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So TAY, has anyone else run into some… issues, which seem to coincide with the Steam Sales?
With regard to Steam itself, I’m averaging 20-50kb/s download speeds. I assume this is due to an elevated level of traffic, but still. When I’m trying to download 29GB for one game, it can be a pain. Isolating the other downloads doesn’t seem to help any, either.
Saints Row:3 had some trouble this past weekend, too. After downloading, I ran the game, and it opened in windowed mode. Fine, I can just change it in the settings. Game crashed prior to getting past the developer logo. OK, it’s the first DX11 game I’ve run, I probably need updated video drivers. Let’s do that.
OH WAIT! Now SR:3 needs to “update” with a further 2GB download.
…at 20kb/s
And thirdly, I bought From Dust, and now UPlay is down. (To tell the truth, I was a little taken aback that I needed to sign up for yet another gaming platform)
So, what roadblocks have you run into?
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The only roadblock I’ve run into is my 30GB/month usage (we upgraded just before the steam sale coincidentally), so I haven’t been able to download all the games I’ve bought…
Speed wise, it’s been going good, been getting around 100-200kb/s which is usual, no slowdowns here, and all the games I’ve tried have worked fine. -
My (unplayable) copy of Anno 2070 slowed to 0kb and I paused and restarted and it went to 2mb.
But now I can’t play it because uPlay.
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Supposedly resolved now if that helps
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Good morning and salutations humans, I hope you enjoyed your weekend. I got some time in for Heroes of Might and Magic VI, and I found they’ve updated the town/castle views to a full view of the castle/town as they’ve always done in the previous games. I’m really happy they’ve done this, the game’s truly gone back to its roots :). Sister units still suck though… why aren’t you ranged?! 😛
Also passport application has passed through on Saturday successfully! \o/
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Wait, there’s another HOMM fan here?
*wide full shiny eyes*I mean, how’s it play? 4 was pretty terrible and 5 was pretty decent, but still hoping for the heights of 2&3.
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It’s pretty much looking better than 5 in terms of world and combat, hero customisation is a huge plus as well, and they have light/dark side mechanics too, like letting a fleeing enemy go gives you “Tears” and persuing them gives you “Blood”, both of which gives you bonuses in different directions. They did fall flat on launch with the towns view, which was just a small window that never changed, but now that’s been updated to an actual town view as it used to be in say Heroes 3/4, not like 5, it can’t rotate. By the looks of it they changed the world once again, no characters or names I recognise from 5. So far I’ve seen Haven, Infernal and Necromancer factions in the campaign as well.
By combat being better, there are elements that can randomly appear each battle, like a light form a statue that grants buffs to the one standing in it, or a mana pool that one of your units stands in to grant mana back to your hero. And your hero can make a move once per turn at ANY time during the turn, which is another big plus. You can cast a spell/attack anytime you want with your hero during that one turn, but again, only once per turn. There’s also special abilities that can be cast when charged up. The one I use currently grants invulnerability for one turn to a single unit.
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That actually sounds like they haven’t completely botched this version. I might have to get it.
I really hated the way your hero was suddenly treated as (essentially) a regular unit in 5(?). I liked sitting back and throwing spells around/passive bonuses in 2 and 3.
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Well they got a bit mixed this time around as I said, with the hero able to use one action per turn at any time during the turn. Gorzy and I have got it, our first try of this game was very unpleasant as multiplayer was down (Conflux, their third line of DRM)
First line: Steam (Okay!)
Second line: uPlay (Crap and unnecessary, needed to run the bloody game)
Third line: Conflux (Multiplayer and singleplayer services apparently [yeah lost my saved games on this I tried playing while conflux was down] which was abysmal on launch, we couldn’t use it all at first, Saturday I was able to get in)
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I LOVE BOTH OF YOU.
2 & 3 were easily the high point of the series. The last one I played was 5 and it’s just not as fun.
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3 was by far my favourite, I just loved the art style they used more than anything else.
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I swear, the next old guy that comes in yelling at me because a key cost him 50c in 1976 is now $7 is going to cop it.
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7 bucks still seems cheap enough!
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OH CRAP I COMPLETELY FORGOT THAT BREAKING BAD IS OUT TODAY SOMETIME I THINK I DUNNO OMG EXCITE GET HYPE Z0MG!
I went to Metacritic to check out a game score and BAM 98 already. Generally I don’t care about all the non-game reviews on Metacritic (but to be fair I barely care about them too) but WOO!
Is anyone else not able to vote for Just Cause 2? I’ve tried about 5 times but every time I click Vote it refreshes the store page and nothing happens…
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Same here…odd. I hope it’s actually counting all our votes, cause I’m just going to keep clicking it until it works 😛
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Logged on the mobile and it doesn’t work either, definitely something wrong on Steam’s end 😛
Now it’s not going to win because people will vote for the others to see whether the voting is broken or not and it’ll end up counting :'(
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What else is up for grabs?
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Dead Space 2 and GTA IV.
BUT NOBODY WANTS THOSE THEY JUST WANT JUST CAUSE 2, RIGHT? 😛 -
JC2 is the same as GTAIV anyway, isn’t it?
BUT GRAPPLING HOOKS!
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I just managed to vote for Just Cause for you guys. Worked fine for me.
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Yep I tried again around 10 minutes ago as well and it counted my vote this time. Thanks Strange!
Although I’m seeing that many Community/Flash deals are becomming Daily Deals and Community deals are also becoming Flash Deals. So even if it doesn’t win this time I’m sure it’ll be down to $5 or so by the end of the sale 🙂
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I’ve been having similar issues with voting as well.
I voted for JC2 fine, I was having issues the other day voting right when the options changed.
Also JC2 + all DLC for a little over 6 bucks? I WANT!
It looks like it is countin gyour votes even if it doesn’t refresh. I voted at home (multiple times) but it didn’t refresh so figured I would try at work work. When I got in here and went to the store page it was already done
Secret of Monkey Island SE Bundle for $3.74? Okay Gaben, if you say so! *grab’s wallet*
I’m starting to re-prioritise my list. It doesn’t matter if I don’t get Crysis now, I just need to make sure I have enough money to buy Just Cause 2 and Arma II…
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I have Crysis 2 Maximum edition, if you’d like it.
I’ll need your address though, as it’s a physical copy.
Also, in no way is this an attempt to find out where you live so I can fog up your windows while I watch you sleep.
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Sure, if you don’t want it! 😀
What’s your email address? Or should I send it to you via Twitter DM?
Physical copies are better anyway, no downloading needed, plus it gives you something to look at, because we all know people spend more time looking at the game boxes than actually playing them 😛-
I’ve hardly even looked at the box 😛
jpldouglass at google’s mail service dot com ought to do the trick 😉
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i think everyone is waiting for arma II to go on sale… well… to go MORE on sale
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I said this on twitter yesterday, but I think ARMA II is at a good price right now, I’ll buy it for that much if it doesn’t go any cheaper. I just don’t want to buy it right now only for it to go cheaper like an hour later or something…
Plus I only need to get Operation Arrowhead, already got a copy of ARMA II, so that’s only $16 I need to spend.
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Everyone should get Monkey Island. So good.
Scarlett just won WCS Canada. She’s the Canadian National Champion.
Did not want to do an interview after the game. Damn is she introverted. Ran off the stage, got dragged back, said about three words, got her trophy and was off again.
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LINK!!!
Bogan Love. SFW. Sad but true.
BEARDS
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*Beard-five*
So you guys are awesome. I logged into Steam yesterday to check out the sales and put games in my wishlist while I decided on what to get…and almost instantly I received gifts from Beavwa and Jo! Thanks guys, it’s very much appreciated. 😀
Especially considering when I tried to buy something this morning it was denied…turns out my bank had frozen my account due to “suspicious activity”. Which was just me trying to buy stuff from Finland online. Apparently buying metal hoodies is “suspicious”. 😛
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Any transaction over $1,000 is considered suspicious for me, I’m not sure what else raises a red flag for the bank. They’re ok with me spending money in the US, NZ, China, Italy etc.
I don’t think I’ve purchased anything from Finland yet. I’ll have to remedy this!-
My purchase was only $130ish. No idea why they thought it was suspicious. And them blocking my card made me miss out on Legend of Grimlock at the superspecial price they had it for this morning. It’s okay though, I’ve now made up for it by buying The Walking Dead.
Yup, I made up for not being able to buy something at under 5 bucks by buying something for 15. 😛
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Well you will be corrupting our youth and scaring old people. We have to keep these things in check otherwise there will be chaos.
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I’ve got a white T-shirt with “Metal just got gay” emblazoned on the front in huge rainbow metallic lettering.
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Where did you get this marvel form?! I think I may need one so I can annoy the whingy black metallers on 70000 Tons next time. They’re always whining whenever a power metal band gets announced for the cruise. 😛
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http://www.iwabostore.com
(IWrestledABearOnce)If you’ve not heard of them, I strongly urge you to check them out. I personally love the band, although most would consider it “noise”. In particular, check out a song called Ulrich Firelord: Breaker of Mountains. One of my favourites!
If I had to throw them in with a genre, I’d say hardcore with some jazz stylings. Not exactly everyone’s cup of tea, but they’re amazing anyway!
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That should have a picture of Rob Halford or one of other metals openly gay musicians on it lol. But I guess no one outside of metal would get the joke /o\
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I NEED THIS SHIRT!!!
ALSO PHOTO ISREQUIRED!
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JESUS SHIT NO!
I can’t take a photo… Just remembered my ex has both my favourite shirts /o\
HORSE The Band and IWABO shirts, gone!
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Direct linky to the image for anybody who is interested http://iwrestledabearonce.merchnow.com/images/17126?w=470&h=470
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You’re welcome. Speaking of metal, what symphonic metal album do you recommend for me next?
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What have you got? And do you prefer a mix of clean and cookie monster vocals like Epica, or just straight operatic like old Nightwish?
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I guess a way to put it is that I like the sounds of the voices, and lots of the non-voice side as well. Pretty much any demonstration of different ways to play a song for different meanings is an instant sell for me (think Vermillion by Slipknot).
So don’t mind a bit of cookie monster, provided it’s balanced with clean. I do like freakishly good main vocalists, but that should only be a component of the music, not the focus.
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I must say, the one thing that springs to mind above most others when thinking of a great balance within the sound would be Dream Theater. Although I’m not sure I’ve EVER heard growls come from them.
I’m none too familiar with the heavy/soft mix in metal. Personally, the heavier the better, so I don’t typically listen to clean vocals within the genre.
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All right, well for me, I focus mostly on the vocalists. The vocals are my hook into songs/bands so I can only really recommend based on that. I’m also not good with deciding on which genre bands fall into, it’s basically just what I like, versus what I don’t like. 😛 I’m pretty sure power/symphonic/folk/progressive metal all cross into each other’s territory anyway.
I’m going to assume you already have Epica’s latest and Eluveitie’s’ Helvetios’ (not exactly symphonic metal, more folk metal but awe-inspiring nonetheless) because anyone who’s into metal is missing out if they don’t have them. They are both masterpieces.
And if you like Epica, you might like to try MaYaN. One of the guitarists from Epica’s band on the side. He doesn’t play guitar in it, just sings/growls.
Apart from that you could try Diabulus in Musica’s ‘The Wanderer’. I haven’t listened to it much but my husband is really loving it right now.
Also Therion’s Sitra Ahra. This is another one I can’t stop listening to at the moment. Seeing them live was such an amazing experience. But then, four vocalists. Heaven for me. 😛
People are always telling me how great ReVamp are, but I’ve never actually heard them. One day I’ll check them out.
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Thank you! Gives me plenty to work through, I’ll let you know how I go.
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Any time. 🙂
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And Sonata Arctica’s ‘Days Of Grays’. Can’t believe I forgot that, it’s one of my most favourite albums ever.
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Whoa, even more. Excellent.
My quick summary would be that guitar is the hook, vocals get me to stay for an album, and composition gets multiple playthroughs. Don’t even notice words until at least the 3rd time through.
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Symphony X if you haven’t already hit that.
Morning everyone.
Wow, i have nothing more to report.
Hope everyone has a good day!
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Whoopie cakes \o/
Went to see Brave Friday night. Weird story. Lots of bears. It was good movie but it wasn’t Pixars normal greatness. If BioWare is the Pixar of the gaming world and the reverse is presumably true then this was easily Pixar’s Dragon Age 2. Given the setting it felt like it was going to be an epic story and it didn’t quite live up to that. The story took place in one city/castle and it’s surrounding areas and the characters often traveled back to areas they’d already been, meaning it felt like there was a lot of reused scenery. The story felt inconsequential in the grand scheme of things ( for comparisons sake, ignore the very end of DA2). Character development and interaction seemed to be the main focus of both the film and the game, the main difference being that while DA2 featured a somewhat bland protagonist but really excelled at the development and personality of side characters Brave felt like it did the opposite. It felt like all the development went into making Merida and her mother great characters and then there was almost no development into any of the side characters. There was also a character and a couple scenes that felt really out of place for both the setting and for a Pixar film. I won’t spoil it, but it really felt like a character and scenes one would expect to see in a Dreamworks film, specifically Shrek.
Saints Row The Third is sort of amazing. I spent most of the weekend playing it. The physics in that game is just nuts. The level of character customisation is outstanding. The dialogue and quests are hilarious. Everything is just so over the top, it’s great.
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Gotta love The Penetrator!
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BioWare are the George Lucas of videogame devs – they were good once, but it’s over now, and they should just leave it well enough alone, since there are enough other people who can do their job better.
Brave is as good, story wise, as Mass Effect – it’s a classic story with a theme or moral that transcends its setting.I guess we just have different perspectives on this.
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I don’t care what anybody says, that opening sequence was the most accurate representation of a little girl I have ever seen. I loved this movie from about 5 minutes in
Howdy Tayberinos!
I had a great weekend- it was my birthday, so I went out and got…not messy, but well on the way, and woke up fine. Well, fine enough to play Saints Row The Third all day 🙂
I also managed to grab a copy of MGS Peace Walker, which I’m looking forward to getting stuck into. What’s the HD version like?
And a Monday morning question: Given this is the steam sale, and everyone’s buying game cheap, I thought I’d ask the opposite: What’s the most you’ve ever paid for a game? Mine would be the Infamous 2 Collectors, coming in at about $160
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Happy Birthday for the weekend, Sir Artifice!
I think the most I’ve ever paid for a game is $110. That was what I paid for Secret of Mana on eBay.
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Totally worth it! It is my favourite SNES game!
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Happy Birthday for the weekend as well redartifice!
Wow good question… Honestly I can’t say for sure but I’m going to guess probably $130 or so for Final Fantasy XIII whatever edition. What a rip off 😛
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
The most I’ve ever payed for a game was sort of Need for Speed The Run. That was $100, but me and my brother went half’n’half on it, so I really only payed $50. Other than that, I think it would have to be $70, which was for Batman AC.
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Retail would be $200 for the MW2 Prestige edition.
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HERPY BERTDOY!
I think the most I’ve paid was about $160 or so for WoW, 1year membership and all expansions.
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Happy Birthday man.
Hmm, I’m not a 100% sure but I think I spent $60 on a Resistance 3 collector’s edition and I’ve only played 20 min of it. So it’s expensive in terms of the money I spent for the amount of time I’ve played the game. I could have just waited and probably got it at a cheaper price. Plus the collector’s edition stuff was kind of useless.
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125 bucks on both BioShock 2 & AVP collectors, dunno why I did such a stupid thing…
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Hey, they Bioshock 2 edition was pretty good. That said, I only paid $60 for it
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It was good, but not worth what I paid esp since the game wasn’t Steamworks =P
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Happy Birthday for last weekend human! 🙂
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Happy Birthday, mate!
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Happy birthday.
I think I’ve spent around $200 for a game. Don’t ask me what game, I wouldn’t be able to tell you. I just know that some of the collectors editions I’ve bought cost around that much.
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Herping Blarnsday!
I think the most expensive purchase would have to be the Borderlands 2 preorder I have (shiny chest edition) which was either $130 or $150. -
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MANG!
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Bappy Hirthday Redartisangria!
I’m not quite sure if anyone else cares but I’m happy about the Sonic Adventure 2 HD re-release. I personally think that it is the best Sonic game to he releases to date.
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Hey! I’m sorry I forgot to put your pie out for everyone to eat. I put it in the fridge and forgot about it. 🙁
On the plus side, not sharing it with everyone was great for me because we had it for dessert last night and it was supertasty. 😛-
Haha, everyone remembered when we were outside leaving. It was kinda funny =P
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Haha, its all good. I also completely forgot about it 😛 Just think of it as a Birthday present 😀
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Wow, a Life Hacker US article has just gone and fucked my computer, their “Best Windows Apps” article the other day I saw Growl was available for windows, it’s now gone and screwed up several applications causing them to freeze when they open, THANKS GUYS for recommending dodgy applications, brilliant one! Now I get the fun task of repairing/re-installing several programs, just how I wanted to spend my Monday morning.
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Growl for Windows seems a bit dumb.
It makes sense on Mac because Macs don’t have a great notification system. Pretty much everything uses Growl to make up for that.
Windows has that system tray message bubble thing that everyone ignores. Growl would be the same except even more ignored.
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I honestly wanted growl for Firefox & iTunes, that was it and it went and fucked iTunes even after uninstalling it *sigh* but yeah it’s a totally pointless program for Windows otherwise!
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But iTunes is fucked anyway. It needs no assistance in the matter.
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Never had a problem with it in the 7 years i’ve used it as a media player =P if anything the problems that have occurred around it were due to programs associating with it or Windows itself being a little bitch.
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Everyone seems super excited for the Ouya but all I see in its future is a dedicated Hentai Eroge machine.
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…and the problem is?
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Wait… I understand what Hentai is…
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Porn games.
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ahh, right. I had my eyes opened to them on a SNES emulator when I was 11 or so.
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Oh-dear-god-what-did-I-just-download five.
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I don’t really see the point of the Ouya. The casual market already has their smartphones to play with, why would they spend $99 just to play Angry Birds on the TV? Not to mention most probably wouldn’t have the technical knowledge to get the thing working to its full potential. I also can’t see big name companies developing games on it, which means you won’t be getting the Call of Duty crowds using it either. For the people who do have the technical knowledge, they can already do what the Ouya says it can do by modding other machines, most notably computers. I think the Ouya will appeal to a niche audience who will make some amazing mods for it but I really can’t see it becoming a mainstream console.
It’s going to crash and burn. I think I’ve already voiced my opinion of OUYA, so I don’t want to repeat myself.
Not powerful enough and hardly any of those run in Linux anyway.
Or at least so I’ve been told…
I’ve posted a few times and I actually see a lot of potential in it.
I think were the really benefit might come from will be the apps, have a directly link to youtube to play music videos. People come around and queue up videos, get a dedicated playlist happening.
How it will work as a gaming system, who knows but as a nice piece of tech with a wide range of uses I can see it being cool. It just needs a couple of hero apps and I think they will not be gaming related.
Hmmmm, Digimon Re:Digitize is being released in Japan on Thursday yet there is no release date for anywhere else. Guess its time to learn Japanese.
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Is Digimon even popular enough anymore to get a localised game? On the PSP? 😛
It does look quite nice though…
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Unfortunately it probably isn’t, which makes me really sad. This game has been touted as a true sequal to the original Digimon World on PS1 and I loved that game. 🙁
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I’ll teach you all you need to learn, with terrible spelling to boot!
Katon: Goukakkyuu No Jutsu!
Kage Bunshin No Jutsu!
Hey, Das ist mein Hambourger!
Jinju Konbi Henge: Sotoro!
And now you can speak Japanese fluently.
In the words of General Douglas MacArthur – I have returned. Well actually I was back yesterday, but saying that doesn’t let me quote someone.
I’m working on a write up on my trip but if it’s anything like the size of the journal/photo list I kept while I was away I may have to switch it to an episodic release. Cuts down on development time, right?
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We used to have a guy named Nova around here a few decades ago. Are you two related?
Keen to hear how it all went!
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I’ve heard legends about that guys generosity, always driving people everywhere. So no, I’m nothing like him 🙂
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Aw. I was hoping for a massive multi-page spanning novel about your trip. Oh well.
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Who’s this guy?
Welcome back mate ^.^
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I knew someone had to say it 🙂
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I mentioned this on the previous page, but I’ve been looking at buying a copy of Windows 7 so I can dual-boot my Mac desktop. I’ve been meaning to do it ever since I got this computer, but Steam sales have pushed me over the edge 😛
Would anybody happen to know the cheapest (legal) way of buying Windows 7 (Full version, not an upgrade)? JB HiFi has it for $279 which sounds like way too much. I don’t mind if I have to buy it online or in-store, or if it’s a download (if you can even do that). Even if you can just recommend some reliable online stores so I can check out their prices that would be great. I’ll have another look in the meantime. Thanks!
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Uh pretty sure places like PC Case Gear sells copies for 100 bucks..
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Or if you’re a Uni student you can buy a copy from MSDNAA for 50 dollars I think? Unlimited licensing last I remember.
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Yeah 95 bucks from PC Case Gear for Home Premium!
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=375_974
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That’s OEM. Got to buy some hardware to use with it. Not sure how strict those rules are.
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You *don’t* have to buy hardware with it apparently. They just say you do lols. In theory buying a hard drive or optical drive or a stick of ram is good enough for it to be considered.
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Technically, you have to be building a system to sell to someone else.
I’ve bought a copy of WinXP in the past with a stick of RAM though :p Some stores can be sticklers about it though.
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Haha yeah, I don’t think Umart or PCCG are strict on what you buy it with honestly.
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Yeah I was about to ask what OEM meant 😛 It’s the same as the retail version? (They’ll ship me it on a disc, etc)
$95 is a good price though. I saw some similar prices before posting this but just wasn’t sure where a good place to buy it from would be.
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Yeah it comes on a disc same as the other version, as bunny said it’s meant to be bought by someone who building a computer to onsell to someone else, but all my mates who build their own buy OEM copies for themself.
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Ahh. OK that clears it up. One last quick question: Do I want 32bit or 64bit? (I’m clueless about this sort of stuff :P) This Windows partition will be pretty much solely used to play Steam games, if that makes a difference.
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If you’ve got any more than 4GB RAM, you’ll want 64bit, as windows won’t register any more than that in 32bit.
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It has 4GB RAM and I can upgrade (I haven’t had the need to yet). So I suppose in the interest of future-proofing myself I may as well go for the 64bit version? It’s only $4 more from the website Virus suggested.
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Absolutely man, 64’s your best bet if you plan on upgrading.
Currently rocking 16GB here 😛
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The main deifference is that with OEN is gets locked to your motherboard. So you can’t reuse that copy on another machine when you upgrade.
Generally most places will sell you an OEM version but to stay legal you can’t use it on another system once it is installed. So if you are planning on upgrading in the short term probably worth looking into a full version rather than OEM
Yeah, that’s a bit of a bummer. It shouldn’t be too much of an issue though. I only bought this machine last year so I’ll get at least a few more years out of it. Not looking to upgrade any time soon (by the time I do there will probably be a new OS version out anyway). Thanks for the extra info, though!
Grab an OEM version from a computer store.
Works out to be far cheaper.
I only paid $150 for Professional that way.
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I paid $70 for an OEM version of Win7 Pro a few years ago.
Bought it from a friend of a friend that happens to work for some random tech company in Seattle ¬.¬
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Nice!
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Thank you very, very much Virus, Trjn, Crazyguy and Aleph. I get so confused surrounding this sort of stuff (no wonder I own a Mac :P). You all really helped!
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S’all good, we’re here to help! I like helping, it makes me feel useful =P
Do you just need it short term? You could always install the Windows 8 beta
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Failing that, Ubuntu is pretty straightforward to install, and you can always run WINE
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I have been meaning to install Windows ever since I bought this computer, I just never got around to it. So, long-ish term. I did have a quick look at Windows 8 but I thought I’d be better off going for the something more standard for now.
Potaku stuffs
Who wants to join us on the show?
WE NEED A VOLUNTEER TO JOIN SHIGGY, THE CRACKS AND MYSELF!
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I would say yes, but I can never guarantee in this household I will be left alone uninterrupted even if I say do not disturb me x.x
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What tiem mang?
I’m up for discussion, though I’m unsure as to the time constraints you guys may have.-
Thursday around 7:30/8 of the clock?
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I’d love to, if you’d have me?
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As long as you have skype, preferably a mic, and a quite place to chat without disturbances, you are IN!
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I have Skype, a mic, and a quiet place to chat.
Sound quality will likely require my laptop, but that’s fine too.I can chat with you guys WHILE I’M IN BED! Best plan.
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Awesome! add PotakuPodcast to skype.
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I’ll add you tonight, likely around 7:30 or so.
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Oh! Me, me!
Wait. I don’t have a mic.
Nevermind.
Good luck with it all!
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Go get a mic!
Depends on what’s on topic for this week, and whether or not I can provide good input for such an amazing podcast
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This week is Trophys and Achievements.
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Ah righto, Steam achievements enough? haha 🙂
I’m not much of a console gamer these days
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Metagame discussion. I’m already hype for this!
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I’ll let you have this one then human 🙂 you got in first and you’re more excited for this
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Well, I for one, welcome our new cyborg overlords!
Cheers man, means a lot 😀
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Awww…I’d have been keen on that 😛 . Ah well. It’ll be interesting to hear what other TAYbies think on the matter.
Suggestion: include past Steam holiday achievements, and the latest addition of Steam Badges.
I wish I could participate at some point but my employment situation makes it a bit dangerous.
Hey all, hope everyone is well! so is there a Kotaku-AU steam group up? if not, would probably be a great idea…
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Joined! Feel free to add me peeps!
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MOVIE MAKING!
that’s right kids! You too can be a part of the hollywood magic! We’re going to screen the Zombie Film at a cinema in Sydney in October should anyone want to attend and I’m looking for people to make fake trailers/ads to go before the film. Anyone who wants to do something is more than welcome. Shoot me an email at cronotriggr[at]gmail[dot]com.
Also, email me if you want be in the Zombie film or help out.
Steam Sales, Day 4 cost breakdown.
Actual gifts ~ 37.88%
Helping ~ 37.90%
Actual game that I wanted and bought but forgot I already had so is now sitting in my inventory to be gifted away ~ 3.78%
Troll gifts ~ 20.44%
Watch as that last category grows over the next few days.
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Last category is best category.
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Troll gifts?!
YOU MEAN MAGIC CRYSTAL GIFTS, AMIRITE?!-
You guys have to branch out.
Consider games such as:
– Bad Rats
– Ship Simulator Extremes-
I’d lump the train sims in there too.
But hey. F40PH is one helluvva train. I’m sure there’s a lot of fun to be had there 😉-
I think that could be the worst gift EVER to get somebody. They might like it.
Then they have a game they really like that has $2,000 worth of DLC sitting there, taunting them.
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The more people talk about that game, the more I consider wasting $1.25 on it.
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It’s a case of:
If I buy it for myself, I can’t get gift-trolled…
but then I will have it in my Library
staring at me
with those big almond eyes, the sheen of its coat catching the mid-afternoon sun, glistening glistening with the beads of water from frolicking in the nearby brook.I mean…
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Woah, I got pretty carried away with the glistening beads of water. What can I say? When I grow up, I really want to be a horse.
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…poetic!
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Troll gifts?! What an awesome category!
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So my prediction of last week was fairly accurate, TDF induced sleep deprivation is no good for my pineapple. To date it has grown by:
Dungeon defenders DLC, Rayman origins, Saints row 3: Bells and whistles, BttF pack, Sherlock Holmes and the hounds of the baskervilles (Thanks Jo), Toy soldiers, Brink, Fallout:NV all DLC, Hunted and finally SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM (Hi Hugo) -
Self 49.29%
Gifts 41.49%
Trolling 9.22%That said, the best troll gift is one included in the same transaction as a real gift.
Guys, guys, guys, guysguysguys!
You’re not going to believe this, it’s a Christmas miracle!
I finished Darksiders. I’ve now finished 2 games this month(three if you include Octodad(which doesn’t count))!
I AM THE GREETEST!
Tayfronds: I have spare copies of Terraria and Frozen Synapse somehow. Free to a good home. Anyone want?
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I’ve been curious about Frozen Synapse so I wouldn’t mind it. It seems low level enough to run on my laptop.
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Frond me on Steam and I’ll send it your way when I get home after work.
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Post #1000: Klutar on Thursday, July 12, 2012 at 12:24 PM
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Wow, Aleph smashed it this week. Save some posts for the rest of us!
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I think my first week was 300+ posts?
:SMy bad! I just like to talk at times!
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Hey someone has to pick up the slack the twitter humans have left behind right?
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Maybe I need to look into this ‘Twitter’ thing all the kids seem to be using these days…
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You want to be a Twit, human? 😛
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There seems to be some numbers missing
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Oh?
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Whoops!
Sorry Klutar… I failed at copy/pasting:
16: Klutar 41 posts, (2.38%, 1007 words, avg 24.56 words/post)
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Holy crap! I posted last week?! I don’t even remember!
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Playing TAY catchup before midday on Monday.
I’m so sorry guys.
Anyway, hope everyone had an awesome fun time weekend. I did. Played more Skyrim and picked up a few Steam Sale games (Saint’s Row 3 and Blood Bowl off my wishlist; strong-armed into Crusader Kings 2 and Alien Water) instead of Shameless Gaming. I don’t really feel bad about it, since I had fun, I finally got a character to level 25 on Skyrim, so I must be progressing. Might grab Mount and Blade, hoping ARMA 2 goes on Flash Sale.
I also played a lot of Pokémon – just not Conquest. I went back to Black and White after only a day or two of Conquest and I’ve been catching and hatching and training some new pokes. Also Dream World, making friends and growing berries, plus there’s a Porygon promotion at the moment.
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Not too long until BW2 come out! 😀 I’ve been avoiding all news lately because I want the changes to be a surprise (trying to replicate a ‘Kanto in Gold/Silver’ feeling here :P). Can’t wait!
I’m really liking Conquest though. Much more than I initially did.
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Since I’m so far behind the curve on this one, whats conquest like? On in even more general terms, Whats Conquest?
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Hah, you really have been gone a while! Pokemon Conquest is the localised name of that Nobunaga’s Ambition crossover game for DS.
Have you ever played a turn-based tactics game like Fire Emblem or Advanced Wars? Well it’s similar to that, but with Pokémon. It’s pretty simple compared to others, but still pretty good. Go read up on it! (Good Game did a review of it last week as well)
A few TAYbies have been playing it and seem generally positive on it. Personally it’s probably my favourite Pokemon spin off game (because I love these types of strategy games so much :P)
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I don’t own a 3DS and have never played a Pokemon game, but if I did I’d go for the Nobunaga’s Ambition crossover ahead of the rest.
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It’s actually a DS game. I’m playing it on my Lite.
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Oh. Well I could get that then I guess. But I feel dirty when I buy DS games.
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Never played any of those sort of games, but hey its Pokemon, so I’ll probably try it out at some point
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I need to add you on steam. For science and so forth.
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Totally not just for troll gifting.
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I’m in the Kotaku AU group, as Mawt, my id/username/steamname/whatever is probably hound_eye
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I picked up Max Payne 3!
Then Steam discounted it further an hour later so I paid $15 too much.
And when I finish the first opening bit, after rescuing the boss guy from the van, the game grinds to a half mid cutscene and locks up completely. Every time. 🙁 It was buttery smooth before that so I assume it’s actually a bug. Also every time I log in it makes me re-activate my CD key (what the fuck is a limited-activation system doing on a Stream distributed game anyway?) so I assume eventually just trying to play my single player game, I’m going to run out of activations and be locked out.
Super disappointed in this.
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If it’s too much of a hassle you can get a refund
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I actually am tempted, but the gameplay itself seems pretty good and it’s not as if my machine can’t run it when it actually works.
But IMO Steam really needs to have in big letters on the page that it includes always-online limited-activation DRM in addition to Steam.
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It’s a new subscription-based business model. You wanna play your single-player game? Pay us the full retail price every three months, or you can’t.
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Considering I currently have three MMOs with active subscriptions, this isn’t really ‘new’. But it does seem like it’s setting a fairly terrible precedent. Steam alone should be enough.
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I thought it was day 1 DLC being the new trend 😛
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I still don’t understand what’s so terrible about Day 1 DLC. Games hit release and go into certification months before the release date, putting people on DLC means they don’t have to fire half their staff between projects.
I mean sure, when it’s stuff that was on the disc anyway and you’re just buying an unlock like Crapcom locking costumes and whatnot? Fuck that. But actual proper additional content I have absolutely no problem with and I honestly don’t understand why anyone does.
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That said, where the hell is my Mass Effect 3 DLC? I want more content for the game, not expansion of an ending that I didn’t really mind, or piles of additional crap for a multiplayer mode I haven’t and will never touch.
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Yeah for some humans it’s not a problem, but for me I only find DLC acceptible post-launch, unless it’s cosmetic-only stuff like clothing, gun skins, whatever. With Mass Effect 3, the controversy that went down was the whole some single player campaign content pulled out as day 1 DLC (Which also was proven to be on-disc DLC too on PC I might add). Basically it doesn’t inspire trust for some humans that got mad about it, including a robot like me. Therefore, I made the decision not to get it at full price. I’m waiting for it to become much cheaper, which it has so I’ll get it eventually.
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And by what I said on the bottom, I wasn’t one that god mad, I meant the “doesn’t inspire trust” part…
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ME3 was delayed from its original launch date. Most likely they had a team free early that worked on the Prothean DLC on their original schedule, and since it was mostly done they stuck most of the assets onto the disc to save bandwidth costs (releasing content on XBL/PSN costs a fair bit, especially when you take into account the number of people playing). I don’t understand the whole conspiracy theory around that particular example.
But maybe it’s because I come from a software development background, work on a product that has extremely aggressive ship schedules and because I picked up the CE for ME3 anyway so I got that content for ‘free’.
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It just made no sense why they didn’t stick to the ME2 style of handing out free DLC for those who bought the game new with the cerberus key. I thought that was a killer idea.
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They decided to gate the multiplayer feature no one wanted or asked for behind it instead. :\
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yeah… Look I won’t ever crucify someone for getting the CE or the DLC, I just stick by my own principles, and my principles are being against companies who do Day 1 DLC
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Oh man, I swear those cut-scenes are so dodgy. I was starting the 4th act I think and after the cutscene had ended the word “failed” popped up on my screen. I tried to retry and the gale froze. When I force closed Max Payne and reloaded my save i was still on the previous act. :/
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… Gale? Really phone gale?
* sigh*
Hope Warband goes on sale on Steam, so more people can get it and eventually we can have a TAYbie-only battle. 64 players with medieval weaponry!
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I’d be up for this
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Me too. Also big thanks to Jo who purchased the Mount And Blade collection for me! What a guy!
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64 players? Holy crap, that sounds AWESOME!
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It’s already 75% off right now, I doubt it’s going to get any cheaper 😛
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Don’t think I’ll buy it though. Haven’t played much of F&S yet.
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Good point!
Everyone buy it! (if you have a spare $5)
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Alright Rize, how about this: You buy me a copy, and I will sit here and insult you. Does that sound fair? Sounds fair to me!
Best plan.
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If you’re willing to actually play it, sure!
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Me play a game, what are you, stupid?
And ugly.
And umm. Yeah.
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Hey, remember the last time you talked about this and I called it a left-click fest and you were all “Sure, if you want to die” and questioned if I had even played the game, somehow both acknowledging but completely missing my joke?
Good times.
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You should accept that it was an awful joke, and that I am intelligent and attractive.
Thanks every one for the birthday wishes!
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Ahh. Happy Birthday!
(Late to the party :P)
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Happy Birthday
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First!
EDIT: or fourth!also, Happy Birthday!
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Hah! I’m not falling for that one again! 😛
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Sign me up to the list of latecomers!Super happy joyful to you!
@Beavwa, @Strange RE: Music, Page 1
Lyrics are certainly the primary consideration for me with my music choice, for the most part. A great example of lyrics really pulling through would be Circle Takes the Square’s work. In particular, check out their song “A Non-Objective Portrait of Karma”. Sheer lyrical genius, and while I love the musical dissonance that goes along with it, I feel the lyrics really shine through.
With that said, sometimes the lyrics really don’t have any effect on me, and it’s just a good tune (Aussie band “Ennui Breathes Malice” has some AWESOME stuff, by far the most brutal breakdowns I’ve come across) that really gets my heart pumping.
I quite enjoy stuff from the “prettier” side of things too. I’ve had Alanis Morrisette and Regina Spektor playing on repeat for the past week or so, for example.
What’re your thoughts on black metal, by the way? (The likes of Dimmu Borgir, etc.)
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I’ve got fairly narrow tastes still, since it generally takes word of mouth from friends to introduce me to new things. Not very familiar with black metal.
Lyrics aren’t really my thing either – I don’t really hear them the first few times I listen to a song. I guess that’s what is drawing me towards the more symphonic stuff.-
I really can’t help you with the symphonic stuff. My suggestions would be Sonata Arctica and perhaps that Nightwish-but-not-Nightwish band… The name will come to me at some point.
Black metal (it may be a stretch, but I can see the connection) has some ties with classical/symphonic stylings. Although it typically sounds like it’s been recorded in a bathroom.
I’ve gotten to the point where I’m experimenting more and more with not just metal, but everything. “Mathcore” and other derivatives of hardcore music really take my fancy currently, as they really do seem to push the envelope.I initially thought it was all crap, and they were just throwing instruments around a room and recording the destruction. But after witnessing it live, I was blown away. So much more technical than other variants under the “metal” umbrella.
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Lacuna Coil!
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I most often don’t care about the lyrics, it’s the use of a voice as an instrument rather than specific words/themes that draw me in.
That said, often the lyrics can ruin a song if they’re ridiculous (see: Sonata Arctica’s ‘A S**tload of Money’ off their latest. Good song, but I can’t listen to it often because it’s silly.Amd Aleph, Lacuna Coil have more in common with the likes of Evanescence than they do Nightwish. I think that may be the first time I’ve heard them described as “Nightwish-but-not-Nightwish”. 😛
Their mid stuff like Unleashed Memories or Comalies is probably their best, then they got a bit too…Rock-y for me, but their latest: ‘Dark Adrenaline’ is really quite good.-
Comalies is the only album I’m familiar with, to be honest. All I remember is sunflowers 😛 (Or was it daisies?)
Dark Adrenaline just makes me think of Dark Tranquility, although audibly, they’re far from similar 😛
Gothenburg’s finest!You and I seem to have very different tastes, if this discussion is anything to go by ^.^
Occasionally, silly lyrics actually MAKE the song though! Check out “Bunnies” by HORSE The Band. Such a great example of silly lyrics working in the favour of the song.-
Yeah, my husband loves Dark Tranquility. One of his favourite memories of both 70000 tons cruises is from the first one when he was at the Dark Tranquility show up the front and the singer screamed right in his face. 😛
Oh, speaking of the cruises, http://www.bargetohell.com/ may be more to your taste. 70000 tons of metal organisers branching out and doing a heavier-only cruise.
And yeah our tastes may be a bit different. 😛 I tend to like epic things though. Epic music, epic games, epic books, epic movies….
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Hai Guys!
Thought i might drop by and see how everyone is doing! 😀
so….
How is everyone doing!?!?
I haven’t bought ANY games on the steam sale, and i’m not going to! (Aside from Jo and Beavwa each gifting me a game – thanks again guys, you’re awesome!) – BUT i did spend almost $50 on some new paints, weathering pigments and a couple of other bits and pieces.
It would seem i have the painting bug again!
I’m part of the way through a corpse cart – look how disgusting this thing looks! 😀
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=411815685522855&set=a.411110682260022.82522.270825842955174&type=3&theater
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OH!!!
I ALSO WENT AND SAW FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS ON SATURDAY NIGHT!!
ARJ BARKER WAS THE SUPPORT ACT!
THEY WERE ALL FUCKING AMAZING!!!My life now feels that much more whole,..
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YOU! Your’e still alive!!! 😀
SPACE MAURINE was on sale on steam recently for $12…I didn’t buy it.
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PLAY IT, MAN!
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!
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Oh man, I’d love to be able to paint miniatures again – I have 0 space. That cart is looking good.
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You and me both.
I have a temp setup on my dining room table
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Hey, they are playing twister. Nice job so far
Dear internet:
Complaining about things or situations that are shit when there’s no good reason that they’re shit aside from incompetence, stupidity or laziness does not make the complainer ‘entitled’.
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It seems the definition of entitlement is becoming blurred these days. Self-entitlement typically refers narcissistic beliefs, yes. But that doesn’t make the person entitled, you’re right.
I think a line needs to be drawn between “entitlement” and “self-entitlement”.
I’m entitled to my opinion, though that doesn’t mean it’s right 😛The idea that gamers are entitled is misleading. The “gamers” this refers to are (I would envisage) the self-entitled 12yo playing CoD on XBL, spamming the voice-chat with all manner of obscenities they’ve just learned last week.
I always have a pang of confusion when reading that I’m part of an entitled group.
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I assume you’ve been to Gizmodo today, I wrote a paragraph explaining how I feel but decided not to post. Futile. 😛
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One of my comments was deemed innapropriate :S
OOPS!
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I am indeed talking about the crying child at the bottom of the page.
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When I first read this post I thought you were referring to one of the commentors
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I hope this Monday finds you well!
Any one here import Nike+ Fuelband? If so, thoughts?
Ok, so write up definitely won’t be done any time soon. I’m barely to day 3 out of 30 and I still have to link in photos etc. I think I’m gonna do it a country at a time, keep everyone in suspense. I should have Iceland ready to go for tomorrow. And don’t worry Powalen, you’ll still be getting your multi-page epic – Its already on its 4th page in Word. Don’t even want to think about how long it will look like on TAY.
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I like the one post per country idea.
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Prepare to beat my total word count for the past month in one post!
Dear steam,
I kindly suggest you stop flaunting your stuff at me… I frankly can’t afford any of your offerings and for each game I turn down I cry myself to sleep… So put some decent clothes on and stop offering me things…
Regards
Me
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I hear there’s a sale on.
You should check it out.
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There’s a sale on… You should buy me everything cause you love me and pinkie pie demands it!
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Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head. Made my way down stairs, and drank a cup. Looking up, I noticed I was late. Found my coat, and grabbed my hat, made the bus, in seconds flat. Found my way upstairs and had a smoke, then somebody spoke and I went in to a dream….
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Broke free of time loop?
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Also, watch it. You may find that your house burns down and you fall through the floor.
Smokin’s bad, mmkay?
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Woo I had to catch up on TAY for the first time in ages!
Hmmm random thoughts :)… (feel free to ignore)
Thanks for the L4D2/Killing Floor help. I’ll look into L4U when the download finishes and hopefully we can start up some co-op funtimes ASAP. This is my first Steam sale and my first sale with the TAYbies. Man you guys are amazing 😀 <3. So many gifts! This is also the first sale where I've really started to use my PC (I had a really bad graphics card until a few months ago) so I got to catch up on some pretty good PC games as well as cheap games I never picked up on consoles.
I was playing some MGS3 (HD collections) before and I think I've nearly finished it! I was playing a bit before lunch and it just carried on and on, cutscene after cutscene and I was getting really hungry :P. Sometimes I'll 'accidentally' finish games when I don't think I'm near the end when I actually am. Luckily it wasn't a huge string of big events and there was a 'calm' sort of section that allowed me to save and quit. I've been doing well this SGM, probably beat around 5 or so games already :).
I posted in last TAY that I missed the deadline to respond to this email I received (based on my "high academic performance" about a scholarship. I sent an email anyway on Saturday and they replied today saying it wasn't too late to apply so I'll probably do that later this week :). I guess I'm fairly smart but boy oh boy I have a bad work ethic :P. I'm fairly lazy when it comes to academic stuff and I've been extremely lazy in terms of Uni, I really have no idea how my grades are so good… The scholarship sounds kind of boring (something about IBM, uh I dunno…) but the main thing is that the scholarship will give me $36,000 over two years! (sounds like a lot to me but I dunno :P). I MUST GET THIS SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE MONEY SO I CAN, AND WILL BUY ALL THE TAYBIES, ALL THE GAMES.
KOTAKU HAS A NEW COMPETITION Z0MG!111!one!1! There hasn't been one in ageesssss. I think the last official one was Max Payne 3 swag? I'm not interested in the prize but good luck to those who enter! I love me some competitions and it was actually the reason I started to post in Kotaku. Back in the day I figured since there's only like 20 entries in each comp, I had a pretty good chance to win (I actually did win some!), but dat Chuloopa… gotta watch out for him!
I got my license test on Friday so hopefully I pass :). I'm a good driver but I was having a drive yesterday and 3 times people turned when there wasn't enough time, causing me to swerve and brake… c'mon people LEARN HOW TO DRIVE. I never realised how bad people were until I started driving. And for some reason I don't really want to play any games with cars or races in them cause I feel like it's making me bad :P.
Weeeee probably other stuff I didn't mention but I find typing random things helps pass the time :).
Basically (TL;DR)
– I have to get a scholarship to earn monies and buy TAYbies games
– I'd like to play some co-op games sometime soon
– You're pretty cool
– I get bored often
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Hopefully you’ll get the scholarship and pass the license test. Fingers crossed 🙂
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I can’t wait until we have Driveius to take us to all the Meats.
What is this light?
It’s far too bright for my tastes.
Also, hello.
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DON’T HEAD TOWARD THE LIGHT!!!
Of ALL the entities/deities/demigods to get accepted to pass through the pearly gates, you’re chosen?
I mean, sure, you seem to have toned it down a little, but really… The Unspeakable Horror can’t be allowed to further torment those he has destroyed aeons prior, surely?Unless God was indeed a darwinist, and has deemed you worthy of his company due to the great service you have done not unto Earth, but the entire universe. Idiocy is a plague far greater than that which we have ever known.
I guess you’re just misunderstood, Cthulhu.
Still, don’t head towards it just yet. Stay a while, I made tea.
…we’ll miss you.-
… Gates?
All I can see is a big orange ball and some white puffy things….
That orange ball isn’t important or anything, right?-
Dare you to eat it.
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My doctor suggested to lay off the spicy foods, so I think I’ll give it a miss.
You have anything else as big as that ball that’s a little less intense?
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Nah, you should be fine to snuff that out if it’s bothering you.
It only provides us with a stable foundation upon which we orbit, a nurturing light within which we may grow, and cultivate that which photosynthesizes.
Really, it’s fine.In fact, I dare say it would be fine, so long as you promised to stay in its place. Your rage is equal to that of one thousand exploding suns, so I’m certain if we simply moved back a bit, you’d make a fine substitute. We’d have to rename our planetary cluster to the Cthulhu-system, but that’s a small price to pay. The only question is, just how big are you? Is your mass roughly equivalent to our sun?
(HOLY CRAP, Cthulhu is actually our sun. The world makes sense now!)
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NNOoooooo!!!
Just Cause 2 missed out by three percent!!
Damn, I wanted to get that for $2.99!
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What is it instead?
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Dead Space 2.
Un-freaking-believable.-
Survival-horror over derpple-hook? Ugh.
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I love that the game is being called derpple hook 🙂
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I’d buy that for a dollar!
@Aleph-Null: you know, a cthulhu mythos-esque ancient being sealed inside a sun was part of the plot of Marathon Infinity. You stepped through multiple timelines trying to set things up so that the Pfhor wouldn’t deploy their device that would destroy the sun of the planet you were on and release it back into the universe…
Marathon Infinity was pretty cool.
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“Marathon Infinity, unlike Marathon 2, was originally released only for the Apple Macintosh. However, Bungie released the source for Marathon 2 in 1999, allowing the development of the open-source Aleph One engine.”
OH MY GOD. I need this, in my pants, RIGHT NOW. Also, the name of the engine they developed is rather uncanny.
That’s amazing, and sounds like such an awesome story, too! I do quite like the Cthulu-esque mythos.
Lovecraft was a brilliant writer, and the fans/associates have done so well to flesh out that particular universe.Thanks for the tip on Marathon Infinity mate!
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You can play the whole trilogy, not just infinity. Marathon 2 is probably the best of them. I’m honestly not sure how well they hold up, I still absolutely love the series but I grew up playing them. The difficulty can get quite brutal. Dunno if Aleph One supports online co-op but I’d be happy to take you through M2 at least (the other ones I don’t remember as well).
I wouldn’t recommend doing Infinity without doing M1 and M2 and then reading some of Marathon’s Story (story.bungie.org) because there’s a lot of finer details you can easily miss which will make the plot hard to follow.
Marathon was miles and miles ahead of its time. LAN multiplayer, a full mod kit with Infinity that allowed you to tweak all the physics models, create custom maps, edit the graphics and sounds and so on. Several complete fan-made scenarios were built for it that add all sorts of stuff. Some people managed to do amazing things with the level editor too. Basically it was around just as the internet was gaining momentum and there wasn’t much else out there on Mac so it gained a very strong cult following.
The really interesting thing for me was how similar Halo ended up being, especially the multiplayer. That slower, more deliberate pacing, the finely balanced weapons, the weapons themselves and even several of the original MP maps are straight out of Marathon. Undervalued classic.
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@Beavwa
added you to the Steam-o-tron.
Your steam recommendation of Portal is word-for-word exactly my recommendation of Portal 2. I think we were destined to become test buddies!
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Oh, It’s because Valve told us to. Well, I guess we can still be test buddies – we’ll be very good at following orders.
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So I took the order a little literally on that review. I’m looking forward to the co-op.
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@Mawt
added you to the Steam-o-tron.
Since you already have a Portal buddy, you should buy payday and we can buddy that up-
I already have Payday (from last sale maybe???) I guess I’ll get to installing it now.
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Dead Island friends!
So apparently the PC port was pretty crappy when it first came out but since then there’s this awesome tweaking/mod thing you can download and use.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2114535
Better FOV, no more weird bright/glowy effects, no screen tearing, no sluggish mouse in menus :D. Must have for Dead Island peoples!
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Does it stop the motion sickness?
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Well motion sickness is on your end 😛
You can tweak the blur and whatnot to help prevent it though :). Just gotta mess around a bit to find something that suits you.
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I’ll have to do that at some point
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Strange … I … Thank you so much.
The one game I’ve been holding out to buy in this sale and you beat me to it.
Ever since that gift email popped up this afternoon I’ve been grinning like an idiot. I really appreciate it.
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Community Kudos is gonna be big this week. 😛
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It really is =P
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Going to have to get in early with the noms to give Serrels time to get through them all.
Especially since he likes to piece them all together to make a story, he’s going to have plenty to work with this week.-
I’ve already sent two in.
No reason for sending one in today
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I just bought Star Wars Battlefront 2 off of Steam….
Why do I feel so dirty all of a sudden?
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Because it took you this long to do so?
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And now I found out that it doesn’t work.
Fantastic…
Excuse me whilst I repeatedly punch a wall.
Reader Review:
Don’t buy Fray.
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Alright Rize, you’ve convinced me to buy it! You’re the best.
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Reverse TAY marketing at its finest!
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I was so glad when I finally received a gift copy of Secret of the Magic Crystal. That was more because I felt like people were finally accepting me, but whatever. Troll games.
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I hear Dinner Date is where it’s at.
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maaan… sooo tempted to get the ID collection on steam… so much nostalgia it makes my eyes glaze over…
Commander Keen, Doom, Quake, MOTHER FLIPPIN HEXEN!…
sigh… maybe christmas time… moving is shit expensive yo!…
on the plus side, bough saints row the third… it was cheap…
also is steam meant to be charging me US pricing atm? cause it is
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Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!
….ahem…
yeah, you should probably pick it up.-
which one the ID collection? Or Saints Row? cause Saints row is currently downloading XD… but ID Collection will have to wait, my wallet is reeling after a $15 purchase, let alone $50 😛
But man, love dat collection
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I was going to say both, but whatever floats your boat. 😀
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Doom 3 also has a very interesting Hexen mod. I haven’t tried it yet though it’s on my hard drive (Desura is great for installing mods).
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This article skirts very close to the edges of an important topic in regard to the OUYA. It never quite openly acknowledges it, but it’s hinted at: the Kickstarter funds are not enough to get this project off the ground. If the Kickstarter finishes and OUYA get their donation money, but fail to find some kind of external backing/support then a lot of people will have been taken for a very expensive ride.
As it currently stands, the project is backed by 38,232 people – that’s approx 0.012% of the population of the United States. I just don’t know who they’re going to take these numbers to and pitch, “The equivalent of one hundredth of one percent of America is interested in our product, but we need money to make it work. Those people have already paid us though, so if you fund our product there’s a $0 return on your support. And those people aren’t solely from the USA, so we’ll probably have to ship our product internationally, but if we make it we just might sell another couple of thousand units. At a small profit margin. But it’s okay, because it runs software, and traditionally software sales are used to cover the margin gap in selling cheap hardware. Except our product exists on the principle of cheap and free apps, as well as an ‘open’ environment where users are encouraged to run emulation software to play pirated games.” and get a positive response.
Anyway, I feel like I’m ranting about this a little, so stop me if you’ve heard this one before, otherwise, what are your thoughts? Am I alone in thinking this is like a car crash in slow motion?
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I personally do not see it working, at least in their time frame. They have to mass produce a console, design their controllers, mass produce their controllers, create an infrastructure to digitally distribute games, create an infrastructure for user accounts and payments in what, 8 months? Good luck.
If they also are looking for external funding, in addition to having received 4 times their kickstarter goal, all that tells me is that they don’t really know what they are doing.
BUT my biggest problem for it is: who will make games? A lot of articles criticising this have all brought up my main concern. It’s meant to be open, moddable, hackable. Would piracy not run rampant then? Wouldn’t it only take a matter of weeks before piracy flows? Then who would bother making games for it? Not to mention the idea of anyone being able to make and submit their own games already exists, and doesn’t really work well. Both the App Store and XBLIG are flooded with shovelware and my-first-tech-demo type games.
My first reaction to it was, “Hey, cool!”, but that lasted for about 5 seconds. I’m hoping for the backers sake that it doesn’t blow up and fail miserably, but i cannot see this ending well. I think sound really condescending and cynical about this entire thing, but really, I have no reason to think that this’ll end well.
Beavwa! Thanks heaps for Dear Esther!!
And… the horse game… o_o
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Hahaha the horse game…
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Dear Esther is a really cool game. All you do is walk and listen, but I still enjoyed it
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Horse game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ha Ha, I got the horse game as well. Thanks Beavwa
Finally linked my bank account with my parent’s paypal account. Of course I had to ‘test’ it, so I bought Cave Story and World of Goo. They’re both smaller than I expected them to be, so I’m downloading them both right now 😀
Was hoping that I could finish Half Life 2: Episode 2 and Costume Quest this weekend.
That didn’t happen. Had dinner with my parents last night (yesterday still counted as the weekend for me) and then went straight to bed with a massive headache. I’m fairly sure the two details aren’t entirely related.
Managed to finish HL2: Ep2 before I went though. Just not Costume Quest. Going to play some more of that tonight.
@Greenius: Did you end up going on your Dinner Date last night? ;D
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Finished this morning!
If I do it now would it be wrong? (being breakfast time and all :P)
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Whoops! “Finished” as in finished downloading 😛
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And here I was thinking you were up all night Dining!
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Bish would have been so proud
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STRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANGE! YOU’RE AWESOMEANDILOVEUUUUUUUUUUU
*superginormous ferret hug*
Woke up this morning and sat down at my computer only to find that Strange had gifted me Terraria… DAY = MADE
Oh my, I seem to be waking up to more and more great examples of kindness. Thank you for the gifts Beavwa. He sent me a copy of Metro 2033. METRO 2033 PEOPLE!! I have been looking at that game, wishing for it for months now. Great way to start the day.
When I get a job you people are going to be showered in gifts. I promise.
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When I get a job you people are going to be showered in gifts. I promise.
My promise too! But only if I have enough money to live myself 😛
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Ha Ha, of course I have to leave some money for living expenses.
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MIRRORS EDGE IS $2.50! GOGOGOGOGOGO! EVERYONE!
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YES!
Everyone do exactly this.
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But no one has got Lollipop Chainsaw yet except for a select few people that are amazing examples of human kind.
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I will get it…
Eventually =P
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I have Lollipop Chainsaw, and it is awesome.
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Lollipop Chainsaw isn’t $2.50!
I’ll get it when it’s in the ~$15 range
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As a sidenote, I have multiple gift copies of this game now.
If you start to make excuses, I will guilt you into playing it.
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It’s so good!
DICE! I want a sequel!
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Cannot send gifts through the iPhone app /o\
It bugs out of me when I try to write the message to send as a gift.
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Such a good game, make EVERYONE play it!
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Just grabbed Scribblenauts and started playing it for the first time. I’m loving it. It asked me to provide some items for a gangs heist and it recognized “corrupt cop” as a valid choice. Nice.
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i do love scribblenauts, only problem i had was the horridly broken controls sometimes, making timed stuff almost impossible
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You spelt Psychonauts wrong
Freeze used Purchase Steam Game!
TAY is confused.
Freeze used Flee.
Freeze got away.
Freeze recieved 0XP.
Oh no!
Both Nob and Beavwa gifted me dear Esther D=
So I have a free copy to give away, anyone want it?
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I’ll take it. I’d never heard of the game until today but after reading about it on the Steam store page it sounds interesting.
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2 friends (TAYbies) have it on my wishlist, you and NotoriousR, so try sending him a message (he’s NotoriousR on Steam)
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Or give it to Dire Wolf heh (your message wasn’t there when I wrote the comment!)
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If he’s got it on his wishlist I’d rather he gets a copy then me. Send it to him Scree.
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Well today’s not off to a good start, i’m rather sick for some weird fucking reason (sore throat allergies playing up feeling off in the stomach) & I just read Jon Lord of Deep Purple passed away which is really sad since he was the man who pioneered keyboard in rock & metal music.
So batmang melbourne meat.
Is anyone planning this at all? Has it been called off?
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lol who knows, NegZero said he might do it if Notty doesn’t (doesn’t seem like he is).
Beavwa said that IMAX tickets were $25 and it’s getting late now so I assume it’ll be hard to get them as well. I’m cool with just going to see it in a normal cinema, or not at all and just Game Masters it… or with no meat at all 😛
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You down in Melbourne this weekend Doc? Does that mean you won’t be at Rockets’ birthday on Friday?
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Happy Sweet Sixteen Rockefeller!
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yep and nope.
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Anyone have anything in particular they want to win in the next Steam community vote? I don’t know what to vote for as I have DRHX and Skyrim and aren’t interested in MW3.
In sorta related news, I’m upping my Steam sale budget by $20. A few things there today I’m gonna pick up, Dear Esther, KOTOR, Amnesia! So many bargains.
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KotOR! Dooo iiiiiiiiitttt!
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Only 50% off Skyrim is a little disappointing, it should be 75% same with Call of Duty
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Or 50% off so it’s close enough to other region’s prices 😛
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Oh so true..
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I got the bethseda pack instead, figured with all the brink playdates going on it was worth it
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A word of warning, KOTOR doesn’t play well with Vista or Windows 7. If you’ve got either of those you’ll either have to search around for some mods to get it to work or disable cinematics. It’s also worth downloading the mod that lets you up the games resolution to widescreen.
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Yeah, using Windows 7 over here. Thanks for the heads up!
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That’s odd, I don’t think I ever ran into any problems with it.
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Expect Crysis in a few weeks Lambo 😉
So I bought the Fear pack. I regret nothing.
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So you, show no fear…
BEAVWA!
You’re too generous. 😛 You’re not allowed to Steam gift two games at once! That’s cheating! Thank you for Mirrors Edge though. As for Secret of the Magic Crystal Horse Game… thanks? haha
But seriously, that was very kind of you. (Also, get Twitter :P)
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My community feed is full of people now owning Mirror’s Edge. This is a good thing.
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Yeah. I was going to be responsible for that. Have a few copies sitting around to send out, managed to only send out two.
Good to see someone else has done it.
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Except that leaves you with several spare copies just floating around. 😛
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Oh what a terrible burden!
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Are just about all Steam games on sale at some discount? Or just some? Can’t get to steam at the moment but been eyeing off Jade Empire for a while. Can anyone check the price for me and let me know? (please don’t gift. I don’t know how to handle good deeds directed my way too well.)
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You should download the Steam App on your phone. That’s what I’ve done.
Flash sales are every 8 hours, daily deals every day.
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No Steam App for Windows Phone 7. 🙁
Which might be a good thing considering I’ve already spent about $150.
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$7.49 at the moment for the special edition. 50% off. 😀
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I WIN.
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Double curses.
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I like that we all included the same details. Good little hivemind we have here.
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It’s currently 50% off at $7.50
I don’t know if all games go on sale during these huge events, but a very significant portion of them certainly do.
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Curses the third.
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Jade Empire’s currently $7.50, which is half price.
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Curses.
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It’s $7.50 down from $15.
You can check on store.steampowered.com or as Trjn suggested, download the app.
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Dustforce isn’t discounted! /o\
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Generally, half decent games already on a ‘minor’ sale (say, 25% off) will get bumped to a better sale price.
In the case of Lambo up there, it seems unlikely that Dustforce will go on sale, though its possible.Anyway, if it doesn’t get any cheaper, there’s no harm in waiting to buy it on the last day of the sales. Most of the best prices will come out on the 22nd or whenever it ends, and it’s not like you’re going to lose anything if you wait until you buy it then.
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I hear it’s $7.50 at the moment.
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Thanks guys. I’ll probably grab it then. $7 isn’t exactly going to kill me :P.
I’d check the app but it seems I’ve forgotten my password. :S
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Wait till Sunday it you care about the chance of saving $3.75 and will remember to buy it then
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Lost on the last page, so reposting.
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fantastic video, showing off the power of the community, and not focusing on the games as much.
going to evo is on my bucket list.
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Loved that they ended on F. Champ. Always booed, revels in being the villain. Gets the big victory to prove that he is the best, gets cheered.
I’ve always been a fan of his. He’s arrogant, brash and probably not a fun guy to be around. Damn he’s entertaining to watch.
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yeah, i wanted infrit to win, but champ played better and deserved to win.
it was nice to see him get that emotional after winning, made me think a bit better of him.
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1:10 was the best part! Awesome video, man.
@Aleph-Null
What are sending it by, Pony Express or something? 😛
Thanks again Aleph! 😀
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Hey mang! I went down to the post office this morning after putting my pyjamas on, and sent it in a padded bag thing. I gave it a little kiss and a cheeky slap on the bum before I sent it on it’s way 😉
I’d expect between 3-4 weeks, although 2 wouldn’t really be out of the question.
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PS: If you happen to receive a RAT5 mouse, it means that I’ve sent the game to PC Case Gear in Victoria. Oops!
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OMG, is today my birthday? apparently so…
THANKS TIGS… For metro 3033 AND a dinner date…. wait… what are you trying to insinuate here?
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BIRTH HAPPY DAY PIXET FERRET KING OF THE VI
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well to be honest, it’s not actually my birthday, but i feel as though it is… People just gift me things today… the generosity of TAY is overwhelming… YOU’RE AN AWESOME COMMUNITY TAY!
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I’m not trying to insinuate anything.
And on a completely unrelated note, when are you down in Melbourne * wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
@Scree, and anyone that may have been witness to whatever I attempted to say on Twitter last night.
But mostly to Scree.
…I’m sorry :S
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Great. Now she is going to start apologizing. WHAT HAVE TOU DONE?!
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Why did I have to drag Tou into it? The poor guys suffered enough already.
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Bahahahahahaha.
Those tweets were fantastic.
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Ha Ha, those tweets. Wow
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Hahahaha!
With all the giving and what not, it has inspired me to tell my tale….
Somehow I ended up with an extra copy of Dead Island sitting in my Steam account, I was gifted it about 6 months ago and some how that one copy became two… so I guess who wants to try and see I can gift it onward?!
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The gifts, they’re multiplying!
Sometimes giving away things is really hard on TAY :P, any of your friends have it on their wishlist?
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Nah, everyone I know has it already, which is why it is still sitting in my gift collection!
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I’ve always wanted to try that game, so I’d really appreciate it, if it’s still going!
Steam name is McGarnical.I have some inventory items which I’d be happy to give in return: Greed Corp, Limbo, SPAZ, Trine, Trine 2, Blur. Let me know if you want any of those games!
Dyad is out this week on PSN I think, but no one is even going to notice it thanks to Steam.
A while ago, I wanted to do a Let’s Play of Mirror’s Edge. Now that I’ve gifted some people copies and will be gifting more people more copies, I have a cunning plan.
Four player race.
Four people start playing together, each recording their side of the action. We all get on TeamSpeak together and record ourselves as we race.
At the end, I’ll compile it all together to be a bit like this Battletoads race. Just less insane.
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YES!
I am so up for that.Every time you miss a jump/get shot take a drink.
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In that case, only those who live near a hospital can apply. As there will definitely be some alcohol poisoning occurring.
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But there’s no hospital on the Eylandt /o\
And the medical centre closes at 4pm!-
then you had better get alcohol poisoning in the AM.
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I should mention that if this happens at all, it probably wouldn’t be recorded until later this year. Need to give those taking part a chance to beat the game and whatnot.
If I can find participants that can record the game in 720p and be on TeamSpeak while doing it.
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How do you go about recording it? The only experience I’ve had with screencapture was some POS about 4 years ago. Can’t exactly remember the name of it.
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Xsplit or Fraps would probably be the way to go.
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I could be up for this as I have fraps
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Mirror’s Edge has multiplayer? :O
I sent a message on Steam but in case you didn’t see it (probably unlikely to see this too), if you really need help getting rid of those gift copies I wouldn’t mind one. BUT I already have (or had, a friend borrowed but hasn’t returned) Mirror’s Edge on Xbox and I’ve already finished it. I’d rather someone else get to experience first so put me very low on the gift giving list.
You mentioned something about it looking very pretty on PC because of DX11 and since I got a new graphics card (Twin Frozr II buddies!) I wouldn’t mind testing it out to see how pwetty it is, and also play through it again, but this time using guns to make it a less frustrating experience for a first run 😛
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No he wants to do a single player race with four people 🙂
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Oh!
I wouldn’t be able to partake then as I have no recording software :P, but that’s not to say I can’t “acquire” some :/
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You would also have to speak :p
Not actually doing a casting call yet. Just had the idea and thought I’d see if others liked it.
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I might have a mic by Saturday!
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Work is ridiculously dead so I’ve started engraving extremely poorly formed Kanji into my lighter.
I just received an email from Richard Wang.
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Is that a result of poor name creation on a spambot, or just really cruel parents?
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It’s legit.
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There’s a real estate agent near me who’s named Dick Payne. It’s on all the For Sale signs.
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I *actually* went to school with a Wayne Kerr.
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I also speak occasionally with a Robin Mycock.
Melbourne Fronds: How would people be placed for meating on Saturday or Sunday evening weekend after next (28th or 29th) for Batmangs, with optional afternoon Games Masters & Dinner beforehand? Thinking that weekend rather than this upcoming one since it’s a bit late notice given that it’s already Tuesday. Need show of interest, which elements of the event you’re interested in and which days.
Most likely we’ll do a normal cinema (probably Crown?) rather than IMAX as it’s a bit easier to handle but if people were really up for IMAX we could do that instead, but would probably need to pre-book tickets.
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P.S. Other state Tayfronds who may be in our superior city are also invited to participate.
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I will not be available that weekend, but if others are free go for it because otherwise nothing will get done.
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Yeah I guess I’m free but can’t say for sure (doubt I’ll have anything too important though since it’ll just be the first week of Uni)
I’m pretty sure Doc What? is down in Melb this weekend though which is why people wanted a push for this week.
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Batmang is one of the reason’s I’m coming down this weekend for this is the weekend announced as the date of the meat!
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Well I am free this weekend if we can organise it
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Sunday is always the best day for me, no work at all. If Saturday is better for the vast majority, I can try and get the night off work.
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Can do Sunday early, but I gotta catch a flight back to Syd at 5
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If it was on Sunday the 29th, I would very much like to attend.
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I can’t make it this weekend.
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Frond! \o/
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Quite well.
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Fellow coloured square frond!
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People remember me!
Hello!
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I am also quite well. 🙂
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Late notice? I booked my flights ages ago for the 21st :/
Okay so how about this weekend then? It sounds like it might actually work out better in terms of availability for people.
I should be available to come along 🙂
Thanks Bish, I can feel the manliness of motorised vehicular sports flowing into me already
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TESTOSTERONE
WE SHOULD BE MANLY AND CHEST BUMP
ALSO MAKE CASEY STONER PUNS-
Maybe but we are doing so well, maybe we should quit while we are ahead
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Welcome one and all to NovaCascade’s Scandinavian Saga, Jelly-inducing Write Up. Hopefully all the picture links will work and I won’t bore you all to tears. Without further ado, let’s roll film:
– I flew out from Sydney at 2:25pm on the 15th June 2012. Having had previous trips where I needed to be at the airport by 5am, getting to sleep in and get there at around 11:30 is a much better idea.
– When I boarded the plane I thought I was lucky enough to have a spare seat next to me. Right up until about 2 mins before they closed the doors. I swear that guy must have been the last one to board.
– While I was watching the map of our flight, I noticed a town in Indonesia called Monado. XENOBLADE \o/
– One bad thing about having to fly all the way around the world – Its winter here. Its summer in Scandinavia but still not hot. Having to change flights in Hong Kong meant I was damn near dying from overheating, despite the air conditioning.
– The flight from Hong Kong to Helsinki was very good. I was sitting next to a guy from Sweden who had worked for CCP Games, the developers of EVE Online. We had a good chat about the industry and all the things that go with it. Turns out even Sweden has heard of our issues getting an R18+ rating passed.
– 9 hour layovers are stupid. I can know honestly say I’ve seen more of Helsinki airport than I ever wished. I’m sure the store workers thought I was mad. I would sit down somewhere for an hour or so, then get up and walk a lap of the airport, go sit somewhere else, then an hour later, get up and do it all again.
– It’s also sad that the flight into Reykjavik, on the smallest plane, with the smallest airline, and the shortest time, was the one with the most legroom.
– Got to my hostel (which used to be a biscuit factory apparently) and immediately collapsed in bed about 8pm. I’d been awake for close to 40 hours at this point, and could tell I would have trouble sleeping. Being so far north (almost to the Arctic Circle) and in the middle of summer, it never gets dark here. The sun only sets for about 3 hours. Thankfully all the hotels have blackout curtains to shut off most of the light, but I think one of my dorm mates came home drunk at some point during the night and opened then. Consequently I woke up at around 4am the next morning.
– On my exploration of the city, I walked down the full length of Laugervegur, the main tourist street. I looked in many souvenir shops, had dinner in the oldest cafe in town, and ate a sweaty burger (not sure bad joke or bad translation). I also bypassed the Icelandic Phallological Museum, Sorry Chuloopa 🙂
– My first day in Reykjavik turned out to be their Independence Day. Icelanders are very proud of their Independence. A few years ago they held a referendum about joining the European Union. Over 96% of people voted against it. When have you ever heard of a country being so united in an opinion? In any case, the Icelanders certainly know how to through a party. There were parades, concerts, people in strange troll/elf costumes (part of their local folklore), a vintage car show, jumping castles and rock climbing walls for the kids, food stalls coming out of their ears. Anything you could possibly think of. Except for Lambo, he could probably think of things I don’t even want to know about.
– One thing that did catch my eye was a street called “Brynjolfsgata”. Skyrim fans, please do not add the word Belt to the end of that name, it’s not pleasant to think about. (You’re doing it now, I can tell)
– Also, a local Icelander recognised my Mass Effect N7 hoody that I was wearing. At least I’m assuming they did, they were the only words I picked out of the conversation of 2 teenagers walking down the street.
– On my last night in Reykjavik before my friends and I started our self-drive tour, the hostel closed off the bar and surrounding areas. Apparently Tom Cruise was in town filming a new movie and had decided to throw a party at our hostel. Yeah, I don’t get it either. Why in a youth hostel of all places? Anyway, I never actually saw him so it may all been rumours and hearsay.
– Picked up the car from the tour office and head to our first destination – Thingvellir National Park and the Silfra dive site, right on the Mid Atlantic ridge where the European and North American Plates are splitting apart. Had a bit of trouble finding the place we were supposed to meet the dive company. Apparently the National Park Information Centre and the Tourist Information Centre are 2 different places. Who knew? Worked out ok, as we were leaving the wrong place, the dive company van drove past heading to the right place. It was very much a case of quickly jumping in the car and yelling “FOLLOW THAT VAN!!” It almost felt like a movie.
– Once we got kitted up with thermals, woollen polar suits and drysuits, I felt like the Michelin man. We needed it though. The water we were snorkelling in was barely 4 degrees. The upshot is that because it’s all sourced from glacial melts and filtered through the volcanic rocks over the course of years or decades to reach the site, the water is ridiculously clear. You can see on forever. Officially the visibility is up to 100m horizontally, but that’s only because that’s the longest straight line in this area. There’s very little life here, only algae and a few fish can survive the cold, but despite that, it’s an incredible place to snorkel. The rocks were very interesting to me as a former Geology student and once we got around into the lagoon, well see for yourself. Even with next to no wildlife it was one of the most beautiful places I’ve seen.
– Next stop around the Golden Circle was Geysir, the original after which all other geysers were named. The actual geyser at Geysir only goes off after earthquakes, so for good or ill we didn’t see it going. But there’s another geyser called Strokkur that goes off every 7-10 minutes. It’s a bit different to Old Faithful in the USA in that it’s usually a single blast (rather than continuously for 10 mins or so) up to 30m high. Tried to get artistic with some photos of the run-off area, and started a trend. A couple of other people started copying me after I tried.
– Gullfoss (The Golden Waterfall) was an amazing place. It also was a good reminder of why some people prefer not to travel on a tour. We sat there for a good couple of hours. It was nice to just sit and watch the world go by, rather than arrive in a coach and be told “Right, you have 7 minutes and 43 seconds to be back. Hop to it.”
– Rather than follow a lot of said coaches, we decided to take the back roads to our accommodation at Hvolsvollur. On the way we came across some people out for a horse ride. Icelandic horses are quite unique compared to the rest of the world. Whether through breeding or training, Icelandic horses have a 5th gait or speed, between a canter and gallop. It still has a lot of speed, but it is so stable that the rider barely moves in the saddle.
– We had a bit of trouble finding the Guesthouse we were staying at. The GPS that the tour company have supplied hadn’t been updated in a while, and so a lot of roads either had no names or just plain didn’t exist (according to the GPS). It also shows how dependant on technology we are when you can get lost in a town with 6 streets and barely 30 buildings
– Next day found us booked on a super jeep tour. Or should I say a monster truck tour. That thing was huge. Still, I’m glad we had it. We drove out to Gigajokull and it was like we were on the moon. Gigajokull was where the floodwaters came from when Eyjafjallajokull (yes I can pronounce it now) erupted in 2010. In front of the glacier used to be a rather large lagoon but now it’s almost completely filled in with ash, rocks and other debris. There are also a lot of sinkholes on the road. When the volcano erupted a lot of ice chunks were covered by the ash and rocks. Over time the ice melted, and the ground gave way when people drive over the top of them. Quite a few of the super jeeps got damaged by discovering new sinkholes.
– Also stopped at two incredible waterfalls – Seljilandsfoss and Skogarfoss. The amount of water coming over the falls and the sheer power they had was incredible. I took a couple of short videos and may put them up on youtube at some point. You can walk behind Seljilandsfoss, which we did. Although due to the wind that was blowing we got absolutely drenched by the spray. I could actually see better without my glasses on, which considering how blind I am is a big statement.
– The last stop for the day was a beach on the south coast called Skogarsandur. I want you to picture the stereotypical Australian beach. Now take everything about it, and make it the opposite and you have an idea what Skogarsandur looked like. Black sand, cold, raining, windy, no waves. Basically everything that could be “wrong” with a beach, but it was still interesting to look at.
– We stopped for the night in Eyrarbakki. Not only did it have the most comfortable bed on the whole trip, it also has the distinction of being one of the northernmost points on the planet from you can travel due south and not reach land until Antarctica. Also ran into the first of nine lookalikes on the trip. The first one was looked like my old high school history teacher. At dinner one of my friends bought a beer that Freyr might be interested in…
– I’m trying to avoid making this sound like “We went here and saw this” but sometimes it’s hard. The next day saw us on the ferry across to the Vestmannaeyjar (Westmann Islands). Had a bit of trouble getting on board, we didn’t know we had to swap our voucher for tickets before we could get the car on board. Luckily the staff were very patient and helpful. They must be used to dealing with idiot tourists.
– Visited the “Pompeii of the North”. In 1973 an eruption of the volcano Eldafell buried a number of houses under 10m of ash and rocks that are still being excavated today. The eruption added nearly a third again to the area of the island. Thankfully everyone was evacuated before the eruption really got going so there were only a few minor injuries.
– Despite having a car, someone had the bright idea of climbing a mountain on foot. I say mountain, but it was really just a hill. 227m high, but it certainly didn’t look that big from the bottom. But despite being atrociously unfit, I still made it to the top. See, I even had the energy to celebrate. The view was great, and you could easily see where the new land from the Eldafell eruption joins the older part of the island.
– On the southernmost part of the island are the nests of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of puffins. They come back to these islands every year to breed, and the local hunting clubs take full advantage. Because their wings are more suited for swimming, puffins are not very agile in the air, making them easy targets for capture. Every year hundreds of puffins are killed for their meat which is considered a local delicacy in neighbouring islands. These hunts are closely monitored by the Icelandic government so they don’t go overboard. There’s even a puffin hospital on the island to help younger puffins recover after they come into town, attracted by the bright lights and are hit by cars or attacked by dogs. Sometimes they even make friends while they are there.
– On the way back to Reykjavik we joined up with a tour group to go inside a volcano. This one is even more unpronounceable than Eyjafjallajokull. Its name is Thrihnukagigur. It was about an hour’s walk to get out to the crater across a huge field of jagged basalt debris and surprisingly springy moss. It felt like it would be quite comfortable to sleep on, if you could find a patch large enough. We got kitted out with helmets and harnesses before walking up to the elevator at the top of the crater. It would take us down 120m into the magma chamber (conveniently drained hundreds of years ago). I’m not a huge fan of heights so I was freaking out a bit on the ride down, especially when the crater got really narrow and the elevator jerked to a stop before the operator could switch to slow speed. But once the chamber opened up all of that went away. The chamber itself was around 100m across and a good 50m high. But the biggest thing was the colours. So much yellow and red and black in the rocks. They had it all lit up with floodlights so we could see. It was just mind-blowing. I don’t want to say it was the best thing we did, because so much of this trip was amazing, but it was damn close.
– After a full on week of activity, our last stop before my friends went back to the airport was the Blue Lagoon. A huge geothermal hot spring. It was just what we needed at the end of all that rushing around, a chance to just lie back in the hot water and relax. When the girls had to go back to the airport I went back into Reykjavik, I was staying on for an extra day before heading to Finland. Back at the hostel I got chatting with a few of my dormmates and ended up going out for the night with them. They all drank quite a bit while I sat in the corner and was surly. Bish would have been proud 🙂 Ok not really, but it was still a good night out. Met some really interesting people including two gay guys from Germany and Florida. Two of the most hilarious people I have ever met. In the end I got back to hostel around 2:30, still with bright sunshine, or at least not darkness. What is this madness?
– It was probably a bad idea staying out so late, because I had to be on the shuttle bus to the airport at 5 the next morning. To make up for this terrible planning, fate decided to entertain me by making me see lookalikes two and three. The second was a girl I went to school with. But the third was our very own Doc_What. Yes that’s right folks, in between recording podcasts, showing up at meats and being a generally awesome guy Doc_What also works at the baggage drop off counter in Reykjavik International Airport.
– After entering the country on a plane named after Eyjafjallajokull (all of IcelandAir’s planes have volcanic names) I was to leave on a plane named after Katla. And heaven help us when it decides to blow its top.
Thus concludes part one of NovaCascade’s Scandinavian Saga. Stay tuned for part II, coming soon to a website near you.
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I did warn you….
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Just be thankful I decided to break it up by country, just imagine the wall of text that would have resulted if I put it all in one
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That was an awesome read man, when/where’s part deux?
Some of those photos are truly spectacular.
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Part The Second is for Finland and should be out in the next day or two. Norway will follow after that
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As much as I like you dude, I hate you just that little bit.
Holy crap. Skeleton Jelly.
How awesome is Iceland?
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Incredibly awesome. I reckon its knocked Mongolia off the perch of my favourite country I’ve visited, which I thought would never happen.
Good call of Cafe Loki too, that place was really good
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Yeah, it rocked my socks.
Glad you enjoyed it.
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Great write-up and awesome pictures, man. My friend went to Iceland a few weeks back and had nothing but nice things to say. Was apparently spectacular.
Man, that looks awesome. Also, I now want to go abseiling at the Golden Waterfall.
Don’t question it.
Awesome write-up man, even if I did have to take a break and come back during lunch to finish it.
Looking forward to the second part and hoping the advance the story and don’t just make it a rehash of the first one
Wow, that sounds so fun. I read he whole thing and looked at all the photos and It looks and sounds fantastic. Can’t wait to read the rest
Holy crap man, I’m so jelly…
Can’t wait for the next part and YAY for pics with working links :D!
Oh wow 18 friends now have Secret of the Magic Crystals
Beavwa look what you’ve done!
Melbourne TAYbies!
DKR at IMAX Saturday times: 11:00am, 2:10pm, 5:20pm, 8:30pm, 11:50pm
I’m booking my tickets soon so who’s joining us?
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I’ll go.
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This Saturday? If so then yes 🙂
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If this Saturday, then me. I’ll put my vote in for 5:20pm
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Games Masters beforehand?
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Probably not for me, I’ll have work in the morning. But I can meet you guys there or at IMAX
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I vote this too
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This is cool with me as well.
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Sounds good for me.
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Is it worth putting out The Call on the Twits?
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5:20 I guess!
You’re not able to purchase student tickets are you? Otherwise I’d just pay $25 :P. I’m keen for Game Masters/dinner and whatnot so is there anything else planned?
Pretty sure I’m free 🙂
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I’d be happy to go to Games Masters beforehand and if we hit the 5:20 session for the Batmangs I’d think maybe dinner afterward?
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What time?
Here in my car ,I feel safest of all, I can lock all my doors, It’s the only way to live, in cars.
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So true Gary, so true.
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This is the best post in the entirety of TAY.
Which session? Aim for the 8:30pm session and do dinner first, or aim for the 5:20 and do dinner after?
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Reply fail 🙁
Age of Empires III – Can anyone recommend it?
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Yup
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Definitely. Come for the strategy, stay for the incredibly good theme song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfeWX-rE-dA
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I find it hard to attribute any value to that game, after buying it for ten cents. So I haven’t played it, but maybe I should.
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Nowhere near as good as AoE2(for a myriad of reasons), but still a good game.
So, “literature” discussion for those that have read it:
50 Shades is pretty much the worst series of books ever. The writing is below a year 10 level of competences, and there is an over-reliance on the repetition of some key terms.
Also: why does everyone murmur at all times?
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Apparently most of my office has been reading it.
I’m rather glad that they think it’s hilarious to exclude me from conversations about it by joking that I’m too young and innocent.
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It’s hilarious that you’re not a lonely middle aged woman?
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Indeed, you’re not a 29yo “multi-bajillionaire” dom.
I’d be surprised if they were reading it *at* work. It’s essentially porn.
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I wouldn’t on the basis they they have no trouble at all reading it on public transport
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I saw one of the flight attendants reading 50 shades of Grey, and all I could think was “hey, someone with a book I’m not familiar with! I wonder what it’s like…”
I take it I should go read Twilight instead?
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Considering 50 Shades is essentially Twilight fan-fiction…yeah.
Twilight was terrible for other reasons, but at least the writing wasn’t so awful.
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Whathisface’s incandescent skin begs to differ.
*has not read any Twilight*
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that’s funny, because i describe twilight as a twelve year olds self-insertion fan fiction…
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Pretty much.
There’s that much transfer of the author’s life/desires onto the female main that it’s frightening. What’s even worse is the level of Mary Sue-ing that crops up as the series progresses.
I yelled at the book a few times.
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A lesson to writers every where, why have quality when you can have porn. 😛
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Pretty much the motto of my life “Not sure what to do? Porn.”
Works wonders outside of the workplace. Not so great in the office though.
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Oh I beg to differ!
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Isn’t it just the worst thing ever written for women, why do they like it so much?
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Note: I haven’t actually read it, but from what I can gather, it’s pretty much rape.
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I haven’t either but from what I have heard it is more along the lines of consensual domination, which is what she actively seeks out.
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Shane posted a link to a review on twitter that I think sums up the book nicely :
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/340987215-
also, NSFW language & lots of stupid gifs in that link.
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Hank Scorpio makes up for it though.
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Ha Ha. That review is really cool. I haven’t read the book but it sounds terrible.
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You should read the sequel to it called 50 Shades of Gravy. It’s very saucy.
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Don’t forget the third title in the trilogy: 50 Shades of Hay. It’s a real barn-burner.
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I also say 50 Shades of Ray… everybody seems to love it.
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The popularity of it makes me sad. I’d understand if it was popular because people were laughing at it but it seems many, many people out there legitimately like it. I haven’t actually read it, so I’m not really in a place to say anything about it, but from what I’ve heard it’s terribly written. Ignoring that though, the submissiveness of the female protagonist is what really gets me. Now having a submissive female character is fine. Having the story focus on that character is fine. Enjoying reading it is fine. Fantasizing about it is fine. The fact that so many women seem to be fantasizing about it though just makes me… disappointed, I guess. Far be it from me to criticize anyones fetishes but it saddens me that so many women want to take on a submissive role and the whole idea of treating a woman like she’s less than you just disgusts me.
I didn’t think it was possible but Oporto has just proved to me that bacon can taste terrible.
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Truly, they are the greatest evil force known to mankind.
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They must get it from the same place they source their buns
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And all of their other ingredients.
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The only conclusion I can come to is that it wasn’t actually bacon.
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What was it? Long pig? Because I don’t much care for that.
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Soy bean protein? Ham? Cardboard? Who could tell
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More Melbourne Batmang Meat Stuff
Anyone who’s interested, shoot me an email – cronotriggr [at] gmail [dot] com
and I’ll start a group email so we can work out the deets better.
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mail’d
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Done
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Done done donedone done donedone…
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Not really done, just wanted to type out the Imperial March, even if the Bat theme would have been more appropriate.
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All I was thinking was the wedding march.
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You have to include Kultar and Techie’s responses.
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That would’ve worked if Klutar and I said “Nah” 😛
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Carrier pigeon away
Done
Thanks to Greenius for letting me know about this.
I haven’t been on TAY much lately… so busy
The mac mouse’s scrollwheel is too small.
Also, hi everyone.
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HOLA!
POLITICS ARE FUN!
I may have just cost three people, along with myself, their employment.
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Seriously? Holy crap man.
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We’ll see how it goes. The cover’s been blown wide open on the other three.
I think I want to go work for a big conglomerate for a while anyway 😛-
Cover? ARE YOU ACTUALLY A DEBONAIR INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY?
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I’m now working for BLU. Ssshh, RED still thinks I’m an Engie.
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The fuck dude, that’s no good if so :S
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Wait, what?
SCREE! Are you going to batmang meat?
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I’ll make sure to point her this way when I see her online, if she doesn’t spot this first!
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I now envisage you sitting outside Scree’s office, wearing a pencil skirt and your hair in a bun.
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LOL, do I get a typewriter?!
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Naturally.
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I sent her the question through that new fangle short message service so I assume she will reply once she is free
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Scribblenauts is revealing things about me that probably should’ve stayed unrevealed. Needed to pop a piñata at a birthday party. My first solution was to set up a nuke under the piñata then start giggling when all the party guest start running around with their arms in the air and screaming.
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What that says to me is that you exactly like every other person who has ever played Scibblenauts… Ever
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I wouldn’t say that, my solution to everything was “Harness” “Pterodactyl” and if all else failed, “Cthulhu.”
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Ok, so maybe it was just me then
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You called?
Sorry I’m late.
That big orange ball you call “Sun” doesn’t seem to like me very much.
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That was my favourite level. I spawned a zombie, he infected the clown, and things went downhill from there.
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Wait, what?! This is DS only, yeah?
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Yes, though they also released Scribblenauts Remix onto iOS.
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Which is what I’m playing.
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That’s the 2nd one, right?
If anyone is thinking of picking either of them up on DS I’d just recommend getting the second one since it’s so much better (Super Scribblenauts?)
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I think it’s a mix of levels from both. Has all the adjectives in it as well. Spawn a “Tiny Melancholy Pink Lumberjack” at the start of every level. He’s my friend. plus it’s hilarious watching him slump around and fall to his knees every few seconds and scream why to the sky.
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Umm, Scribblenauts Remix, according to wikiwikiwikipedia, contains levels from both Scribblenauts, and Super Scribblenauts, as well as levels unique to iOS. Though since it’s more recent, I imagine its controls would work more like Super than Vanilla.
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The ios one is the best version to get. If you don’t have an iphone or ipod touch just get super scribblenauts(the sequel) on DS.
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But I don’t have either >.<
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Well, you could try and *wink* acquire *wink* a copy *wink* from somewhere *wink* like say, the *wink* internet.
I think I did that right. Pretty sure.
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I’m confused. Are you having a fit? Should I call a doctor?
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He’s just nervous. I’m sure the twitching will pass
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Perhaps buy Super Scribblenauts for DS, then download an emulator and ROM? Maybe? It’s not as if you’ll be playing the game without paying for it.
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Oh nevermind. Apparently during Nintendo’s conference at E3 this year they showed off Scribblenauts Unlimited, which will apparently be out for 3DS, Wii U and PC around the end of this year. So yeah, just wait till then I guess. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribblenauts:_Unlimited
Tuesday night is schnitzel night \o/
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I like the sound of this
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Wait ,people actually like eating schnitzel?
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Whoa guy, you are crazy for saying that!
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Obligatory 1990
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Wiener Schnitzel?
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Schnitzel is king! Schnitzel is the base for any pub Parma.
What could possibly be better than a good pub parmagiana?
Give me a chilli parma with chips and veg and I’m happy as a bloke who is happy. 😉-
You sir are a gentleman with exquisite tastes.
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*Parmi
There, fixed your spelling mistakes for you.
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GUESS WHAT GUYS!?
GOT MY COPY OF SPIRIT CAMERA AND PROJECT ZERO TWO~
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED
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No Lollipop Chainsaw? /o\
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I’m sorry, I will get it, it’s just not an insta-buy for me.
Especially seeing as all the copies of Spirit camera were sold before they even got into the store-
No Xenoblade? /o\
(Applies to both Freeze and Scree)
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You’ve been after them for ages haven’t you? Glad you’ve got them now 🙂
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I have all the project 0’s now!
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My copy of Max anarchy got shipped and should be here tomorrow, I am very excited
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I’m actually a bit keen to have a go at this. It looks promising.
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Post thoughts please 😀
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i’m planning on doing a reader review to see if others should bother importing it 🙂
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GAH! I left my bag in a friends car. But I don’t have her phone number or her last name so I can’t call her to get it back. I just have to hope no one pinches it as it has my 3DS and PSP in it
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Might be a silly question but your phone isn’t in there is it. If so just call yourself
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Also Batmang at IMAX this Saturday, are you interested?
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I told her on TS and she said she sent a message to Doc on Twitter but she’s still not in the email list 😛
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Cool, I knew she was looking forward to it so didn’t want her to miss out because she didn’t see. I hate it when that happens
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I wasn’t home /o\
And yes, my phone was in there and I called it, but she didn’t hear it. I’ll see her tomorrowI just don’t won’t to lose my phone, 3DS and PSP. D= She may not have seen it in the back of her car, so I hope no one else sees it
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Holden ad on TV claiming that all their dealers have massive stocks of all models and they need to make room.
THRN WHY DO I HAVE TO WAIT 5 WEEKS FOR MY CAR?
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OK, well, you know that new car smell? Well, getting that smell is an intricate process, involving a carpet fluffer on hands and knees going through the car, fluffing the interior, making sure the car releases all that wonderful smell.
And that takes 5 weeks.
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Must have been all of those custom cup holders you ordered!
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You should say that it’s false advertising when you pic up your car & demand a discount!
Off to see Spider Man tonight! Has anybody else seen it? What did you think?
Re-downloading SW: Battlefront 2 to see if I can get it working on Windows 7.
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Subsequently aborted due to lack of interest.
Just bought my tickets for the Batmang marathon tomorrow night. I am so excited! 😀
my max anarchy is coming tomorrow AND my regular show t-shirt just came!
if uni hadn’t started again this could have been the best week ever
@ Nova,
Thanks for the amazing writeup of your nordic adventures part1 !
As a wanna-be geologist and just as some bloke who loves to travel, I’m sooooo jealous!
May I also express jealousy on behalf of my geologist friends who are forever talking about going to Iceland, but never seem to get there. (You know who you are!)
@ Zap and others re; 50 Shades of Grey,
I’m not going to pass any judgement here on the books themselves.
However, several of my customers and co-workers have told me that ’50 Shades’ is the first book they have read in years. If 50 Shades is like a drug for ignorant readers, (as the press would have us believe) then let’s hope it’s a gateway drug that get’s them all hooked on reading!
These books, while not for me, are NOT the end of literature. The same was said about Dan Brown and J.K.Rowling. Indeed, every time something appeals to the masses, the literati declare it to be the end of literature, if not the end of civilasation as we know it!
We all know that this is just not true.
So… Yeah… Just saying…
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That’s a damned good point RE: 50 shades. J.K. Rowling in particular got MANY of the people I knew involved in reading, and that can only ever be a good thing. Sure, nothing can compare to “the classics”, however with that said, not everything can be of a similar calibre. That disparity is what makes some things better than others.
You’ve made me rethink my outlook, and I really do appreciate that. For better or worse, I may actually look into reading 50 shades.
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No need to go that far if you’re already a reader! 😛
But yeah. anything that gets people reading again is a plus in my view.
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You’re welcome. Hopefully the next two parts will be just as entertaining
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It might get them to read, but ugh, they are reading horribly written trash. People would be far better off reading gossip magazines, can probably take more away from that.
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I’ll just leave this here…http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/70462850.html :/
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Holmes and Watson getting it on, sounds like something Jordi would read
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There were no schnitzels /o\
ON SCHNITZEL NIGHT!
And the EFTPOS wasn’t working.
And the establishment was understaffed because half the employees went on holiday last week.
AWESOME!
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Nooooo!!!!
What’s the point of schnitzel night if there is no schnitzel?If you ever come to Vic, take comfort in the knowlege that ther is always a schnitzel to be had at the Commercial Hotel in Alexandra. (Victorian Alps – worth a drive anyway)
http://www.commhotel.com.au/parma.html-
I’ll definitely take you up on that offer should I ever be down that way!
I’ll pick you up at 8, and we can go for a nice stroll through the vineyards before our meal, gazing at the stars whilst I whisper sweetsweet nothings in your ear.
Over a bottle of the house’s finest red, we’ll get to know each other on a more intimate level…
If the mood takes us, we could continue our conversation with a tour of the moonlit surrounds, finishing with snuggles and pillow-talk.
You could be the little spoon, although that’s open for negotiation. We could stay up ’til the rising sun begins to greet us with the advent of a new, beautiful day ahead. It would be glorious, magical.(I think I’m in love!)
Seriously though, thanks for the recommendation mate 😀
Definitely want to finally meet fellow TAYbies, and the more recommendations I get for venues etc. the better ^.^-
Ooh, ooh, I’ve for recommendations for Canberra.
Don’t.
HELPING!
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I’m not sure how I managed to mistype “got” as “for,” but apparenly I did. #Winning #HashTagsForHarli
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I actually know some REALLY great places in the ‘berra. Blaghs, I’ma take you to Cafe Essen for lunch, DENDY for a show, followed by Koko Black for some sweets, and then we could catch something at the theatre.
For dinner, Shogun Teppanyaki, above the Magpies Lounge in Garema Place.
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Well, to relate to that list, my friends were supposed to meet at Dendy to organise stuff before my Birthday dinner(they didn’t though, as they forgot), and we had dessert at Koko Black(Good thing my parents were paying, as that was expensive).
Oh, and I did sound for a show at Street Theatre, so at least I know it moderately well.
The food places though I don’t, and I do always love a new place to eat.
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2nd date schedule. Rama’s, in Philip. Best Indian/Ethiopian cuisine you have EVER had. No romance on the second date, just gorging on the tastiest food known to Canberrans.
We can make out in the back seat of someone’s car afterwards, if you REALLY want romance.
…2nd date means 2nd base, right?
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No schnitzels?!
On Schnitzel night?!
This is an outrage!
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I only just found out that you can create keyboard shortcuts in ultramon to move the windows between monitors.
This will work wonders in Chrome.
+2 productivity!
…^Why did I just type that?
Finally, that accursed Sun has left me alone.
What’s up, insane trembling masses?
Still awake ,and I got my mitts on Flatout 1 and 2 for $7!
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Actually, I’m going to go to bed now.
Goodnight TAYbies and Dark Lords!
Welp, just passed 200 games in the Ol’ Steam Library. Either Mount & Blade or Hack, Slash, Loot took the honour.
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Oh I think I passed 100 without realising :(, I’ll never know my 100th game!
The game count is weird though since sometimes they count DLC/mods and whatnot…
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A little over a week back, I noticed that I had 99 games. I thought to myself, “Yes, I’m going to make sure my hundredth is something awesome!”
Instead I promptly forgot, and got the Source Filmmaker…
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Hmm what are we looking at? At my Community Profile page I have 120 games (I think this counts DLC?) but in my Library, ALL GAMES shows 96.
Perhaps this moment has not yet happened! 😀
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I am sick to death of people hating on Metallica because it has been the cool thing to do since 1991 when The Black Album came out, now my mate is hating on them for a decision they made to let their music be used for “torture” purposes. He has really been pushing my buttons of late with stupid shit he has been saying on Facebook.. I honestly personally could careless of the choices Metallica make as to where their music is played, as long and they keep touring & putting out music without the help of Lou Reed I will be happy.
It’s also something that has been known of for years, I can also name several other bands/artists which are okay that their music is used for this and that the US troops listen to whilst in combat. The songs are fitting for the situations, it’s not like the artist intentionally wrote them for that purpose either, so I don’t see why the artist should be getting the hatred when all they’re doing is licensing their work for a bit of royalties..
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This should probably just be ignored, i’m just ranting. Also said mate agrees with my points I made here, I am so confused.
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Virus it is 2am, stop thinking about it and go to bed
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I did! I was up watching YouTube videos =P
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Spent the morning listening to The Muppets OST. Good way to start the day.
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It turns every day into a joyous experience. Love that soundtrack.
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It’s disturbing that Rainbow Connection can still bring a manly tear to the ‘ol eye. 😛
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Why are there such great deals on our hotel rooms?
and continental breakfast is free,
HBO in every room,
and free gas if you check in after noon,
free parking for car not rv’s.
Our wedding chapel is 24 hours,
no marriage certificate is needed.
We’re glad you found it,
the Chulo casino,
the owners,
the Moopets,
and me.-
😀
All that damn uplifting music, got to off-set it to get back to my regular mood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB_1t-Vn6Vs
Thanks Jason Segel. 😛
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I think this might be the best day of Steam saleas yet.
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Come for the train simulators, stay for the Double Fine collection. 😛
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Dreams really do come true!
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I was waiting for you to appear! 😀
Seems everyone’s trying to impress you by buying the Train Simulator game.-
HI STRANGE!
Hope you are doing well! I haven’t seen you post on TAY much this week. I assume you have been too engrossed by the Steam Sales. 😛
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Hi Mr. Headshot!
I finished off your pie last night. It was pretty damn good. I owe you a pie. 🙂And I’ve mostly been looking after my sick kids and sewing. Lots of sewing.
Not that I haven’t been engrossed by the Steam sales…this is the first time I’ve participated and the sale is like a game all by itself. It’s fun.-
Haha, every night before I go to sleep I always lay there wondering what will be on sale waiting for me when I wake up. Yes, I do realise that’s a little sad. 😛
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I’ve been waking up at 3 each morning, checking steam, then going back to bed. Don’t want to miss out on a good flash sale!
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Haha me too! Except I don’t set an alarm or anything I usually just wake up in the middle of the night anyway but this time I take a couple of minutes to check some sales. So far I haven’t missed anything and it’s been a huge waste of time :/
Also, I like how Strange Steam sightings are no longer rare 😀
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So I still don’t have my bag.
I had so much trouble sleeping last night worrying as to whether it would be stolen or not. >_<
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Hope it turns out well.
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You worry to much Scree! I’m sure its fine.
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It better be D=
(I am kidding)
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SORRY!
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SPRAY!
But yeah Scree I’m sure it’ll be fine!
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Hey! Well I guess getting “spray”ed is better then what you tried to do to Glahman last night. I’m still a little weirdes out.
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WHY DO YOU HATE ME NOB T___T
I hope a Demon/zombie like creature climbs/flies down the elevator shaft and ears you. EARS YOU GOOD!
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WWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
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Yay he said his catchphrase!
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Every time I say that just imagine canned laughter followed by clapping (there can also be “whoop”ing during the applause)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU1_L5ww3og
MOTHERFLIPPIN’ TRAINTIME!
On the elevator ride upto the floor I work on this morning, the elevator just decided to stop moving and said it was “out of service”. Luckily it fixed up after 30 seconds, i don’t think I could last any longer then that.
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You’d have to climb into the elevator shaft and climb to safety, if only to get away from those horrible other people. 😛
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It was only me in the elevator, by myself. Now that I think about it, that is a setup for a horror movie. Some demon / zombie like creature climbs / flies down the elevator shaft and ears me.
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eats me … *sigh* stupid phone.
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So, the new Spider-Man was pretty good! (Some very minor spoilers past this point!)
There were some silly bits, but it was a solid movie I thought. I especially liked the more spider-like aspects of this new Spider-man. Just how he climbed and scurried around looked better. Also, the scene where he makes a web and waits on it to feel the vibrations just like a real spider was great.
I do prefer the version of Spider Man where he makes his own web, though. Not the thread-canister-in-the-watch version. 😛 Overall, I was happy with it.
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I liked it a whole lot more than the Raimi movies. I especially liked the character moments and dramatic scenes, the previous ones were a lot more cartoony on that front. I liked the casting too: Dennis Leary, Sally Field, Martin Sheen. Good cast.
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Wait, what?! He makes his web with tech, not spider powers?! What’s the point of being Spiderman then?
I wonder if it was done like that for merchandising purposes. I bet they’ll sell a crapton of toy web-producing watches now.-
I read that it was designed to show Peter’s interlect, that he was special and gifted even before the radioactive spider bite. Makes sense and he’s still got lots of cool, spider abilities.
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Spelling intellect wrong is pretty embarrassing, I’ve got to say. 😛
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Haha, actually when I was younger the kid next door had something like that that sprayed silly string stuff. His mother yelled at him for coating the windows in it.
But yeah, in the movie he alters some watches to shoot webs. I guess it gives him some more flaws to work with in the story.
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I thought it made all the swinging scenes that much more dangerous. I liked it. 😛
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Voted for Oblivion, because I haven’t touched it yet.
Also because Elder Scrolls.
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Far Cry 2 please! 😀
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Voted!
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TRAINS
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Done and done!
ps. TRAINS.
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I’ve never played them but saw some E3 footage of 3 and it looked awesome, so I regretted not buying it last time it was on sale for $2.50 on Blaghman’s birthday! (I remember this because Cakefriend gifted it to him).
I doubt it’ll win though since it’s old but thanks anyway! 😀
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Puffy faced duck people!
Paycheque came through yesterday. Slightly more than I’m used too thanks to a raise and the changes to the tax brackets.
Just had to pay for my rego and rent.
Dammit, I just got this money. Can’t I hold onto it a little longer?
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And this is why rent sucks
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A while back we had Centerlink tell is they screwed up and they back paid us $1000. Barely an hour later the washing machine died.
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That was lucky o.o
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The new sugarfree Mothers really are quite terrible. If you are tempted to try one, save your money and put it towards Lollipop Chainsaw instead.
In other news, tickets are booked for DKR on Friday night. Splurging on Gold Class. Awwww yeeeaaaahhhh.
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I’m braving Thursday night VMax, the entire cinema was pretty much sold out when I booked last week. :O
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Midnight release! Batmang 1 & 2 before! That’s how real manly men do it! …which is why I’m taking my dad with me…because it’d be odd for me to say I’m a real manly man…yeah…
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Sounds awesome… in theory… but they’re looooong movies, man. I’d be too sleepy by the time Rises actually started. 😛
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What’s Gold Class?
Also, respect your mother, dammit.
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http://www.eventcinemas.com.au/What-Is-GoldClass
To fancy for my likin’ 😛
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The armrest thing looked like it had golden ashtrays in there.
Now THAT’S classy. It’s like a communal smoking lounge, with velvet robes and everflowing brandy and port.
I wanna go Gold Class, just once.
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Imagine a cinema, but with big reclining armchairs instead of flip-down seats. And tables to rest your ice cream sundaes and lobster on.
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Massive leather recliners, only ~30 people in the cinema, and bar and food service through the movie.
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Gold class is the classy way. the only thing they dont offer is blowjobs while you watch the film, pretty much :p
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So I can have solicited sex, and perhaps manual stimulation, but oral is out of the question?
Eh, I can handle that.
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ALEPH! Thank you, you’re too kind! 😀
I’m not sure how serious you were being when you said you may have sent things to the wrong places, but if I do end up with the mouse, I’ll forward it on to PC Case Gear.
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Haha, I’m fairly confident that I sent the game to you, and the mouse to PCCG 😛
But yeah, if you get the mouse, that’d be wonderful if you could forward it on!
Anyone else play EVE Online? I’ve just started and everytime I think I’ve got a grasp on things, I see a conversation or something in the market that confuses the hell out of me and I realise I don’t have a clue.
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I think EVE is one of those games that once you’ve completely mastered it, it’s 10 years later, your wife has left and taken the kids, your employer wrote you off the books long ago and you realise you haven’t showered or shaved the entire time. 😛
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Possibly true. My gf finds it fascinating but told me she hopes I never get to the point that I’m good at it.
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Yep! What’s up?
So who else is now the proud owner of Train Simulator thanks to steam sales?
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Psch, I’ve had it for a couple of months now.
Because yes, that is clearly something to be both proud of and hipster about.
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I still haven’t actually purchased it for myself…
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You Sir, are a bastard.
If I end up buying 2 grand in DLC, I’m gonna hunt you down, hunt you down good.-
I think I’ve bought 5 copies this morning… worth it!
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$1 each for the first 3 games but then it’s discounted from there.
Most most importantly… DINO D-DAY FOR $1! FACTION SAID THERE’S THIS DINOSAUR WHO EATS GOATS OR THROWS THEM AS A WEAPON. Z0MG!
But he also said it was a piece of crap… I probably won’t buy anything from there but someone might find something 🙂
I also got random keys sitting here but most of them are for older games. They are:
Avernum Trilogy
Red Orchestra
Syberia
Hamilton’s Great Adventure
So if anyone wants them, just holla. Hamilton is the most recent of the bunch and looks pretty good, haven’t played it yet but Tigs liked it 🙂
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I wouldn’t mind Syberia, actually. 🙂
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Postal is fun
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Yeah I got 2 keys for it as well if anyone wants it but they aren’t Steam redeemable (so I didn’t bother claiming them)
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I did indeed. It also has Tiny bang story which as absolutely adorable
Strange! You appear to be around today. So here goes:
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!
For reasons.
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Beavwa! I hope that you saw this!
Good day!
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You’re welcome. How have you enjoyed Secret of the Magic Crystals so far?
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Oh it’s been magical!
(Actually I haven’t played it yet 😛 But it’s downloaded and ready to find secret horse crystals tonight!)
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Farm for Aenus.
Use Aenus on hooves.
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Aenus PROFIT!!! -
…Is Aenus pronounced how I think it is pronounced? 😛
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070104011008AATL8vt
EE – nus
if it’s not the ligature though…
it’s probably pronounced
AY – nus
*snicker*
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You’ve got the story all wrong!
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I am always round. 😉
And you are most welcome.
Every time I went to post this morning, something went wrong at work…and now, I have coffe, so screw those problems.
*sips*
MOOOOORNIN’!
Played Dead Rising 2 co op last night with Pez. I’d forgotten how fun that game was, but this was my first time in co op, and holy crap it made it so much more fun!
Except for having to watch Pez run around in hot pants. That was less fun.
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But isn’t that just Pez on a normal day?
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For some reason I was expecting an in-game screenshot instead of that
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The first one worked, I was implying that that was a real life picture of Pez
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I see you let the child out of the dungeon.
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He used the word favourite in the same sentence as both Clash and Wrath of the Titans
I think I’m going to barf.
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Woah they actually paint those things? I always assumed they were printed and glued up… 😛
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Yeah that’s what I thought too. I was somewhat surprised to find out it was painted.
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Duke Nukem Forever is only $5….
Is that still too expemsive for it?
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Perhaps not, though it’s certainly too expensive.
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Crap. I thought I’d hit “n” instead of “m”.
🙁
Oh well.
And now I’ve noticed Company of Heroes is 75% off… that includes the complete pack….
Curse this summer sale….-
I have a spare copy without the DLC if you want to see if it is for you before you buy it all
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Man, the hate on that game is ridiculous. It was a solid but uninspired shooter. There wasn’t anything particularly broken with it. Was even quite fun in parts. It just didn’t change the world and people seem to have a grudge about that.
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I think the biggest gripe was the release schedule running on Valve time.
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It was a really good collector’s edition except for the one small detail of not being a great game.
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It was $3.50 at GMG a while ago :P, personally I’m not interested in it so I’d say even at that price it’s still too expensive.
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If you were going to set fire to $5 then I spose it might be worth buying it instead of setting the $5 on fire.
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I got it free as a penalty for buying Spec Ops: The Line.
Just became aware that the downtime at work is going to include my Internet for more than 5 minutes. Possibly even 10.
WHAT DO I DO?
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Play solitaire.
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Oh god. I would give you a reassuring “You can get through this,” but…
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Step 1: Get into fetal position.
Step 2: Start crying and rock back and forth.
Step 3: ???
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Suicide. It’s the only valid option in that circumstance. It’s not worth the suffering.
(Please don’t.)
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Internet (and indeed, all forms of communications) along with power drops out for an average of about 5 hours every 2-3 weeks or so here. I should’ve offed myself long ago!
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Oi, Ser Nob! Accept my heartfelt Steam gift, dammit!
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I’m at work mang, and the stupid steam app won’t tell me that I have a gift / message / notification.
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Fair enough! It’s a good’n though! 😀
ps. Get back to work!
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I ended up grabbing Jade Empire. Now to get busy never playing it.
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I really liked Jade Empire. It’s a flawed game for sure (in particular, the combat system gets hilariously unbalanced once you hit higher levels) but I enjoyed it enough to play it through twice. Wish Bioware would give the setting another go, I felt like it had a lot of potential.
Did you know Sonic Generations supports cross-eye 3D?
In unrelated news, my eyes hurt.
As awesome as Sherlock is, I can’t help but think that they could have cast the main role differently.
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Man, I saw that months ago. Get with the times bun-bun! 😛
It is pretty funny. Apparently Watson looks like a hedgehog , and Mycroft looks like an owl… http://brainyisthenewsexie.tumblr.com/post/20951395899/sherlock-bbc-cast-look-alike-master-post
Anthropomorphic Sherlock series anyone?-
I know it’s old. Stumbled across it again and figured it was worth posting :p
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Holy crap!
I just received Company of Heroes on Steam!
Thanks a million, Tigerion!
😀
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You’re welcome and that really wasn’t necessary so thanks a million right back at ya
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How rude. You should have kept at least one.
Return 999,999 of them, sure. I can understand that. But all of them?!
YOU MONSTER!-
YOU STILL HAVEN’T PAID ME BACK SO YOU CAN”T CALL ME THAT. YOU’RE NOT MY REAL DAD
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Cheers Beavwa & Nob Shot for the Steam gifts!
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Oh god, don’t tell me that Beav and I gifted the same thing again.
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Secret of the Magic Crystals?
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Nah, I didn’t gift that. *phew*
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LIAR!
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Yeah, that’s right. Snuck that one in with Limbo to cover it up.
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I was going to send you a certain train simulator as an apology, but I have this sudden suspicion that I would end up in the same situation with Pow… Was that his heartfelt gift?
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Yeah, I went and bought 5 copies as gifts before work 😛
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I know Pow didn’t send Nob Trainz11!11! but it looks like Aleph did 😛
Does it have multiplayer?! TRAIN RACES (safe to assume it doesn’t)
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Bags sending everyone trains vs zombies DLC…
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Yeah Limbo hahahaha, but it’s okay. Appreciate it from both of you! I gifted the extra copy of Limbo to my mate, since I gave him a monitor and it’s now faulty /o\
Wow, all the Grand Theft Auto’s for 18 bucks?! I advise who ever doesn’t have these amazing games on PC and wants them, get them!
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In my opinion it is! Closely followed by Episodes of Liberty City then GTA IV, III then San Andreas in last place.
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ROFL. Ahh Tigerion, you know me so well. http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m504/steveo_the_deveo/tigs-giftlol.jpg
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My one at home has more attachments though.
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LOL, that’s hilarious.
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BAHAHAHAHA!
Hey guys, is there a chance I could get you all to help me out with a comp to win tickets to see Slash in August? All it involves is (I think) just clicking this here link and yeah, it goes to Facebook by the way and Slash’s on tour app, so you have been warned if you don’t like those pesky facebook apps, but any help is welcomed thanks!
Never again.
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NEVER AGAIN.
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The internet’s a hell of a drug….
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Eggplant, right?
Horrible stuff.-
Oh god, here we go again.
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The people deserve to know the truth!
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The Steam Store ins’t working for me at work /o\
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The pirate bay isn’t working for me at the moment /o\
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My internet isn’t working /o\
I have to use my phone :'( and I really hope Steam doesn’t randomly start a download…
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@Smurfy
Those are very fair points, and you’re right, more people reading is always a good thing. I’m not one to knock that.
However, my main objection is that someone who writes a good, solid book – one that is literate, etc – can go languishing by the wayside, whilst a book that is fanfaction of a book that is almost fanfiction level itself beats all sales records and is being picked up for a movie deal.
More people reading is great, but if it spawns a down-shift in literature to badly written middle-aged eros, and the popularity of using the terms “inner Goddess”, “murmurs”, “flush crimson”, and “wicked smile” sometimes five times per page (I’m being serious), it seems sad.
At least JK Rowling wrote well, especially for an amateur.
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I occasionally hear my inner goddess murmur, usually from behind a wicked smile.
My cheeks flush crimson when this happens.-
*slap*
Bad Aleph.
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Some sort of anus euphemism
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I kind of liken Harry Potter to Star Wars.
I’m not much of a word-reading-in-physical-format kind of guy, but yeah, JK Rowling wrote well enough. Plus the universe/world she created was rich enough that it carried the series along. By no means was Star Wars IV a fantastic movie, nor were the actors particularly, you know, good, but it captured the imaginations of people.Ultimately, I’ve forgotten where I was going with this, so I’m just going to leave it awkwardly on this sentence.
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Harry Potter and Star Wars are both pretty good but not amazing. They served as a gateway to let people embrace something that was considered a hokey niche genre (science fiction and low fantasy).
They helped their genres gain mainstream acceptance by having mass appeal despite not being the most amazing things ever conceived.
Honestly, I like reading. I don’t think that it’s some magical thing that we must get people to do. People should expose themselves to good fiction. To new ideas. To things that challenge them. It can be a book, a movie, a video game, doesn’t matter. Saying something is good because it gets people reading means little if they don’t go on to read something else.
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I just got my hands on Mark Tremonti’s new album All I Was, I never realised he was such a decent singer! Not a bad album, a little typical for a metal/rock release but his playing sounds amazing.
Hai gais!
After an opinion
I just won a years worth of paints and paintbrushes from slavetopainting.com.au (yay!) so i’m thinking of painting up some space marines with a Kotaku theme sometime in the near future, many of which will be based on taybies.
What do you guys think the colour scheme should be?
use this:
http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/smp.php
or describe it to me…
🙂
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I want to see a Cthulu-styled piece 😀
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Chtulhu, dammit
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Sorry, buddy – they’re going to be loyalist marines – otherwise i would 😛
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*Cthulhu
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CURSES!
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If you’re going to mention me, at least get my name right…
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So basically the Chaos Space Marines?
I’ll have a look tonight, but as long as the battle standard contains an OAR I’m happy
Something something GREEN!
Chuloopa winning all dem comps! 😉 Grats!
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Boo, don’t listen to him! PURPLE ALL THE WAY! 😛
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The color of sexual frustration.
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This seems accurate… OFFICIAL COLOUR OF TAY
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The colour of our planet from far, far away (so long as we’re seen in redshift).
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Basically the Imperial Fists on a Breast Cancer Awareness campaign?
so I just got that Left 4 Dead 2 game.
Apparently theres methods to uncensor it?
I did a bit of googling & came up with a way of editing two config files. ok, i thought, this is pretty straigtforward.
however, when I went to edit said files, I could only find one of them & the line that was supposed to be changed (from 590 to 510 or something like that) wasnt in the file at all. (it read 550 as an initial value).
umm… what am I doing wrong?
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Just download Left 4 Uncut. Much better solution all round.
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+1 works brilliantly
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Careful, changing them can lead to vac-ban… Just saying…
Thanks to all the guys that gifted me limbo… On an unrelated note I have 2 free copies of limbo to give away 😛 who wants some?
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I’ll have one, thanks!
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You shall receive… As soon as I get home 😛
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You too?!?
At least I was the only one to send you Secret of the Magic Crystals, right?-
Oh you!
Last time I checked 22 people now have the game. The developers should personally thank you for all the purchases and publicity 😛
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Yes, now excuse me while I go take care of-… I mean blow shit up in saints row and other manly activities… I mean it’s not like I have a magical unicorn called flutter shy that’s oh so pretty or anything… Hehehehehhe that’d be silly
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*mumbles to self*
Winter wrap up
Winter wrap uuupp
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Gahhhhh. WHY BEAV WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!
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*canned laughter followed by clapping with a whoop*
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I just want to point out that I am so grateful for the gesture though… You guys are waaay too generous for your own good and you rock
Been instructing some co-workers over the phone in the mystical arts of installing RAM.
One of them asked me if I could help with an issue she has opening PDFs from Outlook. She had to save them to her desktop to open them. I made her change the default program back to Adobe Reader and she sounded like I’d just given her a winning lotto ticket.
Turns out that she’s been dealing with this issue for two years.
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And you solved it with a phone call?
YOU MUST BE A WIZARD!?!
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It’s weird how computer illiterate people sometimes choose to remain computer illiterate. No one is born knowing this stuff, it’s up to a person to learn it. Just riles me up that some people will refuse to adapt, especially in the time of google when you can ask any thing and get an explation. Bah! 😛
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*explanation
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Hey Bunny, how do I attach a stamp to my e-mails so I can send them overseas? 😛
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Ctrl-P, enter, walk to printer, fold printout, stuff into envelope, add stamp to envelope, eat envelope.
Simple.
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MY EMAILS DISAPPEARED. HELP ME RIGHT THIS SECOND!
ALSO I THINK MY INTERNET IS DEAD. CAN YOU PLEASE VERIFY THAT IT IS WORKING.
ALSO WHY IS MY TYPING IN BIG LETTERS.
I AM NOT GOOD WITH COMPUTERS HOW DID THIS GET HERE. -
Adobe Reader! My Nemesis!
I hope you also told them to upgrade to latest Reader X. You wouldn’t believe the sort of shit that Reader will allow people to put into a PDF. HEY GUYS LET’S PUT FLASH IN THERE THAT NEVER GETS EXPLOITED. :\
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They didn’t know how to change what program opens what file type by default. I’m not in the mood to explain upgrading.
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So how come Ticket to Ride is $9.99 but the indie bundle IV (which includes Ticket to Ride) is also $9.99….
And I already have all the other games in that bundle…. I want ticket to ride discounted by itself….
first world problems
Also Hi everyone
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Hi Inquisitorsz
If you buy the pack do you get a gift version of the games you have? I assume not but they sometimes do that with the Indie packs
UT3 is 75% off at the moment.
Ignore the story, and it’s a good game.
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There’s a story?
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Don’t be silly, Unreal doesn’t make games with stories.
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It’s an interesting analysis on the value of life in a society that’s developed successful, accurate cloning/respawn technology. When you no longer fear death, what is left to be afraid of? What does it mean to be alive? And does anybody truly live?
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BWAAAAAAAAP
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Once upon a time, HEADSHOT, DOUBLE KILL, MULTI-KILL, ULTRA-KILL, M-M-M-MONSTER KILL.
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And they all lived happily ever after.
The end.
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So Call of Duty?
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Better idea!
Ignore the crappiness of UT3 and get UT’04!
\o/
/oldman’theoldgameswerebetter’ramble
Best lunch, chicken schnitzel burger, so good.
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Schnitzel!?
A hex on you and your meal, sir!-
How can you possibly hate schnitzel? It’s just chicken and bread.
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Oh, don’t get me wrong. I LOVE schnitzel. The fact that I went to the pub last night for Schnitzel Night should be testament to that.
…the fact that the pub had no Schnitzel on Schnitzel Night has left me as a bitter husk of the human I once was.-
Haha, I saw that post, I also had schnitzel for dinner last night!
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Greetings. I am typing this from the Windows partition on my Mac. It’s quite odd. Will take some time to get used to.
Doesn’t matter though, I can install Steam games. \o/
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WITCH!
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He turned me into a newt!
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I got better.
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But does he weigh less then a duck?
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Are you kidding? He’s a caterpie, those things are tiny, of course he weighs less than a ducklett
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WITCH, BURN HIIIIIM
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So… he’s made of wood?
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This isn’t my nose, it’s a false one!
ps. Thanks again to everyone who helped me with this Windows stuff the other day. It’s working perfectly! (and PC Case Gear delivered it so quickly! Possibly because express shipping was the same price as standard for some reason :P)
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Wait, you’ve already got it?!
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Well I bought it Monday, they shipped it yesterday and it arrived this morning.
The benefits of not living in the middle of nowhere. xD
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Oh… right.
I’m waiting ~4 months now for my webcam from JB Hifi… -
Well if it makes you feel any better, this is probably the fastest delivery I’ve ever had. Plus it was express.
Also, you should probably chase that up if you haven’t already 😛
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I have. I was told in no uncertain terms “fuck off, you’ll get it when we’ve got it.”
Which, suffice to say I find unreasonable.
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*coughs*
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*breaks out in dance*
Winter Wrap-Up, Winter Wrap-Up!
Let’s finish our holiday cheer
Winter Wrap-Up, Winter Wrap-Up!
‘Cause tomorrow Spring is here!
‘Cause tomorrow Spring is here!
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You’re welcome
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Made me smile. I think there’s something wrong with me
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Or maybe I’m just imagining your accent 😛
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Bahahaha…
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Heeeeeeeeey :'(
Brony meat anyone? 😛
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I’m currently not dancing around the office.
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Why? Cause she’s an evil enchantress?
Who does evil dances?-
I didn’t look her in the eye, though.
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Good cause if you do, she’ll put you in TRANCES!
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So, I guess I’ll WATCH OUT.
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You’re secretly the Great and Powerful Pixie?
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#iseewhatyoudidthere
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Reply fail.
I’m sure people can work out what I’m replying to.
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Remind me in an hour or so to upload an image for you…
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You need to upload an image in an hour or so 🙂
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Cheers mang! I think I need another hour or so though…
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It’s been 45 minutes. That’s got to be close enough.
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Mawt?
Aaaannnnddd cue rain.
Fantastic.
🙁
AHAHAHAHA
Best thing ever
http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
He does this every Tuesday. There are 3 so far.
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It’s the little note about the rules at the end that does it for me.
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Yeah it’s great. Did you read the others.
“guessing during a SAT exam” and “how much force power can yoda output”-
Let’s go green power
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Green power!
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After all that, the batter gets a free walk to 1st. Awesome!
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…you’d have to sweep him up, though…
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Sweep him up? Waft him in the right direction methinks.
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Too much physics makes my head go BOOOOM. Maybe someone threw a baseball at me really fast
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That made my day.
And Trjn is right. That note made me crack up in the middle of the shop.
So one of my superiors (there are many… too many chiefs, etc.) has finally come to the conclusion that one printer per computer isn’t necessarily the most economic of moves.
Wise words, you dick.
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Such hostility. I probably shouldn’t tell you he got the last schnitzel last night then.
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I’m facepalming so hard right now.
Cause y’know, cost cutting will always increase the work output…-
No work gets done anyway 😛
We have 4 separate models of printers, totalling 20+ printers. We have, at the moment, about 10-15 office staff spread across three locations. Of those 15-20, approximately 10 would know how to use a printer.
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But with printers being printers only about 4 would work at any given time right?
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The best printer repair tool is a baseball bat.
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Speaking of printers, two of my co-workers were trying to work out why one of the printers wasn’t working. They’d just changed the USB cable (didn’t ask why) and suddenly the computer didn’t recognise it.
Turns out they put the USB cable in the network port.
It’s also set to some Northern European language.
Bork bork bork.
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I had someone try to return a printer to the retailer I used to work at. She was doing exactly that.
Trying to explain the problem to an angry customer got nowhere, so I told her I’d look at it and let her know. Rang her back an hour later and told her there was an issue with the cable and it’s all working now…
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I GOT MY BAG BACK! \o/
NOTHING WAS STOLEN!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
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\o/ that’s awesome!!!
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Btw thanks so much for 999. It helped me get to sleep last night
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Is that what the kids are calling roofies these days, sheesh it’s so hard to keep up
\o/ on the safe return of your bag and your precious portables
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It’s a game. I have valium but I’d rather not take it
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What about Secret of the Magic Crystals?
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It’s the only thing you’ll ever need
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No worries at all. Is it screwing with your head as much as it did mine?
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I am terrible at it =P I’m only about an hour in
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The trick is to try not to die.
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I don’t even want to talk about how long it took me to get out of that first room…
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I had to consult a walk through ^^;; after trying for an hour
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Yep that sounds about the same as me
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:O I must have missed that.
Good to hear you got everything back.
WOOO!
All I have in my head right now is “LEeegeeeennndaarrryyy Chhiiilllldddd…. ItellyouwhatI’mtalkingabout! ”
I wish that song wasn’t stuck in my head…
Oh,well… at least it’s not Nickelback…
Take On Helicopters is kinda tempting to grab from the Steam sale. Dunno how much I’d enjoy it, though.
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Derpple Hook 2: $4.99? I’LL TAKE IT!
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*spits water*
YES! \o/
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@Trjn, Pixel, Rize and Nova
NSFW and all that good stuff.
The aforementioned image, as promised;
http://imgur.com/f31sl
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*lip quiver*
But… But… PINKIE PIIIIEEEE
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Yeah, so no offense friend, but I’m going to report that, because despite the NSFW warning that’s pretty inappropriate for posting on TAY.
You can message them the link if need be.-
Oh dear, sorry man :S
I really didn’t mean to offend or anything. /o\ I understand.-
Ah, don’t get me wrong, it’s not so much offensive to me, just kind of thinking of general content… guidelines, I guess.
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Okay, I’m no fan of MLP:FiM… but dude, seriously….
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Would have been better if the Pony won the fight =)
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I know people don’t like My little pony, but what if a small girl comes across it?
That what really annoys me with the porn, it’s so easy to find, even in a safe search.
Poor kids-
^This.
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Did… you draw that? :S We might have to get you involuntarily committed.
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I couldn’t draw a pony if I tried man. That work is not mine. I’m unsure of who the original artist is, to be honest.
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Phew. 😛 I admit, I laughed at the sheer twistedness of it.
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Going to play devil’s advocate here.
This is no worse than Mortal Kombat fatalities, the zoom in of the bodily harm being perpetrated, etc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZYnBxdThvU for your viewing pleasure)
I guess if it is deemed inappropriate then this post will need to be reported/deleted too.Just to be clear: I’m not supporting violence, or suggesting that it’s a good thing, just putting it out there. When R18+ becomes a reality, it’s very likely more hyper-violent games will start coming into Australia, and it’s very likely we will want to discuss those games.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWFby6DJ79Y
Sucks that we don’t have Roy and HG doing any Olympic stuff….
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I think HG is a panelist on The Project during the Olympics…
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(Full disclosure, I can’t stand the two. :P)
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@greenius i ordered it a week ago, but i spent a few dollars extra and got 3 day shipping, but it took a week to ship.
i can say i reccomend play asia for the import.. i think… haven’t got the game yet… BUT IT’S HERE I TELLS YA
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PAY NO ATTENTION TO THIS
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So on a lighter, more deflective note;
Driver: SF or Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit?
Auto +1 for NFS on behalf of Lambo, of course.
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Driver! I’m not a huge fan of NFS:HP (The console version, at least. I’m still salty that it didn’t have local multiplayer)
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I liked the first Driver, but none since. I’ve enjoyed most NFS games, but haven’t played the new Hot Pursuit, so my vote might not be worth much, but that’s where I’d put my money.
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Didn’t realise you were taking about steam sales :P. I went with NFS cause I own DFS…haven’t played it yet though
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Always talking about Steam Sales 😀
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I voted for Driver:SF.
Because you change cars whilst driving…
And I already have NFS:HP on PS3. -
I did NFS because it’ll be cheaper and I’m also a huge fan of Burnout (PLEASE MAKE A NEW BURNOUT AND STOP WITH NFS!)
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Driver!
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I was asking myself this as well…
Which ones got the best crashes? coz thats what I spend most of my time doing in these kind of games.
this is why Burnout Paradise was fun.
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Burnout Paradise, oh man did I have some great times in that. Who cares about driving physics? CRASHPHYSICS!
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Driver San Francisco is a brilliant game both in single and multiplayer. The full fledged story mode is interesting and the side missions will keep you busy for a while. The multiplayer modes are chaotic and fun, especially tag mode-which when combined with the shift mechanic is craaaazy.
Need for speed:HP is a good game as well and looks fantastic(especially on PC with 60FPS) but it’s best when you have other friends playing it to take advantage of the autolog features. Singleplayer is OK and should keep you busy for a bit but the asynchronous multiplayer is what makes the game.
My choice would be driver:SF but as Greenius points out NFS:HP will be cheaper with 75% off its current price.
Hmm, screw it buy Driver, I had more fun with it last year.The shift mechanic is brilliant and the story mode was surprisingly interesting.
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Drive. It’s the best racing game I have played in years.
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Driver I should say.
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Drive is a good movie though, so he could get that as well.
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Yikes.
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“Mr Gaylord’s family are now trying to raise money for a purpose-built house to replace the mouldy, mouse-infested house he and his wife currently live in.”
That’s disgusting. No wonder he contracted something.
The plague though? I mean, THE plague? That’s crazy-talk.-
The plague is still around it’s just really rare.
There’s about 4 cases per year in the US.
In England, when they’re building new tunnels for the underground and even for buildings, they have to watch out for plague pits but they don’t know if the disease in the bodies has died or if it’s just dormant.-
Wow! That’s… errm, I don’t think “awesome” is the appropriate term.
But I’m glad I know that now 🙂
Thanks Scree \o/-
As far as I’m aware there is no known cases in Australia.
Also, why there is a quick turnaround from contracting the illness to death, is easily treatable with anti-biotics.
Also, I’m not a doctor, so here’s a wikipedia article.
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Wasn’t it you that was having a panic attack about bubonic plague a while ago?
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Wow. Um. That sounds far more accusatory then was intended. Which wasn’t at all. Sorry.
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Oh yeah. I was completely freaking out over it.
I now a lot about it, but I didn’t know is that it could kill you in hours. I have since come to terms with it for the time being. -
On the plus side, it’s a pretty quick death, comparatively speaking?
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Yes, but it’s quite painful. The Bubes are usually around the armpits and groin. They are swollen and painful to touch. Plus, vomiting blood.
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Sounds like me after a particularly wild weekend.
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Perhaps not the funniest one…
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Oh Aleph, you party animal 😛
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End of the day!
Woohoo!
(Link relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbBvKaM6sk)
Went to the gym telling myself I’ll just do a quick run on the treadmill and call it quits. An hour and a half later I’m fairly sure I’ve pushed myself to near death an have this feeling I’m going to hate myself tomorrow.
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Gym? What’s a Gym?
Oh, a Gym!
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It’s one of those places where you sit on a piece of workout equipment, phone in hand and creepily watching the women working out. At least as far as I can tell from how the majority of the men seem to do it there.
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heheh I get jokes!
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I had an idea regarding poker machines and problem gambling.
Why not instead of having one dollar coins come out when you win, make it five cent coins instead?
You’ll get the same winnings, but it’ll be harder to carry.
And make sure that five cent coins aren’t supported by the poker machines.
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Having done poker machine maintenance in the past it’s not really a workable idea. Most payouts arent even in dollars as excess coins are dumped down into a big bucket under the machine. You get a ticket or an attendant comes and you get notes. To make that idea work every pokie woul have to be 10 times the size they are now.
You could stop them accepting notes. You wouldn’t believe the wad of cash in the note hopper when we removed them. They usually were full, and they held a compressed stack of notes up to 8 inches high.
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Oh an out o that insane amount of money, per machine remember and some larger clubs can have over 2000 machines, the government takes something obscene, like 60-75%.
And people wonder why they don’t push the anti gambling line harder.
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I made a mistake when cutting out the pattern and haven’t got enough material.
Oh well, 1/2 price material at Lincraft! =D
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It’s like a Steam Sale for Lincraft!
Now you’ve gotta hold everybody in the store for six hours, make them vote on their favourite of three patterns, make them wait a further six hours, and then make the two patterns that didn’t win the vote unavailable at an appropriate price \o/
Oztax, the Lincraft way!
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I didn’t really want to stay there for six hours. And all the crappy patterns would win
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Not six, TWELVE!!! Think of all the fun you could have in TWELVE hours, if you weren’t stuck in Lincraft!
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Well, I could have fun in the Lincraft store for 12 hours =P
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So Saint’s Row the 3rd is like the awesomest action-movie ever. Seriously, I’ve only played for a half hour or so, but it’s got just the right amount of OTT for me.
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Oh man, that first mission… damn, I nearly pee’d myself laughing…
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You need to play Lollipop Chainsaw.
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I watched a friend play it, seemed pretty cool. I didn’t gel too well with the controls, although I’ve never really been a fan of DMC/any beat ’em up.
Fun to watch, though I wouldn’t really like to play it. (Yes, I’m one of those terrible spectator gamers :P)
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It’s SO GOOD. I love it! If they make another and can top it, I will be first day buyer!
Thanks for Limbo, Pixel!
😀
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Curse this 90kb/s download rate on Steam!
I’m waiting to play Company of Heroes, Damn it!
It must be the mass purchasing during the Summer Sale…-
I’m actually getting decent (300kb/s minimum, 700~kb/s average) speeds currently *touch wood*.
I was having the same issues over the weekend. I hope it comes good for you man!-
It just finished downloading! \o/
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@ Zap
I understand your concerns about the fate of literature, but I really don’t think there’s anything to worry about. There’s always been trash fiction, and it has always sold well. That’s not a bad thing. Take Mills and Boone , or any other bodice-ripper for example – they sell (or used to sell) by the truckload. You just didn’t see people reading these books or have to listen to them talking about them in the staff room at work.
What is different now is that people aren’t ashamed to be seen reading trash – especially once a particular title or author reaches a certain mass popularity.
And while traditional trash lit was read mostly by people who are already readers, these massive hits like 50 Shades, or The DaVinci Code do attract new people to the joys of reading. Some of these new readers go on to become voracious readers, exploring new authors and genres.
And buying books!
These mega-seller books also become conversation starters – a chance for people to talk about books who otherwise would never consider discussing such a topic. I found this myself when curiosity got the better of me and I read the DaVinci Code. Sure it was trash, but people wanted to talk to me about it – the guy who owns the sandwich shop, co-workers who never asked about any other book I had read in the lunch room in the previous 5 years, strangers at the train station etc. People were excited about books!
So, trash lit has always been around, and quality lit has always survived, and a lot of quality lit has always gone unappreciated, unread or unpublished. The “next big thing” isn’t going to change anything, other than to perhaps bring a few more readers into the fold. [/rant] 🙂
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Wasn’t Shakespeare considered trash in his day if I’m remembering right (probably not)? Maybe one day your grandchildren will be studying 50 Shades as classic literature at school, analyzing the meanings and subtext of its inner goddess.
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You could just be right.
*my inner goddess shudders at the thought.
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Crimson cheeks, etc.
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Not Trash, but Shakespeare’s plays were targeted towards the lower class, unlike the vast majority of plays at the time. Or, well known ones, anyway. Also, The Globe, the place most of his plays were umm, played at, was renowned for being rather uncouth. That said, there were still decent numbers of the upper and middle class going to his shows, and the best part for them was that they didn’t have to mix with the lower class peolpe who were all huddled around the stage.
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gosh darn it, my max anarchy arrived… 5 minutes after i left the house…
i guess i’ll get it tomorrow then 🙁
at least i’m seeing flight of the conchords tonight!
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Wahhh…?
Didn’t you just order it a couple of days ago from Asia or something!? That’s pretty quick shipping!
Does anyone know of any decent but not too expensive British online stores that ship to Australia?
Mum wants to get something special for her 60th, but when she finds something she likes, they don’t ship to Australia D=
Any help is appreciated
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What are you looking for specifically?
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Blouses and tops. I should’ve mentioned it was clothing
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You could probably find the same brand stuff here in Australia with a bit of effort.
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Yeah, but Mum wanted something from overseas because internet =D
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You can still buy over the internet in Australia =P
Alternatively you could get a relative in the UK (does your mum have any there you’re in contact with?) to buy it and post it to you here, would be cheaper..
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There should be a link right up the top of the page here called ShopStyle. They’ve pretty much collated all the stuff from loads of stores that ship to Australia.
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Yeah I checked shop style, but $150 for a top?! I can’t afford that. =(
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Well it really depends on the shop. They link to a whole bunch of different stores with different price ranges so if you search more there’ll probably be something you can afford.
But if you’re buying online from overseas, postage is quite often a killer anyway so anything you’d save by the cheaper prices in other countries is often negated by the shipping costs.Did you try Amazon.co.uk? Their shipping is often reasonable and it looks like they’ve a big sale on right now for clothes.
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So i’m finally getting around to checking out Six Feet Under, I hope its good.
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It’s very good.Brilliant series
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its one of the best drama series I’ve seen. hope you like it 🙂
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Yeah it’s awesome. Watched the first 2 episodes, thought it was great!
@greenius i ordered it a week ago, but i spent a few dollars extra and got 3 day shipping, but it took a week to ship.
i can say i reccomend play asia for the import.. i think… haven’t got the game yet… BUT IT’S HERE I TELLS YA
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Ah fair enough. I’ve used Play-Asia before but it’s been the usual 7-12 working days with normal shipping. I guess I live in Melb though so it takes longer.
Why hello there…
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Hello!
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Di11!
Why you be so sneaky, sneaking in here in the middle of the night? How have you been?
I know a girl who’s lost and lonely, sits by the phone on her own. But the phone don’t ring, and the birds don’t sing in her tree. She lost herself in a haze of pity, and doesn’t know where to run. She’s a headshrinker now, and I think it’s time we have some fun!
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Attention shoppers, please check your Gallagher, if you are missing yours we have a lost one in Center Management.
BEAAAAAVWAAAAAA! You’re amazing. And too kind. THANK YOU!
Mornin’ TAY!
Epic Payday game last night with Pez, Ynefel and Debs!
I noticed it’s currently up for a vote for 75% off, so if anyone wants a brilliant 4 player co op game, there’s a good choice for you.
Also, picked up NFS:HP this morning, right before the sale ended. I hope it’s as good as the NFS games I’ve enjoyed in the past (it looks like it will be).
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Voted!
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NFS:HP is a great game, you’ll enjoy it. It was developed by Criterion so you know it’s good.
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Oh dammit, I missed it!
Hey, anyone got a good iOS app that streams from NAS drives (ie No computer in between). I have tried VLC streamer but it dont work!
Cheers, Also. horses.
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Do you mean an app to stream media from a NAS and play on an iOS device? If so, I can ask around. I have a few workmates that are iOS fans.
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yeah man spot on. I have an ipad and a NAS adn I want to sit around watching the movies or TV or whatever on the iOS device rather than the TV.
Appreciate any help.
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Has anyone here played Risen 2? Or knows someone that owns is? I was wondering if I should get it because … PIRATES!
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I saw the review on Good Game. Looked like fun to me. But I think they mentioned it was a bit buggy. But…PIRATES!
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Butt pirates?
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AngryJoeShow reviews of 1 and 2 should give you a pretty good idea.
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Get LA Noire!
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I already have it on console 😛
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This is acceptable.
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I saw a review once (possibly GameTrailers?) and it looked like one of those “fun but flawed” games that you should pick up when it’s cheap.
… PIRATES!
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Man, I’m still riled up that Disney cancelled that awesome looking PIrates of the Caribbean RPG. This might be the next best thing?
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Oh man, that Pirates of the Carribean game looked SO GOOD. Well, it looked like Fable, but that’s okay in my books.
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This. I really hope they release it as a downloadable game at one point. It probably won’t happen, but I can dream.
*sniff* Why did Disney cancel that game.
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I have three 20% off codes for Green Man Gaming if anyone wants to use them.
They’re also currently having a sale and some things are cheaper than Steam, others aren’t. To be honest most of their games are kind of crappy :P. They’re once again giving away a free game and if you purchase it, you’ll receive a 20% off code as well (I did this for the last 3 games they gave away).
I’ve heard mixed things about them but I used them on Friday for Metro 2033 (they had it for $5 before Steam did) but turns out they ran out of keys. Didn’t receive it until Tuesday night but since I wasn’t in a rush, I didn’t really care.
If anyone wants a code just let me know :). I’ll probably keep one for myself just in case but if you want more codes you can always claim their free game for another code. I also hear that you can trade in their free games for credit :D! All codes expire on the 1st of August so you’ll have time after the Steam sales end.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/07/the-next-unreal-engine-3-ios-game-is-a-completely-different-kind-of-gorgeous/ — This game looks incredibly good, it’s nice to see the triumphant return of colour in Unreal Engine games. (Fortnite might’ve brought a tear to the ‘ol eye last week. :P)
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Pretty sure I’m going to buy 2 copies of fortnite, just because it looks that brilliant (gameplay and graphics).
Now at the cost of being told to go to WA (I’m looking at you Bish) I’m still going to post this.
I’ve found a couple of interesting CCG Emulators around on the internet which allow online Play, but also have all the past cards!
LackeyCCG – http://www.lackeyccg.com/downloads.html
Lackey Is a general Card Game tool. It Has Plugins for alot of the games (I am using it for Star Trek 2nd Edition) and from what I can tell as long as the plugin is up to date all the cards are there :). It has alot of the favourites – Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh, Duel masters.
Cockatrice – http://cockatrice.de/index.php?a=download
Cockatrice is Specific to Magic: The Gathering and I’ve been told that it has all the cards available. My brother has been checking this out and has been impressed with the deck builder.
If anyone is interested in playing let me know. I will try anything once.
I think its a great way to get into the card game without having to spend the hundereds of dollars to do it.
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Oh man, that sounds perfect! I’d love to have a game of M:TG at some point, if you’re up for it?
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Always up for it 🙂
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I would complain about switching from an Android phone to iOS, but I’m sure y’all can imagine what I can rabble on about.
This does, however, mean I need to download and buy all the gaems again.
I think I’ve talked myself out of buying Game Dev Story again, but Dungeon Village (also by Kairosoft) seems like a pretty cool guy.
Any recommendations?
Maybe I should be naughty and play GBA games on it.
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Quarrel Delux is a fun word strategy game, probably the most played game on my iPad. http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/quarrel-deluxe/id453203047?mt=8
Then there’s all the usual suspects like Superbrothers and the like.
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Maybe you should get that Pokemon yellow iOS that totally works.
NOTHELPING.JPG
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Scribblenauts Remix is fun, but pretty short. Good times while it lasts, though. http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/scribblenauts-remix/id444844790?mt=8
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I’d be more likely to rebuy Game Dev Story than Dungeon Village. I got bored of DV within about 2 hours – there’s not really any variation to stores/heroes/etcs.
But I’m over phone gaming. The only game app I have on my phone is a Minecraft/Minesweeper mash up. Also I have an Android phone, so my advice is null.
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The only thing I really play on iOS anymore is http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dominion-by-donald-x.-vaccarino/id447395574?mt=8
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Where’s my Water!
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Jetpack Joyride
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That’s the only game I’ve ever played that has made me motion sick, every single time… :S
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Thanks, friends!
HOLY CRAP GUYS!!
SOME SERIOUS SHIT IS GOING DOWN IN QLD!!!
There’s a new fight store opening from another existing store we stock to.
The new managers name?
Gokan
FETHING GOKHAN!!!
I’m not stupid, asshole!! I know you’re Goku and Gohan joined together to manage a fight store!!
WHERE THE FETH IS CELL?!?!
YOU BETTER NOT SPIRIT BOMB SHIT UP, MAN! I HEAR BRISBANE HAS SOME OK STUFF!!!
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Thrilling.
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Ok.. i’ll keep it to myself from now on
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Haha. Nah man, you’re allowed to be excited.
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So I managed to have schnitzel last night for tea. With strawberries.
It works, shut up.
Eerily quiet here…
Anyhoo, anyone here played Sim City 4 much? Is it any good, or should I go with something like Anno 2070, Cities XL etc.? I was a fan of the original, but haven’t played most (possibly any, I can’t remember…) of the newer ones.
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Sim City 4 is outstanding as long as you’re willing to learn the game, it’s a little more complex than the earlier versions. Takes a while to get a city to thrive. Good, though.
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Yeah pretty much this. It’s a good game if you put the effort in.
It was a bit too complicated for my tastes, though.
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Needs more bacon.
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Good point
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Long link is long.
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Zelda pron?
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Link isn’t long enough
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If I recall, he was pretty damned short.
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Adult Link was reasonably tall.
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Sorry to derail this conversation from innuendo to actual discussion of average adult height in Hyrule and it’s surrounds, but:
I think the argument can be made that “Adult” Link is average height. Ganondorf is tall – especially considering that most of the Gerudo are close in height to Link.
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Right knee needs to be pink as well
Any news, meats, playdates or… uh… stuff that should/could be mentioned on Potaku tonight?
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We could try doing an Exterminatus playdate across all systems some time? Not sure how many people would be keen.
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I DON”T KNOW WHAT THAT IS BUT I WILL NOD AND SAY YES!
It does make me think about the Extremis Armor though. So sleek!
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Well, it DOES involve power armour…
It’s 4 player co op in Space Marine, holding out against waves of enemies.
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Don’t worry, Doc, I know what he’s talking about.
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GOOD SHOW, OLD BEAN!
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The hole in my fence has been fixed, I repeat, the hole in my fence has been fixed. Now my cat can’t escape. I’ll be sure to pass this onto CNN, AP and Reuters as well. 😛
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I’ll send shiggy down to do an on-the-scene report.
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Hi Doc, maybe you could mention TAYCINEMA. It’s every Friday night at 9pm. It’s just a group of people watching a movie together.
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We will probably do that! What are you watching, uh, well, I guess we’ll have to advertise next weeks movie.
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OH!
Talk to Pez about some music thingy he’s doing on Friday the 27th.
I have a 75% off voucherfor Trine 2 for Steam if anyone would be interested?
Also – got into the LBP: Karting Beta… should be good. Wonder how it compares to modnation
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Also – for those who haven’t seen it – Atomic are giving away an Acer Predator:
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/Competition/305116,acer-predator-competition.aspx-
Thanks loops for the competition link. Fingers crossed 🙂
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Boss: “Do you have any hard copies or just soft copies for [Project]?”
Me: “Sorry, I’ve just got soft.”
*Silence*
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I don’t know, I think the alternative would have been weirder.
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Weirder? 127% more hilarious I think.
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What? No rim shot? Isn’t that a
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Ooh, someone’s on the ball with the new terminology!
Get off the ball, it’s a WHS violation.
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Man, the brothels never catch a break, huh?
They just catch all the other things…
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Would a brothel…worker…have to report a possible infection (theirs/customers) to his/her WHS officer? Or do they have a more specialised system?
I like to believe they go through the boring as crap WHS motions.
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So we managed to do Pot4ku and Po7aku.
Now we can’t do numbers as letters!
At least until Po74ku, but that’s AGES away!
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Reason enough to reboot the series. Worked for Spider-Man. 😛
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We should do a Venom episode where we make it so awful it has to be rebooted. Doc What will be played by Mark Serrels and Shiggy Ninty will be played by Rocketman.
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Only because your lazy. Should be doing one a night like a hard working honest man who really cares about the fans 😛
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Unless we have a German theme, perhaps? Pot(acht)u?
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Take a leaf out of “Thi4f”s book.
Random number!
P19taku!-
907426!
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Tune in tomorrow night for P8taku!
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Picked up a $12 Logitech Mouse at Woolies.
No longer will I be a slave to my laptop’s touchpad.
Schnitzel and strawberries for lunch \o/
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Strawberry Schnitzel?
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Together?!?!
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If I had a camera, I’d take a photo. Trust me, chicken and strawberries is almost as godlike as bacon and maple syrup.
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This is the craziest thing i have heard in a long time.
You are the new Crazyguy.
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Eh, that doesn’t seem crazy enough.
Add the meat from some pork spare ribs, a bit of mashed potato and hollandaise sauce, and you’ll be on the money.
The sweetness of the strawberries may balance out the dryness of the chicken, but without a sauce of some kind, it would just be missing something special.
^That, fellow TAYbies, is how you do crazy.-
How about the salad dressing I have (had) on it? Dijon mustard, hot english mustard, wholegrain mustard, white wine vinaigrette and a little bit of balsamic 😀
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http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4132156.html
Whilst trying to find a particular article for my uni assignment, I came across the above article.
Good lord, it is terrifying….
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The leader is good. The leader is great. Surrender your will, as of this date.
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Cults in general I think, but definitely seems appropriate here. Religion is manipulation, in my honest opinion. I have nothing against the faith and belief, that’s all good. It’s just the way humans use it to control others for their own selfish gain. Don’t get me started on the Catholic church, man. 😛
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Yeah, that’s the thing with religion for me.
Although I’m an atheist, I’ve no problem with it as long as it actually helps people and prevents any sort of segregation.
Once that segregation starts happening, though, I become very, very critical of it.
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It should be made illegal for these idiots to target children. But religious freedom they’ll cry. Religion my ass. A cult pulled out of a guts ass a few decades ago.
Raaaghh. Scientology is one of the extremely few things in the world that instantly fill me with blind rage.
Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, and having to shut down the development studio, the release date for “NovaCascade’s Scandinavian Saga: Episode 2 – Not the Finnish” has been pushed back.
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Nooooooooooooooo
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Valve time
Late to the game but ZOMG LIMBO! Such a simple, eerie and gorgeous game! I played the demo a long time ago but it keeps blinding my mow… Well done Danish *proud* developer that I knew nothing about till now
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I’ve downloaded it, but still haven’t played it yet… 🙁
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Well worth it… It actually managed to creep me out and feel very tense on a few occasions… Never had a sidescroller do that before
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Is… Is this my first ever page get?
*sniffs*
So this is what it feels like? Feels good man-
*golf clap*
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I played the demo last night on the 360, so amazingly creepy with the lights turned off on a HDTV. Odd how it was 1200 MS points while it was $2 on the PC. :S
@Aleph-Null: Strawberry also goes quite nicely with Jalapeno chilli if you want to try another odd combination.
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I heartily approve of this.
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OOOOHH! I think I’ll have to try that, once I get some decent strawberries again ^.^
(Seriously, we damn near throw a party whenever we get a green avocado… strawberries are a huge delicacy!)
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Great. Now I want Chili Relleno.
If you haven’t read the article crazyguy1990 posted at the end of page 8, I suggest you do. Harrowing stuff.
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Then repost from last page, because new page. Also I’m rather bored. Quiet today.
It should be made illegal for these idiots to target children. But religious freedom they’ll cry. Religion my ass. A cult pulled out of a guts ass a few decades ago.
Raaaghh. Scientology is one of the extremely few things in the world that instantly fill me with blind rage.
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I read it. It made me angry & sad at the same time.
seriously, how the fucking hell can that deluded & evil orginisation continue to exist?
the US has invaded countries for destroying fewer lives than that cult has.life in prison for the high-up in that thing. solitary confinement so they cant further spread their bullshit.
cult de-programmers for all the poor people who have been manipulated & brainwashed. paid for by the ill-gotten gains of the orginisation.tom cruise’s head on a pike.
/rant
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Because of the ridiculous amount of money they have that they can throw at lawsuits, politicians and celebrities to “legitimize” themselves as a religion.
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In some ways you could argue the hardcore true believers are victims themselves. I’m certain they wouldn’t consider themselves victims, though.
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makes me fucking sick.
they are breaking the law. I dont care how much money they have. or influence. I dont care who’s in their pockets. the whole damn cult needs to be outlawed at a global level.Someone needs to stand up to em.
Harvey Dent would’ve done it.
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I’d say the same for other belief constructs, although it’s a VERY blurry line between belief and manipulation. It’s the human condition to take advantage of those they can. That’s why capitalism works.
While it sickens me, I can’t say I’m entirely unhappy about it. All it means to me, in my little bubble, is that I’m above someone. I’m doing better than someone.
Granted, this is an incredibly selfish point of view. Unfortunately, drawing that line is such a difficult task, and if we outlaw Scientology, that brings up the question of why Sunni, Christian or hell, even Zoroastrian followers are still allowed to practice and preach. -
The problem is they’re generally *not* breaking the law.
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Not much different from pretty much any religious organisation, though.
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Even if you subscribe to the world view that all religion is bad, Scientology is the absolute worst of them. The weird suicide / ritual child abuse cults out there are almost as bad, but they’re generally pretty small and isolated things and don’t have the enormous piles of cash that they fleece from their constituents which they can use to bribe politicians, fund lawsuits and keep themselves off the radar. Because they avoid any really high-profile incidents (you don’t hear of armed sieges at Scientology compounds or anything) the more shocking cults are the ones that the politicians go after because they’re easier targets. Scientology knows how to keep inside the boundaries of what’s legal (and knows where to put the money and who to shut up when they overstep).
Incidentally if we didn’t have religion we’d probably still be living in caves banging sticks together, it’s an incredibly important social force which is directly or indirectly responsible for just about every bit of progress we’ve experienced as a species. Got to take the bad with the good. Doesn’t excuse Scientology though.
Personally I think one of the biggest things that needs examination is the tax-exempt nature of a lot of these religious organizations. Not just Scientology, but pretty much every large religious group. Pretty sure Scientology is actually considered a corporation in Australia so they got that bit right, but the fact is that in the US where most of their power and money is concentrated, they’re effectively a ‘charity’.
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I hate to be the voice of reason guys but can we not have a religious debate here.
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You’re right, probably for the best. A can of worms, most definitely.
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Why not?
We’ve had plenty of discussions regarding religion in TAY before and they have a track record of being fairly civil.
As long as people respect each other’s opinions, choices, then there is no harm in discussing such things.
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Oh man, I’m really worried about my order from Zavvi I made two weeks ago. I bought two games on the 30th of June and they were dispatched the following Monday(2nd July) The site promises a 5-7 day delivery period(not counting sat and sun, of course ) and so far it has been 14 days. It’s the first time I ordered two things at once as well. I just hope everything is Ok.
I really hope it’s delivered later today or tomorrow at the latest. Fingers crossed 🙂
Anyway, my fears aside, I need somebody to choose a movie for tomorrow’s TAYCINEMA. I’m still fearful after the boring film I chose last week 🙂
The genre of the week is comedy. Movies can be found here http://www.youtube.com/movies/comedy?fl=f&l=en&pt=g&st=f
Remember to sort by highest rated or most popular. Those two categories usually have good stuff.
Thanks.
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Are you sure that’s not their UK delivery window? Usually when I buy from Zavvi their international delivery expectation is way larger than that.
I wouldn’t worry yet, Zavvi have notoriously slow delivery times I usually expect 3-5 weeks when I order something from them which is why I’ll only order if their price is awesome and I’m not in a rush.
If the parcel doesn’t arrive within a specific time window (you’d have to check with them exactly what) they’re really good with refunds/exchanges.-
I’ve received orders from them faster in the past and I think that’s where my unease comes from. I guess I can wait an extra week. Thanks.
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That reminds me. I can’t do TAYCINEMA this week because Batmang.
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That is a fair reason. Hopefully you can participate another time
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Bootleg stream TAYcinema party!
*cough*
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Tax return came through.
AWWWWWWWWWWW YEEEEEEEEEEEAH.
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Woooo! Lucky for you the steam sales are still on 😛
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BUY (me) ALL THE GAMES
STALKER collection pack : $12 (approx)
Buying the 3 games separately : $10 (approx)
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what
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Call of Pripyat is 75% off, rather than the usual 50%
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Also Call of Pripyat is the best.
AROOOOUUUUUUUNNNNND!
No but seriously, if you like the idea of STALKER but are weary to pay $10 (or $12 if you’re so inclined), go for CoP.
SoC was good, they experimented with CS, and they refined the game with CoP. Also all the good mods should be finished.
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Yeah, I managed to grab something a few weeks ago wherein it was cheaper to just purchase them “separately” together.
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L.A. Noire $3.75
DLC pack $4.50Complete edition $15…
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Non-discount prices:
Main game US: $20, AU: $15
DLC US: $12, AU: $18
Complete US: $30, AU: $60.Non-standard application of regional pricing seems to be to blame here since the US prices line up.
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Which is why I got them separately. I have LA Noire on 360, but none of the DLC. Couldn’t complain for $8.25
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I need a girl’s name for the protagonist of the zombie movie.
Not sure why, but my brain keeps coming back to Kate.
Any suggestions guys and gals?
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Slagathor.
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Done!
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Chesty Laroo?
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Busty St. Claire
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Gertrude, Gerty for short. It’s gonna make a come back for sure. 😛
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Mildred.
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Emily?
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Tech Knight to the rescue!
That’s def goin on the list!
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Mona Lotte.
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Hortence.
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Margaret, that way you can have Maggie as her nickname.
That or any name that can be shortened e.g
Samantha becomes Sam or Sammy
Susan is Susie
etc.
Such names are better, I feel, for emotional scenes e.g ‘Maggie!Nooo, you can’t die, you cant!’
Or maybe I’m over thinking it. Ha Ha, I know, use Michone she seems to be working in the walking dead 🙂
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In all seriousness, I like Sam. It’s a strong, respectable name.
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It is, but too gender neutral for what I require.
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+1 for Sam
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Anastasia
can become: Ana, Tasia, Tasha, Tash and so on
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Le-a.
Pronounce the dash.
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Lehyphena?
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😀 That’s what I initially thought when I was presented with it.
Apparently it’s “Ledasha”.
I will never understand some people… never.-
This opens up a whole new world of names!
Like Nat#a!
Uhhh… Hmmm…Okay, I’m out of names. I’m not very good with this. But I guess now I can call my friend Bartholomew, B@e.
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Wait, no, make the last one “B@-e”but you have to specify that the “@” is spoken, but that the hyphen is just there to help with pronunciation.
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Trevor.
It’s a very progressive film.
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BAHAHAHA! Best.
Spell it with a C, then you can have “Cate Archer is: A Spy in H.A.R.M.s way!”
Okay, maybe I just really like the NOLF games.
And I’m afraid I can’t help, when I’m scripring things I either name people with letters, or use random words.(In one story I wrote the place it was set in was called “PartyTown” until about five minutes before it was due…)
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CAASHARM?
Is that like the handle on a broken slot machine?
Beryl.
Katarina?
Kylie? 😛
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What do you have against the name Kylie? I quite like it 😛
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Ooh, ooh, I’ve got a great one.
“(You’re Terrible,) Muriel.”
Best name.
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Going along those lines, we could go with Michele.
Bonus; plot-piece/filler. She pretends to have invented post-its, while her best friend Romy gets drunk and dances the night away.
Don’t call her Kate. Every female character is called Kate. My suggestions:
Amy
Mia
Jessie (Jess for short)
Emma
Isabelle (Izzy for short)
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See, I like Isabelle as a name, but only because you can shorten it to “Belle” and I really like Beauty and the Beast.
Err, I mean, ummm… SOMETHING MANLY!
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I can’t hear the name Belle without thinking of Twilight. The name’s been permanently ruined for me.
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When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs
Ev’ry morning to help me get large
And now that I’m grown I eat five dozen eggs
So I’m roughly the size of a barge!Oh, ahhh, wow!
My what a guy, that Gaston!
No one shoots like Gaston
Makes those beauts like Gaston
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Dear strange I am practicing my ninja skills…
also I has been good just working lots and study…not much gaming unfortunatly at the moment but that will change soon 😀 How have you been?
also randomly I am working on a youtube channel with a friend and will share it with you all first 🙂 its probably going to be crappy but who knows hahaha i think our first two videos are like completley random… one is a balance beam challenge and the other is a prank involving hundreds of meters of tin foil.
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why do i say also so much… o.0 english skills need improving
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You only said it thrice in two posts, compared to self-reference (I, Me, My etc) 6 times, I think you’re doing alright ^.^
It’d be far stranger if those numbers were reversed!
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Yay thank you Aleph-Null 🙂
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Also, hundreds of metres of alfoil? Consider my curiosity piqued, friend!
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Been feeling pretty crummy all week. Woke up still feeling crummy, so I stayed home from work to sleep it off. Just waking up now.
Turns out that sleep is pretty amazing.
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Hope you feel better, man.
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Sounds like schnitzel.
Hope you’re feeling better, frond!
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Trjn : “Been feeling pretty crummy all week. Woke up still feeling crummy….”
Aleph-Null: “Sounds like schnitzel”Tee-hee….
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Schnitzel \o/
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i blame food and wine co at darling harbour because flip those guys
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I also blame them.
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I ate there once! For the price it ea tater disappointing. Service was pretty crummy too.
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Still working on deciphering this.
Any clues?
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going off key placement faux pars, I’d say something along the lines of;
I ate there once! For the price it was rather disappointing. Service was pretty crummy too.Iunno, ask Scree. She’s good at deciphering that sort of stuff 😛
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Aleph. Smarter than an iPhone.
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Smarter than your average bear, Boo-boo!
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And here I was, hoping it was a jab at Potato prices, and how EA is ripping us off.
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Yeah. Yeah it was. Also still is.
So Rhianna “Daughter of Terry” Pratchett is the lead writer on the new Tomb Raider game.
This, to me, is a very promising thing!
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I’d like to see it written by Terry “Father of Rhianna” Pratchett.
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Or David “Father of Terry “Father of Rhianna “Daughter of Terry Pratchett” Pratchett” Pratchett” Pratchett?
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i think my brain just melted.
bravo to you sir!
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Rhianna was lead writer (IIRC) on the Overlord games which I heard were pretty good.
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Also on Heavenly Sword (I think). this bodes well for Tomb Raider.
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Just so you guys know, Batmangs was awesome last night. It felt a little odd watching movies in the cinema for the first that I’ve seen multiple times on my tv though.
But The Dark Knight Rises. Sooooo good! The only thing that could have made it better would be the joker, but they couldn’t do that for obvious reasons 🙁
But anyway, you guys need to go see it as soon as possible so I have people to discuss it with. Especially that ending.
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Tomorrow night.
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What if I think Batman himself is pretty “eh…”? Will I still like it?
The only things I liked about the last movie were the scenes with the Joker 😛
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Probably? I dunno. You may be better off watching something like High School Musical though 😛
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But that DVD is all scratched up from watching it too many times! D:
But yeah, if I hear that the villains/side characters are interesting enough to distract me from Batman, I’ll see it. 😛
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Oh yeah, there are plenty of side stories in it. It’s not just a movie about batman.
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Dragon Age: Origins is on one of the “flash sales”. I would recommend all RPG fans to get. It is (in my opinion) the greatest RPG of this generation.
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What about awakenings?
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An old school expansion, feels a little out of its time. Way longer than DLC, decent sized campaign. Some really good characters but it’s a little more buggy in general than the main game.
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It had no romances, which was a big negative for me. The characters were pretty good, especially Anders. Overall story was a little meh. It was a good length for the price of it. I much prefer the $30 expansions with 10 hours of gameplay to the $10 DLCs that only offer an hour or two of extra content.
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TAY marketing strikes again
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Anders was great. And then DA2 happened and he was a sadsack emo angryman dickhead 🙁
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Yeah, not a bad price. I think my first play through was 80 hours or so and I loved every moment.
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Me too, I’ve played through the original campaign like 4 times and have done 2 complete finishes (all DLC and the expansion)
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It’s a great game. It did take me three tries and several months to finally finish it (I kept getting bored half way through) but it’s still a very good game. The origin stories in particular were my favourite part and it disappoints me that other RPGs haven’t adopted the choose an origin and playthrough it system.
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Yeah, that seemed to be the series hook. Weird that they stripped that and the core gameplay away. :S
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Hopefully they bring it back with DA3. I know a lot of people on the BioWare forums have been asking for it. Of course it might not fit BioWare’s vision for the game. They seem set on including some features and not others no matter how much fans disagree with them. Hopefully origin stories is not one of the features they’re against including.
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It makes me sad now, when a game does well. Because it inevitably means a sequel, that won’t be made because they want to make it. It will be made because the publishers WANT them to make it.
Makes me a little sad now that the companies that always made the best PC games are now part of big corporations that answer to shareholders, not themselves.
BioWare and Blizzard used to be in a league of their own in games development, now you look at some of the design decisions that have been made since they merged with EA/Activision respectively.
Anyway I could rant all day about that.
Yeah I hope DA3 goes back more towards the Baldur’s Gate/DA:O style. -
DA:O was made while EA was buying out Bioware so most of it was left unchanged but surprise, surprise EA completely screwed the next game up (possibly the whole series) so bad that I don’t even care about the 3rd game. I know I shouldn’t hate a company but, the way I see it, they ruined my favourite game. Oh well their’s the Baldurs Gate remake coming soon. Does anyone reckon I can get a retraining order the makes it so EA can’t even touch the remake / have any contact with the company making it?
/rant
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*restraining
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I don’t think they do anyway. BioWare has nothing to do with it, as a company. It’s being remade by an ex-employee (assuming they sold him/or he just had the rights to it) I remember asking some BioWare employees on twitter if they’d ever do another BG and pretty sure they said BioWare doesn’t own the IP anymore.
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Hey @loops and other Warhammer 40K fans – thought you might be interested in this.
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I wonder if they used the official little paint pots. Imagine the cost o.0
Pretty cool though, even if they didn’t use kotaku pink
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This was meant to be a separate comment, not a reply 🙁
I feel like writing a short story, probably around 2000 words.
Honestly, I haven’t written anything like that for a few months now.
This should be fun.
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Do it and post it here if it’s good enough.
I had some stories in my head as well. I just need to find the notebook I scribbled stuff on. For example I had this comedy TV series in my head revolving around toilets and bathrooms. I was stuck on whether to make it about a couple or a group of friends. Plus my writing isn’t that good.
I also had a transformers-esque idea in my head. At the moment it’s all action though, I just have to figure out a plot to tie the action together.
Hmm, maybe I should start writing. I’ve never written a long story arc that wasn’t school/uni related. Hmm
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I haven’t written any non uni stuff for a while now, so it’ll be good just to get back into the general groove of things.
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I’d love to give it a read if/when you finish it mate 😀
It’s been so long since I’ve written anything o.0
Cleaning out old email messages in Outlook at work. I came across one from Pixel that made me laugh way too hard.The last line of it was “ICT make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad.”
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It’s spreading http://bit.ly/MtBxf2
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Better than your current email sig 😛
Getting some seriously violent tearing sensations from my left shoulderblade. Put it off for a few days, but I think I’m gonna have to do something about it tomorrow.
The thing is, I’ve no idea how/why this is happening? I don’t over-extend/overuse ANY of my body at any point. Ugh.
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Between your shoulder blade and spine?
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Feels like the muscle(s?) situated directly over my shoulderblade/between blade and spine, yeah.
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I get the same thing and occasionally pinch something back there. It sucks.
Bodybuilder/Physiotherapist mate of mine suggested a stretch where you face the ground on your hands and knees. Raise one arm and make a scooping motion along the ground and under your other arm (rotating your body at the same time). Repeat, switching from arm to arm. Kind of hard to explain.
Don’t know how effective it would be, but worth a shot.
Anything beyond that I’d probably seek professional advice.-
Yeah, I got the name of a physiotherapist I’ll be calling tomorrow to see if I can organise a time. It’s getting a little beyond a joke now 😛
Thanks for the help man!
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Clearly your wings are about to come bursting out through your shoulder flesh.
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For those interested in The Witchers I found this:
http://www.gog.com/en/promo/the_witcher_series__gem__promo
Both games for $17 :). I was waiting for The Witcher 2 to go on sale to around $15 but decided to buy it at $20 if it goes on sale again. Some y’all picked it up recently and some have The Witcher 2 on their wishlist so I figured this would be helpful. It should be noted that I’m fairly sure that these aren’t Steam versions.
Hehee. If you watch Feiday the 13th backwards Jason is reviving dead people with a magic machete.
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If you watch American Psycho backwards, Patrick Bateman is an arrogant, asshole yuppie that has some unconventional means of healing people.
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Titanic was about an affluent zombie’s adventures aboard a resurrected cruiseliner, and his subsequent yearning for a simpler life.
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Backwards, Empire Strikes Back is about a dad who reattaches his son’s hand, hits him a few times, then bails on him. Traumatised, the son kisses his sister.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade backwards is about Indy and the Nazis working together to hide the Holy Grail and all traces of it’s location.
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The Thief games are 75% off today on Steam. I’ve heard some good things about them before, but does anyone have any first hand experience with them? How well have they aged? I guess $6.75 for the three games it doesn’t really matter, but still
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I only remember them from “back in the day” when they were brilliant and revolutionary. After creating the stealth combat genre, I’m not sure on how it has aged as others have taken that forward.
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Thief 2 is still awesome fun
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I went ahead and bought them. And Dragon Age as well. Its always been one of those games I meant to get around to playing so now that I have it, it can be ignored much more easily because at least its there when the mood strikes
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DA:O is probably best RPG of this generation (that’s imo, obviously)
I still load up Thief 2 from time to time. Think it holds up quite well, because it’s mostly the game play that makes it. It’s a nice challenge too
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“How well have they aged?”
Very poorly!
Good games, just… so old!
HOLY SHIT THERE’S GOING TO BE THE EVER ELUSIVE MELBOURNE MEAT THIS SATURDAY
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HOLY SHIT
Hi, everybody!
😀
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HAI DER!
Stupid facebook, why won’t you let me exclude some people from being able to post on my Timeline & view it? Rather than exclude everyone or no one, it’s a really stupid idea..
Oh man my mates mate spotted this on Steam earlier, what a saving!
https://twitter.com/Virus__/status/225925739067871232
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Bargain
I’LL TAKE 10
Just saw Batman. It is awesome! That is all.
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I’m seeing it next week. Anyone spoils it, they die.
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Also, really excited by the positive response it’s getting. Cannot wait! Glad you enjoyed it.
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Haha yeah that’s all I’m going to say, I don’t want you to kill me =(
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Spoilers – Batman wears black :O
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Dumbledore dies!
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You guys are all dead.
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You’re lying. I managed to extrapolate that from your name alone.
Really though, hope you enjoy the film man. Same rules apply; say one word, and bad things will happen.
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Batman fights crime I heard.. Hope it doesn’t spoil it too much for you.
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You are victim of tonight Shane super Ninja Strike!
Hi all.
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Whatwasthat…
Didyousee…
Wheredhego…Hi Shane
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HI SHANE, hows it going? Hows the new spawn going & all that? Anything new to report like stuff?
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I heard it’s only things, this time.
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OMMIGAWD! IT’S THE CHOSEN SON OF CANBERRA! HERE IN THE FLESH!
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It’s SHANE! \o/
Also, I’ve been totally meaning to read Lesser Evil 3 – will do so soon, and give you some feedback! I’m sure I’ll love it, though.
Tonight I finished Halo 3 – my first completion of a rather unproductive Shameless Gaming Month (it doesn’t help that it’s also End of FY which equates to my busy season at work!) This means I’ve got little over a week to finish my other goals of GTA IV (very close) and Assassin’s Creed II (not as close) also I might knock of Crysis 2 (I sense I am close to the end of that game) before the month is out if I’m good!
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Well done completing Halo 3. Loved it, personally.
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Yeah the story grew on me – although I can see why everyone has an issue with the flood, the last two levels of the game were really punishing because of them.
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Yay, it’s Friday….
And I can’t sleep…
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But it’s still Thursday over here. Mwahahaha!
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So… if I went to where you are, I’d have gone back in time?
Intriguing….
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Yay, it’s Friday….
And I can’t sleep…Neither can I. 🙁
But I’m on holidays so I don’t really care! I’ve got nothing planned tomorrow/today/whatever you want to call it, so I’ll probaly sleep till noon, cook a really unhealthy breakfast, read a book in the bath, then take a nap.
Gooooood morning world!
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Uff.
This Cracked article has to be the stupidest thing I’ve ever read in relation to gaming. The whole thing is just full of inaccuracies (eg, the implication that you can have sex with Samara in ME2) and stupidness (eg, The Sims 3 is sexist because pregnant women are happy) that is loses any sort of valid point it might have had.
Perhapes worst of all though is how the author’s responded to the criticism of his article. After being called out on the false nature of many of his “facts” about certain games, he readily admits that he already knows these things and he says it in such a way as to imply that people assuming he didn’t are idiots and that he’s fully justified in using these things as examples to support his arguements, even if they’re inaccurate. He’s also reverted to labelling those that disagree with him as virgins, nitwits and people who can’t see past their “privilege”. Clearly the rebuttals of an enlightened individual.
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Not all the Cracked writers can be Swaim, Seanbaby or Cheese.
I finally beat Dragon’s Dogma last night. Jesus man, the story went from like a 1 to 100 on a scale of 10. I would definately recommend the game to anyone. The ending had me scratching my head.
Hey TAY!
In case some people missed it, Pez was looking to see how many people would be keen to get involved with a friendly UT3 tourney. If you’re keen, give him a shout on Twitter.
If you think you’re too crap at the game to join, you’re underestimating just how crap the rest of us are, so get involved!
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I also have 2 giftable copies of the game if people are desperate.
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If they’re burning a hole in your inventory, I’m sure you could dump a copy on Steve-o and Aleph.
Y’know…if they REALLY deserve it.
(make them work for it)
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I will do anything.
ANYTHING
If by anything you mean sexual favors. If by anything you mean hard work, then…
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It would be fun, but alas I missed the sale, and am too cheap. Maybe if it comes up again.
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Sounds good but I don’t own the game. Is everyone so bad that it’s worth buying the game for? 😛
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That was my thinking 😛
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I wouldn’t….now.
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Cheers Rize.
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*tips modest pile of hat*
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Guys I know this gets asked every week but where do I send my kudo noms?
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Send them to steveo.the.deveo(at)gmail.[com]. I’ll forward them on and make sure that they definitely aren’t re-written to nom me. Definitely.
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I would usually not do that but your such a trustworthy individual steve-o 😛
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Oh man i’m so doing this one week!
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Easiest way is to use the Contact form in the Kotaku sidebar! Click Contact > Contact Editor.
Saves you from having to remember Mark’s email 😛
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But I remembered it!
BECAUSE I CARE! (also because it was saved into the “previously contacted” section.
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Stupid parentheses…
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Yeah… The thing is I can’t access the main site seeing as I’m on my mobile. The main site just crashes my phone and its blocked on my work computer.
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To the kudo monster 😛
@Freeze
Thanks buddy.
I’d only figured out how that thing worked an hour or two prior!
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…suspicious.
Killing Floor is up for community vote on Steam
gogogogo votevotevote buybuybuy
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I bought it a few days ago! I’m up for some co-op sometime soon, I’ve messed around in solo for a bit but I’m pretty terrible…
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Did so just to give more people the chance to give it a go.
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I voted for The Walking Dead. I didn’t see Killing Floor I am a bad person /o\
Hmm so I thought I had more money in my PayPal 😛
I decided to wait for The Witcher 2 to drop to around $15 when it first went on sale but decided I like the developer (based on all the free DLC) so I’d buy it again at $20. It was pretty much the last game I was going to get but it turns out my $3.70 isn’t enough to buy it :P.
I was wondering if anyone could please gift it to me and I’d pay them back later (PayPal money transfer thingy, buy them a $20 game, pay in person etc.), preferably someone who’s going to the Melbourne meat tomorrow so I can easily just pay them back in cold hard cash. Lemme know beforehand if you’re keen because I don’t want multiple gifts! (TAY is too kind :P)
Since I’m new to PC gaming I think I did fairly well this sale, overall it was an OKAY sale but I got most things I wanted (and things I didn’t know I wanted). How did everyone else go this sale? I’d say the only game I kind of wanted that didn’t go on sale (75% off or more) was Far Cry 2. But it was one of those “eh I’d buy it for $2” games anyway 😛
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Buy it on GoG you fool
http://www.gog.com/promo/the_witcher_series__gem__promo-
I posted that yesterday 😛
But it’s not a Steam copy!
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Who cares? It’s DRM free, and cheaper. I find the GoG downloader is quicker than Steam too. And GoG is owned by the people who make The Witcher
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It’s more out of convenience and having everything in one place.
But I don’t have money so I can’t even buy it online anywhere 😛
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You can add non-Steam games to Steam though 😛
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Oh yeah… True! I’ve never done it so I forgot about it 😛
But $20 is a nice even number and it’s probably what I’d pay the person back in anyway. So I’d rather have it on Steam. Then again I could just not buy it and work on all the other games I just got and hope it gets to around $15 at Christmas.
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But you get TWO games for LESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Steam copy is censored. GoG is not, provided you say you’re from Bulgaria or something instead of Asstralia.
So let me get this straight, I buy this game for you and then you give me something cold and hard tomorrow night?
Happy to do that for you, just let me know which option you are going with
Morning TAYbs,
So a long previous 2 weeks with my son being admitted to the Royal Childrens for his heart surgery monday before last. After a grueling 9 hour wait we were able to see him again. He’s been coping pretty well for someone who is recovering from open heart surgery at his age. He’s still in the hospital but on the mend and with any luck he should be able to home some time next week. Big thanks to all TAYbies for your messages of support.
With my wife staying with my son at the hospital, i’m frequently left home if i’m not with them at the hospital. So Shameless Gaming month is plodding along slowly for me. Finished Game of Thrones, Prototype 2, Castlevania:Lords of Shadow and Sniper Elite V2. Started Dragon’s Dogma and downloaded Steam. Yep, i’m on Steam now, with no friends! Bah! Username is ‘Splicerkid’ if y’all want to add me. Or ‘PunishingHand’ on PSN if that suits. I dunno, whatever.
I’m rambling i know, so if you’ve gotten this far in this small wall of text, kudos to you good sir!
So just updating everyone really, and because i’m at work today with nothing to do.
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No! Kudos to you and your family. Good to hear everything is going well.
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My Steam id is Klutar add away
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Good to hear everything is going well! Hopefully it’s smooth sailing for the next…I dunno, thousand years? You deserve it!
Make sure you join the Kotaku Steam group. Makes it much easier when community gaming happens, and much easier for people like me to harass people to join games 😀 -
Glad that everything is going well. Hope he makes a quick recovery
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Add your steamID to TAYnames if possible, and I’ll add you tonight when I’m home 😀 Looks like you’ve made a sizeable dent in your pineapple!
Glad to hear your son’s doing well, that’s gotta be tough on all of you. Keep us posted.
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What is this TAYnames you speak of?
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tinyurl.com/taynames
It’s a google docs spreadsheet with all our various aliases for different game related services on it.
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Hopefully its smooth sailing from here man! A couple of us also have Dragon’s Dogma in PS3.
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Good to hear that everything is going well.
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Glad to hear he’s on the mend. *giant hugs*
I can’t find you on Steam. 🙁
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Thanks everyone 😀
If you can’t find me on Steam, check on Greenius’ profile, he seemed to find me ok. I’m still trying to work out how to find people on there. Me Derp when it comes to computers.-
I think i can’t add people yet because i have no gaems…must go add gaems…brb
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Great to hear the good news.
I just saw this on The Circle, and I’m hoping I misunderstood, but apparently, because of the popularity of 50 Shades of Grey, classics such as Pride and Prejudice and Sherlock Holmes will be rereleased with added erotic scenes, including Watson being involved in gay scenes.
The level of disgust I’m feeling right now is incomprehensible. To go and make those changes to classic literature because of the popularity of what is basically fan fiction is just mind blowing.
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If it’s the Circle, there’s a good chance they were trying to be funny again.
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I don’t think so. I’ve found multiple sites reporting on it.
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The upcoming epic, re-re-released with extra added content; “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Fabio ‘I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Mills&Boon’ Lanzoni”
…I think I’d actually be tempted to buy that, if only for shock value.
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Hey, my son’s middle name is Fabio
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Yeah, I posted a link about that (from another site) in one of the discussions we had about 50 Shades this week. Not sure if anyone noticed it 😛
But yes, it is disgusting. Defacing classic literature just to make a quick buck off a fad 🙁
Imagine if they’d done that when Twilight came out. Make Mr Darcy a sparkly vampire… -
I gotta say, it all sounds pretty daft to me.
Having said that, we all know they’ll make a crapload of money from it. Plus, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies exists, which is a similar concept done with something we’re more likely to support.
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I hope someone is seriously trolling here…to do that to classic literature would be a serious lack of judgement…wouldn’t their estates have something to say about that?
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Theres a book called something like ‘The secret letters of Jane Austen’ & its basically sex scene outtakes from Austen’s books.
total BS of course, it was written by someone woman a few years ago, but it is written very convincingly in Austen’s style. good for a giggle.
as for republishing Sherlock etc with sex scenes, whoever thought that was a good / original idea has never been on the internet. just Google Sherlock slash fiction* & see how redundant the idea already is.
*yeah, probably dont do this at work.
I think today is a good time to clean out a few spare games my gift inventory has, so I’m going to offer them one at a time throughout the day.
Who wants a copy of PAYDAY: The Heist?
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I want to raise my hand but I don’t know how much I’d play it! It does sound good though.
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I’ll take one, thanks.
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I’LL TAKE 54675476854748768768
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I DON’T OWN THAT MANY.
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What’s your Steam ID?
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My Steam ID is Crazyguy1990.
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BAM!
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Thanks, mate!
😀
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Hurpy Berfday Rockets!
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Happy Sweet Sixteen!
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Up here in North QLD, that means he’s legal!
Happy Herpday Rocket!
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I think I’ll take a raincheck.
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Happy Birthday, Rocketman!
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I’d call Rocketpony old but he’s still a youngling.
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Still a pony, not yet a horse.
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HAPPY 13th BIRTHDAY ROCKETMAN!!!
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Happy Birthday Rockitmang!
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Happy birthday rockets
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Happy birthday Rocketmang!
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Happy Rocket Birthday 🙂
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Happy Birthday Rockets.
Finished Costume Quest last night.
Not something that I’d normally play. To be honest, I don’t even remember how it ended up in my Steam library. Short and fairly simple, the combat system is basically the same as Super Paper Mario. Probably decent if you’re into that sort of thing but I don’t think I fall into that category.
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I got that in the Double Fine bundle, when I scooped up Stacking. How long did it take you to finish? I need to mark more things off for Shameless Gaming…
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According to my Steam Library, it takes 5 hours – I doubled back a bit to get all the achievements, so you could probably even do it in less.
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Sounds good to me. Cheers!
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I’d say three to four hours.
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In my steam news:” Blaghman now owns Fortix, BIT.TRIP RUNNER, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Dungeons of Dredmor, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion.”
Mooching level: Pro (Especially that Fortix games, it’s so expensive)
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Once I clear away a few games from the Steam sale I’m going to grab SSE:Rebellion.
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That’s my mooching prize. Bloody Nobshot…
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@alph
If you are looking to pay me back I’m planning on getting dead island and Alan wake. If you can’t buy from work just let me know and get me Alan wake then spend the rest on troll gifts for people. Or go crazy and get things people want
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I can’t buy from work, for some reason the store doesn’t work here /o\
Alan Wake will be purchased in approximately 7 hours. Also troll gifts.
I heard people are enjoying the trains 😉 -
Hey Tigs – My steam is a but funky (at work on web steam) – Did the Krater to my Sanctum from the Penetrator go through?
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See post below.
Yeah it did, and you will please to know I read your message in public. Just glad nobody asked what I was laughing at
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Sooooo… Ended up spending a few hours in saints row the third… Didn’t get very far though, after I discovered there’s a button dedicated to crotch punching… It should NOT be as entertaining as it is
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Best button ever!
I’ve gone through full firefights with only crotch punch. After I became immune to bullet it was even easier 😀
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If not “the penetrator” is a viable option as well XD
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I’m waiting for a Machinima with a superhero who dispenses crime with the aforementioned weapon.
It’d be awesome.-
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! NO, IT’S PENETRATION-MAN
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Evildoers, beware of his powerful purple package!
He penetrates crime with a parry and a thrust!
Dispensing of all things that are unjust!
Penetration Man! -
*cue 1970’s sexy saxophone*
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uhuh thanks…….. I think Steve-o. Looking forward to the Co-op
There appears to be a spare copy of Left 4 Dead 2 in my inventory, and I’m against this…morally, or something.
Who wants it?
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Yeah, I guess I can.
As I said last night if you guys play, I’m keen to have a go
But won’t play it, if you guys aren’t-
I just bought it too, so I’ll be looking for a co-op pardner, pardner.
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DONE.
To be honest, it’s way more fun with friends, so that’s probably a good plan.
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THANKS FRIEND
We’ll have to organise a match, next week or something
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Good news!
I’m going to be spending less time on TAY.
Bad news!
I’m going to have a lot more work to do at work.
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Is there any extra money involved with this?
If not /o\-
There is. No idea how much because neither my boss or I actually know off hand how much I make.
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Hey Nobshot, cheers dude! This time Beavwa didn’t beat you, my mate tried gifting me New Vegas as well though LOL.
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You have the horse game now, my work is done.
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SPARKLIES!
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Turns out I seem to have a chest infection Q_Q so no LAN for me this weekend, I am rather sad that I will have to miss this, but I don’t want to risk getting my friends sick or making this sickness worse. Oh well!
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=/ that sucks man. On the plus side that means more Fallout NV time right?
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YEAH! After I take over Steelport in Saints Row: The Third. I’m doing shameless gaming wrong by picking the long games! First Deus Ex then Saints Row, next up New Vegas!
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Dear TAYbies, please vote for cheap(cheaper) Walking Dead on Steam today. I’ve been putting off buying it, heres the sign i should…when its really cheap. Thank you, that is all 🙂
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I did that when I first saw it! Consider my help here done!
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Same here.
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Done!
Hey Lambo! I noticed at the meat you had one of those Razer Onza controllers, I meant to ask what are they like?
I need a new gamepad for my PC and considered one of them since EB here sell them cheaper than the official Microsoft ones.
Thanks Tigerion! My secret shame has been unveiled! lol lol lol, i’ve never played Half-Life or any of it’s sequels…thanks for the gift mate! Mucho appreciato!
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If you need HL2 I have a spare copy?
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Tigs just gifted my HL2 ep 1…never played it though.
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Silly ferret, you don’t ask, you just send
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My 30th Birthday meat!
Harrington Grove (Near Campbelltown) For NERF war/BBQ (I’ll also make curry).
Shoot me a mail if you’re interested!
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Oh hell yeah, I’d forgotten about that!
When’s it on?
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18th of August!
I forgot that part 😛
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When?
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NOW! Hurry, or you’ll miss out!
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SEE ABOVE POST!
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You have my email and I’m interested. Do I still need to send you an email telling you that?
Bappy Hirthday Doc
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I am aware of where that place is.
That’s weird.
Wooo! Just got my license, like a baussss.
Road trip to all the meats! I hear Doc has a meat sometime soon… 😉
Now to obtain a car…
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Congratulations!
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When you do, make sure you swing by Canberra. It’s totally on the way. >.>
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I’ve got a map and that’s exactly what it says “Canberra is totally on the way”.
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Groote Eylandt isn’t too far from Canberra, so while you’re there…
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Licensed \o/
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Licence
LICENCE
LICENCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCE-
You alright buddy? You seem a little incenced.
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Oh you
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AWWWW YEEAAAAH.
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License to kill?
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So I don’t have to give you lifts anymore? 🙁
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Congrats, mang! \o/
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GREEEEEEENIUS!
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Congrats, dude. YOU CAN BE MELBOURNE’S NOVA!
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Wow, congratulations. Wooooooooooo!!
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Road trip.
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Good job Driveius!
There’s a thread on Reddit asking what the best video game of all time is.
I’m going with Tetris.
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I was about to agree with you, but I think I might give it more thought.
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No. Just agree with me. Much easier than having to argue with me if you’re wrong.
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I actually really want to see your reasoning for this.
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It’s simple enough for anyone to pick up and play, complex enough for people to keep playing.
It’s one of the purist forms of gaming, in terms of mechanics and manages to not feel repetitive despite you performing near identical actions every turn.
If you wanted to introduce someone to the concept of video games, you’d use Tetris.
It has withstood the test of time better than any of other game so far, with nearly 30 years of constant releases on every damned platform imaginable with surprisingly few revisions.
Most importantly, it’s a game. It’s not trying to be anything other than just a game. From that aspect, it’s damned near perfect.
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It’s also got awesome music.
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Well played.
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It’s hard not to agree with this, honestly.
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The top answer at the moment is Ocarina of Time.
Great as it is, the engine is broken as all hell and I think without the nostalgia goggles isn’t as great as people make it out to be.
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If I was to try and remove my emotions from choosing the ‘best’ game I’d say the original Tetris is a strong contender.
Tetris works well on most platforms and I believe it will work well in the future as well. Its graphics are timeless and the gameplay is simple to learn but challenging at higher levels.That being said, I think Pacman could be considered for similar reasons and I prefer it personally.
I think simple mechanics based games that require you to compete for high scores are best suited for the best of all time title compared to story based games.
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See, I’d have to argue against Pacman for two reasons.
First and foremost, the kill-screen. Any game with a kill-screen has a fundamental programming flaw which I think has to knock it down a notch or two.
Secondly, the AI of the ghosts works on distinct patterns that makes high level play of Pacman simply a matter of memorising and exploiting those patterns. Tetris gives you a constantly changing game environment where it’s not just rote memorisation but active (near instant) problem solving.
Pacman is good but I cannot think of it being as good as Tetris because of those two reasons.
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Damn, you’re good o.0
I can’t actually think of a rebuttal for any points you’ve made.
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Has the Kill screen been fixed in later games? I’m not sure.
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I don’t know if they’d want to fix it. It’s part of the game that purists would be rather furious about if it was excluded.
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Kill screens aren’t fundamental programming flaws usually. They’re a result of people going beyond the very very very tight limits that the hardware allowed for.
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Fine, it’s a hardware limitation that the programmer has not allowed for (probably because they didn’t have a reasonable expectation that anyone would do that well). It’s still a problem in the game’s mechanics, particularly for arcade games where the hardware and software were so closely related.
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I can’t disagree with that. It’s simple enough that it can’t be brought down by poor story, graphics or flaws in its gameplay and what it does offer can’t really be made any better. It’s perfect in its simplicity.
Made the mistake of eating my lunch early. Now the ball is rolling and I’m eating any food I can find. The office cookie jar won’t know what hit it.
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Your office has a cookie jar?!
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Only one?
We’ve got a cookie jar and a hidden stash of the good stuff.
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I have mange ridden dogs. Wanna swap?
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I’m going to be kicked upstairs soon and probably won’t have access to as many delicious cookies.
So I don’t think I’m in a position to swap, not until I know what the situation upstairs is like.
Although come to think of it, I’ve been at this job nearly two years. I go upstairs every single day. Sometimes once, often several times throughout the day. Not once in this entire two years have I used the bathroom upstairs.
Not sure what the point of me mentioning that is but it’s something I just realised.
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You keep the cookie jar in your bathroom downstairs? I think I’ll be keeping my mangy dogs, thank you!
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We do, but it’s empty.
I imagine Flu doing something like this:
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/05/fruitfucker.jpg
@Scree, Strange and sarcasmFairy
Not sure if you saw the article on the main page so figure I would repost the link here
http://www.bearandbird.com/shows/sew-nerdy/
Sewing and geekery combined, unfortunately not somewhere you can get to but thought you might like it. I love the little Michelangelo on the flickr stream
Chicken salt? BEST.
…Chicken salt in your eye? WORST.
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At least your eye will be tasty.
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I’ll let you lick it if you give me a Gaytime.
Y’know, bein’ Friday and all.
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Can’t find any, sorry. 🙁
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What, the salt, or Gaytimes?
I’d have given you a Gaytime if I could 🙁
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I’m more a Maxibon man, myself.
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Ooh, haven’t had a Maxibon in years. Remind me to hold a Maxibon meat wherever I may be when I’m next on the mainland, yeah? EVERYONE has to come.
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She had that Camarillo Brillo. Flamin out along her head, I mean her mendocino bean-o. By where some bugs had made it red. She ruled the toads of the short forest, and every newt in Idaho. And every cricket who had chorused by the bush in buffalo.
She said she was a magic mama, and she could throw a mean tarot. And carried on without a comma, that she was someone I should know!
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ZAPPA
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Watch out where the huskies go…
I went to a mechanic during my lunch break and ask if he could put a repulse shield on my car, so I could avoid stupid people on the roads of Canberra.
He told me to lay off the drugs.
Well, I think that’s what he said, cause everything was kind of a blur.
That reminds me, who wants a copy of Blur?
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Mechanics are typically dirty, but I’ve never deemed them repulsive!
Also, might I raise my hand for teh Blurs?
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Crap, you both posted at the same time…
Err…guess a number between 1 and 10, closest gets it?
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11!
I mean 8.
But I really mean give it to CrazyGuy 😀 He got in first!
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Well, unless he was going to guess 9 or 10 he was going to win 😛
*tips hat to both of you*
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“he got in first” THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID WOOOOO- where’s the door? Okaaay I’ll just show myself out
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Thankyou generous TAYbies! Crazyguy1990 and Tigerion, you guys are awesome 🙂
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No worries, mate.
🙂
*Trumpets blow*
Hark!
Thy daily lunch review is upon us!
Gather round, common folk and Ser Nobulus, to hear what thoust obnoxious upper class persons hath consumed!
A twin-stacked cheese-within-burger, and a solitary chicken and cheese burger, labelled as such and containing both chicken and cheese, as advertised for a meagre sum of 2 gald!
There was no insistence that thine burger did not exist or altered in anyway!
This thrilling update brought to you by:
– McDonalds
– Thyst elderly gentleman at said family restaurant whom could not differentiate between a single cheese-within-burger and a double.
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Fascinating.
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The rest of my morning consisted of struggling to open a smoke detector for an hour.
There was also a cup of tea consumed.-
Do go on.
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Yes. What kind of tea? THE PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW, BISH.
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Irish breakfast.
Though there was a distinct lack of alcohol, so it didn’t seem particularly Irish to me.
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Did thoust do the righteous thing and combine these two concoctions into the greatest of known dishes available from this fine restuarant?
Hath Lord Bishington partaken in his first McGangbang?
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can we please stop referring to it as that
its a weird name-
I didn’t make the name. It is what it is.
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A score constituting nine of ten for this the first witnessed luncheon review heralded by Lord Bishington.
— Book of Bish, chapter 176 verse 11
Hail Lord Bishington
*kneels before Lord Bishington*
I bring dire news from the land far in the northern known as Queensland. Our cheese famine in the capital is growing and causing unrest with the common folk and nobles alike. If news spreads of your tale of chicken and cheese there will be a war within the land.
I come here on the North Lord’s behalf, I beg you send a caravan of cheese to the North. If your graciousness does feel generous I will lead the caravan to the Northern Lands.
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There is but a simple solution, ser.
Ban chicken as well, so that the combination of chicken and cheese will be extinct and wiped from the minds of your citizens as time goes by.
So yeah. Krater. That game that I think is pretty cool is on sale via steam today.
Never heard of it eh?
Best described as a Torchlight / Fallout / Dawn of War 2 hybrid.
Also, co-op.
another also – I’ve got 3 things to get rid of to a good home on steam : Torchlight 1, HL2:Ep2 & L4D2.
Any takers?
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I could definitely use HL2:ep 2 seeing as i now have HL2:ep 1 to go with it. I think i’m turning in to a Steam whore….
What’s L4D2?-
Zombehs 😀
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Oh right…Left 4 Dead 2….derp
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excellent. I’ll send it your way tonight.
L4D2 = Left 4 Dead 2.-
Thanks mang!
Steam name is Splicerkid
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People who have Red Faction: Armageddon
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I don’t really think this comment needs an end, really.
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I like the way my hyphen key made that post…moving on:
People who have Red Faction: Armageddon – is it worth buying for $5? Emphasis on wanting good co op.-
It’s an alright game, I think people give it a lot of crap that it doesn’t necessarily deserve. That said, I did stop playing it about a third of the way through, and its monster design is terribad… So I don’t know, I’d say worth it for that price. I have no idea about its multiplayer stuff at all though…
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VIRUS SMASH THINGS. That’s about all I liked about it.
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Err wait that was Guerrilla I really need to finish reading things before replying..
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Starting to feel rather blergh again. Think I might just kind of laze about for the rest of the afternoon. There’s nothing on my desk that can’t wait until Monday.
Also, i think i need to buy The Witcher…has anyone played it? At $2.49 i’m willing to take a punt…
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Awesome story! If you like a gritty fantasy universe and dont frown at a bit- I mean a lot of swearing 😛
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Sounds good 🙂
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Also boobs. So many boobs.
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That too… Including green ones!
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Something for everyone!
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Just to clarify, are we talking 2 boobs? More?
THREE BOOBS?!-
WE’RE TALKING ALL THE BOOBS!
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On my next play through I’m doing a boob count. Should I count by individual boob or by the pair?
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Individual, in case there’s a shirt rip or something 😛
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Individual, methinks. That makes up for any potential discrepancies regarding tri-boob’d NPCs (are there any?) and glancing mono-boob shots.
Bonus points for maintaining an exclusive sideboob tally.
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Maaaaaan that tally will be off the charts
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Multiples of 2 only.
Shutup and take my money!
It’s a decent game. The stories good. Lack of character customisation sucks (I know you play as the main guy from the books but still, I would have liked to create my own Witcher). The enviroments are nice but character models aren’t that great. The world does have a very lived in feel though, which is cool. Combat is shit. It gets better once you get a hang of it but it’s still pretty awful. How someone could even come up with The Witcher’s combat system in the first place is beyond me. For $2.49 it’s well worth the buy (you’ve probably already bought it since the your comments an hour old. Still, I thought I’d put in my 2 cents).
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What’s wrong with the combat? It’s timing-based clicky clicky with rock paper scissors style stance shifting for the enemy types. You use the steel sword on humans and normal animals and the silver one on magical enemies. Don’t understand what’s strange about it.
It wouldn’t have made sense to create your own guy. If you had you’d be playing generic wicherman #41894 and not Geralt and the story and everything would have suffered greatly. Besides that, they gave you the ability to customize your game experience. The decisions you make impact the way the game plays out immensely, and there’s no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ choice either, something which is really refreshing compared to the Saint/Asshole Bioware dichotomy.
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I just find the combat really boring.
Click and hold
Click and hold
Click and hold
Enemies deadThat’s of course when it actually works, which it doesn’t half the time.
As for character customisation, I found Geralt to be a really bland and boring character. He had no personality what so ever and when that’s the case, why even bother having a set protagonist? Plus, he’s ugly as hell (I know, I’m vain). I just thought the whole experience would have been better had I been playing a character I’d created myself instead of this character I really couldn’t connect with and really didn’t care about. Even if the character had of retained the same personality as Geralt I’d still have been able to say “this character is mine” and had some sort of connection with it, which I just lacked with Geralt. Really though I’m against any RPG that doesn’t let you create your own character. The exception to that is Human Revolution, because Jensen is a badass. If you’re going to have a set protagonist in an RPG they better be a badass, or at the very least likeable, and I felt Geralt failed on both parts. I mean, I didn’t not like him, it’s just, as I’ve already said, I didn’t really feel a connection to him or care about him in any way. It’s the main reason I never picked up The Witcher 2, despite hearing how awsome it is numerous times.
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Don’t be in a room alone with Jugsy after a comment like that.
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Thanks, Rize!
🙂
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All good, Crazymang!
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On a seperate note, I had an idea for a competition.
The prize would be basically all of the Telltale games on steam, valued at around $97.All you’d have to do to enter is tell a tale about a Telltale character.
It can be anywhere between 600 to 800 words long, and it can be anything from an epic battle, to a character just doing daily chores…
Does anyone here think that this is a good idea?
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It’s a good idea, but who decides on a winner and who pays the bill? I never realised Telltale did that many games…none of which i have played…I think i’ll go look at Monkey Island…have heard its funny.
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I’ll pay for them, and I’d probably ask Mark or Elly to pick the winner.
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No offense intended here, but if you’re paying, shouldn’t you decide?
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To be honest, I’m terrible at deciding.
Hence why I’d let either Mark or Elly decide a winner.
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I’ve only played the original Monkey Island, and it’s fantastic. Absolutely worth it.
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The thing with long creative writing entries is that barely any people enter because of all the effort :P. Can be a good and bad thing. Much easier than say “why did the Shepard cross the road?” and having to single out ONE winner from hundreds, hehe.
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I just ran out of Potaku-y goodness /o\
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WHAT THE HELL?!?!
Of all the replyfails…
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Just got three emails from an online dating site. Apparently I haven’t logged on for three months and they’re going to delete my profile in a few days if I don’t log in!
Oh noes!
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HOT RUSSIAN WOMEN READY TO MEET YOU NOW!
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HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA.
…AND YOUR SUBURB.
GEDDIT.
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But we don’t have dollar bills in Australia, how can they get stuffed in my underwear?
More importantly, why are they hot?
That sounds terribly unpleasant.
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Wait.
You mean dollar coins.
Hot dollar coins. On my crotch.
You monster!
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Will they still be ready in a few days? I’m not really in the mood right now.
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I’ve had White Rabbit stuck in my head all day, since I heard Ladyhawke do a cover of it on Triple J this morning…
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Yeah well I have this stuck in my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T0utQ-XWGY
I don’t even know why, I don’t listen to the radio.
initial impressions of max anarchy:
shit’s hype
the singleplayer story is meh, but it’s the gameplay that i love, not the confusing story (i have no idea whether the events of madworld count in this game, it still hasn’t been made clear).
wanna play multi-player, but i gotta unlock all the characters first by beating the singleplayer.
so far i’m very happy i imported it.
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oh yeah, if i didn’t mention it before, the ENTIRE game is in english
and luckily i made a japanese account to download the demo, because i got the bayonetta DLC as well :3-
Is it english dub and english sub or jp dub and english sub?
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What’s the singleplayer like? Do you pick each character and then go through their story mode, or is there a general story and you get to play as certain characters at each point?
As long as it’s lengthy enough I’ll be interested :). I don’t generally play multiplayer that much anyway.
Anyone heard of the game “Slender”? Free game you can download from the devs website… Also one of the most tense games I’ve played for a while (besides amnesia) not much story at all but the game is creepy as hell!
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I downloaded it last week, I haven’t played it yet. I’ll probably try and do so over the weekend.
Ok everyone tonight’s TAYCINEMA genre is comedy. The movie is THE PEST courtesy of DAN. Thanks Dan.
More info on the movie can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/movie/the-pest
If you can make it, you are invited to join and have some fun, no excuses. 🙂 Only exception is if you’re going to watch the Dark Knight Rises, because Batman.
Thanks.
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My excuse is an open bar from 5-8.
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Good thing it starts at 8:30.
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If I make it then it’s an excuse for whatever happens from there…
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I’m sure you’ll be fine ^.^
I may not be open-bar intoxicated, but I plan on being a little… merry, nonetheless.
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That’s ok. If you’re going out remember to have one drink or pour some libations on TAYCINEMA’s behalf though.
🙂
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Thanks Aleph, I forgot about time and stuff.
As usual guys, the event starts at 8.30pm and the movie starts at 9pm. Also, any funny YouTube vids you may have feel free to add them. We need them for the Pre and Post show entertainment. Make them shorter than 5 min though, I think that’s a reasonable time.
The Synchtube room can be found at http://synchtu.be/3LOC and that’s where you can add your funny/interesting vids.
Thanks and see you then.
Oh wow, that Miles Davis article’s comment section. Loops, you glorious bastard!
Also, aside from a reply fail, my Potaku crisis has been averted due to :Unplugged. WIN!
I’m aFRAYed the only game I have left is Dog Fighter. It was in my inventory the whole time, hiding in PLAIN SIGHT.
Also, Fray and Plain Sight.
CAUTION: I don’t promise anything regarding the overall enjoyment of these games. Some people will like Dog Fighter and Plain Sight, whereas some people will laugh at me on Twitter cause Fray is a lying piece of crap and doesn’t have co op and I bought a 4pack when it was on sale.
…OK, Plain Sight is pretty fun.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8502485/girl-smashes-car-between-parked-vehicles
How is this… I can’t even… just wha….
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Women drivers, amirite?
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“taken to hospital suffering a panic attack”
I’d be panicking too if I did that to my grandparents car
I have a bit over half an hour before I can leave for the day.
I’m the only one here.
The phone better not ring.
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Hang on, I think I need to make a call…
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Guess my work number and win a prize.
I’ll give you a hint, it starts with 1800.
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1800 8756 79?
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I don’t actually know what our 1800 number is.
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I just assumed it was 1800 Trjn sx
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I can’t find my mouse. Damn.
On a separate note, big thanks to Strange for gifting me The Witcher. Damn you TAYbies are awesome! And to think, i’d run out of things to play! Big hearty hugs to you all!
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Have you checked your cat?
But seriously, that sucks.
Hopefully it’s in the last place you remember having it.-
Is no cat, is dog. Found it though 🙂
What idiot put it in the laptop bag?
This idiot.
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Lying in bed all afternoon – awesome
Lying in bed all afternoon due to a migraine – less awesome
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Hope you get better soon, Nova.
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When you realise that “migraine” is Novahkiin’s code word for “lady friend” – priceless.
There are some things that money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s Fus Ro DAH!
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This may be the greatest comment ever. Or at least today
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Here, take this, it might help:
http://tinyurl.com/7msdmar
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Get well soon Nova
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Get well soon. I’ll send some attractive medical staff to see you! They’re not really medical professions.
They’re prostitutes.
HI, NOVA!
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Make sure you pay them. If you don’t, you really don’t want to have to deal with the Fallout…
3…
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Well played, my friend. Well played.
Thanks again!
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In hindsight, it looks like I’m milking out as much praise as possible. That wasn’t me original intention, but oh well…
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…………………………me? ME original?
What the hell…I’m going caveman.
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Just as long as they don’t leave me Alone in the Dark
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*professionals. THAT ERROR NEVER HAPPENED. NEVER HAPPENED.
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Surely as Batgirl you shouldn’t be encouraging this sort of illegal activity? I thought you were better than this. Tsk, tsk
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It’s only illegal if you get caught.
BATGIRL’S GONE ROGUE.
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Isn’t prostitution legal in Australia though?
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Yupyup.
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I had the same thing yesterday. Hope you feel better soon.
The gamble I took last month paid off. The games I ordered online during GAME’s closing down sale just arrived. Loops will be happy to hear I now have SPACE MAUREEEEN on the 360. Now it’s just a matter of finding the time to play it.
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Ha Ha, nice. One of these days we should have a Loops inspired gaming night where everyone plays space Marine.
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That’s coming on Thursday next week.
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Hi all! I saw Play School in concert today. The two-year-old, four-week-old, and twenty-five-year-old came with me. Jay Laga’aia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Laga'aia) was one of the performers, which made my two-year-old and my twenty-five-year-old very excited. [You might remember him from his role in Star Wars II and III.]
Christ, I need some adult time 😛
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I only know him from Playschool.
Because Playschool.-
WHAT ABOUT XENA?!
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I was thinking “didn’t Jango die in ep II, how was he in III?” Duh, clones… And I call myself a star wars fan /o\
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But…but…but…he wasn’t Jango….
He was Amidala/Padme’s bodyguard. Dude with the funky eyepatch that sucked at his job.-
Oh god he was too. What’s happening to me!!!!
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Your mind is repressing the memories of the prequel trilogy.
This is normal, ssshhhhh, just let it happen. -
Star Wars has a prequel trilogy?
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Jango > Boba
Anakin > Luke
Prequels > OriginalsI’m out. See ya next week everybody.
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Well trolled good sir 😛
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I didn’t mind the prequels. Sure they weren’t as good as the originals, but I don’t think they deserve as much hate as they get.
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Two words… Hayden Christensen *shudder*
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He isn’t a bad actor! He was very good in the few other films he did before Lucas fucked over his entire career.
The problem was the godawful script and the terrible, terrible direction.
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Jango was played by Temuera Morrison.
Yay! Cheaper Walking Dead!
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Go for it!
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I’m gonna be all over this like a fat kid on cake!
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I’m dying to play it but I’m going to wait until all of the episodes are released. Hopefully it’ll be cheaper by then too!
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This is my strategy as well. All the praise is tempting but I’d prefer to play them together.
Although with 40% off that’s $15 for 5 episodes, so buy 3 get 2 free. And I love the comic. Hmm?
Nah, I’ll just wait and hope there is another sale when they release the full collection.
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Yay I’m doing this too
(I also only have $3 :P)
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So after calling JB Hifi in regard to an order I placed 4 months (yes, four) ago, They’ll be shipping my webcam “shortly”. Awesome, guys. Love your work.
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C’mon, JB.
Lift your game.
Thanks Klutar! Man, I wasn’t sure before but now its official, i’m a Steam whore!
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Don’t worry man everyone’s been gifting and receiving.
We’re all whores. Dirty dirty whores.
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I have received 8 gifts in the last week…
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I’ve received 10, from 7 different peoples. :/
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That just makes you a promiscuous steam whore
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Yes, I have glasses.
Yes, I don’t wear them.
Yes, I run into things often.
I just want to point out that not all of those things are directly related to each other >.>
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…was it the clothesline again?
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No, the kitchen bench this time. Ran into it, my sore elbow got sandwiched between it and my hip. Ow 🙁
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Why would you not wear them? Glasses are awesome!
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Lambo, what are we going to do with you, seriously I have no idea..
Also I wanted your opinion a few pages back, so here is a convenient link to said question! http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/07/talk-amongst-yourselves-176/comment-page-10/#comment-746595
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It’s really nice. Nice to hold. Love the adjustable stiffness of the thumbsticks. Triggers feel a little odd at first, they stick out a bit, but you get used to them. Haven’t really used the customisable shoulder buttons, because it’s my brother’s controller and I don’t know what he has them set too. I think it’s the thumbstick buttons.
If it’s cheaper than the Microsoft one, I’d say go for it, especially if it’s the tournament edition. The normal onza doesn’t have the adjustable thumbsticks, just the programmable buttons, whereas the tournament edition has both.p
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Anyone else looking forward to Wreck-It Ralph as much as I am? Having kids is the best excuse to see kids movies!
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Excuses? Who needs excuses!
Me, my dad and my brother went to see Tangled by ourselves. We got a few weird looks…-
Your dad had an excuse, albeit not a particularly good one 😛
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Eh?
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He was taking his kid to see a movie 🙂
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Oh, lol. I’m still a bit tired from seeing batmangs.
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@neg zero in reply to voices in max anarchy
it’s whatever you want it to be, you can have english UI but jap voices if you felt like it, however it also changes the voice of the announcer, which in multi-player is useful to have in english.
@ greenius
the singleplayer seems a bit lacking, at the start, you can choose between two people (jack cayman from madworld, or the new guy leo) then you go through about 4 stages which each have 6 missions on them, and once you pass it as the first character you go through as the second (i just beat jack’s story, and am onto leo’s now) on the same stages, but different missions. then after you beat those two, i think another story is unlocked.
however, the multi-player does have an offline bot mode, which is still seriously fun, i tried some multi-player, and the lag was pretty bad (worse than the demo weirdly), however it did have the option to search in other regions, which didn’t work because i assume that they haven’t bothered putting the other servers up.
but yeah, i like max anarchy.
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Does it have a KMFDM soundtrack? Because Madworld felt like it should have had a KMFDM soundtrack and it didn’t and I was sad.
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the soundtrack is fantastic, very similar to madworlds i think
(you know, that sort of hip-hop/rap/techno music that pumps you up so bad)
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CrazyGuy, you crazy…guy…
/o\ but YOU won it!
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Forgive me if I sound rude, but I’m not quite sure what you’re talking about…
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Oh, yeah… Blur…
I felt you deserved a copy as much as I did, so I gifted you a copy.
🙂
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ALEPH, I AM SORRY /o\
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Something, something, spray bottle, something.
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=(
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Turn that frown upside down! )=
I think I did that wrong.
Let’s try 90 degrees!
. .
^I fear that I may have done that horribly wrong, but whatever.
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OH GOD THAT FACE IS TERRIFYING!
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:<
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Your face is terrifying!
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I know.
I’m hideous.
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Some would say a monstrosity.
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My greatest achievement is that I was mentioned in a Queen song, 16 years before I was born.
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Are you “mother” that Freddie farewells during the opening of Bohemian Rhapsody?
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You’re… On the right track.
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His hair is pretty glorious though.
(TIE IT DOWN LIKE RODRIK CASSELL, DAMMIT!)
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That is… kind of tempting…
OH GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!
No really, how come you’re apologising? I am confus!
AGGH /o\
(Someone hold me, I’m scared)
@Scree
You give awesome noms!
Glad your mum likes that ghost show.
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Yeah, she wants the next series, now.
I’m like “They haven’t made it yet.”
She did not care for such trivial things.
everyone talks about secret of the magic crystals
thinks because of the title it’s some sort of RPG
checks steam to see what it is
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wat
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Does that mean no one gave it to you?
Did anyone else in Melbourne notice a small earthquake about 5 minutes ago?
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Yep! Only lasted like 3 seconds though
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Felt more like 20 seconds here. But not very strong.
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I KNOW SOMETHING ELSE THAT ONLY LASTS 3 SECONDS.
Har. Har. Har.
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Hugs between strangers?
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The time it takes a coconut dropped from the top of the effiel tower to hit the ground?
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Ahhh cool it was an earthquake. There was debate whether it was a tremor or just the fat people downstairs running for the last doughnut.
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I’m bored…..
Here’s something Humerus…
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/HumerusFront.png/250px-HumerusFront.png
…still bored….-
Reply fail… 🙁
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TAYCINEMA returns today so if you’re free join us at http://www.synchtube.com/r/3LOC at 8.30PM AEST
Also, sorry for all the TAYCINEMA spam on TAY and on my twitter feed, just trying to remind people.
Thanks.
P.S. Thanks for your time Crazyguy. 🙂
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You’re welcome.
Sorry I had to leave for a bit, I was watching Geelong vs Essendon.
So the Chinese restaurant had pigeon on the menu and the bowling alley is crammed full of cosplayers. Strange night. Wonder what surprises the movie will bring.
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Pigeon, uh what restaurant is this?
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Yeah, pidgeons are like cheap quail.
Tasty enough.
SYDNEY TAYBIES CIRCLE BAR BOOTHS LIKE HAWKS UNTIL ONE EMPTIES OUT. THEN WE SWOOP IN AND BAM. PARTY TIME.
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NO NEVER SIT ONLY SIT UNTIL SOMEONE COWTIPS YOU AND MAKES YOU HIT YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE WALL
So Burn Notice season six.. I swear there are no spoilers I promise! Just my views on the future of the show, it seems like what has been said/shown in the preview for the next episode it is setting up the series to come to an end this year, which is actually kind of lame, probably because I just love the show so much, and I just want more from the story..
I am hoping they do a movie about Michaels past in the CIA before he got burned and all that, much like how they did one about Sam, I really need to pick up the graphic novels they sound awesome.
MORNING EVERYONE!
OFF TO A LAN
BYE EVERYONE!
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I thought you were too sick!
LIAR!
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Well I kinda am but had been planning this with my mate for a month or so now..
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Saw Dark Knight Rises last night. Absolutely and thoroughly great movie. I still think The Dark Knight was the stronger film but that in no way diminishes Rises. Go see it!
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I think Rises was my favourite in the trilogy, but the beauty is that they’re all damn good. Just all comes down to preferences. I loved how that strong arc carried all the way through.
Hey fronds!
Does anyone know what won the Community Choice? It’s saying “This games not available in your region”
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Risen, it was banned in Australia for sex and drug stuff I think. People were just talking about it on Twitter 🙂
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*sigh* You think they could have put the game that came in second up on the sale for us. Then again, we live in Australia, Steam does give a shit about us.
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doesn’t* 😉
To be honest I didn’t think any of the other options were that good but that’s probably because I don’t really know about them.
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Nope, i’m getting the same message here…
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Not that I’d buy it, but an alternative would’ve been nice 😛
I just read about The Dark Knight killer…
I’m now full of hatred…
(for those of you who don’t know, some guy shot up a cinema killing 12 and injuring dozens, including children)
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It’s pretty messed up stuff
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The report I read seemed to specify that it was mostly children and teenagers confirmed injured/dead, which just makes the whole thing a lot sadder.
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I also read that he point blank shot a young child infront of their family…
And to make it worse his smug little face is at the bottom of this very page.
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The guy must be some special kind of insane to do that. =(
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Truly horrifying stuff. I remember the atmsophere at our Thursday screening, filled with good will and enthusiasm — I imagine it was the same last night for these poor folks. My thoughts are with them. People are insane. 🙁
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It’s truly tragic. What I want to know, though, is why young children were at a midnight screening for an M rated movie… one of the wounded was an infant…!
Hands up if you’re at work right now!
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So you’re not coming today? D=
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Nooooo T_T
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Wait, how do I do a hands down emote?
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Also /o\-
Depressed five
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Yay for weekends going slowly!
…. I’m so bored… seriously….
HI EVERYONE! I’m back from the LAN we ended up not being able to attend! 2 reasons! First the radiator started over heating and boiling so we said fuck it lets head home don’t want to be doing this at night & secondly we couldn’t even locate the god damn place, they gave a rough guide as to where it was, but no address or contact details, this is a LAN sponsored by Gigabyte and OCZ aswell I think..
Oh well it was a fun day otherwise honestly saw a few Ferrari’s & Lamborghini’s one being a Murcielago, also upon returning home I discover my screen got damaged in the bottom right corner /o\ thank god it’s only noticable on a light background lol.
A Public Service Annoucement and a reminder for myself: don’t be absent mindedly playing with a zippo lighter while driving. It makes things a touch awkward when you drop it in your lap while lit.
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Oh dear..
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Same thing happened to Lister in the Red Dwarf novel… kinda.
First thing I thought of, but not really relevant to everything. Hope you didn’t actually set yourself on fire, though…
Twas nice meeting y’all!
And I apologise for not dressing like this
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Gasp! Greenius went to a meat!
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FALSE ADVERTISING
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Because you went like this, right? 😀
I expect a write up!
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I would have thought more this.
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Greenius finally went to a meat! I hope you all had fun.
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STILL NOT GREEN ENOUGH. SHOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE THIS
http://www.costumebox.com.au/Morphsuit-Adult-Costume-Green-p-21527.html-
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🙂
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Was he as hideous as THIS??
Background information: That is a photo (off my phone, I don’t know how to grab screenshots off my PS3) of some Pawn I stumbled across in Dragon’s Dogma. His name is Green. He is green. He basically wears nothing but a cloth onesie. He is hideous and I blame Greenius for it.
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Oh wow that Pawn is hideous!
I on the other hand, am very beautiful
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But technically not green.
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ARMA II: Combined Operations (and therefore DayZ) is 40% off on Steam today, at $17.99.
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I decided yesterday that it would never go on (further) sale, so I’d just spend what money I had in my Steam Wallet.
I am now $2 short.
I’m the best, around, nothing’s gonna ever keep me down!
*Dances off stage left, while singing*
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Thanks Rize.
Been wanting to check out DayZ since I first heard about it.I told myself I wouldn’t buy anything this sale, Definitely nothing over $10,
But I already got two games, both over $10, so what the heck.
OH GOD…
One of my mates just bought Beats By Dre headphones… “they’re the best thing EVER” he says.
There goes the neighbourhood…
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One of my coworkers did that recently. They cost more then my wireless Sennheisers and sound nowhere near as good. His reasoning was “Dre is a producer so why would he put his name on a shoddy product?”
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My housemate has a pair. I don’t even bother trying to find out his reasoning for owning them. It won’t be good.
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Well to be fair Dre didn’t put his name on a shit product afaik, just an extremely over priced for what they are product.
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Slap him, then show him these:
http://www.jbhifi.com.au/portable/mp3-players/head-phones/sennheiser/
Just bought Rayman Origins and Spec Ops: The Line at JB, couldn’t be more different tone wise. 😛
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Rayman Origins is gorgeous.
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There’s an understatement, man. Insanely beautiful!
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Thx to all the Melbourne TAYbies for an awesome afternoon yesterday, you guys made a new gamer girl (me) feel very welcome.
Looking forward to being a more active participant In the TAY scene from now on
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Welcome aboard!
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Welcome! You and Beav should post more :). It also also great meeting everyone.
So is Pip(ster) your new handle? I still only really know you as Death (from Terraria :P)
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Yay, a person!
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Yeah, PrincessPipster is my steam handle too, so it’s easier that way.
But Pip or Pipster is fine.
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WELCOME (Totally not late to the party!)
Why did no-one tell me that Saint’s Row the Third had Opeth on the soundtrack?!?!
THIS IS THE GREATEST GAME EVAR.
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AND SHAI HULUD/AMON AMARTH/BTBAM/DILLINGER/BLACK DAHLIA MURDER?!?!
Man, that’s the ONLY station I’ll be listening to whilst playing. Seriously, whoever got to choose the tunes for that station IS A GOD.
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SR3 did have a rather great metal selection but the classical always felt more right to me.
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Classical! 🙂
I think for SR1/2 I went Rock/Rap and I think the talk back radio (if they had one?) but Classical just feels right this time around.
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When I wasn’t playing my Gen X radio station in the background, I was listening to the in game Gen X radio station…
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I found out last night you can go streaking XD
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…and so it came to pass that Virus never did wear pants again.
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ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
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Haha, it’s too cold at the moment to do such things /o\
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It has the best song for the last mission.
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This. The Kanye song they play during an early mission was also pretty cool.
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Agreed, it fit so well!
I’m already 41% through the game, not sure if it’s just a short game, or if it’s the first game in ages to captivate me like this 😛
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Uh, I have a question. I purchased and downloaded Jade Empire from Steam, I launch it from Steam then it tells me it cannot run because Steam is not installed and directs me to the Steam website.
Anyone know what the problem could be?
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Got it to start running, now just stops running at splash screen then throws up a gazillion error messages.
Why do people like PC gaming again? Steam sells me a game that doesn’t work and I’m guessing I have no real recourse with it.
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And finally working… for now. Only took an hour.
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I spend a lot of time messing around trying to get everything how I like it in each game. I just tried running Far Cry 2 a while ago but had some problems. 30 mins later and pretty much everything was working fine. But even for a 4 year old game it still impressed me graphically :P. PC MASTER RACE!
Also, PC game prices are insane. A single piece of DLC costs more on console than it does to buy the whole ‘GOTY/Complete/Gold’ edition on PC.
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I think it appeals to the Goldilocks crowd, if you will. You can get everything just the way you like it, and there’s always room to tinker with something. In addition, the graphical output comparative to a console is far better, and for me personally, I just feel more comfortable with keyboard/mouse anyway.
With all that said, yes, troubleshooting can be a real pain, and it never seems to “just work”. But I find that appealing!
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Chicken Chipees! \o/
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Hoo-fucking-rah! Finally got Max Payne 3 working, 3 reinstalls later >.< Not a clue what its problem was. Thank god that I have the discs and didn't have to redownload that 3 times off steam at 30gb a pop..
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Stop!
Bullet Time!
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Haha, nice one =P
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Thank you, Frozen one!
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So, KOTOR wasn’t working for me on Windows 7.
Fortunately, after a quick look around on the steam forums, the problem has now been fixed. 🙂
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