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Can I postone my Shameless Gaming month to next month on account of the fact that I’ll be in the US for pretty much all of July? 🙂
Also I met Tim Schafer on friday night, he said he liked my moustache.
I will never shave again.
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No, because you get to be in the US all month.
Some people I tell ya. Just greedy.
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When you leave this realm for the netherworld, preserve the moustache.
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Well I just got my drivers license re-done, so now the moustache is preserved for the next ten years at least 🙂
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my god.. that’s like a handshake from god!
sooo jealous!
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I shook his hand and he wrote “My milk is delicious” on my psychonauts poster. My life is complete.
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Glorious 😀
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I LOVE the smell of cordite in the mornin’!
Screw Territory Day, and screw explosives being sold to the general public for exorbitant prices.
How was everyone’s weekend?
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I WENT TO VISIT A FRIEND WHO IS A HOUR AWAY WHO DROVE TO SEE ME.
I went shopping and bought nothing, watched a amazing french movie called Amelie. Ate steak topped with bacon. Went home and played some Amazingly fun LoL games with the TS people.-
You haven’t seen Amelie before?
I HAVE SEEN AMELIE BEFORE. NOW I FEEL CULTURED.
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Dammit I made the mistake of looking at a GAF thread about their favourite Demon/Dark Souls bosses and now I REALLY want to play Dark Souls again.
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Link? Some of my favourite games of all time!
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=480817
Here ya go 🙂-
Must leave work. Want DS now.
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I started my Shameless Gaming Month by attempting to play more of AssRev and failing miserably, playing through some more of LA Noire and coming back into the middle of a case after a few months is incredibly confusing when you can’t remember what the guy did.
This morning being the first day off in a while I’m going to pick up Dragons Dogma and see what else there is.
I don’t seem to be very good at this Shameless Gaming thing.
Heya TAY. Dunno if anyone noticed Ive been away. But I’m back today. Shameless gaming month you say.
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I noticed
I NOTICE EVERYTHING
But not really.-
Look at this kid, thinks he can pull off my lines. Ha.
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I can pull off anything
YOU HEARD ME EVERYTHING
INCLUDING THE INNUENDO YO ARE GOING TO MAKE ABOUT ME PULLING OFF THINGS.-
Penis.
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I had missed the CJ’s TAYlog. Welcome back mate!
Morning all!
There are builders at my house, so I’m afraid to leave my room. This is slightly awkward, as I need to urinate.
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Pee in the corner!
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The builders will.
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Why are there builders at your house? Is your mum and dad back home?
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Nope, parents get back tomorrow, and the builders start, umm, building (knocking things down) the day after. They’re just measuring stuff, and preparing, and stuff like that.
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Are they wearing black & white striped sweaters and carrying a white sack with a “$” on them? because they might not be builders.
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I don’t know, I haven’t actually looked at them. But they’ve done a lot of hammering, so unless there’s a secret safe in my house that I don’t know about…
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So, uh, is this Dave Oshry character on 24 hour spam Youtube links and Picture duty?
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Seems that way… WHY CAN I NEVER FIND JOBS LIKE THAT?
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It seems that way doesn’t it ?
PSV BUDDIES!
I’m probably late to the party and can not be bothered reading TAY from last week.
This PSV SUPER SALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in the PS Store is actually not too bad. There’s some significant savings on some games, like TiTS, Ogre Tactics, etc.
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You had me at cheap TiTS.
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+1
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Will take a look this evening.
Good Morning TAYbo’s!
If you were paying attention to Twitter last night, you’ll know that I finished off Bioshock! It really was a great game. I avoided it for so long because I always assumed it was some sort of horror game (which I guess it technically is, but that’s not the focus). I did end up playing through on Easy though because I was having more fun listening to the story than it being a challenge (and because I’m a wuss and was scared to move at the beginning haha).
Also, I played some Pokémon Conquest yesterday as well (I caved in and bought it at the JB sale). Unfortunately it’s really making me want to buy a 3DS XL. The 3DS has become so uncomfortable lately. It wouldn’t be so bad if I could rest the unit in my palms, but I end up holding it in my fingertips so I can use the buttons. Though I think that’s just me trying to rationalise buying a second 3DS, heh.
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My secret to keeping the 3DS comfortable is to have really small hands. Make everything easy.
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My hands aren’t even that big! I never had a problem with the Phat DS (though that system was immense). Curse my spindly fingers! Actually, somebody called them “Piano Fingers” the other day which confused me because I was shocking at piano.
Though I’m pretty sure I’m only complaining about the 3DS now because I know there’s another option coming, hah.
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Piano fingers really just means that they’re long and spindly. I was a decent pianist a long time ago, despite the fact that I had to cheat on some songs because I physically could not do some chords…
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Morning TAY!
Spent the weekend helping a fellow Nexus member with his mod. Also spent some of the weekend buying a new computer chair for @asheleah and playing Red Dead Redemption.
OH, and for the Zelda fans out there. Hit up the following Link (no pun intended).
http://www.youtube.com/jimmeh02
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Thats how i know her, all the pieces are falling into place. LIke a game of tetris. 🙂
Morning everyone.
My shameless gaming month is off to a great start!
I completed Uncharted due to the fact that my ps3 was hooked up to my computer monitor. (thanks Bunny!)
Next on the list is skyward sword. Wish me luck.
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Even though people said Skyward Sword wasn’t good, I actually REALLY enjoyed it.
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I enjoy it, but I’m at a boss that gives me the shits.
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Which Boss?
The secret is to either a) Use the equipment the dungeon just gave you. Or b) Flail wildly with the wiimote!
THAT IS HOW I BEAT THE GAME! GREETEST!
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The octopus one. Mainly because my wiimote doesn’t want to recognise that I’m trying to attempt a skyward strike
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Ahh, yeah, that guy. Important thing with the Skyward strike is that it doesn’t really require you to point the controller straight up, if you point it kind of upwards, and just hold it still, it will do the charge thing. It’s a very odd implementation.
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People didn’t like it!? I don’t like THEM!
But seriously, it’s one of my favourite Zelda’s.
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IKR, I have heard people say “worst Zelda” and I feel like “Rocketman”ing them in the face. It’s not my favourite though. Wind Waker was my favourite. I loved that game so much, such a nice looking game.
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The main reason people hated this Zelda was because it wasn’t the Hi Def one they wanted
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I’m glad you didn’t see my thoughts on Skyward Sword then.
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I just realised I have to finish compiling my Shameless Gaming goals tonight…I have a bunch of obvious games on the list (Skyrim!) but don’t have a set goal.
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ALL OF THEM
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AAAAALLLLLL OOOOOFFFFF TTTTTHHHHHHEEEEEEEEMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!
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heh, My goal is Xenoblade and the two Batmangs! If I have time I will try and finish the two Witchers as well.
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I’m in the same boat (The S.S. Shame?) for compiling goals.
On the plus side, I technically haven’t bought any additional games yet, although I did pick up two on Saturday from JB.
morning TAY
– school holidays = no students at work = good times.
– no co-workers at work either = better times
– shameless gaming month! only got one goal at the moment, & that is to get through Amnesia. Dunno what will follow that. maybe Bastion, or Space Marine, or Dragon Age Origins… like I said, I dunno.
– Living alone for two weeks so far = boring
– Dot point posts is best posts.
– I would like a coffee.
-how are you guys?
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No students in one of my schools, then none in any for a week, then one with student for a week.
Bloody Queanbeyan.
Also, a coffee sounds pretty great. I’m tempted to vanish from work for 30 mins to get a good coffee…
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Queanbeyan; the one place worse than Canbizzle.
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I live there, you jerk.
…BAHAHAHAHA!
Yeah, I can’t even pretend to care. Carry on!
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“then one with student for a week.”
I’d say that sums up Queanbeyan quite well.
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I am well thank you, #35.
And I love living alone, it turns every day into pants-off Friday!
Though I imagine that with a job that would be a less than stellar plan for you to implement.
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– Need moar coffeh
– people being made redundant left and right
– slightly worried ’bout that
– explosions goin’ off left and right. Damned fireworks.
– slightly more worried ’bout that
– need MOAR coffeh
– Shameless Gaming Month is gonna be slow progress, if any-
yay for redundancies!
…no, wait. the other thing. SCREW redundancies. our resident IT guy was given a forced transfer last week coz his position no longer exists. & due to a campus merger taking place in the near future, coupled with the premier’s planned 10000 job cuts, means theres gonna be a hell of a lot more cuts made here pretty soon.
& due to the “everything is online & people dont use physical libraries any more” mentality of our management, I’m pretty sure I should be looking for alternative employment right now.
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Problem with school holidays is that it means students will be everywhere else. It’s nice for you, but now I can’t go to a shopping centre without drowning in a sea of adolescence.
How was your Amnesia night?
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Youths everywhere! D:
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you dealing with students in shopping centres for two weeks every three months, is the price you pay for schools keeping them locked away for the remainder of the time 😉
also, Amnesia is great. got such a good atmosphere to it, which is just made all the better with headphones & total darkness. quite looking forward to getting back onto it tonight…-
I deal with them on buses on a regular basis, thank you very much. 😛
One day I will play Amnesia. But I don’t imagine I could ever play it at 2am like you are.
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– Cool
– Cooler
– That’s nice
– But liberating?
– True. It’s not bad
– I’m drinking water, which I’m okay with
– I’m fine
Someone from my company phoned me asking about my opinon on uni (just finished it a couple of months ago). Half way through talking about it I realised I was making hand gestures =/.
Awwwwwkward.
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All the hand gestures? I’m sure they don’t care =P
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I think it was more the people sitting near me at work thinking “Why the hell is he making hand gestures?”. It’s funny because (I think) I sounded completely professional when talking to him so the guy on the other end of the phone probably thought “wow, this guy is giving well, thought out answers, he must be completely professional / normal” but in reality I was waving my hands around like a madman. =P
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I see people on mobile phones walking and gesturing like a madman. Doesn’t help they’re quite loud, so you’re already doing better in comparison.
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Just had my General Manager SCREAMING down the phone at the IT guy from his previous workplace, because he couldn’t manage to find the login credentials (which he’s hidden on a post-it under his keyboard)for his new position here.
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WTF? Reply fail that kinda fits? Maybe?
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It’s easier to blame someone else then to admit that you’re wrong
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So, is anyone else kinda over drama around the gaming community?
I think I hit breaking point yesterday when people started complaining because Felicia Day got support from her bff Wil Wheaton and all her fans because some writer over at Destructoid called her a glorified booth babe.
Now I’d never heard of this writer. I’m not a huge fan of Felicia Day though I do follow her on Twitter. Outside the Guild and generally being a nerd icon (much like Wil Wheaton these days, I’m sure being Wesley Crusher makes it hard to find acting work) I have no idea what Felicia Day does.
Nevertheless, what the writer wrote on his personal Twitter was a bit dumb. People are saying Destructoid fired him, he’s saying he approached them and said it was best if he was no longer associated with them, for their benefit (not his). Naturally on the back of this, people who Jim Sterling has been mean to came out of the woodwork to demand he no longer be allowed to write for Destructoid. If Ryan Perez, why not Jim?
It was about here I just threw up my hands and decided I’d had enough. After the constant stream of sexism and rape culture discussion lately, I am dismayed at the irrationality of people on the internet. The main problem with the internet is that too many people have access to too much information to be able to use it constructively.
Take Penny Arcade for instance: when they put out their comic about RPG tropes where you rescue SIX slaves from a camp and NO MORE, you have to wonder at the plight of that poor seventh slave. That was the punchline. Tragically they decided the best way to encapsulate the plight of the slaves by suggesting that each night they are “raped to sleep by the dickwolves”. How dare they joke about rape. Except they weren’t making a rape joke. They were maknig a video game joke. The rape part is supposed to be horrible. There was backlash heaped upon backlash and one would assume Penny Arcade learned their lesson.
Unfortunately, now, it can be constantly thrown back at them. They decided the Hitman Absolution trailer wasn’t that bad. “OH”, the internet cried out “well you wouldn’t UNDERSTAND, because DICKWOLVES, you insensitive PRICKS.” It may as well have happened yesterday, because as long as you can read it on the internet, it’s brand new to you. It takes a quick google search to dig up the dirt on someone, and use it against them.
Yet at the same time Mike Krahulik (aka Gabe) was among the first calling for internet justice, for e-blood to be shed when Katie Williams wrote an article about the way she was demeaned when a male PR person took control of the game she was supposed to have a hands-on with, because in his eyes her slow, methodical style of investigation-through-play was interpreted as unfamiliarity with videogames in general, despite her position as a writer for a well-known video gaming publication. The call for justice was dismissed, because this was not the action of one man, it is a disease that permeates the industry, from the people teabagging you in Halo, to the people who make the games themselves who think Lara Croft can only be tough if she endures physical abuse and hardship first.
I think this was the right call. Think about the enemies to gaming. Jack Thompson. Michael Atkinson. The ACL. Paul Christoforo. The unnamed PR rep. Now we’ve got Ryan Perez, joining the ranks of millions of people who every day post thoughtlessly sexist comments for no other reason than they have the ability to. When we’ve engaged these people we might take what we think is the high ground, but they think they have the high ground too. We’re on completely different ground, oftentimes forgetting which battle we’re even fighting.
ENOUGH.
Being reactionary to all of this horrible nonsense accomplishes nothing, at least not in the long term.
I am not diminishing the seriousness of the issues at play here. I think sexism in gaming is a serious thing. I knew it when I was in high school, playing Counter-strike over LAN in netcafes in high school. I knew it when I was playing Halo over Xbox Live. I know it now, via my exposure to gaming journalism. I experience it second hand almost every time my wife plays online multiplayer – hell, someone my wife assumed to be a friend once confessed after the fact that he masturbated to her voice while they were talking via Xbox Live party chat, because he’d been single for a year and was feeling lonely. No word of a lie. She didn’t know how to react. She wasn’t even mad. She felt sad for him. But after a week of agonising over it she removed him from her friendslist. She was a victim in that regard, and was only even aware of it because he at least had the courtesy to admit his wrongdoing.
So, I will continue to stand up for the rights of anyone in the gaming community, male or female. I am particularly interested in improving the issue of sexism so women no logner have to feel victimised. I am all for equality but we are so much further away from that in the electronic world than we are in the real world, where people can suffer real repercussions for this misbehaviour.
I will continue to monitor my behaviour, and those of the people I know directly. I believe that the fight against these issues, as with any social issue, starts at the bottom. Start with yourself. Move to your peers. Let the influence spread among the community. Refuse to backslide on your principles and be an example. We can’t go to the top and demand a change, an artificial installation of new values. It won’t stick. It would be like your body rejecting a piercing.
As the consumers, we are at the bottom, the broadest, strongest part of the social pyramid. Nothing lasting can be built without a strong foundation. This is how we’re going to make things happen. Being outraged, we have succeeded in nothing. It’s possible we’ve accomplished some very negative things, the ruining of a career or two.
Be mad, sure, but this vicious mentality we have as a community has to stop. I know we don’t like being threatened by outsiders, but at the same time it seems like we’re isolated from each other, ready to turn on ourselves as soon as there’s any type of dissent in our ranks. We’re so desperate to have our hobby treated seriously as mature, responsible, that instead of treating our diseases we cut away the infection, over and over, whittling away our community with an Us vs. Them mentality – lest someone mistakenly lump in our good with our bad and develop the wrong impression.
We like to think we’re not bad people. But our hobby links me to a lot of people who are. We can’t pretend sexist, racist and generally awful people aren’t part of our gaming culture. We can’t just disavow them and pretend the problem has gone away. We have a problem that isn’t just going to go away.
Let’s just try and apporach these issues more rationally. Lend support to those who need it. Stop giving a voice to people who’d only abuse it. I know it’s in our gaming mindset to have an enemy, but let’s stop creating them. With one exception, everyone I named above has a larger voice, a larger following, more support, because our community engaged with them and villainised them. The exception? The unnamed PR rep. Maybe he now knows what he did. Maybe he doesn’t. What’s important is, no one is abusing him on twitter. No one is sliding notes under his door threatening his family.
Most importantly, no one is sympathising with him.
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Why isn’t this an article?
I’ve been really lucky. Everyone I’ve played with has always treated women with respect. My local game stores know me and know not to treat me like a moron. I mean, they even ask for advice sometimes.
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I’d argue you’re taking a responsible approach by being aware of what you’re doing.
Too many aren’t.
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I love you 😀
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Well said. Well bloody said. I think this should be promoted to a proper article.
I am so fed up with the dramas in this industry, I know there are problems with certain tropes and perceptions and I do want them to change, but to me it feels like a lot of people just use outrage to get attention. It just seems so much easier for some to demonise someone or something than to write something objective, constructive or even inspiring.
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Matthew K, you are should get a job writing articles this was really good.
I am also fed up with all the rubbish that goes on.
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That was why I was glad she didn’t name him.
He (maybe) knows who he is. But he gets the chance to grow and change without being vilified. And that’s what I want every time I get asked to “tits or gtfo” is for people to actually realise they’re making me uncomfortable.
If they won’t change after that, well, they’re fucked anyway.
Sigh.
Spoiler alert on Kotaku. Mass Effect 3 stuff. Apparently in the article has spoilers for Prometheus, too.
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*Kotaku’s front page.
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A semi-spoiler since if that didn’t happen the Alien films couldn’t either I think.
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Man, I want to read it now! I’ve seen Prometheus, but not finished Mass Effect 3 :/
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Howdy Tayberinos!
I had a productive weekend- went and saw Brave (fantasy Scotland!), knocked off a bunch of my course, played Saints Row 3 and Borderlands and made a sweet hat.
Saints Row is definitely on my shameless gaming list, as is FFXIII, Motorstorm Apocalypse and Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath.
So, a Monday Morning Question- we’re now almost at the 4th of July, which the Americans celebrate, and the 14th is two weeks away, which is the national day of France (Bastille Day). So who would win in a fight- EA representing America, or Ubisoft representing France?
My money is on Ubisoft, they’re doing a lot more interesting stuff with IPs.
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More like Ubisoft representing AMERICA with all the redcoat killing, amirite??
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… Now that I think about it, the only French dude in Assassins Creed Brotherhood was a total dick
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I’m kind of curious why you picked EA to represent America.
Well, I’d also have to say Ubisoft. Between Watch Dogs and Splinter Cell: Blacklist, I’m pretty sure EA would be completely screwed. 😛
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Solely because they’re the Gorilla- you think there’s a better option?
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Activision? Or are they not actually American? Or do we think EA is bigger and more capitalist than Activision now?
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EA’s bigger, although I cede your point- EA’s presence is a bit more global
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I only found out Ubisoft was French this year. For some reason I always thought they were a Japanese company.
Awesome weekend was awesome!
Finally got my anniversary present from Bee, as our car is now all payed off!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/trozza/Awn2R_rCQAApfmFjpglarge.jpg
My god it looks so amazing – that picture doesn’t do it ANY justice.
The big 20% off sale at popculture means i got him at a really good price too! 😀
Also, after saving my $20 weekly alowance for a few weeks – i now have a Playstation Plus membership!!! 😀
So many awesome new games – although i don’t think i’ll be downloading Darksiders or Infamous 2, as the file sizes are just wayyy too big for my monthly limit 🙁
It’s ok, though – they’re cheap enough to buy online anyway.
How is everyone doing today? 🙂
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side note – i have no milk for coffee at work… may god have mercy on us all…
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I’m going to start to get back into mini-painting tonight!!!This could be interesting!
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Hi Loops! That figurine looks nice! I thought I should mention to you that Space Marine is ridiculously cheap ($15 I think) on Steam at the moment, in case you wanted to
yell SPACE MAUREEN!!spread the word.I am recovering from a fishing trip, during which I managed to catch no fish, hook my cousin in the arm, pull a muscle in my back and entertain myself on my dad’s pain medication. Was an interesting trip.
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My first fishing experience consisted of waking up at 4am, driving an hour, and sitting amongst mosquito-infested mangroves whilst my stepfather proceeded to get drunk and sunburnt for the duration of the day.
I caught a leaf.
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I decided upon and made the purchase of Dragons Dogma (PS3), Metal Gear Solod Collection and Fable 2.
This isn’t helping my Shameless Gaming Month.
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WOOO DRAGONS DOGMA!!!!
11/10 would read again!
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Yeah, I’m having a hard time not finding games I want that are cheap as hell the past 2 weeks. This’d be the only time in the year I’d complain about it, too.
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Can i hate you all? I can’t afford games.
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I’ve only been able to buy stuff I want for the past 9 months, so I’m living it up while I can 😛
In short: Yes.
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Look on the bright side, if you can’t afford new games, then your pile of shame can’t grow!
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Are you a PC gamer? Its hard to miss out on games when they are 5 bucks or less on steam sale!
If you are a console gamer they don’t get much cheaper than 20 bucks each 🙁
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Whose bright idea was it to have Shameless Gaming Month right when end of financial year sales are in full swing?
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@ Greenmang / other people who have Xenobladed.
How long does Xenoblade take to finish if you skip most of the “non-story” quests? So far I have been doing all the quests ever! But I think if I want to finish (and enjoy) Xenoblade and play other games this month I might need to skip some collection / non-story related quests.
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I’ve heard like 40-60 or so. The 400 or so side quests take up the bulk of the time :P. You might be underleveled though so I suggest going for the easy side quests like “collect x amount of y” or “kill z amount of a” etc. things you can do on the way.
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Oh yeah, I’m not going to actively avoid combat / quests. It’s more of the collectable items thing. I spent like an hour just running around looking for one item.
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Oooh, me!
I think that if you skip too many side quests then you might have a bit more trouble later because you’ll be under-levelled from missing out on all that experience. There’s probably no problem with skipping the simple fetch quests you get from non-named people though (but you may as well accept them anyway because you might complete them by accident :P).
If you want to get through it quickly, I’d say just do enough so that you stay around the same level as the monsters/bosses. I wouldn’t want to skip too much though.
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Just skip the cut scenes, I hear that is how Greenmang gets through it so fast
Morning all. Despite what I said last week about replaying the whole of ME3 after seeing all the articles and posts about the extended cut I couldn’t help myself and played through it. I made the same choices I made first time around and I like what they’ve added to it. It’s still bittersweet but it feels a lot more sweet than before. Still a bit disappointed they didn’t add a super happy ending though.
I intended to start shameless gaming month this weekend. That didn’t really work out. Instead I spent my time playing The Secret World. I’m still early into it but I like what I’m seeing so far. It still falls back on a lot of the standard MMO stuff such as kill x collect y but the way those things are presented combined with the modern day setting helps make things feel fresh. The combat is still standard actionbar/hotkey combat but with no auto attack, a limit to seven abilities on your bar and the ability to roll out of the way of attacks helps make it feel more actiony and fun than a lot of other MMOs. Also references. I can’t remember the exact line but one of the characters said something along the lines of “we’re achievement driven, like Xbox but more hardcore”.
Also, my mum and sister are in New Zealand so I’ve got the house to myself for the weekend.
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One of those ME3 endings comes across as the closest you’re gonna get to a super happy ending. I will label it S! It gets a bit cheesy but there’s a few lines towards the end of the extended cut character monologue for it that tug at the heartstrings. 😛
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Yeah, I picked the S ending. The reason I think it’s still tainted by bitterness is because Furcneq qvrf. Gb zr, gung’f ernyyl fnq. Gur havirefr vf fnirq naq ragref n arj ntr bs crnpr naq cebfcrevgl ohg Furcneq’f fgvyy qrnq. V thrff vs V jnagrq Furcneq gb yvir V pbhyq unir cvpxrq gur qrfgebl raqvat ohg gung nyfb jbhyq unir orra ovggre orpnhfr bs nyy gur yvirf ybfg. Cyhf vg jbhyq unir orra n znwbe oernx va zl Furcneq’f punenpgre. Gur Furcneq jub jbhyq pubbfr gung raqvat vf abg gur Furcneq V’ir tebja gb xabj naq ybir.
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V pna’g oevat zlfrys gb pubbfr qrfgebl orpnhfr RQV qvrf va vg. Vg’f jnl gbb pehry gb fcraq gur jubyr tnzr pbaivapvat ure gb svaq n checbfr va yvsr bayl gb guebj ure gb gur fvqr evtug ng gur raq. Juvpu znxrf zr qrcerffrq jura crbcyr tb ‘shpx RQV,qrfgebl vf gur bayl bcgvba, V jnag Furc gb or nyvir naq erhavgr jvgu ybir vagrerfg!’
Gung’f cerggl zhpu jul V yvxrq Flagurfvf fb zhpu. :C Sryg yvxr n pbapyhfvba gb ure punenpgre nep. Rira gubhtu Furcneq unq gb qvr, vg jnf rknpgyl jung zl punenpgre jbhyq unir qbar sbe uvf sevraqf.
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Am I the only one that liked the bleak original ending?
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I like everything bleak. The darkness sustains me.
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Kermitron enjoyed them as well, as I remember. I think Strange wasn’t too hung up about them, either.
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It was fine with me. Wasn’t perfect, didn’t quite measure up to the quality of the rest of the game, but it was enough for me to go, “well, that’s the end, cool.”
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Gosh darn it. I emailed Mark about something important, and I pestered him a bit on twitter but he seems determined to ignore me D=
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He’s probably asleep!
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I’ve been waiting for a response for an hour. I KNOW he’s not asleep.
I know I’m demanding but how else can I give games away-
calm down, he is a busy man scree scree, pester him again in a few hours.
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This could be part of the problem Miss Scree
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/07/sleeping-like-superman-can-i-survive-for-a-month-sleeping-two-hours-a-day/
Hi everyone,
Lots going on here – mostly baby stuff, which might not be of interest to everyone. We spent the weekend in emergency because baby Liam did some twitching in his sleep and wouldn’t rouse when we tried to wake him. I called 000 for the first time. Looking back, I think of it as a big moment for me. After spending Saturday night in emergency, we were finally told that it was probably nothing, all the tests were normal and it was probably just a normal sleep.
So we fell for the whole ‘paranoid parents’ freaking-out-over-the-sniffles thing. Just goes to show that no matter how well you think you know your way around the parenting beat, kids find new and better ways to terrify you and show you just how little control you actually have 😛
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Dayum, well good to know the mini-shane is all well and okay at least 🙂
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That sounds scary. Good to hear he’s fine.
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Oh wow I wouldn’t know how to react in that situation and it’s scary to even imagine it. Good to hear everything was fine though.
WE MISS YOU
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Don’t worry about it, man.
It was a good thing to call an ambulance but usually you freak out with your first 😉 Glad to hear he’s okay though!
Shameless Gaming Month, eh? People are talking about it, seems like it might be a bit of fun.
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no thanks
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Haha, that sounds ruder than was intended.
Ah, text.-
Silly Bish.
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Could you explain the relevance of pineapples to Shameless Gaming Month? I remember this time last year when I was a non-regular, people kept talking about pineapples and I had no idea what was going on. I still kinda don’t!
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IT IS YOUR PINEAPPLE OF SHAME!
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Hey look at this guy!
He wasn’t around last year when it was referred to as a pineapple of shame!
Let’s shun the handsome, handsome man!-
Shhuuuuunnnn.
Ssshhhuuuuuunnnnn.
Ssssssshhhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-N.
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Hey, Bish!
Oh, you’re shunning me. Never mind.
D:
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CrabJiffy was in the car with Dawble, said something about Pineapple of Shame instead of Pile of Shame. Dawdle passed this story on to us, it stuck.
It’s just the right level of silliness.
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Makes sense. Thanks man!
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Man…. dat weekend. Pretty much zero pineapple eaten (a *little* bit of Batman Lego 2 eaten yesterday….).
Still feeling the drinks from Saturday night this morning. Hope everyone else is well, and had a good weekend… *drumroll* on to the TABTOL copy/paste:
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TOP 20! GRAAAARRRRRGGGHHH!
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MERITLESS ACHIEVEMENTS! GGGGGRRRRRRRRRAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGGHHH!!!!!!
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Winner /o\
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Winner with all posts added up /o\
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A new record, go me!
See you all next week then!
HAI GUYSE, I’M STILL ALIVE! DIDJA MISS ME?
I made it through the camp serious-injury free, although I did take a knee to the back in one of the games, and it’s still slightly sore…
One of the guys found a snake in the shower. He didn’t freak out, but the guy in the shower beside him screamed and ran out (not naked, mind you). By the end of the camp, the story had changed to the guy finding the snake, wrestling and killing it, eating it and turning its skin into a belt. Of course everyone knew that wasn’t true 😛
Also, ping pong is rather addictive…
Here’s a question. When setting the brightness of a game at the start, why do you usually do? Go with the instructions of what should be visible? Darker? Brighter?
I myself tend to go 3 or 4 notches above recommended otherwise I still sometimes struggle with things being too dark and hard to see. But then my eyes aren’t the best around.
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I tend to make it brighter than they tell me too unless it’s a game that is meant to be dark. Mainly because there was a section in GTA4 where I had to walk through a very short tunnel to get into an abandoned building. It was so dark on the correct setting that I couldn’t see a thing. Had to really crank things to get through there.
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Yeah, GTA4 was one of the few games where I had to change the brightness settings midway through, was really bizarre.
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I always go higher than recommended in ‘realistic’ games because they always make them so dark 😛 I usually crank up the colour, too.
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I try to set it to the recommended. The problem being that there’s variance in the amount of background light at any one point in the day.
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I normally go a notch or two higher than what’s recommended.
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A few notches brighter than what the game suggests.
I don’t really care much for the atmosphere in a dark dank dungeon in an action-RPG (let’s say), I like being able to see where I’m going.
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If a game is meant to be atmospherically dark I try to keep the brightness down, but if it’s not I want to be able to see everything easily so I crank it up a bit.
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I usually sit on the floor when playing and I don’t know if it’s the angle or just my crappy eyesight, but I tend to crank it a notch or two above where I can see things ok on the calibration screen, which is way brighter than my wife would have it – and she sits on the couch to play AND has better eyes.
So. Yeah. I always go bove. What gave designers think is appropriate darkness for the mood just tends to be too dark for me to see what the hell I’m doing.
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I was about to do a vidya game question! I’ll save it for later :D, I’ve found these always spark discussion and shows what others are doing 🙂
I used to leave it on the default until around GTAIV, Fallout 3, Fable 2 when I set it above the standard because it was too dark. My TV really shows some dark blacks (if you get what I mean?) so the dark areas are REALLY dark and hard to see. So now I generally set it a few notches above the default :). Sometimes I’ll just get lazy and set it really high so it’s easier to see in dark areas that require light (Fallout, Minecraft) 😛
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What? You have an issue with your TV showing dark blacks?
RACIST!!!
😛
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I usually leave it on the recommended level but sometimes a notch or two higher for particularly dark games
For Shameless Gaming Month, I realised that the games I was going to play came out to about 100 hours of gaming. Double checked my maths just now (using how long to beat):
Half Life 2 – 13h 9m
Half Life 2: Episode 1 – 4h 3m
Half Life 2: Episode 2 – 5h 32m
Starcraft – 19h 57m
Starcraft: Brood War – 25h 11m
Shadow of the Colossus – 10h 4m
Dead Space – 11h 17m
Total – 89h 13m
Should I add another 10 hour game to the mix to make things add up? Maybe some AssRev?
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Lollipop Chainsaw. Play it twice. 😛
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Games I might add to the list: Skate 3, Crysis 2, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations or maybe Psychonauts.
Any of those gets me rather close to the 100 hour mark.
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Couldn’t you just play through this list and see how far you get at a certain point in the month then re-evaluate?
Of course setting X amount of hours of shameless gaming is your preference on how to do things, but you can never guarantee you’ll get all of that 100 hours. Maybe your computer will spazz out again and be all “You like play games? NOPE”.
Perhaps go through the list and if you achieve all of it, any other game you finish can be considered a bonus!-
I’m expecting things to go poorly. It’s just that 100 hours sounds so much neater than “almost 90 hours”. You know, seeing as I am doing weekly write-ups about progress, having some over-arcing goal helps tie things together better.
Might keep my current list and then add another title later on it I’m doing well, remove a title if I’m doing poorly.
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S’fair enough.
It’s just that using hours to give a measure of progress seems a bit… I don’t know, arbitrary? In the sense that game length varies from person to person. I’m guessing How Long To Beat uses the averages of user-submitted gameplay times or something of the sort. It might be about right, but it also seems a tad unreliable as a unit of measure.
But maybe that’s just me.-
It’s definitely ball-parking things. The site uses averages based on user submissions (people say what they’re playing what they’re counting as complete and how long it takes them to do it). Not the most accurate tool but the best available tool that I can find.
This is arbitrary. It’s mainly just a coincidence that the games that I decided to play come close to 100 hours of gameplay. I figured that I would just run with it and make it a part of this whole madness, which probably means trying to play one more game and going absolutely insane this month.
Again.
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I looked at the site and stopped counting at 500hrs. :S
Maybe I should give up on both the White Knight games, Lost Odyssey and FFXIII’s until later. But then its not a Shameless go. WAT DO?!
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There are only 744 hours in July. See if you can have a list of games you plan on beating that requires a Time Turner :p
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If I use the completionist times on all my unfinished games it comes to nearing 3000 hours. (White Knight 2 on its own is almost 1000)
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One of many reasons I’m so glad that I’m not a completionist.
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Shameless Gaming Status:
Still hammering away at the first Ratchet & Clank game.
DVD search status:
Found, in the DVD drive of my old tower… which had been unplugged.
Thank you, inventor of paperclips!
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Ratchet and Clank was a fine, fine game. Trying to scrape together enough bolts for the RYNO was a tough one :p
Great way to start the month!-
Technically I started on Friday night…
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OH I AM SOOOO BUYING THIS!
I don’t really keep up to date with these things so please let me know when it’s priced and available to pre-order and were you’re getting it from 😛
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I don’t really pay a lot of attention to when stuff goes up for order so I wouldn’t rely on me. Generally for this sort of CE I just go to EB Games since they’re easiest to deal with.
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But also the most expensive 😛
The site was for the UK so I wasn’t sure if we’ll get it locally but let me know if we do.
On one hand I’d love to import it for like half the price from a site like Zavvi but then I fear that the contents will be completely destroyed in the shipping process, and on the other is locally which guarantees I get what I want but for more expensive and potentially a longer wait.
Hmm…
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GOD MAN, I’ve been sitting on TS alone for aaaages. Unemployment club of 1 🙁
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DUDE I WENT ON EARLIER BUT NO ONE WAS THERE
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OzGameShop are usually pretty good with CEs, but I don’t know if this will be a retailer-exclusive version or not.
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I think I found about OzGameShop is that whenever they sell the highest CEs/LEs/Whatever editions it’s always a sort of limited sale (like they did for Gears and FFXIII-2, from recent memory). Zavvi being a bigger retailer will pretty much guarantee you a copy and they’re generally cheaper too. They do like to mess around with prices though so you have to pre-order it at the right time.
Like when it was first announced, the bundle with RE:Revelations and the Circle Pad Pro was $45 (same price as the game itself) but soon after they bumped it up to ~$70 or so (still cheaper than EB). The Last Story limited edition when first announced was $120 or so on Zavvi but soon dropped to a standard $60 or so. It’s really weird. Same thing happened for MGS:HD. They’ll honour a cheaper launch price if it drops since you’ve pre-ordered but sometimes they’ll price it lower than usual and still have to honour it 😀
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Zavvi are a terrible company and I never order from them.
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They’ve been good to me :P. Slow shipping times is their only offence.
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Man I love that game logo. Looks awesome. Bundle looks cool too, but it’ll depend on how expensive it is.
Maybe they’ll bring out a smaller bundle with just the game and the book? (The book is supposed to be used with the game, right? Or maybe that was just the DS version)
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The book was required for the DS version, it’s just fluff for the PS3 one. Awesome fluff.
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Ah I see! Thanks. Well now it’ll all come down to that magic price. I’m OK with just the game, but if it’s not too expensive I’ll get the CE.
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youknowwhatsucks? 5amstarts
Youknowwhatsgreat? COFFEECOFFEECOFFEE!
IVEONLYHAD5TODAY!
NEEDMOAR!
*runs off jumping through the window*
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Drink more coffee!!
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I’m up to 3 with a 7am start, though I don’t believe I share the same enthusiasm as yourself :p
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You know what really sucks? Coming down from caffeine -_-
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Mitigate the comedown with cocaine!
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I am hungry.
That is all.
Things I love about DAWNGUARD!
Will be ROT13ing it to avoid, well not spoilers, but some people don’t want to know anything about new additions before they play, so out of respect for them, I present to you this Cthulhu like text.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!
and now for the ROT13
Nf fbzr bs lbh znl unir pbzr gb ernyvfr, V frrz gb rawbl FXLEVZ! whfg n yvggyr.
Jryy fbzr bs gur arj vgrz/fxvyy/crex nqqvgvbaf gung ner abj ninvynoyr qhr gb QNJATHNEQ! unir znqr guvf OYBBQL NJRFBZR tnzr gung zhpu zber, hz NJRFBZR.
Pebffobjf.
V sevttva ybir gurfr guvatf, fubgthaf sbe fxlevz. Gurer ner gjb ninvynoyr jvgu hctenqrf sbe obgu, fb gurer ner npghnyyl sbhe… zr zngu tbbq.
Rnfl gb hfr, dhvpx gb sver ohg gur zbfg njrfbzrarff, fuhg hc vg’f n jbeq,guvat nobhg gurz ner gur qvssrerag obygf, puvrs nzbat gurz, Gur Rkcybqvat Obyg. V YBIR gurfr obygf, gurl gehyl znxr gur pebffobj vagb gung jubyr fubgtha guvatl V jebgr rneyvre. Erybnq pna gnxr n juvyr, ohg jvgu n srj cbvag, jryy npghnyyl n ybg bs cbvagf, va nepurel fxvyy (naq gubfr rkpryyrag rkcybqvat obygf) lbh jba’g arrq gb erybnq bsgra. Nabgure pbby guvat nobhg gur pebffobj vf lbh qba’g fybj qbja jvgu gur jrncba qenja, bayl jura lbh cerff qbja gb sver.
Sbetvat arj vgrzf.
LRF, ybir guvf! V pna abj svanyyl znxr neebjf naq obygf zlfrys, gunax shpxvat Gnybf! Guvf jnf bar guvat V ungrq va gur inavyyn irefvba, lbh pbhyq sbetr qnza arne nalguvat rkprcg gur oybbql neebjf gurzfryirf. Jryy thrff jung xvqqvrf, lbh pna abj, cyhf (vs Qnjathneq abg inzcver) lbh pna sbetr gur bgure irefvba bs gur obygf gbb, yvxr zl snibhevgr Rkcybqvat Obygf 🙂
Gur bgure arj sbetrq vgrzf, Qentbaobar Jrncbaf. Ntnva, fbzrguvat gung ernyyl naablrq zr va gur bevtvany irefvba, V svanyyl trg zl fzvguvat hc gb 100 naq V pna’g znxr nal arj jrncbaf entr! Cyhf V unir nobhg 50 Qentba obar naq fpnyr cvrprf whfg fvggvat va zl purfg ENTR! Jryy, abj V unir zlfrys n arj Qentbaobar fjbeq, fuvryq, obj, naq terngfjbeq. V nz bar unccl Uhatnevna oneonevna.
Crexf
Abj V unira’g unq zhpu gvzr gb purpx gurfr bhg, uhzna Qnjathneq cynlre ng gur zbzrag, ohg gung gurl unir nqqrq n crex gerr sbe obgu inzcver Ybeq naq Jrerjbys vf uryyn pbby.
Abj n ybg bs crbcyr unir pbzcynvarq nobhg gurfr, ohg frevbhfyl, jr hfrq gb unir n jrerjbys jvgu ab cebterffvba ng nyy naq n inzcver gung whfg tbg htyvre vs gurl qvqa’g srrq. Jryy, abj jr trg erjneqrq sbe xvyyvat crbcyr, gung’f tbbq evtug?…
Guvf yrnqf zr gb Inzcver Ybeq
Bayl unq n oevrs cynl jvgu guvf zbafgre, ohg V ernyyl rawblrq vg. Lbh unir gjb znva zbqrf gb guvf pevggre, fcryy pnfgvat naq zryrr. Lbh fgneg bss jvgu qenva sbepr naq envfr qrnq fcryyf, znxrf frafr gb zr, naq gur zryrr vf jryy, zryrr, ubjrire vg frrzf gung jvgu zber crbcyr lbh xvyy, gur zber lbh pna qb va gurfr gjb zbqrf. Bu lbh nyfb unir sybngvat naq jnyxvat zbqrf. Ntnva, unira’g unq zhpu gvzr jvgu guvf, ohg fb sne ybir vg.
So anyway, those are my thoughts on the subject.
Feel free to disagree, I don’t mind, however Clubby tends to hold grudges.
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I disagree with everything you say!
Not really though, kind of looking forward to Dawnguard though.
Shameless Gaming Month is off to a great start for me. My game collection grew by 1 today, and a particularly shameful purchase too.
However I decided to dig out Darksiders and play it. I got the X360 version years ago and played maybe an hour before being distracted from it, despite that I quite liked it. Grabbed the PC version a little while back on the cheap when I preordered Darksiders II, and given that that’s not very far off now, I decided it was time.
I don’t know how far in I am, I suspect not very (6 hours) but I’m really liking it. It also made me stop and think though: are there any other games besides Darksiders and Okami which execute the 3D Legend of Zelda gameplay well? Why does it seem like hardly anyone has bothered despite that the style clearly works and works really well. Also why the hell was the game so heavily criticized for being a Zelda clone in the first place? I happen to like the way those games play. Except Skyward Sword, fuck that game.
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Hey! SS wasn’t that bad!
There’s Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2) but I’m sure you already know about it. I’m also a fan of the 3D action/adventure Zelda-esque gameplay. I really enjoyed Darksiders too despite the reviews complaining about it being too much like Zelda and God of War (this is a bad thing?). If I recall it’s about 10-12 hours long so you’re actually not that far from the end.
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I can’t play SS. We spent all that time waiting for Nintendo to finally give us a game that lived up to the promise that the Wii controls seemed to suggest, and then when we got it, it turned out that we didn’t want those controls in the first place.
SS is an average Zelda game with absolutely terrible controls and annoying area layouts. I just want a 3D Zelda game I can play with a controller, where I fight stuff and solve puzzles in elaborate rooms in heaps of interesting dungeons, discovering items that unlock new abilities which then allow me to explore and find hidden things in all the areas. Basically exactly what made Metroid Prime so fun too. I love that style of game. Skyward Sword made it as irritating as it possibly could to get to that fun, constantly breaking whatever flow I managed to pull out of it, and I’m too busy to screw around with it. If those motion controls are the future for the franchise then I’m done with it, Twilight Princess will be my last one. 🙁 Which is why I’m interested to see if any other developers have pulled off the gameplay.
I don’t think I’m far into Darksiders. The last thing I did involved helping a certain large scottsman stop the pigeons from crapping in his yard, if you follow. I’ve only beaten one of the four bosses that have the Mcguffins I need to collect to
assemble the triforcedo whatever it is I’m doing for the creepy dude that lives in the fountain of blood. Should be closing in on the second one but there might be another exploration area first?-
There are a lot of games on the Wii I was interested in but I never ended up picking one up because it was never the price or the lack of power, it has always been those shit motion controls.
I played on my cousins one for about 20 minutes and thought this would be a lot better if instead of waggling the stick around I just pressed a button like in the good old days, when I had to walk uphill in the snow to play vidya games.
I also just picked up Darksiders on the steam sale and I was thinking of getting stuck into it this weekend using my 360 controller.
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I just hope they give us the option on which control scheme to use in future Zelda games. Aiming and looking around with motion/gryo controls is awesome and it’s hard to go back to standard controls but all the waggling with the sword and stuff is a hit and miss. I can live with or without it.
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You know what actually annoyed me more than the crappy sword commands that don’t actually pick up what you’re doing correctly? The shield. It only blocks 4 hits before it breaks then you have to go back to town buy another. Why even bother having one at all? I want to sword & board but the game won’t let me, it’s depressing 🙁
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Ah yes the shield mechanics were annoying but if you shield bash at the right time it deflects their attack, doesn’t damage the shield and leaves them open for a counter attack.
I rarely used shields anyway so this wasn’t that big of a deal but the later shields sort of fixed this issue (I assume you know about them but just never got them)
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The deflection hits still seemed to deplete the 4 uses when I played it, maybe I wasn’t hitting just the right timing or angle or something. Or more likely the goddamn controls weren’t working correctly.
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We can be angry old folks together. Those kids with their new-fangled motion control waggle nonsense can get the hell off my lawn and give me my buttons back.
I’m playing with a 360 controller, it plays pretty well. The
boomerangCrossblade controls are a little awkward and the lock-on tends to be too easy to change targets but otherwise it’s pretty good. War doesn’t have the finesse of Link and the combat movement isn’t as tight as a result, but what he lacks in grace he makes up for in brute strength and there’s definitely a bit of God of War in there too, with the ability to one-button execute enemies that are damaged enough (which is worth abusing because nothing will attack you while the animation plays). The overall structure of the game is straight-up Zelda and the dungeon design is especially awesome like that.One thing, save often. The game is a little glitchy. Not unplayable but I had it crash once. Make sure you have your 360 controller connected and turned on BEFORE you start the game up, or it won’t see it. It maxes out at 1920×1200 so if you’ve got a monitor that pushes a higher res (mine’s 2560×1440) you’re SOL for no reason, but it might be possible to override this by some ini file fiddling? I don’t mind either way personally, the game looks pretty reasonable and the higher res wouldn’t add that much. The other reason to save regularly is that some of the achievements don’t unlock for some reason I think related to their implementation of the steam cloud stuff. I have the crossblade but don’t have the achievement for getting it. Don’t really care but if it makes a difference to you it’s worth keeping in mind.
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Luckily my monitor is exactly 1920×1200!
I once left my 360 controller plugged in after playing a game with it then I went to play battlefield 3 and I kept running in circles, It took me ages to realize my controller was still plugged in on the floor upside down with the thumb stick held down.
As for Zelda there’s the Wii U and 3DS for potential non-waggle controls. I found the controls of SS not that bad when they worked for me. But I can agree on the areas.
While it never occurred to me while playing (only really thought about it when I read an article Mark wrote) the whole layout of it kind of felt… “wrong”. I was totally fine about having the outside areas as sort of “mini-dungeons” with puzzles to solve and things to do but lost was that sense of exploration. I also miss all the collectables and whatnot. Really SS? Only 18 hearts? :'(
Still it wasn’t THAT bad IMO 😛
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Forgot to reply about Darksiders:
You were pretty vague and it’s been ages since I’ve last played it so I don’t really know where you or how much more you’ve got to go based on your description. Hourwise you’re about half way and that’s all I can really say 😛
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I finished the tussle with Ulthane and Uriel and was about to start into the Griever’s area.
Looking at the achievements I think that’s about 1/3 of the game, but maybe less depending on how much time it takes to get to the subsequent bosses. The dungeon leading up to Tiamat was pretty big.
Dude, if they make a Wii U Zelda it’ll swap out the horrible motion controls for horrible touch screen / gyro controls instead. Nintendo refuse to believe that their games might be fun to play with a button controller.
Besides that they’re so busy making the games accessible to your Granny they end up compromising the game for people who do know how to play. I got so annoyed with it constantly telling me what to do. I KNOW ALREADY. I’VE PLAYED A GAME BEFORE.
Nintendo really need to start using difficulty settings more often.
It’s not even a difficulty problem. The difficulty was fine – actually a bit hard due to the stupid controls at times. I’m pretty cool with it. What it needs is a ‘I have played Legend of Zelda before and I am not a moron’ setting so that it doesn’t constantly bombard you with hand-holding and tell you exactly what to do and where to go at all times, often pulling you out of the game to do so.
SS was hard. A friggen Skulltula took me ages to beat because I had no idea how to attack it. That’s the thing with motion controls. It gives an added level of difficulty because you need to attack in this way at this time, rather than just mashing a button when there’s a brief opening.
And I doubt they’ll swap the whole control system for gyro/touch screen for Wii U. The “tech-demo” just showed it for inventory use, similar to what OoT3D did. They can keep the gyro/touch things for 3DS where it’s more suited. It’ll be harder to do on the two Wii U screens since the controller is ‘disconnected’ from the main game (ie. they’re not next to each other or exactly as close as they are in a 3DS)
Oh yeah I knew what you meant. I more meant that they should give you the option to turn off the help features (more of a beginner/advanced option).
Fi was way too talkative in SS. I would have liked the option to turn off non-essential hints.
It should just give you a quiz at the start of the game to see if you need hints.
1. What is the main characters name?
That is all, if you get that right it should take its hints and shove them. If you say Zelda it should set your Wii on fire.
Maybe I’ll go back to that for shameless gaming this month. Now that I have been using a controller a bit more regularly maybe I can get past the boss fight I was stuck on due to stupid need to aim quickly.
So I just finished Space Marine and like everyone else I have a huge list of games I haven’t even played or ‘finished’, and then out of that I’ve still got a huge “pile of shame” which is what I’d actually like to get through. From that I’ve short listed just a handful of titles and I wouldn’t mind some input from the gang on what to play next.
PC:
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Psychonauts
Xbox:
Fez
Rage (unplayed)
PS3:
infamous 2 (unplayed)
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection (unplayed)
Stranger’s Wrath
Wii:
Pandora’s Tower (unplayed)
Resident Evil (unplayed)
Resident Evil 4 (unplayed)
The Last Story
Gamecube:
Eternal Darkness (unplayed)
Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes (unplayed)
3DS:
Resident Evil: Revelations
This is just a very short list and there’s tons of other titles I wouldn’t mind playing through. So if there’s something not on that list you think is worth playing, I might already have it :). There’s also a bunch of PC games I’m hoping to acquire during Steam sales :P.
I was thinking MGS something since I’ve had the sexy edition of it unplayed since it came out. I’ve played 1 (original on PS1), 2, 3, 4 but I never beat 3. I also purchased Twin Snakes earlier this year to get through but I’m still not sure on which order to play them. Problem is if I start with 3 it might be harder to get back into the older games because of dated mechanics. How is Peace Walker anyway? Does it still hold up in the HD collection on PS3/Xbox?
Thanks in advance!
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I loved DX HR personally, so out of that list it would be my pick. However if you loved it as much as I did it wouldn’t be in your pile so I guess you might have had a different perception of it.
Is your goal to finish as many games as possible this month? Because if so, stick to the ones that aren’t 50+ hours i.e. no JRPGs.
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Yeah I took Graces f off the short list even though I wanted to play it when it came out 😛
My goal isn’t necessarily to beat as many games as possible but to just beat some. I wouldn’t mind playing a few JRPGs but as long as I actually beat them.
As for DX:HR, I liked it I just never got around to playing it more than a couple of hours. So many cheap Steam games…
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Graces F sucked up about 50 hours for me, maybe 55, but I didn’t do everything. If you were a completionist it could suck up 120+.
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Luckily I’m not 😛
I usually just go with the standard “main quest” in all Tales games. Out of all the ones I’ve played I’ve only beaten Eternia and Abyss. Probably got close in Vesperia and Symphonia with about 40-60 hours in each of them but stopped for some reason.
Doc What linked it last time but damnit I should’ve waited for that European edition :P. It’s cheaper and there’s more in it…
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There’s not much extra except the soundtrack and the ability to dress up Asbel as Leon from Tales of Destiny.
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Still, soundtrack, artbook and DLC for a lower cost 😛
Granted the release date was later but considering I haven’t even played the game yet and was happy to wait, I regret buying it :(. Stupid play-asia and their vouchers… tempting me to buy things I didn’t need! I nearly pre-ordered Ni No Kuni a while ago since the US did have an earlier release date. Good thing it got delayed and a better edition 😀
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Oddly, there’s no actual artbook that I know of for Graces. Just the strategy guides.
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Man, Eternal Darkness is one of my most favourite NGC games!
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Still haven’t played it despite obtaining it somewhat recently!
I hear good things about it but don’t really feel like Cubing and I’m not sure how well it’ll hold up today 🙁
Xenoblade again.
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Damnit I don’t have 112 hours! (I do)
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Serious suggestion: Definitely play MGS in order of release. And don’t play them back-to-back or you might get sick of them like I did 😛
Also play Psychonauts. Only because I’m also playing it (well, I was before I went on my JB Hifi spending bender…)
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Yeah too much MGS can be a bad thing 😛
I played a decent amount of Psychonauts on PS2 and another decent amount on PC but some sections are hard/annoying because of the Keyboard and Mouse combo 🙁
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Nananananananananananana Naaaachooooos!
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I had nachos for dinner last night! Proper ones from a restaurant and everything!
…They were disappointing.
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I had some from Zambrero for lunch, and they were tasty!
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Screw you mang, screw you! Only thing I really miss about Canberra… Zambreros…. *drooooools*
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Zambreros has invaded Nth QLD now, too! I had tasty burritos while I was in Townsville last ^.^
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Wait, you mean it’s possible to eat Zambreros when you’re not intoxicated? Wow. Blind Mown.
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And it’s still amazeballs good!
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I guess it’s decided. Nachos for lunch!
Oooohhhhh. My favourite Oshry article so far!
My mum likes Criminal Minds!
They should make a SVU game!
2x Pics of Mariska Hagerty!
Seriously? Where did this guy come from. Usually I’m fairly tolerant of the “nothing” posts but these are pretty ridiculous.
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My favourite Oshry article:
Here’s some Mass Effect stuff! Also, Prometheus spoilers.
To be fair though, they totally should make an SVU game.
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It seriously irks me that jokers like this get paid to pump out shit while any number of Taybies and people on this site can, will and do produce content that can’t even be compared for nothing and that gets hidden away in the comment section.
Just imagine having articles written by the likes of Zap, Aidan, Blaghs, Trjn or any number of Taybies on the site. Reasoned and thoughtful opinions even on the most mundane subjects.
AAARRRRGGGHHH!
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I fully support this idea.
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A community blog section every week or so sounds like a great idea.
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Looks like Shameless Gaming Month is picking up plenty of followers in the Kotaku article.
Should we attempt to get it trending on Twitter?
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How does that happen? I assume we just spam about #ShamelessGamingMonth for a while?
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Preeeetty much.
To justify the spam, I wanna give it more exposure…see how big we can make it!
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“see how big we can make it” THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID, whooooooooooooooOOOOOOOooooo
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Awesome! So we’re agreeing on #ShamelessGamingMonth, or some derivative thereof?
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I think we’ve been using #ShamelessGaming. No idea if that is official, but at least that’s what a couple of us were using last night. 😛
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DONE! #ShamelessGaming it is, and spam it I shall!
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#ShamelessGaming is probably best, just to help with the character limit. Anything less would be uninformative.
Easy way to use it, I guess, would be to share accomplishments, great and small, i.e. “Just finished Chapter 1 of *some game*”. Get plenty of tweets out while still having something useful to say. -
I’ll just be sure to share interesting snippets whilst gaming, and not-so-interesting pinings and whinings whilst not gaming 😀
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#ShamelessGaming is what I’ve been using. Wanted to use #SGM but that seems to be getting used for a few other things. I’ll be retweeting anything interesting I see tagged with it.
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Yay, I said an interesting thing \o/
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Yes!
Let’s see how many followers it gets!
Woohoo, I made a print!
http://fav.me/d55rakr
Source Filmmaker looks awesome, can’t wait to see what people do with it 🙂
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I can’t wait until more people get used to it! There’s already some great stuff and it hasn’t been out for long! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW7D6r1S6W8
With the release of Dawnguard, I don’t think I will be making much off an impact on my Pineapple of Shame.
However I really want to try and finish Lost Odyssey, after a long abscence, I am really starting to enjoy this game again.
Crap, that reminds me I haven’t finished Nier either… will attempt to at least get some more done in this uber cool game.
So much pineapple, so little time.
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Nier can be done in under 15 hours, LO on the other hand took me 40 hours 😛
But with Nier I’d recommend the second playthrough which starts you at the midpoint so I’d say 5 hours more for that. The first NG+ is where the game truly shines :D. Gotta watch all the cutscenes though!
Potaku 5 Talks
Listening to Shiggy talking ’bout Rockstar games. I remember at the release of GTA IV I heard a rumour that at the game’s climax Nico had the choice to basically become a cop. I really loved that idea; it felt like such a good character development. That Nico had been a bad guy – he was dabbling in some small time crime when he arrives in Liberty City, but it’s suggested a couple of times that he was into some heavy stuff back in his home country – and he arrives in America, the Land of Freedom, fulling believing in the promise of a Better Life. He wants to be a good guy, he wants to change, but he slips back into old habits and he starts to realise that Liberty City is not so dissimilar from what he’s trying to get away from. For most of the game it still felt like he was struggling against his environment. I feel that if the last half/third of the game was him metaphorically cleansing himself of his past – becoming a cop and cleaning up the city – it could have really been so much more than another GTA game.
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Also, RE: Deus Ex: Human Revolution
There was a lot of character development that wasn’t obvious, that required you to “stop and smell the roses”. I remember exploring Adam’s apartment and finding some get well cards, and the note from the building manager in regard to another replacement mirror, then walking into the bathroom and realising that Adam cannot stand to look at his own reflection.
And some ROT13 info in regard to Jensen’s augments:
Wrafra bayl arrqrq n srj fznyy nhtzragf/gerngzragf va beqre gb erpbire sebz uvf vawhevrf – Fnevs beqrerq gur qbpgbef gb erzbir Wrafra’f yvzof naq ercynpr gurz jvgu Nhtf.-
I believe there was also an email on the lobby computer making reference to Jensen’s mirror. HR is such an awesome game.
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Spoilers! Re: mirror, maybe I guess. The mirror is an important character afterall.
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Piggyback!
Re: Great characters
Mordin Solus.
Whilst I think Garrus-bro and Wrex have their place as pretty top-tier guys, I think Mordin’s character is great, and has one of the greatest lines in the game. And no, I’m not talking about the singing, although that was pretty awesome too.Re: Deus Ex
Jensen was great in that, it was never supposed to be a game which had binary good or bad options, so
1. The neutrality of the voice actor’s voice (gravelly) really helped in that regard, and
b) He was a blank canvas at the start for you to fill out as the game progressed.Re: Resonance of Fate
The story in that game confused me /o\
It detracted a bit from understanding the characters, though I think the most (obvious) progression I could see was in the flashbacks of what the three did before they all crossed paths.-
I guess I’m a bad person for rushing ME2 and not caring about Mordin at all. Like I even went out of my way to send him into the heat pipe things in a certain section 😛
Umm… yeah… :/
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I always found Thane a fascinating character as well.
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Wise choice for a ME2 cover character, too bad it was ugly.
Miranda… not so much.
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I really enjoyed how Jensen’s endings actually fit so well with how the story played out that any of them could’ve been the true ending.
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I’m sneaking back very quietly….don’t wake the missus….shhhhhh
HELLLOOOOO TAYBIES! I’M BAAAAAAACCCKKKK!
It’s been a hellishly busy couple months…what’d i miss?
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Umm, fourteen of us got married, in one large ceremony. We briefly worshipped Serrels as our god, before remembering that most of us are either agnostic or atheistic. And as a group we learned to stop worrying, and love the bomb. So, not much, really. How are you, Splicer?
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You mean there was a time we didn’t worship the Almighty Serrels? Blasphemy! Burn the Heretic!
Ah, Dr Blaghman Strangelove, i am well. I see many new names and faces here now…is that the sound of someone quietly stroking an oar?-
I’m afraid not, there was… a tragedy surrounding the oar. Harli left it in the hands of a lesser being, and it has since been lost for the ages. Now all we can do is sit here, and pray that the chosen one appears, oar in hand, to lead us to victory.
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We could always forge a new oar.
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Dude i have it right here. Also lesser being. I am a bigger man than you blaghs. Like about a foot taller 😛
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Being too tall…that’s a paddlin’….
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Fools! The oar is to powerful for mere mortals!
Is there anyone else thought to be vanished into the wild reaches of the interwebs, never to return?
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I have heard tell of The Oar though I fear it may be nought but a myth. A virgin face am I, unfettered and uninitiated, free from the scourge of those surrounding me.
Oh, who am I kidding?
HAPPY BORTHDAY SPLICER! I haven’t seen you ’round these parts, you must’ve been gone for a good while? Welcome back, in any case!-
Borthday? Hmmm the day of my Borthing…or Borting…I like it!
But alas, ’tis not my birthday until Decembre(as the French say it)…But ‘allo and bonjour for ze warm welcome! -
WE NEED MORE BORT LICENCE PLATES.
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See, this guy, he gets it ^
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Hello! I finally understand your name/avatar. Hooray for me?
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Hooray mang! I’m glad one of us does!
Hello!
Welcome back
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Ah El Greenius, we meet again my old nemesis, or friend….i forget which…
Hugs?-
More of an acquaintance 😛
You left when I started to post more, I guess I’m a regular now :). There’s still a few TAYbies I haven’t got to know all that well yet, so hopefully you’ll stick around.
Free hugs? Why not.
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Ah yes, inappropriate touching in public places…always fun…careful, we may get banned from giving hugs and high fives and stuff….i think i’ve had too much caffiene…
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Hello Splicer,
Welcome back. I hope we get to see more of you in the coming weeks.
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Hello Ye Who Mashes, thanking you for your fine welcome good sir
Hey Splicer long time no see human!
Question, did you want to come pick up SWTFU and Batman AA at some point? 🙂
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Indeed I shall, at some point in the near future. How are your circuit boards these days?
Oh hey, I met Jason Momoa yesterday…anyone jelly? Khal Drogo/ Ronan Dex/ Conan…he’s now the biggest celebrity i’ve met. Can anyone top that?-
Yes I am so jelly.
My circuit boards these days have been at a higher average temperature… blame stress from humans for that.
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After a few hours on TS with the nasty cheap headset yesterday, my ears still hurt today.
Then I noticed a big special on Amazon for G930s… I couldn’t resist.
Buying new hardware in shameless gaming month doesn’t count, right?
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Bunny was probably nattering about something boring, my ears hurt after a while of his speaking as well.
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I think I spent most of that time in a channel by myself once I got to the parts of Bastion I hadn’t played before.
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Hahaha 😛
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On a related note Greenius, want a free headset in 8 – 16 working days? Then you can be less Creepius.
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Haha sure why not :D.Thanks!
Depends on what type/model, f4ction said he was happy to offer me one too but I’m not sure which one would be better or which I could acquire first.
I was just about to say above that if the G930 was cheap enough and if you haven’t purchased it yet we could work out something and save on shipping. I just had a look and I’m not sure whether it was a huge saving or not but $100 was a bit out of my current budget considering how often I use my current mics (never) :P. Looks fancy though!
Thanks again and incase you weren’t aware there may be a few more Melbourne meats organised before Batmang something along the lines of karaoke (:/) and Game Masters.
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Cheap n nasty H230. Potentially only painful for me since i have large funny shaped ears.
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That one looks like it’ll get the job done. If it was the one you were using the sound quality sounds fine 🙂
From the product page on the Logitech website “with four interchangeable color plates to suit your mood.” 😛
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I think I’ve still got most of the packaging including the colour plates. I’ll check when I get home.
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Oh I don’t care about them I just thought it was a silly thing to advertise. Who could be bothered changing the colour plates to suit their specific moods 😛
There’s no green anyway 🙁
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Ooh, I’ll finally be able to hear the mysterious Greenius’ voice.
I don’t think it’s possible to take the Creepy out of Greenius.
; )
Are Subway cookies the best cookies?
Because the double choc chip one I’m eating right now would say so….
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Go to a New Zealand Natural ice cream shop and get yourself a cookie time cookie.
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This.
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Mrs. Fields!
Saw the Avengers today. It was alright, I enjoyed it. Almost fell asleep 3 times though cause I’ve been up since Sunday morning.
What? Splicers Back? Why didn’t anyone tell me? I missed the Welcome Back Wagon (Now with 50% more Paddlin’)!
In other news, I somehow without meaning to made my Dragons Dogma guy look exactly like my Kingdoms of Bananarama guy. I must have a secret thing for big, red bearded and mohawked men.
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Faction fits that description :O
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I am back. And front, we’re both here 🙂
@Oshry people. Chill. He’s just a special guest weekend editor. You won’t have to deal with him for long.
@Bish. Yes, I would have said Mordin but I didn’t want to have to talk about him in case I spoilered his storyline for Doc and Shiggy. Doc’s currently playing ME2 so I wasn’t sure how much he knew. I also should have mentioned Wrex. Plus a bazillion other people. 😛 It’s so hard to be put on the spot like that.
@Eternal Darkness mentioners. The controls are really awkward to go back to now. 🙁 But if anyone does play it, and only plans on going through it once they will probably have the most picking green when they get the choice early on. I think it’s green. Whatever colour the sanity meter is. It will make it more fun because you’ll be on the edge of sanity a lot and will get to see a fair amount of weird and creepy things that way.
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Haha, yeah.
I tried to leave it at “Mordin is awesome”. Because he is.-
Most of the party members from ME2 are pretty awesome. Except Jacob.
I like the not-so-romance talk with Samara. *random point*
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Pretty much all the characters introduced in ME2 are interesting. But Mordin is super awesome.
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I couldn’t stand Jacob and Jack :P.
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Jacob and Miranda were pretty boring, especially Jacob. A cardboard cutout character would have been just as interesting as him. 😛
And I really liked Jack. The way she develops depending on if you treat her in a Paragon or Renegade way is really cool.
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Hello Strange!
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Hello Beavwa!
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I probably fit into the play it once category. So… pick green? Not sure what you mean by this (haven’t played the game at all yet, but I’m sure it’ll make sense when I do) but I have read about some of the things that happens when your sanity drops so most of it won’t be as ‘scary’ as it would’ve been back then 😛
@Potaku stuffs – I didn’t read what Mawt said on the last page (because I haven’t listened to it yet) but reading what you (Strange) said above got me thinking about spoilers. For the first 3 eps I’ve listened too there were very minory spoilers for games I already played but I’m worried about spoilers for other games :P. Granted the stuff that was said wasn’t too bad (Uncharted stuff is all I can recall at the moment) and for older games but I’m one of “those people” who still haven’t played ME3 or all of ME2 or some of older games (Bioshocks). I’m sure it’s fine but if there’s any massive spoilers accidentally dropped in a later episode could someone holla first? :D. This is just me being extra careful but I doubt it’ll happen.
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THEY SPOIL METAL GEAR SOLID IN THIS EPISODE
I was just about to start playing it this weekend!
;_;(but not really)
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MGS as in the original MGS? I’ve beaten that so phew! 😀
But I was thinking of playing Twin Snakes soon (perhaps today) so if I hadn’t that would’ve been ;_;
I know they love MGS3 so if by that you meant MGS3 then ;_; because that’s a game I haven’t finished yet and would like to get through.
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To be fair, the thing spoiled about MGS, is also spoiled by MGS4/Old Snake existing.
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There’s no Mass Effect spoilers. Strange and I both kinda go ‘it’s hard to talk about this without spoiling things so I’ll just say I like character X’s development and blah blah they are interesting’. Definitely no massive ‘Liara is secretly Wrex in disguise’ plot spoilers. 😛
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Character X’s development is awesome. Such a great character.
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Yeah I figured there wouldn’t be anything too big but when Uncharted was mentioned the thing they talked about could be considered big I guess as it came as a surprise to me when I first played the game. Really did not see it coming.
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Yeah, I didn’t know how to cut that without ruining the ep.
I can tell you that I have cut a lot of spoilers from Potaku and I’m trying to make sure most games won’t get ruined.
Metal gear Solid slipped through because the game is fifteen years old and the ending is fairly common knowledge now that MGS4 is out and starring “Old Snake”.
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TAAAAAAALLLLIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!
@Tigerion: Was the boss you were stuck on in Darksiders Tiamat? The giant bat-demon boss? Because I took five goes to do it and I’m playing with a controller. The aiming controls are a pain in the ass. 🙁
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That’s the one
I have never owned a console with a game pad so my ability to target with a controller is severely lacking. But I’ve been playing more games with the controller on PC now so a year later it might be time to give it another whirl.
A SHAMELESS GAMING MONTH PRODUCTION 2012
Now that the pineapple is the official Shameless Gaming month icon/logo/symbol-whatever- I think we should all have a pineapple event at the end of the month to celebrate our achievements.
It doesn’t have to involve a physical meet-up but if you are able, feel free to do so.
The general idea is that on the 31st of July(or the weekend before since the 31st is a Tuesday) we should all partake in a pineapple based product or activity in celebration of our hopeful achievements at the time. Whatever you like, as long as it has a pineapple in it. For example:
1. Drink pineapple Juice
2.Eat a slice of pineapple-canned or fresh the choice is yours
3.Pizza with pineapple in it
4.Pineapple desserts
Also, other activities not related to food could include:
1. Making pineapple related user generated content-a pineapple house in minecraft? An LBP/LBP2 level?
2. Watch Pineapple Express with Seth Rogen and James Franco
3. Visit the pineapple Wikipedia page
4. Go to the store and take a photo of yourself with a pineapple
5. Make a video involving pineapples
6.If you live in Queensland near the Sunshine Coast visit the Big Pineapple.
Whatever you can do involving pineapples, do it.
Shameless gaming month seems to be good at encouraging people to at least finish of some games and I think this would be a perfect end to the month. I’d love it if this could happen and I’m sure it will be fun. So if you guys are up for it, let me know.
P.S.
1. I hope this is OK, Trjn. With your permission I could even ask Mark to put this as a conclusion during every shameless gaming month article and maybe even promote it once the month draws to a close
2. Can Potaku promote this maybe if people are receptive.
3. More suggestions for pineapple based activities or foods are welcome
Finally to help with spreading the fun we could post our efforts on TAY and Twitter. Also when using Twitter spread the word to your friends and we should also use the shameless pineapple hashtag.making it easy to catalogue people’s efforts.
i.e #ShamelessPineapple
Thanks and let’s all finish some games and have fun!!
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…what if you don’t like pineapple?
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Hmm, I should have accounted for that and for people with allergies as well.
However, I guess that’s what the activities are for. I’m sure a photo or visiting the Wikipedia page won’t hurt.🙂
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Hmm, I should have accounted for that and for people with allergies as well.
However, I guess that’s what the activities are for. I’m sure a photo or visiting the Wikipedia page won’t hurt.🙂
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PIZZA WITH PINEAPPLE?!
Splicer clearly came back just to correct your ways.
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Great minds, frond!
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I actually don’t mind pineapple on pizza. This was a reference to an event that occurred at a meat at F4ction’s place, where we were deciding what pizza to order out and someone suggested hawaiian and Splicer was immediately like PINEAPPLE DOES NOT BELONG ON PIZZA.
And then it turned out that the Supreme had pineapple. :V
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Meat loverssssssssss!
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One issue with that..
Pineapple should NEVER go on pizza! Other than that, pineapple festivities sound awesome!
I like the idea but I dislike pineapple (WHAT A WEIRD FRUIT). But it’s cool that you thought of other non-eating pineapple things which I fully support and may partake in.
I think they were going to have Trjn on Potaku at some point to talk about SGM and I think #ShamelessGaming was the decided on hashtag
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The #shamelessGaming tag still remains of course. The #ShamelessPineapple was just for the end of the month when people are celebrating their achievements.
All you anti-pineapple humans… *sighs and shakes my head*
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Exactly. Pineapples are good.
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And incredibly delicious!
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Sometimes I wonder about the wear and tear in your neck with all the headshaking you do.
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I apply WD40 on it every day. My neck is fine and smells of robo sex appeal too! 😛 hahaha
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Hot.
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Specialized Titanium gears with a classified lubrication agent.
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Huuuuumanssss…
This is why I prefer to refer to myself as an intergender meat based being 😛-
Or just delusional…
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Non-gender specifications are fine (I’m kinda partial too) but it’s rather difficult when referencing the person in question, I find.
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“It”? Maybe not though 😛
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“It” (personally speaking) is a little too impersonal, bordering on offensive, I feel. “They” has a little more personality to it whilst still retaining gender-ambiguity, although again, it’s only one title.
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Yeah, that’s why I said maybe not. They/them sounds funny though, almost as if the person is someone that talks to themselves like smeagol/Gollum 😛
My precioussssss…
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You mean humans AREN’T that already? Oh… 😛
For all your alcoholic pineapple-juice beverages:
http://www.barnonedrinks.com/drinks/by_ingredient/p/pineapple-juice-709.html
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Nice. I was looking for a list like that.
AHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA pineapple on pizza
WELCOME BACK SPLICER
Permission not required!
Seriously, if anyone wants to do anything related to shameless gaming month, go right on ahead.
But I will not take part in anything that encourages people to eat pineapple on pizza.
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Ha Ha.
Fair enough, I’ll amend the pineapple on pizza clause.Thanks.
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Don’t you dare! Anyone who doesn’t like pineapple on pizza is already dead inside and is beyond saving. Look to the people who still have a chance.
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I actually don’t mind pineapple on pizza. I enjoy Hawaiian pizzas but my preference is Meat lovers.
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@Splicer.
Famous people I’ve met are Summer Glau (signed my Firefly box), Til Lendermann (had a drink with him in a nightclub) And Scod and Gatesy (Yon apparently doesn’t like to meet the fans after a show).
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Oh that’s awesome meeting Til. Is he all scary and such? =P
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He is surprisingly soft spoken.
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Oh wow. Did not see that coming.
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Hey Splice!
Anyone know how to summon friends pawns in Dragons Dogma? I found Bish’s and #35’s but it won’t let me summon them.
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I hear Nob has great Bobbies
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For some reason I don’t have Nob on my friends list and his TAYNAMES id doesn’t seen to be right.
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Just went there and editted it, I’m fairly sure it’s Noob_headshot (caps don’t matter) but TAYnames didn’t have the underscore, silly Nob!
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That worked. Thanks.
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Woah!
I thought we had to be PSN friends for pawns to show up so easily.
(Are we friends? I don’t know, I don’t even remember my PSN ID /o\)
Too much RC, maybe?
I WILL HOP ONLINE NOW-
Yes we are friends!
Aaaaaaaawkward!-
And I thought we had something special…
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Oh man, I reeeeeally want this game now, now. By the time I get it nobody else will be playing it anymore and I’ll miss out. 🙁
*sends telepathic messages to Mr. Strange for birthday present of Dragon’s Dogma*
@Strange
The Last Story discussion? 🙂
Gimme an update 😀
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Haven’t had a chance for games. I won’t tomorrow either because we’re taking the kids to the Abbey’s Kids Medieval Fun Day. Ask again on Wednesday afternoon. 🙂
The Living End announced this today what a brilliant thing! I wanted Mötley Crüe to do something like this at the Whiskey on Sunset Strip for their 30th anniversary.
I also have a few job opportunities coming up I hope, so I am thinking if I get said job I am planning on going to the Melbourne shows for a few reasons most of them revolve around the fact my friend wants me to visit her (she suggested I come to Melbourne again this morning for it haha) there & Brisbane is a little to out of the way unless I wanted to stay up there for me. Cause I know none of my mates would be interested in going.
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That’s a pretty cool idea 😀
Would suck though if some shows sold out quicker or were more empty because of album preferences 😛
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You can buy a ticket for all 6 album shows, which is about 100 dollars cheaper than buying individual , but yeah would suck since they’re about 1000 seat (if that) venues they’re playing in.
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Also hi guys, sorry for being absent last week. Life took over last 2 weeks (bah!) and I was honestly too exhausted to really bother with a lot of things other than Twitter last week.
Oh man. Your pawns are rated by other players on appearance as well as performance. Not sure how that will pan out.
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What happened to large mohawk ranga?
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I do believe that large mo rang is his character, whereas his pawn is that… beast.
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He’s my player character. That’s my pawn. 2 different things.
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Wow, not sure how you managed to make such a perfect likeness of me. I’m flattered! 😛
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I’d still hire h/im/er/it.
I once five-starred a midget fighter because one time he grabbed an enemy twice his height and it was hilarious.
Urgh. Really bad timing for me to post on Facebook that I was on Potaku and everyone should listen to it. Most of my friends on there are close to the Oz Comic Con people, some even work or volunteer there regularly and I hadn’t realised Sir Serrels had put up another OzCC article. 🙁
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And this is why I didn’t tell any of my friends that I appeared on a podcast. YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
But in all seriousness, “awkward!”
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It was interesting seeing some of my friends react to me being on the podcast. It went from ‘it’s really cool’ to ‘Monday night Halo? You’ve been playing games with other people behind my back!’. That second comment was really creepy.
I hope your friends are supportive of you, Lady Strange!
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…what is this ‘friends’ word?
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It’s what I call the people who are locked in my basement who I allow to live.
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Oh, I have something like that but they’re located in my garage.
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To be honest I really don’t think Serrels should have written this article unless he went to OzCC himself. He’s trying to be fair but he’s getting his information from people that hate the competition and will do anything to make them look bad and talk up themselves. All conventions have teething problems and the fact that things were better organised on the second day mean that at least OzCC are learning from their mistakes. I’ve been to Brisbane Supanovas that are awfully disorganised and they’ve been doing it for ages. Also people who went to last year’s Melbourne Armageddon tell me it was just as bad if not worse than OzCC. It’s the nature of the beast, really.
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I’m very clear in the podcast description that we are unofficial and not associated with Allure or that “hack’, Mark Serrels (JOKE!)
I’m still funny about OzCC because they aren’t affiliated with Comic-Con International, and that wasn’t made clear at the start. It does reek of trading off another event’s reputation. Also the bragging that they could put together an even in 3 months.
“getting his information from people that hate the competition and will do anything to make them look bad” is a fair point, but what about all the actual complaints about people who bought tickets being refused entry and the deletion of negative comments from Facebook?
While the story would have been better had Mark attended personally, the complaints coming from attendees still warrants a story in my book.
In saying that, I’m all for more conventions/expos and hope they get the kinks ironed out for next year.
I’m also INSANELY jealous of everyone who got to meet Stan Lee.
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guess who posted on the old TAY by accident *raises hand in shame*
haven’t talked on here for a while so…
dem vidya gamez
but for srs, i started my first shameless gaming game, saints row the third, hpoing to beat lollipop chainsaw after it, then mass effect 2, so far, those are the “will be actively trying to beat these and not get distracted” games
Current shameful plans:
– Darksiders
– Gravity Rush
– AssRev
– Maybe something else if I have time left and I can resist the urge to buy more games.
Current progress has been backward by one (technically two) games. Well maybe. Does it count if you buy the game in June but it doesn’t arrive until July or does it have to be a July purchase?
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Whatever you want counts 😛
What games did you get? Because of PS+ and Indie bundles I obtained around 20 games in the last week of June, 5 or so of which I wanted to play and 2 that I’ve already beaten 🙂
Hmm. Dragons Dogma is a lot harder then I gave it credit for. Combat seems a bit loose for what it’s demanding of me but perhaps I’ve just been spoiled by Dark Souls.
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Saving often seems to be a requirement. Old Skool.
So I was thinking of co-op pineapple games some of us had in common that we could help get through together. I don’t really have much except for Halo: Reach and I know Freeze and RobotAleph are keen but is anyone else?
I’m unemployed and thus free pretty much whenever so just let me know a time when you want to play and I’m down for some co-op campaign :D. My internet can be pretty shitty and laggy though but we’ll see how things go!
There is normal Monday Night Halo multiplayer tonight but I wouldn’t mind some co-op campaign. And being the bad egg that I am, I’ll skip all the cutscenes because I accidentally did it already and it’ll be silly to stop now 😛
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I’d be up for some co-op! Can’t play Tuesday or Friday nights though. Other nights should be fine.
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Hey mang! Consider me up for anything outside of work hours, so long as I’ve got an hour or two notice to get “life” shit done first. Just hit me up either here, or on twitter. I’m generally connected to both, though not so much with the actual game platforms such as Steam or XBL.
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I’m down for it generally around 8:30ish on.
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Ooh… ooh… I haven’t played past the first few co-op missions in portal 2 yet… I need a friend for that at some stage.
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Which platform? I haven’t done any of it on X360 as yet if you’re up for it at some point.
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And if it’s PS3 I’ve only finished the first track.
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I’ve completed it on PC :p
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I started Mass Effect 2 (on PS3) today. I’m finding it a bit boring, honestly, but that’s not what I’m here to talk about!
Question: Wasn’t there supposed to be something at the start of the PS3 version that lets you make story decisions from ME1? Or am I misremembering? I assumed there would be a quick summary of what happened at the start or something like that. Anyway, the point is I have next to no idea what’s going on. 😛
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There is definitely meant to be a 6 minute or so comic-sort-of-thing explaining the major plot points and letting you decide on some key decisions from the first game. Go hunt that down and start again, man! 😛 You’re gonna want it to make sense of things.
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Have to download the Cerberus Network Pack. I made tht mistake on my replay through preparing for 3 and got stuck with default decisions. Hope you didn’t get too far through yet.
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Yeah, there should be a comic of some sort. I think you need to redeem the code that came with the game if you bought it new and download a network pack from the PSN store,
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Really? D: It didn’t mention that on the little leaflet with my code on it so I didn’t bother downloading it. All it said was that you get a DLC character and some guns… I don’t really want to start again, though I’m not very far in. I wasn’t exactly having fun during the first mission thing 😛 Maybe having some idea what I’m doing will make it more enjoyable though.
Thanks for the replies, guys.
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As if you didn’t redeem it anyway! I always redeem code thingies before playing 🙂
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I did redeem it! I just couldn’t be bothered waiting to download what I thought was DLC before playing 😛
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Good game of Reach fellas, muchly enjoyed it…
Thanks Rize for convincing me into it XD
Though i have a confession to make…
This is the reason why i sucked so much: http://imgur.com/q0FOM
yeah definitely…
not because i’m lacking in skill or anything 😛
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Best excuse ever.
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Agreed!
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excuse? what excuse? i fell asleep and she decided to have a game :P… apparently she didn’t do too badly
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Wait, which one was you?
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i didn’t play at all mang, i fell asleep 😛
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I figured out who you were now thanks to TAynames. 😛
Who the hell was Zero? S/He just effortlessly annihilated me every time.
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Whoever he was he was a headshotting champ and he made me look like an absolute noob 😛
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But I thought you weren’t playing at all!
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Erhm….eeeerhm…. AND THAT’S WHY I LOOKED LIKE A NOOB COMPARED TO HIM 😛
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It makes so much sense now!
Hey, guys.
Just remembered the tennis was on.
Watched a few minutes of it, then remembered why I don’t watch tennis.
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Haha, tennis is pretty much the only sport I willingly watch.
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Try the Tour de France. Good stuff.
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Checking it out now.
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Starting playing Half Life 2 just after midnight on Sunday.
Finishing playing Half Life 2 just before midnight on Monday.
One down, many to go. This is going to be a helluva month. Really enjoyed this game, aside from a few frustrating moments where I simply couldn’t work out where I was meant to go. Mucking about with the physics was a lot of fun. Made a doll go down a slide in a milk crate. That took a bit of effort but I did it~
Staying up late to watch the Tour de France might end up being a mistake. Good thing these are the short stages right now so I’m not staying up that late.
So far, nothing of importance has happened. At least not in the general classifications because nothing happens there until they hit the mountains.
In the sprints, Cavendish notched up another stage win last night (his career 21st or some ridiculous number) and the Aussies Mark Renshaw and Matt Goss both look like they’re vying for the Green jersey. With Cavendish planning to drop out to race in the Olympics, it’d be nice to see one of those two pick up the sprinter’s Greeny Jersey.
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I don’t know anything about cycling, or who is racing – but I watched it for a half hour the other morning. Dem landscapes are purdy.
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That’s how they get you.
First they suck you in with the scenery porn, then you cheer for the guy who made an early breakaway and rode by himself all day before getting caught 10km from the finish. Next thing you know, you’re cheering for Matthew Goss to win the green and hoping that nobody from BMC got caught up in that crash that happened in the tricky descent.
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So I started ME2 again last night WITH the starting comic this time. It didn’t really help much. Probably confused me more I’d say. It kept asking me to choose between 2 people but I had no idea who they were. Ended up just choosing the ones with the coolest sounding names 😛
Anyway, I started with a female character this time. Going in I thought to myself “Hm… every other game in my Pile o’ Shame has a male character so I may as well go for female while I can!”. Of course, as soon as I started I remembered that I still had Metroid Prime 3 and three Tomb Raider games to go. 😛
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Garrus is cool, that’s all you need to know 😀
Also Wrex = Jerk in rot13 so extra awesome points to that as a name 🙂
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ONG BLIND MOWN!!!! I was unaware of this fact
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And clearly I’m praying to a new god… That’s what ONG stands for… Oh new god…. It’s not like I made a typo or anything HAHA that’d be silly
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Blame it on the dog again!
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Yes… DOGGIE DID IT! I’ve taken her to work with and she’s currently doing my job
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Female Shepard is best Shepard.
Has anybody got Dragon’s Dogma on the 360 or does everybody have it on the PS3?
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I will get it eventually on the box, just need money first XD
So…I’m trying to figure out how to do the cuffs for the Elizabeth cosplay, but I can’t find anything to help me D=
Either I find an example, or I asked people at Lincraft/sewing centre
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Maybe you could fall to your knees and scream for Help as three suited men on a flying star swoop to your aid?
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BISH I TOLD YOU NO MORE BIBLE STORIES BEFORE BED 😛
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Starman don’t help. They’re bad – geez, didn’t earthbound teach you anything?
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men*
Bad starman make cosplay ok good not great just ok
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No, it goes “no (thing) make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad”
Now write it out fifty times.
😛
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TAY I require your wisdom.
What do you think of the Walking Dead tv series?
I have heard a lot of negative responses but I am more interested in what you all have to say.
Enlighten me oh mighty TAY!
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First episode was great. I enjoyed it enough to watch until the end of the first season.
Haven’t touched it since.
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First episode is best episode.
Either people can watch just that or can stick it out to the end of the first season. The second season was a complete waste of time. I’ll be watching the third season in the hopes that they turn things around but if they get in another situation like the farm, I’m out.
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First episode is awesome, rest of the first season not so much. Second season starts out okay but gets crappier. I quit watching it midway through the second season.
This is coming from someone who’s never read the graphic novels so I’m basing this purely on the show alone.
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First season was hit & miss in places, 2nd season is really miss up until episode 8? Then it’s a lot more hit up until the last episode.
DOC’S SHAMELESS GAMING UPDATE
I put Nier on and loaded up my old save. I had no idea what I was doing/where I was going. I turned Nier off.
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Restarting RPGs halfway is always fun.
I remember doing that with Fallout 3. Turned it on. Spent about ten minutes trying to get my bearings. Ran into some Radscorpions. Turned it off.
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I did that with WoW recently. I had no idea where I was up to, or why I was doing it >.<
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One day at a time.
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Ah… the classic “return to a game and not know what to do so give up on it”
At least with Nier it won’t take long if you start again and rush everything. It’s actually one of the games worth seeing through to the end at least twice for the awesomesauce story.
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That happened to me a few times with DA:O. Made character, played through half the game, got bored, stopped playing for a few months, came back and had no idea what was going on, made new character, played through half the game, got bored, stopped playing for a few months, came back and had no idea what was going on, made new character, played through half the game, got bored, stopped playing for a few months, came back and said “I’ve played through the first half of the game three times already, I know what’s going on”, continued playing my last character and finished the game.
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That was pretty much me with FFX 😛
It was my first Final Fantasy and even though I got it as soon as it came out, I never finished it until 2010 or so. Some games give you a little “summary” of sorts of as to what’s going on but even so I’ll still forget gameplay mechanics and little things like that which just make the game incredibly hard to get into again 🙁
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I do that with far simpler games than DA:O. But I didn’t get bored during DA:O soooo… I finished it :p
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I don’t mind this new, slower TAY. Just a bit weird having to actually do work to pass the time instead. Might take a while to really adapt to it all.
Anyone else struggling to get things done this morning?
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“Too much free time” boredom always kicks in and everything is a struggle 😛
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I have things to do. It’s end of financial year and whatnot. Just don’t particularly feel like doing it at the moment. My weekend just ended, it’s effectively Monday morning for me.
This is that special brand of “trying to procrastinate” boredom.
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I found it harder to do anything (or indeed deal with anything) whilst TAY was going full-bore.
I’m not sure if it’s related at all, though slower TAY allows me to get more done (thus boosting feelings of self-worth and productivity :P) which keeps me busy, thus making my day faster all whilst being able to keep on top of TAY too!
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I’m struggling to keep going tbh in terms of working… I just can’t take this anymore
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I cannot take this anymore
I’m saying everything I’ve said before
All these words they make no sense.
I find bliss in ignorance.
Less I hear, the less you’ll say
But you’ll find that out anyway.
Just like before…-
Linkin Park need another song like that.
Everything after One Step Closer sounded too soft, to me.-
Their new album promised a return to hybrid theory / meteora, but it sounds more like minutes to midnight part 2, where both Mike and Chester are in the songs.
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Wouldn’t a return to Hybrid Theory/Meteora just be them releasing the same album five times?
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Good morning all,
been absent for a long time. I see a lot of new faces and some old friends as well. The main reason for my absence is that my son has been in and out of hospital for the past few months because of his heart condition. Long story short, he needs open heart surgery, and he needs it soon. So a lot of my time has been eaten up going to specialists and hospitals etc…
The bills began mounting up and my work hours were winding down and things were pretty bleak for a while. But my wife and I perservered through it and things are now looking up. Hopefully my son will have his surgery in the next month or so but we won’t know until our next consulltation at the Royal Childrens Hospital on Wednesday. So not much fun has been had in the previous months, and very little gaming actually occured. With money being stretched tight, I haven’t purchased a game in months. Occasionally I was able to rent from my local video store(who thankfully have some good titles) but I’ve been limited in time to play and frequently i’d only get a couple of hours playing time before having to return the game.
So I looked at alternatives, joined Getgaming, which is very handy for me and very cost effective.
Anyway, I’ll be back periodically to check in on TAY and hopefully not be away as long in future. It’s nice to back 🙂
Your pal,
Splicer
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Fingers crossed, mang!
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That’s pretty rough. Here’s hoping your son gets the help he needs.
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Thanks for the support guys, mucho appreciado…
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Oh man, all the best for you and the family.
Just remember TAY is here for you if you need us!
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Sorry to hear that man. Hopefully things will work out. All the best to you, your son and the rest of your family.
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At least things are starting to look up a bit. All the best for you and your family.
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All the best, Splicer!
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All the best man and I hope your son pulls through.
Another piece of advice to get more games cheaply, get a PS+ subscription. It’s about $17 for 3 months or $70 for a year. This way you can have more games to play with minimal cost.
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SPLIIIIIIIIIIIICER!!!!
Hi how are you? 😀-
Thanks everyone, means a lot 🙂
Hey Pixel-friend!
How’re things in the Viking world?-
MELBOURNE IS BROKEN AND KINDA WET, but other then that I’m good
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Yes, Melbourne weather is worst weather. I see you have migrated south from Canbarbarianerra…how long ago was that broseph?
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Erhm about *counts on fingers* THIS MANY (8) weeks… Really loving it so far
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Oh wow just realized how insensitive that was, I was just excited to see you posting /o\ hope it all goes well mang that’s rough
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Lol is ok 🙂
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Holy crap man, hope things work out for you two and the little one.
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Thanks mate
Oh wow, hope everything goes okay. Must be a pretty stressful situation. 🙁
Rockets stole my *hugasaurus* so I’ll have to give you *supermegasquashy hugs* instead.
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble. IT’S DOUBLE VIDYA GAEM QUESTION TIME
First off is, do you play your games with controller vibration on?
I used to leave it on by default in my PS1 (not many games had it) and PS2 days until I dropped my PS2 controller one too many times and had to turn it off. Any strong vibrations would cause the controller to input buttons I never pressed and it would making playing the game incredibly annoying. When I got the 360 I had it on for a little while until I played Call of Duty 2. Those turrets would make the controller go nuts and make my hands feel fuzzy and weird. From then on it’s been off. I find the WiiMote doesn’t vibrate too strongly so it’s not an issue and the original SixAxis never had it but it felt like something was missing. Immediately purchased a DualShock 3 when it was released and I keep it on for all PS3 games.
I don’t really feel like it’s a necessary thing but since so many games just have it, it kind of feels weird without it. But it really does need to be used correctly in games otherwise it just becomes a huge annoyance (like in the case of Call of Duty 2). I’m sure I’m not the only one whose hands start to feel tingly if it’s overused in a game.
Second question! If you’re playing a game that gives you a choice of who to play, whether that be gender or race, what do you usually play as?
I know a lot of you don’t mind playing female characters when given the choice but for me I’ll always just pick a male because I’m a male. It’s a stupid logic and there’s nothing wrong with not doing it but I generally always just go for generic white male dude #1 in games that allow customisation. I never really bother too much in character creation processes and in some cases I’ll even stick with the default build (like in Mass Effect). I also generally tend to pick a standard “human” race if others are given unless each race will offer something different and unique.
I have nothing against playing as a female character in games, but I only really do it when I’m not given a choice. If the main character of the game is female then that’s fine, it’s only when I’m given a choice I tend to prefer the random generic dude.
And thus ends another question timeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee… KA-POW!
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I play with vibration on, all the time, I just like extra feedback.
If I’m playing a game where I control one person, I tend to go with human, and I have no real preference for gender, so I’m male as often as I’m female(quote that out of context!). I do like to customise their appearance a bit though.
Weirdly though, if I’m playing a game with many dudes, like an RTS, where there’s different races and stuff, I’ll hardly ever play as human.
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Question 1: I always play with vibration on. To be honest, I don’t even know how the turn it off. I do like the feeling of the controller vibrating in my hands though (wow, that sounded dirty). Only bad thing about vibration is when I put my controller down on the coffee table or something during a cutscene and then it vibrates like crazy and starts to move around on the table.
Question 2: If the game lets me pick the gender of my character 99% of the time I’ll pick female. As for race, it depends on the game. Usually I go for a non human race but sometime I will pick a human if it’s a really good fit for the setting of the game or the class I want to play. My first character in Skyrim was a Nord for example. In high fantasy games I tend to favour playing an elf over any other race that may be available.
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So here’s the thing I find curious about my character creation.
I’ve associated roles with specific genders.
My Fighters/Warriors/Soldiers/Tanks/Melee-in-your-face characters are men.
My Rouges/Archers/Mages/Healers/Wizardesses tend to be female.
So manly men are in the thick of battle, and women skirt around the edges . Is that in-game sexism? I’m fully aware of it, yet can’t seem to break away from these patterns. It’s not like I have any issues should there be a role reversal. Jane Turner from Valkyria Chronicles (1) is the best Shocktrooper in the game; I never had any problems with running her in and murdering everything.As to actually deciding what class; depends on the day, I suppose. I really like playing fighters/tanks because I’ve never really been attentive or quick enough to react for agility based classes in MMOs or action-RPGs. I sit there, soak damage and kill things very slowly. But I think after so many years of doing that, I’ve finally gotten bored of it. Renegade FemShep was an Infiltrator. In Dark Souls I started making an active effort to dodge enemy attacks, even as a Turtler (Shield and Spear). Dragon’s Dogma I’ve gone straight for an Assassin. Mega squishy, but I’ll get to a stage where I have crazy DPS. It’s fun. Run around, mash Square and brutally slash at someone in their back, then run off. Good fun.
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It’s funny you mention associating roles with genders. One thing I always notice in books, movies and games is how the male characters tend to be front line fighters but the female characters tend to be in the back either as mages, healers, archers, snipers or pilots, depending on the genre. The only time you’ll see a female character on the front lines is when she’s a rogue/agent like character who will be wearing black latex and never takes a hit. So it’s not just you who does that.
It’s one of the things I’d like to see changed. Yeah, books and games and movies should still have female mages and snipers and stuff but they shouldn’t be afraid to have female front line fighters. That’s actually one of the things I really love about the book series I’m reading at the moment, there is complete gender equallity when it comes to the roles of characters.
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I tend to do similar things. I guess technically it is a little sexist but I think it’s justifiable. Given that you almost never see big muscly female character designs in games, it is a bit weird to make them a fighter with a massive axe or something 😛
But then again, I almost always play some variety of ranged/sneaky character if I get the choice, male or female.
ps. Now I want to go replay Valkyria Chronicles…
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Your top paragraph reminded me, Hannah/Hammer in Fable 2. She’s a sister, a monk of a religious order, her adopted father was even the head of it. Oh, and she was the hero of strength. So she smashed things with a hammer.
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I leave the vibration on, but I also never really notice it at all.
Most of the time I play as a male character. Or at least, it seems that the first time I run through a game I play as male. I’m currently doing a FemShep Mass Effect playthrough and it’s quite different, which is good.
I don’t really play many games where you can choose your species or race, though. I think Skyrim was the last one and I chose to be one of those cat people (Kajiit?) because of their sneakiness. So in that regard I choose my race based on the special abilities each one has. -
1) All Rumble All the Time. Never really paid it much mind.
2) I play a pretty wide range of characters. I’ll often use the gender split to explore different character archetypes. The inclusion of non-human races just gives me more room to play around. My “go to” character is male, human, white – which is me – so I guess there is some subconscious identification going on there. But then, I also assume that everybody on the internet is a white, twenty-something, male at first, and I’m always a little bit surprised when they’re not. I guess my brain is weird. -
I tend to try for going against the grain, so long as it poses no real challenge for me. Thus, I’ll steer clear of Male Archetype #1 V2.0 opting instead for a female character, or at least a character I’ve tailored a little (character customization permitting).
As for controller vibration, I’d actually been without responsive tactile feedback for some time ’til recently when I bought my X360. I always play with it on, simply because it doesn’t phase me too much (though I DO certainly notice it when partaking in #MondayNightHaloFights. I don’t know why, but it just seems to rattle SO MUCH at that particular time). The advent of vibro-feedback was awesome “back in the day”, and the DualShock PSX controllers were awesome. I never got to play with a RumblePak for N64, though I understand they were quite violent.
Put simply, it depends on the platform. If my controller shakes, that’s fine.
If my mouse, keyboard and headphones start vibrating, I’m going to freak the hell out. (Although that could make for an interesting product opportunity)-
I think you can buy headsets that vibrate. That would be interesting…
A vibrating keyboard would probably rattle loudly on your desk, unless they put like rubber feet on it or something. A vibrating mouse would probably mess up your aim.
I know! A vibrating chair! That could work!-
Why stop there!? Why not get a chair that vibrates and tilts according to the forces in the game! Would be good for a racing sim!
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I imagine a vibrating chair would work a little too well.
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Vibrating chair?! I don’t think many people would be playing videogames…
BRB, buying coin-operated shiatsu massage chair.
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The two sweetest words in the English language: De-fault!
Unless there is an interesting race/class bonus or mechanic, I tend to just go with the bog standard. Otherwise I spend hours making something that looks terrible (if there is a custom face tool thingy) or end up doing something weird and not always enjoyable.
Vibrating controllers isn’t even something I consider. I just go with whatever the game has.
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1) I usually have vibration on, but when I’m really focused on a game, I sorta pay no attention to it/ forget that it’s happening, like most other things around me…
2) Take a guess 😛
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1) I always play with the vibration feature on. I remember the rumble thibgie broke in one of my controllers on my xbox (original) and it felt weird because I was subconsciously expecting the controller to vibrate at times.
2) Generally when playing RPGs I will play as a male non-human class or a female human. But if I am forced to play a human I will usually make a human male.
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I play with the vibration on all the time. I even enjoy turret sequences because of how the controller just rumbles continuously
I’m not a huge fan of character customisation. I usually just pick the default characters and even when offered crazy dress options I like my character to be plain with a suit or just a shirt and trousers.
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1: Always with it on. I’m so used to it now that it feels weird not to have it.
2: It really depends on the game. I generally prefer to build female characters because I’d rather look at a female character for multiple hours, but it really varies, eg my primary Mass Effect character is ManShep. As far as races, I go for whatever is aesthetically pleasing and sometimes that’s human, other times it’s not, again it varies a lot depending on the game – I used the cat-girl race in FFXI and FFXIV for example. Weirdly in MMOs if I’m playing with a tanky character in plate etc I prefer them to be smaller if possible. I’d like to say that it’s because there’s less to get in the way and thus better situational awareness, but I think it’s more of an aesthetic thing again, since it exaggerates a size difference and makes the character feel stronger.
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Actually regarding the second question, I think it depends hugely on the game’s perspective. Something played from a first person perspective i.e. I *am* that character I generally go for a male avatar, wheras whereas from third person i.e. I am controlling a character, I generally will go for a female one.
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1) Yes, vibration on. Not a requirement and most times I forget it’s even there, but I dig it.
2) Mostly male but I’ve been picking females occasionally lately just to mix things up. It’s a nice change of perspective.
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Rumble on.
In terms of characters, I delberately started switching it up after realising I kept playing as straight dudes. Dragon Age is probably the series where I have most deliberately played as female characters. I also went back and did a femshep playthrough in ME2 so I could jump Garrus’ bones.
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Vibration is always default, I’ve never even thought about turning it off. The most annoying thing about vibration is when I am playing a game with mouse + keyboard and my controller is still plugged in and resting on the wood. Suddenly during the game it starts vibrating madly on the hard wood making an awful racket and scaring the crap out of me.
But I still don’t turn of vibration, I generally just yank the controller.As for selecting characters I am very much a sexist like Bish. Ranged characters are generally female as are assassins. My tanks are male and generally so are my mages. Healers generally female. There are changes but in generally that’s how I roll
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1) Vibration on. Weird.
2) I generally choose women for first playthrough but it depends on the game. Obviously I can’t always. In RPGs I find I prefer being voiced by another woman (is that weird?)
Just got tank of free E10 fuel at Woolworth’s servo, Parramatta Road, Burwood……offer ends at 10.30 so any TAYbies about get it into ya…….
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Sorry guys, that shoulda read 1130 this morning…..
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Are you also good at all games, younger Noob?
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Intriguing…. shame I’m nowhere near there…
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FREE COMBUSTIBLES!
I dont even own a car & i’m tempted.
*Takes a deep breath*
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. My work has blocked kotaku =\. Oh well atleast I still have my mobile internet.
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Ha ha ha. Mobile Kotaku. Ahhh. *wipes tear from eye*
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Seems to be a current trend in workplace assimilation! First Ruffleberg, now you! o.0
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I’m not sure about ruffle but I work for a government owned company so they are really starting to get more controlling and save money. Wouldn’t be supprised if my whole area has no job by the end of the year to be honest
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You have an apprentice to train! No slacking off!
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…I blame the carbon tax
Oh god, my parents are back! My days and nights of freedom are over! OOOOOVVVVVEEEEERRRRRR!!!!!
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Also, 5 minutes back, and my mother had already started yelling about things. *Sigh*
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YOU LEFT THE HOUSE IN A STATE OF DISARRAY!
Can’t trust you with anything, Blaghman!-
Nope, wasn’t even that. She started yelling at my father and I about how the builders were doing everything wrong(to be fair, we didn’t want them to start until next week, but they’ve done work already).
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OK. Shameless Gaming update –
I’m really bad at this.
Started my first slice of pineapple on Sunday night – Amnesia : The Dark Descent. played for a few hours & I’m really disappointed that I didnt get into this game sooner. Such a great example of how to use the environment & sound to create a world.
Second thing I’m gonna get through this month I’ve decided is Torchlight. coz screw Diablo 3. that game is really not fun & the whole design philosophy behind it makes me wanna rage puke.
Third thing – Arkham Asylum will be completed.
If i get through them, i’ll add to that list, but yeah…. we’ll see.
/shameless gaming talk
hows stuff TAY?
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I started my first game as well, Medal of Honor(2010), and I’m actually enjoying it. It’s a basic shooter but it has a slightly more measured pace in parts, with you waiting for instructions and sneaking around before killing. Your A.I. team mates also talk a lot and in some parts their instructions are actually useful.
One drawback though, is that sometimes they talk so much that I’ve usually already killed the target and completed the objectives before they have finished their chatter. The game is also inconsistent with the player being able to kick down some doors but for others (the majority of them) you have to wait for your team mates to open them. There is also some brief texture pop-in in certain parts e.g I had part of the sky-box suddenly appear during a mission.The game has multiplayer but I’m not a multiplayer guy so I’ll probably just test it for a few levels before finishing with the game. The game also comes with a digital copy of medal of honor frontline, which I might play but probably later on.
After that I’m not sure. I might try and finish The force unleashed 2, maybe.
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I was pleasantly surprised by Medal of Honor- I got a cheap copy in the Dick Smith clearance.
Have you played the night mission with Rusty yet?
Also, the Medal of Honor Frontline port shows that Frontline did not age well.
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Rusty? Do you mean dusty(guy with the epic beard)?
If it’s dusty you are referring to, that was the mission where you have to plant trackers on the trucks, right? If so, yes, I’ve played it and it was pretty good, especially with the ATVs as well.
If it’s not dusty and there is a mission further ahead with a guy named Rusty, then no.
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I’m taking the last week of July off of work because the people upstairs told me that I’ve got a lot of leave accrued.
Might make an effort to visit the Big Pineapple that week and do something Shameless Gaming related there. Road Trip!
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Ha Ha, nice. More time for gaming.
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Man, the big pineapple sure has fallen into a sad state of disrepair. I’m glad I got to go when it was still all running.
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You’re not kidding. Just looked it up. Not looking that great.
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According to wikipedia…australia has way too many big things http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s_Big_Things
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go to the big pineapple and beat all of your portable shameless games!
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So whatever I can install on my laptop? Because that’s none. Not unless I want to play HL2: Episodes 1 & 2 on my mac laptop instead of my PC :p
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Anyone wanna meat up on Saturday in Sydney to go see Spider-Man?
So far it’s Shiggy, Alex and me.
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If you fly me down there I will 😛
This just in! THE ANGRY WHOPPER IS BACK!!!!!!!
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YES, YES HE IS!
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Wait, the angry whopper is a burger, not you…
NEVERMIND!
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I started my Shameless gaming month on Sunday with Max Payne 3 and I am over half way through it and enjoying it. I got back to Dragon Age origins yesterday and it felt like a big chore! I have allready put 43 hours in over the years and hope I can finish the dwarf kingdom and the game soon, I would much rather be playing The Witcher 2!
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I really don’t envy people who are playing RPGs this month. Good luck.
Potaku talkback:
Defining Moments:
I find it hard to separate mentally between a ‘defining’ moment and a ‘favourite’ moment. I think the defining moments may not be stuff that immediately comes to mind, but are things which changed the way you think about games or what you do with them or something. And so for me:
– Dark Castle. This was the first game I ever played and was my introduction to video games. I was three years old at the time, and the highlight of my weeks was when dad would bring home his computer from work in a giant bag. It was his own machine that he’d purchased to improve his productivity, because this was 1986 and the idea that you’d need a personal computer for work was pretty out there. Anyway, Dark Castle was awesome and doubly so for being my introduction to games.
– Marathon Infinity. While Marathon 2 was easily the best of the trilogy and was something I was very heavily invested in, I think infinity was more of a defining moment for me because it came with a suite of editors. Make your own completely custom map in Forge, modify any of the sprites or sounds or create customized physics systems in Anvil… you basically had the keys to the castle and could turn Marathon into anything. Mod tools for PC games are kind of common now, but bear in mind this was 1996. I spent months fiddling around, playing awesome total conversion mods, making my own maps… A friend of mine and I started our own set of maps with a story running through them and everything. This is where I really started to get into tinkering with software in a big way.
– Realmz. A little obscure Mac shareware D&D-derived RPG system, which was basically an engine which could play through multiple scenarios, which was basically a D&D module. The important thing was that the game had a scenario editor so you could make your own. My first introduction to programming was via this game, it had a very primitive scripting system where there were about a hundred different instructions you could call (play a sound, display a choice, show a string of text, give an item etc) and it looked a bit like coding in assembly language. It was quite a cool game, and though I never really went very far with my work in it, it changed the way I approach games. I started thinking about how they’re put together, how systems work, what’s good and what’s not. Basic design ideas. It actually kind of breaks a lot of games for me now because if I don’t stop myself I start to analyze them and break them apart and that can actually reduce the enjoyment.
– FF7 was a big moment for me as well for a lot of the reasons called out in the podcast. First JRPG, I had no idea what was going on but it was a massive perception shift for me. I had basically sat out the 16-bit console generation entirely, having only ever rented a SNES or Mega Drive a few times as a treat, and I hadn’t gotten a Windows PC until about 1998 so my experience was basically simple Mac games or very old 8-bit stuff. FF7 was when I realised what games could actually be, how far they had come and where they could go in the future. Screw leaving Midgar, I was hooked from the moment the train rolled into the station. That CG intro was absolutely amazing at the time.
Good, Bad & Ugly characters:
– I’d say Mass Effect, especially ME2, has the best record in terms of creating strong and likeable characters. It’s got a huge cast but there’s very few who are generally uninteresting. I think this is why people got so invested into the world and why there was such an epic shitstorm over the ending.
– Yuri Lowell is the best modern JRPG protagonist, bar none. He’s a breath of fresh air, especially in the context of the Tales games, where the protagonists are usually inexperienced, naive or straight up stupid. So often you get cliche protagonists who have a very holier-than-thou attitude, an almost self-righteous purity of character. They’re the hero and always do the right thing, and so on. I like that the character in Vesperia that embodies this is actually placed in the position of antagonist for a long stretch of the game, meanwhile Yuri’s end-justifies-the-means approach makes him very different to the average.
– Staying in the JRPG area, the Ar Tonelico series has some really interesting characters as well. Some of them are pretty bad – Lyner, the protag in the first game, is amazingly thick for example, and the two female leads in 2 have some emotional baggage which makes them completely irrational. It also doesn’t help that the translation of the second game was utterly terrible so a lot of the nuance is lost. I think the character that stands out the most in the series though is Jakuri (incorrectly localised as Jacqli, that’s another story). She’s actually the antagonist of the first game. Her backstory and ending is revealed as a side option in the second game, but she ends up being honestly more compelling as a character than the ‘main’ ones, and her ending is easily the best of them as well. It’s a shame the third game in the series was so bad. 🙁
– The very first character that popped into my head when thinking of ‘bad’ characters: Edge. Maverick. The protagonist of Star Ocean 4. He’s more dense than a bag of lead, constantly makes the absolute worst decisions and is a complete prick at all times. Most of the SO4 characters are pretty bad (the localisation doesn’t help much) but Edge Maverick takes douchery to new heights. It’s a wonder the rest of the cast put up with him, but I guess they must have known what they were getting into when they heard his name.
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I read it!
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Something’s gotta keep the roof up! 😛
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I would read it but haven’t listened to Potaku yet 😛
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Yeah, I have a similar problem. Haven’t listened to a single one yet. Just haven’t gotten around to it. Meant to be taking part in things on Thursday. Could prove interesting.
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Well I’ve listened to the first 3 😛
I got them done in a row by just popping them on before I went to bed. It worked well actually
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Same again man, I’ve listened to #1 and #2, though I either haven’t found the time (I still struggle to justify vidyagaem tiem) or simply can’t concentrate on both work AND the podcast. Unfortunately, work takes a higher priority.
I’d love to partake in it at some point, though I feel as if I need to be more active in the “audience” part first. -
I listen to podcasts on the way to and from the gym and work so I burn through about six to eight hours worth in a given week.
Generally my priority right now is:
– Potaku
– Weekend Confirmed
– 8-4 Play
– Giant BombcastPotaku is an hour, Weekend Confirmed is usually about 2, so that’s half my time spent. 8-4 is every second week so I generally do that one week to make up the time, then giant bomb for the other week, though recently I’ve been finding that I enjoy the bombcast more than W.C.
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One of my defining moments would be playing Halo for the first time. Using two thumbsticks for a shooter – blew my mind how intuitive the controls felt.
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Using two thumbsticks; Ape Escape was a big one.
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Ah yes Ape Escape was my first “dual thumbstick” game. Took a while to get used too!
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Halo was huge for me as well, but not the first time I played it, it was the first time I took it over to a friend’s place. I had picked up the system on launch for Halo (because I was a massive Marathon nerd) and Jet Set Radio Future & DoA3 (because I loved both previous games on DC) and I’d grabbed four controllers. So a couple of days after release we’re playing 4-player split screen Halo multi. I think it was when we jumped into Prisoner and someone got the Rocket Launcher that basically everyone in the room was convinced. Within a few weeks there were about six systems between my friends and we were regularly having weekend meetups for system link multiplayer, carting extra TVs around and everything. First 16-player session was amazing – most memorable bit was CTF on Sidewinder. We were all so evenly matched that the game was basically an epic stalemate. Three hours without anyone managing to capture the flag at all, but a couple of runs came agonizingly close. Then someone tripped over the switch and disconnected the game 🙁
Also related moment: we challenged another group to multiplayer Halo. Pistols-only no-shields CTF on Hang ’em High, 8v8. They thought they were awesome. We’d been playing that particular setup for months though. Game starts, you hear the sound of pistol scopes zooming, shots are fired, and then groans from the other room where the other team was based. We’d basically killed all of them across the map spawn point to spawn point. Ended up mixing some of us in with them to balance the teams. It was awesome.
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…remind me to never play Halo with you.
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I’m not very good at it actually. Especially not since I’ve gotten older. Eyesight’s shot and I don’t play regularly enough to be good at it.
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Pokatu’s downloaded, my afternoon is set
Dark Castle! \o/
I used to play that at a friend’s place and was so jealous that they got to play it all the time but I only ever about 5 minutes after we had fights with them and my sisters over who would play first. 😛
Another awesome character I should have mentioned is Morte from Planescape Torment. A floating sarcastic skull. Doesn’t get much better than that.
I’ve not made a good start to Shameless Gaming.
I never did get around to finishing my collection on Darkadia, and I managed to acquire a bunch of new titles at the end of June. I did manage to set myself some week one goals last night – Amnesia and Skyward Sword – but then I spent my time playing Pokemon instead.
The good news is I have a fully effort-trained, Adamant, Haxorus. I think maybe I could make some kind of Shameless team, after all Haxorus is kind of yellow and pointy.
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Now I may not be a wordy type man but what I did get from what you said here is that you have strayed from the path of righteousness. That don’t seem right to me.
@Greenius re: last page, it was Agarest War 2 that I just got. Along with one other ‘game’ (actually basically DLC) which I’m too ashamed of purchasing to mention. 🙁
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😛 have no shame!
But fair enough :). I assume it’s another niche Japanese title?
Any updates on Ni No Kuni? All I know is US$100 from that Kotaku article but I assume you know that already. I mainly want it for that 300 page art book which I know will be absolutely amazing! You seem to be in the know about it so is the game actually any good? I only found it recently that it’s been out in Japan for ages…
Level-5 are bad with localisations 🙁
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What I’ve heard said that it was a middling RPG, with a not all that great story, and dull mechanics. But that its art was absolutely amazeballs(as you’d expect).
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Basically this is what I’ve heard as well. I don’t care, it’s Ghibli.
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That was my response. I’ll probably buy it, stare at it for for ten minutes, and never play it again, but it will be worth it.
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Ghibli visuals. Joe Hisaishi soundtrack (very well received too, people comparing it favourably to Spirited Away’s soundtrack). I’m cool with conventional gameplay and an average-quality story when I’m getting the rest of that. Besides it’s not as if the Ghibli films have amazing stories either, they’re all about quality execution.
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Quality execution is the difference between an amazing story and a boring one.
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Completely true. One of my favourite JRPGs has an utterly linear progression, a predictable and cliche plot, terrible localization and yet it does what it sets out to do really well, so I enjoyed it immensely.
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Which game is this?
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Sorry, forgot to mention. Grandia II.
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It’s the 9th and final volume of Idolm@ster 2: G4U. I started buying the BDs and decided to collect the game hybrids as well since the price difference wasn’t huge and it’s extra content. But admitting to owning that is like declaring you intend to die alone. 🙁
My Agarest 2 is on its way…
My other copy is preordered…
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You’re getting both PAL and US? I thought about doing that but ended up settling on the US version for Zero so having made that choice I decided to stick to the Aksys version for 2 as well, much as I like Ghostlight.
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I got both for Zero. I haven’t picked up the 1st US game, despite emailing them and asking for a price drop and getting a reply that said “Fair point. We’ll drop the price” and then they did it.
I feel like it was a favour to me…
Sorry Aksys…
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Aksys’ release is better aside from the not being a physical disc problem
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Shameless gaming update:
Day 1: Started and finished a playthrough of Bastion.
Day 2: Collossus #6 down.
Bonus goal for the month established – find someone else that needs to play through portal 2 co op on PC.
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Dammit, I’ve only killed three colossi so far. Looks like I might have to try and get ahead of you today.
Except I wanted to play Starcraft, so you might win this one yet.
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I did the first 5 months ago so you’ve already done 3 times as much as me. #4 has been my favourite so far (from memory)
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I didn’t like number 3 that much. Bastard kept doing the wrong attack so I couldn’t climb up after I fell down the first time.
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#3 is most annoying so far. #6 seems like a good one to have picked the game back up for, nothing too challenging.
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#3 was the one when my girlfriend complained that it was too boring to watch (because I took so long) and that I should play something else.
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So far the most annoying thing for me has been when they get stuck in a loop where they’re trying to shake me off. End up using most of my stamina just waiting for the bastards to stop moving so that I can stab them.
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Did you end up with Aleph or Freeze? Nothing against RobotAleph but he did say he beat it on Xbox and in my opinion it’s better to play with someone who hasn’t played it before (but still understands the mechanics). The TS folk summed it up really well, they’ll either do everything for you and pull you along or they’ll sit back and let you do most of the work. It’s just better to go in with someone who knows nothing so you can work through it together.
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Playing with someone who has beaten the single player but hasn’t touched the multiplayer is the only sane choice.
Either you’ll hate them for rushing you through or they’ll hate you for not being able to work things out fast enough.
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This. Try to find someone who hasn’t done it.
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Yeah. That’s what makes it a challenging bonus but I’ve set a month to find someone. Even if that means buying them both games and making them play through the SP first.
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I have completed SP and not touched MP, if you need a frond.
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FROND!!!!!
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Finished on PC, haven’t touched it on Xbox. It’s much of a muchness really, and you’re right, if you get someone who’s already played, they’ll likely rush forward too fast.
After MGS4, I’m playing either Shadows of the Damned or Shadows of the Colossus.
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Shadows of the damned Colossus!
Well, there goes my attempt at Shameless Gaming. Just got into the closed beta for a walking tank combat simulator…
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YAY!
BUGGER I LEAVE FOR THE MONTH ON THURSDAY!-
Kaaaaaaahhhnnnnn!
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Also, about how big was the download for the client? Don’t want to blow my quota lol.
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It’s not too big actually, 1-2gb maybe?
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Awesome!
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Download finished. Yay!
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The fast-paced new hotness or the stompy plodding reboot?
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The one where the Clans haven’t invaded yet.
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I am confused, was Mechwarrior Online pre-clans? Or are you actually talking about Hawken?
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MWO is set pre-Clans.
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Clans invade next year though 😉
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I know. It will be glorious. Kill some Clanners, swipe some Omnimechs.
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Disappointing 🙁
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MGS Collection on Vita is brilliant ! (picked up from JB HiFi last week on PAL Import)
Heads up though:
Looks like TRANSFARRING doesnt work.
This despite, using the same PSN login ! This, despite both my PS3 and VITA are Aus PAL.
I think it’s cause both games; my PS3 copy (US/NTSC…couldn’t wait till the PAL Ver.) and Vita copy (UK/PAL)are from different regions.
Keeps saying ‘corrupted save’ when attempting to retrieve from the TRANSFARRING CLOUD.
And when trying to use the SEACRH for PS3 through Wifi ver. on the Vita, it keeps failing.
Bummed out….Oh wells, back to starting MG3 again….sigh….
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I’d expect the mismatch between the regions of your games is to blame there 🙁
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Yeah it would seem that way unfortunately.
I think it’s a poor oversight, that even a legit save despite the region would get corrupted in such a fashion.I have sent an email to Konami to confirm, and to see if there is a fix / workaround.
Suspect it’s going to be bad news any way.
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Out of curiosity, and partially because of my fully justified obsession with SKYRIM!, is anyone else playing DAWNGUARD! at the moment, or are most owners of this game part of the, pfft, “master race”?
😛
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MASTER RACE! MMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!
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Finished the Dawnguard stuff as a vampire hunter. Tempted to do it again as a vampire lord. But, because I saved over a pre-choice file, I will need to start a new character to do so.
I found Dawnguard to be interesting, but there were a little too many times I found myself wandering through vast environments for an objective that didn’t have to take as long as it did to achieve the same outcome.
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Pfft, Morrowind all the way!
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Oh, you came into the series when it got popular did you? I’ve been playing since Arena.
/fake hipster cred
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Excuse me, though I’ve been playing since Daggerfall.
/lesser fake hipster cred-
\o Hells yes!
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MORROWIND IS THE GREATEST ELDER SCROLLS GAME OF ALL TIME!
EVEN DESPITE THOSE ASSHOLE CLIFF RACERS!-
FUCK CLIFFRACERS
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their shreiking cries still haunt my Nevarrines dreams.
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Not a Master Race member, just got bored of Skyrim 😛
Master race = $43 for release price. Can’t argue with Mr Wallet.
so. theres one student in the library. he’ s been sitting there for 3 hours. not actualy doing any work, just mucking around on facebook… cant close the place up to go on a coffee break while someone is in here. even if they’re not doing anything & I’m just acting as a cheap babysitter. currently scoping out locations in the library where I could hide a body. overnight returns bin looks like the best bet so far…
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Is there a section in the back dedicated to the historical impact of irrigation systems? Fairly sure you could hide a body amongst the books about the aqueducts.
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Maybe there’s a crypt beneath some tiles with an ‘X’ on them?
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Make sure it’s under the right window?
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I heard you need the Rosetta stone to decode the legend that leads to the map of the library, detailing the location of the fabled “X” tiles.
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ok. he’s finally started doing some work. at least hes doing something useful to justify my quickly forming caffeine-withdrawn headache.
oh wait. he types with his index fingers. about 3 letters per second. loudly.c’mon guys. murder is justifiable sometimes yeah?
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I could accept the loss of such a slow typist.
Unfortunately, my word means diddly-squat really. So long as the bloke doesn’t become my doctor, or my boss, I’ll have nothing against him really :p
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okay, so last year for shameless gaming, i photoshopped my head on to the covers of the games i beat and i plan to do it again this year…
first game i beat?
lollipop chainsaw…
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I think I would find that…
a) hilarious
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Weirdest boner.
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Just put your head where Nick’s goes 😛
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Don’t give him non-hilarious ideas! Geez…
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actually, i plan to replace ALL faces on the covers with mine, because no one can resist it
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Man I hope Catherine is on your pile of shame list..
Christopher Judge to be here at Armageddon in October….be still my Stargate loving heart!
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Oh wow! I wanna go! 😀
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Pixel, take note! I’ll need a bed for Armageddon…now…
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OOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE going totally going…
and Rize, you’re welcome anytime *creepy wink*
I just burnt my tongue on the piping hot instacrap-coffee D:
I guess it kinda works in my favour, because now I can’t taste the instacrap-coffee.
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Heh, I just had a coffee which had been sitting on a coaster since 1pm.
I had to re-microwave it.
Also, If having instant coffee, try adding the milk before you put the hot water in, as I’ve found it tastes less bitter.-
It’s International Roast. Ain’t nothin’ you can do to make it better :p
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Now that’s simply not true.
You can replace it with real coffee.
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^This.
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Today I finished my work. No new New Zealand commercials to monitor till Friday.
My boss informed me that there are other jobs for me to do.
I’m not sure what I expected. Clearly no one was going to say “Go home! Rest! Come back on Friday!” but, well, I was silently hopeful that this was in fact the case.
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I don’t work at your place, but I’m happy to tell you to go home and rest and to come back on Friday if you want!
@LoL-Players
Here’s a stream of the new champion in the public beta if you’re interested.
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I only got to see a little bit, is it offline now?
Hi TAY!
I swear I’m still alive. Busy work week so far!
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I think you just made me weep manly tears of resignation.
It’s only Tuesday!!!-
Wow…I forgot which day it was. I assumed it was Monuesnesursriday.
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it is… it’s Monuesnesursriday the 38th of Octember…. true story
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What a coincidence, I’m alive as well!
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ARE YOU SURE?
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This was a triumph…
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I’m making a note here: Huge Success!
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One time when I was younger, I tried to fit a packful of Jila mints in my mouth…
I failed.
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page get WINNAH \o/
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And, in relevancy… I just found this:
http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Catering-and-Cleaning/Snacks-and-Confectionery/LE240008-
Challenge accepted!
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Video proof is required!
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I can fit seven warheads in my mouth at once, but I need to get some warheads first…
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My cheeks tightened at the thought of that.
*both sets
**cue “Warhead challenge” videos. -
I did that recently, I felt like the enamel had been stripped from my teeth D:
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Home from work, sitting with a nice hot beverage provided to me by my Nespresso machine… I LOVE THIS THING… if it was legal to marry several times and to marry items i’m pretty sure i’d be married to it
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We have an Aldi one.
Pods aren’t cheap, but the machine and frother are fantastic. -
Nespresso is the bomb 🙂
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I prefer making it myself personally. Don’t like having to buy pods and being limited to their blends, I like to grind my own. Need to get a decent machine though, mine’s an old offcast from my Dad and is pretty annoying.
Behold my on-par drawing capabilities:
http://crazyguy1990.deviantart.com/art/Stan-Marsh-sketch-312001491?q=gallery%3Acrazyguy1990&qo=1
http://crazyguy1990.deviantart.com/art/Bebe-Stevens-Colored-Drawing-Day-2012-305873534
http://crazyguy1990.deviantart.com/art/CrackShot-Digital-307280049?q=gallery%3Acrazyguy1990&qo=3
Hey guys,
If you haven’t been on twitter today I’ve been posting this week’s screenshots from Monday Night Halo Fights. You can check my twitter feed (twitter.com/puppylicks) or just chase up the hashtag #mondaynighthalofights and look for the snapshots 🙂
The lastest gametype we tried out was Ninja, which involves unlimited cloak, swords and no radar, and it is AWESOME. Slow paced, but awesome 😀
http://p.twimg.com/Aw3H9fHCQAAvIkS.jpg:large
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IT WAS CRAP MY PANTS TENSE SOMETIMES! 😛
“is that him? naaaa-*BACKSTAB* SONOFA”-
It was awesome, you just need to stealth better 🙂
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maaan… crouching, snailing your way down the corridors made it soooo tense :P….
i agree to the conversation on twitter i saw… NO TEAMS \o/
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I love these photos. Please keep them up!
Next week we need to play that and Infection with everyone. It’ll be amazing.
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Why… why is there always something on when I would rather be playing Halo with y’all?
Pyrean and I are both playing Dragons Dogma in which you make a NPC ally they call a Pawn.
So when Pyrean has shown up for his shift I’m there talking about how I didn’t like his pawn when one of our colleges overhears.
“Porn?” she says, looking somewhat startled that we’d be talking about such things at work.
“Pawn in this game” I try to cut in trying to explain.
“I’ve got nothing against porn as long as it’s not child porn” she says in what I’m guessing was an attempt to make tings less awkward
“No, Pawn as in chess piece pawn.” I try again.
“:o” She replies.
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She replied “Colon lower case o” and she thinks you saying “Pawn” is strange?
Colon upper case P-
bahahahahaha you sir just won this weeks internetz
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YAAAAY INTERNETZ
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She is an odd one. semicolon close bracket.
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Last night when I was telling my husband about how you can hire other people’s pawns he couldn’t stop giggling and muttering “porn”. 😛
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Yeah, I can’t help but wonder they went with pawn because of the meaning and symbolism, or because it makes people snigger because it’s pronounced the same as porn.
Also, if you include rule 34 you get pawn porn.
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That may not be a good thing.
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Technically you’re selling your pawn’s services for currency…
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So today I confirmed that I am a sucker for anything with the words Final Fantasy in it and bought Theatrhythm. Of course, every one has been comparing it to Elite Beat Agents which is one of my all time favourite DS games (along with the japanese Ouendan!) so that almost guaranteed id have it.
I’ve been forgoing SCIENCE and playing since midday.
This game is friggin awesome and restores some faith in Squenix and Imperial Hot.
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I was surprised when IGN gave it an 8.5. I didn’t see much of it but based on the first announcement trailer it didn’t look very good 😛
I wouldn’t mind hearing more about it now that I know it’s somewhat decent. I enjoyed EBA and Ouedan as well but I’m also a pretty big Final Fantasy fan and I especially love the music. Only bad thing from it turning out good is now I have another game on my radar which I may need to purchase… damn…
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This is one of the games I intend to get when I get a 3DS. I love FF music and I like the cute sprites and I kind of enjoy that sort of game so I’m the target market.
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Oh good! I was hoping someone would grab it and let me know how it is. I’m definitely adding this to the top of my list of games I’ll buy when I’ve finished at least one more game already in my collection.
HI EVERYBODY!
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HI VIRUS__
Soooo, I spent four hours out in the garden today doing yard work.
On an injured foot.
Best plan? I like to think so.
On the bright side, there are now two less trees in my front yard, and the back is clear of crap!
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Oh goody, and according to the ‘rents, it’s probably a stress fracture(I’m going to assume a metatarsal one at that).
Second Impressions of Mass Effect 2 (no plot spoilers!): Played it for a couple of hours today and it has picked up a bit now that I’m out of the first stages. I still don’t really know what’s going on though, I’ve just been doing random side missions.
I just finished a mission for the Kasumi woman. Femshep had to wear a dress to a party, which was absolutely hilarious because she still walks with her armour animations. Clomping around the place in her fancy shoes. Her idle animation doesn’t change either, so she still does the arm-roll thing. It was only then did I notice that Femshep has a decent amount of armpit hair, haha. I don’t remember choosing that in the character creator! Made me laugh because it was so unexpected.
Anyway, nothing has really grabbed me and made me think “This game/series is amazing” yet, but it’s enough to keep going for a little bit longer.
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I always found the game itself to be decidedly meh, same with the story. It’s the universe itself they created that fascinated me so much. I ended up exploring every planet and reading all the descriptions and codex entries. Plus some of the side missions are really well done and give a glimpse into the mechanics of the universe.
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Did you also enjoy riding around in the Mako on random uncharted worlds finding hidden things etc in the first game? Because I loved that and when I say that I did people look at me funny. So alone 🙁
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I don’t think he’s played the first which is his problem 😛
Gotta play the first Pow!
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I, uh, never played the first game.
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I loved it too! I cheered when I overheard someone in the third game mention they missed the Mako. Note: not a spoiler, just one of those things you can overhear while wandering around.
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I thought that was pretty cool, they definitely knew what the problems were with both vehicles.
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Hammerhead > Mako
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Are you mad?
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That’s a bit disappointing to hear, actually. So far I’ve found the world to be a bit… generic? I’m not sure if that’s the right word to use, and it is only an early impression, but still. If I had to pick a highlight, it would be talking to NPC’s about non-story related things. Some of the interactions can be pretty funny.
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To be honest, the second game is the weakest of the series. I think it’s way better if you’ve played the first game because you’re already invested in the world and the characters. If I’d started with the second game I probably would have just played for an hour or so before giving it up as a boring cover-based shooter.
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I always thought of the first game as the weakest. I mean, it’s a great game and does a great job introducing the world to you but it feels really unrefined in its gameplay and story/character development. Without the second game to further develop the characters and refine the gameplay I think the first game is good but not great. ME1 works best as part of a series rather than a standalone game.
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ME2 is more about the characters than the world. The first game’s the one that really focuses on drawing you into the world.
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The second game is probably my favourite, personally. It acts to me like a series of small character stories with an overarching plot playing out every now and then. It was fun just getting lost in all of those character stories, and they paid off well at the end of the game assuming you did everything right.
Also, that Kasumi party heist mission. Awesome.
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I think the second game’s probably my favourite too, though both the first and third games are also awesome. It’s just such a great series.
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Sup B’boys and Fly girls?
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Yo homie
Not much my Mac-daddy! -
I have a sore foot, so I should probably be elevating it. But as it stands, little is up.
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Hello there, Mister James Mac. Good to see you.
I played Mass Effect and I thought it was good, but very patchy at times. I really enjoyed Mass Effect 2 and thought it was Epic. Mass Effect 3 on the other hand, all the choices that I had made in the first 2 ended up being resolved in disappointing ways. I finally got sick of Male Sheppard and started again as Female Sheppard, she is such a better actor!
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3 games, saved the universe and the council… brought colonies into the alliance, saved countless lives, captured a new design of stealth vessel.
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.Can’t get promoted.
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For that matter… what about the Master Chief?
He couldn’t even get a posthumous comission?
Where’s the love from their respective governments?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=limc_mfDZJU&feature=g-vrec
(NSFW)
Thanks, George.
R.I.P.
/o\ at the comments in the article with Lisa Foiles. And people wonder why women are usually sexualised in games.
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I can’t stand Lisa Foiles, so I refuse to even click on anything written by her, so I’m just going to assume the worst for those comments.
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Yeah, I don’t like her either. I’m okay with reading things by her but there was no way I was going to watch that video of her.
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My introduction to her were those videos she used to do on the Escapist, which were basically “I’m Lisa Foiles, look at me in tight shirts!” I just… erggh.
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Ha! This. I like reading her stuff mostly due to the fact she seems genuinely passionate about what she does and it always makes for a better read when they are. The videos are inane giggly fluff however.
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I can’t put my finger on why exactly, but both her and Leigh Alexander annoy the hell out of me… so I stay the heck away from their articles.
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I’m gonna go with the theory of bored kids on holidays making those comments.
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I tried to go to the movies yesterday… munchkins as far as the eye can see.
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This week is still school time in Canberra! Yay!
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The shopping center where I work is flooded with tween girls last week and this. Seeing the way they dress and apply make up with a firehose makes me despair for my girls.
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It’s the boys that worry me…
If I had walked around with hair like that in my youth my mother would have tied me down and shaved my head… when did looking like a scruffbag in public become acceptable?
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My son has scruffy hair. I like it.
I would chain him in Blagh’s basement before I let him go around in whatever his generation’s equivalent of those rolled or folded up skinny jeans in neon colours paired with no socks and canvas shoes is though. 😛
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What is with those damn canvas shoes…makes me want to drop a bag of hammers on their feet.
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They make me want to get them to scrub the deck or climb the rigging.
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Now i’m picturing them singing the songs from HMS Pinnafore.
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It depends upon three things. You guys as parents, whether the girls are really girly girls, and whether the people they hang out with are girly types who like to wear firehose applied makeup. But mostly it will depend on the first one. If you teach your daughters how to wear makeup properly to classily enhance rather than vulgarly display then hopefully that will be enough.
I’m lucky though, my 11 year old daughter is not girly, doesn’t feel comfortable in skirts or tight, skimpy clothes and recoils in horror if I ask her if she wants to learn how to put makeup on.
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Why don’t girls dress their shape anymore?
If you don’t have the belly for an exposed midriff, or the long legs needed for skinny jeans… do yourself a favour and don’t wear them.
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Some of it’s down to what’s available to buy. I struggle trying to find my daughter tops that aren’t short and jeans that aren’t skinny because there’s almost nothing but cropped tops and skinny jeans available at the moment due to them being in fashion.
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This is why being a guy is awesome. You know what’s in fashion? Jeans, Pants, Shorts. T-Shirts, Proper Shirts.
Oh, and comfortable shoes.
Gotta love them.
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Yeah no…that’s far from what’s in fashion for boys these days, Blaghs. 😛
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Okay, it’s what’s available in every store I go to.
Which tells me that either women are too obsessed about brand names, and store recognition to buy regular clothes that are available, or that comfortable clothes for guys to wear are what’s in.
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Man, tone is really lacking on the internet.
I’m off to go stab myself. (In joke)
That’s why some women have given up and just buy mens clothes
Or make their own! o/
Exactly! \o
I’m guessing it was a hi five, if not, I’m sorry
It was most definitely a high five. 🙂
Oldest one loves bags, shoes and jewellery.
Youngest one prefers rolling in the dirt and chasing the chickens.
Nature/Nurture argument again, I think.
Admittedly, it’s the combination of the two. It’s only in recent years that I’ve started taking pride in my appearance in the sense of “the real world”. Had you seen me 5 years ago, I would have been wearing DIY bondage pants, mesh shirts and eyeliner, coupled with a god-awful haircut. Not what you’d call “classy” but hey, I put a lot of effort into looking like that (for better or worse).
I no longer dress quite so obscenely, (although I’ve slacked off somewhat since living on the Eylandt) and when I’m visiting the mainland, I feel positively overdressed because I wear some simple business slacks and a smart button-up shirt.
I guess the point I’m getting at (however in/valid it may be) is that regardless of how they look, there’s always going to be someone that disagrees, albeit typically with well-founded reasoning.
On the other side of the coin, there’s generally a lot of effort, and furthermore pride, found in the way they dress.
Not that I’m condoning bare midriffs or shoes without socks. Neon shoes.
And can someone PLEASE explain the damned denim short-shorts with the pockets hanging out the bottom?!
Oh my.
I was just talking about epic sax guy at work. Same woman who thought I was talking about porn instead of pawns last night though I said “epic sex godess”
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I’m thinking she’s a nympho… she’s obviously got coitus on the cerebrum.
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She trying to tell you something?
Take it as you’re such a studly god that she can’t think of anything but around you. 😛
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I’d love to hear the stories she goes home and tells about “that weirdly depraved guy from work”.
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It turns out that tall Jan is malicious.
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Her partner is also here, I think he’s wondering why she’s hearing such things!
(most of the people that work here are friends/family with someone else that works here)
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Nepetism!
“We promote from within… almost as much as we promote from within our own family.”
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Mrs. Freeze is questioning why I purchased the MGS HD collection when I already own all the games separately. She just doesnt get it.
Also, unrelated, got told I was pretentious. Win! Never been told that before.
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Tell her they’re in HD WITH TROPHY SUPPORT AND TRANSFARRING (or whatever it’s called)!!111!1one!1!!
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Explain to her that you bought it on xbox because of the superior controller.
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That would be all well and good if I had got it on Xbox 😛
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That sounds like a good reason to buy another copy… this time on xbox.
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So I finally open Uncharted 2 after finishing one. Put in a code for the bonus DLC for buying the twin pack only to find it had expired.
Nothing annoys me more then DLC that expires. I only just got around to the game to find out it expired 5 months after I bought it.
I am two months late.
There is 13 things for Uncharted 2 alone, so I’m pretty peeved. If I’d known that, i would’ve put it in straight away. I’m not sure if there is anyway I can redeem what I feel I am entitled to.
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DLC can expire? that’s BS! just one more reason to dislike it.
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I know right? It happened to me in Fable 2 because I didn’t have Xbox live.
I just feel pissed because I was told I would get it and now I can’t. I’m going to try and explain my case and see if I can’t get it anyway =P-
Don’t… don’t try and redeem your code for ‘The Saboteur’ Midnight Club DLC.
You won’t like what happens.
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I won’t? I don’t think i have it
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If you send a polite email to Naughty Dog you might get lucky and they’ll send you a new code? 🙂
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I’ll mail sony, there’s a web address on there
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Email them…
EA are generally pretty good about stuff like this… but I can’t speak for Sony.
You might be boned if you bought the game used though.-
No, I bought it brand new
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If you are interested in the game’s multiplayer I think there are some free maps on the PSN store.
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Well if it turns out all the DLC is free anyway then there’s no issue. I just feel a little shortchanged is all.
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So… ACA is running one of those “gold buyers stores are ripping you off!!!” stories tomorrow night…
The hilarious thing is, South Park already beat them to it.
Season 16 Episode 2, Cash for Gold.
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The hilarious thing is that ACA is still on the air.
That and the way the way they’ll do an expose’ on one of their rival networks shows from time to time.
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Who has time for an expose!? There’s too many dodgy builders and disadvantaged pensioners to keep up with!
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True. They never talk about the disadvantaged builders or dodgy pensioners however.
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Haha, I know a dodgy pensioner. She spends/gives away all her money just so she can get the pension.
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I’ve heard a few on dodgy pensioners as in, not actually pensioners at all.
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Not to mention those miracle cure stories and shonky fridge repairmen!
Does anyone else remember the ABC satire Frontline? Still one of my favourite Aussie comedies ever!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-kdKwNkkNU&feature=related
Still as relevant today as it was back in 1994.-
Sure do! Hilarious. We had a unit based around it in Year 12 English, actually. Essays everywhere!
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Thanks for helping me feel not quite so old as I sometimes do on TAY. 😛
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I loved Frontline!
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The D-Gen? The Late Show? Champaigne comedy! -
D-Gen!!!! I loved that show!
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BargeArse!
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The mock interviews on the 730 report were always one of my faves
Random example off youtube
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I also miss that stuff. What i can remember of it.
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Wait a second, that’s almost the opposite of my job around here! Hang on…
I was 3 years old in 1994! There, is that better? 😉
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Have I told you letely that I hate you? ;D
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv36_QAVLsQ
Ahem… Shuffles feet nervously… I sometimes get those two mixed up. 🙂
I was… 5? I’m a bigger boy now though!
At least you both know your Aussie commedy. And I’m very happy to learn that Frontline was still being studied in Year 12 english so long after it was made. I guess that goes to show what a timeless piece of cemedy it was.
Or perhaps it shows the stagnant pool of s*** that is television journalism.
Everyone’s a winner \o/
I was born in 1994! 😛
Hush now – the grown-ups are talking.
(Only joking lambo – It’s all I have left to salve the bitter blows of ageing! Hugs?)
OH MY GOD ME TOO HIGH FIVE
They probably are ripping you off by not even giving you it’s scrap value, which is still pretty damn good price.. If you’re just wanting to rid yourself of old jewellery that has no place at home.
I remember Cash Converters offered dad something like 1/10th the scrap value (possibly less, like 2 dollars for what it was when silver was trading in the high 30’s per ounce) for some sterling silver jewellery and he told them to stick it given the fact the jewellers up Ashmore would honour the scrap price per ounce (or whatever) he then told the bloke the days silver price and left.
So something just *clicked* tonight between myself and Trials HD.
The tracks I was finding so damned frustrating prior, went by with ease. I was knocking 30 or more seconds off some times, and managed to better my medals on most. I may be getting a big head, though I’m currently confident I’ll be able to finish this rather shortly.
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That’s what happened with me in Evo. In HD my times weren’t that good (mainly because I rarely played it) but something “clicked” in Evo and suddenly I’m the 4th best out of my XBL friends :P. I don’t know what it is but even when I’m replaying levels in Evo I just get pretty damn good times without even doing a “perfect run”.
Good luck! …now get Evolution 😛
3rd screen of MGS3 and I have 8 trophies. I was wondering how much work the Plat was going to be but I’m starting to think not much.
I made a Vindaloo the other night.
It is… the business.
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…how goes the business end post-consumption? That’s the true test!
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It’s all good man… all good.
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Tomorrow night is all set…
Origin 3, and the cricket straight after it.
Finished my first shameless gaming month game,Medal of Honor(2010), and it’s not bad. I actually enjoyed it.
LIKED:
1. Team mate chatter- I don’t understand most military Jargon but the fact that your team mates are constantly talking is great. They offer useful tips in many situations and their whispering during stealthy sections and their shouting during tense moments adds to the atmosphere.
2. Some great missions with some memorable set pieces-In between the ho-hum shooter missions there are some really cool moments in the campaign. For example midway through the game your team has just escaped a tense firefight and you are about to retreat into a hut for protection when one of your team mates hears a cellphone ringing and before you realise it the hut explodes. The beauty of this piece is that for most of the game you have been taught that buildings=safety and this brief moment showed how things can change in an instant on the battlefield. The fact that this scenario is followed up by a mission where you have to survive a wave of seemingly never ending baddies thinking you’re going to die before two Apache helicopters swoop in and save your team is just icing on the cake.
3. Environmental variety- The game mainly takes place in Afghanistan and you’re mostly in the desert and nondescript middle Eastern towns but the developers cleverly use different times and various environments to help with the variety. For example you can be fighting in the mountains and the missions go from grassy plain to dusty ridge before culminating in a snowy peak. It’s not much but it helped.
4. Dynamic HUD- I was actually surprised by this feature. Instead of having a cluttered screen with ammo counters and team mate positions the game automatically does away with them. The infamous white diamond showing you where to go is removed as well. To see this stuff you press up on the d-pad and then you can see your team mates and where to go. It was a simple thing but it helped reduce the clutter on screen.
DISLIKED:
1. Team Mate chatter-Despite the chatter between team mates being constant it doesn’t really add to their characters. Their chatter is only filled with jargon and maybe mission objectives with very little joking or personality. As a result I don’t remember any character in specific. For example, I remember Dusty as a character, not because of his character, but because of his epic beard. What? Bad Company did it well. The 4 characters were always making jokes and telling stories about themselves and as a result you identified with them. Sometimes their actions even informed their actions in the battlefield.
2. The story-We are in the middle East and we need a SITREP and we must get to the LZ. TANGO TANGO etc. I don’t know what the hell is going on. There are some great set pieces during the campaign but the context behind them is lacking. I even made the effort to have the subtitles on and by the end of the game I had no idea what was happening.
3. The sync between team mate instructions and their actions- during most of the campaign you are with your team mates. As mentioned above they talk a lot during the campaign often giving you instructions. The problem with this is their words are more often than not mistimed. For example there are missions were you can ambush 2or 4 baddies and your partners offers to take the ones on the left and I take the ones on the right. Fairly simple. The issue is these instructions come late and by the time he talked I had already killed everyone. This is more of a nitpick but it was bothersome at times.
4. Waiting for your A.I team mates to open doors for you-I know this adds to the authenticity of the game but why do most modern shooters do this.
In conclusion I enjoyed the game. It was a bit short and it had its problems but it’s a decent game. I wouldn’t have recommended it at full price but if you can rent it or find it at a cheap price then it’s an enjoyable couple of hours.
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You were correct, oh man, were you correct. The Medal of Honor Frontline port in Medal of honor(2010) reveals just how poorly the game has aged. It doesn’t look too bad, the graphics are bearable, it’s just the mechanics and general mission structure that’s off-putting. I played the first mission and constantly dying because you can’t see your enemy sucks, also the checkpoints…aargh. I may have been spoiled by modern games but it’s still frustrating.
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I really liked Medal of Honour.
I feel that the conversations amongst the team is really well done… and whilst I enjoy Bad Company, those conversations are played for laughs, and would have been out of the tone of MoH.
The story wasn’t that hard to follow, REMF gets a bunch of line animals killed.
I think the teammates opening doors thing (if I remember the Homefront discusions properly) is to hide loading.-
The multiplayer is truly heinous though.
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I’m not a huge fan of competitive multiplayer so that’s OK.
True the conversations in Bad Company are more humorous in tone but I feel that Medal of Honor could have added some personality to the guys to help flesh out their characters. I liked the chatter for its consistency but I also disliked it because they talked a lot but I didn’t know them by the end of the game. They don’t really have to go out of tone even. For example during a firefight a team member can remark, ‘Hey Adams pull up, we don’t want a repeat of the ’89 mission. do we!.’ This is could be a throwaway line but it shows that character X and Adams have a prior relationship. Small stuff like that would have helped.
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Yeah, I can see where you’re coming from.
However, Danger Close made a big song and dance about the how much ‘real world’ expertise they brought in for the game… I remember one interview where they discussed the dialogue and the consultants said that they pretty much don’t talk to each other at all on mission, knowing each other so well that they can predict each others movements. Obviously they couldn’t have a game with no conversation so this is a means to guide the player. If we’re talking about charactor development though… how much do we know about the cast of Call of Duty games?
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Killed six colossi today. Not a bad effort. Really didn’t like the two fights that involved water. One for the swimming and the other for the really buggy hit detection. Spent ages trying to get the second one to expose the weakness that let me climb on it’s back. Finally got up there and then fell off, only to die.
Next time, got things to work first time and killed it in about five minutes. After half an hour of frustration. Not happy about that.
Still a great game and I can see why people rave about it but there are definitely some flaws. I was doing the right thing, yet the game was not rewarding it.
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The seventh colossi( the sea serpent) is kind of frustrating at the start when you’re tying to get him to surface but once he’s up it’s just a matter of hanging on. You’re right as well, trying to catch up to him by swimming when you’ve let go is hard. I usually just go back to a rock and jump on from there.
I assume the one you fell off of was the 12th one with the ‘head teeth’ . I actually enjoyed the fight and felt pain every time I hit one of its ‘teeth’.
How did you die after falling off btw? Don’t you just land in the water or did he get you with his shock attack.
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Seventh and ninth are the ones I was talking about. Seventh was a pain because he would dive for extended periods (as in just trying to hit the bottom of the lake), enough to wear out my grip and make me start over again (that and I was rushing to the head, which doesn’t work). Had to restart that one far too many times.
The ninth is the one where I fell off. His attacks took me down while I was trying to reset and get back on his back. Getting him to expose his weak spot so that I could get on his back was a giant pain. Just would not work. Which is why it was so frustrating to get him to do that in five minutes when I finally finished it.
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Oh, my bad. I guess when you referred to colossi fights involving water I assumed you were talking about the 12th one. Yeah, the 9th is a bit hard but my only issue with it was getting it into position over the geysers. once he had fallen over I’d mount Agro and ride towards his exposed hair.
Always remember to have your sword equipped when you are on a colossus, it makes the weak spots visible and resultantly easy to spot.
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If I get Borderlands 2 (Ultimate Loot Chest Limited Edition) from PlayAsia for the PS3. Will I still be able to get the Mechromancer Free DLC?
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DLC is usually region locked for some silly reason, so I’d suggest you get the ultimate edition from Europe or buy it locally. Alternatively just make an Asian PSN account.
So…. what’s happening?
Anyone?
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Still can’t sleep.
Not sure if that count’s as news though.
Oh- and Melbourne Demons still can’t turn a trick.-
But it was glorious to see Italy go down 4-0 to Spain.
Mainly because all the Italians I know are also (pure coincedence) Collingwood supporters!
And if they’re not they act like them just the same.
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Much like SmurfyDog, can’t sleep :p
Also, The Newsroom is an AWESOME show.-
I’ve only seen episode one… but I’m liking it, and I’m glad to see Aaron Sorkin back on the tele.
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Hey taybies, looking for some advice/opinions.
I’d like to spice up my gaming life abit and update my pc rig and don’t know what would be the best step. Open to all options and opinions. As usual, I’m cheap and really don’t want to spend anymore than ~$150.
My current setup includes:
p55usb3 mobo
i5 750 (oc to 3.1 ghz)
16 gb ram (was cheap to double)
1tb WD caviar blue
5770 (small oc)
750 psu
23″ asus 1080p monitor
Logitech 540 surround sound
G19 keyboard/razer deathadder
Have thought about new graphics card (cant crossfire because of mobo), doing eyefinity with more monitors (need new gfx), new mobo (so i could later have sata 3 and sli/crossfire), ssd (would have to be sata 2 because of mobo) and just dunno…
What do you guys reckon?
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Spice up your gaming life? Maybe try bringing in a new computer? Doesn’t have to be hooked up as well if you don’t want. It can just sit in the corner. Or or or you could have a friend bring over his computer and you could play in each others computer.
I’m sorry if this advice doesn’t work. I’m not informed with how PC gaming works.
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You’ll have to wait for someone with more hardware knowledge than I, but if you really want something new why not just try playing a game that you normally wouldn’t? That’s what I’m doing at the moment, actually! 🙂
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My first impression is to get an SSD mate. For that budget, it’s likely to be the best upgrade you’ll find (and best bang-for-your-buck too). Perhaps a second monitor if you can find it for the right price?
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save a few more pennies (about $300 all up?) and go for a new GPU. perhaps a GTX 570 or if you want to stick with AMD, perhaps a 7950… Your current bottleneck is your ageing GPU. im still sporting a GTX 280, still running most games on max with only a few exceptions (need to tone down AA and drop a res on Skyrim & BF3, and run Crysis 2 on advanced). Im running most others, example, syndicate reboot, MW3, RAGE, at silky smooth fps. If you really dont wanna fork out anymore cash you can prob go for a Radeon HD 6550 or a GTX 560.
Its kinda sad, i used to run a beast of a PC with a Tri-SLI GTX-280 setup then my motherboard fried. it was an Asus P5N-T Deluxe. Biggest piece of crap motherboard ever. had it replaced 4 times over three years. now im stuck with a 1200w PSU powering a crappy Asus $55 mobo with a single GTX280 as i couldnt find a socket 770 tri sli board anywhere.
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Your system is almost exactly the same as mine, though I have a larger monitor. Unfortunately you’ve reached the end of what you can upgrade for <= $150 and actually see a big jump. You can't just upgrade the mobo – i5 750 is a socket 1156 motherboard, and that socket is discontinued in favor of the 1155 and so you'd need a new CPU as well.
What I just did to eke extra life out of my system was I grabbed a GeForce 670 OC, but I already had a Radeon 5850 in there. You *might* be able to find a ~$150 upgrade for your GPU which would outperform a 5770 (in fact, that should be easy) but you'll still be running something pretty low-end and outdated and that's just staving off the problem for 6 months or so.
If I were you and if you can afford it I'd consider a GeForce 560 Ti or a Radeon 7870. The former's around $250 and the latter around $280 and both would be a huge step up from what you have.
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I caved, got a 7850 today for $250. Hope it goes well. Will get a new mobo and processor in a year or two… Thanks for all your opinions/advice/jokes.
Anyone in Brisbane looking for a job? Full training provided and half decent pay? My company is looking for someone and they usually ask staff if they know anyone before they publicly look.
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Hi freeze. I’m very interested, local and keen. Btk12a at gmail dot com
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My missus is looking for a change from doing call centre work.
So I was thinking last night, wouldn’t a Doctor Who game in the style of Mass Effect be really cool? It’d probably be a bit too much to handle though. You’d need multiple planets and multiple time periods for each planet. Not to mention you’d have to work around combat and such.
I don’t know. I just thought of it when I saw a Krogan and it reminded me of a Sontaran, which made me laugh imagining the Krogan’s waddling around chanting “Krogan Ha! Krogan Ha!” xD
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A good Doctor Who game set on a single planet with multiple time periods that react to your actions, with a conversation system like Mass Effect?
Take my money now!
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That sounds awesome. A few games have managed different time periods e.g timesplitters and I’d love to see a good Dr.Who game.
If it happens it should be a bit more fun and playful compared to mass effect though. The way the Doctor reacts to situations and people in history is one of the draws of the show.
Gahh, I have been terrible with my shameless gaming thus far. The last two days all I’ve been doing after work is play Dragon’s Dogma. Need go get back to Xenoblading.
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I rested at the inn after you said you sent my pawn back, and she came back with nothing.
NOTHING
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LIES!!! I sent some weird twig thingie that is supposedly used to make bows / arrows.
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Could be worse. Could have grabbed a shinier version of a game you’ve already 100%’d and be playing that instead of why you should be.
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Or promise to buy Xenoblade then don’t :'(
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I wouldn’t say that’s terrible, you just brought Dogma and if you gave up on it for other games it’s just going to end up on the pile 😛
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I bought legendary today, do I win?
Today seems promising. Finish work at 1, appointment with tattooist to sketch out what I’m getting done then off to Suncorp Stadium to see the Origin.
As Big Kevin would say, “I’m excited!”
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Sounds like amazing fun. I wanted to go see origin but the brisbane game sold out months ago.
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I was lucky a mate grabbed a ticket for me without asking, just assuming I’d want to go.
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Lucky bastard.
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I was skimming this and thought you were getting a tat of suncorp stadium
Man, I miss the days where video games were just about having fun. Remember those days? Remember when you’d only get a couple of video games a year, and you’d play the shit out of them, just because they were the only ones you owned? When I ran out of stuff to do in the games I owned, I’d go to my local Blockbuster or Video Ezy and see what I could rent, or I’d go over to a mate’s place and swap games with him for a while.
It makes me feel a little bit sorry for the kids growing up with games the way they are these days. In the next 5-10 years, it’s likely that the whole rental scene will go under. And forget about lending a game to your mate, because they’ll still need to pay for whatever shitty online pass the developer has packaged with the game.
What’s the point of my old man rant? None really. This whole Shameless Gaming Month thing has got me thinking. I’ve bought, played and finished more games in the last three years than I owned, played and finished in my entire childhood. But the experiences don’t mean as much to me. Except maybe for the Mass Effect series. That’s a whole other thing.
My Shameless Gaming Month is all about finishing older games I’ve either re-bought in HD collections, HD upgrades or re-releases. Currently I’m alternating between the original Ratchet and Clank and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. I’m having so much more fun with them than most of the current releases I’ve got sitting on my shelf waiting to be played.
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I don’t know if it’s anything to do with the quality of current games but there was something magical about finishing a game as a child. Now it’s slightly old hat. The joys of growing up, I guess.
Now it takes something special to really pique anyone’s interest. Journey did that for me. Then there are other random games that come along like Alice: Madness Returns or Lego Batman that aren’t great but are surprisingly fun to get through. Now it’s a matter of finding what you enjoy playing more than just adding another notch to your belt.
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It may be because games were a lot harder to finish back then. I’m not saying that with nostalgia glasses, even going back now I genuinely struggle to finish what I played growing up. These games it’s considered a flaw if the game is a real struggle to finish.
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There were a lot of poor design decisions in the early days of gaming. Beating the game may not have come down to skill but working out what esoteric approach the designer(s) had in mind.
People complain about games being easier but I’m starting to think that a lot of games simply have better (or at least more consistent) logic on how to beat them. You are given the tools to get the job done and progressing will prepare you for the end.
Some games are definitely easier. Some of the games that we remember as hard were simply poorly designed.
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And because there was no saves games. Run out of lives? Back to very start for you.
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The way I see it, it comes down to money. As a kid we obviously don’t have as much as we do as adults and games cost more than they do now. We treasured and played the games we got since it could’ve been the only one we got for a while. Now a days with game prices being incredibly low we just buy whatever the hell we want because we can and they just pile up. In the past couple of years that I started importing games and using Steam, I’ve been buying more games than I end up finishing… Back then we’d aim to finish a game we might get stuck on or didn’t like but now we’ll just swap over to another game once we’re bored and repeat the whole process again 🙁
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I blame the internet.
Things get spoiled so easily these days, and most triple A titles are marketed to hell and back. You already know so much about a game going into it if you spend any time on a site like this. Speaking as a 90s kid, not having that level of internet access in the days of Tomb Raider or Jak and Daxter made everything much more fun. There was a lot more to discover because you hadn’t seen it all in ads and there were always those exciting rumours about hidden levels or secret Pokemon like the Mew under the truck at the S.S. Anne. Games still had that mystery to them that’s pretty much gone now.
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Of course, Jak and Daxter was released in 2001…so…let’s replace that with Crash Bandicoot or even Spyro, okay? 😛
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Yeah man, that’s it! I miss the times where you’d actually talk about games face to face with your friends and trade info on new little secrets you’d found. I guess the ease of information gathering the internet provides makes this null and void… Go to a cheats list, or a secrets list, and they’re all revealed to you in nice easy dot points.
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YAY! US PSN Atlus sale!
Now I have P2P:IS and P3P to play!
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is it on the australian store?
because my ps vita is awfully lonely without having P3P on it!
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Nope. Do Atlus have a European publishing arm?
I know that P3P was published by Ghostlight. So no Atlus sale for Aus.
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P3P is on the AU PSN store now I think. But it won’t be 10bux, Atlus don’t publish in Europe.
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I’ve ordered a $50 US PSN card. Buy all the Atlus PSP games. 🙁
Uhhh…why is there a hot tub on top of my minecraft house…?
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People need hot tubs.
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Is there any particular reason why there shouldn’t be?
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I’ve also noticed random hot tubs popping up around my stuff. Someone added one to a mine I dug as well as my treehouse/stonetower thing I built. I guess someone out there has a hot tub fetish? I’m tempted to replace the water with lava so they’ll be true hot tubs.
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Hot tubs have been a recurring thing since that server first started. Every house needs at least one!
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What… what if…
What if we were to build -get this- a HOUSE… inside a hot-tub.-
MIND BLOWN
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I choose to blame Greenius.
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How is your foot sir klutz alot?
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Well, I have painkillers, but they’re not particularly useful. If it is a stress fracture, then I basically just can’t put much weight on it for three or four weeks, or I’m at risk of aggravating it, and increasing the heal time. It also only hurts if I put weight on it(well, it’s constantly got a slightly numb feeling, but whatever), so all painkillers will do is allow me to do something that’s presumably bad for my foot.
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Powalen started the whole thing but since he doesn’t play as often I have to carry on the tradition!
Wow, this month’s free PS+ game is Deus Ex Human revolution. Other than some PSN games, which are offered for free on day one for plus members, this must be one of the more recent games to be offered as part of the service. http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2012/07/03/heads-up-playstation-plus-update-4th-july-2012/
I never got a chance to play the game so I finally have the chance to do so \o/
Are we supposed to be getting 3 free games a month though? Yes, don’t worry the other two games will be released on the 18th of July. One PSN game and another full retail title.
P.S.
My statement reads almost like a Sony ad, doesn’t it? I’m just excited though, no nefarious intent here 🙂
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I’ve never played Deus Ex, but I loved Human Revolution.
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Ad man!
Bit disappointed cause I already have it on my pile on the masterrace but it’s still good value! I didn’t know what to get it on (Xbox, PS3, PC) but my decision was made up for me when Trollsmithfriend got me good… Whatta nice guy
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There are still two more games coming so hopefully you don’t own those as well.
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Hopefully! I have a feeling I will though 😛
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Does everyone know what today is? It’s a pretty major day in the shaping of the modern world…
It’s ten days before Bastille Day!
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in french it is
La Fête Nationale
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It’s Will Smith Day!
Welcome to Earth!
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I always remember Bastille day- it’s my birthday 🙂
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Maybe Gilbert or Chavanel will win that day’s stage of the Tour in your honour.
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it’s my flatmates birthday too. & his brother (twins).
and my collegues, but that doesnt count as much.anyway. horpy bathday for bastille day!
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It’s having tasty ribs for dinner day! \o/
I’m currently marinating them with a chipotle and garlic rub.
Things to do today:
Clean room
Code virtual joystick for game
Relearn moves to “We’re All In This Together”
Write Cheapskate Gamer
Not play Minecraft…yeah…I thinked I failed with this one…
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– Make more hot tubs
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So my headset died last night. I really need a decent one.
Any suggestions?
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Microsoft LiveChat LX-3000. Costs $20-$30 and both F4ction and I use them.
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I also used them for a while, they are good. Probably the best your gonna get for that price
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I’ve got a $30 Logitech USB one, works pretty well in both my computer and PS3
So my headphones died last week & since then, I’ve been using a cheap back-up pair.
Went into JB yesterday afternoon to check out replacements. Now, I like the sets that have replaceable cables. cos in my experience, thats the first thing that goes & I much rather buy replacement cables than replacement headphones.
Anyway, I’m checking out the sets they’ve got on display in store & my procedure goes like this : put them on, check comfort & sound quality, check to see if theres a replaceable cable, check price.
I found one set that I liked the sound of at a decent price, but the cables couldnt be changed. Found another set that sounded amazing, the cables came off when I pulled em. price was $350 though, so damn. outta my league. found another set, sounded good, cables came out. $300. again, bit too much.
so I say to the guy in store ‘Greetings, fellow guy! I have enquiry as to which sennheiser headphone sets are for sale at approximately $100-$150 and have replaceable cables?’
to which he replied ‘senneheiser havent shipped a model with replaceable cables in about 3 years. it just doesnt happen anymore’
in response to this, I briefly thought ‘well, in that case, I’ve just broken two of your most expensive headsets. ohshitohshitohshit.’
but what I actually said, was ‘thanks. i’ll have a look around at other brands. bye!’ then left the store a bit quicker than what would usually be considered a nonchalant manner.
tl;dr didnt find new headphones, didnt even find $10.
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Omg lol so you broke them?!
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yeah, sort of. the way it works now is that the cables are still just the standard 3.5mm jack going into the earpeice, hence is should be replaceable, but now they’ve started gluing em in. so in the end it was just a tiny dab of glue that i broke.
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Oh that’s not so bad. I figured it wouldn’t be anything extreme like yanking it out exposing the wires since you assumed they were replaceable. Good to hear it was only minor though and you didn’t get caught 😀
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I went with the HD598s, although you’d be hard pressed finding them under $250 I think. What exactly is your budget?
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That, and I don’t believe the cable is removable without OTT force.
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I’ve got a pair of HD518s that I use at home for gaming & music practice stuff, but I’m after a pair for ~$100 for music on trains.
currently using a set of HD201s but they’re just so… tinny. cant handle the bass, which is a mortal sin for any headphones in my opinion.
might look into the 205s or 439s…
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Ok, uninformed rant inbound;
Apparently there’s a touchy hashtag trending on twitter (#GirlsAreBadAtGaming), which has just permeated the small amount of people I follow, too.
My question, is this;
Does gender even matter? Does the fact that I have a penis -or the person next to me, a vagina- have ANY bearing on the common-ground we both enjoy, videogames?
Unfortunately, the answer is yes. Not that it should be.
The amount of times I’ve been schooled by genderfluid age-unknown gamers worldwide is, well, shameful. But it’s just that. A number, altered not by the sex of my combatants. We’re living in a world where we can dress how we wish, (and hell, change genders, should we wish) so why are we still so attached to one sex being “below” the other?
We all have different roles to play. I’ll never be able to give birth to children, just as women may find it difficult to maintain their erection. At the end of the day, both functions are redundant.
Girls are bad at gaming? We’re all bad at civility when behind the shroud of anonymity.
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But Arnie can give birth to children…. 😛
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As a society, we don’t like to talk about that.
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Something something something, ponies are imba.
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On a more serious note, girls are less interested in games (in a sense that is so broad as to be effectively meaningless) because they are marketed as a “boy” thing. Possessing a ding dong or a hoo ha has no impact on your ability to play games. Just that you are more likely to be exposed to games from an early age if your parts dangle.
Beyond that very oversimplified generalisation, I don’t assume or judge anyone’s gaming ability by their genitals. I judge it based on just how badly they’re kicking my ass.
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Pretty much agreed here. I care not for the gender of the human, I’ll call you good if you’re kicking my shiny metal arse
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There are no girls on the internet
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I better go then 🙁
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Unfortunately, it’s another part of the emphasis society places on gender and gender inequality that stems from the distant past.
I think we can acknowledge that sexual dimorphism does lead to some typical differences between men and women – size, strength, speed, etc (in a general sense, obviously there are ranges of ability).
However, society can’t seem to rid itself of established gender roles despite the fact that they are increasingly inaccurate. As long as media and advertisers push these stereotypes, many people will keep believing them. All we can do is treat people of both genders equitably, and try to influence people around us.-
Amen to that mate.
Girls are weak and impressionable, boys are stoic and level-headed. Clearly, not much thought was put into those assertions, least of all the psychological implications of them.
My mission (way to sound like a religious zealot) is to break those misconceptions amongst the people I know, and I think I do a damned fine job at it.
We’re coming into an age in which physical stature means nil, or at the very least should mean nil. Caring about what’s between the legs will hopefully be below us in the near future.
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I don’t like it when people think of gender equality as females doing everything the same as males. I prefer it when we celebrate the differences in genders but at the same time don’t try and define each person by their gender.
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There’s definitely a difference between genders. It’s just that there are a lot of times where those differences are simply irrelevant to the topic at had.
Gaming ability comes down to twitch reflexes/dexterity, understanding the logic behind games and experience. None of those things are gender defined, although experience could make a difference when the majority of games are male-orientated, making women less likely to want to play them.
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Exactly. To ignore differences between genders is almost as bad as overemphasising them.
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But do certain differences exist because of biology or because of society? It’s hard to know what to celebrate when you can’t always tell the difference between millions of years of evolution and thousands of years of subjugation and whatever the opposite of subjugation is.
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Sexism, racism, religionism (or whatever that one’s called) are all pretty much the same thing. If someone sees a difference in you and they can put you down and say they’re better than you because of it, they will. People just want to be number 1 or as close to it as they possibly can be. 🙁
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I instantly thought of the pope at the mention of “Or as close to it as they possibly can be”.
The driving force in all of this inequality and argument is the one thing that I love about it.
These differences of opinion are bound to change someone’s way of viewing the topic at hand. If just one person is able to see the other side of the story, there’s hope for us yet.-
I don’t get what’s so special about the pope. He’s just a guy in an expensive bathrobe. And he’s got his own -mobile…
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The Catholics think that he has a direct line to God. Papal infallibility yo.
I have several doubts about that.
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okay so i just realised something, i was watching the second season of avatar the last airbender (yeah i know i’m about 6 or 7 years late) and i immediantly picked up that the voice of azula was tara strong, and it was hard to get into her character, because i was thinking of the voice actor. now that i think about it, there are two voice actors i can immediantly tell if its them, her and john di maggio. in fact, the orginal thing that put me off of adventure time was that i couldn’t help but think of marcus fenix whenever jake talked.
so, does anyone else get this weird disconnect from a show or film when you know a voice actor or a real life actor in a movie? However for some reasons, movies don’t bother me, just animated stuff.
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Except Azula isn’t Tara Strong 😛
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but, internet said so!
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WHY DID IT LIE TO ME GREENIUS, WHY!?
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so on further review, apparently she played “actress azula”… whatever that means…
well i’ve been embarrassed on the internet, i’ll just dissapear in a hole and never return
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417299/fullcredits#cast
😛
Not sure who “Actress Azula” is but the main Azula voice (which is pretty recognisable) isn’t Tara Strong. It’s the same voice as the Wizard from Diablo 3 🙂
And to answer you question, sometimes I feel like that if the voice is the same. It’s not so much the voice actor but if they’re speaking in a similar tone to another character I can’t help but make connections.
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Actress Azula is from The Ember Island Players. The actress playing Azula.
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You’ll also see that Actress Aang is a woman (Avatar state, yip yip!) and that John DiMaggio is Actor Toph (because it sounds like tough!).
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The Ember Island Players is such a good episode.
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That’s the best part. She’s clearly Grey DeLisle :p
When I hear Jake I think Bender.
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There was one episode where Jake did the Marcus Fenix voice and I haven’t been able to look at him the same ever since.
http://twitpic.com/a3m2k0
Sid’s having a nap. With my scarf/shawl/blanket I knitted.
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It’s a tough life, y’know ^.^
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Awwwwww!
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Too cute
@James Mac: re: Halo’s Master Chief being unable to get a promotion, actually Master Chief Petty Officer is the highest rank that an enlisted serviceman can achieve in the US Navy which is where they derive their ranks from. He’d have to be a commissioned officer to rank higher and that’s not something you get just by being good at your job.
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SCIENCE!
@#35
RS220’s.
That is all.
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holy hell. they look amazing. added bonus : i cant break the cables!
but damn… dat price tag :s
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On the Kotaku logo, it looks like there’s an unmatched ” after the word ‘Kotaku’. Every time I look at it, this stands out to me and frustrates me in a similar way to unmatched brackets.
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Kotaku is a compound word made up of Ko (small) and Otaku (Nerd, kind of). Seeing as they’re both Japanese words, I guess that means that the unmatched ” is there in the same way that it is used in Japanese, to extend the vowel. Making it Kotakuu.
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Hey, thanks for the explanation… I had no idea! 😀
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I didn’t say it was a good explanation.
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I’m sorry if my previous reply sounded sarcastic – I was being serious about not knowing that ” indicated an extended vowel sound in Japanese.
Genuine thanks!
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Nonono.
I’m saying it was a poorly constructed explanation made up of barely remembered things from high school Japanese :p There’s no guarantee that any part of it is correct.
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Since when did ” mean an extended vowel sound in Japanese? ー is used to extend a vowel sound in Katakana (used for foreign loan words) but this technically isn’t one, and also the ‘ku’ in ‘otaku’ is not an extended vowel in the first place (if it were, it would not be romanized as ‘otaku’) . The “-ish symbol on some characters (dakuten) denotes that the character is voiced rather than unvoiced, which changes the consonant sound not the vowel, in this case it would make the ‘ku’ pronounced as ‘gu’, and the site’s not titled kotagu.
I have no idea what that stray quotation mark actually is there for, but it’s not extending the vowel.
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And that’s why I didn’t want to stand by my offered explanation.
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@Lambo, you’ve really taken to the Shameless Pineapple, huh?
They look damned tasty!
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Oh, they sure are tasty! Already eaten one, just got those two left. Easiest things to finish in shameless gaming month 😛
@Strange @The Last Question
Are we going to try doing this minecraft diamond rush thing at the upcoming meat? I can buy Minecraft and bring my xbox plus 4 controllers if necessary.
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If people want to, then sure why not? 🙂
So how’s everyone’s Shameless Gaming going? I’ve managed to compile a list, but at least half of it are games I’m 70%+ through, and won’t take much to mark off. Good chance I’ll cross this off and add a few more. I’m also not counting Indie games. They’re going to be fillers for any leftover room at the end of the month.
Progression stuff is estimated.
Assassin’s Creed: Rev. -80%
Darksiders – 50%
Skyrim – Could knock it off in 2 hours, but keep getting sidetracked, and don’t really have a problem with that
Just Cause 2 – Same as Skyrim
L.A. Noire – 80%
Metro 2033 – Not started
Midnight Club II – Not started
Nightsky – 30%, will only take an hour to do the rest, apparently
Renegade Ops – Only just started, maybe 20%
S.P.A.Z. – 2/3rds completed. I’m going for a full finish, too (control everything)
Space Marine – DONE
N3 – 50%
Red Dead Redemption – 35%
Gears of War 3 – Not started
Somewhat ambitious, but think I can do it.
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I’ve finished Octodad, so I’m content with what I’ve done.
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Here’s my shameless gaming list
Arma II/DayZ
Just Cause 2
Crysis/Warhead
Crysis 2
Deus Ex
Far Cry
Far Cry 2
Just Cause 2
Space Marine
Psychonauts
Back to the Future
Counter Strike: Source
Cave Story +
Driver San Francisco
Skyrim
Monkey island 1/2 Special Editions
Half Life Series
Left 4 Dead 1/2 (maaybe)Wait no, that’s my list of things to buy during the steam sale…
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Gears of war 3? But… But… I THOUGHT THE NIGHT WE HAD WAS SPECIAL! *start wailing*
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I bought it since then, and figured if I’m going to play through the campaign I’ll add it to the list 😛
That reminds me, I should organise something with that. Gunna do as much of it in 4 player co op as possible, cause…well, why not? 😛
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Oooooooh 4x stabbie stabbie charge
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Half Life 2 is done. Shadow of the Colossus is progressing nicely. Going to start StarCraft tonight.
I’ve got a lot on my plate this month, so that’s all I’m worrying about just this moment.
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No progress since the weekend. 🙁
Shameless gaming month is always badly timed for me. There’s always sales on, often there’s actually releases I care about in or just bracketing the month, and it’s also the start of a new anime season so I end up watching the first episode or two of everything to see what if anything I’m going to continue through the next few months.
It actually usually works out for me that around August or around November is when I get more stuff out of the way. The weeks immediately before and immediately after the late September-late November release rush when everything floods out. Also I tend to get a fair amount of gaming done over Christmas and New Years (though usually I’ve also gotten new games at the same time so there’s swings and roundabouts there too).
Silva vs Sonnen 2 this Sunday… I’m totally watching this.
I bought some gloves. They’re not hobo gloves. I shall make them hobo gloves.
It probably would have been simpler to kill a hobo for his gloves, but this way I don’t have to worry about blood stains.
Considering Brisbane isn’t even that cold, compared to the rest of the nation, how is everyone else holding up? Got your hobo gloves?
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I found my lost hobo glove.
So now I can put on a hobo glove on top of another hobo glove.
Come at me, Winter.-
Winter doesn’t stand a chance.
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My aircon isn’t working properly :p
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I can’t get my house to warm up. My fingers are so cold I can’t sew. I need some hobo gloves, too. If you see a hobo with green gloves…you know what to do. 😛
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I have a heater on, but my hands turn to ice the instant I turn to the keyboard to start doing stuff. Like right now. It’s not even all that cold outside!
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Okay never mind it’s pretty cold outside.
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They’re hobo gloves once you start wearing them right? 😛
I have some gloves but they’re a bit big for me and a bit thick so I haven’t been wearing them. Even though Melbourne’s been stupidly cold the last week or so.
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its colder here than it is in Brisbane. It was 4 this morning at its 15 now. i am still rocking shorts like a madman.
Guys,
GUYS!
I have stumbled across the best thing ever.
Watch Mark’s latest video on Polyphasic gaming, but turn on the english closed captions first.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/07/polyphasic-gaming-retryquit/
I’m in tears! 😀
(Sorry Mark)
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These videologs just keep getting better and better.
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“I saw a skier comment yesterday which school popped warm your opponent”
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I dont have speakers on my work pc, so I’ll just assume that “so while I was on thoughtful mice to kitty without home” is an accurate subtitle.
seriously though, poor Serrels looks exhausted…
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BAHAHAHAHA!
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OMG. I nearly died laughing.
Tattoo is booked in for te 24th August. A single 9 hour session provided I don’t bitch out.
Already working out my next one too.
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Maybe during that 9 hours you could put in a good word for me and the Maiden in Black tattoo I want. Ask him if he’s played Demon’s or Dark Souls. 😛
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I can certainly do that! Have you got an image of what you want?
His price was surprisingly reasonable. I got told by a guy over the phone it would be $1500 but when I saw the tattooist today he said he does a full day at $800.
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Isn’t it usually $150-$200 per hour? $800 a day seems REALLY cheap!
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Yeah, he charges $150 an hour usually but he does it cheaper for a full day. The catch is that if you can’t take the whole day and stop halfway through to finish later it gets charged at the $150 for however long you are there.
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Wow, where is he located?
I’ve been hunting up and down the east coast, though haven’t seemed to be able to find the right artist yet >..<
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Really?! I was mostly joking but yeah if it see what he thinks of the idea then that would be awesome. 😀
Something based on this picture: http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/1480/1064041-maideninblack_large.jpg.
Ideally it want it on my inner right forearm, the skin there’s lovely and white with almost no freckles.-
“if it”?! How did I manage that?
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Will do!
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Photos, you must post photos when it’s done 🙂
Woo! Tats! – I’m wanting a Dragon on my upper arm with the head on my shoulder 🙂
can we see the design or is it just gonna have to wait until its done?
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Give us a preview!
Is it the one with your daughters’ names and a tree or something? I vaguely remember you talking about it once.
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The guy doesn’t like doing other peoples work so he is drawing up something based off this.
LoL talk incoming
I found this which I found to be a really good read. It’s a list of guidelines and tips on how to do draft mode/ranked games and I found it to be very useful. If you guys can’t read it now(It is a bit long), I’d highly suggest to bookmark it for a later read if you’re planning on being serious in LoL ranked like me.
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=2159470
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More like “lol, ranked”, amiriiiiiiiiite?
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Heh, yeah. The one tip that got me was “5 rune pages minimum”, I got work to do after getting Rumble 🙂
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Some day some benevolent entity is going to strip a bunch of people off the internet and say “You’re not having this back until you beheve responsibly with it”
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Anytime someone posts something stupid on the internet, they should get bapped on the nose with a rolled up newspaper.
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Or a Moe Eye-poke
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Stephen Conroy?
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I said “benevolent”
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How about Bish-friend?
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Conroy believes he is. And his definition of ‘responsibly’ might be different to yours as well.
I’d rather this never be able to occur. The reason the internet can be so shitty sometimes is also what makes it so good the rest of the time.
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“[Company name], [Name] speaking.”
“Hey there, it’s [Trjn’s name] from [Trjn’s workplace]. How are you…”*dialtone*
First time that’s happened in a while.
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Guilty.
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You work at a telco?
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Wow… just wow…
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I fund it fumy when that happens to me. mainly because they pay me to call them so if they don’t want to take the call they are essentially paying for nothing.
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I find it pretty amusing. Some companies that I have to call don’t particularly like my employer. Others panic. I’m never calling about the sort of thing that warrants panic or dislike, I just chase up paperwork.
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Guess what people! Its time for the sporadic appearance of the GINGERCHRIS!!!
How are we all lovely taybiefolk?
*hugs for all*
*extra Hugs for Hugo*
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HELLO!
I’m about to leave the country tomorrow! 😀-
Oh Wow! Where are you off to?
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West Coast USA, going away for a whole month. Can’t wait 😀
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I am good!
I am measuring and sewing pleats this evening. In between cooking ribs and sweet potato for dinner for my husband and cleaning the spare room so my brother-in-law can stay there tonight, anyway.
@ freeze, Re the ugly pawns.
I started to make the ugliest one I could but then Pyrean said he’d refuse to pay with my pawn (phrasing?) if I did that. It’s possible I was too good at it.
On a similar train of thought.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csrG9mKx_uE&feature=plcp
mildly NSFW and probably NSF sanity.
Wow… I must get me Saints Row 3! C’mon Gabe!
@Puppylicks
The closed captions on that video are great “corn island extra”
Although be better be careful he doesn’t get a visit from some counter terror agents when he starts talking about Israel and biochemical
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Thick accent + beta caption program = glorious success 😀
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I didn’t know how to use that at first, until now xD
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just tried it with this one:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/06/why-kotaku-australia-should-never-work-with-children-or-robots/comment-page-2/#comments
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Hey, guys.., out of curiousity, are any TAybies into racing sims?
If so, do you have any particular favourites?
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Grew up on Gran Turismo 1 and 2.
Played the ever-loving hell out of Forza 2 and 3. Have not got Forza 4 on account of being a tightarse but I would like to get it with the steering wheel sometime.You?
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I’m mostly into PC racers, at the moment.
I absolutely love GTR2 and rFactor, and Richard Burns Rally.
I’ve also been playing Race 07 and its subsequent expansions.
I’ve had a look at iRacing, but the amount of content for the price doesn’t look to be worthwhile for me.
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I enjoy arcade racers far more than racing sims.
Well guys and gals, this is pretty much it for me.
I’m wrapping up work now and then I will head home, eat a ton of dumplings, and crash out. Then TOMORROW me, Dan Mazkin, BloodApathy* and our lady friends and some other friends too will jump on a plane and fly off to the USA for the entire month of July.
*he leaves a week later actually, sorry Jase 😛
I have been planning for months and saving like a hermit (explaining how little my game library has expanded over this year) and now it’s all going to pay off. LA, Seattle, Anaheim, San Diego, Vegas, San Fran. It’s going to be amazing.
I’ll post here or on twitter when I can but expect my Tabtol to be very low from now until August ;P
Dan Mazkin and I have set up a blog where we will update people with random pics and such so if we’re too quiet everywhere else we should hopefully at least be active here: http://californiatour2012.tumblr.com/
So while I’m gone, if you must argue over games do so in a fair and rational manner, if there is news about Mechwarrior Online be sure to lose your mind over it, be sure to go batshit over coffee, and MOST OF ALL, you all be excellent to eachother, and PARTY ON DUDES!
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Have fun mate, those dumplings sound amazing
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Oh they are, best xiao long bao I’ve had in Melbourne 🙂
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Ooo, where from? I like me some xiao long bao.
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Ooh, LA. I hope you stay away from the airport. Running through LAX was one of the worst experiences of my US holiday a few years ago. That place is just a nightmare.
San Fran is very nice though. Those cable cars are pretty damn funky.
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Have fun and enjoy your trip. Take as many photos as .
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Have fun and enjoy your trip. Take as many photos as .
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Posted twice and I still managed to forget to finish my sentence 😛
I meant take as many photos as possible.
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Have fun guys, everyone else is mad jelly 😛
dat moustache… wowza!
Covered in maroon?
Check.
On the train?
Check.
Stash of coin to buy plenty of beer and hotdogs?
Check.
Tonight’s gonna be awesome.
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Too bad NSW will break Queensland’s streak tonight…
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Out. Now.
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Never.
You shall witness our greatest triumph…
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i can only guess the Maroon is due to you belting the sh!t out of someone and got blood on your nice BLUE shirt right? RIGHT? 😛
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Also out. Now.
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Shame it’s football =P
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Coins to by beer at the match? Shouldn’t that be a wad of fifties with their prices?
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Maybe he has a lot of coins.
A lot of coins.
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Ahh, red vs blue. I really enjoy some of that rooster teeth stuff.
Anyone here post videos on youtube? I just looked at my analytics and it says that my playback based CPM is $370.42! Is that normal?! Well it’s definitely not, but why is it so high? I’ve just started out posting stuff and I just put my major project from my 3d graphics class last year up. It used to be 5c per 1000 views.
I’m guessing there must have just been a really high paying ad pushing the average up or something. It just feels wrong making $1 for every 2 views. Will it go back down to a normal level?
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What? :O
What type of videos do you have?
I assume you’re talking about getting money from advertising on your videos. I saw that option but I never checked it since the content on my YouTube channel isn’t original (cover videos and whatnot)
Hey friends!
So I bought one of those “indie game bundles” a few weeks ago from one of the lesser known companies and they’ve gone ahead and offered a gift bundle to those who brought it before a certain date. So now I have some Steam keys (I assume you guys only want Steam keys) to give away! Hooray!
Only bad news is that I haven’t played any of the games so I can’t comment on them and none of them are really “stand-outs”, some of them are also quite old 😛
Keys are:
Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee + Exoddus (Steam key has both)
Hamilton’s Great Adventure
Avernum: The Second Trilogy (4,5,6)
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 (and whatever other extras it has)
Syberia I
I also have Postal 2 “universal” (whatever that means) and Garshasp: The Monter Slayer Desura keys which aren’t Steam keys but I assume no one wants non-Steam games since they don’t increase their Steam list e-peen 😛
Just holla on here and add me on Steam/talk to me on Twitter/TS whatevs and I’ll send it your way 😀
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Oddworld.
Thanks for the offer.
I thought that Steam Sale Terrorist video wasn’t that funny…so I made my own! http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/w0thb/an_australians_message_to_gabe_newell/
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I’m at work and can’t really watch this with sound right now. About to give it a go with auto subs. Should be interesting.
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I never realised how racist you were Lambo! “Japanese here that’s the problem” (thank you youtube auto CC). You know the war is over right?
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Man, those auto subs are so hilarious. I don’t think google should iron out the kinks, they should just leave it as it is 😛
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The original vid – not really offensive (to me), but not funny either.
Your vid – hillarious! Nice one Lambo!
Try to the Blues!
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man baby or not, but i NEEDED to buy that marvel lego set… i mean come on, it’s got deadpool wolverine and magneto in it! AND DEADPOOL HAS A HELICOPTER!
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You are amongst friends and like-minded folk here. You don’t need to justify your purchase to us.
The question is, Why do you feel the need to justify it to yourself? :/
It’s time you learned to accept who you are – a cool guy with great taste and an eye for quality. 🙂-
*sniff* that was beautiful man
actually here’s a secret… i never had legos as a kid…
i mean, i played with bionicles, but never had a lego set, so this is sorta new to me xD
and i guess the man baby call was a joke, but the “general public” consider legos for kids, but deadpool, wolverine and magneto all murder people, so how that could be considered to be targeted at kids confuses me.-
You…never had a Lego set? Not even one?? Man, I thought I had a deprived childhood *slow head shake*
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You never… are you OK man? I mean… never? Really?
Do you want a hug?Actually don’t answer that – you’re getting a hug.
*Hugs B-Funk awkwardly but with good intentions
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Oh man, that set. I wanted to get it so badly when I first saw it, just didn’t have the money 🙁
Soon, it will be mine though-
i thought the price was a little bit steep… until i opened the box, so many little pieces D:
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How much was it? ~$40?
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yeah 39 dollars
i was too fanboyish too really care if that was a good price or not, and ran out of the store with it
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I wouldn’t worry B-Funk,
Mum and I have put a whole bunch of Lego on layby. And Mum is 59 =P
Are we really at this stage already?
PS: HI STRANGE
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Also, this gem: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/07/assassins-creed-iii-sure-knows-its-july-4/comment-page-1/#comment-733437
Is it because it’s school holidays and the kiddies are staying up late?
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Yeah, don’t be afraid to use the report button. Some comments are just…yeah.
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yeah, like ^those guys said, just report it.
Holy S***! Did you Queenlsanders just see that kick?!
Game on!
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One point…..
*sobs*-
this is a little bit funny in hindsight :p
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*cries in corner*
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Were just lulling them into a false sense of security. Before the 100th straight win, when they least expect it, we’ll smash them. That or refuse to play.
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So I’m lying in bed and I just finished listening to Potaku ep4 (once again well done everyone!) but damn that Snake Eater song is so good! Put a smile on my face and sent shivers down my spine and I think I got goosebumps. It’s such a weird happy feeling I get hearing certain songs but it’s a good feeling. While I don’t necessarily have that many memories with the game, hearing the song brought everything back. Zelda and Final Fantasy songs pretty much always give me this feeling 🙂
The song itself starts off epic but I can’t help thinking it gets a bit silly when it’s all “I eat a treefrog” or something like that :P. But it has awesome brass that gives it the old skool spy flick James Bondy feel. So now I really want to play MGS3 and finally beat it!
Hurr got me 3 opening shifts in a row. Day one, why didn’t I go to bed before midnight.
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You doing a Serrels? 😛
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24/7 Serrels here (terrible sleep pattern)
Still not everyone gets to start the day with a moonlight stroll-
Sh***y sleep pattern here too. I’m very grateful of an RDO today, as otherwise I think I might fall asleep on the job.
Hope that moonlight stroll sets you up right. Mine was cold as hell, but did involve a bakery, so it’s all good.
There’s always coffee 😛-
Barista mate free coffee. Lucky wasn’t too cold this morning.
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I skipped the coffee, as I’m hoping to get a couple hours more kip.
Not sure who’s the winner here.
Fresh baked croissasnt vs. free coffee.
If only there was some way to combine the two… ?? 😀
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Man, talk about Dry July…
There’s barely anything that looks worthwhile on the Playstation Store this week.
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SHAMELESS GAMING
QUEENSLANDER! *hack, cough,splutter*
Way too much merriment last night and I’m paying the price today. But seriously, that game. Even if you’re not interested in sports at all it was a hell of a match to watch!
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The thing about arsenal is they always try to walk it in.
Dat drop kick. Pretty amazing stuff. Also Sam Thaidays defense was a bit lacking. Greg inglis should play fullback all the time. I cant think of a run of his that wasn’t amazing. Just so fast for such a big bloke.
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I’ll second that.
It was a hell of a match.
From that cross field kick at the 60th minute that tied the game, to Queensland kicking the drop goal in the 74th minute, I was on the edge of my seat. -
I even convinced some Victorians who know nothing about NRL to come over and watch the game. Bloody good game it was too.
Eeeeeeeerrrrrrrggggghhhhhhhyyyyaaaaaahggghhhhhh!
Why oh why do I drink so much when I know what it’s going to do to me afterwards?
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Because it’s fun to do so?
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It was at the time. Plus every time I went to get one beer it seemed to make more sense to get 4 even if the tightwads charged 50c for the carry trays.
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Getting annoyed with Dragon’s Dogma, haven’t been able to get any new equipment for ages.
Still, I only have myself to blame, as I have been spending all my time on the side quests.
At least when I get back to the main story and the shops start getting better stuff, I’ll have plenty of moolah to purchase stuff with.
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Buy that money pouch thingie that let’s you throw money at enemies!
This is how you poke fun at ridiculous pictures. I was in stitches the entire time I read this.
I think the most frustrating thing you can come across in a game is when you are doing the right thing, you know that you’re doing the right thing and the game simply is not rewarding your efforts.
Shadow of the Colossus is doing this to me a lot. The fights are getting extended quite a bit simply because I will be unable to attack the weak spot to finish a colossus. I’ll be hanging on the damned thing’s back and every time I raise my sword, it starts to shake and I have to go through the cycle all over again. Getting stuck in loops like that really take the fun out of the game.
There are a lot of frustrating moments in that game so far, some of them come from me not being able to work out what I’m meant to be doing (my fault) but a good chunk come from the game not acting like it should.
Execution of an idea is important. While Shadow of the Colossus is a brilliant idea, there are some major execution flaws that I think are a relic of the Playstation 2 era. More importantly, they’re problems that more recent games get lambasted for.
Maybe I’m just annoyed because my stabbing kept getting interrupted.
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Which one are you up to now?
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Trying to be vague here.
Killed the eleventh one last night. The little dude.
Had to stop after that because I was getting really frustrated after spending so long on its back, unable to attack. Didn’t help that when I eventually fell off (which happened several times), I’d get hit by his attack several times in a row. Getting up from those attacks takes an age.
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A number is a good way to avoid spoilers. I’ve only downed 6 so I know nothing of the ones to come.
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Yeah, like I warned you, it only gets worse. It’s like I know exactly what I need to do, but I just can’t do it. It’s made worse when the game taunts me with “hints” each time I fail.
Apparently they made the shaking and grip thing worse (harder) compared to the original PS2 version. I probably only got half way or so in it but I don’t really recall struggling as much as I did in the HD one.
It led to some really frustrating moments which made me rage quit for a while and it did slightly ruin my enjoyment of the game, but it’s still an excellent game.
Just… Stop… SHAKING AND LET ME STAB YOU
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I do believe I have said that last line several times on TS in the last few days.
It’s pretty ridiculous. I can’t really understand the logic behind making the shaking worse. The colossus will shake, I raise my sword the instant that it stops and it will start shaking again. In what world is that fun? I just don’t see what that adds to the game.
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Dramatic tension?
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You said that you’ve killed 6. The 7th was where it really started to be a problem for me :p
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I thought I was just imagining that there was more shaky-shaky in the HD version!
It does get really frustrating but there’s often places near the stabby spot that you can basically stand while they’re shaking so you don’t lose anything off your grip meter. It’s probably supposed to add to the risk/reward aspect of the grip meter and charging your attacks. I hope you’ve been eating your white-tailed lizards to increase your grip meter, as well.
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It should also be noted that you don’t need to do a full charge stab every time, as in most cases you won’t even have enough time. Little stabs and standing up between shakes to regain grip is the way to go. Although that’s easier said than done 😛
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I did find that a few times it was better to stand and get tossed about, gripping on if I started to fall, than to try and hold on and then stab. It’s the lack of stabbing opportunities that is really bugging me.
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Well I mean would you stand still if something was crawling all over you with the intention of killing you, or would you try to shake it off so it couldn’t stab you in your weak spots? 😛
But I do understand your frustration. There were a couple where I may have yelled, screamed and threw my controller. Still planning on playing it through again when we get our 3D TV though.
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I’d pick them off and squish them. Would make for a truly terrible game.
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I started to notice this exact problem with the third colossus, particularly on the stomach.
I think I stayed up a little too late last night. My yawn program is stuck in a loop
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2 hours’ sleep last night. Caffeine is a winner today!
I wonder what the android equivalent to stimulants is… overvoltage?-
Caffeine works more as a not-so-compatible emergency battery. I can’t always use it without a proper recharge cycle per day but I can use it for an extra boost every once in a while 🙂
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Fellow TAYbies, I present you with this idea for a foodstuff:
Butter flavoured yoghurt.
Good idea or bad idea?
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The worst o.0
Butter’s delicious, but not in the same quantities as yoghurt. I used to work in a chicken shop, and I once ate the skin from 9 roasted chickens, because the skin is the tastiest part.
…not when you factor in the reason for its tastiness is its scarcity.-
Awww… 🙁
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Sydney Taybies!
Meat n’stuff for the 14th of July.
Emailed y’all! Complain here if you didn’t get an email!
Food, Drink, games probably, Karaoke probably.
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I felt your post deserved a reply.
LOOK PEOPLE, IT’S BISH! REPLY!
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A WILD SNORLAX APPEARS
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YOU ARE MY ONLY TRUE FRIEND
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I like Karaoke!
Come to Melbourne? -
Those activities are not acceptable unless you’re doing a mass road trip up here to my Meat. 😛
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HI BISH!
HOW GOES THE DRAGON’S DOGMA’ING? I DON’T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY I JUST WANTED TO REPLY TO YOUR POST!
Mornin’ TAY!
Got a whole bunch of Darksiders done for Shameless Gaming last night. For some reason I’m enjoying it waaay more than I did on my first play attempt, which was some time last year.
Also, still not sold on Pokemon Conquest. It’s not a bad game, but I’m waiting for something to draw me in. Has anyone else given it a go yet?
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I’ve quite happily (though perhaps too readily?) thrown Darksiders onto the pile of shame about a year ago. The premise, along with the box art were awesome, but as far as gameplay and maintaining my attention? I felt it lacked WAY too much.
Could also be that I made up my mind after only an hour. How far are you through the game now?
As for Shameless Gaming, I’ve almost completed Trials HD, managed to knock out 2 more extreme tracks along with all tournaments and skill challenges last night ^.^
Inferno II is next though…-
I tried to play it last year for SGM. Got to the water temple. Stopped right there.
Housemate has apparently been playing it. Got to the water temple.. Hasn’t played for a little while.
If you’re going to rip off Zelda, maybe learn from their mistakes and don’t have a water temple/
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@Aleph, about half of what I’d done last time. About to take on Griever (second major boss). Mmm…hearts.
@Trjn, I hear a lot of people rip into it for being a Zelda clone, but I’m a little confused. It’s a pretty standard Action/Adventure, unlocking items, polarising areas, etc etc. I haven’t come across anything that I could say is a direct ripoff (I haven’t finished it yet, so no spoilers!), unless people are talking about “start area, get item, use item to finish area”, which is pretty standard from my perspective.-
I’m not being entirely serious.
Darksiders really is a mish-mash of ideas from other games. The entire time, I would be thinking “this feels like God of War” or “this bit is incredibly Zelda-like”. That by itself isn’t necessarily a problem. The problem I had was that every time I noticed the similarity to another game, I noticed that the other game did it better.
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In the case of Zelda I’d agree. Having said that, I’m still enjoying it quite a lot this time. Probably cause I’m much more competent with the controls and gameplay 😛
Seriously though, I’ve heard quite a few instances of “Darksiders rips off Zelda!” and it always left me confused…
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I never had a problem with the OoT water temple! I think I’m in a minority here.
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I never had a problem either, I actually enjoy it 🙂
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Oh you ended up getting it? I pretty much agree with you. I’m not very far in but it just seems to be going through the paces at the moment. I haven’t been playing it much though (waiting for 3DS XL/shameless gaming). Still a good game, and probably one of the better Pokemon spin offs, but not absolutely amazing (yet, at least). Maybe we’ll get a sequel if it sells well.
I’m slightly disappointed that they re-use character designs though. I was under the impression it would be full of unique characters who each have a unique Pokemon (and then you go around defeating/recruiting them all). It’s not a huge criticism, but yeah 😛
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I’ve just discovered that you can actually “catch” Pokemon in it (after a certain amount of story progress), which has made me happier, but yeah, I agree about character design. I do have a couple of unique looking characters, but that could be cause I haven’t bumped into copies of them yet.
Also, I got a guy with a Carnivine, and when I vine whip water types it does like x4 damage. Still no idea why it’s happening 😛
Shameful Darksiders friend! If you’ve played it before maybe you can tell me how far I am. I think I may be about halfway, I just finished the Uriel boss fight after meeting Ulthane.
Um, I am kind of embarrassed for this person
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17rr1524ceh6ejpg/original.jpg
As a perfectionist, I would never do something like that ^^;;
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At least they included Navi.
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But where’s the chainmail? I lot of people forget it (when doing OoT Link)
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Why would you bring chainmail to a pool? 😛
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Yeah, Iunno how you’re meant to swim in chainmail.
On the same token, I don’t understand how you’d swim with sword and shield (not to mention deku sticks, bombs and all manner of paraphernalia) either. -
Also one thing o never understood, why do the iron boots not weigh anything unless you put them on.
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Because things in your inventory are in a pocket dimension. They don’t actually affect you until you pull them into the real world.
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So the inventory is a non-gender-specific handbag (or TARDIS)?
Freakin’ A man.
We just need to figure out how to export this to the real-world. The things will sell themselves!
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Thank you for answering my question for me!
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I fail to see the problem.
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It’s not accurate =P
That’s my main issue
lol @ the guys’ faces on the left
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Blaghman?
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Hehe what I thought but didn’t want to say it. Guy in the pool has a derpier face though 😛
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Bahahahahahahahahaha.
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Holy crap, it really does look like an imperfect clone!
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Blaghmang aint disappoint 😛
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Why be embarrassed for her? She’s obviously happy and having fun and not embarrassed for herself.
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Because the costume is inaccurate. As i said, i am a perfectionist.
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Yeah, it doesn’t really look like she’s trying to do a serious cosplay thing though. Looks like she just decided it would be fun to go to the pool dressed as a weird Baywatch babe/Link hybrid.
I’d be more jealous of her for her courage than embarrassed for her for her imperfection.
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I am jealous of her courage. She looks happy!
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It’s an appropriation. Not a replication.
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Still trying to decide if frying up a heap of bacon is the best idea or the worst idea.
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Both
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Best idea EVAR!
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Cook just enough to collect baconfat. Proceed to cook remaining bacon with whisked eggs and tomato (fried prior to mixing) in baconfat. Throw on pancakes, drown in butter.
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Turns out it was the worst idea. Abort! Abort!
*spews….again*
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Scrambled eggs are a great hangover recovery food.
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Did you waste that Gotzinger bacon?! D:
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At least I got to taste it twice 😛
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Strange!
Discush time? 🙂
What Chapter are you up too?
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Umm..not sure. I’m on a boat! 😛
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Oooh umm… so 11 or so?
Thoughts so far? I haven’t seen any complaints yet 😛
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I have no complaints yet!
Not as far as the game goes, anyway. It’s more that the Wii makes it difficult to play games because of the graphics. It makes everything look kind of muddy and it’s very hurty to look at. I’m no graphics whore and I have no trouble playing retro games and games from previous generations but something about the Wii makes everything look a bit unclear and like you need glasses. It’s really annoying.
I’m still enjoying the story and I’m looking forward to seeing what happens next and how everything fits together. I’m even still using the default auto combat where you just run into someone to attack them. I find it easier because the muddiness makes it difficult to tell who the enemy is sometimes. 😛
I’m also finding it especially satisfying to diffuse magic circles. The battle system is really quite cool.-
Yeah, diffusing is fun and it’s how I deal with enemy confusion :P. I just Gale(?) into a whole bunch of things and whoever wasn’t affected is an ally 🙂
Most of my complaints come from it being on the Wii as well, it feels like there’s really no reason for it to be there and it could work on any other console. Bad camera controls, frequent slowdowns and the whole game just seems a bit unpolished 🙁
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Oh I have one, and I shudder to think how bad it would be if I didn’t.
I’m not really hating on the Wii. I think it may be just certain game engines combined with the Wii. I didn’t really have a problem with muddiness in any Wii game before Monster Hunter Tri and The Last Story.
I remember wishing No More Heroes was a HD game so I could fully appreciated the awesome dress-ups in the game but I had no problems seeing what was going on, and I didn’t get headaches like MH3 and TLS have been giving me if I play for more than an hour or so. And I could play Animal Crossing all day without being affected. -
Sounds like it might just be pushing to poor Wii a bit hard, then. That’s one of the reasons I’ve stayed away from certain titles on the Wii (including The Last Story). I want to play it but if the graphics ruin my ability to play it’ll hurt my opinion of what could be a great game.
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I hear Xenoblade works well! 😛
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I’ve heard that too! Funny, that.
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Doin’ flips and s**t?
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There’s probably dolphins splashin’, gettin’ errybody all wet, too.
With the man your man could smell like?
@Scree, did you end up buying that wig?
IS anybody else having lots of problems with TAY and old posts showing up?
I swear i am see all the posts that crazyguy made during the superbowl appearing under the state of origin threads. It’s just weird
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Nope, everything is fine on my end (Chrome and mobile Kotaku). It even refreshed last night with F5! :O
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NOWAI! To be on the safe side, I always ALT-255 for linebreaks and CTRL-F5 for refresh now :p
As for issues, none noticed here (Firefox).-
Whattttt!
Linebreaks have been fixed for ages though :P, but I always CTRL+F5 just in case.
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Thanks for the reply Greenius but is wasn’t a serious problem
Was more a targeted SPACE MAROONS with a side jab at the pats
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I’m just going to say the following and consider the matter concluded:
7 series in a row. Suck it, Blues.
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Fun fact. There has never been news of a NSW Origin Series win displayed on an iPhone.
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Ha!
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…says the Squirtle? 😀
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The Squirtle Squad transcends any rugby team.
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That’s kind of implying anyone in NSW cares?
Except CrazyGuy I guess, but he’s the exception.-
Which is funny, cause I’m Victorian.
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First off…
MEGA MAN FANS! POTAKU NEEDS YOU! Contact Shiggy or myself on Twitter!
Secondly
Amazing Spider-Man! Sydney! Event Cinemas! George Street! 12:50pm! BE THERE!
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Saturday, from what I gather on Twitter.
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Also that, yeah.
GOD! WHAT AM I? MR DETAILS, BISH!?
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YOU GOIN!?
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Nope!
Going up to Gosford that day!
I get to hang out with all the Central Coast bogans, woooooo!-
you poor man. you have my sympathy.
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Central Coast bogan blood runs through my veins.
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Wait, today? :O Aw, too late notice!
Oh well…
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Saturday. I forgot that bit.
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Yeah I saw that as soon as I posted. Should have refreshed the page! 😛
Put me down as a maybe! How much does a movie ticket cost at George Street, by the way?
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Your first born!
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Geez… I’d hate to see the price of the concessions then.
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half of your first born.
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aaand i just squicked myself out with the unintended implications of that sentence. sorry.
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Lengthways or widthways?
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Depends on if you want allocated seating or not
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Well I skipped last nights stage of the TDF on the flawed idea that Goss would actually get a win the one time I didn’t watch it. Tonight looks good for him so fingers crossed.
The reason I missed it was I needed to catchup on my sleep so I decided to do some gaming instead. We played a little darkspore and when I stopped because I had to go to be i started sorting out the inventory. In the end I did this for half an hour longer than I wanted and ended up getting to bed later than I wanted.
What other games do you have that suck that extra time out of you. Not so much the I lost myself in the game and “oh fudge is it 1am already” but more the “ok time for bed. But I’ll just do……”
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That pretty much summarises my issue with Darkspore. Other than the mess of an item system, it’s a fun little game.
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I discovered that SBS streams their coverage, so my antenna issues are no longer so problematic.
I fell asleep before the crash. Probably a good thing. I hate when they do closeups of the injuries people get pulling themselves out of the barbed wire.
Two years in a row, someone has gone into a barbed wire fence at full speed. Not a good thing.
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Good old Johnny boy. I think they must hit their heads as well when the next day they decide it would be a great idea to go in the break away. Well hopefully they have learned a lesson (although I’m not hopeful) from Wouter and don’t actually start going for the close-up until they are sure people are ok.
SBS streams are pretty good and the live tracked on letour.fr is really well done
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With all the State of Origin stuff happening, it needs to be said:
Does anyone here really feel any tie to their state, in general? Not just in terms of sports.
I know that Australia has always been considered an unpatriotic nation (damn straight, it’s better that way) but on a state level I could care less about that sort of rivalry, and this is coming from a pretty competitive person.
This isn’t including poking fun at other states, that’s harmless fun 😛
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You would say that, wouldn’t you!? Bloody ACTers.
(No, I don’t really care about that sort of stuff :D)
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Technically, I’m NSW 😛
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Close enough!
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This is actually interesting. Do you consider yourself part of NSW or as part of ACT (or just Canberra)
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I guess I consider myself NSW when I think about it, but to me Queanbeyan is basically a suburb of Canberra.
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I’m here by an accident of geography.
The only time what state someone is in matters is when talking about how badly their state government can screw things up. As a Queenslander, I don’t exactly hold the high ground in that sort of conversation.
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Even then my stance is generally “Bloody Australian Government”…possibly because I’m too disinterested in our political system.
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Well since you don’t come from a real state I can understand why you wouldn’t get it 😉
After all your state only exists because of VIC/NSW rivalry to more accurately Melbourne/Sydney rivalry
I always find it strange that people call Australians unpatriotic, I find that as a nation we are very patriotic. Their is much less jingoism associated with it but most of us love our country and will defend it if people try to shit talk it. of course this raises itself in different ways and you get the “Fuck off we’re full” (actually do they use an apostrophe in that, for some reason I feel it shouldn’t be there)
But back to the state based tie, not really. As you say sport wise I think we all have that to different degrees. But I was discussing this the other day when those stupid reality TV shows like MKR try to use state based loyalty to interest people. This can possibly work if you have a team and you are selecting a mass to support but when they are going for drama and the personality behind the people you will choose people you like, not think I’ll support these twats because they are from my state-
I was born in QLD, lived in NSW for a few years, back to QLD for a year, then Tasmania for 6 years, back to NSW for around 20 years and now back to QLD again.
Despite having lived in NSW for the majority of my life, I still think of Tasmania as home for some reason.
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I don’t give a flying fuck about states to be honest. Becomes apparent when Seven airs crazy patriotic ads like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5YsNf2kBZ0
That kind of love is unhealthy. 😛
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OK, I’ll be honest here. As a Victorian I am feeling Superior now. As above I would have said there was no State based loyalty outside of sport but now I’m not so sure.
Maybe it isn’t so much a my state is better than yours thing but more ……….. idk laughing at other states when they do things like that.-
Seven was struggling locally with ratings at the time so they launched an insane battle with Nine over who loved Queensland more. There’s a handful of completely terrible jingles that’ll make your skin crawl as a result — they’ve even got a terrible one before movies at the moment in cinemas. Terrible. If it actually works I want no part of this state. 😉
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There are posters on buses with “Nine Knows [Suburb]” with the newscasters standing in a random spot in that suburb. Well, in front of a blue screen showing a random spot in that suburb.
Or maybe that was a Seven one.
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Holy crap, I was looking for the lastest dodgy ad that’s in cinemas and found it… except with the word Brisbane replaced with Perth. Just as terrible, though. :S http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYV4-LP9LU
What’s wrong with you, Seven? Sounds so damn try hard-like.
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Helloooooooo [Town Name]!
We’re so excited to be here! Seriously, it’s one of our favourite places to tour. Last time we were in [Town Name], you guys rocked!
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You know what? I’ve actually heard bands say that way more in Brisbane than Sydney or Newcastle. The “favourite place” bit, anyway. So I guess some of them may be being honest.
I think Australia as a whole may really be some bands’ favourite place to tour as well, from what I’ve heard whilst talking to band members and reading interviews.
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I was hoping to find the bit from the Simpsons where Spinal Tap reads the town name off of the back of their guitar.
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I’ve heard the same. I went to see Arctic Monkeys in ’07, they seemed to be having an awesome time. A few years later I read a current interview where they looked back fondly on Australia. Apparently it was the first place people knew the words to all their songs.
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There’s no state-based patriotism, but there is city-based. Mainly because the other cities try and argue that Melbourne isn’t the best, which is clearly wrong.
The only thing that will unite Sydney and Melbourne is mutual contempt of Adelaide.
Full on QLD supporter during Origin due to being born and raise here and being a league fan otherwise couldn’t care less and have been dying to move elsewhere and leave the cesspool of a city I live in.
So no, not really.
I was born in Queensland, and lived in WA since I was ~2 years old. I really couldn’t care less about state loyalty etc, except for State of Origin, half supporting the Broncos, and getting annoyed that Perth is shafted for everything (what with being super isolated).
I don’t care.
Because I’m Victorian and we are superior in every way.
I think a large portion of Australians are very patriotic. I don’t consider myself part of that portion.
I don’t have a strong allegiance to my state (Although I’d say it’s my favourite), but I do find NSW/ACT, VIC, and TAS to be far more appealing places to live/visit than the rest of the country.
lived in WA my whole life
St.Kilda Supporter
in fact, i hate Fremantle and West coast the most out of any other teams in the AFL…
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Please tell me St Kilda supporters hate Milne as much as the rest of us do.
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sadly no, we love him
can’t take a set shot on goals for his life, but we love him.-
Why would you encourage a little squib like that?
Akermanis may have been a world class twat but at least he didn’t dive.
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Grew up in QLD, chose Melbourne over Sydney for full time work, would like to move to Hobart some day.
Queensland all the way for state of origin but outside of that I pity those that take the whole state rivalry thing too seriously. It does make for easy ‘local ice breaker’ jokes for comedians…
I don’t really care about state.
As for Australia being unpatriotic, I don’t think that’s the case. I think it’s just that we don’t show it as much as a country like America.
I should specify that thought my life what I’ve seen as patriotic has always, ALWAYS resulted in negative behaviour. In this day and age it’s mostly pointless anyhoo. I understand being happy about the country you live in, but talking it up and putting other countries down as being inferior is…well…f*#king stupid.
Put it this way: the sooner we’re all behaving like a planet rather than individual countries, the sooner we can take the fight to the Reapers.
Oops, replied to the wrong comment. So confuzzling! If anyone wants to see mine it’s up above masquerading as a reply to Tigerion’s reply to Rize’s original post.
Anyone else as confuzzled as me now? 😛
Victoria all the way.
After all, count back two letters from A and drop the second I, and you have Victory.
New iOS strategy game with “play by mail” asynchronous functionality. Free to play and it looks great so far!
Outwitters. Download it, love it, and challenge McGarnical to a game on Game Center!
#notspam
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That really does read like an automated Facebook message 😛
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I know! But it really isn’t. I should have added in something “human” but I should be working so i just wanted to get the key points across.
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McGabbiple! Ply new game wit mega manly enhancement last longer. Women be pleased. Become teh Rocketman!
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I’m in. Where do I send my credit card details?
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Send your payment to:
Happy Dude
742 Evergreen Tce
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The courts have ordered me to apologise for the use of an auto-dialer. If you accept my apology, please send your payment to:
Sorry Dude
742 Evergreen Tce
Springfield…
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Last night in the GSL, Naniwa advanced to the top 8.
While nobody else gives a damn, it does mean that we’ve got some nice celebratory gifs.
That bald dude is one of the casters. Professionalism!
Just confirming: We’re playing TF2 tonight at 8:30, aren’t we? 😀
(I wish it was on Tuesday nights. Then we could call it ‘TF-Tuesdays’)
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We could all pitch in, buy an engagement ring in TF2 (for those that don’t know, yes, they exist) then pass it around each time we play.
TF-Weddingsday?…OK, that was awful.
And if we are,. I’m in.
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BORDERLANDS TONIGHT
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What’s wrong with calling it ‘TF-Thursdays’?
It’s nice and alliterationy.-
“Tue” sounds almost like “two”.
TF2.
TF-Tues…
It’s a pune or play on words.
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Purposefully mis-spelling pun…someones a Terry Pratchett fan…
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TF2sdays would be cool, though I’m up for some tonight too!
Could we possibly bump the time forward a half hour or so?
@Grandmaster B-Funk: there is absolutely no shame in owning lego as an adult. Lego’s terrible secret is that it’s a toy for adults that’s marketed at children.
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My Mobile Frame Zero garage and Legomen on my desk attests to this
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The Millennium Falcon on my bookshelf concurs.
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Also, don’t know if everyone is familiar with Macross/Robotech, but Shoji Kawamori (the mecha designer) prototypes most of his transforming mech creations in lego so that they can animate the transitions in a believable manner.
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Not familiar with him, but that’s awesome. If you’re into mecha/powered armour, you should look up Mobile Frame Zero.
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I lost eight kilos in a month.
Go me!
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Way to go, man!
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\o/
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Nice job, Zap.
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Wow, congratulations. .
What have you been doing? A change of diet, going to the gym or both?I was thinking about weight loss as well but haven’t got motivated enough
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Swimming 3km/5 nights per week.
And not eating like a fatty.
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Woah, I respect the first part, but the latter… I dunno man. I’m not sure I dig it.
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Man, I’d love to take up swimming regularly. Only two problems: no pool in reasonable distance and I hate the idea of being around other people shirtless. (Hooray for social anxieties! :P)
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So what are you going to do now that you’ve only got one arm?
I just realized that I haven’t eaten since 7:30 this morning…
No wonder I’m so hungry…
Advance warning: I shall be in Sydney for the third week of October.
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What are you going to that cesspool of debaucary for? Oh wait this isn’t the stat based patriotism thread, carry on
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*sigh* me gud at the speelings
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STAT BASED PATRIOTISM!
“Medians are better representative of a meaningful ‘average’ than averages are! Medians rock! Woooooo!”-
My maths jokes amuse me and that’s all that matters.
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it reminds me of your hat comments
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MODE FOR LIFE!
Median scum.
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Bell curves are boring! Call them Gaussian Distributions!
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You are three sigma sure you’re patriotic?
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My sister made the mistake of living there and I have to stage an intervention.
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I realise it may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but my favourite band (and basis for my handle here) put out a new song last night. Never have I been so excited for an album before. Check it out.
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Ps. This comment was partly driven by me not wanting my only comment of the week to be “Penis.”
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By the way, is your picture there Sterling Archer by any chance?
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Last night on TeamSpeak, we ended up measuring our hands.
According to some website, my tiny, girly hands are actually almost exactly average.
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TELL ME MORE
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Freyr linked us to a pdf and then told us to measure our hands against it on the screen to find out our surgical glove size!
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Was this while I was making noodles?
I feel like I’ve missed out on a very important discussion here.
What if I get the chance to stick my hand in someone (as Dan would say) but can’t becausee I don’t know my glove size?-
Well you’ll just have to get someone to bring in a laptop so that you can put your hand up to the screen.
Then you can get a glove and put your hand inside someone. That is, assuming that the person hasn’t died in the time it took for you to get your glove on. Wouldn’t want to put your hand inside of a corpse, that’d be weird.
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You were there-ish, it was a bit before you talked about your girly wrists
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Wouldn’t monitor sizes and zoom levels affect the accuracy of this?
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Yes.
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Well, as one of the scientists said yesterday, “We have discovered a
bosonhand size. And now we have to determine what kind ofbosonhand size”.-
On the plus side, when viewing that chart on my iPhone, I can pretend that I have giant hands of giganticism!
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OH no, why do I have to use my TV as a monitor? my hands are tiny!
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I need to find a tape measure for this. What’re the parameters for hand-measurement?
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Palm width (measuring from under your index finger to under your pinky) and hand length (from tip od middle finger to base of palm).
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Length 9cm, width 8-8.5cm.
DO I WIN?!?!-
You must have very short hands :p
Base of palm is where your palm meets your wrist, not where your middle finger ends.
Width is about average (I think it was 8.5cm, Blaghs and I were both around that same area). Length is meant to be about 19cm (which I was just under).
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OH! The TIP of the finger, not the base.
17.5cm length 😀
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Another for the teeny tiny wrist club!
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~16cm wrist circumference. I’m bored at work.
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~17.5cm!
Finally, an adult with smaller wrists than me that isn’t a skinny Asian girl!
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I just became aware that it’s Thursday, and not Wednesday.
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TF2-Thursday discussion makes a whole lot more sense now, huh?
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…much more.
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Despite not being sure if I like Pokemon Conquest, I’m finding myself pretty keen to finish work so I can play it. I guess that means I like it to some extent? Or more specifically, I’m keen to see it jump up and amaze me.
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BORDERLANDS
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POKELANDS.
I’LL BE A MACHOKE CALLED BRICK.
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Yeah, part of me keeps playing it in the hopes that it gets better.
I guess it has a certain charm to it, and by no means is it a bad game.-
I wanted to buy it but i still cant find it at home. Man our eb here is all the slack.
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I was amaze when I went to buy it. I got surprisingly good customer service from the Westfield Woden store.
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Have you started linking with pokey mans (in a non-sexual way……no, really!)?
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Yeah.
The problem is that I pretty much hire everyone I see, so I have a jillion crappy warriors/trainers, so each turn I have to sift through each of them to see if I can find a Gold/100% link Pokemon for them so that I can never use them.
I’m not very far in, but for me it’s already gotten to the stage like in a Total War game where you spend more time managing things instead of fighting. The Delegate option is handy, but not optimal.-
Yeah, that’s something I need to look in to. If I can’t let go of warriors, I’ll be restarting and being much more shrewd with my hiring.
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I haven’t tried actively firing them, but I know if you hire new warriors and dump them in a full city (max 6 per city), you actually fire one of the ones in the city to make space.Could do it that way, I guess.
Might be an easier way.
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I’m not a Final Fantasy fan and I’ve never played any of the games but I’ve been reading the Theatrhythm: Final fantasy reviews and it seems like an interesting idea. Take the music from the Final Fantasy series and use it as a foundation for a decent, albeit basic, rhythm game.
The game is a blatant nostalgia trip but it seems to work and I’d love if this became a sub-genre in the rhythm game field. I love listening to game and movie soundtracks on my phone and if I can have a simple rhythm game with some light RPG elements it would be a cool way to pass time on the train or at home.
Theatrhythm(I get what they are going for but it’s still a silly name. Why not Rhythm theatre?) could become the main brand and Square could enter into partnerships with other companies to create different ios, 3DS and Vita versions. A cheap 99c-$5 game doesn’t sound too bad. And like the current game they could sell DLC songs. Kind of like the Tap Tap game on ios which has different versions for different bands and musicians.
Versions I’d like:
Theatrhythm: Disney- songs from the various Disney animated films-Lion King, Aladdin etc. In fact why not make individual versions for all the movies.
What do you think and what franchises would you like to see get a similar treatment?
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Give me Theatrhythm: Stunts and I’ll be happy.
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I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. I’ll need to watch some videos when I get a chance.
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Dissidia:Final Fantasy was similar, except as a fighting game. I imagine they could farm out and do Dissidia: Other JRPG series.
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Squenix is all about silly names. See also Bravely Default: Flying Fairy.
@Pokermans Conquest people: I recruit too many people as well! I keep having to shuffle people around because every kingdom gets full 😛 The more you guys talk about it, the more I want to play it. Damn, I’m trying to Shameless Game, here!
@Shameless Gaming people: As some of you may know, I’ve given up on Mass Effect 2 for now. I just don’t think it’s for me. I’ll go back to it later, maybe. Anyway, I’ve been playing Tomb Raider Legend (from the HD collection) and I’m enjoying it (even though it’s apparently the worst of the three). It’s amazing how similar Uncharted is to it. Not saying Uncharted isn’t original or anything, but you can definitely see the similarities. (Would an Uncharted/Tomb Raider crossover work? I think it could…)
Anyway, I keep getting the urge to duck behind waist-high walls in this game though, even though there’s no cover mechanic 😛 Modern games have ruined me.
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That is one of the many reasons I call Uncharted “Dude Raider”.
Most of the other reasons are because I like dumb names.
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I hadn’t played a Tomb Raider game in years and years (with the exception of Guardian of Light, but that was an isometric shooter) so I never really made the connection until I started playing this.
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Gears of War’s cover always made me laugh. More often than not you’d walk into an area, see where the walls are and which way they’re facing, and know exactly what kind of fight you were about to have 😛
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Chest high walls are such a common trope these days that if you walk through an area littered with them and don’t get into a firefight, you know that you’re going to be headed back in that direction pretty soon.
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I find Mass Effect 2 should be played like a TV series- it’s structured the same way. If you play a mission a night it’s like watching Star Trek
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I think it’s also a matter of having that connection with Shep and his/her predicament already from the first game too. That sense of loss and seeing the world through a different perspective. Can’t get that from a short catch up comic.
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Perhaps, although I only really got into ME2 on PS3 with a different shep after playing on a friend’s 360
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Thanks I’ll keep that in mind. It will probably help actually.
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You definitely have your ‘arc’ episodes, character based ones, and your ‘let’s just go explore a planet’ episodes. The DLC is like telemovies.
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I’ve kept my shameless gaming low key this year, currently my only goal is to complete From dust.
I’ll work out what to do from there-
From Dust! That should be on my short list.
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Isn’t a lot of the Tomb Raider / Uncharted similarity because they both rip off Indiana Jones?
Gah, who knew that the most awkward part of the cosplay would be the hook and eyes. I have no idea where to get ones that look exactly like the ones Elizabeth has.
It’s quite frustrating.
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I don’t think such minute detail is a problem, if I were you I would go for something that is similar or something that is practical and gets the job done.
For all you know they might not exist (if you’re talking about ones on the animated model)
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Nah, I’ve seen them. It was on the cosplay photo the other day. let me find it and show you the link
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How’d you go with the wig?
As for eyes, if you’re talking colour, there’s PLENTY of options if you’re okay with contacts.-
Not contacts. Hook and eyes are what do up the corset. It’s a type of clasp
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Oh wow, my bad >.<
I suck at this sort of stuff /o\
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It’s okay, that just means you’re learning =P
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I’m looking for ones like you see in this image
http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17rjdk0wsgwfvjpg/xlarge.jpg
Notice the shape of them? It’s bloody difficult to find-
I see what you mean.. I’m probably wrong but they look like the one that look a bit like a triangle, yeah?
That girl is also rather cute =O
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Yeah but bloody impossible to find!
I’ve found so many nice ones. I’ve been checking on Yahoo though. Does it help though?-
Swear i’ve seen such things at Big W in the haberdashery aisle..
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Different ones.
Crap D=
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That’s such an awesome getup. I’ll try having a look for the hooks (YAY! LEARNING!!!) when I get home ^.^
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Wait, eyes. I forgot the eyes…
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No problem. I can use all the help I can get.
Also, forgot to mention I have ordered the wig and it is on it’s way.
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It really looks to me like she made her own fabric loops for the hook part, but it’s a bit difficult to see what she used for the eye part. Little tiny shank buttons, maybe?
I just bought Rock of Ages off of Steam for under $3.50…
Should I feel bad?
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Nope, from what I saw of it on Good Game last year I think, it’s pretty rad.
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Nah it is a good game and you can’t go wrong with something that pythonesque
Anyone here familiar with Eyefinity (I know, wrong company) or other multi-monitor (preferably stretched desktop) displays?
I nabbed a spare monitor from work recently, and would like some opinions on a 3 (or more!) screen setup.
Currently, I’m using 2 23″ screens, and have a 3rd sitting on the floor beside my rig.
GPU is HIS Radeon 5970 2GB (can’t quite justify the purchase of a second one just yet)
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Wrong company? Ugh, I’m an idiot. How did I get ATI/AMD and NVIDIA confused…
I need sleep.-
/pat, it’s okay bro. The weekend is almost upon us!
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As I understand it you hook them all up and it Just Works. Assuming Windows.
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Windows, yeah. Managed to score an activation key from work, too.
Just Works always seems to be the Apple way of thinking, and it’s the “Just” part that gets me. (inb4fanboifight)
If I could handle WINE and not risk stupid crap like Blizz banning me from playing D3 for using it, I’d go that route, for sure.-
D3 runs natively on OSX yo =P
I’d hit up the AMD/ATi site about eyefinity if I were you or refer to your cards manual, that might be helpful.
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I’ve always just plugged in extra monitors and everything happens magically at the video driver. But I’ve never tried to game on a multi-monitor setup, I have a single large one rather than a bunch of small ones. I’ve been tempted but never gotten around to it.
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Apple is ‘it should just work but if it doesn’t, we’ve hidden everything you need to be able to fix it’
Linux is ‘it might just work if you check out the latest SVN and add the patch from git and recompile with these flags but we won’t bother documenting it either way’
Windows is ‘it usually just works, and if it doesn’t, most likely someone else has had the same problem and fixed it.’Seriously I have had far more software problems with Macs over the years than I’ve had with Windows stuff.
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I grabbed a 360 headset today. It’s ugly and looks cheap but that’s what they say about your mum.
Oh god I’m sorry. Just having it in the same room as me is affecting me already.
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Moose knuckle crumbum.
Arrgh.
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You’ve met my mother, I know you wouldn’t say such things about her =P
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http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/xbox-360/turtle-beach-ear-force-xl1-headset/665176
Was it this^ , or a regular 360 headset?-
Bog standard official wired one.
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The 360 headset is the worst thing to happen to multiplayer gaming.
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Though I have to say, the standard xbox 360 wired headset that plugs into the controller is the best directional mike I’ve ever used. Never seems to pick up background noise and only works when I speak.
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I think he’s talking about the hordes of shitty teenagers and kids who trash talk and think they’re top shit 😛
They’re a virus and their profanity spreads to innocent bystanders causing them to become just as angry
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Hey man, they are so not me! I am a unique and different individual than that scum! =P
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Ha Ha. I was so expecting you to respond.
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;D
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Yes this. The hardware itself is pretty good, it’s the baggage that comes along with it that’s the issue. Basically the whole Xbox Live concept was built around trying to virtualize the feeling you got when playing Halo over system link with friends, but the problem is that when the guys you’re playing with are just a voice on the internet and not a physical person you can punch in the face, it causes the absolute worst of humanity to come out, Lord of the Flies style.
And thus you have 12 year old american kids teabagging your corpse and declaring they will hunt you down and rape you and your dog / mother because you’re a girly gay nigger jew klansman. I’m not even sure the problem is fixable.
What I hope is that the next iteration of Xbox Live etc will have better social features. Maybe a reputation that actually means something, or the ability to create and join groups and thus only play with people you know and not raging internet assholes.
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Sorry, I should have made it more clear. Got the reference to the stereotypical xbox live chat behavior. I just like the actual mic. Too bad I haven’t worked out a convenient way to use it with my PC.
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I might actually partake in hats this evening
If you all want an easy kill, I’m your target
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Excellent, excellent >:D
For those who don’t know: We’re playing TF2 tonight at 8:30! Everyone welcome!
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Team Greenalen!
Is that Pyro thing still going on?
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I might come along if i’m not glued to Deus Ex again.
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There was talk about going to see some live music tonight but if that doesn’t pan out I might jump on in.
Haven’t had a chance to try out pyrovision yet so added incentive-
It’s lulsy, wish it was more like the video and turned the enemies into babies =(
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What they aren’t babby? I’m not playing tonight then
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Sadly nope =(
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It does make all of their voices high and squeaky though, so there’s that. 😛
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I might be in…
I’ve finally downloaded it and might hop in with everyone too. Never played before so that’s…that’s gonna be something.
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omg yes! potentially someone who’s worse than me 😛
That is if I decide to play…
Just go Pyro and burn everything. Easiest strategy 😛
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I thought Heavy was easiest strategy :p
The worst one would be Sniper, utilising the same vantage point EVERY TIME.
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Picked up two new albums today – Metric’s Synthetica and The Offspring’s Days Go By. Both awesome so far.
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Days Go By is a kickass album.
Slim Pickens has been in my head for the past week.
There is something weird about reading articles on Video Game soundtracks without having played the games. Even with YouTube videos embedded and good writing, I always find a strange disconnect from the article. If it’s a game I’ve never played the articles never seem to connect with me and maybe even encourage me to play the game.
I guess playing the game really helps.
This is really different to articles on bands and musicians where I can just listen to the embedded YouTube vid and either love the song or not.
Just rambling. 🙂
So, looking for that hook and eye has made me so tired and pretty fed up.
On the upside, the Bolero is almost finished.
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I responded up there ^ but you may not have seen it yet. 🙂
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I think she may have done a row of white piping cord and made loops out of the cord and sewn them in inbetween the white piping line and the binding.
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Yeah, that’s what I was thinking, especially since it is white. I’m checking with someone who did an official cosplay before I commit to anything. Simply because I am mental when it comes to details ^^;;
Thanks though Strange, I appreciate it.-
Why don’t you just wear a blue and white bikini and paint a parrot?
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Because, I have made majority of the costume
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I just skimmed over this comment and read it as you being tired and fed up after getting a hock in the eye. Was I ever glad when I realised I was wrong.
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I am also glad that you are wrong.
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We should both take from this the importance of being careful when sewing cosplay outfits.
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It’s only Thursday… why do I think it’s Friday today?
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It’s Friday Eve \o/
Am I the only one who is sick of TF2?
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nope
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nope #2
I can bear it in short bursts with you guys, but apart from that, doesn’t do much for me anymore.-
I think I’ve only played it twice. I was shocked to discover it was an 8 gig blight on my hard drive. Just having it there annoyed me because I never played it, so I uninstalled it.
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Has anyone else played the Lead Wars game on iPhone. Its really cool
Productive evening. Tax return done, colossi 7, 8 and 9 downed.
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OOO your getting close to the desert one
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Yeah, the clue for the next one mentioned something about that.
Guess I’ll see that one tomorrow night.
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I’m so happy that I found out how to turn off my computer with Task Scheduler.
It makes Steam downloads so much easier, and saves power too.
Whhhhhyyyy must I be so bored right now
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Well, at least there’s NighTAY.
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Go and try changing your bike from chain to belt drive. That should kill a few hours.
Day two of 3 got a little more sleep last night then before. However I keep falling asleep during the day and wakeing up not knowing when or where I am. Personally I blame myself.
Hey peeps, how much data does TAY usually take up? Kotaku has been blocked on my work computer.
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Enough to crash iPhone safari 🙂
I think my work compis suffering from Fridayitus. It took like 5 mins to “apply personal settings”. Anyway, wooooooooo Friday!!!
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Wtf is compis? It was supposed to be computer THANKS PHONE AUTOCORRECT, YOU’RE NOT A DICK AT ALL.
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“Poemmon”
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You should’ve saw my previous work laptop. I timed it one morning, from logging in to being finished loading and actually workable… 48 minutes
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And you thought humans were bad 😛
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They are, this was MADE by humans, what does it say about your kind?
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We can’t be that bad if we made you, Techy. 😛
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True that 😛
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d’awww! ^.^
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I thought he was made by a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings?
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I’m glad they didn’t. I prefer to be more mobile and not stuck in one place to think for seven and a half million years. Living for that long would’ve been nice though 🙂
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My work laptop is NEVER switched off, due to the likelihood of crashing upon boot. 400MB of wallpaper will do that to an aging machine :p
Also dust intake here is ridiculous.
My laptop at home takes about 15 minutes, which is a bit of a pain! On the plus side, my desktop takes around a minute from the moment I switch it on.
And I got my Raspberry Pi yesterday! \o/
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I don’t know what Raspberry Pi is, but it sounds delicious. Congratulations on your Mystery Pi.
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Teeny-tiny ARM based computer, around the size of a credit card. Going to attach it to the back of the TV for the parents to get confused over.
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I’ve seen those on TV before, really cool stuff for education purposes on a programming perspective
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Morning everyone!
It’s actually too cold to stay at the computer this morning. I had plans dammit. Now nothing will get done.
I’ll have to fight the dog to lay in front of the fire though, bugger.
So lots of bandwagon jumping last night…i finally got on the Breaking Bad wagon last night (bought season 1 very cheap at JB), got on the Steam wagon ( i got a new laptop,very nice of work to pay for it) and saw Ted (wickedly funny). Nice to just relax with a night off for a change. How is everyone this morning?
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Feeling lazy :P. It’s cold so I don’t want to leave my bed :).
Breaking Bad is so awesome! It’s a good time to get into it since season 5 starts in a couple of weeks. Enjoy it man, it’s one of the best TV shows EVER 😀
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My morning started off OK. It was a bit cold but I can see the sun through my window so a warm day could be on hand.
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Breaking Bad is awesome man. It’s Weeds, with the addition of more badassery and less hot protagonist.
PS3 QUESTION:
I want to download a 8GB game from the PSN store and I have 14GB free space on my hard drive. However, every time I try to download the game a message comes up saying there is not enough free space. What could be the reason for this happening?
Does having automatic updates on reserve a certain amount of hard drive space? Could Deus Ex have a file size of 8GB but an even larger install size?
Thanks, any help will be appreciated.
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I’m not sure, but I do know the closer you are to your PS3 hard drive’s limit, the more sluggish it becomes. Maybe it reserves a good portion for operating and stuffs?
P.S. You’re on TV today, Mashaaaaaaaaaaa…4:30pm on ABC, with a bear! 😛
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Yeah, it could be space reserved for system setting. Although I’ve managed to drop it below 1GB in the past. I guess all those System updates take up space.
What?! On tv? How?
Link to promo or are you just pulling my leg. 🙂
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Bahahahaha! 😀
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I think it counts the installation file (what you’re downloading and the actual file that is installed. So you would need something like 16gb or so. Similar thing happened to me with inFamous during the original PSN outage. Just clear some easily obtainable data (game data you can install from the disc again or games you can redownload) and it should work 🙂
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Thanks, I’ll try that. I have so many demos I haven’t played installed on my console. I don’t know why I do it, I download all the demos available and then never play them 🙂
I guess I should play some of them now and delete them.
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Tell me about it! I do the same thing. The exact same thing.
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Yeah, it’s this. I’ve had the same problem before.
After an incredibly shitty week at work, I’ve started to apply for some new jobs. I’ve made the realisation that I’m more than qualified for positions that are paying DOUBLE my current wage. Dammit I should have made this move over a year ago.
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Good luck!
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Hindsight’s always 20-20 mate. At least you’re going for it now, as opposed to waiting for yet another year?
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Quit all the shitty jobs!
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_o/
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Good luck. It can be difficult to find a new job, but I hope you find one quickly, sounds like you need it.
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Thanks for the support all!
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Yay, finally some new armour in Dragon’s Dogma.
Took long enough *grumble, grumble*
Also just realised how slow I can be on the uptake.
Mystic Knight + Fire Enchantment + Magick/Grand Cannon= MIGHTY MACHINE GUN OF DEATH!!!
This thing is bloody awesome, I am taking out Trolls and Cyclops’ in about 10 seconds.
I can’t believe it has taken me so long to discover this thing.
Much with the love!
Random interjection –
This isn’t new, but I had to experience it for myself….I just watched a couple of the hilarious E3 2011/2012 ’embarrassment’ videos on Youtube. They have me simultaneously laughing and also spewing up a little bit in my mouth.
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They’re so bad it hurts 😛
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No wonder PC gamers turn their noses up at the console market!
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So that felt rather awkward. I’ve been working on an assignment for a class for the past couple months and today everyone in the class was presenting what they’ve done. I was pretty happy with what I’d done. Other people go before me and present their work and I realize how poor my own work is. Pretty much everyone in the class has created something that blows mine out of the water. I then have to stand up and do my presentation, the whole time feeling embarrassed by the poor quality work I’ve put up. The whole thing’s just made me feel rather terrible. This is why I don’t like other people seeing things I’ve created.
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That happened me to in high school all the time, but I doubt you had issues like people stealing your work by almost any means necessary :P. The best you can do is think “This is what I made, and I’m proud of it!”
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My motto all throughout Uni has been “It’s not the end of the world!” haha
You’ll be fine! There’s no point dwelling on it now. Use what you’ve learned and improve on it for next time!
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Aw, I feel for you, I do.
Seriously, this happens to me at manifest. I look at my costume and then I look at others and think “wow, that is so much better then mine. Why do I bother?”
But their circumstances may be completely different then yours. Maybe they had more time? And yeah, it’s not the end of the world, the next presentation might just blow theirs out the water -
You might just be overly critical of yourself. Often you will be critical of your own work while over emphasising other peoples.
Other people in the class were probably thinking the same thing you were -
that sucks dude but as the others have said, don’t sweat it. P is a degree and all that… but use that feeling to motivate you in future projects if you can?
Something something blatant self-promotion. This should be up on Kotaku at some point today. Just depends on Mark’s consciousness.
Had fun last night doing Potaku. Once things got going it was fairly easy. Right up until the bit where I had to plug shameless gaming month and just kind of flustered for a bit before stumbling across a point.
Yay \o/
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The Doc’s editing magic will leave little trace of any stumbling or flustering.
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Just checked a few stats on my website.
4 people have stumbled across my site using Bing.
Bing!
I’m officially giving up hope of seeing the announcement of a KICKARSE collectors edition for Fall of Cybertron…
Another opportunity missed, Hasbro…
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I was holding out for one, too. Got fed up two days ago and preordered from EB – reasonable price ($78) and it included the preorder DLC for G1 Optimus. And everyone knows that G1 was best for vehicle Transformers (so, not including Beast Wars).
Anyone familiar with the l3pd3sk (or desk-housed computers in general, really)? I’m trying to figure out what I need/how I’ll do it for once I move off the Eylandt.
Also liquid submersion cooling. Gotta source some prices on mineral oil first though!
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I didn’t even know these existed 😛 They look cool!
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The l3pd3sk is insane, the guy’s got skills. I personally find all that UV lighting and LEDs gaudy, but that’s irrelevant.
I particularly like the idea of not having a dedicated space for the tower, as currently I have it sitting right by my left leg. Consolidating that into the desk itself just seems smart. If I could incorporate a filtration system for the oil directly beneath the main reservoir, would be ideal.
I can’t begin to imagine the weight of the damned thing though :p
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Fell asleep watching le Tour last night. Glad I did. Looks like another crash happened. Getting very sick of the crashing.
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Should have watched it, the break away totally foxed the peloton, came so so very close to stealing the stage
I hope Serrels is getting a decent recovery sleep, it’s been interesting watching the experiment progress.
On this note, what’s the craziest / most stupid things people have done around sleep experimentation?
Notable personal ‘events’ (not going to call them achievements since they’re not necessarily good things):
No sleep record: about 4.5 days
4 month stretch of 3-4 hours sleep a night. Had to pull the plug on that one when the chest pains started.
3 days ‘hibernation’ – sleeping about 21 hours/day.
I don’t do anything that silly these days, but knowing what that feels like makes it easy to pull the occasional 30 hour shift at work.
Probably a few more years until I have to worry about the challenges of parenthood.
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I used to have serious issues getting to sleep. Would often end up passing out after 3am (sometimes as late at 5am) and then having to get up around 6-7am for work. Went on for a long time. Right up until I got sacked for being consistently late for work. Now I head to bed a couple of hours before I plan to sleep. Makes it much easier to get the hours I need.
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I’ve actually been going to bed earlier (10-ish) than normal (11:30ish) this week, but have been waking up more tired. I wake up earlier then I have to , go back to sleep for another hour then get up barely able to keep my eyes open. Would probably be fine if I just stayed up in the first place, can you oversleep?
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Apparently, sleeping in chunks of 45 minutes helps. So if you wake up naturally after some period that’s a multiple of 45 minutes, you’ll be fine. Yet if you then roll over and go back to sleep for an hour, you’ve thrown out your rhythm or something and start to feel wretched.
Not entirely sure how well that holds up but it seems fairly true for me.
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I use this site to help calculate it.
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Oversleep is a huge issue man, you’re essentially still fatigued.
Have you read much on circadian rhythms? There’s a way to approximate just how much sleep you personally need, and if you keep it within reasonable limits, you’ll wake up feeling so much better than you would if you were to have that extra half-hour in bed.Personally, I’m good with 5, 7.5ish or 10 hours sleep. It differs for everyone though.
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When in my later school years, I was on about 4.5-5 hours sleep per night for 2 years or so.
Working 3 fulltime jobs later on had me at 2 hours sleep per night, for around 4 months. I burnt out VERY quickly there.
“Natural” sleep deprivation I think I got 4-5 days without sleep, maybe. Went rather loopy at about the 2.5 day mark. “Aided” sleep deprivation had me at about a week, maybe 8-9 days. I was loopy to begin with…
As for the “hibernation”, I believe I slept for around 2 days (only getting up for bodily functions, still half-asleep) after crashing post-aided sleepdep.
These days, I try to get a good 8 hours sleep per night, though it typically averages around 6 for weeknights, and goes up to 9-10 on my days off.
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I average about 4-5 hours sleep Sun-Fri. On the weekend I sleep about 3 hours a night or not at all.
My hours have always been screwy from work. At the moment, I work from 8am-4pm Monday-Friday. But also work Monday, Friday and Saturday night from 5pm- ~10:30ish getting home about 11pm.
for most summer months, I work 7 nights a week, plus working Mon-Fri during the day. I also used to work in a bakery before all that and start at 3am every morning. So my body just doesn’t know what to do anymore. I find if I sleep more than 5 hours I start to feel really shit, or if I go to bed early, I just end up waking up constantly during the night. -
I think I once stayed up for around 36 hours. That was fun. For the past week I’ve only been getting about 5 and a half hours sleep a night. Surprisingly, I’m not feeling that tired despite that.
Sid just had his bath. He is uber fluffy!
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Wooo! Fluffy! Also non-smelly is also a bonus 😛
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He is perfumed as well =D
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Wooo! The second after I bathe my dogs, they instantly run into the yard and roll around in the dirt / grass. All I can imagine going through their minds is “MUST GET UNCLEAN!”
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Sid doesn’t do that thank goodness
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omg i just gave my dog a bath
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TWINS!!!
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SHOUT BEING DANNY DEVITO
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…Wait.
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I agree scree probably has more muscle mass then you frond.
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No, because I get someone to bath my dog. Simply because he is too heavy/big for me to put in our bath.
Plus he gets really, really excited when the guy to bath him comes-
Bish, since when did you go into the dog bathing / grooming business?
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When I just had the cat-shit, bathing wasn’t an issue. Now I have a Labrador X Ridgeback it’s a bit of a struggle. It’s normally me tangled up in hose attempting to hold him still whilst the little one jumps all over me thinking we’re playing. On the plus side I get nice and fluffy too.
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XD More like nice and drenched =P
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Awww
TAYPLE
heheh sounds like table.
what is hoppining peeps?
i have to work tomorrow, but i get to see a movie with a friend tonight so thats cool. I
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Cliffhanger ending, 7/10, curious as to see how it gets resolved.
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The main character sounds like a jerk though, who does he think he is.
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Hotross!
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HOTJOEL
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Actually, it’s kinda cold today.
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COLDJOELS
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What happens when your’re bitten by a radioactive spider?
Not much apparently
Still… FOR SCIENCE?
I? I what? Why won’t you tell ussssss! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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WOOO REPLY FAIL.
I’M THE BEST!
AROUND!
NOTHINGS EVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN!-
AIN’T NEVER GONNA BREAK MY STRIDE
AIN’T NOTHIN’ GONNA HOOOOOOLD MEE DOWN
OH NO (oh no)
I’VE GOT TO KEEP ON MOOOOVIING
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REPLY FAIL NOBFROND
also how are you? i feel we have barely spoken this week.-
My normal life is pretty good but work is going pretty crap. Just got an email saying that the office I work at May be moved to Ayre. So that’s something =/
How are you doing man? I noticed you weren’t on TeamSpeak :(. You were missed, it’s good to know that you are not dead \o/
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i have been finish work early cause of my roster, playing a game of LoL or two and then doing stuff by myself. The more people on TS the bigger headache i seem to get, just need some quite time 🙂
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Hey Rocket, what’s going on with the LoLTAYTourney? That still being planned or we shelving it for a later date?
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I have to shelve it till next month sorry frond stevo and harli were missing and i am going away for a week after next week. Start of august is my new starting date 🙂
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Nah completely understandable, just so psyched about it 🙂 I’m one win away from getting my final champion before I go to focussing on rune pages.
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You LoL people have been ignoring Nobfriend :'(
he complained about it but NO ONE SAW IT
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Sorry NobFriend! I haven’t played LoL much all week. Looking to erectify that tonight, if the girlfriend will let me.
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“erectify”
Um.
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*Rectify
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A very ‘you’ thing to say, though.
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Hairy Muff. (Slang for fair enough)
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I so much without a doubt will make certain to do not disregard this web site and give it a glance regularly.
The one thing I missed about updating my site regularly was the spam comments. Looks like I’m in for a fun month 🙂
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Why do they bother? Is it setting the groundwork for something or is there an AI out there on the interwebs who is trying to master small talk?
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Some people are dumb enough to think that they’re real, which means that their websites are then linked on other sites giving them better page ranking with Google.
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Sinister. :S
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I prefer to think of it as devious.
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Not only that, but with relation to blogspot and such, a (small) profit can be made from clicking links and such. Get enough bots together, clicking through to each blog, add inane comments on active blogs. Those that aren’t entirely savvy may mistake a bogus comment as legitimate, thus increasing hits on their own blog.
More hits, more money.-
There’s a whole network of people out there making trash blogs with the sole intent of making money from trash click throughs. It’s kind of impressive. They don’t even seem to realise that other people don’t like what they’re doing.
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I don’t think it’s a lack of awareness. It’s a lack of empathy.
Why stop doing something because someone else disagrees? Personally, I couldn’t be bothered setting aside the time to set it up, as I believe the payout doesn’t in any way justify the input.Still, after the initial energy outlay, you get a decent return for doing nothing, I guess :p
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It’s the same logic but they genuinely don’t understand that people don’t like what they’re doing.
I’ve seen posts about someone trying to exploit Reddit for this sort of thing, they got caught out, complained on one of the forums these people frequent and everyone was very sympathetic to her.
It doesn’t look like a very worthwhile venture but it probably looks like “no effort” money.
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If there’s no effort, it’s not worth doing. I actually enjoy the fact that the small amount of money and possessions I have, I worked for. I earned it. I’m proud of it.
I can’t say I’d be proud of myself if I were to have simply been given these things, money included.
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There are people who love the idea of something for nothing and don’t understand why it doesn’t actually work.
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We need to start a convoluted ponzi scheme 😀
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A simple one would probably do the trick.
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Does anybody own/have experience with LG LED TV’s? Was originally thinking of getting an el-cheapo, figured it wasn’t worth the risk if I had to send it back in a few months and have found a 42″ LG for < $600.
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My tv is a LG its is used pretty much all day by my grandparents had it for 2 years and hasnt skipped a beat.
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I have an LG LED, no complaints at all. Beautiful colours, great picture. I remember the first time I turned it on it almost brought a tear to the eye after years of gaming on a dodgy SDTV.
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(My familys old TV was LG too, lasted for a decade. Really sturdy brand.)
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Not sure about LED, but I got a cheapo brand 32″ LCD from JB about 5 years ago – still works fine.
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Thanks guys – Was mainly looking to see if they were reliable. For those interested in a cheap(ish) tv from a good brand, I found it here,.
Boss called work said if we’re quiet that I should be sent him cause I have the highest hourly wage of those in this morning. Going home now. Don’t know if I should be sad or happy (the extra hours would of been nice)
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Be happy! And celebrate by drinking yourself into oblivion! YAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!
No? Probably best not to.
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Speaking of which, is TAYbar on tonight?
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BLAGHS IS UP ONLY JUST BEFORE MIDDAY.
The world is returning to its status quo-
I was up an hour ago, I just didn’t have anything to say.
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Sure man just like i have a sexy policewoman waiting in my bed tonight Wink wink.
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They allow policewomen in your town? I thought they’d be stoned for being witches, and advancing the liberal(as in the definition of the word, not the party) too much.
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hehe liberal
No they don’t thats why it is so laughable. We stoned all the witches a few days ago. its nice we gots no magical lesbians here anymore 😛
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Better yet, drink yourself into Skyrim!
I’m fairly sure that’s illegal, even if you’re a casual on a set shift.
It can be offered to you to volunteer to sacrifice hours and leave, but ordering you off site due to your pay rate is all sorts of illegal discrimination.
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Eh it’s alright I’m tired anyway.
The size of my Pile of Shame went up again this week. 🙁 Damn Atlus PSN sale. Now with the rumors that Persona 4 Arena’s going to be region locked on PS3 I’m severely regretting giving them my money.
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Wait… what!?
They can region lock PS3 games? Why would they do that?
You’d hope they at least do it so we could use all PAL copies and not go so far as to region lock it to Aus/NZ = us (ie. UK/European won’t work).
I haven’t played P4 yet and I’m not really a fan of fighting games so I’m not too bothered but it still seems like a stupid decision…
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I didn’t think it was possible either. I mean, aside from region locking any online components. You’d think if it was possible there would be a lot of JP games which would be locked to JP-only like their 360 counterparts. But Atlus have gone full douche and say they’re region locking it so I can only presume they’ve found a way.
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Morning Everyone!
Anyone had experience with Kogan? i decided to finally buy the GS3 and was looking for more information on them, i realise they grey import and such (unsure of which country though). Anything else that i may have overlooked? I wasnt sure whether to get that or the HTC one X but after oning the first galaxy i settled on the GS3
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My brother got a GS2 from them a while back, and had no problems. Just check that the frequencies used match up to your chosen telco – Whirlpool have a list here: http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/mobile_phone_frequencies
Also, I think Pez had some issues when he got a TV(?) from Kogan recently.-
Quick check suggests it will work with current 3G in Aus.
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This is pretty damn awesome. Here’s hoping he films a new video now for his future future self.
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I was expecting a relatively serious interview there (well, as serious as you can get when attempting to cross the time-continuum?), with the 12yo asking actual questions pertaining to the changes he’s experienced in the last 20 years, the act of maturing, etc.
Don’t get me wrong, it was a very interesting video, and quite well done. I just think my expectations may have detracted from the final product.-
You expected a serious interview… from a twelve year old?
To me, it’s far better that he was shown as far more mature being 32 than he was when he was 12.
It made the interview quite interesting.-
I expected pensive answers. It was nice to see the 12yo was exactly that, 12 years old. And to come up with that idea? THAT is brilliant in and of itself.
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Yeah, you’re right, but you can blame the 12 year old for being a 12 year old. Not much he can do with the material. 😛
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It is awesome, indeed.
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That was pretty cool. I wish my 12 year old self was cool enough to leave me a tape.
So what’s on our respective menus today, TAY?
Fettuccine bosciolla with blue cheese for me ^.^
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Just ate an insanely huge serve of pasta bake. I regret nothing. 😛
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I LOVE a good pasta bake.
My ex used to cook it all the time! Unfortunately, she wasn’t very good, but it’s the thought that counts :p…I’m gonna cook some tonight, methinks ^.^
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Mi Goreng!
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Throw an egg in there, some japanese mayo, tofu (if you’ve got some) and serve on a lettuce leaf. BEST!
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…boil packet noodles, add flavour sachets, eat.
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Mi goreng without an egg just isn’t right.
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I was going to have a boring old toasted cheese and ham sandwich but now I shall have Mi Goreng with an egg and possibly some meat 😛
TAY MARKETINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
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I can’t remember exactly what it was called but it was something like caramal pork belly something. It was delicious!
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And now I want to eat my fingers because they smell delicious!
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Save me one? Caramelised pork belly sounds amazing!
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Sorry, it is all gone. So now I have a belly within my belly. That’s Inception stuff right there.
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BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP
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No lunch so either a wollies trip or one of my ready made meals. Thai red curry or soup hmmmmmm
Soup.
I am now super tempted to cook carbonara for dinner again tonight. Made the proper way without icky cream, mind you.
I don’t know if any of you remember, but I’m currently doing work experience making a website for a local travel company and I’m almost done! So I’ll finally have something substantial in my resume. The manager also said that they would send me on a holiday as a thankyou! “Just tell us where you want to go,” they said. Exciting! (I’m assuming it won’t be ANYWHERE. But even if it’s somewhere in Australia I wouldn’t say no!)
So yeah, I’m in a good mood 😀 I hope everyone else is doing well!
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Happy Caterpie!
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Good job man 😀 my resume is… severely lacking anything of significance 😛
Fly to Melbourne (bring your car) then drive us to Sydney meats. BEST HOLIDAY!
Some Trijn guy has a piece up on the front page right now. Seems like a bit of a dick.
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I saw that but figured it was a collaboration of 3 jns
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Naw, he’s just going for the triptych of “me, myself and I”.
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Or better yet, “Father, son and holy spirit” :p
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Id, ego and super-ego?
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This guy gets it!
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Actually, this whole comment thread reminds me of something I wrote ages ago. I’ma go find it ^.^
…I’d really like to get back into my writing, actually.
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I told him what for.
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Actually you told Trjn not Trijn 😛
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That was the best part 🙂
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Someone’s just sealed a Community Kudos. 😛
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\o/ If after all these months I win it through fake-trolling, I’ll be remarkably happy.
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Fake? Well that changes everything…
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/o\ :'(
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Does anyone have any belief that the next xbox is on its way?
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On its way? Sure.
On its way soon? Probably not.
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Of course it’s on its way. How soon is the question, though.
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Absolutely, but no idea when. End of 2013 is the guess I’ve seen and that makes sense. It’s certainly not hitting this year or else we’d have seen something about it by now.
oh man, i got into the source film maker beta, as someone who is considering a career in 3D animation, i am so excited, the tools looked fantastic
Oh wow. I just found out that a very dear friend of mine -and someone I’ve looked up to for years with regard to their literary prowess- was nothing more than a plagiarist. Holy crapballs!
My mind’s reeling at the moment. I had based so much of my own work off hers, and the amount of discussions we had.
Just wow.
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That sucks /o\
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Harsh life lesson learning that some people aren’t the person you thought they were. Sucks even more when it’s someone close.
To the TAYBar!
I know im a little late to the party, but thoughts on the first season of legend of korra?
I loved all of it, but i feel like it wrapped up far too quickly and out of nowhere almost. Felt a little rushed IMHO. Cant wait to see more of it though especially as it seems like a lot more is about to be explained as far as what happened in the inbetween years
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I would have loved it to be about three episodes longer but I was still very happy with everything. Quite like how things were tied together in the end.
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i guess there was no other way for it to be tied together so neatly. Although it definately leaves me wanting more, especially from some of the characters that haven’t had massive parts so far and have only just been introduced
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I agree that it felt rushed and they could’ve fleshed out certain plot points over a few more episodes but this “rushed” feeling at least made it have all meat and barely any filler. The original Avatar had tons of filler and didn’t really feel like it got anywhere that quickly, while Korra feels like it got somewhere too quickly. Hopefully they’ll work out the kinks and Book 2 will be awesomesauce :D, I know I’m definitely looking forward to it!
Oh and just a heads up if you wanna talk about spoilery moments just use rot13 🙂
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i only just started watching avatar recently, because of every talking about korra, i just got up to the third season and can’t believe i missed the show as a kid, it’s surprisingly really good.
Clearly, I’m in the wrong business. I just priced a prebuilt PC with very similar specs to mine (I’ve paid $2500-$3000 at retail prices all up with mine, including monitors, headphones, chair etc.) and it came to ~$8,000… what the hell?!
It’s not like there’d be much labour in it either.
so… anyone in the market for a computer? I’ve got mine up for sale at a steal, only $6500. Save $1500 NOW!
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WTF could even be in it?
Considering you can buy rigs like this http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1411&products_id=20710-
And there go my dreams of ripping off the uninformed masses :p
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Haha, I meant more a retail PC going for $8000. That would have to be rocking 2×690’s with full water cooling.
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Dielectric fluid submersion with radiator and filtration is my guess as to the ridiculous price. Still, by the materials yourself, and I expect the cost of mine (if added to the current total) would be no more than $4k. Ugh.
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God dammit, I can’t stand unintentional typos.
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An hour and a half left before I go home. It’s going to be a very long hour and a half.
At least the clock in my office works again, so I can stare at it.
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If it wasn’t working, you could stare at it and pretend that you could stop time, like Hiro from Heroes.
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The clock was stuck at 11:55.
Who would stop time at 5 minutes before lunch? A villain, that’s who! If you pretend to be Hiro, you need to pretend to be a naive hero.
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It was me bwahahahahhahaha
But I do lunch at 11:30 so my lunch break finishes at 12:00
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Ours broke. I think it got manganese dust inside it. Oops.
Hey, sorry about missing the Trials Evo Mokotaybikeu results this week. Was up on the Gold Coast for my Uncles funeral. I might get the comp back if I can, otherwise I might mix it up and have a skill game or something so the competition is a little varied? Let me know what you think.
As for the funeral and stuff, it was actually a really fitting send off for the dude and as much as it was a hard time for the family it really brought us all much closer together. So much love and everyone actually saying it and showing it. Even with family it is hard sometimes to say I love you… But yeah came back really happy with how it all went and glad that there was such strong family support for my Aunty. They had been together for 40 years so can’t imagine what it would be like.
Im not going to get all emotional on here but just thought I’d share that because it was a good reminder to me about the important stuff. I was actually really stressed at work and once I found out that my uncle was getting really sick, it just put it all into perspective, Now work isn’t a problem. It’s as busy as it was, but I’m just not as worried about it and doing the best I can.
Anyway, now I am back I can get into shameless gaming! been waiting for ages for this!
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Glad to hear that you’ve managed to shine some perspective on it all man. Too often we lose focus.
I didn’t realize at the time, but I made a horribly insensitive joke on twitter regarding a photo you posted, and for that I want to apologise. Had I understood the circumstances, no way in hell would I have mentioned it.All the best man, I look forward to getting schooled by you in Trials Evo once I buy it (hopefully next week, just as soon as I finish HD).
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Seriously don’t give it any thought. I don’t even remember what if anything you said? And man I’m totally all for insensitive jokes anyway so i may have laughed regardless.. but cheers. 🙂
As for shameless gaming, I really think Amnesia is my first one. I really love that game and I am about 7 hours into it so I can’t be too far from the end. After that I think Stacking is next to go as I was enjoying that. Then Im not sure. Given the amount fo gaming im doing lately, I think that may be enough.
Im also in the middle of a large Trials Evo project. Im taking screen shots and blending them all together to make a single HD map of the in game world in the editor. It will take me ages but I have proven that its possible. Here is a shot of about 1/6 of the map I’ve done so far.
So yeah, that will be about it for me!
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That’s only 1/6 of it? Jesus, for a two-dimensional game, that’s huge!
I’ve got Amnesia sitting on the top of my pile now, perhaps I should look at that prior to purchasing Evo >.<
I really ought to set July not only as Shameless Gaming Month, but also as Don't-Purchase-Any-More-Freaking-Games-You-Idiot-There's-Not-Enough-Time-To-Play-The-Ones-You-Already-Have Month too… -
If there is a bigger Trials fan than you, I haven’t met them.
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In a week or two you will see just how big of a fan I am 😉
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Ha Ha, I see what you did there. 🙂
Can’t wait. Make sure there is video as well.
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*hugs*
I know how you feel. I had both an aunt and a grandfather pass away last year. Sure makes you rethink things.
@Beavwa, you’re right man. I’ll see you there in a few hours!
Dear God,
Please stop trying to convert me. More importantly, tell you followers. They’re boring me and stopping me from getting work done.
Sincerely,
Rize
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They just can’t win… If someone was to firmly believe -nay, KNOW- that those around them were, upon reaching the end of the mortal coil, going to burn for all of eternal in the fires of… eternal damnation, and NOT try to save them? How selfish is that?
I rage at the inequality and “holier than thou” attitude taken by those non-preachers.Look at the inquisition, the Mayan civilizations, the conquests and religious wars that have ravaged society. They KNEW that non-believers were going to burn, and tried to save them from the torment. They tried, man.
It’s good to see people trying once more for what they believe in, whether it be right or wrong, misguided or not 😛
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But they’ve just found god particles! Even SCIENCE has proven the bible!
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I’M HAVING QUANTUM SOUP FOR DINNER
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I FEEL LIKE NUETRONS TONIGHT, LIKE NUETRONS TONIGHT!
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SPEELLING FAELLLLLLLLL
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I technically work for them 😛
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Not trying to start an argument, and I know your comment was in jest, but I think you’ll find that most of the religious wars were more due to people abusing religion to get their own way rather than religion itself. I mean, the second most important commandment of christianity is to show love to everyone. That requires a lot of messing up to be used as a reason to wage war on another country/race/religion. But, sadly, thanks to knowledge not being as freely available back then as it is today, it was rather easy to do. And christianity is still rather messed up from it.
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I’d say the majority of religious wars had little blame towards religion. More often than not it’s the same as a non-religious war: an idiot got to power, then things went South 😛
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please don’t spark religious arguments
OH SHIT! I need new pants 🙁
I just heard a rat/quoll/water buffalo in the wall behind my desk. IN THE WALL.
Scared me senseless!
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Everybody’s got a water buffalo, yours is fast but mine is slow,
Oh where’d we get them I don’t know but everybody’s got a water buffalo-oooooooooo!-
I took my buffalo to the store
Got his head stuck in the door
Spilled some lima beans on the floor
Oh everybody’s got a--
Stop it! Stop! Stop right this instant!
What do you think you are doing?
You can’t say everybody’s got a water buffalo, when everyone does NOT have a water buffalo!
We’re going to get nasty letters saying, “Where’s my water buffalo? Why don’t I have a water buffalo?”
And are you prepared to deal with that? I don’t think so!
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Everybody’s got a baby kangaroo
Your’s is pink but mine is blue.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
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Hahaha! Thanks for cheering me up lambos
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It’s been ages since I’ve seen a Lambo post like this 😀
Carry on, sir, carry on!
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Water buffalo? Gee boss, I don’t have one of those anywhere. Sorry!
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Oh man, I get this all the time! D:
Xenomorph.
Sydney friends!
I am in your city this weekend and the gf wants hot pot. Any suggestions? We’re staying down on the harbor, so anywhere nearby would be gravy!
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Your girlfriend wants hot pot.
I suggest you get hot pot.
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IF you can get a booking… Ms. G
What a draining day. The national 2IC of the company spent the day in the shop to assess my performance and the stores, watching every single move I made like a hawk.
Stressful.
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So how’d it go, was it for any thing in particular?
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Assessment of my training.
How dd it go? 95/100. Highest in the state.
Suck it competitors.
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Fuck yeah o/
Good work dude!
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congratulations!!
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Show off.
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Out for dinner. Order a berry acai caipiroska because it was all raspberry and line and sounded awesome. Waitress brings the drink out and puts it straight in front of my wife without missing a beat.
I call sexist!
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Grow some tits, longer hair & lose the beard then you might have it brought to you next time =P
Also what did it taste like?
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Fruity and sour therefore tasted of awesomeness.
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Did you call her out for being sexist?
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Best \o/
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Sounds just like when you haven’t eaten all day so you order a big meal, then they put in something like 4 forks because 1 person could not possibly eat all that.
TAY!!! My mouse died, just as I got my 3rd monitor installed /o\
Awaiting response from PCCG to see about the warranty. I’ve only had it for four months or so!
I guess I’ll have to use my shitty (but reliable!) Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 3000 in the meantime.
Am I the only one on TAY who is still awake at the moment?
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Still here mang!
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No. No you’re not.
Insomnia is a hell of a crappy thing. 🙁
Twice I’ve been to bed for an hour, then given up and got up for an hour. About to try again.I did get a good sleep last night, so at least I have that fond memory to comfort me. :/
Ah final day of three. I’m so excited to sleep in tomorrow.
Went to see Ted last night. Really wasn’t expecting much. But I got surprised by a solid and consistently funny movie. Probably is the best comedy I’ve seen for a long time. It’s pretty lowbrow stuff but I was giggling like an idiot for a lot of it. And I don’t think I’ve ever actually been in a cinema when a major chunk of the audience start clapping and cheering at one point until last night.
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As a disclaimer I generally don’t like Seth McFarlane. Family guy stopped being funny a long time ago and American Dad never was but he seems to have got his act together this time.
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Really keen to watch this… I like Mark Wahlberg But find Seth Macfarlane very hit or miss, and I was always nervous that all the funny parts are covered in the trailer
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It was about 30 mins before the first scene from a trailer so that’s not the case thankfully.
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Guys and gals! Here’s Potaku Unplugged! It’s just random talking and stuff but still pretty sweet! Listen here or on iTunes! http://potaku.podbean.com/2012/07/07/potaku-unplugged-canberra-part-1/
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It feels like I’m really there!
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is $5.99 at gog.com.
If you haven’t played it get it. Great game.
Deal at EB. Trade in your iPad for $200 of iTunes gift cards.
Thank you good sir! I shall put these to good use on my….shit.
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haha, one of my work mates was having problems with his computer and during the boot screen it would say “Error: keyboard not detected. Please press F1 to continue”. O.O
Our ironing board just collapsed. We knew it was on the way out, but we had no idea how close it was.
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That’s what you get for surfing on it. 😛
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We’re lucky it didn’t crush the dog. He’s even more afraid of it now
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Yikes.
Poor pooch.
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I really hope Rockstar is secretly working on a HD collection of the GTA series. I understand it’s a huge undertaking, what with the various expansive game worlds, but I think it would be a fantastic business move. They could even offer access to the GTA 5 multiplayer beta when you buy the games new.
The first two top down GTA games and their expansion packs( GTA london: 1961 and 1969) could be a HD collection for the VITA/3DS while the three third person open world games could be a HD collection for the PS3/360.
Please Rockstar, I hope you’re secretly doing this.
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Given that they’ve done an iPad version of GTA3 it looks like they’re still happily playing around with the older code, so I’d say this would be well within the realm of possibility.
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& PC HD remakes right? =P
I would buy Vice City again if it was released in HD, and maybe include the ability to swim x.x
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And PC of course 🙂
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So that was a huge waste of time 😛
Just went to the dentist for a check up and cleaning. I went in and he (the dentist) looked at my teeth for like 30 seconds, said they were good and that I didn’t need a clean up. And… That was it… Thanks!
Then he said all this stuff about removing wisdom teeth… Derp such useless things. So not looking forward to getting that done and they seem fine to me at the moment. I only have 3, one is grown and the other 2 at the bottom haven’t poked out yet. Has anyone had problems with them? Did anyone just let them grow? And how old were you when they grew or when you got them removed?
Bishhhhhhh when you got yours removed recently were they growing or fully grown? Still painful? 😛
Sorry for all the questions, I’m just curious and wondering. I feel like I left it too late since I recall lots of people getting it done in year 11/12 of high school (16-18). Cheers!
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I had my Wisdom teeth out when I was 19, and that was because all four of them were impacted(one of them was at a 45 degree angle from where it should have been). I went in for surgery, they knocked me out, and I was eating solid food the next day(though carefully). Apart from my mouth being constantly sore, I was essentially recovered after three days, though I milked it for a while longer.
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Hmm I’ll probably be opting for the cheaper non-knockout option. Were they grown (poking out) when you got them removed?
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Umm, 2 of them were partially sticking out, but not very much.
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When I went to the dentist recently (damn that sucked, so many filling and an extraction), the only good news was that I didn’t need anything done about my wisdom teeth.
Apparently they’d grown into some place where they could be taken out but it is probably unnecessary (as well as expensive and painful). Got lucky on that one.
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Lucky on the wisdom teeth, unlucky on the other stuff 😛
From the X-ray I had done earlier this year it doesn’t really look like I’d have much problems but who knows. I wish they’d just grow without problems or pain 🙁
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I had one taken out about 6 months ago. Dentist said it should only take 20mins. Ended up taking 4 hours as it turned out the roots had fused to the jawbone and the tooth broke into 3 pieces while trying to remove it.
Fun times.
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It’s like what happened to me, except mine was infected, needed 3 injections, had to have part of my gum cut out, discovered it had 3 roots instead of the normal 2 or 4.
Also, had a panic attack at the same time (I’m terrible with needles), so I was shaking the entire time.
The dentist didn’t laugh at me, but Roy, my surrogate grandfather did.
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Pretty sure my wisdom teeth experience is better than the average person.
Off the top of my head, about 3 years ago I suddenly started getting jaw pain (sharp stabbing, I suppose) that would come and go. My dentist nor my previous dentist had said anything prior to this (but my old dentist retired and I guess the new dentist didn’t have any records), before I mentioned it. Dentist poked around and told me to get an OPG. So I got him his X-rays of my jaw.
My top two wisdom teeth had already popped out, but he said it was aligned like any regular tooth, and he could yank them out with local anaesthetic and fancy dentist pliers. So he did. Took ten minutes, and I was off on my way. The stabbing pain went away after that.
Few months ago, I had my regular checkup. He poked around the back again and said my bottom wisdom teeth had started popping out, and I should get them out. These ones were 90 degrees aligned/perpendicular to all the regular teeth (impacted), so oral surgery was required. Arranged that. Went to day surgery, got knocked out, woke up, sat around for a bit until they booted me out the door, got driven home. Next week was full of Codeine, puffy cheeks, and mush as food. The pain after the first 3 days wasn’t so bad, but I was still so swollen that I couldn’t chew properly, and the stitches in the back of my mouth hadn’t come undone yet. Pain went away after about a week.Here’s what I gather though, Dentists want you to get them out ASAP because they will eventually lead to trouble. Maybe in two years, maybe in ten years, but they will usually cause you some discomfort at some point in time. An infection is bad, but a really bad case can leave you with nerve damage in your face. So yeah, if they keep bugging you it’s just because they’re, well, trying to do their job. It may or may not be urgent for you right now, but they’d prefer them out before they do any damage at all.
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Thanks Bish 🙂
I guess getting them out when I’m nearly 20 isn’t so late after all, but like you said earlier is better. Stupid useless teeth…
Hopefully all goes well and my dentist can get it done as quickly as possible so I can recover quickly with as little pain as possible. I’m not getting the knocked out/sleeping option so we’ll see how it goes…
Guess I’ll write an update/rant in 5 months :). Thanks all for the replies!
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WOOO! I know have hobo-Gloves \o/!
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no, now … now you stupid phone.
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HOBO GLOVESES \o/
SHAMELESS GAMING UPDATE, YOU SAY?
Inferno II down with 395 faults and a time of 29:16… I don’t care, it’s done.
Next up? I think I’ll start/finish limbo, then see how I’m going for Amnesia or Trials Evo.
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Limbo is really short so I’m sure you’ll be able to finish it by the end of the weekend.
I’ll say this again on Monday but can everyone who will be at my Meat next Saturday please DM me your email address on Twitter, or email me at my gamertag(look it up in the TAYNames doc) at gmail.com.
Just need an idea of numbers so I know how much food to grab, and also need your email addresses so I can send you details like time/place. 🙂
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Also, D.C. ( if you’re reading this): your presence is required. It’s for mah Birthday, dammit. 😛
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Emailed you =)
Loving Deus Ex: Human Revolution, put 17 hours into the campaign so far on my first play through. It’s just such a fascinating game. I wish more games could be this well put together, this long & have such an amazing story to them. I think it’s what is missing in today’s games, apart from a few which have such lengthy & involved stories.
I’m running dual monitors, dual keyboards, and dual mice on my tower.
Why?
Because I can.
\o/
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It’s all in the name of science, right? =P
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I need all that power to produce an interdimensional gateway so I can chat with dark lords.
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I can support this!
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Finally got around to getting the rest of the 5th season of The Big Bang Theory, it’s actually a fair bit better than the first half heh.
I got asked the weirdest and most hilarious question about homeschooling last night. “At your formals, do you and your brother go with each other?” o.O
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Do you though!? Or do you just go with lambogirl :P?
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Ew, no! I wouldn’t go out with him! 😛
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Clothes line: 4, Lambo: 1…
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Oh no, not again D=
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I did a google image search for killer clothesline and this was the first result.
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Um…alright.
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http://www.gingerbreadghetto.com/_Media/killer-clothesline_large.jpeg
I got that first :/
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So I found out what that opening is, it’s called a busk.
Now to find one in Australia…
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This will explain everything
http://corsetmaking.com/category/standard-busks.html-
That’s an odd name. I’d have called them chazzwazzers!
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It seems to be very specialized. There’s only 2 Australian websites that sell them
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I went toy shopping with te kids without the calming influence of my wife.
Needless to say I now have a Nerf gun.
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In order to shoot the kids if they misbehave, right?
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A Nerf gun?
I’m disappointed.
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I’m sure the Nerf Gun is ‘for the kids’, right?
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@Aleph – it certainly wasn’t to shoot the cat *looks around nervously*
@Trjn – as you should be *hangs head in shame*
@mashaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa – the kids can get a job and get their own damn gun. This ones mine. 😛
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My cats are pretty terrified of my Nerf guns. If I point one anywhere near them, they run. I’ve never shot directly at one of them, though, and they’ve never seen me fire them before, so I guess they just naturally understand that they should not like Nerf guns…
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Sid is terrified of the noise of them. I’ve never shot him and actually don’t use it when he is around because he doesn’t like it.
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BAM! YOU HAVE TO LOSE ONE OF THE MAIN 5 SENSES, WHICH ONE IS IT?!
Smell for me I guess? I don’t know!!
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Balance because i pretty much dont have that already.
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Touch.
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Yeah, I’d be going with smell. Although isn’t that intrinsically linked with taste as well? I’d hate to give up taste.
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I don’t think time, balance or common sense are part of the 5 basic senses :p
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YEAH GUISE PLAY BY THE RULEZ
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I would say taste. The other senses are just too important.
Smell is good for knowing when something is off or if there is a gas leak or fire. Taste doesn’t have any real danger it can prevent except for maybe poisoning.
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I’d say taste is just as important, say you have a severe food allergy and you eat something you will probably be able to taste said food you have an allergy to, where as you might not be able to see or smell it before.
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Not really. I didn’t know I was allergic to green tea until I used green tea products.
As long as you test it on your skin first, you should be aware.
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I agree. If I absolutely had to lose a sense, taste is probably the best option (even though eating would become incredibly boring :P)
The last sense I would want to lose is sight though, definitely.
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Taste.
To clarify to those wondering above, the “flavour” of something is derived thanks to a combination of your sense of smell, and your taste. With no smell, but taste, you’ll be able to tell how sweet/savoury something is, as well as saltiness, sourness, bitterness, and some other “basic” areas. Your opinion on the taste of something will typically also be far more affected by its texture than a smelling person. There’s a whole bunch of other receptors your tongue has as well, and thanks to the number of them they give you a much more accurate gauge of the subtle “taste” of something than your smell does, even if the smell adds flavour.
I’d go without taste though, because ehhh, all I eat is crap anyway.
Sense of time. Who really needs that anyway with watches and phones.
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Sense of reply buttoning!
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Or was I just making a random comment?* You’d look like a fool then I tell you hwat!
*I wasn’t.
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That Neal Stephenson Kickstarter project Clang reached it’s $500,000 mark today with 30 hours to go. So it means there will be a great sword fighting mod that uses motion control for the PC coming out next year. Yay!
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What motion controller will it use? The razer hydra? Kinect for Pc? Or have they not specified that yet? I’ll have to keep an eye on this, it sounds like it could be heaps of fun.
When I become ruler of the world (or at least just the important bits), the first things I will be doing is banning long sleeved shirts and telephones. Telephones just terrify me. I’m sorta okay with answering them, but I try to avoid doing that. If I have to make a phone call, I just freak out, start shaking, can’t get myself to do it. Even if it is to call someone I know, like my lovely grandmother. So, all telephones will be banned, and people will have to talk to each other using text based forms of communication.
I might let teamspeak live though 😛
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I’m so wearing a long sleeve shirt if we’re ever at the same Meat >:D
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With a phone printed on the front.
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You guys are just evil. 🙁
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Oh ideas, I could screen print something up before Saturday I bet!
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Yeah I’m not fond of using phones to actually call people but I’m alright at answering mine and talking to friends. I never pick up the home phone though 😛
I’ve seen you complain about long sleeve shirts before but they’re not that bad! I’m about to wear one! They make good bumming around the house clothes and they’re good to wear under uniforms for sport 🙂
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Wearing multiple layers of clothes?? Ugh, that’s even worse.
I just really don’t like the sleeves touching my lower arms and hanging around my wrists. So irritating! Short sleeve shirts are the best, especially for wearing around the house. So much more freeing and relaxing.-
Well yeah you kinda live in whoop whoop where I assume it’s quite warm 😛
Try having to do sport in freezing cold weather in the pouring rain and wind. Long sleeve shirts and multiple layers of clothes will be your best friend 😀
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I have to mentally psyche myself up before I can call anyone. It’s a little… problematic.
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I think Trjn has dibs on becoming ruler of the world.
I hate phones too.
But long sleeve shirts are nice and I don’t get why you hate them. 😛
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Yeah, I used to only wear long sleeved shirts.
Got too fat for mine though, so now they’re in my clothing pile of shame(It’s a thing).
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So many unworn clothes!
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No, I’ve worn them all, I’m just too fat to now. Woooooo. Lardacious.
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You should donate them or… combine them into one giant long sleeve shirt that’ll fit 😀
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No, I’ve got many other clothes that I should donate first. These ones are there to mock me, to motivate me. Trust me, I know what I’m doing. Also, because I’m a doctor.
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I thought Trjn had dibs on the galaxy? All I want are the important bits of earth 😛
Bah.
If you become ruler of the world, I’ll form a counter culture that’s completely based around the long sleeved shirt.
😛
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The church of the long sleeved shirt? Weekly burnt offerings of short sleeved shirts to the long sleeve shirt god? 😛
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Yes.
It would be glorious.
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Max Payne 3 is gone from my pile of shame… Enjoy a good holiday Max… Good luck in staying off the sauce…
I didn’t think it was possible for people to hate on The Beatles, but I guess anything is possible in this day & age *sigh*
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They’re probably Nicky Minaj fans…. *sigh*
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What’s a Manaj?
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You honestly do not want to know.
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It’s more than 1% but yeah, not enough current top 40 artists write their own shit.
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Oh god, not that person.. I learnt of her recently, wish I didn’t.
Was anyone else watching the motogp?
Stoner went off on the last lap with a few corners left.
🙁
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Nope, not gonna now either I hear this =P
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Missed it. Just got home. 🙁
About to sit down for the Tour on SBS. IF my SBS reception settles down!
Otherwise it’s Portal2. Either way I’m prepared. I have honeycomb flavoured marshmellows covered in chocolate – just to keep my energy up 😉-
Nevermind – just found the live stream on cyclingcentral. \o/
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I guess it was a… rocky road.
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