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I bought my first smartphone this weekend. I really have no intrest in getting one, but it seems like you can’t do anything these days without one. I don’t know what it is, but they just feel so “sterile” to me. I like the feel of having buttons on my phone :p
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I was like that. You get used to it though. And smartphones are very handy.
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I hope so. 🙂
I agree that they are very handy (with maps, GPS, internet, etc) but I don’t like the whole “touchscreen” thing.
And, I’m seriously scared about breaking the screen, and wasting a $600 phone.-
Haha yeah, I’m not sure that paranoia ever goes away but they are surprisingly tough. I’m pretty clumsy but my phone has so far survived me.
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Did you see that vid of a guy using his htc one x as a hammer?
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My phone doesn’t even have predictive text. Even though, you have fallen from the ranks of the resistant, I will remain, and light a candle in your honour.
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Thank you kind sir.
While I have been assimilated into the smartphone generation, I applaud you for keeping up the good fight!
I hope for a day when physical buttons are used as the primary source for phone input once again.
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Hi everyone. I am at work for three more hours, and then will be “Out Of Office” for eleven glorious weeks.
Also, my son is being born tomorrow. Tomorrow. TOMORROW. That’s really soon.
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WOOO!
Congrats man! Hope you had a good weekend!
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I hear The Lesser Evil is a decent read, if you’re stuck in waiting rooms or whatnot.
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I tried it, and thought it was rubbish.
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Mini-Shane’s almost here! Yay!
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Oh God… they’re MULTIPLYING
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Congratulations again.
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Supanova Sydney! Got to meet Jennifer Hale 🙂
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I heard she’s really nice. Was she really nice?
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Way too crowded for me this year. Usually I spend the whole Saturday there but this year I left at 1pm because it just got to the point you couldn’t really move anymore.
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It’s not the same as Supernova or any other convention but I once went to an IGN Black Beta event to play crysis 2 early. The place was so crowded that I completely lost the appeal of getting to meet some developers or playing the game early.
As a result events like Comic-con, PAX and E3 may seem appealing in my head but then I realise I’d rather play the game’s demo or just watch a developer diary.I hope you still had fun though.
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I am jelly. I’d love to meet Hale. What’s she like?
Hey guys,
I got in the beta.
What beta?
I cannot say ;P
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I was going to get into the Charlie, but they pushed me back to the delta. How unfortunate 🙁
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Oooh tough break man
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Echo echo echo echo echo….
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I read that echo instead of hearing it, so technically it wasn’t a real echo.
It was more like a pseudo echo.
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IT”S ON BOOOOOIIIIIII!!!!!!!
That is if the beta that you have is the same as me 😉
Morning Friends!
I hope we are all feeling well! I on the other hand am feeling crap. I’m hoping that it’s just a case of extreme mondayitus.
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Its okay buddy, you will be okay, you are awesome and you draw lines all day
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I need to be in peak physical condition to draw lines man!
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Just as i need to be to unscrew screws and type on a computer.
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CODEINE
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Somebody bring this man a Tuesday. STAT! 😛
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Sick day. You know you want it.
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No point having a sick day until Thursday when new releases come out. Maybe he is laying the groundwork early….
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Wow, so I just got an email at work saying me and another guy’s job is becoming obsolete.
Good times …
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That stinks, man. Are they redeploying you, do you know?
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Basically what has happened is that I was being trained to work in a certain role. Said role has become redundant (Mechanical Draftsman) and thus I can accept a job in a completely different area doing something I don’t want to do or I can walk away.
I’m pretty sure I wont get a redundancy package. In a week I technically wont be employed with them because the contract I signed said something along the lines of “If the job is open I will get it”
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You should definitely get some legal advice on your contract from someone not your employer. Union would be a good choice if you’re a member… or the Fair Work Ombudsman. Just make sure you’re not entitled to anything before you walk away.
If they offer you another position (that’s substantively the same in terms of wages and conditions) and you refuse it, you forfeit your right to redundancy pay.
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Does that mean you are fired?
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Well that sucks a huge amount of arse.
Positive side: redundancy payment?
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*hugs*
Hope it works out for you man.
Good morning all you charming people. How was your weekends?
I NEED SLEEPS! Seriously. couldnt sleep last night, decided to clean the kitchen at 2.30 instead of staring at the ceiling. SLEEP OR CAFFEINE! not ‘or.’ PREFERABLY BOTH!
in other news, my flatmate has moved to China for three months. \o/ and /o\ at the same time!
I’m not the living alone type of guy. I tend to get bored & talk to myself & other such oddities. but on the other hand, I’ve now got the opportunity to watch all the series he bitches about like Firefly & Battlestar Galactica.
much gaming was done yesterday. so much Diablo 3. powered through Acts 2&3 on Nightmare & gearing up to punch Diablo himself in his diabolical nads possibly tonight. maybe tonight. could be going to go watch Cabin in the Woods instead. but maybe not coz I dont think I’m gonna be conscious much after 4pm… :s
also, recording Potaku on wednesday with Shiggy, Doc & Flu! pretty hyped for that!
aaanyway… yeah.
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Cleaning is pretty therapeutic and calming, I find.
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HI BISH!
I just needed something to do other than just laying there. with the added benefit that now I’ve got a clean kitchen. i think tonight at 2am I might get a start on the lounge. -
Hi Bish,
While you are in Canberra this week, will you clean my house please? I heard that you find such tasks therapeutic and calming.
I won’t be home at the time, but I will leave a key out for you.
Kind regards,
Shane
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I’ve had a few late night cleaning seasons as well.
Have fun recording Potaku. Don’t let Flu’s sultry tones overpower you 🙂
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Diablo, eh?
Mornin’ TAY!
In keeping with Mondays being crap, my Monday (so far) has been an overflowing outhouse, because work blah blah usual stuff.
Looking forward to it not being Monday.
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Can’d meet this weekend friends so at least you have something to look forward to 🙂
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Yay. I still hope to pop in on Can’d Meat for an hour or two!
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Yaaay! I’m going to bring a wad of cash for you, so you probably should turn up 😀
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I need to pay for a new baby, so if I can at all make it, I will be there with many things to sell 😛
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The only advice I can give is search for a good discount sale :P… oh wait that wasn’t what you meant about the new baby?
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Awwwww yeaaaaah!
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TAYbies! Oh how I’ve missed it. What’s been happening?
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Obligatory “who’s this guy?” post 😛
I finished Dark Void this weekend.
It’s pretty bad.
I honestly wanted to really like this game. But it’s just kinda crap.
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That’s a shame, that game was getting so much hype before it came out 🙁
I survived the weekend.
Cabin in the Woods. Saw it. Enjoyed it. Am very disappointed that it has a limited release and that people who should see it (everyone) will probably not.
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I’ll have to wait for the DVD I think 🙁
(or the naughty .avi if it doesn’t get released here :P)
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Will definitely be picking that DVD up on release.
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What do you mean by limited release? Is it a local thing only, or simply time-constrained?
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Short run at a few cinemas for a limited time and only in major cities (at first, Brisbane wasn’t even getting it).
Apparently they didn’t think people would like it despite being one of the most enjoyable movie experiences I’ve been to for a while. Not to overhype or anything.
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Truthfully, I’d not heard of it prior to today. Needs more hype, if anything.
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It’s a movie written by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard (wrote Cloverfield). Directed by Goddard.
A group of college students go off to a cabin in the woods for a weekend of fun…
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Where’s it playing in Brisbane, man? I was hoping Event Cinemas site was accurate. 🙁
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Thanks, buddy!
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In case you live under a rock or don’t have Twitter, Shiggy and I went to Supanova on the weekend and got to meet two of the guys from Roosterteeth. We even got a photo with them! http://instagr.am/p/L7lTNBD7Xe/?ref=nf
I am still really excited about this. It was awesome. Apparently Batgirl got to spend some time with Jennifer Hale yesterday, too, so she’s probably over the moon with joy right now. Meeting people like that is really cool…you just have to survive the massive crowds, especially the cosplayers with horns or whatever jabbing into you as they walk.
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DEMON EYES
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Yes! I was possessed by happiness or something.
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Those weren’t horns. Or maybe they were… TOO mUCH INNUENDO
I think I’ve finally convinced my mum to let me do a bachelor of something game related instead of the double degree in IT and engineering she wanted me to do.
I’m looking at the Bachelor of Interactive Entertainment Major in Games Programming at QANTM College right now. Not sure whether I want to do that, or a major in Games Design. I’m leaning a bit to towards the Game Programming, because it has some subjects on game design as well. I think I also remember reading something once about how people who study games programming are more likely to get a job than those that study game design.
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Yay! Awesomeness
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I don’t know what the degrees you’re looking at have, but I think having programming skills would be more versatile than design skills. Congrats though! Are you starting next year?
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That’s awesome man! I’ve got a couple friends who study at QANTM (or studied, can’t seem to get my tenses right currently).
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Hey Lambo, do what you want. not what your parents want. I’ve had friends stuck in courses they hated only to quit one year in and just start again doing the course they wanted to do from the get-go.
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Then again, it sounds like they’re letting you do it anyway. So i don’t really get why i had to throw my 2 cents in there. Carry on.
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Awesome! Go for it mate 😀
Hi, guys!
Le Mans was watched, food was ingested, and my body paid the price….
But I feel good, and my tower is nearly ready!
🙂
How is everyone, by the way?
I think I have a new most favourite song. ‘Girl Named Tennessee’ by NEEDTOBREATHE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeujRRzbHqo
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I won’t have a chance to listen to it ’til this afternoon, though I certainly will once I get home!
I’ve been REALLY digging Purity Ring lately, although I only have 2 songs. Either way, that’s at the top of my playlist currently!
HI, TAY,
I’m pretty sure I’m hungover from excitement/adrenaline because I interviewed Tricia Helfer and Jennifer Hale yesterday. I was like “WHAT IS AIR? IS THIS A DREAM? HAVE I DIED AND GONE TO NERD HEAVEN”. I want to go to the next one in Brisbane or Adelaide in November. I’ve got the con bug reaaaaly bad. Also, I want to dress up as a character this time. Only found out I was going like the day before sooooo yeah.
And that was my weekend. I mean, I worked on Saturday but who wants to hear about that!
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What’s Hale like? Please say she’s nice and cool and awesome. I’m a huge fan of her work and like anyone who I’m a fan of I want her to be a likeable person in real life.
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She is the nicest person. Not in a put on way, you can see it’s genuine.
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Glad to hear it. I’d love to meet her myself one day if for no other reason then to tell her she’s awesome (which I’m sure she hears all the time).
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How can you tell its genuine? I ask this out of curiousity not spite.
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I don’t know. You can usually sense when it’s forced.
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I DO!
Saturday work is almost as bad as Sunday work 🙁
Because weekend.
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Sadly, no.
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Hi Kotaku-ites!
Inspired by Serrels’ article from last week (I Want To Tell Their Stories) which was important to me, I wrote a new post in my blog (http://retreviews.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/toys-story.html) if anyone wants something to think about on a Monday morning.
I had a 90s party on the weekend and went as a Super Mario Kart cartridge (released 1992)!
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Nice article. Thanks for sharing. Emotional engagement with games is so important to me and seems particularly hard to find from time to time
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Thanks for your response Shane, I see your posts every day (The Dig!) and I’m glad you read through it.
What are some important games to you?
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There are two, apparently decent, cafes within walking distance of my house.
I rarely see the damned things open. Is it so hard to be open on Monday morning? That way I can have my coffee without having to drive anywhere.
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My coffee tastes like it’s been filtered through my work boots…
And to actually contribute, perhaps you could open a cafe nearby, that is open EXCLUSIVELY on Mondays? You know, to be exclusive and ironic, and to stick it to the man and all that 😀-
But really, you should do it. I’d go there every Monday, without fail.
It could be called MonTAYs. Everyone would laugh, and we would rejoice at the advent of this newfound coffee-consuming utopian reprieve from Mondayitis.-
I only get every second Monday off work. Was a public holiday last week :p
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Post #1: Powalen on Monday, June 11, 2012 at 8:32 AM
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Post #1000: Batgirl on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 5:32 PM
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29 Im getting better.
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TOP 10! Personal best.
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I hadn’t realised but last weeks TAY was tiny. Only 2164 comments.
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Whilst I think I’ve only been here for a month or so (holy crap, a month already?!) it seems to be around 4k~ posts. Is that about the norm?
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4k used to be a lot but then it became the norm due to a combination of some new people coming in and people just posting more in general. It seems like things have calmed down a bit now though. It’s 11.20 and we’re not even on the second page yet, which surprises me. I think some regulars are off on holiday or something?
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4K-5K posts per week, then Harli stops posting as much…. now ~2K a week. thats cause & effect right there.
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also, i think a fair bit of the TAY conversation has migrated to twitter in the last few weeks.
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It’s all Twitter’s fault! And because the last couple of weeks have had heaps of events on. Queens Birthday, E3, Various Meats. It’s all happening!
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It was when I joined in December/Jan, but earlier this year we started getting about 1000 more each week.
So like 3k -> 4k -> 5k -> 6k and I think 7k or so was our highest? Sometimes we hit like 1.5k in a Monday :O it’s insanity!
That explains why I’m in the top 10, what the? Don’t forget though we had the public holiday Monday
I find myself posting less and less on TAY but talking to TAYbies more on Twitter these days. My twitter feed moves so damn quick.
Slipped to third. Oh well. Top 3 for five weeks running!
Wow, 41st? Only 14 posts?
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I beat you :3
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Yeah, TAY has quieted down in recent weeks. Twitter is more convenient and faster but I hope TAY doesn’t become empty.
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I spent more time on twitter than on tay last week, because I was busy and it’s a lot easier and quicker to use than tay. Except for when you have something to say that won’t fit in a tweet…
But I’m not as busy this week, so I’ll bespammingposting here more!
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Back on form after lingering below some joke accounts for a couple of weeks
I’ve decided I’m going to stop posting here and on all the other sites I frequent for a little while. I’ll still be reading from time-to-time, though. Take it easy, folks. (Especially Shane and Strange, the rock on which TAY stands! You guys are truly awesome!)
@Rocketman, after seeing that stuff on Reddit about LoL’s future new map, ARAM, I suggest we change it to a 3v3 ARAM tournament 🙂 instead of Twisted Treeline. Yea or nay?
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Meh, im not sure yet,we shall see, we can play around with it and see if it is actually fun or pointless and infuriating. I dont want to lock anything in cause it might just piss everyone off amd not really require any skill.
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Fair point, I just know that Twisted Treeline isn’t exactly great to go on, and Summoner’s Rift is way too large for a 3v3 to work. I’ll be interested in giving it a whirl anyways.
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I think using a new map could be cool because none of us would be used to it.
So… who’s up for some iSketch sometime soon (later this week/on the weekend)?
We haven’t had it in a while and some people have asked, or have expressed interest in playing again. I figured I might as well find out who’d be interested in playing and then set a day for it 🙂
So, who’s interested in playing and what day works for you? Anytime after Thursday is coolio for me and I assume evening/night would be preferred as most people have this strange thing called “jobs”.
And for those of you who’ve never played or heard of it before it’s basically online pictionary 😛
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Have we ever played iSketch while on Teamspeak? T’would be fun. I’m up for some iSketchies any night this week!
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I’m not sure. One time Bish asked how to draw a ballerina on TS, but forgot that Blaghsy (who was also playing) was on there too.
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I’m interested in playing! I can’t on friday or saturday nights though.
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Count me in, just let me know when mate.
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Interested but with work and stuff who knows what time I can play. Set and time and if I’m around at work or home I might jump on
Morning TAY.
Monday calls for some Vidya Good Times Nostalgia. Here’s something to get your toes tapping:
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I must confess that I have never played that game….
I’m trying to install Ubuntu onto my tower so I can dual boot it with Windows 7, and I’m honestly unable to even get started.
Not for lack of trying, it’s just that I have no idea how to install Ubuntu.
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From experience, it’s one of the simpler ones, unless you’re experiencing hardware compatibility issues?
Bye all – I doubt I’ll be back until after the birth of my son tomorrow, so have awesome days!
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GO TEAM BABY!!!
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Bye, Shane.
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Good luck mate! & congratulation to Mr, Mrs & mini Shane!
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CONGRATS (in advance)
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Goodbye. I’m sure the next few hours/days will be tense ones.
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Yay Shane!
Congratumalations!
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You lucky bastard. Hope it all goes well.
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Congratulations and all the best!
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Good luck Shane ! And to your wife and the new one. And your daughter as well :p
I loved Driver:SF and apparently Watch Dogs was initially conceived as a Driver San Francisco sequel set in Chicago. That’s pretty cool.
Further rumours are that part of the driver team is working on Watch Dogs. This hopefully means watch dogs will have good driving mechanics.
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Wow really? Interesting how a game concept can change like that, I was concerned about Watch Dogs’ driving mechanic but if the Driver team is behind it then we have nothing to worry about 🙂
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Driver SF was soooo good. So I will be checking this out for sure =D thanks Masha!!
It’s also $7.50 on Steam today, so anyone who wants and has a spare $7.50, I suggest picking it up!
Hello TAY!
I need your help. For Shameless Gaming Month this year I am focussing on older games that I own and have not finished, or HD versions which I have rebought and not finished. I narrowed my list down to 20 games and would like your help to decide which 5 or 6 to focus on.
If you could leave a comment either on the web.page below or here on TAY I’ll add it to the tally.
http://matthewjhellscream.wordpress.com/2012/06/17/shameless-gaming-month-prep/
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the five I’d recommend are Shadow of the Colossus, Half Life 2, Beyond Good & Evil, Resident Evil 4 & Psychonauts.
Dunno what My SGM goals are yet… other than Amnesia : the dark descent.
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Start with Shadow of the colossus and Ico. This way you’re in the same mindset as you play the two games.
Next move on to Beyond good and evil then Psychonauts.
All the games mentioned above are 10hrs long or less. This way you can finish them off quickly and there is a reduced chance of you getting bored in the middle.
For the fifth game play Resident Evil 4. It’s a fantastic game and even if you have the gamecube/PS2 versions they still hold up. It is longer than the rest though about 15-20hrs.
That’s it.
NB: Alternatively, just play Shadow of the colossus five times. Once on Normal, again on hard, then do the time attack for both (that’s 4) Finally just play it again and roam around with a different coloured Agro.
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I just bought Ico/Shadow of the Colossus. It’s a little cheating but I think I’ll be playing SotC for SGM.
Psychonauts, Wind Waker and HL2 all stand out as well. Mainly because I’ll be playing HL2 and possibly Psychonauts, while Wind Waker is simply damned good.
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Hey, I got ICO/SotC a few weeks ago, and that’s going in for SGM for me ^_^
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Banjo Kazooiee, and Banjo Tooiee. From back when RARE was one of the greatest devs in the world.
Also, Wind Waker. That game is so awesome.
Saw this on NeoGAF, with all the talk of Game Movies and Movie Games I just had to share it.
http://i.imgur.com/5cJWQ.jpg
Now let’s use this to spur on a handy dandy discussion! 😀
Who do you think would be the perfect actor/actress to portray a certain videogame character?
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Ellen Page, for everything.
Because Ellen Page.-
she would make a good chell, for a portal movie.
Actually if they did a portal movie with the two robots and it was a comedy. Ricky gervais and stephen merchant would be awesome. They have awesome chemistry together and there humor would fit right in with the portal style.-
But, you’d have to have Stephen Merchant as Wheatley….
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I would like to see Stephen Fry as Wheatley…
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What about having him as GLaDOS?
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Yeah, I can certainly envision Ellen as Chell, though the whole lack-of-dialogue thing may make a film stretch a bit too far from canon. Who knows?
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i had a discussion with someone who asked me “who would be the perfect actor to play adam jensen for a dues ex movie”, and i honestly replied Ryan Gosling, because if he had a beard i’d hthink he’d be pretty close to the original, and it would just seem like a character he could pull off
Is that guy an actor or a cosplayer? He’s a pretty good fit looks-wise for Snake.
An MGS movie would be pretty awesome. They’re basically movies anyway.
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Looked like Eric Bana to me 😛
Jean Reno as agent 47 (Hitman)
Summer Glau as Jade (Beyond good and evil)
Renee Russo as Moxxi (Borderlands)
Vin Diesel as Rico Rodriguez (Just cause)
Oh, Microsoft, you and your prices for windows 7…..
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You can pick up an OEM come for ~100 bucks in 64bit Professional flavour at most computer part stores, like PC Case Gear & Umart…
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Copy.. not come, derp.
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MSDN Subscription \o/
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Lol I thought a normal person could sub thinking it’d be a good price, but then I realised it’s business orientated when I saw the pricing =P
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Howdy Tayberinos
I am on leave all week so have just woken up-yay!
hey guys!
i have a copy of amnesia and super meat boy on steam to give away!
if anyone wants it just gimme your steam id’s and i’ll give you them.
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I’ll take Super Meat Boy!
Steam ID: Crazyguy1990 -
Not going to say no to amnesia 🙂
Steam Id: jacobdidriksen-
Or you know, pixel the ferret Viking
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I doubt anyone’s going to take the amnesia key 😛
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Why u do this to me TAY?? ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
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Win!
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ooohhhhhhh giveaways
I have a copy of company of heroes vanilla to give away
Afternoon everyone!
Just finished re-watching Toy Story 3, and man, that ending, all the tearing up, and all that. So super manly.
But, since I watched all three movies over the course of about 5 days, man, that Randy Newman music gets frickin’ grating.
Also, does anyone know where I put my keys? I entered my house on Friday, so unless I left them in the door, they’re somewhere around here…
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Best way to finish the series.
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One of the best ending to any movie I have ever seen
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Oh, right, yes, also, given there’s less than a week left, if anybody wants information about the Canberra Meat, send an email to blaghman (at) gmail (dot) com.
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Check the couch. Couches swallow EVERYTHING.
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I have. I’ve checked all of them. :/
The worst part is that I usually keep my keys in my wallet, because while it’s bad for the wallet, it means I always know where my keys are.
But they’re not there. They’re not anywhere near where my wallet was.
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Whilst on holidays, a friend and I went out for drinks. To be sure she didn’t lose her key, it was affixed to her pants prior to us leaving the abode. Upon return, and being sufficiently intoxicated, it was deemed simplest to remove the pants to unlock the door, rather than fiddle with removing the key from the pants beforehand.
…I’ll recommend the wallet/purse idea next time.
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You got a friend in me…
Randy Newman, yuck.-
I DON’T CARE THAT SON WAS MY CHILDHOOD DON”T YOU DARE MAKE FUN OF IT OR SO HELP ME GOD BLARHARLKJSJHRLJANR
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It was my childhood as well – doesn’t make it any less annoying 😛
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I’m just trying to remember which of my friends I put in you.
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Replacing my mechanical keyboard with an Apple keyboard. It had a good run but I think it’s time for a little consistency. I use an Apple keyboard at work. I use my laptop keyboard when I’m not at my desk. Why not have the keyboard at my desk feel the same as well?
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I love the apple keyboards. I feel I can type more efficiently & quicker on one than other membrane keyboards.
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They use scissor switches, not membranes. At least, I’m fairly sure they do.
Mechanical switches are better. I never learned to type properly on it. Not bottoming out a keyboard with that sort of travel distance is hard. With the Apple keyboards, it’s much easier to type softer.
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Ah right, well my 2007 MacBook has a membrane underneath the keys.
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After using laptop/Apple keyboards for such a long time, regular keyboards feel so chunky. Every time I use the Uni computers I have to get used to these monolithic buttons again. xD
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Low profile keyboards are pretty amazing when they’re done right. Less travel distance, it’s a pretty nifty thing.
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I like my old laptop which was a Japanese keyboard. The space bar was like 5 cms long and pissed off everyone using my laptop.
@lambomann007: re: Game Design or Game Programming, go Programming unless the material bores you completely. The reason being that you’ll graduate with a skill that you can actually use for a job. Game Design basically locks you into being a Game Designer which means you’re most likely going to be moving out of Australia in the event you actually manage to land a job at all. Programming at least gives you some technical competency, you can work in other fields writing code.
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yeah give programming a go, some enjoy it, i’m not really enjoying it, so i might be switching to a digital design course next semester
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As an aside I’m always happy to help out CompSci/Software Eng students if you get stuck on anything, hit me up on the twitters or something.
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Yeah, this is what I was thinking too. I like coding (except for when something just isn’t working and you can’t figure out why :P), so I won’t be bored 🙂
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Learn to use a debugger. Seriously. The more competent you are, the better your code will get and the quicker you’ll find the problems.
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Also, errors are never at the line it says they’re at.
It’s usually the line above it, or wherever you declared your variables. At least, in my rather narrow, and very low complexity experience.
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@LoL People
Seems the LoL servers are still broked. You know what this means right? DOUBLE IP WEEKEND / DOUBLE IP FOR 10 WINS!!!
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They’re rolling back to the Draven patch IIRC. So still no games can be played?
Also, thoughts on the ARAM map idea?-
Seems like a pretty cool idea. Haven’t completely read up on the map though but from the sounds of it, it will be a cool map to derp around on
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I watched a small demo of it by Ciderhelm on youtube, looks really cool. It uses the tutorial map, so in single lane, turreted up as usual with 2 covering the nexus, also like usual. Here’s the nifty ideas, once you leave the base, you cannot recall or go back to shop until you die, and the fountain does not heal you either, which really encourages proper tactics and coordination to get the most out of your engagements. Snowball items are gone too, so no Bloodthirster, Mejai’s, Leviathan, Warmogs (I think), etc. You can’t get any sort of wards/oracles either so stealth might be a possibility too.
There is no laning at all, basically just teamfighting. There are healing items, like in Dominion but instead of regen it’s a flat heal. There’s not a lot of them either nor do they respawn often so you gotta be careful on when to use them etc. Still I really love this idea, since it took the idea from custom games that already do this on Summoner’s Rift, so I’m glad Riot made a game mode entirely out of that non-standard game style.
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I got up early wanting to watch the GESL (Gigabyte Esports LAN) and that tournament just occured every single technical failure that has happened, especially Riot’s failed new patch breaking everything.
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Are the servers back up???
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Servers look to be up, a new patch is downloading as I type this.
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Most likely the rollback
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Indeed. Though I just tried logging in, says I was 20,000th in the queue, and that it would take exactly an hour. I think they may still be having problems.
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well lots of people want to get in and play now now now so.. yeah of course there’ll be a lot of traffic as soon as it’s back up
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Ubuntu is now installed and operational on my tower.
I found a program called “UNetbootin” that makes it easy to install.
Thanks, HowToGeek!
Update to the key saga: I found them. They were in the last place I looked.
Cool story, bro.
Also, I saw Rock of Ages on Sunday. Not a very good movie, but I had a lot of fun. Worth it for Tom Cruise pulling off the rock and roll sex god act(and his singing was surprisingly good), and the Baldwin/Brand relationship, which was amazing.
Was far less silly than the stage show. Which is disappointing, given it’s a juke box musical, and so it really can’t take itself seriously.
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I have nothing to add except to say that the game is pretty fun
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I must say, I’m glad you didn’t keep looking once you’d found them.
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It was kind of tempting to, but I figured that it would just be overkill.
I did once before though. But that’s because I found my wallet, then promptly lost it again.
I’m the best at this.
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That is indeed impressive, and shows commitment and steely determination towards your craft, good sir!
A scholar, gentleman and artisan you are, lest ye misplace those titles behind the proverbial couch cushions of yonder way.
Makhtub.
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Dear every student pestering me at work today,
go away.
thanks in advance,
#35
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Dear #35,
I’m hiding in a server room.
Give it a shot, it might help.Sincerely,
Rize-
Dear Rize,
I like the way you think.
I’m off to ‘inspect the video streaming server’
Sincerely,
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I really miss hiding there. The loud humming of servers, no humans to bother me, surrounded by racking hardware, it was heaven
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Well my posts seem to be appearing again now so should be safe to ask, is there a Batmang meat happening this week?
If so who is is charge?
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July 21st was the date set by NotoriousR a while ago. There hasn’t really been any more planning since then as far as I know (unless you’re all secretly planning it without me) so I can’t really give you more information than that.
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NOTTYYYYYYYYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy……………………………….
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Work related rant goes here.
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First day back at work, AND it’s a Monday. I’m feeling you Flu, I’m feeling you.
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Only a few hours before home-time, stay strong.
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OK then:
Someone stole my frickin’ credit for resolving a critical issue at one of our sites, after I worked on it for the past 3 hours. -
I know that feel, human
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Can I have a work releated rant also.. thanks, that was good.
It feels like a perfect time for a nap. I always feel wretched after a nap yet it still seems like a fantastic idea.
Hey Shiggy (Hoping it was Shiggy and I didn’t get it wrong), thanks for pointing out that game music radio site in Potaku Ep 3, I’ve been listening to that non stop, epic stuff!
Plugging it here for others to see and enjoy!
CJ’s Log, Week 3
“TAY is like having your toes sucked by an over-excited platypus. Wonderful and weird and a little bit scary all at once.” – Smurfy Dog
Well three weeks have passed now and Im still alive. It’s been a rather quiet and uneventful week, a welcome change. Especially as I myself had less time this week to engage with my surroundings. However this is one tale I should note.
Roughly mid week I was invited by one Powalen to participate in a local blood sport of sorts. Whilst only a handful of the population here play they are none the less enthusiastic in their approach to their bizzare cock fights. They called it Pokemon and it is a simple game of sending a random selection from a large variety of critters to battle each other in the ring, formed up in teams of six. Despite my otherwise pro critter stance on those we share this world with, I must inform that I found it to be a great deal of fun. (Even if I did loose most rounds)
But, there was one downside to the event. The standard means of communication were insufficiant and such we resorted to other more vocal means. Yet when I arrived I was still wearing another moniker obviously out of place in any context other then its origin. As such I was swiftly made fun of and more jokes were given upon my name. But between you and me I think they were all just a bit jelous of my credentials. Yes that must be it.
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AEF
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~ Sergeant CJ S // Captain Bananas \\ Lt. Colgate
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+1
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To anyone that has seen Prometheus, this was a very interesting read.
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Holy crap this is gold, nice find mate 😀
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Yeah my mates and I wanted to discuss it and one of them found this. Hopefully there will be a sequel soon, I don’t want to wait too many years!
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Between this and that scene in Prometheus I might be put off.
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It’s worth the watch! Though now I might ease up abit on that salt n pepper squid. =(
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Oh I’ve seen the movie. Three times.
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Oh wow. Does that mean that squid are (at least in part) parasitic in nature?
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Uh, first reports were that the squid had only been parboiled – so not completely cooked.
Sigh… Quake 3 is available for Ubuntu, yet you have to have the pak0.pk3 and the linux 1.32 version of the game to get it to work…. 🙁
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I’d be more surprised if they didn’t bring it back at this point, even if for a little while. I couldn’t imagine KFC going “Oh, sorry. Not enough people liked us on Facebook so we’re not going to do anything. Bye.”
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Hi TAYbies!! Finally a week that I can keep up with TAY from a Monday. 😛
How are you all doing? <3
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Dawdle! Good to see you! Well… for a Monday I’m surviving, you?
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Hi Dawdle
Going well now that I can reply to people posts and they are actually showing.
Had a good weekend of gaming, played portal 2 co=op for the first time which was a hilarious experience. So much acid, so many times.
I also tried out darkspore which was interesting, only played solo which will get boring quick but think it could have some co-op potential.
The other major thing that happened was I actually finished a game \o/
Grotesque tactics 2, which I posted about at the end of previous tay. Funny and enjoyable but with a mass of annoying bugs and situations.
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Hi Dawdle. What’s new?
So anyway, I just found out Steams (American) summer sale starts very soon. This being my first one ever, what should I expect? Also what games are you guys n gals hoping to pick up?
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Expect to just start throwing money at your computer and to end up with a bloated Steam library of games that you just couldn’t avoid buying.
As far as sales go, Steam Summer Sales are pretty amazing. Odds are, you’ll find many a game for less than $10 that you didn’t even know you wanted.
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The Steam sales always annoy me. It’s always either “thanks for discounting all those games I already paid full price for guys!” or “thanks for dropping the price by 40% shame it’s STILL more expensive than importing a physical copy thanks to the Australia Tax”.
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It’s going to be my first Steam sale as well. It’d be good if I could get Trine 2 or The Walking Dead.
Luckily(?) I’m on a Mac so my wallet won’t take too much of a beating, I shouldn’t think. 😛
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*joins the first Summer Steam sale club*
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Don’t buy anything that isn’t a daily deal until the last day.
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Do they specify when it ends? Or will it be sudden?
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Dates are normally clearly advertised – and the last days deals are often a ‘best of’ what’s already been offered.
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Would something in the ‘best of’ (last day deals) ever be discounted lower than it was as a daily deal? Also would this scenario be accurate?
Let’s say The Witcher goes on sale for 50% at the start of the Summer sale. When it becomes a daily deal it would go to 75%. After the daily deal is over it would revert back to 50% for the remainder of the sale unless it’s part of the ‘best of’ at the end. Now would this best off price ever be discounted at more than 75%, let’s say 80%? (I think 80% is the biggest discount I’ve seen on Steam)
If it doesn’t then the daily deal price would be the lowest and if anything I want is at a daily deal then I should pick it up, right?
Sorry for the questions I just don’t want to be that guy who ALWAYS buys something just before it gets reduced and complains and feels bad about it 😛
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Daily price will be best price. Don’t expect anything to reappear on the last day either, if you wait chances are it won’t.
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So far as I recall, the finale just reverts them down to the daily prices.
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Further point – first 30 min of daily deals can be wrong, I got 4 copies of Terraria for $7.50 when they screwed that up. Then I bought a 5th at $5 to make up for it since it’s a good game.
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So wrong as in bad wrong? As opposed to good wrong where there’s a price screw up and it’s cheaper than it should be.
I assume Terraria was supposed to be discounted 50% to $5 but they screwed up at it was $7.50? Although it’s still a saving nonetheless and yes, Terraria is quite a good game 😀
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4 pack. It was a good wrong.
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Ho shit D:
That’s quite a good wrong! I thought you meant $7.50 each. I read that it went to $2.50 once (probably a daily deal on Steam) but I was happy to pay $10 for it.Excellent value for money 🙂
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As far as steam sales go, they generally have a huge selection of games on sale (anywhere between 20% – 50%) for the full duration of the sale. Then every day they choose a few games and increase the discount. So basically only buy games that are in the “daily sale”. On the last day if a game that you wanted was on sale but wasn’t on a “daily sale” buy it.
I hope that made sense. Oh yes and expect ANYTHING to be on sale 😛
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VERY recent releases won’t go on sale I.e. no skyrim deal in the Christmas sales.
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Although I would expect a 30% off skyrim during the summer sale. Maybe even a 50% for 24 hrs only (May be wishful thinking)
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It’s been on a weekend deal this year (33% off?) so it should be one of the daily features in this upcoming sale.
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What I could probably project on the too soon front – don’t expect Max Payne 3 to be on sale. Best hope would be inclusion in a ‘Complete Rockstar Pack’ of some sort, but could even be excluded from that.
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When is it expected to start? I’m setting a budget of $150, max. I swear I’ll stick to it, too!
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I asked this question last week and people said around late June/early-mid July, so fairly soon :O
I want to buy PS+ for the free games and I really want to work on my pile of shame but goddamnit CHEAP GAMES! MUST BUY THEM ALL
http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/Steam.png
The basic way sales have worked recently is that almost the full catalogue will be on sale, probably around 25% – 50% off
They they will run daily deals where around 10 games would be on sale for 24 hrs only with a countdown. What I have found is that if you are planning on buying games wait until the last day and get everything you want otherwise the moment you buy it at 50% off it will pop up on the daily deal for 75% off the next day.
There is also generally packs on sale which if you are new to steam can be great value, like the THQ complete pack which contains almost 20 games from THQ which will be down to about $50.
Recently they have also been running competition type stuff (tickets last summer, coal over christmas) where you can gain achievements that give you a ticket that can be redemmeed for prizes (DLC, games cosmetic items). Possibly a chance to win grand prize as per christmas which was winning the entire steam catalogue.
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Thanks guys, you made my wallet cry!
Hey all,
dont forget there is a Trials Evolution comp running exclusively for TAYbies. Just good fun comp for ALL levels of skill.
Send a friend request to MokoTAYbikeu on XBL to be included. Follow @FatShadyLive on twitter for the new track each week and the leaderboard posted on Sunday nights.
Best time set each week on the weekly track wins.. but its more about having solid competition with people you know. I was giving prizes away but i’ve run out. If people like the comp, I might be able to get more prizes so let me know if this is a worthwhile comp.
Im not competing in it, just really want to ensure there is a good amount of competition going on. Find somone similar to you and try and beat them next week.. and so on until you take on Sughly, Batguy or *shudders* even me? 🙂
I always make sure to only select the easier tracks to ensure competition can be close. There are about 26 people participating, but not sure how much ‘competition’ there is.. I know Batguy tries to beat everyone, but not sure who else is playing?
This weeks track is Cliff Jumper.
Have fun!
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Thanks for keeping these going Shady, I always like reading about community activities even if I can’t take part in them.
So really what I am saying is smack talk people, bring it-
Remember that time Cakesmith suggested Sewerage Plant as a track and he wasn’t even participating? What a dick.
But then again I wasn’t competing either :P, but that track is such a pain! Stupid water physics!
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Personally the way I’ve treated this competition is just to beat my previous time before it was a competition track by at least a second (or a lot more in the case of Gigatrack) and that’s worked out pretty well for me. Sometimes I then go ‘well maybe I can cut off another second’ but other times I’m just content as is. I seem to fall in the top ten or so each week which I’m pretty happy with. Don’t really expect to ever be seriously competing against Batguy or Sughly times, though. 😛
Haven’t been able to keep an eye on TAY today, but after a quick squiz there seems to be quite few newcomers making an appearance. Or have I not been paying attention?
Welcome newcomers. Prepare yourselves for…
*whispers* … The Oar
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I think the oar was lost.
…unless you happen to have found it?-
F**k it, we need a new one.
To the FORGE!
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Hi everyone!
Mum went to the Doctor today and we found out her Doctor is leaving =(
He helped her out when everyone else had given up on her. (Her liver Dr. said she’d be as good as dead, pretty much)
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That’s terrible news Scree. Have you asked them for a referral or at least some people who you can contact? Is there going to be a replacement in the same practice or will that be one of the ones who gave up on her?
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It’s alright, the one that gave up on her is no longer her doctor.
The one that is leaving helped so much, so we really want to thank him
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Thought I’d inject some weird into this page:
http://www.whitepowermilk.com/
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apologies in advance for the coarse language, but WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST LOOK AT!?!?!?!?!
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OK heres my train of though upon seeing that (ROT13’d so as to not spoil it for others) :
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I responded in very much the same way.
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I… uh… what… don’t… know… brain… can’t… comprehend…
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I’ve seen some odd things on the internet but I think this is definitely the weirdest.
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That’s messed up *deletes from history*
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Hahaha! That’s why I love the internet! Some absurdist performance / online installation piece?
Web design student project? David Thorne perhaps?My favourite bit:
Gb or ryvtvoyr gb svygre Juvgr Cbjre Zvyx, rnpu juvgr tvey zhfg or npperqvgrq nf fbpvnyyl ryvgr naq qrrzrq culfvpnyyl va fhcreo urnygu. Ubjrire, eneryl vf vg arprffnel gb vaibyir vagreivrjf be qbpgbef. Jura jr svaq gur evtug tvey sebz gur evtug snzvyl, jr whfg xabj. -
That’s by far the strangest thing I’ve seen in years o.0
Kinda reminds me of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020808195754/http://www.necrobabes.org/perroloco/LivestockInventory.html"
NSFW, you've been warned-
fail, fail, fail…
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I click on most links without reading them, cause why not?
Obviously that didn’t work but after reading the title I’m glad it didn’t 😛
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! 😀
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I had a feeling that there was something weird to see here, so I came back.
Also, how the hell did you find this site? What were you searching for??
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My List of games I will say I will finish and then not actually play in Shameful July:
– Gravity Rush
– Legend of Heroes: TitS
– Corpse Party
– Demon’s Souls
– Tales of Vesperia
– Shadows of the Damned
– Nier
– Darksiders
– Assassin’s Creed Revelations
– Bayonetta
– El Shaddai
– Halo Anniversary
– Agarest / Agarest Zero
– Ar Tonelico Qoga
– Atelier Rorona / Totori / Meruru
– Dead Space
– Yakuza 3/4
– Neptunia / Mk II
– FF XIII / XIII-2
– Heavy Rain
My actual pile is huge but it’s got a lot of games that I can safely say if I haven’t touched them in 5+ years I’m not going to ever get to them so this is what I’ve whittled it down to. Thinking Darksiders and AssRev should get priority because there’s sequels in the pipeline.
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I hated Heavy Rain. It was a great story, but a terrible game. But you have got some pretty great games in that list.
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Wow, that’s certainly a list. I haven’t played/don’t own any of them, either.
Good luck to you, sir!
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Been playing G Rush over the last few days. I got pretty absorbed by it.
It has it’s dull moments, but other times you’re just transfixed by it all.Also, I tried paying it at 2am after a night of drinking. Not the best idea.
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If you gun AC Revelations story missions you’ll finish it easyily in 2-3 hours depending on how far in you are.
So I’m organising a community playdate kind of dealio for Minecraft: Xbox 360 edition. But this isn’t for the faint of heart. This is war. The game is called Diamond Rush, and I’m planning on holding it on Saturday, June 30th, mid-afternoon (until however late it goes to decide a winner) on Xbox Live.
My Gamertag is TheLastQuestion for anyone who wants in.
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I think I’ve said this before, but at the next brissy meat we nead to have two TVs, two xboxes, 8 controllers and minecraft. Playing diamond rush together like that would be pure chaos. >:D
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OH HELL YES.
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My aim for Shameless Gaming.
Finish:
Metal Gear Solid 4
Halo Anniversary
Shadows of the Damned
Start&Finish:
Uncharted 3
Shadow of the Colossus
There are others, but those are the main aim.
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My aim for shameless gaming (so far)
Finish:
Need For Speed High Stakes
Halo Reach
Vanquish
Skate
FezI don’t think I’ll have my pc up and going for a while, so I’ll just focus on my xbox games and the ones that’ll work on my brother’s 8yo pc.
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I’m going to keep my goals realistic this year so my goal is to buy all the gaems!
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That’s a surprisingly realistic goal. I think everyone’s going to accomplish this during Steam sales 😛
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Initial shameless gaming aims:
Finish:
Ico
SotC
Skyward SwordStart and Finish:
LA Noire
Xenoblade
The Last StoryBonus List From Glacing at the Shelf (and ignoring Steam at this stage)
Uncharted 1 & 2
AssCreed 2
Gears of War 1/2/3
Madworld
No More Heroes 2
Dead Rising
De Blob
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Metroid Other M
Pikmin 2… Yeah, Steam is too scary to look at.
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Xenobladeeeeee!
No weekend long MC projects for you!
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Good luck finishing Xenoblade in a month! It’s a long’n! Some great games on that list though. LA Noire and Skyward Sword are great too!
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http://steamcommunity.com/id/Beavwa/games/?tab=all&sort=name
About 70% of that… I can’t be bothered putting 300+ games into one of those online tracking lists.
If I have to pick one that I want to knock off, I guess it’d be Alice: Madness Returns.
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Do one colossus a night easy.
My Pile of Shame.
It’s worse than I thought, damned Indie Bundles. Going to have to work out exactly what I will play for the month but my current plan is to try and finish:
– Dead Space
– Half Life 2 (including episodes 1 and 2)
– Starcraft (including Brood War)
– Shadow of the Colossus
– Darksiders
It’s going to be a busy month.
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Actually looking very similar to mine up to the last page
YYYNNYYNYYYYNYNNYYNNNYYNNYYNNNYNNYNYNYYYNNYNNNNYNYNNYYYNNNNNNNNYou should put psychonauts on your list, only around 15 hrs and a great game. Or, you know, do what you want instead.
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I am rather tempted. Darksiders might be subbed out for Psychonauts or something else depending on things and stuffs.
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Mine is worse, but you already knew that :p
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You haven’t finished Half Life 2 & the episodes, you monster =(
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They are most definitely first on my list for July. Going to power through them in a similar fashion to how I marathoned Uncharted 2. Just without the all-nighter.
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Yeah they’re pretty quick, especially the episode I supposedly took my time and only clocked 6 hours in each.
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My Pile of Shame
While not all the games I havnt play/finished these are the ones I feel I should.
-GTA IV
-Half Life 2 and its episodes
-Portal 2
-PoP Warrior Within
-Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai Pro Shogun campaign (only like 4 turns till I win anyway)
From the list I’ve only started GTA 4 and Shogun, and for my own reasons Im not looking foward to Portal 2 but feel I need to play it so people cant just say my opinion doesnt matter cause I havnt played the game (fair enough but dangit its justified)
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Didn’t like Portal?
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You don’t like Portal 2, you monster!
What weren’t you keen on?
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I liked Portal and Im sure Portal 2 is a fine game, but at the same time I cant stand the damn IP. I dont like saying this cause I think it sounds like im just a sheep to others ideas, but I have very similar attitude towards it as Yahtzee.
Seeing as everyone is posting their lists… Here’s my entire pile of shame:
Finish:
Metroid Other M (currently playing)
Fire Emblem Sacred Swords
Metal Gear Solid 3
Dillon’s Rolling Western
PullBlox (a few puzzles left!)
Super Mario 3D Land
Steel Diver
Assassins Creed 2 (probably won’t play this. I found it boring :P)
Bastion
Super Meat Boy
Red Dead Redemption
Little Big Planet
Start & Finish:
Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater
Metroid Prime 3
Psychonauts
+ Plenty of Humble Bundle games
I’ll probably finish off Other M first but I don’t know where to go after that. I’ll figure something out.
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I couldnt put Mario 3D down, loved it.
RDR is awesome and you should feel shame for not having finished it 100%tothemaxkilledapackofbearswithaknife.Actually Im jelous of your list cause I loved alot of the games one it.
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I finished the first 8 worlds of 3D Land pretty quickly, but I got a bit burnt out playing through the post-game worlds. I’ll finish them one day!
RDR was the same reason. I was right near the end as well!
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I’d say it’s worth finishing RDR for the ending. The later levels of 3D Land are some of the best except for the last level. It sucks 😛
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I already know what happens in the ending though (well, the main thing), so I’m not in a huge rush. It’s been so long since I played the story last that it would take some getting used to. Not really up to starting over again at this point either 😛
One day!
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Ah then I wouldn’t bother then. Psychonauts gets my vote then since it’s also on my list and many others :P. We should all play it!
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This comment will probably get lost, but damn Legend of Korra was good over the weekend.
I ended up focusing on animation, going on to watch superman vs the elite and also batman under the red hood again. I really enjoyed superman, and it had been a while since i watched under the red hood, I forgot how incredible it was, it shows everything good about Batman and really just blows me away.
Also, I started watching transformers prime after initially finding it a tad annoying and childish. After watching the end of season one and the beginning of season two i can say that it is far from childish.
On a tangent, a lot of cartoons these days seem to be aimed at adults. Thundercats, Young Justice, Legend of Korra, Transformers Prime, Under the Red Hood and Superman vs the Elite. Adult themes and ideas.
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Korra was amazing. Damn things escalate quickly on that show. So many great moments.
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YOU SHOULD TOTALLY CHECK OUT TRON UPRISING, IT’S AMAZING!
http://darkadia.com/member/scree/library#!/shelf/unfinished/1
That’s mine, even though it’s currently an incomplete list.
I will try to finish skyward sword at least
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I should mention that this is my pile of shame and it probably should’ve been a reply D=
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Start with beyond good and evil, such a great game.
Then the other thing that caught my eye was Tenchu but I am not sure what the new versions are like, haven’t played it since PSOne
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Everyone’s doing it and I want to fit in so:
Finish:
FF13
Dark Souls
GoW: Chains of Olympis
GoW: Ghost of Sparta
Alice: Madness Returns
Diablo 3
Half Life 2
Assassin’s Creed
The Witcher
Halo Wars
Start and finish:
Uncharted 3
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
Modern Warfare 3
Crysis 2
Other games I might try and knock off my list if I complete the above games:
Farcry 2
Doom 3
Kameo
Metro 2033
Divinity 2: Ego Draconus
My prediction is that I’ll finish zero of the above games.
So the Canberra Meat is this weekend right? If Blaghman (or anybody else knowledgable) is around, can I get some more details about it? Assuming there’s room for me, of course. xD
I just want to know arriving/leaving times, what to bring, etc. I’m still weighing up whether to catch the bus or just drive as well, so what’s the parking situation (or how do I get where I need to be from the bus station). Thank you muchly! Hopefully I can make it!
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He posted his email in this or last week’s TAY and said to email him for deets. Could always twitters/TS him though 🙂
Also thanks for the lift Powalen 😀
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Here we are:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-193/comment-page-2/#comment-716218
Page 2 of this very TAY!
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Someone’s got to fill in for the Novahkiin while he’s off galavanting around overseas. If you catch a plane to Sydney and then train it down to Wollongong, I’ll give you a lift. How’s that sound? 🙂
(Must have missed that notice D: To Twitter!)
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So, I got some Nintendo presents last week – 3DS “Mario Hat” pouch and gold nunchuck.
Which reminded me I still have a stack of club nintendo cards on my desk.
I think the people that wanted/needed were Scree and Greenius? Please correct me below as needed. And if I was right, how many points do people need?
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Yep, you were right. I technically don’t need anything now but I’m low on points since buying the Gold Nunchuck a few months ago so I’ll be happy to take any spares in case there’s a new limited thing available. I recall scree and Chuloopa were about half way to getting the Nunchuck so they should get first dibs.
Thanks again.
Partly because everyone’s doing it, partly because the page is stagnant (or just post-to-refresh excuse) and partly because I actually want some valid input; I give you my Pile of Shame.
On PC:
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
LIMBO
Oddworld: (all sans Abe’s Oddysee)
Psychonauts
The Binding of Isaac
Crysis 2
Bioshock 2
On X360:
Sonic Unleashed
the constituents of the SEGA Megadrive Ultimate Collection
Prototype
Darksiders
Left4Dead2
Halo Reach
Gears of War
Brink
Batman: Arkham City
(And because I haven’t played the HD version yet) Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition
Suggestions on which ones I should attempt to knock over in between sleep/work/study?
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I should probably add Diablo 3 to the list, as I’m yet to click ALL the things.
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I guess I’ll just comment on the ones I’ve played:
Limbo is short so might as well go for that, Psychonauts is good fun although I haven’t beaten it yet myself, Darksiders is good and fairly short too (~10 hours), Gears is gears, Batman is awesomes!
Based on length I’d go Limbo/Gears at least because they’re both around 5ish hours but based on the game itself Batman is probably the best thing in your list so get that out of the way and Psychonauts I guess because that’s really good too.
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Yeah, I’m thinking with time constraints the short ones are probably best (like me!) so cheers for that.
Okay, so far, I’ll go with Limbo, Gears and either Darksiders or Psychonauts (I never really much enjoyed Darksiders for the 20 minutes or so I played, so it’s more on my “get it out of the way as quickly as possible” list). I’d like to savour Batman some more, so I think I may dedicate some extra-extra-curricular time to it, outside of this.
There’s something niggling in the back of my head saying “complete the Oddworld series” but I don’t think I could put myself through that much simultaneous frustration.
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I would have to agree with limbo, nice quick and easy but an enjoyable experience
Then Psychonauts simply because it is one of the best games ever made
HI STRANGE!
Also, random complaint:
Luke:
– Article about the Kickstarter and the shitposting and why it’s bad: great
– Article about gamer culture and why it needs to change: great, sure
– Article about someone writing an article about the Kickstarter: uhm..sure. I guess.
– Article about the misandry Indie Go Go, ripping it to shreds: uhm, okay.
So the general story of the posts is that over sexualisation of women in video games is an issue we need to address, and it’s deeply rooted in gaming culture.
Followed quickly by:
– Cosplay photos mostly of women in skimpy outfits, including one from “Erotic Cosplay”
– Article about the new Black Widow figurine, primarily due to it being modelled after an attractive lady
– Article about “Street Fighter: Where are they now?” – lead image? Cammy crawling around in a sexually charged picture
…..what the hell? I don’t mind if you go either way, but you can’t rant and rave about a cultural issue stereotyping women in games and demand change, and then post articles focused on boobs.
/explode
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BOOBS!
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DID SOMEONE SAY ‘BOOBS’?!
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There’s three boobs in this comment thread.
Now four.
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You’re a boob.
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No, you are the one who is boob-like.
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If you’re boob-like you can motorboat yourself. PROBLEM SOLVED.
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…did we just over-engineer masturbation with male mammary oral stimulus?
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Yep.
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HI ZAP!
Don’t asplode!
And yeah, that’s a big part of the problem and also why some people don’t take it seriously. If you’re going to take a stand, take a stand. Don’t try and pander to both sides, you’ll just cheapen your voice and neither side will end up believing a word you say.
I know there is a topic for this but
Three cheers for R18 passing parliment!!
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Manhunt HD. I’m praying.
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Hoorah! Hoorah! Hoorah! \o/\o/\o/
Late to the Potaku party but I just finished listening to episode 2. I won’t clog your twitter feeds again but good job lads, I’ll check out 3 tomorrow night 🙂
The crickets at Doc’s(?) MGS2 Raiden comment was so funny. The Twilight Princess announcement trailer always stands out to me as a Zelda fanboy. I lost my shit as a kid when I first saw that and it seems like everyone else did too. Whenever I need a quick laugh, watching it on YouTube and hearing the crowd go nuts always puts a smile on my face :).
E3 and other conferences really need to go back to the bomb dropping and surprises, it’s what makes them great. Otherwise everyone should just do their own conferences (ala Nintendo and their recent conferences) because these big ones are just becomming redundant…
People are posting their shame piles, so:
start and finish Oddworld: Strangers Wrath
Saints Row 3 (coming in the mail this week)
Resistance 2
Finish:
Motorstorm apocalypse
Resistance 1
Final Fantasy XIII
Not even touching PC, but if I finish all of the above I’ll try to finish The Witcher.
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Damn, Oddworld strangers wrath is awesome, adding it to my pile
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I’m in the process of finishing that one as well.
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I believe Cakesmith was organising a Melbourne meat for Dark Knight Rises at imax?
Is that still a thing? I was told today that I have too much leave accrued at work and I have to take 2 weeks before the end of July. So I’m free from the 15th to the 30th. Yeah, it’s harsh, I know :p
This means that I can both:
a) work on my pile of shame, and
b) probably make it to Batman meat according to the dates on the Imax website (depending on session times and public transport)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2D3z73cg_M
Funniest thing I’ve heard all day.
Even funnier if you’re a Sly Cooper fan.
Mm. Good night TAY. I’ve finished the transcripts for my interviews from Supanova and they should be up tomorrow night. The Jennifer Hale one made me super emotional because she was so lovely <3
F4ction, remember our Idea for building a house?
I’m thinking much like this but to motorbike scale.
http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/funny-gifs-skateboarding-at-home.gif
Aleph’s tips for proper day-to-day function, #34;
4.5 hours sleep is not enough. Substitute with caffeine for temporary solution.
Woke up this morning not feeling entirely inhuman. That’s a nice change.
Was running late but a bus showed up at my stop pretty much immediately. Transferred to another bus, as usual, working on the assumption that any bus saying City-Valley would drop me off roughly outside work. That logic has been working for me for a while now. Has only failed me once.
Now it has failed me twice.
Also, the driver shut the door on me when I was getting on. Not stopping me from getting on. Physically closing the door on me as I was stepping on. Trying to grab me in their glassy embrace or some nonsense.
She failed.
I really want these.
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Amazing!
Morning Friends
Woke up the morning feeling like death. So I’m home today sick, which is pretty cool. If you ignore the whole “sickness” thing.
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I totally lit a fire in Minecraft last night.
So if we find ourselves homeless when next we log in, I guess we know who to blame.-
Just logged in to check, my house isn’t on fire! \o/
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Damn that Creepius! He’s responsible for everything right?
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My current construction consists of a hole in the ground. Don’t think fire is an issue for me.
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Get well soon Nobfriend 🙁
I hear Xenoblade helps cure sicknessess!
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but, but, I’m playing it for Shameless Gaming Month. If I play it now I’m breaking the RULES!!!!
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Rules are meant to be broken! You’ll need a head start since it’s a looooong game 😀
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Play it now!
I finished off Other M last night so I’ve already crossed one game off my pile! 😀
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Also seeing that all the cool kids seem to be doing this, I added my PC/PS3 games to Darkadia. Next 360 & Wii.
http://darkadia.com/member/NooBHeadshoT/library#!/shelf/unfinished/1
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I see chantelise. Have you tried Recettear?
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Yes! I loved that game. It is listed under finished (I linked my unfinished games).
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Capitalism HO!
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I never finished it. I was set up to fail, so I just stopped playing.
If you liked that you might like CTHCC. I’ll gift it to you when it comes out on steam-
wait what’s CTHCC? Also thank you very much for the offer to gift it to me Scree. I can buy it though, don’t waste your money on me!
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http://cherrytreehigh.com/
It’s not on steam yet and by that time I figure you would forget.
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Well yeah I am pretty forgetful. Also a plus for it is that it will have perfect grammar!
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So I’m thinking during Shameless gaming month I’ll try to finish Zelda Skyward sword, Uncharted, Persona 2 and Nintendogs.
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Can you finish Nintendogs?
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my aim is 10, 000 owner points, every item collected. =D
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When you exhaust the world’s supply of puppies. That’s when you finish.
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HEY PAGE 4. I’ve got a copy of Gravity Rush sitting here on my desk, but alas, I don’t have a Vita.
So instead of I don’t know, putting it in the bin, how about a little competition??
ARE YOU ASKING FOR A PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE!???
CHALLENGE: DEFY GRAVITY
DUE: BEFORE WEEKEND
WINNER ANNOUNCED: MONDAY TAY
Photoshop allowed. Entries must be a reply to this thread (no email).
Judging criteria will be based on mainly on originality and creativity, but careful execution never hurt ANYBODY!
If you need more clarification, ask away!
GLFH 🙂
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Woo I love competitions!
I don’t have a Vita so I won’t be competing but good luck to those who are. Looking forward to your entries 🙂
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Unfortunately I’ve already got it, but would be in it to win it if I didn’t.
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Ha Ha. That sounds awesome.
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I HAVE AN AWESOME ENTRY
http://www.uploadhouse.com/viewfile.php?id=16235651
This is me defying gravity.
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Actually, don’t click that one. Apparently it has NSFW ads. I’ll find a new upload place.
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Hahaha poor Gravity 🙁
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OKAY YOU GUYS, SERIOUSLY.
THIS IS A MASTERPIECE.
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i already have it, but i may try and win it for a friend of mine
I’m back baby!
Oh stop groaning.
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What did I miss?
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R18?
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Sadly it was such a long, drawn out and pointless process I stopped caring a long time ago so the news doesn’t excite me as much as it once would have.
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Well other than that not much else happened except for http://mobile.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/woman-63-becomes-pregnant-in-the-mouth-with-baby-squid-after-eating-calamari/story-fn5fsgyc-1226397391618 (thanks Cakesmith!), shameless gaming month discussion and talk of Steam Summer sales.
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Also white power milk… NSFW
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work? hell, it aint safe for your mental wellbeing.
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He’s back / from outer space… something something something…. *starts humming the melody before awkwardly leaving the room*
aaanyway… welcome back man! how was NZ?
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NZ was great. For some reason all their food tastes much better then ours and their pubs and nightlife leaves ours in the dust. Plus I jumped out of a plane. That was an experience.
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I hope that plane you were jumping out of was reaching terminal velocity whilst pointed at the ground and you had to jump to save your life =P
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FREEZE!
Welcome back, hope you had fun!
Also, considering getting SH downpour for $40. Worth it?
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I hate to say it but I really have to go with no. It’s just a bad game. $25 would be a better price point. Unless you just want it for completionist reasons.
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Is it really that bad? I mean, I hated Homecoming, to me it was the worst SH ever.
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Probably on par what with some things better and others much worse.
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That makes my decision very hard. I mean, I was going to get homecoming on 360, but changed my mind (mainly because I couldn’t find it cheap enough). I’m very uncertain now >_<
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It’s okay you guys, Xenoblade is here for you!
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Oh, god, scree, you know what I’ll say: stick with Lone Survivor and download A Mother’s Inferno. The former, you have it, the later costs you $0. Quiet inexpensive, huh? 😛 And you just finish Amnesia The Dark Descent and wait for A Machine for Pigs, jeez! 😛 Pick Downpour when it goes to the bargain bin for coins. I was hoping it was going to be ported to PC so I could pick it up 75% on Steam, heh. *cheapskate*
Greenius has some fine true down here. Xenoblade is there, waiting for you.
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Welcome back. What did you bring from NZ?
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A couple of souvenir knick knacks, bunch of lollies and chocolates we can’t easily get here and a cough that won’t go away.
Hopefully not another baby like we did last time.
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accidental human trafficking?
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The worst thing is my wife didn’t even declare to customs she had a baby hidden in her hoohaa. Granted we didn’t know either but after watching that Border Protection show we know that’s not an excuse they accept.
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Ha Ha
Oh hey dude, was wondering when you’d be back. HOW WAS IT, I bet it was cold?
Good morning!
As of today, I am officially going to the Can’d Meat! 😀 I’ve also decided to drive, because catching the bus is more expensive and less convenient. So if any Sydney folk would like a lift to Canberra, I have some places in my car. (You will have to meet me in Wollongong though, which is a 2hr direct train ride from Sydney. It’s too much of a journey for me otherwise).
If not, I’ll see you all on Saturday!
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Come to Brisbane and pick me up! It’s not that far out of the way right …. right!? Anyway have fun man, the Canberra meat sounds like it’s going to be awesome!
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Yeah Melbourne isn’t that far either!
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While you’re picking everyone up, mind if you come get me? I can meet you in Darwin, if that helps at all.
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Alright I’ll start making my way to Brisbane now, then swing by Darwin, loop around to Perth (it’s on the way) and then Melbourne on the way to Canberra. I better leave now if I hope to make it, actually.
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Time is of the essence!
According to my iPhone it’s going to take 5 days and 7 hours to walk to Canberra
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I wonder how long it’d take from Groote…
Not that I need to worry about walking, as PowaFriend is meeting me in Darwin. Still gonna cost a bunch just to get there /o\
So worth it though.
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But doesn’t Murray’s do a Sydney-Canberra trip for $10-$15 or so?
Have an awesome time nonetheless, and enjoy the roundabouts!
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The one I looked at (which coincidentally was Murrays) was $33 one-way Wollongong-Canberra. So $66 for the trip plus possible taxi fare. On the other hand, my car gets a full tank of petrol for like $40 and I can leave whenever I want (never >:D), plus be able to help out with driving people when I’m down there.
It just makes sense! I’ve never driven to Canberra before though…
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The drive *to* Canberra is boring. Driving *in* Canberra is boring 😀
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…I did not think of this point. 😛 I’ll just strap my 3DS to the steering wheel and play Mario Kart with gyro controls. That’ll save me from boredom!
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I think that would only work if you were playing a Nascar simulator, and constantly going around one of our many roundabouts.
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I recall one in particular that always seemed to have a car in the middle of the pond held within. Never the *same* car, but always a car…
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The mind boggles at just how bad Canberran drivers were.
It was probably while you were here, as it was a fair few years back, but they put up a fencey thing on one of the roundabouts, because some idiot had managed to drive his car into the pond in the middle, and something like six weeks later, someone managed to drive through the fence, and into the pond.
I mean, really? There’s probably a reason I don’t drive.
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People upstairs have noticed that I’ve accumulated a fair amount of annual leave and that I have not made any particular plans to use it up.
There’s a good chance I’ll take a week off of work towards the end of July just so that they don’t worry about it. It’s okay. I’ll still have a month’s leave left after that week.
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When I first read ‘people upstairs’ I thought you meant the people who live above you or something. Just sat there for a while thinking “why do they care if you’ve got leave…” followed by an “Ohhhh” moment.
😛
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I heard a rumour that I accumulated 6 weeks of leave… not sure how though but it’s irrelevant haha
I tried to read threough 4 pages of TAY.
I read 1 and a half and gave up.
I think that was a good effort and probably warrants a congratulatory cup o’ tea.
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I guess a cup of tea is OK but just think what you would drink if you had gone through all 4 pages.
Is the tea any good?
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it’s toasty warm.
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Congrats! Not sure if what I said was in those 1and a half pages but once again good job on Potaku 🙂
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I got halfway through the first page before realising I missed an entire week and one more day wouldn’t hurt.
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You missed out on this:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-193/comment-page-3/#comment-716608-
Is… Is that a real thing or some sort of arty thing?
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Arty thing apparently
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“art”
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They could have simplified the ordering process some. Took forever to realise that I needed to inspect the individual models to order the milk, as there’s no dedicated “store/shop” section.
Also, no international orders.
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The one that confused me is that they listed a price on each model.
But the price was exactly the same.
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Yeah, the only difference in price was if you went for the additional gargle video, which was $25 extra when available.
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HOT!
Apple and cinnamon porridge is the best “I’m home sick” breakfast ever!
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While not an “I’m home sick” breakfast, I had Coco Pops, and they were pretty rad.
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!
1. I’m not dead yet
2. I cheated on you with Gizmodo. http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/06/reader-review-sony-hx-20/
3.. AS OF TODAY, I’M OFFICIALLY A FIRST YEAR COMMERCE GRADUATE!!!!
Credit for that stupid Accademic Skills subject i had so much trouble with the faculty over, and a Distinction for Finance. So Stoked!
Sorry i haven’t been around much – lots of reasons of which i won’t go into detail about now.. but yeah – HI!
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Who’s this guy?
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The guy that wins all the competitions. Did I mention there’s a new competition above? 😀
Win win win win win!
Also good job on the Uni thing :D. My last exam for the semester is on Thursday and after that I’ll already be half way through my course… wow time flies!
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Congrats on finishing your first year!
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Grats!
Which uni?
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Congratulations on all points! Especially the cheating on us part!
When I get big business going with my self flipping carpet chair guards I’ll totally get you to forecast my futures and cook my books (fairly certain that’s how it works).
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Congratulations.
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Grats mate, and welcome back! 🙂
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Great to see you made it! Congratulations human!
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hey buddy, glad to see you doing well.
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So Ben promotes a competition and Loops suddenly comes back. Coincidence, I think not
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w00! congrats dood! Awesome effort on your part! Cheers to you Sire!
After today, my tower will finally be ready.
Relief doesn’t begin to sum up how I feel right now.
Also, I’ll celebrate by getting myself a new pair of runners.
The ones I’m wearing now are so worn that the front is starting to fall off.
Hi TAY. In celebration of the steps forward in R18+. Thought id come in and say hi. *sprays the champagne and walks away*
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oh this guy. walks in, messes up the place with champagne sprayed everywhere & then just buggers off, leaving Bish to clean up. worst.
:p
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also, I do wish to point out the “:p” down the bottom there. implying that I was speaking in jest & not being a jerk (at least intentionally) as that post may have otherwose come across.
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Two gaming thing I discovered whilst on my holiday.
1. With a decent set of headphones purchased and in my ears for the trip I found out that the sound design in Jetpack Joyride is fantastic. The sounds are meaty and have a depth to them I never realised.
2. Capcoms PS1 games on the PSP require you to regularly connect to the Internet to play them. After a few days over there they stopped working and told me to connect to the Internet before loading the games again. Thanks Capcom. That’s exactly why I have a portable system. So I can be tethered to something at all times….. Dicks.
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What the….!
I never connect my PSP to the internet. Capcom really are dicks.-
All the other ones worked (Square, Konami) just the Capcom ones. I usually have it on the wi-fi at home so maybe has something to do with it? No idea.
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well.. my psp’s wifi broke, so that would have been bad if i had any ps1 games from psn to play on it then.
i have got FF7, and am patiently waiting for the vita update so i can play it on that
Non gaming thing I discovered.
After spending a week subsisting on Manuka Smoked Streaky Bacon, coming home to plain old regular bacon feels like the putz option.
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Gotzinger American style rindless bacon is your Australian friend. I get mine from IGA but apparently you can get it in some Coles and Woolworths’ too.
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Wife is food shopping now. Message sent to her to find it 😀
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I sent you a picture of it on Twitter. It can be hard to find. It’s usually in the section where the specialty cheeses and prepacked salamis and sausages are. Not sure how it compares to your NZ bacon, but it definitely tastes the best out of any Australian bacon I’ve found.
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Why does lunch tempt me so, sniggering in the distant mists of midday, beckoning for me? I must satiate these cravings!
Does anybody want to lend me 7 grand (+ about $50,000 postage and handling)
http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/art/3067592392.html#f
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I would love to see Mrs. Freeze’s face if she walked into that in our living room.
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It would probably be $3-5k for shipping. (Or less?)
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Linked this to a friend, who replied saying he knew someone trying to sell these.
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I’ll go you halves…but you’d have to move in with us. 😛
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Worth it 😉
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hey pixel, i’m having a bit of trouble finding your steam account, so if you wouldn’t mind, could you try adding me?
my steam id is: proffessorchaos
but my name is under: Grandmaster B-Funk
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actually, there may be an underscore inbetween that proffessor and chaos
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Yep no sweat, will do once I get home 😀
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Not a fan of the words :/ but the guy is really cool
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Glorious
I just want to say that I’m strongly against the R18+ rating and will continue to be until my birthday this October 😛
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The rating doesn’t come into force until January and you’ll be 18 in October but you’re still opposed?
It’s almost lunch time and I’m almost definitely getting Japanese curry. The big question is, do I go to Mr Curry or Hanaichi?
Decisions, decisions.
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No. No curry. Just Katsudon.
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No can do. I’m craving the curry sauce.
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Katsu curry.
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Both.
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Mr Curry sounds like a trustworthy guy, but dammit, I want some curry rice now.
Hi all,
I just need to write another post about Amnesia. I don’t have anyone I know that i can talk to about it so TAY is where I go!. I wont post spoilers because i dont want to, but just some friendly advice.
listen and look at everything!
I can’t believe, I was stuck in a particular part of the game for like 3 days, raging a few times, and even loading a prior save file because i was stuck. turned out that i had failed to pay attention to a cutscene, mainly because i was shitting myself, and as a result, missed a crucial clue to the location of the way out of this space.
The puzzles are hard and you really need to look everywhere and read stuff, many times. Its a credit to the guys that they didn’t try and make them too easy. Most of the time i know what to do, but have to spend time looknig for where they are.
Its still a great game and im getting back into it not I have progressed from where i was stuck!… It’s funny, I even skimmed over some tutorials for this section to try and figure it out, and they didn’t help.
really hope some of the others here pick this game up. Im not a PC gamer at all, and never get into these types of games, but this is just a great game and the sequel should be amazing. Can’t wait.
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I can’t play it because it scares the bejesus out of me, so I’m finding your updates awesome. I’m living the game through you, without having to be scared. 😀
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Boo!
Now we are in this together!
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I wish I had your phone number so I could text “Boo!” to you when you were in the middle of playing it. 😀
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If I had Shady’s number, I’d have already done that.
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I think this might make it onto my SGM list.
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totally worth it. It’s apparently 8ish hours long. Im in about 5 hours but I think only about half way to the end. Do it!
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yeah, I’m probably only 2-3 hours in.
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Hey look! A GAF thread talking about videogame tattoos asking for ideas.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=479023
Fourth comment in: “Just get man child tattooed on your forehead.”
God dammit, internet.
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And yet, surprisingly accurate.
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What do you mean?
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Manchild. It’s a fitting description of the stereotype, and I can see the humour in it. Made me smirk, for what it’s worth 😀
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No. The stereotype is wrong. Always has been. I didn’t smirk, I facepalmed. This is what we’re fighting against.
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I understand we’re up against it, though stereotypes are generally wrong anyway. My portrayal of stereotypes is largely incorrect too, as we simply generalize far too often, which brings us back to the original point.
The best I feel we can hope for is that people are able to see stereotypes for what they are, and make our own judgements once we have established just who/what we are dealing with.
I am a firm believer in discussing and sharing opinions (often regardless of validity), although I do apologise for the upset. That was not my intention. -
The stereotype is amusing. Inaccurate, perhaps, but amusing… in my opinion.
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Starting out saying that they know it’s a bad idea and they’ll regret it doesn’t exactly sound like a tattoo getting mindset.
So I have a delicious lunch of coconut/garlic prawns and sticky rice prepared.
…and my appetite just up and left. God dammit!
Direct quote from a document one of the company directors was sending to a client (some of the absurd formatting may be lost):
“Assit clinet with Depoist paymnets and monthly cash paymnet program managemnet ”
Also:
“Provide contuinued Risk Managemnet anaylisis of quliaty , progran and Cost ”
And:
“Over see defcets and implemnet defect rectfucation & replacmnets. ”
Other highlights include:
“teh Porject”
“documnetaion”
“comonaince”
(Might not be clever posting work related stuff on here, but it was too good not to share)
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Spellcheck, son! I don’t understand how something like this can happen…
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He has a special knack for this kind of thing.
You should see how he defiles my Excel documents.
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“teh Porject” 😀
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WIN!
Also, I’ve NO IDEA what “comonaince” is meant to be. Clearly, we’re all far too literate to be company directors. Or idiots.-
Spell Check blew a fuse on “comonaince”
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Compliance is my best guess.
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He has a background in design and textiles, yet continually misspells vinyl as “vynil”
Also, you’ll notice the regularity of “-mnet”-
I think “-mnet” is a fairly common mistake for people who are trying to type faster than they are usually comfortable with. A lot of the mistakes are skipped letters or transpositions. Makes me think he is actually trying to learn to type quickly.
A slow typist wouldn’t normally make those mistakes. At least, not so frequently.
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I think you’re onto something there. I think I’m only about 40~ wpm, though apparently that’s blazingly fast around these parts.
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One particular co-worker has stopped and stared at my typing before. It was exactly as creepy as it sounds.
(70-80wpm on average)
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I wouldn’t rule that out. Just saying it looks like he’s trying to type faster than he normally does.
Going from 20wpm to 30wpm is a pretty dramatic change.
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Let me know when they are past their second week of their touch typing course.
Can’t explain the random capitalisation though. That just seems to be a standard business thing (had to proof a letter for a co-worker this morning who had a similar issue).
Hullo! I played some games!
Batmang: Harley Quinn’s Revenge. Don’t bother. Story elements weren’t that great, playing as robin was cool for 5 minutes, then it was just the same old. Nothing really exciting about it, tbh.
Spec Ops the Line: Demo. Got the demo from Steam. Frame rate would randomly chug, but I won’t hold it against the game seeing as it’s a demo. But gameplay was super boring. It’s just another generic third person cover based shooter. I played the full demo in the hope something exciting would happen, but nope. As generic as home brand.
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But NotoriousR, didn’t you say that Quinn’s Revenge had some crude Bokeh! BBBBBOOOOOOKKKKKKEEEEEHHHHHH!!!!!
(As a side note, there was one particular set area in Rock of Ages which had this fantastic view over LA, and it was always out of focus, and Bokeh’d up the wazzoo. Was amazing. Though a little dull, what with it being a real world application, and all.)
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Actually, i think batmangs on 360 had bokeh, this was the first time i’ve noticed it. I think it’s the first time i saw bokeh on a console, which was why i got all giddy!
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Hmm, I can’t remember if it did or not, which clearly shows that I’m a terrible person.
And I’m sure there have been console games with it before.
Probably.
I can’t think of any though.
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Playing … games… ?
What.
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Forgive me!
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Hey you!
Hows the exams going fellow Monashian? 😛
A few people (Tigerion, SmurfyDog) have been asking recently about details on the Batman meat you proposed. Was there any more info on it?
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Exam on thursday, then canberra on saturday!
About batmang, haven’t planned anything yet. Will get around to it!
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My last exam is at Thursday as well (2:30) but no Canberra for me 😛
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Just had to share this again. I’m very impressed with myself.
It’s for the Gravity Daze competition.
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Wow
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Is that a PS Move controller?
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It is now.
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For those of you with facebook:
I was wondering if you could please give me a very quick hand with something – all i need you to do is go here:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.456567104354105.109805.162566027087549&type=1
and click like on the first photo – that’s all. No BS or stuffing around, just click like and be on your merry way.
Thanks guys.
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Can’t do it currently, though in four hours, expect a “like” from yours truly.
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much obliged, mate
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What do you win? ;D
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Possibly the camera that i got to trial
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And done.
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thanks mate
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done!
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You’re a gem! 😀
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Liked, what do I win?
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Me for a night
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K done!
LoL tournament
Hey guys just updating this because i want to get it underway next week sometime
So far we have the following people who want to play, please be advised that while skill is not required to play and i want everyone to just have fun, It might be a bit difficult to balance the teams if you have never played before or havent played that much. In saying that the following Teams are what i have come up with. I still have a few spots available for people i havent sorted yet. I may have to do some moving around but here are the teams so far
Team 1
Harli, Stevo, Tigerion
Team 2
Noobheadshot, Tech Knight, Dawdle
Team 3
Mawt, Gorzilla, Nos
Team 4
Pyrean, Freyjr, Lucifer9783
Team 5 (dream Team)
Faction, Blaghs, Inquisitorsz
Team 6
Crabjiffy, Rocketman, Gingerchris86
If you have any concerns or ideas please reply, SO far it looks like we will play on twisted treeline map in a round robin tournement draft. Its a round robin style so everyone will play everyone and i expect that it will take a few weeks to get to the finals. The 4 best teams will go to the semis and then the grand final which will be a best of 3 game series. The winners get a $10 RP gift card and i am also gonna have prizes for a few other things.
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Harli and Steve-O are gonna hurt!
I don’t see many issues with these team comps though 🙂 this is going to be awesome!-
All the teams are quite even i think, Every team i made should be able to beat every other team. Everyone is just as unfamiliar with twisted treeline as each other as well.
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Fair point indeed. I got no clue what champion composition to go with myself so don’t worry about me being a threat 😛
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I wasn’t worried about that at all, it wasn’t crossing my mind in the slightest.
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Soraka, Sonna & Janna!
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Lotsa CC there, silence, knockback, knockup and stuns 😛
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Who’s running the betting because I think I just might put $10 on team 1 to win the lot.
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You want to run it? lolz
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Yeah they are pretty stronk, harli hasnt played in ages though and doesnt know all the champions that well. I think it will be okay.
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She should still have the best mechanics of anyone playing.
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Yeah true but all the other second tier people are probably just as good with their stuff. They are all at lvl 30 with a considerable amount of wins.
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She has the best map awareness, and game sense, definitely.
Her mechanics are all off, since the LoL timing is completely different.
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I played LoL with Harli before and i feel like she is at the same level as other lvl 30 players. I am still pretty okay with the teams.
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But you are all under-estimating what I bring to the team
I might have to practice so harli doesn’t beat me up
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Bunny, are you not playing??!
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I don’t play LoL anymore.
Last time I tried to play (as in updated the client so that I could spectate), my motherboard went haywire and that was after months of not even logging in.
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Aww 😐
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We’re playing with bans, no other restrictions on characters, right?
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Pretty much like standard tournament style, if not banned, anything goes
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Yeah i think thats okay.
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You’ll all be banning Kennen anyway 😛
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I’ll most likely be up for this if anyone still needs a team or a team wants an alt? 😀
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You could sub out on CrabJiffy if he can’t enter, I haven’t seen that guy in a while
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I played Diablo with him recently. He still lives!
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Oh is that where he’s been? That makes perfect sense 🙂
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I talked to dawdle yesteday and she said he would be in 🙂
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He’s been having exams but finishing today.
Also, he’s on Diablo a lot too.
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I missed his jungle Amumu play, I’m willing to learn from the master since I bought Amumu too pretty recently
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I told him to go back to jungling Amumu!!
Especially when Amumu has a 91% win rate across the board (including the pros of course)
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I have chris’s brother keen to but he has only played a tiny bit and i would still need another guy for you. If you can convince bish maybe. He didnt want to play because he thinks people take it too seriously 😛
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Bish should play I think.
We could make another team?
(although I don’t know how the brackets/elimination would work that way)
I was wondering if I could go with Jiffy coz we might be at the same place when the tournament takes place ;3 Just to make sure we don’t cheat 😛
If that makes thing difficult, it’s alright !
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I was actually thinking that when we made the teams, I think we can manage that just for you two . Plus you will now be on my team and we will be the winning team 🙂
It wont disrupt the teams to much
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Okay can we have El Kapitan? 😛
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This guy knows what’s up.
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Thanks man!! 😀
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This sounds like a fun time, but if I have to play five games in one night I may pass out in exhaustion, not to mention how potentially unlikely it would be for Nos to play unless it took place on the weekend
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I doubt we’ll run through that many in one sitting individually. Plus there’ll most likely be on weekends since most will be available then.
Oh man.
Those are some tough teams. :/
Just out of curiosity, who prefers reading on their kindle/iPad to physical books?
I got the kindle version of Game of Thrones for free, and read that really quickly. So I ordered the boxset with 1-4 and started reading a Clash of Kings. But I could only bring myself to read it one chapter a day before I felt tired/bored. So I ‘obtained’ the kindle version of Clash of Kings and haven’t been able to put it down. I don’t know why, but I find it easier to read than the physical book.
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I think I’m set in my ways with physical books. Nostalgia gets the better of me in that regard, as I adore the smell, and the physical act of turning the page. I have a kindle, though have found it disproportionately annoying to use. As such, I don’t use it at all, however I CAN see the appeal of one, for sure.
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I have really weak hands/wrists at the moment so a very light Kindle as opposed to a heavy bajillion page book is great for me.
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Sometimes it’s just more convenient. I also got the kindle version of Game of Thrones (I think you linked it in TAY?) and it was just more convenient to read it on my iPhone rather than carrying around the actual book when I was on the bus.
If the two are easily available in front of me (like at home) then I’d prefer to read the physical book. Something about it is just better than staring at a screen.
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True, I have my iPad with me when I’m at uni/on the train, but I think I’ve become more accustomed to the clearer/bigger text, as well as the fact I don’t need a light. All the same, this makes me kinda sad, because I like books and a bookshelf full of them!
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Something I’ve noticed with the Kindle is that you will just keep going. Without the physical reminder that you’ve read quite a bit, you don’t seem to mind reading a bit more.
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I like having books for my ‘collection’. Which is weird, because I don’t really value having a physical collection of anything else (I would buy all my games digitally if the price was right).
Having said that… If I had a Kindle I would probably use it.
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Only recently I’ve started using a tablet to read stuff but I am finding it way more comfortable. The ‘feel’ (and the look of books on a bookshelf) you get with the dead tree variants is nicer through 🙁
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through? THOUGH! lrn2type, yo
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Still a dead tree kinda guy, but I haven’t used a proper e-ink reader to actually sit down and read a novel so I may be a future convert. Have tried previously with backlight screens but can’t do that
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I only read books once – so my collection is for making sure other people can read the good books by borrowing them.
I do have a few ebooks on my phone for those 5 minutes I catch a train from the platform with no reception.
Hi TAY!
That is all.
Unless you actually had something you wanted to talk about.
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Hi Batguy!
Let’s have a little talk about tweetle beetles….
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Haha, oh man, I can tell you all about them!
When tweetle beetles battle with their paddles in a bottle and the bottle’s on a poodle and the poodle’s eating noodles, this is what we call… let’s see…
A muddle puddle tweetle paddle noodle poodle puddle battle. Or something.
I’ve set myself the goal of reading that whole book without a slip-up. I’ve made it to the tweetle beetle battles a couple of times only to have Knox screw me up. Knox! His tongue is not made of rubber!
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I used to be able to recite the whole book from memory because my daughter wanted me to read it so often. I get tripped up by the free fleas and their cheese trees though. Mmmm, cheese trees. 😀
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As awesome as Fox in Socks is, I think Hop on Pop actually has my favourite funny passages to recite.
“See Bee. We see a Bee. See Bee Three. Now we see three! Three Tree. Three fish in a tree. Fish in a tree? How can that be?”
“Walk Walk. We like to walk. Walk Talk. We like to talk. Hop Pop. We like to hop. We like to hop on top of Pop. STOP! You must not hop on Pop!”
Sadly he hasn’t learnt this lesson yet and frequently engages in Pop hopping.
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I am ashamed to say I have never owned Hop on Pop. *runs off to remedy this*
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Probably wayyy too boring for your kids now. But it’s perfect for 16 month old Tom because it’s very simple, repetitive sentences with easy to understand concepts.
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Fox in Socks! What a great book. Seuss is a genius.
hahaha tweetle beetles are cool! I used to love it when they’d show up on Sesame St!
The current state of affairs in the world of competitive ant rustling?
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I am anti ant-rustling and deeply offended that you would even bring it up. You bastard!
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To be brief, they’re rather poor. Economic downturn has crippled the already limited growth competitive ant rustling was seeing back in it’s hay day several years ago.
It’s not commonly discussed but everyone in the know know that the competitors are doing more than just rustling ants these days to make a living, if you follow my understanding.
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It’s a tough life, what with herds being “acquired” through rather shady means at best. The glory days -as noted by Trjn- are well and truly over. All that’s left is bull-ants and bulldust, both clamoring for footholds in the same cracks in the hands and faces of those once-mighty wranglers of yore.
Let’s talk about sex, baby
Let’s talk about you and me
Let’s talk about all the good things,
And the bad things that may be
Let’s talk about sex…
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I like you Masha, but I don’t like like you. Sorry.
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I’ll take that. 🙂
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First time on Tay this week… What did I miss?
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Not much, Shane’s kid is being born today
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Oh For realz?! I missed that too! Congrats Shane!!! Hope all goes well for your and your Mrs!
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Loops. You missed loops.
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We all missed Loops 😛
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I got my invite, if you know what I mean.
*WINK*
*SECRET HANDSHAKE*
*STONECUTTERS T-SHIRT*-
Bastard.
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So…. yeahhh…. I’m hopelessly addicted to Pro Evolution Soccer 2011’s Master League…
I started uncharted weeks ago, and haven’t touched it again.
I have a long list of silver and bronze medals in Trials evo…
yet i can’t stop playing pro evo’s master league… WHY YOU SO ADDICTIVE?!?!?!
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Triiiiiiiials Evoooooooooooo!
Oh.
Pro Evo.
Carry on.
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Master league is awesome. I hope this year’s PES is good enough to get me away from FIFA. I remember playing a ton of master league on the PS2 with PES 5 and 6. Playing the premiership in FIFA is great but the text can be a bit hard to read and I liked the master league formatting in old PES games.
To either Blags or BlueMaxima,
my thoughts on that game.rainwave site you mentioned.
Thank you.
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Seriously this like 8bitFM but heaps better, and the voting mechanic is a fantastic addition 😀
I have updated my Darkadia account with my 360 / wii games.
If anyone cares here it is (unfinished games showing only):
http://darkadia.com/member/NooBHeadshoT/library#!/shelf/unfinished/1
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Where’s Xenoblade? :'(
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Oh poop, forgot to add that. It is next to my wii (seeing as it’s the most recent game I have played on it)
FIXED!
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Technically having it written down doesn’t really matter, it’s the actual playing of it that counts 😀
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Fire Emblem 😀
going to see Cabin in the Woods tonight. I jknow absolutely nothing about it (other than Joss Whedon) & i’ve been told that this is for the best.
i’m excited.
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I like your style.
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Do we know if there’s any availability for streaming and/or purchase? I really want to see it, though geographical constraints prohibit such entertainment.
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I think you’re just stuck waiting for the DVD release.
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Poop. Patience is a virtue, so I guess by correlation this is a test of virtue.
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I have heard great things, you’re in for a treat.
I couldn’t help but keep glancing at the clock. It seemed slower than usual, so I replaced the batteries. It didn’t work. The clock is now face-down in the bin.
I hope for my computer’s sake that time gets a move-on already.
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Throw the clock out the window and watch time fly.
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They keep me cooped up in the back corner of the office. No windows, only a fusty old aircon to keep me company.
I’ve recently taken to hissing at coworkers if they cross into my territory, which I periodically mark in larger and more dominating areas. This office will be mine.
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So is there any plans for a Brisbane based Batman meat? If there is I have missed the deets (unless they are being hidden from in which man it’s cool. I didn’t like any of you any ways *sob*). If not we totally should get one going.
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If there isn’t one, there should be. If there is one, I don’t know about it.
Fairly safe to say that in the off chance something does get organised, it will be at IMAX.
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Eh? Is there an IMAX in Brisbane? I didn’t think there was?
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South Bank.
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That would work well for me. Could catch a train straight there.
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I heard that everyone was coming to the N.T. for a meat. I can provide swags, fire, and hunting apparatus.
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The hunting apparatus wouldn’t happen to be a swag on fire would it?
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No, that’s the I-need-a-rhino-immediately apparatus. Everyone knows rhinos try their damnedest to stamp out a fire.
Hunting apparatus will likely begin with me being used as a spear or stiff swinging implement, and progressing to more sustainable forms of weaponry once we get our first kill.
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And drop bear repellent? Don’t forget the drop bear repellent.
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I think they’re only found on the east coast, aren’t they? We’ve still gotta watch out for hoopsnakes, unfortunately. Nasty little buggers.
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Y’all should come down to Melbourne 🙂
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We should just have our own meat Green. No one seems to want to meat in Melbourne.
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There have been a few very tiny (~5 people) meats since the start of the year. Jordi usually organises them and scree did one too. There could’ve been more but none that I’m aware of. Only thing is that they’re all in the city which isn’t that convenient for us folk in the burbs 🙁
Batmang should be the first real big meat in Melbourne since I’ve joined TAY. People from interstate have expressed interest in coming down for it 🙂
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BRIS BATMANG MEAT!!!
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We should totally get one going.
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I’d be all for a Brissy Batmang Meat. I’m going to go see the movie with some of my friends, but I’ll probably need to see the movie a few times anyway 😛
I have never felt such mixed emotions before. Consecutive entries in my RSS feed:
– Okami PS3 Remaster might be in the works \o/
– Valkyria Chronicles browser game /o\
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The browser game does look a bit lame…
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It’s a card duel game like a million other games. Japan has literally dozens if not hundreds of them, they make amazing amounts of money from them (you know how the most profitable Japanese publisher is Gree now? Yeah, this is why). Free to play, but you pay for the cards, so effectively pay to win. Hugely profitable, very cheap to build and run.
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Sounds a lot like that animal card game machine in Galaxy World that we played at the Monomeat. Which, admittedly, was kind of fun in a ‘why is this game so enjoyable?’ kind of way. xD
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Probably the same game. That’s the thing, these games are all basically the same game with some different art on the cards. That’s why they’re so cheap to release.
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Okami PS3 Remaster certainly sounds like a way to get Move controllers off the shelves….
Anyone know what’s happening with lotro? Are people still planning on playing that together or has the idea fallen through?
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We were going to still i think, just been hard waiting for everyone to download, and then everyone be around at the same time 😛
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I missed out last time because I didn’t have to to download before we tried it
I currently have characters on Brandywine but think we were looking at a different server?
@Loops, “like”d for you.
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Also done this
Anybody seen the new gameplay that’s coming out for ZombiU? I’m not big on Zombie games… but this actually looks pretty cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp2SufhXmuE
I like the idea of getting a random character after you die and then seeing your past character walking around.
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Damn they stole part of my idea!
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i was wondering how they were dealing with the “one bite you’re dead” thing.
so if i understood that right, they will lunge and scratch at a mid distance, but if they are really close to you, they will grab you, and the only way to push them off is with an item? interesting.
also, i think with dayz’s popularity, and the good press this game has been getting, super realistic zombie games are gonna become super popular.
so sega have finally said when they are releasing anarchy reigns to western countries!
Q1 2013… what… i don’t even…
i think sega wants this game to fail… it’s already destined to be overlooked because it’s an IP by platinum games…
in fact, i think anarchy reigns may have to compete with their other game, a little game called metal gear rising: revengeance… no one cares about that right? anarchy reigns will be fine! (this sentence brought to you by heavy sarcasm)
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I was looking forward to it when it was first announced purely because it’s by Platinum.
Judging by their previous releases, most Platinum IPs don’t do that well (sale-wise) and now it’s going to be overshadowed by Revengenagnanancence…
When’s Revangnagnanegae coming out? Q4 2012? Hopefully it’s not too close to Q1 2013 but I don’t really mind the wait for Anarchy if it means it’ll be a better game. I’m still not entirely sure how the gameplay is going to work but hopefully it ends up good and does well and Platinum continue making awesomesauce games.
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internet says revengeaneanfefaneanfeafnace comes out early 2013 (which means Q1 2013 -_-)
and as for the wait, the game is finished, it’s coming out in japan in less than a month… we just have to wait half a year for it…
apparently though, people have been saying that the japanese game is fully translated into english.. so i think i may just import it…
oh and for gameplay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKJ_HVmGjHY
seriously, i’m so excited for this game
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It’s finished? Really? 😀
That’s the good thing about Platinum’s games, they’re usually in English so they’re import friendly (MadWorld doesn’t count because of the Wii’s region locking). I think I have a Japanese Vanquish and that’s completely in English.
Kinda stupid delaying it to the same time as Revengagereggae but at least it has time to do well in Japan.
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well, in anger and spite, i just created a japanese PSN account to get the demo, so i wonder if the demo is in english as well?
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I’m pretty sure I did the same thing for Vanquish. I think it was in Japanese though but it was a different level from the Western demos.
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Man, that GAME article really brought the champion spellers out of the woodwork.
Well, I went and got a cable for my dvd drive, only to find it was the wrong cable…
So, to make myself feel better, I got a plush Kenny, a copy of Race Injection, Windows 7, and John Frusciante’s solo album.
A good day.
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Oh, yeah… this means my computer will be complete by tonight or tomorrow! \o/
Eugh having a problem with Driver: San Francisco ever since I got my new PC when I go to play it
A) My USB controller doesn’t work
B) My keyboard controls aren’t all working
C) Resetting them to default doesn’t work
I have no idea what to do /o\ i’ve trawled google and haven’t found anything =/ I redownloded the game completely, nothing. I dunno what to do =( I just wanna play multiplayer damn it!
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my guess about the usb controller not working is that most PC games now are designed to only work with xbox 360 controllers, if you don’t have an xbox 360 controller (or a wireless receiver for one) then you will have to find a work around for it. if you have a ps3 controller, i reccomend a program called motioninjoy, as it lets you use a ps3 controller and will emulate it as a 360 controller (that’s what i use for when i want to use controller on my PC).
if all else fails, get xpadder, which lets you map controller inputs to keyboard and mouse strokes.
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Well it worked fine when I played through it first time on my previous PC, and when I booted it up first time when I got this PC, now nothing, and the keyboard controls, shifting & other secondary things not relating to driving of the car do not work /o\
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I have drivers that allow use of the control pad with games that utilise a 360 controller, since it’s how I played the game initially. Now I can’t use the controller at all, it’s not registered by the game, windows recognises it & the software that shows which buttons are which.
Also certain abilities in game now don’t work, those being the shift related abilities of the game, which are well pretty important haha. Just so weird o.O
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Sorry to hear that. I remember people having problems on PC when the game launched.
It’s a fantastic game (I played it on PS3) and it would suck if you missed out on it because of a few issues. If you bought it on steam you can try and get a refund and maybe buy it on PS3/360.
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Oh i’ve finished the game, had no issues first time round come to replay it/play multi with my mates all these issues crop up. Probably can’t get a refund anyway, was gifted to me during christmas sales 😛
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Theres an earth quakr right now
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wtf it’s still going on! my house is shakingggg
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At least I waited until the shaking stopped before posting!
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Well I was about to post something else and then SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE
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I was up holding the bookcases in case it got any worse.
My fallout bobblehead was going crazy.
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Fallout bobblehead. So jelly.
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I was skype chatting it to my friend (who works away) as it happened. So was his wife.
Goddamn internet junkies!
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Whoa! Headed to twitters and it seems like other Melbourne TAYbies got it too 😀
Earthquake!
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same here.
Just had a small earthquake where I live. Shook the whole house. That was exciting. Now one of the dogs is walking around the house trying to find out what caused it.
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We felt it over here too.
So the Northern, Western, Eastern and Southern suburbs have been hit by it. o_o
I’ve never experienced it before.-
There’s been a few around where I live before but they’re always so small that I never notice them and only find out they happened later. Definitely felt this one though.
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I never noticed one until I moved to the Dandenongs.
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Really? There was one like 3 years ago and a few since then.
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Western suburbs usually don’t get them at all.
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Here’s what just happened. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000ajek#summary
Magnitude 5.2 – 10km SW of Moe, Australia
Oh, Potato and Bacon, why do you go so well together in a soup?
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Hint: It’s not because of the ingredient starting with P.
Sorry for the tremors guys. That schnitzel has left me rather gassy.
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Best page get.
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Slightly gross yet hilarious
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And what a distance the shockwaves travelled.
Nature.
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Like the beats from a butterfly’s wings, so are my buttocks to the Southern Lands.
Forgive me my gastronomical transgressions!
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No no, that could not have been you, I have figured out what it most likely was and it wasn’t an earthquake but in fact Lemmy from Motorhead at sound check half way across the world. Like I know Motorhead are the worlds loudest band (Guinness book of world records state it) but damn..
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That dude is looking more like Wario each and every day…
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Haha, he’s totally immortal though!
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No, I’m pretty sure Disaster Area are the loudest band 😛 http://www.p2r.se/music/disaster.htm
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Seems legit LOL
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Also, on an unrealted topic, I am a complete moron.
I got pissy over not having the power cable for my dvd drive, and five minutes ago I just looked inside the case.
Lo and behold, I found the matching power cable for the dvd drive already there.
I am now officially the worst person on this site, because I failed at tech.-
And I can’t spell. XD
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Wouldn’t that make you the worst person on Giz? Terrible high-scores would make you pretty bad here, I would imagine.
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I’ll stick with all of Allure Media in general. 😀
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My installation of windows 7 onto computer is just about finally complete!
I can now enjoy the fruit of my loin! \o/
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You only have one loin?
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Terrible uni-cycling accident.
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It was horrible… their bodies impaled by spokes…a pregnant woman miscarried after the wheel hit her in the stomach with great force….and the seat… don’t get me started on the seat… it’ll only cause more pain…
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Sorry to bring up unsavoury memories, although have you spoken of this to anyone before? Counselling IS helpful, at the end of it all.
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Nah, I’m just joshing, mate.
🙂
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I think it was Virus who brought my attention to Driver San Francisco last year, and also brought it to my attention that it was the daily deal on steam yesterday.
God damn that game is fun!
The story is just so absurd but they roll with it, and they roll with it pretty well. The shifting mechanic is pretty fun, and the way it seamlessly blends between FMV and real-time cutscenes is also very well done. Want to play more, but sleep and exams!
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Sounds like something i’d do =P
I was a little sceptical at first about it, but having loved Driver 1 & 2 on the PS1 I just had to get it when it was 25 bucks during the Steam sales. I really need to get it working cause I can now play multiplayer successfully with out the lag when accelerating making me lose control of the car =P
This HAS to be a joke
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-19/mayonnaise-robbery-whyalla-coleslaw/4078788
Read the last line O_o
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I think once I read about a theft where the robbers stole a few things, including dog food.
Dog. Food.
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Idiocy knows no bounds.
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So who wants to come to a BBQ this weekend, hope everyone likes potato salad & colesaw!
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it’s on the SA police website, which is where the coleslaw line comes from
Cops have to amuse themselves somehow
Good morning, TAY.
For those who were wondering, it seems like Shane’s baby was indeed born safely yesterday afternoon. 🙂
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Hooray!
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Double Hooray!!
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Triple Hooray!!!
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Quadruple Hooray!!!!
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Hooray * ∞
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And another for good measure!
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successbaby.jpg
AMIRITE??
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I see what you did there
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You are right.
Congratulations Shane! (even though he’s not here)
Should I buy a card? Is it a boy or girl?
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Dammit Bish, you beat me to it!
Also, yay for Shane and his new babby!
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Woooo!
Awesome news!
WHAT!? I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW HE WAS PREGNANT!
Good to hear.
Thanks Strange, any further info?
Congrats Shane
Woke up this morning, went to have a shower: no hot water.
Drive to work after coating self in deodorant: swerve off road to avoid being hit by someone with no legitimate claim to an IQ number.
Get to work: half of network is down, because someone tore out 43 connections on a switch.
Reconnect everything: switch hardware fails.
Check clock: it’s not even 9am.
…why did I get out of bed this morning?
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Claim you’re sick and go back home. Pretend Wednesday doesn’t exist
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I was actually off sick yesterday, and still feel like crap, so I may fix this issue and then just call it a day.
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Crikey… sorry to hear this human
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Finished SRIII last night.
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How good is “I Need a Hero”?
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Very good.
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Man, I am really itching for a PSVita. But it’s still pretty expensive.
I was lucky in that I got my 3DS for $300, due to the toy sale. Bloody Big W and Target >_<
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I was really surprised they didn’t cut the price by $50 at E3.
Really shouldn’t have gone into work today. Got in feeling like crap and as soon as I sat down got like 5 people yelling at me for taking yesterday off.
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Hey, sounds like we’re in the exact same situation. I’m attempting to stick the day out to get important stuff done, then may bail.
I was thinking of random stuff yesterday and I remembered something…
Despite putting countless hours into Pokemon Yellow (irrelevant), Gold, Silver, Crystal. Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Pearl, SoulSilver and White and battling thousands of Pokemon, I’ve never seen a shiny Pokemon in the wild (Red Gyarados doesn’t count). Some people find them so easily yet here I am, just a chump with normal coloured Pokemon…
So TAYbies, is there anything gaming related that you’ve never been able to achieve, see and/or do? Something fairly easy that most people would’ve experienced before.
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I have never touched a girls boob oh wait gaming
Okay um i never could find all the magic tapes in the original tony hawks pro skater despite sinking hours into that game.-
Were you bottle fed as a child?
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I’ve never seen a shiny Pokemon either.
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I saw a shiny Pokemon in Ruby once. It was the (uncatchable) Poochyena that you first encounter after getting your starter…
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I’ve seen one, it was a Bellsprout on Silver (original) in the grass below Dark Cave, just before Violet City, and I frickin’ 1-hit-critted it. So much rage.
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I still haven’t finished an Assassins Creed game.
I can’t get that damn climbing mechanic/jumping/camera combination at a reasonable speed.
So, inevitably, there’s a timed puzzle… or a race, or a ‘catch this guy’ that I can’t complete and I get barred from going any further in the game. -
I saw a Shiny once.
Pretty sure I KO’d it because I didn’t know what it was at the time.
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I got a shiny meowth in silver, but that’s the one and only time.
Top of the list for something I couldn’t do, I could never get back up into the vent in multi on goldeneye 64. All my friends could. -
I’ve never finished Baldur’s gate
Just bought a Founders pack for MechWarrior Online.
Got the $60 one, because $120 seemed like far too much money to spend on an unreleased free-to-play game.
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I was planning on doing that, but I’m holding out on getting into the founders program until I get solid confirmation on Oceanic/Australian servers.
Keep in mind that factor is the only thing stopping me from throwing down money on this thing so far 😉
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This is what I’m waiting for too.
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So what do you guys think of it?
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Without going into detail on a public forum, it’s the real deal 🙂
Although I do not know if my lack of kills is due to me not adjusting to the lag or just my extremely rusty skills 😛
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Funny thing I realised, I was playing this character called “Rumble” before, during and after the tremor took place last night 😛
OK… so,
Moses supposes his toeses are roses.
But Moses suppposes erroniously.
For Moses, he knowses his toeses aren’t roses as Moses supposes his toeses to be.
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Make ’em laugh
Make ’em laugh
Don’t you know everyone wants to laugh?
(Ha ha!)
My dad said “Be an actor, my son
But be a comical one
They’ll be standing in lines
For those old honky tonk monkeyshines”-
I love that film.
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So how bout them earthquacks? (not a typo)
Another day, another article about Diablo 3 breaking.
Is it just me, or is every minor thing that goes wrong with that game being reported?
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Once some people gets grouchy over anything, they will pick it apart for every big and imperfection… Just because they can
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I imagine it’s games journalists way of venting. Average gamers will jump into a forum or chat room to complain about a problem, a games journalist will post an article about it. It’s their way of letting people know that they’re unhappy.
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I think it’s partly cuz it’s Blizzard and with Blizzard, expectations are the biggest everywhere given their reputation. Anything goes wrong, and they’ll get grilled for it.
Morning! I’ve had my shower so I’m now (kind of) awake!
Hoping to get some sewing done today after the earthquake delayed me yesterday.
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Who wants to bet I’ll end up in Minecraft?
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HOW WAS YOUR SHOWER, GREENIUS?
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GOOD MAN THANKS FOR ASKING
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I think there should be a comma in there somewhere…
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OH GOD, DON’T SAY THAT!
Makes it sound like he was showering as well. ._.
The shower was good, except I thought about random stuff too much.-
Syncing up your showers with everyone else, Greenius?
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Isn’t thinking about stuff the point of a shower?
A 20 minute shower should be three minutes of hurried cleaning, with seventeen minutes of deep philosophical thought.
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I thought it was for singing, loudly and hoping the shower is drowning out the sound of your voice.
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Are you saying that that doesn’t fall under the category of “deep philosophical thought”?
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HOW WAS YOUR SHOWER SCREE?!?!?!
Not sure if you saw it or still need it but I put the wool in the chest in your tunnel thing. I also explored the cave you found (didn’t put any torches down just flew around) and it’s pretty big :D. Exploring caves in MC is fun but getting lost in them isn’t…
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I got scared so I didn’t venture back. I would prefer to explore with company.
Really? I had been doing things the hard way (like actually collecting wool and dying it.)-
Just a helpful tip when exploring caves (learned this one from Glahman & Bish) always stick torches on one side of the cave for when you are getting further through the cave. For example I always place torches on the left of the cave so if I ever want to head back home I just follow all the torches. If they are to my right side I am headed in the right direction.
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It was probably Creepius watching you. =P
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But I don’t have eyes!
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If you get lost you just start digging upwards 😀 works every time
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or do what I did when I got lost in the Netherworld for like 2 hours. “Hey Bish can you teleport me to you”. =P
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Until you dig upwards into lava and you die 😛
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Hey question for all you minecraftians… WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GET SO MUCH MATERIAL FROM? I started last night, with punching trees like a champ, but then saw all your creations made of wool and other stuff… Then I cried a bit and logged off because my dirt hut didn’t remotely resemble powalens castle
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CheatCreative mode :). For those who are on survival they’re still getting materials from creative people so it’s still technically cheating 😛I’ll be happy to drop in and help you build stuff. It’s the Creepius promise!
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\o/ sounds good… I just assumed that everyone had access to OP commands but me, and therefore looked like a moron actually “collecting” material
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“Nob’s guide to make Creepius go to your general area”
Build a window in your house so he can watch you through it. Guaranteed to work!
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Windows will be constructed and mankinis will be worn… That’s sure to work right? RIGHT?
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Sometimes I’ll burst through the wall 🙂
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You cheats.
I do it the real way. When I wanted a heap of wool, did I go and ask a creative person for some? Nooo. I went roaming and found a wild herd of sheep, sheared them all by my self, fought off creepers and monsters at night when I had forgotten to bring shelter with me, and then made the long trek back home with the fruits of my hard labour.
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But flying is so much more fun!
Ask Greenius or Bish.
I try to get some of it myself, but pretty much pester people in Creative mode
I’ve been getting all my materials myself. Mining like a champ \o/
Admittedly my first big structure was full creative – it made for a nice couple of weekends just logging on, going to the nether, mining an inventory full of nether brick, add another level to castle.
When you have grand plans, someone nearby on creative certainly helps though. Greenius helped me dig a hole.
I think you meant to say full survival 😛
But yes, the giant hole is complete now :D. There’s a few areas that aren’t exactly smoothed off and there’s still some cave openings but I assume you want to leave them like that. Now I need a new project…
Yeah I meant survival. Stupid half asleep Wednesdays.
I PLAYED MINECRAFT LAST NIGHT! I STARED AT BISH’S CHEST FOR AWHILE!
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HE THEN CALLED ME A “SLIMEBALL”
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I created some more green sheep =D I also saved a lamb that had fallen between the cracks (somehow considering there was no cracks)
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Thanks Scree! Also that poor lamb. I bet it was one of those jungle cats luring it away, damn evil jungle cats. First they took my chickens now they want my lambs. =(
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It’s alright. i built it a staircase of dirt and it returned. It was actually it’s parents trying to murder it
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I still blame the jungle cats. Also now all I can think of is “Nob had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb!” etc…
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I lured a pig into my house.
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Feel free to take some of my pigs. Cakeman got a little crazy with the whole spawning thing.
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Just a little bit crazy
Watching all those villagers (and you) spurt out of that little cage thing was hilarious though
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There’s really only room for one animal in my house. I was just getting jealous that everyone else was basically living in a zoo and wanted an animal for myself.
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Minecraft. I haven’t played that in weeks, probably because I got lost in the cave attached to the back of my hole-in-the-side-of-a-hill-house, and am too scared to venture forth in fear of meeting creepers.
Dammit.
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Oh god… that video is hilarious
IT IS FREEZING OUTSIDE!
I went out to get shopping for lunch. It’s so cold I have an earache now ;_;
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I don’t see the connection ?
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Her earwarmers are made of live hedgehogs. She wore them the wrong way round.
Duh.
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I think i am gonna call the rspca now 😛
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If it’s too cold out, I tend to get earaches. I don’t understand it either
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You need this http://www.geekosystem.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/r2d2-beanie.jpg -
I understand it. Obviously the wizards in your ears (the ones that convert sound waves into electrical pulses so our brain can decipher it) are getting cold. This causes them to cast their magic spells incorrectly thus causing you a headache.
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I don’t know about scree but sometimes when it’s super cold and windy (which it currently is in Melbourne) my ears will start hurting a lot and it gives me a sort of headache. I know a few other people who are like this, so it’s probably that I guess.
That or the live hedgehog thing… YOU’RE A MONSTER SCREE
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It’s windy, and cold, I don’t like it.
Also, some mayonaise got stolen here, that was kind of weird
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Sex in the ear.
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Once you go black, you go deaf.
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So I know some of you (pretty much just Bish) were interested in Pokemon Conquest.
Vooks has a competition for it so maybe this can save y’all some moolah 😀
http://www.vooks.net/competition-three-copies-of-pokemon-conquest-to-be-won/
I won’t be entering but have g’luck to those who do! Everyone loves competitions!
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You should be excited! It looks like it combines POKÉMON with FIRE EMBLEM! What’s not to like!?
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Pretty much both of those.
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Blasphemy!
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TOO MUCH GAMES ALREADY!
Also good job on the extra effort to put the ‘ thingy on the E
That and I have a naughty card that gives me access to DS games IF I really need to play them (which I probably don’t), so I technically don’t require a copy of zee game 😛
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I’vé mémoriséd thé kéystroké that makés thé littlé accént mark, so it doésn’t také any éxtra éffort!
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WOOOOO POKEMON CONQUEST
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IT’S LIKE A HISTORY LESSON / DOCUMENTARY. EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN GAME HAPPENED IN REAL LIFE!
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Ugh, so tired
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Banana?
Nature’s energy food, from what I hear.
Did anyone/everyone see the hand painted Zelda nursery.
http://www.geekosystem.com/zelda-nursery/
I was wondering what other people thought. I though that it was really cool but when I showed it to my wife she appeared very un-impressed. So I don’t think I will be able to get something like that when I have kids. Not that I have the talent anyway
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It looks lovely. I would love to do that with MY room, let alone a nursery
I saw a special import version of ME3 for $39 at JB. That’s gotta scare some local distributors.
Fish fingers and Potato gems.
I’m so full and haven’t even finished them
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Silly Scree, fish have fins, not fingers, and potatoes are a vegetable, not a mineral.
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Then what am/have I been eating/eaten?
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My guess, fishermen fingers and potato shaped diamonds.
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Cakesmith up before no–wait!
Stupid sleeping pattern. Anyway, how is everyone?
I’m trying to knock Dragon Age 2 off my pile of shame. I was going to wait until July but I’m bored.
HI BISH!
HI HARLI!
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Cooked delicious things during the morning, now I’ve just started playing Psychonauts. It’s going to be ‘Shamless Gaming Month and a Week or So’ for me! Already knocked off Metroid Other M the other night.
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There aren’t so much rules as guidelines for this thing.
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HI CAKEMANG! x2
Saying Hi on Eats’ behalf because she’s off gallavanting in some sort of foreign country.
so i mentioned that i made a japanese PSN account to play the anarchy reigns demo, and oh man, i’m so glad i did.
few interesting things, firstly that it has a multi-player component, which makes sense, since the game focuses on multi-player, and damn, the game is awesome. it’s a bit insane, and takes a while to understand what the hell is happening, and it being in japanese was har dat the start, but ehn i go to my second point, the entire demo could be put in english!
and i’m not talking about a few menu’s were english, the ENTIRE demo was in english, tutorials, notifications, INCLUDING english voices! why this game was delayed in the west baffles me! so once i discovered that, i was getting things a bit more. i was playing as the slightly racist “blacker baron” mostly, but yeah, the game is fantastic, i am without a doubt importing it, i am not waiting 6 months for a game that has been fully localised already!
Either my TAY has stopped refreshing correctly, or everyone suddenly stopped talking 40 minutes ago.
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I think the second one… where is everybody?
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TAY has been going really, really slowly today.
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This week in general, we’ve been really dead.
Admittedly, we’re missing a top three commenter, which does remove a lot of comments, but even so, only 900 comments on a Wednesday? It’s criminal, is what it is!
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What ever happened to that guy who was over 10% of TAY one week?
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I grew up, man. I moved on.
Also, I have nothing to talk about. I feed off other people, so if someone else starts discussing something that interests me, I can start spamming like a champ, but as it is… ehhh.
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I tend to be the same. You’re all being boring! That’s why there’s a lack of comments.
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I blame you.
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It’s all my fault. There must be some sort of correlation between me being bored and posting more than usual and everyone else posting less.
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I vote we start another pun chain!
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Yeah this. I need something interesting to talk about before I’ll post. I don’t really have anything interesting to say so I’m staying quiet. I don’t really want to be discussing everyone else’s lunches or showers or whatever, and a lot of discussion seems to be just about that these days.
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I doubt anyone wants me talking about LoL since that’s pretty much what I mainly play now, so yeah I’m usually just the reply bot haha
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But we have to know about Greenius’ showers. HIS SHOWERS ARE IMPORTANT, MAN. It’s how we gauge the feeling of society. Without them we may as well just assume that the common man is on fire. Would you like us to assume that, Strange? WOULD YOU?
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Actually yeah. I imagine it would work the same way as in imagining people in their underwear when you have to give a speech. It would make me feel better about myself knowing the common man is on fire but I’m not. 😛
Pez? Loops? Harli? I’m pretty sure between them they made up 50% of comments.
Yeah what the heck? I thought it was a refresh issue or something?
I don’t mind that much.
I mostly stick to Twitter these days
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I’m not a fan of Twitter. That 140 character limit is blergh. I just can’t bring myself to use l33t speak and dumb my sentences down to try and fit into the limit.
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You don’t have to. There’s a great number of people, in fact almost everyone I follow who don’t use “l33t speak” or dumb their sentences down. It’s a good way to hone your sentence constructing skills. Practicing being succinct can come in very handy sometimes.:)
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My succinctness is limited pretty much to tweets. The rest of the time, I just ramble on and on and on. It’s just what I do.
Part of the trick to being succinct on Twitter is using a wide range of synonyms to try and trim words down. Grammatical errors like the exclusion of a comma (or full stop at the end of a sentence) will also come in handy when you’re looking to shave off just one more character to get your tweet in. This is particularly true in large reply chains where there is even less room. The ampersand serves a great purpose in these instances & can be a vital tool.
Overall I enjoy forcing myself to be brief on Twitter. It’s a challenge & I do enjoy a challenge
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If I can’t trim my words, the first thing I get rid of is the space between a full stop and the next sentence.
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Anybody else an NBA fan? I’m sad that Thunder lost today =(
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Reading that “Thunder lost” made me have a Gladiators flashback…
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Vulcan was my favourite. That guy was a beast!
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Tigerion!
I really liked the walls of that Zelda nursery. If your wife doesn’t want it for a baby, wait until the kid is old enough to be into Zelda and have them ask for it themselves.
My daughter is currently the biggest Nintendo fangirl and I think it’s awesome because she didn’t get it from me. I’ve only ever finished Wind Waker of the Zelda games, and as for Mario I’ve only played a small part of Paper Mario. I’ve hung some string on hooks in her room and put pegs there so she can can hang up her many drawings of Zelda or Mario characters.
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That’s really cool, so much better when they are free to express themselves in whatever way they want. I generally just use the fridge for all the drawings my nieces and nephew do for us.
I’m sure I would be able to do something, but I’m not sure that she has ever played any of the Zelda games so there is no connection there for her.
This is the family competition as far as nursery murals http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/nursery.jpg-
That’s pretty cool. I have a vinyl decal mural filling up a whole wall with trees and birds in my daughter’s room, and a jungle animal scene also in vinyl decal form on my son’s wall. Soon I’ll be getting rid of his animals and replacing it with a space scene because he’s old enough to have his own tastes now. Vinyl decals are awesome for this because you can remove them fairly easily and put something else up when you feel like a change.
You can get some pretty awesome ones. I got my kids’ ones from Etsy. http://www.etsy.com/search/handmade?q=wall%20decals&view_type=gallery&ship_to=ZZ&min=0&max=0&ref=auto1
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When I finish sorting my bedroom out I’m seriously considering getting the huge version of this: http://www.walls360.com/Citadel-p/9053.htm for the wall behind our bed.
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I was thinking about replacing the paintings in my place with framed game art… but then I do spend too much time on Dead End Thrills.
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Do it! We have some framed art from book/album covers on our walls. Game art is a great idea.
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That would look great, are you considering doing the whole wall or just as a large feature.
The painting for my nephew was done by one of their friends before the birth so it was very gender neutral. A it will be a while until he is old enough to choose it himself anyway.
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I wonder how durable they would be for outside, under cover.
Now considering If I could get this for the front door http://www.etsy.com/listing/63158375/lord-of-the-rings-tolkien-tree-of-gondor
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In an interest to generate a discussion, what’s everyones feelings on the man who cut his daughters head off with a sword over in India? Disgust, I imagine, unless you’re some sort of sadist. What I find most disgusting about this story though is that there are people out there who still think they own women like this and have a right to do things like this. I mean, the head cutting off thing is gross and I feel sorry for the woman but what really gets me is the sexism surrounding the whole thing. When you hear these sorts of stories, women getting stoned to death in the middle east for dancing at a wedding, women getting killed because they “dishonored” their family etc, it just disgusts me that this sort of thing is still going on in the world.
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My response to all of this is simple. I sigh, and mutter a snide comment about people. It’s saddening, frustrating, and so very, very, human.
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The worst thing about your comment, Blaghs, is how very true it is. When it comes down to it, humans as a group are not the nicest bunch.
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What the heck you think I’ve been trying to say?! 😛
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Ha! Knew you’d do that!
And yeah, you have a point 😀
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I’m not saying that ALL humans are like this at all just making sure everybody knows. It’s just way way more than a few out there that make me shake my head at, this being certainly one of them.
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It’s a real slippery slope though. Those sort of countries it’s “normal” for that sort of stuff. And how they treat women. They think what we do is weird too. Who are we to say their culture and beliefs are wrong?
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I’d say it’s pretty easy to draw a line and say that decapitation and parading the head around is wrong.
Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs and opinions right up until the point that they are causing harm to another person. The treatment of women in these instances is completely abhorrent and there is no justification for it. If there is any time for whitey to stamp his foot down with a little bit of imperialistic might, this is the time.
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I wasn’t talking about that incident, just their view of women in general. Of course things like this are horrible no matter what your belief. But the Western world can’t just go in to their country and start dishing out justice. We can condemn them from the safety of our own homes.
Anyways, sometimes the “civilised” world is just as horrible http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/womens-reproductive-rights_b_1345214.html-
No society is perfect.
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The world keeps trying to wipe us out, but we got too smart.
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It’s horrendous.
Actually, I think I posted that link to the news story last night on TAY.
But, yeah. It’s horrendous.
Not quite related, but…
There was a team of zoologists who were studying baboons over a number of years. They observed the social dynamics of various troops and their hierarchies. In all cases there was a dominant male or group of males with high levels of aggression. I can’t remember all the details.
One troop came in contact with some tainted human food and since the hierarchy governed who got first dibs on the grub, all the dominant males in the group were knocked off.
The whole ‘culture’ of the troop changed. The females outnumbered the males, and those males that remained were far less aggressive.
When the troop was revisited – years later, after the non-aggressive males had moved on – the people discovered that the new males in the troop were also non-aggressive. There was still a hierarchy, and displays of aggression, but much less compared to other troops, and stress was low amongst the less aggressive males and grooming was much more common. Females were also more welcoming of noobs compared to other troops. The low levels of stress in the troop weren’t just shown in behaviour, but also health (blood samples and stuff).
They were like the Baboon Brady Bunch.
Anyway… I guess what I’m saying is: Guys are jerks… kinda.
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Reminds me of a (probably apocryphal) monkey experiment story.
They had a group of a monkeys in a cage, with a ladder leading up to a food source. Any time a monkey climbed the ladder, the scientists would hose them down. Over time, new monkeys were introduced to the group and the older monkeys would warn them away from climbing the ladder.
Eventually the older monkeys, those who had seen the consequences of climbing the ladder, had all be taken away from the group (or died). The newer ones still stopped any new recruits from climbing the ladder.
Learned behaviours and tradition are a tricky thing. Assholes gonna ass but the reason for the reduced aggression from your anecdote might be because the dominant males got their comeuppance.
The important thing to learn from all this is that monkeys are very easily manipulated and that we should take advantage of this knowledge should we attempt to take over the world.
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I freakin’ love that experiment!
From a sociological(?) perspective, I mean. Though…hosing down monkeys sounds kinda funny too…
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Hey, guys.
Are any TAYbies knowledgable on LAN connections between OS’s on a dual-booted PC (ie, one os connects perfectly fine, but the other doesn’t)?
Or should I go to Gizmodo Whitenoise for that?
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I’m only knowledgeable in the sense that both worked fine for me, so I doubt I’m any help in this situation.
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Did you run it off of a network card, or did you use the motherboard?
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It should work right off the bat, assuming that both OS’s have the necessary drivers/compatibilities to use the LAN port 100%. Which OS is which in this case?
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Windows 7 is the one I’m running into some trouble with it.
I’m running Ubuntu right now, and I’m connected perfectly fine on it.-
Hm… well for Windows 7 I can only suggest this: Check Device Manager (You can get there with right clicking My Computer and going to Manage), make sure you can see the network adapter hardware name in the list and it hasn’t got a yellow/red icon on it. If there is, you might need to double check that you got the right drivers set up (Don’t always trust the drivers that Windows installs automatically, as I’ve had issues too)
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Make sure you’ve got the drivers for both? If it works fine in one it will work in the other if it has correct drivers.
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So, will I need the motherboard drivers?
Because the LAN cable is connected to my motherboard.-
The motherboard has a NIC chip on it and you need drivers for that to work. Sometimes the controller has drivers out of the box, other times it doesn’t. The motherboard will have come with a CD with Windows drivers but you’ll need to do some hunting for Linux ones – though in my experience the distros like Ubuntu have better driver support than Windows a lot of the time.
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Bored at work? Bored at home? Surprised by how quiet TAY is?
Why not pass the time with my latest blog post: http://blaghman.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/your-opinion-is-wrong/
It’s not very interesting, I forgot what I was writing about halfway through(in truth it’s a small thing I wrote for the purpose of something else I want to write, but will probably never get to), and it meanders around a lot.
But uhh, at least it has boobs, and umm, a video of a kitten being cute?
I don’t know either.
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I only respect opinions that can be justified. Sure it’s more than a bit dickish but the only opinions of mine that I don’t hold to that standard are truly derpy.
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Interesting read, but it’s so hard to respect some people’s opinions especially when they clearly miss something staring them in the face
Bit of a random question for everyone.
Backstory: today I had an exam. If you’re unfamiliar with how uni exams work, you can’t take any electronic devices in and all that stuff. So I left those things in my car and headed into uni today, and it just felt abnormal. I’ve spent two and a half years walking through that place with an iPod on most of the time, and this year I’ve been using my phone for Twitter a lot too, so I felt technologically naked.
I’ve also found that this bleeds into other parts of my daily life: I have my phone with me and might tweet a bit in bed at night, and I listen to music on my iPod while I cook dinner and all that. And when I don’t have either on me I just feel wrong.
Does anyone else ever get that feeling, or am I just a little too dependent on these devices in my pants?
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Not so much my phone, but the internet in general. I feel like I’m missing out on so much if I don’t check my regular websites for a while!
I weaned myself off of using my iPod in public though (mostly because I felt that it made me more antisocial) and I’ll usually only check my phone occasionally when out.
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I sometime fell that I’m overly dependent and tend to make decisions based on the thing in my pants.
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Well played, sir. Well played.
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Yeah I’m with POW! on this. It’s not so much the phone but the internet in general for me.
I pretty much never used a mobile phone until a couple of years ago when I went from an old bricky phone to a smart phone (iPhone 4). I don’t really use my phone for calling people but for messaging or using the internet to access social networking sites and browse websites (pretty much free messaging). It’s the internet aspect that I like.
I don’t really feel “wrong” when I don’t have electronic devices with me and I’m sure I can manage without them for whatever reason but I just prefer to have them. Hard to explain I guess but I’ve been camping and stuff without any technology for a week+ and I’ve been fine. But it’s like since I already have it, why give it up?
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I feel that way with my MP3 player. I enjoy listening to podcasts and not having it with me while cleaning or cooking feels weird. The feeling dissipates after a while but I prefer to have something to listen to while I work.
TAYbies, Red Faction Armageddon’s price has dropped to $20 on the Playstation Store.
And it is permanent.
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And still not worth the price.
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I hear there’s a pretty good Descent homage right in the middle of that game, might go have a look.
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We’re way past due for a new Descent game. 🙁
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True dat.
Descent and Freespace both
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you could probably find Red Faction : Guerrilla for less, & its the better game imo.
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Yep. With Armageddon they took everything that was awesome from Guerrilla and removed it.
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#35 is correct. You can get red faction guerrilla for $11 or less at EB.
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Mobile site has changed, phone is choking to death on TAY. It was fun reading it at work while it lasted.
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Eh? It still looks the same to me.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8486683/young-binge-drinker-dies-of-liver-failure
Not sure how to feel about this.
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Darwinism in action?
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Sad on so many levels, there was obviously something very wrong with him but it seems that while others tried to help, not a lot could be done short of tying him to a bed. Unfortunately there’s no undoing the choices he has made now.
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It’s sad. Sounds like he had a serious alchohol addiction. It’s not often acknowledged but there’s a difference between an idiot who drinks a lot and a person with an actual medical condition. Unfortunately because of his age he’ll probably be lumped in with the former and people will spin it as “look at these crazy out of control young people” instead of “this is a serious condition and we should be providing people help in overcoming it”. It’s sad that drinking culture has become such a vital part of Australias identity that many people will sweep alchohol addiction under the rug rather than acknowledge it exists and try and help those who suffer from it. It doesn’t get nearly the same amount of attention as other drug addictions, smoking or gambling addictions.
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Mate of mine almost ended up like this guy, although I’d say he was from the “crazy out of control young people” crowd.
After his liver threw in the towel he took some steps in the right direction and is a better man for it.
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Anyone heard of an indie game called Monaco?
I think I have heard it mentioned around the traps before but this is the first good look I have had at it, and I am very interested 🙂
Thoughts?
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About 11 minutes in and it looks friggen awesome! I was sold within the first couple of minutes 🙂
I love anything with style and I really like the visual style the game has as well as the gameplay mechanics (blue print – field of view, different characters that you play when you die etc.)
I’ve never heard of it before but it’s definitely on my radar now 😀
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This is the first I have heard of it, and it certainly looks interesting
Consider my radar locked on
@Strangeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee (and others who are interested in The Last Story)
Since discussions of my showers aren’t interesting enough for you perhaps some The Last Story discussion is? 😀
Thoughts? Have you played more of it? Got Xenoblade yet? 😛
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I heard that it’s a game.
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Just another game on your
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Unfortunately, yes.
Actually I should see if my recent GPU upgrade allows me to run Xenoblade emulated. I think my problem was CPU but maybe not.
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Give it a decent go, I know you weren’t fond of it from your first impressions but it takes a while to really pick up. IMO Xenoblade > The Last Story and the general consensus seems to be that as well. I haven’t played Pandora’s Tower yet so I can’t comment on it but I doubt it’ll be as good as Xenoblade 🙂
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I’d be more interested if the game wasn’t so ugly, honestly. I hate to sound so superficial but the actual look of the game left me completely cold.
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Oh c’mon at least admit it’s good based on the Wii’s limitations :P. Sure it can be considered ugly compared to other higher definition games but at least it’s amazing by Wii standards. Just pretend it came out 6 years ago 😛
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I’ve been too busy to play it. Don’t worry, as soon as I play it again I’ll yell at you in here to let you know.
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Alrighty, no problem 🙂
I’m hoping our discussion gives both of us enough motivation to play through it and take another game off our piles of shame 😛
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Sounds like a plan. The old shameful pile weighs heavily on me at the moment. Theoretically, if I hadn’t bought those bazillions of games over the years that I didn’t have time to play, I’d have had enough money to go to Can’d Meat 2.0. 😛
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My copy of Halo CE Anniversary just arrived \o/
I’m going to be all “
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ooooooooh
Do do do dooooo
Do do do dooooo
Do do do dooooo
do do do
HELP WITH POTAKU!
Any community news? We have ONE item this week!
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I assume that’s the baby news 😛
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I didn’t get arrested in NZ despite my best efforts.
Oh, you mean news people care about. I hear Greenius had a shower.
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That made me laugh out loud. I suggest you get him to talk about it, mainly by asking how it was.
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The only thing I’ve participated in is the Pokemon Online battles we had a while ago. Other than that… not much has happened. 😛 It’s been a quiet week!
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Say hi to Zap for me! 😛
I’m very angry at Minecraft D=
I might get some sewing done today yet.
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What did it do? Is it the lag? Because it’s been lagging a lot for me since yesterday. Damn you block! I already mined you, stop coming back!
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Pretty much. I got to the point where I couldn’t actually walk because of lag
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Oh lord, The Project just did a report on violent media. Apparently new research has come out that says our brains can’t differentiate between real violence and fake violence in TV and movies. Of course they mention that this news comes just a day after Australia recieves an R18 rating for video games. They then do an interview with a woman who’s very concerned about all the violence in todays media.
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[citation needed]
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Now Today tonight is also doing the same story, ugh.
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Apparently the Today Tonight one was actually level-headed for once. I’m amazed.
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Yep. I was really surprised by that. Unless I missed it though the scientist who came out with this “research” never actually said what sort of study was conducted or how he came to these findings. Without any sort of proof to back up his claims it’s ridiculous that the media is giving him any attention at all.
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The media’s despicable. I have never seen a single article about a study link to the actual, peer-reviewed paper, or even quote it.
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I seem to remember Penn and Teller doing a show tackling the subject of violent videogames by taking an 8 year old CoD fan out to fire an assault rifle. The kid fired a few shot before crying and refusing to go near the gun. But then Penn and Teller aren’t exactly what you’d call a reliable source. The point is though that just one of these people stating there’s no difference between real and fake violence should be made to play something violent then get told to reenact it for real and see how they go.
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That’s the one.
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That was a decent episode of bullshit. Though giving an 8 year old a Colt AR-15 (I think) is a bit wtf imo.
All this lack of insanity is starting to grate my nerves…
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This Cthulhu guy, we need to do something about him before he tries starting an apocalypse or something.
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Ooh, I know!
We could give him jelly donuts, then take them all away,
Or we could fill his ears with cheeseballs and his nostrils with sorbet,
We could use him as a footstool or a table to play scrabble on,
Then tie him up and beat him up and throw him out of Babylon!-
But… I bought salsa, and corn chips… I made that giant Nacho mountain….
What should I do?
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THERE’S THIS HUGE ROBOT BOSS THING IN MAX ANARCHY CALLED CTHULU!
yeah, that’s all i can talk about at the moment
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Really?
I must meet him….and banish him to R’lyeh.
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I posted this in the wrong TAY, but I’m so proud of the pun, I had to repost it here:
“If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to, why don’t you go where gaming staaaaaaays
Logging on to TAY!”
Suprise drink of my holiday. According to the menu they called it a Sombrero Michelada.
Basically is just Sol with a heap of lime juice and ice in a salted glass. Amazingly tasty but.
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Ariiiiiiba!
Super sadness. My cat’s abscessed tooth has turned out to be a tumor in her jaw. Going to have to take her to be put down next week, too old and sick to make it through this one.
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Sucks man. We had to put our dog down a while ago. No matter how much you know it’s for their best interests it doesn’t make it any easier. I feel for you.
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Sadly our dog is probably only a few months away as well. 14 years old now, way past his use-by date and he’s starting to lose control in his back legs when he gets up and stuff. He’s pretty fit and healthy for such an old dog but he’s grown up his whole life with our cat and I don’t know how he’ll take not having her around.
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Aw, shit, I’m so sorry to hear about that 🙁
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One of life’s painful mistakes is always death.
Sorry to hear of what’s happening NegZero. Give them extra-special playtimes and hugs.
I’d like to think they understand what’s happening, and the reasons for it too.
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There’s pretty much nothing I can do or say that will cheer you up but here have an internet *hug* anyway buddy.
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Sorry mate
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*supersquishy hugs* 🙁
I would like, to share with you a story.
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I’m intrigued…
Continue.
Brisbane/Gold Coast/Sunshine Coast TAYbies who are PC gamers http://events.ggflan.com/ I’ll be attending this with another mate next month! Thought some of you might be interested!
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What are you planning on entering?
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Quake 3 free for all =D
Don’t own Minecraft & I never could play CoD4 MP properly XD
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Oh that looks cool. If I went I’d probably be playing minecraft, trackmania and maybe cod:waw zombies.
Is there an age limit? I didn’t notice any on the site.-
Probably just 15+ so you’d be right Lambo! Most LANs i’ve been to no age restrictions so yeah!
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Awesome! Now to convince my parents to let me go…
I’d probably only be there for the afternoon/evening, not the morning.-
Would be cool to see you & hopefully some other TAYbies there!
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You know what sucks?
Having a game, and having a computer that will run it, but not being able to play the game.
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What’s the problem?
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I can access the network via LAN on Ubuntu, but not on Windows 7.
I think it has something to do with drivers…
Hence, if you see me posting in TAY, I’m running Ubuntu.
If not, I’m running windows 7.Question:
If I have a motherboard, and it’s running on windows 7, can I obtain drivers for it manually?
Obviously I’m unable to do it automatically, because, you know, I can’t get internet on windows 7…Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
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Try checking the motherboard manufacturer’s website. They should have the drivers on there.
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Monster’s University! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vRbhvt89NM
I’m looking forward to this movie… but at the same time not. Monsters Inc is one of my favourite Pixar movies and a prequel just seems weird. I suppose there’s not really anywhere they could go after the end of the first movie, but still. I must remain optimistic!
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But the trailer is so awesome! And it will have Steve Buscemi again!
I love how indie games are so much more popular now. Just a few years ago I wouldn’t of even considered them or have even known about them. I also watched Indie Game: The Movie pretty recently which has given me a whole new perspective on the indie game industry and how much love each developer puts into their game.
PuppyLicks posted some footage of Monaco above which looks awesome and I just saw/read the article about Receiver that Kotaku posted. I’ve only heard about Wolfire Games through their humble indie bundles and through some controversy surrounding one of their previous games with some rabbit. Receiver looks interesting and I also discovered this rabbit game of theirs, Overgrowth. I’ve been watching some gameplay of it and it looks pretty sweet. Has anyone played it?
Also why not… iSketch tomorrow night?
And because I’m already typing out this random comment I might as well stuff other random comments/questions in here too rather than making a new reply. For those of you with PS+ how do the purchasing of the ‘free’ games work? I know certain games are free for a limited time but what do I need to do to ‘purchase them’? Would I have to click and download it from the store? I’m asking this because there’s a few free PS+ games I know nothing about (and therefore have no interest in at the moment) but I’d like to still obtain them while they’re free in case I change my mind. Is it okay to just buy them or do I have to actually download and install each one of them first for it to register me as owning them? Could take up a lot of harddrive space and monthly downloads if the latter is the case…
Congrats for reading this far, if you didn’t then nothing of value was lost.
SO HOW BOUT DAT MARKETING RESEARCH METHODS? (zzz)
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Also that moving .gif of the Microsoft surface (I assume that’s what it is) below is annoying 😛
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When are you done for the semester? I’ll do any other exams you have. I’ve been on holidays for a week and I’m bored already.
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My last exam is tomorrow at 2:30 😀
THEN FREEDOM!
Except I’ve got a new goal… to get mai licence. Not looking forward to having super anal instructors watching my every move but whatevs brah.
And it’s funny how holidays work. We spend most of our time wishing we had free/spare time but when we have too much it’s just like “whatever… I’m bored of it already”
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I’ve been a big fan of Wolfire for a LONG time. Lugaru, the game which Overgrowth is a sequel to, had some fascinating features for when it came out, and is pretty damn awesome.
Overgrowth itself, I have preordered(so I’ll be grabbing their shooter), but I haven’t downloaded it in ages(though I watch every weekly update), so I can’t really comment on how it plays.
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Ah yes, that’s the rabbit game I was talking about. I think I might’ve seen it randomly on Kotaku or on other websites but it first really came to my attention when it was unofficially ported to iOS by someone who wasn’t Wolfire or something like that.
I’ve been watching some weekly updates and some gameplay from last year and it looks good, I’m considering preordering it or at least buying it when it comes out. Let me know how the shooter goes :).
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Shooter’s downloading now. And I think what you’re thinking of is what happened after they made their engine open source, they put Lugaru HD(which just had a higher quality, fan made, texture pack applied to it) on the Mac App store, and someone undercut their price, and sold it without the HD moniker, while trying to use the excuse that since their engine was open source, they had the right to do it.
As a side note, there’s an iOS version of the game “Black Shades” by them, which is a pretty cool dude.
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Yeah that sounds more like it. I didn’t really read about it or look into it just skimmed through the news.
Had a look at Black Shades (PC) and didn’t seem like my thing :P. Receiver looks interesting but I doubt it’ll keep my interest for very long.
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Black Shades was a lot of fun if you used it with dev commands, and didn’t play it seriously(you could freeze time, do a force push, stuff like that(I also liked diving on top of my person to keep them safe)), but I wouldn’t pay money for it. Probably the same for this. Great if you’ve already preordered Overgrowth, but the way everything works is a lot like The Binding of Isaac, except that there aren’t even the consistent elements.
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I’m sure Indie game the movie is fantastic but just make sure you don’t put too much trust in any group of guys who make a crappy game and calls themselves indie. Basically there are hacks everywhere.
Monaco does look awesome. I remember seeing some footage last year and it was just as impressive. Hopefully it’s out soon.
You ‘purchase’ PS+ games like you do any other games on the PSN store. Just go to the Ps+ section of the store. Choose freebies and then download each of the games individually.
If you don’t want to fill up your hard drive you can just checkout the game but stop just before the download process. The game will be on your download list permanently and you can access the game and download it any time(as long as your sub is active, obviously)
Btw this feature also works for games you’ve actually bought(PS+ or not) It’s actually a pretty good system for managing your hard drive space. Just delete the game and re-download it again when you want to play it.
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Yep I knew about that for previous purchases and it’s what I use to download things from someone else’s account. Thanks for the answer mosho (eh, not a very good nickname :P)
I got a new PS3 Slim late last year after my 40gb broke and I have plenty of harddrive space atm since there’s pretty much nothing on it. I also have plenty of monthly downloads so it’s not really an issue for now but in 12 months time when I have 120 games or so, then it’s gonna get crazy 😛
Btw, did you just ‘purchase’ all the free things for the month, regardless of whether you’d use it or not? I’m thinking of doing it but there’s a lot of minis/PSN/themes etc. that I know absolutely nothing about and I feel like I’d just be wasting my time getting it, so I’m just wondering what others are doing.
You in for iSketch tomorrow night m4sh4 (also not good)?
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I ‘bought’ all the free games this time and downloaded them to my hard drive since I have the space at the moment. In the future I might be more picky, especially if the offers are this good every month. The good thing is that I can always download the minis and other games later.
I don’t bother with downloading all the themes. I just look through them on the store and download the interesting looking ones. For example I now have a cuckoo clock as my theme thanks to PS+. Most minis are crap but they are so small you can just download them, play them for 5 min and delete them.
Sure, I’ll play iSketch .
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My tower is now in full working order, and I’m now on the web on Windows 7!
Thanks for the help, -0!
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Whoops, almost forgot someone.
Lambo, thanks to you as well, mate!
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Awesome! \o/
Glad it’s all working fine for you now 🙂
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What was the issue in the end?
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I hadn’t downloaded the driver for my motherboard.
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No problem.
Just found my old copy of The Movies, and decided that it could be cool to start a little game here in TAY. At the very least, it would help remind me to frequent TAY more often.
So, I was thinking one of these:
• Every week I make a movie based on suggestions, etc from you guys
• Every week I make a movie based on a videogame/movie and you guys can guess / try to enjoy
• I dunno
Anyone think it’d be cool?
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This sounds neat! I support this!
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I don’t mind participating.
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Sounds like fun 🙂
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The Movies was a great game! The only thing I didn’t like was that it became hard to manage once your studio got too big. I kept restarting over and over 😛
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Make a movie of the suggestions @REALRocketman received when he asked what he should draw on the twitters
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Videogame parodies with TAY in-jokes and guest spots, I dig it 🙂
So, RACE Injection.
All I can say is…. F**K YEAH!
This is awesome.
A ton of cars and tracks from different disciplines (Caterham; WTCC 2006, 2010, 1987; Formula BMW; RaceRoom F1; STCC; 70s cars; GT cars)
The last one I played (RACE: The WTCC Game) was great, but lacked the amount of content for a racing sim.
This makes sure there are cars and tracks in spades, and it has a ton of variety.
Also, the driving model is pretty damn sweet for force feedback wheel owners.
So, if you’re a fan of racing sims, get this immediately.
It’s only $23 at EB, or you can get it through Steam for $40.
My score: 9/10
Today was rubbish. Went in for routine dentist visit, given fear mongering for abit, did some xrays but didnt mention they cost $80 routine clean turns into a oh potential hole here just gonna cover it up, $70. No wait its legit new filling $180. T_T I know they mean well and its good Ive had it done and its my own fault but it still hurts.
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Yup. They’re pretty good at that. I went to the dentist because of some rather severe toothache. Now I’m out a tooth and quite a large sum of money. Did gain some filling though. So there’s that.
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Sounds like my previous mechanic.
Howdy folks. Just checking in to say I’m having an amazing time. I’m taking about 100 photos a day, and keeping a journal so you’ll have a jelly-inducing write up when I get home. It’s amazing how much I see things that remind me of various TAYbies. I’ll keep you in suspense for now, but all will be revealed in time.
sjáumst seinna
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Jelly-inducing write-ups are both my favourite and worst 😛
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OMG it is Yellowius
We Briswegians are going to head to the Mana Bar tonight for some trivia or something. Victory is certain.
Probably because nobody else will show up.
TAY so slow. Kinda like my mental capacity this week.
Not saying TAY’s retarded in any way other than the lovable kind (hugs inbound!), but we’ve only *just* broken 1K posts!
In addition, thanks to the twitters (twitterers? Tweeters?) last night.
@Batgirl, I am making it my mission to obtain a pet sloth.
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Let’s enjoy that a little. This older, slower style of TAY is actually not too shabby.
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Translation: Git offen mah lorn!
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Excuse me, I think I see a cloud I need to go shake my fist at.
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HEY YALL, Just a reminder – 2nd last day for entries into the FREECOPYOFGRAVITYRUSHONVITACOMPETITION is today!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/06/talk-amongst-yourselves-193/comment-page-4/#comment-717026
In other news, I’m finishing off my system build with a GTX670 tonight – pretty hype!
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What’s the rest of the build? I’ve been contemplating upgrading the rest of my PC after having to replace the motherboard and power supply recently (and case, just because I could).
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Oh dear, how rude of me! 🙂
My dad gave me the CPU when it was new (lucky!), but I haven’t had the cash lying around to spend on the mobo/gfx card – I’ve been dying to get into BF3, so I’m super keen to get this up and running.MB: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H (New, updating from GA-X48-DQ6 for memory)
CPU: i7-2600K (New, updating from Q6600)
RAM: 4GB Generic Kingston (Old – next bit to update)
GFX: Galaxy GTX670 GC (New, updating from… I can’t even remember. GTS somethingsomthing 3/4 years old)
HDD: Total 4TB (Old)
Sound: X-Fi Fatality (Old)
Case: Antec p285 (Old)
Screen: 20″ Apple Cinema (Old)Nothing is future proof – but given the slump in really intensive PC games since like, Crysis 1, I’m hoping to get a few years out of this bad boy.
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Just changed my mind for motherboard 🙂
MB: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H-
I just had a really bad run with an earlier model Gigabyte motherboard. Hope you don’t suffer the same fate I did. Having the damned thing refuse to turn on and then have it still be broken after it was “fixed” by the manufacturer.
Feels bad, mang.
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That sucks 🙁 I’ve had a good run with GB motherboards for the last decade. The only recurring issue for me is wireless keyboard/mouses. I always get the really nice Logitech keyboard/mouse combo, and they ALWAYS stopping functioning correctly just out of warranty (ie, not holding charge, charger stops working, continuous sync loss).
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Wired keyboard/mouse just makes more sense to me. They’re not going anywhere, so why bother with batteries and whatnot? The benefits of wireless just don’t make sense when you’re in a fixed position.
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Awesome man! I hope you know that it’s impolite to just tease us with the videocard and exclude everything else though. Tssk Tssk, Mr. White.
Such a great idea for the competition too, really keen to see all the entries.
Something weird is going on. I posted a comment on that Ascend game article but it disappeared even though it doesn’t have any rot13 or anything in it.
The front page says the article ha two comments but no matter how many times I click on the link or refresh the page there’s only one comment and mine isn’t there. Weird.
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I’ve been noticing my comments not showing up right away at times, but after a short wait and a refresh it’s there
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Yeah, it’s there now. After 45 minutes.
It’s not like my comment was important, or even necessary. I hadn’t had any breakfast or woken up properly. It’s just bad because I start to wonder if I’ve finally gone senile. 😛
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“Yes please…”
Is that your original comment? Just went to the article and it’s fine for me on mobile Kotaku. I’m still having regular refresh issues on desktop Kotaku though but a good ol CTRL+F5 solves it.
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Yeah, it’s there now. And no amount of ctrl F5ing or anything was showing it. Kotaku must really want me to think I’m insane. 😛
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I see your comment in the articles’ comment area. Sometimes Kotaku just refuses to reload.
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I’m aware of the reload problem , but this was the first time I’d had a comment just disappear that wasn’t rot13. And now I’ve drawn everyone’s attention to this Ascend comment I wish I’d written something better. 😛
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haha, don’t worry you are not alone in the whole “comments not showing up” problem. It’s happened to me a couple times in TAY. Which has led me to typing the same thing twice. =/
Just out of curiosity are you using Google Chrome for your internet browser? I wonder if it’s a certain browser causing the problem.
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(and just as i post this TAY shoots ahead with like 10 new posts) /o\
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Yeah I am. The latest version of Chrome is really awful. Everything seems to be in slow motion now. If google don’t fix it soon I’ll have to go back to Firefox.
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The chrome cache is super sticky lately. I’ve disabled all additional browser caching on our end, so try a cookie/cache refresh and see how you go!
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Thanks, Ben! 🙂
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I just learned that one of the options when deleting the cache in Chrome is to delete everything from the beginning of time.
I’d be a fool not to take that option.
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Know ye all now, that once again Hugo walks amongst you!
You know, staring through windows, hiding in bushes… the usual stuff.
So what up TAYbies, what’s the happy haps. And why isn’t TAY on page 18 by now???
It seems awfully quiet in here… too quiet…
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How do you deal with 2nd story windows (bathroom, bedroom, it’s all the same)? I have found that my gripstrength has improved dramatically, however I can still only hold on for 1/2 hour. I’m usually spotted before then though.
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Sounds like me in Minecraft 😛
Creepily watching from the shadows (or broad daylight) before bursting through your walls
Peoples! I need some suggestions for good 360 exclusives that I would have missed. So far only tried Gears of War which has failed to interest me at all.
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POKEMON CONQUEST
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XENOBLADE
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This guy gets it!
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Shadow complex, that downloadable game? The only other exclusive I can think of is the first Mass Effect.
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I hear Trials is pretty popular.
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To be honest the best exclusives are mostly XBLA titles. Most of them are on PC now but TRIALSSSSS
I know you’re a JRPG fan so look up Blue Dragon (fun, but flawed) and Lost Odyssey (one of the best JRPGs this generation) and Tales of Vesperia (also one of the best). I assume you already know who made the first two (Mistwalker!).
Then there’s the Halos I guess
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Oh wow, can’t believe I forgot to mention Lost Odyssey. I’m ashamed of myself.
Hmm…maybe I should just go back to bed and start today all over again.
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Tales of Vesperia but it’s probably impossible to find now. Other than that it’s basically Halo, Forza and Gears and maybe a few others. I wouldn’t bother with Lost Odyssey or Blue Dragon honestly, they were good when there was nothing else available. LO is the better of the two but it’s kind of ugly and the battle system is annoying. Most of everything is multi-platform and when it comes to JRPGs, the PS3 version’s better in every case. Including Vesperia, except we never got the PS3 port in English. 🙁
You have to go back quite a few years from now to find the period where 360 was getting lots of exclusives.
Really also it depends on what you like.
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Tales of Vesperia is on games on demand for $40-60 I think. But a physical copy would be almost impossible to find 😛
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It is? I didn’t know that. Awesome. I might re-buy it then, my copy is the Asia release so it’s JP region (Namco took months to confirm it for PAL and nearly a year to release) and it’s annoying to have to dig out my JP 360 since I don’t have it hooked up any more as it was basically just purchased for Vesperia and various terrible games I won’t admit to owning (many of which are on PS3 now anyway).
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Morning, everyone.
It’s raining.
Heavily.
Time to turn the heater on.
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It wasn’t a fun trip into the city this morning, had my pants drenched cuz some human idiot sitting next to me on the train, she decided to lean the drenched part of the umbrella on my leg.
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You should’ve just asked her to move it.
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I was watching out the window so I didn’t notice at first, I thought it was her coat or bag, then later on I felt the cold, already too late to ask her since the damage is already done so my bad leg almost froze up walking from the station in the city
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I know. I didn’t want to have to wear my new boots yet, but it looks like I do not have an option.
Morning TAY,
Spent a bit too long in MC yesterday digging a hole!!! YEEEAAAH… Anyway trying to collect enough material for an ambitious project… I noticed someone had a sign on a mountain saying “winter is coming” and now I feel compelled to build “the wall”… Only thing is its going to be long as hell and all the way to the sky roof… That’s a lot of freaking stone
4 of us last night spent something like 2-3 hours exploring a giant cave in Minecraft. Eventually we found the other side of said cave and then spent a while trying to find home. It was a pretty cool adventure.
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Damn, I left too early!
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I love doing that… Emerging after a few hour long adventure I always feel like a conquering hero
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It was 5 of us. Nos, NobShot, Blaghman, Bishington and Me!
Granted Nos did leave after finding the spawn point.
And you died like 6 times because of lag.-
HOW DOES 1 EXPLOSION KILL YOU THEN 30 SECONDS LATER THEN WHEN YOU GET SUMMONED YOU DIE FROM THE SAME EXPLOSION.
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Because Notch deemed it so?
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Creative =D
I could’ve just sheared Nob’s sheep (with permission of course, I always ask) and then dyed them, but instead I asked Bish because it meant that I didn’t have to constantly empty my inventory
Is it on some random tall peak in the snow area? Could be my sign lol 😀
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Regardless it has inspired me… Through alcohol, sweat and tears this will get done!
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Woo! You’ve given me a new idea 😀
That’s right guys, Creepius has a new MC project! That means no more creeping from me :D, aren’t you all so lucky!
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Mornin’ TAY!
Busy day, unfortunately. Might poke my head in later.
HELLO TAY!!!
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Hey Ruffleberg!
I didn’t mean to, but it happened
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/06/so-what-if-im-a-woman-let-me-play-the-game/comment-page-1/#comment-719372
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As an FYI I fully agree with you scree
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Thanks, but it kind of turned into a disjointed rant
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Your disjointed rants makes more sense then mine in that case 😛 sometimes venting is necessary and you did so while raising some valid points, not just yelling profanities
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Maybe, but people are still defending their points and making her the centre of the problem, which it isn’t.
I still think a lot of the problem is that while games are evolving, attitudes towards them aren’t.
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Disjointed rants can be fun, and I dare say healthy too. Whether you meant to or not, you’ve effectively engaged others in discussion, which will ultimately lead to people’s opinions being voiced and shared amongst one another. So long as at least one person comes away from that having learned something, I see it as a positive thing.
Passion leads to entropy, which gives way to change. If people are talking about it, we’re already on our way.
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Pretty much agree
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You make some good points but I can’t help but think your rant was directed at the wrong person. What the guy was saying wasn’t really all that bad, there were people in the original article more deserving of being ranted at.
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You’re probably right, but I think it needed to be said anyway.
It was the cry me a river comment that started it all >_<
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Due to travel/living overseas it’s taken me a long time to get my full licence, but now I have it \o/
Just passed the final test this morning. Walked out the RTA. Took off my P plates. Drove out onto the street, and was almost immediately RBT’d.
It was kind of annoying, because it was the first time I could ever drink and drive (since the BAC is 0.00 for P platers), but I was stone cold sober (It was a Thursday morning after all).
#FlusLateLicenceBonanza
#HashtagsForHarli
Also, went to the bank the other day to sort out some accounts and got a quick quote on a loan. Even though my salary is pretty rubbish I can afford more than I had assumed. Saw a pretty ideal flat in a decent area, close to work, and just in my price bracket on Domain last night.
Could all this be a sign that I’m about to reclaim my adulthood?
… I certainly hope not! Because, after talking retro games on Potaku last night, I want to be 9 again!
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Sober Thursday morning? What’s wrong with you man? Can’t be an adult with an attitude like that.
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I know, I should have knocked back a shot as soon as they handed me my licence.
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#AsIfThursdayMorningsAnyExcuseForSobriety
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Adulthood is bad.
I like to think I keep young by not drinking coffee and not driving. The less grown-up activities I do, the less grown-up I’ll be right? 😛-
Couch-cushion forts are still viable forms of accommodation, right?
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Congrats dude! A full license is awesome (though I only an L to P test) and people will take you seriously.
And yay for adulthood!
… That’s it.
Seems like there’s a bit of MAGIC going on around here.
Also, LOTRO. Instaleld yesterday, played last night, had fun
Made my character on the Elendilmir realm as I understand that’s the unofficial Aus server.
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I noticed a new iPad Magic game. It’s marked as free, so I suspect it sells you cards.
Anyone know if it’s any good?
http://pockettactics.com/2012/06/20/magic-2013-i-idea-im-edition/
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Magic, huh?
Do you believe in magic,
In a young girl’s heart,
How the music can free her whenever it starts,
And it’s magic,
If the music is groovy,
It makes you feel happy like an old-time movie.I have terrible taste in music…
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Sure thing, Nova.
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Actually, it reminds me of the babe…
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What babe?
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The babe with the power.
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What power?
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Well I have characters on brandywine so was keen to play there but I think that was the server that everybody else was creating characters on
Is it just me, or does it seem like there isn’t a lot of good options for games on Steam at the moment?
I was browsing it last night, and nothing there really tickles my fancy.
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You say that now, but I am sure your spirit will waver when games are 75% during the ‘Summer’ sale.
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Psychonauts
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That’s what I’m playing! It’s a cool game (even though my sound drops out occasionally and I have to restart :P)
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I think I had that problem too. I also had a problem where the cutscenes and sounds would stutter really badly.
I can’t remember if I manually downloaded a patch or Steam did it for me but it seems to have been fixed since the last time I played.
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“At the moment”? – (Nearly) Everything that was there before is still there.
Maybe the problem is that you bought them all. At least this provides a measure of immunity against the summer sale.-
I wonder if Caketroll is going to buy anything during the sales :P. I would assume he has everything but then the nice guy likes to buy games when they’re cheap and gift them to people!
You sneaky troll you…
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Like the time he gave away 4 copies of Secret of the magic crystal as a mystery box on twitter. Such a caketroll
But he still has 13 games on his wishlist and there is still about half the games he doesn’t own so I will be saying yes, yes he will-
YES… I’ll be watching for that game to go on sale this time around so I can inflict it on more people, then challenge them to spend longer on it than I have.
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SO TAY WHATS UP?
I didn’t get the other job I interviewed for, but got the 2nd one I interviewed for! I will be the hero Melbourne needs!
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But does Melbourne deserve you?
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Yay! You should celebrate with a Canberra road trip! I call shotgun
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GRATS \o/…
Is the cape part of the uniform or do you have to pay for it?-
I think dry cleaning is tax deductable!
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Grats!
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Excellent news!
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CONGRATS, GIRL.
Pixel!
You should come back to work here. South side would appreciate a second support person…
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RIZE, you should totes move to Melbourne because of REASONS!
I’ve only just realized that it’s winter solstice today…
Amazing….
Anyone got any plans for the shortest day?
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Hopefully have a pleasant ending to a work day… 😛
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Ha haaaaa I wish
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Got me last exam 😛
Everyone has vanished again. Slowest TAY in recent months?
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Don’t spoil the magic.
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I’m going to assume so. And even with it being so slow, I’ll probably still just be top 20. :/
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It’s awesome. I go away to do some work and it doesn’t take me hours to catch up.
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I’ll post for a bit then do something and when I come back I’m all ready to catch up on TAY and there’s only like 10 new comments 😛
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Still here, though I’m beginning to revert to lurker status, I think. This must be remedied!
But yeah, aren’t we usually at 2-3k posts by now?-
Lurking sure has been easy this week.
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So who’s down for iSketch tonight around 8:30ish?
Just lemme know so I can see if there’s enough people who are interested 🙂
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Sure, why not?
Because I’ll probably be playing LoL, is the answer, but shhh.
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I will play iSkotch!
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I LOVE THAT GAME!
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Is that like hopscotch but without any actual exercise involved? Count me in! 😛
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Count me in, Mr. Green!
It’ll be 8:00 my time, so I’m all for it!
Holy crap this is the best GAF thread ever.
Good way to sort the wheat from the chaff in terms of who’s a grumpy asshole too 🙂
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=479298
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Is that the Halflife one? I had many a giggle at the responses in there.
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Sure is!
Remember kids, grammar is very important 🙂
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Ok question for my fellow TAYbies.
Looking at adding some youtube channels to my account so I was wondering what you guys subscribe to, or if you do at all?
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dayjoborchestra
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I don’t suscribe to youtube channels (I know, I feel like a luddite), but I would advise that Geek & Sundry’s ‘Table Top’ series is top notch.
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I’ve never even thought about subscribing to youtube channels, ever. Why would you even do that?
And now that I hear it’s normal I feel super old. Damn kids on my lawn etc.
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The main reason is that I really enjoy the RSA animate series. But I always forget about it when I am looking for something to watch.
So figured I would subscribe to that and wondered if there was anything else I should consider. But part of the reason I asked was so I could subscribe to a few and work out if it is something worth doing or just a gimmick.
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Subscribe to Harry Partridge. His animations are great.
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TheGameStation, TotalBiscuit, BlueXephos, TakeSomeCrime, Boogie2988, RdHotCaliPeppr/BluBerryGamer, LindseyStomp, Niichts/404Gamer, OMFGCata, Watsky.
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Dayjoborchestra and Team Four Star
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I haven’t got an account yet, but if i did, it would be Totalhalibut, Ciderhelm(Very good LoL channel he makes Don’t Feed, which is a MUCH better form of champion spotlight) and Bluexephos
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Hey Ash, Whatch Playin?
So, how bout that rain? Sure is wet.
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And cold.
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Moist, even.
AFTERNOON TAY.
I still can’t get the hang of shooting and taking cover in RDR /o\
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My main strategy was to just stroll down the street, maybe even saunter on horseback, and shoot everything that moved.
It was a terrible strategy, but I felt awesome, and that’s basically what the game was about.
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I might be remembering this incorrectly, but isn’t it really, really easy? Like, hit button, win game?
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There’s a fairly generous auto-aim system and the dead eye (whatever the time slow down thing is called) can be abused quite heavily.
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HI RIZE!
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I’m the worst at shooting in games
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Go for the no guns approach… Keep running into people till they eventually fall off a roof/ledge/cliff
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HI PIXEL!
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Oh hai Mex*booooom*
hey*booom*
Bu-*boooooom*
……. H-*boooooom**drops controller*
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Side note: we need to play it again soon
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Agreed
*twirls moustache*
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Late comment, but: laughed so hard at everyone’s replies 😀
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Don’t bother aiming. Just point in their general direction and use the auto lock thing that snaps your aim when you zoom.
It gives me the illusion of skill!
Hmmmm mobiletaku is stuffing up for me and for some reason everyone’s gravatars are showing up as Scree’s… This can mean only one thing; SHE’S TAKING OVER THE WORLD!!!
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SORRY!
Yeah mobile Kotaku likes to swap the avatars every now and then :/. Haven’t heard of everyone being scree though :O
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Well I’d be okay if everyone became Scree-efied… That just means everyone would be a pleasant and extremely apologetic bunch
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Does that mean TAY has come to a SCREE-ching halt?
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No.
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Why must you thwart my attempts of poor humour *runs off crying*
You truly are a Trjn horse. Tricking yourself into my head with your kindness, then once inside you destroy me.
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No, once inside, you launch it from the roof back AT the guys giving it to you 😛
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Horse?
Kindness?
I think you have me confused with someone else.
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You’ve discovered the terrible secret of TAY. Everyone is really Scree.
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That explains… very little actually.
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ONE OF US, ONE OF US
The image at the top of every page of TAY has always made me laugh, but what would you guys do if you actually saw a three headed monkey behind you?
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I would change my name to Guybrush Threepwood
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Question why there’s a monky in my viscinity and why it has 3 heads. Then determine whether it’s hostile or not and run away if it is 😛
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Eat it.
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You guys talk about it as if it is an odd occurrence?
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HI BISH!
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CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE-U
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Ha Ha. You meet a lot of monkeys then?
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Cut down the nearest rubber tree so as to thwart it, along with all the other caber-tossing fools. After, I would get into a rhyming battle with the monkey and its 3 heads, confusing it with the word “orange”.
…no, “door hinge” is not an acceptable retort.-
Meanwhile, I’ll suck on a throat lozenge and chortle at this absurd situation.
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How about Sporange, the enclosure in which spores are formed in plant life? While used less than sporangium, it’s still an accurate term.
Not that you’d expect a three headed monkey to know that.
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Blaghs, without searching for myself, is that true? If so, thank you. I had spent my whole life thinking that “orange” was a freak, what with the inability to rhyme.
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Yes, though given Sporangium is the generally used form, my suspicion is that botanists/biologists designed the term specifically so that they could look smart at trivia nights.
It’s also only accepted in certain dictionaries(I think Oxford officially considers it to be a “word.”).
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Similar to certain medical terms, I guess. The one thing I learned in grade 5 was the longest* word in the English language (pneumonoultramicroscopicsiliconvolcanisis).
*again, only particular medical dictionaries recognize the term, and I have yet to find a non-medical reference to the word
I’ll have to add that one to the memory banks. Thanks again man!
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Try to get it to start acting like the three stooges.
Zzz its cold and I’m bored of waiting for my exam to start…
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SUCCEED BY PUNCH TEST, GREENIUS FRUND!
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Congratulations man.
Any FIFA players in TAY?
Quick question, do you know how I can automatically have two different squads during the career mode?
The thing is I want to have my main squad for the Premiership and important matches, then a B-team for the league and F.A cups. This way the reserves and lower ranked players can play some games and maybe improve their stats to join the main team or their stats are good enough to raise their transfer fee.
At the moment I make the changes manually but it’s becoming tiresome.
Thanks.
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Hell yeah I play FIFA!
FIFA 98, RTWC.After that, not so much, sorry.
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GET BUSY, CHILD-
I liked FIFA 98. I liked how close the camera was to the pitch and the game was so much fun.
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Yeah ’98 holds a very fond place in my heart. Played the hell out of that game as a kid 🙂
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I only knew how to slide-tackle. That was my one-and-only experience with football games.
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i’m sorry, but fifa 99 was the best fifa of all time
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So… um… how about that new Futurama episode?
Honestly… I haven’t watched it…
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Oh, it’s back?
The last round of new episodes didn’t exactly thrill me. I’ll still watch it but my expectations are not that high. Shows coming back from cancellation tend to end up not being quite right.
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It was good but not amazing. Made me laugh so it met my requirements at least. 😛
Don’t forget episode 2 is out now as well!
MYSTERIOUS CITIES OF GOLD SEASON 2!!!!!
AT LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAST!
The cel shaded CG isn’t as good as the old traditional style of the origional show and I think it loses some of it’s magic…
Then THAT theme plays… And I no longer care!
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HYPE TRAIN!
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*brofist*
I’m tempted to rip the original series DVDs and watch it all again before season 2 drops!
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I didn’t even know it had had a DVD release. I had VHS rips, at the time they had lost the masters and said a DVD release wasn’t ever going to happen. 🙁
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The French did a remastered release eventually. THe Audio on the English versions isn’t perfect, but I think it works better with the flaws. Those moments when the pitch shifts for a split second remind me of watching it on old recorded VHS tapes.
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The extra features are pretty awesome too. Documentaries and retrospectives with the cast and crew.
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Holy Crap! The Golden Condor!
Not sure how I feel about the CG stuff…
It lacks something.-
THEN THE MUSIC!
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But yeah, it feels very lifeless. Would rather have had another 2D show.
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3DCG either needs to be done really well or not at all.
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5pm can not come soon enough. It’s been a prick of a day.
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Agreed. I’m gunna go buy a bubble tea and play Pokemon White till I have to pick up my other half.
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I’m getting someone to cook for me then not lifting a finger…. although I probably should shoot out some more job applications, this place is killing me.
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Aw, internet hugs for people feeling crappy!
I’m not sure what to do myself. I have a game to test, but I’m not feeling up to it
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I bet that bloody winter solstice has something to do with it.
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Nah I like winter, the sun is far too bright, bring on the snow.
I’m just over people and the stupidity they rode in on
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anarchy reigns update:
god damn, that music is so great, i’m really digging it, it’s sorta rap/hip-hop but each song is mixing it with like, tachno and rock, and man, makes the hype levels on the game raise super high.
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i know dub techno as “tachno”… sounds way better…
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god damn, i am on a roll today.. i’ll just stop typing…
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You must be butter because you’re on a rollllllll
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So I just got seasons 1-3 of Misfits. Anyone familiar with the show?
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Wasn’t one of the girls in that show Sugar from Sugar Rush, the show about the teenage lesbian with a crush on her friend?
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Dunno man, haven’t seen Sugar Rush, though I’ll keep an eye out for it. If you’re into lesbian-interest stuff, check out Fingersmith. Absolutely brilliant.
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I’ve only seen seasons 1 & 2
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Watched seasons 1 and 2, really liked it. That show helped ignite my love of the song “Careless Whisper.”
I heard that it goes a bit off the rails in the third season(hell, it manages that perfectly right at the end of season 2), and it loses the best character, so I never got around to watching it.
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I started on season 3, and was rapt immediately. Season 1 isn’t quite as intense, but it’s really interesting seeing how all the relationships evolve amongst the characters.
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The first season is pretty amazing. The second season is also pretty good, but I felt it started to lose a bit of the charm near the end. Haven’t watched any of the third season so I can’t comment on that one.
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1 2 good
3 worse
4 going to be even worseI’m not goin to bother with season 4 since MORE of the original cast have left they show. They sort of just got rid of all of them in really stupid ways that seems very rushed and whatnot
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Isn’t that a bit like Skins though? I dunno, I like the change with Skins, as certain characters (regardless of the show in question) always seem to stagnate.
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Never watched it but I heard Misfits was like Heroes and Skins
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New Alg0rithm? Yes please 😀
http://soundcloud.com/the-algorithm
Click the link if you like you music a tad crazy 🙂
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OHHHHH ME LIKE!!!
I want this in me.-
SUCCESS!
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This reply chain is currently happening on Reddit.
Think I might just avoid responding here, even if it is quite amusing.
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GOD you’re so ungrateful, not to mention homosexual.
Why are you such a bad person?!-
Apparently I’m a woman that pays $50/mth for my mobile phone plan (with data). That must be why.
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You take your phone plan and you leave. I’m so sick of you people!
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The funny part is that before that guy replied to me, I had about 3 upvotes for that comment. Over 20 now. Funny how Redditors say “ignore that asshole”, even if they aren’t downvoting him in similar numbers.
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I’m really not familiar with Reddit as a whole, but that dude was a typical douche.
“I have more e-peen than you” etc.
…That’s the reason I haven’t been to the *chans in ages. I find enough asshat within myself, I don’t need to associate with others like that >.<
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Wait what?
Who the bloody heck is this schmuck?Wow I’m reading his profile and all the other posts he has made.
Ladies and gentlemen, when people refer to someone as being part of the problem, they are talking about this guy.-
“don’t talke tome! ***REDACTED***!!!
btw wat does ymmv mean???”
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“reddit needs to grow up.”
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*sigh*
Protip: Avoid reddit.-
I do, well I don’t actively avoid it as much as I have never been on there besides the random link someone sends me.
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SUCCESS!
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CrazyGuy you so crazy
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You’re welcome. 🙂
Tigerion you so tiger.
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Heh, I laughed.
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As did I
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Clothes line: 3, lambo: 1
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… You’re not very good at this, are you?
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you need stronger pegs man
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I really am entertained by these updates, but I worry simultaneously…
There’s extra tickets available to the Games Masters stuff at ACMI next week. Really want to go to the Tim Schafer one. Except I have to have my cat put down that day 🙁
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I’m not impressed that they’re selling guaranteed spots to get stuff signed for $25 a pop.
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No, that does seem a bit mercenary.
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Tim Schafer’s one’s sold out, maybe I’ll aim for the Warren Spector one.
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Exams over for now 😀 woooooooooooo
iSketch party time tonight! 8:30 add me on Steam (Greenius) and whatnot.
Groooooovy
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Will post deets here later (room name, link etc.)
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Congrats on finishing your last exam! I had mine yesterday. How do you think you went?
Sweet sweet holidays! No idea what to do with myself though.
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Come over to Melbourne for some partying!
I think I went alright, enough to pass :). My average throughout the year wasn’t that good so I doubt I’ll get a HD on any of my units, but who knows!
How’d you go on yours? I know some art subjects don’t have any exams at all :O lucky!
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Have you ever had an exam where you read the first question, don’t know the answer, and start panicking horribly because you assume everything after it is going to be much much harder? That was me yesterday, but it turns out every question after it was surprisingly easy, like they put the hardest question first just to scare people. The fiends.
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Yeah I have! I also like when you don’t know the answer to something but it’s given or hinted at somewhere else in the exam 😀
Oh god I was so surprised with today’s exam. Usually when they have sample or past exams available you can generally assume that they won’t ask you those questions. So I’ll usually just go through the solutions (if available) and not really bother to learn the topics in the sample exam.
But TODAY! z0mg. It’s like literally the 70% of the sample exam WAS THE ACTUAL EXAM! The questions were exactly the same even though they could’ve asked a whole bunch of different topics. It was glorious.
…Too bad I didn’t really go through the questions and learn the content but that’s crazy :O!
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Congratssss!!
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Thanks dawdle! 😀
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http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/simgad/5382790932681516751
Bwahahaha…. I honestly think they both look pirated.
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Link doesn’t seem to load anything 😛
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Awww…. 🙁
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GREENIUS!!! WHERE DEM DEETS AT YO!!!
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http://www.isketch.net/isketch.shtml
English Easy UK 3 at the moment but there’s not much rooms :/, I’d rather a semi-free empty one so this is likely to change. Just message me on Steam or whatevs and I can invite you if the room is full 🙂
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Ok room is full now so just tell me your username on TS/Steam and I can invite you 😀 (which bypasses the room limit)
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Thanks for fun on iSketch! \o/
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TAY needs some rock…
Cherub Rock, to be exact:
Four pack ciders need to last longer >=[
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Then get two of them, that way you’ll have twice the cider! 😀
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Still goes too quickly!
Though the Belgium brand Stessen isn’t too bad. Even if made in SA I think the label said?
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Hi everyone,
First time I’ve been home since Tuesday morning. The baby thing happened. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28754200/liam1.jpg
Ceasareans are brutal. Anyone who thinks that it’s the easy way out has no idea what they’re on about. Can’t imagine picking one voluntarily as a first option.
Everyone is well. Wife is in some pain, but expecting to come home tomorrow. Baby Liam Michael Walsh-Smith has a bottomless stomach and inquisitive eyes. He is mostly calm and curious, and currently spurting the most disgusting bright green merconium (I’d forgotten about this part of it).
I spent two nights in the hospital on the floor, being the arms and legs for the recovering wife. It’s pretty exhausting work being two people. I don’t recommend it for a long period of time.
I’m exhausted. I probably made no sense just now. But everything is good. There’s a baby. We’re a family of four now and it feels pretty much right.
I’m home tonight with the two year old, and she helped me put together a big batch of chocolate mousse for the homecoming wife (a nice pre-birthday surprise – her birthday is on Sunday).
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Good to hear that things are going well post-birth , and your son looks adorable.
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So, you’ll be a the Canberra Meat?
Sorry, sorry, had to say it.
Grats man, even if you had the easy job. Well, the less painful, though equally less doped up option.
And I guess the easy job for the previous nine months.
Okay, I’m going to stop now.
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Still the plan to at least pop in. Worst case scenario, I have the two year old in tow, and cannot stay long.
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Well, Shady arrived at a meat with a child in tow, and that didn’t go too badly!
But I mostly just said it to try and annoy you…
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You could always just turn up for the lols, then leave the two year old with the TAYbies to look after and come back the next day.
Seriously… what could possibly go wrong?
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BTW, Congtatulations mang!
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Yay for healthy new babby!
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Wooo!
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Damn & I thought I was having a tough 2 days being run off my feet.. You sir are an awesome person, grats on the new little one!
You need to rest your feet as soon as you can by the sounds!
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Thanks for letting us know everything was good. Liam is a cute little kid and glad that Miss 2 is helping and taking her loss of single child status well
iSketch was fun tonight! Well, except for when it was lagging and I missed out on about 5 rounds…
But other than that, all fun! 😀
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Thanks all for playing, we’ll do another one soon 🙂
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I’ve picked which identity I’ll use next time :3
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In case anyone is interested.
http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/smallfish_info.php?event_id=1189&utm_source=cotd&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Newsletter21/06/2012&utm_campaign=sos
I have one and it is brilliant. A bit of a niche thing I guess.
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I’d get one, if I hadn’t bought one from JB hifi for the exact same price nearly two years ago…
But, yeah, if you’re into racing games, don’t hesitate to pick this up.-
Got mine from JB about then too. Same price as well as I recall.
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Awesome.
I actually got mine three days after my Driving Force EX literally fell apart. The plastic connecting the wheel to the rim had cracked all the way through, so it was off to JB.
A quick price match and subsequent purchase later, and I was soon in possession of said wheel.
It’s currently mounted on my computer desk, and it’s an awesome wheel for the price.
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Oooh what a bargain! Shame I don’t have a use for one haha.
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That is an amazing deal, if I wasn’t saving for my trip I’d pick that up right away.
DAAAAAAMN
Hey TAYbies just notifying y’all of possibly the best Xbox deal I’ve seen.
$299 for Xbox 360 4GB + 320GB HDD + Kinect + Lego Star Wars 3 + Kinect Adventures & Sports + 3 Month Xbox Live Gold from Kmart starting from June 28th 🙂
This beats the $149 4GB deals from last year and then $210 deal Kinect from Dick Smith because it also has the HD which last time I checked was around $70 for a cheap 250GB one on eBay.
Hopefully this helped someone out 🙂
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And…
Commandos 3 is free at Green Man Gaming and if you get it free you can also get a 10% discount for certain games 🙂
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/action/commandos-3-destination-berlin/
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I think I might actually get this.. lego star wars is awesome, always wanted to play around with a kinect, 320GB is so much better than 4GB, AND I can finally play Trials Evo with everyone….. hmmm so tempting
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TRIALSSSSS 😀
There were a few other recommendations of Xbox exclusives a few pages back so check them out as well if you do end up picking one up.
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Erm… I’m still awake…
So…
Anyone else still collect plush toys?
TAYbies, I need you to vote with your clicking fingers please.
http://yougottaread.com/category/video-contest/
The Lesser Evil is the one I’d rather you vote for, but there might be a better trailer there, so feel free to cast your vote elsewhere if you prefer.
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Also, here’s another picture of my new son. My writing proceeds will affect his life and lifestyle. Think about that. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28754200/liam.jpg
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Also, The Lesser Evil #3 is finally available from Book Depository. Links all here: http://shanewsmith.com/published-works/the-lesser-evil/
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Well, that’s all my spam. I gotta get back to the hospital. The family might be all complete at home at some point today (supersized \o/ )
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So cute!
Glad to hear everything went fine and everyone’s nice and healthy 😀
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Done. What do I win?
In The Name Of Love, RIP seems to be the runaway success at the moment but I’m curious how much that has to do with being the first option. Although if Reconcilable Differences was available I’d vote for that based on the cover alone. Yes, I’m that terrible a person. Let’s see if TAY can pull through for you.
Congrats on the familial expansion by the way if you didn’t see my other message. Glad to hear that everything ended well.
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Oooooohhhhhh. Vampire Government Protectors: Presidential Heat may be my new favorite book title ever now.
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I didn’t have time to check out all the entries…so I just voted for yours! 😀
Voted for you. I’ll also get Alpha to vote for you
Voted for you. I didn’t even watch any of the trailers but based on your completely unbiased view I’m going to assume yours was the best trailer that has ever existed.
Voted mate! I should really get around to throwing money in your direction in exchange for you throwing a book in mine sometime shortly.
My Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome all loved your video and voted for you. =P
Voted to bring you into the equal leaders position
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I voted once on my phone early this morning and it was 2nd, but still a bit behind. Just voted again on my computer and The Lesser Evil is now winning 😀
I thought about the design of the invitations…and completely forgot about fitting all the details in ^^;;
Now I have to write the details on the back, but because it is card, it is going to be difficult to trace onto it D=
Remember this reply thread from Reddit that I posted yesterday?
Look at the karma I have from that single comment. 504 points. That’s the highest I’ve got from any comment I’ve ever made on Reddit. It’s an exceptionally high amount.
Considering what I said wasn’t that witty or contribute that much to the discussion, I can only assume that this is because of the moron calling me a fag.
It’s actually kind of amusing.
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How many of those replies are not from Australia I wonder
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It’s what you get for being an ungrateful little fag.
What else did you expect?
Anyone seen the trailer for the new Nickoloadian produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series (http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DRnLQpMeXzYc%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded&feature=player_embedded&v=RnLQpMeXzYc&gl=AU – sorry about the mobile site link, I’m on my iPad). My childhood is in the corner crying due to being violated again
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I just died a little inside
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At least Michael Bay’s movie appears to have been canned.
Also this sort of thing has basically happened to every popular cartoon franchise. Look at the horrible post Beast Wars Transformers cartoons. 🙁
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Ninja Turtles: Next Mutation was the “oh god it’s so bad” in the franchise… Why did they need to kill it more?
And Bay’s movie has NOT been canned. The script was sent back for reworking. Bay is still attached in all his roles for the movies production.
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I just swallowed a mosquito.
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How’d it taste?
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I think it may have managed to get the back of my throat on the way down.
Oh, the stinging irony of consuming that which consumes you.-
I guess you could say that mosquito is a…
*sunglasses*
Pain in the neck
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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The circle of life goes on…
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PROTEIN.
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Enjoy other people’s blood! 😀
To get some discussion going, and in light of the ongoing trend to talk about sexism, identity and gender disparity, I thought I’d lend my two cents to the maelstrom.
As a gamer/nerd of questionable social ability and standing, I have oft considered myself emasculated, or “less of a man” if you will. Truly, I do not consider myself a “man” by any means, partly due to my physical stature, and partly (possibly) due to the current and/or previous social stigma that was/is related to hiding away for hours at a time, losing myself in worlds unknown to others.
It’s something I’ve grown older with, videogames. I recall fondly the purchase of a secondhand SEGA MegaDrive at age 8, playing Might & Magic ’til the wee hours of the morning. Hell, I still do it regardless of the fact that I’m now 23. And it’s in trying to come to terms with that -attempting to (however unnecessary it may be) justify my hobby- my passion, to others that I feel that I am less of a man because I’m not in the garage working on my car/boat/motorcycle.
I understand that this is an incredibly jaded and somewhat anachronistic view, but it’s something I live with regardless.
Perhaps *that* is the reason behind the hypersexuality portrayed in some games. It may well be a valid form of entertainment and gratification a-la pornography, though I don’t personally subscribe to it being a necessity by any means. It seems the industry as a whole -much like myself- is stuck in a yesteryear approach to an evolving platform of entertainment, and on a greater scale, art and storytelling.
I’m not saying I have a solution, though I DO have an opinion. That’s gotta count for something, and so long as it’s being discussed, people will have differing opinions. I relish the thought of that.
I feel as if the medium is growing and changing faster than the artisans that created it. We’ll all catch up eventually.
One day, women in games will wear armour designed for protection, not perversion.
One day, pornographic connotations and material will be labelled as such.
One day, I’ll be a man.
I can only hope that day comes soon.
TL;DR
inconsequential opinion on potentially controversial topics mentioned in the first line.
I look forward to change.
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As one of natures monstrous perversions, a twenty something male that likes boobs, I often see the typical male not bring held as an ideal but being attacked as a terrible thing. Yet everyone still bemoans about not being “normal” while still having it as a point of pride.
It both confuses and terrifies me which would be why I usually stay out of said discussions. I’m happy to sit back, play games and enjoy my boobs.
Good lord, David Cage is such a load of wank.
Quotes from Good Game’s E3 special:
I don’t see games as a sport, I see them as an emotion simulator.
“It’s a way to emulate what can happen to you… the good things and the bad things. Semantics perhaps, but what you’re looking for is an “emotion invoker”, David. You can not possibly argue that anything past the first chapter of Farenheit was even remotely realistic or something that anyone could experience.
Unless you consider “confusion” an emotion, and want to invoke anger when your games’ stories devolve into a mess of voodoo magic bugs or all the red herrings everywhere.
Makes you believe it’s for real… that’s my challenge Yeah, I suppose you do seem pretty challenged by the idea of something realistic or even coherent, David.
[We get people saying they played Heavy Rain with their wives] so that’s great, I’m really proud of that… [men] can stay in front of the screen shooting zombies for hours but [women] can’t because they need something deeper, something more emotional What.
Don’t get me wrong, having your ‘games’ introducing non-gamers to vidja games is all nice and all, but… is there any reason you feel the need to pander to women? Can’t I as a male want a deeply rich and complex storyline? I play RPGs because for the most part, they have the best story and character development. It’s not like games are completely devoid of any form of story telling or emotional investment.
15 years ago [games came out] and I thought Wow, this is incredible, we’ll be able to do amazing things with this new medium… but 15 years later… I still believe that there’s much more we can do. Your ambition is admirable, David Cage, I’ll give you that. Apart from the part where you rip into people who enjoy shooters, racers and platformers.
Also, Pokemon Conquest is a pretty cool guy.
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What the flying frog-faced fuckery is he babbling about?
Guys don’t want emotional content? Girls can only play if there is emotional content?
Heavy Rain had emotional content?
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Bahhhhh, got the quote boxes wrong.
Quotes are:I don’t see games as a sport, I see them as an emotion simulator.
It’s a way to emulate what can happen to you… the good things and the bad things.Makes you believe it’s for real… that’s my challenge
[We get people saying they played Heavy Rain with their wives] so that’s great, I’m really proud of that… [men] can stay in front of the screen shooting zombies for hours but [women] can’t because they need something deeper, something more emotional
15 years ago [games came out] and I thought Wow, this is incredible, we’ll be able to do amazing things with this new medium… but 15 years later… I still believe that there’s much more we can do.
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He’s wrong about the sports bit too. Video games cover more than just one genre.
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Emotion invoker sure, just as with any good film that is able to pull and push you in ways you hadn’t expected. I can see where he’s coming from in this regard, though I don’t think you could discard them as a sport in terms of pure competition. Obviously, you’re not going to see televised FFVII PVP etc, nor do you purchase a game like COD for the storyline and character development. It’s two sides to the same coin, and both sides are equally valid.
As for the ability to share games with others, sure it’s becoming more accessible. That’s a plus. But again, they bring it down to differences between gender. It appears that the current ideology is to treat us all equal, when I don’t fully believe that. There ARE differences between the sexes, and those differences are for the best. I don’t feel that either sex is greater, we’re just different is all. Treating us as a unified entity is condescending to us all.
I’d really like to see Kommunist Bish’s take on this, too :p-
Gender targeted media is based on culturally enforced gender roles. The idea of girl movies and boy movies, girl games and boy games, that’s because we’re told that girls should be one way and like certain things and boys should be another way and like other things.
There are differences between genders but they are nowhere near as vast as they appear to be.
Movies like Star Wars are seen as “boy movies”, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter should come under the same category but you’ll notice that they’re fairly popular across both genders. Quality trumps market research. We see action movies have love interest subplots shoe-horned in to make the movie appeal to women, when what they should do is just make the movie good so that it appeals to everyone.
It’s so manipulative and driven by marketing that the way they construct media to appeal to certain groups.
Competitive gaming is male dominated because for the longest time, games have been targeted as a boy thing. They’re made with the idea that males aged 18-35 are playing them and have things that are designed to appeal to the broad idea of that audience. There is literally no reason that women shouldn’t enjoy this stuff aside from the fact that they’re designed without them in mind because they are not the target market.
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Cartoons are a pretty good example of all this.
My Little Pony is designed for primary school aged girls. The whole brony thing happened because males in their late teens/early-twenties enjoyed it anyhow. Avatar: The Last Airbender was made for primary school aged boys, the range of demographics that enjoy that show is pretty damned vast, to the point that Korra is designed with an older (non-gender specific) age bracket in mind. Seriously, the shipping scene for Avatar is disturbingly large. You don’t get shipping in shows for 8 year old boys.
This whole market research thing segments people too heavily. I understand not trying to appeal to everyone (as you end up appealing to noone) but if you just make a product that is good then you will build a fanbase. Instead they go with “this has been proven to work with our target audience, so we’ll use this”.
/wasn’t really done with the rant
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You don’t get shipping in shows for 8 year old boys.
Bullshit. Do you know what the target demographic for the original Naruto anime was?
However it’s probably fair to say that the shipping isn’t being done by 8 year old boys.
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Just for 8 year old boys.
Just.
Naruto doesn’t disprove my point about tertiary demographics though.
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When was the last time they produced something that was [i]just[/i] for 8 year old boys that didn’t have some kind of secondary/tertiary demographic?
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Whoops, forgot we don’t do bbcode here 🙁
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I don’t know about that. I was pretty into Ash/Misty and Tai/Sora when I was a kid. It really wouldn’t surprise me if a show like Ben 10 had kids supporting different relationships Ben’s had. Ben/Julie, Ben/Eunice etc.
Man, writing all that makes me feel like a such a loser.
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That comment about guys playing zombie games and women needing something deeper, I’m raging so hard right now.
As a guy I love deep, emotional stories. For me a good story is one of the most important things for a game to have. Yeah I do enjoy mindlessly blowing though zombies or aliens or whatever but what I really crave is when a game can engage me on a deeper level.
My sister on the other hand doesn’t really care about a deep story and just wants to play the game, whether that game be about building things (she’s a huge fan of the sims) or killing dragons (she’s also a huge WoW player).
Saying that all men can just sit through a mindless shooting game or that all women need something deeper is stupid. I’m sure there are plenty of men and women out there who are like that but I’m also sure there’s plenty of men and women who aren’t.
Oh my! Pokémon Conquest is out now! :O
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I posted in TAY a few pages back but Vooks is having a competition to win a copy 🙂
You sound interested in the game so you might as well save some moolah
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Yeah I saw that but I couldn’t think of anything. I sat there for like an hour. haha
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Wait, is Pokemon Conquest the Nobunaga’s Ambition one? Because Pokemon doesn’t interest me at all but the Sengoku era does…
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Yup that’s the one. They changed the name for the US/EU (for the best in my opinion).
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Oda Nobunaga isn’t exactly a household name outside Japan.
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Yep, sounds better IMO (and more marketable etc.) 🙂
While not technically the same Pullblox/Pushmo still gets me 😛
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It’s not very Japanese history-ish, to be honest.
I only know the basics of Oda Nobunaga and his mark in Japanese history, and this game only really uses the historical setting. It doesn’t really seem to try replicate the order of historical events or anything.
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David Cage stole Bish’s $10.
I wish you could sends gifts to your friends on PSN. I’d love to send a game or theme etc to my friends once in a while.
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Yeah, it’d be a really awesome thing to do.
And it would put them up there with Steam.-
Yeah, if PSN became a bit like steam it would be great.
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Imagine how many more copies of Journey could have been sold. That’s the first game that sent me looking for the gift function.
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Caketroll would gift ALL THE GAMES
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I don’t know why they don’t have this functionality. Surely it’d encourage more sales (more money for Sony) and also encourage more people to set up & use PSN accounts, connect their systems to the internet etc (more market for downloadable stuff for Sony).
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My thoughts exactly. I hope the whole store is overhauled for the PS4. Even being able to buy on my phone would be nice.
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Hope it gets overhauled. There’s heaps of missing features really. Eg why can’t I jump onto my Vita, buy a PS3 game / DLC and have it automatically download to my console?
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So, after a fear years of lugging my Medion drawing tablet around, I think it’s time for an upgrade.
Do any TAYbies know if there are any good priced WACOM tablets at JB-Hi Fi?
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*Few, not fear.
Silly me.-
I read that so quickly that I didn’t even notice the mistake
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Best bet is to just shop around. I bought my Wacom tablet 5 or so years ago from Harvey Norman (of all places :P) because they had them on sale. I always see them at places like Domayne, Officeworks, etc.
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Also, on a separate note….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3B4hA7WXfQ
I honestly don’t know what to say.
Hey y’all are there any community playdates or any big gaming related events coming up? We had a very fun sesh of iSketch last night (thanks to all who joined!) and it’s my first day of my holidays so I’m up for anything that isn’t productive 😀
With Steam sales coming up I’ll probably pick up a whole bunch of co-op games, I have Xbox Live Gold until mid July and I’m about to pick up PS+ and get a bunch of free multiplayer games. Even if there’s no big events coming up just holla if you want to play something 🙂
In other news… I guess I should probably start attending meats and whatnot. I hear some people (ROCKETMAN) will be heading down to Melbourne and there’s the Batmang meat as well. Just give me details and I’ll see if I can attend or not :). I also hear Serrels is coming down next week? Was there anything planned for that?
Also: CANBERRA MEAT WRITE UPS WITH LABELLED PICTURES PLZ
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The latest Potaku discusses GTA IV community gaming nights next Tuesday and Wednesday night for 360 and PS3 respectively. But beyond that I don’t think there’s anything planned at the moment, no.
Boy I hope there’s another Sydney meat soon. 😛
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HOO WAT?
GTA night? Awww yes I’m in-
I’ll be in too if I remember :). My network has some problems connecting to things so hopefully it all works out well. I’ve never played GTAIV online, does the DLC mean anything? I have Episodes from Liberty City on another disc if that’s required for anything .
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I’ve asked Serrels a couple of times what his movements are next week so we can plan something, but have thus far gotten only silence 🙁
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Just let me know if anything comes up 🙂
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He probably thinks you’re a sniper or something.
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I need to get a 3DS so I can convince him to
stray into my sightsrespond with the promise of a streetpass hit.
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I really only have online access with the Master Race, so if there’s a game in my library that matches yours (or anyone’s for that matter) I’m all for it.
Hell, if there’s a game for the right price, I’m all for it too.-
Yep same with me. I’m hoping some co-op titles like Saint’s Row 3 goes cheap (cheaper than $20) so I can pick it up.
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Monday Night Halo Fights is always a go.
Be on Reach at 8:30 🙂-
If I can manage to set up a connection for my Xbox and get XBL working, count me in. I need a good reason to play that game!
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It’s a lot of fun. We do a lot of variety in game types and switch between team matches and free-for-alls. And then there’s Speed Halo…oh, Speed Halo.
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I really wanna try my hand at speed halo ^.^
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I’ve heard it mentioned quite a bit since last time but what’s Speed Halo?
I only played a bit of Halo 3 multiplayer but that’s it
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I’ll let the fine folks at Roosterteeth explain this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_3Ul9NaZqM
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Oh. My. God.
I NEED TO GET ME HALO REACH
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IT’S ONLY $28 AT EB RIGHT NOW! GO GET IT NOW! 😀
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But free if I borrow it from a friend 😀
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And ‘forget’ to return it? 😛
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Perhaps 😛
But he doesn’t mind though, it’s not like he’s playing it or even cares that much about it. We frequently swap games and I’ve had some of his games sitting on my shelf, unplayed for years.
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…now also on Kotaku. Carry on!
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No second stick is just crazy.
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Good luck carrying THAT around! Crikey!
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I think this is a terrible release.
I can see why they didn’t announce it at E3 as well – they would have gotten hammered for releasing an upgrade with no stick and no charger.
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I wonder how much heavier this will be compared to the 3DS. IIRC it’s really hard to hold the 3DS with a one hand holding one hand stylus style, as in it actually hurts your wrist over time.
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Bigger screens – Cool for those who want it (good for me because I hardly play my portables outside the house)
Longer battery – Awesome! The 3DS’ battery life is one of its worst aspects
No charger – I don’t mind, I already have 2 (DSi XL, 3DS) but I can see how it can be annoying for new customers
No second stick – WHAT?!That’s possibly one of the stupidest things they could’ve excluded from it. You would expect a reiteration of the console to have it, and yet it doesn’t. What are they going to come up with to attach the second stick? The 3DS with a Circle Pad Pro is already incredibly bulky, imagine what kind of monstrosity this will end up like…
Nintendo I am disappoint. It would’ve been fairly good otherwise!
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The lack of a charger is IMO a subtle admission that their region locking bullshit results in people importing the system from all over the place and then buying a charger locally.
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Hello TAY. It has been a while.
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HI F4CTION
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HEY GUY
SEE YOU TOMORROW!
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Wahooo!
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F4CTION! 😀
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HI FACTION!!!!!!!!
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Hi faction!
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HEY FACTION!
DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR BEARD TOMORROW!-
Thanks man, I totally would have forgotten to pack it.
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Hi F4ction.
Good luck…err I mean have fun at your first Can’d Meat!-
This will be my second Can’d Meat /o\
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You were at the first one and I missed meeting you?!
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Hi F4ction
Just grabbed Lost Odyssey. See if it grabs me or ends up going in the creek.
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So good!
Feels more like a classic Final Fantasy and the soundtrack is awesome 😀
There was some long load issues and texture popins but I hear that can be fixed by installing the disc to your HD
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I played a bit of that years ago. From what I remember it was pretty awesome. Some of the stories you could unlock in it were really sad.
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Oh yes! I don’t really read much but I read most of the short stories (dreams? I can’t remember what they’re called in game) are actually really good and quite sad.
The main story of the game itself was pretty good as well. Interesting concept with the immortality and whatnot
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The short story stuff was by far the best part of the game. I never finished it, I was utterly unengaged by the plot or the characters and gave up at the funeral scene when everyone was all weepy and I was like I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO THAT PERSON WAS WHY DO I CARE? Also the battle system is all kinds of frustrating, you basically have to play with a guide or else it’s a trial and error thing. Some bosses are completely random as well, so like they’ll hit you with some crazy ultra hit 2 turns in a row and you get wiped out without making any mistake (the VERY FIRST BOSS does this) but other times it’ll be a cakewalk because it never even uses that ability.
Also the character designs are pretty ugly IMO but other’s mileage may vary. I really really wanted to like the game but it just never clicked for me. I had more fun with that weird Chopin JRPG.
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Really loved the short story stuff though, I wish they had a way to unlock all of them so I could just see those.
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Not sure what game you were playing but I didn’t use a guide at all and was perfectly fine :P. The first boss requires some grinding and can hit really hard but other than that it was all good.
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I loved the short story things. But for me that was because they added depth to an already pretty cool story. Lost Odyssey was the best fun I’d had in a next gen RPG up until then.
Oh, I also played Eternal Sonata which really was weird but kind of cool. I do prefer LO though. For me, I felt it had a great big soul.
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Ah yes Eternal Sonata was also good! Pretty game but if you want an animeesque pretty JRPG then Tales of Vesperia is also good (found it to be better than Eternal). Not sure if Freeze has played or heard of Eternal Sonata before but the ‘superior version’ is on PS3. I think they added new content compared to the original Xbox release.
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Hey TAY! Very much looking forward to the weekend, after a not so great week of work…
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Work has been rather meh this week. Looking forward to continuing my efforts of doing nothing that I have been rather successful with so far today.
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Good luck, and…what’s the non-religious version of god-speed?…secular-speed?
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Whoooboy that was exhausting. Took my son out on a bus ride to grab the few things I need to finish the girls’ Batman skirts. A 3 year old let loose in a sewing shop was all kinds of scary. 😛
I also wandered into the EB there to take a look. My son wanted me to buy him Lego Star Wars which reminded me I already have it for one of my portables. He’s turned into quite the Star Wars nut so that will come in very handy.
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Ugh, sewing shops. I have spent way too much of my life inside those. They are so boring. Well, for those who aren’t interested in sewing, that is.
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Don’t worry, he likes games. He was just tired. Once he got in there he was touching everything. He even wanted me to buy Dance Central and Halo Wars for him, as well as Star Wars games. 😛
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Oh, and Left 4 Dead. He said I should buy it for him because it was “a really good game”….
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Don’t forget your noms people
Now before you run off and do that I have a quick question? Is it worth buying the original Deus Ex if I have never played it before and don’t have the nostalgia to get me through the poor graphics and old style gameplay?
An extra $4 for that and invisible war. Thoughts?
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How much is it? Deus Ex is a really good game and really the only part that’s dated is the graphics, but I think that that would severely dent the sense of being in a ‘real location’ because it really doesn’t look remotely realistic by modern standards.
Did you play / like Human Revolution?
If it’s priced less than a cup of coffee then it’s worth a try even if you don’t like it.
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It can be bundled with Human revolution which I’m planning on getting.
Price wise they are more than a cheap cup of coffee but cheaper than an expensive cup 🙂
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Does it have mods to neaten up the graphics and stuff?
It’s worth playing anyway. I played it on PS3 which controlled really badly but I still loved the game. Once you get past the first part which is really annoying (especially because I died a million times 😛 ) it’s an amazing game.-
Er…PS2. I played it on PS2.
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Good point Strange, I had a look and it seems there is a hi-def mod (http://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-new-vision/) which looks pretty good.
I guess that is decision made then. Time to increase the tower of shame.
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I thing there’s a high res mod floating around somewhere that might make it more playable. I’d recommend it as a classic worth playing even though I didn’t like it that much.
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I downloaded it about a 2 years or so ago having never playing a Deus Ex game and had a blast with it. I always wondered why it was so hyped and I can see why. It must’ve been amazing back then but even now it still holds up.
I got around 6ish hours into it before giving up but I purchased a real copy earlier this year when it was $2.50. You can’t go wrong with that price 🙂
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Thanks Greenius, always good to hear from somebody who was in the same situation.
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I played HR for about 3 hours before it went on the pile :P.
Story wise HR comes first but I don’t think it really matters which one you play. I think I’ll probably play HR first because it’s more recent but I do have a feeling that once I play it it’ll be hard to get back into the original and its sequel because they’ll feel a bit dated (graphically and gameplay wise).
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Play HR last. It will difficult to go back to older graphics/controls after playing the newer one.
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DXHR was my game of the year last year, boss battles aside. It absolutely nails the Deus Ex feel IMO. There are parts of it I’d have done differently (boss battles) and parts I’d have liked more of (more open city exploration stuff) but it’s overall a brilliant game, well worth the time. It also has some interesting philosophical discussions IMO.
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That said, play it after the original, it’s a much more modern game and it’d be hard to go back to the old one.
Also avoid Invisible War. It’s shit.
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To anyone working for a software company… please forgive me.
If company X designs product Y, although product Y turns out to be useless without the additional purchase of product A from company Z, (confused yet?) and yet still requires constant support… should you not give up? Stop passing the buck and extorting money from others due to YOUR ineptitude.
If anything, both companies Z and X ought to be paying me/my company for the QA we’re carrying out that they’ve so clearly missed. End users should never find bugs of such magnitude so as to render an entire infrastructure useless.
That, and I really don’t think I should work for builders and such when I have no control in which software we run, or the hardware we run it on.
“THIS ONE IS SHINY, THEREFORE BETTERER”.
/rant
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Betterer is one of my favourite words. 😛
Also, you seem like you need a hug…*hug*.
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Haha, I’d rather spend half a day on the phone with Telstra support whilst dragging staples across my cornea than have to speak with such a disorganised bunch again.
*hug*
Thanks Strange!-
*sighs* it saddens me every time someone says this… I work for them afterall
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Yeah, I’ve got a few mates that work for them, I guess they’re the yardstick for communications woes, however misguided that notion may be. Many a conversation has been struck up about this point, and it’s intriguing seeing it from the eyes of not the company, but the employee.
I know we’re all just trying to do our job in the end, and it’s not the individual I get annoyed with, but the process. The protocols put in place are there for a reason, sure… but it doesn’t make it any less of an annoyance.
PS: it was more of a backhanded compliment towards Telstra than a brazen dig at them :p
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I guess I would be classified as an android, but I choose to call myself a robot because I might get sued if I use the more correct term :P.
In which case I certainly agree with you, it’s merely making sure it’s done right the first time, making sure we have all the records we need, however it sacrifices other things like timeframes and flexibility to provide a quality service in both support and activations. The saddest thing is, we cop the flak for it, but we only just received the job several hours ago or something cuz of the long amount of processing time between when they order to when it actually gets actioned by us.
I completely understand the people’s frustrations, hell I’ve got them too and I’ve been trying really hard to make my voice heard about it to try and improve it from process to the portal that our customers use, but directing their anger out on us when they don’t like something or we can’t support something that they want which we really can’t help with anyway… it’s just not fair.
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The one thing that really, really annoys me in the process is when you go through a stupid automated system thing that classifies you, asks the problem, gets you to enter your phone number etc. Then the moment you actually get put through to a person they ask you all the questions you just messed about typing into your phone.
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OMG yeah that too! I hate that so so much. Our service desk suffers from this too, they don’t help us get all the info right off the bat so that we don’t have to go back to the customer asking for more, and ending up wasting more of their time trying to fix their issue. TBH they should just scrap that “Please enter your phone number” kind of garbage… leave that to the human over the phone to confirm who you are.
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Oh absolutely mate, I’m with you there 100%. I think you guys (again, “you” being the Company, not “you” the android) cop the flak because of your huge presence. Microsoft, and now Apple cop FAR more shite than the *nix systems, because there’s more coverage, more market share, more idiots who don’t understand the product and require assistance thus complain about it.
I make damned sure that no matter how many times I’m transferred, I’m always polite (albeit frustrated) whenever I hear a new voice, and understand that patience is key. I ALWAYS complete the survey, and so long as I receive some respect (as much as you’d give a stranger on the street, say) I’ll rate whatever’s highest (3, isn’t it? Can’t remember the last time I had to call them, TBH).
Unfortunately due to the advent of telephony and the anonymity it entails, I am disheartened to say that I’m vindictive on the survey insomuch as to rate a 1 if the person I talk with is a dick.
I digress, remaining polite and patient is an absolute must, and makes the whole affair easier for all parties involved. Some of the stories I’ve heard from your end, hoo-boy am I glad I don’t have to deal with that on a daily basis! -
A fair point about presence. It’s one thing I noticed that’s pretty much a common denominator amongst all the big players of the industry: They’re focusing more on cutting costs rather than providing a quality service too much. When you see things like outsourcing to other countries, laying off people in a support team, it impacts quality of service, and I mean by a truckload! Even if the skill is still there, the amount of support/activation requests could be too much for that smaller team, and in turn impacts how fast we can deliver to customers, which again impacts quality of service, all to save money…
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Dammit, I should have said “favouritest”. That would have been betterer! 😛
In that situation company Z should add those features to product A so as to remove any issues caused by company X. If there is another company doing it then there is a market for it, and it sounds like it would be saving time and man hours overall.
Company Z should also make their product shinier and therefore better
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I think Company X and Company Z are in cahoots with one another. The programs in question are designed (apparently) to interface with each other “seamlessly”, although neither program is capable of much on it’s own.
Shoulda just gone with SAP1 as I initially suggested… *facepalm*-
I didn’t realise their was a company U involved until after I posted.
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Remember that finger that I managed to slice open in the kitchen a while back? It’s almost completely healed \o/
Friday afternoons sure are boring.
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Friday afternoons really are boring. For me it’s usually because I’m too tired by the end of the week to bother doing anything.
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For me it’s because I’ve read most of the content on my usual safe for work websites.
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I envisioned you watching your finger intently as it heals, due to the inherent boredom stemming from Friday afternoons, awaiting such time that the finger is fully healed and you’re able to pour various solvents on it once more without fear of ramification.
…because that’s what I do with my fully-healed digits, and assume others do too.
Friday afternoons sure are boring.-
I’m pretty much at that point.
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Almost as Wolverine as Bish!
And yes, they sure are! Have you been clicking lately? I’m up for some D3 sometime soon 🙂
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Been dipping my toes into the bloodstained waters that is Act 1 Inferno. It didn’t go so well but I have done a fair few Avt IV Hell clears. Mainly, I’ve just been watching Breaking Bad. Best show.
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Breaking Bad is best show!
I hear the patch made the cost of repairs significantly higher in Inferno (something like 10k?) which is terrible for me because I’m underleveled and always die because of lag 😛
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It’s based on your gear not your difficulty.
My gear is higher level than Blagh’s, so my repair bills from killing Diablo in Hell last night was higher (although I died twice and he only died once).
The bills are quite substantial now. Those level 61+ items are pretty insane.
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Yeah I meant the gear needed to do well in Inferno (ie. high level gear)
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Craaaaaaaaaap.
Convinced everyone we should leave an hour early today and grab a drink at the pub over the road.
One of our critical off-site servers just went down…
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Disconnect from all work-affiliated communications, feign illness, or death.
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Off-site = SEP. Go to the pub to celebrate.
BUT I CAN SEEEE YOOU
YOUR BROWN SKIN SHINING IN THE SUN
YOU GOT YOUR HAIR COMBED BACK AND YOUR
SUNGLASSES ON BABY!!!
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It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa, I bless the rains down in Africa-
Mamaaaaaaa
oooooOOOOooooooohhh
Didn’t MEEEAAAN to make you cry
Sometime wish I’d never been born AT ALLLLLLL
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FREEDOM!
*jumps out nearest window*
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I hope for your sake you were on the ground floor.
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I don’t think he was.
*takes of hat for a moment of silence*
Dibs on his stuff!
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Don’t worry about him, everybody knows that barbarians bounce.
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Wait, it’s BARBarians, not HUNGarians?
Oh shit… I’ve got some explaining to do…
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Mr Mark Serrels,
I sent you an email on Wednesday and Hadn’t heard back, I just wanted to make sure you got it as it included a nom for community kudos
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He’s not going to see this, try twitter or emailing him again.
Almost finished work \o/
To go to my first gym session tonight /o\
Already cranky from starting a diet today. I think my body may fail from shock.
Melbourne TAYBies: Serrels meat tentatively (but probably going to be okay) on Wednesday night, June 27th. Probably Mana Bar unless anyone has suggestions for something else.
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Can’t do that sadly, Wednesday is my bowling night, plus Mana Bar isn’t exactly very easy to get to and going home afterwards, especially on a weeknight
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Unfortunately the Games Masters events Serrels is down for are Tuesday, Thursday & Friday evenings. 🙁
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Curses! Guess I have to miss out :'(
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Ooooooooh shit I might go. Trying to save as I fly out to the states the week after that.
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I’m pretty much a definite as I’ll probably be taking the Thursday off since I’m taking my cat to the vet for the last time mid-afternoon 🙁 Drinking sounds like a good idea.
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My calendar has STALK TIM SCHAFER scrawled all over it for that week…
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If I can scab a lift, sure 😛
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Actually if it’s just drinking then I’ll have to pass. I don’t drink anyway so it’ll be weird just sitting there chilling 😛
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Mana Bar as I understand it (haven’t been) is a bit more than just drinking.
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If someone goes who can give me a lift then i should be fine.
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Guess I’ll be up for it then. Depends on what time and how I’ll be getting there (if I can scab a lift). I’m not fond of taking the train at night by myself (dodgy as) and the nearest station isn’t close at all.
I’ve never been Mana bar so who knows but I’d like to meat some of the TAYbes and Mr. Serrels 🙂
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I’m not sure how parking is in the area but I could probably drive up there from my office in Southbank if people need a lift. Pretty sure you can tram up there fairly easily from the CBD too.
Where do you live? If you can get in I might be able to give you a lift back out again. Assuming you’re not an axe murderer.
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I’m not
I live in Lysterfield (near Rowville/Nintendo HQ). So yeah… “middle of nowhere” in comparison to everything else so it’s quite a trek for me to get to the City.
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Understood, I lived for a while in Wantirna so I know what it’s like being out there. I could probably give you a ride back but I’ll be working in the city.
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They also serve non alcoholic drinks.. Unless you mean you don’t drink fluids at all then you’re weird Greenius =P
There’s also video games & trivia and other comps on certain nights of the week.
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I’ll be so bad at the trivia cause I assume they’ll ask lots of retro stuff (pre PS1/N64) which I know pretty much nothing about :P. I fail to guess Remember This? and ScribbleTakus in the first few seconds because I know nothing.
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Pretty sure it’s just general knowledge so it’s an even playing field.
Where to/from?
Pencil me in as a yes, let me know when more details come to light
Are we going to do dinner before hand?
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We could. Certainly I’d want to grab something first.
FRIDAY
AFTERNOON
PEACE OUT
I’M OUT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awzyLJFh1lQ
PUT YOUR SHIRT ON CHRIS HEMSWORTH
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There is some small strange part of me that would prefer he didn’t.
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It’s me isn’t it? I’m the small part of you that doesn’t want him to keep his shirt on.-
I’m sure team Jacob said something similar for another movie I won’t ever mention here 😛
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Woo! Got halfway through a PT session before spewing and collapsing.
I have a long way to go.
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I wish I was this classy =(
You alright dude? Doesn’t sound healthy honestly.
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Eh, it’s just been too long since I last exercised piled on top of enjoying too much food and beer. I figure I’ll get a bit further before spewing next time and keep improving until I stop embarrassing myself.
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Ah fair enough. \o/ for future improvements!
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Dear TAYbes,
Just some questions about PS+:
I was wondering how do I access all the other extra benefits (other than free games)? I can’t remember them all but I do recall cloud saves and auto updating. Are there options somewhere to turn them on/off or does it just… happen?
Before the big E3 update they used to offer free PSOne titles. I assume there just aren’t any being offered this month because I couldn’t find any free ones.
When downloading the free games I noticed some of the PSN ones were just the “upgrade”. I assume I just download that and then the Trial version when I want the game. There was also some games I don’t really want at the moment but might as well get since they’re free. I assume it’s enough to just click “download/buy” so it gets added to the Download List at the top, but I don’t have to actually download them for it to count, do I?
ANNNNNNND is there a website to check when things get released? I found this http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2012/06/05/heads-up-playstation-plus-update-6th-june-2012/ but is there a site that’ll link to just the PSN updates? Since it’s from the Playstation Blog so there’s plenty of other things that I’ll have to sift through first :P. Alternatively does this get posted on a specific day of each month? If it’s just on the 6th of every month then I guess I can check it myself.
Lots of assuming, lots of questions but thanks in advance!
+GreenCOD
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TL;DR:
– Where can I access options to turn on all the extra features of PS+ like auto updating and cloud saves?
– Where can I find a list of games available each month?
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Auto update and cloud save are in the settings part of the XMB. Have to set a time for auto update. Got mine on 3:00am.
No idea about the release list. I like the surprise first Thursday of each month. It’s like Christmas.
Usually they do have PS1 games free. I got a whole heap free. But they don’t usually have that many free full retail games so a bit of a weird month.
And no, you don’t have to download it. Just start it then cancel and ad long as you have an active sub you can redownload.
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So what gaem are we playing tonight, non-can’d friends?
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Good question… MC I guess 😛
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Hesitant to start anything new since I’m jetting out for the weekend in the morning, so probably just a bit of MC tonight.
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Going to start Lost Odyssey I guess. Hoping it doesn’t get tossed up next to White Knight.
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At the moment, World of Warcraft heh. Probably some L.A. Noire a little later, almost 5 starred EVERY mission including DLC =D
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inFamous 2 as soon as I finish work
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Just played some Just Cause 2. Great open world. The story and acting are an embarrassment 🙂
So I randomly now have a copy of Nuclear Dawn in my Steam inventory to give away… I think.
Anyone want it, and me to try to send it to them to see if it’s the full game?
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Found someone with it on their wishlist.
Maaaaan, you guys are fantastic. Today was a pretty rough day (wrangling the psychotic toddler so she didn’t accidentally kill the new bub), and all these Kudos noms warmed my tired heart. Thanks! Also, your technological workarounds have shot me into first place in the video comp, which is pretty cool – thanks for that too.
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Congrats on MiniShane v2.0 mate!
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THE DIG
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HI SHANE!
Congratulations to you and Mrs. Shane.
In other news, I would like to throw money at you for Vol. 3 of your book.
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We will make it so. I’m assuming you won’t be Can’d Meating? I’ll leave a copy at my place reserved for you.
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I should get one for Alpha too
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Mr W. Smith! Welcome to the stressful bliss of the Multikid Round. Hope you weren’t too attached to your hair 😛
I’ll have to get Vol. 3 off you except I’ll actually pay for it this time unlike hobo past me.
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Grats mate!
God dammit Harli, I just tried adding “YOU” to my XBL friends…
Played a little of Lost Odyssey and have found I am rather digging it. Very reminiscent of FFX. Can see me putting some decent time into this despite the fact I have none.
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Yeah it’s friggen awesome 🙂
Was my favourite JRPG this gen until Xenoblade. Blue Dragon was surprisingly good as well, not as good as LO though but still good. Classic turn based JRPG!
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reminiscent of FFX? i’m interested!
but wait… it’s on wii right? D:
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Nope. Xbox 360
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Oddly enough the PS3 is lacking in the good JRPG department. I’m sure there’s good ones but my favourites this gen are on 360 (Lost Odyssey, Tales of Vesperia) and Wii (Xenoblade). Tales of Graces f might be good (I haven’t played it get) and Vesperia isn’t in English on PS3 but I’m sure Ni No Kuni will become one of my favourites. It looks aaammaaazzziiinnng!!!
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This gen only having a PS3 until now the only ones I have really liked have been Valkyria Chronicles and Nier. And neither of those are traditional JRPGs.
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What I played of Valkyria was good but it’s more of an SRPG. Nier is umm… Nier… but it’s multiplatform too. Incredibly underrated but also one of my favourites 🙂
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What, no it isn’t. PS3 has all the JRPGs this generation except Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey and the handful of Wii ones. Every one that’s on both 360 and PS3 is significantly better on the PS3 as well.
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Which ones? I couldn’t think of any that really stood out, and I’m talking Western releases here.
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Star Ocean 4 has extra content and dual language. Eternal Sonata has extra content. FFXIII has higher res video and a single disc, plus you’ve got a Japanese audio option if you buy the Asian release.
Then there’s exclusives. Tales of Graces, Ar Tonelico III, Atelier Rorona, Atelier Totori, Atelier Meruru, Valkyria Chronciles, Disgaea 3, Disgaea 4, Trinity Universe, Hyperdimension Neptunia, Neptunia II, Agarest War, Agarest Zero, Agarest 2, Yakuza 3 & 4 if you stretch. Plus quite a few multi-platform games.
360 had a few JRPGs early on because Microsoft had been paying for timed exclusives to try and make inroads into Japan. Didn’t work and Sony has the lion’s share of JRPGs again, just like they do with the PSP and PS2.
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I knew of Star Ocean 4, Eternal Sonata and Vesperia having extra content on PS3 but they weren’t generally considered that ‘good’ (with the exception of Vesperia).
I was talking more specifically about really good exclusive JRPGs. I’m probably missing some but from the top of my head Xbox pretty much only has Lost Odyssey, and Vesperia and Wii has Xenoblade and The Last Story. When I tried to think of any JRPG generally considered good on PS3 all I could come up with was Vesperia and Graces f (none of which I’ve played). Valkyria and Disgaea are more SRPG, but they are still good and while Yakuza is good, it’s not the type of RPG I was thinking of.
As for the other ones you mentioned, they’re the really niche type that weren’t generally considered ‘good’ (generally low reviews). But I seriously struggle to think of any good PS3 JRPGs I’ve played. There’s probably something out there I’m missing but compared to last gen, JRPGs are lacking on all home consoles (portables are doing well).
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All JRPGs review ‘low’, the western press hate them. For what it’s worth, Graces is the first JRPG to have absolutely sucked me in since Vesperia, and together those two are the only ones to have absolutely grabbed me this whole generation, since you’re skipping out Disgaea and Valkyria. Last one I really got into before those was Ar Tonelico II on PS2. 🙁
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I wouldn’t say they all review low, just the really niche Japanese ones (which I know you’re a fan of). I haven’t played many of them but the SRPGs (Disgaea, Valkyria) were reviewed highly and so were Vesperia (79 Metascore), Lost Odyssey (78) and Xenoblade (92 :D). Even Eternal Sonata (80) and Star Ocean (75) weren’t that bad. There just hasn’t been many good ones 🙁 (as opposed to previous generations)
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Halp.
Can’t sleep. Clown will eat me.
No light so can’t stare at Doc What sleeping.
Air matress novel but noisy.
Maybe 3 hours sleep not so bad. Still functional, but succint. Talking like Mordin. I am the very model of a scientist Salarian!
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3 hour sleep buddies! hi5
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I heard Hotross passed out :/
Thanks for the MC signs Bish!
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HI BISH!
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Hi Bish, thanks for wishing me a good weekend!
I would like to wish you the same but it doesn’t sound like it’s turning out to well -
Sheppard
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I study species turian, asari and batarian!
Oh em gee! Just saw the trailer for Okami HD and wooooooweee! Like I said on TS last night, imma buy the shit out of it!
It’s especially good since I never owned or beat the original (only played a couple of hours). The trailer said Fall 2012, does that mean Winter (ie. fairly soon?! :D)
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US autumn. Our spring. So Sep-Nov.
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Oh derp I totally forgot the seasons in my excitement…
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Has anyone heard the Harvey Norman radio ad where they are, a direct quote “dropping their pants to make a deal”?
It sounds kind of seedy and disturbing. Creeps me out everytime I hear it.
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I can’t get the image of Gerry dropping his pants, bending over the counter and looking over his shoulder while throat ugly whispering “I’m sure we can work something out”.
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Throat ugly? Seriously iPhone?
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It does make for an … interesting image
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And now I can’t either :/
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CAN…
NOT…
UN…
SEE..
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Worse than Dicksmiths “one hour quicky” sales they have, these sexual sale gimmicks are just that… and rather off putting as well.
Hello! This is my first comment in TAY. I have been following Kotaku for a couple of years now. I occasionally lurk in TAY but I can’t really keep up with it!
Any way thought I would introduce myself I’m KiwiMrT, Kiwi for short.
I have been in Melbourne for 7 years and I was in Japan for 3 before that and NZ before that.
I work in a library. I used to love photography, I studied it in fact, but now my gaming has taken over from it!
At the moment I am trying to play DayZ, if only I could stay alive for more than 30 mins. I just finished Catherine. Now I am looking for the next game on my pile of shame to try and finish. I love games that try to do things differently. Story is very important for me in a game.
Any way I hope you all have a good weekend. I am going to see Prometheus this afternoon.
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Hi Kiwi, welcome to TAY! Good to see another fellow Melbourian 🙂
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Oh and here’s some TAY tips:
Most of the talk usually happens on the most recent page. If you see something you’d like to reply too or want to continue a convo from a previous page just do something like
@Greenius – (message)
TAY has been extra slow this week so it should be easy to keep up :). It’s usually quiet at night and on weekends, going to be especially quiet since people are meeting up over the weekend.
Hope you enjoy your time in TAY! (insert comment about insanity and the oar)
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Hi Greenius! Thanks for the welcome.
How do your get a picture with your name tag? Yeah, I read some thing about people meeting at the Mana bar or some thing. Thanks for the @ tip…
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WELCOME! TAY is a fun place =D
Hope you enjoy your stay here!
The picture are from our gravatar accounts
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Yes, Mana Bar on Wednesday evening. Probably food beforehand. Still working out the details.
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p.s. fellow Kiwi here, though been in Melbourne for about 11-12 years now.
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Welcome KiwiMrT,
Have fun.
How does a Kiwi Mr.T look like anyway?
A Kiwi! Get him! 😛
Welcome to the wonderful world of odd in jokes, game rants, philosophical debates and Gerry Harvey based Mary Sue slash fics that is Tay. The emergency exits are non existent as none care for fire codes here. Enjoy your stay.
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Didn’t you just come back from New Zealand?
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Shhh. You’ll embarrass me in front of the new guy.
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Sorry Freeze D=
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WELCOME KiwiMrT
Like you I also PITY THE FOOL!
Well some days all soft and stubbley like a kiwi fruit. Other days flamboyant like a, in your face Mr.T
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HAPPY BORTHDAY, take off your pants!
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Awww, your first reply fail. That will happen a lot don’t worry.
Oh, kiwi fruit I thought you were referring to the bird.
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MASHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Perhaps he was? It’s just a flamboyant kiwi, no need to jump to conclusions!-
Yeah.. I was referring to the bird. But the bird is flightless and nocturnal and did not really sum up my appearance today. They do have a good kicking legs if any one pisses them off though.
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RENEGADE OPS!!!!!!!111!!1
It’s free for the PS+ peeps and it has 4 player online multi :). Currently playing with potato masha and it’s good fun. Think twin stick shooter but with cars and a billion explosions.
Gotta get some 4 player going on 😀
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I require your aid in mine craft Greenius ;_;
A creeper spawned in my house and blew me up, so I need some stuff replaced if you don’t mind -
Halo Reach has been obtained…
SPEED HALO :D!
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How does one go about obtaining speed halo maps and adding them?
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I have no idea either so I’d like to know as well 😛
/noob
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I haven’t had to go obtaining anything, the map downloads all by itself when you play it. Well, for those who aren’t hosting the match at least. I think the host has to obtain it.
I know nothing about using custom maps in halo, just that I didn’t have to do anything to play speed halo…
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So, I’m off to my nephew’s birthday party today. Twenty 3 year olds running riot.
Wish me luck!
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Good luck!
Apparently there’s a meat happening on the 27th 🙂
…lift? 😛 lol
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Good luck, Have fun.
@Crazyguy, dude you’re awesome! Didn’t spot the gift until just then haha. Thanks =D I did not see that coming!
Random acts of kindness from TAYbies are awesome!
Again with the Green spam but just thought I should let you all know that there’s an eShop sale going on right now for the 3DS. 20% off on certain titles which pretty much makes them close to their US prices 😛
Some standouts are Pullblox/Pushmo – $7.20 (MUST HAVE PUZZLE GAME) and Link’s Awakening (one of the best 2D classic Zeldas) also for $7.20. There’s some other titles which got reviewed well but since I’ve never played them I can’t offer my opinion (Dillon’s Rolling Western, Mighty Switch Force!).
Full list:
First Week Titles 22/06/12 – 28/06/12
Pullblox – $7.20
Link’s Awakening – $7.20
Let’s Golf – $7.20
Super Mario Land – $4.80
ZEN Pinball – $6.00
Second Week Titles 28/06/12 – 05/07/12
Dillon’s Rolling Western
Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive!
Fun! Fun! Minigolf TOUCH!
Mighty Switch Force!
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
ERRYONE GO BUY PULLBLOX AND ZELDA!
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Trying to download Link Awakening … Unfortunately I haven’t updated my 3DS since they gave out those free games.
ALL THE UPDATES!!!
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Come to think of it I haven’t updated my 3DS in ages either :O
They have folders now though!
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There’s also a new demo.
I can’t afford the games still and I feel bad about it. =(-
Don’t feel bad about not giving a multi billion dollar a year company your money.
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Except when you don’t buy Xenoblade, then you should feel bad 😛
(sarcasm)
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Narp, can’t guilt me!
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Well it seems that Dark Souls is so hardcore that it killed my PS3
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It killed mine too back in Oct 😛
YLOD?
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Yep.
Seeing as it came free with my TV 5 years ago, it had a pretty good run. Big W are selling them for $250 with a free game so I might just pick up one of them rather than paying $150 for repair.
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If it’s a fat model there’s a way to get the disc out even if it’s YLOD. I can’t remember the exact steps but I think you have to turn it off from the main switch at the back, hold the eject button t hen turn it on. The fans should go nuts and the disc should come out.
There’s a temporary fix you can do using a box and a hairdryer but it’s likely to mess it up in the long run :P. It worked for me long enough to transfer my saves to my new PS3 slim though.
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I managed to get the Dark Souls disc out using that method (but did that by accident!). I managed to strip the crappy blue screw trying to remove the hard drive, I’m hoping that if I can get it out I can access the data via PC and get the saves off somehow but I might try the hairdryer trick
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Unfortunately you can’t actually get them other than through the PS3 😛
Something about the format of the HD that is specific to the console. There’s plenty of hairdryer trick videos on YouTube so check it out. I figured if I’m not going to use it again I might as well try it since there’s nothing to lose :). I can guarantee that it works but it did slightly warp the plastic and probably damaged something internally but I got my saves :D.
There’s an option to transfer everything from one PS3 to the next so deleting the unnecessary stuff you can easily redownload will help make the process quicker.
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Tried the hairdryer trick but still doesn’t work 🙁
I may have lost my Dark Souls save forever. My poor little Level 72 Pyro, all he wanted to do was burn everything in existence and now he is lost forever
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What did you do? It didn’t work the first time for me either.
I followed whatever tutorial I found but I don’t think it got hot enough so I did it at a higher heat setting and for longer and it finally worked after 3 or so tries 🙂
I’m sure your level 72 Pyro will be fine! Hopefully your game didn’t crash mid-save though otherwise it’ll corrupt the save file (which is what happened to mine 🙁 )
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I put the PS3 upside down in a box, 20 minutes of hair dryer at max power reasonably close up, followed by 20 minutes of fan to cool down.
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Yep that’s what I did too. I assume you took out the harddrive first? I didn’t use the max setting the first time but I did it at the max setting for much longer on subsequent tries. Maybe 30+ minutes or so but I don’t remember how long. If it still doesn’t work just keep doing it for longer 🙂
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The hard drive is stuck in there because I stripped the crappy little blue screw.
I’ve accepted the fact that my saves are gone. On the bright side, by restarting I’ll know what I’m doing so will be able to make my way through faster.
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Hard drive data is encrypted and locked to the system it was attached to, because Sony are dicks like that.
It’s so hardcore I got a stress fracture from doing nothing but sitting and playing it.
So, looks like I may be back in Sydney for a few days in a couple of weeks.
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Wooo.
So… that was weird :/
I just looked at my second PS3 controller and the analogue sticks had some weird sticky moisture drops on top of it and a bit underneath. I Googled it and apparently it’s a common problem and it’s like body oil secreting from the sticks… lovely…
I hardly sweat when playing games and this has never happened on any of my controllers for any console. It used to be my main PS3 controller (it was a dual shock) but then it became my 2nd controller when I got a fancy green one :). I haven’t played the PS3 or used either controller in months so that was kinda weird…
Has anyone had that happen before?
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Hmm, not really. My controllers get some dirt in the grooves but nothing like that.
Maybe it’s a combination of moisture in the air and dirt.Do the buttons still work?
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Not sure since it’s a spare controller that only gets used when I have a friend over but the buttons looked fine
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Nope. Maybe you need to shower more often then that once 😛
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Perhaps, or maybe my grubby friends need to get less filthy disgusting sweaty hands 😛
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Sanitiser
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They wouldn’t use it and I don’t really care since it’s the spare controller 😛
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I survived the 3 year olds! \o/
@Greenius – I’d give you a lift, but I don’t have a car at the moment /o\
I should have a car for the batmang meat if you need a lift for that.
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Ooo I may take up your offer for the Batmang meat 😀
If you were going Wednesday how would you get there? Technically I’m free all day so taking public transport isn’t entirely out of the question, it’s just not really preferred :P. So we could bus it together or something although I think it’s school holidays…
damn kids, git off mai lawn
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I won’t be going. Working till 7pm plus living in the hills makes weeknight trips into the city a real pain.
You could catch a train into the city, then walk to Collins St. From Collins St catch either the number 11 or 112 tram to Brunswick St. Hopefully you can get a lift home.
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Yeah it’s quite a trek to the City from our areas 😛
I’ll probably give it a pass then, I think Neg offered a lift home but I won’t trouble him. Batmang is the main one anyway so hopefully that all works out (transport wise) :D. I might even have my licence by then too!
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It’s not really that far out for me to drop you back, but you’d have to get there on your own.
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You know Activision deserves all the criticism it gets.They have done some crappy things-studio closures, poor business decisions, running franchises to the ground and the whole Infinity Ward fiasco just to name a few.
However, I think the company also deserves some appreciation, even a little.. The company green-lights and supports new and sometimes risky ventures. The problem is that once the venture succeeds they continue to over-saturate the market with said product, leading to fatigue. Other times they support cool concepts but don’t market them.
A few examples:
RISKY VENTURE 1: Guitar Hero.
Activision took a risk distributing and eventually publishing the franchise. Guitar hero borrowed heavily from Japanese arcade games but games like DDR had never done that well in the west. The rhythm genre wasn’t as popular as well. It was a risky move but it paid off.
PROBLEM: Too many versions diluted the market. Now the music peripheral market is all but dead. Rock Band still survives because of its clever and continuous DLC strategy.
RISKY VENTURE 2: Skylanders
The basic game is OK and a fun romp, but the cool thing is how the toys interact with the game. They work on all consoles and it’s a fun way to bring some physicality to the digital characters. It’s a fairly basic idea but it has invigorated both the toy and games market. Skylanders is one of the best selling games of last year and the figurines made skylanders the best selling gaming accessory as well.
PROBLEM: Skylanders Giants is coming so soon after the first game. The market hasn’t bottomed out yet, but will a one year turnaround work? The toys are bigger but will they be better? They light up but where are the movable parts, the accesories like hats for the toys?
RISKY VENTURE 3: BLUR
Blur was an interesting mix of realistic racing and some good old kart combat. The game had a talented developer behind it, it reviewed well and the few who bought it like it. So what went wrong?
PROBLEM: Barely any marketing. Activision had a few online ads poking fun at Mario Kart but that’s it. The racing genre is still a fertile investment and a bigger marketing budget would have gone a long way to at least try and compete with the Forzas and Need for Speeds of the world. While a similar game, Split/second. released at the same time didn’t do as well, Split/second was barely marketed by Disney as well. Another possible issue, release date. This is a stretch but most racing games release towards the end of the year. Maybe that could have helped BLUR do better-think about it, GT, Forza, Need for speed, they all release around sep-Dec. To be fair though, it was shrewd of Activision to release it when there was no competition around.
Those are just a few examples. Finally, there is the biggest series in gaming history, Call of Duty. I didn’t put Call of duty in the above list because it’s in a slightly different situation. Call of duty has never been a risk in the traditional sense of the word. It’s a first person shooter. Since the early 90s First Person shooters are gaming’s ever-green genre. Think about it, shooters are always there. When JRPGs slow down, there are 3-4 shooters. When Strategy games dwindle in popularity, there goes a shooter. When platformers are few…you get it.
Despite being in a ‘good’ genre, the series has actually innovated in significant ways. With two titles especially, COD 1(even 2 to some extent) and COD 4. These two games basically changed the way certain parts of games were designed.
IF ANYONE EVER TELLS YOU CALL OF DUTY HAS NEVER INNOVATED, SLAP THEM IN THE FACE!!!
Call of duty 1 and 2 introduced the ‘campaign from different perspectives’ singleplayer that is so common today. The cinematic presentation and tense missions are still talked about today. Call of Duty 3 faltered but COD 4:MW changed the industry with a push to modern warfare and a surprisingly good singleplayer that in some parts actually criticised and questioned modern war. At the time Activision was really tense about veering away from WW2, but a combination of developer persistence and some smart folks within Activision ensured the game was finalised. The rest is, well, history.
The changes introduced in Call of Duty 4 changed the multiplayer landscape for all subsequent shooters and the XP multiplayer system is now standard in other games. The military genre is also a mainstay nowadays.
This was not an apologetic post in any way. Activision has done and still does crappy things, and they should be criticised for it. I think this was just in my head and I thought I’d put it out there. I guess the main point is that absolutes are not a good way to characterise anything.
Also the developers who made these games should not be forgotten. The teams made the games and they spearheaded their innovative features:
1. Harmonix and Neversoft with Guitar Hero (a kudos to freestyle games as well who did DJ Hero . )
2. Toys for Bob with Skylanders
3. Bizarre studios with Blur
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4. Infinity Ward and Treyarch with Call of Duty.
Thanks for reading.
(Please forgive any grammatical errors I missed while typing this out.)
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Wow, wall of text.
You know, the small box when you’re typing comments on Kotaku makes you forget how long a piece of writitng actually is. At least the paragraphs work this time.NB:
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Fair points all.
I played sooo much COD 1 and 2!-
Thanks for reading Smurfy. 🙂
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You sir can take your logic and good natured thoughts and walk right on out of here. The Internet doesn’t take kindly to your types.
I agree on all of it by the way. I still love CoD and buy every yearly installment no matter how much I get sneered at for it.
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*sneer*
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But… Xenoblade…
*sneer*
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Ha Ha.
*sneer*
Yeah, I enjoy COD games as well. I’m not very good but I have fun playing them. Co-op spec ops is so much fun, especially in Splitscreen. My criticism comes from an enjoyment of the franchise and I hope they don’t destroy it with too many releases and little change.
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MY CAN’D MEAT WRITE UP.
3:05PM TO 3:28PM, SATURDAY THE 23RD JUNE, 2012
As you all know, I had a semi-valid excuse for not attending the entirety of the meat. It’s not really a great excuse, but I kind of made a promise that implied I wouldn’t abandon my wife when she was in pain. I’m not sure how legally binding that promise actually is, but I felt kind of morally obligated to uphold it today. Long story short (or technically, long story slightly longer by means of appending this summary), I was only at the Can’d Meat for 23 minutes.
One of these days I will attend a meat in its entirety.
Anyway, there was a small group noise that might have been a cheer (might have been a collective belch) when I entered, prodding my two-year-old in front of me. For the first time, I saw a meat through her eyes, how she would have seen it, and I understand her hesitation. Strange music, strange people, strange… smells? What the hell is that in the kitchen? A man who would later introduce himself to me as Effluvium Boy said that it might be Doc What… or it might be whatever he’s cooking. I see at least one empty tabasco sauce bottle and nod sagely in agreement.
All the usual suspects are there, and some unfamiliar faces. I get introduced to Jordi and James NeinHandle (hi guys!) and have time to group hello everyone. Some have noticed that I have lugged in a big box of books with me. After a brief stampede, there are still about thirty bazillion copies left; I may have overestimated demand slightly…
My two year old got interested in Nerf Guns that were shooting pellets around Blaghman’s kitchen, but I decided that perhaps they aren’t the most appropriate toy for a psychotic small child with anger issues. Also, she noticed rum balls, and began to brave the crossfire for a taste… thankfully Doc What had a child-friendly alternative on hand:
Caramello Koala. That’s good.
Wait, she’s already had chocolate today. That’s bad.
But it keeps her quiet. That’s good.
Oh, wait, she got some caramel in her hair. That’s bad.
Pez has found a damp cloth to clean her. That’s good.
I still feel like a dud dad. That’s bad… but par for the course.
Annie took a real shine to Flu, who is a bit of a spunk really. If they were closer to the same age, I’d probably encourage the attraction. But it’s too weird to think about things like that so SHAME ON YOU FLU. (PS: everyone else weirded her out… no offence, guys (PPS: This was a joke, so don’t kill me))
What stands out in meats for me isn’t what gets said. It’s what happens afterwards: all the things that I meant to say or forgot to ask stand out in my mind, and start hurling rotten fruit at me. I feel like such a socially awkward wallflower.
Anyway, here’s what I meant to say:
* Shiggy + Doc What: Potaku is truly awesome – you should be well proud.
* Effluvium Boy: Yep, I’m a public servant. The work is shit boring, but the pay is good. What do you do for a crust?
* Bish: Wanted to say anything more than hi, really.
* Everyone who owes me money now: I’m sick of waiting. Honestly, it’s been hours. I’ve already called the debt collectors. I told them to forget the money, and just to break your legs instead. Mkay?
* To the folks I said hi to but didn’t recognise: What are your names?
All right, that’s 600+ words for 23 minutes of meat. For those who made a weekend out of it, I expect about 20 000 words.
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You’ve set a fine precedent for verbosity in Meat reports, young Shane. I approve. 😀
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Sounds cool, even for only 20 min.
How is the baby doing?Btw ever since you won the Kudos on Friday I had this comment stuck in my head to type out to you. About how your wife completed shameless gaming month early by winning the pregnancy game. 🙂
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All is well – thanks for asking. The baby is totally awesome – the main source of exhaustion is actually the overenthusiastic two year old who always wants to be involved. We have to deflect without discouraging, which usually means extensive road trips and other tiring outings! 😛
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Ha Ha. I remember stuff like that. I always wanted to hold and feed my little sibling when I was younger. Good to hear all is going well.
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Hi Shane! (I don’t think I said that while you were here :P). How rude of me!
Mashaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
I don’t think Skylanders Giants is too soon. My daughter’s finished Skylanders a bunch of times and is hanging out for some more things to do. But did I see you mention hats?! Are you trying to send all us parents broke? 😛
Greeniuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus! I tweeted at you about The Last Story. I’ve played about an hour and a half now. I’ve been sent out into the town to explore. I’m loving it so far. I was sad when I noticed I didn’t have the things I needed yet to be able to trade for green dyes though. 😛
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Hi Strange,
Ha ha. I wasn’t thinking about it from the parents perspective with regards to the toys. Your right, having hats and other accessories would be expensive. It would add some play value though if the skylander was bundled with a costume or something. My issue with the Skylanders toys was that you couldn’t do much with them, that’s why I suggested accessories and moving parts. I have a bunch of LEGO and transformers toys so I like to play around with stuff-moving their arms, posing them etc.
Also, Skylanders Giants looks cool, it’s just the gameplay shown so far doesn’t look too different and I was hoping they would add other characters like Crash Bandicoot and maybe more element variants instead of bigger versions of current elements.I just hope Activision don’t burn out a really cool new franchise with too many releases.
I love the Skylanders concept and I hope they move it to other IPs like Transformers or even LEGO.
How many toys does your daughter have btw?
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I meant you’re right not your right. Those two get me all the time.
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No no. If you met her you would know her right is covered in hats and accessories and her left is devoid of decoration.
It’s a Brisbane thing.
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Hey at least you don’t use ur or your for everything. This idiot in high school always said u’r . Like if he’s going to bother putting the apostrophe he might as well do it right 😛
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She has 13 Skylanders figures at the moment. And two of the expansion areas. She likes to draw them and that’s about all she uses them for outside of the game. I actually think making them posable would probably raise the cost of them, so I hope they don’t do that. 😛
I do like your idea of moving the concept to Transformers and Lego though, that would be awesome.
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Woo! :). I really like the weapon/armour/upgrade system because I don’t have to find/buy a slightly better piece every time (like most games make you do) and I can just upgrade them for added benefits. Combat is unique too and is something different. I found it a bit “off” at the start but that’s cause auto attack was on, changing it to making A the attack button made it feel a bit more natural :).
I just never really felt like doing much in The Last Story other than ‘rushing’ the main mission. Maybe it was because I didn’t really want the game but got it anyway :P. I think it’s still sitting in my Wii and I really need an excuse to test out my shiny new golden nunchuck so hopefully our discussions will help :D!
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I’m considering turning “auto” off, too. I find it confusing just running into guys to attack.
And yeah, I think with games like this you have to be in the right frame of mind when you start which is part of the reason why I waited so long after it finally arriving.
I’m really liking the characters so far, as well and I’m looking forward to playing again. I was already thinking of the game when I woke up this morning , which is a good sign. 🙂-
The characters are good but the strong British accents take a while to get used to 😛 (Syrenne?). I think I was up to chapter 20 or so but for the most part you’re given certain characters for the mission. I like it when games do this so I don’t have to pick a party out of a bunch of characters and neglect the rest. In most RPGs I’ll just stick to certain characters and I won’t even touch the other characters :P. FFX did this well though because it let you swap party members out mid-battle, more games should have this!
I also like how you can change the equipment on characters which aren’t even in your party. This lets me swap around a decent set of gear for whoever is with me 🙂
How are you finding the controls? I struggle when it makes me waggle the analog stick from side to side because it just feels wrong on a nunchuck. And because it’s Wii (so WiiMote Nunchuck) camera controls suck :(. I feel the default third person distance between the camera and Zael is too close but I can’t change it.
Good to hear that you’re really enjoying it. I love that feeling of waking up and just wanting to play a game! This also means you’ll SUPER LOVE Xenoblade! I was never in the right mindset for it because everytime I played the game I’d get bored and stop only after an hour even though it’ll feel like I played for ages.
I’m already starting to get more motivation so I look forward to more discussions :D, thanks Strange!
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So…uh…am I like the ONLY entry in the Gravity Rush competition?
Because, yay.
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I think a lot of us that have Vitas already picked up a copy of the game. It’s pretty much the first really interesting exclusive.
It’s also pretty fun though I’m having some issues with the controls. Specifically I find the motion control to tweak aim drives me insane, because it moves in the opposite direction to the way I want it to go, but you can only invert the whole camera system so if I invert everything the game’s unplayable because the sticks are all wrong. Needs a way to reverse just the gyro motion. Uncharted is the same with this and I literally can’t play it as a result 🙁
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Yeah, I was going to pick it up this week, but then: competition.
So which way does it go if you move/tilt it right?
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If you push the right side away from you it moves the cursor left. Bakes my brain.
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Intuitively if you think of the surface of the system as the tip of a big analog stick, tilting the right side away from you should be the equivalent of pushing a stick right, however it moves the opposite to the way you expect in all directions.
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Woo! If it means anything I liked your entries and thought they were ‘win worthy’ regardless if they were the only ones or not 😛
What Neg said is true, I think most people with Vitas already had it since it’s probably the most interesting title. I know it was the only title that stood out to me for the initial lineup announced for Vita.
It’s that time of night?
Wow…
Did anyone else watch Black Caviar?
Greenius~
Why did you give me so many dogs in Minecraft?
I ended up taming them all =P
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HAHAHAHAAHAHHA
Blame Nob!
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I’m glad you forgot I also wanted cats and fish =P
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I did not forget, cats despawn.
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Whenever you’re there too 😛
Jee whiz scree!
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Fine, right here, right now?
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WHAT!? I’m just an innocent bystander, in fact I said scree wouldn’t like it 😛
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Thanks for preventing the squids though Nob
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Squids were spawned everywhere. Not sure in your house or not but my little village loved them 🙂
They despawn as well so they’re not really an issue 😛
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No one can stop him from spawning squids. It is … inevitable, all we can do is delay him.
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Anyone up for some Halo: Reach with McGarnical and I today?
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Campaign or multi? I’ve never played either so sure :). What time? I don’t think I have you on XBL (might have McG) but I’m Greenius.
I also have an Xbox mic 😀
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Added everyone from TAYnames the other night. No mic for me, but I can’t talk today anyway. I’ve no idea whether it’ll be campaign or multi, (or what time it will be, as McGarnical has domestic duties to tend to first) though I’m happy to start now, if you’d like.
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I typed that when I was in bed so give me a while to eat breakfast and something 🙂
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So I feel like I’m commenting too much an would like to apologise if the Green Eggs and Spam is getting to anyone! tis my holidays and I get bored, earlier in the week I was looking for any excuse not to study 😛
Anyways… has anyone played Stranger’s Wrath HD or Renegade Ops? On PS3 when I start up the game, both of them asked me to adjust the screen ratio so the arrows touched the edge of the screen. I found that in both times the screen wasn’t exactly even and the whole thing was shifted slightly down and to the left. So while on one side the arrows touch the edge of the screen perfectly, the other (opposite side would either be stretched out so the arrow is half off the screen or too ‘short’ leaving the arrow nowhere close to the edge with a giant black bar.
Did anyone else have this? Like it’s not terribly bad but it’s kinda annoying having a slightly stretched game or having uneven black bars on the screen.
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Yeah some games do that and it’s weird. The top and side arrows should be able to be moved individually so you can find the perfect size. I find it common in downloadable titles though, most retail titles give you decent sizing options.
I have a SD TV(I can barely read the text in most games) and the sizing options always make the game look weird.
Wow, quiet tonight. Well, the whole week was quiet, but still. I’m in some house, it’s quite odd. Also, I found ten dollars. … … But how are you all?
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HI BLAGHS!
I hear your meat thing went well :). ALL THE KUDOS, unless you want me to nom Bish or someone else again?
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HI GLAH MAN!!!
Rob Thomas.
Gets the ladies when he sings “I don’t wanna be lonely no more”,
Loses them when he sings “I don’t wanna have to pay for this”.
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Perfect.
Wow. Now I can see what NegZero was talking about with the bosses in Lost Odyssey. First one wiped me out in 2 rounds and not a thing I could do about it. And grinding is soooo slow. Oh well. Keep at it. Enjoying the game so willing to put up with a few foibles.
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NegZero was wrong 😛
Only the first boss is tough but the pacing from then on is pretty much perfect. Combat isn’t hard at all.
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I am absolutely categorically not wrong. Every boss has a weakness or a status ailment it will do to you or something that you will NOT know until you’re in the fight. So every time, you have to be prepared to lose.
The first boss is particularly bad because it chooses its attacks at random. And the game’s badly tuned, you need to grind to be strong enough to beat a lot of the bosses but it stops you fighting enemies in a zone after a while, but usually doesn’t give you enough to unlock the status ailment blockers or whatever the hell you need.
A properly tuned JRPG you should be able to go through a zone up to a boss without running from any fights and be at the appropriate level to fight it. Doesn’t happen in LO.
I also recall having issues with save point placement being particularly bad at points, requiring you to re-do sections to get to a boss.
Sir Preston: give that boss a few goes, sometimes he’ll be crazy strong, sometimes a cakewalk. It’s all random 🙁
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I dunno man, it was years since I last played it but I usually always explore a dungeon and fight all the enemies (no extra grinding, no running) and I don’t remember ever having problems in LO (except for the first boss fight).
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The first boss requires you to have a good grasp of the guard function, position your team correctly, and have learned the guard recovery skill. I think that’s the one you need. Someone correct me… but if you have these down, you can tackle the boss at any level and prevail with some small amount of luck.
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I had to grind this because I’d leveled the wrong skills.
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This so much. You never know what skills you need to have until you get to the boss and find that oh this guy does paralysis with every hit or something, so you have to die, reload a save and then grind that skill out which is amazingly frustrating due to the fact the encounter probability drops off in an area the more you fight.
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I have a work question. For an employer to put you on the books would it put them out of pocket too much? The salon I work in now as a casual salon assistant pays me cash in hand at $17 per hour. The modern rate (they didn’t have a casual pay rate for the role before) is $19.70 per hour. So I’m already underpaid. But that’s not what’s really bothering me. I want to be put on the books so I can claim YA and move out. My boss said that I don’t earn enough to make it worth their while, my co worker said it’s because it will cost them money. I’m more inclined to believe my coworker. So, would it actually cost them that much to put me on the books? If I’m paid properly I’ll be earning $197 a week (currently $170).
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Avoiding payroll tax and such most likely.
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Is that…a lot. It’s a small business. They only have one staff member that is on the books right now.
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Generally not. It just depends how tight your employer is. With only one staff member official I’d venture very.
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So I’m late to the party (what else is new?) but I just hooked my X360 up to XBL this weekend in preparation for #mondaynighthalofights, and decided to buy Trials HD for some kicks and giggles.
Well, wasn’t that both the best and worst decision EVER.
I like how it’s taken me back to the days of Sonic, that sense of speed and the ridiculous way in which I physically move the controller in a vain attempt to convey both a sense of urgency and response that my on-screen counterpart simply does not deem necessary.
What I don’t like is that I end up spending half an hour or more on the same track, simply trying to complete it without crashing, let alone getting the perfect time.
I suffer from sweaty gamer hands, which is absolutely disgusting. This game REALLY makes it so.
The frustration is a drug, and the nostalgia is a high. Best worst game ever.
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Do you have Red Dead Redemption? I’m keen for another TAYbie horse slaughter!
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Same! My gold runs out soon :). Is GTA on Tues or Wed?
How was Halo for you Aleph? I was just about to send you a message on Steam/Twitter when you joined. It was fine for the first level but the 2nd and 3rd were laggy as making it almost unplayable.
Also why HD and not Evo? Evo pretty much beats HD in every way 😛
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I didn’t realise they weren’t one and the same to begin with. I really don’t play xbox much at all :p
@Batgirl, no I don’t have RDR sorry. The multiplayer games I do have are Halo:Reach, Halo:CE, Brink, GoW2, L4D2, Portal2. Generally, if I see the right game for the right price, I’ll buy it though.
@Greenius, my first few missions with Becaroonie and yourself were horribly laggy, to the point of pulling the trigger and firing almost a second later. Subsequent games with McGarnical were fine, albeit my skill level showed :p-
I might be able to get my hands on a copy of Reach. I’ve never played a Halo game for more than 5 minutes so I’d be just as terrible. WE’LL LEARN TOGETHER, ALEPH.
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I’m not sure it’s a matter of learning for me, I played the HELL out of Halo:CE “back in the day” (Read: Git awf mah lawn, etc)
I just really, really suck at fps with a controller. I’m far too familiar with a mouse >.<
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Haha I think HD came out in 2009 and Evolution came out earlier this year, you can really see the improvements. It’s good that you got HD first though otherwise it’ll be impossible to get back into if you played the much improved Evo first.
Download the Trial for Evo and see if you like it, or just straight up buy it (it’s definitely worth it!).
I saw your gamerscore and remembered you saying you pretty much never played your Xbox 😛
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Man, some of the graphics tech behind Evo is fascinating. It’s still using a lot of the underlying code, but it uses a similar system to id’s Megatexture stuff, because you’re mostly travelling in a straight line, so it can work out exactly what texture details need to be on screen.
It’s really cool.
Though the shadowing is worse some of the time, but that’s because it does some really funky stuff.
/nerd
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So, i have discovered that creepers love me in minecraft.
Also, LOTS OF LEGO for christmas…at least for Mum. I bought her 3 sets. I want my own, but I want normal large block sets
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Coolest mum ever!
Also, earliest Christmas shopping ever?
My tablet is working fine. 🙂
Just had to find the right driver for it.
I’ve just saved nearly $130.
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