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So… Darksiders II is pretty sweet. Haven’t played much, but like it so far. Same Darksiders vibe but with a twist.
The only issue I have with it is I can see everything or read the text/stats on my crumby CRT.
I really should have bought a new TV before I bought an apartment. Probably won’t be able to afford one for a while.
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Wow, I thought I was alone and everyone else had sweet HDTVs. I have an old CRT as well and I assume you meant to write ‘can’t see’ and yes, I have that problem with a lot of games when I use my CRT. I’m sure the games would look better as well on a HDTV. Oh well. 🙂
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Oh, yeah *can’t see.
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I put two CRT’s next to each other to make it seem more high tech http://yfrog.com/odx3unjkj
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Ha Ha, sweet dual monitor setup 😉
At least the CRTs are helpful for playing older games. Mine is great when I need to play my PS2 games.
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masha! flu! My new CRT buddies \o/
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On the bright side CRT has excellent colours! I was sad when my old one blew up, was the go to TV for watching old movies and playing old games.
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Really? Cool. Now I’ll never throw away this thing 🙂
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TRANSFORMERS WEEK!
Sure my copy is preordered online and probably won’t show up until next week or so, but IT’S STILL TRANSFORMERS WEEK!
This is like Space Marine week but with TRANSFORMERS!
Also when attending the Transformers FoC talk at ComicCon the team confirmed that there WILL be another Stan Bush song in Fall of Cybertron.
YEEAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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I’m looking forward to using my pre-order G1 Optimus skin in multiplayer as a Decepticon. Nemesis Prime time, baby! Whoo!
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Blasphemy!
Also, I didn’t know the G1 Prime skin was usable in multiplayer.
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Post #1: AlexPants on Monday, August 13, 2012 at 8:31 AM
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50 posts, a nice round number 🙂
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Wow what the hell TaY. Back in my day we were pushing 7,000+ posts, also walked to school barefoot etc.
also for your lunchtime viewing:
OPPA GUNDAM STYLE
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OPPA HANGMAN STYLE!!!
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Is it weird that I noticed most of the girls had the same generic red shirt gundam helm (I don’t remember what it’s actually called but it’s the generic one that gets blown up a lot when the heroes show up). Even Hyuna had a pink version of it.
Except the girls at the end dressed as different occupations.
Why am I even analysing this?
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But is it art? 🙂
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Slip me $20 and anything you want can be art.
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I love doing my washing. Today I found $55 in the breast pocket of my work shirt!
\o/
Old Man Doc_What’s Birthday Meat
In a daring move that seemed waaaay too reminiscent of high school, I was first to arrive. Doc seemed so lonely in his sister’s huge and very nice house. Major kudos to her for allowing us to use it. I had planned on borrowing a bunch of Nerf guns from my neighbours, but when I went to collect them no one was home. However seeing the giant pile of weapons and ammunition on the floor, I fel safe saying that anything I would have brought would have been next to useless by comparison.
After chatting for a little while, Doc and I fired up the PS3 while we waited for the others to show up. Scrolling through the list of games, I came across a title that I had been desperate to play – Journey. I felt kinda bad about picking out a single player game but Doc said I needed to play it. So I did. And my god am I glad I did. I had managed to stay spoiler-free for the most part, and on playing through I felt myself sort of building a story in my head over and above what I was being shown on screen. The title may have been Journey, but to me a more appropriate one would have been Fate. How it felt to me was that as I crossed the world, I was being shown what was going to happen, but no matter what I tried to do to change it, I was inevitably pushed back to what I had seen coming. I don’t want to get into too many details for anyone who hasn’t played it, but it was definitely an incredible game. Looks and sounds amazing too. Seriously a game has no right to look that good, especially the “underwater” and final levels.
While I was absorbed, a few others showed up – Shiggy, AlexPants, Heather, Hollie, Powalen, MASHAAAA and Batguy with family at various times. Now that we had enough people, the nerf guns were distributed and we made our way over the road into the bush and set up for a couple of games of Capture the Flag. The flag being a piece of paper with a large branch stuck through it (improvisation \o/ ). There was a bit of confusion over the rules but in the end it was decided that 3 people would defend and 6 would attack. Running through the bush, spiky plants, fallen branches and a lot of cow bones made for an interesting afternoon. Great fun was had by all, and there are now many dozen nerf bullets lost in the wilderness that is Harrington Grove.
After a couple of rounds (and Shiggy spending a good 15 mins searching for a mysteriously disappearingg Batguy) we headed back to the house to refuel and recharge (and found that Batguy was there all along), before promptly getting distracted by the mountain of food that the Good Doc’s Good Parents had set out for us . Sooo much food. Sausages, burgers, bacon, salad, Doc’s famous curry. We all ate like Kings and Queens. And then the cake came out. People started talking about going back for more nerf guns, but I honestly felt that my stomach would rupture if I moved, much less had to run through the woods again. Thankfully we again stood around for a little while before someone walked out the door and the rest of us followed.
Mark had shown up while the food was being served (funny coincidence I’m sure.. Apparently he “locked himself out” again, causing his lateness. A likely story) and it was decided that he should be Patient Zero, the first of the undead, sent from the underworld to claim the rest of the TAYbies in eternal brain-addiction. After butchering a couple more metaphors we started up a round of Zombies. In short, Mark was the first zombie (no gun) and if he tagged anyone else (who had guns) they yelled out to let everyone know someone had been tagged and joined the undead horde. See AlexPants’ write up for a much more entertaining account of our real life Day-Z-esque adventures. I’ve already read it twice, its that good.
Picking up the story after His Pantsness and I split up, we really had gone a lot further than anyone had in the previous CTF rounds, so in the interests of fairness, I decided to circle back around towards the starting area. However between me and my goal was a large, very open area covered in mulch and bark chips. No trees, no cover and me in a bright red jumper. Not exactly subtle. I paused on my side of the field, still in the bushes but open enough that I could see across. Coming back to the start was Zombie Mark, Zombie Doc, Zombie Flu, Zombie Masha, and possibly Zombie Shiggy. Granted they were a good 200 odd metres away, but given my brighly coloured attire I was sure they would spot me quickly, and I really had no retreat option, the bush was very thick behind me. Thankfully they decided to head away to the North, and after waiting to make sure they weren’t coming back, I sprinted across the field from the East and made it to the starting area unseen. Feeling quite confident after surviving this long I thought I’d play some mind games with anyone who came back. There in front of me was the flag we had used previously and all the guns the newly formed zombies had had to relinquish. I moved the flag off into the bush, and had planned on either moving or taking all the guns. However, all the guns were quite large, and I really didn’t have the invertory space/arm strength to carry them all. So I left them, and satisfied myself that someone was bound to notice the flag had moved (I found out afterwards that no one noticed in the slightest).
As the sun set, and it got harder to see, I had my first encounter with the undead. Specifically Zombie Flu. I had left the start area heading West, where I hadn’t been before and after stumbling a few times noticed Flu heading towards me. He saw my weapon, knew I was a survivor and paused. He said that he didn’t know if I had any ammo left, and so was unsure what to do. After a tense stand-off I started backing away, but as he came towards me I answered the ammo question. With one bullet heading straight between his eyes…. Only to be stopped half a metre or so short by a particularly frustrating bush that stopped my bullet cold, saving Zombie Flu from dying, again. At that point, Flu himself was also caught up the bushes, so I bolted. Back through the trees, leaping fallen branches, pushing through the scrub, hiding behind a couple of trees and double checking that Flu had fallen behind. I thought I was safe, at least for the moment. Until I turned around and saw Zombie Mark creeping up behind me. “Well balls” was my thoughts at that point in time. Keeping my gun trained on him, I backed upand got out into the open field I’d crossed before, in hind sight not the best move, but as it was getting very dark at this point, I kinda guessed we’d call it a night soon. I had been spotted, the rest of the zombie hoard (Doc, Flu, Shiggy) were surrounding me, and as my attention was drawn to them Mark charged. And god he is definitely not one of those slow, shambling zombies. No, he’s more like the HL2 leapers, only with more skin and a less creepy voice. Backing up I pulled my gun up and fired one of my last 5 remaining bullets. It missed well off to the right. Quickly reloading, I swung my gun up a la the movie Wanted. Perhaps I have some skill at bending nerf bullets because somehow I managed to nick Mark’s ear, and being the honest gent that he is, he gave up the chase and sat down, leaving me to my fate. Unfortunately, I didn’t last much longer. As I was dealing with Mark, Doc and Flu had come up on either side and were slowly closing in. I was down to 3 bullets and with Shiggy and Masha also coming up, I knew I had to make a run for it. I backed up slowly before quickly switching direction and attempted to split Doc and Flu. And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those pesky kids. And by kids, I mean my feet, as they got caught up on something sending me flying, and splat face first into the dirt where I was promptly set upon and converted to the ….. BRAAAAAINS
It was well and truly dark at this point, so while Shiggy called up Alex, Heather and Hollie, we spotted Powalen standing dead still (no pun intended) behind a tree right near the start area. I don’t think he had been there the whole time but if he had, nice work. As the zombie had given up at this point, we lazily attempted to surround him, but as the semi-circle closed in, he exposed our apathy for what it was and bolted through a gap we’d left in our defences. We all had a good laugh at that.
We headed back to the house again and chilled out for the rest of the night. Among other things, Flu tried to convince us that the PSVita is a good system. He had some good points too. Shiggy’s forearm was covered in many layers of latex by Hollie to be used as a prop for the zombie film (at least I think thats what it was for). Shiggy suffering through much pain as the latex was removed from his arm, along with a number of hairs. Streetpasses – so many streetpasses. I don’t understand the appeal just yet, but then, I am looking at getting a 3DS XL soon, so I imagine I’ll have the bug too. I got to complain to Mark, Adam Ruch and his wife about Coles and their fascination with self serve checkouts. And other things that Coles do/have done. Basically I just like whinging about Coles. Chatted with Powalen about Pokemon Conquest and discovered that despite having the game for a much shorter time, I’ve put about 5 times the amount of hours into it (I’m above 80 now).
As time went by and the number dwindled, the six of us who remained headed over to Heather’s place to cmap for the night. But we are all a bit fragile so instead of being out in the yard in a tent, we were curled up in front of the fire place in the living room. Also, Doc had rolled his ankle while we were zombie-ing and it had swollen up and he could barely put any weight on it. So it was probably for the best that we all stayed indoors. And I have to say that sleeping on a recliner was much more comfortable than I thought it would be, even if at this point my knee was starting to bruise from the tumble I took when I got zombied and having it curled up for most of the night probably didn’t help. Being up on a lounge also stopped me from being attacked (read: licked to death) by Heather’s multitude of cats and dogs.
Morning came and we gradually stumbled out of bed and decided to go out for breakfast. Went to a place called The Oaks Pantry. Banana Pancakes and a caramel milkshake – breakfast of champions, or in this case me. Gave Doc a hard time because he got a lime milkshake (seriously, who does that?). Discovered that AlexPants really a morning person. Basically sat there watching us eat, while staring off into the middle distance. Also learnt that he is lactose intolerant, which everybody seemed to forget as we kept offering him cake, ice cream, milkshakes, chocolate, etc etc. Really, its not that we don’t pay attention to you Alex, honest.
After breakfast we went our seperate ways. I gave AlexPants a lift back to Penrith station because it would be easier for him to get home from there than from Campbelltown. Not really knowing which way to go, I was happy when there was a sign to Penrith. Which we followed. Straight onto a back road through the country side that didn’t have another sign for at least 20 km. While it was a nice drive, I was getting a bit concerned. I knew we were heading in roughly the right direction, but I was also getting a bit low on fuel. I was especially worried when we came over a crest to be confronted with a sign that said speed limit 40km/h – gravel road ahead. Thankfully when, we finally came to the end of the road, there was a welcome sign waiting for us, pointing us right towards Wallacia and Penrith. Alex was dropped off at the station and I made my way home from an epic weekend. Cheers to everyone who came, and especially to Doc_What’s sister and Heather for allowing us to use their homes.
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Damn, link closing fail. I really hope this doesn’t screw the entire page (finger crossed)
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Biggest . Link . EVER
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Actually, I think this is:
http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o205/voxizertome/snap0477.jpg
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Man that zombie game was so much fun. Also the Vita was fun to play despite it having no games (just kidding! :D).
ps. I have a feeling that you didn’t get this page-get by accident 😉
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I’m not Shane, who seems to purposefully lose long posts at the end of pages 🙂
No, just a happy coincidence, I’ve been writing it for at least 2 hours I think. Now I have to go back and read what I missed
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Wow…epic page get!
That zombie game sounds freaking awesome! Combined with the fact that nerf guns are only good to about 8 metres at most would make for some hectic games. -
Man, I’m so jelly. Wibble. Wobble.
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I’m pretty sure the human body turning into jelly isn’t normal … you should get that checked.
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Look, I’ve lead an okay life, if I’m to die from being made of jelly, then hey, I guess that’s what I get for eating so much.
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Fair ’nuff. Can I have your stuff?
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That’s my line!
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Of course you can, Nob Friend.
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Woo write-up! I had no idea you all went into the wild and did cool zombie stuff. Skeleton jelly!
Also where’s Part 2 of your holiday!?
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Umm, maybe coming…. eventually
Sounds insanely fun. The kind of game you’d play with your siblings as a kid. Only more awesome.
Oh man!
That sounded awesome!
Streetpasses and food! ;_;
Squenix appear to be teasing something related to TWEWY
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http://www.square-enix.co.jp/subaseka/ Sure looks like it. Japanese title for The World Ends With You was Subarashiki Kono Sekai, subaseka would be a pretty normal Japanese abbreviation for the title.
Looking at the work spam email filter, why are the majority of spam email campaigns targeted at men?
Hot girls in your area, herbal enhancements and the like.
Honestly, I’d just like to see what sort of baloney the spammers could come up with that would be female specific (although those bloody coupons and other spammy newsletters tend to go almost exclusively to my female co-workers).
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I laughed when I once saw a “Hot girls in SuburbIDNotFound” one evening on an Ad while browsing, that’s when you know you live in the middle of nowhere 😛
Started reading Nova’s post up above (I appreciate the insanely long link to my blog, friend) and when I hit the stuff about Journey it reminded me of a question I wanted to ask.
Are there any moments in games for you guys where, despite watching/playing through it multiple times, you still get chills, a moment that is so good you find it gives you the exact same feeling no matter how much you see it? Watching Nova play the end part of Journey I just got chills at the last part where that amazing Apotheosis track kicks in. It’s such a great moment.
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That moment has never failed to be amazing.
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Happens to me during the end of Kingdom Hearts 1 every time
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Final Fantasy VII. The part between the intro scene and the outro scene are awesome!
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The intro scene itself is pretty rad. No need for an elaborate long 15 minute explanation of everything. Just that slow zoom out through Midgar, the title card, then zoom into the train arriving and you’re right into the action. The tech at the time meant Squenix had to be so much more succinct with their storytelling in FF IMO.
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The moment in Xenoblade when you put the game disc in.
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There’s a couple of moments in KOTOR that do it for me. The first is when Darth Malak orders the destruction of Taris. “Wipe this pathetic planet from the face of the galaxy” is the quote I believe. Seeing someone so willing to destroy an entire planet, one that also happened to have many of his own army’s troops on the surface, just to kill 3 people wasquite chilling. Also the big reveal of Revan’s identity was almost a perfect moment, particularly the way they went back and showed quotes from earlier in the game, that you could have put together before hand.
Mass Effect 1 and 2 – The conversation with Vigil on Ilos. Mostly for the music. Even without playing the game, whenever I hear that music I get chills. Hearing about the fall of the Prothean Empire from a cold, near emotionless voice was a brilliant moment, one that really cemented the series as a favourite of mine. Then in 2 on the Collector ship when EDI tells you that gur pbyyrpgbef ner npghnyyl nqncgrq cebgurnaf, chills every time. Again, there’s a short bit of music to accentuate the moment.
Quite often for me it comes down to music. Or in some cases the lack of it. Journey on the weekend has a point where its completely silent that really hits you hard. You know the bit I’m talking about Alex, because everyone was commenting how by talking they were probably ruining it. But no it still worked. The other one that comes from silence for me is from Xenoblade. When you exit the first cave, after defeating the first boss after leaving colony 9, you come out on a cliff and look across the ocean to the Mechonis. Dead silent, and to me it perfectly encapsulated the scale of the game. Everything in it is almost too big for Shulk and the others to deal with, but somehow they have to find a way
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Since you mentioned Mass Effect, I still think that that conversation where Sovereign is revealed is awesome. The effects they used on his voice made him sound so incredibly sinister. Always felt that Harbinger was weak and uninteresting in comparison.
I think you’re right on the music though. Well used music makes the whole moment stick in your head.
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Oh yeah for sure, can’t believe I missed the conversation with Sovereign. Facepalm moment right there
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That time in that game when the thing happened with the thing.
Splicer! The package arrived. Or rather it probably arrived a long time ago but I only just found it, along with a whole pile of stuff I had given up on ever arriving. Turns out the local postie had been forcing up the garage roller door a bit and sliding the packages under there. The problem with that being that we use the garage as another room and has a wall built over the inside of the doors, meaning that we never open the roller doors and can’t get or see from inside.
Seriously, there was about 30 packets under there with games, books, credit cards and DVDs.
Remind me to wait in ambush for the postie and do something terrible to him…
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Ha! Nice 🙂
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Yay! i was getting a little worried that it hadn’t turned up! Glad you got it!
Now to inflict horrible things to that postie….
At least your postie can read the address though, we live at Unit 3, number 4 of our street and always end up with Unit 4, number 3’s mail…sigh
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TREASURE!
I’ve been meaning to write up some thoughts on Sleeping Dogs, but can’t seem to construct words together in interesting ways today. I will say I like it a whole lot, though.
The city is beautiful and foreign: neon lights on wet pavement, unique architecture and a real sense that you’re somewhere new. The gameplay is constantly surprising. It could do with some polishing, but there’s so much to like about it. The martial arts aspect clearly differentiates it from GTA as well. In fact I find myself disappointed every time I’m forced to use a gun in a mission. So much more satisfying with hand-to-hand combat. The story is interesting, but I can’t help to think there’s more they could’ve done with the premise. Still only half-way through, though, so could surprise me. If you’re on the fence and these types of games appeal to you, play it now pals.
I’ll be happy to answer any questions if you have any?
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I’ve visited HK a few times so I am VERY keen to get this game and see if it has that same HK feel 🙂
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D.C at first I didn’t like you couldn’t carry a gun, then I thought about it. It’s *far* more realistic than the others. In the real world you wouldn’t want to be caught carrying a gun, so you’d likely only use it if you came across it in a dire situation, the game represents this well. The fighting is brilliant isn’t it??? I almost rejoice everytime a badass brawl breaks out 😀 even the driving is great fun!!! Hopefully GTA 5’s hand to hand is a little bit better. They fixed the gunplay with 4, now the hand to hand just has to be fixed. They could take some cues from Sleeping Dogs, not with kung fu but just with combos etc that makes it so much better.
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The feeling of getting in a brawl is almost as awesome as mid-drive hijackings. So fun. L.A. Noire probably spoiled me a little, but it’d be nice if there were more building interiors, though. That’s just nit picking.
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I just finished it. Pretty cool dude.
Though, hmmm, need to wait for other people to finish, so I can discuss that ending…
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I’ll let you know when I’m done, then we can rot13 like crazy. 😛
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BIRTHDAY VIDEO!
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Birthday pictures too!
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So many images of Streetpass. It’s a good thing.
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Holy damn, man. Excellent camera!
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Looks like fun, wish I’d been there.
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You and Adam Ruch are photo ninjas.
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Awesome 🙂
Well, Falling Skies finished its 2nd season today with a great episode. Won’t spoil it for any fans but the final 90 seconds, damn!!!!Cannot wait for season 3. Breaking Bads 6th episode was great and now I shall revel in True Blood 😀
What do you guys partake in weekly?
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personally, I dont like the weekly wait. Especially when its a series like Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones where each episode generally ends on a note that makes you need to see the next episode asap.
So, I wait til the whole season is out then smash through it over a few nights.So yeah, currently waiting for Breaking Bad to be avialable & I’m pretty keen for Doctor Who to start up again.
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I don’t mind that but then I blaze through a whole season too quickly and I’m too impatient to wait for everything to come out :P. There’s also the risk of getting things spoiled from friends or accidentally stumbling upon something on the internet.
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I supply a co-worker with Breaking Bad. I kind of forgot to give her last week’s episode.
I’m going to advise her to set aside two hours to watch last week’s episode and then this week’s.
Also, get into The Newsroom.
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Haha there’s something meta about supplying a workmate with a stolen show about someone supplying people with illegal meth I’m sure 😉 lol
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Currently just Futurama (not that great but I just watch it anyway :P), Breaking Bad (so awesome!) and Louie (awesome too!)
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All my weekly stuff is done until Dr who starts. I had been watching GoT and Legend of Korra weekly but they finished.
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The thing with TV is when it rains it pours. Bit of a dry spell at the moment, though. Only thing I’m watching at the moment is The Newsroom. September’s fast approaching, then my beloved Fringe will be back. (Boardwalk Empire and Treme as well. J.J. Abram’s Revolution looks cool too.)
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I’ve just been watching whatever’s on at the time.
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The Wire? Oh Indeed.
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Mad men Ive never gotten into. God knows Ive tried. I can tell its quality? Just never appeals to me. I wont trash it because it IS good, its just not *me*. Breaking Bad is great however. The Wire was fantastic but I’m a Shield guy at heart 🙂
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If you have never watched six feet under do it immediately. One of the best shows ever.
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Starts today again on Foxtel, gonna make it right and finally watch the damn thing!
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I haven’t really being watching anything on TV lately. I’ll tune in on Mondays and Thursdays to watch Dollhouse and Star Trek: Next Gen, even though they’re old shows that I could easily pick up on dvd I like having something to watch on TV. On Saturday morning I’ve been watching the reboot of Thundercats, but that’s finishing up soon. Aside from that I’ll just have on Ben 10, Young Justice, Brave and the Bold repeats on during weekend mornings and Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy repeats on during some week evenings to keep me company while I’m playing vidya gaems on the computer.
In the last two weeks, I’ve been asked several times what I want for my birthday.
A friend just tweeted:
Choosing a gift for @TrjnRabbit – much with the brow furrowing.
(She does really talk like that).
I actually hate this time of year. Not really a fan of making a fuss about birthdays and can never really think of things that I would like to receive. Oh well, it’ll be over soon.
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Hrmm, what to ask for for your birthday.
Oh yeah, VIDEOGAMES 😀
I find this is a great time to ask for peripherals that you’ve been holding out on, like a new controller or an xbox steering wheel or something similar 🙂
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I have a fairly decent amount of disposable income. If I want something, I just get it :p
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Yes but what about the things that you have wanted but have been on the fence about.
Things that you felt the money could have been better spent elsewhere?Now you can delegate those maybe-purchase to someone else’s wallet and not only will you conquer your doubts but you will be relieved of the pressure of needing to tell someone what you want for your birthday.
Although to be honest people shouldn’t be asking you what you want, half the fun of birthday gifts is surprising the person with something awesome.
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Those sorts of things tend to be a bit more expensive and I’m not really willing to ask people to pay for them.
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That’s my philosophy.
Except I don’t actually have an income.
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When it comes to birthdays and christmas I always get all panicky about what I want. Often there’s nothing that I really want to ask for which leaves me with lots of things I sort of want and I never know which of those things I should ask for in case I ask for the wrong thing and later regret it. Then I think about just asking for money but then I think that I’ll also probably regret asking for money since it’s always nicer to recieve an actual gift than it is to recieve money.
Basically the times of the year that should be happy just end up stressing the hell out of me.
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That’s the beauty of having no friends, never been an issue for me. (I made myself sad. :P)
Even in school my birthday was always during the summer holidays.
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There’s always the fun of having a reputation for being completely useless.
My friends organised a 21st for me, decided that I needed a phone, and just told me to turn up at the appropriate time. Makes life easy.
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I know what you mean, though the only people I usually receive presents from are my immediate family so it’s not too big of an issue. My friends and I have an unwritten rule that if you’re not throwing a party, you’re not getting a present. haha
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I saw something last night that this reminded me of;
“What to get the man who has everything for his birthday; cocaine, so next year he has nothing.” I laughed for a good few minutes at that.
Any one have a link to the TAY contact details list? Thanks in advance, friends.
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If you mean PSN/XBL/Steam/Twitter deets, here: tinyurl.com/taynames
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Heh, that’s exactly what I meant, only phrased eloquently. 😛
Much obliged, Cracks. You’re a scholar and a gentleman.
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Eloquently? Haha. Ha. I’m pretty sure ‘deets’ disqualifies that post from ever beeing considered eloquent.
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But Cracklelacklekins, you’re always super eloquent.
Always.
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Goes without saying! 😛
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So, manifest was fun.
8 people recognised me over the weekend (as Elizabeth), mostly with “Hey, you’re that character from that Bioshock game, the one from the trailer, I’ve forgotten her name.” The one time someone came specifically after me for a photo, I looked confused and asked if it really was me she wanted to take a photo of. The part that makes it funny is that no one else I was with was dressed up.
I went to the maid cafe, that was fun. =D I also drew for an hour and chatted etc.
Oh, the contact lens in my left eye was hurting. Turns out I didn’t clean it properly and it was making my eyes water. A lady at a stall helped me with my contact lens \o/ She helped me take it out and gave me a container for free as well as showing me how to wash them properly. I was so grateful that I offered money but was refused. D=
So I went back the next day and bought a corset =D
I saw Hell girl, Gosick, Gantz and a few other shows. I was sorely disappointed with the Iron chef AMVS though.
Yeah, that’s all I can think of right now.
Oh pictures
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.465312416822111.103934.100000300696690&type=3
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Sounds and looks like a blast. Your outfit looks pretty awesome too.
And \o/ for Lollipop Chainsaw!
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She made her own costume. Made me feel stupid. /o\
I couldn’t pull it off. D= Even then my Elizabeth one has errors
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Why feel stupid? Your outfit looked great. If I recall correctly you did make your own as well. And it seemed to take a lot of work.
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Wow, good job Scree! Your dress turned out great.
Looks like a lot of fun as well. I’ve never been to anything like that 😛
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I wish some taybies had come.
They had one of the rarest xbox games set up. Unfortunately I don’t remember the name but I do know it was a mech game and it wasn’t released in Australia.
I wish I’d managed to get the met 100 miis achievement. I didn’t though D=-
I actually forgot it was on that weekend /o\
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Someone didn’t invite us!
(sarcasm, don’t worry!)
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I was going to say, it’s not invitation only! It’s whoever wants to go, goes. You have to pay for entry too.
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Steel Battalion?
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Probably. That would have been hilarious to behold.
Didn’t they plan at one point to erase your save data if you didn’t eject from your mech in time?
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Again, foiled by lack of Facebook account. I’m sure the pictues look purdy, though. Unavailable for the likes of me, though. 😀
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I’m so sorry. Would you like a crappy video to make up for it?
This is me, assuming you do.
I can upload them to my photobucket as well if you want.-
It’s alright, don’t go to any trouble. I’m sure most people here have a Facebook account. It’s just the price I pay for being a socially inept hermit. 😛 That video warped my mind. 😀
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Ha, no effort. You forget though, that I’m creepy!
Wait, that’s not right.
Still, I’ll post some of the ones I like in not Facebook account requiring form.
All in their own little comments. Why? Because Blaghspam is… certainly something.
Journey: http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/311907_465312530155433_49721772_n.jpg
(JJJJJJJJOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYY)
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Boobypop Boobsaw(tilt your head): http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/486423_465312563488763_492165955_n.jpg
(Of boobs)
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Little town, it’s a quiet village, every day, like the one before. Little town, full of little people, waking up to say…
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/418904_465312793488740_1951182558_n.jpg
(Bonjour, Bonjour, Bonjour Bonjour Bonjour)
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Say it’s true, there’s nothing like me and you, not alone, tell me you feel it too.
And I would run away: http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/s720x720/183715_465312580155428_1685405428_n.jpg(Reminds me of the derp running sonic, but maybe that’s just me)
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Hmmm… I can’t think of a song. So It’s some people, and Scree: http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s720x720/553744_465312706822082_445111365_n.jpg
(I think I’ve run out of jokes for this month)
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And it’s Scree again: http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/185535_465319743488045_1653690485_n.jpg
(Something, something, words)
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Haha, I thought you were playing mind games, posting every thing BUT scree! (Who looks awesome, btw. Nicely done!)
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And, those are my posts for the week.
Man, I’m the best.
The. Best.
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Thanks for that Blaghs. You did it quite quickly too.
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Well, if there’s one thing I know all about, it’s being quick.
Wink.
Wait.
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Blaghman looked me up on Facebook once. True story!
Heh heh heh. I’m totally not a creepy stalker.
I promise.
You’re a Watchful Guardian. Like Batman. A hero of our times! 😛
I searched for “Greenius” but nothing came up.
I’m starting to think that’s not your real name at all.
Try harder because Greenius is pretty spot on 😛
Sorry about the crappy quality. It was better until youtube got to it.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/Manifest%202012/
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Great photos! Thanks! (Although the people in giant animal costumes freak me out for some unknown reason. :P)
It’s a totodile. Can you believe that it only took him three days to make that?
TOTODILE!
TAY has been lacking the ‘sorry’s in your absence 😛
But well done scree! Now you don’t need to procrastinate and can Minecraft all you want! 🙂
\o/ I was looking at the minecraft at Manifest wistfully. And then I realised I could play again and got very excited =D
Looks like a great weekend! Thanks for pics Scree.
Highlights? What did you see?
Maid cafe was a highlight. I’m certainly interested in seeing more of hell girl, oh and I bought a wind up pocket watch =D
Look at all the purty green and yellow.
Wow, you look great. You really did an awesome job scree. One of the best costumes out of all the photos you took. It must be nice to have all that effort pay off. Now you can relax
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I *could* relax, but I’d much rather try and fix the little errors that are annoying me. =P
I plan to hopefully wear it again for conventions next year
I can finally put a face to the name. First pic I’ve seen of you.
Nice job on the costume, it looks great.
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I don’t actually look like that…If that makes sense. I was wearing makeup to make me look quite different. ^^;; I’m normally a huge tomboy
What you taking ’bout Scree? Costume looks good to me. All you need is a giant mechanised bird-thing to carry you off and you’d be set 🙂
You look great Scree!
Thanks for sharing pictures 😀 And I think your costume is pretty good – it’s hard work to make your own.
Made it past the first gate for selection in the Police Force \o/
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Awesome! How long does the process of applying take? How many hurdles left to jump?
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It’s a 6-9 month process. It’s been a month already. 3 more steps left. Got past the initial selection, still have to do the psychometric test, fitness and panel interview.
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The year after I finished high school I did a TAFE course, almost every one in the class was there to boost their OP or increase their chance to get into the Police. Not sure specifically why, though. Was a Diploma of Justice. Is that a neccessary requirement?
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It used to be if you didn’t have a bachelor degree. They changed it last month to just needed to finish year 12.
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What was the first gate? Cage fight against other potential recruits? Answering a Sphinx’s riddle? Some sort of death race?
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Good luck mate!
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Uh oh, we’re going to have to start behaving now.
Congrats! 😀
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Grats man, good luck!
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Congratulations!
I couldn’t do that myself. I couldn’t even consider it.
Also, police officers get half price maccas
Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 6…. I seriously thought this show could not get any better/worse.
But here’s really the only thing I have to say about this episode. Seeing one of Walt’s quotes from Season 3 compared to his actions in this latest episode…. man, it just makes me angry!
Don’t click this link if you haven’t seen the latest episode! http://imgur.com/a/L0r2f
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What do you mean by better/worse? Did you think the episode was good or bad? Slightly confused by what you mean 😛
I just finished it a few minutes ago and I enjoyed it. Like any other ep I wanted more at the end but have to wait 1 more week like everyone else… gahhh!
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By better/worse I mean the show just keeps getting better and better, but the tension just keeps ramping up. It’s almost becoming unbearable.
Rot13:
Gur irel svefg cneg bs guvf rcvfbqr znqr zr srry nyzbfg culfvpnyyl vyy. Gung fubg bs Jnyg, bcravat gur frpbaq oneery, jnvgvat gb fghss gur xvq vafvqr yvxr vg’f abg ovt qrny? Bu zna. Vg znqr zr srry fb fvpx.
Gura jura Gbqq gheaf nebhaq naq fnlf, “Fuvg unccraf, lbh xabj?” V jnf frevbhfyl ubcvat Wrffr jbhyq chyy n tha naq oybj uvf oenvaf bhg. Wrffr vf gur bayl punenpgre va guvf fubj V’z npghnyyl ebbgvat sbe nalzber, ohg V’ir tbg n greevoyr fvaxvat srryvat gung Jnyg’f tbvat gb chg n ohyyrg va uvz orsber gur raq.
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Yeah, I agree completely.
I had more typed out but I’m trying not to get into too much of a discussion as it’ll just make me more impatient for the next episode.
IMO Breaking Bad is one of the shows that doesn’t get worse as it goes on and I can’t think of many that fall into that category.
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I guess Vince Gilligan learnt his lesson on The X-Files. 😛
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Yeah my comment about it being worse has nothing to do with the quality of the show. It’s still the greatest thing on television. It’s just getting harder and harder for me to watch, and much more unsettling.
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Pbzcyrgryl nterr nobhg gung fghss ohg V’z fgvyy purrevat sbe Unax. Nyfb, ubj terng jnf gur fprar jvgu Fxlyne, Wrffr naq Jnyg nyy univat qvaare? Gung unq gb unir orra n tnt va gur jevgref ebbz gung gurl jrer ybbxvat sbe na rkphfr gb unir unccra sbe lrnef.
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Totally agree. That scene was amazing. It was laugh-out-loud funny, but tense as hell at the same time.
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My torrent has 11 minutes to go and has had about that much to go for the last five minutes.
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Everyone’s internet connection seems a lot faster than mine. :'( Still waiting on The Newsroom. (Which starts tonight on SoHo on Foxtel if you’re interested in watching via more conventional means!)
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I don’t have Foxtel and had already finished watching it when you posted this :p
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More a general advisory to other TAYbies. 😛
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I’m sorry I haven’t been on lately, as you guys know, manifest and all that.
Hopefully I will update the blog and various other things. And talk about lots of video games! \o/
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Finish skyward sword!!!!
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Buy Xenoblade!!!!!
Nob, Nova and Steve-O finish Xenoblade!!!!!
Neg0, Doc, Beavwa start Xenoblade!!!!!
XENOBLADE
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If I get the dolphin emulator up and running I might even play it with an Xbox controller.
Blasphemy?-
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I have decided that I absolutely adore the way Death moves in Darksiders. It’s so easy and flowing its actually a joy to steer him aroun the environments.
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Really? One of the preorder bonuses is that Despair moves faster? Really?
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I was like “oh cool it should Despair permanent speed boost!” but nah just one little extra stamina bar that makes him charge. It was free anyway so eh.
I’m more disappointed about Death Rides which was supposedly 2 hours of extra gameplay. I’ve found 3 quests from it (which is like half of it apparently) and it’s pretty much just 5 minutes, most of which is dialogue. Actual gameplay from it has been under a minute 🙁
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To be completly honest I just wanted the LE as I liked the cover better 😀
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Isn’t this the cover for all of them though? (excluding the collector’s edition)
http://www.thetyunoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Darksiders2_cover.jpg
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Looking around now it seems to be. Per release was just showing a black background with the words Darksiders 2 on it with the Limited having the current one.
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So I finished The Secret of Monkey Island for the first time last night. Now I can officially say that I’ve played the game that sits on top of TAY.
It was good, but felt very different to modern adventure games. Bit of a shocking difference at first actually (not necessarily a bad thing). I used the hint function more often than I care to admit though…
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It always seemed that if you could finish the old school adventure games without any help you probably needed your head read and should never be allowed to come up with a solution for anything in real life.
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I loved The Secret of Monkey Island. I’d spend hours trying to ‘coach’ my aunt along, as she could never get the answers (yet they were so apparent to me… oh dear).
Is it possible to get copies on steam? What is compatibility like? I’ll probably check tomorrow, but if anyone has any ideas prior to then 😛
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The Special Editions are both on Steam. They were only released in the last couple of years so work flawlessly. You can play with either the new or old graphic style. I’ve had Monkey Island 2: SE on my iPad for almost a year now and still haven’t replayed it. :S
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Yeah, this. The old version is only good if you have nostalgia though. New version has music and voice acting and such. The only thing I didn’t like about the new version was that they took the controls off the bottom of the screen and put them in a menu (which was a little fiddly).
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Some might argue that Secret of Monkey Island SE has a questionable art style. 😛
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I loved that game. It’s probably still in my top ten and I still play it sometimes.
Playing through Borderlands again is getting me really hype for Borderlands 2. Do you know which class you’ll be playing on Day One? I’ll be playing a Gunzerker, because a beard and two assault rifles is enough to kill almost anything.
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Yeah I’m planning to main Gunzerker because dwarf.
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He kind of looks like what i expect you to look like 😛
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Yeah it’s pretty accurate, except I don’t have a mohawk, and have more gut/manboobs.
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You should transfer that gut into a mohawk. I’m sure that’s how it works.
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Definitely. I have enough tummy hair to do it.
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Haven’t even looked, even though this is probably a day 1 purchase.
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There’s Gunzerker, Salvadore, whose action skill lets his duel wield anything in a Gunzerking rage.
There’s Maya, the Siren, who has a different action skill from last game. She has an ability called Phaselock which locks an enemy and lifts them into the air in an energy bubble. Great for focussing DPS.
Then there’s Axton, the Commando. Protip: the name Axton means ‘The Warrior’s Whetstone’ – perfect for a support class. sharpens all the other warrior’s skills. he also has a Sabre Turret, which is like Roland’s turrets, but on steroids.
Last is Zer0, a mysterious Assassin. His action skill drops a holographic decoy on the ground, and puts him into stealth mode where he can cut enemies down from the shadows. He’s the only character which has a weapon speciality: sniper rifles.
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After playing as Mordecai in the first one i’m shattered there’s no OP Hunter class…guess its ninja-dude for me 🙁
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Yeah I played Mordecai in the first one too. But I like the sound of pretty much all of the classes in Borderlands 2, so I’m sure I’ll find something to enjoy.
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Although Mechromancer sounds interesting…
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I’m thinking Zer0 at this stage, because sniper rifles.
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I’ll probably be playing Maya first, and will play Zer0 in co-op with my Housemate. I reckon Zer0 could be a little fragile until you know what you’re doing.
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My return to TAY has been lacklustre. Someone fill me in on yesterday caus I’m tres lazy
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Also Breaking Bad, zomg!
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Maaaaaaaan. Dat episode.
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WHATS THE PLAN!? WHATS THE PLAAAAAAAN!?!
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Forget the plan, I want to try those beans!
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Stoopid cliffhangers… Ugh.
Makin’ me stay up late and stuff. Also dat awkward dinner. I feel sorry for Jesse.-
as I said to that Sughly guy, Jesse was such a social retard there it was hilarious.
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There were a ton of summaries and writeups on Doc’s birthday bash and they all sound amazing.
You should have gone. Why didn’t you go?-
Because… of reasons :'(
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TRANSFORMERS WEEK!
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YOU GOT THE TOUCH…
YOU GOT THE POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!-
YEAH!
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I made a game in a week for a competition! You should try it! 😀
http://www.gamejolt.com/freeware/games/platformer/a-night-at-the-laboratory/9108/-
I will get around to it avenutally(sic).
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Hey pretty rad! I got a few files, but then I didnt really know what do and kept getting killed 🙁
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I beat Darksiders II last night. It’s a pretty cool guy, the last boss was REALLY easy (even on apocalyptic) but the second last boss was REALLY cool and interesting. I swear just they ran out of money at the second last boss and thought “oh shit, we gotta finish this guys”. I’m not sure if it’s worth it doing NEW GAME + on nightmare. I might just play it through again when all the DLC is out.
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Wait, is nightmare harder than apocalyptic? That doesn’t seem right.
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IKR, when I beat apocalyptic it said “nightmare is now unlocked”. Don’t worry! It makes sense (probably)!
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Maybe this game considers “apocalyptic” as par, since we’re talking about the Four Horsemen, and nightmare is meant as a nightmare, even for them.
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So I finished AC:Revelations last night…or AssRev as it’s known in these circles(Yes I know i’m a few months late to the party). I’m now up to date and hanging for AC3!
Although i was a bit sad to see the end of an era with Ezio. And it was nice to see them tie the stories together in the final cutscene. Curious to see what AC3 brings…
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Be sure to catch the Assassin’s Creed short Embers for a nice bookened to Ezio’s adventure. Presented seperatley from the Animus so you see stuff that Desmond doesn’t.
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Two sentences, so many spelling mistakes. BAH!
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Don’t leave me in suspense! A bookened what?
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Pipe down, you. 😛
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Is it like how someone can be wisened?
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This. That video was pretty cool.
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To the internet!
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Something has been bugging me for a while now. For a long time, I’ve been “the dick”. It’s something that I’ve fostered and it comes because I make frequent sarcastic comments and my general attitude. It wasn’t serious and I didn’t care.
For a while now, people have become increasingly aggressive towards me because of this. It’s starting to get a little grating, particularly on TeamSpeak where I’m starting to get the impression that there are multiple people who would genuinely punch me in the face at the slightest provocation if we met in real life.
Give it a rest.
I have always made a point to step back if I felt like I was crossing some sort of line and my little sarcastic comments are in line with the general things that everyone else says. There has never been malice in any of my actions and my general response to some actually pissing me off is to be overtly kind to them.
In fact, if anything I’ve dramatically scaled back my dickishness and even general involvement in TeamSpeak in the last few months yet people are even more aggressive lately than before.
So I’m done with this. If you don’t like me, address it and get over it but I will not let other people take out their frustrations on me just because I’m “the dick” and thus a fair target.
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For what it’s worth, you’re one of my favourite commenters here on TAY. (Not that I play favourites. That wouldn’t be ethical. :P) *shrugs*
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Thanks.
But this isn’t about being liked. It’s about people being aggressive and taking out their frustrations on me because I’m apparently a fair target. I don’t really mind if people like or dislike me, although it is nice to hear that people do like me.
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Perhaps you’re seen as a stalwart within the community. I’m not sure about aggression, but ‘venting’ and such is only really done to those we feel we can trust, surely?
Either way, you’re A-OK in my books, for what it’s worth Bunny!-
Unfortunately, the main offenders are not people I get that impression from. Even if that was the case, I’m not okay with people using me to vent that way. Not anymore.
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Not having a go here, just curious really. If you’re being a self-described dick, how would you expect to be treated? I have no problem with you at all Mr Trjn sir(to be honest i don’t think we’ve ever actually spoken) but speaking from experience, if someone is being a dick to me and they continue to do so after i’ve asked them to stop, yeah, i think i would feel like punching them in the face. If you’re being treated unfairly, by all means, call people out on it, but if you’re being a dick, don’t expect people to sympathise.
I’m not writing this to have a go and personally, as i said, i have no problem with you. I’m just wondering why you’re surpised at peoples reactions to you being a dick as you said.
Hope it all gets worked out mate.-
I think the simplest explanation is because it was never serious and I have never actually been that dickish. There is a bit of a culture of making sarcastic remarks, I contribute to it but I’m not the only person who does.
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Ah ok, now i’m on the same page. There’s a big difference between being witty and being a dick. I think you come off as witty. Well if people are being overly aggressive, cut them off or call them out. See them stand by their attitude as you have.
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Just wanna let you know, if I ever punch you in the face, it’s probably more because I am tripping or having some other sort of accident, not because I don’t like you 😛
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I don’t think you’re physically capable of punching someone in the face on purpose :p
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Not sure if compliment, or insult… LP
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A complisult!
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OH GOD, you have said nice things to me in the past.
What did I do to deserve it! What did I do to aggrieve you /o\-
I said being overtly nice :p
You’re just too awesome to be sarcastic towards Bish-frond o/ (hopefully not too overt there)
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I’M SORRY, OKAY
But not really.
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Ya jerk.
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You left me hanging!
Canadia has changed you, man.
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Someone has to make up for their disgusting over-friendlyness.
Surly Bish makes a comeback. -
I’m still hanging. Starting to lose feeling now.
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I’m tempted to go to sleep and see what results await me when I wake, buuuuuuuuut
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Bah, humbug.
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Much better!
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Comeback? ARE YOU RETURNING
#overlyhopeful
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#hashtagsforharli
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Have you spoken to these people directly about it? Not on here, somewhere more private to avoid making TAY at large uncomfortable.
It might not be a fun thing to do (I know I dislike it), but if the person/people causing the problem don’t actually know they’re causing one, then nothing will change.
If they’re doing it with the full knowledge that they’re offending you, then don’t waste your time with them 🙂
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One of them, with no success.
The problem is more that the general tone of how people are treating me is getting very caustic. This isn’t one or two people crossing a line that I can just call them out on it, it’s a persistent way in how I’m being treated.
Tonight, it’s very likely that I will tell the worst offender directly that I’m sick of what they’re doing. I fully expect that they won’t care or will feel justified in how they have treated me. That doesn’t address the issue of people in general.
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I’m with Rize on this one, talk to the guys who are causing trouble. Maybe the people don’t realise what they are doing.
Hopefully you resolve any issues, it would suck to have disagreements on TAY and among friends.
Let me preface this by saying that I have absolutely no problemo with you Trjn. I like hanging out with you and the rest of the Brisbane TAYbies, and I don’t believe there’s a bad one in the whole bunch of us. I’m sure this statement will also apply to Sydney TAYbies once Sughly and I come visit. But I think if you’ve cultivated the reputation as being ‘the dick’, it does paint a target on your back, whether intentional or not.
And like it or not, if someone acts like a dick, they’re more than likely going to be treated like one. Even in such a great community as this. There’s bound to be personality clashes, and sarcasm and snarky comments rub a lot of people the wrong way.
I don’t go on TeamSpeak at all so I honestly can’t comment on anything that’s been said or done on there, but I hope that if anyone has an issue with anyone in this community they can discuss it civilly and openly, and hopefully come to some kind of understanding.
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Yes, I did paint a target on my back and I was okay with that for a long while because people seemed to know where to draw the line. Lately it has been going too far.
I’m okay with people disliking me. I’m not okay with how people think they can treat me.
I personally don’t understand why you cop 1/2 the flak you currently do. You have never done anything that has personally offended me. If I have done anything to offend you then I apologise.
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You’re a-okay, Nobfriend.
Usually when I have issues like that in Teamspeak I just mute my mic or even my sound if somebody does that to me. I hope I’m not one of those you mentioned, sorry if I am. I do enjoy hearing your contributions and points of view to the discussions we have too, even if they don’t interest you or not anymore. Truthfully I do get bothered by certain individuals in the Kotaku community as well, so I just stay quiet rather than cause conflicts when others are about. If it gets bad enough I do privately call them out on it, just so the atmosphere doesn’t get upsetted by what may turn into a heated argument.
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You’ve never been a problem, Techie. You never took part in the “Bunny’s a dick” joke and definitely not in the recent escalations of it.
Being sarcastic/witty and having a friendly dig at someone is all part of the fun.
What you’re describing isn’t. And it makes me disappointed.
Can’t we all just get along?
Holy damn, look how cool looking James Taylor was in the ’70s! Amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7RPCFfudmU
Wow, the transition between Dollhouse season 1 and season 2 is crazy. It’s like going from playing Human Revolutions to a Fallout game. I have no idea if the entire season will be like this (and for those who have seen it, please don’t tell me because I’d like to find out for myself) but I’m not complaining. I’m not normally a fan of timeskip/flashback story telling and I would have loved if they’d kept the show going down the same path as season 1 but the story is still good and I’m willing to forgive them since they got canceled and were forced to rush to a conclusion for the series. The whole show also reminds me of a theory I had about the future of humanity. My theory was much less dystopian, but it’s still cool to see some of what I’d thought of being explored in Dollhouse.
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I never finished watching season 2. I didn’t hate it, I just didn’t enjoy it as much as the first. Eventually got pushed aside as other shows came out.
I’ll rewatch it all one day though.
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Well worth it. I won’t say more though.
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I stopped watching with only 3 or 4 episodes left as well 😛 Should’ve just powered through.
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That last episode was ‘wait, what?’
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They rush it because they knew they were getting cancelled at the end of the season. So everything they had wanted to do, as well as everything they set up in Epitaph One had to be addressed in a rather short space of time.
Season 2 is worth it for Sierra. That’s really all there is to it.
borrowing my friends 2DS just to play Kingdom Hearts…
god dammit does that game love to make it’s plot as complicated as possible…
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I’ve only played the original KH, and am contemplating the purchase of a PS2 and the game just to revisit it 😀
But screw Gummi ship creator man. That thing was a pain. -
i did not just write 2DS did i?
this is a dream-
I assumed it was on purpose 😛
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Remember when wireless networks WEREN’T a viable alternative to Ethernet for a business?
…can we go back to that?
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Here? They’re still not. It’s great so long as no-one new comes to the eylandt claiming they have all the answers 😛
I’m like some archaic network overseer. Seriously though. Ethernet is great.
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I tried wireless for gaming once… never again. Got sick of small lag spikes every 30 seconds
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So laggy when I play games online :'(
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Worst thing ever for even Guild Wars. So many got mad at me for not healing as my monk.
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Back when I played COD *shudder* it would give me such an unfair disadvantage.
“Oh look a person! *shoots a whole clip into them before they shoot me* …oh I’m dead”
And the killcam shows me not even getting any shots in… WHAT THE F (followed by multiple other swears)
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Hey! That’s every time I play TF2!
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I should have said *”viable alternative”.
Note the quotation marks…
It’s called the inter”net” not the inter”less” – you can’t get internet on wireless.
Am I close?
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BINGO!
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I can agree with this certainly
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This just in, the other problem with the Interless is when you run out of WiFi.
I have no idea what I want for lunch. Possibly Indian… *rubs cro…… chin*
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I’ve got a Vietnamese roll. Boy am I happy that this place opened up near work.
Continuing the Breaking Bad convo…
“It’s like eating a scab” XD
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I just thought of it caus I am ironically eating a lasagna I just nuked
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GEEZ SPOILERS!
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Hahaha I forgot that line. Man that scene was hard to watch…
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*drinks water*
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lol!
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AHA. AHHAHAHA!
I really felt sorry for the poor guy.
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SUGHLYYYY
You are super cool, I am glad to see you posting again!
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Nawww shucks, you’re super cool too! Technically i started posting a couple weeks back but it’s been a lazy uncommitted return :/
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@Beavwa/Greenius
Regarding running Xenoblade in Dolphin, I tried it and was tantalizingly close to playable but not quite there. The whole thing is extremely CPU-bound, and my old i5-750 @ 2.6 gHz completely lacks the single-core processing power to handle it without the sound breaking up and the framerate dipping a lot. Apparently you need around 4ghz to get a completely smooth experience in Dolphin, so you’re talking a brand new Ivy Bridge i7 with some overclocking. 🙁 On the upside if your CPU can keep up, then the graphics side of things are less of an issue. Going to upgrade my PC in a few months (I’m currently CPU bound in a few games and not able to use my GPU effectively so upgrade time) and will probably re-try then.
@TheLastQuestion:
I played through most of Borderlands as Lilith and then finished it with Mordecai. Borderlands 2, if the Mekromancer ends up being out day 1 then I’ll play with her, otherwise I’ll probably play with Zer0 (NegativeZer0?) or Maya.
@Ser Nobulus:
I felt exactly the same when I finished Darksiders 2 on the weekend. The second-last boss was an amazingly fun fight (I love that character too, seems like there’s a lot of hidden plotting going on behind the scenes based on the events of both games, and that character is strongly involved with it. As is the other character revealed in that final zone. I am being vague to avoid having to ROT13. Incidentally is it just me or does the second last boss sound like he’s got a bit of an Australian accent?) though I found the second half once it pulls the separate parts of the zone together to be quite difficult due to the fact you couldn’t beat on the boss for very long before it started making the ground explode and you had to go to dodge around. Took me several attempts. Final boss was cake in comparison, a bit of a letdown. Should have simply ended with that second-last boss. It definitely felt like they ran out of time & money at the end, I was disappointed at how short the final two zones were compared to the scope of the main two hubs. Felt like it was going to be a 40+ hour epic and turned out it was pretty deceptive. Great game though. Didn’t like it at first but after a few hours it hooked me completely. Bring on Darksiders 3! I wonder if we’ll be playing as Strife or Fury next?
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I’ll bother you about Xenoblade in a few months then 😀
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Yup the second last boss and the other character seem like really interesting characters. I’m especially interested in the second last boss. I’m not quite sure who will be next, Strife or Fury.
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I was a bit disappointed that that other character basically shows up for a cutscene then disappears after giving you what was one of the most interesting abilities in the game (tragically only used for the one dungeon).
Speaking of that dungeon, the enemies with the big pots that hurl fireballs at you. Worst enemy ever. Totally unbalanced, wiped the floor with me several times. 🙁
I suspect we’ll get Strife ahead of Fury, simply because Fury is a girl and our hobby is populated by marketers who think everyone is a thirteen year old boy who still thinks girls are icky and/or playing as one is teh ghey. :\
If they want to quickly iterate on this game i.e. re-use the same engine and concepts and just build new content, Fury would probably be a better fit since her weapon appears to be some kind of whip / chain sword thing, wheras Strife as a gun user would probably need a different combat system to work well.
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They’ve said that the Mechromancer will be out approx 60-90 days after release. I plan on playing her as my main when she’s available. Death-Trap looks amazing.
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Isn’t she free?
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Free with Preorders IIRC. Or maybe with the CE/Loot Chest. Not sure. But they said initially 60-90 days but recently (when that whole girlfriend mode bullshit exploded everywhere) they said they were way ahead of schedule with it. The game’s been done since June I believe, they’re going through certification on consoles now.
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She’s absolutely free if you preorder the game in any way, shape or form. You only have to pay for her if you don’t preorder.
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Damn, I’m still running an old core 2 duo.
BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISH!
I’m still hanging.
Ya jerk.
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Disregard.
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No!
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Yes!
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FINE
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OKAY
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And thus concludes another riveting chapter.
One day, children will tell tales of us, and bards will sing of these very happenings.
And what a depressing world that would be, where their only source of entertainment are legends of two old men bickering very poorly. -
On the plus side, we’ll be legends. Literally.
So it worked out rather well for us. Future generations, not so much.
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This boring thread has justified my life choice to not high five.
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Freyr.
FREEEEEEEEEYR.
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYR.
Freyr!
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Nooooooooooooooooooooope
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WHY FREYR
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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You’re a monster.
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The tinniest cutest monster you ever saw. Like a tiny teddy.
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She’s made of tin?
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Holy crap, it sounds like the upcoming update for Final Fantasy XIV is a heck of a lot more extensive than just a major patch, according to Gamasutra:
The old Final Fantasy XIV will perish in a great cataclysm, and the new game, dubbed A Realm Reborn, will launch sometime after that. The server architecture, the engine, the UI, the game design, and even the game world itself will be completely different — in fact, there will be an unavoidable lapse in service as Square Enix converts thousands of accounts from the old game to the new one.
Cautiously optimistic. I always thought that game had some promise but the first go at it was woefully badly executed. Hopefully they offer a free trial to people who had bought the original game.
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Anyone else read that and get reminded of the write-up for WoW:Cataclysm?
Is FFX!V an MMO? THe last one I played through and finished was X so i’m a bit rusty on my FF knowledge.-
*that should read as FFXIV, not that abomination i have typed up there^
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FFXIV is an MMO, yes. It was a very very pretty game with a super terrible UI, weird mechanics, grind-heavy gameplay and felt like an alpha of a game developed in a vacuum, without anyone on the team looking at any other MMOs out there and figuring out what worked and what didn’t.
The original designer (Squenix vet who’d been there since the NES days) fell on his sword and is no longer at the company. The guy that took over is a younger guy that seems to understand the space much better and he’s saying a lot of the right things, eg the UI has been redesigned to be flexible and mouse-friendly, the game progression is quest-based rather than grind-based, they’re using a new graphics engine that scales to lower-end hardware than the old one but also can scale better to current high-end stuff as well.
If they pull off a resurrection of the game it’ll be a miracle, but the new guy in charge will be a hero internally – FFXI was and still is Squenix’s most profitable game ever, XIV should have continued that and failed badly.
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I’d like to give it a go, but…subscription. *shrugs*
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They earned a fair amount of good faith for FFXI.
They spent far more than that with the first attempt at FFXIV.
Until it is out and there is a playerbase giving positive feedback, I’m going to have fairly low expectations on this one.
TUESDAY NIGHT IS SCHNITZEL NIGHT!
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Aleph, do you have a file on your computer called TueSchnitzel.txt that contains the exact post above that you copy/paste to TAY every Tuesday. If so, I commend you!
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Naw, that removes any semblance of person from it! This is genuine, scheduled excitement. I live a very fulfilling life, you know. Tuesday night schnitzel is a thing. Everyone else just doesn’t know it yet 😀
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Hello TAY!
Dunno if this has been said or not… But I just picked up Dark Souls for PC at EB Games… Pretty sure the release date was for the 23rd… Guess not! ermerhgerd street break.
So yeah. Time to die many times!
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Its locked to steam, it wont matter if you have the game, you are gonna has to wait unfortunately.
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Hawkward. At least I can use this cool mouse it came with!
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Woooo! Dark Souls!!!!!!!
Even though I have the game in console I bought it for PC aswell. What? I don’t have a problem, I can stop playing whenever I want to! I just don’t want to!
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I re-purchased on PC as well, despite owning both Demon’s and Dark Souls on PS3 and having played neither of them.
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Think I might grab one this arvo…I like it, but playing on Xbox is annoying me…for reasons.
Just got paid! \o/
Just paid bills, and I’m already broke! /o\
Soundwave tickets go on sale tomorrow! Do I want to buy one, or do I want to eat this fortnight? /o\
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Depends on how many nights in a row you can stomach beans on toast…totally worth it though.
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Mi Goreng!
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Also a wise choice for the budget-concious shopper!
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The price seems a little steep this year. Pah, I’d rather eat well man. Difficult call!
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They go on sale on the 23rd I thought?
Spoiler free gripe about The Newsroom:
Aaron Sorkin, please stop it with the love triangles and romantic plot tumours. The best relationships you’ve ever written had no romantic subtext at all. Stop shoving them in there where they don’t belong.
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I watched most of the first episode of that with my parents last night. It’s not the kind of show I’d normally ever watch, but I recognised the actress who plays Maggie(? the assistant?) so that grabbed me for a while. Seems like a decent show, though I’ve never wanted to throw someone out of a window more than I do with Will right now.
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I spent most of the first episode playing “where do I know this guy from?”
Most of them were easy.
Jim was the one bugging me the most. Then last night, I found this picture online.
He was the teenage kid driving Josh and co around rural America during the election. He was in a single episode of the West Wing and according to imdb, that’s the only thing I’ve seen him in.
He does look a little like the guy from The Lonely Island though.
Oh and it’s a very good dialogue driven show. If you liked The Social Network or A Few Good Men, you will probably like this even if you don’t like the subject matter.
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I agree, there’s already enough set up that it doesn’t have to be a focus. Just work on the slow burn, Sorkin. (Although I read that every year on The West Wing he wanted to get Josh and Donna together. The other production, Thomas Schlamme I think, kept on telling him it worked better subtle. He was right!)
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The peg balance on the treetrunk of the second largest tree in the woods. Every creature feared the animals that lived in the second biggest tree. Firstly they thought they were hipster because they got in the second biggest tree. They knew how the woods worked and soon the biggest tree would get cut down then they would have gotten into the new biggest tree before it was cool. Secondly they weren’t very nice animals Occasionally the squirels from the 4th biggest tree would need some sugar for a cake and go ask some of the 2nders(what the animals in the second biggest tree called themselves). MAn they would bitch and moan and begrudgingly give them the sugar but only if a pinky swear was made that the squirels would return the favour. Thirdly and most importantly all the 2nders were 6 foot high sabre toothed molebears who hated dubstep. They wouldn’t even listen to it , if played the molebears usually started punching each other in the dick. They really really hated dubstep. That is where our story begins a young mouse who enjoyed making music is sitting in his home underneath the tree of the 2nders.
I wrote this last night, i have a mental issue i think.
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You just wrote “would have”. Today is a great day.
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YOU’RE A GREAT DAY!
I’m sorry, that was too harsh.
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Why?
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I like squirrels.
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because they make baked goods?
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Um…yes that’s it. I only like the bakey ones, mind. None of those non-bakey squirrels, thank you very much.
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CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP.
I believed my willpower just freakin’ caved.
Pretty sure I’m going to go pay for a 3DSXL this arvo…
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Where are you planning to give your dollarydoos?
Are you near an EB that’s near a JB? I have a feeling that the former will be aggressively price-matching the later on Thursday.
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Yep, that’s the main reason I go past the EB in Westfield Woden . both stores in there, and like 100 metres from each other.
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I went in to pay off my pre-order at EB (up to $229, since I was going to ask to price match JB) and I was “convinced” that I should just pay up to $199.
I don’t know exactly what will happen on Thurs; if I can walk away paying $199, I will be very happy.
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I sometimes luck out at EB, which is why I shop there. Well…not so much my luck as good staff members with good customer service skills…but yeah…hopefully I can preorder for the decreased amount.
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I’m still really unsure where I’m going to buy mine. EB just sent me an email advertising trading in my 3DS for the XL + NSMB2 for $149, which is pretty tempting but I don’t really want to trade in my 3DS (I’ll just sell it to a friend or something :P).
I’m hoping Kmart tries to undercut JB HiFi’s $229.
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You definitely don’t want to trade in the old system unless they let you transfer your data to the new one in the store when you do the exchange!
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Yeah, exactly. People are saying that it can take over an hour to complete the transfer as well.
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The peg balances on the treetrunk of the second largest tree in the woods. All of the creatures feared those that lived in the second largest tree. At first, they thought those in the second largest tree were hipsters because they had picked the second largest tree to live in. They knew how the woods worked. Soon the largest tree would get cut down then they would have lived in the new biggest tree before it was cool.
Secondly, they weren’t very nice animals. Occasionally the squirels from the fourth biggest tree would need some sugar, for a cake or other baked goodies, and go ask some of the Seconders (as that is what the animals in the second largest tree called themselves). They would bitch and moan until they would begrudgingly give them the sugar but only if promised by the sacred rite of pinky swear that the favour would be returned.
Thirdly and most importantly all, the Seconders were six foot tall sabre-toothed molebears that hated dubstep. They wouldn’t even try to listen to it. If the molebears heard this music, they usually started punching each other in the dick. They really, really hated dubstep.
This is where our story begins.
A young mouse who enjoyed making music is sitting in his home underneath the tree of the Seconders…
A peg balance?
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Reply.
Fail.
Of course.
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Bunny, you know how much i hate your in your face style of sarcasm, but you are my editor now.
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Trust me, you don’t want that.
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Also, largest* largest* squirrels* for a few more things I forgot to fix.
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The whole idea of that was to just write what came to my head, Occasionally i have to release the crazy and this was trying to do that. I didn’t even reread it i just typed until i felt the weird leave my system.
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Don’t worry. I wasn’t trying to make it make sense.
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Yeah it wont make sense to anyone. But it isn’t meant to.
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That’s called a stream of consciousness exercise, Rocket. They’re good fun.
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Sometimes unnerving, always entertaining.
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The Seconders were feared by all of the creatures in the forest. They lived in the second largest tree, which is why they are named the Seconders.
Some of the other creatures thought this was because they were hipsters. At one point, the largest tree in the forest will be felled. Then the Seconders would be able to claim they were in the new largest tree before it was cool. They would probably also have to change their name but that thought never crossed the mind of the other creatures.
Mainly, they were feared because they were mean. The squirrels of the forest loved to bake delicious goodies for their friends. Sometimes, nobody would have enough sugar for them to make their goodies and they would have to turn to the Seconders. The Seconders would always demand a terrible price for their sugar. One far greater than you would expect for a mere cup of sugar. Yet the squirrels would agree to it because they loved their friends and loved to share their baked goodies.
The Seconders were also six foot tall sabre-toothed molebears. That helped generate a little fear too.
An important thing to know about the Seconders is that they hated dubstep. They loathed it. To hear it made them miserable and they would often punch each other in the dicks just to make it stop. The Seconders were not terribly intelligent beasts.
A young mouse sat under the second largest tree in the forest. He had made his home there and in his home he loved to make music…
I really can’t be bothered doing any of my real work right now.
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Gosh dang flippity flopping reply failing dang sarnit rooting tooting what the darnit.
How did I reply fail twice with this story now?
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Surely it’s a feat worthy of Kudos? 😛
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You are making me look bad. Stop it, i am the creative genius you are just the other guy nobody knows because he just sits in his office all day doing nothing.
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But I’m really bored.
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http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Firefly-Joss-Whedon/9781781161685
“Leather-effect” counts as a present for a 3rd (Leather) Wedding Anniversary, doesn’t it? 😛
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I guess it does.
Maybe you could buy a leather book strap for him to carry the book around with http://www.treefeathers.com/images/Miniatures/Bookstrap.jpg
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Absolutely, and not just because that’s what I did
HELLO EVERYONE!
I was cleaning out stuff today. I also slept \o/
And cosplayed again =P I got quite a few stares and tricked several people =D
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Fine, don’t respond. Leave me to be bored
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I’m already talking to you on TS, what would be the point of talking here?
I’M SORRY I CAN’T BE MORE TALKATIVE. I’M SORRY!
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That’s my fault. And I finished my ramune.
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It’s not your fault. I’M SORRY, IT’S ALL MY FAULT. ALLLLLL MMMMIIIINNNNEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
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No, it’s mine! I knew I should’ve bought more ramune, I knew it!
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Actually, that was my fault too. I’ve been sneaking into your house to drink your drinks, and food your foods.
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Screeeeee!!!
Um… Hi.
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Hello!
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Not really.
I’ve been sick since Friday. Chest infection and fever.
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Shit, get some rest. Lots more rest and recover quickly
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Oh, man. That’s too bad. I hope you feel better. I here chicken soup is truly a soup for all occassions!
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*hear
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Gawd its almost wednesday and I dont think I’ve said anything.
Hello Scree! (seams to be whats up atm)
anyway only thing of note is bought Spec Ops Teh Linez. Dont know when I’ll get a chance to start it. Prolly Saturday.
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HI CJ!
Hope the game is loads of fun. I really want to get it eventually
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Got it cheap at JB only 49 I think.
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[Insert rambling fanboy Spec Ops endorsement here.]
Hope this day finds you well.
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Where’s the essay about how good Spec Ops is D.C.!?
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I’ve said enough. The rest is up to you. 😛
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Oh god they changed the date for Fall of Cybertron on Steam and it’s out in 3 hours or so. Guess I know what I’m spending some download quota on tonight!
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Someone should probably tell them they forgot to add the Australia Tax again too
FALL OF CYBERTRON TOMORROW!! http://i.imgur.com/GTtR1.gif
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SO HYPED. I don’t even care if the game turns out to be crap because I’ll be regressing to being 8 years old again and I won’t even notice. Like in the first one, you play part of the Autobot campaign as Air Raid. Air Raid was the first Transformers toy I ever owned and it was so amazingly cool even though the controls sucked ass.
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Whaaaaaaat?? The flying controls in War for Cybertron were amazing!
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So, season 5 of Breaking Bad (spoiler free).
Not really loving it, TBH. Nothing in it is surprising me – it’s feeling very much like a follow-the-dots-to-the-inevitable-conclusion final season.
Hai, guys!
I have another crash cymbal, but I’m waiting for the stand I also purchased…
How is everyone?
oh my god
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/subaseka/
oh my god
if this is a Sequel to The World Ends With You i will cry
i will cry big man baby tears
first their appearance in kingdom hearts 3D, and now this? oh man oh man oh man so much excite
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I pointed that out a page ago and no one noticed 🙁
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I noticed! I just didn’t comment because I never finished The World Ends With You 😛
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It fills me with an odd sense of joy, seeing my 17 year old cousin play Fire Emblem on the GameCube.
There do exist young people out there who can appreciate good games.
Now excuse me while I go yell at a cloud.
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Hey you are yelling at clouds on MY lawn you hooligian
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FIRE EMBLEM
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I feel a similar sense of joy seeing my daughter playing Wind Waker and Paper Mario on my old Gamecube and becoming so inspired by the worlds and characters that she draws them all the time.
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Speaking of that…it’s going to be sad when this generation of consoles is not being made anymore. Our PS3s and 360s will not last long enough to be able to pass over to our children even though our Gamecubes, Dreamcasts, N64s and even SNESs are still working fine and will be for a while yet.
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Hmmmm… true. Thats a sad thought 🙁
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I don’t think that’s necessarily true. I know early 360s are nortorious for red ringing but I could easily see the current slim models of the 360 and PS3 lasting for many years, provided they’re taken care of.
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Yeah no. Taking care of them has nothing to do with it. Our PS3 slim has broken twice now and we take the utmost care of it. And there’s a reason I didn’t include the original PSX and PS2 in my list of still working consoles. The Sony consoles are the least hard-wearing, every single one of mine has broken. I’m on my third PSOne, my third PS2 and my fourth PS3.
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You must have had a bad run because my experience has been that the Sony consoles are by far the most reliable.
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My 13 YO cousin played through Majora’s Mask recently because he enjoyed the OOT remake on 3DS. He has started playing Links Awakening on his 3DS (bought it when it went on sale). If I can pass on my unhealthy Legend of Zelda obsession to one child in the future generation then I can die happy.
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My 8 yr old asked me to put on Ocarina of Time for him the other day. It was like… like one of those things you wait for in life, never knowing if it will happen to you or not. It was magical.
Half an hour later he was like I dont get why everyone loves this so much and turned it off :'(
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Fry, you know how I told you about ending your stories one sentence earlier…
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Aleph! How was your schnitzel?
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Tasted like Tuesday.
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They’re getting smaller as time progresses. But it had green avocado this time, and they provided me with fresh chilli, so I guess I’ll let it slide this time.
Really though, I do enjoy my schnitzel. First meat I attend, we’re all getting schnitzel. Which invariably means that the meat has to be on a Tuesday.
And on that day, there shall be much schnitzel, and green avocados, and the cider shall flow forth from the heavens. And the subjects shall rejoice, yea, and be merry, yea, for there will be plentiful food and drink for all. None shall hunger, nor thirst, on this day.
Makhtub.
Last night, I started to rewatch Death Note.
Light goes from zero to genocidal dictator amazingly fast. I do like his reasoning for why he isn’t a bad guy though. He’s an honour student.
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I definitely preferred movie-Light to anime-Light. Anime-Light was pretty much just a dick.
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I haven’t seen the movies, so I kind of thought that was the point.
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I saw some of a live action Death Note movie on SBS once. It was surprisingly good. The demon looked a bit freaky though, what with his giant plastic smile and all.
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Just won an ebay auction at the very last moment last night for Mystical Ninja: Starring Goemon on the N64. I can’t wait to play that game again. It’s been far too long!
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Ninja page-get is best page-get.
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Didn’t you manage to snipe something last night as well?
That’s it, between the sneaky folk here at TAY, and the SCPs I’ve been reading… I’m just gonna stay locked in my room for the rest of my years, with floodlights all around me.
You can’t hide if there aren’t any shadows!-
Yeah, I’m ust gloating about my victory again 😀
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just* ugh
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Mystical ninja page get
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Hahaha, I ninjad that game not too long ago as well! Except… by the time it got delivered it went straight to the box of games and has never been seen since 🙁
@Rocketman
What you think? Possible Heimer Remake?
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Right now heimy is completely useless at anything other than pushing the shit out of a lane. Thats the pro of heimy you can loos your lane by like 4 kills and still push the enemies turrent over before they can touch yours. the postioning of his turrets are pretty much key to playing him and the addition of another one will be awesoem but he is SOOOOOO man dependant and they don’t do nearly enough damage.
The rockets that work with the cursor will be pretty awesome. I will read it more tonight.
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Honestly the remake kind of looks like it will make him WAY OP, h e will get nerfed again but i don’t care, i love playing as him.
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Yeah the effects of that ulti are a bit ridiculous, so many rockets at an enemy, grenade bombing, but the three turrets at once was a neat one. I agree, right now it’ll make heimer a bigger mana drain than Anivia and Orianna. The rocket targetting will be a biggest improvement, since the main thing that put me off about Heimer was the rockets don’t prioritise champions at all, so things like jungle ganks could fail cause minions were still too close as the enemy made a break for it in the river (This happened with Steve-O as Alistar and me as Heimer in mid against a Morgana).
Still I’d love to see him played again, he was always fun every time I played as him, despite the clunkiness of his main DPS (rockets) targetting.
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When Zyra came out and people declared her as Heimer 2.0 and said he’d be obsolete, a staff member came out saying that they were semi-remaking Heimer, just as a small side note in the forums.
Eventual Heimer re-make, it would seem.
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He does need one but i don’t really like the fact that riot want to make every champ viable in tournament play. How bout you make balanced champs instead of buffing everyone then nerfing them to hell..
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But … If a champ is viable in Tournaments it generally is balanced. Also I can’t really think of a champ that they have recently nerfed into hell.
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Urgot I thought, until I smashed a Darius solo top with him 😛
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Yeah, this is the problem. I’m not having a go at you specifically Techy but the second a nerf for champ x is announced people instantly say “oh champion x is trash tier now”. I feel sorry for Riot, they have made an amazing game that is fairly balanced (a heap more so then others) and people still bitch to them.
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No I didn’t think that way ever, for the record, however I really thought he was in trouble due to the range nerfing. I initially thought his harass is much weaker. It is but not to the point where it was making him trash tier, I was still able to hit Darius from out of his range (Barely but still effective).
Yeah I wish Riot was treated with more respect in this regard. Besides I do see why Urgot’s range on Q was nerfed above all else cuz as soon as his E hits you, you basically couldn’t get away from the full salvo of Q combos, and was basically Kog’Maw ulti range. I consistently show appreciation for what they do by purchasing RP in the first place 🙂
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Dark Souls Prepare to Die edition this week! YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
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Woooooooo!
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Oh shit does that mean the DLC comes out too?
I’ve been getting that Dark Souls itch again, might be time to kick in a NG+ soon 😀-
Consoles have a couple of weeks wait for the DLC, I think.
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Thats okay, I don’t have much time to play it right now anyways 😛
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Yep, grabbed mine yesterday.
Got an sms last night telling me my Fall of Cybertron PS3 will be available ot pick up tomorrow at EB.
Only problem is, I ordered the 360 version…
Printed out my order confirmation just in case – really hope I don’t get screwed out of G1 Optimus 😐
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If your order says Xbox you’ll be fine, I honestly doubt EB will sell out of the game day one.
although Tranformers ARE super awesome…
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Yeah, I should be fine. Just seems weird that it swapped versions.
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Looks like CounterStrike: Global Offensive is out today.
Not sure I want to play but it does hit me right in the nostalgias.
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I want to give it a go, but my internet connection has been extremely horrible over the last couple weeks.
Anyone else listen to the BBC documentary “The Culture of Gaming”? It’s a light discussion on video games as art, its contribution to culture, ability to tell a story and some of the changes over the last 5 years. The only minus is there’s a Peter Molyneux interview in there and we all know how ridiculous is ramblings can get. Still worth listening to though, especially as it is the first part of a series.
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I don’t actually mind Peter Molyneux. It’d just be nice if he made a game from time-to-time. 😛
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I don’t have too much against the guy but when he starts talking you realise that he doesn’t understand the importance of subtetly at all. Instead he goes on about manipulating peoples emotions and then attempts to do it in some of the most hamfisted ways.
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Wondering if anyone here is familiar/competent with actionscript 3/flash develop? I have a question for anyone who is.
HI, every TAYbie!
There is apparently a suspicion that JB are going to be dropping their price for the 3DSXL to $199 on release, according to an EB staff member. So, anyone that wants one should keep a lookout for that tomorrow.
Oh, and if you’ve preordered, you can still price match that. Not sure if this works if you already paid the preorder in full or not.
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Interesting. I asked EB what I’d get as a trade in on my old DS lite, which was $25 (not bad considering how old it is) but if JB drop to $199 thats still cheaper. Decisions, decisions
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Yeah, I’ll be trading in my DS Lite as well.
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If you’ve preordered at EB and paid in full and want to price match, you can get the remainder refunded in the same way it was paid – if you paid via trade-in credit, then that stays trade-in credit, and generally that is required to stay in store.
But for $50 you could just about buy a copy of Theatrhythm if they have one. And you should buy Theatrhythm. Everyone should. It’s so good.
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Hey wait… is that a gunshow comic avatar? If so, I liek you
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\o/ hooray! I’m lieked!
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Whoooaaaaa! That’s a pretty massive drop if its true. Geeesus.
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See, this is why I don’t pre-order! Kmart still haven’t shown their price yet either.
Man I hope this is true.
Tomorroooooow… threee dee esssssss… EXCEL! So excite 😀
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Took me longer than I’m proud of to translate that….
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Hahaha!
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I won’t be grabbing one tomorrow but I will definitely at some point when I can afford it.
My one problem with the 3DS was that despite the 3D, it felt like a step backwards after my DSiXL.-
But your 3DS has me in it, right, right!?
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One step back, 46 steps to the left! And then another 46 to the right. I forgot what the point of this metaphor is.-
To the left! To the left!
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Every Mii you own getting streetpassd on the left.
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And this is why I’ll never trade in my old Bish-filled 3DS to get the new, larger but Bish-less XL.
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I know right! It’s why I was so so happy to hear the announcement of the 3ds xl. I never got why people poo-pood the DSXL, like it wasnt necessary… its like a million times better than the original ds’
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Actually I remember you were the one to give me the motivation to get a dsxl come to think of it! For that I am eternally grateful
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Where are you buying yours!? :O
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Well, I was going to go Target with Rayman and Ghost Recon for $260, but if JB really do drop their price to the low 200’s then I’ll be going there probably. already have Rayman on xbox after all
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Also I’m just going to throw this out there, because I sure won’t be attending one anytime soon (HOW DEPRESSING), but melon-wrapped prosciutto at next house-Meat with home-cooking.
It’s not bacon, but it’s close enough.
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YOU WILL IF I FLY TO CANADA
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Haha! Like I’d go out to Meat you.
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What happens if i was on your doorstep crying and singing Africa?
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… I’m in Canada, Rockets. Not Africa.
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What the state of Canada isn’t in South Africa?
The mind boggle with you and your geographical prowess.
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You can’t just suggest an interesting new foodstuff for the next home Meat and then not come to cook it for us. That’s not how this works!
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I THOUGHT YOU JERKS WANTED ME OUT OF THE KITCHEN MORE (well, Rize specifically I guess)
MAKE UP YOUR MIND-
I feel bad when you’re putting in this massive effort and looks like you’re missing out on things… 😛
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You sure that’s not prosciutto-wrapped melon?
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…What a preposterous idea.
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You just got flu’d
Its kind of like punk’d but with a cooler voice.
http://killscreendaily.com/headlines/obscure-japanese-indie-games-delight-hipsters-everywhere/
First comment is depressing. =(
I couldn’t play through it, but I’m sure I’d love watching other people playing it =D
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When I first started reading that link I thought it said kill scree daily.
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Why? What did I ever do to them?! *breaks down crying*
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I hate to say but i agree with the comments, those little gags that make you die to realise your mistake aren’t fun IMO, Some people might enjoy the silliness of it but that sort of game design annoys me. Its not really clever or groundbreaking it just works to frustrate the player without reward.
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By the way scree in no way am i making fun of you for liking it or the game itself, its just those particular mechanics that the game employs annoy me.
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I know. But this would make a nice troll gift I think.
This is the company I work for, Nyu media, so when someone says it’s a mario rip off, it upsets me a little.-
Don’t let it bother you too much. Every single side scrolling plateformer will get called a Mario ripoff by some idiot at some point.
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I agree. I’m not a fan of these sorts of mechanics where the only way to know about them is to first fall victim to them. It just feels like a cheap way to try and make your game harder.
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Yeah.
Kazio traps are cute and all but they’re not a solid gameplay mechanic. They’re just great for Let’s Plays.
Seriously, this is awesome (NSFW language) but the gameplay itself looks terrible.
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I said hate to say it cause i didnt want to agree with the comment because even though he had valid points the guy seemed like a douche.
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Hi Scree
Do you have any idea when CTHCC (I think I got that right) is going to release on steam?
That making of Gangnam Style. Best parts are when Psy is watching the footage. Also the rest of it.
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I need to start hitting you on the nose with a rolled up newspaper everytime you mention Gundam Star or whatever.
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You are going to get very sick of flying between Canada and Australia if you do that.
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Pffft, what’s a 19 hour flight.
Plus, if I do it enough times, I will be like Mazer Rackham. While I’m busy travelling I will age very slightly less. While you would have aged 19 hours, I will have aged 18 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds.
Oh hoh hoh!-
I think you may have just discovered the secret to immortality, non stop flying around the world.
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Silly Wolf, Bish doesn’t need to discover the secret to immortality, he’s already 11237 years old.
That being said, if that’s the secret to immortality, then surely going on a cruise ship is the secret to rapid aging. The presence of a metal festival on said cruise ship may cancel out the aging effects though, I’m unsure and this will need to be investigated thoroughly.
By someone that isn’t me.
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The presence of a metal festival may just result in a lot of old people wearing leather.
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Hot half naked ladies who like metal, PICS OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN.
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… Oh, Rocketman. 😛
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You should start an excavation business.
Seriously, if you can make money doing what you love, it would be foolish not to and you sure do love digging yourself into holes.
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To be honest there were way more T-shirts than swimwear. 😛 But click on this link: http://www.70000tons.com/ and watch the header for long enough and you’ll see half-naked metalheads.
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Life-extension, perhaps. I think it’ll take a little more than commercially available options to achieve true immortality.
I mean, he’d still age, just slightly slower than the rest of us. If he were to simply *not* age, it’s another story. It’d be difficult trying to find equilibrium I’d imagine, as the difference between aging, not aging, and getting younger (anti-aging?) is, at it’s core, only a very fine line.
Anything’s possible!
Oh my god, that little kid doesn’t even realise how much of a badass he is. He is the best bit of the whole thing.
Also elevator dude.
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Elevator dude is dedicated to his craft.
The best part is 4:45-5:00 by far.
*waves*
Update: My foot is NOT broken! YAY!
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Sweet, what happened anyway? Did you trip?
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I was a zombie and attacking flu and my foot slipped of a stick and went owwie.
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WORST ZOMBIE EVER.
Seriously though i hope your not to bad, foot injuries suck balls.
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Well that’s good to hear! A broken foot would be horrible. Also HI DOC!
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HURRAY FOR NOT BROKEN DOC
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If someone wasn’t busy saving lives you could of prevented this with your doctor magic they teach you at doctor school.
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YAY! Unbroken feet are best feet.
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YAY! Now do a dance!
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Obviously a lack of commitment on being a zombie
Hey guys, hows it going?
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Better noW that you are here.
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Aww yeah not bad thanks Rockets! I’ve been buried (literally) in Minecraft last 5 days on my mates server, it’s so fun.. Curse him!
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haha buried, yes it is quite fun, the problem being that when minecraft was in beta and we had a TAY server i was on there most nights making stuff and after 2-3 months i can’t look at the game without cringing at all the time i have wasted in it.
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Yeah what’s worse is he’s running Tekkit a Minecraft mod so we’re making all kinds of awesome stuff, like Nuclear Reactors powered quarry’s, jetpacks & other cool stuff.
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Virus Frond!
Nothing new with me really, I beat DarkSiders 2 and am eagerly awaiting Dark Souls for PC and GW2.
How you going man?
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Hey Nob! Yeah not bad, addicted to Minecraft it would seem, there goes my GTA III play through before Mists of Pandaria comes out D=
Were you up at 5am to get in on the GW2 server stress test like my mate supposedly was before he had to go wot work?
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Maybe :P, although I had a day off that morning.
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So that 10,000 file download the other day was for a stress test? I wondered about that.
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S’aight
Hey Bish, what part of Canalandia are you staying around? I could be visiting family over there at some point next year and could bring a couple of bags full of TAYbies for you…
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He is in Toronto and i will totes fit in your bag. I am good at forcing things to fit where they really should go.
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Oh, Rocketman…
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Toronto.
Though I must say, I usually prefer TAYbies as a whole item, randomly assorted offcuts of people is not generally approved of here.-
It kinda scares me you had that link so readily available BIsh…
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So if anyone has Nexuiz on Steam, you can have these 75% off DLC codes, I also have another TWO in the form of a coupon & a 75% off for the 4 pack of it, the codes are valid until March 1st 2014. So if anyone wants the 4 pack coupon or the other 2 DLC coupons hit me up on Twitter or Steam please!
Codes are here for the 75% off DLC.
Duel DLC 3: KHXH4-07GMD-XCKW0
Duel DLC 4: 8DAGC-JDE5A-HQJHK
CURSE YOU EB GAMES!!!!!!!
Desperate for the G1 Optimus Prime skin, I pre-ordered a copy of TRANSFORMERS! with *shudder* EB, however knowing there was no chance in hell that I could get to a store before the weekend I did it online with delivery, fooloishly thinking they had a “delivered on release day” policy (could have sworn I had seen that declaration once).
So yesterday arvo, chipper as a chipmunk, I expected an email saying that TRANSFORMERS! had been posted and that I should receive it tomorrow (as in today… wait me confuzzled) but to no avail.
Get to work this morning, still nothing, Hugo very concerned by now. So I check the staus on my account AND THE BLOODY THING IS STILL BEING PROCESSED!!!
AAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Just checked about 10 minutes ago and it still hasn’t been posted.
Grrr
So I reiterate;
CURSE YOU EB GAMES!!!!!!!
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Oh, Hugo. Silly silly Hugo.
I ordered online, pickup in store. Not having them deliver to me again after it took over a week and a half to send out my Mariokart 7 (yeah, yeah, I’m in WA, but still…).
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This is what happened to me with ME3. Arrived 3 days late. Learned my lesson: don’t get it shipped, ask for store pick-up from your local EB.
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I pre-ordered ME3 with JB Hifi. Shipped about five days after release… then I became aware of the import glitch. Riled up good and proper. 😛
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That sucks man. Can you organise to pick it up at your local store?
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Hey, does that mean you might miss the Friday FALL OF CYBERTRON session?! Ack!
I had the Transformers (1986) OST on in my car this morning – I still have no idea why Weird Al has a song on there.
Also, Stan Bush is a master of awesome 80’s montage/pump-up tracks.
Also also, CAN’T WAIT TO GRAB FALL OF CYBERTRON!
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Stan Bush mentioned me in a #FollowFriday once. Pretty much made my life.
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I would literally brain asplosion. That is so freaking awesome. SO JEALOUS!
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I am not fond of stealth sections in games that aside from that one tiny section do not generally have stealth. I also am not fond of being spotted automatically giving you a gameover screen. It’s a little frustrating.
The Last Story is doing this to me and it’s unfun. Also unfun is the reason why I’m sneaking in the first place. So eye-rollingly cringe-worthy.
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Is it the part where you have to sneak past guards? You can use your crossbow to put them to sleep but it’s still not the best 🙁
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Nah, it’s the next sneaking past guards part. Without the sleep arrows.
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That’s why Hitman is so damn fun. You can always salvage a mission, even if you mess up the Silent Assassin thing. There’s a game from a few years ago called Dreamfall. Basically one major stealth set piece that EVERY ONE seemed to hate. I can sympathize. 😛
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Forced stealth with instant game over if you fuck up is a blight upon gaming.
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Yes! I completely agree with you Strange (Hi Strange!). Zelda games are a horrible offender of this. I mean I love legend of Zelda soooo much but whenever there’s a stealth section I sigh to myself.
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Well its not as bad (i.e. you don’t get a “game over” screen but still it is so frustrating being sent back to the start of the stealth section when you get caught.
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Yes! This is the whole reason I don’t replay Wind Waker all the time. That stealth section at the start. Grr.
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I’m doing a few of them at the moment in Assassins Creed and I don’t really mind them there because the suit the style of the game and are expected
It is when you don’t expect it or they put it in “for something different” in the same way they add racing vehicle section mini games that it doesn’t work.I would suggest punching them but then you would fail the mission /o\
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Yeah, at least in AC you expect them. I found the whole section in The Last Story pointless. Triply so because the area you’re sneaking through is suddenly just full of guards when before it used to be full of just general NPCs.
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I’m thinking about unplugging the PS3 and gaming on the Wii for a while. So many games that need finishing! Want to play Xenoblade, Last Story and Pandora’s Tower!
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Yeah, my Wii is pretty damn neglected too. Only thing I’ve used it for since Donkey Kong Country Returns in 2010 (!!!) is Wii Fit in the morning when I run. Honestly can’t say I’ve missed it, though. :S
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Holy heck, was DKCR 2010!? :O
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Mine’s still in its box. Never removed. It sits in the corner, hoping one day to be appreciated.
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I hear XENOBLADE is good.
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Really? Never heard of it. If only there was someone that was named a colour with “ius” on the end could shed some light on this mystery game. Hmmm, redius? Nah, that’s not right.
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My PS3 is dead so I don’t have a choice.
But I am thinking of plugging the PS2 in instead and replaying FFXII. I’m not sure why because I didn’t really like the game and the main character even less so but I think the only way I’ll stop wanting to play it again is to actually start playing it again. 😛-
I wish Squenix execs hadn’t fiddled with FFXII. Matsuno planned Basch to be the main character originally but apparently he wasn’t shitty enough so they had to make Vaan.
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Someone said that this month is the month that they will finally play Xenoblade 🙂
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MEEEEEEEEEEE!
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Greenius will be arriving soon to encourage you. I hear there’s a game on Wii he likes.
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In fact he managed to do so between the time I refreshed and I when I posted.
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Hey Bish,
Gangnam Style.
Let me know when your flight gets in, I’ll meet you at the airport so that you can bop me.
Cheers,
Trjn
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Bish is coming to Bris..?
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Only if he’s a man of his word.
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Awww, lame it was a joke 🙁
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Do any TAYbies make the musics like stepping the dubs or the pops or even the electros?
Trying to get an eclectic mix of music for the Zombie Movie
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I used to but not so much any more. Don’t mind some of it (not dubstep though) but wouldn’t go out of my way for it.
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I wouldn’t be optimistic about finding such a person here. Anyone who did that would probably try to hide their identity.
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Hehehehehe
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Funny coming from some one who likes Gangnam Style
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I wonder if anybody else will see what he did there 🙂
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At least one person missed it so far.
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I saw it. He’s nifty with the words, that Bunny.
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If you need something I could try getting in contact with an old friend of mine. No idea how keen he would be.
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that would be cool.
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I could try, im terrible but i could try, i like dubstep and electro though.
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TRY! You send me something you made, it will get put in the film!
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@Strange
I just saw your comment on page 3 about how many of your Playstations have broken. I think you must just have really bad luck. My nextdoor neighbors PS1 and PS2 still work perfectly and I’ve never had any sort of issue with my PS3 slim, which I’ve owned for about two years now. It’s been Xboxes that I’ve had the most issues with, with me having had to replace both my original Xbox and my 360. The Xbox I’ve got now has to be going on 9 years old and it’s still working (though you have to hit the top of it to open the disc tray) and my 360, which I think might be 3 or 4 years old, is still going strong.
My main concern when it comes to getting future generations to play older games isn’t that the hardware will no longer be working but rather things like always online, titles you can only access by streaming them etc will stand in the way of people enjoying older games in the future.
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If the hardware becomes inaccessible I imagine it would give incentive for proper emulators. Here’s hoping any way.
Man waiting for a phone call is so… ‘annoying’
I’m supposed to be called today for a phone interview for an internship program I applied for. They let me know a few days ago that I proceeded to the next round but all they said was “we’ll call sometime between Monday and Friday”. They called yesterday while I was in a class at University so I told them to call me back, but now I have no idea when they’re calling :/
I say ‘annoying’ because I’m not exactly sure when they’re going to call. I’d hate to miss the call just because I was away from the phone for just a few seconds. I also don’t know what to expect. Tis making me nervous!
So stupid though… need a job for experience, need experience for a job :'(. Experience is probably the only thing stopping me getting these things since I’ve never had a job before. Any TAYbies want to help me get a job? 😛
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Doing what exactly?
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What the internship program is or what job I want help getting? 😛
Program – Holden student co-operative paid internship
Job – anything that doesn’t suck and has a decent pay (so no fast food type places). I think I’d be good at Data Entry type jobs if it is what I think it is (just typing stuff and well… making data entries) since I don’t mind typing and I’m quick and accurate too.
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Yeah the actual job sorry. What location/state are you in?
A good place to start is the industrial sector. They usually train on the job and most of the time the pay/hours are pretty good. I work in the Steel industry myself.
As far as not sucking goes….well…hahahahahahaha! Sorry but most jobs i’ve had sucked. That’s all part of it. The job can suck but it’s the people who matter. Work a sucky job with someone you get along with and you’ll usually not notice how much the job sucks. Working with someone you dislike in a job you enjoy, will quickly lead you to not enjoy it anymore.
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Just go to the toliet. They’re 99.99% guaranteed to call while you’re on the toilet.
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This. Or make another important call. Or get in the shower.
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Or play an online game that’ll take 40 minutes minimum to finish and you cannot pause it
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I took the risk and went anyway, bought my phone in just in case 😛
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I have someone waiting for me to call him.
He gave me the wrong number.
James Mac was enquiring about the theme park meat in Ask Kotaku. If any one knows details I’m sure he’d probably appreciate ’em.
@ Queensland TAYbies
Hoping a QLD TAYbie can help me here…whats the best(and easiest) way for an out-of-towner Melbourne TAYbie to get from Brisbane to the Gold Coast? It appears i’ll be on holidays there in November…
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There’s a train that goes along the Beenleigh line (you can catch it at any of the major stations such as Central, South Brisbane or Roma St) that runs express to the Gold Coast every half hour or so.
Or you can just take a 45 minute drive if you have a car.
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I used to take that train to Coomera pretty often. Tends to get crowded quick and is a decent sized trip. If you’re spending more than a day or so on the coast, probably best to rent a car.
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Hire a car…
It’s a 1 hour drive and depending on what you want to do on the gold coast, it’s handy to have a car to get around.-
Should’ve specified cheapest as well, thanks anyway!
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Probably won’t bother hiring a car…mainly for the cost and the fact we’re staying on Cavill avenue which is pretty close to everything. Courtesy buses run to most of the theme parks anyway(pretty much why i’m going)…
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Cavill Ave is pretty much the centre of the touristy parts of the Gold Coast but Surfers Paradise is a pretty small area, so anything there is in walking distance of most of those things.
By the sounds of it, you’re going straight from the airport to the Gold Coast? So that would mean a train to Central and then the Gold Coast express. Or you could just fly to the Gold Coast. Fairly sure you can do that and say the hassle of dealing with Qld Rail and their hatred of paper tickets (seriously, you won’t be happy with how much a train costs).
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I got bored and checked. $35.50 per person to take the train from Brisbane Airport to Cavill Ave (including a bus from Surfers train station to Cavill).
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Nerang station?
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Err yes. That one. Here’s the details for the curious.
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Sorry, should’ve specified. I fly up to Brisbane on the 3rd of November where a 7 night cruise around the South Pacific will be waiting for my wife and I. Then when we dock, i’m meeting a mate of mine who is flying up from Melbourne on the 10th to the Gold Coast and we’re spending a week together at Surfers. Hence why I couldn’t fly direct to Gold Coast. But i’m flying back home from Coolangatta Airport.
Oh and hiring a car for the trip is actually a lot cheaper than I thought. So i’m seriously considering just paying the extra $30 or so and drive myself there. I’d probably enjoy it more too 🙂
Thanks for all the help though Trjn and Inquisitorz, it’s very appreciated!
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For some reason I assumed you’d be commuting back and forwards from Brisbane. If it’s only once to the coast and back the train is more than fine.
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Found out I can hire a car for about $60 for 2 hours. And the car drop off point is only about 500m from the hotel. Which works out well 🙂
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Yeah go with the car, last time I took the Airport “express” train from Robina (last train stop on the southern end of the GC) it took 2 & a half hours to get to South Bank Q_Q was not worth the 25 bucks or whatever I paid.
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Yeah I just booked one through Avis. I’d rather pay a couple extra dollars and not have to spend ages on public transport.
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That’s hilarious!
We’ll both be in QLD around the same time!!
MELBOURNE INVASION!
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I feel I haven’t plugged Crusader Kings 2 today.
You lot, go get it, it’s freaking addictive.
I noticed all the page-gets were pushed back which meant an in-moderation comment is out of moderation. Since I’m bored and procrastinating I went back and it’s most likely this one by Virus__
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-174/comment-page-4/#comment-772237
He’s offering 75% off codes for Nexuiz DLC. Thought it’ll be lost on the last page so I’m reposting it here if anyone wanted them 🙂
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I have had my pageget denied.
I don’t know how to feel about this.
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You should feel like playing Crusader Kings with all those mods you bought the game for and take over the world with Sweden!
And everyone else should too!
#TAYMARKETINGMACHINE
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Indeed!
Actually, I did buy it for the GoT mod, but have been suckered in to the vanilla game that I haven’t even looked for it.
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/look of disapproval
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Someone doesn’t like dubstep cat ;____;
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/08/ask-kotaku-19/comment-page-1/#comment-772155
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At least the human said “please”
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I thought they were talking about the Alpha Protocol one at the top!?
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I thought that way too, but my analysis in the tone in his text concludes that it was highly likely to be towards his avatar
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I didn’t think of that.
Could be, since I was talking about the “Ask Kotaku” feature in general.
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Either way, don’t ever change. 😛
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I do kinda miss the old one though
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Oh, yeah. You make a good point. *strokes patchy stubble on chin* Only change if YOU want to. (I was peer pressured to change mine. They said my BioShock booze hound looked like balls. :P)
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Well, Pey’j is awesome so I love it.
I ran into trouble a few times with my McGarnicle avatar. he was frowning, so people often thought I was being a jerk when I wasn’t. Skifcha is just cheeky, which is far more accurate I reckon.
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Can I interject and say that I just started playing BG&E last week and PEY’J IS AWESOME.
RAWWCKET BEEUUUUUTSS ATTAAAEEEEECK!!! -
First time through? You’re in for a treat. (And a long wait for a sequel. :P)
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Man that guy is cranky, at least he apologised but god damn.
Having dinner with my family in my new flat tonight.
Pizza and champagne, sitting on the floor.
Probably the most lavish meal I’ll eat for the next 25 years.
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What happens if i shout you pizza?
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What? No champagne? Some friend you are…
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I am a dick what can i say.
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I dunno, “sorry” I guess.
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This is the best part of moving for me! Sitting around with no furniture.
Thinking about it now, that’s an odd thing to look forward too 😛
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Congrats, man! A place to call your own!
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Congratumisserations, Eff!
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WHEN’S THE MEAT??
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Congratulations Flu! Pizza and champagne is the best way to celebrate!
@Splicer
I’m in the South-Eastern suburbs of Melbourne.
Currently studying Business so I’m trying to apply for internships to hopefully give me an advantage when applying for graduate positions. I have a feeling I might not easily get a graduate position as of now because I’ve never had any prior employment, and I also have a feeling I’m not getting internships because of the same reason 🙁
So I’m looking for a casual/part-time job mainly for experience to help me get a graduate job after I finish my degree but also for money! :D. I’m young and still living at home so I don’t need to pay bills/rent etc. but I’d like money for vidya gaems and whatnot.
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Hey mate, sorry for the delayed response. Work is pretty busy today. I live in Highett so I know the SE suburbs pretty well. If you aren’t too bothered by what you do for work, theres heaps of work around the Dandenong/Hallam area for factory hands etc…not glamourous i know but it brings in a bit of coin. Otherwise retail might be a better option, plenty of shops hire around Oct/Nov for the summer season and if they like what you do, they generally keep you on. Put together a resume and canvas your local shopping centre, your bound to score some hits. Also nightfill at Safeway pays well but you will have next to no social life. Or Bunnings(my wife works there), they generally start the hiring process in September.
Any questions etc feel free to email me at aaronanddel(at)yahoo.com.au
Cheers mate
Dress well, but not too well. A shirt and slacks(a tie if you like) but skip the jacket for now.
People! buy my shirts so I can afford a bed! \o/
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I can’t afford to buy your shirts, but maybe people who could afford it would like a link? 😉
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I’m sure they would.
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Oh right, I get you.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/luckydog
^^;; It was part a joke anyway
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I dont think your shirts would fit me Scree, and I dont think I’d feel comfortable in a second hand womens shirt either.
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No, I design shirts using RB. I get $4 a shirt \o/
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Just had a look through your portfolio, and ‘Melting’ caught my eye. You mention that it’s to be interpreted by the viewer, and while I have some ideas, I am rather curious about yours!
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Oh man, there’s something i haven’t done for a little while now!
My sales have slowed down massively since the hype from ME3 dropped lol
Still, i sold a couple the other week, which was good…
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Demand? What is this concept?
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Really not enjoying Fall of Cybertron very much, which is surprising and unfortunate 🙁
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That sucks 🙁
Do you need a hug?
I’m sure someone here will offer you one if you do 😛-
No I need there not to be goddamn stealth missions in it. I hate hate hate stealth games. Not that the actual shootery is that much better, and the checkpointing is absolutely awful as well. Very frustrating.
Also wouldn’t mind if the PC interface would recognize that I was using a controller and not require me to switch to an ultra-clunky mouse interface to browse the shop.
I’m super tired though, going to try it again tomorrow night and maybe I’ll be in a better frame of mind.
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That whole stealth thing would put me off too.
And, while I don’t use controllers, if I did, I’d expect to be able to navigate all areas using it.Hope it’s better for you tomorrow.
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Stealth section =\
That’s kinda disappointing … Kinda VERY disappointing.
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It wasn’t so bad at first. You basically cloak, sneak behind a dude and whack them. Problem is later they introduce an enemy type which can see through your cloak so you have to sneak behind pillars and stuff or it will transform into an ass-reaming monster. 🙁
I beat it no real issues, then Jazz is all MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ROOM DUDE and so I go up to the door and another one of them is on the other side with two extra dudes that immediately aggro me because I’m right there. And if Optimus feels like his armor is made of cardboard, Cliffjumper is like tissue paper 🙁 So I said ‘fuck this shit’ and went to bed.
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That’s a bit sad, but I’m glad I didn’t message you last night to ask how it was going. Although it might have given you a chance to vent and you would have enjoyed it more
It’s not even midnight and I’m tired…
Goodnight, TAY.
Just thought I’d play the first mission or two of Spec Ops. Then it was 12:40. Just had the water trucks crash figured was a good point to stop for the night.
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the music in that that mission made it. always been a mogwai fan so that just made that level pure awesome in my opinion.
also, great game.
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Playing Sleeping Dogs now, first game I’ve played since Spec Ops. I’m liking it a whole damn lot, but it feels very ‘gamey’ after the excellent The Line campaign.
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I’ve played the first 30 mins of Slumbering Puppies & while I like the setting / visual style / combat, it hasnt yet grabbed me.
But yeah… spending more time playing through Saints Row 3 at the moment. Just as a contrast to the bleakness of Spec Ops.
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Yeah, took a little while for the story to grab me to be honest. It’s the gameplay that makes it great, though. Keep at it, you’ll be addicted in no time.
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Grr, stupid UBISOFT. Pull your head out of your arse. 95% of PC players do not pirate your game and you would have to be a whole new level of derp to come up with that figure. I regret buying/playing AssCreed 1 now just because of UBISOFT.
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I got your back Nobfrond, we will take out ubisoft together in a series of zany adventures resulting in us being arressted and released on bail
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OK, I can be the tough / grumpy guy that has a heart of gold but doesn’t like people knowing it. You can be the guy that always cracks jokes and gets us in trouble.
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Oh man, I totally bought AssCreed 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction for PC. I bet I make up a fair majority of that 5% who don’t pirate.
As such, I believe Ubisoft should consult me on anything PC-related they do, seeing as I am pretty much that entire market.-
You should write a letter to them saying this!
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The last Ubisoft game I got was HOMM6, with its 3 layers of DRM cuz I bought from Steam. I don’t pirate your games cuz of this Ubisoft, I just straight up don’t buy them from you cuz your business practises towards PC gamers are pathetic
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I always wonder how companies even know how many people pirate their stuff. Do they go around to all the torrent sites, find their product listed and then count the number of downloads or something?
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I own multiple copies of the assassin’s creed games and haven’t pirated them at all :/
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I haven’t bought a Ubisoft game on PC is so damn long. I haven’t pirated any either. The thing is they’re a publisher with an internal development team that consistantly delivers interesting and new kinds of games. So conflicted. Atleast with Activision you can boycott them and not risk missing out on excellent new games. (From my perspective, at least. I don’t mind if you like their games. :P) With Ubisoft a boycott means a lack of interesting titles. That’s why I’ve migrated to the consoles, giving them exactly what they want I suspect. 🙁
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Sooooo where am I buying my 3DS XL from today? Guys? HALP!
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/08/nintendo-3ds-xl-which-store-has-the-best-australian-price/
Looks like Big W has the best deal.
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No ways! Targets and Dick Smiths bundles are way better, and on top of that you can buy Monkey and Rayman for sub $30, making the standalone JB the best offer so far…
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I need to know the answer too!
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Yeah. I need help with this too. Does anyone know if JB have/are going to drop to $199?
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I will probably go out and get it 230 at jb, then in the afternoon they will be like oh look here its now 200 and I will cry a bit
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Looks unlikely 🙁 Surely they would have said something by now.
I’ll be swinging by Kmart on the way just to see. They didn’t even advertise it in their latest catalogue though so I’m not expecting much 😛
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Yeah same. Well, I’m off now to do some XL shopping. I’ll let you guys know how I go.
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I’m going to wait until the afternoon. There are no pink ones anyway so what’s the point?
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I don’t think I’ve said anything this week so here I am. Saying stuff.
Stuff.
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Stuff is pretty nifty.
Did you know that words with the letter F in them are 74% more awesome than words without? The awesomeness grows exponentially for each additional F.
That’s why kerfuffle is the best way to describe a scuffle. You know, the type of thing where fists fly furiously as foes and friends biff and boff without thought. The act itself isn’t that great but nobody can doubt the greatness of the word kerfuffle.
F sounds almost count, in case you’re wondering.
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You really need a hobby.
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Coming up with gibberish could very well be my hobby.
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fsteak
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Filet mignon > steak.
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Fried Bacon
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Related (maybe) :
Words with a hard-CK sound (like quack) are inherently funnier than those without.
Reason being that to make the -ck sound, the speaker has to pull their mouth back into a sort of smiling position. this then gets a base reaction of the listeners’ inclination to return said ‘smile’.-
QI high five!
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Funniest word ever – brouhaha. Go on, say it. See, you’re already laughing.
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Anyone who wants to set up a comedy festival in New Zealand should really consider calling it Brouhaha.
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Bro-haha
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Oblong.
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Maybe we could use words that include both the “F” and the “-ck” sound!
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What a quaint idea, I can’t think of a single word that fits that very narrow criteria.
It’s almost like the English language was designed to be unfun.
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Flick
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Flack and fleck too
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Flock, frock, freckle, fickle 😛
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Firetruck!
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All of these words you guys mention are foreign to me.
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You’d be surprised how much of this we sell
Talking to a friend (Spleen, some of you may know him) about exchange rates (because we lead such mad exciting lives that our conversations turn to foreign currency).
He just misspelled “days” as “dayz”.
Good game, that. Best typo.
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YOU NEVER TALK TO ME ABOUT EXCHANGE RATES. WHY DO YOU HAT ME. Probably the obnoxious comments and the general aura isn’t it.
I havent played Dayz for a while hackers make it unfun.-
Because you’re a terrible haberdasher and Bish is merely trying to train you good an’ proper?
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Wow, I’d forgotten how much space video editing takes up. Just exported a five minute vid as an uncompressed avi and it ended up being 40gb 😮
People seem to be rather appreciative of the changes made in Diablo’s latest patch.
Inferno is easier and there is a reason to keep going thanks to paragon levels. The new legendaries are actually quite awesome and with the increased drop rate, there’s a non-terrible chance of seeing them yourself.
Shame that I won’t be near a computer this weekend to see this stuff, so I think I’m just going to have to try it out tonight.
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repeatedly doing the same 4 short acts to grind another 100 levels is not adding any replay value in my opinion. I dont think I’m gonna be back into it any time soon.
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Apparently they’ve made fighting elite monsters a bit more interesting and fighting trash mobs actually worthwhile.
They haven’t added more content but they’ve made the content they’ve got better. Which is a nice start and might be enough of a change to make things interesting for another little while.
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Hmmm I might play too, just lemme know when :). Have to beat Hell first though 😛
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We’ll have to get that out of the way nice and quickly. I really want to see if I can do Inferno now. Had the stats to pull it off but it was an act of attrition as a Monk.
With a group and the changes they’ve made, I want to see if I can do a build other than all tank, all the time.
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I’ll join you if you’ll have me.
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Most definitely.
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Jo makes his return! Now all we need is Farts to get the whole team together again! (please don’t bring your friends Jo, they’re mean)
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I’ve already pestered Farts.
The gang will be reunited tonight!
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I’m near the end of Hell if I recall but I’m not sure if I should ask you guys to help me with Diablo incase y’all kill him without me again 🙁
What level is Frey? Wasn’t she always a few levels below us?
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She was 60.
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Hmm I’m only 59 😛
Oh and I have a mic now, it’s horribly buzzy but it works 🙂
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Should only take a quick Diablo run to fix you up then.
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You have? You just said I won’t get freebies anymore. That’s not pestering!
Jo has the worst friends.
Yeah the level 60 cap was a pretty meh Idea imo. Takes some of the fun out of it when there is no character progression.
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My biggest problem was Inferno.
Act 1 was a complete brick wall with my Monk. I could get through Hell difficulty easily but even after dumping a lot of money into gear from the Auction House to up my resistances, armour, dex, vit and spirit gen, most elite mobs were just too strong.
If I wanted to fight them, I would have to go as defensive as I could, meaning that my damage was so low that it would take forever to try and kill them.
It just wasn’t worth it.
If we can take on those mobs with me using the same sort of setup that I used during Hell (or if I could use my Witch Doctor, because apparently they don’t suck anymore), it would be a lot more fun.
Not to mention the idea of being able to find gear that is actually an upgrade is rather nifty.
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Yeah I got about half way through act 1 I think. Was not too bad, could kill stuff but would die in seconds to the harder packs.
No amount of kiting can save a lone wizard against extra fast, molten, invulnerable minion dudes camping a hallway.-
Remember how tanky I was in Hell?
Yeah, that wasn’t happening in Inferno and kiting wasn’t an option.
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Seems good. I played for about an hour last night. I spent most of that hour not-dead. Enemies are now loot pinatas. I think I scooped up 10-12 yellows with only the MF from nephalem valor.
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I do like the idea of loot pinatas.
Bad news: Ozgameshop have informed me that my copy of Fall of Cybertron was shipped this moning. Meaning I won’t have it for at least a week.
Good news: They upgraded my copy to the limited edition for free, meaning I get a G2 Bruticus skin and… thats about it I think.
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Is that even good news? I don’t even know.
Anyways that gives me at least a week to get as much Lame Game Marathon work done before it shows up, it can be like my reward for working so hard 😛-
Free is always a good thing.
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G2 Bruticus is cool and all, but G1 Optimus is where it’s at. Also, my Scientist in multiplayer is Swoop. He even flaps his wings!
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Hi all, I was watching that good game show with the kids the other night and they mentioned this game called “lonliness” an basic flash game that apparently is based on the concept of lonliness. It apparently sparks emotions of sadness etc
I played it but… .I just dont get any feeling one way or the other, it just felt like i was steering a block until the screen went black. This is nothing against the game but with so many people saying they developed some kind of emotional response Im a little worried that I felt absolutely nothing….
Would be interested to hear others thoughts
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Never heard of the game till now. Just gave it a play. I really didn’t feel anything. Maybe if I played it with sound on and in a room by myself at night instead of in a room full of people in the middle of the day it’d help. I’ll give it another shot this evening and see if I can’t get it to make me feel all emotional.
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Look on PATV for an extra credits episode along the lines of ‘mechanics as a narrative’, they use this game as a primary example.
Didn’t evoke anything in me since I was mostly just thinking about what code the ‘game’ would be made up of.
Highly recommend the Extra Credits analysis though.-
Oh well glad Im not the only one that didnt have an epiphany….
Ill check that PATV out though.
Strange that a game that hasnt caught me at all really is piquing my curiosity on a meta level.
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So looks like I won’t be going to Soundwave, apparently Brisbane sold out within 5 minutes this morning, I might have some luck later in the year if they release more/people return theirs for a refund.
and no Slash & Myles Kennedy gig for me tonight either, today is a sad day. I’m just gonna go sulk over in the corner.
Alright dudes, just back from 3DS XL shopping. Kmart is 240 for just the console so they suck. JB has a few things going, $229 for the console, or $248 with console, monkey ball, and a starter kit with screen protectors and a case etc. Also you can pick up games for $44 with the console when you buy it, like Zelda, Mario 3D, Res Evil Revelations, and Mario Kart. There were some others I dont remember.
Soooo, I got the $248 starter kit one and just got the guy to give me credit for monkey ball, so he’s written on the receipt 229 for the console, 5 for the starter pack, and 44 for zelda (which I also obviously got). Win!
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Actually no kmart was 250 for the console come to think of it. Even worse.
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Pullblox!
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Cheers Sughly. I’ll be heading off to get mine soonish. Also going store to store with a bunch of resumes, see if I can’t find someone to give me a job. Its a good plan, at least if I don’t get a job, I still have a 3DS to drown my sorrows in 😀
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Cheers for the heads up! I’ll be price matching my EB one, and potentially haggling my way into discount on games again, cause it’s awesome fun to do :D.
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Yeah Kmart let me down. They had one little display box off in the corner and no price tag to be found. The guy at JB seemed to be disappointed that I just wanted the standard console with no extended warranty/games/etc.
This thing is pretty immense though.
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Lemme know how the transfer thing is. I heard you have to re-download the games :/
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As far as I can tell, it transfers everything over. Like a full clone. I’ll let you know though 😛
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I reckon! Heavier than I expected… i’m used to the DSXL which is way way lighter :O
Also I screwed up the screen protector and there’s a bubble right in the middle giving me the shits >:(
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I have to remember to pick up a bunch of accessories while I’m getting mine…the usual screen protector, case, etc. sort of stuff.
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If possible, get a case that allows you to see the top right corner of the XL without opening it. It’s so much more convenient to check if you have any Streetpasses (which you will be doing. A lot.) without having to open the case.
Haven’t found a suitable I like yet 😛 But apparently it fits in DSi XL cases.
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I know that feeling of the failed screen protector.
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Which is why I buy 3 screen protectors. One to screw up, one to apply properly, one in reserve.
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I do the same. I actually bought a bunch of DSLite sized screen protectors cheap when they started discontinuing a lot of accessories in favour of the DSi and DSiXL stuff… so I’ll be able to protect my DS Lites for many years to come.
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lol! Yeeeeah I thought this pack came with 2, but one’s just for the top screen. S’pose I could cut it to fit the bottom… maybe later when I’m less lazy.
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I’ve found Kmart is really, really horrible when it comes to anything game related.
Thanks Sughly! I’m about to go shopping for mine too 🙂
We’re making plans for the office christmas party. The person who does all of the arranging is not very well loved. As a matter of fact, she’s rather obnoxious about always being overworked (she’s not) and resists doing anything on anyone’s request.
So when it comes time for the Christmas party, she will send out menus and then everyone will email her back voting (in unison) for something that she hasn’t suggested.
There have been a dozen emails so far, including this one:
Once again it is not going to be a boy’s club decision
That was sent right before two of the women voted in favour of the boy’s club option.
I like the cut of your jib
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Sup buddy?-
Same old.
Got into the Open Beta for MWOnline last night, installed it and it doesn’t run on my computer #firstworldproblems.
Decided i won’t be getting a new rig until we move house, as there simply isn’t any room in the house at the moment for a decent pc 🙁
Also i’m trying to encourage Bee to get a sewing machine. She’s taken a sudden interest in it and making bears to sell at markets, and as she has never had a hobby as such, i have been pushing it – only problem is i got my tax return and decided to spoil her with a couple of tickets to Jenifer Lopez (i won’t be going, though – she can take a friend) which was a stinging $300. The sewing machine will cost $400-500.
Women. Expensive. Yes.Still haven’t replaced my 360 and i probably won’t until the xmas sales – so i’ve been playing Saints Row 2 – such an awesome game.
How have you been, buddy? Any new awkward adventures?
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Wow you are a pretty generous and thoughtful guy loops, you are quite the catch.
Awkward adventures follow me around but none for a while the last awkward thing to happen was i asked out a chick in EB who turned out to be a rather effeminate guy. I think thats enough awkward for a year. He was a nice dude though.
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You should ask him out for dinner. I would.
I mean, what???
Also, she’s pretty neat-o herself.
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DAwww thats awesome man, you are a cool dude.
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Dawww shucks… You have to be careful there, buddy – i might just marry you.
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Sorry man, i am flying solo.
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What a guy
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I’m unimpressed by the jib but dat mainsail…
Unff!
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What about the mizzen mast?
I know it’s not as big, but surely size doesn’t matter?-
I guess if you’re into that sort of thing.
Don’t worry, I won’t judge you. Much.
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Keel Hauled.
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Woo! September 16th, Boardwalk Empire returns!!
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Boardwalk Empire Returns?
Is that the sequel to Boardwalk Empire Strikes Back?
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YES! I should not have included that comma. Oh well!
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Do you think Boardwalk Empire would be better with Lightsabres and Wookies?
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Make it so.
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Sadly no, it would ruin the amazing 1920’s bootlegging atmosphere they have.
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@Greenius/3DS XL converts:
System Transfer was really easy. Just follow the prompts. It made a full clone of my original 3DS onto the XL (no extra downloading or anything). I think where people mess up is that you have to swap your SD card into the new system when it tells you to (the message is a little ambiguous). If you’re worried there are plenty of tutorials on youtube.
It took me about an hour to transfer, so you might not want to do it in-store if you can avoid it 😛
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So are the games still on the phat 3DS? Or is it a one way transfer?
With the SD thing I think the 3DS comes with a 4GB card does that mean it makes you use the old 2GB? A saw a brief transfer video that said you’d have to manually copy everything over to the new card using your computer :P. I want one but then I don’t need one… Hmmmm! I love the DSi XL though!
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All data gets transfered to the target 3DS and then gets deleted from the source 3DS (back to factory settings). So it’s one-way, no backsies. Also note that you can only transfer once every 7 days and there is a limit of 5 transfers per system (a stupid rule but shouldn’t be an issue if you don’t buy every hardware revision :P).
And yup, if you want to use the higher capacity SD card you have to copy/paste everything over via PC.
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Question for those with more experience with EB – what are the odds that I can get them to price match with JB’s price and then get extra off for the trade in of my DS lite?
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Cant see why they wouldnt do it. They’ll call to check if the nearest JB has them in stock usually though
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Depends mostly on how close the local JB is
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As long as there’s a JB close enough to be considered “local” (same suburb is definite, though I’ve heard some managers try to get out of that…), they’ll do it.
Price matching doesn’t affect trade in. I’ll be trading in a DS Lite soon for my 3DSXL, and I’ve confirmed with the store that they’re happy to price match my pre-order and do the trade in (can’t be wrong if you check first). The JB I’ll be matching is in the same mall. -
EB don’t advertise it but they do price match as far as I know, as long as the JB selling the DS is local you shouldn’t have a problem.
Of course I have heard of some EB’s denying the existence of their price matching policy so it just depends on if your local EB manager is a jerk or not.
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Thanks guys. The stores are actually next door to each other, so no issues on being local. Let’s go see how this works out
I like turtles.
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You new?
If so, WELCOME!-
OAR!
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Welcome Varnish don’t vanish /o\
Oh Batman. You’re almost as surly as surly Bish!
Hmm… auto-approved comments seem to be going a little weird. My details aren’t automatically in the name and email boxes anymore and I can’t see an unapproved comment that I just made, despite the fact that it should have been auto-approved.
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Ditto :s
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Comments may or may not be working again.
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typo in your handle / email?
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Nope. It’s just not there when I go to make a new comment. Have to type it in every time now, normally it’s saved.
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actually, yeah… same here now. weird.
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Serrels has said that Ben said it was some sort of caching thing.
Apparently it’s been fixed. This is really just an excuse to test it.
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So what do we all have planned for NYE?
I figure if I start talking about it now, we may be able to hatch a feasible plan 😀
I’d like to get off the eylandt and experience some semblance of the futuristic society you all live in.
So, I propose a NYE meat somewhere. On NYE. My only concern at the moment would be… where?
What’s the easiest place for the most TAYbies to converge?
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Ha Ha, Aleph.
Sydney of course 🙂
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Gold Coast, you know you want to.
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I would very much like to go home now. Would anyone care to join me for beverages in the sun this afternoon? Seems like a rather pleasant idea.
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I’m in Canberra. We don’t believe in the sun.
Other than that, I’d join if I could 😛
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Hey man, the ‘berra summer gets rockin’. Also fire. ALL the fire.
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Dicovered Gangnam Style today…..
I am now a believer… Kpop!
Dicovered Gangnam Style today….. Also Byantae Style…
I am now a believer… Kpop!
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you guys are the freakin’ best!
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@Greenius…
I replyed to your post on the previous page mate, hope it helps 🙂
Ok who broke TAY? This typing in my details every time is getting old, fast.
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Blame Lambo.
It’s not his fault. But blame Lambo.
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*Shakes fist*
LAAAAAAMMMBBBBOOOOOO!!!!!-
WWWHHHHHHYYYYYY?!?!?!?!?!
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Dear new 3DS owners,
Your friend codes. I need them. Now.
Regards,
Pantaloons.
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First order of business: install Nintendo Letter Box so I/we can send you hilarious/terrible drawings.
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Xenoblade drawings!
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Ohhhhh yeah! I hadnt even thought of that! I too would like ppls friendses codes and stuff, despite having no idea what I’m talking about and just hoping I can figure this out along the way.
My code appears to be 2063-0450-0746
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Most peoples friend codes are listed here! http://www.tinyurl.com/taynames
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YESSSSS!
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Added you!
I’ve already added everyone else from TAYnames but some people still haven’t added me :'(
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I see you! I SEEE YOUUUUU! My first friend <3
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I assume friend code remains the same when transferring from OG to XL.
My FRAND COD is on TAYnames already.
@ Loops
Are you holidaying in the Queensland sun in November as well?
I think you might be right…MELBOURNE INVASION!
But a very small one 🙂
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Yeah, Bee and i have a romantic getaway in Noosa planed!
It’s going to be nifty!!!This is going to be the best micro-scale invasion EVAR!
They’ll be watching AFL and sipping Latte’s before they know it! MUAHAHHAHA-
We have to start small mate, then we’ll work our way up to getting them on daylight savings time!
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Good luck with that. If it’s not beer they don’t care those Queenslanders I tells ya.
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Just had a 4 hour training course for WH&S. Fun, fun!
@bunny
I would like to join you in some Diablo 3 too but it looks like you have a full party so I will just do my usual thing of sitting by myself in the corner weeping. Yelling “ALL BY MYSELF!”.
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I won’t be around for a few days after tonight, but there’s a not unreasonable chance that other people will get sick of playing before I do.
If all else fails, you can sit in the main channel of TeamSpeak and listen to other people play LoL. That’s always a great way to spend the evening.
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Sarcasm?
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What have I told you about trying to work out if I’m being sarcastic or not?
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I don’t know you say so very many things.
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No Perth? Boo! Mam won’t be happy – she loves Rick Astley.
Due to yet another replyfail by yours truly, I repost this for your viewing pleasure:
“So what do we all have planned for NYE?
I figure if I start talking about it now, we may be able to hatch a feasible plan 😀
I’d like to get off the eylandt and experience some semblance of the futuristic society you all live in.
So, I propose a NYE meat somewhere. On NYE. My only concern at the moment would be… where?
What’s the easiest place for the most TAYbies to converge?
IDEAS PEOPLE, I WANT THEM \o/”
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I vote we all go to canada. Its equally long distance for all.
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Wow thanks for buying me a ticket Tross, you’re the best!
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If you can fit in my bag and don’t dirty up my clothes you can come with me. 😛
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Why Rocketmang
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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Im sorry i have so much hat for you nob frond. I DIDNT MEAN TO HURT YOU.
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FLY TO CANADA!
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Sadly I will be unable to attend a NYE meat of any kind, for ’tis the day of my birth and there is always something on…
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Of course there’s something on, it’s NYE!
THE WHOLE WORLD PARTIES WITH YOU!-
But deep down…I party alone.
*sobs*
I find it too hard to organise a damn thing for NYE so I generally let other people decide what is happening.
Mostly it works.
Mostly.
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FLY CANADA!
FLY CANADA!
WITH ALL THEIR BEADY LITTLE EYES AND HEADS ALL FULL OF LIES!
FLY CANADA!
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Do it in Melbourne, clearly. Then I can go.
I have no plans for NYE.
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See, I’m open to pretty much anywhere, so long as accommodation is cheap and people will say hi to me 😀
If Melbourne isn’t feasible (taking into account the majority’s locale and travel times etc.) you should definitely come to wherever the party be at.I wanna meat ALL the people!
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Road trip!
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Too old and frail to hitchhike, too young to hire a car.
(Well, I could hire a car, but <25yo male is a rort, mang)*sigh*
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Where are you coming from?
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He’s from Aliensgula in whoop whoop (NT)
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Could always fly down to Melb…airfares are generally pretty good.
Provided you don’t mind a 16 month old trying to stuff Lego up your nose, you’d be welcome to crash on the couch.
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Wow, that sounded way creepy.
What I mean to say is, I don’t have any plans so far for NYE but the couch is free if you need a place to crash.
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Haha, cheers man!
So, who’s up for Melbourne? Or other suggestions?
Also, idea: I’ma check the price of those ‘wicked’ campers.
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This is why I’m ‘planning’ now, to iron out all the stupid non-cost-effective kinks and stuff!
Road trip would be an awesome idea though!
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You are just the best for that. It’s odd that I don’t find it creepy, but hey. The best.
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Buttfuck, Nowhere.
I’ll be coming from far NT, to wherever there may be advanced life-forms and such. Adventures!
Are we fixed again?
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Define ‘fixed’? :P. I wasn’t here for the whole name and email thing resetting but TAY was acting weird on my mobile. Now that I’m on my desktop the name/email fields are being normal but the font has changed and the bottom bit of the page that shows Gizmodo, Lifehacker and Popsugar are white with light grey font, making it hard to read :/. The top bit of the page where the Kotaku logo is seems to be the same.
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Testing in production 🙁
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We broke up?
IGNORANCE ALERT!
So, I discovered one of these (http://bit.ly/NGx7FX) in my flat last night.
What is it, and does this mean I can get cable internet?
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You can send messages through the tube there. Just make sure you have a adapter and use grease paper.
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I think its a TV antenna port….
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Nope, antenna looks different and is usually completely recessed into the panel. Foxtel and Telstra coax has to be screwed in thus the threading on the outside.
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I say that because I have the exact same plug at my house that has ‘Optusvision’ written on it. And the Foxtel one looks nearly identical. I’m pretty sure it’s for cable TV….
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I probably should have clearer when I said TV port…I meant PayTV cable.
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That’s a copper cable and it’s probably either cable internet or Foxtel – generally speaking if you can get one, you can get the other as well.
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It’s a spy cam! Be wary, ASIO are onto you.
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AH shit. We’ve been discovered. Get the dog!!
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Time to disappear!
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Groovy. Thanks people.
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The weird thing is it’s hidden above a kitchen cupboard.
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Definitely a spy cam.
but on a serious note, I don’t think it was very helpful advice! haha.
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LOL!!
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You don’t by chance have a satellite on your roof? That connection is just a standard coaxial connector that most cable/satellite tv/internet providers use.
Without knowing where you live it could be all of the above or something else.
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We have Foxtel Satellite at home and it has a pair of Coax connectors rather than a single one, though that may be a more recent box.
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So After my iPad being broken by a cat last week, my brother bought me an iPod to replace the ability to play songs in the car yesterday. So I decided to get the old music I havent listened to in ages off one of my old external HDD’s (managed to sync most of it before it carked it) so I’ve spent all day listening to awesome music and cleaning my room. amazing day 🙂
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Gorramit Chris, we can’t take you anywhere…-
Lol, But he left the mop out! He deserved it!
But no the cat accidentally kicked it off the table. I was very upset, and then he gave me apology cuddles so I couldnt be so angry anymore
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I hate apology cuddles, for the same reason I love them.
They’re cuddles. You can’t stay angry.
That means you lose, yet again >.<Glad to hear you’ve remedied the situation with awesome music though 😀
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ATT LoL peeps
What night would be best for you all for a 10 person everyone we can find game?
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All of the nights…
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1v1?
THE ONLY RULES ARE THAT THERE ARE NO RULES
TIAMAT SHYVANA vs TIAMAT KAYLE-
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
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i don’t know i have been having a great deal of fun in any ARAM game i go in now, i really just like playing them even if its dumb and we lose horribly.
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NO! Do a Tiamat game. Rules are you are NOT allowed to target eachother only minions!
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Shotgun Gangplank.
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While we are in the subject of LoL here are some public beta patch notes.
http://www.surrenderat20.net/2012/08/8-22-pbe-update.html?m=1
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Any day that’s not a Wednesday and I can plan for it 🙂
Hello TAYpers! I can’t stop looking at my 3DS XL. It’s so big! (That’s what she said, yeah yeah). I’ve sent everybody a Nintendo Letter as well! It’s so much easier to draw on the bigger screen. Also, everybody download the Mutant Mudds demo on the eShop. It’s great! I’ll definitely be buying the full version at some point.
Anyway, just letting you know I’ll be away for a few days. I’m going on a mini-holiday with my Dad for a combined birthday/fathers day thing. Which is an awesome present because I don’t have to pay for it 😛 So I’ll be in Queensland over the weekend! (Unfortunately I don’t think I’ll have the chance to meet up with any TAY people though. Next time!).
ps. Pokemon Conquest looks quite good on the XL, Nova 😉
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Have fun pow!
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No mini QLD meat? 🙁
Have fun man, I’m considering getting an XL but I would need to transfer my ambassadors program over which I am too lazy to do.
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Play-Asia need to hurry up and ship 🙁
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Oh I thought you’d already got yours! Didn’t you order it a fair while ago? Make sure to give us your friend code once you’ve got it!
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Nope, US version only came out on the 19th and Play-Asia always get US stuff a few days after b/c they don’t buy through normal supply chains I think, so it has to be shipped from the US to Hong Kong.
I’ll add my friend code to the TAYNAMES document once I get mine. Hopefully pretty swiftly after P-A get them, since I’m getting it shipped UPS to work. But on the list is two games that were in stock at the time I ordered but are now backordered. 🙁
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Which games did you order? Are you going to buy Abyss again?
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Have fun and be safe Pow.
@Aleph – Wouldn’t be a NYE meat, but I have LANS every few months and you’re welcome to come to one – Mackay is a bit of a stretch from your island though.
@Rocket – Keen for later on tonight (9ish?). Going to check out the War-Machine miniatures earlier on.
@Flu – I’m pretty sure that’s a tv antenna socket. I have one that goes to a satellite on my roof. (Same color, shape and everything).
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I’ve got a standard antenna in a normal spot, but this one is up above some kitchen cupboards. I’ll have to take a look around the building for clues.
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plug something that fits in to it and see what it does!
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This commenter on the keyboard article? All Class.
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What a charmer.
But I’ll see that & raise you this WTF comment :
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/08/windows-8-is-not-good-for-gamers/comment-page-1/#comment-773490Also, I think perhaps some realtion of Freeze is posting in there. either than, or conicidental handle of the year.
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Well that was unexpectedly hilarious.
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I think that might have come from the comment above
3DS XL get \o/
Managed to talk EB down to $204, price match with JB of $229 plus $25 trade in on DS lite. Now adding all the friend codes from taynames. Mines up on there too if anyone wants it
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I’m going to Streetpass you so hard.
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Maybe I’ll finally get what all the fuss is about
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I still haven’t got a single street pass :'(
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Whoa, Mr. Bargainer! I’m not brave enough for that, I just point to the sign and say gimme
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Normally I’m the same but I tell you it felt good.
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Someone please explain this article to me, because I’m finding it hard to make sense of it. (I just watched Inception. That’s left me with only a little brain power left to use for the rest of the day) http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/08/windows-8-is-not-good-for-gamers/
What she’s basically saying is that Windows 8 is bad for gamers because it has a new feature that no companies are using yet because the OS hasn’t even come out??
And other things:
“The list of “all apps,” the way to launch programs that don’t have Start or Desktop icons, highlights the messy way games get tossed around everywhere. I installed both Fable III and Portal 2 via Steam, but they don’t show up in the same place. Portal 2 is considered a Steam app; Fable III, which uses Games for Windows Live and, therefore, the same gamertag as the rest, does not.” Uhhhh… if you check your Windows 7 start menu, you’ll see the exact same thing. Derp. And it’s not because of GFWL. I’ve got Prince of Persia SoT under both Games and Steam in my all apps screen. “Meanwhile other Microsoft apps, like Solitaire and Minesweeper, show up somewhere else entirely.” Hahahaha. Wat. They’re right there, in the screenshot you’ve shown us with the rest of the apps.
“Apps that are installed in Metro can be uninstalled with a single right-click in Metro, but don’t show up in Control Panel’s Programs and Features listing.” That’s okay. Why do they need to be in there? If I can uninstall them with only two clicks straight from the start screen, why would I want to go through the Control Panel?
The only thing I could slightly agree with was her point about Microsoft being in control of the games. I don’t think they’ve talked about how Xbox for Windows games are going to be distributed yet, although I’m hoping it’ll be like GFWL; it’s a part of the game and it doesn’t matter where it’s sold from.
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Shush you 😛
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Hey man i am not criticising your rant, it has alot of good points, HOWEVER
I like 7 and am not changing, 7 is my new windows XP, stable as hell, and awesome.
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Lambo you have put the words from my mind into text! I have quite a few issues with that article, including that terrible screen shot, I mean what did she expect with a screen res that is only 900 pixels high? The absolute minimum res for Metro is 1024X768, so of course its going to expand horizontally, especially with the large tile size! It’s article like this that will darken the publics perception of Windows 8, with most people already on a downward stance about it without even trying it out fully, its a shame because if you start using it(anythingreally) with a negative stance towards it, chances are you will continue to have that stance towards it.
Love it or hate it, at least use it first and don’t blame the OS for software that hasn’t been updated to run on it.
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Yeah, the worry is it’ll be painted as another Vista, which was sunk not by people actually having bad experiences, but by early issues causing bad word of mouth which caused everyone to just assume it was terrible. It wasn’t actually terrible if you had drivers etc. Obviously it wasn’t fantastic, but it wasn’t ME.
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“For the past several days, I’ve been playing with a very nice laptop that has Windows 8 Professional installed on it.” And then you go on to talk about how clunky the OS is and how dodgy the two OSes stuck together is, how it’s so clunky to navigate. Well, you wanna know what I’ve been doing for the past several days with my own
verynice laptop that has Windows 8 Release Preview installed on it? I’ve been working non stop making a game, using a combination of desktop and metro apps, not because I had to, but because I wanted to, and it was pretty damn sweet, and I had no problems being productive at all. None. Nada. Zip.
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” I installed both Fable III and Portal 2 via Steam”
By not the same spot she means they are under different categories. It isn’t much of a problem when you only have a few things installed like the screenshot but when you start having a large number of things installed the different categories will be confusing.
If I go into steam and install a game (fable) and the GUI has a section that displays my steam games I will be searching through that list for the game I just installed. Having to remember if a game I installed in steam is in the steam area or a different area is confusing and annoying.I actually don’t mind that windows games like minesweeper are separate as I think of them that way. The point they are trying to make is that there is 3 different places where games are shown. It is on the same screen but in a different location.
“Apps that are installed in Metro can be uninstalled with a single right-click in Metro, but don’t show up in Control Panel’s Programs and Features listing.”
The issue I see with this is that it is being treated as two distinct OS rather than a system. If I need to free up some space on my hard drive I want to be able to look at what is installed and remove what I don’t need. Having to do this in two locations because I have two OSes running doesn’t make sense to me.It sounds almost like a dual booting system with interaction rather than an integrated solution.
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You can drag the icons around and put them into any location you want in the start screen, create your own columns etc.
Personally I always run Steam games from inside the Steam GUI anyway.
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I personally haven’t had any experience with win 8 \, this post was more trying to respond to Lambo’s request for an explanation of the previous article
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“By not the same spot she means they are under different categories.” I know what she meant, she just failed to mention that this is something that’s been happening in Windows since Vista (I think) for no fault of Microsoft’s, and used it to make Windows 8 sound bad. Something I don’t think many people know/realise: the ‘All Apps’ screen is just ‘All Programs’ from the start menu, except instead of folders, everything is in groups. That’s it. No other difference, except that it shows Metro Apps too where the rest of the programs that don’t have folders now sit. If you went into your start menu/all programs, you’d see the exact same thing with games being in different categories/folders. It’s just irresponsible how she’s used that as a reason for why Windows 8 is bad when it’s been in windows for years.
I see your point with having to uninstall apps from two different locations. Although it’s not that big an issue (well, I don’t see it as one, can’t speak for everyone obviously). To get to a screen where you can see all your metro apps and uninstall whichever ones you want, you just need to hit start, right click, then left click ‘all apps’. Then you just right click on the app you want to uninstall and press ‘uninstall’. You can do the same with normal programs from the All Apps screen, but it just brings up add/remove programs right now, don’t know if they’ve changed that for the final version.
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I want to comment on that so badly but I worked on part of the OS so I’m clearly biased 🙁
Hint to anyone using Windows 8: KEYBOARD. SHORTCUTS. Seriously. Winkey and start typing the name of the app, it auto-finds it. If you want to search for files instead, invoke it via Winkey + F. Winkey + I for control panel. Winkey + R for the run dialog. Winkey + Ctrl + F to search for shares on other computers on your network. There’s a whole ton of hidden menu options and stuff for power users which are a single keypress away.
Also, pin the shit you use to your taskbar. If you’re doing it right you will see the start screen roughly the same frequency you saw the start menu previously.
Seriously, half this shit works in Win7 too.
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hmmmm not sure about pinning stuff to my taskbar.
I have a few things currently pinned but in general I like to keep that with just my open stuff. The rest of the commonly used apps I have pinned to the start menu.Interesting to note the run dialog, if that ties in more to the install filse it could be good, in win 7 I only use it for known programs as it doesn’t pickup other apps if I don’t know the “proper” code
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In Win 7 and Win 8, hit the Winkey and start typing the name of the program you want to run. It autocompletes and it remembers what apps you run most often I think too, eg if I hit winkey and type C on my current box (win server 2k8 🙁 ) I get Google Chrome and then Command Prompt and some others. By the time I have typed Co it knows I want command prompt, then I hit enter and it runs. Ctrl + Shift + Enter to run as admin.
Regarding the taskbar, the whole point of going to icons only in Win7 was to make the taskbar more like the OSX tray. Pin your frequently-used stuff there and it’ll appear in that specific location when it’s running. More organized. I have maybe 8 programs pinned and then the rest of the space is used for other stuff that’s running. Almost never hit the start button as it is.
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I don’t really like pinning stuff to the taskbar, it’s really annoying when I go to click on an open app, but instead accidentally miss and open a different program instead. Yes, I am accident prone even on the computer 😛
I don’t get why people don’t want to use the start screen. It’s so much quicker and easier to use than the start menu.
I also like how right clicking in the bottom left corner brings up all those shortcuts for things like device manager, control panel, command prompt, things like that.-
The way I see it, Start Screen is basically the OSX Dashboard & Launcher combined into one more useful environment.
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So a storm just hit and i’m the only one at work…
…hold me…
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I will never leave you, not till the end of…
hey breakfast burrito see ya later loops. -
We had the wind, but the rain has only just hit now.
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Oh boy, now the rain proper has hit
….hold me…..
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We had hailstones hitting the window in front of me, pretty cool! I got such a view of the storm from up here!
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A storm just started here and it’s been super windy as well. It was all sunny and hot in the morning though 🙁
@Splicer HOLY CRAP you’re right. If I were to take a month to drive around, I’m far better off just buying a car and leaving it at the airport when I leave.
Seriously, for a 5 seater, it’d cost in excess of $1500.
So, who’s up for buying a car with me? 😀
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Ha! Yeah, better to fly down IMHO
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I would be like the first stop. Woot
I could chip in.-
Totally up for it if you are man. Depending on the price/dates etc, I’d be happy to invest a couple hundred to get a decent stereo going for the trip too 😀
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I would be keen driving down the east coast of australia in a dreadful car meeting people i met on the internet what could possibly go wrong.
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So long as ONE of us is mechanically minded, and NONE of us brandish hatchets, we SHOULD make it through safely 😀
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hahaha, i can change a tyre and battery and put coolant in the radiator. Thats about it. Also I would only be able to depending on times and dates and although in theory i should be fine. I am moving next year and should be saving 😐
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I admire your confidence, man. Seriously. I can’t even work up the courage to go to a Brisbane meat and you’re conspiring to tour the coast meeting folks. Crazy!
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The best way to get over fear of Kotakuites is to meat them!
I remember riding on the train towards my first meat, talking to Shiggy, discussing how I’d chosen a terrible route into the city because it was the simple one. That helped.
Then booze at the meat helped. Also the fact that everyone already knew who I was…
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The one with beautiful flowing hair?
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I get intimidated meeting my uni friends and I saw them every day for three years. 😛
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Greenius, I didn’t have flowing hair back then. It was of moderate length for a dude, but not long.
Everyone just knew me thanks to my silly videos.
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@D.C. – at least you meet your friends, heh, HERMIT LYF 4 LYF
@Blaghs – Brains brains brains brains, brains brains, brains brains brains.
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Asleep, my love,
what dead, my dove?
O Pyramus, arise!
Speak, Speak, quite dumb?
Dead, dead, a tomb?And so on and so forth.
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Combine the Aleph and Novahkiin, Driverborn drives everyone around Australia meats into a meat D.C. meat.
meat!
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We’ve already got tentative plans for a meat D.C. meat. It’s in Washington D.C., sponsored by DC comics. There’s a DC-10 charter plane scheduled to take you all there. I, however, have no plans to go. 😛
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Brisvegas! I’ll pick you up along the way 😀
I think the plan is a loud stereo to avoid awkward silence within the vehicle, and insobriety when outside the vehicle >.<
(Wow, don’t I sound like a wanker?)
Seriously though, I’m hoping to meat heaps of people, and if you’re up for it, I’d love for you to come along for the ride! It’s been suggested that we get a van and dress it up. Magic School Bus, Catbus and the Mystery Machine have been suggested.
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You’ll need a Great Dane then to pull that off.
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Man, Sleeping Dogs is awesome. I get the impression the end is nigh, so have been just wasting time roaming the open world finding lock boxes. It’ll be sad to see the credits roll!
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I was super tempted when I last played it to print out a big map of all the lockboxes and health shrines and take an hour or two and find them all. The in-game map shows you all the ones you already found. Super handy, I wish games like Assassin’s Creed did that with their collectables.
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The girls you date in game give similar perks along the way, just so you know.
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Money and extra health?
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Nah, everytime you go on the date they teach you a skill. Amanda, the first girl you meet, shows you where all the health shrines are on the map. You go to the map screen and toggle the collectables mode on, it’ll show you were they all are — the ones you don’t have will be grayed out.
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Yeah or have items that show the remaining ones on the map. Batman AA and inFamous are some good examples. If I know the general area then I have more motivation to go out and find them 🙂
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I only find collectables in game if I’m having fun finding them. No chance I was going to look for flags and feathers in Assassin’s Creed. 😛
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(Looked for all the animus shard dealys in AC: Rev… and they did nothing. Never again. :P)
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I’ve only played 1 and 2 but I never bothered in 1. By the time I played 2 (late last year) I had a smart phone so it wasn’t too hard looking them up with a map but it was incredibly boring :P. I just did it for the trophies and because I didn’t want to start a new game yet (I think something was coming out soon).
Yeah… not too fun when they’re all hidden and you don’t know which ones you’ve already gotten.
I also like games that give you a ‘reward’ for getting collectables. Whether it’s a sort of upgrade or just unlocking concept art etc. I find it gives me more incentive rather than some cheevos or trophies.
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Did/Is anyone buying the PAL release of Tales of Graces f?
I have a pre-order on Zavvi but I’ve still got my unplayed US copy that I imported at release :(. I’ve been trying to eBay it for the past 3 weeks or so and even though there’s 1-5 watchers every time, NO ONE BIDS. It’s cheap as well and I’m selling for a loss.
I’m just annoyed since the PAL edition has more stuff and costs less (although with the loss I’m making if the US one sells it’ll be more). Stupid BAMCO and their delayed releases! And stupid Play-Asia for giving me a $5 off voucher, making me want to use it to buy a game I haven’t even played yet…
I want it since Tales games get really rare in PAL regions but if my US copy doesn’t sell this weekend I might just have to keep it and cancel the Zavvi order :(.
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Actual game content is identical between them though. The only game stuff you get with the PAL version is a costume which was a retailer-exclusive preorder bonus in the US.
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Artbook/Soundtrack!
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How much are you asking on eBay for your game, o Green one?
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Originally $50 with ~$7 shipping (that’s whatever price AusPost charge for the satchels) but local pickup was also available. A used copy sold a week earlier for $50 so I figured I had a chance. It didn’t sell at that price so I dropped it down to $45 for two more times and now it’s sitting at $40. I think I paid ~$60 at launch.
It’s brand new and never been played but it’s not sealed so people might not believe it’s “brand new” (I don’t blame them :P)
5 watchers at the moment so hopefully it sells and I can own a PAL copy!
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I’ve been wanting to grab this so if it doesn’t sell this time I’ll give you $60 including postage for it. Rather not go through eBay though because I hate it. 😛
If I’m going to buy it anyway, I’d rather give my money to you than a game retailer.-
Oh cool! I’ll keep you updated if it sells or not but just let me know if you want it if it doesn’t 😀
Thanks Strangey!
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The weather today has been nuts.
First it was a clear day, then it was cloudy and windy, then there was heaps of thunder and lightning, then it rained heavily, then it hailed, then the sun came out but it was still raining, then it stopped raining and some clouds cleared and now it’s sort of sunny.
Why’s your weather so crazy, Australia?
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Yup! Are you in Melbourne? (if I recall you’re in NSW?) The exact same thing happened over here. I’m glad I had Uni when it was sunny and a bit windy and I’m all nice and cozy at home during the rain/hail/thunder/lightning.
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I’m a Victorian. Live about an hour out of the city in the south east suburbs.
There was just some thunder that shook the whole house. I’m thinking it might be best if I turn the computer off if there’s a bad storm coming.
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Oh, I always thought you were from NSW 😛
I’m in the South-East as well.
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Maybe you’re neighbours!1!
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Hermit mode dictates that I’ll never find out. There’s a few TAYbies near me actually 😛
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True enough, can’t say I’ve ever spoken to my neighbours. I couldn’t even tell you what they look like.
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Hahaha same…
They (the ladies) used to want me to play with them when we were younger but since they were a bit younger or older than me so I never bothered. I’d be sad if they all turned out to be attractive 😛
I used to go out all the time but ever since I moved house mid-way through primary school I just never bothered meeting the new neighbours. I want my old friends back :'(
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Have any of you guys and gals read Oglaf before?
HOLY HECK IT IS FUNNY AS HECK…
…BUT BOY-O-BOY IS IT EVER NSFW!!!
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Olgaf? Well I’m at work so I can’t go investigate right now, so what’s the gist?
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Just looked it up and read some random comics. It’s basically a medieval fantasy porn comic
Pretty funny but very NSFW 😛
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Righto, will definitely avoid it at work then 😛
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Soooooo funny. lol
The fountain of doubt is damn good and safe for work
http://www.oglaf.com/fountain-of-doubt/-
and the fountain of death
http://www.oglaf.com/fountain-of-death/which is followed up by the fountain of girls… which is where it gets nsfw lol
Interestingly the comic is actually done by an Australian woman! So it’s not a perverted dude… probably why it’s actually funny
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this one is great for people who love beards
http://www.oglaf.com/breastplate/also sfw… but it does have the word “slut”… so you know… depends on how safe your work likes to be
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Basically it’s a webcomic http://www.oglaf.com
It’s set in a fantasy dungeons and dragons type world… but with wayyyy more sex.
Not ALL of the comics focus around sex, but A LOT of them do… but yeah, it is side-splittingly hilarious quite often!Put it this way… it has cum sprites.
Freakin’ cum sprites!
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It’s an awesome webcomic.
Been reading it for a while now.
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I’ve never heard of it but Yup, you’re right, definitely NSFW but they are funny.
I hope there aren’t too many previous comics because I might start reading from the start. The first story is already silly but funny.
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Hit the archive – it doesn’t take all that long to go through.
Awesome stuff lol-
Wow, an Australian author(?) as well. I’ve discovered some good Australian media this year.
EVERYONE GO WATCH LAID. It’s really good. http://www.abc.net.au/tv/laid/
I’m already half way through the archive and they are really good. The titillation is in the background most of the time and the dialogue and stories are genuinely funny not like others I’ve seen which are just excuses for nudity. I’m not a huge web comic guy but subscribed.
Thanks Loops.
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Not a problem at all, mate. Anytime.
I’m just glad someone else is appreciating the comic too, and you’re pretty much spot on with everything you said there. 🙂
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You guys should read up on Order of the Stick, I find them hilarious. It’s set in the D&D universe 🙂
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html
Yes, oglaf is amazing! Both in its NSFW-ness and also in the way that often really interesting fantasy concepts are explored – often leaving me wishing that more serious time was devoted to them to fully flesh them out.
Hello everyone! How is it all going?
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I AM MODERATE! MMMMOOOOODDDDDEEEERRRRRAAAAATTTTTEEEE!!!!
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That’s, uh, good to hear?
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NO, IT’S MODERATE TO HEAR!
MMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
How are you, Miss Scree?
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Moderate your yelling, Blaghs!
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DON’T LISTEN TO HIM, BLAAAAAAAAGGHHHHHHHHHHSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LOUD NOISES!!
I’m okay Blaghs, I just feel hungry and sick at the same time. I hate it D=
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I WILL REMAIN LOUD THEN. I TRUST IN YOUR ADVICE NOTORIOUSR SLIGHTLY MORE THAN I TRUST IN CRACKLELACKLEKINS! BUT THAT MAY WELL JUST BE BECAUSE I’VE MET YOU!
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BUT WHAT IF I AM THE CRACKS AND I HAVE DUAL PERSONALITIES? WHAT THEN BLAGHS, WHAT THEN?
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HE’S LYING BLAGHS!
IT’S NOT TRUE!
THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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I know, right? THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT IT THAT MAKES THE WORLD SEEM BETTER! MAYBE IT’S JUST BECAUSE I START IMAGINING MYSELF AS DEATH FROM DISCWORLD. I DON’T KNOW.
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Hey Scree!
My copy of Dark Souls arrived today \o/
I installed it then I remembered it uses Window’s Live /o\
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D= That’s terrible.
I might get Prepare to die edition on PS3. =D
I’m just glad Gametraders is so patient with me. But they should be, I told them they should go to Manifest. Now people can’t imagine it without them =D-
Not before you pay of Xenoblade! >:(
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I’m paying it off! /o\
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Transfer the payments from the other two into Xenoblade 😀
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Dark Souls >>>>>>>> Xenoblade!
That’s right, I said that
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Good, but I’m a bit too sober for my liking…
That shall change in five minutes…
I live streamed almost every minute of my game making last week. This week I downloaded all the footage and made a time-lapse. 7 days shrunk down to five minutes. http://youtu.be/ZlfMB9CKFws
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Safe to say I have no idea what’s going on :). Well done though! Did you teach yourself everything?
I made a game once using Game Maker for an IT assignment. It was pretty rad* but I had no idea what I was doing.
*shit
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There’s stuff! Flying everywhere! And then, a video game magically appears! 😛
Yeah, I taught myself everything. I’ve messed around, learning stuff over the last few years, but this is only the second game I’ve ever finished. Wait, no! There was that one I made for Mark’s birthday too! I forgot about that one.
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I’ve no idea what went into that, but seeing you make your own sprites was quite cool 😀
Loved the audio too!
@ Greenius.
It makes me sad to read about you not having local neighbourhood friends after moving house during primary school.
Some of my best childhood memories are of all the local kids playing together. Especially in summer.
Huge games of ‘gang chasey’ that covered several blocks and could sometimes last up to a couple of hours. Things were never really planned. Someone would knock on someone elses door and ask “Is Simon allowed to come out and play?” and it would snow-ball until there could be as many as 20 kids running riot. And when we all had bikes – well, there was no stopping us!
This was never an every-day thing, but there was always someone you could visit to play with.
That’s how I got my video game fix too. A few kids had Atari machines, one lucky kid had a CBS ColecoVision , and later on others had C64s or NES.
Anyway, I guess I’m just feeling a little nostalgic. I sometimes wish I could be a kid again.
But back then, not now. Because I’m old by TAY standards, and things have changed. Sure, to be a kid now would give me so much more cool stuff, but I doubt kids now have the freedom to enjoy stuff the way we did.
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Oh, and what is a CBS ColecoVision?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColecoVision-
ColecoVision was so cool. Mouse-trap, carnival, smurfs and was the space game Gorg?
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One of my best memories as a kid was “World War Water”. An impromptu water fight between the kids of my street and the enemy kids from the next street over. We were at war for an entire day with water bombs/pistols and our bikes. I think we may have been the cause of the drought.
So much fun. Damn this nostalgia.
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“enemy kids” hahaha!
Oh man now I’m remembering all the water fights we had in primary school, fun times!
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World War Water sounds like heaps of fun!
Water pistols and bikes are a great combo. Just add sprinklers and I’m in heaven!
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Haha it’s okay man, I was doing that back in my old house up until I moved when I was in year 3 of primary school (so until I was like 8 or so). Some of my best friends were my next door neighbour and there were kids my age all throughout the court and down the street. When I moved I just didn’t bother again since they weren’t really my age.
I get what you mean about kids these days probably not going outdoors and enjoying stuff the way we did. I used to go outside all the time when I had neighbourhood friends but now I sit at home on my ass all day doing nothing productive. With all the technology and stuff now kids can probably just sit at home and play a game and get just as much fun out of it compared to going to *gasp* the outside world.
I grew up in a somewhat poorish area so we didn’t really play video games but good times were still had! I can still clearly remember some of the things that happened over a decade ago :). Wow thanks for making me remember stuff Smurfy, too bad I don’t keep in contact with them any more :P.
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When I was younger, there were a lot of kids in the neighbourhood as well. We would play on the street almost every day after school and all day on weekends. We played a lot of soccer, hopscotch and marbles. We built cities out of clay and drove our toy cars through them then inevitably stomped through them like giant monsters. 🙂
One of our favourite and most dangerous games was called Chobo Ua in Swahili . Chobo is nutmeg and Ua is kill .Think of it as ‘nutmeg death’ in English. I think it’s called a nutmeg, when you kick a ball in between someone’s legs when playing soccer, right? Anyway the goal of the game was to avoid getting the ball in between your legs but you couldn’t stay still. If the ball went between your legs everyone had to beat you up before you reached the safety pole. The faster you reached the safety pole the less you got hit. And these were full on kicks and punches. I think about it today and it’s a miracle most of us were not seriously injured.
Unfortunately most guys slowly moved away over time and by the time I was in high school only two of us were left. 🙁
I did get more involved with gaming thanks to my friends there though. We used to play PES (pro evo soccer) non-stop once I got my PlayStation and Speed Freaks as well.
We also used to play some bootleg games on a bootleg SNES or NES I’m still not sure to this day /o\
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It’s great to see that other TAYbies have such good memories of times running about with kids in the neighbourhood!
I’m sure that our parents all kept an eye on us without us knowing, but it felt like we had free run of the entire world! Until Mrs Smith (or whoever) started calling us in for dinner. Once the first kid had been called in, we all knew the rest of us would soon follow. Then it was game over. 🙁
@ masha – where did you grow up?
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@SmurfyDog, I grew up in Kenya.
I also remember that one kid whose mother always called him back home early for dinner or when it got dark outside. And as if the mothers communicated secretly we were all called back home as well minutes later. One day our version of Mrs Smith Went on Holiday and I think we stayed up till 10pm just messing around on the streets in the dark.
Ha Ha, it’s strange how a lot of stuff is the same even countries apart.
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Ha ha ha! That is so funny!
You’re right – some things are the same wherever you are!
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What about worm racing!
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http://youtu.be/h87U2KaoR4s
THAT IS NOT MY VOICE /o\
(it totally is…)
I had no idea what the hell I was talking about to be honest, rambling just to have some form of audible filler. Decided to take you guys on a trip to the cave paintings about 20 minutes away from work. Also back through Angurugu on the way home.
Also skinny video. I’ll hold the iphone sideways next time so it doesn’t come out quite so derp.
Enjoy!
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Wow! That was great!
I have a friend who works in mining as a geologist. He seems to work in a different part of the country every 12 months or so, and he has seen a lot of remote areas and shown me pics and vids, , but it still seems pretty foreign to me.Thanks so much for that little glimpse of a different Australia to what I know!
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No worries mate, glad you enjoyed it!
You’re right, it’s completely foreign. It’s almost as if I live on another planet some days. Socially and economically, we’re probably 10-15 years behind the rest of Aus in many aspects, if not more 😀I’ll likely take some more footage from time to time, and I’ll be sure to post it here if/when I do!
(As an aside, I had a conversation with a friend yesterday about the merits of being a geologist. I can understand that people have differing interests, but c’mon, it’s just rocks :P)
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My mate still sometimes wears the t-shirt he got at his Uni orientation.
It says “Rocks are Fun!” There’s no helping some people.He does have a pretty cool collection of rocks and stuff he’s collected over the years though. And he gets paid a metric s**t-ton to look at dirt. I’m a little jealous to be honest.
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Yeah, that’s not your voice, you’re more robot-y!
Driving while recording? tsk tsk. The video was cool and informative, I wouldn’t mind more of these :). I’ve never been to the more outback parts of Australia and wouldn’t mind seeing them but I don’t think it’s such a good idea for someone like me (a non-bogan) to go :P.
So how nasty does it get at night? and is that directly related to the death-rate (which I assume is incredibly high for what I’m guessing is a small town) :/
Btw what’s your job again if you don’t mind me asking?
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Are you insinuating that I’m a bogan, dear Greenmang?
It’s not all that bad, there’s social stigma about being a ‘city-kid’ if that’s your concern, but aside from that it’s fine.Driving while recording because I’m not gonna walk 😛 I didn’t record when I was going through the actual trails, as 2 hands are most certainly needed there!
Angurugu lights up like a christmas tree at sundown. This stems from cultural belief/superstitions. The “Gadaichi-man”(SP?) will hide in shadows and prey on anyone within, so to prevent this floodlights are placed in most yards, facing out from the house. Loud noise also wards him away, so HUGE stereos are left outside too, blasting music almost 24/7.
Those in the community that don’t work (a very large amount) are essentially nocturnal due to this, so daylight hours are largely owned by the workers, and the dogs that roam the street. Even the shops here reflect this, and open hours are typically 11am-2pm, 5pm-10pm.Violence is quite big, although has diminished with the prevention of substance abuse. Marijuana is an economy unto itself here (I believe it’s $100 per gram), and appears to be the only remaining substance that is constantly traded and consumed. Again, beliefs hold a big part in this, and medicine-people (I believe they’re actually called poison-doctors) will use it for cultural/spiritual reasons. Those same people are also considered magical, and practice mamajinga (SP?), or Black magic.
This could range from calling a storm in to rain on an enemy’s family, to putting a curse on a building (which happens so often it’s not funny) which results in that building being evacuated and off-limits until someone from the opposing moite (I’ll explain that in another post) exhumes the curse, allowing the location to be populated once more.
All this magic and curses, along with drugs and such make for a volatile community, and murder isn’t all that uncommon, although it can go unnoticed for some time.My rule? If someone’s angry, get the hell out of the way.
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Wow interesting culture over there but yeah not the most ideal place for me (should I say a non-white/indigenous person :P)
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I cut myself short on it, haha 😛
One of the most interesting things I’ve found is that have a very non-linear familial construct. This place is so interesting once you dig under the surface. I’m sad to say that the culture is diminishing though…
As broad a comment this is, I’m a firm believer that the white folk are both the best and worst thing to ever happen to this place 🙁
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Oh, in order from best to worst, I’m a:
Sysadmin(sortakinda), desktop support, phone technician, linesman, payroll officer, counsellor, freight courier, receptionist, scapegoat and drinks-bitch.I forgot about your last question, sorry!
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Wow! What a life!
What is the attraction? Why do you live and work there?By the way – a little googling tells me that the inventor of the flight data recorder, (aka Black Box), was born on Groote Eylandt. This has no relevance to anything, but is interesting nonetheless.
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I initially left Canberra due to wanting a change of scenery. I came to Groote Eylandt because my parents offered for me to live with them (I wouldn’t be here without them. It’s certainly a case of “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” up here), and I had managed to tee up a job prior to coming.
I’ve stayed because my quality of life has increased. I live in a geographical paradise, I’ve managed to almost triple my annual income (granted, I was on a pittance prior to moving) and I finally feel that I’m getting ahead.
I’m planning on staying longer predominantly because I’m aware of the job market here. It’s easy to get a job, so long as you’ve got accommodation. There’s not much room in mainland Australia for uneducated workers.
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Ah! Sounds like you’re on a pretty good wicket.
And it’s great that you have family there too. One of the things stopping me working as a fieldy in mining is the remotness from family and friends. As a skilled worker I’d get fly-in fly-out, but as a fieldy they want you to move there. That, and I don’t like hot weather. And a bunch of other piss-poor excuses. 😉 -
Oh man, I hear you there. Without family here, I wouldn’t have lasted the first 6 months (I’ve only been here 16-18 months so far, but still :P). I originally came up here with my partner, although she left maybe 12 months ago now. If you don’t have the people to connect with, you go crazy rather quickly. I still make a point to leave every 4 months or so, and chatting to TAYbies helps a lot too 😀
If you have family of your own, it’d be unimaginably tough leaving them. Some of the workers here stay here for 6-8 week stints without seeing their family. It’s tough to see.
As for the heat, I’m actually surprised at how quickly I adapted. For the first week, I was physically drained. No energy, couldn’t move etc. After a month, I was pretty much fine. I still sweat like a pig, although I handle the heat FAR better than when I initially moved here.
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Diablo is down for maintenance.
This seems to have been scheduled for the exact worst time for those of us who wanted to see how the game is now.
I did play a bit beforehand. It was a definite improvement but it’s hard to judge from just solo Inferno act 1. Needs much more play to decide if it’s worth continuing to play.
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My vote is no. But then I had little interest in Diablo 3 even before I played it. Now I’ve finished a play through they’d have to do something very impressive to get me back into it again.
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Fair enough.
Diablo is a pretty shallow game, at least Diablo 3 was on release and probably still is. You need a certain mentality to enjoy it and I can see why other people wouldn’t.
They, like you, are wrong, but I can understand their wrongness :p
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TIAMAT IS DOWN, I REPEAT TIAMAT IS DOWN!!!!!!
It may have taken well over a year but finally I can progress. So ridiculously happy right now
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Nice. Well done!
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You’ve basically passed the hardest point in that game \o/
Just finished Crysis 2! Another one off the pile of shame (not that shameful it was a fun game, and definitely much more fun in the last third – from where you go to retreive Hargreave – than in the middle section of the game where you’re barely surviving against overpowered aliens!)
Kudos for a great game and a story which got better the further in you got – but what the hell has happened to the multiplayer (360) it’s a ghost town. Most of the games in my collection (Even Crackdown 2, War for Cybertron, Monday Night Combat) have populated lobbies, but Crysis has just shut down. 🙁
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Hmmm, that’s interesting, in Crysis 1 I found the game became “not as good” in the last 1/3 of the story.
Tried Xenoblade on the dolphin emulator, but my poor old CPU couldn’t really keep up.
Ah well, maybe it’s one for the Wii U if I don’t get around to it in time on Wii.
Greenius… before you say anything… you need to play Iron Brigade!
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Ha ha, I’m with you on this Beavwa, these Xenoblade sympathisers* need to be hounded as well. Play Driver:San Francisco you guys!
And like Beavwa says Iron Brigade as well( although I haven’t played that either /o\)
*sympathisers makes it sound like Xenoblade is a bad game. I know it’s not, I just could not think of another word. 🙂
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I’m sorry Masha… I have a confession to make.
I bought Iron Brigade with the money steam refunded me for Driver: San Francisco.
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Oh snap! Wow. 🙂
Buy it on console when you can, it’s much better there anyway, no silly DRM.
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Steam gives refunds? What happened with D:SF?
That was the game I was actually going to play over the next few weeks. May have swapped over to Iron Brigade instead, sorry Masha 😛
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I didn’t like the silly DRM.
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Okay now that I’ve ‘played’ Iron Brigade I can say stuff!
Well at least you tried :). Not up for playing it on the Wii? If I recall you played Monster Hunter Tri fairly recently. But yeah you may not have the time since it’s a fairly long game, just let me know when you give it a crack again.
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Monster Hunter Tri was probably about 2 years ago…
Pip gave it a go a little more recently (say 4 or 5 months ago), and that’s probably the last time the Wii was turned on. I’ve still got a fairly decent pile of shame for the Wii, so I really should get back to it at some stage.-
Ah fair enough. I just remember you talking about getting your controls mixed up between Dark Souls and Monster Hunter Tri.
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Demon’s Souls.
And yeah, on that topic – the normal layout of A / B available by playing with an XBox controller on Dolphin won’t happen now, so Xenoblade will need to not be alongside any PS3 / 360 third person games.
Shouldn’t be an issue anyway since it’s all been PC gaming lately. Just need to keep segregating my gaming time on different systems and it’ll all be good.
The only thing that could stand in the way of Xenoblade in that regard would be if a copy of Dragon’s Dogma mysteriously appeared in front of me any time soon… -
I kept doing that switching between sr3 and darksiders. I would throw the crossblade when trying to run faster
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Do we now have instant reply without having to have the page refresh itself after submitting?
Nice…..
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we do?
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Nope, page still reloads 🙁
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OMG! I just thought of a new feature that could be implemented (but won’t).
It’ll be similar to how YouTube queues up new comments if you’re already on the page viewing the video. So new comments will come up under some sort of “There has been ___ new comments, click here to update” message/button and clicking it will refresh the page with the new comments that were posted since the last time you refreshed. And they should be marked in some sort of way so it’s easy to find where the new comments are :O.
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We should send an e-mail to Mark regarding that. -
Good idea.
The Kotaku comment system needs some changes. Even if it’s only TAY at first , since this is basically the site’s forum.
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Teletraan 1 told Jazz to ‘stay smooth’. Fall of Cybertron continues to amaze me. I love it.
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Those little interactions between the characters and Teletraan 1 are amazing.
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Glad someone’s enjoying it, I certainly wasn’t 🙁
I really want to go to PAX now
Apparently this is a League of Legends Sona skin you can pick up there
http://i.imgur.com/nSAaA.jpg
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Yeah, I just discovered that. I hope I have enough riot points saved
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I love all the talk of adding trinity force to peoples Sona build in celebration of Phreak delivering the news. Tones of damage.
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I’m not sure if that’s a purposeful pun, or just an awesome mistake. Either way, good work Gorzy.
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omg glahman awake before 10pm toronto time
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… Not quite the same ring to it.
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Keep trying though Bish. I’m sure you’ll get there one day.
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hahahaha!!!!
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Morning Fronds!
What? No there’s no particular reason why I’m holding my hands behind my back. Anyway does everyone know what day it is? It’s not any old Friday, IT’S DARKS SOULS PC RELEASE DAY WOOOOOOOO.
*throws streamers & confetti in everyone’s face / eyes (again)*
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Again?! Nob whyyyyyyyy, I need my eyes!
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Don’t worry Greenmang, you don’t need your eyes to pick up the ladies. All you need is the C chord.
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OH MY GOD! I CAN’T AFFORD IT!
*goes and cries in the corner* Damn you manifest and pretty pocket watch!
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Aww, Don’t be sad. D: Would you like some streamers / confetti?
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No thanks. I’d just have to clean it if I did that. Sorry Nob D=
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Woooo, Thursday :/
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You ser are some kind of wizard!
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MY EYES
I’m not supposed to get confetti in them!
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HEY!! HEY GUYS!!
LOOK!!
ONE OFTHE GREEN STREAMERS WENT UP MY NOSE!!
IT’S LIKE A GIANT SNOT!!!
BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
WOOO WOOOO!!!! HERE COMES DA SNOT TRAIN!!! WOOOOO!!!!!-
Man, I sure have missed you loops 😛
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Anyone who has the retro pack for Fall of Cybertron, can the G1 Optimus Prime skin be used in the campaign or only in multi?
If it can be used in the campaign, how do you change to it?
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It can’t be used in campaign as far as I’ve seen. Only Multiplayer. But maybe it’ll unlock once you beat the campaign once?
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The Giant Bomb Quick Looks showed that you could use the G1 skin in mission 3. So there must be a command to toggle between them in the campaign screen. Seeing as it was a dev copy, that might not be something you get until NG+ but it’s still something.
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Make sure you go to the mission select screen before playing Campaign – pressing ‘x’ (360) iirc toggles FoC/G1 Optimus. I played through Cqmpaign bits with G1 Prime. Was so, so awesome.
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Thank you sir! I also have to admit that even though the Throwback blaster (G1 Megatron pew pew laser pistol) isn’t that powerful, it made me grin like a loser every time I fired it.
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Same. I felt bad swapping it out for decent weapons =(
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Morning TAY!
I have been notably absent from here. What a crap week. I had the flu last week, nothing too bad though. But managed to give it to my gf and my son who both got really sick, so I’ve had to stay home a couple days just to look after them. My gf is still sick, and my poor little man ended up with a really bad rash as well so he had 2 owies.
Anyways, how has everyone else been?
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Better than you and yours by the sound of things. I’ve been busy as well, we had the first presentation of our new department this week that seemed to go really well. Gaming wise really good. I defeated tiamat in darksiders last night. I had been stuck at that boss fight for over a year so can now get back to enjoying the game
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Awww buddy – that’s no good at all!
Hope everyone is doing ok.If i start getting sick Bee usually threatens me to ensure i’m too terrified to give her any bugs.
She’s my little ball of anger!
So my Pyramid head colt seems to sell quite well. Maybe I should make some other video game x pony shirts
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Did you have any ideas?
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Pony Freeman?
Marcus Ponyix?Don’t just settle for VG pony – you should hit up super hero ponies, and definately go with the biggest fads right now.
A Deadpool pony would sell like hotcakes for you, and so too, but to possibly a lesser extent, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Spiderman Etc.I have never sold more shirts than when ME3 released and i had my ME themed shirts good to go – it was brilliant!! !
So yeah, think of whatever fad you can, and slap it on a pony!-
50 Shades of Grey pony!
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I refuse.
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No! Bad Greenmang! We don’t mentioned that abomination if a book around here! Don’t make me throw more confetti at your eyes
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No! Bad Greenmang! We don’t mentioned that abomination of a book around here! Don’t make me throw more confetti at your eyes
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Nooooo double post. Damn smelly phone!
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I’m not huge on superheroes, so I feel like that would be cheating.
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Sometimes you have to think of what other people would like rather than just yourself. If you make shirts just for yourself then you won’t sell as much.
But you could certainly still stick to VG ponies and do well for your self. As i mention, a Gordon Freeman one would do well. Also an assassins creed themed pony.
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You should try and do shirts of upcoming games. As Loops suggested an AC shirt would sell really well right now.
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Or Borderlands, ride the hype train!
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Thanks everyone. I will try to do these later as I am buggered right now. BUGGERED!
Riding will do that to you.
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AC Pony would be pretty awesome.
Zelda would work too. Have Epona dressed up as Link.
Maybe a Big Daddy pony with a Little Sister riding him?
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Pony Freeman? More like Gordon Freemane.
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Blind-MOWN!
I like the comment on that shirt
” Is anything safe from being ponyfied” says the person with the pony avatar
Also, are people still interested in Fall of Cybertron multi tonight? Sexbox version, naturally.
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Absolutely!
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*sniff*
My poor… poor sexbox….
*weeps uncontrolably*WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME?! WHYYY?!?!
WHAT GOOD IS IMMORTALITY WHEN LOVE DIES!!!
BROKEN SWOOOOOOOORD!!
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TAKE IT TO A BLACKSMIIITTHHHHH!!
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I find this funnier than I maybe should. Well played Sir 🙂
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GET HYPE, BITCHES!
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Holy crap, how’d I miss that!
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How cool is it!? My fellow adventuregamer.com member 😀
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adventuregamers.com*
It’s… been a while since I’ve visited 🙁
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Take heart, pal. Used to be Adventure Gamer until 2003. 😛 I quite like the art style. I wish the characters were a little more cell shaded (I think that’s the term I’m looking for…), but they had me at Paris in the Spring. Here’s hoping there’s no freakin’ Templars or crates to push.
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Haha, I know, how great was that line! I dunno though, I mean… the cel shaded look isnt reaaaaally 2D, I was hoping for a full proper 2D like the originals. But to be fair it looks quite slick, and the backgrounds look AMAZING
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Also that setup is pretty rad – stealing a painting that appears to mean nothing, someone appearing extremely pushed and desperate to get it. Got me intrigued! Though… I hate that George is just smirking about the situation. I liked when he was more phased by things :/
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Yeah, the problem I find with Broken Sword is how George always gets into these predicaments, though. In Gabriel Knight it’s the man’s job to seek out this stuff, but George is always bumbling into an explosion or plane crash or art gallery robbery. Atleast this time Nico’s not miraculously working some other case and they happen to meet. (Meat?) I’m a little cynical about Broken Sword, but I agree, what’s here looks pretty damn slick.
Oh, man. Next year! Double Fine adventure? Check. Tex Murphy? Check. Jane Jensen? Check. Space Venture? Check. Broken Sword? Check. We just need Ragnar Tornquist and it’ll be like the golden age all over again. 😛
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Oh man… when you put it like that. Thats… amazing
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so i just made a big (gaming) step yesterday… i purchased guild wars 2…
it’s a big step in that i’ve never gotten into an MMO before, but some friends were getting it, and i thought it looked pretty fun, so i got it. was thinking of playing a thief character, but just to ask any people who know guild wars or have played the beta, you can mix any race with any profession right? like i could have a thief Charn (those really tall guys) if i wanted, but do some races mix better with the thief class than others? same goes for any other race profession combos.
ALSO
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/subaseka/
the background music has been changing every day, each day they seem to add a layer to the track… but oh my god i can’t wait for whatever this is.
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Yeah any race can be any class.
Also, anyone have any idea what server they are going to play on? Would be good to have one all the TAYbies are on.-
Me and my school friends are making characters on crystal desert! So I advise everyone to join that server!
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Done.
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I will probably do the same then
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Roger that! Incoming Charr invasion from the Tech army! And each of them will have stories of their own I’ll make xD. I’m actually planning on putting together Epilogues for each of my Guild Wars characters 🙂
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If any MMO could get me back into the genre, it’s GW2.
So I think I’ll avoid this one :p
Good luck. I wouldn’t mind seeing a complete newbie’s thoughts on the game and MMOs in general. Most people have some experience with them these days.
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I will share my thoughts here then after I play it
it should be fine though, I’ve been wanting to get into an mmo for a while, it was just because of school I didn’t have the time to get into one.
but now I have time and can finally try one out.
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I played GW2 during the beta and really didn’t like it, but I’m kind of burned out on click-target-then-hammer-hotbar-button MMOs now. It seemed like it was a pretty solid game.
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Yeah did not leave me massively enthused either tbh. Though I enjoyed some classes and imagine playing with other peeps would be much better.
But I have already bought it and have nothing better to do anyway.
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Yeah I’m mainly getting GW2 cuz I really enjoyed Guild Wars 1. Yeah it was instanced and clunky but I loved the whole “you’re not a god of war level 60 something” aspect. Getting to level 20 in no way felt like a grind, you got there just by playing through the story, what really set you apart is how you used your skills and stats with your class combos. All of the builds I made for my 10 characters I built entirely by myself and over the years of playing it my guys were forces to be reckoned with in any team. Yeah… I had 10 level 20 characters with their own builds I made myself, and they were all awesome! One of each class 🙂
I even did some role playing in GW back in the day, since all of my characters I actually had made bios (Not 100% integrated in the lore but still very close to it, just some tweaks like my warrior demon posession or my mesmer whom was half mursaat). Still was really fun as hell the whole time.
Dear TAYHIVEMIND
I’m looking for a program that can record what is happening in my browser and audio that is over the top. Wanting it to create a few simple how do I videos.
Free for company use is preferred but if you have used a quaility product that is worth the money then happy to pay for it (within reason).
Any advice appreciated
Tigs
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Screen capture programs will do the trick. FRAPS and Xsplit are the two that seem to get used the most. Should be trial versions of them to see if they do what you want.
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I hear Space Marine is good…
If anyone is still curious about Sleeping Dogs there is a demo on the PSN store. (I only have a PS3 so I’m not sure about the 360 or PC demos)
I played through it and the game seems good. The demo doesn’t give you access to the open world, you just play through two missions, so I couldn’t try out the driving and the other open worlds stuff.I liked the traversal and being able to vault over objects as you chase people and really enjoyed the hand-to-hand combat as well. It feels like the slightly unpolished version ofArkham Asylum/city combat but much better compared to many open world games.
Finally, for people who have the full game, is it possible to change the game’s controls? I’m playing the demo on PS3 and the developers put the aiming and shooting on the L2/R2 buttons instead of L1/R1 like most games. Also the shooting doesn’t feel that great and where I could, I just resorted to vaulting over cover and disarming my opponents.
Also this is a small thing but I love the little chime that plays when you pause the game. 🙂
I might pick this up when it’s cheaper, seems like it could be good.
For the two of you that haven’t played Borderlands, It’s free on PS+ atm.
Go now, I’ll wait.
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To the two of you who do pick it up on PS+, I wouldn’t mind doing a co-op session with you one of these days 🙂
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No! *folds arms defiantly*
Dont understand why you guys like running around a desert shooting things aimlessly. Boooorriiiiiing!
/ troll
exactly zero motivation to do anything at work today….
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o/ I also have a lack of motivation.
Could be a lack of food though-
You should eat something scree
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Yeah…
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Sames, although in saying that i have already done a fair bit compared to normal.
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On the upside, I thought today was Thursday.
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At least you’re living in Friday.
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its friday for you in a few hours.
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Don’t forget to bring some baseball (or hockey) cards with you when you come to the future. They’ll be worth a buttload.
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Your living in the past man! You need to learn to let these things go or you’ll be stuck in the past forever.
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*You’re
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Dear Scree,
Sincerely,
Loops
Soo… I like PES games better than FIFA games…
COME AT ME BRO!
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Is this a theme? Hmm, Ok.
I think Uncharted 1 is better than Uncharted 2
COME AT ME BRO!
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It wasn’t intended to be – but i like this – i like this very very much!
I really enjoyed the first Prototype
COME AT ME BRO!!!
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I liked the second sex in the city movie better than the first
COME AT ME BRO-
Oh….
Oh Rocketman…..
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The first prototype is basically a re-skin of Hulk:Ultimate Destruction on the PS2/XBOX and that is a better game. Why? Because Hulk!.
I CAME AT YOU BRO!
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This just made me think of Cum Sprites…
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Ha Ha Ha. I’m telling! I’m telling! 🙂
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I ENJOYED THE GAME SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG AS A CHILD AND STILL HAVE WARM FEELINGS ABOUT IT!
COME AT ME BRO!!!-
I thought the story and characters in Too Human were bloody awesome and would love a sequel!
COME AT ME BRO!!!!
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I think NFS: The Run is the best NFS game since Most Wanted. Way better than Hot Pursuit (and by the looks of things) the new Most Wanted.
COME AT ME BRO!
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I still haven’t played NFS: The run but Most Wanted was and still is a fantastic single player game. So much variety and the cop chases and bounty missions. Wow.
I really really hope Criterion does a good job with the new one.
I like KOTOR 2 better than the original.
Decided to finish Sleeping Dogs this morning instead of going for a run. Now I feel a crushing guilt. On the bright side, I finished Sleeping Dogs. I liked it. 😛
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Did you run in sleeping dogs?
I’m sure it’s the same thing-
You better believe I ran, I held that A button down like a freakin’ maniac man. 😛
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This might be an article relevant to you D.C
http://www.gamesradar.com/what-do-real-life-sleeping-dogs-think-about-sleeping-dogs-probably-probably/🙂
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Haha! Awesome! Those dogs are pretty damn insightful!
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Did you should quotes from ‘The Running Man’ for added effect?
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dear people who have PCs and do not yet own Just Cause 2 or Mirrors Edge but would like to own them,
they’re both on sale on steam for $5 & $2.50 respectively
sincerely,
#35
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JC2 is also free for PS+ people *squeee*
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As is Just cause. Is it worth getting or is it just a lower visual quality derpbox game like just cause 2
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havent played Just Cause 1, but JC2 is more than enough chaos causing derp fun for me
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Just play Just Cause 2. Just cause 1’s grappling mechanic is not as fleshed out and the game gets boring and repetitive really fast. Just cause 2 looks much better, plays better, the grappling system is so much fun and while it does get repetitive over time you’ll be having too much fun blowing stuff up and causing CHAOS to notice.
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Wow, this extra credits video makes some really bold claims about Spec Ops: The Line.
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/spec-ops-the-line-part-1
(No spoilers in the vid btw)
I guess I really need to play this game soon.
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@masha2932, I don’t think you can change the controls for shooting in Sleeping Dogs, alas. Weirdly when you’re shooting from cars the controls are switched around. I’m sort of used to alternating between trigger and buttons, 360 and PS3 always seem to have different ones on default. There’s also some cool leveling up you can do that makes the gun play more satisfying. (Slow motion, almost Max Payne style and the like.) If you’re not a fan of shooting don’t worry, though. I think 90% of the game I just used hand-to-hand combat.
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(Haha, obviously this is a response to your comment on the other page. :P)
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Thanks for the information.
Well that’s unfortunate. The PS3 triggers are not the best for shooting(they’re perfect for racing games in my opinion) so that’s why most shooters have them on the bumpers(L1/R1).
I guess I can live with that when I pick up the game in the coming months when it’s cheaper.
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Neato – i’ve been hearing lots of good stuff about it.
It’s currently sitting on a shelf at home – i may have to play it after SR2…-
Spec Ops? I’d do it in the reverse order.
I needed the derpiness of SR3 to get over the grimness of The Line. bloody fantastic game though.-
I played Rayman Origins before Spec Ops. Now there’s a contrast for the ages. 😛
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I’m already playing SR2 – about 25% completion so far.
I thought i’d finish that, then play the line, then move on to SR3
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Yeah I saw this as well. What makes it even more interesting was in the post show notes a couple of weeks back, they said something along the lines of “I’ve been feeling a bit down recently, maybe this Spec Ops game will pick me up” Apparently not.
I”m really interested in getting it too. Ozgameshop have it for $47 (console) or $37 (PC). But I just bought a 3DS so I think I better leave off for a little while
I’m playing Squash for the first time ever tomorrow… this should be interesting…
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Your hamstrings will weep, so much lunging
@Tigerion re: screen capture. Someone at work was asking around with a similar question.
Responses included Camtasia, Screenflow, BlueBerry FlashBackExpress, and Jing.
I know nothing though, so good luck.
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Thanks Beav (and bunny)
You interested in some Iron Brigade Co-Op this weekend? Maybe I’ll be able to get past the first boss fight with your help-
Hell yes. Stompy stompy boom.
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Is co-op just like competitive survival type multiplayer or is it like co-op through the whole campaign? I’d prefer if it was the latter but both are good. I’m busy this week but I’ll be keen to play with you guys next time 🙂
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I believe it’s for any / all of the campaign but haven’t tried it yet. Will be bloody handy for the later missions with several lanes and defensive points to worry about.
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I’m hungry, but it isn’t lunchtime yet.
#Firstworldproblems
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its always lunch time somewhere.
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It’s past lunch time in New Zealand…
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well… if lunchtime has passed in NZ, and is yet to arrive here, then that leaves you with only one obvious solution :
QUICKLY! TO THE TASMAN SEA!!!-
SWIM LIKE A BOAT PERSON!!!!
…. oh man that was wrong on soooo many levels….
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It would be irresponsible to ignore your hunger! There’s always a justification. 😛
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But… but what will i do during my lunch break, then???
I am bound to be hungry again by then!!!
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You know what, I’ve just discovered that interviews with poiliticians are much, much better when watched on youtube with the sound off & the subtitles turned on.
“Anne bicycle on this this… splits the silver bullet. Email.” –Kevid Rudd on Rove Live, 2009.
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So, I’ve decided to take part in Ludum Dare this weekend. I’m in a game making mood. Still not sure whether to enter the 48 hour solo comp, or the 72 hour jam. I’ll be going solo either way. The 48 hour one sounds more fun, but the 72 hour may be better for someone who’s new to these kinds of comps. Hmm, decisions, decisions…
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I’m assuming the 72 hour jam is team based? If so, try the 72 hour one. This way you get to meet other developers and maybe learn some tricks from them. It also improves your teamwork and general people skills.
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Nah, you can do the 72 hour one alone or in a team. If I was going to do it as a team, I’d much prefer to do it with people I already know than just randoms. I’m not the best at meeting new people.
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Hey guys! Harvey Norman have a deal on this weekend (Friday through to Sunday) where if you buy a Toshiba laptop over $700 you get another Toshiba laptop free!
Toshiba laptops (from my experience) are pretty decent, but I will assume it comes with the same catch as last time if you end up returning the laptop you bought for a refund you have to return the free laptop as well.
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Yeah my laptop for the past 5 years has been a Toshiba.. i’ve dropped it sooo many times but it still runs! Solid little soldier!
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That being said, i don’t think any of those laptops on their site are worth the asking price on their own… but i mean, i guess you do get a bonus lappy.. but stilll… not the best offer.
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Hahaha! Only issue I know of them is my mates Qosimo laptop, that things been warrantied about 5 times since he got it 3 years back..
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BAHAHAHAHA!!!
I’m not one for politics, but this clip of Tony Abbott getting slammed is HILARIOUS!
My god – this guy is such a clown.. if he ever gets into power, i swear this country will fall to poop! lol
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Oh boy-o-boy he got absolutely HAMMERED on the asylum seeker issue!! Bahahaha!!!
My god, he’s fumbling left right and centre!
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check out the interview he did last year on the 7.30 report about the NBN. man has absolutely no clue about his own policies.
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He has policies?
I though he just constantly says “nay” to anything Gillard says, whilst having no plans of his own…-
That’s his plan I think, get voted in cuz the people hate Gillard, not because they wanted Abbott
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One thing I can’t stand is smear campaigns.
With that said though, my vote will be going to the lesser evil. I’m going against Abbott because I don’t want him in, not because I want Gillard. Ugh >. -
It is horrible thinking, rather than tell people what you’re going to do for them, tell them why you shouldn’t vote for their opponent… people vote on your policies (Or should anyway), not the amount of negative focus you put on your opponent.
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It’s like the Queensland election all over again. Two equally horrible candidates. We’re all screwed.
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thats true. Seems that all of the policies he promotes can be summed up by ‘take what the government says & say the opposite.’
still, i thought it was funny to see someone ask him to actually explain his alternative.
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That’s the scary thing about the opposition at the moment. Any politician that runs of a “We will take care of everything, trust us” campaign worries me.
That said before the next election I would love to actually see a list of policies and analysis of the impact of those policies on the country, rather than smear campaigns and full indepth reporting on what a change in the tax rate means for people of different incomes.* To dream … the impossible dream …
To fight … the unbeatable foe …
To bear … with unbearable sorrow …
To run … where the brave dare not go …
To right … the unrightable wrong …
To love … pure and chaste from afar …
To try … when your arms are too weary …
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To be fair, the job of the opposition is to oppose the government. Though I do wish he would actually do it in a constructive manner rather than just being contrarian.
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Who knows some mobile friendly time waster sites? Ive got to sit here for about 5 hours with constant pain so something to take my mind off things would be great.
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Tattoo? I hope you’re getting a tattoo!
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That would be why.
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Awesome, man! Good luck! I’d go with Snopes.com if you’re into urban legends. You can spend ages on that site.
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i hear redtu…. oh.. wait.. no… forget that…
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No good. I need to keep my right arm still. 😛
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bahahahahaha
I almost spat my lunch on the screen! 😀
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SCP Wiki.
Text-based so it’s nice’n’easy on your data usage. DO IT!
Big software update was palnned for today, with certain areas being assigned to certain people.
I finished mine an hour ago and am sitting awkwardly in an empty office contemplating pulling out my 3DSXL…
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Paln all the tihgns.
@Masha, you can pick up Spec Ops at JB for $49 atm (Thats PC not sure if its the same for consol)
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$59.95 for consoles, but totally worth it. I’ve said it many a time, but it’s Game of the Year for me so far. Play the demo if you’re not sure.
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Im only at chapter 11 (only played it once so far) but my fave part is deffinately that chase scene with the AH-6 and the DJ singing along over the radio.
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Thanks C.J. I’m on console unfortunately. I think I’ll wait a bit or maybe just rent the game .
So… if Redtube made an app, would it still be software, or could i also be hardware?
If you know what i mean…
*suggestive eyebrow raise*
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Software that enables hardware
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Surely a wiser man than I… I bow my head to you, good sir
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Perhaps you could do with a firmware update prior to installation of additional peripherals.
I’m not sure where I’m going with this.
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FRONDS!
Has anyone tried the data transfer thing on the 3DS? My friend bought a 3DS XL and I am contemplating transferring my ambassadors program to him, trading in my 3DS to ebgames for an XL then transferring from ny friends XL to my XL. Anyone know if this is possible?
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Powalen posted about it a few pages back. Basically from what I’ve gathered and what he’s said you have to transfer the stuff over Wi-Fi and it’s a one way transfer (so your 3DS would be factory reset and his one would have everything yours had). It took him roughly an hour and you can transfer up to 5 times.
So it should be possible but your friend is going to lose everything he has though 😛
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Well seeing as he bought the XL yesterday night I’m pretty sure he has nothing on it.
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IIRC possible, but system transfers have a cooldown period of several weeks.
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Source: one of the 8-4 play guys ran into this problem and mentioned it on their podcast at one point, I think the one before the most recent one.
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Oh yeah! You can only do it once every 7 days
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I remember reading somewhere that EB might let you do the transfer in-store (but this can take a while) or they might let you buy the XL at whatever price, transfer at home, trade in the 3DS and they’ll refund you whatever discount trading in a 3DS gives you. Probably better to just ask around at your local EB, surely they’ll know people want to transfer stuff over.
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Any users of Razer keyboards here?
I got one given to me for my birthday about 6 months ago & last night , I noticed that the ‘d’ key no longer lights up. still works and all that, its just an aesthetic thing. Anyone else had this problem? is there a fix or is it a return to sender deal?
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Should be under warrenty still if its a problem.
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Yeah basically what CJ said. I’ve got the Lycosa and so far the only issues I got atm are some keys are getting tough to push down, but I think that’s my own fault 😛
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So many humans. So much frustration.
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One of my slogans for when I’m working lol
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Keyboard buddies techy, my lycosa came today 🙂
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*robo-thumbs up* 🙂
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I got all freaked out when i touched it an was like, aw man ALL THE FINGER PRINT SMUDGES.
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Hah me too, but I just wipe it clean with a damp cloth before I have the computer on when I come home.
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Genius, Thanks sire.
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I’m really looking forward to the new range of Roccat equipment.
Razer never did it for me….
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Hot, pinchy stabbing with the occaisional feel of an electric shock. More annoying and uncomfortable than painful.
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Fortune favours the brave!
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…?
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Freeze is in trouble with the missus and is being punished 😉
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Sounds kinky.
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Sitting here getting tattooed. Playing on my phones Internet trying to keep my mind busy.
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Shiny.
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I think I might’ve asked this weeks ago when you mentioned the tattoo, but how many trips you’ve got to do or is it just this one?
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It was going to be just one but the tattooist has realised how much work there actually is so I’ll probably have to do a second full day.
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Hardcore! Will be looking forward to the pictures, man!
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Okay I lied. The little bit where the neck hits the shoulder is murder.
Yeah, that’s what I remember from my tattoo, that it was not really painful, more annoying. But mine was tiny so I’d imagine that 5 hours of annoyance would be sanity-testing. Oh wait, no I don’t need to imagine it…I have kids. 😛
Yeah, sorry…not really helping am I? I would re-recommend that SCP thing Aleph mentioned though: http://www.scp-wiki.net/ . It’s kind of a rea,l fake (but way creepier) version of Warehouse 13.
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Just realised I implied there that my kids are annoying. Oops. I meant more that the combined total of 27 hours of labour was sanity-testing.
Just woke up from a 2 and a half hour nap.
Mum said “How come you’re up already?”
Best thing ever =D
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Is Scree nocturnal?
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Nope =D
I sleep through the night as well =P
I’ve forgotten to take iron tablets since manifest so I may be lacking in iron again-
Iron helps us play.
(Had to be said.)
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Hello Joe!
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At least Magneto won’t be able to use you to escape from prison?
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Vegetarian? (Sorry for prying)
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Outfit is done? Link!
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It’s somewhere on page 2-3
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Nope, pensioner.
Meat is expensive =P
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Why would you want an Iron Tablet!? It would just be too heavy to use and would overheat super fast! 😛
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I won’t be buying one of them for Mum then =P
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Oh yeah, how goes the tablet search? Got any in mind? Or still just searching around for one?
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Samsung galaxy tab 2.
I’m not sure if it’s worth paying the $200 for an extra 3.1 inches
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This was probably my favourite moment in Sleeping Dogs. No spoilers, just amusing gameplay element. Must’ve laughed for about a minute when he hit the high notes. Wei can really sing. 😛 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orJjPfXSMho
I just got a staple remover from my work’s stationary cupboard. When I got back to my desk I pretended it was a monster mouth and made it eat my pen … I’m an adult.
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I almost re-pierced my lip when playing with my staple remover. The phone rang and scared me…
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Hahaha!
Sounds like something I’d do.
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Rough pen outline from this morning.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62480489@N03/7848798868
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Damn you replyfailopus!
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Since when did you have a beard? Also looks badass.
I know this is a long shot but anyone traded in Sleeping Dogs yet? Would like to know JB or EB trade value. Thanks.
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Easiest bet would be to ring up a local store and ask.
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That is flirting dangerously close to social interaction with the general public
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So. Many. train. tickets.
The tickets are bloody older then I am. @_@
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¿qué
I have no idea what I’m going to play tonight, but I get the feeling it’ll be a combination of Pokemon Black on threedeeexessell and Dark Souls on PC.
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TRANSFORMERS! MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE!
TRANSFORMERS! ROBOTS IN DISGUISE!
THE AUTOBOTS WAGE THEIR BATTLE TO DESTROY THE EVIL FORCES OF THE DECEPTICONS!-
In other words, I’ll be playing Fall of Cybertron tonight.
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They’re the worlds most fearsome fighting team? They’re heroes and the half-shell and they’re green?
(Don’t mind me, I’m just jealous there’s no awesome new Turtles game for my childhood nostalgia.)
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*in a, I should really proof read.
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Someone should totally make a TMNT game using a similar brawling engine to the Arkham games.
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Action RPG would work too. There was a rumour Rocksteady were working on one. They shot that down. Too bad.
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I don’t think we’ll ever see an awesome new TMNT game, now that Nick owns the rights :/
Which is a shame. I’d love for a “Fall of Cybertron” type game to push the Turtles back into the general publicAlso, today I rescued a turtle trying to cross the road. I think it may have been of the ninja variety, because it wasn’t there the first time I drove past, but suddenly appeared in the middle of the road when I came back 10 minutes later.
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after finishing all of my assignments I am planning on a hardcore night of dota 2
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Oh, assignments, how I loathe thee.
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark Souuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuls!
Im torn between Darksiders 2 (ah thank you) and Counter Strike/TF2 fest, or maybe starting Arkham City, or continuing on with Uncharted 2 on the PS3 decisions de-motherfucking-cisions!
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Yeah, I’m trying to limit how much time I spend thinking about how many games I have to get to at som e point soon…and how many are coming.
First World Problems 😛-
Don’t speak to me about unfinished games or decisions.
I know the game I want to play, but I can’t play it until I clean my room ;_; -
I did buy an rf adapter so I can use my 360 controllers on my PC, so I guess I’ll be able to play Darksiders with the controls it was made for.
Price – $13 – (Ebay)
Qualtiy – Unknown
Packaging – 3/10 – Ziplock bag in envelope-
My dodgy $13 ebay adapter has lasted a lot longer than the official one, and is still going.
Only downside is manually forcing drivers every time it’s plugged into a different USB port.
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I’m sorry to highjack, but everytime I see your user name, I think of this
It could be not safe for work, it could be lots of things, none of which I’m sure of.-
hahhahahahah, sorry BB but your name is now always associated with that clip
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I think I’m ok with that?….
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I thought his name was a reference to Ace Ventura Pet Detective 2.
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EXCUSE ME! I’D LIKE TO ASS YOU A FEW QUESTIONS!
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Haha, now I NEED to re-watch both of those movies.
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WHAT’S WRONG? AFRAID I’LL MAKE A STINK? HUH?
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Bingo! Yahtzee! is that your final answer? Our Survey Says?
Indeed it is
Eeyup.
Mixing it up between Darksiders 2 and crying about how much my arm hurts, but I’m hardcore like that 😛
So, SCP-050 is probably one of the greatest things I’ve ever read on the Internet, and I’m only half way through. Oh, and it’s a very busy day at work 😛
Hmm so Holden called me for a phone interview on Tuesday but I was in a class at University so I told them to call me again and they said they’d do it on Wednesday.
They didn’t call me on Wednesday.
Flash forward to today and they called me twice at different times for the same interview…
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Are they hiring you for the position of being responsible for calling people for interviews on time?
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Or how about for getting customers their cars on time?
(Still waiting on mine.)
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But you managed to do the interview, right?
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Yep, not very well though 🙂
But they asked very basic questions so who knows
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Dude, did I ever tell you about the time that I had an interview with DSTO in Melbourne and they told me to come on a different day to when they expected me and fucking [i]armed guards[/i] were all like WHO ARE YOU YOU’RE NOT MEANT TO BE HERE. And then I get into the interview and halfway in I realise they think I was another guy who was in my honors class at the same University? 🙁
Getting called on the wrong day is just to see if you can think on your feet. 😛
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Ouch 🙁
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One for the Leaguers:
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That was a terrible intiate from the other team. one at a time 😛 You sure that wasnt us.
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Excitement level = OVERDRIVE!!!!!
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PETA-KILL!!!
So, just out of curiosity…
Does anyone not have their taskbar situated on the bottom of the screen?
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I guy I work with has his along the left-hand side of the screen.
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I guy…
I’m pretty sure I meant “A guy I work with….”
or I’m talking about myself.
I have my bar at the bottom of the screen, so probably not.Does anyone use the “auto-hide” on the taskbar? I remember being fascinated by it when it first appeared as an option (Win ’95 iirc), but I’ve long since returned to “always on” taskbar.
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I’ve been using auto-hide for a while, but have recently changed the taskbar to being on the right hand side of my screen.
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I’ve been using auto-hide for a while, but have recently changed the taskbar to being on the right hand side of my screen.
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*addendum*
Also, regarding this:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/08/what-do-you-think-of-microsofts-first-new-logo-in-25-years/
I hope Yellowius doesn’t feel cheated…-
I made a few good comments on that article 😛
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I used to always have it up the left hand side of the screen. And I always used autohide until my current laptop.
People do that?!
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Do what?! I MUST KNOW
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ARRRRRGH!
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OMG WHY DIDN”T YOU WARN ME BUT I THOUGHT YOU WERE FREAKING JOKING!
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Bad Greenius *Bop*
No 😛 symbol if you want your instructions to be taken seriously
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Can’t speak for Greenius, but the ‘:P’ has become a force of habit for me. There was an entire TAY I looked back on where all my comments had one. I hope no one noticed. *resists urge to put another one*
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I probably still would’ve clicked.
I regret it. I regret it very much.
oh god shouldn’t have clicked D:
Wow, reply fail to Crazyguy1990
Continuing with my day of playing the demos on my PS3:
Game 1: PES 2013 Demo version 1
The game is looking promising, I haven’t played the last few PES games but this one seems polished. Some of the movement still feels a bit off but I think I’ll wait for demo version 2, which is releasing next week, before I can make more educated judgements.
That being said there have been some good previews on Eurogamer in the past by writers who know what they are talking about so check them out http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-05-30-pro-evolution-soccer-2013-preview-pass-master
One problem I had during the demo though, is the crowd noises. They just seem flat, they are not dynamic and I hope they get fixed. Granted it could be because it’s still a demo but the crowd noises and general audio presentation was not very good.
Game 2: The expendables 2 the video game.
This game is not good. It’s a dual joystick shooter, one of the most repeated genres in gaming and somehow the developers managed to get it wrong. One of the most important things in this genre, the aiming, feels off. You could be aiming using your right analog stick to the left at an enemy to the left of you and for some reason your player still misses regularly. The audio kept cutting out during busy times and it gets really hard to distinguish between your characters on the screen during these busy times. The overall shooting also feels really lacklustre, you don’t get that Oomph you expect when you shoot enemies, vehicles and red barrels. The signature kills are kind of cool but that wasn’t enough to convince me to buy the game.
If you want a better dual joystick shooter play Renegade Ops instead.
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Yay for playing demos! Although something tells me even though you’ve played (and probably deleted) two demos you’re going to download more 😛
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Ha Ha 🙂
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How’s the tattoo coming along, Freeze? Hanging in there?
…Is it home time yet?
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tick tock tick tock tick YES!
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Today, I’m going through the ARCH window!
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Round window is so much better…. 😛
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Round window five o/
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Nah man the new square window sponsored by Microsoft ftw!
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I don’t get to go home until Sunday…
Because I’m in Sydney.
So I think the girl from the heart foundation was hitting on me when I told her I support the heart foundation by doing the door knock appeal every year with my father lol. Still not sure, she was super friendly cute too..
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Virus__ and girl from the heart foundation sitting in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G!-
LOL, you are just the worst Greenius =P
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Don’t go breakin’ her heart. (I’m sure the foundation wouldn’t approve if you trieeeeed.)
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*wolf whistle*
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“You can found my heart any day”
/o\ I almost forgot there’s a new ep Burn Notice out. God damn Minecraft taking up my time >=[
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But minecraft D=
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Burn summer finale of Burn Notice /o\
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Why do you want to burn it?
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I meant but, oh well I fail. Nothing new!
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Just finished Spec Ops, loved it.
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The only thing missing was The Doors’ The End somewhere in the game. Would’ve been amazing. I’m sure I heard the guitar riffs early on in the game. Was waiting for it.
so that The World ends with you related countdown?
reports are that it’s a port of the game to IOS…
however, they are saying that there may be more… but yeah… if squeenix have hyped me up for a sequel and instead give me a port i can’t play… then i’m gonna be a bit mad…
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I need buttons damnit!
I never beat the first (or legally owned it, shhh) but I wouldn’t of mind an enhanced 3DS port. If all the countdown timer was for was just a port to iOS then MEH.
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SEQUEL! -
iOS is perfect for point-and-click adventures, though!
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I have Broken Sword 2! (never played it though :P)
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I’m in a minority here, but in some ways it’s better than the first. (In most ways, it’s not.) Still, play it. 😛 I’ve got Monkey Island 2 SE, Machinarium and the Broken Sword games on the iPad.
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http://andriasang.com/con2d5/twewy_ios/
this is the link, can’t say it’s too reliable…
i jus tdon’t think that they would put this much hype into an ios port… they’d have to have something else up their sleave.. please oh please may they have something else up their sleave!
Don’t your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won’t snow, the sun won’t shine,
It’s hard to tell the night time from the day.
You’re losing all your highs and lows,
Ain’t it funny how the feeling goes away.
This song kills me. :'( *shakes fist* Damn you cowboy metaphors.
Seems to me that Desperado by The Eagles speaks to all men at some point in their life.
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I freakin’ love the Johnny Cash version too.
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Johnny Cash’s cover of NIN’s “Hurt”. Oh man, emotion. All the emotion.
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Hell yeah, tells a completely different story to Reznor’s version too. Cuts deep.
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I was listening to Desperado earlier, and it was amazing. So amazing.
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Started learning the piano at the start of the year, I got as far as playing the opening of that song. 😛
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Oh yeah I remember that! How did that end up?
I think when you mentioned it you linked a YouTube clip of an amazing piano arrangement or maybe I just looked it up myself 😛
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Not well yet, got as far as identifying the keys and knowing where they line up on the sheet music. I guess that’s a start. Something I’ve wanted to do for ages, though. I’ll do it, just a matter of when.
Speaking of awesome arrangements, this is what I linked to last time. Wasn’t Desperado though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDYybJFOPUE — Bear McCreary — Wander My Friends
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That’s not what you linked to last time!
I’m guessing Desperado isn’t that easy on piano and probably isn’t best for a beginner :P, best to start easy and build up. I took piano lessons for a few years when I was younger so if you need help I can try to help 🙂
SHAMELESS PLUG starts a bit slow but it’s a nice song!
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Holy crap, man. That’s awe inspiring! A lesser man might be jealous. 😛
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Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin’, but there’s a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before it’s too late…
I think I have a problem…
Lately I’ve been watching clips/episodes on YouTube of those stupid messed up kind of talk shows like Jerry Springer, Steve Wilkos and Jeremy Kyle. I guess they’re entertaining but goddamnit it’s so stupid and the people on there are absolutely terrible…
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We’ve all got our vices. In high school I might’ve become addicted to The Bold and the Beautiful, just because it was on when I had nothing to do. :S I’m glad I kicked that habit, though.
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I… I used to race home from school so I could get home in time to watch Passions…
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Oh, thank god. I’m not alone in my shame.
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OH, MY GOD.
TIMMY.
THAT SHOW WAS THE BEST.
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I went to school with a guy we called Timmy because he looked like an older version of that doll/kid/creepy looking thing. Now he’s in the navy and has access to all sorts of weaponry. Hopefully he doesn’t remember…
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Did he have a lady pal named Tabitha? Then you’re in trouble.
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Not while we were at school, nowadays who knows
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My parents let me watch Jerry Springer as a child so I learnt pretty early the word ‘brothel’. Didn’t learn what it meant though. So on those old town/road mats you’d play with your toy cars with as a kid I used to proudly say ‘AND THIS ONE IS GOING TO THE BROTHEL. SURE IS TAKING HIM A WHILE.”
Yeaaaaaah.
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Those mats were the best! No brothels on mine though 🙁
Hey D.C.!!! Thanks for the noms today man, mucho gracias!
And grats to that Blagh guy too 😀
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Haha, no problem, man. Just keep on keepin’ on. 😛
I was looking at an old TAY when I found this:
People describe me as indescribable, I have the intelligence of 10 men minnus 9 and a half, I move like the wind if the wind was really slow or not moving at all. I can leap off tall buildings in a single bound but only once. I can stop a train with my bare hands that i would use to call 000 and say there is a bomb on it. Thats all you need to know i guess!
The person who said this is amazing. CAN YOU GUYS WHO IT WAS?
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CAN YOU GUYS WHO IT WAS!? CAN YOU?!?!
Probably not but CAN YOU GUESS WHO IT WAS?
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Trjn?
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I’m Trjn and I like the sound of my own voice. When that won’t suffice, I just write a whole bunch of words around places like here.
He did say that though!
I’m mostly like the shady guy in the trenchcoat lurking around the party on this site.
Creepyguy1990
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I’m going to go with “Rocketman.”
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What gave it away? 😛
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It could have been the misspelling of minnus, or the language used, or the fact that I think I remember him typing that.
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That was sarcasm and I felt it was a very Rocketman type of post. He needs to do more things and write stories about them 😛
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I’m perfectly aware that it was sarcasm. I just felt like answering it earnestly.
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See I know you know sarcasm (you are the master of sarcasm afterall) but because you answered so earnestly I got confused :/
Uh oh I’m becoming Scree!
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The shirt I’m wearing right now even has the word “Sarcasm” on it.
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AlexPants?
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BAH! I’m sure I refreshed before post. :S
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But he did break his finger on a balloon once 😛
Somehow I missed the Community Kudos that went to Pyrean and myself. I just stumbled across it.
THANKS GUYS AND GIRLS!
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No, thank you and Pyrean for being awesome 🙂
When I was in EB yesterday I saw that Myst was on the coming soon shelf for the 3DS. It’s one of those games that I’ve been told I “have to play”. Has anyone played the original? Should I get it when it comes out?
#PlanningAhead
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Hmm, Myst has dated quite a lot. It also features some extreme “adventure game” logic. That said, it is quite a deep game, and there’s a lot to it, but it takes quite a bit of an investment.
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No idea what it’s going to be like for the 3DS but it’s a pretty old game so I’m not sure how it’ll hold up or whether it’s worth a full price purchase on 3DS compared to (what I’m guessing) a cheap purchase on PC.
What games have you got for your 3DS and which games are you planning on getting? Have you got the “must-haves” like Zelda, Pullblox, Marios, RE:R, Kid Icarus etc.? And have you got some of the free eShop stuff like Letterbox? I hardly use it but it’s cool getting letters from TAYbies 🙂
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I haven’t got any games yet. I want get as close to 100% in Conquest first. My first game will likely be MGS3, then probably Mario 3D land or Kid Icarus. Have you played Kingdom Hearts: Stop Drop and Roll? I’ve always been interested in KH but didn’t have a playstation so never got to play them. Would be easy for a beginner to jump into?
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I haven’t bought or played a 3DS game since Feb or so :P, but I’ll give a brief description of the 3DS games I do have or know about:
– I guess Pullblox/Pushmo from the eShop would be the only ‘must-have’ for 3DS owners since it’s unique
– Zelda is Zelda, whether that’s worth a purchase or not is up to you
– Mario 3D Land is a good mix of 2D and 3D Mario which I really enjoyed, definitely worth checking out
– Mario Kart 7 is probably my favourite Mario Kart (previously it was Mario Kart DS). An improvement over the average Mario Kart Wii IMO
– Resident Evil: Revelations is fun. I’ve only played a bit of 4 and 5 but I like RE:R. Feels more horrory than actiony but there’s still some action heavy shootery bits. Much better with the Circle Pad Pro (I assume you’ll get one anyway for MGS3)
– Tales of the Abyss is an okay port of a pretty good JRPG. If I recall you weren’t a huge JRPG fan so I’ll assume you’ve never played a Tales of game. They’re really fun and battles are in real time, sort of like a fighting game where you can chain together and pull off special moves.
– Street Fighter IV probably isn’t worth getting since there’s better versions on console
– I don’t own Link’s Awakening on 3DS but I have it on GB and it’s awesome!-
This, plus Pilotwings (if cheap), Dillons Rolling Western and Mutant Mudds (try the demo)
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If you go into kingdom hearts, you’ll be fairly confused about the story, it does have some things that come up that explain the plots of the other games… so if you don’t mind being a little out of the loop then go for it.
as for the game, it’s good, but thats because it basically is exactly the same as birth by sleep (the PSP kingdom hearts) which in my opinion was the best KH game released, so it’s not as good as that.
also the drop mechanic is stupid.
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Kingdom Hearts has such a bullshit convoluted story that even if you’ve played all the games you might not be able to follow it completely
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I’m about to invest in a 3DS. I only want one game for the moment I don’t clock many hours on my DS.
I was looking at getting Star Fox 64 as Lylat wars was my fave game ever on the Nintendo 64.
Does anyone know of any reason I shouldn’t?Other games I was considering are:
Threatrythem: final fantasy – I love FF music
Kingdom Hearts Dream drop – I’ve never played any of the others though and I was just reading comments about potential confusion this can ause
Ace combat – I only just became aware of this games existence and know nothing about it other then I loved ace combat 6-
Star Fox 64 on 3DS is so much fun. If you loved Lylat Wars, get it. Holds up extremely well.
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Also, I’ve spent about an hour just in the sound test section listening to the main theme =D
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Haha, cool. Sounds like it’ll be the one for me then!
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I’ll have fun trying to remember all the trick to unlock different paths. I remember something about doing a loop de loop on the first level.
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Has anyone got any 3DS letterbox letters from me recently? I wrote some replies to Pants and Powalen’s pictures a few days ago and I just drew a new pic but I have a feeling they’re not sending :(.
I also want Kid Icarus: Uprising again but it still hasn’t dropped in price… :/. Has anyone played it? Thoughts? My original concerns was that it’ll be over too quickly and I didn’t think I’ll get my ‘money’s worth’ (like 10 hours or so?).
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Well, I’ve played it for about 10 hours, and I’m only about half to 2/3 of the way through the campaign. It’s very fun, but it starts to hurt your wrists after a short while (~1 hour), so it will take multiple sessions to beat.
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I got your letters the other day (the gravatar one made me laugh :P). Don’t think I’ve got any recently, I’ll check later.
As far as Kid Icarus goes… Put it this way. I don’t like the controls but love the game. I haven’t played it in a while but I’ve got 5hrs logged and am only on chapter 7 (of 25 if I remember correctly). Plus there’s multiplayer.
Can’t type much more on my phone but you get the idea 😛
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Oh and I just got your 3DS XL letter hahaha
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Thanks for the replies :). Another game I was interested in was Star Fox as I never played the original but from what I gathered it’s even shorter with the whole campaign just taking an hour. I get that there’s tons of replay value going back to re-play older levels for higher scores but I generally don’t do that with games.
I’ve been spoiled, I look upon these Canadian/US 3DS games for $40 and think “OzGameShop” has it for $30.
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*glare*
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hmm, do we come under the same region as the UK for 3DS? I’m wondering if buying a 3DS here is a good idea or if I should import.
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Yep! You can even access the UK and NZ stores with the Aus console for cheaper games.
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I was craving a game of Space Marine today. I just ran into this on reddit
I really enjoy the God of War series and I’ve loved the three main entries in the series so far. I enjoyed the games on my PS2 and I was eagerly awaiting the third game in the series. When the third game released, I loved it, it was the culmination of the story I had followed in the past and it delivered the epic set pieces I needed. The gameplay was more of the same in hindsight, but I still enjoyed it.
However, for some reason I can’t muster any interest for the upcoming Ascension. I look at previews and videos and I just shrug. Maybe it’s because the main trilogy is finished but none of the stuff announced so far has interested me. When God of War 3 was being previewed I would search for any information possible, scanning previews multiple times and watching videos endlessly. I don’t know what’s going on. It can’t be because the game is a prequel or side story, because I enjoyed the PSP games. That being said, maybe the prequel thing is the issue. I enjoyed the PSP games because they were surprising. How did Ready at Dawn manage to perfectly re-create the God of War experience on a handheld.
I can’t explain it, I guess it could be this jadedness I hear constantly about other series.
Oh well, I’ll try and keep an open mind once the game releases but for now I’m not excited at the thought of another adventure with the ghost of sparta.
Might replay Brutal Legend this weekend. I loved the characters, setting and story. (Not so much the stage battles.) One of the most beautiful open world games I’ve ever played, I’ve got to say.
FINALLY! Someone with a brain in their head talking about gaming on Windows 8! http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/08/youre-being-lied-to-windows-8-is-not-that-bad-for-gaming/
Waaaay better than that stupid ‘Windows 8 is bad for gaming because it does stuff the same way as Windows XP/Vista/7 and has a new feature no old games are using because the OS isn’t even out yet’ drivel the other day.
I think he needed to expand on a point he made in the last paragraph though. Windows 8 is probably the biggest opportunity for indie game devs ever. First of all, it’s easier to get onto than Steam. I don’t know why people keep comparing getting games onto the windows 8 appstore to getting games published on XBLA. Isn’t it pretty obvious that it’s more like Windows Phone 7? And you should see some of the rubbish that has! Secondly, Microsoft is planning to sell 3 million Surfaces this year, something that is rather plausible, given that the 5 million Kindle Fires where sold at the end of last year, and that was only in the US. Seeing as the Surface will be available worldwide, and might be priced like the Fire (like the rumors say) or even if it’s a bit more expensive but still cheaper than the iPad, I can see them hitting that goal. Plus you’ve got other companies selling their own Win 8 tablets too. So if everything goes to plan, there could be maybe 4 million win 8 tablets sold this year (just a guess). And then there’s laptops and desktops too, so add a few more million on to that too. So I’m just going to say maybe a minimum of 5 million devices running Win 8 by the end of this year? Probably way more than that seeing as though laptops and desktops sell quite a lot each year. Now look at Steam. Over the last 48 hours the amount of users logged in has peaked at only 4.3 million.
So, the Windows 8 appstore is less ‘closed’/easier to get onto than steam, and will have more people using it too. It’s an indie dev’s dream.
I expect we’ll see quite a lot of innovation and experimentation in games on Windows 8, which is quite exciting. Sure, we’ll see a lot of rubbish and Angry Birds and Words with Friends, but this is Windows, the domain of indie games. I can’t see Windows 8 being anything but good for gaming.
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Some people will hear only what they want to hear.
Filming of Doc What’s Epic Extravaganza has begun!!!!
We are currently sitting outside Milsons Point train station…. The sitting is awesome.
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Take as many behind the scenes pictures as possible. Have fun guys.
@Mashaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I know EXACTLY how you feel. I loved the PS2 god of war games. I enjoyed the PSP games. I was super, duper pumped for God of War 3. I had the special edition all pre-ordered, and I won the press edition and I really enjoyed GoW3. But after ascensions reveal, it just felt like more of the same. Multiplayer looks like fun, but the demo at E3 was just more of the same, with a few new weapons and tricks.
I guess i’m not that excited for it because, well, Kratos’ story is over, as far as I’m concerned, and they fleshed out more of his character in the PSP games. This just feels like a sequel for the sake of it, the story doesn’t sound interesting, it’s a very iterative sequel (few new weapons and stuff). God of War 3 was also something of a iterative sequel gameplay-wise, but it had (very) pretty graphics and is was the conclusion of the trilogy, so I was fine with that.
Yup. I sound jaded and cynical like you! I’ll probably buy it anyway (not sure if at release day or when it’s cheap) because I still enjoy the combat and I haven’t played a hack and slash like it in a while, but yeah.
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Holy shit those press kits go for $250+ on eBay :O
But yeah, I agree with you both. I really enjoyed GoW 1 and 2 and even though I was excited for 3, I was left feeling a bit disappointed. It was still fun but not as fun as the first two. I played the first PSP one and enjoyed that too but I’m not excited for Ascension at all. When there was that whole rumour about a leaked trailer all I thought was “meh”.
I just feel like they’re milking the franchise now and I don’t blame them (from a business perspective) but yeah… couldn’t care less about Ascension. Sure I’ll probably end up buying it as well if it turns out good but I’m in no rush.
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Exactly. Well said.
God of War 3 looked fantastic, the battle with Chronos for example. Wow!I know many people make fun of Kratos as a character and the God of War story in general but I like it and I was really invested in it. God of War 3 was a great culmination of Kratos’ revenge tale against the gods who had wronged him. Ascension just feels like you say, ‘a sequel for the sake of it.’
Like you though , I’ll probably buy it but most likely a few months later when it’s cheaper. The gameplay is so slick and fun. At the same time are we supporting the company for an unnecessary sequel? Maybe I’ll buy it used 🙂
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Kratos is an awesome character who I love to bits, may even be one of my favourites, but there’s nowhere else to go with him. We know his story from start to finish. Anything else is only really filler.
What I was hoping for was a change of setting. Norse or Egyptian would be cool. Even if they didn’t want to change too much it could be interesting if they showed the Roman gods replacing the Greek ones after Kratos murdered them all.
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Man, when did page 10 turn into the God of War fanboy convention 🙂
(Just kidding)I like Kratos too, the reason why is because he is not complicated. Dude is angry so he does something about it. You made me kill my family so I’m going to kill you. You either help me, get out of my way or you die. The other characters around him are dicks, so guess what, he becomes a dick as well and a stubborn one at that 🙂
I understand the call to make him more relatable, but why should he be relatable to the day to day person? Kratos is who I imagine we could become when we are unhinged, when only one solitary raw emotion is driving us.
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Well supposedly the collectors edition has a Kratos statue, and I’m a sucker for those, so I’m torn. What do!?!?
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They are also releasing all the 5 God of War games in a ‘saga collection’ in the US later this month(not sure about an European release) They haven’t confirmed if all the games will be on one disc, but I doubt it.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/08/06/never-stop-playing-with-playstation-collections/I will not buy that though because they seem to be double maybe even triple-dipping now, they already released the PS2 and PSP games in a HD collection .
They haven’t announced the price but I guess it is a good deal for people who have not played the series.
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But the cover art is so pretty!
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@D.C
You and I seem to have rather close tastes in games, so I grabbed Sleeping dogs based on your latest batch of enthusiastic championing of said games :). Also, because you don’t seem to have the tweetars, here’s the tattoo as it stands until I go back to finish it.
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Haha! My ramblings are influential. Now I feel an odd sense of pressure for you to like it. In my experience, though, I found it wasn’t until Sleeping Dogs got out into the open world that I became properly hooked. So don’t judge it on the first half hour or so, that’s just the standard hand holding tutorial stuff.
Thanks for the link too, man. Looks insane! I’d be impressed if that was the final product, so you must be happy with it so far. When do you expect to get it finished? (Probably for the best I’m not on Twitter too, considering how many hours I spend here.)
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You are influencing me to go back and play Brutal Legend again.
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You know you want to, friend. Remember the awesome menus? Doesn’t that make you wanna play? 😛
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Ha Ha. I really like that intro. I especially like the part where the action pauses and a warning comes up asking you to choose whether you want to keep the swearing on or not.
I stopped playing the game for some reason, I think I got bored at some point. The game didn’t gel with me. I still own it, maybe one day I’ll try again.
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I think my problem with the game came from expecting an action adventure. There’s a lot of elements of that there, but the strategy stuff came as a surprise. (Not a welcome one too, I found it unintuitive. Borderline unpleasant too.) Definitely got Double Fine’s sense of humour and awesome story though. There’s plenty to like if you’re willing to ignore the more than usual flaws.
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^ this
The demo was action adventure-y and so was the first bit of the game. The RTS sections felt really out of place and was a bit meh IMO.
I can’t help but to think it would’ve been better as a straight up action/adventure :(. Too bad that sequel was cancelled…
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Yeah, I think this is why I stopped as well.
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Yeah, I understand that pressure you feel when you recommend a game to someone. It’s exciting but scary as well. Will they like it? Will they hate it? Will hating that one game put them off the genre for good?
Sometimes I even go overboard offering gameplay suggestions and tips to try and ease them into it. 🙂
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Yeah, man. I find myself doing that too, but it’s probably just for the best to let ’em go in sight unseen. Hoping they’ll fall in love with it for the same reasons you did. People play games differently too. (When I play Uncharted I spend hours just taking in sights and sounds. I’m shocked watching my sister play through it, taking ten minutes for something I took an hour on. :P)
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EVERYONE GO PLAY XENOBLADE I PROMISE IT’S GOOD.
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Totally would if I didn’t have a deep seated hatred of JRPGs. 😛
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Write an effervescent email to Monolith and Nintendo asking them to port it to PS3 so a guy you know from the Internet will play it.
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Or said guy(s)/girl(s) can just play it on Wii/PC 🙂
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Where can I buy Xenoblade? I’m open to playing it, although I need to finish all my other games first. Yes… that may take a while.
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Just had a look and OzGameshop have stock for $48 for the game itself but Zavvi has the red classic controller bundle for 38 pounds (~$60). I originally bought it at OzGS for $40 before they increased the price and for $12 more you might as well buy it from Zavvi for the controller. I played the whole game using the classic controller pro but it’s one of the Wii games that doesn’t have motion or waggle controls and I hear it plays fine with Wiimote + Nunchuck. So buy it for the controller if you don’t have one or just get the solo game.
Both sites regularly have vouchers so remember to take a look. But since both are in the UK it can take a while before you receive the game and there’s always eBay and whatnot.
And pfft who needs other games when you’ve got Xenoblade! Your unfinished games have been unplayed for years, it’s time to move on! 🙂
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Hey, don’t get me wrong, Xenoblade looks like something I’d probably enjoy (probably) but I kind of detest playing anything on the Wii. I’ve got a bunch of games on it and have not enjoyed any of them, even the Zeldas (which have made me dislike the system even more. How do you ruin a Zelda game?).
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I know what you mean but Xenoblade just feels like… well a game. There’s no stupid weird waggle controls and it could’ve been done on any other console.
Even though there’s graphical and technical limitations on the Wii, Xenoblade didn’t have any slow down or weird glitches at all that you’ll usually find in other PS3/360 games and best of all, pretty much NO load times. Graphically I guess it could be better but it looks fine in my opinion. I like pretty graphics just as much as the next person but it really looks amazing given what the Wii is capable of. Some jagged pixelated edges here and there but the design of it is awesome. Man dat feeling of just wondering around the amazing landscapes listening to the awesomesauce soundtrack… mmmmMMMmmm feels good mang.
Just pretend it came out on the PS2 and you’ll have fun with it :). Just give it a shot! (play with a classic controller pro for that PS2 feel).
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You mean the ~70 gaems from steam sales, plus WoW, plus the Wii that I haven’t taken out of the box yet, plus all my X360 games right? If I take out the years (2+) old games out, I’ve still got a decent chunk to get through of newer games 😛
I’ll definitely be keeping my eyes open though for a good deal 😀
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It’s alright I’ll help take some of those games off your hands 🙂
That reminds me we never finished Halo: Reach :P. My gold ran out and you said you wouldn’t be renewing either so I guess that’s one game off both our lists!
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I’ll renew if I’m offered the 2 for $2 again 😛
Do you really need gold to play online? WTF is with that?!
Also, what’s the difference between gold/silver?!
@ Nobshot, Techy, B-funk, any other GW2 players.
Just logged on – two hours before the 3 day head start is supposed to begin and Crystal Desert is already at medium capacity.
Maybe consider a different server? At this rate it will likely be full by the official launch.
Does anyone know of any good reliable proxy shippers based in the US who will ship stuff to Australia? Sick of not being able to buy stuff from Amazon etc because of region.
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P4:Golden Gold Sexy edition? 😛
http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/international_shipping_services
Haven’t used any myself but there’s links to threads there which should provide enough information.
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Yes, that is exactly what I’m after. Fucking Atlus. They’ve told Amazon not to ship their CE outside the US but the standard edition is fine.
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Really? Bugger :(. I don’t even own a Vita but I’d totally buy that Gold edition if it was easily available to us (which it isn’t…). Seems like Atlus have made some pretty annoying decisions lately, what with that and the whole region locking of P4:Arena.
It’s stupid how we miss out on things just because we don’t live in certain places. There’s things I want but can’t import so I’m forced to either not get it or pay for an overpriced local version. Bah!
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It’s pretty normal for them to do this actually. Anything Atlus specific that’s awesome like this I usually get through VideoGamesPlus in Canada because those guys ship to Australia. But in this case, they’re not getting the super LE version. 🙁
Made myself a shipito account but it looks like they have manual activation or something, haven’t been able to log in yet.
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I was considering it, but I’m a bit fed up with all the region locking bullshit
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*gasp* Scree said a swear! I’m telling!
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I-I’m sorry /o\
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Borderline. We’ll have to go to the judges panel on that one.
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Bull doodies?
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Scree’s favourite word!
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I hate that word =( It belittles females, I feel.
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Personally I like the word disco. Makes me feel funky!
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Obviously, the other one, not disco.
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Logged in, ordered. Hopefully this works out. I’ve used proxies before but only from Japan, and the Japanese one was a lot less manual (these guys require you to fill out your own customs declarations etc)
Go The All Blacks!!
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Kept the bastards scoreless for the first time since 1962. \o/
Guild Wars 2 may be a fantastic game, but I guess I’ll never know. One of the worst server systems in place. Seriously, locking a server after X amount of players have logged onto it. Good thing I can just play on another one and roll a new character when there’s an open spot…oh wait, no, let’s make it so once you select a server you’re locked to it. Because, you know, that’s handy when everyone I know is playing on a full server. Who the hell thought this was good design?
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Why would they lock you to a server? I’m trying to think of a reason but I can’t seem to think of one. Locking you out makes sense in a “let’s not overload everything” way.
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I can sorta see where they are coming from – if they lock the sever once it’s capacity worth of players has chosen it then you will never get server queues.
But it still sucks.
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Also limiting players to one server at a time is partly to stop abuse with the server vs server pvp.
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Nope. Everyone I know is playing on Sea of Sorrows. No interest in playing an MMO without people I know. Cancelling my pre-order tomorrow.
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Fair enough. A few taybies have yet to pick a server though, trying to co-ordinate it.
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i thought we were going on crystal desert?
that’s what i’m on
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Too late, one of the first to get full.
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awkward xD
not sure if i’ll switch though, both my friends got on it…
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Yeah, all so messy…
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Can you cancel if you purchased from them directly? Because I played it a while back and don’t want to touch it again.
oh man. I keep thinking, “I really want to play Project Zero 2!” and then I remember I have to clean my room before it’s even possible. -_-
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That’s a weird way to turn on a console
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Well, I need to move the TV into my room because the HD TV the colour is drained on the game i want to play. To put the TV in my room, I have to move my gaming cabinet into my room because the TV will sit on that. To do that I have to clean my room.
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Did you ever get your game shelf thingy? Or are your poor games still covered in dust and dog hairs :(?
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No, you’ve been put away, but not in a shelf =P
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No one puts Greenius in a shelf.
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Except for Scree 🙁
What a monster!
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I’m sorry Greenius! It was a typo! A typo!
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Do you guys happen to know whether I can use the dial before you dig service to find the location of utility lines on the property if I’m not the owner (renting) and have no actual intent to dig?
I’m trying to locate my Telstra pit b/c I’m having constant line noise issues and both a Telstra subcontractor and an electrician have come out but neither can actually find it, I suspect it’s been buried somewhere.
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Easy solution. Call them and the worst that can happen is they’ll say not helping.
GW2 kicked me off and now it won’t let me log back in -_-
Oh well, at least I got 5 – 6 hours of game time with it. One of the smoothest MMO launches I’ve been in. You’d think with the starting zones been packed with dozens of people all running the same quests they’d be heaps of lag and disconnects but nope, everything ran as smooth as silk.
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but yeah, the game runs as smooth as butter, even on high settings
Fuck yeah!
That’s 2 assignments down, 2 more to go… 4 assignments due within a week is death 😛
I have 2 due on Wednesday. I’ll have all of tomorrow to try and get one done and I’ll have a bit on Monday and Tuesday night. I know I’ll probably end up having to finish both on Tuesday night so I’m not looking forward to that at all :/
One of them is for Brand Management, a Marketing subject. It was a weird one because we get to choose our own topic as long as it’s relevant to Brands. I went with “The Role of Brands in Video Games”. Now it’s a pretty broad topic so I’m still not sure where to go with it and any help will be appreciated :). Here’s a general idea of what I was going for in a topic confirmation email I sent a few weeks back:
In my essay I will aim to explore the role of brands in video games. This includes the roles of existing brands in video games (through mediums like branded video games and in-game advertising) as well as video game brands. I will also examine the brand extensions that these are, and create, the influence of brand equity and how these can add brand loyalty. The parties likely to care about the outcome are the customers/consumers (do they want in-game advertising for a game they’ve paid for?), sponsors (increase awareness and brand loyalty) and management (chance for profits in a growing industry – increase brand loyalty) just to name a few.
Writing about the topics itself isn’t going to be hard but apparently it’s a very small part of it and it’s mainly about the Marketing theory (blergh!). Since “the role of brands in video games” is quite broad I’m thinking of just focusing on one area. So something like branded video games, in-game advertising, video game brands, brand extensions based on video games but they generally cross over :/… oh godddd I hate essays!
At least past essays were specific “write about this! write about that!” now it’s CHOOSE UR OWN TOPIC TROLOLOLOL.
/endprocrastinating
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I also have no idea what the heck I’m doing for the other assignment but that’s a whole ‘nother story 😛
And I haven’t started either, BEST STUDENT 🙂
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DAMN YOU TAY MARKETING MACHINE *shakes fist*
So I kind of want Sleeping Dogs now… I can’t say I was interested in it from what I originally saw but I was open to getting it if it turned out good (which it did!). It’s also the best on PC and since I’m getting my master race on it’ll be good to play to increase my smugness level by 1. But… I’ve already got a huge amount of games to play anyway, some of which I just acquired…
I also need a job so I can acquire more games to look at and never play.
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You could talk about the official licensed games like Fifa, madden etc but you could do what I often tried to do with my essays and turn the topic on its head. Talk about games that have basically becomes brands in their own right, in particular CoD. The game has a bigger following than almost any other series, those sort of numbers have huge power. Where you’d go from there I have no idea, but it’s a start
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This. You can attach the name CoD to just about any useless product and almost guarantee it will sell out ie: those $80 “gaming glasses” branded with Black Ops.
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I think the FIFA suggestion might work in this case. The FIFA games are licensed and even in gameplay the game endeavours to have a TV like presentation with advertisements on the pitch and off the pitch as well.
1.There’s stuff like the music in FIFA and how various bands have gotten more fans because of their appearance in the games-look at many music vids on YouTube and how many fans comment that FIFA brought them there etc
2. EA sports actually advertises during official matches and on the official site as well
3. The fifa interactive world cup
4. Live challenges where fans can replay real life scenarios in the game minutes after a tournament match. These usually have co-branding with brands like coke.
5. Fifa is the top uk videogame brand beating mario and COD which are in 2nd and third place respectively.I’ll look for some links, if you want?
Also if you wish to go back into the past there are things like:
1. How Sony used the power of its brand to launch the original playstation. There are a lot of articles on the ‘cool’ of the playstation brands marketing and how the brand eventually moved out of the Sony shadow to become a brand of its own.
I take back what I said about Fall of Cybertron. Once I got past the Cliffjumper section it was pretty reasonable though still a bit frustrating at times.
Still pretty flawed. Main issues:
– You don’t interact with enough named characters. They should be all over the place. Maybe not as targets but you should be encountering them more often, instead of just random robots.
– The Cybertron setting is kind of limiting so I hope the follow-up to this is on Earth, with the classic designs and stuff, so maybe they could do some interesting things with the transformations.
– Aside from the fact you’re way stronger in vehicle mode, there’s almost no reason to transform. I’d like to see more stuff where you need to shift around a lot.
– Bumblebee not talking is fucking terrible, I hate you Michael.
– No Wheeljack.
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Oh and the change of voice for Shockwave is absolutely terrible. He sounds like a Gears of War reject. At least attempt to get someone like the original guy 🙁
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I was also disappointed by no Wheeljack, and the no-voice Bumblebee is horrific.
Last mission is so brilliant, though. Best way to finish the game, IMO.
I am inebriated and full of mirth and appreciation and admiration and affection and alcohol and love.
Just wanted to share that with you all.
…The mirth and appreciation and admiration and affection and love. I’ll keep the alcohol and the herpes* to myself, I promise.
*I don’t have herpes.
Promise.
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*yet.
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Thank you? 🙂
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It was awesome, I wish they’d been doing that more though. Loved the autobot-to-decepticon logo flip whenever you changed as well, though wish it had had the classic fanfare when swapping.
I just really feel like they have this huge pile of G1 characters and they used just a handful of them while making you blast through thousands of nameless guys. Would have been much cooler to be working with or against characters you know. Like, where the hell are Skywarp and Thundercracker? If Silverbolt and Air Raid are around, where are the other three Aerialbots? The Constructicons are mentioned but never actually seen. Where are all the original G1 Autobots? We see Bumblebee, Jazz, Cliffjumper, Sideswipe and Ratchet, but where are Bluestreak, Prowl, Hound, Mirage, Sunstreaker, Brawn… Playing as the Combaticons was super cool because they’re a cohesive unit and you’re interacting with the other members of the squad, they needed more of that.
How come the Insecticons all had different names, incidentally? Kickback kept his name but Shrapnel and Bombshell didn’t?
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Wow, reply fail. 🙁 Swear I was aiming at The Cracks above 🙁
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Fall of Cybertron was fairly limiting where War for Cybertron was not. Hasbro decided that War for Cybertron and any follow-ups would be considered part of a cohesive franchise-wide established lore, which Transformers Prime is also a part of.
That’s the reason Bumblebee can’t talk, because he can’t talk in Transformers: Prime.
As far as the Insecticons names go, they lost the rights to the names Shrapnel and Bombshell a while ago. That’s why Bumblebee was reimagined as Hot Shot in the Armada/Energon series. They had lost the rights to the name Bumblebee.
Anywho, I wrote an actual review over on my blog if anyone’s interested in having a read: http://matthewjhellscream.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/transformers-fall-of-cybertron-review/
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HOLY SHITBALLS Gangnam Style is up to 56 million views at time of writing.
This guy knows what’s what.
So I decided I will save up and get Mum a Samsung Galaxy 7″ tablet.
Apple have now sued Samsung and it may be removed from shelves. Do they have any idea how much I hate them right now?
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🙁 I heard about that. If your looking for another tablet the Sony one is pretty good.
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iPad? 😛
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I heard that’s happening in South Korea, not so sure where else though.
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No, Samsung is a south Korean company. If it’s decided that the Samsung tablets are the same as the iPad then they will be removing them from the shelves in America. Knowing Apple, they’ll want it everywhere else too.
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if i’ve heard correctly, apple is losing that court case…
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although, that information was on my S3’s news app thingy… so it could be bias xD
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They’re appealing. They were ordered to pay a billion to Apple and they may have to remove the Samsung products off the shelves
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It’d be nice if the industry tried to out do each other instead of fight over patents, especially these really odd patent battles. It’s not like Apple invented the wheel here. :S
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So as far as I can tell from what people are saying, Dark Souls PC is a perfect port with little to no issues but it’s the worst game ever because it’s not shiny enough.
Really? It was kind of shoddy looking on the consoles yet no one complained (almost no one.) PC finally gets possibly the best game made in a long time but eff it in the aye for not having enough pixels.
I despair sometimes. I really do.
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I thought the port was a bit dodgy? No wait, that was Darksiders. Never mind, ignore me.
I don’t think I have the tenacity or patience for a Soul’s game. I prefer progressing to dying repeatedly 🙂
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No no no. Dying IS progressing in Dark Souls. If you’re not dying then your not pushing forward 😀
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I’ve heard it wasn’t perfect with stuff like “press B (the xbox button) for ____” while using a K+M. I don’t think I’ve ever played a game like that and I didn’t even know they existed until recently when I saw some gameplay for that London 2012 game. Is it really that hard to not have controller prompts when you don’t use one?
Like you’d be silly to play with a K+M anyway but it’s still an issue for those who do.
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I think the real complaint is that it renders at 1280×720 regardless of what resolution setting you use. The final window is rendered at the correct resolution but it’s using a 720p framebuffer and then up/downscaling to the desired resolution. That’s kind of crap because changing the size of the buffer is trivial.
@Aleph – I’d probably renew again for that price but anything more than ~$1 a month is kind of a rip off.
And yes, unfortunately you need a Gold subscription to play games online :(. Basically Gold gives you things you should probably get for free (like playing online or accessing in-game community content) plus some other unimportant stuff (early access to betas/demos, discounts, other apps I’ve never bothered with) and Silver/Free gives you pretty much nothing.
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YES! And that’s why I stopped using my xbox.
About three weeks ago I deleted all the contacts in my e-mail account and all the numbers in my phone. Impulsive, maybe, but symbolic too. A response to something that had bothered me for some time; a pressing need to stop living in the past. I thought about people all day that probably haven’t thought about me in years. It’s not their fault, I know that, it’s mine. I felt like I had to make a clean break to finally move on. Get some perspective and all that wanky stuff. (Except for full disclosure that’s all I’ve thought about for the past three weeks. Here’s to being a screw up!) There’s a line in a Patrick Park song: “When chained to your history you’re surely sinking fast.” The man’s got a point.
Why vent here? No one else to ramble to, I guess, seems I deleted all my contacts. 😛
Everyone have a good weekend? One for the ages I hope!
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You can’t delete us. We’re always here. You’re one of us. Also, venting is good here. Everyone does it. Even me. And mine are usually over stupid shit that no one can relate, sympathize or even agree with 😛
I have a few mates that can’t really move on either. The main thing they talk about is what happened in High School. You’re 30. It’s been over 10 years. Is there really nothing you’ve achieved in life more then when you saw that guy trip in front of class once? That’s the main reason I don’t really get Facebook. 95% of anyones friends list are people they never talk to or haven’t seen in years and the the only people that give a crap about your posts are those that already know. It’s just showing off to people from your past that no longer care.
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Yeah, I agree except in my case high school wasn’t that long ago 😛
But seeing that guy trip in front of everyone was hilarious!
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I dunno, guys, I probably just need to lighten the fuck up and stop being a walkin’, talkin’ cautionary tale. 😛
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Everyone wants to be normal but no one can actually point out some one who is.
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True enough, man. Just would be nice to get out of bed and feel happy one of these days. (Lighten up, D.C. Lighten up. :P) Thanks for the encouraging words, though. You rock! 😀
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I know what it’s like. I was there not all that long ago. Borderline suicidal, doctors trying to ram antidepressants down my throat. It sucks and it’s hard to get out of but you do. Something happens, you may not even realise what, and you start getting a bit more cheery about things. Just remember that there’s always somebody who’s willing to listen without judgement, even if it’s someone you’ve never met online.
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You’re a good guy, Freeze. That means more to me than you know.
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You know i’m always down the road if you need a mate dude!
and D.C. I know how ya feel man, I did something similar the other week, just removed a bunch of people from my life, people who I thought were close mates, pretty much the only people I gave a shit about from school still.. But it’s been growing more & more recently they were just rude to me for no apparent reason so off with their heads!
Sometimes you just need to let go of those holding you back or that are no good for you!
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That’s to be commended man. I keep quite a few of my contacts on Facebook in particular, in some bizarre effort to feel as if I’m connected with people, regardless of whether I converse with them or not. It’s cowardice and fear, nothing more.
I don’t think about these people, I don’t wonder how they’re doing in day-to-day life. They’re just noise, and I realise that. But I’m fearful of silence.
Well done on doing that mate, you’re far stronger than I.
I’m currently weighing up the options of dropping everything (including the proverbial microphone!) and disappearing overseas indefinitely, although I’m still trying to decide why I’d be doing it, etc.
“When chained to your history you’re surely sinking fast” makes me think of the captain going down with his ship. Proud and noble, yet inevitably doomed. I think it’s time we all took a step back from pride and nobility.
Thanks, D.C., for yet another change in perspective, and well done on ridding yourself of burdens long passed!
You can call it The Wailing Host all you want but I know C’thulu when I see him.
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You called?
ARGH!!, Nets capped. Wont reset till next Saturday. Cant view TAY anymore on phone cause page is too big now. Cant play for my team tonight and we have two important games on. Gonna get behind on 1 weeks worth of internet that Ill have to catch up on, on Saturday after work.
But I’m not waiting a week to watch the next One Piece episode. No matter how long it takes to buff.
Hopelessly addicted to Sleeping Dogs. I think this is my game until Borderlands 2.
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