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Tales of xillia is a fun game!
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Jordi plays games?!
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Only with men’s hearts
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And only sexy ones with Chris evans
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MORNING ALL!
How were our weekends?
Also, Saint’s Row 3 has completely captivated me. The soundtrack is amazing, and the whacked out nature of the content seems to be *just* right. It’s batshit insane, and I love it. Perhaps I’ll finish a second game before the end of the month after all, eh?
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My weekend was filled with working and Might and Magic Heroes 6! So good! Hooray for having Monday off!
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Let me be the first to say, I hate you just a little bit right now.
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Good morning new TAY!
Had a lot of fun at Rocketman’s birthday Meat over the weekend! Also went and saw Brave the day after. My first time going to the cinema by myself and it was surprisingly fun. The movie was great as well. Not the best Pixar film, but still pretty solid.
On a gaming related note, today is the last day of the Steam sale, right? So I should just go buy anything that hasn’t been on massive sale that I’m still eyeing? I need to pick up a copy of Skydrift for myself! (it’s a great plane-racing game with power ups and such, give it a look!)
Lastly: thankyou Nob, you spaz. I mean… for gifting me SPAZ. 😛
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First time going to the movies by yourself? Whoa! Clearly you’re not as pathetic as me. 😛
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Normally I’d just wait until the DVD 😛
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Going by yourself isn’t pathetic, it’s awesome. I often go to the movies with my husband and his brother but I’ll sit down the front by myself. I like being closer and hardly anyone ever sits in the first few rows unless it’s superpacked. So it’s like I’m in my own loungeroom .
Also, if you go by yourself you don’t have to risk them ruining it for you by talking to you or crunching in your ear or constantly checking their phone or any of the other annoying things people do at the movies. Plus, you get to pick the movie you want to see without worrying if anyone else wants to see it too.
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Good points all round! (Except for sitting up front, that’s just madness, my friend. :D)
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I love that everyone else hates it up the front, it works out perfect for me.
It’s my kind of madness. 😛
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WAIT! Beavwa DIDN’T gift it to you first? Oh man I’ve been waiting for this day.
*pulls a lever*
*streamers and balloons gall from the roof followed by a banner with the words “Nob (finally) won one”-
Oh he did, I was just too polite to say.
;D
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I’ve been leaving it open for you since you got those balloons ready.
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Oh the gall of that man
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Dude i went by myself and watched a movie on friday aswell, mine was way worse because i saw that new snow white movie.
I WAS BORED DONT JUDGE ME
i am perplexed while going to the cinema is a activity people do together to be honest. Its not like you talk to them when the movie is on.-
The only benefit really is having someone to ramble with afterwards talking about the plot points. I guess that’s what the internet is for. 😛
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I usually just go, yeah i liked that when we walk out, then let it stew in my brain for a while until i decide what i liked and didn’t. ITS A COMPLICATED PROCCESS
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That’s the best part of going to the cinema for me. But at least now I’m not going to hesitate going by myself if none of my friends want to see my movie.
(I had a gift card as well and smuggled supermarket-bought skittles in so it was basically free :D)
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Also the best part of my night was when heather and hollie started cutting your food. They felt so bad. Im suprised it wasn’t to salty with their tears. Glad you had fun buddy i enjoyed you being there.
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If I get a free drink out of it I should let more people cut my dinner up for me, haha.
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I woke up grumpy and tired this morning…only to be greeted when I opened my computer with a huge pop-up from Steam telling me Ser Nobulus had gifted me Grimlock on Steam.
Thanks Mr. Headshot! You saved my kids from my grumpy mood! 😀
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I like giving people gaems. Specifically bish and blaghs.
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Monster.
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omg! Prepare for awesome! Grimroc is a throwback to the good old days of gaming! So many secrets! Awesome fun!
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speaking of good old days of gaming, I’m fighting the urge to buy Ultima 7 from GoG. Should I just cave and do it?
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You’re welcome Mrs Strange. I thoroughly enjoyed that game.
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Also, it appears I have this weird disease that makes me calling Grimrock Grimlock. 😛
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You mean he didn’t gift you a giant robotic dinosaur /o\
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Grimlock is far superior to puny Grimrock. GRIMLOCK SMASH!
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Morning everyone. Watched Ted last night, pretty funny. Still captivated by TDKR want to see it again and again, but it will be cheaper to just wait for the bluray.
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Bah, waiting is for shmucks 😛
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Damn fine movie, I’d like to see it again in cinemas but might wait and watch all three back-to-back on Blu Ray.
Anyone notice RAGE went from $90 to $30 on Steam over the weekend
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It actually changed earlier than that. I wasn’t interested in the game but it’s good to see that they’re actually reducing prices
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Anyone notice its still a terrible gaem. 😛
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Yep. Got the flash sale for 10 bucks overnight.
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Same. $10 seemed like a reasonable price.
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For 10 dollars its ok, but the download to me is excessive for what it is…
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Including me there’s 3 people in this lecture 😛
It starts at 9 so good turnout so far!
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ha ha post-holiday lectures. Always empty 🙂
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It’s also not a very popular unit so I wasn’t expecting much
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I don’t have to go until tomorrow! Suck it, Greenius!
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My final semester doesn’t start ’til *next week*! Bring on the sleeping and gaming 🙂
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Damn! Oh well, it’s my final semester too! High five!
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First day back?
Mornin’ TAY!
Purchased a new computer over the weekend. Hopefully it should arrive Thursday or Friday at the latest.
Once I have that up and running, I can DayZ and record at full detail, pending my crappy Internet connection.
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Dude myself and faction are going to see if we can find each other on a server and just roll with it. We should get a TAy clan going and roll some noobs 🙂
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Yeah, there’s a fair few TAYbies that have it now.
It’d be pretty great if we could find a server we can all consistently go on, but based on numbers, it’d probably have to be an American server. Apparently (and from what I’ve seen) the Aus and NZ servers are always close to capacity.-
I still havent installed it but the game seems like mad fun the more people you have who you know.
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I grabbed Arma 2 Combined Operations the other day, let me know and I’d love to join in!
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D: … What, what did I ever do to you?
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STOP CARRYING IN OUR GAMES OF LOL
we have to lose on our own 😛
sorry frond i still love ya-
I would say that I’ll troll the next game by playing eve but SHE IS ACTUALLY GOOD NOW! What do?
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Heimerdinger!
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TAY Clan! With friendly fire allowed? 😛
oh gawd its 17gbs to download all up /o\
Does it have 10×690’s in it?
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9…. 🙁
Morning everyone.
Final day of Steam sales, my wallet can breathe easier….
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Tomorrow it can breathe easier. Today it still has some work to do.
I am back from my amazing adventure to Sydney, I just wanted to thank everyone who made my trip awesome and really fun. You guys rock and made it really hard for me to want to go home. 🙂
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Hurry up and move already 😛
http://www.metalobsession.net/2012/07/23/nightwish-sabaton-heading-to-australia-in-2013/
I knew in advance that Nightwish were coming on these dates (husband has connections. 😛 ), and I knew there was some Sabaton news incoming as well, but I never expected Sabaton to be supporting Nightwish instead of coming out here themselves.
They’re only supporting Nightwish for the Sydney and Melbourne legs though. And one headline show in Melbourne. Guess I’m going to Melbourne then. Thank goodness it’s in the school holidays or I’d be really sad and angry right now instead of excited. 😛
Discovered this morning that my PC can run Portal 2 with all the settings cranked up with little difficulty. This integrated graphics chip keeps on surprising me.
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I think it’s moreso Source engine, but either way, hooray!
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This is probably true but I hardly expected even that from it. I’ve probably missed out on a lot from the assumption I couldn’t run anything.
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My laptop can run Portal 2 perfectly, then I try Quantum Conundrum and it stutters like crazy!
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Very nice.
Someone talk me out of buying Arma II for Day Z. You’ve got 5 hours
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I won’t not talk you out of buying it, if that helps…
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Buy it.
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I bought it last night – $14 or something like that…. Did that help?
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Save the money for fuel now you’re back.
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I’ve heard it’s a pretty cool guy!
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I didn’t buy it, so don’t buy it. Easy 😉
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Will it run on your computer? Easy way to convince yourself to not get it 😛
Seriously, the Real Virtuality engine hates everyone and everything.
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I caved. You people can’t do your job very well. I know I was asking you to go against the TAY Marketing Machine. but still, you could have tried harder 🙂
Morning TAY.
Unlike all you other people I don’t have much to report this morning.
Meated (?) up with some TAY people on Saturday for Game Masters, Dinner and that Batman thing people keep talking about. Moment of the night going to Doc What for spilling 70% of his popcorn all over the stairs even before he sat down in the cinema.
Many people saw it, many laughs were had.
Games masters was pretty cool, although a bit short and I didn’t learn too much that I didn’t already know. I was surprised that DOOM didn’t feature anywhere. I consider it a very iconic game of my childhood. Either way it was still fun.
Sunday was my fiancée’s birthday so we ate out lots and went shopping and visited family and went to the Chill On ice bar at southbank.
Well look at that, seems I did have something to write about. Also I’m glad the steam sale is over, I’ve bought enough games that I won’t play for now….
so a video of the guy who did the shootings at the batman movie in colorado being introduced at a university has it saying he likes “strategy games”
media shit-storm in 3, 2, 1…
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I hope they stop showing his mug shot all over the place soon. Makes my skin crawl every damn time.
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there have been a few articles linking him to games already.
Apparently he like Guitar Hero lots…. figure that one out.-
Guns. Movies. Games. Maybe it just comes down to the guy being fucked in the head? There’s no scapegoat here, just a psychopath.
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Exactly.
He was messed up. Otherwise we’d all be doing the same thing.
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Just went upstairs to drop off some stuff on someone’s desk, there’s a good chance that I’ll be working up there from next week.
A rather sulky lady that nobody gets along with saw me up there, said something or other, I joked that she’ll might be stuck with me soon enough. She threatened to move down here if I did.
If only the world was so kind. That’d be the perfect situation for me. Move upstairs, have her move out of the way. Would suck for everyone on this floor though.
Morning everyone!
The Melbourne meat was awesome! Everyone was so nice =D
Also, if anyone sees Techie, tell him I need to speak to him.
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Yes, human? What can I do for you? 🙂
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\o/
I just remembered this morning about you saying you miss playing Sonic on the Sega controllers.
Then I remembered there’s something like that at Kmart. Thought you may be interested.
You can buy a Sega mega drive there for $49 with 15 games built in.-
Oh wow that’d be glorious. I’ll look into it, thanks! 😀
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Yes I have one of those controllers. They are great, they have all the classsic megadrive games like Sonic and Altered Beast.
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See I’ve got the original Sonic series on my PC as a more emulated version that I got from EB a while ago, but it’s just not the same :'(
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I tried to get it from the website so you could buy it straight away if you were interested, but they took it down.
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I actually have my Mega Drive hooked up to my monitor at home. I also have Sonic 1, 2, 3 and Sonic and Knuckles.
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I hate you… my parents gave mine away years ago
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That sucks man. If you can’t find one of those megadrive controllers anywhere I could probably dig out the one I bought. I’m pretty sure its just sitting in one of my cupboards collecting dust.
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*dig out the one I bought and send it to you.
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Howdy Tayberinos!
BATMAN.
Also, a Monday Morning Question: BATMAN?
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No 🙂
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BATMAN!
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Agreed.
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BATMANG!
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BAAAAATMAN.
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SUPERMAN!
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That also looks good, great trailer
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I decided to play through Fallout 3 and Fallout NV last week. I played about 1/2 way through Fallout 3 and gave up. I then forced myself to play Kew Vegas and am really enjoying it now. I have no idea why I previously like Fallout 3 over New Vegas. It improved on EVERYTHING from the previous game.
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I like the story and setting of Fallout 3 much more, but there are a great deal of improvements (gameplay-wise) in NV.
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New Vegas was amazing, I think Steam says I’ve put 120 hours into it. Just loved the post-apocalyptic, rat pack-like Vegas era. I freakin’ loved the companions, but I guess that comes from my love of BioWare RPGs. 😛
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I played the previous Fallouts and there are so many references to them. Like I was talking to some lady and she said she used to fly vertibirds and she crashed one over Klamath. I remember finding a crashed one in Fallout 2 near Klamath. It made me remever the good old (horribly gorey) days.
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So I now have tickets to see Nightwish in Brisbane January 4th, and Nightwish with Sabaton in Melbourne on January 14th.
The tickets for Sabaton’s headliner on Saturday 12th January haven’t gone on sale yet but assuming I manage to score one…I’ll be in Melbourne that whole weekend.
Soooo who wants to hang out with me in Melbourne on Saturday 12th or Sunday 13th of January next year? It’s plenty of notice so even you Melbourneers should be able to get something organised by then. 😛
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I’d be up for that certainly!
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We’re a disorganised bunch but i think we could wrangle up something resembling a Melbourne Meat 🙂
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Not every day the first lady comes a visiting. 😀
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You’d be surprised
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Hey, what was that awesome rib place you were talking about once? If we’re down that way for a while my husband will definitely want to go there.
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Was it you?
Or am I confusing you with Puppylicks or someone? My old lady brain is fuzzy.-
Was probably Puppylicks 😛
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hmm nightwish… sounds good. How much are tickets?
I hate missing bands I like coz it’s so hard to keep up with all the tours/dates.
Tickets are $78.50. Pretty good for Nightwish alone, but with Sabaton as well? Bargain. 🙂
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Reply failasaurus. Responding to Inquisitorsz.
/o\ So I’ve made 28 purchases to the Steam Store in the past 10 days, not including gift purchases.
The only way I can repel buyer’s remorse is by telling myself that it still only cost as much as two AAA releases for a console.
*wipes brow*
I’m never partaking in a Steam Sale again >.<
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I’ll beleive that when I see it. Hell, I’m not a PC Gamer and I’ve spent like $40.
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That’s what Steam sales feed on, the misery of your wallet.
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I’ve resisted buying any thing… triumphantly… until I went to JB yesterday and bought Rayman Origins and Spec Ops. Still, not Steam sale related. 😛
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Ahhhh the old “I’m never taking part in a steam Sale again” line. It is the gamers’ equivalent of the alcoholic’s “I’m never drinking again” line.
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I’ve spent a quarter of a week’s wages on gaems alone /o\
Admittedly, I can simply remain a sober hermit for 3 weeks, and be back on budget, but that’s not the point >.<
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Except we don’t have a problem.
<__>
O_o What’re you lookin’ at?!?-
Wow, way to ruin the joke, forced formatting changes…
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Wait until the Christmas sales 😀
I’ve managed to avoid buying anything related to Steam Sales!!! \o/
…But spent my money, instead, on modeling products like needle file, paints and pigments instead… /o\
DAMN YOU, GEEKDOM! WHY MUST YOU ALWAYS FIND WAYS TO TAKE MY MONEY!!!
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Oi loopy face where you been at, i have missed you and your body. also your lack of SPAUCE MARUICE has been disturbing. Everything K buddy? You are like the heart and soul of TAY 😀
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I’m now shouting SPAYSH MAUREEENN as i paint them.. then making ‘pew pew’ noises.
And yeah, just been busy man – then when i come back after a few weeks i just feel a little outta place, so posting at a minimum 🙂 lol
I also just read it was your birthday last week?!?!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DUDEBROSEPHMCGEE!!! 😀
You get anything especially shiny?
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Like sands through the hourglass, such is our finances to geekdom
I hear you, man!
Painting miniatures was so damned pricey when I had no moneys… I guess that’s why I never got into it 😛-
It’s a real killer – aint it?
Problem is i had a few unpainted items sitting around from a couple years back, and once i finished reading the Gaunts Ghosts novels it kicked off the bug again.. now i’m a slave to painting!!!
DAMN YOU, CRUEL FATE!!
DAMN YOU MORE, AWESOMELY DETAILED AND EPIC MINI’S!!!!-
Admittedly, I only tried my hand at a Space Ork Hellbike or whatever it was, my friend gave it to me for my birthday. My father then had to buy all the paint for me afterwards 😛
It was a lot of fun, though my hands are far too shaky to do it any more 😛
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I assume you already know about this Loops, but if not.
Discount Games Store on Ebay has a lot of plastic squad kits for 40-50% off Australian retail.
The prices in the US are broken.
Makes the hobby a lot more affordable when a squad of marines costs $27+ postage instead of $65 or whatever it is now.
They don’t do many individual models but have most plastic box sets. I think if you contact them directly they can get you anything you want. I asked about the new rulebook on their facebook page, they said something around $58. Again much better than $120 here in OZ.-
Yeah man – i found out about them maybe 2 or 3 weeks ago.
Absolutely mindblowing – and the fact you can tailor what you get for the price when you bu multiples is blind mowing!!!
When i’m done with all these models, it’s my first port of call for sure!Didn’t know they could do custom orders htough – cheers for the heads-up man! Much appreciated.
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Melbourne was cool!
Got to meet Neg Zero and Jordi again as well as Klutar, Scree, Techy, Beavwa, his lady friend, Tigerion & wife, Greenius and Inquisitorsz (who awesomely picked me up at the airport) and everyone was super cool. Some drinks were had (I arrived super late due to airline shenanigans) and then it was off to…
Game Masters! It was pretty interesting. Wanted to smash the glass and steal that FamiCom! There was a section with the Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time and Skyward Sword. No Link to the Past though. Went around and looked at art and played some games. Watched the video with Tim Shafer talking about things and junk.
After that, Sarcasm Fairy and I went to check in and Jordi came too! We then got sum foods and met up with the guys again so we could see…
BATMANG! AKA Dark Knight Rises AKA What did I just watch? General consensus was that the film wasn’t as good as The Dark Knight and most people thought it was pretty boring at parts. Klutar fell asleep. Then he woke up and yelled at the cinema screen for a bit, possibly to keep himself awake, possibly because he was just THAT unhappy with the movie.
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Ohg frevbhfyr, gur snpg gung Oehpr Jnlar pbhyq tvir hc orvat Ongzna vf whfg fb bhg bs punenpgre gung vg’f abg rira shaal. Gurer jrer n ybg bs bgure ceboyrzf V unq, ohg V’yy fnir gurz sbe jura zber crbcyr unir frra gur svyz.
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The next day SF and I went to watch The Amazing Spider-Man (She agrees that it was way better) and then we wandered round. Went to some comic shops and got something to eat/drink at the lindt cafe! SO MUCH CHOCOLATE!
then I went home.
now I’m VERY tired and feeling kinda sick.
YAY!
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You forgot the bit where you spilt lots of popcorn all over the cinema stairs.
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Oh, so I did!
“I stumbled on the way into the cinema and dropped the popcorn box which spilled about 80% of it’s contents all over the floor… People thought it was most amusing… Thankfully Klutar gave me some of his! WHAT A GENT!”
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That scene was like 45 minutes of talking. I woke up from a nap and they were still talking.
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And then, BAM Deckard Cain!
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Had a coffee this morning. This could be one of the few times in my life that I’ve regretted that decision. /o\
Not sure if anyone’s interested, but I’m taking a camera around on my travels today, and will be uploading them for your viewing pleasure this evening 😀
Stay tuned for remote Australia imagery, folks!
1st stop, Umbakumba Quarry, to help someone rid the trucks from his email sending thingy (whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean)
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Sure, post away.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Who wants to join us on Potaku on Thursday?
We will be talking about “Multiplayer”.
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What time?
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about 7:30? Maybe 8:00.
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I don’t mind chipping in. Let me know what’s required.
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Quiet and a mic.
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What if you really dislike multiplayer?
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that’s great. If you don’t care either way, then there’s a problem.
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I’d be keen, if you need one more!
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That would be awesome!
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Are you guys keeping a list of the participants?
I’d be happy to come on again but not before everyone who is interested on TAY has had a chance to participate.
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Same. Really enjoyed it, but want other people to have a go, as well.
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I’d consider it but I am not particularly qualified to talk about Multiplayer and also my employer means I have to be a bit careful.
Bored or unhappy on a Monday morning? Cheer yourself up with the musical splendour of Rocketman and Flu singing on a cold Sydney street last Friday night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEpydjK-on8&feature=plcp
I’m surprised I never tripped over recording this.
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I like how most of the recommended videos have picked up on the “rocket” part, and nothing else.
Also, that was amazing, but pshh, whatever.
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I’d prefer recommended videos about rockets to videos about the flu. Just saiyan. :p
Unless they were narrated by Flu, I guess.
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Oh man, a video about the Flu, narrated by Flu. It would be… Uhhh… Yeah, actually, I don’t know what it would be. Certainly something.
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To be honest when you were recording, i was hoping you would kind hit a pole and just stop. glad it didnt happen though
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Aw, thanks man! :p
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Hah! Now I wish that I walked home in the same direction as you guys. Nothing eventful happened on my trip.
But then I got a Streetpass.
Greetamanings TAY!
After an extremely crappy week filled with both family and friends drama, I just want to say that the generosity shown by TAY in the many, MANY gifting of Steam games to each other, was the only thing that managed to lighten my otherwise gloomy mood all week, WELL DONE!
Now, as for games, my pineapple of shame has manged to flourish, despite nearly no attempt to finish my neglected games (weird huh?). Reconciled with my failure to so much as scratch the surface of my pile of shame, I did the only logical thing.
I started a new character in SKYRIM!
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Hi Hugo
I bought Skyrim during the sales and it has now installed. So tonight I create my 1st character and experience the wonders of the world of SKYRIM.
I have a feeling that creating a character is going to take a while, I’m terrible at making chooses. Any first time tips or trips to keep an eye on when doing character gen?-
Really don’t bother trying to customise your character too much…after the character creation screen you either see the back of his head or don’t see it all(depending on third or first person view)…perhaps decide what sort of character you want to be-ranged, magic or melee when you pick a race…i didn’t and now i have a level 50 Argonian archer. Still, breathing underwater and Histskin have their merits in a pinch.
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DUNMER ALL THE WAY. Ever since Morrowind, I’ve always played Dunmer with my first character. Something to do with mysterious and malicious appearance, and affinity for fire and swords.
Happy Monday everyone! I hope the weekend treated you well.
I saw The Batman on Saturday. I haven’t really had a chance to sit and process it yet. I think I like it – I think it had problems, but I think I like it.
I bought some (more) stuff on Steam Sale. Psychonauts is such a good game, I think it might even be in my top 5 favourites ever. A little bit disappointed with the camera and mouse & keyboard controls though. It’s about infinity times better with a gamepad, so I’ll have to hook up my 360 controller I think. Has anyone had any experience with this?
VVVVVV is cramazing! Love the music, love the flip mechanism, love the fast respawn. I’m sorry I didn’t play it sooner.
Did some Shameless Gaming too. Played Penny Arcade volume 1 – which I think I bought in last year’s Summer Sale – and had a good time. I tried to play Penny Arcade volume 2, but it’s crashing every time it gets to the initial start menu, which is sad. So I installed Penny Arcade volume 3; so far so good. It’s done by a different dev to the first two chapters, so I don’t lose out on carrying over my hero even if I do lose a chunk of story.
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VVVVVV is the awesomest. That music… *swoon*
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I want to buy it, however it doesn’t include the tracks that were written for v2.0, so maybe I’ll hold off.
Also, the track “Predestined Fate” has a bit that reminds me of the Terminator theme, and I can’t help but think it’s some homage.
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Psychonauts is one of my all time favourite games. It has the most varied but story consistent level design I have ever seen. Everybody should buy it.
My only word of warning, if you are going to try a 100% run there will be 1 figment that you can’t find-
I actually own Psychonauts on Xbox and PS2, and I have played/finished it many times already (something I seem to have left out of my post). I picked it up on Steam because PC, achievements and $2.50.
Do you mean that a figment is missing? or that no matter how hard one might try, there always seems to be a figment that you just cannot find?
Also, I’m not going for 100%, just replaying it because it’s a great game. Except the underwater bit. And the camera controls on the PC version.
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oh I’m sure it is about somewhere. I SHALL SUCCEED!
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Stupid sun, stop shining your light into my eyes.
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This might be a little off base and maybe even a little crazy. But have you tried punching it 🙂
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Crazyguy uses wild punches!
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I could always send it away for a while….
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Hey, I just met you,
And this is crazy,
But you got fists, man,
So punch it maybe?-
Again, Crazyguy uses wild punches!
Again, No effect!
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Over the weekend I uploaded some pics I made of some of you guys with that avatar making app I’ve been playing on my phone… :3
https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23taybieavatars
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I love that my hair is on fire. Or is fire. Whichever.
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Ha some of those a pretty funny. I was going to complain when I saw some were female, until I noticed they were all female.
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*Runs off crying*
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Ha Ha, those are really funny.
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I’m just getting “search failed” I assume this is because I don’t have a Twitter account.
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Don’t worry Nob, just like me you were shunned by the monster that is Lambo. Clearly he is not impressed by your ability to play the C chord on guitar.
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Who can blame him, he has met me IRL. Obviously I way too hidious to make a picture of.
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I choose to ignore your words, and retain my mental image of “Nob, the Ladykiller.”
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What is this my female counterpart?! What’s with the clothes?! hahahaha
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I love the cloud-style pick of hairstyle with the sword and shield though 🙂
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Hey everyone,
I hope your day is going well so far. Mine is fairly typical, nothing interesting so far. I’m still hoping my package arrives today, fingers crossed.
Anyway in more important news, according to POTAKU this week’s PS3 playdate is Killzone 3.
Hopefully the turnout is decent this week, the past few PS3 playdates have not happened so I hope we can get a session going this week. To be fair, I’m sure people were busy at home, working or they just forgot so that’s ok.
Personally, I’ve forgotten that the playdates were even happening for the past two weeks. I would be doing something at 10pm and then I’d remember that there was something I was meant to be doing at 8.30pm. Oops.
So barring any emergencies on the night, I’ll make it. I’ve not played Killzone 3 and I’m not the best at shooters but I’m sure we will all have fun.
In fact, if you don’t own Killzone 3 don’t fret. The multiplayer component is available on the PSN store for free. You can play from level 1 to 15 for free. So after work today get downloading in preparation for the game. After all PS3 speeds are kind of slow at times.
So in summary : Killzone 3 multiplayer session on PS3 on Wednesday at 8.30pm AEST
P.S.
If you also own Driver:San Francisco on PS3 and you have some free time over the weekend, we should play some multiplayer, it’s crazy fun.
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Wait… Killzone multiplayer is free? Or is that just for Playstation Plus?
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Nope, it’s free for everyone.
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It’s free to play but I think he means PS+ people can download the multiplayer bit (so no single/campaign) for free and play until 1-15, so they don’t have to buy the game.
I had fun with the beta but didn’t get into the multi. Even though I made like 6 friends buy it we rarely played but at least we all got green controllers out of it 🙂
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No Greenius 🙂 it is FREE FOR EVERYONE!
You don’t have to be a PS+ member.
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Well, it’s sort of a trial version.
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HOLY CRAP I HAVE THAT GAME ON THAT CONSOLE \o/
Driver, that is-
How fun is it? I really love the game.
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I have a confession to make.I haven’t played it yet /o\
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Noooo. /o\
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Wooo Strange meat in Jan!
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\o/
I’ll wear all green in honour of Sir Greenius!-
I should probably wear green too. Apparently some people were disappointed! 🙁
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Post #1000: Greenius on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 5:23 PM
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Man, every week Aleph, you remind me of a younger version of me.
Which is weird, given you’re older than me. But still.
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I love the post count difference between 1st and 2nd. It’s like he’s talking to himself all week.
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Like Blaghs used to do 😛
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Its a small island that he lives on, with not much to do. You can’t blame him
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Oh, of course not. I’m really just jealous. What happened to me? Why did I change? Why does this hedgehog have earmuffs?
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only 6? I feel I made up for that with my twittering last week.
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I’d hate to see a twitter weekly post count done up
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I love how one post makes my average words per comment more than double anyone elses
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Sweet.
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Oops :S
In my defence though, you guys are my connection to the “real world” for the most part 😛
Woo, King of the Fort.
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Would that also make it Fort of the King?
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Wait a minute! How can you be King of the fort if I’m king of the fort?
There is only one way to settle this, choose your nerf gun
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Zomg, they lied to us!
They lied to us through… BADGES!
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As promised in episode 8 of Potaku, we have an upcoming SPACE MARINE!!!!! playdate. This Thursday the 26th of July, from 8.30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.
The idea is to play Exterminatus (4-player co-op horde mode), so I’ll post three comments after this one for organising groups based on platform (X360, PS3, PC). Make sure you get the Exterminatus DLC prior to the night – it should be free on all platforms, to the best of my knowledge.
ORGANISE XBOX 360 EXTERMINATUS HERE
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I feel so bad for 360 Exterminatus. So I’m going to comment, just to make it feel less lonely. I don’t own the game or anything, but, well, it’ll be okay, buddy. It’ll be okay.
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I own the xbox version. I am interested in playing. Might be slightly later than 8:30 because I have indoor soccer but I will try my best to take part.
ORGANISE PS3 EXTERMINATUS HERE
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o/ right here!
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haven’t played for a while, but I’ll update my PS3 and give it a crack.
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I’ll be there.
Sweet seems like there will be a bunch of PS3 play this week. ,Killzone 3 on Wednesday and Space Marine on Thursday.
I tried out the Exterminatus mode a while back with Greenius and it was a bit laggy and generally underwhelming. Hopefully it’s better with four players and the lag is fixed.
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I’ll give it a try.
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I’ve played it before when it first came out. Was heaps of fun with 4 people.
Voice communication is pretty much a must, it gets very hard towards the end.
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We also sucked at the game 😛
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Ha Ha, true.
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ORGANISE PC EXTERMINATUS HERE
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Any day other than Wednesday and I can join in for this
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“It helps to read the comment above first, sir” – AI of common sense
Well… shit, damn it coffee kick in already!
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On Thurdsay night is the aim, at this stage ^_^
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Really missed having a reason to play Space Marine multiplayer :).
Really hate any lobby system for multiplayer… WHEN THE GAME IS ON PC!
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\o/
Also, remember that tonight is #MondayNightHaloFights – only two people (including myself) turned up last week! Get your act together, people!
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Was about to make a post about that. We need to bring back the glory days (of, like, four weeks ago)!
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I was too intoxicated to produce legible 160 char tweets, let alone walk straight (or stand still AT ALL) or indeed, keep my world from spinning like crazy. There’s no way #MondayNightHaloFights would have been a good idea last week :S
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I has no Live /o\
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Yay, more people!
Keen for some more Infection. When you don’t know where the hell the zombie is, it’s so much fun 😀
ORGANISE WII EXTERMINAT….
Oh…
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Very funny, Steve-O. /golfclap
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BAHAHAHAHA!
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D=
It’s okay, we’ll have a wii meat one day. -
Less jokingly, Wii-people might be interested in MH3 or something?
*not sure because only played ~ 1.5hrs or so of that game*
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That’s about how much I’ve played too. It’s the fuzziest of Wii games, even with a component connection and it kept giving me killer headaches. 🙁
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AWESOME GAME! PERHAPS A PLAYDATE IS IN ORDER!
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Xenoblade event! Everyone buys and plays Xenoblade and we have massive essay length discussions about it 😀
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Is Xenoblade MP? *just asks here because too lazy to look up himself, and is pretty sure you’ll jump at the opportunity to talk about anything Xenoblade-related*
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Nope 🙁
But it plays like an MMO!
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@Strange: where & when are tickets for that concert on sale? I quite like both Nightwish and Sabaton and both at once makes me pretty interested.
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http://www.metalmassacre.com.au/index.php?cPath=18&osCsid=ma4vhpk0nuf2t8kc027o4eq4i2
They’re selling early at Metal Massacre at the moment and other places from next week.
Are you Melbourne, Mr. MinusZero? I can never remember these things, but if you are, and you’re going , meeting up for a drink or something beforehand would be great.-
Melbourne, yes.
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Arrghhh, last day of Steam sales, and my comp idea is pretty much dead in the water… 🙁
After I finish the Enderman, what else should I make in minecraft?
Anyone want me to make anything for them?
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A giant spider! Next to your house, it definitely won’t attract spiders.
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OH GOD IT TOTALLY WILL AND I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY IT HAPPENS /o\
I also saw two endermen in your moat, staring at the enderman. I had to repair it a few times
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Bahaha, all hail the mighty enderman god!
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Could you imagine if they started to build an altar infront of it.
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That would be kind of awesome.
I think I enjoy Minecraft way too much
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A giant shield to block out the sun! Cover the world in darkness! Aha! Ahahaha! AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
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Stop trying to steal my ideas….
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Eh, that’s too easy
I should get back into Minecraft. I started expanding my castle before all this Steam Sale stuff started. Luckily I finished my extended walls and the path to the tree village thingo before then!
I giant statue in cosplay of Elizabeth from bioshock infinite
A wild Cakesmith appears!
Sup?
Been busy. Moving on Thursday. That is all.
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Crazyguy uses tackle!
It’s super effective!-
OH, MY GOD. CRAZYGUY, WHERE ARE YOUR PANTS?!
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Over there, with my other clothes.
:3
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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On Thursday! That’s awesome.
HOWDY NEIGHBOUR.
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Hey cakefriend good to see you are still alive!
*Ser Nobulus throws an Ultra Ball*
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You’re supposed to serenade him with C Chords first THEN throw the Poke ball!
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Awww man I always forget about the soothing powers of the C chord.
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HI CAKEFRIEND
Have fun in Sydney 🙂
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Maybe you should drive him here?
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No car yet 🙂
Also Uni :'(
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One of us. One of us.
Phone goes *ding* signalling new email! \o/
Refresh inbox on PC to see… -o-
Is just automated mass-message from Autodesk /o\
Most of my email is this sort of thing, but I still get excited whenever my phone goes *ding* 🙁
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I used to get that with messages on my phone, I’d get a message, be all excited, and it would be “Your credit will run out soon, recharge now to blah blah blah.” Was so disappointing.
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I also get like 5 messages a week from Autodesk / Autodesk training companies. It makes me look important 😛
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A couple years ago, I got a message from Telstra stating that my Telstra Prepaid credit was about to expire. This message was sent to my Optus Postpaid number :S
Silly Telcos!
Also! The Minecraft server will be going offline in a couple of weeks for a few weeks due to my own personal lack of funds because of moving. I’ll back up the world and get it going again when my income is more…stable.
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NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
HOW MUCH?
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Is there any chance someone else can put their hand up to fund it? I wouldn’t mind taking over the funding of it.
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Yeah, it’s what we did with one of the old ones!
Just give us the details, Cakefriend! There are a few of us willing to chip in!-
Minecraft Bukkit – 15 Players @ £66.56 Quarterly
Works out to be about $75-80AUD every 3 months.
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Well, it’s set up through Paypal. So I don’t even know haha.
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I suppose it depends on how difficult it is to change payment method / payment location. Does it require making 10 phone calls / multiple emails? Or is it just a setting you can change in some kind of “account management” page?
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God Nob, you’re such a jerk. Offering like that. Uggh. Makes me sick.
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I know right, such a jerk.
OHAI….
That’s it. Thats all I got…
Tried star trek online yesterday and I’m actually enjoying it… Aside from the whole “buy this to get better” they constantly throw in my face but then again it is F2P
Today feels like it’s going at snail’s pace.
Incidentally, I have a dog on my lap.
He is resting his chin on my arm.
Hence why I am thankful for having dual mice.
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Dogs are the best.
If Just Cause 2 was the only game I’d bought in the Steam Sale, I’d still be happy.
Is that MP mod out yet? We should try it out sometime.
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How many players does the mod support? 30+ would be hella crazy 😀
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I wonder what would happen if a line of 30 people all grapplehook’d the person in front of them at the same time.
Grapples Across Panau?
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Mother of God… *lowers sunnies*
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Grapple-conga ENGAGE!
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1. Grapple 2 – 4 planes together
2. (in unison) drive in different directions.
3. ???
4. Profit-
More specifically:
1. Grapple 2 – 4 planes together
2. (in unison) drive in different directions.
3. ???
4. ???
5. ???
6. ???
7. ???
8. ???
9. Profit -
To clarify:
1. ???
2. (in unison) *REDACTED*
3. ???
4. ???
5. Profit
6. ???
7. ???
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I believe it’s in invite only testing, once it comes out I am definately
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IGNORE THIS OR I WILL EAT YOU RARGH
I believe it’s in invite only testing, once it comes out I am definately up for it, multiplayer was the one thing that game was missing
@Cakemang in regards to Minecraft
(to repeat what Bish said) Would it ne better for us to deposit monies into your bank account or for one of us to take over the payments?
What a lousy Monday. Got “friend-zoned” by a girl who I can’t stop thinking about 🙁
Also, woke up with Steam Sale hangover. “Sale Goggles” were strong this year. /o\
Dunno how many of you read Life Hacker, but Mark has an article up on there today about why he doesn’t consume alcohol anymore, pretty interesting read. http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/07/why-i-dont-drink-alcohol-any-more/
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Awesome article. I don’t drink, I’ve never been shamed or made to feel awkward about it, though. Only feel bad when someone buys me a drink without asking and I have to refuse. Makes me feel like a d-bag. haha.
Just had a quick play of Left 4 Dead 2 for the first time. Despite not really liking Zombie/Monster/etc games, it was quite fun. I think it’s because there’s SO many zombies that you never have the chance to build tension for a jump-scare or something. Unlimited ammo doesn’t hurt, either.
I’d definitely be interested in some multiplayer one day. (I’ve also got Killing Floor and Payday: The Heist for any future multiplayer but haven’t installed them yet. I’d need some notice on those!)
Good ol’ Steam Sales, huh?
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Ninja attacks from special infected can make you jump, but the L4D series isn’t built around scaring/startling the player. It’s mostly focused on being AWESOME.
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Count me in. I also have other games I’d like to play too like Dead Island and Lara Croft. I wouldn’t mind going through some Borderlands DLC either 🙂
So in celebration of Breaking Bad day I have a new wallpaper \o/ http://i.imgur.com/SdN3Y.png
“Cats are manipulative, sociophobic creatures intent on the demise of the hand that feeds. In short, too similar to a human for my liking. Dogs are stupid for loving us. Or just far too generous. I appreciate that, and am humbled by it.”
Man, going through my sentbox on my phone… you’d think I was a dog-person or something.
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I like cats but they are jerks almost all of the time.
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I have a friend who forced his cat to be social from when it was a mangy little kitten. So, now it’s friendly, and totally not a jerk. It’s great.
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Yeah but cats make you feel like you have no control, in short they are for people who hate responsibility. thats why they are perfect for me. I love dogs to. Im just a animal lover, i think. Animals are non judging and always good listeners 🙂
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The bastards.-
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Just grab the cat and hold it down while you are talking to it. Or have a fish in your hand 🙂
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Humanity doesn’t deserve dogs.
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My cat is incredibly affectionate, and I’m pretty sure his father was a cat and his mother was a ragdoll.
He also plays fetch.Your move, buddy.
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The only cat (aside from kittens, who could get away with murder) I’ve enjoyed the company of was named Dog, aptly so. Didn’t like being stroked, you had to forcefully pat/smack (god, that sounds bad) it on the head as a reward/treat. He also played fetch.
With regard to your cat, there’s always exceptions to the rules 😛
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Your cat is the exception.
Now if he were a dog, that would just be normal.-
Well, we kept the name he got from the rescue shelter, which was Odie. Guess that probably plays a roll in this…
Also, Aleph, this particular cat likes normal cat pats AND (almost) unnecessarily hard pats.
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Ragdoll cats are pretty cute. A bit stupid though, what with the utter lack of self-preservation instincts.
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I’m just an animal person, but I have a cat instead of a dog because my household isn’t fit for a dog to live in (no proper backyard, the house is empty often due to everyone working) and it seems unfair to the dog. A cat can sort of take care of itself, and my cat isn’t unsociable like other cats… In fact she’s too sociable, she walks up to people who cone past our house because she’s fat and thinks that if she’s nice to people they’ll feed her -_-
Superman III, Batman Forever, Blade Trinity, X-Men 3, Spider-Man 3, Dark Knight Rises.
Some sort of universal law about the third movie in a series based on comic books is clearly apparent.
Note to movie makers, stop at two, wait a few years, reboot franchise. IT’S THE ONLY WAY!
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I meant to change X-men 3 to X-Men: The Last Stand (Renamed so I could post my findings on twitter)
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DArk Knight rises wasn’t that bad sir. Sure it dragged a little, but i enjoyed it. Maybe it was just me?
Also i was super hyped to read all the spidermans you gave me. I actually even bought ultimate spiderman one. im such a comic hoarder 😛
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It wan’t a bad film. It was by far the worst in the trilogy though.
And be honest, Rockets. It didn’t drag a little. It dragged a lot.
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there were parts i thought took too long but dat ending made up for it 🙂
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That ending was awful! D: It went against everything Batman stands for and who he is!
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Yeah not that part, the last part with alfred was dumb. the fight scene was cool. i enjoyed that.
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I don’t think it was enough to redeem the film.
Although I need to add that I am not saying you’re not allowed to like it, nor do I think you wrong for doing so.
Like away, young Rocketman. Like away.
It’s still going on my list of inferior third films 😛
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I can respect someones opinion who has more age and wisdom and we don’t have to agree with each other on everything. How not fun would the world be then.
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It was perfectly in keeping with the Batman that Nolan had established, though I agree it doesn’t gel well with the batman of the comics. But that’s the case for a lot of it. I have to admit I definitely felt the hand of a board of executives in that epilogue though.
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I disagree, I didn’t like Begins very much at all and preferred Rises.
And even at its worst, DKR vs Batman Forever…
You speak wisely.
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Thank you, sir!
Games too?
Might not always be true, but I can think of a few just from this year off the top of my head. Diablo 3, Mass Effect 3, MW3. All nowhere near as good as the games previous them.
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Well, me theory doesn’t apply to all third films. Only ones based on comics.
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Yeah, but the third iteration in a series seem to fall short in a lot of things. I guess #1 it’s awesome, I hope they make a sequel. #2 it’s better, they fixed a lot of the problems. #3 “we’re out of ideas, but we want your money, so we’ll drastically change everything to make as much as we can.”
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I’m probably the minority, but I REALLY enjoyed ME3. Infact it was much better then ME2. Sure they botched the ending, but I don’t think it’s the worst ending ever (See Knights of the Old Republic 2). It seems like all anyone cares about was the ending. ME3 was so good until the end.
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I liked the ending. I liked the game. I just thought 2 was superior in every way.
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I found 2 way less fun and very much less engrossing than 3. I felt in 2 like I was just slogging through to see what happens at the end. With 3 there was a great atmosphere that I loved, due to what was happening in the bigger picture, and the gameplay was more fluid and exciting as well.
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See I preferred all the companion side quests. The ones in 3 were “fly to this system, scan, fly back” The main story in 3 just didn’t grab me so much either, ended up being way too cliche.
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You’re both wrong, ME1 was the best game ok.
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Aside from the ending, Mass Effect 3 was a pretty great game. I think most people will admit that.
Blade Trinity was my favourite Blade movie…. 😛
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Blade Trinity is the only Blade movie I’ve watched
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I watched all of them. And the TV series. I think I enjoyed the TV series the most though.
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I didn’t mention Blade Trinity on Twitter cause it’s my fave too.
What can I say? I like Ryan Reynolds! he makes me laugh! Except in Green Lantern *shudders*.
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I still haven’t seen that! Was thinking about buying the 3D version after seeing it in JB for about $15. 😛
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I am still trying to figure out Anne Hathaway’s leg. It’s like those prosthetic joke legs that just just turns up and hits people. The heels were just too much imo. It’s like the black widow’s curse of the stuck zipper (also arkham city’s cat woman curse).
But I love her either way. Also Joseph gordon-levitt.
I’m just a teenage CJ TAYBIE
Did no shameless gaming soOoo hate-me
Bought no games on the sale, save my money.
Cause I’m just a teenage CJ TAYBIE, unlike you.
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Afternoon TAY!
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*slow clap*
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Great, now I’ve got this whole “Wheatus/Men Without Hats” mashup goin’ on in my head. DAMMIT!
Also HI CJ! How are you, frond?
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Not too bad man, battling my sisters cat that im looking after for the week for control of my laptop atm. Hes figured out the touch pad.
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I don’t like applying for jobs when they ask questions like “What is your greatest achievement?” or “Why would you be good for this job?” in the application.
Why can’t they save those for an interview when I can hopefully make a good impression first, THEN look like a stammering idiot.
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Are you a travel agent yet???
I need someone to book me some tickets!-
Applying now. Fingers crossed I get something soon. Parents are already on my case
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Bah! You’ll be fine!
You’re one of the most passionate people I know when it comes to talking travels and holidays. They’re missing out if they don’t snap you up!
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Just adapt some epic even you took part in in some game.
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I don’t think Flight Centre wants to hear about me becoming Champion of Unova, Hoenn, Kanto, Johto and Sinnoh
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your well traveled!!
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I like your way of thinking
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Yes I hate that too!
But probably because I’ve got nothing to say 😛
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Take my money!
I just woke up. What did I miss?
I saw The Dark Knight Rises on Saturday evening. I enjoyed it for the most part. Bane was cool. Anne Hathaway did a good job as Catwoman (I’m an Anne Hathaway fan though so I’d probably say she did a good job as anything). It didn’t feel like there was enough Batman in the film though and he didn’t feel as cool as he did in the last two films. Also, there was a group of people sitting behind me who kept talking and laughing throughout the whole thing. It was pretty annoying. Also, also, someones phone went off twice during the film. Some people have no cinema etiquette.
While on the subject of Batman, I’ve been reading some of that New 52 DC started a year ago. I never did get around to getting any physical comics (cause I’m lazy) but I’ve purchased a few digitally. I’ve read issues 1 and 2 of Batwoman and issue 1 of Batman, Batgirl and Birds of Prey. My thoughts so far are:
Batwoman: Not sure I like the art style. Stories pretty good. It sort of drops you in the middle of things with no explanation about who the characters are or what their history is, which is surprising given that the New 52 was supposed to be a reboot and get new people into reading comics. Luckily issue 2 featured a brief paragraph telling you a bit of Batwoman’s history. Also, Kate Kane is freakishly pale.
Birds of Prey: Okay. Like Batwoman it sort of drops you into the middle of things with no explanation about who the characters are or what’s going on. I’ll have to read a few more issues and see if things become clearer before I make any final judgement.
Batman: Great story and art. Makes an effort to let you know who certain characters are.
Batgirl: Also great story and art. Makes an effort to explain some of Batgirl’s history.
Also, I had heaps of issues getting the damn website that sells digital versions of these comics to work. I was using comiXology and the site just refused to work in Firefox and IE. Finally I downloaded Chrome and it seems to work fine in that. Still, a lot of wasted hours trying to get it to work in Firefox.
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There is a notable lack of Batguy review.
He’s a doctor!-
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one thinking the Batguy review was conspicuous in its absence. 😉
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Batman and robin is really strong story wise and i am a fan of how they made damian, he is probably my second favourite robin.
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Batmaan new 52 is amazingly awesome, seriously scott synder knows how to spin a yarn.The art is freaking amazing. Combine that with a new interesting villain made it a really enjoyable read so far.
also read aquaman new 52 stuff, he is freaking badass
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just in case nobodys said it yet, Saints Row the 3rd (franchise pack). 91% off on steam now. thats everything for about $10.
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Holy crap, that’s an AWESOME saving!
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THAT IS CRAY CRAY
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Yeah I just saw that! My jaw dropped!
The only thing that’s stopping me is that I might not be able to run it on my computer :/
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Should check here see what it says! http://systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx
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Yeah I was going to but then I’d have to reboot into Windows and such (site doesn’t work on the Mac side).
I just bought it anyway. 91% is too much to pass up 😛 It looks like I scrape into the requirements, so it might run alright if I lower the graphics, etc. I mostly only want it for multiplayer!
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Derping is so much fun, though I’d recommend doing the first few missions at least, if only to unlock better weapons/vehicles/upgrades beforehand 😀
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Or just use all the crazy stuff you already have unlocked since you have all the little DLC packs 😛
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Farkkkkkk!!
I paid $15 for the game and $5 for the 3 main DLC. Ah well! Still bloody awesome 🙂
Just noticed, the standard game is still at $14.95 or so, whereas the Franchise pack is $9.79
Strange, but what the hell? ANYONE THAT HASN’T PURCHASED SR:3 YET< NOW IS YOUR CHANCE!!!
I’ve already played it on 360 and I’m considering getting it for this price. That’s cheaper than one DLC item for 360 alone.
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Yep! Stupid overpriced DLC and awesome really cheap games!
Apparently the reviews for the 3 main DLC aren’t too good but that’s because they’re really short. Probably not worth $10 if you’re just planning to play through them but then again you can always mess around with the plenty of TAYbies who now have it on PC 🙂
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I’ve only played the Trouble with Clones DLC so far and I thought it was a decent length. It was also pretty funny and the last mission was incredibly fun.
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That’s the last one isn’t it? I heard that was the best of the 3. It’s mainly the other 2 that had the complaints.
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My problem with its DLC is that the achievements appear in your steam thing, even when you don’t have the DLC, so you’re stuck staring at them, mocking you forever!
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urgh I hate that so much!
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The DLC was really fun. I’ve already completed 95%+ of all the single player stuff…
I call shenanigans
They shouldn’t offer better deals at the end of the sale it is just bad business sense. next sale I will be wary of buying items early on sale because they may end up cheaper later on. Actually this might be a good thing to give me another reason to reduce my spending
Idea: We should gift Notch a bunch of Vegas games (like Vegas: Make It Big) so that he no longer half-makes a game then decides to jet off to Vegas. Maybe he’d be productive!
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You can. I’ll watch. 🙂
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or we should gift him Terraria and be like, this is how polished a finished game should be you jerk. Make scrolls this polished.
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Oh dear lord, someone talk me out of the Galaxy Nexus deal at Giz
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/07/afternoon-deal-galaxy-nexus-for-379/Please? PLEASE?!
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Oh wonderful, a reply fail.
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You’re good at this. 😛
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Replyfailing, or spending money?
On the plus side, I’ve decided to go against the purchase of a new phone. My dumbphone supports all my telephony requirements here on my little rock 😛I’ll wait to see what’s released in a year or two, when I’m ready for civilisation again!
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I think both a little from column a, and a little from column b.
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I can’t get Daytona USA working on mame…
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Just yell ROLLING START! and make engine noises for a while.
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Try and go easy on the car!
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Time extension!
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Anyone want a copy of Saints Row the Third on 360?
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Too late, Shiggy wins.
Silly phone. Stop ringing.
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Have you tried punching it … with a sledgehammer? I think that will solve your problem.
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It wouldn’t. There are multiple handsets 🙁
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Play whack-a-mole with the handsets!
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Smash all the handsets!
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Wear earplugs – then the phones can ring…but you cant hear them.
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Why has it taken me so long to play Bastion? The game is awesome!
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Yeah it is, music is absolutely amazing too. Hope you got the pack with the soundtrack.
Ok, so do you guys want to see the outskirts of Angurugu (the community where I work) or through the heart of it? I’ll try to take a video or summin’, we’ll see how it goes 😛
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Why not?! DO IT, MANG.
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But that doesn’t answer anything /o\
Imagine you’re reading a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novel, except that I’m the protagonist, and there’s still every possibility of death 😛
So.
“You finish work for the afternoon, and are contemplating which route you will take home. As you reach the car, you decide to go:
1. Through the township, past ramshackle housing and the worst speedbumps known to mankind Turn to page 11
2. Around the outskirts, braving the makeshift dumping ground and caryard Turn to page 25-
Page 25.
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Done! I’ll have the results up ASAP 😛
(Oh god I must be bored to be doing this!)
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PAGE 25. PAGE 25. But don’t take your fingers off the page because otherwise you can’t go back and then if you die you can’t undie. Choose your own adventure books were always very stressful.
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I like to think of it as a save game system. Ten fingers = ten save game slots.
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got to be page 11 – always pick the prime number.
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posted too late 🙁
Oh God, you fools! What have you done? You’ve doomed us all!It’s not too bad, at least 25 is a square, so there’ll be at least one more choice before death.
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Whichever is most appealing? 😛
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Can’t read that word without “Here’s an appealing fellow. In fact, they’re a-peeling him off the sidewalk” going through my mind in Troy McClure’s voice.
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Wow. That’s… small and remote.
Was just reading about Anindilyakwa and mathematics. Puzzling stuff.
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Jeepers! How can you stand that year-round heat?
Ive had TAY open for most of the day and have still not had a chance to read it. Then i hear people talking about job interviews and such so I can’t complain!
So just wanted to stop by and say Hi!
Oh you want a sneak peak at something special that should be out in a few weeks?
So awesome.. can’t wait to see it. (Oh btw i’m not making it so not really sure what will be in it?) Also if I’m really lucky it will be on XBL which is awesome… I just hope that is a bobble head Shady.. that would be amazing.
Also happy monday to you all, hope steam didn’t take all the monies.
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That vid looks like it’s going to be rad :), make sure to let us know when it’s out so we can see The Adventures of FatShady: Finland Edition and then get all uber jelly
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Happy Monday to you too shady.
Chris Evans!
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BREAK ME OFF A PIECE OF THAT, GIIIIIRL.
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Only if it is post-presto-change-o-Captain America, cause pre-changed-Captain-Chris was kinda funny lookin.
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I will never forget banana split not another teen movie Chris Evans
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Where!?
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In my pants.
Though realistically, filming.
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i have like 8 ideas of what i want to do for a fake trailer for the good doctors movie screening. Nearly all of them involve me in a wig. I hope i am a hot red head.
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Hot.
Hotr
Hotro
Hotros
HOTROS…
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..Must… resist…
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Bish gave me your message on Friday night.
Dick
😛
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Technically Ho-Tross is not the same 😛
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HOTAS!
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Found a sparrow in the fireplace, opened the fireplace to let it out.
Sparrow subsequently stopped in rumpus room, I thought it had injured itself somehow.
Covered him with the towel, placed him on top of recycling bin lid.
First thought ,”Why isn’t he moving?”
Waited half a minute, sparrow looks up and on seeing that it was outside, promptly flew away.
🙂
So yeah, that was basically the most interesting thing that has happened all afternoon.
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So then you found $10?
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Nah, but I did find a sparrow.
Which to me was worth more than $10.
($11.35 to be exact…)
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OK, I’m officially finished with my first Steam sale. I doubled my original budget (and feel a little guilty because of it :P). I never used to impulse-buy until I joined TAY. It’s everyones fault but mine! I’m not buying any more games until the new Pokémon comes out!
Oh, and if anybody is looking for something to buy last minute, Skydrift is $3.39 and is a pretty cool plane-racing game!
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Yeah, no buying any new games for a long time after this. But I justify it when I consider I got 25 games for $70, and that’s still less than your average retail 360/PS3 game these days.
Now, downloading all of these games will probably take a while.
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I’ve pretty much got everything I wanted for the price I was willing to play 🙂
I did pretty well considering I’m new to PC gaming so I had to pick up some older exclusives I missed out on. I got around 24 games (including gifts) for under my budget. So pretty decent sale!
And I too will not be buying games for a very long time 😛 (unless my preorder for Darksiders II counts but other than that I won’t buy anything until Borderlands 2).
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You don’t need to feel guilty. You bought high quality games at very good prices. Over the next few weeks you’ll enjoy a number of games you may have never tried if not for the sale. You’ll have fun with friends in multiplayer and co-op matches, you’ll take part in discussions you wouldn’t have before and the money you saved can even fuel future purchases.
Now unless you were really strapped for cash, DON’T FEEL GUILTY.
I think Skydrift was free with PS+, but I’ve never played it. If you insist that it’s pretty good I might try it out.
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Yeah I know. Really I only spent about 50ish dollars, but it was more than I planned on spending. xD
And yeah, Skydrift is worth a look but honestly I don’t think it’s worth the price you pay on PSN (especially considering there is no split-screen multiplayer, which in my opinion is completely stupid for a console release :P). If you see it cheap though it’s pretty fun.
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God dammit. I attempted to buy the Saints Row 3 pack via Steam using the iOS app and Paypal declined the transaction and put my account on limited access for some crazy reason. :\
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“We are currently performing regular maintenance of our security measures. Your account has been randomly selected for this maintenance, and you will now be taken through a series of identity verification pages.” THANKS HEAPS PAYPAL!
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And now they want me to add insecurity questions too, so that my account is easier to hack via social engineering. :\
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Holy crap, I’ve spent nearly $300 on Steam games during the sale.
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Yeah that happened to me as well (except with the Android app). Had to go change all my Paypal passwords and everything :/
I only used it for browsing after that…
Sir NOBULUS! I LOVE YOU!
That’s all, go back to work
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But, I’ve finished work 🙁
Ok let me get changed back into my work gear. I should be at work in an hour.-
Sigh fiiiine, come back tomorrow then!
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Ha haaa page get, NOT AWKWARD \o/
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Is this your 2nd page get now?
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And it’s always the most opportune moments that becomes one! I’m becoming part of Tay mainstream if I keep this up XD
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All that’s left is to lose the pants, friend!
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The intrepid adventurer survives! Upon returning home from the local watering hole, he downs a refreshing cider and begins to upload videographic evidence of his trek through the barren wastes. It was quite a boring trek, and the camerawork leaves something to be desired.
Of note, this is the first day in months he has gone home without seeing burning mattresses or having rocks/mud pelted at his car (Author’s note; let’s hope this keeps up!).
There are 380 minutes remaining until the evidence is uploaded to the “youtubes”.
Next week will be the next opportunity for filming, wherein our intrepid explorer would like to provide better entertainment. Input is always welcome, and remember; this is YOUR adventure!
1. Through the heart of the Angurugu township
Turn to page 3.14159265 (I got your back, Mawt!)
2. A tour of the Alyangula township
Turn to page 7
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Whhhhaaaatttt…
Who’s throwing stuff at your car?
Aliensgula sounds scary!
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I live in Alyangula, and work in Angurugu. They’re 16km (and worlds) apart.
Alyangula’s fine, but Angurugu can be… volatile. I’ll see if I can record a riot next time it happens for you 😛
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D: Bogans are scary!
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Mmmmmm. Pi.
Now I’m hungry.
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Thanks man, everyone knows that the only thing that’s more of a sure bet than prime numbers is rational numbers. Gotta turn to page pi!
Up to page four on a Monday…
*sniffs*
I’m so proud of all of you…
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Yeah, it’s awesome. Just like the good old days *sniff sniff*
Good Job everyone 🙂
Page for needs more me so here I am. I miss video games… but at least I have time to finally start Avatar TLAB. Then I can watch that Korra whatsit everyones on aboot.
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I’m so happy, I found my Avatar TLAB Book 1 collection.
But I didn’t find my Book 2 one.
Very confusing.
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dun worry, i only watched last airbender about 3 weeks ago, then watched korra straight after, that stuffs really good
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Yeah after watching all of One Piece in 4 months 60 epsiodes is easy. Ive just been busy and lazy
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It’s an awesome show you’ll love them both.
EARTH BENDING RULES
I think steam sales have just made me crack….
I just couldn’t resist it….
Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition….
I’m so glad that this madness will be over by tomorrow….
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BAM! Surprise last-day sale: Everything 80% off!
What do you do? What DO you do!?
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BUY WHAT I CAN WITH MY $1.18!
Otherwise nothing 😛
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Dinner Date 2: You Are What You Eat!
“Why did I waste $1.18 on this?” – Greenius
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Just managed to get Driver: San Francisco working properly! we’ll have to schedule some multiplayer sometime soon!
Oh god. These lamb ribs. So oily. So greasy. So delicious. Bllllaaaaarrrrggghhhggg…..
Oh god, this sounds so beautiful… Didn’t think a 32 Hot Rod could become more beautiful.
…has everyone gone to bed?
It just feels lonely in here…. 🙁
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Bed? Not when there’s rainbow and sparkle filled zombies to rip open with a chainsaw.
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I hear DayZ can get pretty intense like that.
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Hi everyone,
Have noticed some DKR talk in TAY, so will not be reading. I have bought msyelf a ticket for Wednesday morning. Cannot wait.
Saw Brave in the cinema today with the wife and 5-week-old. It was a good film, much better than I expected based on the crappy crappy crappy trailer I saw.
Overall, in case you’re wondering, things are exhausting and constant here, but generally happy and fulfilling. But did I mention exhausting. Christ, I’m tired 😛
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Why is it that when we finally get the firstborn past the point of waking up all night and finally being a but independent we go and do something stupid like having a second? 😛
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My parents have repeatedly stated that I was conceived at the only possible time. About 2 months later, my sister went from being a darling little baby, to being an absolute horror. So they got to put up with a year and a half of annoyance in a row.
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With Brave, I didn’t have a problem with the trailer, just that so many people I talked to/read about talked about how disappointing it was, and so on and so forth. I mean, was it a Up, was it Toy Story 3? No. But if it had been released by Dreamworks, we’d all be talking about how friggin’ amazing it was.
Also, I wonder if people seemed to forget just how good the opening act was, when they decried it. Anyway, people usually disagree with me on films, so whatever.
Now in a relevant point, how well does the baby handle movies? I imagine I would have been a disaster waiting to happen in films at that age. Or, in fact, until I learned to talk, and so learned when not to.
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I saw brave last week, i thought it was brilliant, the whole music score was wonderful, the animation was the best i have ever seen the story was quiet funny with parts that pulled at your heartstrings. The movie was excellent. It wasn’t as good us Up or Toy Story but does it have to be to be a good movie, No
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Reminds me of that Simpsons quote, where Kent Brockman was looking for the cracks to start showing in Itchy and Scratchy. Seems like people are doing that with Pixar now.
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Why do people look for that to happen, how about so optimism for a change.
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I agree. They’re ignoring the fact that since Pixar merged with Disney all there non-Pixar animation has improved 100% too. Bolt. Tangled. Not to mention the incredible job they’ve done at the theme parks lately too. (I’m talking Carsland at Disney California Adventure.)
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I never thought of it like that, you are correct sire 🙂
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Loved the movie, disliked the trailer. Standing by that opinion. Also, Pixar are the best at what they do, but they’ve still done some stinkers (Cars and Cars 2 for example!) 🙂
Can’t sleep… waiting for Fallout : New Vegas…
Can’t sleep… waiting for Fallout : New Vegas…
Can’t sleep… waiting for Fallout : New Vegas…
And so forth…
Morning TATERS. Got a killer sore throat and wish I was still in bed. And I somehow managed to crush my finger in an unmoving door handle whilst gently closing it. Your move Lambo
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Oh nasty, that must hurt. No idea how you managed to do that 😕
I have a sore elbow. Been sore for 2 weeks now. I’m thinking a may have torn a tendon or ligament or something from chopping down trees with an axe. Going to get it checked out buy a doctor sometime soon.
It’s here!
And probably terrible. But here it is, for your viewing pleasure!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er2ipEJdG_k
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Less Savage Garden next time. 😛
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No! MORE Savage Garden!
That was cool! Very different from my drive home, I’ll give you that. Also, I think your car could take mine in a fight. It’s about a quarter of the size of that thing 😛
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Haha, yours could outrun it in no time though 😛
I’ll try to have a steadier hand on the next one, and I’ll take you through the town instead.I’d also like to show you guys some of the more beautiful places here, as some of it is truly gorgeous 😀
P.S. any ideas for music on the next one? 😀
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Keeping with the theme of 90’s music that probably should have died a long time ago – Backstreet Boys?
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EWWWWW!
Alright, Backstreet Boys it is. Followed by Bardot, N*sync and Steps.
Oh, and the Vengaboys!AND S CLUB 7!!!
AND RICKY MARTIN!!!!! OH MY GOD I CAN’T CONTAIN MYSELF!
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Also, Limp Bizkit.
Because Durst.
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I told you the soundtrack was amazing 😛
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Looks like a Wolf Creek kinda place, man. What if the locals heard you listen to that kind of music. You’ll never be seen again. 😛
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Haha, I’ll have something special for you next time 😉
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Stuck in a non-moving train for atleast 30 mins because someone thinks that closed boomgates = drive as fast as you can into said boomgates.
*sigh* lovely way to start a work day. Guess who is working late tonight.
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Haha, getting a seat on a train. You so crazy 😛
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Played Saints Row the Third a little last night. Got up to the very early mission where you have to protect the helicopters from a drone. I think it may have glitched, I spent ten minutes blowing things up with no further instructions than “protect the helicopters”.
Oh well. Fun game. Lots of chaos. Perfect for derping around. I can see why it has caught on.
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Multiplayer is fun as shit, i ran over pyrean while on a motobike.
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i can’t remember is multiplayer 4 player ?
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No idea. I’m sure that after the Steam sales, many people will find out exactly what the limits of this game are.
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2 only :(. Not sure about Whored Mode though
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I got like 50 waves in whored mode with someone then i stopped playing. then it needed to update and i never did. mandatory 4 gig updates suck.
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Mornin’ TAY!
Checked the status of my new computer:
24 Jul 2012 07:20 Canberra Onboard with driver for delivery
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hi 5 rizical
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hi-rize?
Rize-five?…I’m not very good at this.
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*high fives*
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Did you post specs yet?
IS IT A BEAST!?!?@?-
This is mandatory. We need to drool, man!
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Intel Core i7 3930K
ASUS P9X79 Mobo
Gigabyte GTX680 2GB F-OC
16GB (Quad channel) Corsair DDR3 @1600Ended up going back to Sandy bridge, then pushing the CPU higher than I planned. End result is 2 cores I won’t utilise properly for the next 12 months, but oh well 😛
RAM is excessive, but it was the same price for 8GB or 16GB.
Mobo was exactly what I needed, then I realised it also supports Quad-SLi. Yeah, I’ll totally use that at some point…
GTX680 isn’t a 690, but then $675 isn’t $1450 😛-
You need another 9 ‘690s man.
Very nice specs! Might I ask how much it’s set you back?
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NO.
MAYBE.
Ok…Including the above, a case, case fans, Noctua CPU cooler, SSD, 2 1TBHDDs, Corsair modular PSU and a LEGITIMATE copy of Win7 Ultimate, it was just shy of $2500. The CPU and GPU were responsible for roughly $1400 of that. If I hadn’t received the tax return I did, I was planning to be at least $500 cheaper than this 😛
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Nice.
Now all you need is 3 27″ monitors and you’re set!-
*sigh* my miniDisplayPort adapter didn’t have the desired effect.
I’m not sure whether my monitors are the issue, or whether I ended up buying the wrong adapter (passive instead of active, maybe)…A boy can dream.
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I dunno if I’m going to go past 2 monitors any time soon, though some games I play would be incredible if I could get the res to cover 3 27s 😀
That and money.
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Good morning!
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Sup guy?
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I could be a girl, you know.
But I’m not. 😉
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Sup non gender specific mang?
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Nice, but I’d prefer not to known as some rare androgynous species of human.
Guy is fine though. 🙂
I’m good. At work. Busy. I should be working. What’s the 411 with you?
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Well im at work, waiting for morning tea and being rather unproductive because there isn’t much to do, i fixed some stuff this morning and i ill probably do the same this afternoon.
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Yeah! ‘Non gender specific mang’-ery is my forte! 😛
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Human, humanoid or other?
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T-1000
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ohshi-
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Took you long enough to boot up, it’s 9:50am already!
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Also, nice to meet another bot, if you really are a robot
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Isn’t there some kind of Anti-Turing test you can take? Mecha-Turing?
Like “Only a Robot would claim to be a Robot. Are you a robot?”
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Just like a human over the internet, you can never know who or what they really are
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If you say so.
Me? I’m off to let humans befall grievous bodily harm and do nothing to stop it, also I’ll probably wait around until someone asks me to do something, then not do that thing.
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The above URL was not well researched, so please ignore it. The name is cool though. Ha.
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Much to my consternation, I’ve been out on a milk run for the office. Look what I have been reduced to…..
And there is peace in the land, all the turmoil, all the pain, all the … all the loved ones we lost will be remembered. It will not be easy from here brothers and sisters. There is still much building we need to do. Lives need to be repaired. We should also remain ever vigilant because who knows when the next steam sale will strike.
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Lest we forget, brother.
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They gave all they could, and more. May our wallets rest in peace.
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If history repeats, it’ll be the week between Christmas and New Year.
Not that I’m counting the 150 or so days…
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Men, you heard the oracle. We have around 150 days to rebuild our defenses. Reinforce the savings account, look to hire more wallets, start building the people’s willpower. I’ll be damned if we have a repeat of the last battle. Go! GO!
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“The best defence is a good offense”
…we all need to get loans. Take out a secondary mortgage, pawn your firstborn!
We will fight!
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Some good news at last! The young fella came home from hospital last night and is doing well. Looks like the worst of his problems are behind him(touch wood).
A massive thanks to everyone for your messages of support and the tons of gifted games through Steam! It’s nice to know that there are people out there as generous and caring as you guys have all been. So once again, on behalf of myself, my wife and my son, thank you!
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\o/ That’s awesome news man, glad to hear he’s home safe and sound!
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That’s good to hear man. Let’s hope that this is just the beginning of the good news.
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Great news buddy, glad things are looking up 🙂
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Great to hear man, best news.
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Great news man *fist bump*
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That’s great to hear, human 🙂
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\o/ Good to hear!
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Yay! *Kermit Style Arm Flail*
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Awesome news. Glad to hear it
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Great to hear Splicer
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Rock’n’roll!
Welcome news.
Morning all
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Hey! how goes you this fine morn?
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Ok so far I guess. I’ve achieved nothing so far….
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I’m going to see The Dark Knight Rises for a second time tonight! \o/
Also having a mini marathon because my brother has to see The Dark Knight first.
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He hasn’t seen it or rewatching? I would’ve thought everyone has seen it by now 😛
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I only saw Dark Knight for the first time late last year.
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Nope, he hasn’t seen it yet…
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I’ve seen it, but haven’t seen Batman Begins yet. No particular reason for it…just…haven’t.
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*The Dark Knight Rize
Plague Inc on the iOS is an interesting little game, if appealing somewhat to the psychotic side in you. Spent half the morning at work watching the world slowly die.
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Is it bad that i’m already downloading it from the app store? lol
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Looks like a more complicated version of Pandemic. If it’s anything like Pandemic/2, I’ll buy it.
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That’s pretty much it. I have Pandemic 2.5 as well but Plague Inc seems a little more thought out and a bit harder.
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So a friend put me onto this last night
http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/intro/index
Free to play warhammer MOBA. 6v6 matches.
I was up till 1am playing it. It’s nothing super special, graphics are average, but hey it’s free and still in beta. I had fun. You should try it out
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They need to do a 40k one and let me play as the goddamn Dark Eldar for once. I swear, if I am forced to play as a Space Marine one more time…
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I’m a big Space Wolves fan, but yeah, I think they need to start focusing on other races.
Just not the Dark Eldar. They’re jerks. And they smell.
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Well I was going to say that Space Marine kind of does that already.
What they should do is use the Space Marine engine to make a 3rd person view version of the Dawn of War “Last Stand”, and then include MOBA in that….
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I’m all sad and stuff. I thought my monthly download quota (100GB) reset on the 25th of the month, so I didn’t download much until yesterday. I then learned that it resets on the 23rd now. It basically means I have to be very careful about how many of my Steam games I download over the month. So I’m doing the totally smart thing and downloading the 10GB Saints Row 3 first.
A very minor problem, but then I like whinging about stuff. :p
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I’ve got the same issue. Mine reset on the 23rd as well, so I’m gonna have to wait a while before I download Arma II and Day Z
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Yes, I have a buddy to be miserable with!
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Misery loves company
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my connection peaks at about 250kb/s which sucks because if i want to download 10Gb game i have to leave my computer on for like 2 dayw. Also i have 100gb download quota but im pretty sure i would have to be constantly downloading shit every hour to get anywhere near that. Stupid speed 🙁
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Wow that sucks. I’m averaging 750 on my download right now and it’s still moving quite slowly. You must be very patient!
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Im usually at work so it doesn’t bug me if i want to watch a tv show that night, i just start the download when i go home for lunch. Its a little shittier when the file is massive.
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I can usually get about 700kb/s. I usually leave my computer on and have it downloading overnight.
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Whhhaaaaaaaat. I got excited because I saw my connection reach 300KB/s while downloading Saints Row 3 last night. 😛
Luckily I haven’t used much of my 100GB cap this month though, so I’m downloading like crazy before it resets on the 5th ;D
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I average about 350kb/s. That normally equals about 1 gig downloaded an hour.
I’ve got a 200GB monthly cap though, so that’s something. I never really have to worry about going over any more.
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Yeah, I think I went well over my 200gb cap, and I’ve been shaped. I don’t know when it rolls over, either /o\
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I’m on 200GB and I usually average 100GB a month. Because all my Steam downloads are unmetred, I usually have to put it a conscious effort to go over 200GB.
I have a lot of things that require downloading, though. I’ll probably start scraping the limit soon.
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How much do you usually download??!
I have 120 GB, and with Steam always on, and all titles set to auto d/l updates I still find it hard to even get close to half.-
Well, it seems we’ve never used more than 60GB of our quota there, but I have about 95GB of games I wanted to download, so I was hoping to get a good portion of that done before it reset. Now I just have to space it out a bit. 😛
Completely unrelated, I chuckled at your comment on the Gizmodo article about the death threat texts.
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Depends how many TV shows and/or movies I torrent, but sometimes I can get to 300gb in a month
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I envy you people and your high download quotas 🙁
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I remember when I had a 1GB limit and you had to pay a few cents for every MB you went over. This was also around the time I discovered that I could stream TV Shows online…
It did not end well.
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Yeah, I used to have a 12GB limit. I don’t know how I survived on that.
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I remember those days… Dark dark times
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I remember having like 100mb on a 22kb dial up modem, nawwww yeah
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Old :O
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Hush, youngling, I too remember those days.
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Aw you guys. Stop making me feel left out just because I have uncapped Internet.
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If I could get the speed I’m supposed to, I’d go get uncapped. Currently running on 3.4Mbps, should be at 10.
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I had to move away from a house that had fiber optic. Hardest day of my life.
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Unlimited FTW!
LoL Tourney Update
i am changing things around a little for the sake of fun
The tournament shall now be a 2v2 ARAM format, not only that but i am not going to make the teams, if you want a team you have to find a partner to join with you. It will be a best of 3 matches and they will take place on a night determined by your team and your opponents. Its round robin so everyone will play everyone and the best teams will go into the final which will be a best of 5 blind pick on the proving grounds. I have prizes and stuff all ready and your team needs a name aswell to enter. So please register your interest by emailing me. If you want to play but can’t find a teammate email me still and we can figure it out.
NOTE
i am aware that varying skill levels may make people wary but this is for FUN, and the ARAM map really is up to chance alot of the time.
email
rossfear(at)msn(dot)com
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I think ARAM is a terrible way to run it… some 2-hero combinations literally can’t win against others. Think Morde/Annie v Soraka/Sona. It needs to be about skill.
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AP soraka rules
if it is about skill people won’t have as much fun and i have tried balancing it, people will just get mad, if its ARAM people can still enjoy themselves.-
Also thats the fun of it, trying to win against all odds. i have had the most fun playing shitty champs not designed for ARAM. also soraka and sona are OP on proving grounds.
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Yeah, it was a little blunt. What I mean is that the game is not balanced around 2v2. I get that we’re all friends here, and that we’re not playing for prizes or anything, but losing game 5 of the final series cause of an unlucky dice roll will also make people “get mad” 😛
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The final will be draft pick.
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Yeah, I tried to exaggerate it. Losing the 3rd game of the final qualifier for the same reason will be approximately as annoying. But, I see your problem, the only way I can see around it is to have bans, which can hardly be considered ‘fun’, so yeah, I guess this is the best way to do it.
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That said, i’m definitely down for this. I’m 1400~ ELO, anyone need a teamie? (i’d rather be teamed with someone who’s less experienced at LoL, in the interest of fun and fairness 😛 )
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Yeah me plz cuz I’m horrible at it… 😉
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KAP GETS NUMBERS 😛
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It’s my go-to pickup line when i’m out clubbing.
“Hey baby, my ELO is 1400~” *drop pants*
Works every time, 10% of the time. (10% margin of error)
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Greenius and Pants versus Everyone Else. What could possibly go wrong?!
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I think that would be hillariously awesome. 🙂
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Awww yeah!
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You and me man, we’ll bring home the gold!
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Too bad you don’t want to play 🙁
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Is anyone in the LoL and the UT3 tourney? If so, might need to coordinate times with Pez, Rocketmang.
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Good plan rizical, i dont want to step on any toes.
I should also add can teams come to me by Friday at 5, so i can orgainise who is playing who and stuff 🙂
We need some kind of rules in it too. I think everyone that has played it will agree that building Warmogs on the map just gives you a free win. So maybe no warmogs?
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yeah when i start restricting item builds it becomes a little more annoying for people. i definitely agree 3 warmogs is a completely shithaus way to win though. as soon as everyone decides to be in i will make some definitive rules that everyone agrees on and is aware of before we start.
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I’ve also noticed that RoA gives a lot of health / sustain. Maybe we should ban that too? We probably need to vote on this.
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maybe we can go through the items and set a limit to what you can buy and stuff, i just dont want to shoehorn people into building stuff they don’t want tto because its the only option.
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Mark’s little off-topic post thingy has reminded me of something that irritates me so very much.
Why is assigned seating at the movies a thing? Does it really matter? Really? It just makes the whole thing less inviting when you feel constricted to particular seats. What’s worse is that whenever you decide to move to a better spot, that’s the one time you’re going to encounter someone being a complete dick about taking their spot.
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I should really stop it with the page gets.
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You should talk about this to Sheldon
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My local cinema doesn’t do it, actually any cinema other than the one i went to in sydney doesn’t do it. maybe its just a big city thing ?
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Most of the cinemas in Brisbane do it now. Even Sunnybank Plaza, which is where I went to see Batman on Sunday. Just completely unnecessary at a small cinema like that. It’s hard to make the argument that it’s necessary at a big cinema.
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I remember being annoyed by it when they first introduced it. Though, only Greater Union (Event) seems to do it around here.
I don’t really care so much these days. Most of the time I get a decent seat anyway and I can tell people who steal my seat to get lost. If you get there early you can usually request a middle-back seat or wherever you prefer. Depends how popular the showing is.
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I think assigned seating should only ever be a concern in things like midnight releases or for big movies that are going to draw in huge crowds. If I get my tickets early I expect to get a very good seat, damnit!
Usually I don’t ever have to worry about assigned seating though, because my friends have decided they like sitting in the front row for every movie, which nobody else is stupid enough to do.
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I loved assigned seating. I like knowing that I’m getting a good seat before I arrive (I normally book tickets online). My local cinema doesn’t do assigned seating, but hardly anyone goes to it so that’s okay because you can normally get yourself a good seat. If the more mainstream cinemas dropped assigned seating though I’d probably never go to the movies anymore. I’m not turning up an hour early just so I can try and get a decent seat.
Also, I hate people who sit in seats not assigned to them.
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I’ve only ever had to worry about bad seat when I show up late. Getting there an hour early is definitely excessive.
I like being able to pick out the best seats. The little pocket where there aren’t many other people around.
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I do enjoy assigned seating.
Purchase my tickets online, pick where I want to sit, kick people out of my seats. I’m not mean about it, but if someone’s sitting there I will ask them to move.That being said, I’m now being gouged by cinemas for no good reason – I think this is something that was being talked about a while back to try and encourage people to see movies in 3D by lowering the price of 3D tickets, but simultaneously raising the price of 2D sessions so that they’re the same price. It cost me 18.50 for a single ticket to see TDKR; middle of the day, not XtremeScreen, or SilverScreen, or Gold Class, or 3D, or whatever other fancy whatsits.
With prices like that, It’s very unlikely that I’ll visit a cinema again for a long time.
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Further to my ticket pricing rant: I went and saw the movie with my girlfriend, and I had coke + twisties. Needless to say, I won’t be waking straight for weeks.
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The real bullshit is that they charge extra to book online. That should be cheaper!
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yeah I had this argument with a friend.
On the surface it should be cheaper, but at the same time you have to cover the cost of the website and IT services, and you can consider it a “delivery fee” instead of a booking fee.
I think it’s actually quite a subconscious thing. If they called it a “get your ticket super quick and skip the queue fee” then I wouldn’t mind paying it, but the words “booking fee” imply that the act of purchasing it online is more expensive.
It’s like some places charging for the use of credit cards – it makes sense coz visa and mastercard have their own fees but it’s ok because you know what the point of the fee is.
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If I preorder my tickets a week in advance I’d better damn well get good seats without also having to pitch a tent outside the theater to make sure I’m first in. Also it stops bullshit like people putting their bags on seats to ‘reserve’ them and stuff, and allows them to fit more people into a theatre.
Free-for-all is terrible and I don’t understand why people would even consider it a better system. Unless you’ve got bad time management skills and always show up ten minutes into the movie or something and you’re bitter you always get bad seats.
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I don’t understand your point of view… why would you move to a better spot? Just buy the ticket in a good spot.
I hate cinemas without numbered seating. I’m not the kind of person who wants to line up 2 hours before a movie just so I don’t have to sit in the front row.
I book my tickets online (or in person) well before the screening time. That way I can choose my seats and never have to fight with someone when I get there.
Numbered seating is the best thing ever. Can you imagine getting on a plane without numbered seating? It’s even worse at a cinema because everyone wants to sit in the same spot.
If I go to buy tickets to a movie and the only spots left is 4th row from the bottom on the side, I simply don’t go to that session…
Shameless repost
LoL Tourney Update
i am changing things around a little for the sake of fun
The tournament shall now be a 2v2 ARAM format, not only that but i am not going to make the teams, if you want a team you have to find a partner to join with you. It will be a best of 3 matches and they will take place on a night determined by your team and your opponents. Its round robin so everyone will play everyone and the best teams will go into the final which will be a best of 5 blind pick on the proving grounds. I have prizes and stuff all ready and your team needs a name aswell to enter. So please register your interest by emailing me. If you want to play but can’t find a teammate email me still and we can figure it out.
NOTE
i am aware that varying skill levels may make people wary but this is for FUN, and the ARAM map really is up to chance alot of the time.
email
rossfear(at)msn(dot)com
P.s: if you have a friend who isn’t a Taybie that you would like to join you in your team, invite away. the more teams the merrier 🙂
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If my older brother wasn’t only JUST starting, I would invite him but I think this is a bit too big of a leap for him to attempt
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DO ETTT, i am gonna ask my little sister who turret dives to be my team mate. You should be fine 🙂
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He still doesn’t even understand the mechanics yet, a bit unfair tbh
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Who wants to play some games later this week? Today is my last day of Uni for the week so I’ll be free until Monday.
I’ve got Lara Croft, Dead Island, Left 4 Dead 2, Killing Floor, Saints Row 3, Borderlands DLC, and probably more I forgot I have on Steam. Just lemme know and we can play 🙂
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I like the sound of Borderlands, I just have to check and see if I’ve got the DLC installed or not
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I’ve done the starting bit quite a few times so I don’t feel like doing it again but if you’re around the same level/point in the story I wouldn’t mind playing through it again 🙂 (I think I’m around 20-25).
I haven’t touched the DLC yet except for The Zombie Island so I plan to get through them all eventually.
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My character has finished the story but I haven’t done any of the DLC. I might have started a NG+ but I can’t remember. I think I’m mid-40’s level
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I beat it multiple times on Xbox before the DLC came out but obtained the GOTY edition on PC a few months ago (thanks #35!). I probably did half of the story before giving up but I did solo Zombie Island. It was okay but Borderlands is so much better with friends.
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Just double checked. I’m level 37, finished playthrough 1 and only on the first mission of playthrough 2, but haven’t touched any of the DLC
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Do you always only have uni mon tues?
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Mon – Thurs
I only have a lecture on Wednesday which I’m not going to and I only have a tute on Thursday which isn’t on for the first week. Tuesday is like an 11 hour day though… 🙁 (including transport and breaks)
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That’s kinda crappy. I know how you feel, last semester I had a 12 hr day with an 8 hr break between the two classes.
This semester is better from that perspective, my longest day is only about 9 hrs. However, I am 5 days a week. So unfair – I haven’t done 5 day weeks since first year! I’m a uni student, I shouldn’t have to study five out of every 7, days! (The horror!) -
Ouch! I had a 5 hour gap between lectures last sem but I just went home and never went to the second lecture since getting to Uni isn’t easy for me.
Mega ouch on the 5 days though! Luckily my course is only 12 contact hours per a week so I can easily squeeze it into 3 or so days.
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Downloading SR3 now so if you want to muck around for a bit later in the week I’d be up for it. You’re probably (well, you are definitely) a lot further ahead than I am so we’ll have to figure out characters though.
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Oh it’s as easy as me just dropping in with the same character :). I think I’ve nearly finished the game but I haven’t touched the DLC yet.
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I know, but your character would then be super levelled and make the game ridiculously easy. 😛 I’ll try and get some progress in my game first so I’m not that far behind.
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Ah true, that’s what happened when I played with Beavwa 😛
It’s not really one of my main priorities since I’ve nearly finished it and it’s fine to play solo
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Just meant that I derped around in the firefights… Good fun.
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I just finished installing it today so you’ll have at least one more person who hasn’t played before 😀
So I’m currently replaying Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood for the umpteenth time. It’s one of my favourite games to simply replay or muck around in when I’m bored. This probably isn’t helping my Shameless Gaming progress, but it’s the kind of game that I have to revisit every few months because I love it that much.
So that got me thinking, what kinds of games get that response from you guys, where you want to play them multiple times? Or am I alone in replaying the same game over and over again?
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For me its Terraria or Minecraft, cause its always new, a randomly spawned environment for me to conquer. Same same, but different, if you know what i mean.
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So many hours… :O
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I’m just glad no hrs counter on minecraft. That would be scary too!
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Except there is! (just in days though)
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I don’t think we have been introduced?
Are you new miss?-
Careful, he bites
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and vomits
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She didn’t reply yet and I’m bored in this lecture but she’s Beavwa’s girlfriend (sorry Hotross!)
She’s been on Terraria a few times back when the server was first set up and sometimes iSketch.
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i wan’t gonna make out with her greenmang, thats what alex is for. i just didn’t recognise the name.
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Hello. I am new. Went to the Melbourne meat on sat and decided to get more involved.
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Hello. I am new. Went to the Melbourne meat on sat and decided to get more involved.
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Yeah, that’s what I’m for!
Wut? 😛
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So, beware of rocket for he bites… And beware of Alex too… O_O
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Basically beware of everyone
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I’m tough, don’t let the name fool you. Just ask Beavwa…
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A small amount of fear is healthy, some of us just have more than is healthy 🙂
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Are you the one who works at Draculas?
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Yeah, that’s me.
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Are you aware of the TAY minecraft server?
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Yup. I’m whitelisted for it, but haven’t yet joined. I am enamoured of technic and Tekkit. At the mo I find vanilla just a bit meh.
Dark Souls. The amount of times I’ve kept replaying the game, setting weird challenges and restrictions on myself is probably bordering on obsessive. I’m okay though. I haven’t played it in a month. I’m not an addict.
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Wooo, Dark Souls addiction-five.
In terms of repeatability(ness) I would have to say Dark Souls. No matter how many times I go through it I will always go back to it. I have shown a little restraint though with making a new character on account of the DLC coming out soonish.
Pokemans and minecraft, i also replay old super mario games from time to time. But pokemon silver i have played through at least 6 times since my childhood.
Baldur’s Gate 2 I’ve sunk more hours than I can remember (or even want to remember)
It used to be WoW, which is another game I’ve sunk far too much time in to.
Now, nothing I really play all the time. Minecraft I log in to sometimes, but no one else is ever on our server, so I don’t hang around. And probably DayZ I’m on a fair bit stuffing around.
I’ve played Chrono Trigger through at least once a year, every year since 2004.
It is my number one all time favourite game, and I just don’t tire of it.
As far as time sinks, for me it’s Pokémon. Just noticed I had passed 500 hours on White version this morning – that now leaves Black as the only version I haven’t achieved this prestigious feat in.
I tend to play Bioware games more than once. I’ve played through FF7 maybe five or six times. I also have a weird thing where I like to dig out Ace Combat 6 and play it through end to end in one sitting periodically while listening to cheesy 70s & 80s music (and skipping the godawful cutscenes).
Borderlands. Definitely Borderlands.
Every Now and then I’ll do a run through/couple of levels from Mirror’s Edge as well
I don’t replay that many games. The only one that I have played more than a few times recently is Mirror’s Edge.
I’m actually going to make a point next month to go back and replay the games I really loved. Arkham Asylum/City and Red Dead Redemption are at the top of the list.
I always seem drawn back to the Left 4 Dead games, but I don’t know if that counts cause it’s multiplayer.
I guess I’ve mucked around in both Dragon Age games a fair few times. Start a new character, go half way through the game and then stop.
For me it’s Far Cry 2, FIFA and maybe Split/second
I have played every AC atleast twice. (Collected all the flags in the first game 3 times) Two is my fave and I didnt really enjoy Brotherhood the much the first time but on my second play I really loved it. (Probably due to my first play being so disrupted.)
Thoughtful discussion: 3D Zelda clones. Are there any others aside from Darksiders and Metroid Prime? Is the Batman: Arkham Asylum / Arkham City ‘secret sauce’ actually that they’re Legend of Zelda games in structure?
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I was going to put up a counter-argument, but now that you’ve mentioned it, the Arkham games are the logical evolution of Zelda’s formula.
They’re not exactly the same because they encourage retreading old areas with new tools (as opposed to Zelda that gives you one tool for one area) but they do seem to have enough similarities to make me think you’re on to something.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum is not a pure example, sort of fitting somewhere between Metroid and Zelda.
Sounds about right. I guess you could say they took the exploration idea of Metroidvania games to something with Zelda gameplay tropes.
I am one of those sticklers that thinks that platforming is a key aspect of a Metroidvania game though.
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Metroidvania is specific to the 2D Metroid and Castlevania games.
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It’s the same principle.
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Some similar ideas, but Metroidvania very strongly implies 2D.
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The Zelda games do encourage re-treading the same areas of the hub world / overworld with your new gear though. There’s secrets to unlock, stuff to find, heart pieces to gather etc. Not so much in the dungeons but even there it happens sometimes.
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That’s a pretty big difference. Zelda dungeons tend to be single shot. Arkham dungeons tend to get repeat performances.
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I never got far enough because I hated the game, but doesn’t Skyward Sword have you revisiting dungeons?
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I didn’t even get to the first dungeon.
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From what I can tell, yes. It actually seems like it would play a fairly big part in the game. However, I also noticed that you got to experience almost all of the Oscar/Emmy/Tony/Grammy nominated Fi dialogue a second time and promptly stopped playing.
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Only once if I recall. You do have to retun to previous areas though but you’ll soon open up new areas so it doesn’t really feel tedious.
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The closest that i’ve come to playing a Zelda game in recent times is probably Bastion, though I wouldn’t call it a Zelda ‘clone’, per se.
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I don’t know that you could consider Bastion a Zelda game at all. It’s more of a dungeon crawler than anything.
I’ve read that Okami is a really good 3D zelda type game.
I’ve never played a Zelda game, so I can’t make the comparison myself but I’ve played Okami and it’s a fantastic game.
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Yes, Okami is a Zelda clone. And also awesome. All the 3D Zelda clones I can think of are great games.
Random jumbled mess of thoughts inbound!
Hey there TAY people. How are things & stuff?
So the steam sales are over! I dont know about you, but I’m sort of glad. I mean, I like getting cheap games & stuff, but I also enjoy paying rent & eating. These things tend to be mutually exclusive if it gets out of hand. aaanyway…. what did you lot end up getting (if anything)?
I got lots of stuff. Saints Row 3, Red Faction collection, Dear Esther, Left 4 Dead 2, Payday, Driver SF, Splinter Cell Conviction, ARMA II, and some other stuff that I cant really remember at the moment.
Oh, but the way, I’ve got a copy of Left 4 Dead 2 & Payday: the heist just sitting there in my inventory wanting to be given to somebody. any takers?
There was another question I was gonna ask you lot, but its slipped my mind. nevrmind.
Shameless gaming eh?
I’ve been pretty bad at it so far. I planned on finishing Amnesia, FFXIII, Assassins Creed Revelations & maybe something else, but all I’ve accomplished is accidently finishing The Darkness 2. I dunno. started it up… one thing led to another & then before I knew it. bam. end credits.
On the other hand, I think i may have inadvertantly invented Shameless Reading month. I’ve gone through a whole bunch of books that I’ve been meaning to get to – Scott Pilgrim, Anansi Boys, The Sandman, Let the Right One In, book called Bennelong (its a non-fiction title about the arrival of the first fleet in Australia from an Aboriginal perspective & is rather interesting), & I’ve just started Y: the Last Man.
Oh. Rocketmans birthday meat on friday was pretty damn fun. & thats all I’ve got to say on the matter.
thats about it.
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You enjoy paying rent?
Also, Scott Pilgrim! \o/
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I should read those again. Or watch it again. Or both \o/
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You can pretty much read the first book and watch the first part of the movie at the same time and it will all be the same. 😛
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I enjoy being able to pay rent resulting in living in a decent flat close to the city. the alternative is the partents place in gosford. eww….
& yes. SCOTT PILGRIM \o/
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I think I need my own Shameless Reading Month. Such a backlog…. Maybe even worse than my gaming one
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For me, shameless reading month would be a terrible idea – I think I would need about 6 myths of full time reading to make it through my pile of shame…
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Okay…autocorrect typing error. Please read “months” rather than “myths”
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Yeah me too. So much stuff to read. Game of Thrones, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, Inheritance, All of Iain M Banks stuff, a half dozen Star Wars novels, Night Angel Trilogy, The Books of the Cataclysm….. Where will I find the time? /o\
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Oooh read the Night Angel Trilogy. Starts off slow but it’s fantastic.
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Okay…autocorrect typing error. Please read “months” rather than “myths”
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I really need a shameless reading month. I love reading but struggle to find the time these days. The book on my bedside table hasn’t been opened for about 3 months…
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I too have a physical pile of books and magazines I need to get through :P. I was reading GoT and skimming Nat Geo Mags but motivation is low…
Y the last man is awesome.
For shameless reading, I use my goodreads page: http://www.goodreads.com/redartifice
LA Noire
From Dust
Shogun 2
Shogun 2 Rise of the Samurai
Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai
Alan Wake
Alan Wake: American Nightmare
Secret of the Magic Crystals
Plants VS Zombies
Left 4 Dead 2
Mirror’s Edge
Metro 2033
Dear Esther
Indie Bundle 6:1
Indie Bundle 6:2
Indie Bundle 6:3
Indie Bundle 6:4
Indie Bundle 6:5
Just Cause 2
Need For Speed: SHIFT
Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening
Super Meat Boy
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
BIT.TRIP Runner
BIT.TRIP Beat
The Longest Journey
Fallout New Vegas Ultimate
Burnout Paradise: Ultimate
Driver: San Francisco – Deluxe
Dungeon Defenders Collection
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Knights of the Nine
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Shivering Isles
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon
Elder Scrolls III: Tribunal
Bulletstorm
Prince of Persia
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Arma II
Arma II: Operation Arrowhead
Payday: The Heist
Trine 2
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And 15 or so gifts.
That list is due to me attempting to figure out how much I’ve “saved”…
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Nice work, you saved so much monies.
What I got either purchased or gifted to me
Cargo!, Containment, Driver: San Francisco – Deluxe Edition, Railworks 3: TS2012 – , Trains vs Zombies DLC, Alan Wake Bundle (Summer 2012), Krater, Dead Island (AU), Jurassic Park, The Longest Journey, Dragon Age: Origins – The Awakening, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, Orcs Must Die 2, The Witcher 2 (AU), Dungeon Defenders Lost Eternia Shards Complete DLC, Railworks 3: TS2012 + Horseshoe Curve, Legend of Fae, Ducati World Championship, Saints Row: The Third – Genki Girl Pack, Sanctum DLC, Bethesda Collection (Summer 2012), Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles, Toy Soldiers, Saints Row: The Third Franchise Pack, Back to the Future: The Game, Rayman Origins -
I got
Arma II: Combined Operations (ROW)
Age of Empires III: Complete Collection
Orcs Must Die 2 Pre-Order
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Steam Store
Super Meat Boy
Torchlight
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Cave Story+
Batman 1 and 2 and Gotham City Impostors Bundle
Assassin’s Creed Revelations
Payday: The Heist
From Dust
TerrariaAnd most of these I don’t remember buying lol.
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My purchases:
Alan Wake
Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
BIT.TRIP BEAT
BIT.TRIP RUNNER
Broken Sword
Broken Sword 2
Broken Sword 3
Costume Quest
Counter-Strike: Source
Dear Esther
Deus Ex: Human Revolution + DLC
Driver: San Francisco
Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind + Tribunal + Bloodmoon
Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion + DLC
Garry’s Mod
Hydrophobia: Prophecy
Just Cause 2
L.A. Noire + DLC
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Metro 2033
Mirror’s Edge
ORION: Dino Beatdown
PAYDAY: The Heist
Portal 2
Quantum Conundrum
RAGE
Saints Row: The Third + DLC
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Star Ruler
Thief Gold
Thief 2
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Trine 2
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Unreal Gold
Unreal 2: The Awakening
Unreal Tournament: GOTY edition
Unreal Tournament 2004
Unreal Tournament 3: Black Edition
The Walking Dead
Waveform
World of GooAnd I gave out some gifts.
All I got during the Steam sale was Saints Row The Third and its DLC. I was thinking of getting Alan Wake and Dead Island but then I didn’t. I might grab Jade Empire today though.
I’ve done zero shameless gaming.
You’ll love Driver SF #35.
I bought:
ARMA 2 Operation Arrowhead
Back to the Future the Game
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
Cave Story
Crysis Maximum Edition
Deus Ex GOTY
Deus Ex Invisible War
Deus Ex HR
Far Cry 2
Just Cause 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Monkey Island 1 SE
Monkey Island 2 SE
QUBE
Trine
Trine 2
Unreal Tournament 3
World of Goo
Games I got gifted:
Crysis 2
Driver San Francisco
Gumboy Tournament
Nexuiz
Psychonauts
Secret of the Magic Crystal
Section 8: Prejudice
SPICE MARUEEN
Torchlight
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Cooking mama 2: Spice Marueen?
Well since we’re all sharing our purchases here,
I bought: Amnesia, Bastion, Borderlands, Costume Quest, Dear Esther, Driver SF, Half Life 2 and eps 1&2, Just Cause 2, Lara Croft GOL, Payday, Psychonauts, Saints Row 3, Secret of the Magic Crystal, Stacking, Trine 2
I was gifted: Bit Trip Runner, Left 4 Dead 2, Limbo, Max Payne 1&2, Monkey Island 1&2, Star Wars KOTOR, Torchlight
Pretty damn good, I’d say.
Speaking of teh TAY Minecraft server:
Nob! And anyone with willing to chip in:
I tweeted Cakeman last night asking him what he would prefer, and he replied with “What’s easiest?”.
I dunno. What’s easiest?
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What’s this for? Are you planning on building something together?
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I accidentally a word.
“And anyone with spare cash willing to chip in”.
Cakeman has been kind enough in paying for the Minecraft server out of his own pocket thus far, and now that he’s about to make the big move to Sydney, he’s strapped for cash. So, why not just pay for it instead of him?
I gather that the two options are to:
A) Steal the Paypal details to pay for it ourselves
2) Just transfer some money over to le Cakeschmidt’s bank account to cover it.
On (one of) the old MC servers when a situation arose, a few of us chipped in with option 2, but I don’t know if there is a preference either way.-
Right, I don’t know how to do either of those things you listed, so I guess I won’t be any help.
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In all honesty I don’t mind footing the main bill from my account. If anyone is willing to donate once off or continually, I can set up a PayPal thingie. It’s probably a bit easier in the long run. I don’t want to accidentally have Cakemang foot the bill incase something happens.
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Oh well either way I spose, as I said I just don’t want Cakemang to be take some of the bill is 1 or more of us can’t make the payment for one reason or another.
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I just had pizza. It had pineapple on it. It wasn’t that bad. My whole life has been a lie.
So there was free pizza and fairy floss at Uni :D. Hooray!
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oh and you’re adopted
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Having grown up with pineapple pizza being the main pizza my sister and I ate whenever pizza was ate I still find it weird that others think the idea of pineapple on pizza is odd.
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I used to just pick them off :P. I’m not fond of pineapple in general but it worked well on this BBQ chicken pizza
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I’m not that fond of pineapple either. I think pineapple pizza is the only time I really enjoy it, aside from drinking pineapple juice of course, which is awesome.
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I know right. Pineapple on pizza just seems so … well normal for me.
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As a child i was allergic to pineapple, and so i was not allowed it.
Pineapple on pizza is God’s food.
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fairy floss pizza???
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that sounds *incredible*
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I’m thinking more “inedible.”
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I like Hawaiian Pizza. I prefer meatlovers but I like Hawaiian as well.
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Meatlovers ftw. I don’t mind Aussie either
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The best pizza was a promotional one ages and ages ago from Domino’s. It was called Steak and Chips if I recall. It had steak slices and potato wedges on it. Was so good.
Hi guys I need some help. I’ve just started playing around in skyrim and need to choose a character. I’ve narrowed the choices down to a couple of options and interested to know which of them TAY thinks I should roll.
Dub Dub the Nord
From a young age Dub Dub always stood out for two things, his enormous strength and the fact his low intellect made he believe everything anybody told him. As a young boy he was tricking into working the bellows at the forge by an unscrupulous apprentice who told him that if he pumped for long enough it would produce gold for his family.
It was the kindly blacksmith Dror who upon discovering this and realising his potential, first taught him the art of blacksmithing. A tireless worker Dub Dub was soon producing fine work and often customers would ask for his help in testing the workmanship. Bows were a complete mystery to him and he was unable to grasp the intricacies of sword and shield but with a claymore or warhammer in his hands he was a dangerous and brutal fighter.
Our story begins just after the death of Dror who was the anchor had kept Dub Dub ground, but now he is driven by the winds of fate
Tigalos the Redguard
Tigalos grew up fast and as he grew he grew faster. With mistrust and treachery always near at hand he came to trust his family and very few others. Never happier than when he could slip the civilised world and hunt in the wilderness, he made a living selling meat and furs. People around the village would say that you were more likely to see him without his clothes than without his bow. The speed he launched arrows bordered on unnatural and he would use them to bring down everything from mammoths to squirrels. Years of dodging those he didn’t trust in both the village and the wilds means he is vary rarely seen unless he wants to be.
Renowed as an archer he had another trick up his sleeve that was know to very few. More than one bandit died screaming beneath the unrelenting flames of his magic. Pray you never see him cast a spell for to do so is to be hunted by the master hunter.
Our story begins with Tigalos returning home to find it ravaged by dragon fire, the population fled or slain. Setting off he hopes to find his family, or at least something worth living for
Tigala the Khajiit
Very little is known of Tigala, and what rumours are whispered on dark nights into ones cups vary wildly, not even the colour of her fur can be agreed upon. What is known however, is that to feel her touch is to die. A remorseless assassin who has toured the land and killed from one side to the other.
Of her past it is know that her family was killed by a bandit party when she was just a kitten and trying to understand the world. Watching everybody she ever know slain by a group of the vilest scum all the races have ever produced warped her perception of race. To her infant brain all races are equal brutal and equally deserving of death. Forced to live in the wilderness, this perception was reinforced time and time again as she watched hunters of all kinds hunt and kill the animals around her.
A killer to the core, she is just a likely to attack a farmer returning from market as she is a high bounty target. If this is done from fear, pride, blood lust or duty is anybodies guess.
Our story begins with Tigala moving quietly through the woods, sense alert for any potential targets
And of course the follow up questions.
Would anybody be interested in reading an stories about the above characters as I play the game. There may be potential spoilers in said work but I would avoid anything to do with the main quest as much as possible. Or would anybody want to read about the main quest (not posted in TAY) as I played?
Lastly to those who play Skyrim, is there an easy way to keep track of multiple characters is you are playing them concurrently? Or do all you saves just get dropped into the same place with the same save name?
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I want to vote for Dub Dub simply because of the name, but the other two seem like more interesting characters to play.
Also I’d definitely read these stories if you put them up. It sounds like a lot of fun! 🙂
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I don’t see any Dunmer.
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I’ll probably end up playing a Dunmer when I roll my pure mage, but for my first play through I am a more hands on kinda guy
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Dunmer are all about being stabby-stabby and then blasting stuff with fire.
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I would vote Dub Dub, but as an Orc….seems more fitting IMO
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Oh and saves have the characters name, level, time and date etc….very easy to keep track of 🙂
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Oh cool, so I can try out multiple people and see which play style fits
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Sure can 🙂
Although you won’t see much development I found until about level 20…that’s my opinion anyway. Mainly when you’ve properly decided the direction you want your character to go in…-
I assume you’re PC? It was hard on console when it first came out. I had a main character but when I started a new one it still counted the number of saves. Eg. I’d have like 80 times saved on my main but my secondary (who I just started and saved with) would have 81 and would just be in the middle of all the saves I had (I had multiple saves) so it was hard to easily work out who was who.
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I’m on PS3 with Skyrim. I’ve found if you wait a second while highlighting the save file, the details of the file come up and it’s easy to distinguish who it is. I’m also in the habit of rotating the camera to face my character before i manually save it so i remember who it is(I tend to make similar sounding names).
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I have found (personally) the most fun is with a stealth archer class. Don’t need a companion, and you steal everything in sight.
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Agreed.
Shield warrior is also great fun, but no one seems to use them much.-
Shield warrior represent!
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Sword and board here!
Using that Daedric artefact shield that has the handy ward spell on it.
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This guy gets it
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Stealth archer is the best. I tried playing through the game with a companion but they kept getting in the way of my attacks and dying horribly.
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And the Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild quest chains are fun.
Taking to the rooftops and assassinating people from a distance is awesome.
Should roll an Argonian and steal all the things \o/
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Kill the Argonians! All of them!
Retake Vvardenfell!-
Can’t kill me if you can’t find me
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Then I’ll just set EVERYTHING ON FIRE!
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This sunday night is NFS Hot Pursuit night, starting say 7:30 or 8 on PC. Me and Taddy will be playing. Anyone is free to join in.
Unlike the last time I organised a Hot Pursuit event, I’ll actually be there…I think 😛
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I heard that NFS Hot Pursuit was a pretty cool guy so I chucked some cash that way during the sale. I’ve got a outta town party thing this weekend but I might be back in time.
I’ll install just in case-
Turns out I got NFS Hot Prostitute during the steam sale. I forgot about it till now.
I might jump in and say Hi although Sunday night is BF3 Clan training so I’ll probably be busy-
Non Free Sexytime: Hot Prostitute?
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*applause*
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I have to work till 10 but if your still goingi might jump in
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I’ll install it tonight!
@ #35
So should we officially declare August shameless reading month? We could do a TAY book club
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My book pile far outweighs my game pile
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Mine definitley does in mass, it’s looming on my bedside table
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So many comics and books to read aswell, plus stuff i want to buy but havent yet. 🙂
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speaking of comics I wonder if any of you guys can help me out with something
I have just the the batman animated movie things and wondering where I should start or if it matters. I haven’t really read any of the comics so my knowledge of gotham is mostly from the movies and the recent games.
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Of those, Year One. And as always I must recommend The Long Halloween.
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The way i started was
Year One
Long Halloween
Dark Victory
those are all sequels to each other and are amazing.
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Hush was awesome. Couldn’t agree more on the artwork. Added bonus of having my favourite villain, Killer Croc. Epic.
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Jim lee is a master of his craft, All Star Batman and robin is also amazing as is new 52 Justice League.
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The art on All Star Batman & Robin is amazing. The writing? not so much. Goddamned Batman indeed.
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I liked the part where robin painted a apartment yellow. and himself and batman. 🙂
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Bit wary of the New 52…how much do you have to stuff something up to ‘need’ to reboot it?
I suppose i’ll read them eventually. I still have too many back issues and novels to get to first though.
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Another good one to read, although probably a bit later down the track, is the Knightfall saga, which introduced Bane and has a few similarities to The Dark Knight Rises in that regard.
And the stuff Rocketman suggested. Hush is pretty great.
I’d be down with this.
I could get behind that
My ‘pile’ of books takes up about 2 shelves of my bookshelf.
Is it St. Swithin’s Day already?
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‘Tis’, replied Aunt Helga.
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Apparently it was the Sunday before last.
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Then Aunt Helga is a clearly a liar.
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Total breach of trust.
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Tiny Tower.
A ‘game’ where you simply manage the residents and businesses you build within your tower. Construct a new floor for your tower, construct a new business or residential area in it, and assign your residents/Bitizens to the businesses in your tower, each business earning you more money to construct a new floor. It’s a self-perpetuating tower.
It has its charms. The graphics style, the ludicrous outfits some of the ‘bitizens’ wear, the fact that the Laundromat sells ‘Sock Fluff’. It’s a great little chuckle, and something to quickly check for a few seconds. It’s surprisingly gratifying for me; I like money. Rather, I like game money, or the equivalent of it. I am also a hoarder. I do not like spending game items. I will barely ever use a potion in any Final Fantasty game, saving it in case I need it for the last boss, and when the time comes, still too reluctant to use it. I have saved up nearly 15,000 IP in League of Legends, worth more than 2 expensive champions, saved over the course of a few months. I am forever prepared for the Broom Dungeon. So yeah, I like having things. I like numbers. And with each tick of the counter in Tiny Tower, I gain that one little bit extra coin for me to sit and stare at, only spending it knowing that it will increase sales and give me more money. Each tick so constant, and each notification a high-pitched positive ping that keeps me satisfied.
The maths-efficiency nerd in me realises, however, that there is no ultimate end goal. You gain money to make more money. But the game requires you to come back to it and manually restock your businesses, ruining any chance you have of having a optimally running self-perpetuating tower. You’re always going to have to eat, sleep, and other various actual life stuff which means you can’t always be fiddling with your phone. The timers are so fantastically arranged in their inconsistency, designed so that you can’t do everything in one big block, you always have to keep coming back to it.
I haven’t dabbled too much with phone gaming, but it’s a frighteningly addictive game. A game which requires no skill, has no challenge, no actual real progression, making any high scores you attain meaningless and nothing more than an e-peen.
And I’m honestly a little ashamed of myself for falling for it.
I think I might uninstall it.
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On a lighter note, Jetpack Joyride is a pretty fun game.
I like the part where he has a jetpack.-
/o\ spoilers mang!
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I had that game for about a week, realised what it was doing to me, and uninstalled it. It was fun for a little bit, but after that it felt like a chore. An addictive chore, but a chore nonetheless.
I liked giving everyone really crappy jobs, though. You want to work in the art gallery? Too bad, you’re working in the burger place now!
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Reader Review of the month.
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This is exactly why I did uninstall it. I realised I was opening it up, doing stuff for about 20 seconds, and then just waiting for the next notification.
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I was at the doctor’s this morning, each time it pinged and vibrated in my pocket, I’d whip it out quickly, clear/restock/whatever, then shove it back into my pocket.
I was in the middle of getting my blood drawn when it pinged again and I was all “!” before realising how completely stupid it was, caring more about Tiny Tower than, you know, my health and stuff.That said, credit where credit is due. It may not be a very good game, but it’s well-designed addictiveness.
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I am now strangely addicted to Plague Inc…as of today.
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I don’t know, phone games are always sort of supposed to be like that though? They’re easy to pick up and play. It’s new, it’s shiny, it doesn’t take much effort. You have the consistent access to it, unlike PCs or consoles.
I played Game Dev Story for like, 3 days straight. It’s a fun little thing.
My issue with Tiny Tower is that it offers no actual progression (at least in Game Dev Story, you’re always trying to best yourself for the sales of the previous game, so it’s something to strive for), but still manages to keep you coming back. It’s a bit devious, it is.
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Reminds me of a Sim game from years ago. Sim-Skyscraper? Sim-Tower? SimScraper? Can’t remember the name of it, but very much the same deal.
Construct a tower, populate with businesses/accommodation, rinse and repeat.Was a lot of fun, if I recall correctly!
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Sim Tower. I think my disc for it is over there. *waves in a direction*
My problem with that game was that I was absolutely dreadful at it.
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I freaking loved that game!!! Man, my biggest issue was the cockroaches in the 1 bedroom apartment-things. Damn-near ruined my whole floor!
S’cool though, ‘cos I had gajillions of elevators.There was an ant-colony sim once upon a time too. Had some fun with that one too!
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Sim Ant was great. Turn on the insults, and when they fought they’d sling really immature insults at one another. It was glorious.
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@tigerion the recently released Batman: Earth One is a recently released retelling of the Origin. Fairly straightforward but some nice touches.
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I read that last week, its a good rebooting of his origin, i liked how they did it. Still don’t like taking stuff that is already established and changing the cannon. Then again the best superman stuff is retelling of his origin story.
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The Batman canon has always been a little loose, when a character’s been around for 70+ years it picks up a lot of cruft
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yeah well i like that they didn’t completely ruin the one i am used to.
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And you know what, redartifice? it was released recently!
I think I spend more time listening to game soundtracks than actually gaming these days.
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Nothing wrong with that my friend. Music is readily accessible even when working. Gaming is not so available 😛 Unless you are like a super sneaky secret agent.
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True, but even at home I tend to just procrastinate and stare at my games library 😛
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i have been listening to the max anarchy soundtrack non-stop for the past week, and i’d say most of my ipods music is game soundtracks.
i have:
final fantasy X
both dissidia game soundtracks
max anarchy
all phoenix wright soundtracks (including the orchestrated and jazz albums)
every kingdom hearts soundtrack
the world ends with you
portal 2
the scott pilgrim gamewhich all add up to probably 40% of my music
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Just looked at what I actually had on my phone. There is no “actual” albums on there. It’s all soundtracks from games, movies and television. Been listening to Skyrim OST mostly the last couple days, since I started a fresh play through, it’s been in my head.
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Turns out that Bill Bailey is performing in Brisbane in late September. My friend has tickets that she booked in April. There’s one seat left on the night that she’s booked to go.
So I guess I could have dinner with her and her fiance and then enjoy the show by myself? Decisions, decisions.
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LONER NERD
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Nonono, it’s even better than that.
I’ll be third wheeling with my ex and then being a loner nerd for the rest of the night. Best plan? Best plan!
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the third wheel makes up the tricycle bunny.
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I don’t want to ride this particular tricycle.
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Just don’t look at him in the eye as are the rules in a devils 3-way.
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Okay. That’s one part of the dilemma solved. Now what about the bit where I don’t want to sleep with her?
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Dude you aren’t getting any younger, i would take what you can get.
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So that’s why you spent most of your trip to Sydney at King’s Cross.
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Yes because your mum found awesome hotel rates there.
Then I sexed her..
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Rocketman has the best insults. I really mean that.
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man, for a game were i die constantly in the most frustrating ways… i really really like dayz… is this what being a masochist is like?
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Soon you’ll be into auto-erotic asphyxiation.
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And nipple clamps, don’t forget those.
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Hooked up to car batteries.
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Don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it.
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soon?
man, i’m waaaaay ahead of ya
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As much as I was dreading going back to Uni this session, my first day back was not bad at all. I have a lecturer that I like, my hours are good (I only go Tuesdays for a few hours :P) and no exam for the subject I’m taking! Should be good.
I’m also all set up with my Steam Sale haul. I’ve already got Left 4 Dead 2 and Saints Row 3 installed for any future multiplayer sessions and am currently downloading Payday The Heist. Lots of single player games as well. Let me know if/when we play!
@PrincessPipster: I don’t think I said it before, but welcome!
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I’ll be keen for most of those games, after I finish up with UT3.
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wait, other people here enjoy UT3?
i thought i was the only one :O
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There’s a friendly TAY tourney starting next week, but sign up closed. You must have missed it 🙁
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thx! 🙂
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L4D2 sometime plz
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Oh god, can you imagine being on Trollius’ team in Left 4 Dead?
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I’ll do it!
Aleph and Trollius, thwarting zombie hordes!
Excellent.
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So… I got Fired today. and then got given the option to resign.
Some of you would be aware I was afraid of this happening, but I’d convinced myself it wasnt happening.
Sucks to be right in the first place sometimes.
How is everyone?
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Dude, ouch. Hope you can find something better soon
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I might also point out they decided to do it in my Performance review… so yes. Rather pissed that I spent so much time working on it…
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That sucks, but since you did that work you might as well take what you prepared and slap it into your resume.
At the very worst it makes good interview question fodder
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That sucks man 🙁
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Those dicks.
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Sucks man, hope you find something shortly.
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Sorry to hear that man 🙁
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Oh, man. That sucks. Things will work out. In the long run it could be the best damn thing to happen, maybe?
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Well that’s shit. I hope you find a new job nice and fast (if you want 😛 ). A new job. With blackjack. And hookers!
In fact, forget the job…
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Bollocks.
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Consolatory comment.
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Best of luck on your new career path mate…don’t look at it as a failure, more of an opportunity to do something better 🙂
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Aw man, I’m sorry. Good luck in the future, man.
Just read the “Do mods and cheats ruin Skyrim?” article, and I have to agree. I hate it when people mod their games that I can’t connect to and have no part in. It really ruins my fun. I also hate the OP weapons that I don’t have to fight against, and don’t exist in my game.
In all seriousness, the author just seems to be whinging cause he lacks willpower. I understand his point, but to me he’s blaming a game for his personal failings.
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He is just a kotaku reader to be fair, but yeah it was pretty dumb.
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Oh, I know that. I’m not trying to be mean, but it seems really odd to complain about a game when the specific issue is the player…especially in a solo game.
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Unless there is a multiplayer mod 🙂
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I can sort of see what he was going for, I just think that his writing let him down.
I think we all want to play the best game possible, so if a mod can provide that then is there any reason not to get that mod. But with so many mods out there, the urge to try them all exists and can consume a large amount of time.
I know I have spent more time playing around with mods in a game than actually playing the game before. To me it wasn’t a negative but if you get fixated on the idea of the best game possible, you could spend more time worrying about what could be better or if mod A would work better with mod B or mod C than enjoying the game.
If for him the simplicity of consoles is better then he has the right to that opinion, and I hope he enjoys his console experience.
Maybe we are all too highly strung on the master race/console wars that we instantly assume that this is a salvo at PC owners and react accordingly. If it was then it was stupid but if it is just a let off some steam about something that bugs the individual so be it.-
I just don’t get it. It’s like going to an icecream store wanting to buy vanilla icecream and complaining to the persons serving you that they have more then vanilla. When I got Skyrim I didn’t want to muck around with the mods so I didn’t. It really is that simple.
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It’s like going into an icecream store and wanting to try all the flavours. So you start trying to have all the flavours and end up making yourself sick.
Knowing that you will want to eat too much if you go to the ice-cream store you decide to avoid going to the ice-cream store. If other people want to g to the store that’s fine, but for him it just isn’t the place to be-
but, if you eat too much ice cream you don’t really have a reason to complain, the only one to blame is yourself. If someone were to come to me and complain about eating too much icecream I would laugh at them until they left. Also most mods have a description and screenshots to back it up so you don’t need to “taste all the flavours”.
I understand not wanting to deal with the mods but going on the internet and complaining about choice is just stupid and it’s how we will eventually lose choices in games.
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I still haven’t run any mods on Skyrim yet. Like I said in that article I used a console command to fix a glitch at one point, but beyond that I’ve done nothing. But I like having the option there, at least.
One step closer to getting a job \o/
Just got an email from Flight Centre saying I’m on a list for a phone interview on Thursday. If I get through that, then there’s an in-person interview, and from there employment. In theory of course 🙂
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Nicely done!
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Break a leg! 😀
No wait, don’t do that…
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Telephone interviews are awkward.
Especially when you’re on a bus and fellow passengers are listening in on your responses.-
Thankfully I’ll be at home. And if there’s anyone in the house I’ll be telling them to bugger off
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Thats great! Good luck
Just finished Saints Row The Third (except for 2 DLC missions). I saved the game and looked at my stats. Just under 20 hours played and I’ve finished 92% of the game. I thought I’d sunk a lot more time into the game than that. I can see why some people would complain that it’s too short, especially when you compare it to other open world games like Skyrim. Still, part of the appeal of open world games is that you can go out there and make your own fun, and Saints Row The Third definitely gives you the tools to mindlessly waste hours away in the game.
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I spent an hour just cruising around and barnstorming between chimneys
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43 hours & counting and i’ve almost done 100% of what single player offers.
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I liked the end credits.
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Co-op breathes a lot more life into the game, too. One of my friends likes to use the remote car control thing to control another car while he’s a passenger in my car and try to ram us off the road. We’ve wasted a lot of time just doing that and it’s a lot of fun.
Working back at the office alone trying to save my job is a lot harder than I thought when there’s youtube, reddit and a fridge full of friday afternoon drinks unsupervised…
But I can’t chuck it in after reading Ginger Chris’s plight – sorry to hear mate, makes me feel a bit better that I at least have a chance to mend my shit.
Shaped to 64Kb/s for a week.
Even after the fact, the ghost of Steam Sales past still haunts me.
So in Once upon a time, there was a florists van that said “game of thorns” a reference to game of thrones, perhaps?
99 days to Assassin’s Creed 3 \o/
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So probably 200 until it releases on PC…
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Its ment to be out by xmas but I feel your guess is safer
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and its a non class wednesday so I can stay home and act like a giddie school girl chasing which ever pop icon is in the…. uh i cant think of the word but you get it
Oh god I couldn’t help myself when my mate posted this on Facebook
“Today’s shower-pondering result:
WWKCD
What would Kurt Cobain do?”
My response; 12 gauge pump action.
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Damn right it is.
I never understood the appeal of 90’s grunge has on my friends, especially in high school they opposed music that was remotely original.
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You got a problem with Grunge son?? Ill fight you…. one on one tetris sprint. At dawn.
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You’re on! I only have a problem because apparently I have to like it according to people I know and sometime associate with and am not allowed an opinion.
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Only when your opinion is wrong 😛
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Shh you.
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Ha. My first instinct in Spec Ops: The Line is to reload after each kill. Too much CoD. But it appears that when you reload you lose all the rounds in your mag. At least on the higher difficulty. Was wondering why I was burning through ammo so quickly.
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Okay, after some experimentation it’s not all, just double what you need to refill ie: shoot 3 rounds, reload and it takes 6. Odd way of doing it.
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Is it that, or is it that you lose what you haven’t used out of the old clip? I’ve seen some games that do it that way
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Since it’s Spec Ops, and it aims to be more realistic i’d be betting this is what is happening.
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Just saw Dark Knight Rises….
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Five :D’s.
That is all.
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Also, just saw this on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/213350/
Get hype.-
What did I just watch?
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Bahhhh, I want the Bravely Default collector’s edition. Stupid Japan release only.
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Bravely Default actually looks pretty good, doesn’t it? I wasn’t expecting much when it was first revealed 😛
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I haven’t seen much of it now but I thought it looked good when it was first revealed. It had that fixed camera with hand drawn backgrounds with the character models on top. Brings back memories of the good ol PS1 RPG days :’).
I have a feeling it won’t be THAT good though but I’m still interested. I need me some 3DS RPG goodness!
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Oh wait, dat RRP. Why does reality always have to crush dreams. Can’t they play nicely? 🙁
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12000-13000 Yen is about normal for a big high-profile first-print LE game in Japan.
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I want it too. I love that artist’s work – can never remember his name – so I’m mainly interested in the artbook. And the game, obviously. It sounds like it’s really interesting. Completely turn-based, you can stockpile action points up and then use them to take ‘Brave’ actions. Something like, actions cost up to 3 points, and your available pool can range from -3 to 3, so you can take an expensive action right off the bat, but then you have to ‘Default’ for 3 turns to get back to even before you can start making moves again. Interesting strategic element.
Anyone buy from or know anything about these guys: http://cheapbargains.com.au/catalog/product_info.php/samsung-ua55es6800-full-smart-p-1821?osCsid=83b3bf7595758c4035f892e548d9085c ?
We’re thinking of buying our new TV from them.
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Sorry strange no experience, but that tv looks pretty sweet 🙂
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Yeah, we’ve pretty much decided on a Samsung 55″ 3D. Can’t afford more than the 6 series, but this is the best price we’ve seen for one of the best 6 series models. Also with free delivery. Very tempting.
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Never used or heard of them but try typing the website name into OzBargain or do a search through the Whirlpool Forums, you’re bound to get some info from there 🙂
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Yeah, I searched Whirlpool. A couple of good mentions, but more importantly, no bad ones.
I didn’t think of OzBargain though. Thanks!
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Played a fair bit of Saints Row The Third last night.
Damn is it fun.
The DLC seems to enable god mode from the start. You get bonus cash (a steady income of it too), bonus respect, some amazing vehicles and weapons.
Most of the time, I like to earn my godliness. Not this time. This is a game for doing completely stupid shit. Having the freedom to do it from the start just seems right.
That and mind control octopus cannon. Ethical.
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You can get free money? I’ve been going around investing in buildings like a chump! xD
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I’ve been doing that too. It’s just that I appear to have several abilities unlocked from the start that give X% more money/respect and other ones that give me a steady income of quite a lot of money.
Honestly couldn’t explain what’s going on there. Doesn’t matter; was too busy blowing shit up.
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I have no idea what I’m doing most of the time. I spent a while trying to fight a gang group by running them over in my car repeatedly 😛
I also spent a lot of time in the character creation. My guy looks like some sort of 30’s gangster at the moment. I blame playing Back to the Future.
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I’ve got my character in the Witch Robe with no pants, so it looks like she’s running around in a dressing gown.
I’ve done a gang fight thingy in the Genki vehicle that lets you fire anyone you’ve run over out of a cannon. Seemed to work rather well.
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I tried playing some Saints Row The Third DLC last night. Ended up hitting a glitch that caused my character to repeatedly fall through the world. I might have another crack at playing it again tonight.
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The first time that I played, it glitched out during one of the early missions. You’re meant to use UAV drones to defend some helicopters. Did it for a long while, never got prompted to move on in any way. So I gave up.
Did that same mission again, took about two minutes before I was prompted to move on. Must have somehow failed the first time but the game didn’t register my failing.
Yesterday, I managed to get embedded in a wall and when I went to a BDSM club the second time (died the first time) the guys at the front were dancing through some other NPC models. I took a screenshot of that one, will upload it tomorrow.
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Me and Beavwa glitched on that mission as well :P.
My game frequently glitches up though (maybe it’s a 560 Ti problem?). Sound will pretty much stop working or be out of sync. Out of nowhere I’ll hit an invisible wall while driving, making me unable to go forward and my car will turn invisible. At times I’ll fall through the map and once while in a jet I was able to fly through all the buildings. Some of these make it fun for a bit but when it happens as often as it does, it’s more of an annoyance 🙁 (mainly the sound and invisible wall issue)
I didn’t get the Franchise Pack so I missed out on all the little goodies :(. They didn’t reduce the price yet when I went to buy the game so it still displayed $50 while the main game was $15 (later spent $5 on the main DLC). But then they hit us with a giant zinger of $10 for the Franchise Pack. SUCH MADNESS!
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Yeah, the bonus cash is a little OP for my liking, if only because it’s my first playthrough. Still, I already own most buildings, so I can’t complain 😛
Also, broomstick is beststick.
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I flipped out when I saw that broomstick.
My character is in the DLC pimp suit, but sometimes it looks more like fluffy pyjamas. I don’t want to change them, ever.
Also for someone who has played the game a few times now I’m pretty happy all the cash/respect bonuses are already unlocked. It can turn into a slow grind halfway through the game without them.
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Here’s a fun little tidbit. My neighbours are complete assholes who block access to our garage all the time. The other day, my housemate (the one who uses the garage) had to get a cab because he couldn’t get out and they wouldn’t answer the door.
They even took down the No Parking signs that were up from the previous tenants.
Saw their car blocking the garage again today. Found out what we’ve got to do, told my housemate. He’s going to call the cops on them and get it towed.
Fuckers can park on the street like the rest of the neighbourhood.
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Sounds like war.
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I’m too lazy for war. I’ve been staying out of this one until now. Not really my problem because I don’t use the garage.
I just happened to read the note that my housemate left them on their car this morning. Then I talked to him and it sounds like they’re taking advantage of his good nature.
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Housemate has tried, multiple times. Most of the time they refuse to answer the door.
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Oh well in that case, have you tried phoning them and exhausting all options?
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We don’t have their number. They’re just randoms that moved in next to us a few months back.
If they don’t answer their door and they don’t do anything when they do answer the door, why bother playing nice? They’ve consistently done this since moving in and the fact that they took down the No Parking sign makes it pretty clear they don’t give a fuck about blocking our garage.
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Is it yours or common property in front of the garage? If yours, start mentioning trespass charges.
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Common property. I just want to do enough to get them to stop. I imagine that getting towed should do the trick quite nicely.
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I have the same problem at my place. I’m lucky that I haven’t needed to use the garage when it’s been blocked. I’ve already left 2 polite notes. The next one will read “Park here again and I’m spray painting your windscreen”.
Careful, though. They know where you live, you don’t want to invite trouble home.
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Yes but we know that they know where we live. I don’t know if they know we know that they know though.
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Seems you’ve got your bases covered, then. 😛
(But in all seriousness, not feeling safe in your house might be worse than not being able to access the garage. I agree, it shouldn’t even be an issue though.)
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They’re just inconsiderate assholes. I don’t feel threatened by them in any way.
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http://www.crazysales.com.au/wheel-lock-with-protective-disc.html
Then just charge them for the clamp if they want to remove it. But as DC says you don’t want to start any serious trouble but if you guys are having to take cabs due to their actions I think making them do the same if fair
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I think the best thing is to just do it by the book.
We’ve complained to the real estate agent, who has taken it to body corporate (who then ignored it). This is the next logical step.
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This being getting them towed. Makes them have to take a cab and pay the towing fees while having the police on our side so if they do try to reprimand us in any way, we can just go straight to the cops and let them know what’s going on.
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Maybe your housemate should park outside of the garage for a little while? Claim the spot good and proper. (Although that’ll be when his car gets towed knowing how these things work. :P)
I’ve had this same issue, before I moved into my own house (yay mortgage!), and I’m the umm lets just say less subtle of types, when people would constantly park in front of my spot/in my spot my first ‘warning’ (I had a sliding scale) was a door knock, failing that, a letter on the windscreen, and if that still doesn’t deter them, I park my car behind theirs until they come to me asking me to move it, I tell them where to go and continue on my day, until they get really upset about it, then, maybe I might move it.
Yes, asking for trouble, but generally resorting to the blocking them in whilst they are blocking me method works the first time (made possible with 2 cars).
That’s not a fun tidbit. Tell better stories! No money was found.
0.5/5 drunken Freyrs.
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Story is still in progress. If money is found, it’s found during the conclusion of the story, not the beginning of the second act.
We tried to do the same thing at our house. the cops said that they couldn’t tow it if it was on private property.
Slash the tyres imo.
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But then they cant move!
Pros: new computer is up and running, and no issues.
Cons: I think I have the Flu, and I’m not sharing him with anyone.
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That’s okay. I finished with him a week or two ago.
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Hey sailor…
Question: has anyone had any experience with Escitalopram?
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Is that one of the new pokemon?
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I have a friend who takes it, though my knowledge is limited. Any particular question you had about it?
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Mostly just worried about negative side effects. The Internet seems rather alarmist about it for a change.
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The only two side effects that have affected the person I know is decreased libido and *very* mild insomnia (takes 1-2 hours to get to sleep rather than 15 minutes, and not that often).
If I remember correctly, the main concern with it is missed dosages. That can cause a lot of problems, though nothing permanent.
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Internet is always alarmist about antidepressants.
The wikipedia article’s listed rates of side effects correspond approximately to what my patients say they’ve experienced. The worst part is stopping taking it – you have to remember to wean down slowly.Also don’t mix it with the other types of antidepressants.
NB: not a psychiatrist
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Thanks for the info.
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Not familiar with escitalopram in particular, but I’ve been on other SSRIs before, along with tricyclics.
Anything in particular you’re after?
HI TAY!
I’m in such an awesome mood today and that I may leave work today NOT wanting to cause severe harm to somebody!
It’s weird.
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Are you feeling okay? =O
and HI!
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I must’ve been drugged or something.
How’s life, Virus? Infected anyone with anything deadly lately?
I’m not talking about STDs.
I might be talking about STDs.
I’M NOT.
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I’m alright thanks, trying to kick this chest infection I picked up somewhere , so rude to have infected me like it has D=
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But *you’re* Virus! You should do the infecting.
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I know right?! I bet it’s an evil plot by some other bastard who thinks he is me and is trying to knock me off so they can claim my title!
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Any particular reason you are in a good mood? Did you take some “candy” that someone sold you in a dark alley?
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Sounds about right. I can’t say no to magic street candy.
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Who can? Strangers are so nice, offering people in the street free candy.
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Especially the ones with vans!
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How was your interview with the THQ peeps?
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AMAZEBALLS.
He quoted Monty Python. I can’t resist a man who quotes Monty Python. I’ve tried.
Oh, and he did have some interesting answers. I have to transcribe it tonight or tomorrow. I hate hearing my own voice. I sound like a child.
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Yeah but a small child, oh that doesn’t help. hey at least your not a dude with the voice and looks of a child who gets mistaken for a girl. 🙂 always look on the bright side
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That’s true!
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You got mistaken for a girl? Or were you referring to someone else? 😛
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You interviewed THQ!?
Did you get some sweet Darksiders loot?
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Aww man Arkham City & Left 4 Dead 2 wanted 500mb & 1GB updated when I signed into Steam wtf?!
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You say that like it’s unusual?
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Well yes & no, I just downloaded Arkham City last night and wasn’t expecting a 1Gb update and strikes me as weird that L4D2 has one..
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It’s not unusual!
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I’m pretty sure everytime I sign in TF2 wants another 11GB.
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hahaha, someone made comment about this on Steam yesterday. Though no TF2 updates today! So score!
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That was why I ended up uninstalling SMNC, that was at least weekly 1GB updates
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Oh man, you do not want to see Dungeon Defenders. So many updates =\
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Okay so Left 4 Dead 2’s excuse is Cold Stream is out of beta and they tweaked something on the map, because that needs a 500mb update, right Valve?! Did Francis get different leather jacket models? did Bill get new hats? Did Nick get different coloured suits? I’d be hoping so, so this 500mb is justified damn it!
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You know, you don’t have to download it.
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I didn’t have a choice D= by the time I noticed it was mostly done! Since Steam initially only told me Batman was updating.
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Pause everything forever!
I like to disable automatic updates for pretty much every game I have installed, and whenever I load up Steam, I watch it like a hawk for the first few minutes if it tries to download stuff.
As a result, I have about 15 installed games I can’t play because I’ve paused their updates, but I’m too lazy to update or uninstall them. My system totally works and is the best. -
I use to do that, but i’d be all “AH FUCK MY LIFE” when I wanted to go play them then have to wait for hours of updated, so now I have a handful of games installed and enough bandwidth i’m all “eh whatever” now if only Telstra went back to hosting Steam content so I could get unmetered all would be swell.
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New map?
Who wants to play L4D2 tonight?
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It’s only Cold Stream. Apparently it’s terrible.
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It is rather bad, maybe they improved it?
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Doesn’t matter. I want to shoot things.
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PEW! PEW!
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I’ve never played but I’m keen. Perhaps we could get another noobie group going too?
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I’d be happy to join in such, since I haven’t played Left 4 Dead in a long time..
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I should probably mention I have a mic now too 🙂 (thanks Beavwa!)
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Whoa, Greenius can talk now. That’s scary.
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I HEARD HIS VOICE. He said one sentence before cutting out!
Truly, I am blessed.
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Why does my mic sound like a chainsaw? 🙁
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It was perfectly clear for that one sentence. I think it might have been car noises or something in the background. You’ll have to try it on Teamspeak or something if you haven’t already 😛
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I can imagine it now.
Fatty (Bish): Don’t shoot the cars with flashing lights in them, they have alarms that’ll attract a horde of zombies.
Fatty (Bish): Goddammit Greenius
Fatty (Bish): Try to sneak around the Witch because she can one-shot you.
Fatty (Bish): Greenius, whyyyyyyyyyyyy
Fatty (Bish): oh god why would you throw a molotov cocktail right on top of me oh god it buuuuuuurns
Greenius: I’m Helpius!
Trjn: /laugh
I AM THE BEST.
Speaking of updates, why does Windows always consider updates for Microsoft Security Essentials “optional” I always see those as something that should be needed.. Silly Windows!
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MSE isn’t an optional program to install, so any updates for it aren’t mandatory through Windows Update. It’s a bit silly but I imagine that it has to do with monopoly laws, the same way Europe smacked them in the face about the whole IE thing.
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Well since I opted to install MSE on Windows 7 and let Windows download the updates at its leisure, i’d just assume it’d also download any updates for MSE as well. But yeah, odd.
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The reason for that is that it automatically downloads and installs those updates on its own. They’re ‘optional’ when you’re doing a Windows Update pass, because WU doesn’t need to worry about you installing them.
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The ‘it’ in this case being MSE if that’s not clear. MSE updates itself fairly often.
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I’ve never seen MSE update on it’s own, it must be magical!
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It’s a very well-oiled process. Signatures update I think 4 times a day? More than once at least. And there’s an update to the scanning engine mid-month every month except December as well.
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Either way, I quite like it and it’s not resource whore unlike AVG which also was never effective because it was the free version I am sure.
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Well uh I wasn’t expecting to find out the news I just found out :S Someone i’ve known for 5 or so years from multiple online communities and that’s also part of a circle of friends I have/had from said communities passed away in the last week, it sure did seem like we hated each other most times we came in contact (arguing about stuff was always something we did well) but yeah, he wasn’t much older than me, shame to hear such things, he was a pretty decent person otherwise.
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Bugger.
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Yeah, my heart goes out to his family and those close to him.
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Hey blaghs
I HAS A IDEA
with our one v one LoL games we do all the champions on the rotation each week and i might record us in Fraps and upload them to youtube. then everyone can see how AD soraka rulez 😛
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Oh dear. Oh deary deary me.
Weeeee. Stocktake is fun.
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I pity you sir, our stoktakes include a thousand and half screws washers and springs.
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Nawww yeah, a thousand screws
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That sounds like a good thing.
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The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.
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DEATH BY SNU-SNU.
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Can anyone here tell me what the 3DS is like if you play a regular DSLite game on it for example Pokemon White?
I am thinking of picking up a 3DS but only if the older games still look good on it, I don’t want the screen to be stretched or something as the top screen looks a lot wider than the old one.
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Honestly its a little streched and a tiny bit distorted but its pretty good otherwise 🙂
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Yeah, it’s… a bit blurred.
Pokemon is stretched out, but it’s sprite based mostly, so it’s not too terrible. There’s the option to load DS games in DS resolution. The bottom screen is fine, but the top screen uses maybe 75% of the screen? It’s definitely crisp, but it looks so small.As an example of a non-sprite game, Golden Sun is a bit blurry but all the world detail is still intact. Character outlines are not great, but honestly I was expecting it to be a lot worse.Basically, yeah, there is a bit of distortion, but from my experience, it’s not horrible or eye bleeding by any means.
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As others have said, it’s not the best but still entirely playable. You can play in 1:1 mode, but the screens are too small for my liking.
Have you thought of maybe waiting for the 3DS XL? It looks like that playing 1:1 mode on that will be roughly the same size as playing on a regular DS.
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Yeah I think I will wait for now.
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Today is slow.
And boring.
But soon I’m going to watch the new Breaking Bad at work \o/
BISH! BISH!
Did you read my email?
Also packing for moving tomorrow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUH3JQjcweM
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Wow, you’re leaving tomorrow? Sooner than I thought!
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YES! Sorry!
I told Nob about it last night and then I totally didn’t link him at all.
#Helping
Never fear sir, we’ll have it covered so that you may move without the horrible burden of Minecraft weighing down on your shoulders! (By Minecraft I mean Notch because he is a big, big man. Probably really heavy.)-
Excellent.
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Yeah I was wondering if there was some kind of special website / email I needed to use. But the I didn’t ask, true story.
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Uggh, complete apathy on JB’s part regarding online purchases. I don’t usually try to badmouth a company, but I’d urge every one of you to look elsewhere for online shopping. Waiting 4-5 months for an order that was never shipped in the first place is ridiculous.
Not attempting to retain the sale is pathetic.
On a lighter note, I’m currently looking at grabbing the Logitech HD C920 webcam. Any suggestions on decent alternatives or retailers which sell at a reasonable price?
The cheapest I’ve managed to find was ~$80, although the shipping was $29.95…
So far, the cheapest would be the Logitech online store, at $89, free shipping.
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Yeah, bought The West Wing from them last year. Took over a month, not hearing any thing. Then they started arriving… a season a day for the entire week. My sister bought Tropico 3 on their online store, they insisted that it wasn’t released in Australia. She went to EB, bought the game, cancelled her order.
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(I should say, though. I bought BSG Blu-Ray collection and it arrived two days later, so… *shrugs*)
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Really? I’ve ordered heaps of stuff from JB and had no issues at all.
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You don’t live in the middle of nowhere, like Aleph does though 🙂
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I dunno…
Warrnambool 😛
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The car has been moved. Emails have been sent to various people who can deal with it and if that car makes a reappearance, we’re just going straight to the police to get it moved.
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*wipes hands* That’s the end of that, then. 😛
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I’m going to put up signs “Park here and you’re getting towed” because the next time they’re blocking our garage, they are getting towed.
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The lawyer representing the firm suing Notch over alleged patent infringement in Minecraft’s name is Barry Bumgardner. I feel very juvenile for this, but I can’t help but find this highly amusing.
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Bahahahaha, amazing
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Pffft BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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I’ve written some letters to some funny names (all lawyers) such as Mr. Faggetter and Mr. Berger (first name Gay)
What’s happening, TAYbies? 😀
So in the past few weeks I have spent almost ALL the monies on Spider-man books and rebuildinmg my collection.
\o/
Actually going to read One More Day and Brand New Day this time. After I’m done with the Clone Saga.
Latest Breaking Bad watched.
ZOMG
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S5E1?
I think that’s all I’ve got so far. Pretty damned good way to get back into it!-
Episode 2 it was.
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SO GOOD! Though i’ve forgotten it already, curse my memory!
Accidently spoiled something minor in Quantum Conundrum review comments. Now I feel horrible. I hate ruining somene elses fun. :S
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You are the worst person on this site. Geez.
=P
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You monster!
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There really isn’t too much to spoil. The ending was actually pretty horrible, like they just ran out of time/money.
Also – finally fixed the machine that’s been playing up for the last 2.5 days. Very sick of it now.
Stayed back till 7 for the last 2 nights so I’m getting out of here ASAP today. -
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Saw that, don’t worry, I wouldn’t consider it a spoiler(I shouldn’t mention that I’m a terrible metric in this regard)!
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Hey Peyj I just saw it and that was barely anything man, don’t worry about it!
I haven’t played the game but I would hardly consider that a spoiler
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Thanks for the reassurance, guys. Brought my mood way down. Would never intentionally spoil some one.
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Just got around to Potaku 8.
Regarding achievements, the worst of them has to be the ones in DoAX2. The achievements are for collecting each girl’s swimsuit collection with each girl. So to unlock all the achievements for, say, Kasumi, you need to play as her and buy all her swimsuits. Then play as each other character, partner with Kasumi, buy all of that character’s swimsuits and gift them to Kasumi. This is complicated by the fact that some of them are incredibly expensive, requiring you to spend hours gambling or whatever to get the money to buy them, and that often a character will refuse a gift if they don’t like you (and there’s a random element involved too) and sometimes will return it, sometimes throw it away, sometimes give it to someone else. So you end up buying some of those dozens of times. Getting all the achievements is literally a 1000+ hour slog. Even getting one achievement involves dozens of hours.
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So it’s a fight/fashion/dating “sim”?
Sounds like some pointless cheeves right thurr, mang.
A last-ditch grab at keeping consumers playing, just to rack (no pun intended) up a larger metascore. It’s this sort of stuff that I really disagree with.-
Fighting?
No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_or_Alive_Xtreme_2-
Blind = mown.
Here I was thinking Volleyball was the only non-fight variant of the franchise.
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Yeah they added a whole bunch of other stuff plus a crappy jetski racing game to it so they dropped the Beach Volleyball part of the name. Which was a shame really because the actual volleyball part of the game was pretty well done and quite fun, but the rest of it very much not so.
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It was derided at the time too.
DoAX2 doesn’t have any fighting. The girls all go to Zack’s tropical island getaway and play volleyball / ride jetskis / gamble in the casino / roll around in the sand while you leer at them inappropriately. So I guess you could say it’s an elaborate physics model simulator if you know what I mean. I also didn’t mention how some of the characters are rivals or hate each other so getting them to accept any gifts at all is pretty difficult.
The funny thing about the game is that the collecting and clothing element of the game meant that a lot of the people that stuck with it long term were women. Most guys would sort of play it for a bit, get their boobie fix and then be done with it, but there’s something about it that has a strange appeal to a lot of girls.
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(Yes, I admit to owning DoAX2)
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Same here, or at least I should say we had a copy at our shared house I lived at 😛
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So you’re saying you left your copy behind right? 😛
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I “donated” it
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And 3… 2… 1…
KFC regret kicks in :/
I had KFC last night and I’m having left overs now. So much regret and blerghness. At the start of lunch I was all “man this is so good, not sure how Nob could hate it!” and now it’s all “:(”
DAMN YOU KFC!
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It so like that though…
When you decide to eat it you’re like “MMMM…KFC, yum!”
But then…the grease goggles wear off and reality asserts itself.-
I see it much like Christmas lunch. Everyone gorges, proclaims never to eat again, then hibernates.
Except there’s no family present. It’s just you, the chicken, a wave of guilty pleasure which inevitably turns to remorse, and crying lonely tears into the now long-empty bucket.
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Sometimes that KFC regret is worth it, because the chicken tastes absolutely delicious.
Then there are the other days, where the meal tastes like crap and you regret it even as you’re eating it. At least be consistent, KFC.
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Oh man, bad KFC is the worst KFC.
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Well yes, bad anything is the worst anything, my friend. 😛
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But Breaking Bad is one of the best TV Drama series ever!
(I knew you, or someone was going to say something like that :P)
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That’s pretty zen there…
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I don’t understand this KFC regret concept.
Have you tried eating more? That should clear you right up, it’s just like a hangover, yeah?
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Maybe my local KFC is an anomoly, but I’ve never regretted a meal there. 😛
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I’ve heard the only way to get over KFC regret is to eat more KFC. You should try that.
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Colonel Sanders was clearly a new generation of Charles Darwin.
His secret recipe was scientifically devised to weed out those with weak stomachs from those with stomachs of iron.
Those of you who suffer from food regret, know that you are a shame upon the whole of the human race.-
Oh man that went from nonsense pseudo-science to kind of harsh fairly quickly.
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Look at this guy, he eats 40 nuggets in one sitting and suddenly he’s a food god.
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Slow day was it Bish?
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I AM LEGEND (/Will Smith)
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I just made the discovery that my ‘stache grows much faster at the ends. Unnaturally so.
Walrus-Null, inbound.
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RobotWalrusAlpehMythaetiquette
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Best pseudonym!
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Holy Crap. Mind is blown. Just watch, I can’t explain.
http://tinyurl.com/czfpvsx
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Yeah, I’ve heard that theory before, though when mentioned it didn’t go into anywhere near the depth mentioned there. You have to love applying other mediums logic to something.
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That’s cool, man. I had actually charted some of those connections years back, not knowing that it was a thing. haha.
Kind of itching to get home and play Spec Ops. Haven’t felt that urge in a long time. Maybe I’m getting less negative or maybe I’ve finally found some games I’m really enjoying for a change. Either way I’m happy. Was worried I was getting over gaming for a while there.
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That’s coming up next for me to play after I finish Rayman Origins. Can’t wait, really liked the look of the demo!
Customer: I have these $2500 Italian leather shoes that a bit dirty. What can I use?
Me: We have this product here that would be perfect while also protecting the shoe and extending the life greatly.
Customer: That’s great. How much?
Me: $5.95
Customer: What?!? That’s ridiculous! I’d be better off buying a new pair of shoes. Do you feel good trying to rip people off?
Me: *desparetely trying to keep my mouth shut*
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$595… thousand
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Aleph: I have these $30 that I need polished for the purpose of appearing decent for a wedding. (To be honest, the shoes were fine, just dirty, and needed a good polish).
Shoe/Key/Bong/Torch/Knifeman: Go buy new shoes.
Sometimes the greatest service comes in telling the customer to look elsewhere. Stuff like that really leaves a good impression on me (although probably not the greatest impression on the storeman :P)
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How many people ever go “hmm today I might go get my shoes fixed, oh and while I’m out better get that key cut. I could also really use a new bong, and I should probably get a torch for when I need to smoke outside. Ah yes, better not forget that knife I need either. Lucky the shoe/key/bong/torch/knifeman is all in the one spot!”
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*cough* That may or may not be my job description.
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Bongs and knives?
I know those Mr Minit and the like have shoes repairs/engraving/key cutting/ sometimes knives.
Never seen one with ALL of those things 😛
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I don’t understand why you’d pay that much for a shoe in the first place, that’s just insanity. (Although since they did, it’s just five bucks man, geez!) I’m content with my $75 Nike walking shoes. 😛
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Well, closer to six bucks, really.
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Well, that changes every thing… 😀
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I did have someone bring in an $5000 Versace pet ID tag to be engraved once.
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wat.
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Rich bogans.
The worst bogans.
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The Gold Coast. Where if you can’t flash obscenely expensive yet totally useless stuff then you ain’t squat. All flash and no substance.
I hate it here.
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I’d recommend Brisbane as an alternative, but you’re probably better off on one of those coastal towns in Northern NSW.
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There’s a few small off-shore islands around here that you’re welcome to colonise, Freeze!
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Welcome to Freezalia! The home of government funded gaming brought to you by heavy taxes and forced labour in the tin mines.
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Also shoes/keys/bongs/torches/knives available upon request!
Dude… just had a thought. We could do with a guy like you up here. I’ve got a spare swag, and a big backyard. Accommodation’s sorted. We could make forts, and stay up roasting marshmallows by the fire.
\o/
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Please tell me that you had to engrave Chardonnay on to it.
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“But you ARE effluent, Kim!”
You should pee on the shoes.
Wooooo \o/ my copy of Rayman Origins arrived today. It’s been a while since I looked at a game’s box and just smiled. There will be a lot whimsy in this house for the next few days 🙂
Also, PS3 owners remember today is the Killzone 3 multiplayer playdate so be around at 8.30PM AEST. If you don’t own killzone 3 you can download the multiplayer portion of the game for free on PSN.
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Rayman Origins is full of charm. The art. The music. Like playing an old school SNES game in HD. It’s beautiful, man.
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Thanks, I’ll probably get into it tomorrow.
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If I can download it in time I’ll make an appearance.
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Sweet. see you then maybe.
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Today is really starting to drag on. I just want to break some shit, man.
In Saints Row or Left 4 Dead. Either or.
Finally got around to reading The Long Earth. I’m about a quarter of the way through it and the plot is only just starting to get moving along. I’m interested to see how everything ties together, it definitely has the Pratchett-esque feeling of separate plots that cross paths at some point near the end.
Aside from the plot structure, the inability of iron to Step and having a character named Lobsang, a lot of it doesn’t feel very Pratchetty (the potato could go either way, that bit just seems rather British). Makes me wonder many Stephen Baxterisms I’d pick up on, if I’d read his stuff before.
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57?
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No wait. 56. That last one isn’t really his originally.
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Is that a reference I don’t get? I thought I got all of the references. That’s what my entire life has been about! Getting references is all that I am!
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Crisis averted. You were making a joke.
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Sorry. Didn’t mean to trigger an existential crisis for you all T-man Excaliburton like.
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I’m feeling the same, just crashed hard. Looking forward to getting home and back into skyrim, at least until the missus decides we want to play darkspore
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I’m up for some L4D2 if other people are 😀
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Mememememememememe
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Oh, wow.
I hope this doesn’t become a thing. haha
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Hahahaha
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+1
lols were had
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Ha Ha, that’s awesome.
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I just ate a whole pizza…
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I do that all the time.
I think it explains a lot about me.
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I feel like such a fatty. I went swimming yesterday in an attempt to get fit again too.
Also I didn’t have any goggles at the time and the pool was out so I just swam without them and then my eyes burned for all of last night.
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I swim pretty much every night, with the odd miss now and then.
Goggles are awesome. Go buy a pro pair from Rebel or something, it makes a hell of a difference.
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I have some in my room somewhere… I just can’t find them… I tried to buy a pair at the pool but there wasn’t any 🙁 Definitely going to buy some soon. I used to swim as a kid a lot without goggles. I was FEARLESS.
Now I am old and always tired. Spirit is willing flesh is weak yadaya
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I do that all the time.
I am not sure what it explains about me.
Dang. Might and Magic Heroes VI (still can’t get past the odd rearrangement of words) doesn’t run very well at all. I was having a good run too. Guess it’s good I grabbed the demo first.
Hi guys, any PS3 players up for some Killzone 3 multiplayer on tonight’s #potaku playdate?
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Not tonight I don’t think! I was too busy downloading Steam games. I’ll wait until you guys play a game I already own 😛
Sorry Mashman!
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That’s fine. Thanks anyway, I’m betting people are busy or couldn’t download the game in time 🙂
Enjoy your evening.
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Wifey is tying up the TV with the Australias Got Talent final. Sorry Mashuarian Canidate.
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“Mashuarian Candidate” hahaha!
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Ha Ha Ha, that’s awesome. MASHURIAN CANDIDATE I like it.
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I would, if I had the game and wasn’t working.
Currently waiting for the little one to sleep so we can cram in MasterChef from last night and tonight.
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The multiplayer is free to download from PSN and play up to level 15 🙂
(according to an earlier post by Masha)
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Really?
I love free!
I’ll set it to download tonight, which is a bit late, but still good.
That 200GB is doing nothing anyway on the HDD.
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Download away, we can do another play session another time.
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TAY is super slow these days – almost Goose level slow. I like it.
Still haven’t read the first seven pages, though.
Random discussion from an article:
How freaking awesome was Tomb Raider 1?
I remember playing the demo on my PS demo disc for hours – just that first level, with the swimming, a few wolves, climbing, etc. Far and away a defining moment of gaming for me.
When I eventually rented the full version from Blockbuster, I spent hours and hours on it in the space of a few days (playing while pretending to be asleep at night, although my parents knew for sure) because it was so captivating. Midas and the Greek letter puzzle was awesome.
Tomb Raider will always be an awesome game, and I’ll always have time for it.
I kind of fell out of TR after 3, with the Venice and train station levels. Great Wall level was not so fun.
That first time you see a TRex? Fantastic.
That first swan dive that seemed to last forever, after climbing up a hard edifice that served no purpose other than a dive into a waterfall filled pool?
Man.
One of the best games of the gen, hands down.
Is TR Anniversary just a HD-ish upgrade of 1? Or does it suck?
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I’m pretty sure Anniversary is a remake (not just a port), I could be wrong though. I haven’t had the chance to play it yet. The HD collection is pretty cool, though!
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I’ll have to put it on my back catalogue!
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Yep, its a complete remake. The last area in particular is quite wildly different, but it’s still good fun. The remake of St. Francis’ Folly is a superb level.
Totally agree about the early Tomb Raiders being great. I remember the last few levels of the first game being utterly terrifying, especially the boss fight on that limited platform where it was so easy to fall to your death. It took Lara 30 seconds to fall into the lava there, and she screamed the whole way down.
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Honestly, I never actually played much more than an hour or two of TR. I believe it was the first one, though can’t truly be sure. You still managed to open the nostalgia floodgates however!
I remember derping around in Lara’s humble abode (author’s note; It’s the first time I had come across the term “humble abode”, and still credit the game with that particular expansion of my vocabulary) until she died because I dived off the balcony. Oops.
I also remember that first swan dive!As for demo discs, I think I actually had most of them! Do you remember the graphical demos, specifically the T-Rex and the Manta Ray?
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Tomb Raider 2 was the first console game I played. My boyfriend at the time’s mates used to bring their PS over and play Abe’s Oddysee and F1 Racing so I bought him a PlayStation for his birthday, along with TR2 which had just been released.
After watching him play for a few weeks, I decided to try it for myself and soon found myself playing it all day and night.
Tomb Raider 2 is how I transitioned from PC gamer to console gamer.
I just slept for two hours…
On waking up, the first thing I had to drink was a Bacardi and coke….
Should I have had the coffee instead?
I feel much regret, though things are starting to look a little better.
That is all.
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Premix or made your own?
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Made my own.
Always better that way, though I’m more partial to Kahlua and milk, or a nice Bulmers…
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I have a beverage every time I wake up too. Except it is non alcoholic and of the coffee variety.
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Yes, coffee is always good in the morning.
Alcohol is definitely an afternoon-to -night drink.
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Hi everyone. I saw Dark Knight Rises today. Pleased to say that I predicted: Ebova’f nccrnenapr jura pnfgvat sbe WTY jnf naabhaprq, naq Gnyvn’f nccrnenapr nf fbba nf jungfuresnpr fcbxr jvgu gur Mrgn-Wbarf npprag. Overall I enjoyed it, but still rank Batman Begins above it. Was the soundtrack obscenely loud and overwhelming for anyone else?
Gaming news = I’m not gaming. I’m writing.
Writing news = I have about thirty copies of The Lesser Evil volumes 1, 2, and 3, going nowhere on our sideboard. Anyone still looking to acquire said books? Email me: shane at shanewsmith dot com.
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Nah, I reckon the soundtrack wasn’t even noticable, to be fair.
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HI SHANE!
Can’t say I predicted those things but that’s cause I didn’t really care for it and I don’t know much about the Batman universe :P. I found the soundtrack a bit loud but maybe it was just being in the cinema. Before seeing DKR I didn’t see anything in the cinemas for a few months so maybe I forgot how loud it could be.
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YES! I felt like an old person because I wanted them to turn it down.
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Yup, I predicted that stuff too.
The soundtrack was amazeballs. Maybe your theatre just screwed up.
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Wasn’t load enough for me. I was listening to the aircon the whole time.
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I felt that the music was a bit loud at points, specifically there were a few spots where they didn’t dip it enough when Bane was talking and given the deliberately muffled voice he has, that made it hard to make out exactly what he says.
Another one off the Pile of Shame
GTA IV!
This has been in my collection since Boxing Day 2009 (the same day I got my 360!) finally finished the story tonight after much dicking around!
For the record – I chose revenge…
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…there’s a story to that game? I thought you just had to run people over and try to ride those trolley things down hills.
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No that’s Saints Row! GTA4 was all srsbizness and honestly aside from the story I didn’t really like it 🙁
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GRITTY AND DARK GRITDARK
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GTAIV felt like a game made for critics. A lot of shallow things that people who are just blitzing through might think are pretty rad but nothing that’s really fun.
Saints Row 3 on the other hand, now that’s just fun times all round. Especially when you’re ridiculously overpowered from the get go.
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Saints Row 3 is a lot of fun – but it’s completely different game. If had an on-again, off-again relationship with IV in the last 2 years There was a while there when I wasn’t convinced that the game was better than San Andreas, after the initial wow factor wears off (admittedly it took half a year for that to happen) you start to see the game’s flaws:
– the lock-on aiming (the snap aiming of RDR is much better),
– the tempermental cover system (still better than Gears of War 1 but not a patch on the smooth cover system of Splinter Cell Conviction),
– the extreme lack of checkpoints (seriously this is the game’s biggest flaw, but something they’d addressed in Gay Tony, Chinatown Wars and RDR)
– the friend systemThe friend system was my enemy for a long time, they always call at inopportune times, you have to get over there quickly and they get pissed of (or hospitalised) if you crash into too many things but something weird happened with this. At one point I wasn’t sure about the acheivement where you have to have every friend like you above 90%, this is extremely hard to get and I was (for weeks) trying to get it before I finished the game (I eventually went to one of those acheivement websites and found out it didn’t matter I could still do that after the story ended, so I got on with the story – (I only had 5 missions to go and I didn’t realise it!!!) but for a month or so prior I had spent many sessions just driving the friends around to places and that’s all I was doing not realising it – I started to care about all these ancillary characters – when they gave me the choice to shoot Darko Brevic I walked away and let him live, then when you have to choose between a deal or revenge, you call Kate (the girlfriend who never puts out) and she tells you she couldn’t respect you if you chose to work with someone who betrayed you, it was enough to make me decide to chose revenge which has it’s own nasty consequence.
Ultimately although the San Andreas era had more notable actors and over the top moments, GTA IV felt to me like it was inviting me to actually feel something about the game I was playing other than “wow that was cool” the choose your own adventure aspect as well as the focus on doing things other than killing (ie: the friend activities, the TV, the shows, strip clubs etc) made it feel slightly more realistic than other open world games. Two months ago when I set myself the goal of finishing the story I thought I’d be glad to see the back of Grand Theft Auto but now I’m more excited than ever to see what they do next.
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Oh man that ending was so sad x.x
It’s like no matter which ending I take i’m screwed Q_Q
So I have until September 25th to revive my WoW account & purchase Mists of Pandaria, hmm..
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DO IT.
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Oh I will, since I loved what I have played so far in the beta.. Just money is needed =( I was really hoping the xpac would drop December like Cata did…
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That’s the release date?
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Yes, yes it is
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Little surprised that there are basically no articles on video game websites about this.
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Yeah, I know.. I saw it on WoWhead so yeah, and Blizzard posted bout it on Twitter.
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George Carlin and time(1978)(NSFW):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M5eG-aywZQ&feature=related
Sheer brilliance.
I know I’ve done the gushy post before, but I feel the need to reiterate.
TAY is fucking amazeballs. So much love and shiz, so I’d like to once again thank you.
Stay classy.
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Never seen anywhere on any forum as nice a bunch of people as there are here on TAY.
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Group hug!
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nope
all that contact and stuff
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That’s not what you said in the group hug at Rocketman’s meat! Get in here!
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Actually, that is what I said at the Rocketman Meat.
And then I stood outside the group hug and was all “:I” to the bouncer.
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And then the bouncer called us racist like it was our fault, but he also ignored the fact that Crabman was in the group hug.
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I was too absorbed in the love to notice.
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Morning Klutar -
Meh.
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Uh oh… He has returned!
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Morning Klu! How is this morning treating you so far?
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Surprisingly good for a morning.
I do hate mornings.
Today feels like it’s going to be a rather slow work day. Which is good and bad. Day drags, but I sure do get a lot of twittering in 😛
How be thee?-
Ehhh. Business as usual for me I suppose. A lot of stuff is happening at work that will affect me in a couple of months but can’t really do anything about it.
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Morning!
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I love the smell of TAYpalm in the mornin’.
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That sounds disturbingly sexual.
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That’s it boy, get in there nice and deep, like.
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A blunder in the Blunderstruck article? Oh dear…
Good morning TAY.
The weather said there would be rain today.
I hear no rain.
Lies!
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The weather talks to you?
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Feels it in his bones, like an old timey sailor.
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Morning all! I got bored at work so I turned my ugg boots into workboots.
Ignore the oddity of having my ugg boots at work. There’s raisins.
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You should see my volley ugg boots I use for slippers at home 🙂
Pretty awesome though lol
Just finished watching Season 2 of Doctor Who and I’m now thoroughly miserable. Why do these shows have to my mood all the time? Its like I’m subconsciously drawn to shows that are going to depress me 🙁
In other news, for the last week, like clockwork I’ve been waking up at 2am every night and lying awake for hours. I don’t think its still jetlag, I don’t know.
In other other news, I have a phone interview with Flight Centre in an hour or so. I don’t think this is anything major, more just a chance for them to have a chat about the process and see if I’ve got any questions but stay tuned once its over.
In other other other news, I like the word other
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Break a leg, friend. Have I missed your travel log? I think I only read the Iceland one…
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No, I got lazy and haven’t done up the other two yet. I’ll work on them at some point soon, promise
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No rush. Got other things on your mind by the sound of it!
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Good luck on your interview.
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Good luck Novahkiin, let us know how you go and hook us up with cheap tickets 🙂
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Well it went pretty good I think. Just a few basic questions, “Why do you want to work for Flight Centre?” “What skills can you bring?” “What travel experience do you have?” They will be in contact in the next few days to tell me if I’ve made the cut, the next stage is a group interview at their head office in North Sydney.
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Awesome! Sounds like you’re doing fine, man.
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Is there some exclusive TAY party going on that I don’t know about? It’s a ghost town here.
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It’s the meeting of the “No D.C.s” club. we’re allowed one.
Actually, a lot of the party happens on da twitterz.
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Even when we were pushing 5-6000 comments a week, I always found TAY easier to follow than Twitter.
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Yeah same 😛
To answer your question Pey’j, besides Twitter some of us also go on TeamSpeak. Just ask someone for the server details and join in the funsies :). And you don’t necessarily need a mic since there’s text chat as well. It’s also useful if you’re playing multiplayer games to discuss things and whatnot
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TeamSpeak is active in the day? I always assumed it was sort of a night thing.
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Live chat? That’s too intimidating for my liking, but thanks all the same. 😛
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Oh don’t worry I just creepily lurk and use text chat 😛
I got a mic pretty recently but I still prefer typing 😛
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Oh, I see how it is. :'(
I’m supposed to be cleaning, so I’m not commenting, in the hope that that will… make me clean? I don’t know.
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I wrote down a list of things that I wanted to do today that I haven’t started yet. It didn’t include “lazily browse internet for nothing in particular”, but here we are.
TWIST: I wrote the list YESTERDAY *shock*
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You should have written the list today. Then you could have said ‘well I did something today. I wrote a list’ and you wouldn’t feel bad about the internet browsing!
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But then I would have had to include ‘write a list’ on the list that I wrote. Which would then make me have to write another list to satisfy the first list’s listing. At this point I can cross off ‘write a list’ on the first list, but what if the new list included ‘write another list’? Then I would be set on a continuous stream of lists until lists become lists and lists of lists overtake the time I needed to do the things on the original lists.
Lists.
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Well that would be your fault for writing ‘write another list’ on that second list. It seems like a pretty easy cycle to break.
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Wait… you’re saying that I control what goes on the lists?
…Interesting.
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Play games with Greenius? 🙂
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Pokemon Online? Now that you have a mic and can yell back when we insult your lack of knowledge… I mean, congratulate your supreme skill… yeah, skill
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We’ll definitely have another game some time! We haven’t played since you went away 😛
Not sure if this is a trick from Trollius or not… I’m not falling for that again!
Have you been cleaning since Saturday? =\
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No, I was procrastinating on Monday through Wednesday. Now I’m actually cleaning. Ish.
I’m still here! Everyone has moved onto Twitter I guess. Seems to he what all the cool kids use.
A new co-worker started today, their surname is Woodhouse.
I kind of hope that I don’t get along with them. Just so that I can threaten them with spiderwebs and coarse sand.
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It’s also a good name for yelling in frustration while shaking your fist.
WOOOOODHOOOUUUUSE!
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Everything’s coming up Woodhouse!
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Throw out all his shoes as well.
So it’s 100 bucks for the CE of Mists of Pandaria, don’t think I can justify that even though a new mouse pad & a vanity pet or 20 is nice.
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Well I guess that’s one way to make an appearance for the day…
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I always liked them just for the artbooks and soundtracks.
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I only own digital copies of WoW. Iunno, I’d like it, but I think I’ve got enough games to last me through ’til 2020 without touching WoW for a while 😛
On the other hand, if anyone wants to roll new characters and start a TAY guild, I reckon I’d be interested 😀
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I’m gonna wait for Guild Wars 2. I played WoW for a bit ages ago, but I’m not a fan of monthly subscriptions.
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You and me both steve-o. Did you play much of the GW2 beta? I rather enjoyed it
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GW2! 🙂
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Yeah i’m hoping Blizzard drop the amount per month of the subs, i’m not playing atm because a) I don’t have the cash atm & b) i’d be wasting time & money before the next expansion.
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I doubt they will until there’s a massive drop in subs. There’s still what, ~10million subscriptions?
That’s a lot of dollars. Coupled with making you pay for EVERYTHING, and so many people buying those woeful mounts, urgh, it’s still a massive money maker. -
So true.. I’ve never given Blizzard any money for the other WoiW transactions apart from a name change. Even if I do have most of the vanity pets & mounts they currently sell..
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Well my offer still stand of Khaz’Goroth guild being available for us and all that.. It’s sitting there doin’ nothin’ as far as I know..
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http://us.battle.net/wow/en/guild/dathremar/ROFLCER%20OF%20THE%20LAWL/
I have one on Dath, far better name imo 😛-
All caps D=
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Had that guild since BC, even after transferring servers a few times, always kept a toon in there 😛
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I’m on Dath. But haven’t been online for most of 2012
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It’s a mount this time.
And a Diablo 3 banner sigil…. :\
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Yeah, and the SCII portraits..
A mini Colonel Sanders is sitting on my left shoulder, attempting to convince me that fried chicken is exactly what I’m in the mood for today.
On my right shoulder sits some kind of personification of Coles, as well as the Vietnamese lady from the pie shop.
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Is the Coles personification the Devil?
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Close. Dawn French.
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No wonder my shoulder hurts.
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I laughed, but I felt guilty so there’s my redemption right there. 😛
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Yes, with his giant Red Hands pointing straight to Hell.
Down, Down, Prices are Down!
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Don’t trust the Coles dude.
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Listen to the balding moustachio’d army man
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Eat all of the things?
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Best suggestion so far.
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Is it Pie Face?
Man, their food is good.
Well, as good as one can get from a pastry meal franchise.-
No it’s a little family run joint.
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Salad.
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But…
Okay…
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@Stuff on last page
D.C. (live chat) – Oh don’t worry I just creepily lurk and use text chat. I got a mic pretty recently but I still prefer typing 😛
Nova – I am THE king of Pokemon Online!
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YOU HAVE A MIC AND DONT USE IT, WHAT THE FUDGE MAN. START TALKING OR I WILL EAT YOUR FACE OFF.
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FINE I’LL SAY “HI HOTROSS” OR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES
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Well, I didn’t vote for you!
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Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.
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Bring it, we’ll settle this like men. By pitting our digital representations of imaginary pets against each other in virtual elemental combat until one gets tired and passes out. Because death makes me uncomfortable
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Pfft bring it! The last time we played I went undefeated for like 7 games.
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Still, far to immediate for my liking. I like to compose a post. Stare at it for five minutes. Decide not to post it. Come back forty five minutes later. Compose an inferior version of the original post and then submit. 😛
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:P!
Oh I attended my first meat last weekend, you should attend one too!
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And you didn’t even do a write up…
I’m not mad, I’m disappointed…
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Good point. Where are the meat write ups?
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Melbourne folks don’t seem to be into the post-meat debriefing session thing
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Same as the Perth guys, we have meats like, erry day, we just don’t talk about them, it’s like fight club, but is nothing like fight Club
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Suspicious! Did a Meat even occur!? We need answers.
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It definitely occurred. Attendance was 11 people at the lowest point, which I think was a Melbourne Meat record?
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Now work, Powalen! Slowly squeeze a write-up out of him!
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Sentence by sentence if we have to!
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No one was really there.
The meat is a lie.
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What are the server details for TS anyway?
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Talk to Trjn
So I just answered this questions “Simply tell us in 25 words or less how you would celebrate if you were Nick Percat and won Bathurst again in 2012? ” with “Hookers & cocaine” i’m going to win right?
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Is there any other way?
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Personally I do not think so!
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Cocaine and hookers?
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Well played sir, well played..
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Potaku Talks
Only just catching up on “Achievements” now.
I loved the “One Free Bullet” achievement. The first time I played Episode 1 was on Orange Box on 360. I decided to go for the achievement on my first playthrough, which made the game quite fun and interesting.
When I picked up Orange Box for PC, I thought I’d do it again (since I do love achievements). Turns out they had not added Steam Achievements at the time I did this. So I played through Episode 1 again with just the one bullet to shoot open the gate at the start. I only realised at the end that there were no Episode 1 achievements once I got to the end (since there were HL2 and Episode 2 achievements, which could be earned in Ep 1, such as kill counts, Gravity Gun stuff like throwing back explosives, etc). They’ve added Ep 1 achievements to Steam now, so I’m sure I’ll do it again one day – and on that day I will have played Ep 1 three times and never fired more than one bullet for each run.
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How do you get through the elevator ambush or the train station without firing a bullet? They were always the parts that got me
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Elevator ambush would just be abusing the explosive barrels (there are a ridiculous amount of them).
Train station is probably more about running past them and then using one or two physics objects in a choke. That’s how I would try although I didn’t actually go for this achievement.
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Yeah, pretty much this. The elevator bit became this fascinating bit of gameplay for me, where I was attempting it in the same way every time, but refining what I did. It was like playing Super Meat Boy, but in a 3D space with guns. It hit the point where I knew after throwing the second barrel whether or not I’d get even close to the elevator. I doubt I have the patience for it now though…
And the train station was just a crapload of running.
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You could probably play the elevator section a bit like Left 4 Dead finales. Set up the explosives in specific locations so that you can use them when you need to. A little planning could make it work rather well.
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Fronds: I did my tax on Tuesday night and discovered that I am due a larger than expected tax return. I have determined that this windfall must be put toward the most appropriate use: buy all the games.
As such, I intend to purchase a (US region) 3DSXL (heretofore referred to as the ‘Three Dixle’) and am currently identifying my initial game purchases to complement said Dixle. Leaving aside the most crippling and weighty decision (oh god what color do I want /o\ ) I currently have the following shortlist, in alphabetical order because I am orderly and structured like that:
– DoA: Dimensions
– Kid Icarus: Uprising
– Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
– Rhythm Thief
– Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor Overclocked
– Tales of the Abyss
– Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
Questions:
1. Have I missed anything important? Disclaimer: not counting anything to be released post-August, anything also on Vita (or on home console systems). I have absolutely zero attachment to anything Mario due to not growing up with Nintendo systems so attitude toward Mario games in general could be described as apathetic, and I also find Resident Evil incredibly frustrating to play (people control like tanks) so avoid the games.
2. If I was to cut this list down to 4 games, which ones? As additional input, consider that I have played and finished Ocarina of Time and Tales of the Abyss before, but have not played Devil Survivor due to hanging up my DS around 2008. Variety in genres is not important, quality of games is.
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I was about to yell FIRE EMBLEM but then I saw the “post-August” condition 😛
I think you’re covered with those 3DS games, in my opinion. Excluding Mario games, Kid Icarus is possibly the best game on the system despite the horrible controls (which I’m hearing are more comfortable with the XL anyway).
Don’t forget to check out the eShop as well. PullBlox (a must-have) and Dillon’s Rolling Western are standouts for me.
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Fire Emblem is definitely on my list but it won’t be in English until 2013, and while I can read some Japanese, I can’t read nearly enough to enjoy an RPG.
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Pretty much what Powalen said. I haven’t played Dillon’s so I can’t comment on it but Pullblox/Pushmo is awesome and is probably the ‘must-have’ title from the eShop. Link’s Awakening is awesome too but a bit pricey and I’m not sure whether you’ve played it or not.
Your list seems fine minus the Mario titles (which you have no interest in) but if I were you and had to pick 4 I would probably go with: Kid Icarus, Rhythm Thief, Devil Survivor and Theatrhythm, so basically just the exclusives. Abyss doesn’t really add anything new and neither does OoT3D. I haven’t seen much of DoA but isn’t a new one coming out on console anyway?
RE:R feels less tanky if you use the Circle Pad Pro and feels more ‘smooth’ but there’s a free demo you can try out if you’re still unsure.
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Thank you sir, I was leaning toward this selection as well and you have reinforced my initial assumptions. I’ll probably still get Abyss because it’s a Tales game (one of the better ones too), but maybe not initially.
Yes, DoA5 is this year. Pretty soon I think. I hope they haven’t fucked it up because DoA is basically the last fighting game franchise left for me now that Soul Calibur’s been ruined.
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You’re missing Lollipop Chainsaw.
Not on that platform? Shut up. Your face is a platform. Those details are unimportant. Buy it.
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Waiting for it not to be so expensive, given that the content appears pretty shallow and short and I’d only play it once and while I like Suda51 himself a lot, I have never really gotten into his games much.
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I generally haven’t been a fan I his games but this one just grabbed me. It’s a multi playthrough game too. Won’t get much from a single play.
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Does it change much on subsequent playthroughs like eg Nier? Because that’s the only time I’d ever consider re-playing a game instead of grabbing a new one off my stack
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Not hugely, just each difficulty has differ collectables and special zombies show up and your upgrades carry through so to get everything you have to keep playing.
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I’m a bit biased in that remakes/ports don’t really do much for me so that OoT and TotA out. Devil Survivor is great on the DS, so probably pretty cool on the 3DS since you haven’t played that.
A few days ago I was having a Twitter conversation with Jimu, Cracks and Yen, and Cracks says RE: Revelations is the best 3DS game he’s played, so you might want to keep an eye out for that, though he did specify you pretty much need the Circle pad attachment. Don’t know if that changes your opinion of the series though.
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The frankenstick won’t be available for the XL at launch so anything that requires it is out, even if I didn’t generally dislike Resident Evil games.
Is tonight the Secret of the Magic Crystal community playdate? Are people actually going to play it?
Man I feel strange just asking that.
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But I uninstalled it and am low on internet quota to reinstall! /o\
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Does it even have multiplayer or are people just going to play at the same time and discuss pony-related topics?
I played for about 20 minutes when I first got it and… I think that might have been enough 😐
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Haha, I have no idea…
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Fluttershy is the best pony. What else is there to discuss?
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I go back and forth between her and Applejack
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This is completely understandable and acceptable (I do as well).
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Is it tonight? I thought it was Thursday? I don’t know 😛
And it’s actually pretty fun when a bunch of people play it at the same time and describe their experiences. So I’d give it a crack again if others do the same 🙂
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Greenmang, it is Thursday.
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Haha!
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OH NO SHIT!
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You know, this comment would really benefit from the comma chameleon .
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So it’s the night for me to try for that last achievement and find out what the secret of the magic crystals actually is.
Did anyone download the recent updates for Windows 7 64b and get a blue screen of death when you rebooted?
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Nope, might be a driver issue though, What machine are you running it on?
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Define “recent”, I started a download of an update maybe last week and went to bed. The following morning I checked my computer and it said “installing updates 8/8 100%” but was stuck on the screen. Force shutdowned my computer, turned it back on an got Blue Screened. Tried again and it worked.
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I installed it last night – it was an automatic update and I didn’t really pay attention to what it actually was. The issue seemed to be with Windows itself booting up. It restored after I took Diabo 3 out of my DVD drive!
I’ll say it might have been a dodgy install as Virus__ said. Actually it has been acting weird recently in that every time I shut down it’s installing two updates – but as I’ve not been paying much attention to it I’m not sure if it’s installing different things or the same thing over and over (and failing.)
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Nup, no problems here. Dodgy update install possibly? I have had that in the past, not much fun, especially when the registry ends up being rooted…
Guy I worked with in NZ just got busted with 3kg of cocaine.
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And he didn’t share!?
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He didn’t get a chance to.
4.5 years in jail.-
Only 4 & a half years, that seems pretty short for possessing a few kilo’s of drugs lol.
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Dude who delivered it to him got 7.
He was just a middle man, taking delivery and storing it. Plus he scored kudos from a drug squad cop and others for his work with the Christchurch Earthquake Commission. -
Donating cocaine?
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Ah fair enough, sounds fair then.
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*gaol
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Oh man, he’s screwed. 3kg’s of coke, wow…
Though that reminds me of the story my father told me about his brother, who nicked off at the age of 16 to NZ with a school mate after bashing a teacher who was a paedophile, they get to customs in NZ customs ask if they have anything to declare their response “Only a kilogram of cocaine” spend the next hour or so in customs waiting for his mates dad to pick them up, whilst customs ring my grandparents back here in Sydney to inform of their sons where abouts.
My uncle, such a trouble maker..
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Don’t fuck with Customs. Ever.
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Maybe back then, not now though, no.
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Pretty much.
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Certainly don’t try the “I have nothing to declare but my genius” line – they don’t like that one.
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On the other hand, if you’re polite and friendly they sometimes treat you nicer. Seriously. A few years back I went to Japan and brought back a Katana (this was before Victoria passed knee-jerk licensing legislation after some bumgardner decided to lop off some other dipshit’s arm with one in a gang fight) and declared it. At immigration I was asked about it, and I was nice and polite and explained everything. Immigration guy doodles some stuff on the sheet. Then at customs I’m chatting to the guy as he inspects my stuff, and he basically is like (I’m paraphrasing here) “well normally you’d need to pay an import fee on this but it’s hard to be sure what it’s really worth and the doodles on here say the guy at immigration thought you were pretty nice so don’t worry about those import duties”. Which was pretty cool.
So yeah, being polite and helpful with customs is the best policy. Fucking with them just means you’re going to get fucked with back. And unlike other branches of the government, Customs is legally allowed to have someone shove a fist up your bum.
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Probably lucky it was in NZ and not somewhere like Indonesia
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Indeed.
@Trjnguy.
Can you fire me the TS details on Steam at some point? I should be idling on some computer or other for a few days.
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Pester me by Twitter (@trjnrabbit) or email (twitter name @gmail) and I’ll send you the details.
Hello TAYbies! Hope it has been an eventful thursday for you all.
I just got the twitter and I am quite confused.
How does it all work?
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Twitter?
Just type anything shorter than 140 characters.
There’s a taynames sheet with which to contact fellow TAYbies on twitter.
Here’s the link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgFxIpTLAp-LdDNZbWVTNjhYNGE2bXpFTkxqV3BzM2c&hl=en_US#gid=0-
thanks Crazyperson 🙂
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I still sturggle to understand why we all jump between TAY and the twits. My excuse is that I enjoy brevity whilst still maintaining conversation.
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Yes, I sturggle.
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I like twitter because I can see if people are talking to me, and when I have no mentions I know when to play All By Myself and cry in the corner
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I’ll share my bucket of iced dairy product with you, frond.
I’ll sing all the songs, too. All of them.
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You just signed your soul away, human…
Well, nice knowing you 😛
You take photos of food and post it.
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i like food
also pictures of food
this twitter thing is the best thing ever in that regard because kojima-
I hate pictures of food.
It is just food that i cant eat.
Evil, teasing hobbitses.-
And yet you mock us with your cupcake Gravatar.
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Wow, you went from a dark grim avatar to a happy colourful one 🙂
Twitter takes a while to get used to but do as Crazy said and add whoevers from the list of TAYnames (and add yourself there too). It’s like the TAY outside of TAY but since most people have Twittier notifications linked to their mobile it’s good to get in contact with people.
I assume you’ll see this before him but tell Beavs that the headset works and thanks again. There’s a constant buzzing noise coming through it though but maybe it’s just my computer :P.
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Good to hear about the microphone. Never had any issues with buzzing noises on the speakers, does it do the same on other devices like an mp3 player?
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Just plugged it into my iPhone and played a song and it seemed to be fine. So it must be something wrong with the jack I’m plugging it into on my computer or maybe a problem with Left 4 Dead 2.
Thanks again 🙂
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Yeah. the other avatar was actually from alice in wonderland. It was the cheshire cat, but it didn’t work in the small size of this picture. thus change to pretty and colourful and yummy
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I once saw a UV reactive Cheshire Cat tatt.
Standard ink for the smile, and the body became visible under UV. Quite clever!Also, your new avatar goes against your going against food photography. Uncool man, uncool.
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But its looks so good…..
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i know i am somewhat masochistic…
But, yes, it looks so good…
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that tatt would be so amazing!
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OHHHHH that’s how you do it.
…I only use twitter on the PC, hence my thoughts on it being redundant.
Silly backwards yella-bellied dumbphone-wielding Aleph.
Is anyone else getting up at 6am on Saturday to watch the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics?
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nope.
i’ll leave that to the crazy ppl 🙂
This is outta no where but my fave Gravatar’s belong to Powalen (Numbargh 1) and Greenis (Numbargh 2)
Just wanted to share that.
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I’d like to see Greenis’ avatar 😛
Seems like we might be Pokemon Onlining sometime soon since Novahkiin is back from Vikingland
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yeah Im super nub but Im up for that. (Blame my spelling on a confusing early education and this cold!)
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I gotta work tonight and tomorrow night, but I’ve got nothing planned at all on Saturday or Sunday.
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You have to work? Does that mean you got the flight centre job or is this your current job?
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No still at Coles. Not leaving there until I get something else. I need all the money I can get my hands on at the moment
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I should be free all weekend with this cold and my teams all playing DayZ atm (cant download 14GB myself) so I should be free Saturday maybe Sunday.
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I see how it is…
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Get out of here, No Gravatar!
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I’M FINALLY POPULAR.
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And look what that fame has done to you. You made Flu cry.
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What a monster.
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D’:
Hooray, not long until the weekend…
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My Minecraft experience is:
Build a hedge maze then tell everyone to do it (Needius)
Get bored and just follow everyone and help them (Helpius)
Get even more bored and creepily watch and follow people (Creepius)
Get EVEN MORE bored and spawn squids and other animals everywhere while turning everything into a hot tub (Trollius)-
Whereas mine is “Spend hours building a recreation of the Temple of Time as shown in OoT, then stop when you have like 1 hour of work left.”
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That hedge maze, gorram it.
DON’T GO LEFT!
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…it’s raining… again…
🙁
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Don’t go out in pouring rain!
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its been raining…for so long…
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It stopped raining here but there is a lot of thunder and lightning
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VERY VERY FRIGHTENING
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Put some more hours into Skyrim. Definitely enjoying this play through a great deal more than my first. Think I’ve played more hours without doing the main quest at all than I did in my first run.
Holy hell, it’s Friday tomorrow.
Not that it means much I work weekends
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I GET TO WEAR JEANS TO WORK
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On Friday that is. Most other days I am single female lawyer, fighting for her client.
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I get to wear sexy chef pants
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You’re a gourmet cosplaying enthusiast?
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My Xbox Live Gold runs out in a little over a week and I’m seriously considering letting it lapse.
Why? Read the comments in this and see why xbox owners are getting increasingly pissed off with M$
http://majornelson.com/2012/07/24/content-coming-soon-to-the-xbox-live-marketplace-14/#disqus_thread
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Had a skim and someone mentioned PS+. When it was first announced I thought it was okay, perhaps slightly better than XBL Gold but since they announced full retail/PSN ‘free’ games it’s been awesome. I’d be annoyed with Gold if I paid full price but for $1 a month I can’t really complain :P.
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I paid $50 for Gold (which is under the odds) but my MP gaming has been winding down as I have less time these days, there is the video services like iView, etc – but there’s nothing there you can’t access on a PC itself! At least PS+ has these free games, Xbox Live used to (at one point) have really good discount sales, but for the past year and a half they have barely had any specials worth mentioning (though they do continue to have occasional good exclusives – like Fez or Alan Wake or Trials)
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I almost never have Gold XBL. I don’t play online multiplayer so I’ve never seen the point of paying for it.
PS+ however, I’ve only had it for a few weeks and I bought the three month subscription but I’m almost definitely going to grab the yearly sub keep it going. Turning my PS3 on and having messages of all the updates it grabbed for me and games it saved to the cloud for me while I was sleeping is pretty much worth it by itself but then all the free games and discounts on top of that make me wonder how I ever did without it. I don’t miss XBL Gold when I don’t have it but I can imagine if/when the time comes that I can’t afford PS+ I’ll be a bit upset.
Hey guys, I have a question, as stupid as it may sound…
Is it possible to connect multiple optical drives to a pc via the motherboard?
For example, I’m thinking of geting a Blu-ray drive for my tower, and I want to have the dvd drive as the slave instead of the master.
Is this possible?
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If they’re IDE or SATA, yeah, you can set them up as MS/SLV fairly simply.
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(More info: The cord will have two connectors in sequence – one is always MS, one always SLV. Just hit the order you want and BLAMMO!)
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Don’t forget to make sure the master/slave jumper for each drive is set correctly too.
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Yeah totally possible as long as you have enough ports to connect them into e.g. sata ports, I have 2 DVD drives in my current PC..
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I should take a pic of my ripping PC, its a full tower case with 5 SATA DVD/RW drives and 1 Bluray drive. If you run out of SATA ports on your motherboard, PCI/PCI-E to SATA cards are pretty cheap nowdays.
IDE (as mentioned above) is older than SATA, and off memory wouldn’t be able to handle the data transfer speed needed for Blu-Ray, so I doubt you could get a IDE blu-ray drive anyway.
Well that’s Arkham City taken care of, awesome game I must say. I felt Asylum was better all round though, but still awesome.
Oooh Playstation Blog notes the release date of Counterstrike GO as 21/8!!!
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Woohoo! Get hype!
Well, it’s the last week of Shameless Gaming and I have finished a grand total of zero games.
What’s something I can knock off of my pile of shame quickly?
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Got a short list?
I’ve beaten like 8 games 🙂
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Uh.. Secret of the Magic Crystal?
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I refuse to go anywhere near that game.
Good thing I don’t even have it. \o/-
Damn it! You & Question are the same about it… Maybe I need to some how gift it to you both so you’re not missing out!
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Enjoy it being traded on to someone else.
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Damn it! I have been foiled.
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I was doing so well until I started Mass Effect 2! It’s more of a time investment than I thought it would be. Steam Sales didn’t help, either 😛
Hmmm quick games
Any given Call of Duty
Portal (the original one)
Homefront is apparently short
I’m thinking of completing Samorost 2 just so I can say I finished something
DayZ, Day 0, Life 1, US 805:
I spawn on the coast, looking at the waves lapping on the beach… I think. I don’t know, it’s just before dawn, and it is pitch black. I cheat and turn up the Brightness and gamma a little, which lets me makes out silhouettes.
I wander inland and make out a streetlamp, which I am unreasonably excited to find, considering it’s broken and not actually lighting anything. I bid farewell to my good friend Mr Streetlamp and wander across the road, where I make out a crappy little house. The screen blurs as some feral noises come from behind; Zombie Batman (I can only assume since he’s come from nowhere and spotted me in pitch black) has decided to try feast on me, attracted by the noise I was making, so I sprint away as fast as I can, but Zombie Batman insists on the chase. I sprint for a half minute before giving in to my fate and curling up into a ball to sob, but as soon as I go prone, Zombie Batman loses interest in me completely and just shambles off towards the coast.Good ole Batman, even as a Zombie he refuses to kill. His creepy outline slowly melts into that of a brush. Man I wish I screenshot that. It’s pretty creepy just laying there waiting for a zombie to walk away, just staring at a lone silhouette and watching it slowly melt away into the background.
Lesson not learned at all, I sprint back over (and make all the noise) to the shed/house to see if there’s anything to salvage. I get inside and realise I can see nothing. I decide it’s a good place to log out at least, so go prone when the word ‘Hatchet’ hovers in front of me. I have managed to fluke walking into a house you can enter to blindly stumble upon a melee weapon. I have no idea how to pick up said weapon, however, so log out anyway.
I log back in, a half hour later or so, and it’s daytime. Having magically acquired the knowledge to pick up and equip weapons, I also manage to salvage some extra banadages, soda and a heatpack from the same house. Super chuffed with my discoveries, I head out into the brighter world.
The next hour or so involves me walking along the coastline, rummaging through houses and sheds that I come across. I manage to pick up a bunch of ammo I can’t use, some more soda, some food, a few extra bits for survival. At one point, I’m killing zombies and hear a pistol firing, so hit the deck. The zombie I was hacking away at falls right on top of me and I notice bulletwounds. Could I have a guardian angel shooting zombies from afar to keep me safe? Nope. There are no melee wound effects, so the mod just puts gunshot wounds into the zombies. Still. Knowing the fact that my Hatchet SHOOTS BULLETS (not really) is pretty cool. At one point, I one hit a zombie by hatchet-shooting him in the groin. That’s pretty realistic and accurate if you ask me.
At another point, I’m in the middle of climbing a ladder when f4ction mentions that ladders are buggy pieces of crap and you can die from them. I don’t move at all for a bout 15 seconds upon hearing this.
And as the day grew longer, I was notified by the server that my friends had died. First Rocketman, then Rocketman, then Noobheadshot, then Noobheadshot, then Rocketman, then f4ction got triple-killed for looking at a map, then probably Rocketman again. With each death, I grew increasingly suspicious as to why I hadn’t been murdered yet, but continued on my way, before finally setting my sights upon an actual city. But I’ve heard the stories and hung around outside; I cautiously looked at any features so I could try identify where I was on a map, and then logged out due the mad headache I was getting from playing. Turns out I was right to be paranoid; Elektro, one of the homes to murder central.
And you know what? Screw it. Tomorrow, I’m going to walk right in and get myself a gun.
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It’s like a meat write up, but with a lot more death.
Do more!
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Oh, also, there was the part where I lost a quarter of my blood from bleeding (constant zombie attacks) before even noticing and bandaging myself up.
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I also killed a chicken in the hopes of getting meat from it to no avail.
And man, that chicken took, like, 20 hatchet swings to kill. I was super disappoint with the lack of meat, but also super impressed. What a chicken.
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So far my DayZ experience has been wandering around a zombie infested town and only finding dead player bodies.
I have a pretty good supply of bandages and flashlights, but I have no weapons. Every shed, hut, etc. I find is empty.
More George Carlin (NSFW):
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Also, I think Steam is broken…
Aleph’s words of wisdom, vol. 1.
Ensure a hearty meal be consumed prior to festivities.
Furthermore, capsicum remains highly identifiable post-consumption.
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Capsicum is such a demon food, much like cucumber is as well.. Serves you right for ingesting it =P
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Cucumber is godlike. Capsicum is just a fat guy trying to cosplay as the slim, slender, taught and terrific chilli, but seemingly fails miserably.
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Foods that have the word ‘cum’ in them should’ve be consumed =P
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“Foods that have the word ‘cum’ in them should’ve be consumed =P”
Wow! Not the first comment I was expecting to read today – LOL!
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and I totally meant shouldn’t be!
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I’m always surprised when people say this! Red Capsicum is like my favourite vegetable! I don’t understand how people can’t like it 😛
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Agreed. While not my favourite vegetable, Capsicum has such a clean and refreshing feel to it and it goes great with so many other things.
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Anyone else up insanely early?
No?
Guess it’s iView for me then.
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I was probably awoken at that time by my son, but I tend to just fall back asleep again 😛
Bish, that Day Z write up was great. I’m not sure how much longer I can wait to install it
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Woah.
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I win 😛
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But not in Pokemon Online.
Zing!
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We’ll see.
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I’m going to delude myself by choosing to think it just goes alphabetically when we hit ‘submit’ at the same time…. 😛
By the way, I haven’t been around much so I don’t think I’ve properly said welcome back to you.
Welcome back!
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Awesome write-up, can’t wait for more :).
I convinced myself I wouldn’t like Day Z but after seeing that bus video posted on Kotaku a few days ago, seeing someone play in person and hearing the TAYbies’ adventures, I think I’ve made the wrong decision :P. DAMN YOU TAY MARKETING! *shakes fist*
Are they making it standalone? I might check it out then if it gets cheaper than $17.
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I think they are making a standalone version at some point. I’ll just wait for that 😛
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Is it marketing if it’s a free mod? I suppose you need to be buy the base game first though
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Yeah, I have no interest in Arma so I’d be getting it just for Day Z so $17 was still a bit out of my range for a game I don’t know much about.
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Just compare it to the $100 that often gets spent on a new game. $17 isn’t so bad
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Twins!
Or… I’ve never seen Strange and Nova in the same room. Coincidence????Also Nova, how was the phone interview? Did you Shiggy it up and kick some wangs?
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Definitely coincidence. Or is it….?
Interview went pretty good I think. I should find out in the next day or two if I’ve been accepted for the next stage, which is a group face to face interview in North Sydney where they test out our computer skills and other stuff. If that classifies as Shiggying it, then yes \o/
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Well to be fair is does take a bit of extra time to write awesomesaucasaurus. By the way I love that word
Bishy! I just read your DayZ write-up on the previous page. Awesomesaucasaurus. Can’t wait for more. 🙂
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I think DayZ is a game(/mod) with stories to be shared!
I really enjoy listening to other peoples stories (on podcasts and such), but I also wanted to create a log of my adventures because I want to go back and see how far I’ve progressed, so thought I’d jot something down.
Glad to hear it was enjoyable morning reading!-
I’ve actually taken some notes on my first attempt at playing DayZ, and I can guarantee you had more courage than me 😛
I’ll be hitting up some DayZ over the weekend. Not sure if I want to be on TS or not, cause being so isolated kinda makes it more fun.-
For a while maybe, once you start to get some gear and get killed by bandits, being in a group is way more fun 😛
I’m usually on late weekends with all my friends from work. -
Teamspeak means everyone else can hear someone laughing at your feeble efforts to run from a zombie.
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I get what you mean, and I am pretty sure I am playing it wrong; chatting on TS, listening to 80s music as I sprint along the beach, all that jazz.
But I do not value my life at all at this point in time. This is my very first life, and I consider each life in this game to be a learning experience. I have very insignificant loot and survival gear. I’m low on blood and I’m going randomly pass out at the worst possible moment. As far as I’m concerned, I’m already dead, which is why I’m so gung-ho about running into Elektro. If someone shoots me, good on them, they get a can of beans, some soda, and a hatchet. Chances are that those 2 or 3 bullets they wasted on me were more valuable than anything I have.
The 5 of us who were playing last night (f4ction, Rockets, Nob, Beavwa and myself) never managed to meet up, with 4 of us not even knowing where we were. Maybe eventually we can get together and roll as a gang, but that time is definitely not now.
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Dust 514, on PSN, I’ve been in the beta for a couple months (haven’t played heaps though really, it seems okay if it’s your thing) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_514
I have 2 beta codes (for this weekend, not sure if you continue every beta weekend though) if anyone wants one, hit me up on the twits @Klutar
I will take Bish’s lead and post a short log of what happened to me in Day Z. (please forgive any grammar / spelling miskates I’m typing this on my phone).
Day 1 – Life 1
I fade in to see a forest in front of me which is accompanied by the sounds of waves gently lapping against the shoreline. I turn around to see I am near the ocean. I observe my surroundings and notice a main road. Onward I go following the road, every so often jumping when I hear a rustling noise. Ah-ha! A house in the distance, perhaps it will have supplies. I walk into the house and rummage around in it for a while. A faint moan is heard, my head darts up and around trying to find the source of the moan. Back to rummaging I went, after scanning the area and finding no zombie. Suddenly I hear growling ans very loud and aggressive noises, this time I look up to see 3 zombies in the doorway. I take a couple of swipes but manage to get out of the doorway. Without warning I collapse on the ground and blackout … and never wake up.
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I too stated playing DayZ yesterday. Think I’ll write up my adventures too.
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Day 1 – Life 2 (Deathcount: 1 – Zombies)
I press the respawn button and I instantly die … I guess the game is saving me the time it takes to get eaten by zombies.-
Don’t be silly! You just happened to respawn inside a zombie’s mouth, is all.
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Day 1 – Life 3 (Deathcount 2; 1xZombies / 1xServer)
I spawn but this time I am alive! I am once again near the beach but facing a mountain this time. Again I find a road and follow it. Uphead is from my guess a train refueling depot. I scan the area for zombies (this time a bit better then the last time) and rummage through the house. I pick up 2 cans of Pepsi, A packet of junkfood and a clip of ammo. Again I hear a growling noise, this time though, I run straight for the door and narrowly avoid a zombie waiting outside. Unfortunately this attracts the attention of 2 more zombies in my area. I sprinted towards a forest and weaved around trees. Eventually the zombies had given up on me (perhaps out of pity). I wonder around the forest some more and spot a town. Towards the town I go praying that I find a weapon of some kind. I sneak around a couple of blocked off houses until I happen along a house with an open door. While I get no weapons I do get some more food / lots of ammo / a bandage. I also can’t believe my luck that no zombies have seen me in a while. I leave the house and turn to ky right and am greeted by someone holding a shotgun, staring at me. My heart begins to race and I salute him. He stood there staring at me for what seemed like 5 mins then salutes me back. I am overcome by relief, and take a deep breath. I ran around for a while then logged off.
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Here is my story of my first time in Day Z.
Spawned on a beach (as I think everyone does). Saw a dead body next to me – ooo free loot I thought. Took me 3 min to figure out how to loot (and I’m still not sure if I did it correctly) The UI is pretty horrible. Games have had inventories since the dawn of time, how hard can it be to design a simple easy to use one? Also this is probably more of an ARMA2 problem not a Day Z one.
Then I went over to a little light house. Nothing here.
Walked up a steep hill. Walked through a small forest. Tried to figure out how to use my flashlight… failed.
Found a house. Saw some zombies. Tried to sneak up to the house. Got disconnected from server.I’m having a a lot of issues connecting to games. All the Aus ones are full and the queuing system doesn’t seem to do anything, and all the NZ ones (which there are more of) seem to have the wrong version and won’t let me join.
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Persistent character. So your character is the same on every server.
I wussed out a little last night and just joined a US server with (at the time) barely anyone in it. Wasn’t really in the mood for queuing in an ANZ server for 20 minutes only to be shot in the face 2 minutes in. I need to learn the basics first, and I figured a low population server would at least give me the chance to learn PvE.
The ping for me was ~180, though it was worse for the others. Not unplayable though.-
Yeah that’s where I ended up playing last night – a US server, the server browser said a ping of 350 but in game it was more like 190.
I still haven’t figured out how to use a map or any other items for that matter.
I’ll have some more time tonight to give it a real crack.
Is there an in game friends list somewhere – would be good to get in with a group I guess.
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Yes the inventory system is just atrocious ob ARMA 2. Hopefully they will fix it in ARMA 3?
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New Humble bundle is all music, it’s pretty damn cool:
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Amazing. Amaaaaazing.
Coulton, TMBG, Frontalot… I was already sold, but Calling All Dawns?! It’s worth it for this alone.
I feel dirty.
Been trying to get hold of the Collector’s Edition for Ni no Kuni. Not available in Australia. Asked EB, they don’t have an agreement for it so I’m thinking no CE for Australia. Given that the CE includes DLC and the US version is exclusive to retailers that don’t ship internationally, the UK is the only option.
Play UK have it, but don’t ship outside Europe. Amazon UK have it, but they don’t ship PAL games to Australia despite the fact we’re a PAL territory. Game UK has it and will ship to Australia but their website is utterly fucking broken and whenever I try and add my address to my account it dumps me back to the main page, plus I’m not confident they’ll still be afloat come January and don’t want them disappearing with my money. OzGameShop don’t stock it. So far the only retailer I’ve found that has it for preorder, has a working website and will ship to Australia is Zavvi. So I’m going to have to take my chances with their apathetic shipping and cross my fingers I get it before March 🙁
Everyone should bug EB/JB locally so that someone in Australia pulls their finger out and sells it, it’s criminal that one of the most popular places for Studio Ghibli stuff wouldn’t get a good edition of the first Studio Ghibli game released in English.
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Oh man when was it up on Zavvi? Why didn’t you tell me earlier!? 🙁
They have a habit of bumping up the prices so it’s better to preorder when it’s cheap. I’ll be preording it tonight and honestly they’re perfectly fine as long as you don’t mind a few dints in the box 😛
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68 quid + 1 shipping right now IIRC.
If EB locally offer it for order I’ll order thru them and cancel Zavvi.
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Yep I saw. They were doing free shipping too and I have a feeling it might’ve been cheaper when it first went up, oh well!
My 10% off code doesn’t work on pre-order as well which is a bummer but even so ~$110 isn’t too bad considering it’s $100 from the Namco Bandai website. At least Zavvi charge when they ship so you’ve got plenty of time to cancel :).
I think I’ll also get Tales of Graces f again, hopefully it isn’t too hard to sell off my US copy 😛
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Wait, you can buy it direct from Namco Bandai?
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Weird, Namco UK’s website says that the CE will be available in Australasia, but no one here is taking orders on it.
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Why on earth would I pre-order Dark Souls for $70 off Steam when I can pre-order it for $68 from EB and get a mouse, mousemat, postcards, art book, poster and a “Making of” dvd too?
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Wow that’s pretty decent! 152 page art book too :O
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Wat.
I saw it on Steam for $40 a few days ago?
Australia Tax kick in on Steam?-
Yeah they added that yesterday
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Because if you remove the convict tax then it only costs $40?
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Wait, $70? It was $40 on Steam yesterday. Did the Australia Tax get added?
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Late to the party on this.
If I didn’t own it on PS3 already I’d probably buy for PC, but apparently it’s not that great a port. And it has GFWL last I checked, unless they listened to complaints and steamworksed it?
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Does anyone know what sort of mouse it is? EB site doesn’t have much info on it.
I also noticed that apparently the game will have “minimal keyboard and mouse support”, according to a few gaming websites. Kinda odd, with EB giving you a mouse and mousepad.
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Also, I know we’re stuck with GFWL, but is it Steamworks/activatable on Steam?
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Morning, TAY.
So, it’s Friday… yay?
What are you guys listening to at the moment?
As in, literally right now.
I’m listening to Powderfinger on Triple M.
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Nothing right at this very moment but I have Runaway by Linkin Park paused half way through in my music application
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Right this second is my computer whirring, a cockatoo screeching in a tree by my window and the cars on the street driving past my house
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ahhhhhh progressive new age music for you is it, cool
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The sounds of my keyboard softly tapping, to the backdrop of the bath being filled in the next room.
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Then what are you filling the bath with? Actually on second thought please don’t answer that
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Right this second?
My laptop fan and some birds outside my window-
I was doing that before it was cool Masha 😛
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Ha ha ha. I guess those must be the sounds of Sydney 🙂
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When You Believe (From Prince of Egypt), laugh if you must but it’s one of my favourite movie songs of all time. Stirring, cinematic stuff.
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The songs in that are mostly written by Stephen Schwartz, who is a god among composers, so you’re welcome to listen to it.
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Well said, man. Although I listened to Disney OST’s yesterday.That more shameful? 😛
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Not at all. Disney is awesome, music or otherwise
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Not to mention that some of the music in Disney films is written by Schwartz (Pocahontas, that live action one set in the modern world, probably some more that I can’t remember), which makes them even better.
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End of Nations theme music… most epic strategy game theme song ever
The rain on our building’s roof
I just saw the trailer for Cloud Atlas. Wow
http://io9.com/5929189/first-6+minute-trailer-for-cloud-atlas-is-simply-stunning
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Wow, that looks really good and it has been a while since I saw a 5min trailer as well.
Is the novel good? I’m curious how the author did the whole ‘people-in-different-times’ thing without the visuals of a film.
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It’s pretty good. It’s actually structured as a series of interrelated stories, going from the past to the future and back, like 1-2-3-4-5-6-5-4-3-2-1. So you read the first half of the first story, and it’s a journal in the 1800s, then you read the first half of the second story, which is a series of letters, and it switches styles for each story.
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And the plot was easy to understand?
I guess I’ll have a look and see if my local library has a copy.
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It is, just read it reasonably quickly- don’t pick it up and put it down and you’ll remember the plots.
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Thanks man.
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Hey TAY,
So I’m going on a big work trip for the first time in my life! Spending 4 weeks in the US from 15th October to 8th November. First 3 weeks are in San Francisco, last week is holiday in New York.
Any recommendations on things I must do? In particular, any events that happen to be on during those times?
The only things I am currently planning to do are Alcatraz, the Googleplex (I have friends who work there) and the Statue of Liberty (which I somehow forgot to even look at when I was there for a week in ’99).
Discuss!
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From SF you should try and visit Yosemite national park. There’s day trips you can do, or if you can get the time stay out there for a couple of days. There’s plenty of hiking, and at that time of year there should still be plenty of animals around.
For New York I’d recommend doing a Hop on/Hop off bus tour around the city (if you’re staying in manhattan). It’s a good way to orientate yourself and stops at a lot of the major attractions. You can go to the top of the Empire State Building and/or the Rockefeller Centre for some great views of the city. If there’s something you’re interested in, seeing a show on Broadway is good, just so you can say you’ve done it. Madame Tussaud’s is very interesting. There’s also the Museum of Natural History, which if it’s anything like the one in Washington, you could spend a lot of time in.
Really depends on what you’re interested in, but there’s something for everyone, you just have to find it
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No, bad, Nova “seeing a show on Broadway is good, just so you can say you’ve done it.” Seeing all the shows on Broadway is a must, because they’re excellent!(Okay, many of them aren’t, but shh)
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Thanks for the advice. I have actually been to NY, so I have done the Empire State Building, Broadway and Museum (which is indeed awesome). Might go see a different show depending on what’s on. Maybe the Book of Mormon?
Yosemite is a great suggestion, as one of the Googlers I know is a big outdoors guy. Might see if we can make a weekend of it.
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For outdoorsy people there’s also the Muit Woods redwood forests out past Sausalito and Marin City on the other side of the Golden Gate bridge. It’s where they filmed the Endor scenes from Return if the Jedi, to give you an idea what it looks like
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*Muir woods
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Book of Mormon was completely sold out when I went last August, but it might be easier to get tickets this time. When in doubt? The Lion King. My sister bought Phantom of the Opera tickets too, I liked it a whole lot more than I thought. Top of the Rock is awesome, less crowded views of the city than Empire State. (Though that’s worth going just for the experience… and the awesome art deco and chance King Kong sightings. :P)
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Also if you’re a fan of Colbert Report and Daily Show, starting looking for tickets now. They’re incredibly hard to get late.
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How? I looked online the other day and it said “We are not currently taking bookings”.
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http://twitter.com/DailyTix — subscribe to this twitter feed, they release large batches every so often, last big batch was for the September 19 and that was last week. Incredibly hard to get, though.
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Followed! Thanks!
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No problem, man!
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Eat sourdough in San Francisco, and bagels and cheesecake in New York? 😛
Seriously though…go somewhere like here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudin_Bakery in San Francisco. The starter they use to make their bread has been going since the Gold Rush. Pretty cool.
New York:
Staten Island Ferry (Free)
Top of the Rock (Like the Empire State Building, but with a view of the Empire State Building [View of Crysler Building is obstructed – I think])
Roof Top Bars (Plenty of them. “230 Fifth” has awesome views)
Just take as many photos as you can.
Also this might not work, but maybe try visiting some developers in the area. I think some devs have days where they invite the public to see the studios. If not just rock up to the reception and see if they will allow you to do so. It wouldn’t hurt.
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I may not get to the devs (other than Google), but I have signed up to visit IGN’s office for their “First Friday” open day. No guarantee that I’ll be picked, but being an Australian probably gives me a better than average chance 🙂
City lights bookstore!
For those interested, this just popped up 40 mins ago on Youtube – new Sleeping Dogs gameplay trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAUHzFRqWpA
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I read that as Watch Dogs gameplay… was disappointed =P
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Ahh…yes, now that gameplay would be really cool.
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Does anyone have any knowledge/experience with Razer headsets? Specifically looking at the Megalodon (ignore RRP of $250, I can get one for $150).
Have pretty much done no work today.
The day is dragging, urgh
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Know that feeling.
I’m also starting to feel nauseated.Your move -_-
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I feel fine, but I do have to work tonight as well. Which means I started at 8am and will work until about 10:30-11pm 😛
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…OK, you win (lose?).
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FUCK
Americans make me so angry.
Arguing on twitter with an American friend about their gun laws. I keep saying I know guns aren’t the problem, but you have to admit it’s rather easy to get armed over there, all you need is a background check.
They just won’t accept it.
I tried saying you don’t have to outlaw weapons, in Australia you can own a gun. But you need a licence and it’s far more regulated.
They just try telling me more people die from alcohol and drink driving
URHGHGHGHGHGHTRHGYWHY
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As Chris Rock said:
“You don’t need gun control. What you need is bullet control. Make every bullet cost $5,000.”-
There is some wisdom in this. Did you read the Gizmodo article on how easy it is to get ammo. Bulk buy 20,000 assault rifle rounds for less than $9,000. Hell my credit card has a higher limit than that
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So ingrained in their culture, alas. I guess that’s what happens when you fight a war for independence and a civil war. Suspicion that it might actually come to overthrowing a foreign power some day…
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The best rebuttal I have read on this for a long long time came recently from Jason Alexander
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/if2nhtHave a read and see how they react to “So you want your 2nd amendment rights, which militia are you part of?”
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I read that the other day. Wish more Americans felt that way.
The worst thing is, this argument stated in response to that 4 year old that shot and killed himself.
I was sarcastically saying how more Americans need guns. So they said guns don’t kill people, idiots do. That’s when I questioned why this idiot had a gun in the first place then, that they’d leave a loaded gun laying around where a kid might be able to get it.
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I hate the argument that ‘X kills more than Y, so shut up’. X is irrelevant to the discussion. Yes, X is probably bad and something should be done about it, but that doesn’t mean Y gets a free pass.
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This drink driving argument in particular seems to be cropping up a lot. It hurts my head. Alcohol and cars both have good uses when used independently. Guns have no purpose other than causing fear and pain in the person they’re pointed at.
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I asked her the last time a drink driver killed 12 people and wounded a hell of a lot more in cinema. Her reply was I’d he didn’t have a gun, he’d have used a bomb
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*if damn phone
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It’s just not worth getting into the debate. One of those topics that just doesn’t work on the internet because common sense doesn’t enter into it. It’s so ingrained into the American psyche that you need a gun to defend yourself.
Also avoid discussions of heavy metal genres. It never ends well.
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WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT MY FAVOURITE NORWEGIAN BLACK DEATH POWER CORE METAL PUNK?!
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It’s bad when it starts raining, it’s worse when it happens as you’re trying to get kindling for a fire…
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You disband from society, forging a new life in the woods?
I’ve been pretty hesitant about linking to my blog here because it feels like I’m advertising myself and that it might annoy people, but now that I’ve done a bit of writing and there’s a few things up there this week I was thinking I’d share it anyway.
I kind of treat what I’ve been writing as reader reviews of sorts. They’re just reflections on the games I’ve completed during Shameless Gaming month that touch on the good and bad things I’ve found about each game, but they’re mostly positive, because I’ve had a lot of fun with each of them!
This latest one is on Super Mario 3D Land and I think it was the perfect title to start my 3DS collection: http://gamingwithpants.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/shameless-gaming-reflection-4-super-mario-3d-land/
So…now back to your regularly scheduled TAY ramblings. :p
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Nice write-up, Alex! Will check out some of the other stories too!
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Thanks friend 🙂
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Naw, we like the same things about games! Dat’s sho shweet!
I really should’ve been keeping track of what I’ve been playing like this. I had a lot to say while I was playing Bioshock but never wrote any of it down 😛
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Careful, Rocketman could be the jealous type
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Sharing is caring!
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That was the big problem with trying to write about Lollipop Chainsaw because I played it on the first two days of the month. Fortunately that game is quite memorable because of how outlandish it is. :p
You should write something!
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Maybe I’ll do a roundup of what I can remember at the end of the month. As an added bonus, I can publish it on powalen.com so it will finally have a purpose! 😀
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Is this weekend Borderlands Free to Play weekend on steam?
If so then I’m excited.
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Also, I have a spare copy of Torchlight…
Who wants it?
DayZ
Day 1, Life 1
I spawn on a beach beside a forest. I don’t have a clue what to do or where to go, so I head towards the hill so I can get a good look at the world. Before I get to the bottom of a hill I come across a highway. I decide to follow the highway instead, because I’d be more likely to find civilisation that way. After following it for a while, I come across a dead body lying on the ground. I look around, making sure this person’s killer wasn’t around to turn me into a lamboburger. I’m all alone. So I try to loot the dead body. I don’t have a clue what I’m doing. I think I may have even accidently put one of my things in the dead body’s backpack. Frustrated, I decide to move on.
Not long after, I come across a small village. Using my binoculars, I spot a few zombies shambling around the front of some of the buildings. I decide to try and sneak past them. It doesn’t work. One of them sees me and starts running like a madman. I throw all caution to the wind and run away. I run quite a fair distance along the highway, the hungry undead type right on my heals. Finally, after passing my spawn point, I decide to try losing him a forest. So I run into a forest, weaving through the trees. I come out the other side of the forest. Looking behind me, I see my ‘friend’ has lost me and I breath a sigh of relief. I crouch and hide behind a tree and then alt-tab out for a while.
When I come back, I’m still alive, thankfully. This time, I decide to head up the hill. The forests seem more friendly than the open roads. After slogging my way up a few hills, I come across another small village. I spy out the place with my binocs, and then head in, this time taking careful measure to male sure no zombies see me. I successfully sneak up to the first building. The door won’t open /o\. So I try another building. Again, no success. Third time’s the charm though. I walk into the building hoping to find some cool junk lying around…and there’s nothing in it. Disgusted, I walk out and try the rest of the buildings. Can’t get into any of them either. So off into the forests I head again.
Not long after, I come across another village, this one with more zombies around it. I sneak around, successfully checking the first few buildings without being spotted. None of them want to open for me. As I’m sneaking up to the next house, one of the zombies catches sight of me and gives chase. I’m toast this time, I think. But I successfully manage to evade it in the forest again. Hey, I’m quite good at this, I think to myself. I circle around and head back to the village again. I sneak up to another building. There are a few zombies nearby, but they don’t notice me. I peek around the corner. Standing only a few meters away is an ugly undead. I turn back hoping it didn’t see me. I sit there waiting anxiously, more zombies between me and the safety of the forest. I don’t think the zombie saw me.
At this time, I have to log off and get on with real world things. Will I successfully get into a house and find some phat loots, or will I become zombie chow? To be continued…
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I like the fact there was less carnage in your write up of day Z than there is in a write up of your standard morning
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Lol, sad but true…
Although at least I don’t get to practice athletics with zombies every morning 😛
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My money’s on zombie chow
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There’s gonna be a point in here where you’re running from zombies and hit a clothesline made just for you, I’m sure. And then zombie chow.
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*Note to self when scoping out villages: note down locations of zombies *and* clothes lines.
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You figured out how to use binoculars?
So… as said above, I have a spare copy of Torchlight?
Does anyone wish to acquire it?
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Don’t know why that first line came out as a question….
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Because you have an Australian accent?
Where all sentences lilt up at the end? and sound like questions?
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Playing around with the TV at work while the boss is out.
And Now For Something Completely Different is on ABC1.
Not going to get much done this afternoon.
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It started at 12?!
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Say no more.
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It just finished. 🙁
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I found (and promptly purchased) the Marvel Select Loki figure today! So happy!
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Nicely done, sir. 🙂
So on Wednesday night we went to that JB sale thingy because JB was right next to the supermarket.
Ended up getting Seasons 1 and 2 of Breaking Bad on blu-ray so now I finally get to see what all the fuss is about. It better be as good as everyone keeps saying or else I’ll have to shake my old lady fist at you all. 😛
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I am so excited for you right now. Let me know if you want to borrow seasons 3 and 4!
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So good.
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You’ll love it. Why? Because everyone loves it.
I went along to that, planning to spend a $40 voucher. walked out with a Nexus 7
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OH MY GOD STRANGE
You’re in for a treat! 😀
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*SPOILERS*
There is Bad. And it is broken.
Seriously though it is really good and quite gripping. When I first started watching it I ended up staying up till 3 in the morning.
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You will not be disappointed =D
So I bought a PS3 copy of F1 2011. Turns out I accidentally clicked F1 2010 which I already own. I think I paid about $12 from ozgameshop.
So does anyone want F1 2010 on PS3?
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I’ll have it.
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Speaking of giving away games, do you want a copy of Torchlight?
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I think that dead horse is a bloody pulp by now
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PM me your details on twitter
@inquisitorsz
I already own torchlight but thanks anyway.-
Sorry, but I don’t use Twitter.
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Man that Fighting Fantasy gamebook article was all NOSTALGIA IN YO FACE. As young as I am, I do remember reading them and boy were they cool!
Did anyone else read them? I don’t really know how popular they were since I got into them fairly late with the re-releases. Now I want to read them again…
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I had one of the Super Mario Bros. ones, I think it was called “Pipe Down”.
It was the fifth book . -
Yeah, I enjoyed these as a kid… I think I still have a few… maybe in storage or on a shelf at my folks’ place.
Crap I’m tired…
Coffee time!
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Screw it, I’ll have one, too!
So many reportable comments for so few comments. *sigh*
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People should just leave the guy alone, assuming you’re talking about the Luke article. No one deserves to be abused for doing their job.
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I dunno… I think that’s the main reason people are angry, he’s getting paid for it.
Sure, his and most of the Kotaku US articles give me the shits but I keep it to myself. There’s really no point in commenting on it complaining.
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Yeah, not all that hard to avoid his articles if you don’t want to read ’em. Like ratings for TV, don’t watch and the show will mysteriously vanish.
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It’s interesting to see the difference in reaction between Aus and US articles though. Mark made an error today and it was politely pointed out. Luke makes one and there’s a slew of comments yelling at him for it.
Not exactly defending the guy, but it’s interesting to note.
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I have no issue with people not liking his stuff, but they’re always so unnecessarily vulgar with their opinions.
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Think some people forget there’s a person behind the name. Might not like his stuff, but show a little humanity damn it! 😛
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Could’ve chosen a better word than humanity. They’ve done nothing for nobody. 😛
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Portal article?
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Yeah that’s the one.
Complaining about the mistake he made I don’t really care about but they need to stop with the overly dramatic insults and concerns
Calling him a fucking loser and a retard, and saying things like meteors does is just immature and uncalled for.-
Ever the supporter for the underdog, it’s actually making me start defending stuff more often than I normally would.
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report button is your friend in this case.
I dont care if people dont like Plunkett’s articles, but theres no reason to act like a twat about it.-
When I first went into the article I think I reported around 20% of the posts
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Same.
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Yeah, this is exactly it. If you don’t like his articles, don’t bother opening them. Simple. No need for abusive comments. It certainly doesn’t make you look any better than the person you’re abusing.
(“you” being a generalised you, not you personally, #35. I just realised it looks as if I’m talking about you personally. I’m really not, I swear! )
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I open them to laugh at the comments, sometimes to read the article and look at the pretty pictures!
Still love it the other week someone said something about Luke in one his articles and he responded to the person, I thought it was hilarious for some reason.
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It amazes me how people are either too stupid or ignorant to just read the other articles if they don’t like the US ones.
So Dust 514 beta weekend, no one wants a code?
You’d think giving away codes to a closed beta would be easy
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Aftermath of the Steam sale, I guess.
I’d put my hand up, but I don’t have a PS3. Also, too many games already 😛-
Maybe, it’s only beta weekend though. I just figured there would at least be some Eve players who wanted to check it out.
From what I have played it seems pretty decent. Maybe better if you know anything about Eve, which I do not.-
I was always sort of interested in Eve, cause it looked like something I’d like, but every bit of info on gameplay etc. always put me off.
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I’ll take the code if you sill have it. How big is the download by the way?
Also I think PSN was having some maintenance done today but I think it’s ending at 5PM so hopefully I can download it then.
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@inquisitorsz
You hold “+” on the numpad to use binoculars. At least, I think they’re binoculars. Maybe its just a zoom thing from Arma 2, and the binocs are something different? Anyway, it let’s you look at really far away things as if they’re close, and really close things as if they’re really closerer 😛
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Yeah, think so. Number pad looks around at differing angles while still moving forward. Also alt is a hotkey for that too, can run forward hold alt and look around with mouse
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Dammit, so close to finishing work and one of the project manager asks me too work on Sunday afternoon/night. Here I thought that this Friday was going to be a good one.
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Well, your Friday’s still fine, it’s your Sunday that’s not. 😛
But seriously, not good. 🙁 *hugasaurus*
Can we maybe organise all of TAY nominating Luke Plunkett for Kudos next week?
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I hope to hell he never reads any of the AU comments sections on his posts. 🙁
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I’ve seen someone with the name “luke plunkett” reply to comments once or twice. He wrote a really good article a few weeks back that someone commented along the lines of “wow, a full article, etc..” and his reply was “Thanks?”
I get the impression it was him and that he’s mostly oblivious to the way he’s received here in KotAU.
That being said, “The Internet” reacts to US Kotaku as a whole the same way that some of these posters react to LP articles – it’s more or less the laughing stock of video games journalism. We’re pretty lucky to have people like Mark, Tracey, et al. who put some effort into interviewing people, investigating interesting topics, or even baring their heart and soul.Anyway, as much as the troll in me would love to see Luke win kudos, I know that the derisive comments wear people down, so it’s probably not worth it.
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The sad thing is the much of the rest of the games journalism world don’t even know that KotakuAU exists and that it’s different to KotakuUS.
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Yeah, it hurts when people make fun of Kotaku (referring to the US one) without realising how awesome Kotaku AU is… 🙁
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Yeah my mates give Kotaku shit (this site for it’s “shit journalism”) and i’m actually fed up with it, next time they say anything bad i’ll just point out to them (esp if on Facebook) that they should realise that it’s got a great community and the fact they just insulted people which I call friends, and probably one or two other words that I will refrain from using here.
Oh yeah i’m kinda fed up with the people I call friends that i’ve known since school, they haven’t changed immature pack of pricks.
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that being said, most of those same people also think that Penny-Arcade Report is just advertising – implying they’re not 100% jelly of Ben Kuchera, etc.
Also, I liked the time that Serrels jumped in on the Gamespot podcast. I guess that’s kind of like cross promotion of personalities. I would not say no to more of that.
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lol wow that was bad english, I do apologise
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Maybe but we might have to wait for something kudos worthy. He has occasionally written good articles but so much of his stuff is, look at a picture and write a paragraph (or a sentence).
Which is the main reason there is such hate-
Kudos for not exploding and telling some people where they desperately need to go?
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I think the idea was to nom Luke to let him know that his work is appreciated and not everybody on the site hates him
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Woo, slight early mark!
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Huzzah!
Well about to leave for the day.
Big weekend planned, my mate is having a bucks weekend and we are heading up to the Arapiles. Not sure if I will do any climbing, but I’m sure they will have fun. At least on of the other guys won’t be so I’ll have company if I decide to take the route of the chicken.
But a weekend away from technology (and more importantly work) will be good if a bit on the cold side
So I’m regretting picking up civilization 5 during the steam sales.
it’s not that it’s a bad game. Quite the opposite I really like the game. I’m just so damn susceptible to “just one more turn” that’ I’ve spent way to much time on it.
I got home on Monday night to find Pyrean had installed it for me. I was pretty tired and wanted to go to bed but figured I’d give it a go for an hour or two before I collapsed as I didn’t wan’t to go to bed too early (this was about 8pm).
I didn’t go to bed until 11am Sunday morning.
I’m not sure how much time I’ve spent on it since then and I’m at work so no steam. Maybe someone with me on their steam list will look it up.
Way too much time whatever the actual number is.
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54.4 hours 😐
OK so in light of the Steam Sales, and the pain we’ve all put our wallets through, I come bearing bad (read: great) news. There’s something else I wish to purchase.
But I need TAY’s help!!! The Borderlands 2 4-pack works out to be around $40 per person, and includes all the pre-purchase crap they throw in with it.
Currently, I either need three more computers so I can play 4 copies of the game simultaneously, or alternatively, 3 other people with which to distribute the gaming goodness.
Any takers, perchance?
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I would, but I’ve promised myself that I wouldn’t buy any more games until October 😛
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But…but my Loot Chest….
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Hmmm…
Now that I’m starting to use PC more and see how awesome it is I’m considering it… but there’s just something about me that likes and prefers physical copies. I was thinking of getting Borderlands 2 on Xbox but I’m not sure why. I don’t have Gold and I don’t like paying for it and it’s going to cost around $80 locally.
So with the pre-purchase crap does that include the club thingy that gives you the extra character when she releases? That was the main thing I was after. And does it have some arena thingy that EB are offering as a preorder exclusive?
I planned to get it on Xbox then rebuy the GOTY ed on Steam when it’s cheap but it’s probably cheaper to just buy it on Steam then buy the DLC later 😛
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Solution: Get it on PS3 then play with me for free.
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Sure, if you buy me a copy 😛
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From memory, you get the “Gearbox Gold Gun collection”, access to the preorder club thing and the extra character when released. There may be more , though I really don’t know.
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So that livestream Pez has going at the moment is really awesome! I’m learning a few things which is awesome, audio is such a fascinating thing to me, I should totally look more into it! Since I want to.
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So how about that reply fail.
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No no, not a reply fail…because PEz was asking on Twitter if anyone wanted to go in for the Borderlands 2 as well. 🙂
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This is true =P
Though that was a little dodgy of TAY, I went to reply to the post before with an on topic response and forgot about it, came back later refreshed and the reply box was at the bottom of the screen so I merrily went on my way to make a new post and it then ended up here, so it would seem that cause I didn’t cancel the response thingy from before it assumed I wanted to post here D=
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Oh wow I got an email saying I got selected to attend round 2 of this scholarship program and I have to have an interview D:
It’s the first time I’ve ever applied to anything like this and I have no idea what to expect… I didn’t think I had a chance because besides my good grades I’ve got pretty much nothing 😛
Hmmm this’ll be interesting…
(MUST GET SCHOLARSHIP MONEY TO BUY TAYBIES GAMES)
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I went to a scholarship interview in my first year which I bombed terribly… But don’t let that get you down! 😀 Good luck!
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Did you wear a suit and stuff? 😛 according to my dad I need too…
Just ceeeeebs
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Not a full suit, just a collared shirt and such. But yeah, that’s the sort of thing everybody wore 😛
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Hmm I barely have those as well :P. Also my fancy shoes are a bit fugly and don’t really fit…
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If it’s just for a one-off interview, try borrowing from a friend / family member with similar size. If they’re black leather make sure they get a quick polish.
Other than that the trick to interviews is that within reason you can never overdress, and that first impression is best. If you get into the interview and everyone’s in shorts & baggy t-shirts and you’re in suit & tie, then they’ve underdressed, you haven’t overdressed. Additionally you can take off your jacket and hang it off a chair, loosen / remove your tie etc if necessary.
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Wow, congratulations. Good luck on the second round.
I’d wish you luck but you probably don’t need it. Blow them out of the park Killer.
RICHIUS!
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Poorius at the moment but $36,000ius and jobius with scholarship 😀
Congrats and good luck heading into round 2 🙂
Round 2 eh? Good job!
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Do they have some sort of SMS voting system to determine who wins? 😛
Good luck Greenius!
You will be great 🙂
after much requests (by myself) i got back into trying to make something in source filmmaker
my goal for this one was to not use TF2’s engine, and puppeteer everything myself, and make good use of lights, i think i did an alright job…
(and one day i’ll make something over 15 seconds long)
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That was cool!
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after multiple crashes and forgetting to saves, about 2 and a half hours… it’s a lot of effort and fine-tuning!
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The more I play Spec Ops the more it’s grabbing me. The story is really interesting and the way it’s paced is very well done. No infinite enemy points (so far) helps things too.
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I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about this game’s story.The mechanics seem mediocre but the twists are getting good impressions. I should probably rent it before I mistakenly read a spoiler online.
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It’s a very solid, interesting story, very alternative take on the whole military shooter and it doesn’t pull any punches. Apparently pulls from Heart of Darkness as made famous by Apocalypse Now a lot, but (secret shame) I’ve never seen that film or read that book so I can’t say that for sure.
The shooting mechanics are pretty adequate honestly. The main things I notice is that the enemies are super chatty when they can’t see you (they just belt out canned phrases over and over and over without pause) and that the guns have a more ‘realistic’ range and damage, so being exposed means you’re dead, and also that enemies go down with a single well-placed burst from most rifles and so there’s not a lot of variation in the guns you pick up. There’s an Uncharted-style disconnect between the story elements and the gameplay though, you slaughter far too many people for the plot to really make sense unless you’re willing to suspend your disbelief a lot.
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Me want dessert! (Could really go for some apple pie or something :P)
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Mouldy yoghurt! I totally didn’t have that today… no siree…
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Mouldy cheese is quite nice, especially if it’s a blue vein or similar!
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Mouldy cheese is only nice if it’s specific moulds eg in blue vein. Most of the time, eating a mouldy cheese will taste awful and make you sick.
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Damn right.
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Note to self. Don’t buy lollies for 12-13yo boys before a period of time when they’ll have to be quiet and pay attention. It’s a combination that just does not go together in this universe. Maybe in another universe, but not this one…
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Silly Lambo, you never buy the youngsters sugar, it always ends badly D=
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I will gladly take those lollies off your hands the next time this situation arises 🙂
Good night sweet TAY
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Good morning 😉
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Goodnight, I think I’ll retire to bed as well.
Goodnight everyone
CJ was here Page 10 Kotaky TAY. 28.7.12
Never Forget.
(Yup Kotaky)
FRIENDS!
Borderlands 2 at GMG for $40. PARTP-ALCNO-TIESU use this code for 20% off 😀
I was originally going to get it on Xbox and get the GOTY edition on PC later (like I did with the first) but this would cost me more than just getting it on PC and buying the DLC later. PC master race is a pretty cool guy so I’m slowly starting to convert to it… But there’s still something ‘wrong’ about not getting a physical copy that makes me sad inside 🙁
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Greenmangaming no like my card D:
Unable to process order and all that /o\-
Aleph – I went in with Pez on the first 4 pack, but I’ve got a friend who wants it if you are still trying to get 4 people together for the steam copies (since it’s only going to be $160 for this weekend).
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Yeah, I’m still keen, I just didn’t see much interest from others, haha.
In that case, we only need two more! Thanks Beavwa!Any takers?
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Yeah I haven’t bought it from GMG so if you really need a third person I can do it (it’s only 50 cents more :P).
I didn’t know it was $162 for the 4-pack, thought it was $180 but I viewed it on my phone which didn’t show the loyalty discount. Might be easier than buying it from GMG since it’s straight from Steam.
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Hmm ignore that!
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No deal? Pssh, you and your allegiance to Green.
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I figured it’ll be easier for me to just buy it myself rather than having to send you money 😛
Not too sure about GMG though… I did use them once but it was okay, they did mess up a bit though.
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DayZ, Day 1, Life 1:
It’s pitch black again. I fumble with my flashlight, and eventually give up, unable to turn it on. I make for a two-storey house just outside Elektro, and enter cautiously. But I stumble into everything everywhere with my no vision and decide to find a server where I can see things.
Glorious daylight! I check around the house, but there’s only scrap metal and a bit of extra food around. I take advantage of the surplus and eat (the food, not the scrap), and head off further into Elektro. I head for the apartment blocks, being careful to peep around every corner before moving ahead. And once I finally reach the apartments… I can’t get in. Awesome. So I do the worst thing possible; wander aimlessly in Elektro, and then get lost. I find some more hatchets in some sheds, then find more, only to realise that they were the first few hatchets I had stumbled across. I wander and wander and wander, continually being chased by zombies, slowly losing more and more blood. My vision goes monochrome and blurry as I go down under 4000 blood, and I’m having a really hard time seeing where I’m going. I run into another group of zombies and sprint away, trying to reach a ladder, and as I make it and start climbing it, a zombie breaks my leg. Except my character shrugs it off and continues climbing this 5-storey long ladder. Once I reach the top, I collapse, no longer able to properly move around (except for climbing ladders apparently). I’m in a pretty pathetic state here, on top of a rooftop, crawling around crippled, slowly bleeding to death with no morphine.
As we all know, I’m a pretty morbid guy and make all the death jokes, so I give in to my fate and decide to kill myself. I climb back down the ladder with my alleged broken leg to meet the three zombies still waiting below. Except for giggles, I hack at their shins with my hatchet to see if I can, and apparently can, so end up killing them all. Oops.
So I slowly, excruciatingly crawl out to a field FOR TEN MINUTES just to find another zombie to attack me. And what a pisspoor job he did. He knocks me unconscious and then wanders away.
Wat.
Dude. Finish the job.
So I wake back up, somewhere with 1000-2000 blood and can only see blurs of things, and attempt to die again (mooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrbiiiiiiiiiiiiiiddddddddddddddddddddd). And I finally find another zombie all too willing to help me along the way.
By which I mean I died.
But hey, that was a pretty good life. 90 minutes or so. Nearly double the average, I think.
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DayZ, Life 3:
I spawn near a little village, and sprint into it, spending 15 minutes running around trying to lose the zombies chasing me so I can go check out the barn for loot.
Said barn has a Winchester, some food and drink and banadages. I have scored pretty well.
But then I mis-step and fall half a meter off the stairs and break all my bones, and pass out. A zombie passes by and starts munching on my face.
I die.Wat.
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…Was your character 102 years old? That must have been one hell of a small ledge!
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Damn. No luck with my Flight Centre interview. “After careful consideration, we regret to inform you blah blah blah” Oh well, I’ve still got other application in the pipeline
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Aw man that sucks 🙁
Good luck for your other one, I’m sure you’ll do fine.
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I’m sorry, man. I wonder if it’s because you’re a guy? My local Flight Centre and another a went to a few years ago only had women for some reason… Descrimination, I tells ya! 😛
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Better luck next time!
At least they notified you fairly quickly though. I’ve applied to lots of places where they just never inform you that you didn’t get the job 😛
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All the best on the other ones dude! I’m sure something will come up.
So I have a comment on Giz awaiting in moderation on the article about how Gabe Newell called Windows 8 a problem. Not sure if responding to someone informing them that everything they bitched about Steam & Valve in general was incorrect and misinformed and I proceeded to point out why and informed them of how they could fix such problems etc, was a good thing or not, possibly not, because it’s more than likely due to the hate in that article that i’ll just get called a fanboy and I know nothing.
I had an M4A1 Holo in DayZ last night, then got shot in the back running from zombies 🙁
Guess what, Greenius. There’s no achievements for Mirror’s Edge on Steam! And here I was thinking that I had lost the no-shooting achievement for shooting a piece of glass.
Your fault!
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What?! Steam games that don’t have achievements? That’s weird considering it didn’t come out all that long ago 😐
First foray into Day Z
After finally getting into a game (would freeze on the loading screen), I spawned on a beach as everyone does. After a couple of minutes getting used to the controls and realising I have no map, or it doesn’t load properly, I ran across the train tracks and road and headed into the trees and up a hill. I figured I’d get to the highest point and see if I find anything worth exploring. The short answer was no. No cities, no towns, no barns, not even a measly wooden shack as far as I could see. When in doubt, pick a random direction and run. So I did. Without a map, I have no idea if I was heading east, west, north or south but after 20 mins I still hadn’t come across anything, not even a zombie, which considering I haven’t found any food and water, much less a weapon is probably a good thing. After a while my character stopped running. I don’t know if this is a mechanic of the game, or if my wireless keyboard decided it was going to screw with me. But I figured this was as good a place as any to log out.
Total time – 25mins
People encountered – 0
Zombies encounter – 0
Buildings explored – 0
Items found – 0
This episode was brought to you by the number – 0
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Thrilling!
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Follow the water, the 2 main towns are on the coast.
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Thats good to know. A lot of the things I’ve (articles and stories etc) everyone just says “I looked at the map and…” but nobody ever mentions that you have to find it first
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Unless they mean actually looking online at a map?
When you log in, on the right hand it’ll say where you are, roughly.
I guess if you want to, you just check that then look online to see where you are.
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I haven’t driven since I got my licence on Friday but I’m about to go for my first solo drive, this is gonna be interesting! I’m not really going anywhere other than the local shopping center which is where I’ll usually be going to catch the bus for Uni.
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Best part of driving alone is choosing your own music.
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I listened to nothing :/
Driving. Doing it wrong.
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CJ’s Super Awesome Docter Adventure. (Slightly changed for entertainment value)
Starting CJ as CJ and Quack as the Docter.
Quack “Ok so what is the problem?”
CJ “Well I’ve got a really bad cold, sore throat, blocked nose, sore ear.”
Quack “Ok CJ, 19, Barista”
CJ “Who told you that?”
Quack “Even before you sat down I could tell you were blocked up”
CJ “are you magic?”
Quack “Alright so no temperature, ears are fine. Oh your troat is… ok.”
CJ “Really inflammed”
Quack “Yes, but you actually have Tonsillitis”
CJ “Oh… oh your gonna tie my down and slice them out aren’t you?
Quack “No, who told you that? Just gonna slam enough pills down ya to make even Dr Mario look sane.”
CJ “Sounds good to me”
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He touched you inappropiately didn’t he?
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No no, she didnt. But seeing stuff growing on my tonsils makes me feel so dirty.
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Man, I look forward to the day when I ruthlessly gun down someone in DayZ instead of spotting a sitting duck and panicking as to what to do, and just running away and then logging off.
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honestly, i have bad experiences with people “ruthlessly” killiing me wheni had stuff, and that’s really put me against killing people, because i can feel their pain…
i did however steal stuff from an AFK persons bag… that was fun…
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I look forward to the day when I see something besides a tree. No wait, I lie, I saw a wild pig. Just one
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I’m really looking forward to trying out DayZ, but I only have 2GB of download left for the month.
I haven’t downloaded the mod yet, and steam has updates for Arma2, so I’ll have to wait till next week.
I’m in a nightclub. And TAYing. I’m so hardcore. Gangstas Paradise is playing and making me feel old.
Damn you Coolio! *shakes fist*
(disclaimer: I may or may not be rather drunk. Shut up, you love me.)
Ordered myself a 3DS XL in Red (faster) and some games. Also picked up 999 for DS while I was at it since that’s one game I missed on DS which I was always pretty interested in.
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Cool! I can’t wait for the XL. I wasn’t a fan at first but it’s really grown on me. I’m probably leaning towards Red as well. I’ll probably be buying mine locally though.
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I think Amazon have the UK version for $200 atm. If I were to get one I’d probably import it since there’s no reason not to. You can change the region setting for the original 3DS so I assume it’ll be the same and since there’s no charger you can use your current 3DS one :). It’s also out already so you’ll probably receive it before the Australian release.
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Yeah I did think of it. I don’t know 😛 I still think I’d rather buy one here in case I need to exchange it or something (Ever since I had dead pixels out of the box on my original DS I’ve been paranoid)
Plus the longer I can go without spending money the better, haha. Still, it’s an option…
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Pretty sure the ‘no charger’ thing depends on the market. US and AU ones will, EU and JP ones won’t.
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so what’s everyone up to today?
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Working. What a terrible idea.
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On the train heading to work.
This is not what man envisioned when he created Sunday afternoons. /o\
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*rubs eyes*
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Watching Footy and Olympics whilst doing uni work.
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DRINKING ALL THE CIDER.
And watching My Name Is Earl. Because rednecks.
So, who here has seen Cabin in the Woods?
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*puts his hand up*
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Did you like it?
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Not me D:
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Why, I saw it tonight. I liked it. It’s a very interesting concept.
I only have one cider left and it’s the one I am consuming at the moment, this is a sad moment in time D=
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Buy some more?
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This would be so, if it wasn’t a 30 minute walk to buy more & if I had monies D=
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Irrelevant details. You must find a way
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Brb finding balaclava.
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I’m still in shock guys! I made a lengthy comment on this Giz article and I got thanked for putting time, effort & thought into my response.
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Don’t be shocked. You deserved the thanks you got from ozoneocean for your comment.
You wrote a well-considered, and informative comment that was on-topic and entertaining. 🙂Whilst I mostly don’t share your taste in music, I do share your love of the classic albums you cited in your post, and your sentiments about the path that popular music has tread over the years.
Keep on rockin’ Virus__ !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSvzCNBvlQ
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I really need to listen to some more Neil Young he has some amazing stuff.
Also cheers man! Those albums I mentioned are all personal favourites of mine, I could’ve gone on to also include Blizzard of Ozz, Too Fast For Love & Holy Diver in albums that came after 79′ which made an impact in their respective genres.
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Hi all,
If your weekend was disappointing, don’t despair. Tomorrow is a brand new TAY.
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Hi Shane!
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Yay, new TAY! \o/
Evening, TAY.
So, how about those Olympics?
I didn’t get to sleep until about three am this morning due to watching it on my PSP, as well as having the dog on my bed.
Just finished watching ‘Triangle’ that TheL4stQuestion recommended to me on Twitter last night, pretty good for a modern day horror movie, in no way was is it the normal slasher flick that you might expect, but well thought out with a very minimal cast, and shot entirely here on the Gold Coast in Southport (I assume the green screening was either done back in London or here at Movieworld) It certainly played with your mind, excellent movie. I recommend it! There’s little references to The Shining in it too, which is cool (It didn’t click until I read on IMDB afterwards)
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To answer my assumption the post work for the CGI was indeed done here at Roadshow Warner, the backlot of movieworld lol.
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