or used to, anyway. That’s probably why there’s so many reddit cross-posts and links to youtube videos.
Nothing wrong with that, it’s entertaining.
I’d put Mark as a definite journalist. He writes articles (editorials even) and they’re always meaty.
Luke I wouldn’t – and that’s not Luke-bashing, it just reads more like an expanded twitter feed most of the time.
I don’t really care, if it’s an interesting post I’ll read it, but I certainly would love a MarkSerrelsGaming.com.au site to make my homepage.
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Yeah it’s almost as if I’m browsing a personal blog rather than a games news group’s blog. These guys post what they find funny/interesting/just plain bad and ragging on it. Some games (Awesome games too) go completely under the radar with these guys too and it saddens me. They are more focussed on the AAA side rather than the indie (Which Mark has helped remedy which I applaud with things like “Show and Tell”)
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“MarkSerrelsGaming.com.au” – DO IT MARK, DO IT NOW!!!
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I know, right?
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Finally got around to actually watching some ACIII trailers.
Now I’m psyched.
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As am I.
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Yup.
Day 1, unless I forget. Or want to wait for Ozgameshop to give it to me for half price.
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I’m going to be relying on Notoriousaur’s pre-ordering skills.
Or that’s the current plan, anyway.
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Preordered the Freedom Edition through my local EB. $108 (PC) for a full collector’s edition was fine by me!
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I’ve really got to get around to preordering it. I’d love to get that Connor figure.
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That’s the one I went with. Shiny.
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I HOPE YOU LIKE KILLING REDCOATS
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Sudden thought: Connor should also been known as “Running Bull”.
Seeing red, buddy? KILL IT!
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In a surprise twist, Assassin’s Creed 3 turns out to be Terminator 5, as Connor shoots all the robots who just so happen to all wear red because it is their favourite colour.
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Yeah boiiiiii!!!
QUESTION!
Do I need to play Revelations?
That’s the only one I’m yet to play.
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No.
If you want to see any of the meagre story bits I’m sure you could see them on You Tube or something. Don’t bother playing the game though.-
But neck stabby-stab 🙁
Besides, aren’t you a little Ezio biased?
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Play it if you like, but just don’t feel like you need to play it before ACIII. It doesn’t really add to anything storywise so it’s fine to skip it for a while and play ACIII first.
My response to you was not based on how I felt about Ezio or the game, more of an answer to your question of whether it was necessary before ACIII.
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Kewwwwwwwl.
I’ll wait until it’s super cheap/free on the disc of another AC.
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I think it’s worth it, but I guess I’m wrong.
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You’re not wrong, you just have a different opinion to me. I think Shane agrees with you, by the way.
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I played the game to 100% sync, but looking back, I can’t figure out why! The game itself was all right, but as has been mentioned before, the guards weren’t people, they were just targets. There’s no pretending the assassins are any better than the templars in this game. That might appeal; it might not. In my case, it didn’t so much.
The story was irrelevent and disappointment except for the very last Ezio cutscene, which was a great bit of subtle storytelling with real character depth. So, you got thirty seconds of that as your reward.
In terms of actual story progression, there basically is none. You can skip to ACIII.
Who do I agree with?
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Great! Thanks Shane!
After the cliff hangerish ending of Brotherhood I wanted to know if that was resolved.
Sounds like it’s not really.
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It might leave you feeling a bit empty in terms of plot development (ignore the name Revelations, as there’s not much revealed here), but the sum experience is still worth it, I think. For all my complaints I still had fun.
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It’s definitely fun. But he doesn’t need to play it before ACIII, it won’t make any difference to his enjoyment of ACIII if he doesn’t try and play Revelations first.
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Agreed. But if he can pick it up cheap and has time to kill, it’s not a bad thing to spend 8-10 hours with.
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I’m curious about this as well, I got maybe 1/4 the way into it and got distracted by other, better games (Arkham City I think) and haven’t found any reason to go back. Previous AC games hooked me right off the bat, and Revelations didn’t, despite having an interesting setting and stuff. I think a lot of it is that you’re actively discouraged from doing anything overt because every time you do basically anything, your ‘have to play the shitty tower defense game’ meter goes up and you spend five minutes looking for people to bribe / posters to pull down to drop it back down again. Kills the flow of the game. So does the hook thing you get. Kills the parkour momentum. 🙁
ctrl f5 to update the page doesn’t seem to be working so I’m falling back on the tried and true method of making a pointless post to force an update.
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I noticed that yesterday. Made me sadface.
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Yeah, there’s something really weird going on for me. Every time I post on Bec’s post at the top of the page, I get shunted back to page 12. It’s bizarre. Also not updating properly.
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^ YES!
she totally broke TAY… good one breakaroonie!
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Just tested it and it only happens when I reply to her comment… weird!
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That happened to me too! I thought I was nuts. I went to repost my comment but Kotaku told me it was a duplicate. But even though I ctrl F5’d I couldn’t see my post. We need to use the “report issue” form.
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Still seems to be working for me. Just did it a couple of minutes ago and it updated.
Although I have noticed a new problem that happened on here (computer TAY) and on mobile TAY. I’d post a comment on page 13 but instead of refreshing the page and showing my comment it’ll go to page 12 instead. I clicked back on page 13 and did a CTRL+F5 refresh and my comment appeared but it’s a bit weird 😛
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I’ve had that a few times
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Page Thirteen is haunted or bad luck? 😛
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Good morning humans, yay for Fridays! That means Nando’s for lunch today! 😀
Last night I wound up playing Trials multiplayer with Fatshady and a few people from his friends list. ‘How bad could it get?’ I asked myself. Then I slapped myself because yeah, I knew I was going to lose miserably. I consistently came last against people riding on the Donkey. So shameful.
Although it was fun to have to push myself to make progress on hard/extreme tracks as we played. I even made it past the second checkpoint in Inferno 3! That’s an accomplishment okay. Thanks for the games, Shady. 🙂
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When I saw your tweet last night about losing to people on the donkey, I assumed you were talking about Red Dead Redemption.
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Nah, in Red Dead I’m the one on the donkey. You know, when people aren’t killing it…
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*waves*
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I assumed something much, much worse.
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I need to do some more MP. The last time I played against Fatshady, I beat him a few times! I dunno how that happened though… I think he must have been tired, or something 😛
Happy Birthday Blaghs! Twenty-one eh? Back in my day we had to say dickty-one, since the Kaiser had stolen out word twenty. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickity six miles…
I put this out there for Twitter tech support, but anyone on here also, would appreciate your thoughts: A weird error I encountered in Outlook 2010 at work: http://t.co/HCZO793M
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Wow, I’ve got nothing man. It sounds like an issue with Exchange Server but moving further than that I could only guess possibilities.
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Thanks, it helps that someone else at least sees it as weird. Our IT guy had never heard of it and the messaging team is looking into it.
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Weird barely covers THAT 😛
The only possible thing I could think of is that the ID system the email filing set up you have somehow stuffed up, but that’s a massive stretch based on very little evidence.
The only other thing I can think of would be that someone accessed your emails try to and do something (not necessarily something nefarious) and stuffed up? The fact that it’s in your *inbox* is just mind boggling…is it listed as sent from your account?-
It looks exactly like an email sent by me. If you look at it on its own, whether by opening the msg file or printing it, it looks like an email I sent including the attachment.
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Does anyone know how I could find out how long the warranty on my mobo is for? It’s a Gigabyte one I bought from MSY almost 2 years ago. I would think the warranty would only be 1 year, but I heard somewhere that Gigabyte mobos have 3 year warranties.
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Google the model number and find a copy of the instruction manual?
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That’s your best bet, yes. Unless you have the original receipt which could also tell you if MSY include it. I wouldn’t know since I don’t shop at MSY. Weird I know, I just never done that yet
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Aha! I found the receipt! …and it’s only a 1 year warranty… bother.
Well, time to find a place that still sells Intel Socket 1156 motherboards.
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Out the window!
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I thought as much, usually for hardware the warranty is included in the receipt in order to properly cash in on an official replacement cuz you have both the warranty and proof that you bought it from their store
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Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks for the suggestion 🙂
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Oh dear, command-shift-r doesn’t even refresh TAY properly now. Wat do?
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So apparently I’m not the only one. Oh wells.
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There is only one thing we can do. Grab your torches and pitchforks, we’re storming the Allure Media Offices!
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So this might be a massive noob question, but what’s the difference between Ctrl-F5 and simply pressing F5?
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It’s meant to reload the page without the cache or something, because sometimes the cache acts funny and doesn’t load the new comments.
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I think my reply got eated…then there can really be only one possible reaction to all this.
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I sent in a big long thing on the “report issue” form. About the post-to-update thing, and also about that file that wants to download that Mashaaaaaaaa and I have been having problems with.
It was difficult, because that Gravity Rush was stuck over the form box and I couldn’t see what I was typing, but I forgot to mention that. 😛
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This message was brought to you by my face.
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Pop that into Google image search and you shall find boobs. This has been tested before.
I’m still not sure why Friday isn’t a public holiday this week. I mean, the Queen something something something Monday, but HAPPY BLAGHSDAY EVERYBODY!
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Whoops, totally missed this. I am the greetest. Thanks Rize!
Last night, I washed my bed sheets and somehow a little cardboard box got caught up in them. Tonight I shall be plucking shredded cardboard off of the dry sheets and rewashing them \o/
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You wash your sheets?
HEY GUYS! Check out Capt. McFancy Pants over here, washing his sheets. WHAT A LADY!
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YEAH. I BET HE DOESN’T EVEN HAVE A WASHING MACHINE. HE JUST USES HIS VAGINA.
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Thousand thread count, bitches.
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Egyptian?
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No /o\
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Wow, I thought boys only washed their sheets when they were expecting a lady to join them in their bed…. 😛
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That’s not true at all.
Sometimes we do it just in case.
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Or in my case, if you spill food. 😛
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You’re all terrible. Everyone – even a boy – knows that there’s nothing quite like the feeling of clean sheets.
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I spend a lot of time lying in bed. Clean sheets are pretty awesome. Why not have them more frequently and enjoy the awesome?
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I don’t like clean sheets. They make me feel like I have to be clean too and I’m always too tired/lazy to have a shower at the end if the day.
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Until that first time you get into bed without bothering and then there’s no more worries for another week or two!
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Crap! That reminds me – I left money in my pocket at home!
Hey Pixel (if you’re lurking here somewhere), remember what happens on Fridays at work?
Excuse me while I go eat free cake.
Hey, Old McNoobz
Remember you telling me last night that the anoying thing about your sky farm being above the jungle was that cats kept spawning there even though they didn’t do any harm, and then I helped you build your chicken coop?
I happened to walk past there last night and your chicken coop has become a cat breeding facility on a bed of freshly plucked feathers. I couldn’t stop laughing.
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Well I guess this answers why I can’t find any chickens in the jungle /o\
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IT’S OK NOB I’LL SPAWN 5000 CHICKENS IN YOUR POOL JUST LIKE I SPAWNED 5000 FLYING SQUIDS
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Also, I’m about to connect a roadway up to your sky farm. Hope you don’t mind.
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This is why dogs are awesome
http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/13901435/dog-rescues-abandoned-newborn/
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Dogs are outstanding. I’m not a fan of humans, though. I guess new born humans are alright. 😛
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Not even them! Darn humans! 😛
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Dogs are the best.
Hoy all!
A big thank you to Masha, Welbot, Freeze, D.C., Bish, Hugo The Librarian Valedictarian, Powalen, Dire Wolf, PuppyLicks, Doc What, Inquisitorsz, Becaroonie. And here’s hoping I didn’t miss anyone…
Currently I have no plans, well, there’s a family dinner tonight, but nothing with those few people I call “real world friends.” Mostly because they all have exams and stuff.
Oh, and no thanks to Shane. *Shakes fist* 😛
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Gosh, Blaghs, grow up!
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Oh wait! You totally did! Well done, sir.
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I miss your “On this day in…” birthday stories. They were the best.
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8th June 1859, Smith Wigglesworth was born.
You read that right. Wigglesworth. Honest to God, that was his name.
Speaking of God, Wigglesworth was a religious dude. He was an evangelist. He was also a plumber. So he was talking crap whilst elbow deep in the stuff.
Now, get this, he was illiterate. He only learned to read when he got married, at the ripe old age of… Twenty One!
“Wigglesworth” kind of reminds me of a worm. His wife’s name, “Polly Featherstone”, reminds me of a bird. I wonder if people made jokes about them..?
Anyway… Joan Rivers and Kanye West were also born 8th June (1933 and 1977 respectively) so it’s plainly obvious that completely bonkers people are born on this day.
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Yay!
Happy Birthday Blaghs! Have this awesome birth date anecdote from Eff as my gift. 😛
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YAY! Thanks Flu and Strange!
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Pip pip, tally ho!
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Thanks Flu!
I think we all know, deep down, I’ll always be that 19 year old who started posting here, all those years ago. Even if most of the people here weren’t, well, here for that.
21 eh? You’re a man!
Happy borthday mate!
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Fun fact. A friend sent me this song for my 21st, and it made its way into my Winamp playlist. I had it in my head while I was changing my two year old daughter’s nappy once. Long story short, now she loves to sing and dance to the chorus, and frequently requests that I sing the “Man Song” to her.
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Thanks Steve-O.
I think…
YOU’RE NOT WELCOME.
Happy Blaghday!
Do I get a big thank you too now? 😛
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NO!
But thank you.
Happy anniversary of continued existence.
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Cheers Jo!
HAPY BIRTHDAY BLAAAAAAAGHS
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THANKEE MUCHLY FREYGRARYRA!
/cries
“Browse Like Bond: Use Any Computer Without Leaving A Trace”
But… wait.
Doesn’t Bond leave a a trail of bodies wherever he goes?
It’s not exactly subtle.
In that he kills everyone. Which is very obvious. What with the blood everywhere.
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Yes but GADGETS!
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“Browse Like Snake: Wearing a bandana, chain smoking, inside a cardboard box.”
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Ah, but does he browse computers stealthily?
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“Browse like Ethan Hunt: Use any computer without leaving a trace while hanging from a wire above a floor filled with motion detectors”
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“Browse Like Adam Jensen: Use any computer, for it will have a ‘hack’ button built in automatically to any site that requires a login”
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Browse like Adam Jensen, even though you never asked for it.
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Browse Like Harbinger: Use any Computer by ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
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“Browse like Michael Bay: On second thought, don’t. You’ll be replacing your computer so often.”
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Browse like Batman: get someone else to do it for you and just tell you the results
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Browse like Sonic the Hedgehog: If it doesn’t work, jump on the monitor while a picture of a gold ring is there for some free jewelry, then search for another one.
I just got Plus.
Now I have 40-odd gigs to download wirelessly. I…uh..may have to run a 30m cable tonight.
Paid for itself already.
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What have you got downloading?
I’m thinking of picking it up later this month but atm the only things that are enticing me are Space Marine and Strange’s Wrath. Still wroth it imo for ~$7
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Strange’s Wrath. wroth it
You are on fire Mr Green
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To be fair Strange’s Wrath was intentional (Rocketman and Rize called it that a few pages back) but wroth it wasn’t 😛
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@Shane
Do you sell digi copies for reader hardware through Amazon or other such stores?
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I wish.
I think it was on the cards once, but my publisher didn’t like the way it turned out… or something. I haven’t heard since then. Maybe I should chase it up again now the whole trilogy is out…
Thanks for the reminder, but for the moment, sorry, the answer is nay 🙁
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Just curious. Someone mentioned something along those lines the other day, elsewhere.
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Hey, here’s an idea: send me money and I’ll make them into a PDF just for you 😛
Experiment #1: Could I get sued by my own publisher?
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Wish I could help. Like I said, you’ve kicked me into action, and I’ll chase it up. Might be a wait, though.
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Oh, I also have hardcopies in my own possession ready for distribution, if you’re looking for a reasonably quick fix of the SWS fiction 🙂
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I am considering it as a gift for someone for Christmas, it looks pretty cool from what I’ve seen on your site!
I have a writer friend in the Americas who’s just getting started with Amazon stuff, which is where it came from. Apparently e-publishing is either really good, or really crowded. Then again, a lot of people publish fairly…….amateur (not an insulting word!) work as their first try, so that could be colouring the thing too.
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Yeah, it’s pretty hard to distinguish the self-published abominations from the gems (there are gems out there, don’t get me wrong, but they are HARD to find, because there are a LOT of abominations, ever since Amazon’s Createspace and Lulu really kicked off the last few years).
The main problem is that the role of an editor/publisher is not just to weed out titles unsuitable for publication, but also to bring the ones with potential up to publishable quality. Self-published folks these days have rarely enlisted the help of others to polish their work. And we all know what Ernest Hemingway has to say about first drafts…
That said, a properly made self-published book can do quite well, and all the proceeds go to the author, which is definitely a good thing for their potentially-ongoing writing career.
I’m a bit of a snob and will resist any self-published work until someone can convince me it’s worth reading, or the author can present themselves to me as someone who understands the industry, and recognises the importance of every step of the traditional creative process (including editing).
Self-published authors definitely have a harder time selling their work, even harder than someone like me who at least has the backing of a small publisher.
Maybe it’s how it should be. I don’t know, I don’t think I can really judge for society at large, just my own (admittedly old-fashioned and traditional) tastes.
Hope this hasn’t offended you on behalf of your friend at all. Are they pursuing the traditional publishing methods too, or going straight to self-published?
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The reason I went on the self-published tangent is because that’s what makes up most of the exclusively e-published content. Most traditionally-published titles also have a physical format (book) too.
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Pttth no. Going straight to self-publish, and they’re certainly not pushing out gems.
Good for internet fan-fiction level. Not worth paying for, for most people.
My other writer friend is a lot better, but is untested at the moment. Interested to see what happens there to be honest.
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I guess taste is subjective. If Stephanie Meyer can make it big, anyone can 😛
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Forgot to add: thanks for the kind words.
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Don’t mention it. Writing is a regretfully dying art, so I have a lot of respect for people who can a) do it and b) try to make a life out of it.
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Do you have a literary agent to negotiate on your behalf or do you interact directly with your publisher? (If that’s getting too personal, I understand.)
The books on writing all say the same thing: get an agent first. So that’s what I tried.
But there arent’ many agents out there who represent graphic novels, or science fiction, let alone the two together. I’ve heard that it’s actually harder to land an agent than a publisher… I guess that holds true for me, but I don’t think I invested equal effort both sides of the fence to really conclude anything there.
I’m trying now to get an agent for a picture book I’ve written, but even already being published doesn’t seem to make the agent hunt any easier.
TL;DR: I tried, but ended up approaching publishers directly.
Good luck, man. Thanks for the insight.
I’m sure I speak for every one here when I say there’s nothing but good will going your way!
Cheers man.
I love this song, so infectiously happy and pissed off at the same time, like most of Dylan’s library. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMjJIRZk1K8
I’ve had a pretty bad start tot he day and am feeling quite miserable. Has anyone got any suggestions on how to cheer myself up?
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Have pancakes! \o/
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Chocolate pancakes.
With choc chips.
With icecream on top.
And Hundreds and thousands.
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By the machine god… I want that for breakfast one day!
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I have no idea how to make all that. I’m not really in the mood.
All I really feel like doing is going back to bed-
Go to pancakes on the rocks (Sydney only I think)
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I second this motion
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See below.
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Take a nice long shower.
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I’ve done this one. Hasn’t helped.
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Stick around here for a while! That usually cheers me up.
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Be on TAY!
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Also (depending on how busy I am) drag people into a game you wanna multi, then go nuts!
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I’m struggling to do anything, including play games. It’s really bad today
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If it’s that bad, maybe might be best not to fight it, and go back to bed…. But if you can hang on TAY for a while, that’d be good for us.
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If I wasn’t stuck at work, I’d drag you into a game right now 😛
One of the things that always helped me get moving when I’m in a slump (or just helps in general) is listening to music. If I throw some music on (any type…whatever I’m in the mood for) I generally end up with a more positive outlook on the day.
I can’t say it’ll definitely help you, cause you’re not me, but if you can, give it a try!
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I find music helps to. I’ll usually chuck on my headphones, pur on some music and just laying in bed/on the lounge helps.
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Pur? I screw you auto correct program.
*grumble grumble*
Damn kids always playing on the front lawn.
*grumble grumble*
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….the hell?
*you are, not “I am”…
Wait for the postie and hope your games turn up
Have kids! My kids always cheer me up. 😛
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Making kids is fun too!
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Damn, beaten to it 😛
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It’s Friday, and there is a long weekend, that should cheer everybody up no matter what =)
Scree, I’ve got no suggestions, but I hope you feel better. Maybe a trip to the pet store? That always lifts my spirits when I’m feeling down. If I was an animal hoarder I’d buy every single one. 😛
Have techy make you pancakes!
Imma repost this as more people need to see it.
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Can someone please explain this terrifying thing to me?
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Silent Hill for Nintendo? 😛
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I’m gonna need more than that. I just watched Mario commit suicide with a bottle of pills. It sent traumatic tremours through my entire childhood.
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I think it’s somebody trying to put forward the opinion (I guess) of the direction that Nintendo have gone since the NES days have become all twisted and deformed (Hence the look of the characters). Over half way through the video you see the things about the Wii press conferences, all focussing on the change of direction Nintendo took since the gamecube for example.
TL;DR – it’s probably a Nintendo gamer that’s still upset that it’s become not as hardcore as it used to be, using Mario as the icon for impact since those characters were there since the beginning.
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I was thinking Alice:the madness the whole time
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The greatest thing you’ll ever watch.
Ever.
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Well, I guess it’s all downhill from here, then…
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Oldmanshane.
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Back in MY day…
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WTF was that?
*waves* HELLO EVERYONE!
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HELLO VIRUS.
ARE YOU ATTACKING MY DAUGHTER. PLEASE STOP IT IMMEDIATELY. SHE DOESN’T LIKE BEING SICK.
KIND REGARDS,
CAPITAL SHANE-
Capital Shane makes me think of a version of you from the capital in the hunger games.
Eyeliner, sequins and garish outs. And the things they could do with your hair, sigh
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So just been in to see the tattooist about my next piece. $1500 and 8-10 hours. This is gonna be fun.
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Holiday? Tattoo? Where u get money? I want money!
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I mean, what are you getting?
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Dragon covered in Celtic knot work over upper right arm and shoulder.
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Cool!
But I will be intimidated by you if we ever meet in person. Just so you know.
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I’m really not intimidating. Furtherest thing from.
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I believe that. But I can’t help the feeling 😛
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I am a little bit, to be honest.
I don’t know how to explain it, it’s just this whole side of life that I’ll never experience for myself. Certain kind of courage to put up with the needles for art, etc. I don’t have the level of interest to find out if I have the courage, so it feels like an avenue of self-worth that others have access to that I don’t…
I don’t know, I might need to think about it more before I try to explain it, or it’ll come out wrong 😛
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(Also, as an aside, not sure what I’d get. I don’t feel manly enough for a dragon or lizard or big breasted girl or barbed wire, etc. I have kind of flighty interests, so a geek-related tattoo would just get outdated and would be regretted. And I don’t think I want to get words, like the name of family members, because it’ll feel (at least to me) like I need to be reminded of their names 😛 )
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I find the best tattoos are the deeply personal ones. Screw what others think. If you’re happy with it, go with it. I’m going to get mine on my back where no one will ever see it. (Hey, I’m realistic. :P) Still worth every cent if it makes me happy.
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It’s okay. It’s not self-worth either, it’s just self-expression. I’m not talented in the arts like you are with writing, so I need to get someone else to draw something on me to better express myself. You yourself don’t need to be tattooed or pierced or whatever because you have other outlets for self-expression that I don’t have access to so if anything, I should be intimidated by you!
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What she said. Any fool can get a tatt. Being able to write and be creative as you are is something I really wish I could do let alone be good enough to be recognised by a publisher.
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Well, now we can all be awkward and uncomfortable together! 😛
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Sounds pretty cool. Is it going to be coloured or black?
I’m thinking black dragon with green knotwork.
I need to hurry up and get a tattoo…I keep thinking of stuff that I want then never get around to it…
To be honest, I’m glad I didn’t get the tattoo I originally wanted years ago. Would have been cringe worthy to this day. Better to wait until you know what you want for certain.
At the least I’ll be getting a four-leaf clover, probably on my forearm (inner wrist?). No idea about specific design.
I got mine when I was 21 and the only thing I regret (besides never getting around to having any more) is that I let the tattoo artist talk me into getting it smaller than I wanted. 15 years later it’s faded and because it’s so small, you can’t see any of the detail. In hindsight, I think he thought because I was a girl he was doing me a favour by making it less obtrusive. 😛
I’m looking forward to seeing how it ends up. I’m looking for a good artist for my next tattoo, but I have no idea where to start.
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It’s not reassuring to see all these tattoo parlours getting shot up because of their bikie affiliations either. I’ve got an idea for an elaborate back piece, but can’t afford it right now any way alas.
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But you can afford to come to Bunny’s Meat on Sunday, right? 😛
(I know…I’m a terrible person but I don’t care, I want to meet you!)
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Strange, you’re any thing but a terrible person. 😀
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Thanks. 🙂 I guess I just feel like a terrible person when you keep saying you don’t feel comfortable going and I keep bullying you about it anyway. 😛
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I’d hardly call it bullying. It lifts my self-esteem every damn time! 😀
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So imagine how much of a self-esteem boost it would be if we could meet then! 😛
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Then I do something awkward. Can never show my face here again and will dwell on the experience for years to come. 😛
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I’m the most likely to do something awkward. I get all hyperactive when I’m socially nervous and it can be really annoying.
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Bloke named Sean Henry at 383 studios. Know a couple of people who have been to him and his work is brilliant. When asking a few other tattooists when mentioned the place turns out that’s where they go.
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I just looked him up and saw some of his stuff. From his style, it looks like he may be able to do my Maiden in Black for me. Thanks Freeze! 😀
My siblings have a really good one down in melbs but I guess that would be too much travel for you
My neck hurts! How am I supposed to study like this!? Day off? Day off.
Also, while I’m here: anybody have any experience with a thumb/finger stylus for the DS/3DS? The controls for Kid Icarus are really doing my head in and I heard some people are using thumb styluses (styli? :P) for it to make it easier. Last night I searched for my wrist-strap one that came with the original DS but couldn’t find it D:
…Anyway, if anybody has any recommendations, that would be good!
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Tape the stylus to your thumb?
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I actually tried to do this with an elastic band. haha It did not work.
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hahahaha oh well 🙂
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How is the 3DS stand that came with the game?
You haven’t mentioned it before so I’m assuming you either didn’t like it or you bought the game pre-owned without a stand.
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It does help, but I still wouldn’t call it comfortable. My issues are more to do with the 3DS itself not being a very comfortable handheld (for me, anyway) plus the difficult controls on top of it make it worse.
Though I’m probably just whining so much because this would be my favourite 3DS game otherwise. 😛 I wish it was a Wii game!
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Really? 😛
It sounded like you didn’t like it so I considered not getting it. Hmm…
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Sounds like you need a textee I remember when I saw this on The Gruen, such a bad bad ad!
I discovered this YouTube channel a few months ago by accident and I just wanted to post and say that classic game room on YouTube is great. The guy has a nice speaking voice that is not too loud or too low. His reviews and just general nature is really enjoyable
You can check out some videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/InecomCompany
And all this was because I clicked on a related video on the right side of YouTube.
I called in sick today (second time this week!)
Went to see a lovely GP who insisted on bulkbilling me out of professional courtesy.
But now I’m wondering, if I’m too sick to work, surely I’m too sick to go to the Meat?
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I vote no. Go and infect other Meaters.
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But that could be the beginning of the end.
Who knows how fast the TAY virus will spread, what the devastation will be. Then again the last of us looks really cool so I vote that she goes
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Will do! As programmed!
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🙁 but its my first meat. Plus it is also on my Borthday.
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It would be cruel to not show up to the meat on Nob’s borthday.
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Nob’s sadness makes me sad 🙁
(in Nob’s why voice)
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I will be there if not dead!
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(Dammit TAY stop eating my posts)
But its my first meat and its on my Borthday 🙁
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Wear a doctor mask to the meat?
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it doesn’t work like that…
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Dear Glahman,
Did you know that your Birthday is on the same day as my Borthday? I know right! What are the chances?
Anyway Happy Birthday Glahman!!!
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Thanks Nob! I know we always say that you’re a jerk on your borthday, but you’re a pretty swell guy, really.
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What!? It’s your birthday too!? HAPPY XENOBLADE NOB!
All the best people were born in June. Fact.
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No, it’s not his birthday, it’s his borthday. Big difference.
Though your latter point is true, all the bet people were born in June.
And then I was. *stares mournfully*
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Well luckily I wished him a Happy Xenoblade! I sure would have looked silly otherwise…
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Indeed.
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Too true. ALL the best people.
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Every day is nob’s borthday. What a nob.
I remember his actual birthday on TS. Beautiful rendition of “happy birthday” sung by everyone.
“Happy Birthasbjkldbasj asjdb alaslj asdjldbasbdba asdjbls alsjdbbsda Nob!”
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Happy borthday!?!
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Flabby Borpdae!
Dungeons of Dredmor is currently only $1.50 on steam
An amusing little turn based dungeon crawler that has the Dev-o stamp of approval
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It really is quite an amusing little time-filler. I still haven’t finished it, (on account of picking random skills that don’t really help me at all) but it’s good to chuck 15 minutes into here and there.
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Yeah I keep dying with permadeath on (Hey I like the challenge)
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\o permadeath 5
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Only way to play it, I died at dungeon level 7 last night and lost my staff-wielding pirate smithy 🙁
Oh well, random skills female run next!
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Dear TAY,
You are either eating all my posts or not updating (thus making me look like a moron). WHY YOU HATE ME TAY? WHYYYYYYYYYY.
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You know what you did…
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Because you threw an eraser at me in Geography.
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Did it land on “Yes” or “No”?
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CTRL+F5 still works for me 😛
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY U BREAK EVERYTHING NOB!?
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CAUSE HE IS TERRIBLE ON HIS BORTHDAY
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/62480489@N03/7350278908
I have no idea what to order. I don’t even know what half this stuff is /o\
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Close your eyes and pick randomly 🙂
Damnit Freeze now I’m hungry…
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Clearly you should be ordering ALL THE THINGS
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*droooooooooooooool*
Slow dusted duckling or the rack of lamb -
jamon serrano is spanish ham and it’s awesome. Pithiviers are I think a fancy way of saying “pastry”. Nahm Jim is a spicy Thai sauce. A remoulade is a sauce. Dukkah is a mix of spice and nuts.
Not sure if there’s anything else that might be something people don’t know.
If I liked seafood I’d order the scallop entree and/or the yellowfin main. They sound really good.Personally, I’d go for the pumpkin soup entree, followed by the duck, lamb or steak mains.
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I went with steak because green peppercorn sauce.
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Jesus, any of those would make me happy.
Random New Zealand Toyota Hilux ad where a man explains the state of hus Ute with a story that becomes stranger and stranger.
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Monobrow
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I read this before watching… Couldn’t stop looking throughout the whole ad…
Though it’s not exactly subtle. xD
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Thanks for all the suggestions guys.
I went to the local shopping centre with the dog. Got a free make over, a free cupcake and also bought some food. I feel better now.
I really can’t thank you enough
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Yay for feeling better. I didn’t get around to replying but I did think you should do something with Sid, so i am glad my telepathic suggestion helped
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My dog is horrible at empathy, but taking him for a run and having him behaving, traveling along the main roads without a lead, is very satisfying.
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Good that you’re feeling better, bad that I can’t somehow mooch some cupcake… 😀
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Sorry, Sid just ate it. He turns 5 sometime sin June or July we guess, so yeah. Birthday cupcake. \o/
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Nawww, that’s all good then 😀
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\o/ so glad you ignored my suggestion then
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I had already moped in bed enough. I’d already done the moping.
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Hooray for Free Stuff!
and another Hooray for Scree feeling better!!
ahh hell lets just chuck in another hooray!!!
Has anybody read http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/06/e3-is-about-interesting-little-pc-games-too-you-know/
That looks interesting, probably something that I will pickup soon after launch, I am fond of paradox games. That said does anybody have a link to a list of all new games announced at E3 ideally split by system.
It is little ones like this that I am more interested in hearing about, the AAA will get enough coverage anyway.
Or maybe if somebody knew somebody in a highly regarded industry website they could produce or arrange somebody to produce an article doing so
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Blaghs has a list
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Happy giving list of games to TAYbies day to Blaghs and Nob
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The Cave got Game of Show from GameInformer.
For those not in the know, Game Informer is funded by GameStop, so really you’d think it was build to just keep on hyping the Next Big Thing to encourage pre-orders, etc.
The new SimCity footage looks fantastic. Absolutely awesome, the tilt-shift style really suits the game. I can’t wait to play it in 2013.
In the time being, what previous SimCity game would you advise me to play. I have memories of playing simcity as a child but I don’t remember which one it was.
Thanks.
NB: Similar games to simcity are welcome as well.
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[Insert rant about online requirements here]
Now that’s out of the way, Sim City 3000 for a little more simplistic but fun experience and Sim City 4 if challenge appeals to you. My sister loves the Tropico games, but I suspect they’re not really the same thing.
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I have SimCity 4. That wasn’t bad.
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The tropico series of games was quite good, although tropico 3 was the last one I played.
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Tropico 3 is 30% off on GOG right now, for what it’s worth, I think they have Sim City 2000 too.
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I’ve only played Classic and 2000 so my suggestion is Classic. Wasted so many hours as a kid building huge cities only to summons monsters and aliens and watch it all burn.
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Just remembered I have Sim City on the iPad, but haven’t played it at all. I think that’s a little more like the earlier, more traditional kind.
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That’s up there as one of my more anticipated games. Maxis is usually pretty good with releasing Mac versions of there games, but I hope there isn’t a delay (I think only PC has been mentioned recently). [Also insert rant about always-online :P]
Anyway, as far as the best ones go, I’d have to say Sim City 2000 is the best to play (haven’t played SC 3000). It had a good balance of options without making things too complicated to manage, but it looks really dated these days. Sim City 4 I felt was a bit too complicated, but it was still alright.
The Anno series is apparently good as well, though it has more RTS gameplay mixed in with the building.
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THANKS EVERYONE
I’ll be checking out the demos of these games and I’ll see which one I buy.
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If I find Sim City 4 lying around, I can send you?
(Don’t get your hopes up, haven’t seen it around in ages, but I definitely owned it at one stage!)
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I wouldn’t refuse an offer, but if it’s too much of a hassle don’t worry about it.
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SimCity 2000 is the SimCity game. It took the simplicity of the original game, expanded it just far enough. 3000 onwards they kept adding more complex systems and ‘realism’ but lost the charm and the simple but deep gameplay elements. I’ve played every SimCity from the original on Mac through to SimCity 4, and 2000 is the only one I ever really feel that nostalgic about.
The graphics have probably dated – they were 256-color sprites designed for an 800×600 display at max, I think, but the same can be said about a lot of older games.
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http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/simcity_2000_special_edition
DRM free on GOG if you’re interested!
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Oooo, Special Edition. I had it on Mac so I got to play it two years earlier than Windows, but the Windows one had extra stuff. Tempted.
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Get what you want and leave quick without browsing, otherwise you’ll end up with Planescape: Torment, Fallout 1-2, Gabriel Knight 1-3, Tex Murphy, Theme Hospital, The Longest Journey, Dreamfall, Sanitarium, Broken Sword and a whole lot more. It’s good for a nostalgia fix. 😛
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Thanks for the link D.C.
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I can’t help but feel the Wii U isn’t going to appeal to the “hardcore” audience like Nintendo is hoping it will. The main issue as I see it is that they’re relying on third party developers to appeal to the core. The problem with that is:
1: They’re porting games that most core gamers have already played (Batman, ME3).
2: They’re releasing games cross platform (AC3), and even if the Wii U version looks a bit better no one’s going to pay $500 for a console to have a slightly better looking game.
3: In a couple years when the Xbox 720 and PS4 come out the third parties will start developing games for them and the Wii U will be lucky to get a poorly done port, just like with the Wii now.
4: Even if the Wii U stands alone for a couple years until the Xbox 720 and PS4 are released that’s not going to be enough time for third parties to develop great exclusives for it (if they even bother trying to make exclusives for it) or to figure out how to develop their cross platform games in such a way that the addition of the Wii U’s tablet controller really does make the game significantly better on the Wii U (though with smartglass coming out and the Vita being able to connect to the PS3 the Wii U’s tablet might not even be that unique anymore and they can add touch screen controls for all versions of their game).
I be interested to hear others thoughts on this.
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Too little too late I’ve always thought of it and to be honest I have little to no interest in it. Really feel they should have waited a bit to make it more competitive with less restrictions.
But then I’m not a business manager or hardware developer so I’m really just talking out of my ass.
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I don’t know… I think a lot of your points are valid, but only really apply to the Wii U’s launch. Once the third parties have ‘caught up’ their games, I think we’ll probably see new releases coming out for PS3/360/WiiU at the same time (at least until the other new consoles come out).
Also I can’t speak about anybody else, but I don’t buy Nintendo consoles to play multiplatforms. I buy them to play Nintendo games. The multiplatforms are just a bonus that may (or may not) keep me from having to buy another system (The main reason I bought a PS3 was because there were a lot of games I was missing out on on the Wii)
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Your second paragraph is why once again the system will fail for third parties. Nintendo fans buy Nintendo systems for Nintendo games.
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That’s probably true. I just hope that Nintendo try to encourage the 3rd parties more, rather than scaling back their 1st party efforts to make them happy.
I’d like to see them create/acquire some new Western dev studios as well. I think they could benefit from that.
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I’m not excited, but I think I’ve slowly drifted away from Ninty over the years for reasons more to do with me than them. Mario and Zelda don’t excite me like they used to, and I never really had much other reason to enjoy a Nintendo console.
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Xenoblade!
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Wii U has to be a “next gen” console it have any chance of success. It’s way too late in the game to bring out a new “current gen” console. Even if it does have a fancy extra screen…
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Also another thing – I think Nintendo doesn’t provide enough incentive to buy it’s product over the compentition. Xbox and PS compete on other features such as xbox live, PSN, media streaming, blu-ray player etc. This is because apart from a few exclusive titles most games come out on both systems.
The Wii U doesn’t provide anything that can compete with XBL and PSN. And if they are trying to capture more of the “hardcore” market, then they don’t have IP to do it, no hardcore player is going to pump as many hours into Mario as they do in COD or Diablo or Battlefield.-
=( I’ve only played Mario out of those games, does that mean I’m not a hard core gamer?
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Doc What! Will you be getting Persona 4 Arena? I saw the trailer and it really interested me.
http://e3.gamespot.com/video/6380501/persona-4-arena-gameplay-trailer
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DEFINITELY! Got my copy preordered already!
Lunch arrived
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62480489@N03/7350405934
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That looks nothing like the 2 minute noodles I had for lunch! This is unacceptable.
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Well, that looks all right. I guess.
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Tales of TAY should have a food category featuring images of all the delicious foods we consume.
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I support this motion, Harli could you make that happen, pretty please
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I would much prefer it was the weekend right now. Rather over being at work.
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Agreed. Though I feel like that 10 mins into a monday.
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I had Monday off and I felt like this ten minutes into Monday :p
Haven’t really been a fan of this week. Banking on the meat making up for it though.
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Wow.. .this morning for me was practically non-existent.
I slept right though till 12:30 in the afternoon.
I don’t know whether to be proud or ashamed…
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Blaghman? Is that you?
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Ha ha, if it was me it would be sleeping in until 3pm. C’mon Shane, be realistic.
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Sorry, man, thought you might be getting up early to enjoy your birthday 😛
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So, has anyone seen Prometheus yet? I haven’t trawled through the last couple of pages but would like to discuss things in ROT13 if anyone else is interested/has questions?
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Got tickets for tomorrow. Vmax, 3D goodness! I honestly can’t wait.
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I watched the 2D version because I hate 3D. HATE IT.
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I like it depending on the movie, when it’s used to pull you deeper into the scene rather than having stuff fly at your head. I’m trusting Ridley Scott this time. If I regret it, I’ll see Blade Runner 2 in 2D for sure. 😛
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Haha, all reviews I read after seeing the film suggest that the 3D is great, so I am a bit disappointed. Might have to go again!
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Sounds like Hugo. It won’t matter if I see it in 2D, I figured. Then all the reviews gush how this is the ONE movie you should totally see in 3D. Damn you! 😀
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I’m gonna wait till it’s out on DVD. I don’t like seeing horror/thriller type movies at the cinema. It sort of kill all the tension when there’s dozens of people sitting around you munching on popcorn.
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FYC: Watch it in the cinema dude, seriously.
I think Cakesmith is the only one so far. I’ll be seeing it tonight!
I have. I replied with something in ROT13. It didn’t appear 🙁
This work day is not going so well. I’m losing my cool.
So… I finished Batman: AC last night. Didn’t realise I was so close to the end. There must be a crapload of extra stuff to do, since my game says 56% or something (I thought I’d been pretty diligent in collecting Riddler Trophies etc. along the way).
MAYBE A MINOR SPOILER FOR SOME PEOPLE… MAYBE?
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So.. Next on the pile is Saints Row III. Hopefully I can knock it over quickly.
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Long weekend soon! Hold on… or at least just don’t get arrested.
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I’m not a fan of statistics on game progress, half the time they’re not accurate and the other time they spoil how far you’re into the story. Awesome game, though.
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Yeah, I hate seeing I’m 40% through a story or something. I don’t want to know how much more of the game’s left. I’m weird like that though. I also try and avoid finding out how many minutes a movie goes for.
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I only check percentages and times if I’m bored and want it to be over 😛
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Games like Batman force you to read it, though. :S
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Yeah, but if you do none of the bonus stuff, the story’s end can still come as a surprise! 🙂
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GTA system bugs me, where it identifies how many story missions you still have to complete. That’s too specific.
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That’s what happened to me.
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Grim Fandango depicted progress incredibly well, though. With this mural slowly revealing itself as you got closer to the end. More of this, less of the statistics. 😛
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/3318/317597-mural_restored.jpg
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More games should be like Castlevania Symphony of the Night, which is complete at 200.6%
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That sounds awesome.
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Yeah, there’s a wicked twist after the Boss Fight at what feels like the ~100% mark. So you’ve been around the whole castle, you’re feeling fairly powerful, you’ve had most of the story conversations, it seems natural that the game is gearing up for the ending, and then, BAM! everything you know is wrong.
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Such an awesome moment/game 😀
Only complaint I have is that a lot of those tiny %s come from hidden rooms though which would’ve been impossible (incredibly tedious) for me to find unless I used a guide/map.
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I’m a fan of statistics in games as long as they don’t force you to read it. Pop it in the options or extras or something but I agree it can get annoying when it pretty much tells you how much of the game is left.
Sidequests and trophies count for a good portion of your completion stat. Some of which you really have to go out of your way for. Not sure how new game plus figures into it either but I know that I had done everything except collect a handful of trophies in my first playthrough.
Not a fan of having all of those percentages thrown at me. Much prefer it to just list off what you’ve done, what’s in progress and maybe, just maybe, a greyed out list of question marks to indicate that there’s more.
Are you okay Flu? Did you get angry and yell? To be honest, i can’t imagine you yelling at somebody.
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I got angry and quiet, which can be just as effective.
I’m bored, is it home time yet?
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If only.
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25 minutes for me. It’s been a LONG week.
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I’m already home
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You’re such a jerk on your borthday.
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This guy. he knows
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I just got home.
From a restaurant and bar eating steak an drinking beer. They poured my beer into a glass. And now I’m home and want to play something I have to find the disc and put it into the PS3. Worst day ever. I wish it woul hurry up and end.
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You are the Vodafone of people.
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LOLOLOLOLOL that’s the most insulting insult I’ve heard this year! Well done sire! 😉
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aw man, that’s pretty horrible. Haven’t heard such an insulting insult since Bish called nos “Notch”. Still makes me cringe.
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I was paraphrasing the line from Community “You’re the AT&T of people”. Clearly that doesn’t translate as well to an Australian audience, so I went with a local equivalent :p
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Double cred for liking Community and knowing how poor Vodafone is.
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@Flu , Saints Row III has been pretty good for me so far. It does look to be a decent length, but I’m screwing around and doing a LOT of the side stuff. I think if you pushed yourself you could finish the main story in less than 10 hours total (that’s leaving time for the inevitable “travel somewhere but get side tracked” stuff).
There’s a few people who own it on PC and Xbox here, and Co op will help you get through faster if that’s what you’re aiming for.
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The problem I found, was that I did a lot of the ‘side’ stuff early on, then when I went to the ‘main’ stuff to advance the story, it involved doing more of the side stuff.
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Yeah, it’s actually a bit easier to play some of the main story to have a go at (and unlock more of) each different activity.
However, when Insurance Fraud opened up, I freakin’ legged it there and went nuts 😀
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PS3.
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Small whine here that probably isn’t valid but anyway:
I’m getting REALLY sick of all the “outrage” and demands (? Really poor wording but not sure what I’m looking for) that people keep coming out with things like the Hitman trailer, ME3 ending and such. The way I see it is that these are their stories to tell and their creativity is being attacked because some people don’t like it. It’s fair enough to dislike something but to make demands of change is ridiculous. Either ignore it or if you want something that badly, make your own thing. These people work hard on this stuff and wanton guessing take pride in what they accomplished. Don’t deride them for bringing their visions to life.
Crap that is worded badly and barely says what I want to.
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The endings for Battlestar Galactica and Lost can be included too!
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The ending for Lost was great. I saw the last episode after having only seen the first season and a few episodes of season 2. At the end, all I could think was “that probably made even less sense to someone that followed the show.”
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I loved it too, but it fractured the fandom pretty severely. 😛
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Island ending = perfect.
Flash sideways ending = utter garbage.
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Let me get this straight.. you’re issuing a “small whine” about being really sick of the outrage?
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Yes?
I’m kind of hoping someone who agrees with me will give their opinion in a far more articulate way then my confused ramblings.
It’s a small whine as it doesn’t really affect my life but simply gives me the willies.
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Going to piggy back on your whine/rant:
I find it hard to believe Australian gamers are condemning the Hitman trailer, for two reasons:
1) We just spent the last 24 months on the final hard slog of getting an R18+ rating, the argument being, “We’re grown ups! We don’t want the government babying us, we want to be able to decide ourselves! Adults are able to understand the difference between real life and fantasy!”. As soon as something even slightly offensive comes along, the response has been, “Oh, that’s terrible. That should never have been made. What a terrible thing. That sort of thing shouldn’t be in video games!”.
So what is it Australia? Are you grown ups who can make up your own minds? or do you want someone else to make them up for you?
2) GTA3 got RC’d in Australia after release, and an edited version was classified for release. Australian gamers were up in arms over this debacle, the argument being, “We should be able to hire hookers, and then kill them and take their money afterwards if we want! We’re grown ups after all!” Every GTA since has been “Can you hire hookers? No? Aw damn!”, GTA 4 reignited this same argument.
To me, all the the Hitman trailer has proved is that Australian gamers are not ready for an R18+ classification. I also don’t buy the argument that the trailer “sexualises violence”. That’s not to say that I don’t think the trailer is exploitative – it’s basically every exploitation trope at once; Nuns with Guns vs The Man with No Name, I mean, it’s like some kind of Tarantino wet dream . Still, I find it hard to believe that people would choose to condemn Hitman and ignore, say, Lollipop Chainsaw – which actually sexualises gratutious violence. Literally, the game is trying to objectify violent behaviour by rewarding you with a range of sexy outfits to choose from.
I don’t want to get side tracked, so here’s my (likely unpopular) opinion:
If you aren’t going to condemn GTA, Lollipop Chainsaw, just about every fighting game, then you cannot condemn Hitman.
Ya know I am really liking the look of Hawken over Mechwarrior Online.
The gameplay footage looks faster and more dynamic – closer to an FPS than Mechwarrior but still with all the goodness of giant robot combat.
Anyone else looking forward to this?
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I’m interested but not over the top excited yet because I really want to see how they’re intending to monetize it. If it’s effectively pay to win like some free to play stuff, then I won’t bother.
I’m just going to watch this until work is over for the day.
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Adorable kid.
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In that vein:
You just love watching kids, don’t you?
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ba dum and tish
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I think that there should be a racing game that isn’t a combination arcade-sim like NFS Shift, but rather, has them as separate entities in the game.
I.e. You have two different physics engines, one for each mode.
If you choose a car and race with it in arcade mode, it will drift easily ,and feel rather loose.
However, if you choose that same car in sim mode, and try to drive it like you did in arcade mode, the car will react very differently.
Am I just overthinking?
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The problem with a combination like that is that it’s very likely that you’ll just end up with 2 half baked games in one. It’s generally better to simply focus on one area, as you will design everything around that.
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I think the upcoming Forza horizon might be doing that. If I remember correctly one of the devs talked about switching between arcade and simulation handling in the game.
http://au.ign.com/videos/2012/06/05/ign-live-forza-horizon-demo-e3-2012 ( Be careful if you are using headphones, the IGN videos start with full volume)
Wow, I forgot it was Friday. I only just sent my noms in. Probably too late.
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Oops. I also forgot to put dinner in the oven. And I forgot it was my daughter’s school disco tonight.
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But Strange noms change lives!
I’m ready to kick all the staff at [Client] in the testes/ovaries. Looks like it’s going to be a late one.
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Lame.
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On the other hand, if you did kick all the clients in the babymakers it would be a rather short night followed by plenty of free time.
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I’d have to get to the Gold Coast. By the time I got there my rage would probably have subsided.
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Do you want me to do it for you? I’m there.
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I could do it with some sort of cool line like “Looks like you just came down with the Flu!” *babymaker stomp* except way better.
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Is anyone else a little let down by E3 this year? I guess i’m just overly disappointed because I didn’t see anything from Rockstar or Valve. Okay so I might’ve missed it because I failed at trying to keep track of what went on..
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You know how Valve should’ve done E3.
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Damn right, I had my hopes up Gaben heard Potaku and was all “LADS We’re going to E3!”
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ZOMBIU!
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But i’m not a console person.. I’ve really adapted to keyboard & mouse, I really only like racing games on console now =P
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Lies! But it looks really good =(
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What’s the bet it gets RCed in Australia? :\
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Oh, don’t say that
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E3’s been dead since about 2006.
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Sad but true. I need to stop getting my hopes up every year.
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Game companies need to:
1) Do their own shows (Nintendo’s regular video conferences, or just do a spot conference with a few weeks notice a la Apple)
2) Use PAX to do more announcements. PAX is more of a continuation of E3 than E3 is now.-
Yeah I get what you mean, like Blizzard & Blizzcon, but not that big =P
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Or the Eve guys. Bungie used to do yearly fan festivals before they had the soul ground out of them by Microsoft too. 🙁
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I was dissapointed by the lack of Company of Heroes 2. Other then that it delivered on what I wanted to see (AC3 FC3) and shot in some surprises Watch Dogs, new Splinter Cell… those are all Ubisoft games feel like a filthy fan boi atm.
(And watching the Press Confrences while on TS with some mates was alot of fun)
NovaNovaNovaNova
Got the game today, thanks again 🙂
Did you get Aquaria? First time gifting on Steam so I had no idea what I was doing 😛
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Oh! Me too! I got my games today too, thanks Nova. 😀
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Pokemon 😀
Empoleon is so cool!
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I chose Empoleon because it was the least-sucky of the starters.
Fun Fact: Powalen thinks Diamond and Pearl are the worst main-series Pokemon games 🙂
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They are indeed. A lot of people say the third gen sucked the most but I strongly disagree with that!
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Confession time:
2nd Gen is my least favourite. In many ways, it provided the weakest offering (only 100 new pokes), in many other ways, it broke meta-game for a long time (definitely had the largest % of OU/non-legendary Pokes). It also ushered in some vital changes for competitive battling, but still, I just found it boring. Interesting fact: I enjoyed HG/SS remakes.
3rd Gen gives me a semi-on just thinking about it.
4th Gen makes my dick ROCK HARD.5th makes me a bit confus. It might actually surpass 2nd for pokes OU pokes that define/break the meta. There are also some design choices for pokemon and abilities that I’m positive are not the best choices that could have been made. Still, these are devs that would rather introduce a new hold item for breeding pre-evos rather than just ret-conning. I really hope Gen 6 trims some of the “fat” that the game has accrued.
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I… don’t think I’m ever going to talk with you about Pokemon in fear of you getting aroused during our discussion.
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I’m changing my avatar immediately.
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Good lord hahaha
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Saphire is easily my most played Pokemon game.
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Fun fact:
I was totally going to say that too! I felt 4th gen was the worst but that’s not saying it’s ‘bad’, it’s just not as good as the others.
I saw pics of all the new Pokemon and decided on the least crappy looking starter (Empoleon), dude is pretty badass though! I tried to avoid doing that for 5th gen but I couldn’t help it.
I originally decided on Snivy (cause Smugleaf) but when I saw the final evolution is was so meh. Then I considered penis shell Otter which actually turned out to have a cool final evolution BUT THEN I saw this pic and was like, “yep, definitely picking firepig”
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I call the fire pig Flambacon.
Charizard is clearly the superior choice of all starters.
Typhlosion says other wise (Blastoise too)
Typhlosion and Bulbasaur
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
+1 Hated Gen 4 Loved Gen 3
Wow I have so much games to play… I blame you TAYbies! You’re such bad influences 😛 (CAKESMITH)
I have a list of stuff called “stuff” on my desktop that has everything from packages I’m waiting to receive, which TV shows I need to download for the week, random codes and which games I’ve borrowed/lent out to friends. While crossing something off the list I noticed that I had some games that I completely forgot about. These poor games I borrowed from friends are sitting on my shelf, untouched and unplayed 🙁
To add to that I have my own pile of shame which I need to get through AND I’m thinking of becoming a PS+ subscriber for the awesome extra games (Space Marine etc. etc.).
Good things holidays are coming up soon but I have a strong feeling I’m not going to find anything that engaging and will probably give up on it 😛
Gamer problems, yo.
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The stages of gaming:
– Heaps of time for games but no money to buy games, spend all time focusing on small collection
– Get job, get money, buy all the games
– No time to play games. Pile of shame gets so big you can’t pick a game to play <– me 🙁Welcome to Stage 3. 🙁
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Step 4: Retire. Have all the time and money to play games. Arthritis.
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I’m nearly out of space on my laptop’s hard drive.
How do I make Steam install games onto my external HDD?
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Hahahahahaha.
You don’t.
You can switch it so that everything is on the external(it’s quite simple, you basically just drag and drop the steam folder), or you can weep to yourself(for some bizarre reason, you can’t install things to different places. At least Origin lets you do that).
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oh, so a simple drag/drop will work?
I never even tried, since I figured Steam must have had a directory path saved somewhere I could never find…Thanks Blaghman!
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You should look up exactly what’s required, but it’s not too complex. When you first do it, it will probably decide that all your games are missing, but when you click them it should verify their existence or something.
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Thanks.
One thing, however, I’m pretty sure sarcasm doesn’t come across as well over the internet as you would think.
Whilst your message was for all intents and purposes, helpful, it made you come off as a bit rude.
Keep that in mind next time someone is asking a question when they have no idea about what to do.
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Hey, he didn’t have to take time out on his birthday to help you. When calling someone out on sounding “a bit rude” it’s probably best to make sure you don’t sound a bit rude yourself….
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Did I specifically ask him to? No.
He was rude in his response, however.
He could have simply removed the first line from his response (the “Hahahahaha”) but he chose not to, and it came off to me as rude.
However, I did appreciate his advice, and I may try it out later.
And ,yes, Strange. I realize that I have come off as rude myself, for which I humbly apologize.
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Oh hay, Guild Wars 2 beta weekend. I forgot that was happening. \o/
Guess what I’ll not end up playing like every other beta I get into. Like how I got into the internal Halo 4 beta here and then was too busy crunching at work trying to get my stuff done for our June release and couldn’t play it at all. So disappointed. 🙁
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What do you do? If ya dont mind me asking
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Antivirus development.
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@Strange @D.C.
“I’m the one most likely to do something awkward.” Hah! You can say that all you like Strange, but I’m the one that actually goes ahead and does the awkward stuff. First meat I went to: broke Dan’s fan with my elbow. Second meat: sang Barbie Girl…twice.
😛
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Then there was drunk Sughly & baby got back, that was great.
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I wonder what shenanigans you’ll get up to at the theme park meat… lose an arm on the Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster? 😀
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I can’t move from where I am sitting atm and this is why.. http://instagr.am/p/Lm9EIRvj74/
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God damn it >.<
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you miscounted! forgot the little mini meat/hot pot feast we had with DAN! at my old place!
“Fucking Americans get all the good shit !!!!! ” is a post on a photo I am tagged in on my mates Facebook, that photo being this I beg to differ, the Europeans get all the good shit with Wacken Open Air, Rock Am Park, Rock Am Ring, Sonisphere & Download.. Now they’re real festivals..
Sure I like Slipknot and i’ve seen them twice, but I don’t need to see them again, I would see them at a festival again though. I also can’t be jealous for something this mediocre.
Ate some raspberry liquorice. Probably not a good idea but I wanted some sugar. Then just after swallowing, I have a coughing fit, hawk up a gob of phlegm (I’ve been suffering from a nasty cold this week). Tissue is stained bright red. That was pretty scary for a second there.
GUYS!
i also joined the PS+ club!
too many good looking games.
also that means, anyone wanna have a space marine playdate some time?
i don’t know where i heard it from, but someone said it was a really good game 😉
just an idea
signed
B-Funk+
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I only have spayce maureen on PC 🙁
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I just joined PS+ this week as well and I’d be happy to play some space marine. It actually finished downloading this afternoon, I might play the campaign first but when you’re ready let me know.
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Also nice touch putting the plus sign after your name when signing off.
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I’m down for some Spice Maurice
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Aww I wanna play 🙁
June 21st guys! (when I finish my exams)
Man this game better be good… I’ve literally seen like nothing on it but TAY marketing machine seem to think it’s good 😛
Herrooo all 😀
sorry I have been away so much and not replying to msgs im getting smashed with uni and life -.- oh well 😀
hope you are all well and gaming on 🙂
two weeks ago i competed in a halo reach comp at my uni and came 3rd over all…i cheered to myself privately because it was hilarious plus there where 5 guys who claimed to be leet and in clans and shtuff who i defeated :D…side note apparently (now i know its not the most popular fighting game) one of the worlds best roger jr players was at the event and won the tekken 6 title…he did not use roger jr until the final round where he absolutely dominated my friend donnie who i thought was really good until i saw the result hahaha. anyway thats rambles… lol
btw i may be going to supernova in sydney and dressing up o.0 but that depends on my work shifts that weekend…could be fun…anyone going? 🙂
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Hey Dill! Did you get my email. I kind of misspelled the subject line…
Good to see that you’re not dead though!
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yes yes i did 😀 i should be able to come but im not 100% at the moment. Thanks for the invite sir blaghs
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No problem!
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i’m going!
…. to the perth one….
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:O its like in every major city?
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yeah pretty much, except brisbane and melbourne have theirs earlier in the year
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Hate that moment when you forget the janken combos on Alex Kidd in Miracle World. Even if you beat the first boss, you just want to commit Sukopako-spikecide.
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You have to get one of the items from the shopkeeper, if I remember correctly.
It allows you to see what the boss’s choice will be.
Yeah, but you don’t need to if you remember the sequence.
Rock, Scissors, Scissors, Paper, Paper, Rock is the first lot…
Ha, it’s funny reading some of the reasons you guys give when nominating someone for a kudos. It makes the community kudos post fun to read. Congratulations again to Doc What.
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Yeah 😀 that’s why I love Kudos and look forward to it each week
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I usually start work at 5 on a friday night, which means I usually don’t get to read it until a few hours later.
Why didn’t anyone tell me this was a movie!
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You never asked!
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The bumbag is what makes that shot.
This Dragons Dogma. I’m about to play it. I have a strong feeling tomorrow I shall be all:
“You there. Shopkeep. Take this back”
@Greenius/Strange – Good to hear they arrived safely. I always get nervous sending stuff. Paranoid that it’ll arrive in pieces.
Aquaria is great, thanks Greenius.
I can’t believe I missed a whole bunch of Poke-talk while I was working. Curses!! Personally Blaziken is the awesomest starter, followed by Typhlosion and Torterra. I love every generation. I actually didn’t own a Gen I game, but I played a ton of Red on a friend’s cartridge. Silver was great, spent a lots of hours on that, but Ruby is probably the one I spent the most time on. I was only 3 pokes away from completeing the Pokedex All I was missing was Treeko, Grovyle and Mudkip. Argh!! Gen IV also got alot of hours, but it was spread over 3 different games – Diamond, Platinum and HeartGold. HG was the first time I started breeding and EV training my team. It was also when I started watching competitive battles as well. My favourite battler is EmperorNBZ. If you don’t watch him, you really should. Gen V has grown on me. I wasn’t sure about how it would go basically resetting everything back to zero and giving us a complete set of brand new pokes to play with. But I’ve come around and some of the newest ones are some of my favourites of all time. Bisharp, Leavanny, Chandelure, Jellicent, Galvantula are all awesome.
Bish, why do we never talk Pokemon at Meats!!!!
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Because I am afraid what might happen to Mawt.
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We’ll be sober, I’m sure we’ll be ok…. Maybe
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This is the best comment
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I’ll bring my pokermans to the next meat! Actually maybe not… there’s not much point. My teams are not battle-ready. Also Mawt 😛
ps. You were the one that got me onto NBZ, weren’t you? Ever since then I’ve watched all of his videos. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?
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I’m brought you into the light. The light of the Altaria-Haired, Shuckle-using, Scottish Maestro
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I thought the decision to go with all new Pokes for Gen 5 was pretty cool but bloody hell are they fugly!
I never really do much with Pokemon games other than beat the story and collect the pokes that I can. I never really tried to search for them until Pearl and Soul Silver. Didn’t get all that close but I got a fair amount of the ones that were somewhat easily obtainable 😀
That Poketalk a few months back about how you all did your cool single type runs and stuff makes me want to do one but I don’t want to lose my Pokefriends! (save file). I really wish they had extra save slots for this specific reason…
I do have a naughty card though but it’s not the same! 😛
I just got the most wonderful email from the mother of a kid who bought my books at Oz Comic-Con. A very friendly ‘thank you’ to the announcement that Book 3 of The Lesser Evil would be sent out soon.
Apparently, this boy really enjoyed my books, took them to school to show his friends, and tells them about how he met me and shows off the autographs. And he is eagerly awaiting Book 3.
Pretty cool stuff! 😀
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Oh man that is really awesome! It’s great to hear stuff like this. Now I hope the kids friends buy all your books =D
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That would be nice, but it almost doesn’t matter. Just in happy mode from the email at the moment 🙂
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Yeah man I don’t blame you! Its nice to see stuff like this!
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Aww that’s awesome 😀
You should do a special “thank you!” pic with all the main characters if it’s not too much work. I’m sure he’d love that and show it off to all his friends.
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You know what else is pretty cool, your books 🙂
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That’s great. Now whenever you’re having a hard time with your publisher or just a bad day in general you can look at emails like these and remember that your work has a positive influence on people’s life.
Indie Game: The Movie. Totally worth it.
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I’m so happy for you that it was worth it! And kinda jealous.
I wanted to go but couldn’t get anyone to go with me. /o\
I’m sure I’ll get to see it one day \o
So I just checked out Metal Evolution (sorry to my followers on Twitter for the spam about, I really admire the founders of metal that feature a lot in the series) I had not realised until I heard the voice over that it was Sam Dunn who created Headbanger’s Journey which was awesome. So I was glad it was someone as dedicated as he is doing this!
First ep very very interesting talked about pre metal, so rock n’ roll, jazz, blues & classical and their influence on metal!
I know there’s a few TAYbies who are partial to metal, not sure if doco’s on the genre are their thing but it’s damn awesome/insightful!
Hmmm Resident Evil 6 Collections…
For $89 you get 6 on disc and download codes for:
Both:
5 Gold
4 HD
PS3:
1-3
Xbox:
Code: Veronica HD
Degeneration DVD
PS3 version looks better IMO but I did hear RE6 is getting DLC on Xbox first *cringe*. I’m not a huge fan of Resident Evil but I have enjoyed the ones I’ve played (4 and 5). 6 looked like crap at E3 but this is still pretty good value. I have 5 (not gold), 4 Wii and REmake (the latter two haven’t been played) yet I’m still considering this :P. I figured I should wait for the “gold” edition for RE6 but I can always just wait for some “RE7 collections” (it’s Capcom so it’s likely :P).
Thoughts? Anyone going to pick it up? I think Amazon have it and I haven’t looked up much on it so I don’t know any other places with it at the moment.
Oh and enjoy your meats people :/ (jelly)
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well, my xbox is sorta broken, so i’d be getting it on PS3, but also so that i can play 1-3 on my vita (when they bloody release that feature), and i wanted 4HD, but always thought it was a bit too pricey.
So, I finished Mass Effect 3.
I thought the ending was a bit lame and I do have a couple of problems with the ending but not enough to warrant starting a petition. 😛
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But do you have enough problems to warrant sending them cupcakes? 😛
So you wanna talk about the Pokiemens?
Gen 3 – 4 where when I did most of my competitive battling. Played a lot of shoddy battle. Read smogon daily. Took my knowledge to cart. A lot of the guys I used to play with locally stopped during Gen 5, and I never really got into WiFi battling.
I’ve still got a bunch of well trained pokemon, but shift in the meta from 4th to 5th gens wasn’t kind to my usually team lineups – mostly the new prevalence of fighting types and sturdy/focus sash errywhere. I tweaked my team a bit, and I’ve trained one or two 5th gen pokes to take up spots, but I not to the level where I’d be confident to take them into a tourney. I think my biggest disappointment was that nearly every build for the best new pokes revolved around transfering a parent from 4th or even 3rd gen with the right move and breeding it onto the child. It’s fine for shoddy or netbattle or whatevers, but I just don’t have the time to breed and raise a pokemon on a 3rd Gen cart in order to transfer it to a 4th Gen cart so I can breed a move onto a different poke and then transfer that to B/W so that I can breed a move from it onto one of the new ones – even if the end result is almost unstoppable.
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Have you ever tried out Pokemon Online? You can build your teams in it and battle on there as well. They have a constantly rotating series of tournaments as well. A lot of people aren’t great battlers (myself included) but its a good way of getting a battle without going through all the hassle of breeding things yourself. You can even select to only battle within a certain gen’s meta game. Or be like me and mostly use Challenge Cup which gives you 6 random Pokemon, with random movesets and a random item. It’s a lot of fun but you can’t take it too seriously
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The grind of breeding is very attractive to me. I once hatched over 120 Riolu eggs to get the right nature/IV’s/gender.
I will assume Pokemon Online is the new netbattle/shoddy battle/whatevers. I’ll check it out.
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So I’ve been Pokemon Online-ing all afternoon…
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Oh yeah, a random battle would be a lot of fun. Takes off the pressure of having to have a perfect team.
I’m not very competitive with this sort of thing. I think I’ve only had one or two battles with a real-life person in my life. I just like to use my favourites (and anything works in-game if you train enough :P)
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A selection of stuff I’ve trained:
Perfect Attk Adamant Gyarados @ FocusSash (really? I’m not sure why he’s holding the sash, normally it was a Wacan Berry?? to null an electric attack)
Dragon Dance
Ice Fang
Stone Edge
WaterfallStone Edge over EQ, since it was on a EQ heavy team already. Also because:
Electivire
Cross Chop
Ice Punch
EQ
T-punchGyarados was the bait, Electivire would switch in on an Electric attack for the speed boost. He’s actually got the “wrong” nature and no perfect IV’s but the speed boost from motor drive meant he would outspeed any other electric-types with EQ.
Perfect Attk Adamant Scizor @ Muscle Band
//Technician
Swords Dance
Roost
Bullet Punch
PursuitScizor wrecks stuff.
Suicune @ Leftovers
Ice Beam
Calm Mind
Rest
SurfIt doesn’t have the right HP to outlast Seismic Toss Blissy. It can probably outlast Seismic Toss Snorlax.
I’ve also trained the event Suicune – it’s a much more offensive build. Man I really like Suicune.Sigilyph @ Flame Orb
Cosmic Power
Psycho Shift
Stored Power
RoostSigilyph can shut down Fighting, and baits Dark types so I can switch to Cobalion. It walls a lot of stuff after two turns.
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I love seeing Scizor in competitive teams. It’s one of my favourite Pokemon (Bug is my favourite type). I don’t know if you saw/remember us talking about the new games a while ago, but I’m planning a mono-type run in White 2 using only Bug types. Should be fun!
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I had a fully trained team on HG. Bred up a bunch of eggs in Platinum to get as many high IV’s as I could, then transferred them across and EV trained them as I played through the game
Meganiun @Leftovers – My tank that could sponge some hits and set up with Swords dance and proceed to wreck face
Seed Bomb
EQ
Swords Dance
SynthesisTogekiss @Leftovers – Also a bit tanky but its main job was a paraflincher. Had Serene Grace to really annoy people
T-wave
Air slash
Aura Sphere
RoostStarmie @Expert Belt – Special Sweeper. E-belt could bluff Choice specs then catch them off guard when I changed up moves
Surf
Ice Beam
Psychic
ThunderboltRhyperior @Choice Band – Physical monster
Stone Edge
EQ
Megahorn
Hammer ArmMagmortar @Scarf? Can’t remember Item
Flamethrower
Thunderbolt
Focus Blast
some other filler moveElectivire @Life orb – physical attacker
Thunder punch
Ice punch
Brick Break
EQ/Fire punch (can’t remember which)-
Togekiss @Leftovers – Also a bit tanky but its main job was a paraflincher. Had Serene Grace to really annoy people
Ahahaha, I love when people use that. It’s such an a-hole thing to do.
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Damn you guys. I’m meant to be studying but all I can think about is Pokemon! 😛
These are three things that really bug me.
Number 1: unorganized cutlery in the dishwasher. I hate this. Each type of cutlery (spoons, teaspoons, forks, knives) have their own sections they go in. They should never be mixed up, unless there’s n
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Okay phone, are you going to let me finish this time?
They should never be mixed up, unless there’s no more space in their section. Even then, they shouldn’t just be put in any random section with free space, they should just overflow into the section beside theirs. Whenever I see the cutlery in the dishwasher all unorganised, I can’t help but go fix it up.
Number 2: dirt/mud. I just hate getting my hands dirty. I don’t like the feel of stuff stuck to my hands. I’d much rather do a long, hard job that keeps my hands clean than do a quick easy job that involves getting messy. If I do have to get messy though, I try to get to a tap as soon as possible to clean up.
Number 3: long sleeve shirts. I can’t stand them. I would much rather freeze to death than wear a long sleeve shirt. It jus really bugs me having stuff touching my lower arms, and having the ends dangling around my wrists is almost unbearable.
I’m off to NZ!
Laters chumps nerds friends! Be back in almost 2 weeks.
I know it isn’t easy, but try to enjoy the bunny meat without me.
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But who am I going to sing Barbie Girl with? /o\
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Have a safe trip and enjoy yourself.
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Glgl, hf, dd!
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Bye Freeze *waves*
Have fun
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Bye Freeze
I’ve never been to NZ but from pics and Lord of the Rings it looks amazing, so I’m sure you’ll have an ice time (:P)
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Have fun man! Don’t kill too many Hobbits whilst there, kay.
Hey friends,
So I now have enough Steam games to have a scroll bar thingy on the side of my list of games :O
I just went and claimed all the Steam keys for previous Humble Indie Bundles I bought. However, there are some overlaps since some bundles offered the previous bundle for free. Because of this I have a spare Humble Indie Bundle #3 Steam key for whoever wants it. I’ll just paste it here so first come, first serve 🙂
I can’t really remember what was in it except that it was all pretty “meh” to be honest except for VVVVVV which is fricken epic. Gameplay is simple but complex and that soundtrack is amazeballs.
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This should work, enjoy! 😀
Afternoon everyone.
First off, I would like to apologize for my jerkish behaviour yesterday.
It was rude and unnecessary.
My response to a question was quite uncouth, for which I am very sorry.
Now, as for my question…
How do you ensure that you get to bed at a reasonable hour?
I try to get to bed at about midnight, but I don’t get to sleep until between one and two in the morning.
How can I nod off earlier?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I hear a good blow to the head helps? 😛
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I find it helps to make sure you’re in bed well before you actually plan to go to sleep (like an hour or so before). I usually watch TV/read a book/play non-reaction based games while laying down (ie. in sleeping position :P).
Not for everyone, but it works for me. Then again, I’ve never had any trouble trying to get to sleep :/
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Exactly this. I watch an episode of a TV show every night while lying in bed. Some nights I nod off while it’s still playing (but I always manage to wake up when the credits start to turn it off and go to sleep proper…). It’s a great way to slowly make your way through a TV show, too. I spent a year watching every episode of DBZ that way.
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What do you consider a good amount of sleep? Mines usually around 7-8 hours and I also try to “sleep” at 12am. Basically just wake up after your good amount of sleeping time. So I’d wake up at around 8am (getting 8 hours sleep). Just set an alarm and keep doing this until it becomes second nature.
Doing what others said also helps. Usually I’ll go to bed at like 11:30ish and just relax, browse stuff on my iPhone, text people, play DS etc. I find just doing something makes me sleepy and easier to fall asleep.
If you have trouble doing the 12am-8am thing just slowly progress into it. On holidays I used to sleep at like 3am and wake up 1pm or so but when school was approaching I needed to wake up at 7am. Instead of completely ruining my sleeping pattern and just waking up at 7am the next day and being absolutely tired I’d ease myself into it. The next day I’d sleep at 2am and wake up at 12pm, then 1am-11pm etc. until I was back into my 12-7/8am sleeping schedule.
A somewhat quick fix is to wake up early with not very much sleep so you’ll be tired for most of the day. Then it’ll be easier to get to bed at whatever reasonable hour you desire :P, but I don’t recommend this…
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1am-11am** but you get the point 😛
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Potaku Episode 2 is out! http://soundcloud.com/docwhat Go listen to it and let us know what you think!
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It sounds so good in my ears!
THanks to a damn BSoD the Podtaku Podcast has been delayed.
But IT’S LIVE NOW!
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Downloading it as we speak \o/
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Ha Ha, now I get to listen to myself.
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First Doc What’s accent blew my mind and now Masha’s :O
Next up, Pixel?
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You should be on a future potaku episode Greenius. It’s really nice to have an hour to just relax and talk games with like-minded individuals.
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Perhaps 😛
I have a feeling I wouldn’t have much to say or I wouldn’t know many of the retro games because of the age differences. I’m also not fond of talking online (never do it unless playing with friends) and I don’t even have a mic :/
There’s others who are more important and interesting than me anyway 😀
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Oh I’ve been meaning to ask a question. Are the Potaku episodes recorded in one take or are they split up by section? It sounds like it’s all one take which is pretty cool.
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When I was on, we recorded for about 1hr 20 min and Doc What must have edited it to an hour and added in all the sound effects and jingles between segments. I think Doc also deserves a lot of credit for the editing, for example there were some sections as we talked where there were pauses or sometimes we talked over each other, but Doc made it sound seamless.
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Oh really. I assumed the sound effects were played in real time because everyone seemed to shut up for them. haha I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but I like that it sounds like the show was recorded in one take. Good job there, Doc!
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Something for the bucket list : board a plane that has not been delayed.
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Haha, the weather delaying you?
NEVER watch Tosh.0 while eating
TAY IS QUIET. Feeble attempt at fostering discussion activate!
OK, here is every game that I can think of that I’m looking forward to buying this year or next. Let me know what you think and/or post your own lists! (Ones with *’s are games that I’m extra excited for and will get as soon as they come out)
3DS:
Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon*
New Super Mario Bros 2
Pokemon White 2*
Professor Layton VS Ace Attorney
Fire Emblem: Awakening*********** (That excited :P)
PC:
Sim City (This would have a * if not for the always-online issue…)
PS3:
Grand Theft Auto V
Ni no Kuni*
The Last of Us
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I’M HERE. AND I TOOK SOME AWESOME PAIN KILLERS. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
I want to buy a PS3 just for The Last of Us.
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Waittttt I thought you were totes in love with Nathan Drake? WHY U NO PS3 THEN?
@Pow/general discussion
Yeah TAY is quiet :(. After 1 hour of ‘studying’ (reading my notes) I thought I’d take a TAY catch up break. Took me less than a minute to read the 3 new comments 😛
Solid list and most of them are on mine but to be honest I don’t really have any “MUST HAVE” games at the moment. There are some that have piqued my interest either from E3 or from ages ago but no Fire Emblem level *********s for me yet. Was any more news released on Layton vs Phoenix? I completely forgot about it! How about Layton 5 English release or AA5?
Ni no Kuni is going to be soo good :D. Looks so pretty! I just love the whole Ghibli style. Haven’t really seen all that much gameplay but it’s pretty enough and made by 2 amazing studios that I’d blindly buy it anyway :D.
Also:
Lords of Shadow 2 (IT’S A METROIDVANIA!!! WOOO)
Pikmin 3
Borderlands 2
Darksiders 2(and others I’m probably forgetting)
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I LOVE HIM FROM AFAR.
HE TOOK OUT AN AVO AGAINST ME.
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Nope, no new news on Layton vs Phoenix. I just had it written down in my “MyWanty.txt” file (that I use to keep track of everything I plan to buy xD) back when it was first announced. Don’t even think an English version has been confirmed yet? 🙁
But yeah, I’m buying Ni no Kuni no matter what reviews say. It just looks so… magical!
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Oh, and I didn’t put down Wii U games because I don’t plan on buying one this year. But I am looking forward to Pikmin 3, Lego Undercover and Mario U.
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I’m excited for
PS3:
Far Cry 3-Open world FPS with lush environments? Sign me up.Need for speed Most Wanted-Purchase intent is tentative at the moment, but as soon as more concrete info is released on the game I’ll be buying.
Dishonored-It looks pretty good. Arkane doesn’t have the best track record so I’ll wait for reviews
XCOM: Enemy Unknown-I’m not an XCOM fan but I liked CIV Revolution, so a strategy game on a console by Firaxis is more than welcome.I also hope the FPS isn’t cancelled it looked interesting.
PC
SimCity-The online only thing kind of sucks. Purchase will depend on initial reviews and whether people on TAY will get the game as well. We need to create a TAY group of cities.Wii U
I never owned a Wii, so if the launch price is decent I might convince myself that I’m buying two consoles and just buy the Wii U and use it as my Wii as well.Games I might get with the console:
1. Zombi U
2. LEGO City Undercover.
3. Rayman Legends
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As soon as I read “All the wii games I missed”
I was thinking XENOBLADE XENOBLADE XENOBLADE
and when I read “First Wii games will be Kirby’s epic yarn and DKC returns”
I got sad, but then the last bit made it better heh, GET Xenoblade Potato Masha!
Also “must-have” Wii games Super Mario Galaxy 2 (1 I guess but 2 is superior imo), the Zeldas and Metroids. Some other really good lesser known ones include Zak and Wiki and Little King’s Story.
But yeah, definitely Xenoblade 😛
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If I didn’t get Xenoblade you guys would hunt me down for sure.
The Wii had some good games that I can’t wait to get into. I really hope the Wii U launches at a decent price in Australia otherwise I’ll just get a cheap wii over Christmas
P.S. Greenius, I checked out the Dick Smith $99 Wii sale but it clashed with me getting my power bill. I have to pay that off first.
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Damn :(, that’s unfortunate!
I wouldn’t get your hopes up for Wii U being cheap at launch (because Australian prices…) but I guess you are getting a NEW console instead of just a Wii so it’ll still be worth it. Might be better to wait for it rather than buying a Wii now, even though it’s really cheap and just buying a Wii U anyway.
At least consider Xenoblade :). We may or may not hunt you down but just don’t do a Troll S Preston Icequire and promise to buy it and then don’t… Freeze man, your broken promises hurt me :'(
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Ha Ha Ha. You may never know, maybe Freeze is going to NZ to buy Xenoblade.
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Yeah honestly with the Wii U launching so soon, I’d probably just wait. You’ve held off this long, you might as well future-proof yourself and get the new console and play the Wii games through it.
Like XENOBLADE.
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He went to buy it at GAME before it closed down the other week but they didn’t have it, nor did EB Games! So it’s not like he hasn’t been trying!
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Since when?! First I’ve heard of it 😛
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Err when I saw him 2 weeks back!
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That’s exactly what I’m going to do with Sim City. I don’t want to get it on launch day only to have Diablo-like launch problems with the online. 😛 I’ll wait for the reviews, but I’ll definitely get it eventually.
GTA V, BioShock Infinite, Need For Speed: Most Wanted, Crysis 3, Aliens Colonial Marines & Far Cry 3… I think that is everything I am looking forward to atm. All on PC for me.
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Parallax Occlusion mapping!!!!!!!!
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\o/ best race! Mainly because I don’t own a console 😛
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ASSASSINS CREED 3. End of story.
(Though something new for my 3DS would be nice and FC3 on the PC aswell. More BF3 maps plz)
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I’ve never been a huge AC fan, but the trailers I saw for AC3 did look pretty cool!
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To my disgust I am a filty flee ridden fan boi
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I’ve had my big exciting games for the year, the rest of the stuff I really am anticipating is 2013. 🙁 Fair few that I intend to buy but I’m not super hyped for anything at the moment.
It’s a wee bit cold.
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Where abouts are ya son?
Who else watched the Essendon vs Sydney game?
That has to be one of the most heartbreaking moments I’ve ever seen in sport.
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What happened?
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Sydney led by four points, Essendon got the ball into their half forward line, and one of their players marked it just outside the 50 metre arc, and he went off of his line just as the siren sounded, causing the umpire to call play on, which cost Essendon the match.
The umpire even consoled him after it happened.
Honestly, it was devastating.
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Everyone on teamspeak heard it.
Courtesy of my family =P-
It did sound like a very exciting game 😛
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Listened to Potaku #2. It was excellent of course. Thanks for the mention, chaps! Much appreciate! I will be listening in every time.
In other news, I finally managed to overcome Ceaseless Discharge (I know, I know… so many jokes :P) and escape from Blighttown. I guess Sen’s Fortress is next. \o/
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wait Potaku 2 is up?
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Potaku 2. No complaints keep it up
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I keep laughing. I’m amazed Mum hasn’t asked me if I’m insane yet.
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Horray for beating the …. uhhh well uhhhhh
good work!
So after playing Minecraft for about 3-4 hours, I ended up having a nightmare, about having nightmares, where I was attacked by spiders and zombies in a high rez minecraft mansion. (like ridiculously high rez).
Not sure if I’ll be playing for a while ^^;;
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Wait what?! 😛
You like way more worst horrory things than Minecraft and the MC spiders and zombies aren’t even scary! :O
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I know. I have no idea what my mind was thinking.
It was very weird nightmareception
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Hello? Without an active TAY, it’s hard to procrastinate from studying!
I was actually messing around with Pokemon Online this morning. I had no idea what I was doing but it’s fun to make new teams and such (even though they would probably get destroyed by anybody who knew what they were doing :P). We should have some random battles some time, PokéTAY!
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I’ll help you procrastinate by jumping on now if you want 🙂
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Hm I don’t know about that. That’s basically giving up entirely. haha
I’ll wait until this Thursday. Then I’ll have no guilt about playing all Pokemon, all the time! …At least until I get bored of it. 😛
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I’m down for some games from Tuesday onwards :D. But what is Pokemon Online? Is it some sort of unofficial program for PC?
And yes, it’s so hard to procrastinate from studying!
“zzzz I’m bored of studying, time to take a quick break to catch up on TAY”
*refresh*
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Yup. It’s a battle simulator. Works the same way as the games except you don’t have to train before battling.
I’m more interested in doing random battles (where you get given a random team) because they sound more fun, especially since I don’t have much competitive knowledge 😛 (NBZ has an Online Challenge Cup series of videos that is done through Pokemon Online, if you want to have a look beforehand)
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I demand Poke battles after our exams!
I’m scared to vs the others cause of all their Poke knowledge and IV training and whatnot :P. I don’t think I’ve ever battled anyone on Pokemon and if I did it was on Silver on GB so it really didn’t count because I was too young to remember anything.
Random battles definitely sounds fun as long as you aren’t severely disadvantaged with a horrible Poketeam 🙂
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I added a column to TAYNAMES! Put down your username and prepare for battle!
…on Thursday.
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Can I come too??
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NO! Wait… the other thing… YES!
Of course you can! Everyone is welcome! Oh and don’t feel like you have to wait until Thursday if you don’t want to either, that’s just when I’m free. xD Just put your name down in TAYNAMES and organise a battle with someone (or we’ll announce in TAY when one is on).
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Yeah Ill get onto it later (busy playing this bridge building game on my phone)
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Hi Bishy!
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Hahaha, I hope I wasn’t being too annoying with that.
It started out with Pez talking to you, and I was all “SAY HI TO STRANGE FOR ME”, so then everytime someone (especially Pez) whipped out their phone, I was all “SAY HI TO STRANGE FOR ME”.
I thought it would be funny saying hi to you through other people for some reason.
I know TAY is quiet so I probably won’t get an answer but:
For those of you who know, what happens when you fail a unit/subject in University? My current degree requires all first year students to do 6 core subjects which need to be passed and each major requires specific units that also need to be completed. So what happens if you don’t manage to pass one? I get that you’d have to repeat it, which wouldn’t be too bad if you have the time (eg. another semester, or in a later year) but what happens if you fail it at the end of your course?
For example, my degree is a 3 year degree. So what would happen if I fail a required unit for my major/degree in the 2nd semester of my 3rd year? Because it’s right at the end and I don’t have time to do it again would I have to pay and do another semester, making the degree a 3.5 year degree? If I had to do another semester does that mean I’d also have to pick 3 more units (4 units a semester) or could I only do that one again?
Well that was a lot of questions 😛 but I’m just curious and being safe rather than sorry. I haven’t failed any units so far and I don’t think I will but it’s still a possibility and I’d like to know what would happen if that was case. Thanks in advance 🙂
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If it’s a core one you would have to go back and do it. I don’t think you’d have to pick up another 3 units though if you were meeting your degree requirements without them. A lot of universities will only let you fail a unit 3 times before you’re suspended for a year or two.
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Well it might be different for your Uni, but at mine it doesn’t matter if you fail, you just have to make up the credit points before graduating (so if that means having to do another session, then you would come back to do one subject). There’s nothing that says ‘this degree MUST be completed in 3 years, because that’s how long it says on paper.
My degree was meant to be 3 years, but I’m in my 4th at the moment (I didn’t fail anything, just dropped them :P). I did 3 subjects a session instead of 4 for a while because of annual projects, etc which set me back.
…I don’t know if that answered your questions. 😛
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You’d have to check with your uni?
With my course, each year/subject was set up so a course would be a pre-requisite for another course which would be a pre-requisite for another course, etc etc.
So it you failed Data Structures and Algorithms (second year course), you couldn’t progress onto the Microprocessors subject (second year second semester), and you couldn’t do Real Time Computing (third year).
So I had a friend fail a subject, and basically it staggered his progress a bit.
It doesn’t matter if it extends your degree duration, just that you did the subject.
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You can basically take however long you want to finish an undergraduate course. Post-grad is time sensitive.
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Yup. I know a guy who’s in his 6th year of a 3 year degree. I should really find out why one of these days…
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HEY, TAY. HEY.
I wanted to make a joke about all the meat action going on this weekend but my brain is still dead. It would’ve been really funny too because meat was going to be a euphemism for genitals. I KNOW, RIGHT? SUPER ORIGINAL!
How has all the non-meat attendees weekend been?
I’m feeling so much better about my chances for transferring universities. 12 days until I find out!
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Gastro! Best way to spend a long weekend.
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But vomiting is what all the movie stars do stay trim and good looking so now you’ll be ready for dem laydeez.
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Does that include vomiting blood? Because that’s where I’m up to.
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Seriously?! GO TO THE DOCTORS. THEY WILL GIVE YOU TASTY DRUGS.
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D:
I hope you’ve been to the doctors!
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Get well soon Cakebro
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Ouch. Not pretty. Feel better, man.
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Horrible. There’s so much I would rather be doing than studying. D:
Congrats on getting all your transfer stuff done, though!
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When are your exams?
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This coming Tuesday and Wednesday. Then I’ll be FREE! 😀
(My Wednesday exam starts at 6pm though. What’s up with that!)
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I was joking around with friends about late exams but WTF they actually have them!!?! :O
At least it gives you time to study!
My exams have been at 9:30 or 2:30 and I’m not sure which I prefer. 9:30 is over and done with early but I don’t get time to sleep in or study beforehand. Also next to each other is pretty bad too :(. I think what really determines how well I go is how many days are inbetween (more days to cram a semesters worth of info!)
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Go out for a nice later dinner on Wednesday to celebrate!
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Does “ducking into Maccas on the way home” count as celebrating?
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It does if you get an ice cream with your meal
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Good luck to you two on your exams
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Thank you Masha my dear!
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Started watching Doctor Who. It’s as awesome as people told me. Why didn’t I watch this sooner?
Woo g’luck Jugsy :). Where are you transferring too and what course? ANU still?
I have also been studying so a pretty average/crappy weekend at the moment :/
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I need a sugar daddy to go to ANU 😛 I’ll be doing just a plain old BA at USyd. It looks like I’ll be able to complete 3 majors in just an extra year and a half so that’s pretty cool: Ancient History, Archaeology and Latin. The archaeology units look sweeeeet there’s s few where you get to do cool sciencey stuff in pracs.
My PC is just about ready to build, except that I need to get a case for it….
I tried gutting the one that I had, but the connections on the mother board didn’t fit.
So, all I have to get is a case, and I’ll be all set!
Expected Specs:
CPU: Intel Core i5-3450 3.1 GHz
RAM: Kingston DDR3 8GB
Graphics: ATI Radeon 5670
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68P-DS3
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
HDD: 150GB
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Do you want case suggestions or do you have something lined up?
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Actually, when you say the connections ‘don’t fit’, do you mean that your case has standoffs for the wrong motherboard shape? Most cases, you can remove the standoffs and put new ones in to match your board.
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Um, what do you mean by standoffs?
Basically, the holes that have to be screwed in on the motherboard don’t match what is in the case.
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Standoffs are the little brass things that screw into the case and that you screw your motherboard onto. You never screw the motherboard directly into the case, any components poking through the board will ground against the case and your machine will fail to boot at best, fry itself at worst.
You also only use the standoffs you need for your board. Most cases will have a whole bunch of holes drilled to fit various configurations (ATX, mATX, etc) and you attach only the standoffs you need.
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Yeah, the holes on the motherboard don’t line up with the standoffs.
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Are they just slightly off or miles off? Are you allowing for the fact that the motherboard’s back I/O connectors usually protrude through the back of the case’s I/O panel and those often are springy? Are the standoffs fixed or do you have multiple holes so you can move them around? Sucks if they’re fixed. 🙁
I’ve got to buy a new case for my mum soonish. Would you believe that the little catch that makes the power switch work in it completely shattered into a million pieces, and the switch is basically not replaceable on it so I’ve got to get a whole new case?
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Man those damn motherboard spacers need to be included with motherboards! Not just cases..
Have they changed the layout of ATX screw holes by any chance? Cause my new Gigabyte board has a different pattern to my Antec 902 case, where as my old Gigabyte board was identical to what the case has.
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Maybe you don’t have an ATX board?
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It’s an ATX board, according to the website:
http://m.gigabyte.com/product/product.aspx?pid=3899
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I have the exact same motherboard! o/
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Nah I certainly do. It was one of the things I was after when buying a new motherboard it had to be ATX, I always find mATX too cramped. Even if the 902 is a cramped case itself >.<
I think they may have…
My case is an ATX, and I’m having the same problem.
Yeah, it’s weird.. It’s like “But all the other holes but these 2 on the bottom right don’t like up, wtf is going on here?”
dear psn, when i download a game off you, why don’t you jus let me download the up to date version of the game? or if not, download all of the patches as well?
getting little big planet 2, and having to wait for 6 patches to install is pretty annoying…
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Probably less work for Sony.
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I was having this problem yesterday as well. Space Marine for example has a 965MB update. I understand it’s a new mode but if I’m getting a digital game the version on PSN should be the up-to-date one.
The same can be said for buying a complete edition of a game from PSN. Why should I download the original game and five or six separate DLC files? I should just be able to download a 5GB file instead of a 3GB file then 4 500MB DLC packs. This way, I only have one file to install instead of 5 separate ones.Another thing, I think it would be awesome if I could download PS3 patches and updates on my PC and then transfer them to my PS3 via a USB stick. I can do that with system updates and I think it would be really convenient to do that with patches. Especially when a PC can download files faster than the PS3.
I still love my PS3 but sometimes…
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Yeah, I had the same problem with Burnout Paradise.
Tried Guild Wars 2. Really, really don’t like it. Which is awesome, because it means I don’t have yet another MMO demanding my time.
Shame I had to pay for a demo. 🙁
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Well that was a crappy page get. 🙁
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I felt it was rather informative. 🙂
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Holy crap, Ys Origin is up on Steam. When did this happen?
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When you least expected it….
I’ve found a couple of cases for a good price, but are they worth it?
If so, which one should I get?
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=25_31&products_id=18595
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=25_31&products_id=18734
@Powalen
Yo Sir Caterpie, do I need to make an account for that pokemon thing or just download the… er download.
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You can download and use it without an account, but if you attach a password you can register your username so no one else can use it. You still don’t have to put in an email or anything if I remember right.
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I didn’t even know you could do this. xD But yeah, I just tried it now and this is how it works. Not really an ‘account’ just reserving your name for each particular server.
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A good mate from school just said I should be a manager for bands… She stated her reasons why and I think she’s right, I do understand how a fair bit of the shit works and I understand some of the stuff label side and i’m always giving my opinions why bands should be shunning the labels in favour of having their own label and being in control of THEIR music, not playing puppet to the puppet master.. I swear that only works for the bands like Metallica where they can say “Fuck you we will do it how we want and you will say yes”
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Here’s a great article by Steve Albini about the potential pitfalls of signing with a major lable. Every musician should read this.
http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17
It’s a little dated re; figures quoted, but the major arguements still read true.
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